Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. At the start of the show, we were
Speaker 1: talking about the Giants. Dave gettlman, their GM is all
Speaker 1: in on Daniel Jones, and I said, I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's fixable with fumbles, but he had eleven fumbles
Speaker 1: last year. Derek Carr had eleven, Taysom Hill had ten,
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson ten, Carson Wentz had ten. But you got
Speaker 1: to back your quarterback. I just don't know if he
Speaker 1: backs his running back, say Quon Barkley, because I certainly
Speaker 1: don't want to go into a second contract with a
Speaker 1: running back. But yeah, we were talking about who's in
Speaker 1: better shape, the Jets or the Giants, and I said,
Speaker 1: division wise, the Giants would be because you can win
Speaker 1: nine games and win that division. But I think the Jets,
Speaker 1: with a new coach and experienced GM, they got some
Speaker 1: draft picks there, they got some interesting decisions to make.
Speaker 1: Let's bring in Mike Florio here, Joe just saw on
Speaker 1: the program. Let me let me start with that. Who's
Speaker 1: in better shape, Mike, Jets or Giants. I liked your
Speaker 1: point about the Giants being in the NFC East. You
Speaker 1: don't have to be in very good shape to be
Speaker 1: in good shape in that division. But I'm intrigued by
Speaker 1: what the Jets can do Dan after hearing our guy
Speaker 1: Chris Simms last week praise Zach Wilson, the BYU quarterback,
Speaker 1: the presumptive number two pick, if the Jets do indeed
Speaker 1: take him and move on from Sam Darnold. This is
Speaker 1: a franchise that's been looking for a franchise quarterback since
Speaker 1: Joe Namath, for crying out loud. If they get this opportunity,
Speaker 1: and they seize this opportunity and Wilson becomes what Simms
Speaker 1: sees in him, and I think the Jets are in
Speaker 1: pretty good shape. Robert Sali, highly respected coach, the team
Speaker 1: being built from the inside out by Joe Douglas, Mike mcagnan.
Speaker 1: The former GM was doing too much building from the
Speaker 1: outside in, for example, signing Levy on Bell when they
Speaker 1: had no offensive line. What are you thinking when you
Speaker 1: do that? So I like what the Jets are doing.
Speaker 1: We're just so conditioned to think the Jets are going
Speaker 1: to stink that it's hard to imagine them being any good.
Speaker 1: We were also talking about what's going on with Seattle
Speaker 1: with Russell Wilson, where the newsletter comes out to the
Speaker 1: season ticket holders and the owner signs off on, Hey,
Speaker 1: let's mention the new offensive coordinator, the running backs coach,
Speaker 1: and Tyler Lockett and DK Metcalf and oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: we'll just leave out the NFL Man of the Year,
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. Do you think this is by design? Mike, Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: this is the recovering lawyer in me talking, and I
Speaker 1: practiced for eighteen years before abandoning it. Thank God for this,
Speaker 1: But any lawyer with any influence over that organization would say,
Speaker 1: if there's any chance we're not going to have this guy,
Speaker 1: we better not include him in any materials aimed at
Speaker 1: getting customers to buy season tickets, because the last thing
Speaker 1: we need is some smartass filing a class action lawsuit
Speaker 1: seeking a full refund on all tickets because you led
Speaker 1: us to believe that Russell Wilson was going to be
Speaker 1: on the team when you knew or should have known,
Speaker 1: that he wasn't going to be on the team. It
Speaker 1: could be that simple, but it tells me that it's
Speaker 1: serious enough that they thought it would be prudent and
Speaker 1: smart and wise at potential, something that would save a
Speaker 1: lot of money to not mention Russell Wilson, So no
Speaker 1: one could say you led us to believe he was
Speaker 1: going to be here and then you traded it. Okay,
Speaker 1: So this isn't nefarious on their part. This is just
Speaker 1: being smart on Seattle's part. I think being smart is
Speaker 1: not mentioning Russell Wilson. Being nefarious is mentioning all these
Speaker 1: other people. That's where it becomes, well, who are you're
Speaker 1: gonna go out and see Mike? I mean, you got twist.
Speaker 1: You gotta twist the knife. You know you got you
Speaker 1: gotta market Shane Walter in the new offensive coordinator if
Speaker 1: you want to sell tickets? Guys, what are you thinking?
Speaker 1: But I think this is a manifestation of that frustration
Speaker 1: they've got to be feeling because he'd been twisting the
Speaker 1: knife on them. This is their chance to give it
Speaker 1: a little twist back. Jerry Jones is getting credit for Hey,
Speaker 1: I know what the salary CAP's going to be, so
Speaker 1: therefore I can spend this money on Dak Prescott. And
Speaker 1: it made me wonder Jerry knew about this? Do other
Speaker 1: owners know about this? Why is it that Jerry's the
Speaker 1: only one who gets credit for Hey, I know what
Speaker 1: it's going to be. I can spend this money. I
Speaker 1: haven't heard one other owner get credit for a signing
Speaker 1: because he knows what the salary cap is going to be.
Speaker 1: Is this insider trading, Mike, I'm glad you mentioned this.
Speaker 1: This is the stupidest take that I've heard in the
Speaker 1: aftermath of the Dak Prescott's signing that Jerry Jones somehow
Speaker 1: has inside information that no one else possesses that there's
Speaker 1: going to be an influx of cash from new TV contracts.
Speaker 1: We all know that's going to happen. They've been talking
Speaker 1: for weeks that these deals are impending. Some expect them
Speaker 1: to be announced this week. This isn't a secret. Yeah, no, crap.
Speaker 1: Almost said the other word. There's going to be more
Speaker 1: money available in future years, and you're gonna push these
Speaker 1: cap dollars into future years, and the CAP's going to
Speaker 1: keep going up. That's a no brainer that everybody knows.
Speaker 1: That's what's happening. Between the TV deals and gambling. The
Speaker 1: cap is going to keep going up and up and up.
Speaker 1: This year is a temporary dip, and next year it's
Speaker 1: going to start going up. And by the time this
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott deal expires, it's going to be a lot
Speaker 1: higher than it is now, and he's going to be
Speaker 1: in great position after four years to get paid again
Speaker 1: and to get paid even more than he's getting paid now.
Speaker 1: Who has a better contract, Dak Prescott or Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 1: Without question, it's Dak Prescott. Look Dan last year when
Speaker 1: the Patrick Mahomes deal came out. Twelve years of a commitment,
Speaker 1: and it's not a two way commitment. It's a one
Speaker 1: way commitment. The team can rip it up whenever they
Speaker 1: want and move on. And there's a point where it
Speaker 1: would make sense for the team to do it if,
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, he's no longer a special talent. We
Speaker 1: believe that he will be, and he believes that he
Speaker 1: will be. But I remember that the Mahomes deal came
Speaker 1: out before the window closed on the Dak Prescott negotiations
Speaker 1: last July fifteen on a long term deal, and he
Speaker 1: went with the franchise tag instead. And I asked someone
Speaker 1: in the note, if you take this contract and you
Speaker 1: scratch out Patrick Mahomes and you put in Dak Prescott,
Speaker 1: would Dak take it? And the answer was unequivocally no.
Speaker 1: You don't do that deal. That Mahomes deal is an outlier.
Speaker 1: It's an albatross, and it was done with one goal
Speaker 1: in mind. So his agents could say, we negotiated the
Speaker 1: first half a billion dollars contract in league history. It's
Speaker 1: a bad deal. I mean, think about this, Over the
Speaker 1: first four years of Dax deal, He's gonna make more
Speaker 1: than fifty million more than Mahomes over the first four
Speaker 1: years of his deal. And when Dax deal's done after
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty fourth season, Mahomes is still signed for
Speaker 1: seven more years. He's counting on Clark Hunt, the owner
Speaker 1: of the team, being willing to tear up that contract
Speaker 1: at the appropriate time. That's fine. Some owners will do it.
Speaker 1: Other owners won't. Jerry Jones wouldn't. So that's the leap
Speaker 1: of faith Mahomes took. So without question, Dax deal is better.
Speaker 1: Sixty six million dollars signing bonus record, seventy five million
Speaker 1: paid out this year record, ninety five million fully guaranteed record,
Speaker 1: and only a four year deal. If you're Dak Prescott,
Speaker 1: do you ask Jerry if he can give one of
Speaker 1: those golf checks where they hand it out instead that
Speaker 1: huge check like for just it says seventy five million
Speaker 1: dollars and he hands it to Dak. I would love
Speaker 1: that photo up because you know Jerry's you know, although
Speaker 1: we haven't heard from I thought he would take a
Speaker 1: victory lamp here Mike. Why not, Well, because look, dim
Speaker 1: they screwed this up. And this is the flip side
Speaker 1: of the Jared Goff cautionary tale. Because after Goff had
Speaker 1: three seasons in and people were saying, well, he's going
Speaker 1: to get a new contract, there were plenty of people
Speaker 1: in the league and in the media is saying, why
Speaker 1: are the Rams going to give this guy a market
Speaker 1: value contract? At some point one of these teams has
Speaker 1: to say, we're not going to do this. We're not
Speaker 1: just going to make you the next highest paid player
Speaker 1: in league history just because your contract is due to
Speaker 1: be renegotiated and you've you've been on the right side
Speaker 1: of pass fail. The Rams did it and now they
Speaker 1: regret it and they're unloading Jared Goff plus something. You know,
Speaker 1: they're giving something up in net trade assets to get
Speaker 1: rid of his contract. The other side of it is,
Speaker 1: when you know you have your guy, you gotta move
Speaker 1: quickly to get him signed, and the longer you wait,
Speaker 1: the more expensive it gets. And the Cowboys waited and
Speaker 1: waited and delayed and delayed, and they kept thinking that
Speaker 1: Dak Scott was going to wake up one day and
Speaker 1: see it their way, take less money, except the fact
Speaker 1: of being the Cowboys quarterback leads to all sorts of
Speaker 1: other earning opportunities and just say, okay, we'll accept whatever
Speaker 1: you want to pay us. And he never did, and
Speaker 1: he finally had them in a spot where they had
Speaker 1: no choice but to give him this contract. So it's
Speaker 1: nothing to be proud of. It's their own fault. If
Speaker 1: they'd have done this in twenty nineteen, they would have
Speaker 1: done it for a hell of a lot less than
Speaker 1: what they're paying now. He's Mike Florio, Pro Football Talk
Speaker 1: Live co host and you can go to his website,
Speaker 1: pro football talk dot com. All right, what's this mean
Speaker 1: for the next group of quarterbacks, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Baker, Mayfield,
Speaker 1: Who gets paid, who doesn't? Well, And this is what's
Speaker 1: fascinating about the Dak deal, because the quarterback market was
Speaker 1: irrelevant to his leverage and his contract. His leverage was
Speaker 1: driven by the second tag and the likelihood that next
Speaker 1: year the Cowboys wouldn't have been able to tag him
Speaker 1: again and he would have become a free agent. That's
Speaker 1: what determined his number. But now that he's getting four years,
Speaker 1: one sixty, it becomes relevant to these other quarterbacks. But
Speaker 1: you know, here's where the challenge is for the Bills
Speaker 1: with Alan, the Ravens with Jackson, and the Browns with Mayfield. First,
Speaker 1: you got to be sure it's the guy. Is this
Speaker 1: the guy? And I think Ravens, Bills, Yes, Browns. I'd
Speaker 1: be tempted to give it another year, all due respect
Speaker 1: to Baker Mayfield. But once you know it's the guy,
Speaker 1: you got to move and you got to get it done,
Speaker 1: and you got to put a number on the table
Speaker 1: that he'll take, because if he waits, it's only going
Speaker 1: to get more expensive to keep him. Lamar Jackson is
Speaker 1: four years away from having the Ravens in the position
Speaker 1: that Prescott had the Cowboys. So now there's an opportunity
Speaker 1: for the Ravens to get something done that Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: won't say no too. And this is where it's important
Speaker 1: to have a good agent. You need to have a
Speaker 1: good agent who is going to fight with you or
Speaker 1: fight for you, not with you, fight for you against
Speaker 1: the team, but potentially fight with you when you want
Speaker 1: to take that offer, and the agents saying no, it's
Speaker 1: not right yet, let's not do it. Let's not give in.
Speaker 1: And Lamar Jackson doesn't have an agent, and my concern
Speaker 1: is the Ravens are going to make him an offer
Speaker 1: that blows him away, that isn't nearly as good as
Speaker 1: it could be, but without an agent to slow him down,
Speaker 1: he's going to jump on it. And that would be
Speaker 1: a huge win for the Ravens if that happens. There's
Speaker 1: talk about Tom Brady restructuring his deal. What if Brady said,
Speaker 1: pay me a million dollars. Oh, he could do that.
Speaker 1: He could do that. But if you say, if he says, look,
Speaker 1: I'm going to take a million, because what is left
Speaker 1: for Brady another super Bowl? That's it. He doesn't care
Speaker 1: about the all time passing numbers and he cares about
Speaker 1: how many Super Bowls I put up and he's going
Speaker 1: to get endorsements. But if he said that, now you
Speaker 1: can bring back Shack Barrett. Now you know you franchised
Speaker 1: Godwin like you can keep the band together here because
Speaker 1: Tom wants to make one more run here at least,
Speaker 1: why not do something like that. That's exactly what Drew
Speaker 1: Brees has done. We just assumed he was doing it
Speaker 1: as a cap favor to the Saints and that he
Speaker 1: wasn't playing, still hasn't retired. If Breese would somehow play,
Speaker 1: He's gone from twenty five to one point seven to five.
Speaker 1: That's the minimum for anyone with seven or more years
Speaker 1: of service. That's the least that you can pay someone.
Speaker 1: Tom Brady could do that if he wants to. He
Speaker 1: could say, I know, I'm supposed to make twenty five
Speaker 1: million this year. I'm just going to take one point
Speaker 1: zero seven five million. You can have the rest, keep
Speaker 1: the team around me. It's more important to me than
Speaker 1: this point to get to number eight, not to make
Speaker 1: twenty five million dollars. And yeah, he could do that
Speaker 1: if he wanted to, and that would be something if
Speaker 1: he would do that, and that would put them in
Speaker 1: a great position to keep all the guys that they're
Speaker 1: trying to do. But just imagine what that would sound
Speaker 1: like if Brady said, look, I want to keep the
Speaker 1: guys together. What that would mean for that team in
Speaker 1: that locker room, not that they aren't, you know, following
Speaker 1: him as the pipe piper. But I mean, that's pretty
Speaker 1: that'd be pretty revolutionary. Well it's and it's kind of
Speaker 1: what he did in New England. Now there's two school
Speaker 1: the thought on why he took less in New England.
Speaker 1: Some would say he was being selfless. He wanted to
Speaker 1: have enough players around him. You want to have depth
Speaker 1: when your starters get injured. You don't want to slap
Speaker 1: some undrafted who's never proven himself into the starting lineup
Speaker 1: because of injury necessity. You know. Part of it too,
Speaker 1: was he was always in fear of Bill Belichick waking
Speaker 1: up one day and saying, we're paying this guy too
Speaker 1: much money. We can't afford this. We can do we
Speaker 1: can do better dollar for dollar with someone else. So
Speaker 1: there was always that healthy dose of what if I
Speaker 1: get cut because I'm making too much money. And that's
Speaker 1: one of the reasons why I know for a fact
Speaker 1: he kept his money in check. But this would be
Speaker 1: the ultimate I'm giving back my earning potential. I mean,
Speaker 1: think of what this guy's worth to the team. And
Speaker 1: this is where I struggle with it, because I'm a
Speaker 1: firm believer guys should get every penny they can get
Speaker 1: while they can get it. They're gonna fill that stadium
Speaker 1: this year, pandemic permitting because of Tom Brady. You're only
Speaker 1: taking a million if you would only take a million
Speaker 1: dollars when you're the reason that a place I haven't
Speaker 1: been able to sell out in a generation is going
Speaker 1: to be sold out. So it's a it's a tough balance,
Speaker 1: and you don't want to sell a guy's earning capacity short.
Speaker 1: But if he really is sufficiently driven get to number eight,
Speaker 1: and maybe to number nine, and maybe to number ten,
Speaker 1: then one way to do it is to say, I'm
Speaker 1: going to take the bare minimum. You brought up Drew Brees.
Speaker 1: What's going on here? He's supposed to be on this
Speaker 1: Sunday night. Football Night in America is set with you
Speaker 1: coming up next season. Mike, I've told you time and again,
Speaker 1: they only wake me up for the unimportant meetings. I
Speaker 1: don't know what's going on with Drew Brees. And Sean
Speaker 1: Payton told us five weeks ago Super Bowl week that
Speaker 1: he expects an announcement from Drew Brees and the next
Speaker 1: week to a week and a half and here we
Speaker 1: are and nothing from Drew. We had. There was that
Speaker 1: video of him pushing a sled. I mean, that's that's
Speaker 1: not just a guy who's trying to stay in shape.
Speaker 1: That's a guy who's getting ready to play football. So
Speaker 1: I don't understand it. There's no urgency for him to
Speaker 1: do it. Maybe he's just enjoying the moment. I don't
Speaker 1: get it. But he's already reduced his salary from twenty
Speaker 1: five to one point seven five. And if he would
Speaker 1: show up and say I'm back, what can the Saints do?
Speaker 1: What They're gonna say, No, we're gonna cut you. So
Speaker 1: it's fascinating, and I'm sure there are some people within
Speaker 1: the Saints organization they're a little bit nervous about how
Speaker 1: this is all going to play out. You know, what
Speaker 1: I thought was the tip off that he's retiring when
Speaker 1: I saw that video of him pushing the sled. The
Speaker 1: the change, the Jason Witten type change. Yes up North, Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: there was a little more moss on top of his
Speaker 1: head there, and that that struck me as the I'm
Speaker 1: going into TV haird But let me just let me
Speaker 1: just make a general observation. And this is nothing against
Speaker 1: Drew or Brian or Lacker, but once it's gone, it's
Speaker 1: a little more conspicuous when it comes back, like you
Speaker 1: need to intervene in the process at some point before
Speaker 1: it's obvious, Like you're Kevin from the office and you
Speaker 1: show up at Jim and Pam's wedding with hair. It's
Speaker 1: kind of obvious at that point. Dan, Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: I know. That to me was the chip off Mike.
Speaker 1: When people say what's he gonna do? I said, well,
Speaker 1: he's retiring. How do you know that because he he's
Speaker 1: got new hair. Well, look, you may be onto something
Speaker 1: officially though, and I don't have a second source right now,
Speaker 1: but I'm working on that. Mic Well, I will say.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously I wasn't even sure it was him
Speaker 1: in the video. Obviously there has been something that's gone
Speaker 1: on up top. It's not just diet and exercise that
Speaker 1: causes it to reverse itself. But whether that's the motivation,
Speaker 1: I have no information, and you don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about that. I don't look at that head of hair.
Speaker 1: Are you got most of it's mine? Yeah? Yeah, but
Speaker 1: you haven't. You haven't colored it right, you know what?
Speaker 1: Full transparency? Dan, Well, we had this conversation years ago.
Speaker 1: It was starting to go gray, and I thought Hey,
Speaker 1: now's the time to do it. You intervene, you freeze
Speaker 1: it in place where it is. And I did that
Speaker 1: for about a year or two. And then you see
Speaker 1: a picture of yourself with really dark hair and it
Speaker 1: looks pathetic because you're aging, but your hair is really dark,
Speaker 1: and it's like, I don't want to be that guy.
Speaker 1: And I'm not going to name name at seventy that
Speaker 1: has a full headed jet black hair but is otherwise seventy.
Speaker 1: So I stopped. And for the most part, you know,
Speaker 1: it depends on the lighting. For the most part, it
Speaker 1: looks not as gray as it really is. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that was the Remember the Bob Barker thing, like he
Speaker 1: took a week off on Price's right and he showed
Speaker 1: up with full head of white hair and everybody went nuts.
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, it was ridiculous before that because nobody
Speaker 1: believed he had a full head of brown hair. You
Speaker 1: just got to embrace it, you got to accept it.
Speaker 1: Just be glad you're alive, and be glad that it's there.
Speaker 1: I don't care what that's my official position. I don't
Speaker 1: care what Keller it is, as long as it's there.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Mike, thank you Dan. That's Mike Florian football.
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Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts. Duke beat Boston College.
Speaker 1: The Blue Devils are now twelve and eleven. They probably
Speaker 1: have to win the ACC Tournament to make it into
Speaker 1: the tournament. You know, there were some point back in
Speaker 1: February where it looked like Duke was going to make
Speaker 1: a run. They won four straight, they beat a top
Speaker 1: ten team, Virginia, then they lost in overtime to Louisville
Speaker 1: and Georgia Tech Wheels came off in that regular season
Speaker 1: finale against North Carolina, and now their last chance. Even
Speaker 1: coach Kay said, we don't deserve to be in the
Speaker 1: tournament if the acc doesn't go well, get ready for
Speaker 1: the first tournament without Duke in over twenty five years.
Speaker 1: Does Duke accept an invitation to the ni T? If
Speaker 1: Duke doesn't make the NCAA tournament, should they accept a
Speaker 1: bid to the n i T? Could you make Duke
Speaker 1: a sixteen seed? Yes, I was wondering about that. Could
Speaker 1: you let Duke in the tournament based off their chance
Speaker 1: of doing damage in the tournament? Almost like a historical
Speaker 1: exemption because they do have talent on the roster. The
Speaker 1: talent is starting to play better together. And you know,
Speaker 1: I know Drexel got in because of automatic bids, but
Speaker 1: who has a better chance to win the tournament Drexel
Speaker 1: or Duke. Well, if Duke had a player who is
Speaker 1: must CTV, then I would have would grant you that.
Speaker 1: But it's almost like history, like if Alabama's eleven and
Speaker 1: one and there's another team like um NC State was
Speaker 1: twelve and zoho, who would get the bid for the
Speaker 1: Final four? And I'm talking college football if a team
Speaker 1: was undefeated, but a team that's you know, is not
Speaker 1: as good as ALBN like NC State football is twelve
Speaker 1: and oh, Alabama's eleven and one. I know, Duke's not
Speaker 1: even close, but I think they should be historically let in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but this comes down to, you know, who is similar,
Speaker 1: Who's twelve and eleven and going to make the tournament?
Speaker 1: That's what I would want to know. Not an automatic earth,
Speaker 1: but who is twelve and eleven and going to make
Speaker 1: the tournament. Duke doesn't deserve to be in there, even
Speaker 1: though they are Duke and it's coach k But March
Speaker 1: Madness is fun even if Duke's not in there. And
Speaker 1: I know that I talk about the Final Four in
Speaker 1: college football being a TV show, and I truly believe
Speaker 1: that that factors in the number of eyeballs that you
Speaker 1: can bring. I mean, you have to have a worthy resume,
Speaker 1: but I do think that if they look at it
Speaker 1: the tiebreaker, They're gonna go who's got a better fan base,
Speaker 1: Ohio State or TCU. We're gonna go with Ohio State
Speaker 1: when it comes to March Madness. It's a little bit different.
Speaker 1: If let's say Zion was on this team that was
Speaker 1: twelve and eleven, then I would go, okay, I would
Speaker 1: open the door for that conversation. This is a team
Speaker 1: that's not interesting at all, and you can make the
Speaker 1: case their best player opted out. Who do they have?
Speaker 1: I maintain when I watch Duke, it feels like the
Speaker 1: team on the floor is the second team to what
Speaker 1: we're used to with Duke, And then you realize, no,
Speaker 1: that's their starting lineup. Yeah, I'm a clubman. So if
Speaker 1: Duke's not in, who who's the next closest thing to
Speaker 1: a must watch team? And I guess Kentucky's act Well,
Speaker 1: Duke wouldn't be a must watch team if they were in.
Speaker 1: But I feel like to the CASU fan Dukes still
Speaker 1: at least you're gonna well, what's the closest thing to
Speaker 1: a Duke? I mean, Duke's the number one team right,
Speaker 1: not not this year, but well, I mean Michigan's got
Speaker 1: good history. They've lost recently a couple of times. Do
Speaker 1: you want to see Gonzaga go undefeated? Baylor's going to
Speaker 1: be up there. Look, this is not a great tournament
Speaker 1: as far as star power. That that's first and foremost.
Speaker 1: You know that, that's what I would start with. But
Speaker 1: we always have these buzzer beaters. We always have that
Speaker 1: there's a Cinderella story, there's a player you don't know about,
Speaker 1: and then you'll go, that's why we watch. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: watch if Duke was in it, would I would I
Speaker 1: go out of my way to watch that? Yeah? I would.
Speaker 1: I'd be curious. But the other day coach k admitted
Speaker 1: that Duke doesn't deserve a bid. He said, you know,
Speaker 1: for us even to even have a dream of getting
Speaker 1: into the NCAA tournament, we have to do an amazing
Speaker 1: job to get into this tournament. Quite frankly, we haven't
Speaker 1: earned that right. Even if we had beaten North Carolina,
Speaker 1: still think we'd need to do more because we lost
Speaker 1: close games. You have to reward the teams that do it,
Speaker 1: not just the fact that we've done it. As a program,
Speaker 1: you've got to do it, and then you'll get people
Speaker 1: who will go Yeah, See the one and duns came
Speaker 1: back to hurt Duke in Kentucky. What about all those
Speaker 1: other years when they had the one and Dunns. If
Speaker 1: you said to coach k and coach Cal, hey, would
Speaker 1: you give up the one and duns over the last
Speaker 1: decade or so, I'm going to guess they'd probably say no,
Speaker 1: not going to do that. But at some point you'll
Speaker 1: have those players who are one and done not going
Speaker 1: to college. That doesn't mean you won't have one and
Speaker 1: done players because the players who will be in college
Speaker 1: will still be recognized as very good players. They just
Speaker 1: won't be playing against the best players. If you have
Speaker 1: the G League develops or you start a post high
Speaker 1: school league, something where you can get these players, get
Speaker 1: them ready for the NBA, get them paid, let them
Speaker 1: get an agent, those kind of things, and we may
Speaker 1: be really far down the road. Do we get to
Speaker 1: the point where the NBA says, Okay, no more one
Speaker 1: and done? Yeah? And then what's going to happen with
Speaker 1: some of these teams, these programs, these coaches in their philosophy.
Speaker 1: Here because I still maintain I love the one and
Speaker 1: done because I do want to see them at least
Speaker 1: one year. But I also because of the one and
Speaker 1: done that allows these mid majors to still be relevant,
Speaker 1: and it's great. And next year is the last one
Speaker 1: and done year, and then what happens. Does Duke then
Speaker 1: get those players or North Carolina or Kentucky Kansas that
Speaker 1: would have gone to another school and spent three years there,
Speaker 1: and it might be back to the nineteen eighties again.
Speaker 1: But Duke and Kentucky will continue to be Duke in
Speaker 1: Kentucky as long as Calipari's there, Coach K's there. Michigan State,
Speaker 1: that's an interesting team there with Tom Izzo, and they
Speaker 1: could win it all this year, as crazy as that
Speaker 1: may soon. Yeah, and a guy like Zion Williamson is
Speaker 1: never going to happen again in college basketball. A guy
Speaker 1: that hot, that exciting, that promotable and sponsorble, he won't
Speaker 1: spend one second in college, especially with a new rule
Speaker 1: where you don't have to. He'll go to an overseas
Speaker 1: or G League or anything. There will be a point
Speaker 1: where someone's going to skip their seniorye of high school
Speaker 1: and go play overseas and make two entred thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: And I watched the G League it's on in the afternoon,
Speaker 1: and you'll get to see some players who you thought,
Speaker 1: we're gonna make it to the NBA or we're with
Speaker 1: a team in the NBA and now they're back down there.
Speaker 1: But there's some young players. Who's the kid on Ignite
Speaker 1: is it Green mcklevin. Yeah, and they have another guy
Speaker 1: he's got a your name Comarca or something. But but but
Speaker 1: I'll watch them because those are kids who decided that
Speaker 1: they weren't going to play college and they went to
Speaker 1: the G League. But John I think cominga Sorry, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the other top ten pick there who's on Knight? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw they got but they it's funny, I see
Speaker 1: I Knight lose big to like the t Wolves G
Speaker 1: League team because they're not ready to play with these
Speaker 1: twenty eight year old Well they're men. Yeah, that's that's
Speaker 1: you know, there's a big difference sometimes when you go, Wow,
Speaker 1: these guys are talented. Those guys are men over there. Yes, MC.
Speaker 1: Do you think NBA will judge you if you go
Speaker 1: to college instead of coming straight out in a couple
Speaker 1: of years? You know how they always like the unknown.
Speaker 1: Are they going to make the mistake of taking the
Speaker 1: eighteen year old over the proven twenty year old. Well
Speaker 1: we do that now where you give me the guy
Speaker 1: from from Europe and you're like, oh, man, I haven't
Speaker 1: seen much about this guy. Yeah, we're gonna take him.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what happened, you know, Luca, we didn't
Speaker 1: know you saw the high I saw two complete games
Speaker 1: with Luca, and even then I wasn't sold. I kept thinking,
Speaker 1: he's just fast enough, he's just quick enough. He just
Speaker 1: got his shot off there. Yeah, I mean, he had
Speaker 1: a great feel for the game, but I kept going, man,
Speaker 1: can he do that in the NBA? And he was
Speaker 1: bigger for his age, size wise, you know, he had
Speaker 1: some bolt to him. Meanwhile, watching Trey Young hit bombs
Speaker 1: against whoever they're playing, you know, in college basketball with Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: and it felt like, Okay, he's proving himself. Luca shocked
Speaker 1: me when his coach, who was the coach of the
Speaker 1: Phoenix Suns, passed on him, and I went, Okay, they
Speaker 1: went DeAndre a eight and over Luca don Chick and
Speaker 1: then the Hawks made the trade with the MAVs, and
Speaker 1: that's the first time when I realized I went, oh, damn,
Speaker 1: the MAVs are so good. It's scouting these guys and
Speaker 1: I went there, Oh boy, he's gonna be great, isn't he?
Speaker 1: That was first time and even now when you watch him,
Speaker 1: it feels like Luca just does enough step back. I
Speaker 1: just got it away pass. Oh we just threaded the
Speaker 1: needle there. But you give me that guy that we're
Speaker 1: we haven't heard that much about it. It's just like
Speaker 1: what we do in with quarterbacks. I don't know. It's
Speaker 1: Trey Lands and North Dakota State man Zach Wilson, B
Speaker 1: what okay? Yeah, Paully. I can remember us talking about
Speaker 1: DeAndre Ayton when he's coming out of college and he's
Speaker 1: kind of a true center. Are close to a true center,
Speaker 1: and he's having a very nice career. He's averaging like
Speaker 1: seventeen and twelve. You know that that's fantastic for a
Speaker 1: center in the NBA. But we were discussing the direction
Speaker 1: of the league. You don't take a center number one anymore,
Speaker 1: just you just don't do it depends on what that
Speaker 1: center can do. Like James Wiseman is not a true
Speaker 1: center as far as he moves all around the court.
Speaker 1: Do you know that Golden State told LaMelo Ball they
Speaker 1: were taking him night of the draft, they said, we're
Speaker 1: taking you. Then they took James Wison. I don't know
Speaker 1: why they told him what happened that they That's why
Speaker 1: I said I would love to have seen LaMelo ball
Speaker 1: with Golden State. Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick
Speaker 1: Show podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weekday
Speaker 1: morning nine until noon eastern six to nine Pacific on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, and you can find us on the
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app at FSR or stream us live on the
Speaker 1: Peacock app. Scott Van Pelt, the popular anchor at Sports Center.
Speaker 1: He joins us on the program. Good morning, Is that
Speaker 1: your study that you're joining me from? Scott? It's actually
Speaker 1: otis the dog's room and he just lets me. He
Speaker 1: lets me sit here. Mostly if he gets upset, he'll
Speaker 1: let me know. But yeah, this is just a little sunny,
Speaker 1: little sunny little wing of the home. Yes, man, it
Speaker 1: looks like a study, is what that would be. Does
Speaker 1: the dog do you think I studied? I'm not like
Speaker 1: a man who studies. No, No, does your dog do
Speaker 1: any tricks? Scott? Now, he just sits there, he lounges
Speaker 1: in the sun and listen, he's nine and a half.
Speaker 1: He's been through some stuff. Man, He's just gonna hang
Speaker 1: out and that's what we're good with that. How are
Speaker 1: you celebrating the one year anniversary of the day the
Speaker 1: sports world the night the sports world died. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: watch games and I'm gonna show highlights of games. Are
Speaker 1: you kidding me? I mean, it's it's so surreal Dan
Speaker 1: to remember, and you you're one of the few people
Speaker 1: who truly, truly, truly could appreciate how surreal it is
Speaker 1: when you go upstairs and sit down to prepare to
Speaker 1: do what in our business is called a phil. Right
Speaker 1: in between the Nuggets and the Mavericks and the Pelicans
Speaker 1: and the Kings. You go up to phil and then
Speaker 1: there's not a fill, there's a show because they're not playing.
Speaker 1: Everything stopped and you're just kind of making it up
Speaker 1: as you go. It was. It was astounding and it's
Speaker 1: wild to remember it, and I really, I truly will
Speaker 1: just celebrate by being able to go in to night
Speaker 1: and do all these games and be thankful that we
Speaker 1: have sports to watch and to discuss. A lot of
Speaker 1: times we would go to Sports Center and you're not
Speaker 1: dressed to go on the air because the show was
Speaker 1: going to be a couple hours later. You might have
Speaker 1: a suit on, or you might have you're not tie
Speaker 1: your tie, you don't have makeup on, You're not ready
Speaker 1: to go on the air, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: when do you get the heads up you gotta go
Speaker 1: on the air as soon as possible. Well, thankfully that
Speaker 1: evening I was doing. I was doing the half times,
Speaker 1: because on Wednesdays typically I would be doing the halftimes
Speaker 1: of the NBA games and then whatever filled or was
Speaker 1: in the middle, and then we'd come on after the
Speaker 1: last game. So for years, Dan I would just like
Speaker 1: like I'd be I'd dressed for comfort right, and I'd
Speaker 1: be wearing whatever around the office. But I realized that
Speaker 1: I just would forever be wasting time, and then I
Speaker 1: would be burning. It would be ten fifty nine fifty
Speaker 1: and I'd be sprinting in without a mic on because
Speaker 1: I wasn't ready. So about I don't know, not long ago,
Speaker 1: I just decided to hell with it, I'm gonna wear
Speaker 1: a suit when I show up, and particularly on a
Speaker 1: night like that where I was going to be on
Speaker 1: early anyway, So thankfully that part of it was done.
Speaker 1: I was dressed to work. I just didn't know the
Speaker 1: work I was going to be asked to do. What
Speaker 1: were you told in your ears as you're filling and
Speaker 1: you're out there and you're a man on an island,
Speaker 1: how are you getting your information? Well? When it really
Speaker 1: like with the breaking news part about the season going away,
Speaker 1: that that was the NBA announces it, and Low just
Speaker 1: tweeting stuff out and we just went up there and
Speaker 1: went on with him. In this instance, it's Dave Passion,
Speaker 1: Richard Jefferson. They're in Sacramento and we're waiting for the
Speaker 1: nightcap game, and then there's word that Courtney Kirkland, the official,
Speaker 1: had Red Free the officiated the Utah game, and that
Speaker 1: the Pelicans are like, well, we're not planned and and
Speaker 1: it's like in my ear, my producer Marco ALFANDERI, Sam,
Speaker 1: We're hearing that the Pelicans aren't going to play, and
Speaker 1: I'm thinking that doesn't sound good. And I'm thinking, I mean,
Speaker 1: you're processing this in real time. You've been in that
Speaker 1: chair so many times you know immediately, Oh, I guess
Speaker 1: we're just gonna be on here. Well, we don't have
Speaker 1: a rundown because we didn't have a show we were
Speaker 1: on after that game. So in my ear, they're saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: I think David and Richard are gonna They're gonna fill
Speaker 1: for a minute and then they're gonna come to us.
Speaker 1: And a panic isn't something that sets in often, but
Speaker 1: in that moment, like they're gonna come to us to
Speaker 1: do what? And then you just you've been in that again.
Speaker 1: There's so few people that truly could get what that
Speaker 1: moment is. You just go into Okay, this is true.
Speaker 1: I think your audience understands right, they're gonna come along
Speaker 1: with you. They know that this isn't the plan. And
Speaker 1: you go to Woch and then you go to Royce
Speaker 1: Young who's in Oklahoma City where the Jazz are still
Speaker 1: in the in the locker room, and you go to
Speaker 1: Malie who's in the New York City and she's talking
Speaker 1: to players all around the league, and you just kind
Speaker 1: of pingpong back and forth. But what was crazy Like
Speaker 1: when it's if it's you and Keith. When Keith's talking,
Speaker 1: your producer can talk to you, but when it's just you,
Speaker 1: I don't have anywhere to go like they I can't
Speaker 1: kind of lay out and let them to say hold
Speaker 1: on America. I need to find out what the belief
Speaker 1: I'm doing here. Give me a second. You're just kind
Speaker 1: of and at one point we threw to some sound
Speaker 1: of Mark Cuban, and that was the only time in
Speaker 1: the entire time we were on where I actually I
Speaker 1: don't know what Mark Cuban said. He could he could
Speaker 1: have said anything, he could have declared war on Chile.
Speaker 1: I could have said anything. I didn't hear a word
Speaker 1: because at that point I'm listening to Mark and he's like,
Speaker 1: all right, here's what we've got, and you're just febrishly
Speaker 1: scribbling things down. But looking back on it, the thing
Speaker 1: that our producer, because we just did a podcast where
Speaker 1: we kind of pieced this all together, and our producer,
Speaker 1: who did an amazing job that night, said the thing
Speaker 1: he's proud of is that we were pretty measure. We didn't.
Speaker 1: I mean, we kind of kept it together, and that
Speaker 1: night I think we as a group got praised for
Speaker 1: not being hysterical, and so yay for that. But I mean,
Speaker 1: you just those are cards you expect to play, ever,
Speaker 1: and that's what happened. And nobody's a COVID expert back then.
Speaker 1: We're just learning about it like we don't think anything
Speaker 1: about a game being canceled now, but back then, wait
Speaker 1: a minute, they're not going to play. Wait what's that mean?
Speaker 1: And then contract tracing, like what's what's all of this mean?
Speaker 1: And then you you have to do a cliff notes
Speaker 1: version of I need to know everything about COVID as
Speaker 1: soon as possible, without question, and I don't want to.
Speaker 1: Let's we understand how serious this was is and has been, right, okay,
Speaker 1: no question, but in mid March of twenty twenty, knowing
Speaker 1: as little as we knew, and with testing taking as
Speaker 1: long as it did, like you couldn't go. I mean
Speaker 1: how many time I've gone and gotten I could tested?
Speaker 1: If you know they tell you five minutes later, yeah
Speaker 1: your neck. Well then we didn't know how long it
Speaker 1: would take, and I think there was this true fear.
Speaker 1: Then if you got it, well maybe maybe you're in
Speaker 1: big trouble. And you know you picture like a contagion,
Speaker 1: right like you. I imagine the Jazz with hazmat suit
Speaker 1: people and helicopters hovering overhead in the military outside said
Speaker 1: don't let the Jazz leave. Well that wasn't what it was,
Speaker 1: but we didn't really know, did we and so it was.
Speaker 1: It was definitely a frightening time. It felt inevitable that
Speaker 1: someone in sports would get it. But you know what's fascinating, Dan,
Speaker 1: is that, truly that was the moment that everything pivoted
Speaker 1: in our country. The minute that that that sports stopped
Speaker 1: being played is the minute everyone was like, all right,
Speaker 1: but well this, we're not doing this anymore, and we
Speaker 1: just sort of stopped for a bit. Yeah, that's when
Speaker 1: I think it hit people how serious COVID was. There's
Speaker 1: no sports like. It almost took that for people to understand, boy,
Speaker 1: this is not really important. But you know, when you
Speaker 1: work late night, you count on those highlights, Yes you do,
Speaker 1: so you get a little you know, it's a little
Speaker 1: dry when you know, we're a little from from that
Speaker 1: night until July, when we finally mercifully took a bit
Speaker 1: of time away, which was our schedule. We're supposed to
Speaker 1: take some time off after the NBA Finals in the
Speaker 1: beginning of free agency. Well, from March eleventh until early July,
Speaker 1: we did Sports Center every night and there were no
Speaker 1: sports and thank god for the Last Dance and the
Speaker 1: Jordan Dock which we could build around. Thank God for
Speaker 1: Zoom calls. I mean I've talked as I know you have.
Speaker 1: I mean I've talked to athletes and their couching, their
Speaker 1: kitchen and their cars. I mean people. You know. It's funny,
Speaker 1: it's it works a lot better these days. He's hey,
Speaker 1: can you come on the show. You know I can't
Speaker 1: get to a studio. You have a studio in your pocket.
Speaker 1: Just fire up FaceTime, man, you can. You can come
Speaker 1: on with us. We figured it out, but it was
Speaker 1: look you and I know Booth, well that doing highlights,
Speaker 1: sitting around watching games. It's stealing money. Okay, but for
Speaker 1: that four month time, I'd like to think whatever money
Speaker 1: I stole my paid back. I'm good with the cost
Speaker 1: with the Cosmos man, I'm good with the world. Our
Speaker 1: bill is even because those four months were, you know,
Speaker 1: really really challenging. Scott Van Pelt from The Mothership joining
Speaker 1: us on the program, who came up with Senior Night,
Speaker 1: Well that was it was a collaborative. That the night
Speaker 1: after Thursday, right Wednesday, not good Thursday, we find out
Speaker 1: no tournament, and after our show meeting, we sit down
Speaker 1: as a group in this big conference room. You were
Speaker 1: there when you came back that great night. You know
Speaker 1: our group, and we got a great group, and we
Speaker 1: see as you do, and we sit around, I'm like,
Speaker 1: what are we gonna do? Because this is gonna suck,
Speaker 1: all right, but what can we do to do something positive?
Speaker 1: And so I started thinking out loud about the idea
Speaker 1: of just shine a line on people that didn't get
Speaker 1: a chance to have to say goodbye. Well, I get
Speaker 1: home that night and there's this note from a group
Speaker 1: in social that that said, we've been talking about this idea.
Speaker 1: And Jimmy Petara, our boss president of ESPN, independent of
Speaker 1: all of us, three different groups of people all were
Speaker 1: thinking along the same lines. And so I sent out
Speaker 1: a tweet and I said, here's what we want to do.
Speaker 1: We want to we want to tip our caps to
Speaker 1: the people who didn't get that chance. And there was
Speaker 1: this one kid in Illinois that there was a picture
Speaker 1: that just really got me thinking about it because he
Speaker 1: was a game away from Key and his team are
Speaker 1: a game away from the state finals and they canceled
Speaker 1: it and he's sitting alone in a gym at mid
Speaker 1: court and I'm thinking, can you imagine that that I couldn't,
Speaker 1: And so out of a lot of people just sort
Speaker 1: of kicking around an idea. We said, who you know,
Speaker 1: share with us your stories, and it was the most
Speaker 1: amazing thing. Tens of thousands of people from all over
Speaker 1: the country. They're high school girls basketball team and boys
Speaker 1: and track and hockey and baseball and lacrosse and all on,
Speaker 1: on and on, and we shared as many of those
Speaker 1: stories as we could. And what's really cool, and we're
Speaker 1: going to do it this week, is we're going to
Speaker 1: revisit that because already we're getting we're getting notes from
Speaker 1: the Jones high school girls basketball team in Oklahoma. They
Speaker 1: made it last year, they didn't get to play. They
Speaker 1: made it again, so they're get their back and this
Speaker 1: year we're gonna play. And it's just it's really cool,
Speaker 1: like for the kids that moved on, they didn't get it,
Speaker 1: but for those communities and the people who maybe had
Speaker 1: it cut short last year, they're going to get to
Speaker 1: run it back this year. So to me, it'll be
Speaker 1: a fun way to revisit that. But it was it
Speaker 1: was really gratifying. It was gratifying because you know, this
Speaker 1: dan like sports centers not the end all be all,
Speaker 1: and ESPN is not the only thing in the world,
Speaker 1: but it's a it's a pretty bright light and it's
Speaker 1: a pretty loud mic, and when you talk into that mic,
Speaker 1: people hear you all around the country. And when those
Speaker 1: young people felt like they were seen and their accomplishments
Speaker 1: were being recognized, it mattered. And to be the person
Speaker 1: to share that really really was gratified. And we keep
Speaker 1: talking about this new normal. I don't know what the
Speaker 1: new normal is. So I don't know, if you know,
Speaker 1: just being able to go to a game I got
Speaker 1: that simple pleasure is not so simple. But I don't
Speaker 1: know what that feeling is going to be. Like, I
Speaker 1: haven't been on a plane in over a year. Well,
Speaker 1: I haven't gone anywhere. I haven't done anything. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm still waiting to get the vaccine. But there's part
Speaker 1: of me as just a fan that I think I took,
Speaker 1: you know, I was numb to it that we get
Speaker 1: to go to any game we want, and we get
Speaker 1: press passes, and I just want to go to a
Speaker 1: game and sit and have a beer and watch a
Speaker 1: game with other people. I want to hear them. That's
Speaker 1: what I want. I've missed the sound. There's nothing like
Speaker 1: the sound. And and I'm with you, I you know,
Speaker 1: it's wild is when you see an old like watching
Speaker 1: like a video of an old playoff game and say
Speaker 1: like Yankee Stadium, Like old Yankee Stadium, it looks like
Speaker 1: there are four hundred thousand people, right, It's just like God,
Speaker 1: look at all those people, and you miss that, You
Speaker 1: miss being part of the organic of what that is
Speaker 1: and to be part of the roar or to hear
Speaker 1: it and it just in the building or in a stadium.
Speaker 1: So I'm with you. I look forward to that, and
Speaker 1: I'm hopeful, man, I you know, I look. I hope
Speaker 1: you can get the shots soon. My mom got her soon.
Speaker 1: As soon as we can get ours, we'll get them.
Speaker 1: And it feels like things are easing. You know, you
Speaker 1: don't get reckless here, but I do feel like truly
Speaker 1: a year afterwards. Not I never imagined then we'd be
Speaker 1: a year in, you know, having to deal with it.
Speaker 1: But do you share that? Do you share the optimism
Speaker 1: that I mean sounds really corny, but like the better
Speaker 1: day is almost here. It feels like the home stretch.
Speaker 1: But I mean, I'm just I don't know. It's a
Speaker 1: cautionary tale and every time you it's two steps forward,
Speaker 1: and then it feels like it's two steps back and
Speaker 1: now mount maybe it's two steps forward, one step back.
Speaker 1: I want to take two steps forward and take two
Speaker 1: more steps forward after that. Like that. That's that's what
Speaker 1: I want. And you know what, I don't miss, Scott
Speaker 1: what the gallery at a golf tournament. I did not
Speaker 1: miss hearing some idiot yell out get in the hole
Speaker 1: at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. So one of the few
Speaker 1: benefits of COVID potatoes that's for tatos ba ba booie.
Speaker 1: I did not miss that at all. And so that
Speaker 1: that's the one of the few benefits of COVID. Was
Speaker 1: I didn't hear the gallery. Yeah, but you know what
Speaker 1: if the trade off is that you get to go
Speaker 1: to a game, you know, you just just tune out,
Speaker 1: tune out the guy that's twelve beers in screaming get
Speaker 1: in the hole. It's like, hey, buddy, it's like a
Speaker 1: f that's little ambitious. Well it is Deshambo, so you
Speaker 1: can say get in the hole. By the way, otis
Speaker 1: nailed this interview. Your dog was he he's done as always,
Speaker 1: that's his resting posture. So he's good. He's you know,
Speaker 1: I work with people at Sports Center a coordinating producers
Speaker 1: who were about as active as Otis was about a
Speaker 1: bright wow. Wow, wow, you have to show up today.
Speaker 1: I don't you were talking. I was talking about your
Speaker 1: co Oh no we No, I don't have coordinated I
Speaker 1: have uncoordinated producers. So a great group and it's always
Speaker 1: good to be with you guys. Dan, Thank you, Van Peezy,
Speaker 1: great to talk to you, a buddy. Thank you, Scott
Speaker 1: Van Pelt Sports Center anchor. He'll probably win a damn
Speaker 1: Emmy for that night a year ago. You know, you know, yeah, Paul,
Speaker 1: we were on the air that day too. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: next morning, yeah, and the next morning yeah. Yeah. You know.
Speaker 1: I didn't have like the president of the company like ESPN.
Speaker 1: I don't think we had a president of now we didn't.
Speaker 1: I don't know who we had. We just had us.
Speaker 1: But we're here. Although I will say the audience was,
Speaker 1: you know, very great as in sharing your thanks to
Speaker 1: this show, of just us doing this show, but like
Speaker 1: we needed to do this show too. But to get
Speaker 1: that reaction from our audience was truly rewarding. And it
Speaker 1: was never lost on us that people would just call
Speaker 1: in and say thank you, and we are lucky. We
Speaker 1: were lucky we didn't miss a show. We were able
Speaker 1: to do it, and it was beneficial to us as well.
Speaker 1: Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan
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