WEBVTT - 10/30/2020 HOUR 3 - Dave Roberts 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:03.600 You are listening to The Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:09.280 Sports Radio, broadcasting from the Mercedes Man Happy Halloween. This 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:12.520 is Dan patrick Final Hour on this Friday, Dan and 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:16.080 the Dan stan Patrick's Show. The Dodgers manager Dave Roberts 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:18.840 said to join us in about forty minutes from now. 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:22.880 Chris Fowler. Chris Fowler will be on the call with 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:26.400 Kirk herbs Street. College Game Day live from Happy Valley. 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:29.840 It's Penn State against Ohio State coming up Saturday night. 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:35.440 Trevor Lawrence has the coronavirus mild symptoms and it's Clemson 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:40.160 versus Boston College. At Clemson, they're still twenty three twenty 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:43.520 four point favored in this game. We've focused on Trevor 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:47.159 Lawrence not being available for this game, perhaps not being 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:49.480 available for the Notre Dame game. But from what I'm 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:53.920 told from my source that Clemson's math will be different 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:56.320 than everybody else's math when it comes to the ten 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:59.920 day quarantine for Trevor Lawrence. Somehow I gets feeling that 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:03.280 he might have had mild symptoms on Tuesday, but he 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:08.319 tested positive for Wednesday. Do we know the backup quarterback 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:12.280 for Clemson. He's a high school all American from California. 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:16.679 His first name is djes by initials. Yes, you spell 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:19.679 his last name U I A G A L E 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:24.080 l E. We are prepared to try to pronounce it. Okay, 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:30.200 I'm gonna go with uang lele huang lele. They give 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:38.120 me that first, that first silvere leile, good about it. 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:43.240 I'm gonna go dja like a u lele, but a G. Mclovin. 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:46.000 I think we missed a little bit of a syllable. 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:53.880 I think it's uile. You seetan O'Connor uga le leile. 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:57.440 That's what I thought it was because I remember watching 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:01.360 one game in a high school at UH john Bosco, 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:05.080 and I came in on that Monday and I said, 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:07.800 this guy look like he looked like he was sitting, 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:10.760 you know, Gulliver. He was six to five, and he 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.600 just stood out as he's a whole lot better than 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:17.360 everybody else on the field. And Uh, I didn't, I'd 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:20.600 forgotten all about him. I just remember saying, that guy 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.840 looked like he could play right now, Yes, what about DJ? 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:27.960 You will not be playing against Notre Dames. I found 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:32.280 a Clemson site that has a phonetic spelling annunciation Mclovin's 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:37.320 really close. He may have it nailed ui al Uilila. 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:40.720 According to a Clemson, I thought we were already. I 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:44.520 read the phonetics, I don't want to Yeah, oh yeah, 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:46.520 I was looking at the phonetics. I can't believe. Yeah, 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:48.160 you look at the name. There's no way. It's like 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:51.000 tongue of Violoa. Until he told people there was an 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:53.800 end in there. Well, when I came in on that Monday, 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:57.240 I thought his name was Yuku Lele because I'm listening 0:02:57.240 --> 0:02:59.359 to the game and I just thought, boy, this guy 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:02.680 is looks like he's six four six five and was 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:06.080 the best player on the field and ends up. So 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:08.799 you got a five star recruit feeling. You know, now 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:11.400 I'm going to come in for the five star recruit 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:13.680 who is going to sit out this game and Trevor Lawrence. 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:16.560 So I was asking you guys before if Notre Dame 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:19.639 would be favored or underdog. I mean, isn't this guy 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:22.080 basically Trevor Lawrence who came in and won immediately, So 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:24.600 wouldn't you expect him to win immediately? Have we heard 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:28.000 from your Vegas source, Paulion Now they say it's hard 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:31.680 to speculate they say Trevor Lawrence could be worth easy 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:34.560 five points to a team. He said, my Vegas guy, 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.640 well he's worth seven points going into the BC game. Right, 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:40.320 So they were thirty and a half. Now they're twenty 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:44.160 three and a half and they don't even have a 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:47.560 line for this game. If Trevor Lawrence doesn't play in 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:49.720 this game, this is how Kelly Bryant lost his job. 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:56.200 Is that ain't happening If Trevor Lawrence doesn't play against 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:59.720 Notre Dame, it's at Notre Dame. Is Notre Dame somehow favored? 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:03.560 That's what I want to be checking. But I would 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:05.920 say now, right now, I would think Clemson is still 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:09.160 going to be favored, and I thought with Trevor Lawrence 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:12.040 they probably be like a ten point favored going into 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:15.040 that game in South Ben. Yeah, mccle just reading the room, 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:17.000 and I know you guys are following their Dame. It 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:19.680 doesn't seem like anyone's excited about this team, even despite 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:22.919 the record, like as a real bona fide contender, like 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:25.440 a number one, like this is not the Notre Dame 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:28.680 team that's gonna win at all, is it? Well? They 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:31.640 want to run the ball and then take some shots. 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:35.440 But I don't know if you just load up ian 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:38.120 book and just say go and carve up a defense. 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:40.960 Notre Dame wants to control the clock, run the football, 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:44.320 and then take some shots. You know. I think they 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.360 have to do that against an offense like Alabama or 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:50.080 an offense like Clemson. Is you've got to limit the 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:52.560 number of times that you allow them on the field. 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:55.280 And by running the clock, then you're going to be 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:57.320 able to do that. If you do it successfully, then 0:04:57.440 --> 0:04:59.720 you can keep yourself in the game. But I remember 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:02.360 talking to a source at the beginning of the season 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:06.600 and I said, and Notre Dame had played I think 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:08.840 one game, maybe two games, and I said, how does 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:12.440 Notre Dame stack up with Alabama and Clemson? And my 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:17.080 source said, right now, not even close. Neutral site, Alabama 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:22.479 and Clemson are both double double digit favorites here. Plus 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:25.200 you don't have a big home crowd here with you know, 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:28.360 home field advantage for Notre Dame as well. Age seven 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:30.560 seven three d P show email address DP at dan 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:33.520 Patrick dot com. If you're just joining us, consider yourself 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:36.840 lucky because it was I don't know a couple hours 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:40.280 ago when Todd gave us his Halloween names and if 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:42.479 you you can go to Dan Patrick dot com and 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:45.000 listen to it, because I think that's probably best that 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:48.520 we don't bring any of that back. I just wanted 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:50.080 to look back at the guests first. It was very 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:54.120 nice if Michael Kilban to take some time to join us. Nope, no, no. 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:56.520 And Matt dian he just played last night, probably got 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:59.280 no sleep. That's not good. That's pretty cool. We got 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:03.240 Chris Howler coming up and Grave Roberts twenty twenty World 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:07.320 Series Champion manager Chris Howler. I'll give you Chris Howler 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:10.600 and Grave Roberts. I'll give you that. Matt Matt Dian No, 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:15.960 Matt Ryan joined us earlier, Michael will Bonaday. Yeah, those 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:19.920 aren't good, not good at all. Right, thank you, thank you? 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:28.200 Uh Al in Atlanta, Hi al, hey, Dan, thanks for 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:32.599 taking McCall. Happy meet Friday, yep, uh loving the UGA, 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:37.240 love that mclovin sending out, and happy that my Falcons 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:41.360 finally won. To think one possession game and how they 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:44.719 do that Dan by kicking the field goals. The best 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:47.040 part was when the Panthers were on the forty five 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:49.960 of the Falcons and Troy's like, oh, this is a 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:52.719 great time for the analytics to say you'll go for it, 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:57.920 and they got stuffed. And Third, I love Matt Ryan's 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:01.280 reaction to you saying he should be created to San Francisco. No, 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:05.080 I didn't he say he should. I said that if 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:07.919 there's a possibility of him being traded, Thank you, Alt. 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:12.680 That's how rumors get started. I said to Matt Ryan, 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:14.960 I said, look, just so you know, in case it 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.480 gets back to you, I brought up your name because 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:19.720 it was being brought up at the trade deadline. I 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:22.720 could see where you could land in San Francisco at 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:26.840 some point, and and I said, but that, you know, 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:29.640 that's just my thought on this. If it happened, I 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:33.000 could see San Francisco. And he goes, I don't know 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:35.080 how to answer that. I go, no, I'm just telling you. 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:38.280 Patrick tells Ryan to bail on hapless Falcons. It's already 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:41.200 hit Twitter. Dan Patrick reporting, Yeah, I know, that's that's 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:47.160 what I'm worried about New QB and San Francisco. Patrick says, maybe, oh, 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.400 I shouldn't laugh. That's how things get started, you know 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:51.840 what I'm hearing. I love it when you know my 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:54.960 neighbor who's not in sports. But he tells me he's 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:58.680 hearing something. I go, yeah, what are you hearing here? 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:02.760 You know what I'm hearing. I'm hearing the Patriots are 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:05.600 gonna be sellers at the trade deadline. And so all right, 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:08.280 all right, what are you hearing? I don't know, just 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:11.920 here and they're gonna be sellers. They said, all right, yeah, mclemm. 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:14.680 There's a new trend. It's kind of like you know 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:17.120 how reporters run to the locker room, said this guy 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:18.760 said this, what's your answer to it? It's like the 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:21.840 dirtiest trick and journalism. Now guys are asking questions on 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:24.520 zoom and other reporters are saying, oh god, that's a 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:27.600 dumb question and forgetting their mute. It happened four times 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:30.640 this week, like all over replaced. Mike McCarthy had to 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:33.679 answer one yesterday where this terrible question and you heard 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:39.120 another report go oh god, I love it. I think 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:42.400 that they should make sure that all of these zoom 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:45.000 calls are unmuted so we do get to hear when 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:49.040 somebody goes well, you had that with Ohio State where 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:52.480 there was a reporter who asked, justin fields, are you 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:55.080 better this year? Than you were last year, and if so, 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:59.120 how And then you hear a reporter going, oh god, 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:02.440 that's a bad question, and then the reporter responds to 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:05.679 the reporter basically, Hey, bring it on on. Who can 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:08.400 ask the best questions? You know? See, well, my son 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:11.800 is in fifth grade and he is doing school from 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:14.640 home and so everything is on zoom. And just yesterday 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:17.280 we had a kid like, you know, all of the 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:19.079 kids are there together and before class they can I'll 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:21.040 start talking and one of the kids was like, my 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:23.480 dog is getting bread for the last time today. And 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:26.240 you know, it's like, what's getting bread mean? And the 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:28.679 kid goes, well, it's when two dogs and the teacher 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:32.360 jumps in and goes, everyone mute yourself. Everyone who can 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:34.800 mute yourself at lease. Thank you, grab your folders. My 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:37.640 dogs getting bread for the last time today? What does 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:43.800 that mean? Everyone mute? Please? Thank you. Fill in Indiana. Hi, 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:47.800 feel good to have you back, Hey, Dan, Always a pleasure. 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:49.840 I appreciate it, Hey, And wanted to comment on the 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:52.720 Big ten Dan. It it really seems like they should 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:55.880 have just stuck with just canceling the season. They left 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.920 no room for any air Number one, number two. It 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:02.959 seems like the administration was in place, the coaches that 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:06.000 are in another the athletic directors are even in a 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:09.160 different place. It just seems Dan that this is it's 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:10.600 going to be a real mess, and I don't think 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:13.200 we've seen the end of it, I think with Wisconsin 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:15.320 starting it, but I think there's going to be other teams. 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:18.800 Would appreciate your thoughts as always, and have a great weekend, Dan, 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:22.360 Thank you, Phil. Good to hear from you. Yep, there's 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:25.360 no room for error, no margin for error here with 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:30.319 what happened with Wisconsin. How many players coaches affected by this? 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:32.840 And are you gonna have to sit out three weeks? 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:35.960 I think they're trying to walk that back a little 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:38.920 bit because they know what's at stake. There's no open 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:43.079 weeks here. I mentioned that Nebraska was trying to find 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:46.400 an opponent. They found one in Tennessee Chattanooga. But all 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:49.199 the presidents in the Big Ten prior to the restart 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:53.360 said you cannot play a game outside the conference. Everybody 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:56.600 knew it, and Nebraska still went ahead and was trying 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:59.680 to schedule Tennessee Chattanooga and the Big Ten did not 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:03.280 give permission. What I found out yesterday that I told 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:07.840 my audience earlier is Ohio State in Michigan were, according 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:11.240 to my source, backing Nebraska because they know they could 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:15.680 be put in a similar situation, particularly Ohio State, because 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:18.240 if Ohio State would lose a game on its schedule 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:21.000 and they still want to play in the national title game, 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:24.400 they're going to do everything they possibly can. I could 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:30.120 see a big twelve an SEC an ACC school maybe 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:33.000 trying to get another game if something happened to them, 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.840 because you want to add to your resume, and if 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:39.760 you're able to get somebody like BYU, to me is 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:41.599 the outlier. BYU is not going to be in the 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:46.280 final four. But if somebody can somehow schedule BYU. They 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:49.880 have a first round draft pick at quarterback and they're 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:52.600 a highly ranked team, and if you could add them 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:56.679 to your resume, then that's what I would be trying 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:59.200 to do, because that's all all you want to do 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:01.880 is here our resume at the end of the year. Well, 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:04.080 if you only have five games, it's going to be 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:06.360 really hard to put somebody in the final four. And 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:10.079 it's great for BYU because if BYU would be Texas 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:14.120 A and M, then all of a sudden it strengthens 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:17.520 their resume as well. Uh, let me see, let me 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:19.960 get to Drew in Wisconsin. Will take a break, Chris 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:23.400 Fowler said to join us. Hey, Drew, Hey, do you 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:28.280 six to one end? Yeah? I just wanted to talk 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:31.640 about the Big Ten situation as well. Um, just with 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:37.080 how they've bungled the original canceling of the season and 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:40.400 and how per year source they deliberately tried to punish 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:45.280 Nebraska with um, you know, with playing Ohio States first 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:50.320 and subsequently you know, realizing that they're also punishing the 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:55.440 players there. How is, if you're an administrator or a 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:58.840 parent or a student athlete at one of these schools, 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:02.720 how can you really say that the Big Ten is 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:07.839 is acting competently during this And really what's ethical about 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:11.280 the whole situation? I don't think there is not. I 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:13.880 don't think there is, Drew, Thank you. This is just 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:17.680 a money grab. There's so much money at stake, and 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:20.720 you know, the Big Ten did all of its research, 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:24.719 had all this information. They've got some presidents who are 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.800 in the medical field, are formerly in the medical field. 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:31.880 They have some very bright men who are running these schools. 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:35.360 And I just wanted to know if you were doing 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:38.520 everything you could possibly do to salvage the season. That's 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:41.080 all I wanted to know. And it felt like the 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:43.520 Big Ten in Pact twelve did not do that. The 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:46.199 SEC we knew they were going to play the ACC. 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:48.360 I told you there were a couple of schools in 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:50.120 the Big twelve that did not want to come back 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:56.079 and play. But this is about money. I know that 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:59.439 the kids want to play, but this is all about 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:02.400 the amount of money that's at stake here and really 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:06.040 how that affects the athletic departments here, the other programs 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:09.240 that you have that that money, you know what it generates. 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:12.000 And that's why I thought this year, of all years, 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:16.319 could you expand the playoffs just because you could get 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:20.240 four more schools in there, let's say six more schools 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:23.840 in there, and then you're going to get the revenue. 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:26.880 And now you get let's say, two teams in the SEC. 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:28.920 So now you're going to share in all that money, 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:31.240 or you get two teams from the Big ten or 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:34.200 two teams from the Big twenty. This is a unique year, 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:38.160 and I just thought it called for a unique approach. 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:40.400 You can't go, oh, we can't do that. We got 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:43.960 this in place that they've changed everything. They're changing it 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:47.640 on the fly. You got one league that says, hey, 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:49.640 you only have to sit out this amount of time. Hey, 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:51.160 if you're a coach, you only have to sit out 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:53.840 this amount of time. Another conference saying, no, you got 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:59.040 to sit out three weeks. Everybody has there's no uniformity 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:02.680 because of the ncl AA, And it just felt like 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:07.720 this and the NCUBA doesn't run the playoffs. That's what 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:10.560 I was hoping for that maybe you do this, Maybe 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:13.640 you extended a little bit that way, you give some 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:15.640 teams a little bit of breathing room in case you 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:18.760 have an outbreak. We'll take a break. Well, I'll talk 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:21.400 to Chris Fowler from the Mothership. Also in about a 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:23.520 half hour, Dave Roberts said to join us on loan 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:26.240 from the world champion Dodgers back after this and The 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:29.320 Dan Patrick Show. Be sure to catch the live edition 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:32.240 of The Dan Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:36.040 six am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio in the iHeart 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:43.920 Radio app. ESPN has all top five teams on its networks. 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:47.320 Tomorrow Number three Ohio State, Number eighteen Penn State kickoff 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:50.880 at seven thirty Eastern that'll be on Saturday Night Football 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:53.080 Chris Fowler on the call with Kirk curb Street and 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:56.360 Maria Taylor. College Game Day, also live from Happy Valley 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:59.840 at nine am Eastern on ESPN. As we make way 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.680 for Chris Fowler, what time or what day do you 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:07.320 go in to start doing your prep work for these teams? 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:12.000 Are you zooming interviews? Now it's all via zoom, Dan, 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:14.480 everything's on a screen, a little dot of a camera 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.760 usually going much sooner. Used to go in on Thursdays 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:21.040 watch a practice which we were allowed access to, which 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:23.720 was a lot of fun in person meetings with the players, 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:26.120 which is one of my favorite parts of the job. Now, 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:30.960 no practice because the COVID restrictions, and everything's via his zoom. 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:33.160 So I'm actually at home right now. We'll do Penn 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:35.680 States calls a little while and then make the late 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:40.120 journey the Happy Valley. It's all different this year. We've 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:43.240 talked about this before on this show, about when you 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:46.520 go in and you do an interview. Brian Greasy when 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:49.400 he was sitting down with Nick Foles and you know 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:51.880 what's on the record, what's not, And all of a sudden, 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:54.360 you know, Brian Greasy saying, hey, Nick Foles told me that, 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:56.440 you know, coach has a hard time getting the plays 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:58.520 in and all those things, like when do you know 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:00.680 what is on the record and all the record when 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:03.520 you're in these meetings maybe in person with these coaches 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:06.640 or players. That's a hard question. I mean, I think 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:08.480 that they're going to be pretty guarded. So do you 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:12.280 feel like unless they tell you, hey, don't see anything, 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:16.560 we feel like it's it's good for the broadcast. I mean, 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:18.680 I think it's very different. If I'm going to tweet 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:20.800 something out or Kirk's going to put something on game 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:25.280 days Saturday morning, that's a very different level of confidentiality 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:29.600 than hey, hold something until kickoff or don't say anything 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:32.199 until you see it during the game. Like you might 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:34.639 hear something in a meeting, wait till the kickoff, and 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:36.440 then say, hey, they we're working on that fake field 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:38.320 goal a lot this week. Can practice. Well, now you've 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:40.960 just alerted the team. It's not like they can't be 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:43.400 aware of what's said in the broadcast, right. So there's 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:45.480 some of the stuff you just hold until you see it. 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:47.879 But we want to maintain the trust because that's an 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:50.359 important part of it. Best coaches to sit down with 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:55.640 that actually really gave you full access or as much 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:58.960 access as anybody. Well. I don't know if it's the best, 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:01.560 but one of the most rising is Saban gives us 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:04.679 great access. And he's got the reputation for being very, 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:07.480 very tough with the media. But over the years, you've 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:10.520 done so many Alabama games. I covered him back at 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:13.280 Michigan State and LSU, so there's a good trust built 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:16.560 up with our team and him. We are allowed inside 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:20.720 the palace gates. We see Alabama's walkthroughs and practices before 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:24.400 playoff and championship games, which is awesome because it's very 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:27.960 very helpful. Like when they did the surprise onside kick 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:31.520 in that game against Clemson. I had seen them practice 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:33.760 that for two games ahead of time, and you wonder, 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:36.159 why why are they working on an onsite kick, Like 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:40.520 that's not an Alabama thing? But when it happened, I 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:42.560 was ready for it because we've been allowed inside and 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:47.000 Saban will usually talk about kind of what he the 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:50.159 two up filling in at halftime for Jalen Hurts in 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:52.960 the championship game, because he was pretty forthcoming in the 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:55.760 meetings with us and allowed us to press him on it. 0:18:56.280 --> 0:19:00.080 It didn't shock Kirk or myself when two was it 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:03.800 in there in the championship game against Georgia's. So he's 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:05.920 one of the best, and that might might surprise you. 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:08.080 There are a lot of them who say nothing. I'm 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:10.119 telling you, how do you know when you can press 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:14.840 a coach good question? I mean, you have to have 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:17.199 a history with them. If they don't know you, I mean, 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:20.280 being around the sport for thirty two years, whether or 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:22.000 not I've done a lot of the team's games or not, 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:24.359 they're pretty familiar with the game day. There's usually some 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:26.680 good will built up, or there might be some bad will. 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:31.359 I've had some ill will built up with coaches because 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:33.359 of stuff you say on a pregame show over the 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:35.560 years that they didn't like. And now is there a 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:37.320 chance to let you know that or just let you 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:42.640 feel that? But yeah, you know it's you. Definitely. It's 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:45.480 just like any interpersonal communication. You kind of sense that 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:48.240 let's not go a bridge too far here, because we've 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:50.600 gotten as much out of this as you can. Two 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:52.800 swings and a miss. I don't don't usually go for 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:57.440 a third swing. Right with what happened with Wisconsin and Nebraska, 0:19:57.600 --> 0:20:01.480 like how deep does this go you think with affecting 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:05.879 Wisconsin season and as a result, the other teams in 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:09.320 the Big Ten. Yeah, the twenty one day sit out 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:10.879 in the Big Ten, as you well know, you've been 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:13.760 all over, the story is far different from the other conferences, right, 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:17.280 So the price that Mertz will pay at Wisconsin is 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:19.320 different than what Trevor Lawrence is going to have to 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:22.080 deal with a Clemson assuming he comes back and isn't 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:25.520 an ongoing situation, could still cost Lawrence the Notre Dame game. 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:29.639 But yeah, I mean the Nebraska, I mean the Wisconsin 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:33.000 Michigan game is what's sitting out their major showdown game, 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:35.520 and I think it's going to affect the Wisconsin players 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:37.600 for that. Here's the deal. In the Big Ten, they 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:40.120 just had no margin for error. There were no buy 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:42.640 weeks to slide these games into. That's why the game 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:46.320 is postponed and not rescheduled. And you know when the 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:49.159 Big Ten presidents were sold on coming back again, you 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:52.520 probably know this, but they were sold that with daily 0:20:53.080 --> 0:20:55.600 manage and testing, they felt like they could be almost 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:59.520 one hundred percent or one hundred percent able to prevent 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:01.399 it for running through a team. Now, I don't know 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:03.919 how you sell that one hundred percent in this day 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:06.840 and age with what's unknowable. But I think that they 0:21:06.880 --> 0:21:09.760 were surprised that there was an outbreak this early in 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:12.399 the Big Ten season. It would cost a game. I 0:21:12.800 --> 0:21:15.920 unfortunately don't think we're done with that in any league. 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:19.600 So and I was told last night that Michigan and 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:23.640 Ohio State we're backing Nebraska to be able to schedule 0:21:23.680 --> 0:21:26.560 this game with Tennessee Chattanooga because they know they could 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:29.879 be in a situation similar where they may lose an 0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:32.440 opponent who can't play, and they want to make sure 0:21:32.520 --> 0:21:36.439 that you spice up that resume because in particular, Ohio 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:39.119 State wants to play for a national championship, and if 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:42.679 all of a sudden, you're playing five games or six games, 0:21:43.240 --> 0:21:45.960 that's going to have a certainly an adverse effect on 0:21:46.080 --> 0:21:48.840 that site test that they would get into the final four, 0:21:48.920 --> 0:21:52.280