WEBVTT - Hour 1 – CFP Title Game Preview, Sean McDermott Fired 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:03.560 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:04.440 Sports Radio. 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:05.720 Hope you had a great weekend. 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:08.600 Everybody ready to go on this Monday, as we always do, 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:10.880 best and worst of the weekend. What you saw that 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:14.520 you liked you didn't like? Football tonight National title game 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:18.919 Miami against Indiana, Indiana favored by seven and a half. 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:19.840 Good morning. 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:23.479 If you're watching on Peacock, our streaming partner, or listening 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:27.200 on our great radio affiliates around the country eight seven 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:30.560 to seven three DP, show operator Tyler sitting by. He'll 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:34.000 take your phone calls. Two weeks from today. Will be 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:36.600 in San Francisco for the Big Game, as they like 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:39.240 to say it, and we're down to our final four. 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:43.000 After the game's over the weekend. The Broncos over the 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:46.440 Bills in overtime, but bo Nix is out. He won't 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.920 be playing the Seahawks, Barry the forty nine Ers, the 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:54.120 Texans over the Patriots over the Texans, and the Rams 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:58.880 over the Bears in overtime. So you got some interesting 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:02.760 scenarios here. Look at the Broncos and the Patriots. If 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:06.720 bo Nix was playing this, according to DraftKings, you would 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:11.000 probably have the Broncos favored by one. The Patriots are 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:14.480 favored by five and a half in Denver. The Rams 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:18.119 are getting two and a half at Seattle. All right, 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:20.280 we'll come up with the pole question, play of the day, 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:22.760 stat of the day, all of that forthcoming, best and 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:26.160 worst of the weekend as well. You start to look 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:29.839 at these games, and if I look at San Francisco, 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:31.840 let's look at the teams that lost, because we'll have 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:34.200 plenty of time to talk about the teams that advance. 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:36.960 If I look at the teams that lost over the weekend, 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:40.440 the forty nine ers, what kind of situation are they 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:43.240 in now? The Bears, what kind of situation are they 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:46.280 in now? The Texans? What kind of situation are they 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:49.200 in now? And you could probably start to rank these 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:52.600 and go, all right, I get a good idea with 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:56.120 that team moving forward. Like the Niners, your window of opportunity, 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:59.800 in my opinion, is closed because you know, a year older, 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:04.240 with a lot of those players injuries, and you know, 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:06.920 I got George Kittle coming back from a serious injury, 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:10.000 Bosa and Warner. Warner might have been able to play 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:13.240 in the Super Bowl. I don't have the luxury of 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:17.480 you know, high ticket items, big ticket items for brock Purty. 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.160 I really have to bank on brock Purty being a 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:25.600 great quarterback. So I and you're in that NFC West, 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:28.600 and you know you're looking at Seattle and you're looking 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:29.280 at the Rams. 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:31.560 Now grant the Rams. How long is. 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:35.919 Matthew Stafford going to play Seattle. That's a young team. 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:38.840 And yes it does come down to Sam Darnold. But 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:41.960 if I look at those teams that lost, I would 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:44.880 say the Niners. I don't look at them coming back 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:47.440 in this situation again anytime soon. 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:51.400 The Bills. 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.800 Just feels like every year it's a different excuse. But 0:02:56.919 --> 0:03:00.360 this year it's about Josh Allen. Josh Allen does make 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:04.160 mistakes in the postseason, but he did, he did, and 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:07.480 he's the reason, one of the biggest reasons why they lost. 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:09.920 I know that we love to play the sympathy card 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.920 with Buffalo. I know it, they'd been so through so 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:16.920 much hardship, But this was about Josh Allen. He was 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:20.880 careless with the football. Josh Allen had four giveaways, two 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:26.919 picks and two lost fumbles. Now he had zero giveaways 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:30.000 in his previous six playoff games, and a total of 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:35.040 six in fourteen career playoff games. So was it an anomaly? Yes, 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:40.320 it was, doesn't matter, it still counts. Do you look 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:45.440 at Buffalo moving forward. There's so much chatter about Sean McDermott. 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:47.520 Was he going to keep his job? Will he keep 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:50.200 his job? I didn't think that that was a great 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:52.640 Buffalo team. I didn't think it was a very good 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:56.400 Buffalo team. I thought they were a good team. I 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:58.680 thought that they could run the football. You sprinkle in 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:02.880 Josh Allen and you got enough to get by in 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:06.960 a playoff scenario where he didn't have the usuals in there. 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:11.600 And yes, this was supposed to be his year. It 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:14.280 didn't matter if Mahomes is not in, or Burrow's not in, 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:17.800 or Lamar Jackson, these other teams are better than Buffalo. 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:21.400 New England is better than Buffalo. Denver is better than Buffalo. 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:22.560 They don't they are. 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:24.080 Not. 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:28.159 Doesn't mean Buffalo couldn't win. But Josh Allen had a 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:31.880 terrible game at a terrible time, and he spoke about 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:32.680 it after the game. 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:39.280 That's extremely difficult. I feel like I yeah, I feel 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:43.360 like I let my teammates down tonight. It's my long season. 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:45.440 I hate it ended. 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:49.360 And that's uh. That's gonna stick with me for a 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:49.839 long time. 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:54.640 Yeah, I mean it's tough to listen to. But got 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:58.040 to blame himself, which he did, and he was just careless, 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:01.080 you know, the one fumbled before the end the first half, 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.320 and I thought, oh my goodness, those three points could 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:10.680 be the difference. Hello, small things coming up, you know, 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.400 big and big moments there. And now you have Denver 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:16.240 without bo Nix, and you got Jared Stidham who was 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:19.200 going to be the starting quarterback against the New England 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:24.120 Patriots c J. Stroud, who I think he cost himself 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:28.559 millions and millions of dollars these last two games because 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:31.240 there is no way I'm going to extend him. 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:33.279 I don't. 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:35.520 I don't want to make the mistake the Dolphins did 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:38.760 with Tua. You got to show Kyler Murray. You got 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:43.039 to show me again next year. And even then I'd 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:48.320 be a little apprehensive because something was going on. Body 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:51.960 language was terrible, and I know the conditions weren't great. 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:56.599 I understand that, but they weren't great for you know, 0:05:57.680 --> 0:05:59.799 I will say Drake may didn't play that well either, 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.200 but there were throws where You're just going, what is 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:03.080 going on here? 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:04.080 So much? 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:07.640 So here is Troy Aikman, who was calling the game 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:08.600 talking about c J. 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:09.120 Stroud. 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:13.680 I will say this, Joe, Jamiico, Ryans and Pick Casario, 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:16.680 they've got some tough decisions they've got to make about 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:19.960 this team on the offensive side of the ball. You know, 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:26.240 they replaced Bobby Slowick last year after his two years 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:27.840 as the offensive coordinator. 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:28.760 C J. 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:32.840 Stroud has been chasing his rookie success for the last 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:35.479 two years. He's not been the same player. We've not 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:36.920 seen the development from him. 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:38.960 There's a reason for that, and it has to be addressed. 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:43.560 Patriots and Texans combined for eight turnovers. The last time 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:47.839 you had that two thousand and one, the Rams against 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:52.279 the Packers. That's when Brett Fahr through six interceptions, Kurt 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:55.680 Warner had an interception, they had to fumble a couple 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:59.120 of fumbles by the Green Bay Packers. So sloppy football there. 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:03.720 If you have average quarterback play, we have the Texans 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:08.600 playing against the Broncos with a real possibility of going 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:12.960 to the Super Bowl, just average quarterback play. I thought 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:15.960 they were going to bring in Davis Mills. I thought, 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:20.720 maybe just give the offense a little jolt of something 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:24.320 there because I mean, you weren't out of it when 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.920 you're down five and I'm thinking, oh my goodness, you 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:31.960 got all these turnovers. You're at home and you can't 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:35.640 put them away, and then they finally did. But you're 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:38.520 watching that game and you're just going, man, something's up here. 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:41.960 And then you could just see C. J. Stroud just 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:46.960 kind of look like, I don't know, I don't know. 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:51.160 And New England give them credit. You know, Drake May 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:54.880 hasn't looked great, but they played just good enough to win. 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:57.920 That's all you need to do now, no style points whatsoever. 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:03.440 Seattle did whatever they wanted to do, a very impressive performance. 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:06.280 You know, when you get that kickoff return, if you're 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:09.160 a Niner fan, Marvin and you're sitting there and you go, 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:13.280 all right, okay, here we go, Here we go. I 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:17.160 got everything, got snacks, got my drink here, wife and 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:19.960 kid are over here, got my Niner gear on. And 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:24.400 then all of a sudden, it's a fourteen forty five 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:26.640 to go in the first quarter and you're down seven. 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:29.480 Yes, Marvin, And what made it worse is the forty 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:32.120 nine didn't have any room for error, and so that 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:34.959 first kickoff, all right, come on, come on, Bang Bang 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:36.959 niner gang, let's go, And then they start doing that. 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:39.360 My wife just looks at my son like, sh don't 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:41.520 say anything to daddy for about two more hours. 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:43.760 Yes, Paul Marvin's in charge of the sound on the 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:45.840 Dan Patrick Show. 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Bill's broadcaster former Buffalo Bill great Steve Tasker, 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:22.960 seems like this is our annual phone call in the 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:26.480 postseason to talk about what went wrong for the Buffalo Bill's. 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:30.160 Also Albert Breer from the Monday Morning Quarterback will join us. 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:34.560 We'll talk about coaching vacancies. Also, I mentioned this a 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:39.040 couple of times last week that whatever job John Harbaugh 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:42.680 didn't take, Kevin Stefanski was going to take and it 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:45.760 turned out to be the case. Harball goes to the Giants, 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:48.880 Kevin Stefanski goes to the Atlanta Falcons. But we'll talk 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:53.080 to Albert Breer on the openings that are still available. 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:57.360 And I wonder if anything happens in Buffalo, because you 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:00.760 might look at this and go, Okay, nine years, that's 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:05.160 an eternity. You got a great quarterback, you were close 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:09.400 to advancing again, and you've seen some of these other 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:13.280 coaches either step down or get fired. Now, granted, it's 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:17.120 kind of like John Harbaugh with Lamar Jackson, didn't do 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:20.800 much with Lamar Jackson. Josh Allen has been a great 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:24.800 playoff performer, but you haven't gotten over the hump. And 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:28.560 this was going to be the year. At least a 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:31.480 lot of people thought that. All right, we'll get to 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:34.320 your phone calls coming up. See what's poll question for 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:35.600 the first hour of the program. 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.199 Got one here from Paul and I'm going to read 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:40.600 it with no punctuation because I think it sounds funny. 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:43.880 Losing team from this weekend that has the most biggest 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:49.720 issues issue. Okay, Bill's Bears, forty nine ers Texans. They 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.559 each have sort of different issues. Feels like, Yeah, if 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:55.080 I'm the Bears, I feel pretty good. Yeah, the Bears 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:58.280 actually don't have any issues. Really, I don't think they shouldn't. 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:02.719 You went tot too, could have won the game. You 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:07.800 had some moments there. Caleb Williams can be spectacular. He 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:11.760 has as many splash plays as any other quarterback, probably 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:12.200 more so. 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:16.200 It's just the other ones, you know. And you know, 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:20.440 year one with that system with Ben Johnson Bears, I 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:23.040 thought they were a playoff team. I didn't know they 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:25.800 would go this far. But give them credit. They look 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:28.560 like they're lined up ready to go and will be 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:30.880 the team to beat in that division next year. 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:32.760 Yeah. 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:35.360 Yeah, I mean I was really impressed with the Bears, 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:38.199 you know. I mean when I'm thinking about what issues 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:40.240 to fix, I'm not exactly sure where I'm not. Granted 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:42.440 I haven't watched them as much as like say Paul 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:45.240 has or whatever, but I'm not exactly sure where I 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:47.080 put my finger on. This is what we need to 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:48.880 address most in the offseason. 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:51.920 Well, I thought the defense played pretty well, but I 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:55.520 would still say they need probably a little more, maybe 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:58.800 a playmaker or two on defense. The Rams didn't play 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:03.000 great even Matthew Stafford. He talked about the defense really 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:06.439 won this game for US. I mean, Puka Nakua wasn't 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:09.560 really a factor until he was a factor there at. 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:10.120 The very end. 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.480 So you're kind of going, all right, you know, Davante 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:17.000 Adams not much until you needed him. You run the 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:20.920 football a little bit. But you know, this goes back 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:22.360 to what I keep saying. 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:26.040 You just survive, that's all. Now you can. 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:29.600 Survive and go man, I don't know, like there are 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:32.440 times when you could see somebody advancing, like Drake May's 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:36.400 got to play better. So yes, you win, you don't 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:39.679 get style points, and now you move on. But that 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:42.120 would concern me a little bit. Is is the moment 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:43.640 a little too big for Drake May? 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:44.319 Or was it? 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:48.360 And you're going against a great defense there seemed like 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:51.000 the moment was too big for CJ. Stroud, Like I 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:54.800 kept going, dude, what are you doing? You're making this 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:57.199 tougher than it needs to be. And he could have 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:01.520 thrown two or three more interceptions. I mean, the Patriots 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:04.800 had the opportunity for two or three more interceptions there, 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:07.920 and this on the heels of a terrible performance in 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:13.560 the previous game. Texan's got a big question there. That 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:17.000 defense is young, well, Danielle Hunter has been around, but 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:21.120 that it's a good it's a good, solid team now 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:25.000 not having Nico Collins. Marks got banged up a little bit, 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:29.119 but he got a great coach, you know, and Jacksonville 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:31.640 may be here to stay. So you you know, your 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:35.560 margin for error there is not as wide as it 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:37.040 once was or once thought of. 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:41.760 Yeah, seton, Yeah, I feel like Drake May's problems are 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:46.480 being overshadowed because they keep winning and uh, you know CJ. 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:50.080 Stroud had such a terrible game. But you know, Drake 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:54.760 May has seven or eight turnovers in the last six quarters. Yeah, fumbles, 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:57.600 you know, and a couple of interceptions too. That's that's 0:13:57.600 --> 0:13:58.640 not great play out of him. 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:02.240 And this time of the year, those things get magnified 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:06.360 because we spend more time on these games because everybody, 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:08.440 you know, there's only a couple of games being played. 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:11.280 If this was a regular season game between the Patriots 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:14.240 and the Texans, then we probably don't focus on it 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:17.320 and be like, all right, Patriots wanted home. But you know, 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:20.320 when everybody has a referendum on these games, everybody has 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:23.760 an opinion, then at all of a sudden metastasizes yes. 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:26.720 And he you know, the turnovers in a weird way. 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:27.240 It's funny. 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:27.680 CJ. 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:31.880 Stroud's performance overshadowed Drake May's bad performance, and Drake May's 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:35.640 turnovers overshadow all the throws that he just missed or 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:36.280 just didn't make. 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:40.320 Best Super Bowl odds the Seahawks are plus one forty five, 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:42.920 the Rams plus two to twenty five, and then the 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:47.360 Patriots at plus two fifty five the Broncos at plus 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:51.120 eleven hundred. But congratulations, Todd, you got to the AFC 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:51.880 title game. 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:55.040 Yes, is the mystery and question mark that his jards 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:57.600 did and can that somehow be turned into a positive 0:14:57.640 --> 0:14:59.800 in some way? They have all the video of Bonnicks 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:02.160 and then what he can do. I'm as big a 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:04.040 fan as there is. I don't know what we're getting 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:05.960 with Stidham is going to be a game manager? 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:07.280 Supposely Champe is. 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:08.920 Not going to make major change to the offense. Does 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:11.280 Denver defense have to do all the work to win 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:11.880 the game. 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:13.760 I have no idea what to expect. Well, these are 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:16.680 all questions you're asking yourself. Not maybe I'm just. 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:17.280 Throwing it out there. 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:22.960 Definitely asking myselfing, I don't know if the Patriots go, oh. 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:28.840 My god, and yeah, we've seen backup quarterbacks, you know, 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:32.240 is this the Nick Foles moment? Well, Nick Foles had 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:36.200 a Pro Bowl season. He was unbelievable with Chip Kelly, 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:38.880 so we knew that he could play at a higher level. 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:41.720 Jerry Stidham, he hadn't thrown a pass in two years 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:42.720 in a game. 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:45.520 Yes, boy, Yeah, there's not a lot of tape on 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:48.840 Jared Stidham. He's been in the league for seven years now. 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:53.600 Four starts, one in three, sixty percent passer, eight touchdowns, 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.920 eight picks, just the kind of benign numbers where you 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:58.720 can't make a decision of what you think of him. 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:00.040 Yes, I think he took. 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.840 One knee earlier this season, so we know he can. 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:05.280 You just let the clock look, okay, he did even 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:08.480 fumble as far as the fair enough. 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:12.640 All right, he's played one play and he took a knee. 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:16.320 Confidence is running high there. He's ready for victory formation. 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:17.280 You can do the knee. 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:18.400 There's no fast start. 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:20.840 He's ready to flip it to the RAFPI and celebrate. 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:21.320 So let's go. 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:23.320 All right, we'll get to your phone calls coming up. 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:26.520 We have the national title game coming up. This is 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:30.920 an oh, by the way, national title game, and it's unfortunate, 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:34.200 but hey, just the placement and you know the goliath 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:39.160 behemoth that the NFL is. I got some news as 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:43.720 far as the college football playoffs expanding. When they expand, 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:48.200 they're going to decide on Friday. Have some information for 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:50.840 you on that coming up. How about we take a break. 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:53.280 Just getting started on this Monday, Dan and the Dan 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:54.880 Nets Dan Patrick Show. 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:57.640 Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:00.800 Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Easter and six am 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:04.600 Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:07.600 Hey is Covino and Rich from Fox Sports Radio. 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:08.000 Now. 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:10.439 In addition to hearing us live weekdays from five to 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:13.720 seven pm Eastern two to four Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:17.280 We're excited to announce a brand new YouTube channel for 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:17.640 the show. 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:18.600 Yup, that's right. 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:21.280 You can now watch Covino and Rich live on YouTube 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:24.240 every day. All you gotta do search Covino on Rich 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:28.359 FSR on YouTube. Again, go to YouTube search Covino and 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:32.800 Rich FSR. Check us out on YouTube, subscribe, hit that 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:33.840 thumbs up icon. 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:34.840 Comment away. 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:39.600 We have another coaching vacancy in the NFL. Buffalo Bills 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:44.000 have fired Sean McDermott stat of the Day brought to 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:46.600 you by Panini America, the official trading cards of the 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:50.560 Dan Patrick Show. You know, we talk about coaches sometimes 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:53.879 coaching for their jobs, and it felt like that, It 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:56.840 felt like that last year was Sean McDermott and this 0:17:56.920 --> 0:17:59.399 is where it's nine years and you go, is that 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:01.800 the gun? Like how many guys can get you over 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:05.440 the top? Andy Reid for a long time in Philadelphia. 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:07.080 May he can get you there. He can't get you 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:09.600 over the top until he got to Kansas City and 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:12.199 then he could put you over the top. But there 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:15.800 are certain coaches that I think we give far more 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:18.720 credit to, like Mike Tomlin and John Harbaugh could be 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:22.720 Hall of Fame coaches, could be Can they get you 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:26.600 over the top? Are they just really really good regular 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:31.359 season head coaches? Because it's a different DNA when you 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:33.760 get to the postseason, like what do you got? 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:36.000 Who are you? What are you going to do? 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:40.239 Clock management, how you get your team ready? Like just 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:45.560 so many things that stuff that maybe is not tangible 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:49.640 where you think, but you have a team that goes 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:52.880 out there and wins when maybe they're not supposed to win, 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:55.800 or holds on comes up with a play when they 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:59.120 need to, and Buffalo never did that. And when you 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:02.280 think about this, the New York Jets have been in 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:06.919 more AFC title games than the Buffalo Bills have in 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:18.960 the last thirty years. Brought to you by Panadian America, 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:21.879 the Official Trading Cards of the Dan Patrick Show. I 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:25.040 always think about this, like John Harball, if you make 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:27.000 the kick and you go into the postseason, does he 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:31.080 still get fired? And I think if they didn't get 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:32.920 to the title game, he was going to get fired. 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:34.760 Now I don't have any information on that. That was 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:38.520 just a gut feeling that I had. Did the Bills 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:43.919 make their mind up about Sean McDermott now or last week? 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:46.320 Did it matter what was going to happen? What if 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:48.400 they won the game, then you go to the AFC 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:51.160 Title Game? But if you go to the Super Bowl, 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:58.080 so you're coaching for your job and Sean McDermott paid 0:19:58.080 --> 0:19:58.880 the price. 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:00.360 Years. 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:03.360 We'll talk to Steve Tasker, the Buffalo Bill's announcer. He'll 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:06.399 join us coming up in an hour from now. Albert Breer, 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:10.600 the Monday Morning quarterback following all the movers and shakers, 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:14.200 And I did get information on this from somebody who 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:18.320 said there is probably at least one coach who is 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:20.520 coaching for his job in the postseason. That we were 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:24.320 talking about all the vacancies there, and I wondered, you know, 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:28.320 if if Matt Lafleur is not re signed extended in 0:20:28.359 --> 0:20:32.040 Green Bay, Woul John Harbaught have taken that job. If 0:20:32.040 --> 0:20:34.399 Matt Lafleur doesn't stay in Green Bay, does he go 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:37.679 to Pittsburgh? Is Mike McCarthy in the mix in Pittsburgh 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:41.399 a Pittsburgh guy? What if Buffalo opens up because you 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:47.159 got Josh Allen there? When you think about Lamar Jackson, 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:51.920 two time MVP, Josh Allen the reigning MVP, and they 0:20:51.960 --> 0:20:57.119 will have new head coaches next year. Robert Salah is 0:20:57.160 --> 0:21:00.280 gonna maybe get a run in Baltimore here, the deub 0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:02.640 coordinator for the forty nine ers, might be coming back 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:05.119 to be a head coach. And once again there's a 0:21:05.160 --> 0:21:08.160 lot of talk, there's so many openings, who's going where, 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:12.560 And then it feels like there's a domino effect happening. 0:21:12.760 --> 0:21:16.080 You know, when Baltimore and now Buffalo is open, you 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:19.119 know Stefanski's going to Atlanta hardball with the Giants. So 0:21:19.160 --> 0:21:23.000 there's a lot going on. And this is the NFL. 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:28.080