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Speaker 3: Everybody ready to go on this Monday, as we always do,
Speaker 3: best and worst of the weekend. What you saw that
Speaker 3: you liked you didn't like? Football tonight National title game
Speaker 3: Miami against Indiana, Indiana favored by seven and a half.
Speaker 2: Good morning.
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Speaker 3: take your phone calls. Two weeks from today. Will be
Speaker 3: in San Francisco for the Big Game, as they like
Speaker 3: to say it, and we're down to our final four.
Speaker 3: After the game's over the weekend. The Broncos over the
Speaker 3: Bills in overtime, but bo Nix is out. He won't
Speaker 3: be playing the Seahawks, Barry the forty nine Ers, the
Speaker 3: Texans over the Patriots over the Texans, and the Rams
Speaker 3: over the Bears in overtime. So you got some interesting
Speaker 3: scenarios here. Look at the Broncos and the Patriots. If
Speaker 3: bo Nix was playing this, according to DraftKings, you would
Speaker 3: probably have the Broncos favored by one. The Patriots are
Speaker 3: favored by five and a half in Denver. The Rams
Speaker 3: are getting two and a half at Seattle. All right,
Speaker 3: we'll come up with the pole question, play of the day,
Speaker 3: stat of the day, all of that forthcoming, best and
Speaker 3: worst of the weekend as well. You start to look
Speaker 3: at these games, and if I look at San Francisco,
Speaker 3: let's look at the teams that lost, because we'll have
Speaker 3: plenty of time to talk about the teams that advance.
Speaker 3: If I look at the teams that lost over the weekend,
Speaker 3: the forty nine ers, what kind of situation are they
Speaker 3: in now? The Bears, what kind of situation are they
Speaker 3: in now? The Texans? What kind of situation are they
Speaker 3: in now? And you could probably start to rank these
Speaker 3: and go, all right, I get a good idea with
Speaker 3: that team moving forward. Like the Niners, your window of opportunity,
Speaker 3: in my opinion, is closed because you know, a year older,
Speaker 3: with a lot of those players injuries, and you know,
Speaker 3: I got George Kittle coming back from a serious injury,
Speaker 3: Bosa and Warner. Warner might have been able to play
Speaker 3: in the Super Bowl. I don't have the luxury of
Speaker 3: you know, high ticket items, big ticket items for brock Purty.
Speaker 3: I really have to bank on brock Purty being a
Speaker 3: great quarterback. So I and you're in that NFC West,
Speaker 3: and you know you're looking at Seattle and you're looking
Speaker 3: at the Rams.
Speaker 2: Now grant the Rams. How long is.
Speaker 3: Matthew Stafford going to play Seattle. That's a young team.
Speaker 3: And yes it does come down to Sam Darnold. But
Speaker 3: if I look at those teams that lost, I would
Speaker 3: say the Niners. I don't look at them coming back
Speaker 3: in this situation again anytime soon.
Speaker 2: The Bills.
Speaker 3: Just feels like every year it's a different excuse. But
Speaker 3: this year it's about Josh Allen. Josh Allen does make
Speaker 3: mistakes in the postseason, but he did, he did, and
Speaker 3: he's the reason, one of the biggest reasons why they lost.
Speaker 3: I know that we love to play the sympathy card
Speaker 3: with Buffalo. I know it, they'd been so through so
Speaker 3: much hardship, But this was about Josh Allen. He was
Speaker 3: careless with the football. Josh Allen had four giveaways, two
Speaker 3: picks and two lost fumbles. Now he had zero giveaways
Speaker 3: in his previous six playoff games, and a total of
Speaker 3: six in fourteen career playoff games. So was it an anomaly? Yes,
Speaker 3: it was, doesn't matter, it still counts. Do you look
Speaker 3: at Buffalo moving forward. There's so much chatter about Sean McDermott.
Speaker 3: Was he going to keep his job? Will he keep
Speaker 3: his job? I didn't think that that was a great
Speaker 3: Buffalo team. I didn't think it was a very good
Speaker 3: Buffalo team. I thought they were a good team. I
Speaker 3: thought that they could run the football. You sprinkle in
Speaker 3: Josh Allen and you got enough to get by in
Speaker 3: a playoff scenario where he didn't have the usuals in there.
Speaker 3: And yes, this was supposed to be his year. It
Speaker 3: didn't matter if Mahomes is not in, or Burrow's not in,
Speaker 3: or Lamar Jackson, these other teams are better than Buffalo.
Speaker 3: New England is better than Buffalo. Denver is better than Buffalo.
Speaker 3: They don't they are.
Speaker 4: Not.
Speaker 3: Doesn't mean Buffalo couldn't win. But Josh Allen had a
Speaker 3: terrible game at a terrible time, and he spoke about
Speaker 3: it after the game.
Speaker 5: That's extremely difficult. I feel like I yeah, I feel
Speaker 5: like I let my teammates down tonight. It's my long season.
Speaker 2: I hate it ended.
Speaker 5: And that's uh. That's gonna stick with me for a
Speaker 5: long time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's tough to listen to. But got
Speaker 3: to blame himself, which he did, and he was just careless,
Speaker 3: you know, the one fumbled before the end the first half,
Speaker 3: and I thought, oh my goodness, those three points could
Speaker 3: be the difference. Hello, small things coming up, you know,
Speaker 3: big and big moments there. And now you have Denver
Speaker 3: without bo Nix, and you got Jared Stidham who was
Speaker 3: going to be the starting quarterback against the New England
Speaker 3: Patriots c J. Stroud, who I think he cost himself
Speaker 3: millions and millions of dollars these last two games because
Speaker 3: there is no way I'm going to extend him.
Speaker 6: I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't want to make the mistake the Dolphins did
Speaker 3: with Tua. You got to show Kyler Murray. You got
Speaker 3: to show me again next year. And even then I'd
Speaker 3: be a little apprehensive because something was going on. Body
Speaker 3: language was terrible, and I know the conditions weren't great.
Speaker 3: I understand that, but they weren't great for you know,
Speaker 3: I will say Drake may didn't play that well either,
Speaker 3: but there were throws where You're just going, what is
Speaker 3: going on here?
Speaker 2: So much?
Speaker 3: So here is Troy Aikman, who was calling the game
Speaker 3: talking about c J.
Speaker 2: Stroud.
Speaker 7: I will say this, Joe, Jamiico, Ryans and Pick Casario,
Speaker 7: they've got some tough decisions they've got to make about
Speaker 7: this team on the offensive side of the ball. You know,
Speaker 7: they replaced Bobby Slowick last year after his two years
Speaker 7: as the offensive coordinator.
Speaker 6: C J.
Speaker 7: Stroud has been chasing his rookie success for the last
Speaker 7: two years. He's not been the same player. We've not
Speaker 7: seen the development from him.
Speaker 2: There's a reason for that, and it has to be addressed.
Speaker 3: Patriots and Texans combined for eight turnovers. The last time
Speaker 3: you had that two thousand and one, the Rams against
Speaker 3: the Packers. That's when Brett Fahr through six interceptions, Kurt
Speaker 3: Warner had an interception, they had to fumble a couple
Speaker 3: of fumbles by the Green Bay Packers. So sloppy football there.
Speaker 3: If you have average quarterback play, we have the Texans
Speaker 3: playing against the Broncos with a real possibility of going
Speaker 3: to the Super Bowl, just average quarterback play. I thought
Speaker 3: they were going to bring in Davis Mills. I thought,
Speaker 3: maybe just give the offense a little jolt of something
Speaker 3: there because I mean, you weren't out of it when
Speaker 3: you're down five and I'm thinking, oh my goodness, you
Speaker 3: got all these turnovers. You're at home and you can't
Speaker 3: put them away, and then they finally did. But you're
Speaker 3: watching that game and you're just going, man, something's up here.
Speaker 3: And then you could just see C. J. Stroud just
Speaker 3: kind of look like, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 3: And New England give them credit. You know, Drake May
Speaker 3: hasn't looked great, but they played just good enough to win.
Speaker 3: That's all you need to do now, no style points whatsoever.
Speaker 3: Seattle did whatever they wanted to do, a very impressive performance.
Speaker 3: You know, when you get that kickoff return, if you're
Speaker 3: a Niner fan, Marvin and you're sitting there and you go,
Speaker 3: all right, okay, here we go, Here we go. I
Speaker 3: got everything, got snacks, got my drink here, wife and
Speaker 3: kid are over here, got my Niner gear on. And
Speaker 3: then all of a sudden, it's a fourteen forty five
Speaker 3: to go in the first quarter and you're down seven.
Speaker 8: Yes, Marvin, And what made it worse is the forty
Speaker 8: nine didn't have any room for error, and so that
Speaker 8: first kickoff, all right, come on, come on, Bang Bang
Speaker 8: niner gang, let's go, And then they start doing that.
Speaker 8: My wife just looks at my son like, sh don't
Speaker 8: say anything to daddy for about two more hours.
Speaker 9: Yes, Paul Marvin's in charge of the sound on the
Speaker 9: Dan Patrick Show. I noticed the kickoff return is not
Speaker 9: on the sound sheet.
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Speaker 3: should be. Bill's broadcaster former Buffalo Bill great Steve Tasker,
Speaker 3: seems like this is our annual phone call in the
Speaker 3: postseason to talk about what went wrong for the Buffalo Bill's.
Speaker 3: Also Albert Breer from the Monday Morning Quarterback will join us.
Speaker 3: We'll talk about coaching vacancies. Also, I mentioned this a
Speaker 3: couple of times last week that whatever job John Harbaugh
Speaker 3: didn't take, Kevin Stefanski was going to take and it
Speaker 3: turned out to be the case. Harball goes to the Giants,
Speaker 3: Kevin Stefanski goes to the Atlanta Falcons. But we'll talk
Speaker 3: to Albert Breer on the openings that are still available.
Speaker 3: And I wonder if anything happens in Buffalo, because you
Speaker 3: might look at this and go, Okay, nine years, that's
Speaker 3: an eternity. You got a great quarterback, you were close
Speaker 3: to advancing again, and you've seen some of these other
Speaker 3: coaches either step down or get fired. Now, granted, it's
Speaker 3: kind of like John Harbaugh with Lamar Jackson, didn't do
Speaker 3: much with Lamar Jackson. Josh Allen has been a great
Speaker 3: playoff performer, but you haven't gotten over the hump. And
Speaker 3: this was going to be the year. At least a
Speaker 3: lot of people thought that. All right, we'll get to
Speaker 3: your phone calls coming up. See what's poll question for
Speaker 3: the first hour of the program.
Speaker 10: Got one here from Paul and I'm going to read
Speaker 10: it with no punctuation because I think it sounds funny.
Speaker 10: Losing team from this weekend that has the most biggest
Speaker 10: issues issue. Okay, Bill's Bears, forty nine ers Texans. They
Speaker 10: each have sort of different issues. Feels like, Yeah, if
Speaker 10: I'm the Bears, I feel pretty good. Yeah, the Bears
Speaker 10: actually don't have any issues. Really, I don't think they shouldn't.
Speaker 10: You went tot too, could have won the game. You
Speaker 10: had some moments there. Caleb Williams can be spectacular. He
Speaker 10: has as many splash plays as any other quarterback, probably
Speaker 10: more so.
Speaker 3: It's just the other ones, you know. And you know,
Speaker 3: year one with that system with Ben Johnson Bears, I
Speaker 3: thought they were a playoff team. I didn't know they
Speaker 3: would go this far. But give them credit. They look
Speaker 3: like they're lined up ready to go and will be
Speaker 3: the team to beat in that division next year.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean I was really impressed with the Bears,
Speaker 10: you know. I mean when I'm thinking about what issues
Speaker 10: to fix, I'm not exactly sure where I'm not. Granted
Speaker 10: I haven't watched them as much as like say Paul
Speaker 10: has or whatever, but I'm not exactly sure where I
Speaker 10: put my finger on. This is what we need to
Speaker 10: address most in the offseason.
Speaker 3: Well, I thought the defense played pretty well, but I
Speaker 3: would still say they need probably a little more, maybe
Speaker 3: a playmaker or two on defense. The Rams didn't play
Speaker 3: great even Matthew Stafford. He talked about the defense really
Speaker 3: won this game for US. I mean, Puka Nakua wasn't
Speaker 3: really a factor until he was a factor there at.
Speaker 2: The very end.
Speaker 3: So you're kind of going, all right, you know, Davante
Speaker 3: Adams not much until you needed him. You run the
Speaker 3: football a little bit. But you know, this goes back
Speaker 3: to what I keep saying.
Speaker 2: You just survive, that's all. Now you can.
Speaker 3: Survive and go man, I don't know, like there are
Speaker 3: times when you could see somebody advancing, like Drake May's
Speaker 3: got to play better. So yes, you win, you don't
Speaker 3: get style points, and now you move on. But that
Speaker 3: would concern me a little bit. Is is the moment
Speaker 3: a little too big for Drake May?
Speaker 2: Or was it?
Speaker 3: And you're going against a great defense there seemed like
Speaker 3: the moment was too big for CJ. Stroud, Like I
Speaker 3: kept going, dude, what are you doing? You're making this
Speaker 3: tougher than it needs to be. And he could have
Speaker 3: thrown two or three more interceptions. I mean, the Patriots
Speaker 3: had the opportunity for two or three more interceptions there,
Speaker 3: and this on the heels of a terrible performance in
Speaker 3: the previous game. Texan's got a big question there. That
Speaker 3: defense is young, well, Danielle Hunter has been around, but
Speaker 3: that it's a good it's a good, solid team now
Speaker 3: not having Nico Collins. Marks got banged up a little bit,
Speaker 3: but he got a great coach, you know, and Jacksonville
Speaker 3: may be here to stay. So you you know, your
Speaker 3: margin for error there is not as wide as it
Speaker 3: once was or once thought of.
Speaker 10: Yeah, seton, Yeah, I feel like Drake May's problems are
Speaker 10: being overshadowed because they keep winning and uh, you know CJ.
Speaker 10: Stroud had such a terrible game. But you know, Drake
Speaker 10: May has seven or eight turnovers in the last six quarters. Yeah, fumbles,
Speaker 10: you know, and a couple of interceptions too. That's that's
Speaker 10: not great play out of him.
Speaker 3: And this time of the year, those things get magnified
Speaker 3: because we spend more time on these games because everybody,
Speaker 3: you know, there's only a couple of games being played.
Speaker 3: If this was a regular season game between the Patriots
Speaker 3: and the Texans, then we probably don't focus on it
Speaker 3: and be like, all right, Patriots wanted home. But you know,
Speaker 3: when everybody has a referendum on these games, everybody has
Speaker 3: an opinion, then at all of a sudden metastasizes yes.
Speaker 10: And he you know, the turnovers in a weird way.
Speaker 2: It's funny.
Speaker 4: CJ.
Speaker 10: Stroud's performance overshadowed Drake May's bad performance, and Drake May's
Speaker 10: turnovers overshadow all the throws that he just missed or
Speaker 10: just didn't make.
Speaker 3: Best Super Bowl odds the Seahawks are plus one forty five,
Speaker 3: the Rams plus two to twenty five, and then the
Speaker 3: Patriots at plus two fifty five the Broncos at plus
Speaker 3: eleven hundred. But congratulations, Todd, you got to the AFC
Speaker 3: title game.
Speaker 11: Yes, is the mystery and question mark that his jards
Speaker 11: did and can that somehow be turned into a positive
Speaker 11: in some way? They have all the video of Bonnicks
Speaker 11: and then what he can do. I'm as big a
Speaker 11: fan as there is. I don't know what we're getting
Speaker 11: with Stidham is going to be a game manager?
Speaker 2: Supposely Champe is.
Speaker 11: Not going to make major change to the offense. Does
Speaker 11: Denver defense have to do all the work to win
Speaker 11: the game.
Speaker 2: I have no idea what to expect. Well, these are
Speaker 2: all questions you're asking yourself. Not maybe I'm just.
Speaker 12: Throwing it out there.
Speaker 2: Definitely asking myselfing, I don't know if the Patriots go, oh.
Speaker 3: My god, and yeah, we've seen backup quarterbacks, you know,
Speaker 3: is this the Nick Foles moment? Well, Nick Foles had
Speaker 3: a Pro Bowl season. He was unbelievable with Chip Kelly,
Speaker 3: so we knew that he could play at a higher level.
Speaker 3: Jerry Stidham, he hadn't thrown a pass in two years
Speaker 3: in a game.
Speaker 9: Yes, boy, Yeah, there's not a lot of tape on
Speaker 9: Jared Stidham. He's been in the league for seven years now.
Speaker 9: Four starts, one in three, sixty percent passer, eight touchdowns,
Speaker 9: eight picks, just the kind of benign numbers where you
Speaker 9: can't make a decision of what you think of him.
Speaker 2: Yes, I think he took.
Speaker 11: One knee earlier this season, so we know he can.
Speaker 2: You just let the clock look, okay, he did even
Speaker 2: fumble as far as the fair enough.
Speaker 3: All right, he's played one play and he took a knee.
Speaker 3: Confidence is running high there. He's ready for victory formation.
Speaker 1: You can do the knee.
Speaker 2: There's no fast start.
Speaker 11: He's ready to flip it to the RAFPI and celebrate.
Speaker 2: So let's go.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll get to your phone calls coming up.
Speaker 3: We have the national title game coming up. This is
Speaker 3: an oh, by the way, national title game, and it's unfortunate,
Speaker 3: but hey, just the placement and you know the goliath
Speaker 3: behemoth that the NFL is. I got some news as
Speaker 3: far as the college football playoffs expanding. When they expand,
Speaker 3: they're going to decide on Friday. Have some information for
Speaker 3: you on that coming up. How about we take a break.
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Speaker 3: We have another coaching vacancy in the NFL. Buffalo Bills
Speaker 3: have fired Sean McDermott stat of the Day brought to
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Speaker 3: Dan Patrick Show. You know, we talk about coaches sometimes
Speaker 3: coaching for their jobs, and it felt like that, It
Speaker 3: felt like that last year was Sean McDermott and this
Speaker 3: is where it's nine years and you go, is that
Speaker 3: the gun? Like how many guys can get you over
Speaker 3: the top? Andy Reid for a long time in Philadelphia.
Speaker 3: May he can get you there. He can't get you
Speaker 3: over the top until he got to Kansas City and
Speaker 3: then he could put you over the top. But there
Speaker 3: are certain coaches that I think we give far more
Speaker 3: credit to, like Mike Tomlin and John Harbaugh could be
Speaker 3: Hall of Fame coaches, could be Can they get you
Speaker 3: over the top? Are they just really really good regular
Speaker 3: season head coaches? Because it's a different DNA when you
Speaker 3: get to the postseason, like what do you got?
Speaker 2: Who are you? What are you going to do?
Speaker 3: Clock management, how you get your team ready? Like just
Speaker 3: so many things that stuff that maybe is not tangible
Speaker 3: where you think, but you have a team that goes
Speaker 3: out there and wins when maybe they're not supposed to win,
Speaker 3: or holds on comes up with a play when they
Speaker 3: need to, and Buffalo never did that. And when you
Speaker 3: think about this, the New York Jets have been in
Speaker 3: more AFC title games than the Buffalo Bills have in
Speaker 3: the last thirty years. Brought to you by Panadian America,
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Speaker 3: always think about this, like John Harball, if you make
Speaker 3: the kick and you go into the postseason, does he
Speaker 3: still get fired? And I think if they didn't get
Speaker 3: to the title game, he was going to get fired.
Speaker 3: Now I don't have any information on that. That was
Speaker 3: just a gut feeling that I had. Did the Bills
Speaker 3: make their mind up about Sean McDermott now or last week?
Speaker 3: Did it matter what was going to happen? What if
Speaker 3: they won the game, then you go to the AFC
Speaker 3: Title Game? But if you go to the Super Bowl,
Speaker 3: so you're coaching for your job and Sean McDermott paid
Speaker 3: the price.
Speaker 2: Years.
Speaker 3: We'll talk to Steve Tasker, the Buffalo Bill's announcer. He'll
Speaker 3: join us coming up in an hour from now. Albert Breer,
Speaker 3: the Monday Morning quarterback following all the movers and shakers,
Speaker 3: And I did get information on this from somebody who
Speaker 3: said there is probably at least one coach who is
Speaker 3: coaching for his job in the postseason. That we were
Speaker 3: talking about all the vacancies there, and I wondered, you know,
Speaker 3: if if Matt Lafleur is not re signed extended in
Speaker 3: Green Bay, Woul John Harbaught have taken that job. If
Speaker 3: Matt Lafleur doesn't stay in Green Bay, does he go
Speaker 3: to Pittsburgh? Is Mike McCarthy in the mix in Pittsburgh
Speaker 3: a Pittsburgh guy? What if Buffalo opens up because you
Speaker 3: got Josh Allen there? When you think about Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 3: two time MVP, Josh Allen the reigning MVP, and they
Speaker 3: will have new head coaches next year. Robert Salah is
Speaker 3: gonna maybe get a run in Baltimore here, the deub
Speaker 3: coordinator for the forty nine ers, might be coming back
Speaker 3: to be a head coach. And once again there's a
Speaker 3: lot of talk, there's so many openings, who's going where,
Speaker 3: And then it feels like there's a domino effect happening.
Speaker 3: You know, when Baltimore and now Buffalo is open, you
Speaker 3: know Stefanski's going to Atlanta hardball with the Giants. So
Speaker 3: there's a lot going on. And this is the NFL.
Speaker 3: But did anybody know think that Buffalo was going to
Speaker 3: come open? Now I know what people are going to say,
Speaker 3: what about Mike Tomlin. I can only tell you what
Speaker 3: I was told last week that Mike there is no
Speaker 3: guarantee he comes back to coaching, and there's no guarantee
Speaker 3: he does TV. But there's a two year window here
Speaker 3: he doesn't. If he goes someplace, then you have to
Speaker 3: give a compensation to the Steelers. And you know he
Speaker 3: knows that, so does the team that would sign him,
Speaker 3: and so did the Steelers. But I don't see mikelink
Speaker 3: coaching again anytime soon, unless the person who told me
Speaker 3: this is off on it. I did get some information
Speaker 3: on college football, so keep this in mind. Friday, it'll
Speaker 3: be voted on if the college football playoffs will expand.
Speaker 3: So they had a meeting in Miami last week, and
Speaker 3: what they're trying to do is figure out are we
Speaker 3: going from twelve to sixteen or are we going from
Speaker 3: twelve to twenty four. The Big Ten wants a three
Speaker 3: year commitment. The Big Ten wants to have sixteen, sixteen, sixteen,
Speaker 3: and then a commitment to go to twenty four beginning
Speaker 3: with the twenty twenty nine season. So once again, the
Speaker 3: Big Ten wants a three year commitment from everybody that
Speaker 3: would go from twelve to sixteen and then a firm
Speaker 3: commitment to go to twenty four teams beginning with the
Speaker 3: twenty twenty nine season.
Speaker 2: Let's see what else do I have.
Speaker 3: So this was the College Football Playoff Management Committee. So
Speaker 3: that's ten commissioners and Notre Dame's athletic director and they
Speaker 3: have to decide by this Friday. If they don't decide
Speaker 3: by this Friday, from when I'm told, the college football
Speaker 3: playoffs will stay at twelve teams, a lot going on,
Speaker 3: a lot going on, and then you got the national
Speaker 3: title game tonight, it's actually two underdogs. When you think
Speaker 3: about Miami squeaking in, or at least we were given
Speaker 3: the impression Miami squeaked into the postseason, it's either Notre
Speaker 3: Dame or Miami, and then here's Miami playing for the
Speaker 3: national championship. Now, if you go back twenty five years ago,
Speaker 3: the you they were like UNLV in the nineties in basketball,
Speaker 3: like you had to deal with them, and they were
Speaker 3: usually on the winning side of those things. Now in
Speaker 3: the ACC and we're like, oh, Miami, kind of a
Speaker 3: nice story, and then all of a sudden, Miami's playing
Speaker 3: for a national championship. But there is no bigger Cinderella
Speaker 3: story than Indiana football because now they're the favorite now,
Speaker 3: but historically they're an underdog. Miami historically is a favorite.
Speaker 3: Now they're an underdog in this game coming up tonight,
Speaker 3: and I think Indiana is now favored by eight and
Speaker 3: a half Miami playing at home. But this feels like
Speaker 3: it's almost We would have been surprised if Indiana played
Speaker 3: for the national title. Now will be surprised if Indiana
Speaker 3: doesn't win the national title.
Speaker 9: Yes, Paul, it's been nine and ten days since the
Speaker 9: last college football playoff game. It feels a lot longer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, when you said it, when you go, do
Speaker 3: you know when you know they had a playoff game?
Speaker 3: I go, I have no idea. I thought two weeks
Speaker 3: ago it just felt like, but this is what they
Speaker 3: want to start the season earlier so they can end
Speaker 3: right around New Year's Now they're starting in August already,
Speaker 3: But it feels like they want to start a little earlier.
Speaker 3: Now you have the President coming out and saying, hey,
Speaker 3: that second Saturday in December, that's Army Navy, and I'm
Speaker 3: not going to sign anything. You know, I'm going to
Speaker 3: make sure that I hold up the college football playoffs.
Speaker 3: I don't have the exact language of that. The President's decision.
Speaker 3: Army Navy gets its time slot, and as my source said, hey,
Speaker 3: it's great for Army Navy, and it's great for the
Speaker 3: NFL because the NFL will dominate that weekend. They don't
Speaker 3: have to deal with any playoff games. But that's what
Speaker 3: college football is trying to do. I'm trying to come
Speaker 3: up with a solution for next year. But Indiana football
Speaker 3: tonight favored by eight and a half. And it probably
Speaker 3: comes down to, you know what normal games come down to,
Speaker 3: who makes the mistake and when do you make that mistake?
Speaker 3: Who do you trust more? Carson Becker, Fernando Mendoza, How
Speaker 3: much pressure does Miami put on Indiana? Can Indiana do
Speaker 3: what it did to these other schools and dominate the
Speaker 3: line of scrimmage? So just some of the questions. But
Speaker 3: I feel bad that it's kind of like, oh, by
Speaker 3: the way, there's a national title game coming up, and
Speaker 3: if you're watching like the Mothership, you know there's this conundrum.
Speaker 2: Hey, we are all in on the.
Speaker 3: NFL, but hey, how about that national title game coming
Speaker 3: up tonight? They're sort of half in, half out. It's
Speaker 3: like a national title game. All right, we mentioned it. Hey,
Speaker 3: let's go back to the Bears. Finish there, Yes, Todd.
Speaker 11: It's pretty funny that Miami's playing on their home field
Speaker 11: at hard Rock, yet they're the designated A visiting team.
Speaker 11: They have to stand on the other sideline, and I
Speaker 11: think use the visiting locker room facilities, which is wild.
Speaker 3: Didn't they crazy? Crazy? All right, let's get some phone
Speaker 3: calls in here. Best and worst of the weekend, Chris
Speaker 3: and Syracuse. Once again, the Buffalo Bills have fired Sean McDermott.
Speaker 14: Hey, Chris, Hey, Thanks Dan, Hey got a best and
Speaker 14: worst in a comment? My comment is, and I hope
Speaker 14: I'm wrong, but I think Miami wins tonight. Indiana has
Speaker 14: been beating teams all year that had more talent, speed, size, strength,
Speaker 14: and I think it finally catches up to him. And
Speaker 14: my worst, the Bear's passing up on field goals and
Speaker 14: going forward on fourth downs. Now in the NFL, kicking
Speaker 14: the field goal is not looked at its getting three points.
Speaker 14: It's looked at its losing four. It's crazy, and especially
Speaker 14: in the playoffs where weather factors in more and squaring
Speaker 14: opportunities are at a premium. Yet take the points. Just
Speaker 14: like Bill Kawer said on The Dan Patrick Show last
Speaker 14: week and a bittersweet best Todd fritzus Broncos. Maybe it
Speaker 14: will be like when Carson Wentz went down. If Doug
Speaker 14: Peterson can pull that off, certainly Sean Payton is capable.
Speaker 14: And here in Central New York, all the Bill fans
Speaker 14: have been saying is this is the year no Burrow,
Speaker 14: no Lamar, Noble homes. But in typical Buffalo Bill fashion,
Speaker 14: they still managed to find a way to get mixed.
Speaker 2: Thank god, Chris.
Speaker 3: The Bears went three for nine on fourth downs in
Speaker 3: the postseason. I just believe in getting points because okay,
Speaker 3: we have a chance to get seven or we don't
Speaker 3: get anything. I just don't like that risk reward. I
Speaker 3: saw that with Detroit a couple of years ago, and
Speaker 3: it feels like it's a regular season thing, like, Okay,
Speaker 3: let's go after this, Let's have some fun. We got
Speaker 3: a play called for this. In these big moments, it
Speaker 3: just feels like fourth and four that seems like an
Speaker 3: eternity and you got a factor in the weather. You
Speaker 3: got to factor in what's at stake. I just I know,
Speaker 3: three feels like you failed.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Pauline, I wonder if Ben Johnson and the coaching
Speaker 9: staff didn't have a ton of faith in the defense
Speaker 9: after what happened to Jordan Love, and they thought we
Speaker 9: got to match sevens with Matthew Stafford, and they didn't
Speaker 9: think that their defense would be able to slow them
Speaker 9: down as they did.
Speaker 2: Chicago's defense held him in check.
Speaker 3: Man. I mean, that's a good enough performance by your
Speaker 3: defense to win most playoff games. And the Rams didn't
Speaker 3: play great, but you know, I got to give the
Speaker 3: Bears credit. They played well. Jeremy and Wisconsin and the
Speaker 3: play by Caleb Williams, I mean, that's fourth quarter. Hey,
Speaker 3: he's a different kind of guy. He's a different dude, Hey, Jeremy.
Speaker 12: Hey, greetings, greetings VP from the frozen tundra, where Packer
Speaker 12: fans will attest to the fact that field goal always
Speaker 12: guaranteed either. But I have a best and worth and
Speaker 12: a quick comment. Best of the weekend. Sorry, PAULI always
Speaker 12: great to see the Bears lose. Would have been a
Speaker 12: real kick to the groin seeing Johnson and Caleb Williams
Speaker 12: get to the NFC Championship before Love and La floor.
Speaker 12: But the worst is the girlfriend's on a cruise and
Speaker 12: I'm here a negative thirty win shill. That's not fun either.
Speaker 12: But I think Caleb Williams will be really good. He
Speaker 12: does make a couple of those decisions like Tutler always did,
Speaker 12: where he'll give you two to three interception opportunities. But
Speaker 12: I think that's going to be a really great rivalry
Speaker 12: moving forward. So all the US who spent a long
Speaker 12: time guys, hope you're doing well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Packers extended Matt Lafleur, and you know, there's
Speaker 3: a going rate for quarterbacks. It feels like there's now
Speaker 3: a going rate for head coaches. I Key went from
Speaker 3: almost five million and he went to what thirteen fourteen
Speaker 3: million dollars a year. Quarterbacks are slotted like you're gonna
Speaker 3: make this and then you're gonna make that. Now it
Speaker 3: feels like if you're you know, head coach is good.
Speaker 3: He's making close to fifteen million dollars. Andy Reid making
Speaker 3: twenty million plus, it had to be difficult to extend.
Speaker 3: Matt Lafleur had that conversation after a bad loss, because
Speaker 3: at halftime he could have renegotiated and got whatever he wanted.
Speaker 3: The problem was the second half against the Bears.
Speaker 8: Yes, Marvin, not even a bad loss, a bad month,
Speaker 8: lost the last five games.
Speaker 2: Yep, Buddha in San Francisco.
Speaker 4: Hi Buddha, oh Man, thanks for taking my call. DP
Speaker 4: Saluti forty shout out to James. Happy Monday boys. Well DP,
Speaker 4: all good things come doing that, my man. I mean
Speaker 4: I was not surprised by my Niners getting molly wopped
Speaker 4: on Saturday. I mean, we over atchieve this year and
Speaker 4: as Trent Williams said himself with the podium, Dan, we
Speaker 4: talked about this last week. We were playing with house money.
Speaker 4: That's of the weekend DP, watching Caleb Williams turning into
Speaker 4: a franchise QV right before our eyes.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 4: I mean he brought them back in the fourth quarter
Speaker 4: and had that ridiculous heroic throw twenty yards behind the
Speaker 4: line of scrimmage. I mean I thought he was throwing
Speaker 4: it out of bounds, and I mean it was just ridiculous,
Speaker 4: and more so Dan, there's a certain decorum that, like
Speaker 4: a franchise quarterback will follow and take I mean, you
Speaker 4: take your lumps, you know, with the losses, you stand
Speaker 4: the podium. He answered the hard questions and that's that's
Speaker 4: what he did yesterday. I was very impressed and Pauly
Speaker 4: should be pumped.
Speaker 12: And worst of the.
Speaker 4: Weekend obviously my Niners DP. But honestly, watching CJ stroud
Speaker 4: struggle yesterday was like, as my big Mama says, that's embarrassed.
Speaker 4: I mean it was cringe worthy. And Dan thinking about
Speaker 4: CJ consoling Caleb Williams Midfield a couple of years ago
Speaker 4: after the game. That's not aging very well.
Speaker 2: Up. Yeah, thank you Buddha.
Speaker 3: By the way, I got the prices as of nine
Speaker 3: to thirty this morning for tonight's National title game. I
Speaker 3: thought they were Super Bowl prices. I'll have that for
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Speaker 3: r kay. Just got an update on the ticket prices
Speaker 3: for tonight's National Title game. Best seats in the house
Speaker 3: fifty three hundred dollars. You want to be a lower
Speaker 3: level end zone just under five thousand. After that, it's
Speaker 3: just under five thousand. You're getting price is just under
Speaker 3: four thousand dollars. The prices have gone up. Let's see
Speaker 3: if I do the math here, twenty three percent in
Speaker 3: the last seventy two hours. The prices will continue to increase.
Speaker 2: All day long.
Speaker 3: The president is attending and the push is to get
Speaker 3: everybody at the stadium at least three hours early.
Speaker 2: And as my source said, it will be a zoo.
Speaker 8: Wow.
Speaker 2: These are like Super Bowl ticket prices.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Polly, my niece, goes to University of Miami and her
Speaker 9: father bought her a ticket, a student ticket, and it
Speaker 9: was five hundred dollars for a face value student ticket.
Speaker 9: It also cannot be sold. It's in your student account.
Speaker 9: You could transfer it to a fellow student, you cannot
Speaker 9: transfer it to a non Miami person.
Speaker 3: See would you update the poll results from the first
Speaker 3: forty nine minutes of the program?
Speaker 10: Yeah, we got up there right now, losing team from
Speaker 10: the weekend that has the most biggest issues issue right now,
Speaker 10: the Bills have one hundred percent of that vote?
Speaker 2: Do they after Sean McDermott was fired.
Speaker 10: I think I think that the firing might tweak the
Speaker 10: full a little bit. Now the Texans actually have that
Speaker 10: followed by the forty nine ers. The Texans haven't even
Speaker 10: made it back to Houston. They've had some travel issues
Speaker 10: leaving New England. Tracy Wolfson did a great job CBS
Speaker 10: sideline reporter. She did an interview with bo Nix, and
Speaker 10: prior to actually going live on TV. You know, you'll
Speaker 10: chat with the person you're talking to, and she was
Speaker 10: trying to figure out bo Nix wasn't excited, and she
Speaker 10: even asked him about that. She could see that there
Speaker 10: was something wrong. She sends that I think where it
Speaker 10: just didn't feel right, and she said, you know, basically,
Speaker 10: you're not excited, and he just talked about, you know,
Speaker 10: the tension of the game.
Speaker 2: But you can see.
Speaker 3: There's a picture that they're talking and you know, bo
Speaker 3: Nix looks like he is. It's one of those where
Speaker 3: you're really excited, but then you can't be too excited
Speaker 3: because you're not going to be playing. And he's leaning
Speaker 3: he's leaning off of that broken ankle, a broken bone
Speaker 3: in his ankle. But Tracy did a great job. And
Speaker 3: when you get into those scrums afterwards, now, granted, they're
Speaker 3: going to take the best player and bring him over
Speaker 3: to you know, the sideline reporter of the network who's broadcasting,
Speaker 3: but still.
Speaker 2: There's a lot going on.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of moving parts, and guys are gonna
Speaker 3: shake hands and greet and they might say prayer after
Speaker 3: and you know, your sideline reporter. You're just trying to
Speaker 3: grab somebody like, who are you gonna get me? And
Speaker 3: then the Broncos pr will bring over bow Nicks. But
Speaker 3: still you got to be ready to go. You probably
Speaker 3: get three questions at the most and in that moment,
Speaker 3: and there's chaos around you. You know, it's not like
Speaker 3: everybody is quiet like Tracy's asking questions. It's you know,
Speaker 3: guys who were sad. You know, the Buffalo Bills. You
Speaker 3: got guys who are excited you're going to the AFC
Speaker 3: title Game. But she did a great job. Lucas in Texas, Hi, Luke,
Speaker 3: what's on your mind? Hey Dan, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 3: You know, no real best, only a worst. I'll frame
Speaker 3: it this way. I've got two things for you. Our
Speaker 3: best friends live in North Carolina and they are a
Speaker 3: huge Buffalo Bills fans. So we were kind of joking
Speaker 3: with each other, how funny would it be to see
Speaker 3: our teams in the AFC Championship Game only to see
Speaker 3: our teams combined for a season's worth of turnovers in
Speaker 3: our two games.
Speaker 15: So it was a rough weekend overall. And here's what's
Speaker 15: most frustrating about it. I would actually say and we
Speaker 15: were talking to our Bills, fans, our friends. The most
Speaker 15: frustrating part wasn't the turnovers. It was the misthrow that
Speaker 15: Josh Allen had Dawson Knox just short of the end
Speaker 15: zone that could have won the games.
Speaker 3: That's the ball game. If he completes that, that's the
Speaker 3: ball game. Yeah, thank you, Lucas. So Tracy sent out
Speaker 3: this picture. She said, you can see that Bownick's not
Speaker 3: putting weight on his right ankle. I asked him before
Speaker 3: the interview view if his knee was okay, thinking that
Speaker 3: was the injury. He said he was okay. Then I
Speaker 3: asked him why he wasn't smiling after the win. He
Speaker 3: said it was a stressful game. Yeah, you can see
Speaker 3: the picture, not putting any weight on that ankle. Monica
Speaker 3: in Raleigh, Hi Monica, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 4: Hey?
Speaker 6: Hey Dan, Dannetts and backroom guys at third time, long time.
Speaker 6: I have my best similars to the weekend. My worst
Speaker 6: of the weekend is kind of overshadowed by football with CJ.
Speaker 6: Stroud and Nicks. But Carolina, you and c doing the
Speaker 6: West Coast swing against Stanford and cal.
Speaker 12: Ugh and got slept on that.
Speaker 6: My best of the weekend is Drake May surviving through
Speaker 6: the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Go heels, Thank you, Monica.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I forgot that North Carolina and on that West
Speaker 3: coast swing of the acc of course, the all of
Speaker 3: those great Atlantic coasts on the Pacific coast.
Speaker 9: Old school rivalry.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, they go back months, you know those rivalries.
Speaker 3: All right, one hour in the books, two more to go.
Speaker 3: The Buffalo Bills need a new head coach, Steve Tasker,
Speaker 3: Bill's announcer, former Bill Great. He will join us, Albert Breer,
Speaker 3: the Monday morning quarterback. He's been following all the comings
Speaker 3: and goings the coaching carousels. They like to say, he'll
Speaker 3: join us coming up as well. More phone calls. It
Speaker 3: is a Monday best and worst of the weekend. What
Speaker 3: you saw that you liked, you didn't like? Operator Tyler
Speaker 3: sitting by, He'll take your phone calls. Fritzy's here kind
Speaker 3: of in a good mood, right.
Speaker 11: I went with like a black version of my broncos
Speaker 11: to clothes just to acknowledge the missing of bow knicks
Speaker 11: next week. But it's great and maybe we'll get a
Speaker 11: good surprise from studient.
Speaker 3: Seaton's Patriots are still Alive, Marvin's Niner, is not all
Speaker 3: these Bears not as well?
Speaker 2: One hour in the books, two more to go in
Speaker 2: this Monday. Hope you join us. Coming up Dan and
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