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Speaker 3: We have up there the timing of the announcement of
Speaker 3: Christian McCaffrey's injury story or not a story?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: Right now?
Speaker 2: Fifty seven percent of the audience say that's a story. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think so. With gambling fantasy, when you find out
Speaker 2: when did the Niners know? When did Jordan Mason know
Speaker 2: he was going to start? He said he was told Friday.
Speaker 2: Kyle Shanahan quickly said, nope, nobody told him it was
Speaker 2: going to be on Friday. So I don't know if
Speaker 2: this is anything the NFL cares about, but they got
Speaker 2: to be careful with transparency when it comes to situations
Speaker 2: like that. All right, our two poll question sort of
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Speaker 2: do nobody. How about that we're getting a lot of
Speaker 2: mileage out of that. That story you told us when
Speaker 2: you and your brother and sister are walking what a
Speaker 2: mile to wherever and your dad made it seem like
Speaker 2: you got the greatest life in the world.
Speaker 4: They sure did. Then Uh it uh came out one day.
Speaker 5: We're living in Iowa City, Iowa, and uh we had
Speaker 5: a we had a dealer car but for some reason,
Speaker 5: that dealer car wasn't there that day, and uh, my
Speaker 5: dad said, no car today. Boys, we're walking. John, grab
Speaker 5: a basketball hundred with the right, then a hundred with
Speaker 5: the left. Jim, get a basketball hundred with the right,
Speaker 5: hundred with the left.
Speaker 4: We're walking. Who's gotta better than us? Nobody? Dead? Nobody? Uh?
Speaker 2: Now do you say that? If you say that to
Speaker 2: your team, do they They look at you and go, Okay,
Speaker 2: I don't know what this means, but you certainly seem
Speaker 2: enthusiastic about it.
Speaker 4: Yeah. No, it's it's the uh, there's a couple of
Speaker 4: layers of it.
Speaker 5: Uh, you know, the it's just a way of looking
Speaker 5: at something, right, I mean, who's got it better than us?
Speaker 4: Nobody? That's a perspective.
Speaker 5: And then it also has the layer of here there's
Speaker 5: there's of anchor weights of you know, sometimes you don't
Speaker 5: think you have it good or somebody else has got
Speaker 5: it better, but it's actually the thing that's that's uh,
Speaker 5: you know, making you overcome something that makes you better.
Speaker 5: For example, you know, I grew up, you know, as
Speaker 5: a kid wanting to be a major league shortstop, you know,
Speaker 5: until probor at the time, I was seventeen years old.
Speaker 5: I was I was destined and born to be Uh.
Speaker 5: But it turned out that you know, there was there
Speaker 5: was kids in the Dominican Republican who had it a
Speaker 5: lot better than I did. You know, they didn't have
Speaker 5: a field. They their their ball glove was a was
Speaker 5: a milk carton.
Speaker 4: Uh. So there was a lot of bad hops.
Speaker 5: Turned out that they had it better than I did
Speaker 5: because I had a glove and I had a had
Speaker 5: a decent field. And then it's the it's the it's
Speaker 5: the thing that I really say. My dad said to
Speaker 5: us as a family, and I thought what he was
Speaker 5: really saying when he said, you know who's got it
Speaker 5: better than us, you know, Jim and John, he was
Speaker 5: really telling us that, you know, he he was the
Speaker 5: lucky one to have, you know, to be a dad
Speaker 5: and have these you know, this family. And when we
Speaker 5: said nobody back then, what we were really saying was,
Speaker 5: you know, we loved it.
Speaker 4: We loved being in this family. So it's it's.
Speaker 5: Carried on, you know, from one generation to the next.
Speaker 5: And when I say it, I say it about my
Speaker 5: two I say it to my two great loves, my
Speaker 5: family at home, and my my family at work. You know,
Speaker 5: there's no coach that could could have it better and
Speaker 5: be coaching.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 5: You know this in this organization with these players and
Speaker 5: these coaches. And I said, when I say it to
Speaker 5: my kids, I say it the same way like I'm
Speaker 5: the luckiest dad there is.
Speaker 2: Tell me about you gave each of your players a
Speaker 2: work shirt with their name, the patch, the lightning bolt
Speaker 2: logo on there. So something an auto mechanic might wear.
Speaker 2: Why do you have the do you have the shirt there?
Speaker 4: Oh? I got it? Okay, a blue collar shirt right here?
Speaker 2: So it is blue collar like our gas station guy
Speaker 2: might wear something like that old school.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you know, it's interesting you mentioned that that.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, obviously it's a some motivational shirt. It's uh,
Speaker 5: you know it honors and honors work, and that's that's
Speaker 5: the first layer of that. Then the second layer, you know,
Speaker 5: for me and and really everybody is I'm honoring the
Speaker 5: people in my life that did the did the dirty work,
Speaker 5: you know, and everybody's got it.
Speaker 4: You got it, I've got it.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 5: Some people goes back one generation to their parents, uh,
Speaker 5: or it goes back to their grandparents. Maybe they're great grandparents.
Speaker 5: Not very often. But there's somebody in your family, Dan,
Speaker 5: I know that, uh, you know did maybe did a
Speaker 5: job that they didn't love to do, but they did
Speaker 5: it to put a roof over were the family's head.
Speaker 5: And and uh in my case, that's that's uh my
Speaker 5: two grandparents, Joe Sappedie, that's my mom's dad. And uh,
Speaker 5: in fact, he he he went to work. He's had
Speaker 5: a full time job since he was in the sixth grade.
Speaker 5: He had to, uh, he had to leave the sixth
Speaker 5: grade and and go work for his family. Came over
Speaker 5: from Italy when he was four years old. And uh,
Speaker 5: in fact, he worked in a in a filling station.
Speaker 5: You know that that was that was his job. And
Speaker 5: then he became a he became a self taught mechanic
Speaker 5: and uh before before he was done, he got so
Speaker 5: good at being a mechanic that he was he was
Speaker 5: treating treat teaching mechanics at Cleveland Trade School. And he
Speaker 5: wore short shirt like this. He just exactly like this.
Speaker 5: I remember growing up and his said Joe on it.
Speaker 5: And my dad's dad, Bill Harbaugh, he was a braakman
Speaker 5: on a train. Uh, and he wore the wear the
Speaker 5: wore the same kind of shirt. And he said, Bill, Uh,
Speaker 5: and and he became an engineer. And but the bottom
Speaker 5: line was he got he got my he got my
Speaker 5: dad and his kids to college.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: My dad went to Bowling Green State University. My mother, Jackie,
Speaker 5: also went to Bowling Green State University. That's where they met.
Speaker 5: My dad played football and my mom was a cheerleader.
Speaker 5: Both became educators after after college. And as Michelle Obama says,
Speaker 5: I mean, the closest guarantee you have, uh to success
Speaker 5: in life is education.
Speaker 4: I believe that.
Speaker 5: But and and that's what allowed my my mom and
Speaker 5: dad to do do a job they love. My dad
Speaker 5: became a coach and uh and then uh yeah that
Speaker 5: but I look back and I honor I honored Josh,
Speaker 5: Joseph p Ede and Bill Harball for doing the job,
Speaker 5: the the dirty work to uh for for their family.
Speaker 5: So that's that's the second piece to that to that
Speaker 5: to that work shirt. Thanks thanks for asking that. That's uh,
Speaker 5: that's something very important to.
Speaker 4: Me and our family.
Speaker 2: Jim Harball. The Chargers won their opener beat the Raiders.
Speaker 2: Next game will be coming up next Sunday, They'll face
Speaker 2: the Panthers. You got the game, Ball how many how
Speaker 2: many game balls have you ever received? You seem kind
Speaker 2: of surprised, emotional after the game.
Speaker 5: That was you know, that was a great moment. There's
Speaker 5: you know, it's one of the it's one of the
Speaker 5: best feelings there is. Uh, when you're when you're part
Speaker 5: of a team and you're you know, you're working so
Speaker 5: hard for for for your team to have success, you know,
Speaker 5: the betterment of the organization, the betterment of of all
Speaker 5: of its members, and uh, yeah when it when it
Speaker 5: comes together, and uh, that's that's a tremendous feeling of victory,
Speaker 5: feeling of winning. And and mister Spanos uh gifted myself
Speaker 5: and and Joe Hortiz uh a game ball and that
Speaker 5: was that was that was that was cool to be
Speaker 5: a part of.
Speaker 2: I know you talked about winning multiple championships with the Chargers.
Speaker 2: Let me go back to you leaving Michigan the landscape
Speaker 2: of college football. What role did that play if any
Speaker 2: and you wanting to leave college football to go back
Speaker 2: to the NFL.
Speaker 5: Well, so it was it was, uh, you know, it's
Speaker 5: just a piece, a piece to the puzzle. I think,
Speaker 5: I think, uh, I think what you're asking me, maybe
Speaker 5: maybe I'm getting that wrong. But uh, you know, the
Speaker 5: uh the chance to win a win a super Bowl,
Speaker 5: win a championship, to just simply be known as uh
Speaker 5: as world champions.
Speaker 4: That's that's uh. That was That's definitely a piece to
Speaker 4: the puzzle.
Speaker 2: But ni L transfer portal didn't have an adverse effect.
Speaker 2: You know, Nick Saban's talked about this some of these
Speaker 2: other you know, high profile coaches that you want to coach.
Speaker 2: Now you gotta be worried about how much money uh
Speaker 2: kids constantly transferring in and out? Is the NFL simpler?
Speaker 4: I always looked at that as uh as real positives,
Speaker 4: uh change that needed to be made.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: You know that's taken you know, fifty some years for
Speaker 5: for there to be revenue sharing. Still not there yet,
Speaker 5: but uh you know, in in my opinion, that that
Speaker 5: needs to happen. But that's that's Uh. It's uh week two,
Speaker 5: it's week two for the uh Los Angeles Chargers, and
Speaker 5: you know, all the all the focus and attention is
Speaker 5: is is really there. But yeah, it's just uh, if
Speaker 5: you had won.
Speaker 2: A Super Bowl, would you have gone back to the
Speaker 2: NFL if you had already won?
Speaker 5: Well, that's a great question. I The other piece of
Speaker 5: the puzzle is like, this is the highest level. You know,
Speaker 5: I want to I want to see if I if I uh,
Speaker 5: if I measure up, if I can come into this
Speaker 5: tremendous organization and add value.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: That uh that's uh, that's a piece of it too.
Speaker 5: I you know, I love the challenge and this this uh,
Speaker 5: this league, as you know, I mean you've heard heard
Speaker 5: a thousand million people say it.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's really hard to get a win. Uh.
Speaker 4: And it's it's uh, it's.
Speaker 5: It's really it's really special to win a championship. I
Speaker 5: haven't done it. To your question, I remember, I remember.
Speaker 5: It's almost like it's like the Field of Dreams movie.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: I remember Bert Lancaster, you know, he was talking about
Speaker 5: his playing days and uh and he and he said
Speaker 5: he walked off that field thinking there'd be other days,
Speaker 5: but there were no other days.
Speaker 4: And yeah, I.
Speaker 5: Walked off that Super Bowl field in uh in New Orleans,
Speaker 5: thinking there there'll be another day.
Speaker 4: There'll be another day. You don't know if there is
Speaker 4: gonna be another day.
Speaker 5: So uh, to have that opportunity to be back back
Speaker 5: in position, to be in position, uh, you know, I'm
Speaker 5: sure gonna attack it with an enthusiasm unknown to man time.
Speaker 2: We just had Alex Smith on last hour and said,
Speaker 2: give me a hardball story, and he said, you know
Speaker 2: that guy. He he says, all I wanted to do
Speaker 2: was play football, coach football, and then die.
Speaker 4: That's true. I've said that. I thought that. I've Uh.
Speaker 2: So you believe that you play football, You're going to
Speaker 2: coach football, and you're going to coach until you die.
Speaker 2: That's the plan.
Speaker 4: That's that's been the plan. That has been the plan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, does your wife know that's the plan?
Speaker 5: That was Uh, that's been the plan since I was
Speaker 5: five years old. I I must admit that I remember
Speaker 5: being in Bowling Green. My dad was coaching at Bowling
Speaker 5: Green at the time, and uh, I was getting off
Speaker 5: the kindergarten bus to go to uh to go to school.
Speaker 5: And I used to I used to like visualize that.
Speaker 5: I was like like my dad like uh when he
Speaker 5: was were his team and he would get off the bus,
Speaker 5: you know, uh and the players would get off the bus.
Speaker 5: I used to just picture being on the on the
Speaker 5: team bus, you know, getting off the bus and like
Speaker 5: I was walking into the to the stadium and uh,
Speaker 5: kind of makes the little hairs on my arm stand
Speaker 5: up because I've you know, just been been able to
Speaker 5: do that, you know, pretty much my whole life, you know,
Speaker 5: since then. And I had that thought as a five
Speaker 5: and a half six year old, like, yeah, that's what
Speaker 5: I'm gonna do. I'm gonna I'm gonna play as long
Speaker 5: as I can, then coach and then then die.
Speaker 4: Uh that was uh, yeah, it's it's genuine to me.
Speaker 2: Well, I remember Brent Musburger saying that to me about
Speaker 2: Joe Paterno. He said he will never retire. Joe Paterno
Speaker 2: will die, ikill coach until he dies. And you know,
Speaker 2: he said, that's my fear with Joe Paterno. And he
Speaker 2: pretty much did that until they kind of, you know,
Speaker 2: kicked him to the curb.
Speaker 5: I just have so much gratitude Dan, uh, you know,
Speaker 5: just for for you know, being able to do what
Speaker 5: I love. And uh, it's have a job, you know,
Speaker 5: to be able to work. You know, work to me
Speaker 5: is uh you probably saw it and that uh you know,
Speaker 5: some of it in the work shirt there, but there's
Speaker 5: uh and that's that that work ethic I get from
Speaker 5: from watching my my dad and my mom and my
Speaker 5: grandpa's and my and my and.
Speaker 4: My my family.
Speaker 5: Uh you know that's faith, family, football, that.
Speaker 4: H that is uh you know that's that's core.
Speaker 5: So uh, just you know, keep keep praying that you know,
Speaker 5: I can, I can have one more data to uh
Speaker 5: work on, work on football, you know, work on uh
Speaker 5: going to Carolina and and seeing if we can uh
Speaker 5: get win number two. We're can't be can't be two
Speaker 5: and o unless you want to know we're there now.
Speaker 2: It's now that is actually true. You can't be too
Speaker 2: and unless you're want enough.
Speaker 5: So just saying that, I just have a lot of
Speaker 5: gratitude to be able to do this, I mean uh,
Speaker 5: I mean, uh, I'm just gonna just gonna keep going.
Speaker 5: And uh and my wife, you know, Sarah, nobody nobody's
Speaker 5: got it better then I.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: I thought you were gonna say nobody's got it better
Speaker 2: than she does because she's married.
Speaker 5: No, No, I'm the lucky one again. I got I drew
Speaker 5: the long straw there, mister Patrick.
Speaker 2: All right, before we let you go, we're gonna play
Speaker 2: the What did Jim Harbaugh have for breakfast? All right, Todd,
Speaker 2: you guess first.
Speaker 7: Some kind of yogurt with granola.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, Seaton, I think just a little eggs and bacon.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's old school Midwest Marvin turkey and egg whites.
Speaker 2: Turkey and egg whites.
Speaker 8: Wow, PAULI coach has no time for breakfast at Homie
Speaker 8: shot out of a cannon. I think a staffer leaves
Speaker 8: a banana on his desk efficiency get back to coaching.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say no breakfast yet.
Speaker 4: You're right. You were both right. There's been there's been
Speaker 4: no breakfast.
Speaker 2: There's no time a die coke, die coke or die Yeah.
Speaker 2: All right, let's see it like I would have thought
Speaker 2: steaking eggs, but you know you don't take a glass
Speaker 2: of milk, a nice glass of milk.
Speaker 4: We're up. We're up and at it attacking.
Speaker 2: Okay. Uh, good luck against Carolina. Good to talk to
Speaker 2: you again, and thanks for joining.
Speaker 4: Mister Patrick.
Speaker 5: I Uh, I was just I'm just waiting for you
Speaker 5: to bring up the two foot putt.
Speaker 4: I missed it at Lake Nona. Uh back in the nineties.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to I was trying to keep it positive.
Speaker 5: Every interview you've ever done, you've always brought up the
Speaker 5: two No.
Speaker 4: No, you're on the Carolina.
Speaker 2: I'm on to Carolina. I'm I'm Belichick. We're not gonna
Speaker 2: go back. We're going forward here.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 2: That's Jim Harbaugh, who has it better than we do.
Speaker 4: Nobody.
Speaker 2: He's ted last though, man, he's Ted Lasto. All right,
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Speaker 2: I think what's happening with college coaches that are ranked.
Speaker 2: The coaches are using Notre Dame's loss to Northern Illinois
Speaker 2: as a cautionary tale. Here is Steve Sarkisian, the Texas
Speaker 2: head coach. Human nature is human nature. And so what
Speaker 2: did I do this morning?
Speaker 11: I walked him through the Notre Dame scenario of them
Speaker 11: going into college station a week ago and winning that
Speaker 11: game and being anointed top five team and in the
Speaker 11: college football playoff, and a week later losing to Northern Illinois.
Speaker 11: And so I showed that clip of the field goal,
Speaker 11: and I showed the clip of Northern Illinois storm in
Speaker 11: the field this morning as a good reminder that nothing.
Speaker 11: We're entitled to nothing. You know, we're capable of anything.
Speaker 11: We've got a really good team, but we're entitled to nothing,
Speaker 11: and we're gonna earn everything we get, and we're gonna
Speaker 11: have to earn the victory here Saturday Night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't want to be a cautionary tale, but
Speaker 2: Steve Serkesian smart to use Notre Dame as a cautionary tale.
Speaker 2: You're a twenty eight point favorite Texas has UTSA University
Speaker 2: of Texas at San Antonio.
Speaker 7: Road Runners who not sleep Dan, You know that.
Speaker 2: That's Saturday night and he wants his team to make sure. Now,
Speaker 2: you just had this big win at Michigan. Notre Dame
Speaker 2: just had a big win at Texas A and m
Speaker 2: You come back home Northern Illinois, gonna check the box.
Speaker 2: That'll be a win. And probably the same thing if
Speaker 2: you're Texas. We just beat Michigan at Michigan and we
Speaker 2: come home, Yeah, we'll be able to win this game.
Speaker 2: Don't be Notre Dame. Yes, Paul.
Speaker 8: If you're UTSA, You're like, come on, man, why do
Speaker 8: you have to wake them up before the week and
Speaker 8: we come the time?
Speaker 2: Wait till U. L.
Speaker 7: Monroe comes there, wake them up?
Speaker 2: Then all right, let me get some phone calls in
Speaker 2: here eight seven seven three DP show email address Dpadanpatrick
Speaker 2: dot com, Twitter handle at tp show. Harball is a character.
Speaker 2: It's tough to kind of keep him focused on what
Speaker 2: the question is. He shook me off with one where
Speaker 2: I think we were talking about leaving college the NIL
Speaker 2: transfer portal, and then all of a sudden it was
Speaker 2: just back to football. And excited about the Chargers, focused
Speaker 2: on week two. Yeah, and I went, okay, not going
Speaker 2: down there, Yeah, not gonna You can put down the
Speaker 2: bread crumbs, but you got to eat the bread crumbs.
Speaker 2: And he was He looked at him and he wasn't
Speaker 2: going there. Uh T In Georgia, Hi T, what's on
Speaker 2: your mind?
Speaker 6: Hey Dan Howard?
Speaker 2: You good sir?
Speaker 6: All right? So first off, seven and six foot one
Speaker 6: seventy five hard hard. I want to say I agree
Speaker 6: with you because you had to take about Jordan Mason.
Speaker 6: If I'm not mistaken, I agree with you. I disagree
Speaker 6: with Joe unfortunately, because I watched the pregame show that
Speaker 6: hour ago or that hour before. And even if you
Speaker 6: do have coverage on the replacement running back, you're still
Speaker 6: saying that you're replacing Christian McCaffery. It's still a notable story. Yes,
Speaker 6: we know about Aaron Rodgers. Yes we're you know, figure
Speaker 6: out what he's gonna be doing for this, but it's
Speaker 6: still at the end of the day where it's new.
Speaker 6: Just like you guys do y'all do the whole Let's
Speaker 6: recap what we did the last hour and then let's let's,
Speaker 6: you know, bring you up to speed about what we're
Speaker 6: going to be talking about this hour. So them not
Speaker 6: covering it the way that they did, Yes, I agree
Speaker 6: with you one hundred percent. They it was fault down
Speaker 6: their ends. I appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Well and thank you. To My point is you get
Speaker 2: caught up in a vacuum when you work at a
Speaker 2: network that, hey, we just talked about this on the
Speaker 2: pregame show. People don't necessarily tune into a pregame show.
Speaker 2: They go what time is the game? They don't say
Speaker 2: what time is pregame. That's why networks are vague when
Speaker 2: a game was going to start, it's a oh kick,
Speaker 2: or it'll be Jets Niners at eight o'clock, and then meanwhile,
Speaker 2: it's not going to start till eight fifteen or eight twenty.
Speaker 2: You know, you're trying to get something sponsored, you know,
Speaker 2: the pre game show, the pre pregame show. You have
Speaker 2: to open up. You have to treat the broadcast, in
Speaker 2: my opinion, as a standalone not hey, they discussed this
Speaker 2: on the pregame show on the mother Ship. First of all,
Speaker 2: if you have direct TV, maybe you didn't see the
Speaker 2: pregame show on ESPN, And you can never assume that
Speaker 2: your audience already knows this. It's big news. It's Christian
Speaker 2: mccas the number one player taken in many many fantasy drafts.
Speaker 2: Also the gambling part of this. The line changed, the
Speaker 2: over under change because of Christian McCaffrey and you have
Speaker 2: an undrafted third year player taking his place. I just
Speaker 2: you know, once again, if I was at the Mothership,
Speaker 2: I would have said, no, we got to start the
Speaker 2: broadcast with that, because that's the most important thing. Maybe
Speaker 2: that's why I'm not at the Mothership anymore. And why
Speaker 2: don't you shut up talking hair do. Yeah, I would
Speaker 2: have led with that, just because that's the most important part.
Speaker 2: That's that's could change the game.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Paul, when you text that to us last night,
Speaker 8: I was watching it, I had the same thought, like, boy,
Speaker 8: they're not they're three or four minutes in McCaffrey's name
Speaker 8: has been mentioned, and I think I text back to
Speaker 8: you maybe this was a taped open. Sometimes in TV,
Speaker 8: to be careful, they tape the called the open of
Speaker 8: a show, and then you're like no, no, because they
Speaker 8: mentioned it later.
Speaker 7: It's one of the those things.
Speaker 8: As a producer you'd also say, hey, guys, same pregame show,
Speaker 8: but open up and say this just in and then
Speaker 8: back to the rundown.
Speaker 7: Even if you just check the box.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had problems with the whole thing. When did
Speaker 2: the Niners know about Christian McCaffrey. He should have been
Speaker 2: listed as doubtful, right, I'm guessing I got a minimum.
Speaker 2: He should have been listed as doubtful. Then at least
Speaker 2: we know there's a possibility he might not play like
Speaker 2: doubtful now changes my opinion on the Niners aren't going
Speaker 2: to have Christian McCaffrey. If they're listening him as doubtful
Speaker 2: this close to the game, then that would have been different.
Speaker 2: And also, if the Niners played that game in New York,
Speaker 2: he would have made the trip. He would have been
Speaker 2: downgraded to being out for that game. Did the Niners know?
Speaker 2: Did they know that he wasn't going to be able
Speaker 2: to play?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 2: I get it. It used to be that you would
Speaker 2: hold off competitive advantage. You wanted to make sure that
Speaker 2: that team didn't know if Christian McCaffrey was going to
Speaker 2: play or not. But you know we have to discuss
Speaker 2: and disclose injuries now a player's status. I mean, you
Speaker 2: want to make sure you eliminate inside information. That's really
Speaker 2: really at the core of this, because the NFL wants
Speaker 2: to be transparent with injuries, instead of somebody finding out
Speaker 2: on a Friday that Christian McCaffrey's not going to play
Speaker 2: and then that could have affect the outcome. How you
Speaker 2: bet you can throw in fantasy. But you know, the
Speaker 2: gambling part of this is why they're trying to get
Speaker 2: rid of the possibility, the perception of inside information questionable. Okay,
Speaker 2: that's one thing doubtful. That's a completely different label for
Speaker 2: Christian McCaffrey. And once again, I might be just howling
Speaker 2: into the win and nobody cares, but I did just
Speaker 2: because I've been in this business such a long period,
Speaker 2: a long long time, yet breaking news and that should
Speaker 2: have been the focal point to start. Because I didn't
Speaker 2: see the pregame show. I was saying to the Danis,
Speaker 2: I can't believe they're not leading. First words out of
Speaker 2: Joe's mouth Christian McCaffrey is not playing tonight. Okay, that's
Speaker 2: how important it was to me. And you've actually had
Speaker 2: news that we would care about instead of, you know,
Speaker 2: a picturesque night in Santa Clara. Okay, it's not that
Speaker 2: picturesque because Christian McCaffrey's not going to be on the
Speaker 2: football field. I'm never getting invited back to ESPN the reunion.
Speaker 2: You know, it was five years ago that I five
Speaker 2: years ago.
Speaker 7: Like two days ago, fortieth anniversary thing.
Speaker 2: That I went back to the mother Ship and I
Speaker 2: did the Sports Center with Oberman. You guys went with
Speaker 2: me because I thought I might need backup in case,
Speaker 2: you know, things got out of hand, you know, like
Speaker 2: Anchorman when all the different news teams come together for
Speaker 2: the big fight there that I said to the dan Ns,
Speaker 2: you guys want to come. My wife was even nervous.
Speaker 2: She goes, I'm coming with you. I go, okay. I
Speaker 2: don't know what she would have done, But now everybody
Speaker 2: was nice. There were so many people I hadn't seen
Speaker 2: in a long long time that I worked with on
Speaker 2: Sports Center. But that's that's when the president of ESPN said, Hey,
Speaker 2: I'm want to be in business with you, and I said, oh, okay.
Speaker 2: I haven't heard from him since then. I don't know
Speaker 2: what business Jimmy Petaro wants to be in. But five
Speaker 2: years ago he's walking with me in the parking lot.
Speaker 2: He goes the reaction of these people to you. That
Speaker 2: says a lot about you. And I said, I love
Speaker 2: this place, you know I did, And he goes, I'm
Speaker 2: going to be in business with you. We're going to
Speaker 2: do business. And now now I didn't say keep in touch.
Speaker 8: Did he give you the hey, you're welcome back here anytime,
Speaker 8: which is a fake invite when someone says you're welcome,
Speaker 8: You're welcome to come back anytime?
Speaker 2: I mean's not really Well, what am I going to do?
Speaker 2: I'm welcome to come back and go to the cafeteria.
Speaker 7: You loved it there?
Speaker 2: Oh well, I did? I remember pretty nice? Now, well,
Speaker 2: from what I remember that that was. That was like
Speaker 2: a two star restaurant, you know, Michelin star restaurant.
Speaker 8: He used a pesto load when you get that, you
Speaker 8: get that pasta thing and you'd go another scoop.
Speaker 3: Yeah, pesto to order pasta bar was about as good
Speaker 3: as it got.
Speaker 2: But there was one anchor that, uh you know, Joe,
Speaker 2: the the checkout guy ran the cash register. Awesome guy,
Speaker 2: loved him, and the he'd say, uh, hey, you got
Speaker 2: to tell your boy over there, you can't come in
Speaker 2: here and load up at the pasta bar, eat at
Speaker 2: the pasta bar and then walk out without paying. And
Speaker 2: I go, why why don't you say something, Joe? You
Speaker 2: work here, but one of the anchors would just go
Speaker 2: up there and eat and then walk out.
Speaker 8: Would he eat his sandwich or burger before he left
Speaker 8: the property. Yeah, before he got to the checkout line.
Speaker 2: He was just up there eating and he'd have pasta.
Speaker 2: And then Joe said, you got to tell your boy,
Speaker 2: And I go, you telling him? I'm not gonna tell him.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Good times, great oldies. Yeah, so now it was five
Speaker 2: years ago. I was up there get a big bag
Speaker 2: of candy. Oh they had it when I first was there,
Speaker 2: when we used to have to eat out of a
Speaker 2: vending machine. So here here's sports centers making a couple
Speaker 2: one hundred million dollars a year rough estimate, and we
Speaker 2: had to go downstairs. You either went to McDonald's across
Speaker 2: the street, took your life in your hands crossing the
Speaker 2: roadway the highway there to get McDonald's, or you had
Speaker 2: a vending machine, so you get like a cheese sandwich
Speaker 2: out of the vending machine and you couldn't really leave
Speaker 2: the campus.
Speaker 12: Yes, Marv, were you guys there for the late night grill.
Speaker 12: There was a chef Vinnie, and they would have a grill.
Speaker 12: Oh do you want to grow cheese with some tomato soup? Yeah,
Speaker 12: of course, it's eleven o'clock at night. I'm in you
Speaker 12: guys didn't have that.
Speaker 2: They might have had that before I left. I'm thinking
Speaker 2: it's you know, I kept saying, and this is what
Speaker 2: I did with this man cave. I wanted it to
Speaker 2: be where you wanted to come here early, and I
Speaker 2: wanted you to leave late because there's a lot of things.
Speaker 2: You know, you want to have beers, you want to
Speaker 2: play basketball, whiffleball, you know, whatever you want to do,
Speaker 2: grill out you can do it. And golf simulator. And
Speaker 2: I said to my boss at the time, I said,
Speaker 2: why don't we have like things where people get here early?
Speaker 2: How about a cafeteria. There's a Golds gym. Why don't
Speaker 2: we just buy the Golds gym make it part of
Speaker 2: the campus. I said, what about a basketball court or
Speaker 2: a putting green? And they were looking at me, like
Speaker 2: why would we do that? We had a racquetball court
Speaker 2: that was the big racket.
Speaker 6: There was a.
Speaker 2: Racquetball at nineteen nine. Yes, like, hey, I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: get a workout here. I'm gonna go down to racquetball court. Oh,
Speaker 2: there's seventeen people waiting to play.
Speaker 7: Hey damn, let's go play squash me in sports centers.
Speaker 2: It's over by the highlight court. Yeah yeah, And then
Speaker 2: I go back. They bought the Gold's gym. They put
Speaker 2: a basketball court out there. That cafeteria is awesome. You're welcome, Mothership,
Speaker 2: You're welcome. I'm going to get my statue there posthumously.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 8: When I first got there, I walked over with a
Speaker 8: well known sports center anchor and he's just kind of
Speaker 8: showing me the ropes, a little bit of this and that,
Speaker 8: and he's skitting his nightly meal. It was a bacon,
Speaker 8: double cheeseburger and three diet cokes. And I was like, okay,
Speaker 8: maybe just blowing it out like cheat day. And then
Speaker 8: the next couple of nights it was the same order.
Speaker 1: It was not.
Speaker 8: It was a guy who was I would say, is
Speaker 8: relatively lanky fella and he would get double cheeseburger with bacon,
Speaker 8: three diet cokes.
Speaker 2: Was Capchierrri was great. It was, it really was. It
Speaker 2: was great and great people there, the people behind the
Speaker 2: scenes were so great. That's what when people say what
Speaker 2: do you miss about ESPN, it's those people behind the scenes,
Speaker 2: like all of my stats people, Howie Schwab, Vinnie Vassallo,
Speaker 2: Pete McConville. I mean, there were so many people that
Speaker 2: were just wonderful and work ethic awesome, and they didn't
Speaker 2: get much note of writing. That's a left turn out
Speaker 2: of the right lane. Sorry about that, but it was
Speaker 2: five years ago when I was back there and I'm
Speaker 2: glad I went. My wife is like, just get it
Speaker 2: over with, okay, all right, move on, make it better.
Speaker 2: Like I hate when you're right, but she was right.
Speaker 2: You know, I was holding a grudge. And she goes,
Speaker 2: they don't hold a grudge with you, they don't care,
Speaker 2: And I go, yeah, you're probably right, probably right. Yes,
Speaker 2: that's what actually stings most. I know, like, no, this,
Speaker 2: They're supposed to be having meetings on this every day. Yes,
Speaker 2: what do you mean? It just moves on? Damn. I
Speaker 2: do know that they had a meeting ESPN Radio when
Speaker 2: I left, and I remember that I was told in
Speaker 2: the meeting they were like, we're gonna let him go.
Speaker 6: I wasn't.
Speaker 2: I wasn't allowed to do TV for six months. They
Speaker 2: weren't gonna let me do TV. I couldn't go to
Speaker 2: the Olympics with NBC. But they said, oh, he can
Speaker 2: start doing radio. He won't amount to anything. And I
Speaker 2: was like, oh, man, I'm coming after you.
Speaker 8: But that's like a Michael Jordan thing. I think one
Speaker 8: of us maybe just made that quote up and gave
Speaker 8: it to you to motivate you.
Speaker 2: No, I know who said it. No, I know who
Speaker 2: said it. And he actually came up to me at
Speaker 2: the Sports Emmys and he said, hey, how's it going.
Speaker 2: And I didn't say anything to him. It's like, no,
Speaker 2: we're not doing this. I'm not gonna play happy, but
Speaker 2: no more grudges. Everything's good. H breathe in Dan, Is
Speaker 2: it though?
Speaker 13: It is?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: It is?
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely yeah. Because the President, Jimmy Petar, is gonna
Speaker 2: call me really soon, just five years. I mean, hey, things.
Speaker 2: You know he's busy, he's running ESPN as earliest today.
Speaker 2: He called me as early as today. After they figure
Speaker 2: out the direct TV issue, then he'll give me a call. Okay,
Speaker 2: let's take a break. Uh Shay and Irving wants to
Speaker 2: talk about the Cowboys. We'll get to your phone calls
Speaker 2: coming up, and we'll dive a little deeper into the
Speaker 2: Tyreek Hill Miami Police Department story as well. We're back
Speaker 2: after this.
Speaker 1: Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan
Speaker 1: Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six am Pacific
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Speaker 2: More of your phone calls coming up eight seven to seven,
Speaker 2: three DP show, Try to squeeze those in. It was
Speaker 2: a big surprise last night when Christian McCaffrey not playing.
Speaker 2: Brock Purdy had this to say about Christian McCaffrey's fill in.
Speaker 13: You know, Christian does a lot I think in the
Speaker 13: past game, you know, dropping back and either going to
Speaker 13: him as the first option or knowing that he's he's
Speaker 13: my last option and there's a really good chance that
Speaker 13: he's open. But with JP, I think JP did a
Speaker 13: good job coming in and you know there were some
Speaker 13: third downs and stuff where I was able to hit
Speaker 13: him on some checkdowns and him doing the same thing
Speaker 13: Christian has done so obviously, you know, Christian is the
Speaker 13: best you know in the league at running back and
Speaker 13: what he does. I'm not taking anything away from that,
Speaker 13: but I think JP did a good job of coming
Speaker 13: in and filling his void and doing his job to
Speaker 13: allow other guys to get open and allow us to
Speaker 13: run our offense.
Speaker 2: So yeah, Jordan Mason, undrafted third year player, he makes
Speaker 2: in a season what Christian McCaffrey makes in a game
Speaker 2: around nine hundred, nine hundred and sixty nine hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars for one forty seven And uh, they
Speaker 2: look good, look good. Let me see who kin Naku
Speaker 2: is going to the IR so that means he's going
Speaker 2: to be out for at least four weeks. The Packers
Speaker 2: didn't put Jordan Love on the IR so he's going
Speaker 2: to be weak to week. But they did trade for
Speaker 2: Malik Willis, and that was right at the beginning of
Speaker 2: the season. It was one of those oh okay now
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, and I think people thought Ryan
Speaker 2: Tannehill would be somebody who could maybe come in for
Speaker 2: Jordan Love. I think if it was more serious, then
Speaker 2: you could bring in Ryan Tannehill. But Malik Willis. They're
Speaker 2: playing the Colts, and I think they've they were like
Speaker 2: four point favorites against the Colts four and a half
Speaker 2: and now the Packers are getting three.
Speaker 7: Is that an eight point swing seven.
Speaker 2: I mean that's a lot. I remember we asked Vegas
Speaker 2: about that if Tom Brady was not in in his
Speaker 2: backup and they said, I thought a six point swing,
Speaker 2: Jordan Love, it's almost eight point swing there. That's surprising.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Pauline, what if Malik Willis is better than expected
Speaker 8: because he's been in the league a bit a couple
Speaker 8: of years, right, I'll take games over?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, I think you're just hoping that he does
Speaker 2: a Jacoby Brissett. You go into a good situation. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but just manage it. Don't don't expect him to win
Speaker 2: the game and hope that he doesn't lose the game.
Speaker 2: Just make sure you take care of have a good
Speaker 2: game plan here, use your weapons wisely. But now they're underdog,
Speaker 2: chance poem.
Speaker 7: Was Malik Willis a first round pick out of Liberty.
Speaker 2: I believe, sir.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he has no touchdown passes in his career. He
Speaker 7: has three picks. He's only started three games.
Speaker 8: I wonder if there's ever been a first round quarterback
Speaker 8: drafted to finish his career at zero touchdown passes. Finish
Speaker 8: his career well, no, Blik Willis. It doesn't seem like
Speaker 8: things are going well. It's going well now because they'll start.
Speaker 2: Fin I think that he gets his first touchdown pass
Speaker 2: this weekend.
Speaker 7: Hot take game.
Speaker 2: Third round draft pick, third round, third round draft? Wait,
Speaker 2: who was the quarterback who was taken in the first round?
Speaker 2: Levis was twenty twenty two?
Speaker 6: Who was it?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: Wasn't there a quarterback?
Speaker 5: God?
Speaker 2: Was it first round pick that we were surprised at
Speaker 2: taken by Atlanta? Question? Michael Pennick. No, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: that was a surprise though. Damn wait, I thought there
Speaker 2: was a quarterback? Did Atlanta take one?
Speaker 4: Not?
Speaker 2: Deb Desmond Ritter prior to that? I don't know. Ah,
Speaker 2: Look who's joining us. Everything's gotta be good. It's Shay
Speaker 2: and Irving. The Cowboys win Week one, no issues whatsoever.
Speaker 2: Shay is joining a he's actually joining us by zoom.
Speaker 2: He's always running up on the phone, it says. But
Speaker 2: there's the reveal that's look at that guy, Shae, it's.
Speaker 7: Frozen or he's motionless.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's a solid bit. If he was.
Speaker 3: If he wasn't frozen but was acting like he was,
Speaker 3: maybe maybe it's better that he's just frozen. I have
Speaker 3: Kenny Pickett going in that draft Okay, I thought it.
Speaker 2: Was a quarterback from maybe maybe it was Malik Willis
Speaker 2: Kenjamin Picket. I thought that there was a first round
Speaker 2: draft pick that surprised a lot of people. Desmond Ritter
Speaker 2: went in the third Yeah, yeah, Wait what happened to Shaye?
Speaker 2: I just saw him eight second reveal?
Speaker 5: I know, I know.
Speaker 2: Wait was he going to join us via zoom? Did
Speaker 2: he know he was joining us via zoom? That'd be
Speaker 2: unfortunate if he didn't realize that that was well. I
Speaker 2: think on his social media he talked about letting people
Speaker 2: see what he looks like.
Speaker 8: To describe what I saw, he looks like a former
Speaker 8: motorcycle gang member who's starting to clean up his act.
Speaker 6: Is that fair?
Speaker 7: Like the hair shavesides? It's not a mohawk, it's more.
Speaker 2: Of a I don't know what it is. Uh. He
Speaker 2: has a variety of looks by the way he does.
Speaker 2: But he he was frozen there. Okay, Well there Shay
Speaker 2: and Irving there he is, yes, Marv. But the thing
Speaker 2: about is he looks exactly how he sounds.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: He looks like a country country song and he and
Speaker 2: he sounds like he could be a country song and
Speaker 2: his life could be a country song as well. Oh
Speaker 2: my God, might be his best appearance. Wow, wow, Wow,
Speaker 2: it's gotta be in a good mood. Yes, the cowboys
Speaker 2: are doing well, like okay, So I don't know, maybe
Speaker 2: we'll get Shade back. Wait a round of applause for
Speaker 2: what what an appearance? All right, Shay two hours in
Speaker 2: the books on this Tuesday. That's quite a cameo. We'll
Speaker 2: see if he will join us.
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Speaker 3: coming up.