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I don't know if every team, 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:14.640 every owner wants to play, you know, the monetary issues. 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:18.400 I don't know if everybody wants to play. NBA players 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:21.640 aren't like us. Obviously they're more gifted, they're taller and 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:24.520 a lot richer, but in many ways they're facing the 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:27.560 same dilemmas we have. We tend to look at our 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:30.920 athletes and said, well, they're impenetrable. Hey, football players can 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:34.600 come back and play. They're football players. It's not that easy. 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:37.600 We want all of this to happen. We hope all 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:40.080 of this happens. The NBA and other leagues can come 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:43.240 up with all the plans they want, and you should 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:47.039 have contingency plans. I get it. It doesn't mean you're 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:51.520 able to execute this. These are very smart people. But 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:54.440 there are some very smart people who are looking at 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:59.240 this coronavirus and giving you their assessment. I don't care 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:01.240 what the NCAA. He says, Hey, we want to have 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:05.680 college football. Who doesn't want to have college football? And 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:08.920 then you have the state at California. They've extended the 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:12.200 stay at home. Now that's going to affect your college 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:15.240 football teams if you go back to the draft or 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:18.360 the schedule when it was released in the NFL. I said, 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:22.120 keep an eye on the California teams, you know, the 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:25.520 Rams and the Chargers. If they can't play in Los Angeles, 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:29.200 If the forty nine ers can't play in the Bay Area, 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:32.040 could they go to Denver? Does somebody go to Vegas? 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:35.600 Does somebody go to Arizona? And you share the stadium 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:39.040 with those teams. This is what's being talked about here 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:43.800 and it's probably going to happen. And I wonder about 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:45.920 college football with the Pac twelve, and I know that 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:49.200 we had the commissioner on yesterday, Larry Scott. He can 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:52.200 say what he wants. You're not going to have students 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:56.959 on campus with these California state schools. You're not having football. 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:01.440 And what's that mean is the SEC is going to 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:04.359 go on? Are they going to play games? Their commissioner 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:06.800 backed off of that a little bit. And you know 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:09.640 they want to be unified here. You know what about 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:16.480 the Big twelve acc Big ten. We want it to happen, 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:19.799 That doesn't mean it will happen. And there's a big 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:21.919 difference and we have to understand that when we hear 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:25.040 this news, because I'm just like you, I'll hear some news, 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:28.760 i'na go, oh, come on, but you can't have that reaction. 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:32.280 I mean, that's not real. And you know it's real 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:33.880 that that's how I feel, But it's not in a 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:36.520 real world. You know, we're in a vacuum. You know 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:40.240 when doctor Fauci, who is the director of the National 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:45.320 Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, says needless suffering and 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:49.080 death if the United States prematurely opens portions of the 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:53.800 country amid the coronavirus pandemic. Okay, he has a title, 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:57.000 this is what he does for a living, and he's 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:00.600 talking about this in front of a Senate committee yesterday. 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:04.240 He hinted that those hoping for a standard college football 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:07.240 schedule this fall should pump the bricks. Now that's him. 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:11.760 It's not me, it's not anybody else who's giving you 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:17.400 information or opinion or hope. Doctor Fauci said, as things 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:20.920 stand on May twelfth, he doesn't envision students being protected 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:25.960 by a vaccine or treatment for the fall school terms. Okay, 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:29.360 if that's the case, are we having college football? Are 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:32.520 we starting on time? I wondered if the NBA season 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:34.520 would be salvaged. I said it wouldn't, but That was 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:36.680 two months ago when I said it. With college football, 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:40.520 I said, I can't see us starting on time. It's 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:42.280 not that I don't want it to happen. I'm just 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.760 being realistic about this. And there are states where you 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:50.000 probably go. We don't need gloves, we don't need face matter, 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.080 we don't need any of this. What's the big deal. 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.799 It's the other schools in other cities that are affected 0:04:55.839 --> 0:05:00.200 by this that will affect the NFL, the NBA, Major 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:05.799 League Baseball, in college football. The NCAA president Mark Emrott 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.560 said he believes false sports won't occur at schools where 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:12.200 students can't return to campuses. Now, I don't put any 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:15.240 credibility in what Mark Emrott has to say as the 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:19.240 head of the NCIA. This is about the commissioners of 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:24.160 the Power five conferences. Mark Emirtt is just a Liaisa 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:28.560 ESPN and the five Power five commissioners. That's all you 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:32.480 need to know. Fox Sports, I'm sure has a word 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:35.400 in this as well. But the Power five Conference commissioners, 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:40.600 they remain committed to college football starting on time. SEC 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:42.960 Commissioner Greg sank You, who we had on last week. 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:45.719 He explained that he and other Conference executives have to 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:49.120 be prepared to adapt to a sports landscape that's ever changing. 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:54.400 It is every day it feels like, what's new the 0:05:54.520 --> 0:06:00.440 California State system happened yesterday. They're going to stay online, 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:04.320 leaving fall sports pretty much hanging in the balance here. 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:09.640 So you got twenty three California state universities. They're gonna 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:16.119 have virtual learning this fall. San Jose State, San Diego State, 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:20.200 Fresno State. You're not playing football. They're members of the 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.640 Mountain West Conference. It's just it's not going to happen. 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:27.160 And it feels like, well, we're just gonna will our way. 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:31.160 We're gonna force our way back. It just doesn't work 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:34.960 that way. There's laws you have to abide by, and 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.360 I'm right there with you. Do I want it to happen? Yes? 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:39.560 Do I want fans in this state? Yes, we all 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:42.840 want the same thing. It's when can we do it? 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:48.680 When is it smart to do it? It feels like 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.000 we celebrate when you say, hey, the numbers are down, 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:55.880 only six hundred died yesterday. I like, just let that 0:06:55.960 --> 0:07:01.159 sink in. And they you're gonna have your students go 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:04.600 back because they are students member the NCUBA. I want 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.560 us to know they're student athletes. If they're just athletes, 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:10.560 they don't have to go to class, you're just playing football. 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:16.280 But if students are going back, these football players going back, 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:19.360 I mean they're they're not immune to this. Hey they're 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:23.640 big and strong. Okay, what about the coaches, I mean 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:28.400 factor this. Let's say the NBA goes back Greg Popovich 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:33.840 at his age, Jim Beheim college basketball, Mike Shashevski, older 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:37.640 assistant coaches. So you can say, well, you got those 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:39.880 young kids, and they're they're strong, and they should be 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:44.200 able to, you know, handle the coronavirus. Maybe they can, 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:50.240 hopefully they can. You've got a lot of coaches, managers. 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:54.880 If you're over the age of sixty sixty five, now 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:57.960 you're more susceptible. I mean, there's just so many things 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:01.880 to factor in. And you know, yes, it's unfortunate we're 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:05.040 not going to start on time. Yes, it's unfortunate we 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:09.480 had seasons interrupted. But I'd rather learn from this year 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:13.840 that helps us when we go into next year, and 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:16.000 that we don't have something where we look back upon 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:19.040 and say what we should have done or why didn't 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:22.280 we do something? That's all am I overly cautious. Yes 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:28.880 I am, and I'll remain that way. I know when 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:32.400 people say, well, what about the economy, I'm not rooting 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:36.280 against us. I mean, I'm not rooting against the economy. 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:38.880 I just want to make sure we understand. We keep 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:40.920 thinking that all of a sudden, if the sports leagues 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:45.600 come back, then everybody gets to come back. And that's 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:49.600 not necessarily the case. They're going to take special guidelines 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:53.679 precautions to come back. We may not have those available 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:55.880 to us. And do you want to go to a game? 0:08:56.640 --> 0:09:00.400 And getting sports back doesn't jump start the economy. The 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:03.840 economy jump starts the economy because we're not going to 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:09.160 a game. You're not buying tickets, you're not traveling concessions. 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:14.400 You're gonna watch on TV. You're watching on TV now, 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:19.000 you're just watching games from twenty years ago. In our minds, 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:23.199 it helps us, and it does. There are times watching UFC, 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:27.480 watching NASCAR, this weekend, Golf's coming up. I mean, look, 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:30.800 I'm just like you. I want it, I hope for it, 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:35.040 but I have to be realistic. We're not better than 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:37.920 anybody else right now when it comes to this. We're 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:44.760 all vulnerable and that gets lost on people. Yeah. Point, 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:47.320 I'm not playing Devil's advocate. But just to look at 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:50.319 the other side of this, and this is I have 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:53.520 friends who are small business owners and they are hanging 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:56.200 by a thread and month to month they pay their 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:58.480 rents and they pay their costs, and they trying to 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:01.640 keep employees paid and they're just you know, I have 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:03.559 a friend of mine who's a small business owner. He goes, 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:07.000 I'm more worried about being homeless than getting sick. And 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.000 that's and that's just one guy who's talking. And he 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:11.600 even says, I, but what do you do about it? Well, 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:15.840 in his state, they're opening businesses for patio service. Well, 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:19.760 if it's safe and you feel comfortable, then go I mean, 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:22.600 that's really what it comes down, and that different businesses 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:25.520 have different priorities and different amount of funds to whether 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:27.840 the storm. And that's that's what's really tough as a 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:30.959 small business owner out there who is um more worried 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:35.200 about the next check or the next house payment. Well, no, 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:39.480 I understand that. I sympathize. I mean, and I'm not 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:41.840 saying one's right or one's wrong. It's more so that 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:44.640 that it's there's in different areas of the country. There's 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:49.079 different priorities in different settings where you know, being out 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:51.280 of business for another month means being out of business. Yeah, 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:55.480 but I'm not I'm sympathize. It's not like I go, boy, heye, sorry, 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:57.360 you're going out of business. It's you still have to 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:59.959 be smart with what you're doing. And if you're allowed 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:03.920 to push the guidelines a little bit, great, you know, 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:06.600 survival the fittest. You know, we make it a point 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:08.840 that you know, we try to do take out service 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:12.640 twice a week from local restaurants. Just you can't go there. 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:15.400 We'd normally go there, we can't. You try to help, 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.199 and it's easy for me to sit here because I'm 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:20.679 getting paid to still do my job. But it's not 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:23.199 like I don't have friends who do have a small 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:25.840 business or do do have a restaurant and they can't 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:30.440 do this, and that is painful. But I just I 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.440 gather the information. That's all I do, folks. I just 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:36.320 gather it, and I try to be fair with you 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:39.480 know what I dispense to you and my thoughts on this, 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:42.400 And I don't like saying the pac twelves in trouble 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:44.720 two weeks ago I said, the PAC twelves in trouble here. 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:47.040 When you heard Larry Scott yesterday, the commissioner got a 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:49.320 little testy with me, and I said, hey, this is 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:52.280 just my information. What I'm hearing. Best case scenario, PAC 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:55.720 twelve just conference games. I don't think the Pac twelve 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:58.960 is playing football, and it's certainly not on schedule. And 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:00.679 is it going to be in the spring. I don't know. 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:06.040 I was going to start practicing soon. Like there's no 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:12.439 Commissioner of college football. These are unchartered waters. And as 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:15.000 much as we say let's go back, come on, we 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:18.320 gotta go back. I want us to. I hope we do. 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:21.600 But then you've got to be prepared for what happens 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:26.319 if you do, and we're not ready. That's my biggest 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:30.400 concern here. We do force our way back, or we 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:34.600 push it, are we ready for whatever happens after that? 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:39.400 Because you got to be ready for that. And that's 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:43.880 the stark reality of all this. And look, am I 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:46.600 too close to it? You can say that, you know, 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:52.080 we're not very far from New York City, and we 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:57.480 hear about it, we read about it more. I have 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:02.040 friends who live in Arizona. Friend plays golf every day, 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:05.720 doesn't wear a mask, no gloves, doesn't care. Hey, no 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:09.680 big deal, he goes, I can't relate to I said, well, 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:14.959 they have body bags that are stacked up in semi trailers, 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:19.520 semi truck trailers. So that's that's the reality of what 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:21.680 it is here. Not the same in every place. I 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:24.640 get that. I understand that you want to play football 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:29.040 in Starkville, great, you want you want to play in Oxford, great, 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:33.640 I just don't know if you're going to have I 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:35.440 don't know if the SEC is going to play football. 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:39.640 If not, everybody's playing football, is the Big ten going 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:42.760 to do that? Big twelve pack twelve is not going 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:45.160 to be able to do it. So that it's just 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:48.680 it's the new abnormal. As I've said before, trying to 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:53.080 figure all of this out. But make no mistake about it. 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:56.600 I want sports to come back. We need it to 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:59.880 come back, but it's got to come back when it's 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:02.880 We allow it to come back when it's ready to 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:07.760 come back. You know, NASCAR is perfect. No fans, there's 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:11.000 no contact, Fans don't factor into the race at all. 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:14.640 You know, the cars make noise, there's no noise from 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:17.520 the fans. If basketball comes back and there's no fans, 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:23.640 I'm okay with it. Golf, no galleries, I'm okay with it, Baseball, 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:29.360 no fans, I'm okay with it. When we have it 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:33.480 where everybody says, now it's safe. Great, let's go, let's 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:36.880 go watch some baseball. Let's go to a tailgate, all 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.040 in favor, and it'll be a hell of a time 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:42.560 when we do. But until then, I'm just listening to 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:46.000 the people who are way above my pay grade. Tell 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:51.520 me what's going on. That's all Nick, and Arizona joins us. Hi, Nick, 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:55.600 what do you have for me today? Hey? DP six 0:14:55.720 --> 0:15:00.840 F Also want to say, this a big deal for me, 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:05.920 ten time caller right here, So life right now. Yeah, 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:09.160 absolutely love the show. So I wanted to mention, you know, 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:13.600 being here in Arizona, Governor Doocey just opened up pretty 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:18.200 much everything and it's business as usual. Hima um. But yeah, 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:21.560 he said that on Saturday that pro sports can start here, 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:24.240 and just want to say, just want to get your 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:26.480 thoughts and think it's kind of crazy. Well it can 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:30.840 start there, thank you, Nick. It can start, but can 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:34.720 everybody else get there? So the teams from California or 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:39.400 you know what's sports and so yeah, in that pocket, 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:43.120 in that vacuum. Yeah, sports can come back, can teams travel? 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:47.320 What happens? What precautions are there? Fans go to the 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:49.560 game like, I don't know. I don't know what that means. 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:54.280 We're open for business. I don't know. Wayne and Arkansas. 0:15:54.360 --> 0:16:00.600 Hey Wayne, Hi, Dan. I wanted to call and actually 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:02.920 saying this is kind of a weird thing to happen 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:05.680 at this year. I wanted to thank you over the 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:09.840 last two years from making me an NFL fan for 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:15.720 the first time in my life. I grew up with Atlanta, 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:20.440 no expectations at all. We had bark Kowski, great quarterback, 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:24.840 no one could catch at the ball. And then I've 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:32.680 also lived in Phoenix and you know who cares and 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:38.240 Tampa Bay Tampa Bay this year. Yeah, well, I'm glad 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.160 that we turned you on to some football there, Wayne, 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:42.120 and we'll continue to do so. Let me take a break, 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:44.920 Jimmy even Chicago and then we'll take a break. Mike Vrabel, 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.320 Titans head coach. I got to ask him about that 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:50.160 draft day setup that he had with his family because 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:55.080 Rabel was great. Hey, Jimmy, how's he going? Ben just 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:58.920 wanted to ask you about the ESPN was who your 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:03.200 greatest player is? And also who your favorite player was. 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:07.119 I know you mentioned Pistol Pete in the past, and like, 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:09.160 how do you think he would bear in today's game? 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:11.480 All right, I'm going to take a break on that, Jimmy, 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:13.800 give that some thought and we'll come back. I'll give 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:16.959 you the answer on that and my favorite player and 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:18.920 who do I think is the best player of all time? 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:22.240 Eighteen after the hour, We'll talk some football with Mike Vrabel. 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:24.440 The Titans coming up. Next to here more phone calls 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:27.000 as well. Nineteen after the owner. This is the Dan 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:30.120 Patrick Show. Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick Show podcast. 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:33.080 Be sure to catch us live every weekday morning nine 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:35.840 to noon Eastern or six to nine Pacific on Fox 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:38.760 Sports Radio. Find your local station for The Dan Patrick 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:41.680 Show at Fox Sports Radio dot com, or stream us 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:45.200 live every day on the iHeartRadio app by searching f 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:49.359 s R. Check in with Mike Vrabel, The Titans coming up. 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:52.840 McLevin just sent me a trivia question from a fan. 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:56.800 Steve Nash is one of two players in NBA history 0:17:56.880 --> 0:18:00.280 to have been named the regular season MVP and not 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:04.360 to ever play in an NBA Championship game? Is that right? 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:07.119 McLevin is a question that was a question from a 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:09.320 fan on Twitter. I have no idea who the answer is. 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:11.800 I don't either, and I'll give you my basketball thoughts 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:14.920 there coming up. But Mike Vrabel is the head coach 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:17.399 of my Tennessee Titans. They of course lost to the 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:22.080 Chiefs in the FC Championship game and had great season. Coach, 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:24.480 good morning, how are you and doing great? Guys? How 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:27.119 are you? I hope everybody's staying safe and being healthy. 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:30.600 What do you mentioned nowadays? Coach? Man, it's all push ups. 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:34.199 It's all push ups and sit ups. Teleton, that's it, really. 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:38.440 I lift enough, man. I got my Tyler's at BC. 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:41.359 He's offensive lineman, so he's these one doing lifting and 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:44.520 I'm trying to stay in that that Dad Bottom club. 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:48.879 Do you ever miss hitting somebody? M Yeah, I mean 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:52.840 I think you missed the contact of football, and I 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:55.399 think that's why I enjoy getting out there with the 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:58.560 players and trying to teach and develop those guys on 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:00.959 the field. How do you keep in touch with your 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:04.560 players right now? We're you know, just using the team 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:08.280 work apps, sending text messages and really the way that 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:13.479 we have the meetings scheduled through through the zoom. I 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:15.399 can walk It's like I'm walking out of my office. 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:18.159 I walk into the old line meeting at ten, I 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:20.440 hang out there and see those guys, visit with that group. 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:23.240 That's probably one of my favorite groups, just because of 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:25.760 the types of personalities that they have in there and 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:27.199 the bond that they have. And then I'll go in 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:30.320 and pop in the dB meeting after that, visit with 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:33.320 those guys and kind of work my way around. See 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:37.719 the quarterbacks and receivers at noon, outside linebackers after that, 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:40.600 and inside linebackers. D line goes at eleven thirty. So 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:42.920 it's been pretty cool. We've been able to structure those 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:44.920 meetings and the players set the schedule that they wanted 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:48.000 to meet and the coaches are available. How about the 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:51.600 workouts for these players if they don't have a facility 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:55.240 to go to. I think it's important that everybody stays 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:59.760 self motivated during this time. It's not something that we're 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:03.320 trying the track. We're trying to be conscious of. Guys. Wait, 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:05.719 there's two types of players. When you think about our 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:09.080 football team or anybody's team that Um, maybe they have 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:12.440 to concentrate on not being overweight at this time, maybe 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:15.119 a bigger lineman. But then some of these players, they 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:17.800 have to concentrate on keeping their weight up. And so 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:20.280 really I think they're they're working. I think that the 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:23.360 guys are staying self motivated, they're they're getting together, they're 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:28.280 communicating with our strength coach, but we're not monitoring those workouts. 0:20:28.359 --> 0:20:31.520 Let's talk about the virtual draft, the setup at the 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:35.560 at the house, the frat house. Who who scripted that? 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:39.080 I don't think anybody was scripted. I think what what 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:42.200 happened was is the kids were excited, like like everybody 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:46.320 else was, and um, we got a full house. You know, 0:20:46.480 --> 0:20:49.560 we're jenn and I are here and Tyler's nineteen, Jackson's 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:51.280 nineteen and he's been with us for a year and 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:54.680 a half. In Carter's eighteen and he's graduating. So it's 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:57.359 like and obviously me, it's like a frat house. And 0:20:57.400 --> 0:20:59.800 that's and I never was in a fraternity other house state, 0:20:59.840 --> 0:21:01.639 but I can only imagine that this is what it 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:04.560 would look like. And so I think when they saw 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:06.879 that the kids were on the screen, they wanted to 0:21:06.880 --> 0:21:10.840 do something fun. They wanted to be a part of it. Um. 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:13.840 Next thing, I know, I look around, there's a frabeled 0:21:13.880 --> 0:21:17.919 jersey from a Pro Bowl. There's a there's a frozone costume. 0:21:20.280 --> 0:21:24.360 And again, these guys, they they they I love them 0:21:24.359 --> 0:21:28.159 to death. They support me um, and they just you know, 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:30.960 they were having fun with it. You kind of stole 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:33.119 the draft there for a little bit, you know, because 0:21:33.119 --> 0:21:36.480 I wasn't sure what was going on. I certainly wasn't 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:41.080 quite sure what was going on. Even they're they're good kids, 0:21:41.080 --> 0:21:43.840 and uh, you know, they're trying to keep their rooms 0:21:43.840 --> 0:21:47.119 clean and their cards cleaning all other stuff. And then 0:21:47.200 --> 0:21:51.760 Belichick had his dog there. I didn't even know Bill 0:21:51.800 --> 0:21:54.480 had a dog, but he didn't strike me as a 0:21:54.520 --> 0:21:59.600 dog lover. I was doing some research here. Brady's first 0:21:59.640 --> 0:22:03.200 career start that was against the Colts and you were 0:22:03.280 --> 0:22:08.280 his teammate. You remember that, yeah, two thousand and one. Yeah, 0:22:08.280 --> 0:22:11.600 you guys shut down Peyton Manning. Brady's last start with 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:16.280 the Patriots the wild card game, and you're the winning 0:22:16.320 --> 0:22:19.320 coach there. How weird was that? Did you have any 0:22:19.359 --> 0:22:21.280 sense that that was the last time Tom was going 0:22:21.359 --> 0:22:24.480 to play for the Patriots? You know, I wasn't really 0:22:24.520 --> 0:22:27.280 focused on that. I was trying to focus on preparing 0:22:27.359 --> 0:22:31.520 our team to go into a place in January that 0:22:32.240 --> 0:22:34.040 you know, not too many teams at won. I think 0:22:34.119 --> 0:22:36.760 they were twenty and three in the playoffs at home. 0:22:36.960 --> 0:22:43.440 But looking back on that now, you know, Tom and 0:22:43.520 --> 0:22:46.119 I have a unique relationship having played with him and 0:22:46.119 --> 0:22:50.120 been in his teammate, being friends, and then obviously competing 0:22:50.160 --> 0:22:54.320 against them. I think it's a unique relationship. You know, 0:22:54.320 --> 0:22:57.320 he had a great phenomenal career there and obviously still 0:22:57.320 --> 0:23:00.000 wants to play football. Was he in play at all 0:23:00.080 --> 0:23:05.000 for the Titans. Anybody that was available in free agency 0:23:05.080 --> 0:23:07.000 is available for the Titans. I think that John and 0:23:07.000 --> 0:23:08.880 I talk about that all the time. Is finding ways 0:23:08.920 --> 0:23:14.080 to improve our team. Well said, did you recruit him? 0:23:14.160 --> 0:23:18.919 Thank you, No, you don't. This isn't college football. You know, 0:23:19.000 --> 0:23:21.760 we draft him and we pay him. This isn't college football. 0:23:22.000 --> 0:23:24.520 But you have to recruit. And being on Twitter and 0:23:24.560 --> 0:23:29.879 all that other stuff, Well, I think Brady recruited the Buccaneers. 0:23:29.920 --> 0:23:32.680 It sounds like he was. You know, when I talked 0:23:32.720 --> 0:23:35.160