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Speaker 1: Report came out yesterday. The NBA Players Association sent out
Speaker 1: a pole of the players. One simple question, do you
Speaker 1: want to play this season? And it sounds simple, you
Speaker 1: would think everybody wants to play. I don't know if
Speaker 1: everybody wants to play. I don't know if every team,
Speaker 1: every owner wants to play, you know, the monetary issues.
Speaker 1: I don't know if everybody wants to play. NBA players
Speaker 1: aren't like us. Obviously they're more gifted, they're taller and
Speaker 1: a lot richer, but in many ways they're facing the
Speaker 1: same dilemmas we have. We tend to look at our
Speaker 1: athletes and said, well, they're impenetrable. Hey, football players can
Speaker 1: come back and play. They're football players. It's not that easy.
Speaker 1: We want all of this to happen. We hope all
Speaker 1: of this happens. The NBA and other leagues can come
Speaker 1: up with all the plans they want, and you should
Speaker 1: have contingency plans. I get it. It doesn't mean you're
Speaker 1: able to execute this. These are very smart people. But
Speaker 1: there are some very smart people who are looking at
Speaker 1: this coronavirus and giving you their assessment. I don't care
Speaker 1: what the NCAA. He says, Hey, we want to have
Speaker 1: college football. Who doesn't want to have college football? And
Speaker 1: then you have the state at California. They've extended the
Speaker 1: stay at home. Now that's going to affect your college
Speaker 1: football teams if you go back to the draft or
Speaker 1: the schedule when it was released in the NFL. I said,
Speaker 1: keep an eye on the California teams, you know, the
Speaker 1: Rams and the Chargers. If they can't play in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: If the forty nine ers can't play in the Bay Area,
Speaker 1: could they go to Denver? Does somebody go to Vegas?
Speaker 1: Does somebody go to Arizona? And you share the stadium
Speaker 1: with those teams. This is what's being talked about here
Speaker 1: and it's probably going to happen. And I wonder about
Speaker 1: college football with the Pac twelve, and I know that
Speaker 1: we had the commissioner on yesterday, Larry Scott. He can
Speaker 1: say what he wants. You're not going to have students
Speaker 1: on campus with these California state schools. You're not having football.
Speaker 1: And what's that mean is the SEC is going to
Speaker 1: go on? Are they going to play games? Their commissioner
Speaker 1: backed off of that a little bit. And you know
Speaker 1: they want to be unified here. You know what about
Speaker 1: the Big twelve acc Big ten. We want it to happen,
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean it will happen. And there's a big
Speaker 1: difference and we have to understand that when we hear
Speaker 1: this news, because I'm just like you, I'll hear some news,
Speaker 1: i'na go, oh, come on, but you can't have that reaction.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's not real. And you know it's real
Speaker 1: that that's how I feel, But it's not in a
Speaker 1: real world. You know, we're in a vacuum. You know
Speaker 1: when doctor Fauci, who is the director of the National
Speaker 1: Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, says needless suffering and
Speaker 1: death if the United States prematurely opens portions of the
Speaker 1: country amid the coronavirus pandemic. Okay, he has a title,
Speaker 1: this is what he does for a living, and he's
Speaker 1: talking about this in front of a Senate committee yesterday.
Speaker 1: He hinted that those hoping for a standard college football
Speaker 1: schedule this fall should pump the bricks. Now that's him.
Speaker 1: It's not me, it's not anybody else who's giving you
Speaker 1: information or opinion or hope. Doctor Fauci said, as things
Speaker 1: stand on May twelfth, he doesn't envision students being protected
Speaker 1: by a vaccine or treatment for the fall school terms. Okay,
Speaker 1: if that's the case, are we having college football? Are
Speaker 1: we starting on time? I wondered if the NBA season
Speaker 1: would be salvaged. I said it wouldn't, but That was
Speaker 1: two months ago when I said it. With college football,
Speaker 1: I said, I can't see us starting on time. It's
Speaker 1: not that I don't want it to happen. I'm just
Speaker 1: being realistic about this. And there are states where you
Speaker 1: probably go. We don't need gloves, we don't need face matter,
Speaker 1: we don't need any of this. What's the big deal.
Speaker 1: It's the other schools in other cities that are affected
Speaker 1: by this that will affect the NFL, the NBA, Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball, in college football. The NCAA president Mark Emrott
Speaker 1: said he believes false sports won't occur at schools where
Speaker 1: students can't return to campuses. Now, I don't put any
Speaker 1: credibility in what Mark Emrott has to say as the
Speaker 1: head of the NCIA. This is about the commissioners of
Speaker 1: the Power five conferences. Mark Emirtt is just a Liaisa
Speaker 1: ESPN and the five Power five commissioners. That's all you
Speaker 1: need to know. Fox Sports, I'm sure has a word
Speaker 1: in this as well. But the Power five Conference commissioners,
Speaker 1: they remain committed to college football starting on time. SEC
Speaker 1: Commissioner Greg sank You, who we had on last week.
Speaker 1: He explained that he and other Conference executives have to
Speaker 1: be prepared to adapt to a sports landscape that's ever changing.
Speaker 1: It is every day it feels like, what's new the
Speaker 1: California State system happened yesterday. They're going to stay online,
Speaker 1: leaving fall sports pretty much hanging in the balance here.
Speaker 1: So you got twenty three California state universities. They're gonna
Speaker 1: have virtual learning this fall. San Jose State, San Diego State,
Speaker 1: Fresno State. You're not playing football. They're members of the
Speaker 1: Mountain West Conference. It's just it's not going to happen.
Speaker 1: And it feels like, well, we're just gonna will our way.
Speaker 1: We're gonna force our way back. It just doesn't work
Speaker 1: that way. There's laws you have to abide by, and
Speaker 1: I'm right there with you. Do I want it to happen? Yes?
Speaker 1: Do I want fans in this state? Yes, we all
Speaker 1: want the same thing. It's when can we do it?
Speaker 1: When is it smart to do it? It feels like
Speaker 1: we celebrate when you say, hey, the numbers are down,
Speaker 1: only six hundred died yesterday. I like, just let that
Speaker 1: sink in. And they you're gonna have your students go
Speaker 1: back because they are students member the NCUBA. I want
Speaker 1: us to know they're student athletes. If they're just athletes,
Speaker 1: they don't have to go to class, you're just playing football.
Speaker 1: But if students are going back, these football players going back,
Speaker 1: I mean they're they're not immune to this. Hey they're
Speaker 1: big and strong. Okay, what about the coaches, I mean
Speaker 1: factor this. Let's say the NBA goes back Greg Popovich
Speaker 1: at his age, Jim Beheim college basketball, Mike Shashevski, older
Speaker 1: assistant coaches. So you can say, well, you got those
Speaker 1: young kids, and they're they're strong, and they should be
Speaker 1: able to, you know, handle the coronavirus. Maybe they can,
Speaker 1: hopefully they can. You've got a lot of coaches, managers.
Speaker 1: If you're over the age of sixty sixty five, now
Speaker 1: you're more susceptible. I mean, there's just so many things
Speaker 1: to factor in. And you know, yes, it's unfortunate we're
Speaker 1: not going to start on time. Yes, it's unfortunate we
Speaker 1: had seasons interrupted. But I'd rather learn from this year
Speaker 1: that helps us when we go into next year, and
Speaker 1: that we don't have something where we look back upon
Speaker 1: and say what we should have done or why didn't
Speaker 1: we do something? That's all am I overly cautious. Yes
Speaker 1: I am, and I'll remain that way. I know when
Speaker 1: people say, well, what about the economy, I'm not rooting
Speaker 1: against us. I mean, I'm not rooting against the economy.
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure we understand. We keep
Speaker 1: thinking that all of a sudden, if the sports leagues
Speaker 1: come back, then everybody gets to come back. And that's
Speaker 1: not necessarily the case. They're going to take special guidelines
Speaker 1: precautions to come back. We may not have those available
Speaker 1: to us. And do you want to go to a game?
Speaker 1: And getting sports back doesn't jump start the economy. The
Speaker 1: economy jump starts the economy because we're not going to
Speaker 1: a game. You're not buying tickets, you're not traveling concessions.
Speaker 1: You're gonna watch on TV. You're watching on TV now,
Speaker 1: you're just watching games from twenty years ago. In our minds,
Speaker 1: it helps us, and it does. There are times watching UFC,
Speaker 1: watching NASCAR, this weekend, Golf's coming up. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: I'm just like you. I want it, I hope for it,
Speaker 1: but I have to be realistic. We're not better than
Speaker 1: anybody else right now when it comes to this. We're
Speaker 1: all vulnerable and that gets lost on people. Yeah. Point,
Speaker 1: I'm not playing Devil's advocate. But just to look at
Speaker 1: the other side of this, and this is I have
Speaker 1: friends who are small business owners and they are hanging
Speaker 1: by a thread and month to month they pay their
Speaker 1: rents and they pay their costs, and they trying to
Speaker 1: keep employees paid and they're just you know, I have
Speaker 1: a friend of mine who's a small business owner. He goes,
Speaker 1: I'm more worried about being homeless than getting sick. And
Speaker 1: that's and that's just one guy who's talking. And he
Speaker 1: even says, I, but what do you do about it? Well,
Speaker 1: in his state, they're opening businesses for patio service. Well,
Speaker 1: if it's safe and you feel comfortable, then go I mean,
Speaker 1: that's really what it comes down, and that different businesses
Speaker 1: have different priorities and different amount of funds to whether
Speaker 1: the storm. And that's that's what's really tough as a
Speaker 1: small business owner out there who is um more worried
Speaker 1: about the next check or the next house payment. Well, no,
Speaker 1: I understand that. I sympathize. I mean, and I'm not
Speaker 1: saying one's right or one's wrong. It's more so that
Speaker 1: that it's there's in different areas of the country. There's
Speaker 1: different priorities in different settings where you know, being out
Speaker 1: of business for another month means being out of business. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'm not I'm sympathize. It's not like I go, boy, heye, sorry,
Speaker 1: you're going out of business. It's you still have to
Speaker 1: be smart with what you're doing. And if you're allowed
Speaker 1: to push the guidelines a little bit, great, you know,
Speaker 1: survival the fittest. You know, we make it a point
Speaker 1: that you know, we try to do take out service
Speaker 1: twice a week from local restaurants. Just you can't go there.
Speaker 1: We'd normally go there, we can't. You try to help,
Speaker 1: and it's easy for me to sit here because I'm
Speaker 1: getting paid to still do my job. But it's not
Speaker 1: like I don't have friends who do have a small
Speaker 1: business or do do have a restaurant and they can't
Speaker 1: do this, and that is painful. But I just I
Speaker 1: gather the information. That's all I do, folks. I just
Speaker 1: gather it, and I try to be fair with you
Speaker 1: know what I dispense to you and my thoughts on this,
Speaker 1: And I don't like saying the pac twelves in trouble
Speaker 1: two weeks ago I said, the PAC twelves in trouble here.
Speaker 1: When you heard Larry Scott yesterday, the commissioner got a
Speaker 1: little testy with me, and I said, hey, this is
Speaker 1: just my information. What I'm hearing. Best case scenario, PAC
Speaker 1: twelve just conference games. I don't think the Pac twelve
Speaker 1: is playing football, and it's certainly not on schedule. And
Speaker 1: is it going to be in the spring. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I was going to start practicing soon. Like there's no
Speaker 1: Commissioner of college football. These are unchartered waters. And as
Speaker 1: much as we say let's go back, come on, we
Speaker 1: gotta go back. I want us to. I hope we do.
Speaker 1: But then you've got to be prepared for what happens
Speaker 1: if you do, and we're not ready. That's my biggest
Speaker 1: concern here. We do force our way back, or we
Speaker 1: push it, are we ready for whatever happens after that?
Speaker 1: Because you got to be ready for that. And that's
Speaker 1: the stark reality of all this. And look, am I
Speaker 1: too close to it? You can say that, you know,
Speaker 1: we're not very far from New York City, and we
Speaker 1: hear about it, we read about it more. I have
Speaker 1: friends who live in Arizona. Friend plays golf every day,
Speaker 1: doesn't wear a mask, no gloves, doesn't care. Hey, no
Speaker 1: big deal, he goes, I can't relate to I said, well,
Speaker 1: they have body bags that are stacked up in semi trailers,
Speaker 1: semi truck trailers. So that's that's the reality of what
Speaker 1: it is here. Not the same in every place. I
Speaker 1: get that. I understand that you want to play football
Speaker 1: in Starkville, great, you want you want to play in Oxford, great,
Speaker 1: I just don't know if you're going to have I
Speaker 1: don't know if the SEC is going to play football.
Speaker 1: If not, everybody's playing football, is the Big ten going
Speaker 1: to do that? Big twelve pack twelve is not going
Speaker 1: to be able to do it. So that it's just
Speaker 1: it's the new abnormal. As I've said before, trying to
Speaker 1: figure all of this out. But make no mistake about it.
Speaker 1: I want sports to come back. We need it to
Speaker 1: come back, but it's got to come back when it's
Speaker 1: We allow it to come back when it's ready to
Speaker 1: come back. You know, NASCAR is perfect. No fans, there's
Speaker 1: no contact, Fans don't factor into the race at all.
Speaker 1: You know, the cars make noise, there's no noise from
Speaker 1: the fans. If basketball comes back and there's no fans,
Speaker 1: I'm okay with it. Golf, no galleries, I'm okay with it, Baseball,
Speaker 1: no fans, I'm okay with it. When we have it
Speaker 1: where everybody says, now it's safe. Great, let's go, let's
Speaker 1: go watch some baseball. Let's go to a tailgate, all
Speaker 1: in favor, and it'll be a hell of a time
Speaker 1: when we do. But until then, I'm just listening to
Speaker 1: the people who are way above my pay grade. Tell
Speaker 1: me what's going on. That's all Nick, and Arizona joins us. Hi, Nick,
Speaker 1: what do you have for me today? Hey? DP six
Speaker 1: F Also want to say, this a big deal for me,
Speaker 1: ten time caller right here, So life right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely love the show. So I wanted to mention, you know,
Speaker 1: being here in Arizona, Governor Doocey just opened up pretty
Speaker 1: much everything and it's business as usual. Hima um. But yeah,
Speaker 1: he said that on Saturday that pro sports can start here,
Speaker 1: and just want to say, just want to get your
Speaker 1: thoughts and think it's kind of crazy. Well it can
Speaker 1: start there, thank you, Nick. It can start, but can
Speaker 1: everybody else get there? So the teams from California or
Speaker 1: you know what's sports and so yeah, in that pocket,
Speaker 1: in that vacuum. Yeah, sports can come back, can teams travel?
Speaker 1: What happens? What precautions are there? Fans go to the
Speaker 1: game like, I don't know. I don't know what that means.
Speaker 1: We're open for business. I don't know. Wayne and Arkansas.
Speaker 1: Hey Wayne, Hi, Dan. I wanted to call and actually
Speaker 1: saying this is kind of a weird thing to happen
Speaker 1: at this year. I wanted to thank you over the
Speaker 1: last two years from making me an NFL fan for
Speaker 1: the first time in my life. I grew up with Atlanta,
Speaker 1: no expectations at all. We had bark Kowski, great quarterback,
Speaker 1: no one could catch at the ball. And then I've
Speaker 1: also lived in Phoenix and you know who cares and
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Tampa Bay this year. Yeah, well, I'm glad
Speaker 1: that we turned you on to some football there, Wayne,
Speaker 1: and we'll continue to do so. Let me take a break,
Speaker 1: Jimmy even Chicago and then we'll take a break. Mike Vrabel,
Speaker 1: Titans head coach. I got to ask him about that
Speaker 1: draft day setup that he had with his family because
Speaker 1: Rabel was great. Hey, Jimmy, how's he going? Ben just
Speaker 1: wanted to ask you about the ESPN was who your
Speaker 1: greatest player is? And also who your favorite player was.
Speaker 1: I know you mentioned Pistol Pete in the past, and like,
Speaker 1: how do you think he would bear in today's game?
Speaker 1: All right, I'm going to take a break on that, Jimmy,
Speaker 1: give that some thought and we'll come back. I'll give
Speaker 1: you the answer on that and my favorite player and
Speaker 1: who do I think is the best player of all time?
Speaker 1: Eighteen after the hour, We'll talk some football with Mike Vrabel.
Speaker 1: The Titans coming up. Next to here more phone calls
Speaker 1: as well. Nineteen after the owner. This is the Dan
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Speaker 1: McLevin just sent me a trivia question from a fan.
Speaker 1: Steve Nash is one of two players in NBA history
Speaker 1: to have been named the regular season MVP and not
Speaker 1: to ever play in an NBA Championship game? Is that right?
Speaker 1: McLevin is a question that was a question from a
Speaker 1: fan on Twitter. I have no idea who the answer is.
Speaker 1: I don't either, and I'll give you my basketball thoughts
Speaker 1: there coming up. But Mike Vrabel is the head coach
Speaker 1: of my Tennessee Titans. They of course lost to the
Speaker 1: Chiefs in the FC Championship game and had great season. Coach,
Speaker 1: good morning, how are you and doing great? Guys? How
Speaker 1: are you? I hope everybody's staying safe and being healthy.
Speaker 1: What do you mentioned nowadays? Coach? Man, it's all push ups.
Speaker 1: It's all push ups and sit ups. Teleton, that's it, really.
Speaker 1: I lift enough, man. I got my Tyler's at BC.
Speaker 1: He's offensive lineman, so he's these one doing lifting and
Speaker 1: I'm trying to stay in that that Dad Bottom club.
Speaker 1: Do you ever miss hitting somebody? M Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I think you missed the contact of football, and I
Speaker 1: think that's why I enjoy getting out there with the
Speaker 1: players and trying to teach and develop those guys on
Speaker 1: the field. How do you keep in touch with your
Speaker 1: players right now? We're you know, just using the team
Speaker 1: work apps, sending text messages and really the way that
Speaker 1: we have the meetings scheduled through through the zoom. I
Speaker 1: can walk It's like I'm walking out of my office.
Speaker 1: I walk into the old line meeting at ten, I
Speaker 1: hang out there and see those guys, visit with that group.
Speaker 1: That's probably one of my favorite groups, just because of
Speaker 1: the types of personalities that they have in there and
Speaker 1: the bond that they have. And then I'll go in
Speaker 1: and pop in the dB meeting after that, visit with
Speaker 1: those guys and kind of work my way around. See
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks and receivers at noon, outside linebackers after that,
Speaker 1: and inside linebackers. D line goes at eleven thirty. So
Speaker 1: it's been pretty cool. We've been able to structure those
Speaker 1: meetings and the players set the schedule that they wanted
Speaker 1: to meet and the coaches are available. How about the
Speaker 1: workouts for these players if they don't have a facility
Speaker 1: to go to. I think it's important that everybody stays
Speaker 1: self motivated during this time. It's not something that we're
Speaker 1: trying the track. We're trying to be conscious of. Guys. Wait,
Speaker 1: there's two types of players. When you think about our
Speaker 1: football team or anybody's team that Um, maybe they have
Speaker 1: to concentrate on not being overweight at this time, maybe
Speaker 1: a bigger lineman. But then some of these players, they
Speaker 1: have to concentrate on keeping their weight up. And so
Speaker 1: really I think they're they're working. I think that the
Speaker 1: guys are staying self motivated, they're they're getting together, they're
Speaker 1: communicating with our strength coach, but we're not monitoring those workouts.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the virtual draft, the setup at the
Speaker 1: at the house, the frat house. Who who scripted that?
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody was scripted. I think what what
Speaker 1: happened was is the kids were excited, like like everybody
Speaker 1: else was, and um, we got a full house. You know,
Speaker 1: we're jenn and I are here and Tyler's nineteen, Jackson's
Speaker 1: nineteen and he's been with us for a year and
Speaker 1: a half. In Carter's eighteen and he's graduating. So it's
Speaker 1: like and obviously me, it's like a frat house. And
Speaker 1: that's and I never was in a fraternity other house state,
Speaker 1: but I can only imagine that this is what it
Speaker 1: would look like. And so I think when they saw
Speaker 1: that the kids were on the screen, they wanted to
Speaker 1: do something fun. They wanted to be a part of it. Um.
Speaker 1: Next thing, I know, I look around, there's a frabeled
Speaker 1: jersey from a Pro Bowl. There's a there's a frozone costume.
Speaker 1: And again, these guys, they they they I love them
Speaker 1: to death. They support me um, and they just you know,
Speaker 1: they were having fun with it. You kind of stole
Speaker 1: the draft there for a little bit, you know, because
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure what was going on. I certainly wasn't
Speaker 1: quite sure what was going on. Even they're they're good kids,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, they're trying to keep their rooms
Speaker 1: clean and their cards cleaning all other stuff. And then
Speaker 1: Belichick had his dog there. I didn't even know Bill
Speaker 1: had a dog, but he didn't strike me as a
Speaker 1: dog lover. I was doing some research here. Brady's first
Speaker 1: career start that was against the Colts and you were
Speaker 1: his teammate. You remember that, yeah, two thousand and one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you guys shut down Peyton Manning. Brady's last start with
Speaker 1: the Patriots the wild card game, and you're the winning
Speaker 1: coach there. How weird was that? Did you have any
Speaker 1: sense that that was the last time Tom was going
Speaker 1: to play for the Patriots? You know, I wasn't really
Speaker 1: focused on that. I was trying to focus on preparing
Speaker 1: our team to go into a place in January that
Speaker 1: you know, not too many teams at won. I think
Speaker 1: they were twenty and three in the playoffs at home.
Speaker 1: But looking back on that now, you know, Tom and
Speaker 1: I have a unique relationship having played with him and
Speaker 1: been in his teammate, being friends, and then obviously competing
Speaker 1: against them. I think it's a unique relationship. You know,
Speaker 1: he had a great phenomenal career there and obviously still
Speaker 1: wants to play football. Was he in play at all
Speaker 1: for the Titans. Anybody that was available in free agency
Speaker 1: is available for the Titans. I think that John and
Speaker 1: I talk about that all the time. Is finding ways
Speaker 1: to improve our team. Well said, did you recruit him?
Speaker 1: Thank you, No, you don't. This isn't college football. You know,
Speaker 1: we draft him and we pay him. This isn't college football.
Speaker 1: But you have to recruit. And being on Twitter and
Speaker 1: all that other stuff, Well, I think Brady recruited the Buccaneers.
Speaker 1: It sounds like he was. You know, when I talked
Speaker 1: to Bruce Arians, it felt like Brady was saying, Hey,
Speaker 1: I want to come there. I'm coming there. Basically like
Speaker 1: a kid commits to going to college. It felt like
Speaker 1: that that's what he was doing with Tampa. I think
Speaker 1: that that looks like he's settled in pretty well down there.
Speaker 1: I saw his house, and I'm waiting for this thing
Speaker 1: to be done some and go visit him and play
Speaker 1: him golf. I also, I wanted to ask you, and
Speaker 1: you told this story this a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: that I think you made the mistake of saying to
Speaker 1: Tom in the huddle that you were you were open,
Speaker 1: and I I just I've gone out for a rut.
Speaker 1: I've gone up for a rut. I've been over on
Speaker 1: offense for like a week, and so they throw me
Speaker 1: in there and I run this route. I'm in the
Speaker 1: back of the ends, and I'm like Tom dom Tom
Speaker 1: and I come back in the huddle and I was like,
Speaker 1: I was wide open. He goes, Mikey, if you ever
Speaker 1: raise your hands in me again, I'll never thirty of
Speaker 1: the ball. He's like, I'm the quarterback. I know who's
Speaker 1: f and open. I was like, well said, I got
Speaker 1: the point. I'm like Randy. Randy always raises his head
Speaker 1: all the time. Randy Moss is allowed to raise his
Speaker 1: head you weren't allowed to, And did you keep those footballs?
Speaker 1: What do you have? Ten touchdown receptions? Twelve if you
Speaker 1: count the Super bowls? So that that's uh wow something
Speaker 1: that that obviously was really cool. But the thing that
Speaker 1: you saw in draft night, Like my kids would take
Speaker 1: those footballs from the super Bowl and we'd go back
Speaker 1: to Ohio and they'd be outside. Planet'd be like, but
Speaker 1: I don't have any football. There's no jerseys, there's nothing
Speaker 1: up Like. I'm concentrated on being the best coach I can.
Speaker 1: I love our players, I miss them to death. I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not concentrated on you know what my career was.
Speaker 1: That's not going to help us. Oh No, I just
Speaker 1: didn't know if you had those footballs. No, I couldn't
Speaker 1: tell you. We've been through four or five houses since then.
Speaker 1: Um and usually if the rule is if it stays
Speaker 1: in a box more than two moves, it gets thrown out.
Speaker 1: Or well, how would you do if Derrick Henry was
Speaker 1: coming through the line, I would go low. It would
Speaker 1: be low, I would be loan. I'd look for the
Speaker 1: stiff arm. If I love the low, who's he remind
Speaker 1: you of? With that style? I don't know. I mean
Speaker 1: I played bigger backs, you know. Jerome Bettis was a
Speaker 1: bigger back. Eddie George is probably a close comparison, just
Speaker 1: because of the length that he was a taller back.
Speaker 1: M Jerome was much more compact. He just very long,
Speaker 1: and he's fast in the open field. He's just he
Speaker 1: runs away from a lot of people. And our guys
Speaker 1: love blocking for him. I love coaching them. You know,
Speaker 1: He's done a lot of great things for us. Jerome
Speaker 1: Bettis would tell me stories. He said that he would
Speaker 1: hear defensive players grunt or grown after they jackled him,
Speaker 1: because it was just like he knew he was inflicting
Speaker 1: pain on you. I mean he had to be when
Speaker 1: I was finishing up in Pittsburgh, he had to be
Speaker 1: two hundred and seventy five. I don't know if it
Speaker 1: was bigger him or Levan Kirkley. And this is a
Speaker 1: running back. His Cavs looked like great for oh Man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't imagine. There are guys who, you know, they
Speaker 1: get small sometimes when those big guys come through the
Speaker 1: line and then all of a sudden, you kind of
Speaker 1: fall down, or you know that somebody got an arm
Speaker 1: on you and you can't get to the running back.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's trying to get those guys before
Speaker 1: they get going, because if they built up ahead of steam,
Speaker 1: if they get through the line, somebody's had a bad day.
Speaker 1: It's great to talk to your coach and congrats on
Speaker 1: the success last year, and hopefully we figured this out
Speaker 1: at some point. But thank you for joining us well.
Speaker 1: I certainly appreciate you guys following the Titans. Stay safe
Speaker 1: out there, guys, stay healthy. That's Mike Rabel and I
Speaker 1: don't know if Tom was in play there with the Titans.
Speaker 1: Probably so, as coach said, you're a free agent, everybody's
Speaker 1: in play there would have been interesting. I do love
Speaker 1: that story that here's Rabel, who's a defensive player, and
Speaker 1: he thinks he's open in the end zone and he
Speaker 1: goes back to tell Tom how does a guy like
Speaker 1: him have ten touchdown receptions? The defense didn't figure out
Speaker 1: when he's lining up in those goal line things that hey,
Speaker 1: guess what they're actually gonna throw. I asked him about
Speaker 1: that the last time he was on. I said, look,
Speaker 1: if you came into the game, I'm figuring you're probably
Speaker 1: getting the ball. You had ten regular season touchdown receptions
Speaker 1: and I think you caught two in the Super Bowl. Yeah. Pull.
Speaker 1: His career stat line is fantastic on the offensive end.
Speaker 1: Ten receptions, fourteen yards, ten touchdowns. The longest touchdown catch
Speaker 1: was two yards ten for ten. I always thought Rabel
Speaker 1: would be great for hard knocks, but Jay Glazer tells
Speaker 1: me that Rabel would be too vulgar for hard knocks.
Speaker 1: Now that just he grew up in Ohio, I think
Speaker 1: outside of Toledo, Ohio State, Buckeye, and then you play
Speaker 1: with the Patriots, and now you see these coaches and
Speaker 1: you can see a team that is in the shape
Speaker 1: of that or the former personality of that coach, and
Speaker 1: you get that with the Tennessee Titans. It's like there's
Speaker 1: no bs here we go. We're coming straight at you
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, Poe. But he's another one of those
Speaker 1: guys who started his career out of Ohio State and
Speaker 1: went to Pittsburgh. It didn't really play much, and then
Speaker 1: he got picked Patriots through this with a lot of
Speaker 1: different guy remember Rodney Harrison. They resurrected him Rabel, They
Speaker 1: resurrected a lot of these good but not great players.
Speaker 1: They took him and had the best years of their life.
Speaker 1: I think that's the brilliance of Belichick because I don't
Speaker 1: think he's considered an above average drafter. I think he's
Speaker 1: really good at sensing the chemistry of that guy and
Speaker 1: how does he fit into our system. And he saw
Speaker 1: Rodney Harrison with the Chargers and he just said, I
Speaker 1: love the way you play. That was it. Rodney, you know,
Speaker 1: is on kickoff team and he's getting knocked out on kickoffs,
Speaker 1: and you know, he was a tough guy. And Belichick
Speaker 1: loved Rodney Harrison. I think he wanted to make Rodney
Speaker 1: a coach, an assistant coach with the Patriots. He loved
Speaker 1: him that much and understandably. So, like you're around Rodney,
Speaker 1: and you know, Rodney's all business. He's going to get
Speaker 1: the job done somehow, some way. All right, some phone
Speaker 1: calls here Chris and West Virginia. Hi, Chris, what do
Speaker 1: you have for me today? Hey, Dan, thanks for taking
Speaker 1: my call. First year in West Virginia being in the
Speaker 1: Big twelve, I don't know how we're going to do
Speaker 1: college football. There's no travel. They just wanted to take buses.
Speaker 1: I mean a couple of years ago, we have most
Speaker 1: doubled the second team then in the conference or in
Speaker 1: the nation for miles traveled second. The fans need to
Speaker 1: know when do we see phase one, Phase two and
Speaker 1: phase three come for the Danette? And you know what
Speaker 1: the schedule looked like there, and who's the most important
Speaker 1: coming back? Oh all right, well, Chris trying to stir
Speaker 1: it up there a little bit. I left it open
Speaker 1: to the Danette. You come back when you feel safe.
Speaker 1: Anybody want to announce anything any time frame here that
Speaker 1: I should be aware of. Alrighty, Then he asked me, Clevin,
Speaker 1: I was just talking to the homebound Danette. We have
Speaker 1: a big adjustment to make when we come to the studio.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we should share this all, but
Speaker 1: you know, and I'll just say this, Andrew, if you're
Speaker 1: going where I think you're going, it'll take over the
Speaker 1: show for a little while. I think it's worth it, though,
Speaker 1: See can we do this. I'll back you. I'll support
Speaker 1: you in this because I know it's important for I think,
Speaker 1: especially in this being one of the homebound Danettes, that
Speaker 1: I support you. So how about I take a break? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you should take a break because you guys, you guys
Speaker 1: who are quarantine there can talk amongst yourselves to make
Speaker 1: sure that quarantine angers. Fritzier, are you're going to be
Speaker 1: involved in this? It's news to me. Whatever they're about
Speaker 1: to say, I'd like to think I'll support whatever they're thinking.
Speaker 1: I'm the most immune, no compromised, if that's the right phraseology.
Speaker 1: So before I go all in or whatever they're going
Speaker 1: to say, I need to take that to consideration. All right, well,
Speaker 1: let's take a break then we'll come back. More phone
Speaker 1: calls as well. Is this a bombshell? See? You might
Speaker 1: say that. We go to the newsroom now, no, after
Speaker 1: the break, after the rook all right, oh good, welcome
Speaker 1: back after this. Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick
Speaker 1: Show podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weekday
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Speaker 1: at YouTube dot com slash The Dan Patrick Show. Oh righty.
Speaker 1: Before the break, Nick love and teased a ventral bombshell
Speaker 1: here that had to do with the dan Ets working
Speaker 1: from home and when they would come back. Paulie of course,
Speaker 1: is here and about twenty feet away from me. Fritzie
Speaker 1: has no idea what mcloven and Seaton are talking about,
Speaker 1: but I yield the floor to you, mclovin. Okay, So
Speaker 1: when we come back, which will hopefully be very soon,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a major adjustment, possibly for the danas
Speaker 1: who have been working remotely, because when you're on Zoom,
Speaker 1: there was a mute button and you are allowed to
Speaker 1: make any noises you want while the show is going on,
Speaker 1: so you might be comfortable and during a three hour
Speaker 1: radio show, to pass gas whatever you want, just hit
Speaker 1: the mute button. So now that we're gonna be back
Speaker 1: in studio, that's gonna be adjustment. And there's a and
Speaker 1: there's a Todd Fritz game where we try and guess
Speaker 1: when Todd is actually doing said activity based on his face.
Speaker 1: We all or adjustments on his seat. So we played
Speaker 1: that game without him. Yes, the game. Yes, I mean,
Speaker 1: as you know, we've been at this now several weeks.
Speaker 1: I don't know how it is, right, So there is
Speaker 1: a certain level level of comfort. Um. But to see
Speaker 1: the problem is is that once Andrew, I'm going to
Speaker 1: give you credit on this, Andrew unleashed the is this
Speaker 1: person farting right now. Game. It's dominated my zoom sessions
Speaker 1: where every time that you look here, somebody's just sitting there.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure Todd just farting. Wow. I wish it
Speaker 1: was that simple, but I'm glad to get into more.
Speaker 1: I want to open the curtain if we're comfortable talking
Speaker 1: about those types of things. There are times, because of
Speaker 1: the condition that I suffer from, where something beyond just
Speaker 1: passing gases brewing in the middle of the segment. I
Speaker 1: don't want to walk out in the middle of the segment, so,
Speaker 1: for lack of better word, holding it in until I
Speaker 1: hate the lovely words of dancing. We'll be back. So
Speaker 1: some form of that so that I can pop off
Speaker 1: my chair. And thankfully the restroomers are right on the
Speaker 1: other side of this wall. So it's a bomb smell,
Speaker 1: it's not a bombshell. If it was simple as what
Speaker 1: George Colin what's called the one cheek sneak, then I
Speaker 1: could just stay in my seat and do my thing.
Speaker 1: But I actually have to get up and get somewhere
Speaker 1: before there's a problem. Yes, mcloban. Also, you need to
Speaker 1: set a policy on pants. I don't know if I
Speaker 1: can wear non sweatpants. I just don't know if I
Speaker 1: can do it. No, I don't care what you wear.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously look at Fritzie. Yeah, if you want sweats,
Speaker 1: that's the beauty of what we do here. I never
Speaker 1: had a wardrobe rule here. There was no guidelines. You're good,
Speaker 1: that's true. Yeah, whatever you want to wear, I don't care.
Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta wear pants, I mean something I
Speaker 1: can't wear nothing. Oh well, during your sports or year
Speaker 1: as you work, shorts. I did wear shorts, yes, but
Speaker 1: not boxer shorts. I was wearing just shorts. Underwear still optional.
Speaker 1: If you wear pants, that's understand that that that we can.
Speaker 1: We can do that. So that's that. That's and you
Speaker 1: guys have a time frame of coming back. Anybody have
Speaker 1: any idea here? I'm kind of following the is this
Speaker 1: Are we being serious? Yeah, I'm kind of just following
Speaker 1: the state, okay, and seeing when they say to open up.
Speaker 1: That's what seems to be the most logical thing for me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I assume we will talk about it sometimes.
Speaker 1: I've tested positive for anybodies and I've recovered, So we
Speaker 1: had ever got too into that and nobody really knows
Speaker 1: what it means. So I feel like I'm safe to
Speaker 1: come back soon. So if you test a positive for
Speaker 1: the end of Bodies, then you had it. Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: been exposed to it, you know. I had like I
Speaker 1: had symptoms in March, but not too severe, so I
Speaker 1: didn't know what it was. Hey, I told you guys
Speaker 1: all about this, but I didn't know until I got
Speaker 1: the confirmation from the positive of anybody tests, which is
Speaker 1: a big debate. People don't know how what that means.
Speaker 1: You know, does that mean I'm immune from spreading it? Hopefully?
Speaker 1: And then how long? So that's the big debate, Nashley.
Speaker 1: But I feel pretty comfortable, pretty safe. I want to
Speaker 1: come back suit well good, Well, when you guys feel safe,
Speaker 1: then when you guys come back, and then I'm going home,
Speaker 1: Like I'm gonna start doing the show from my house
Speaker 1: once you guys come back. Yeah. Yeah, are you ready
Speaker 1: for a bunch of people to come back? Just adjustment wise. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we've been smart because I tell everybody when the show
Speaker 1: is over, go home. But just be smart. That's all.
Speaker 1: It's do what you're supposed to do, and you know,
Speaker 1: understand you might be fine, but somebody else might not.
Speaker 1: Be fine who you come in contact with. I go
Speaker 1: to work and I go home, that's it. And try
Speaker 1: to be just smart about it though. That's that's all
Speaker 1: I asked the guys here, and you know, we cut
Speaker 1: the staff and half the French kids at home. I
Speaker 1: sent Mario home so they could do their job from home,
Speaker 1: and then you know, they're social distancing here. So we're
Speaker 1: trying to be as smart as we possibly can while
Speaker 1: we continue to do the show. And look, I'm forever
Speaker 1: great full that you know, we we've made the best
Speaker 1: of this as we possibly can. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: the guys in the back and Alan our it guy
Speaker 1: to help set this up in the big german. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know that that's what made this work. That there's
Speaker 1: a comfort level of coming here, and hopefully that will
Speaker 1: continue here over the next couple of months. Here. Tony
Speaker 1: in California joins us, Hey, Tony, what do you have
Speaker 1: for me today? Hey? Dan? The word in Los Angeles
Speaker 1: is the veteran baseball players want to cancel the season
Speaker 1: because their agents are telling them you could get closer
Speaker 1: to a free agency without playing at risking injury or
Speaker 1: going into a slump. And the rookies and the minor
Speaker 1: leaguers want to play, so we could end up with
Speaker 1: some kind of strike like veteran strike, rookie replacement, minor
Speaker 1: league replacement, Arizona Florida League things. Yeah, I think it's
Speaker 1: still it's so fluid, Thank you, Tony. You know, the
Speaker 1: players wanting to get paid, should they get paid? How
Speaker 1: much do you get paid? You know NBA players getting
Speaker 1: paid now? They stopped getting paid now? Is there even
Speaker 1: more of a push to come back so they do
Speaker 1: get paid? You know, there's a lot going on here.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of things going on behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: and maybe we as fans don't care about that. We
Speaker 1: just want you to come back and play. We're not
Speaker 1: as concerned about how much money are you getting. Is
Speaker 1: Mike Trout getting his full paycheck or not? Or Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 1: We just we want you to come back. And what's
Speaker 1: that mean? Can we go watch games? Where are they
Speaker 1: going to be played? Those kind of things? Matt and
Speaker 1: South Carolina? Hi, Matt, what do you have for me today? Hey?
Speaker 1: What's up? DP? You were talking about things being so
Speaker 1: different all over the place. You touched on it with
Speaker 1: your body and Arizon on this plane golf every day
Speaker 1: down here in South Carolina. It's a similar to Arizona,
Speaker 1: Like I'm going to dinner and sit down for dinner
Speaker 1: for the first time since it started to have a
Speaker 1: tea time on Thursday and a tea time on Saturday.
Speaker 1: I gives us so different and it leads me to
Speaker 1: like college football down here is also so different than
Speaker 1: it is to Rutgers and places in the Northeast. And
Speaker 1: a theory I have is what if down here in
Speaker 1: the Southeast, everyone's going back to students back on campus
Speaker 1: and football is being played, but Power five is just
Speaker 1: kind of dissolved for maybe one year, maybe it states forever.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but that gives Clemson the chance to
Speaker 1: kind of play in the SEC Texas maybe a chance
Speaker 1: to play in the SEC Florida State. As a Clemson fan,
Speaker 1: this is pretty cool for me because down here, like
Speaker 1: all we hear being Clemson fans is just, oh, must
Speaker 1: be nice. In the All Cupcake Conference. You'd lose three
Speaker 1: games if you had to play Mississippi State every other week,
Speaker 1: like bring Gainesville to the real Death Valley. We will.
Speaker 1: I love I thank you, Matt, I'm vents already fired.
Speaker 1: Up for the season there. Paulie and I were talking
Speaker 1: about this before the show started. What does this mean
Speaker 1: for the nc double A as we move forward, because
Speaker 1: I wondered when this first happened, and I was told
Speaker 1: by a source said, you know, you might see this
Speaker 1: seismic shift with the NCAA and maybe these power conferences
Speaker 1: secede from the union. I still think that's going to
Speaker 1: be the big play at some point where these conferences
Speaker 1: just say we don't need you, and we're the powerbrokers
Speaker 1: here in sports. You're almost making it a semi professional
Speaker 1: college football league, you know, if you want to pay
Speaker 1: your players, control their likenesses. And this is big business here,
Speaker 1: and the NCAA is not really governing these power five conferences.
Speaker 1: These commissioners are just as powerful. Some of these commissioners
Speaker 1: are more powerful than the head of the NCAA. Feels like,
Speaker 1: I just don't know, can you get everybody to play
Speaker 1: in the conference? If Vanderbilt can't come back, or USC
Speaker 1: can't come back, Stanford can't come back, Rutgers can't come back, Northwestern,
Speaker 1: do you still try to cobble together a college football season?
Speaker 1: Can you go rogue and go We're hey, we can
Speaker 1: play and you can play, so why don't we play.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going to happen here. We don't know.
Speaker 1: I just know that these California state schools, they are
Speaker 1: going to be in trouble when it comes to this
Speaker 1: college football season. Do I think the college football season
Speaker 1: is delayed? My guests from people I've spoken to is yes,
Speaker 1: the NFL season from what I'm told, yes, NBA. I
Speaker 1: have my doubts about them coming back. I hope they do. Baseball.
Speaker 1: I still I keep hearing in early July they're gonna
Speaker 1: try to come back. More phone calls coming up. Final
Speaker 1: hour in this Wednesday