WEBVTT - 03/10/21 DPS Best Of 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:03.600 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:06.280 Sports Radio. At the start of the show, we were 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:08.920 talking about the Giants. Dave gettlman, their GM is all 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:11.240 in on Daniel Jones, and I said, I don't know 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:15.440 if it's fixable with fumbles, but he had eleven fumbles 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:19.000 last year. Derek Carr had eleven, Taysom Hill had ten, 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:22.960 Lamar Jackson ten, Carson Wentz had ten. But you got 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:24.680 to back your quarterback. I just don't know if he 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:27.320 backs his running back, say Quon Barkley, because I certainly 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:29.480 don't want to go into a second contract with a 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:32.199 running back. But yeah, we were talking about who's in 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:35.240 better shape, the Jets or the Giants, and I said, 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:38.360 division wise, the Giants would be because you can win 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:41.240 nine games and win that division. But I think the Jets, 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:44.080 with a new coach and experienced GM, they got some 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:47.200 draft picks there, they got some interesting decisions to make. 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:49.839 Let's bring in Mike Florio here, Joe just saw on 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:52.160 the program. Let me let me start with that. Who's 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:55.800 in better shape, Mike, Jets or Giants. I liked your 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:58.280 point about the Giants being in the NFC East. You 0:00:58.320 --> 0:00:59.880 don't have to be in very good shape to be 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:02.840 in good shape in that division. But I'm intrigued by 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:06.119 what the Jets can do Dan after hearing our guy 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:10.040 Chris Simms last week praise Zach Wilson, the BYU quarterback, 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:13.200 the presumptive number two pick, if the Jets do indeed 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:15.600 take him and move on from Sam Darnold. This is 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:18.319 a franchise that's been looking for a franchise quarterback since 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:21.680 Joe Namath, for crying out loud. If they get this opportunity, 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:25.440 and they seize this opportunity and Wilson becomes what Simms 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:27.760 sees in him, and I think the Jets are in 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:33.120 pretty good shape. Robert Sali, highly respected coach, the team 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:36.679 being built from the inside out by Joe Douglas, Mike mcagnan. 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.319 The former GM was doing too much building from the 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:42.120 outside in, for example, signing Levy on Bell when they 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:44.520 had no offensive line. What are you thinking when you 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:46.880 do that? So I like what the Jets are doing. 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:49.120 We're just so conditioned to think the Jets are going 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:51.960 to stink that it's hard to imagine them being any good. 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:54.920 We were also talking about what's going on with Seattle 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:57.640 with Russell Wilson, where the newsletter comes out to the 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:02.360 season ticket holders and the owner signs off on, Hey, 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:05.520 let's mention the new offensive coordinator, the running backs coach, 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:09.880 and Tyler Lockett and DK Metcalf and oh, by the way, 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:12.760 we'll just leave out the NFL Man of the Year, 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:18.200 Russell Wilson. Do you think this is by design? Mike, Yeah, Well, 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.680 this is the recovering lawyer in me talking, and I 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:25.480 practiced for eighteen years before abandoning it. Thank God for this, 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:30.760 But any lawyer with any influence over that organization would say, 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:33.680 if there's any chance we're not going to have this guy, 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:37.919 we better not include him in any materials aimed at 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:40.720 getting customers to buy season tickets, because the last thing 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:43.639 we need is some smartass filing a class action lawsuit 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:46.080 seeking a full refund on all tickets because you led 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:47.720 us to believe that Russell Wilson was going to be 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:49.760 on the team when you knew or should have known, 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:51.320 that he wasn't going to be on the team. It 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:53.679 could be that simple, but it tells me that it's 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:57.600 serious enough that they thought it would be prudent and 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:01.720 smart and wise at potential, something that would save a 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:04.520 lot of money to not mention Russell Wilson, So no 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:06.679 one could say you led us to believe he was 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:09.160 going to be here and then you traded it. Okay, 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:11.800 So this isn't nefarious on their part. This is just 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:16.440 being smart on Seattle's part. I think being smart is 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:20.079 not mentioning Russell Wilson. Being nefarious is mentioning all these 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:22.799 other people. That's where it becomes, well, who are you're 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:25.360 gonna go out and see Mike? I mean, you got twist. 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:28.120 You gotta twist the knife. You know you got you 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:30.880 gotta market Shane Walter in the new offensive coordinator if 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:32.760 you want to sell tickets? Guys, what are you thinking? 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:36.400 But I think this is a manifestation of that frustration 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:38.480 they've got to be feeling because he'd been twisting the 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:40.160 knife on them. This is their chance to give it 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:44.600 a little twist back. Jerry Jones is getting credit for Hey, 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:46.840 I know what the salary CAP's going to be, so 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.480 therefore I can spend this money on Dak Prescott. And 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:53.320 it made me wonder Jerry knew about this? Do other 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:55.760 owners know about this? Why is it that Jerry's the 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:57.520 only one who gets credit for Hey, I know what 0:03:57.520 --> 0:03:59.480 it's going to be. I can spend this money. I 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:02.960 haven't heard one other owner get credit for a signing 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:05.680 because he knows what the salary cap is going to be. 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:09.000 Is this insider trading, Mike, I'm glad you mentioned this. 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:11.480 This is the stupidest take that I've heard in the 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:16.120 aftermath of the Dak Prescott's signing that Jerry Jones somehow 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:19.120 has inside information that no one else possesses that there's 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:21.720 going to be an influx of cash from new TV contracts. 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.440 We all know that's going to happen. They've been talking 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:28.200 for weeks that these deals are impending. Some expect them 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:32.120 to be announced this week. This isn't a secret. Yeah, no, crap. 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:34.279 Almost said the other word. There's going to be more 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:36.960 money available in future years, and you're gonna push these 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:39.200 cap dollars into future years, and the CAP's going to 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:42.880 keep going up. That's a no brainer that everybody knows. 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:46.359 That's what's happening. Between the TV deals and gambling. The 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:48.600 cap is going to keep going up and up and up. 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.120 This year is a temporary dip, and next year it's 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:53.200 going to start going up. And by the time this 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:55.360 Dak Prescott deal expires, it's going to be a lot 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:56.800 higher than it is now, and he's going to be 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:59.320 in great position after four years to get paid again 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:01.479 and to get paid even more than he's getting paid now. 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:05.080 Who has a better contract, Dak Prescott or Patrick Mahomes, 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:07.840 Without question, it's Dak Prescott. Look Dan last year when 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:11.200 the Patrick Mahomes deal came out. Twelve years of a commitment, 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:15.120 and it's not a two way commitment. It's a one 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.000 way commitment. The team can rip it up whenever they 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:18.640 want and move on. And there's a point where it 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:20.120 would make sense for the team to do it if, 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:22.960 for whatever reason, he's no longer a special talent. We 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.560 believe that he will be, and he believes that he 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:29.280 will be. But I remember that the Mahomes deal came 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:33.240 out before the window closed on the Dak Prescott negotiations 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:36.200 last July fifteen on a long term deal, and he 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:39.080 went with the franchise tag instead. And I asked someone 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:42.160 in the note, if you take this contract and you 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:45.200 scratch out Patrick Mahomes and you put in Dak Prescott, 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:48.080 would Dak take it? And the answer was unequivocally no. 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:52.640 You don't do that deal. That Mahomes deal is an outlier. 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:55.480 It's an albatross, and it was done with one goal 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:58.840 in mind. So his agents could say, we negotiated the 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.680 first half a billion dollars contract in league history. It's 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:04.320 a bad deal. I mean, think about this, Over the 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:07.920 first four years of Dax deal, He's gonna make more 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:10.960 than fifty million more than Mahomes over the first four 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:15.760 years of his deal. And when Dax deal's done after 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:18.640 the twenty twenty fourth season, Mahomes is still signed for 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:22.280 seven more years. He's counting on Clark Hunt, the owner 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:25.120 of the team, being willing to tear up that contract 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:28.240 at the appropriate time. That's fine. Some owners will do it. 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:32.039 Other owners won't. Jerry Jones wouldn't. So that's the leap 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:35.200 of faith Mahomes took. So without question, Dax deal is better. 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:38.400 Sixty six million dollars signing bonus record, seventy five million 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:42.479 paid out this year record, ninety five million fully guaranteed record, 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:45.279 and only a four year deal. If you're Dak Prescott, 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:47.080 do you ask Jerry if he can give one of 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:49.960 those golf checks where they hand it out instead that 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:53.360 huge check like for just it says seventy five million 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:56.000 dollars and he hands it to Dak. I would love 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:58.919 that photo up because you know Jerry's you know, although 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:00.960 we haven't heard from I thought he would take a 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:05.919 victory lamp here Mike. Why not, Well, because look, dim 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:09.800 they screwed this up. And this is the flip side 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:13.160 of the Jared Goff cautionary tale. Because after Goff had 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:15.920 three seasons in and people were saying, well, he's going 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:17.800 to get a new contract, there were plenty of people 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.240 in the league and in the media is saying, why 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:22.080 are the Rams going to give this guy a market 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:24.840 value contract? At some point one of these teams has 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:27.800 to say, we're not going to do this. We're not 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.120 just going to make you the next highest paid player 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:32.760 in league history just because your contract is due to 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:36.080 be renegotiated and you've you've been on the right side 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:39.280 of pass fail. The Rams did it and now they 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:43.520 regret it and they're unloading Jared Goff plus something. You know, 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:46.280 they're giving something up in net trade assets to get 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:49.000 rid of his contract. The other side of it is, 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:51.600 when you know you have your guy, you gotta move 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:54.360 quickly to get him signed, and the longer you wait, 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:57.400 the more expensive it gets. And the Cowboys waited and 0:07:57.440 --> 0:07:59.520 waited and delayed and delayed, and they kept thinking that 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:01.280 Dak Scott was going to wake up one day and 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:04.240 see it their way, take less money, except the fact 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:06.480 of being the Cowboys quarterback leads to all sorts of 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:10.960 other earning opportunities and just say, okay, we'll accept whatever 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:12.720 you want to pay us. And he never did, and 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:14.680 he finally had them in a spot where they had 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:17.040 no choice but to give him this contract. So it's 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.160 nothing to be proud of. It's their own fault. If 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.040 they'd have done this in twenty nineteen, they would have 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:22.800 done it for a hell of a lot less than 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:25.560 what they're paying now. He's Mike Florio, Pro Football Talk 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:28.120 Live co host and you can go to his website, 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:31.040 pro football talk dot com. All right, what's this mean 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:36.559 for the next group of quarterbacks, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Baker, Mayfield, 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:39.640 Who gets paid, who doesn't? Well, And this is what's 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:42.720 fascinating about the Dak deal, because the quarterback market was 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:45.960 irrelevant to his leverage and his contract. His leverage was 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:49.120 driven by the second tag and the likelihood that next 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:51.040 year the Cowboys wouldn't have been able to tag him 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.000 again and he would have become a free agent. That's 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:56.240 what determined his number. But now that he's getting four years, 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:59.320 one sixty, it becomes relevant to these other quarterbacks. But 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:02.439 you know, here's where the challenge is for the Bills 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:05.920 with Alan, the Ravens with Jackson, and the Browns with Mayfield. First, 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:07.600 you got to be sure it's the guy. Is this 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:10.880 the guy? And I think Ravens, Bills, Yes, Browns. I'd 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:12.960 be tempted to give it another year, all due respect 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:15.560 to Baker Mayfield. But once you know it's the guy, 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:17.960 you got to move and you got to get it done, 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:19.920 and you got to put a number on the table 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:23.720 that he'll take, because if he waits, it's only going 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:27.240 to get more expensive to keep him. Lamar Jackson is 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:29.760 four years away from having the Ravens in the position 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:33.520 that Prescott had the Cowboys. So now there's an opportunity 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:36.960 for the Ravens to get something done that Lamar Jackson 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:38.760 won't say no too. And this is where it's important 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:40.400 to have a good agent. You need to have a 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:42.640 good agent who is going to fight with you or 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:46.000 fight for you, not with you, fight for you against 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:49.560 the team, but potentially fight with you when you want 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:52.319 to take that offer, and the agents saying no, it's 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:54.679 not right yet, let's not do it. Let's not give in. 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:57.400 And Lamar Jackson doesn't have an agent, and my concern 0:09:57.520 --> 0:09:58.920 is the Ravens are going to make him an offer 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.280 that blows him away, that isn't nearly as good as 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:04.160 it could be, but without an agent to slow him down, 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:05.920 he's going to jump on it. And that would be 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:08.280 a huge win for the Ravens if that happens. There's 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:12.320 talk about Tom Brady restructuring his deal. What if Brady said, 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:16.480 pay me a million dollars. Oh, he could do that. 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:19.280 He could do that. But if you say, if he says, look, 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:21.360 I'm going to take a million, because what is left 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:24.920 for Brady another super Bowl? That's it. He doesn't care 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:28.440 about the all time passing numbers and he cares about 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:31.480 how many Super Bowls I put up and he's going 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:34.800 to get endorsements. But if he said that, now you 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:38.439 can bring back Shack Barrett. Now you know you franchised 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:41.760 Godwin like you can keep the band together here because 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:44.560 Tom wants to make one more run here at least, 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:49.320 why not do something like that. That's exactly what Drew 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:51.760 Brees has done. We just assumed he was doing it 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:53.840 as a cap favor to the Saints and that he 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:57.400 wasn't playing, still hasn't retired. If Breese would somehow play, 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:00.640 He's gone from twenty five to one point seven to five. 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:02.920 That's the minimum for anyone with seven or more years 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:05.240 of service. That's the least that you can pay someone. 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:07.480 Tom Brady could do that if he wants to. He 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:09.439 could say, I know, I'm supposed to make twenty five 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:11.880 million this year. I'm just going to take one point 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:14.840 zero seven five million. You can have the rest, keep 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:17.000 the team around me. It's more important to me than 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.680 this point to get to number eight, not to make 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:22.360 twenty five million dollars. And yeah, he could do that 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:25.360 if he wanted to, and that would be something if 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:26.920 he would do that, and that would put them in 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:28.520 a great position to keep all the guys that they're 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:31.199 trying to do. But just imagine what that would sound 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:33.520 like if Brady said, look, I want to keep the 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:36.679 guys together. What that would mean for that team in 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.360 that locker room, not that they aren't, you know, following 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:43.400 him as the pipe piper. But I mean, that's pretty 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:47.320 that'd be pretty revolutionary. Well it's and it's kind of 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:49.360 what he did in New England. Now there's two school 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.439 the thought on why he took less in New England. 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:54.599 Some would say he was being selfless. He wanted to 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:56.760 have enough players around him. You want to have depth 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.080 when your starters get injured. You don't want to slap 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:02.679 some undrafted who's never proven himself into the starting lineup 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:05.920 because of injury necessity. You know. Part of it too, 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:10.120 was he was always in fear of Bill Belichick waking 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:12.480 up one day and saying, we're paying this guy too 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:15.080 much money. We can't afford this. We can do we 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:17.560 can do better dollar for dollar with someone else. So 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:20.560 there was always that healthy dose of what if I 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:23.160 get cut because I'm making too much money. And that's 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:25.240 one of the reasons why I know for a fact 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.880 he kept his money in check. But this would be 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:31.800 the ultimate I'm giving back my earning potential. I mean, 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:33.640 think of what this guy's worth to the team. And 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:35.760 this is where I struggle with it, because I'm a 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:39.040 firm believer guys should get every penny they can get 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:41.080 while they can get it. They're gonna fill that stadium 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:45.360 this year, pandemic permitting because of Tom Brady. You're only 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:47.240 taking a million if you would only take a million 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:49.440 dollars when you're the reason that a place I haven't 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:51.080 been able to sell out in a generation is going 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.840 to be sold out. So it's a it's a tough balance, 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:57.360 and you don't want to sell a guy's earning capacity short. 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:00.760 But if he really is sufficiently driven get to number eight, 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:02.959 and maybe to number nine, and maybe to number ten, 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:05.360 then one way to do it is to say, I'm 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:07.720 going to take the bare minimum. You brought up Drew Brees. 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:10.640 What's going on here? He's supposed to be on this 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:13.520 Sunday night. Football Night in America is set with you 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:18.120 coming up next season. Mike, I've told you time and again, 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:21.160 they only wake me up for the unimportant meetings. I 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:23.319 don't know what's going on with Drew Brees. And Sean 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:27.360 Payton told us five weeks ago Super Bowl week that 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:30.079 he expects an announcement from Drew Brees and the next 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:31.679 week to a week and a half and here we 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:33.960 are and nothing from Drew. We had. There was that 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:37.360 video of him pushing a sled. I mean, that's that's 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:39.079 not just a guy who's trying to stay in shape. 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:41.040 That's a guy who's getting ready to play football. So 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:43.760 I don't understand it. There's no urgency for him to 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:45.880 do it. Maybe he's just enjoying the moment. I don't 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:49.120 get it. But he's already reduced his salary from twenty 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:51.840 five to one point seven five. And if he would 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:54.320 show up and say I'm back, what can the Saints do? 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:56.720 What They're gonna say, No, we're gonna cut you. So 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:00.400 it's fascinating, and I'm sure there are some people within 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:03.440 the Saints organization they're a little bit nervous about how 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:05.079 this is all going to play out. You know, what 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:07.520 I thought was the tip off that he's retiring when 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:11.959 I saw that video of him pushing the sled. The 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:18.200 the change, the Jason Witten type change. Yes up North, Yes, yes, yes, 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:21.200 there was a little more moss on top of his 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:23.680 head there, and that that struck me as the I'm 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:27.440 going into TV haird But let me just let me 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:31.480 just make a general observation. And this is nothing against 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:35.880 Drew or Brian or Lacker, but once it's gone, it's 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.920 a little more conspicuous when it comes back, like you 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:43.320 need to intervene in the process at some point before 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.960 it's obvious, Like you're Kevin from the office and you 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:50.600 show up at Jim and Pam's wedding with hair. It's 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.120 kind of obvious at that point. Dan, Yeah, I know, 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:55.680 I know. That to me was the chip off Mike. 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:57.720 When people say what's he gonna do? I said, well, 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:00.160 he's retiring. How do you know that because he he's 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:05.040 got new hair. Well, look, you may be onto something 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:07.960 officially though, and I don't have a second source right now, 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:10.360 but I'm working on that. Mic Well, I will say. 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:13.560 I mean, obviously I wasn't even sure it was him 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:18.320 in the video. Obviously there has been something that's gone 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:21.200 on up top. It's not just diet and exercise that 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:24.680 causes it to reverse itself. But whether that's the motivation, 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:27.600 I have no information, and you don't have to worry 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.120 about that. I don't look at that head of hair. 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:34.440 Are you got most of it's mine? Yeah? Yeah, but 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:37.480 you haven't. You haven't colored it right, you know what? 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:42.120 Full transparency? Dan, Well, we had this conversation years ago. 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.120 It was starting to go gray, and I thought Hey, 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.080 now's the time to do it. You intervene, you freeze 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:48.600 it in place where it is. And I did that 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:50.640 for about a year or two. And then you see 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:53.760 a picture of yourself with really dark hair and it 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:57.400 looks pathetic because you're aging, but your hair is really dark, 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:58.880 and it's like, I don't want to be that guy. 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.600 And I'm not going to name name at seventy that 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:05.200 has a full headed jet black hair but is otherwise seventy. 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:08.160 So I stopped. And for the most part, you know, 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.280 it depends on the lighting. For the most part, it 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:12.880 looks not as gray as it really is. But yeah, 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:15.960 that was the Remember the Bob Barker thing, like he 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.480 took a week off on Price's right and he showed 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:20.960 up with full head of white hair and everybody went nuts. 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:23.320 It's like, yeah, it was ridiculous before that because nobody 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:25.040 believed he had a full head of brown hair. You 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:26.800 just got to embrace it, you got to accept it. 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:29.880 Just be glad you're alive, and be glad that it's there. 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:32.280 I don't care what that's my official position. I don't 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.600 care what Keller it is, as long as it's there. 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:38.600 Thank you, Mike, thank you Dan. That's Mike Florian football. 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:43.440 I imagine somebody's tuning in. They're gonna wait, what are 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:46.280 they talking about? 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Straight Fire gives you honest 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:24.800 opinions on all the biggest sports headlines, accurate stats to 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:27.120 help you win big at the sports book, and all 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:29.600 the best guests. Do yourself a favor and listen to 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:34.720 Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:41.800 or wherever you get your podcasts. Duke beat Boston College. 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:45.520 The Blue Devils are now twelve and eleven. They probably 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:48.000 have to win the ACC Tournament to make it into 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:51.280 the tournament. You know, there were some point back in 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:53.719 February where it looked like Duke was going to make 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:56.120 a run. They won four straight, they beat a top 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:59.880 ten team, Virginia, then they lost in overtime to Louisville 0:17:59.880 --> 0:18:02.760 and Georgia Tech Wheels came off in that regular season 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:06.879 finale against North Carolina, and now their last chance. Even 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:09.040 coach Kay said, we don't deserve to be in the 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:14.040 tournament if the acc doesn't go well, get ready for 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:17.159 the first tournament without Duke in over twenty five years. 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:23.000 Does Duke accept an invitation to the ni T? If 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:28.040 Duke doesn't make the NCAA tournament, should they accept a 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:32.840 bid to the n i T? Could you make Duke 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:36.320 a sixteen seed? Yes, I was wondering about that. Could 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:38.840 you let Duke in the tournament based off their chance 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:41.560 of doing damage in the tournament? Almost like a historical 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:45.119 exemption because they do have talent on the roster. The 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:48.480 talent is starting to play better together. And you know, 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:50.720 I know Drexel got in because of automatic bids, but 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:52.600 who has a better chance to win the tournament Drexel 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:56.960 or Duke. Well, if Duke had a player who is 0:18:57.080 --> 0:19:00.719 must CTV, then I would have would grant you that. 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:03.320 But it's almost like history, like if Alabama's eleven and 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:07.359 one and there's another team like um NC State was 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:10.320 twelve and zoho, who would get the bid for the 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:15.840 Final four? And I'm talking college football if a team 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:18.600 was undefeated, but a team that's you know, is not 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:20.840 as good as ALBN like NC State football is twelve 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:24.359 and oh, Alabama's eleven and one. I know, Duke's not 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:28.600 even close, but I think they should be historically let in. Yeah, 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:31.760 but this comes down to, you know, who is similar, 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:35.000 Who's twelve and eleven and going to make the tournament? 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:38.119 That's what I would want to know. Not an automatic earth, 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:40.040 but who is twelve and eleven and going to make 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:43.720 the tournament. Duke doesn't deserve to be in there, even 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:48.760 though they are Duke and it's coach k But March 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:53.760 Madness is fun even if Duke's not in there. And 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:55.520 I know that I talk about the Final Four in 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:58.280