WEBVTT - Hour 1 - Jon Gruden May Be Attempting a Comeback 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.520 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:08.559 Sports Radio. We made it to a Wednesday. It's our one. 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:11.039 Come on in, stay awhile we'll check in with the 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:16.040 Vikings head coach, former Rams offensive coordinator Kevin O'Connell. Friend 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:20.239 of the show, Brady Quinn got win that Will Farrell 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:23.480 wants to join us in Ireland next year at this time, 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:27.000 Navy against Notre Dame. And Brady goes, oh, is this 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:29.880 the same Will Farrell who used to heckle me on 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:34.440 the sidelines when USC played Notre Dame? And we responded 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:37.400 by saying, yes, that very same Will Farrell. So Brady 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:39.520 Quinn would like to join us a little bit later 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:42.640 on phone calls eight seven seven three d P Show 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:45.880 email address dp A dan Patrick dot com Twitter handle 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:49.000 it DPS Show. We say good morning to those watching 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:52.879 on Peacock or streaming partner Fox Sports Radio, iHeartRadio, and 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:58.240 the radio affiliates around the country. NFL Big Cutdown Day yesterday. 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:02.000 Some names. If you're a college football fan and you 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:04.319 kind of run down the list, you're going, Oh, I 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:08.760 know that guy, Kellen Mond, Josh Rosen, O, J Howard, 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:13.920 Taco Charlton. So there's a few of them, few of 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:16.319 those names in there. And when it comes to the 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:19.280 NFL Draft, everybody likes to think that they're an expert. 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:22.560 Every year. Oh you know, I'm hearing you know that 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:25.480 guy is going to be a star, right Remember Josh 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:29.280 Rosen twenty eighteen UCLA quarterback looked like he was the 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:33.959 pro ready prospect. He was replaced after just one year 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:36.200 in Arizona with Kyler Murray. He was cut by the 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:41.640 Cleveland rounds yesterday. Last year, the Raiders selected Alabama tackle 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:47.840 Alex Leatherwood, all right, a tackle Alabama can't miss. He 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:52.440 was drafted at seventeen in the first round. There were 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:54.760 people at the time he said, woh, that's a reach. 0:01:55.600 --> 0:02:00.720 Still a highly rated prospect, he was caught yesterday making 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:04.000 that transition from college to the pros has never been easy, 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:06.680 and it's tough to really handicap that where you go 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:09.840 he can't miss? Or how did that guy make it? 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:13.000 How did that guy become a star? And the NFL 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:16.359 is littered with those stories, but the reality is nobody 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:20.000 has any idea how these players' careers will shape and 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:25.160 yesterday cutdown day a perfect reminder of exactly what we 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:28.200 don't know, and I mentioned some of these players. Kelen 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:33.880 Mond was drafted sixty sixth overall last year, one spot 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:36.840 higher than Davis Mills. And at the time, if you 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:41.040 go back, oh handwritings on the wall for Kirk Cousins 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:46.920 kelen Mond, you know he's got first round talent. I went, okay, 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:52.760 Alex Leatherwood, that was John Gruden, Mike Mayock. Josh Rosen 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:55.960 was tenth overall by the Cardinals in twenty eighteen. Now 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:59.040 in fairness to Rosen, and I thought that he was 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:03.160 pro ready too. He played for an Arizona team that 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:06.080 had a horrible offensive line and he didn't play well. 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:09.280 And then all of a sudden, you got Cliff Kingsbury. 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:11.239 You got the number one pick, and he's going to 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:14.600 take his guy and Kyler Murray and I thought, okay, Rosen, 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:17.639 maybe he'll have a chance to latch on to somebody else. 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:21.480 But you can go back through the draft through history. Here, 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:25.359 I mean Matt Leiner, quarterback one of the greatest teams 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:31.720 of all time. He washed out. That was another one 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:34.639 of those Oh he can last ten years. He could 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:36.840 be one of those guys that plays for ten years, 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:39.280 whether he starts or he's a backup. O. J. Howard. 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:41.760 If you said, all right, let me, let me, let 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:44.520 me kind of choose out a tight end, you know, 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:48.960 here's an Alabama tight end nineteenth overall pick twenty seventeen 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:57.040 by Tampa Bay Gone, Lakwan Treadwell selected twenty third overall, 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:03.640 Vikings twenty sixteen, Gonza. So you have Jared Davis back 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:07.040 in twenty sixteen, Lions took him twenty first overall. Going, 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:10.440 you could go down the list, and you go because 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:13.880 if you follow college football, you're aware of these names. 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:18.120 And then the Dolphins kept a quarterback yesterday. And if 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:21.599 you love college football, and if you watch random college 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:26.440 football teams, then you know who. Does anybody know who 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:30.960 the Dolphins kept at quarterback? Up? Paulie. I didn't see 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:37.200 their final roster. Well, I'm just saying one. No, yeah, hints, 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:43.240 um give you a hint. They bring back Pat White 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:46.560 from West Virginia. I loved him. No, I love Pat 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:51.239 White too. Yes, bunch of Mountaineers cut yesterday though, Will Greer, 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:55.680 Will Greer. Yeah. Tavon Austin. Oh, I thought Tavon Austin 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:57.560 was going to be a guy who gets one hundred catches. 0:04:57.600 --> 0:04:59.919 Every year. Why why didn't he end up being Tyree 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:06.080 Hill before? What the heck? I don't know, dang it, 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:08.520 because I would watch him and I go, God, you 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:11.479 just put him in space and he's gone, and then 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:15.760 he's in space. Now he's gone because nobody picked him up. 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:17.840 But I thought Tavon Austin was going to be one 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:22.080 of those fast West welkers where it's just like, I'm 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:24.120 gonna have a hundred catches, but I'm gonna make you 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:27.440 pay with like ten or fifteen of these. All right, 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:32.240 So the Dolphins quarterback, and it was a big deal 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:37.320 to me because I remember watching one full game because 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:39.279 I thought he had a lot of a lot of talent. 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:41.240 He was fun to watch play on the West Coast 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:46.120 late night, knowing you not late night, their games would 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:51.279 probably be now nish like they were always an early game. 0:05:52.720 --> 0:06:00.440 He plays all right, big twelve. He plays in a 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:06.880 state where there's another football team in the state Iowa, 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:16.680 no Texas Tech, no Kansas. Well that's the state Kansas, 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:25.320 Kansas State. Yes, yes, yes, yes, Michael Bishop, Michael from 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:29.039 Kansas State. I'll even give you the school and you 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:35.400 don't even know who it is. Skylar Thompson. Yes, Skylar Thompson, 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:41.680 he made the Dolphins roster. This is the only show 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:46.640 today that is applauding Skylar Thompson. Even shows in you know, 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:52.120 Kansas state that sounds like I'm making instead of Manhattan, Kansas. 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:57.320 All right, Skylar, Yeah, Skylar Thompson. Yes. There are some 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:59.560 other cuts, like the Patriots cut Malcolm Butler so we 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:03.280 never get a story. 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Go to dan Patrick dot com 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:48.400 and have some fun alrighty poll question today, Seaton O'Connor 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:52.240 is well let's see we could go with one. Would 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:58.480 you rather have a long playing career long coaching career? Well, 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:02.000 if I have a long coaching career, that's gonna be 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:05.640 at least double what a long playing career is going 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:07.840 to be. But you can't You kind of can't do both, 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:11.040 so the coaching careers. Maybe your playing career didn't exactly 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:12.800 work out, but you went on the coach for a 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:17.000 long time. Well, Kevin O'Connell was with the Rams offensive coordinator, 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:20.920 he was a backup quarterback in the NFL. He went 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:23.520 to San Diego State. Now he's the Viking, said coach. 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:26.520 At some point somebody had to say to him, Kevin, 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:29.200 I don't think it's gonna work out with you playing. 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:34.200 How about why don't you go into coaching? Would that 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:38.960 be maybe similar to somebody seeing somebody acting or saying, 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.560 you know what, maybe how about behind the camera not 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:44.800 in front of the camera. Yeah, Paul, I have Kevin 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:48.360 O'Connell's career stats. He was on I think four rosters, okay, 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:50.600 but he only got playing time at two thousand and 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:54.760 eight with the Patriots or for six twenty three yards, 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:58.000 sixty six percent passer, no interceptions, for his care. Do 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:02.080 you think he remembers all four pleaitions? Sir? He asked 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:04.560 to I would think he would. Do you think do 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.280 you think a guy like him said to himself at 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:09.760 maybe twenty seven, I could be a backup for three 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:11.840 or four more years, or I could transition to coaching 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:15.160 now by choice. I wonder if it was a choice. Yeah, 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:19.400 I don't know, but you know what, he got touched 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:22.320 by Sean McVeigh and Nell all of a sudden, and 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:24.880 you know that offense. This past year with the Rams, 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:26.440 they win a Super Bowl and he gets a head 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:31.280 coaching chub. That certainly seems like a pretty good path. Yes, Marvin, 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:33.680 when those guys get cut, what do you think is 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:38.160 the cutoff age? Instead of maybe twenty two year twenty seven? 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:41.400 Like do I keep going and stay in shape for 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:43.600 you know, trying for you know, one more shot at 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.160 the league. I would like to know where I was 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:49.120 when I got cut. I don't know if you can 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:52.680 ask that, like how close was I to making the roster? 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:55.960 Because if somebody is honest with you and says, you 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:59.679 know what, they're probably five guys ahead of you, then 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:01.960 you start to have to I think that's when you 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.440 start to do a little self inventory where you go, 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:07.520 you know, maybe I got to think about something else. 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:10.320 I tell people in this business who want to get 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:14.040 into radio or TV, certainly TV. If you don't have 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:16.960 something by the time you're twenty seven or twenty eight, 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:20.680 then it's time to start looking at maybe being somebody 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:25.200 behind the camera, a producer, coordinating producer. Yes, yes, I 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:27.600 wonder if it's their agent that kind of tells them 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:31.520 that it's not happening anymore, you know, because an agent, Okay, 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:33.160 you're getting cut, but that's all right. We got five 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:35.760 teams that already called that are interested. You know, well, 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:38.840 phone's not really ringing, so whatever, random quote. A bunch 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:41.840 of quarterbacks got cut yesterday. They might know that it's 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:45.400 their agent might be telling them. It's a little quiet. 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:49.240 But you're told, you're taught it's ingrained to be a 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:53.880 competitor that you never want to say. All right, and 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:57.120 think about these guys who retire, like Ben Roethlisberger didn't 0:10:57.120 --> 0:11:02.160 want to retire. He was a force to Steve Young 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:05.320 didn't want to retire, John Elway didn't want to retire. 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:09.600 Troy Aikman didn't want to retire. It's sometimes your hand 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:13.400 is forced, yes, and if you're that close, you would 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:15.400 think maybe you would have made the practice squad that 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:17.079 that could have been an indication is that you were 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:19.040 just on the cusp of making the team. They didn't 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:21.000 completely get rid of you all. But think about this 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:23.760 with guys who have been on practice squads. If you 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:27.520 look at the Packers backup quarterbacks with Brett Farve, at 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:31.360 one point, Kurt Warner was there in camp, Matt Hasselbeck 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:34.640 was there in camp, and I wonder if they looked 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:36.920 around and thought, am I ever going to play? Am 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:40.880 I going to be a starting quarterback? And they ended 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:43.720 up Hasselbeck played in a Super Bowl. Kurt Warner, of 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:46.679 course won a Super Bowl and an MVP Hall of Famer. 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:49.679 But at what point, at what position do you go 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:53.200 maybe this isn't going to work out. I think if 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:55.520 you're at other positions you might have a chance to 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:59.040 latch on. Quarterback is really difficult because we make up 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:02.640 our minds. If you're a first round quarterback, you know, 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.679 a highly drafted quarterback, they're going to give you more time. 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:10.200 At least normally they'll give you a couple extra years 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:12.160 because they don't want to admit that they made a 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.480 mistake there. You know, the Raiders made a mistake on 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:17.520 Alex Leatherwood. But if you drafted a quarterback in the 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:20.640 top five, top seven, chances are you're going to give 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:23.760 him a few more years than you would somebody else. 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:27.200 And at that position, we can't wait to bring in 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:30.000 the new quarterback. Oh my gosh, you got to see 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:32.280 this guy. And keep in mind, you're gonna have a 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:35.680 couple of quarterbacks coming in this next year. You know, 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.600 Alabama and Ohio State their quarterbacks are going to come in, 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:40.560 and then you're gonna go, man, we'd love to get him, 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:45.720 but that's two more jobs that are lost, or somebody 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:48.000 goes down the depth chart and then somebody who's the 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:51.600 third quarterback or the backup quarterback, they end up losing 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:55.920 their jobs. But we'll talk to Kevin O'Connell. You know, 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:58.320 for a guy who's been cut, I wonder what it's 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.600 like when you're a head coach and you have to 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:04.560 do that yesterday cutting down those players. He was on 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:10.200 six different teams, So big day for NFL. Cutdown day. 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:15.160 Sony Michelle got cut. Remember when Sony Michelle and Nick 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:18.679 Chubb and you're like, that's a great backfield, but Nick 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:21.560 Chubb got banged up. Sony Michelle looked great in the 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:26.520 National Title game, and and Nick Chubb is a better 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:29.520 running back, He's more powerful. Sony Michelle. It felt like 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:32.480 he was more of a specialized back, but he was 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:36.120 really a talented running back. And at that position, you 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:39.160 get to be twenty nine thirty thirty one, and it's 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:42.319 like you start to hear footsteps and they're not yours. 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:48.240 There's somebody else. What else do we have, Seaton, Well, 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:50.200 this one's on a different topic, but would you hire 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:52.559 John Gruden to coach your team? You know what, We'll 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.640 hold that thought because we'll hear from John Gruden coming up. 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:58.920 Phone calls always welcome eight seven seven three d P 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:02.120 Show Email Andrew Stpa dan Patrick dot com, Twitter handle 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:05.920 at DPS show PAULI has told me now three times, 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:10.720 so I'm gonna guess it's really, really, really good. He's 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:16.360 got a Dodger stat that he says is unbelievable, lable, unbelievable, believable, 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:19.360 but really shows how great they are this year. Okay, 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:22.800 but you've told me this a couple of times. I've 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:25.560 been tracking the Dodgers. How much they win by this year? 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:33.000 Oh the differential, Yes, you're differential. I watched a lot 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:36.080 of the Dodgers and the Mets last night. 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He got struck out on three fastballs. 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:32.600 Then he broke the bat over his leg. You know, 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:34.400 if you do it, then you have to break your bat, 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:37.520 right you gotta know, And it looks really bad. If 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:41.200 you remember, Bo Jackson's the first who ever did that 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:45.360 where I'm went, oh wow, yeah, I didn't think about 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:47.200 that until you brought it up. Pete Alonzo that can't 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:49.520 be the first time he's broken a bat. Has he? 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:53.800 Probably that's out of anger? Do you practice that? I 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:56.280 wouldn't want to do it on national TV? Yeah, and 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:58.640 with and be out three to five weeks he did 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:02.240 with And then if you whiff on breaking the bat, yes, time. 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:04.119 But even if you've broken the back before, there could 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:05.840 be that occasional time where you just have a deep 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.440 upper thigh bruise in front of everyone. You've just embassed 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:10.960 yourself because that one time it didn't take. Yeah, and 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:13.199 then you're on the See when you go on the 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:16.280 disabled list or the injured list, people are going to 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:19.879 ask you, well, what happened? Who was it in the 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:23.080 World Series who had the tarp roll over their foot 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:26.080 or ankle? Vince Colin of the Saint Lois Cardinals got 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:29.080 copp of the tarp, of course, last I look, the 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:32.880 tarp won't move unless somebody moves it. But Vince got 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:35.800 injured by the tarp. And if you do get injured, 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:38.639 how did you get injured? Oh? I took a fastball 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:42.119 right into the ribs. How did you get injured? I 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:48.160 have stupidity? All right? Here you go, Paulie. It's a big, big, 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:51.119 build up here to an incredible stat with the Dodger 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:53.080 I think I have oversold it. Okay, So the La 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:55.920 Dodgers this year are first team to ninety wins, ninety 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:58.560 and thirty eight. They're dealing with like Walker Buller out, 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:03.879 Trevor Bower out, you know, May comes back, Clayton Kershaw. Yeah. 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:06.320 They have outscored their opponents this year by two hundred 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:09.199 and eighty seven runs. That's almost one hundred more than 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:11.800 the Yankees, and that's getting historic. At this point in 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:13.440 the season. I think the Dodgers have played one hundred 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:16.520 and thirty eight games. They've outscored their opponents by two 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:19.160 hundred and eighty seven runs. The last time that happened 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:23.560 that seventy eight years ago, nineteen forty four Cardinals. Actually 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:25.800 the Dodgers in two thousand and two. The only four 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:28.400 teams in history that have been this good run differential 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:31.119 wise in history are the thirty nine Yankees, the twenty 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:33.800 seven Yankees, the forty four Cardinals, and thirty six Yankees. 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:36.440 This is kind of galactic what they're doing. The only 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:38.679 team in the past generation that's close to what the 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:42.720 Dodgers are doing doing this year are the Yankees of 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:45.840 nineteen ninety eight, who blew through everybody. They were one 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:48.720 hundred and fourteen and forty eight cruise to the World 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:51.240 Series that year. So the Dodgers are, and they're actually 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:53.479 getting better as a season goes along. They're beating their 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:59.240 opponents by more runs in August than they did in May. 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:04.440 The day bust out of the day, stat of the day? 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:10.280 Here comes that what st out of the day. And 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:13.199 this isn't a team that's fully assembled when you think 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:16.159 about it. With thirty four games to go, the Dodgers 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:18.919 can go five hundred for the rest of the season. 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:22.240 They would still set a franchise record for wins with 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:25.600 one hundred and seven. Yes seton peaking too soon? Coll 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:31.320 Oh oh, okay, okay, see what you did there? All right, 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:34.800 we'll get some phone calls here. John Gruden. We've we've 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:37.280 reached out to John Gruden numerous times since he was 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:40.960 fired by the Raiders. But he appeared at a little 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:46.600 Rock Touchdown Club meeting and somebody's always got a camera 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:50.560 there and John was talking about what happened when he 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:55.400 got fired by the Raiders. I'm not gonna say anything 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:59.800 but honest things here. I'm ashamed about what has come 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:03.960 about in these emails, and I'll make no excuses for it. 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:08.560 Is this, it's it's shameful. But I am a good person. 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:11.199 I believe that. I'm I go to church, I've been 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:13.840 married for thirty one years. I've got three great boys. 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:17.359 I still love football. I've made some mistakes, but I 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:21.040 don't think anybody in here hasn't. And I just asked 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:24.080 for forgiveness and hopefully I get another shot. All Right, 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:29.240 he might be too famous. Give him another shot. Um. 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:33.240 I don't know what going to church and being married 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:35.920 has anything to do with what kind of coach you are. 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:40.800 But he did make mistakes, and does he get another chance? Yes? 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:44.040 One dp he was in Little Rock, probably what we 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:46.520 would call the Bible Belt. I'm trying to ingratiate himself 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:49.399 with the people there. I go to church, I'm married, 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:52.760 I have Greek kids. That sounds like, okay, you're trying 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:55.880 to all right, You're you're trying to curry favor from 0:20:55.920 --> 0:21:04.240 the hometown crown. Yeah, Seton. Shouldn't he have said sorry? Um, 0:21:04.400 --> 0:21:07.880 I I guess let me. Let's see what happens after 0:21:07.920 --> 0:21:11.720 the lawsuit, because he's suing the National football thing, and 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:15.199 we have invited him on but uh. The last correspondence 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:18.320 was like he can't he's unavailable. I mean, what was 0:21:18.359 --> 0:21:20.560 the wording he used there? He said, uh, like I'm 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:23.440 embarrassed in a shame, Yeah, in a shame nice dot 0:21:23.480 --> 0:21:27.400 dot of what transpired with those emails or he said 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:31.040 some kind of language like that played again. Mark, I'm 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:35.639 not gonna say anything but honest things here. I'm ashamed 0:21:35.680 --> 0:21:39.399 about what has uh come about in these emails. And 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:43.639 I'll make no excuses for it is just it's it's shameful. 0:21:44.160 --> 0:21:47.159 But um, I am a good person. I believe that. 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:49.960 I'm I go to church. I've been married for thirty 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:53.360 one years. I got three great boys. I still love football. 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:56.919 I've made some mistakes, but I don't think anybody'll in 0:21:57.040 --> 0:21:59.760 here hasn't uh, And I just asked for forgiveness and 0:22:00.359 --> 0:22:04.440 I get another shot. Now. Arkansas did flirt with John 0:22:04.480 --> 0:22:09.119 grudenback and I think twenty twelve, and he said, I 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:13.560 think it was light flirting of maybe becoming Arkansas's new 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:17.040 head coach. Maybe he's trying to zero in on the SEC, 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:22.320 trying to coach there. Maybe you get a second tier 0:22:22.400 --> 0:22:26.119 team in the sec yestuht now turning on the audience 0:22:26.119 --> 0:22:27.800 and tell him that everyone has made a mistake. There 0:22:27.800 --> 0:22:30.199 are different levels of mistake. So now I found that 0:22:30.400 --> 0:22:33.000 kind of interesting too, that look, book us all in together, 0:22:33.119 --> 0:22:37.280 we've all made mistakes. I hate when somebody says, you know, 0:22:37.680 --> 0:22:44.880 everybody makes mistakes and nobody's we understand that who amongst 0:22:44.960 --> 0:22:50.560 you has not sinned? That was a big butt. Yeah, yeah, Paull. 0:22:50.840 --> 0:22:53.480 The tough part for Gruden, you know, objectively, is he's 0:22:53.520 --> 0:22:56.520 got three strikes against him. He's got off field issues 0:22:56.640 --> 0:22:59.000 that are still pending. On the field, he was he's 0:22:59.040 --> 0:23:01.120 a five hundred coach. He has a Super Bowl win, 0:23:01.200 --> 0:23:03.040 but he's a five out of coach one seventeen and 0:23:03.080 --> 0:23:05.560 one twelve, you know, and he didn't really get much 0:23:05.600 --> 0:23:08.080 better with the Raiders, and then he's almost too famous 0:23:08.080 --> 0:23:10.480 and too coverable. It's like, if you want, if you're 0:23:10.480 --> 0:23:12.320 an owner who wanted to bring in a coach, you 0:23:12.320 --> 0:23:16.240 don't want baggaged as you enter. But can he get 0:23:16.280 --> 0:23:20.080 to the point that Rick Pettino did where we thought, 0:23:20.640 --> 0:23:24.000 you know, Pettino went to grease to coach, but then 0:23:24.119 --> 0:23:27.920 came back. Now he's at iona can John Gruden. Get 0:23:27.920 --> 0:23:30.680 to the point, and would John Gruden's ego allow him 0:23:30.760 --> 0:23:38.359 to coach let's say, Bowling Green Youngstown State. YEAPO, that's 0:23:38.359 --> 0:23:40.600 a good comparison. Rick Pettino seems to have more high 0:23:40.720 --> 0:23:43.560 end seasons though when he coached like, well, Pettino is 0:23:43.640 --> 0:23:46.240 a better coach. Yeah, you know, watch more success. Yes, 0:23:46.320 --> 0:23:49.800 Pettino has a track record where and plus we're watching 0:23:49.840 --> 0:23:52.760