1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:03,640 Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,920 Speaker 1: Sports Radio. He's our good buddy, Ross Tucker, former NFL 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:10,200 Speaker 1: offensive lineman. Great appearance last week. By the way, Ross 4 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 1: will be handling the AFC title game. Duties, duties. Uh, 5 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:19,160 Speaker 1: that'll be at Arrowhead. Well that's not the AFC title game, Fritzie. 6 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:25,080 Speaker 1: It's the title game. Oh yes, Oh that's a COVID 7 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 1: related mistake. Blame it on Wait, you're blaming it on COVID. 8 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:33,360 Speaker 1: I think I may have to have you had COVID 9 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:37,600 Speaker 1: for a decade. I think it would be the NFC 10 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:41,559 Speaker 1: Divisional playoffs. It's the AC it's you even screwed that up. 11 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 1: It's not the NFC's he's covering the Bills and the Chiefs. 12 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:52,240 Speaker 1: I need a nap or something. It's the AFC divisional playoff. 13 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 1: I put title game there. Yes, Ross will be handling 14 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 1: the Yeah, let's bring in Ross Tucker. Clean up the 15 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:02,160 Speaker 1: mess here. If you can run, You're going to be 16 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:06,759 Speaker 1: covering the Chiefs Bills at Arrowhead this weekend. Right, No, 17 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:12,480 Speaker 1: I'm not. That's what makes this even better. I'm in 18 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:15,959 Speaker 1: the I'm in the booth in Tampa. I got the 19 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:21,559 Speaker 1: rams in the bucks it's the NFC Divisional round about 20 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:25,839 Speaker 1: that twice. I emailed him three times. I even told 21 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 1: him that this story that I'm in the booth and 22 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:34,200 Speaker 1: Mike Golick as seniors on the sideline, which is so 23 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:37,160 Speaker 1: cool for me, Dan, because I grew up outside of 24 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:41,000 Speaker 1: Philly and literally when Golick was playing for the Eagles, 25 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 1: they came to Cookstown University and did like a charity 26 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 1: basketball game or something. So I was in fifth grade, 27 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 1: it's like nineteen ninety. I get there super early with 28 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 1: my buddy and I don't know who was handling it. It 29 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 1: It was Clyde Simmons, Mike Golick, Andre Waters and whoever 30 00:01:59,880 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: their handler was. Looked at me and my buddy and said, hey, 31 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 1: we need ball boys. You guys want to be our 32 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 1: ball boys. We were like, heck yeah, So we were 33 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 1: in the locker room. Meanwhile, they started to get so 34 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:13,840 Speaker 1: tired during the game playing against these teachers. They actually 35 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:17,360 Speaker 1: put us in the game and I drained two shots 36 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 1: in front of like five thousand people. So anyway, long story, 37 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 1: but I got golis autograph. He was awesome that day. 38 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 1: I was eleven years old, and now I'll be part 39 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 1: of a broadcast with him, even though Fritzie got it 40 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 1: wrong three different ways. I'll be part of a broadcast 41 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 1: with him on Sunday. Okay, that's a nice story, but 42 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 1: let me go back to Todd. You couldn't have lifted 43 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 1: any more than you did. It's the NFC, it's not 44 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 1: a title game. And I think I've been I think 45 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 1: I've been set up to my credits. I have an 46 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:49,120 Speaker 1: email that I foted to the guys had something very 47 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:51,760 Speaker 1: different than when you just read kelping was printed from 48 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:55,800 Speaker 1: an old one sheet email. Okay, I'm very upset actually 49 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 1: about this because I passed. Yeah, I have physical evidence 50 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:03,079 Speaker 1: to show what I sent was actually Buck's divisional playoffs. 51 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 1: By the way, Dan, you also threw me a loop 52 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:09,240 Speaker 1: at the start of the segment because you came back 53 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:12,240 Speaker 1: from break and you said hall of Famer or not 54 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:15,120 Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer. I was like, oh man, I 55 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:18,080 Speaker 1: got very excited, and obviously not as a player. I 56 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:20,640 Speaker 1: thought you made like Hall of Fame guests or not 57 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 1: hall of Fame media guy Like. I got very excited 58 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 1: and I realized it was not actually about me. Well, 59 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:29,359 Speaker 1: you had a great appearance last week when you mentioned 60 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 1: that you basically urinated during every game late in the 61 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 1: game that you'd sit on a towel. And what was 62 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 1: the fallout from your urination story last week? Well, one 63 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 1: piece of First of all, people loved it. I had 64 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:47,360 Speaker 1: several of my buddies around here in Pennsylvania text me like, 65 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 1: you pee your pants ha ha, Like you know, ha 66 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 1: ha ha. But Dan, Monday night, Okay, I'm on the 67 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 1: sideline for Rams Cardinals and I had a back surgery 68 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:01,720 Speaker 1: in Buffalo, so people know, the worst thing about being 69 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:05,840 Speaker 1: a sideline reporter is just standing there for four hours, 70 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:08,440 Speaker 1: like it's terrible for your back. So during one of 71 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 1: the TV timeouts, I sit down on like these luxury 72 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 1: boxes the Rams have where you can't actually see the field. 73 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:18,239 Speaker 1: It's like below field level. I don't know who pays 74 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 1: for these things, but I'm sitting there by the way 75 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:23,920 Speaker 1: Paul George and Kawhi Leonard are there. An equipment guy 76 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 1: with all the NFL stuff on the Cardinals sideline comes 77 00:04:28,279 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 1: over to me Dan with one of those Gatorade towels 78 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 1: and he hands it to me. I'm like, I'm good, 79 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 1: Like I do something wrong. He's like, no, I saw 80 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 1: you on Dan Patrick this week. I didn't know if 81 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:45,039 Speaker 1: you needed this or not. I was like, no, no, 82 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:47,840 Speaker 1: I'm good. I don't hydrate as much as I did 83 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 1: when I was a player. But literally, one of the 84 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:53,720 Speaker 1: Cardinals equipment guys came over to me with the gatorade 85 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:56,679 Speaker 1: towel because they heard me with you last week. That's great, 86 00:04:57,080 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 1: we're talking to Ross Tucker. I still think he's working 87 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:04,039 Speaker 1: the MS and the Buccaneers coming up this weekend in Tampa. 88 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 1: Loudest stadium to you is where so when I played, 89 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:16,000 Speaker 1: it was to me it was the RCA Dome. In 90 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:18,680 Speaker 1: terms of indoor, that place was so loud. I guess 91 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:20,719 Speaker 1: maybe they might have been pumping in noise. I don't know, 92 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 1: but that place you couldn't even hear yourself think, So 93 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 1: that's the The loudest outdoor place was Arrowhead for sure. 94 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:32,280 Speaker 1: Now Seattle's very loud too, but Arrowhead. And this is 95 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:36,040 Speaker 1: actually something Dan, I've never quite understood. You know how 96 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:39,680 Speaker 1: there's been so many new stadiums recently, you know, the 97 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:44,360 Speaker 1: Giant Scout one and obviously San Francisco got one. I 98 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 1: don't understand why these franchises don't mimic the acoustics of 99 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:56,360 Speaker 1: Seattle or Kansas City It's not like the Pacific Northwest 100 00:05:56,480 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 1: or the Midwest people are louder than the Northeast people 101 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 1: or whatever. I think they're so concerned with maximizing revenue 102 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:11,440 Speaker 1: and club space and suits, they don't they don't mimic 103 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:15,920 Speaker 1: the same acoustics. That's a big advantage, man. It's honestly, Dan, 104 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:19,280 Speaker 1: if the Bills were playing the Chiefs in Buffalo, I 105 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:22,720 Speaker 1: would pick the Bills because that place was loud Saturday night. 106 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:27,159 Speaker 1: I was there. Those people were going crazy. But it's 107 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 1: in Kansas City. Takes away the offense's ability to have 108 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:34,280 Speaker 1: the snap count advantage. They'll have to go silent. So 109 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:37,720 Speaker 1: I leaned Kansas. It makes a big difference. Yeah, I 110 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 1: was wondering about that too, that there are certain stadiums 111 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:44,000 Speaker 1: that there is a true and that Seattle Stadium, I mean, 112 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:48,240 Speaker 1: that's that's loud and that almost hurts your ears. Um. 113 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 1: I remember being in the RCA Dome, but I was 114 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 1: there for the Super Bowl, so it was a different 115 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:57,360 Speaker 1: ambiance there. I've been to Lambeau that that's a great field, 116 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 1: but that's a home field advantage for variety of reasons. 117 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:04,800 Speaker 1: There you have the game with the Rams going into Tampa, 118 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:08,839 Speaker 1: and it feels like this is the Rams game for 119 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:13,280 Speaker 1: the taking, with the offensive line not healthy. With the Buccaneers, 120 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:16,280 Speaker 1: you don't have Godwin in there, you don't have Antonio Brown. 121 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 1: But it's hard to bet against Tom Brady. Who do 122 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 1: you think wins this game? Totally agree with everything you 123 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 1: just said. The Rams are a healthier team. They've got 124 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:31,520 Speaker 1: Cam Akers back six months after his achilles tear, which 125 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 1: is incredible. You look good Monday night. They won the 126 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:38,440 Speaker 1: battle up front against the Cardinals both sides the ball, 127 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 1: and you're right, I mean Jensen's limping around. I personally 128 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 1: don't think Tristan Worf is going to be able to play, 129 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:50,200 Speaker 1: and even his backup Josh Wells has a quad injury. 130 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 1: Ryan Carrigan got two sacks on them last week. Now 131 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 1: Von Miller, who's got six sacks in his last five games. 132 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:02,520 Speaker 1: This game is there for the Rams taking. This is 133 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:06,240 Speaker 1: a game that they should win. But honestly, Dan, I 134 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a close game. I think it's 135 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:10,680 Speaker 1: gonna be a field goal game in the fourth quarter. 136 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 1: And I can't verbally do it, like I can't say 137 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:19,160 Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford's gonna beat Tom Brady in a close playoff 138 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:22,080 Speaker 1: game in the fourth quarter. I will believe it when 139 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:25,360 Speaker 1: I see it. He's more likely to make a critical error. 140 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:29,520 Speaker 1: Brady's more likely to get the game winning points, So 141 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:33,600 Speaker 1: I'll lean Brady there. But I do think Stafford probably 142 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:37,720 Speaker 1: has the most to gain of any quarterback this weekend. 143 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 1: You know, we would feel a lot differently about Matthew 144 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:44,440 Speaker 1: Stafford if he gets the Rams to a conference championship game, 145 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:47,720 Speaker 1: if he wins two playoff games, if he beats Tom 146 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:50,720 Speaker 1: Brady on the road in the playoff game, I think 147 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:54,760 Speaker 1: he has probably more to gain than anybody else this weekend. Yeah, 148 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 1: that was my next question because we know who has 149 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:01,480 Speaker 1: the most to lose, and it feels like that Aaron Rodgers. Yes, 150 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 1: would you say that? Fair? No question, it's Aaron Rodgers. 151 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 1: And I'll go a step further, it's the Green Bay 152 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:12,800 Speaker 1: Packers organization. If they lose. I don't see anyway that 153 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:15,079 Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers goes back there. I think he's just gonna 154 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 1: think it's just not gonna happen for me here. I'm 155 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:19,560 Speaker 1: gonna move on. If they go to the super Bowl 156 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:23,240 Speaker 1: or win it, I think there's a much greater likelihood 157 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:26,280 Speaker 1: that Rogers comes back. I think this game tomorrow night 158 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:29,800 Speaker 1: is that important for the Packers franchise, and you have 159 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:32,840 Speaker 1: the Jimmy Garoppolos situation where it feels like he's auditioning 160 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:36,200 Speaker 1: for his next job. A win at Lambo would be 161 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 1: huge for him. I mentioned that Joe Burrow if they 162 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:45,000 Speaker 1: would beat the Titans, just elevating him in his status 163 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:48,600 Speaker 1: as a top ten, top eight quarterback in the NFL. 164 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill's probably not going to get any credit if 165 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:56,600 Speaker 1: they win that game, right, Probably not now, you're right, 166 00:09:56,640 --> 00:09:59,400 Speaker 1: You're right. I mean, they can get to the conference championship, Tannehill, 167 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 1: I think at this point probably has to get to 168 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 1: a Super Bowl. And I would say the Titans, they 169 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:10,200 Speaker 1: are they might be the quietest, least respected number one 170 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:13,400 Speaker 1: seed I can remember in a long time. And I 171 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:17,160 Speaker 1: said this on Twitter at Ross Tucker NFL a couple 172 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:19,720 Speaker 1: of weeks ago. I think they're one of the worst 173 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:21,920 Speaker 1: number one seeds we've seen. I mean, you look at 174 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:24,959 Speaker 1: the point spread, you look at what the Vegas folks 175 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:28,640 Speaker 1: would say, they're one of the worst number one seeds 176 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:31,559 Speaker 1: we've seen in a long time. But guess what, they 177 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:34,000 Speaker 1: win two home games, they're going to the Super Bowl. Yeah. 178 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:38,000 Speaker 1: Ross Tucker, host of the Ross Tucker Football Podcast, the 179 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:40,920 Speaker 1: color analyst in the Booth for the Rams Buccaneers with 180 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 1: Dave Pash and Mike Goldick Senior. Coming up Sunday on 181 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:47,920 Speaker 1: Westwood One. How did we do with that? Good? That 182 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 1: was correct? Yes? And by the way, I don't know 183 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:54,440 Speaker 1: if you know this, Dan, the Bucks might have the 184 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:58,520 Speaker 1: best press box food in the NFL. They have, they 185 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 1: have multiple carving stays. They serve bananas foster at halftime. 186 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 1: So I mentioned how important Saturday Night is for the 187 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:10,840 Speaker 1: Packers organization. The Bucks organization has the opportunity to end 188 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:14,680 Speaker 1: the year number one in the Ross Tucker Press Box 189 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:18,160 Speaker 1: Food Power rankings, which is probably as significant as anything 190 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:25,520 Speaker 1: that will happen this weekend. Wow, that's a bold statement there, huge, huge. Yeah. 191 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:27,640 Speaker 1: The road team that has the best chance to win 192 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:33,439 Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills. I think it's the Bills. I think 193 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:35,720 Speaker 1: they might be the best team right now. I mean 194 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:40,200 Speaker 1: their defense is playing lights out. Josh Allen is incredible. 195 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:42,079 Speaker 1: You know, I think we all know what they did 196 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:45,120 Speaker 1: Saturday night, Dan. They did that against Bill Belichick. I 197 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:48,719 Speaker 1: mean they had a perfect game against a Bill Belichick 198 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:55,199 Speaker 1: coached defense, seven touchdowns and a kneel down. It's incredibly impressive. 199 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:58,720 Speaker 1: That said, even if they win this game, they still 200 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:02,199 Speaker 1: need to win one more likely at Tennessee to get 201 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:03,720 Speaker 1: to the super Bowl, which I think they need to 202 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 1: do to kind of take that next step. But I 203 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,040 Speaker 1: think the Bills have a great chance when that game 204 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 1: is going to be incredible. Look, I'm loving the Rams 205 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,439 Speaker 1: Bucks game that I'm gonna be calling, but I really 206 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:16,640 Speaker 1: do think Bill's Chiefs is the game of the weekend 207 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 1: because I think more than any other game, I do 208 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:22,080 Speaker 1: believe the winner of Bill's Chiefs are going to the 209 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:24,360 Speaker 1: super Bowl. Sorry Titans fans, you can be mad at 210 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:26,679 Speaker 1: me again, but I think winner of Bill's Chiefs is 211 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:29,160 Speaker 1: going to the super Bowl. I'm also curious since you 212 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:32,360 Speaker 1: did play offensive line and you also played center for 213 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 1: a little while the last seconds of the Cowboys game 214 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 1: against the forty nine ers and the role that the 215 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:44,839 Speaker 1: center plays on that play, where do you stand on 216 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:48,040 Speaker 1: the Cowboys trying to pull that off and then spotting 217 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:51,400 Speaker 1: the football. Yeah, so, first of all, I understand the 218 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:54,000 Speaker 1: logic of what they were trying to do. You know, 219 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:56,679 Speaker 1: they wanted to get it Dan, so that they could 220 00:12:57,040 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 1: throw a strike into the end zone as opposed to 221 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:02,840 Speaker 1: a lob right, as opposed to a hail Mary. They 222 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:05,040 Speaker 1: wanted to get close enough, sort of like that fourth 223 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:09,200 Speaker 1: and twenty one touchdown pass Justin Herbert threw in Week 224 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 1: eighteen against the Raiders. They wanted Dad to be able 225 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:13,920 Speaker 1: to put a line drive into the end zone. Gives 226 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:16,440 Speaker 1: them more of a chance. So I get that. We 227 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:21,600 Speaker 1: were always taught in those situations. It's sixteen seconds. So 228 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:24,720 Speaker 1: whether it's enough time the spike or enough time for 229 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:27,960 Speaker 1: a fast field goal. When it's fourth down, you don't 230 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:30,520 Speaker 1: have an opportunity to spike it. You gotta run on 231 00:13:30,559 --> 00:13:34,240 Speaker 1: the field. Sixteen seconds is the number we were always given. 232 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:37,400 Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy says it was thirteen seconds. The problem I 233 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:41,079 Speaker 1: have with what Mike McCarthy said is he said we 234 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:44,080 Speaker 1: practiced it every week. Go back and watch the tape. 235 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:48,120 Speaker 1: Noah Brown, the receiver just kind of standing around. What 236 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 1: you do is you have two choices, right, you personally 237 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:54,680 Speaker 1: hand the ball to the umpire, or you hand the 238 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 1: ball to the center who puts it down so everybody 239 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:00,760 Speaker 1: knows where to line up, and then the umpire has 240 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 1: to touch it release it so you can snap it 241 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 1: real quick. They really didn't do either one of those. 242 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 1: To me, the problem with them cutting it so close 243 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:12,079 Speaker 1: they didn't allow for any variables. I mean, what if 244 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:16,880 Speaker 1: one of the d lineman accidentally kicked the ball London Fletcher, 245 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:18,480 Speaker 1: you do that all the time, you know it takes 246 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:20,360 Speaker 1: a couple of seconds off, or what if they were 247 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:23,480 Speaker 1: smart enough to lay on top of Dack for a 248 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:25,840 Speaker 1: second or two. There's just a million things that could 249 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:28,760 Speaker 1: go wrong like it did to not be able to 250 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:30,680 Speaker 1: get the ball off, which I thought they cut it 251 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:33,040 Speaker 1: way too close. Yeah, I don't think they practiced that 252 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:36,440 Speaker 1: every week, or if they do, they didn't practice it correctly. 253 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:41,760 Speaker 1: Because they the margin of error was so so small 254 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:47,960 Speaker 1: and you can't leave you kind of exposed yourself as 255 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:51,320 Speaker 1: to this. The clock could run out on display instead 256 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:54,600 Speaker 1: of saying to Dak, only get X number of yards 257 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:56,360 Speaker 1: if you're going to do it. Because they had two 258 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:59,360 Speaker 1: plays called, they had a pass play and then I 259 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:01,640 Speaker 1: think Dak changed at the line of scrimmage and then 260 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:05,040 Speaker 1: took off. Well, they're letting you run for a reason 261 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:07,840 Speaker 1: because you have no timeouts in the clock is running. 262 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:09,840 Speaker 1: That's what I didn't understand. You have to have a 263 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:12,920 Speaker 1: clock in your head that says I have X number 264 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:15,840 Speaker 1: of yards X number of seconds, now I need to 265 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:20,520 Speaker 1: get down. And I just there's no way they practiced 266 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:23,160 Speaker 1: that play every week. And you know what, Dan, my 267 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:26,560 Speaker 1: bigger issue, to be honest with you, was after the 268 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:31,760 Speaker 1: game both McCarthy and Dak Prescott complained about the officials. Now, 269 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:35,480 Speaker 1: I know Dak came out and apologize for saying good 270 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:37,600 Speaker 1: for the fans for throwing stuff at the refs, which 271 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:39,760 Speaker 1: by the way, was a good move by Dak, but 272 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 1: they still both complained about the refs. And I think 273 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:47,000 Speaker 1: the older I get, the more I realize these teams 274 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:50,360 Speaker 1: seem to be a reflection of ownership, like the lack 275 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:55,120 Speaker 1: of accountability and responsibility. McCarthy says, I thought they would 276 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:57,680 Speaker 1: let him play a little bit more. What play is 277 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:00,760 Speaker 1: he talking about? When Randy Gregory just ackles the old 278 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:05,400 Speaker 1: lineman for no reason, when a diggy Zoua pulls down 279 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:08,960 Speaker 1: Alex Mack, when Gallimore had his hands up in like, 280 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 1: they were all legitimate penalties, Dan, most of them were 281 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 1: pre stay snap. They were all legit penalties. So rather 282 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:20,840 Speaker 1: than after the game saying we need to do better, 283 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:24,680 Speaker 1: with the penalties, there's too many. They complained about the refs, 284 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:29,080 Speaker 1: so them passing the buck rather than showing the accountability 285 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:32,040 Speaker 1: and responsibility. It's why they have so many penalties in 286 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:35,800 Speaker 1: the first place. They're not disciplined, they don't take accountability 287 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:39,000 Speaker 1: for their actions. Instead they blame others. And it's why 288 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:41,440 Speaker 1: the Cowboys, I feel like, are the same team every year. 289 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:46,040 Speaker 1: Thank you, Ross. We'll be listening this weekend The Bucks 290 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 1: with Dave Pash and Mike Golick Ram's Buccaneers on Westwood One, 291 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:52,120 Speaker 1: and also you can check him out on social media 292 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:55,400 Speaker 1: at Ross Tucker, NFL. Thank you, Buddy, safe travels. Absolutely, 293 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 1: Thank you Dan. Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick 294 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:00,600 Speaker 1: Show podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weekday 295 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:03,960 Speaker 1: morning nine to noon Eastern or six to nine Pacific 296 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:06,639 Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local station for The 297 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 1: Dan Patrick Show at Fox Sports Radio dot com, or 298 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:12,800 Speaker 1: stream us live every day on the iHeartRadio app by 299 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:16,600 Speaker 1: searching f s R, or stream us live on the 300 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:19,879 Speaker 1: Peacock Act. Nick Wright, first Thing's first co host of 301 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:22,199 Speaker 1: Fox Sports One, My day is always better When I 302 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 1: talked to Nick. I saw his tweet this morning that 303 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:27,840 Speaker 1: I am just astounded by how many of my colleagues 304 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:30,879 Speaker 1: love the Bills this week, love them in big letters, 305 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:34,760 Speaker 1: ready to anoint Josh Allen, ready to throw dirt on Mahomes. 306 00:17:34,840 --> 00:17:37,800 Speaker 1: The whole thing we'll discuss, plus, is this Tom Brady's 307 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:41,920 Speaker 1: last game? Will the Niners beat Rogers again? Wow? How 308 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:45,560 Speaker 1: did your tweet sound with a professional reading it? I 309 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:50,520 Speaker 1: got it. You know you're being self congratulatory and patronizing 310 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:55,120 Speaker 1: per usual, but it sounded great. Thank you. I'm gonna lie. 311 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:58,119 Speaker 1: I'm like, that's why he's Dan, Patrick and on me? 312 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:02,960 Speaker 1: Like that? Really? I can you record my outgoing voicemail 313 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:06,240 Speaker 1: for me? I mean, that really was great? That was outstanding, 314 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:09,119 Speaker 1: sounded great. Do you agree with me? Though? Dan? A little? 315 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:12,920 Speaker 1: The Josh? How long has Josh Allen been better than 316 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:15,840 Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes? And I mean, it's just the hype for 317 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:19,480 Speaker 1: this guy who twelve days ago almost lost to the Jets. 318 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:23,119 Speaker 1: Nineteen days ago literally had the worst game of his 319 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:28,440 Speaker 1: entire career. Meanwhile, Mahomes has never lost a home playoff 320 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:30,640 Speaker 1: game in regulation, has never been bad in a home 321 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:34,080 Speaker 1: playoff game. It seems like a little, you know, a skew. 322 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:38,119 Speaker 1: Feels a little bit like if in mid conference second run. 323 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:40,600 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, second round of the NBA playoffs last year, 324 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:43,080 Speaker 1: if people were like, you know what, I think Trey 325 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:47,240 Speaker 1: Young's the best player in the NBA. Like, slow down 326 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:51,199 Speaker 1: a bit for me, please. Your voice is up at 327 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:55,360 Speaker 1: a pretty high level. Yeah, Like that's a new octave. 328 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:58,800 Speaker 1: Like that's a Mariah Kerry octave that I'm not used 329 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:02,119 Speaker 1: to hearing out of you. Okay, So this segment starts 330 00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:05,040 Speaker 1: off with me complimenting your voice and you, just for 331 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:07,760 Speaker 1: the first time in our relationship, taking a shot at mine. Yeah. Dan, 332 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 1: I'm a little high strung this weekend, my friend. I'm 333 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:11,359 Speaker 1: not gonna lie to you. We got a lot on 334 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:14,680 Speaker 1: the line for your you know, television viewers. I'm literally 335 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:18,880 Speaker 1: wearing Chiefs red sweatpants. I'm ready to go. I'm excited 336 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:23,280 Speaker 1: for this football game and for this nonsense, these Bills, Mafias, 337 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:26,840 Speaker 1: Charlatans that have been polluting my Twitter mentions with order 338 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:29,760 Speaker 1: two years to put them down in the dirt. That's 339 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:31,879 Speaker 1: what I'm ready. Okay, I'm with you. I have the 340 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:35,200 Speaker 1: Chiefs going to the super Bowl facing the Packers. I'm 341 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:37,879 Speaker 1: all in with you. That was my prediction at the 342 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:40,600 Speaker 1: beginning of the year. I think the Chiefs are going 343 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:43,119 Speaker 1: to win this game. I think we're drunk with love 344 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:46,080 Speaker 1: with the Bills with the perfect game they played against 345 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:49,959 Speaker 1: the Patriots. So I'm with you on that. And I 346 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:53,400 Speaker 1: do think that Josh Allen the highs that he gives you, 347 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:57,440 Speaker 1: we we sometimes forget the lows that he has a 348 00:19:57,560 --> 00:20:01,159 Speaker 1: well and the highs rival I'm sorry to interrupt, his 349 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:05,439 Speaker 1: highs rival Mahomes and Rogers for the highest highs of 350 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:10,360 Speaker 1: the league. In the league, the difference is his lows rival, 351 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:14,560 Speaker 1: Zach Wilsons, and he hasn't gotten that out of his 352 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:21,320 Speaker 1: game yet. Meanwhile, Rogers and Mahomes almost never have awful games. 353 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:24,439 Speaker 1: They might have awful games by their own standards, but 354 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:27,680 Speaker 1: their level of consistency is what separates them. But here's 355 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:31,199 Speaker 1: the other thing that just surprises me. Dan if we 356 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:33,920 Speaker 1: are just looking at this soberly and could the Bills win? 357 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:35,919 Speaker 1: Of course, this is not better than a buy. Like 358 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:38,720 Speaker 1: the Steelers game was maybe my most iconic phrase. It's 359 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:44,440 Speaker 1: into the sports cannon now. But so the Bills could win, 360 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:47,000 Speaker 1: Josh Allen could run for a bunch of yards. Maybe 361 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,400 Speaker 1: the Chiefs can't cover stuff on Diggs but one team 362 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:54,400 Speaker 1: is at home. That team also has more dynamic playmakers, 363 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:58,560 Speaker 1: the better coach, and the better quarterback. The four biggest 364 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:00,879 Speaker 1: check marks are all on that side of the ledger, 365 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:04,680 Speaker 1: and I hope folks will say the Bills defense is better. Maybe, 366 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:07,399 Speaker 1: but the Bills depens also is coming off a stretch 367 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:12,800 Speaker 1: of ten games against nine awful quarterbacks and Brady and 368 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:15,280 Speaker 1: Brady beat them. So I think the Bills Devens might 369 00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:17,760 Speaker 1: be a touch overrated. I'm just the Chiefs not being 370 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:21,719 Speaker 1: three point favorites at home Dan is the most insulting 371 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:24,760 Speaker 1: thing that's happened to the city of Kansas City since 372 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:27,359 Speaker 1: barb since you guys did your stupid barbecue tour and 373 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:30,919 Speaker 1: that dupist was like Texas Barbecue's better. Remember that that 374 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:33,840 Speaker 1: carriage your show for six weeks. You're welcome to that one, pal. 375 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:39,320 Speaker 1: So I'm with you on the Chiefs. I like the 376 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:43,200 Speaker 1: Rams against the Buccaneers. Yep, me too. I don't rule 377 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:47,760 Speaker 1: out the Niners doing something crazy like, you know, keeping 378 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:50,760 Speaker 1: it close enough to win the game. I just get 379 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:54,879 Speaker 1: nervous of if it comes down to Jimmy g leading 380 00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 1: a drive. You know, Deebo Samuel better be getting the 381 00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:00,760 Speaker 1: ball on you know, eighty percent of those carries there, 382 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:03,159 Speaker 1: and the Bengals against the Titans. As much as I 383 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:06,680 Speaker 1: love Cincinnati, my hometown team, I think the Titans are 384 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:08,800 Speaker 1: better than what we're giving them credit for being at 385 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 1: home all right, So I don't know if this is 386 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:14,800 Speaker 1: good or bad for the audience. We are mirrored picks 387 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:17,240 Speaker 1: across the board. I agree with everything you just said. 388 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:19,560 Speaker 1: I think that there is a part of me to 389 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 1: go in order. There is some trepidation of picking Matt 390 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:26,800 Speaker 1: Stafford on the road against Brady with somebody Jenna Wolf 391 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:29,919 Speaker 1: said this on our show today. I should have known this, 392 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:33,399 Speaker 1: I couldn't, but it's an astounding number. Tom Brady is 393 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:37,320 Speaker 1: fourteen and two in this round of the playoffs that 394 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:40,040 Speaker 1: I think it might be as impressive as seven Super Bowls. 395 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:43,000 Speaker 1: He's fourteen and two in the divisional round. So there's 396 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:45,040 Speaker 1: part of me that feels like you're gonna feel dumb 397 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:47,400 Speaker 1: picking Stafford to go on the road and win. But 398 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:50,359 Speaker 1: they're so banged up, and I don't think the Bucks 399 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:53,119 Speaker 1: have any way to guard Cup without doubling him, and 400 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:55,920 Speaker 1: then O'Dell can go off. We agree on the Titans. 401 00:22:56,119 --> 00:22:59,560 Speaker 1: I think the Bengals obviously are fun. The Titans arrested 402 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:02,080 Speaker 1: their health year, They're well coached, they've been here before, 403 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:04,760 Speaker 1: they're at home. I think pick them. I really want 404 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:09,280 Speaker 1: to drill in on Packers or on Packers Niners, because 405 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:15,159 Speaker 1: they're the Niners have a lot of obvious edges and 406 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:17,960 Speaker 1: then the one super obvious edges. But the other team 407 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,760 Speaker 1: has the league MVP at quarterback, and you have a 408 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:24,119 Speaker 1: guy that you just can't trust, can't even trust forget 409 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:26,600 Speaker 1: to throw passes in the fourth quarter, can't even trust 410 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:29,960 Speaker 1: to wait for Trent Williams to get set before you 411 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,720 Speaker 1: do a quarterback sneak sidebar of the sidebar? How mad 412 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:37,320 Speaker 1: is Mike McCarthy at Jimmy Garoppolo for false starting there? 413 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:40,360 Speaker 1: If he just doesn't false start, We're not killing McCarthy 414 00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:43,240 Speaker 1: for the quarterback sneak. It's like, Buddy, I'm dying because 415 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:45,639 Speaker 1: a year a mistake does. Wait for John Williams to 416 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:47,880 Speaker 1: get set, the game's over. None of this nonsense happens. 417 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:52,320 Speaker 1: But here's my question to you, Dan right now. Obviously 418 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:56,119 Speaker 1: Brady's greatest quarterback ever. I think if Rogers wins the 419 00:23:56,160 --> 00:24:00,919 Speaker 1: Super Bowl this year, Rogers versus Peyton Manning becomes a 420 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:06,160 Speaker 1: really interesting conversation. If Rogers loses this game at home, 421 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:10,359 Speaker 1: that feels like, Okay, he's a tier below. Yeah, is 422 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:13,800 Speaker 1: that unfair? Is that ridiculous. I don't think it's unfair. No. 423 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,480 Speaker 1: I think it's because he started out great in the 424 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:19,760 Speaker 1: postseason and then he has not. He's been average ever since. 425 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:22,240 Speaker 1: Then you go to one super Bowl and that was 426 00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:25,240 Speaker 1: ten years ago, and you win that. While I'll say, 427 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:28,000 Speaker 1: and I've said it many times, he makes the position 428 00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:31,479 Speaker 1: look as effortless as any quarterback I've ever seen in 429 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:34,280 Speaker 1: my life, maybe more so than any other quarterback. You 430 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:39,520 Speaker 1: gotta have another one here, and I think that having 431 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:42,120 Speaker 1: that second. I mean, look at Eli having two, you're 432 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:44,520 Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame. If Stafford gets one, he's 433 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:48,240 Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame. Probably Rogers getting a second 434 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:51,320 Speaker 1: if it matters to him, which is tricky, you know, 435 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:56,520 Speaker 1: then he elevates himself above Breeze Peyton. I think he's 436 00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:59,239 Speaker 1: a better quarterback than Peyton. I think Peyton's had more 437 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:01,200 Speaker 1: of an impact on the game. But I would put 438 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:03,960 Speaker 1: Rogers there. If you want to throw in John Elway 439 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:07,080 Speaker 1: and whoever else into that mix. I understand it. But 440 00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:13,320 Speaker 1: if you don't get to two, you know, then you're like, listen, 441 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:18,720 Speaker 1: it's unfathomable the idea that Mahomes never gets to another 442 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:21,240 Speaker 1: Super Bowl. But even if he doesn't, he's been to 443 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:25,119 Speaker 1: more than Rogers. Right, that's kind of crazy, you know 444 00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 1: what I mean? And so I think Rogers already ahead 445 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,320 Speaker 1: of Breeze. But I also think it should be noted 446 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:34,399 Speaker 1: rogers first five playoff games, he's four and one, and 447 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:37,720 Speaker 1: the one loss they scored forty five points and lost 448 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:40,440 Speaker 1: in overtime. That it was his first playoff game ever. 449 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:43,040 Speaker 1: That was the one where he actually got stripped sacked 450 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:47,560 Speaker 1: in the first playoff overtime and Arizona scored. Since then, Dan, 451 00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:52,159 Speaker 1: he's seven and eight, and now are all those losses 452 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:55,320 Speaker 1: on him? No, the NFC Championship game against the Falcons, 453 00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:57,720 Speaker 1: for example, a few years ago, Falcons, I think scored 454 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:00,240 Speaker 1: twenty eighth straight to start the game. But let's go 455 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:03,359 Speaker 1: to the Seattle game for a second. Everyone kills McCarthy 456 00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:05,920 Speaker 1: and they should they blew it down the stretch. With 457 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,959 Speaker 1: that said, Rogers was one touchdown, two picks and had 458 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 1: fifty five passer rating in that game, like they had 459 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:15,199 Speaker 1: opportunities to make it to wear an unblowable lead. I 460 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:18,239 Speaker 1: would argue the fifteen and one season, coming off the 461 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:20,840 Speaker 1: Super Bowl, losing that home playoff game to ELI and 462 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:23,760 Speaker 1: the Giants, that one. It didn't sting as much then 463 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:26,280 Speaker 1: because you're like, oh, he'll be back, but he hasn't 464 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:28,720 Speaker 1: been back. You can't. And now you're at home again. 465 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:32,720 Speaker 1: You're the healthier team, You're the more rested team. I 466 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:34,399 Speaker 1: think they I don't know. They have to win the 467 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:36,679 Speaker 1: Super Bowl, but they have to win this game, and 468 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:39,600 Speaker 1: I don't know if they will. Who presents the biggest 469 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:44,040 Speaker 1: roadblock for Green Bay in your opinion, I think this team. 470 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:48,280 Speaker 1: I think the Niners more than the Rams are the Buccaneers. 471 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:50,639 Speaker 1: But yeah, I think the Bucks are too beat up. 472 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:52,639 Speaker 1: I think the Bucks are too beat up. They have 473 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:58,080 Speaker 1: played too many games. The Rams are an interesting one. However, 474 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:02,080 Speaker 1: there is a part of me that says, Matt Stafford 475 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:06,119 Speaker 1: going into Green Bay, if there's a mental part of 476 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:07,920 Speaker 1: sports at all, that place has been a house of 477 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:10,639 Speaker 1: horrors for him his whole career, and then he's on 478 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:13,600 Speaker 1: the precipice of the Super Bowl, And that's like to 479 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:15,919 Speaker 1: me that, Yeah, I think the cold weather hurts them. 480 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,679 Speaker 1: I think this is the game the nine. The Bucks, sorry, 481 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:21,920 Speaker 1: the Packers did not want was this team with this 482 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:24,760 Speaker 1: running game and this coach coming into their building. He's 483 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:26,840 Speaker 1: nick right. You can see him on First Things First 484 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:31,560 Speaker 1: Monday through Friday on Fox Sports. Won haven't talked to 485 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:38,880 Speaker 1: you since the Lakers fall out. How does this end? Oh? 486 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,879 Speaker 1: I don't know, Dan, you know, probably with Lebron winning 487 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:44,479 Speaker 1: the scoring title. That's what I'll focus on. You know, 488 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:47,639 Speaker 1: year nineteen when the scoring title seems pretty good, Guys, 489 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:51,200 Speaker 1: not a score it's not great. Dan. Here's what I'm 490 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:53,960 Speaker 1: find interesting. A lot of people deserve a lot of 491 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:58,119 Speaker 1: blame here. Rob Polinka deserves blame. Everyone's like, oh, but 492 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:01,160 Speaker 1: Lebron made them make the trade. Lebron couldn't even get 493 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:04,600 Speaker 1: them to hire Tailu. So Lebron has some juice, but 494 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:07,600 Speaker 1: he's not literally calling in the trades. PULLNK and deserves 495 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:11,720 Speaker 1: some blame. Obviously, Vogel deserves some blame. Russ deserves him blame. 496 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:13,320 Speaker 1: There's a lot of blame to go around. It'd be 497 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,520 Speaker 1: nice and Anthy and Davis were healthy, but it is 498 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:21,399 Speaker 1: astounding to me how many people are caping for Frank 499 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:24,600 Speaker 1: Vogel this week. Oh my god, this is so unfair. 500 00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:29,040 Speaker 1: It is it's unfair, it is. Oh, you can't treat 501 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:32,880 Speaker 1: a champion coach. You can't here, Like, dude, I would 502 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:35,320 Speaker 1: just like for the people saying it's ridiculous for Vogel 503 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:37,159 Speaker 1: to be on the hot seat. Can you tell me 504 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:41,120 Speaker 1: your favorite Frank Vogel coaching moment? What's your favorite Frank 505 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:44,479 Speaker 1: Vogel adjustment? Did you love that it took him a 506 00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:47,520 Speaker 1: dozen games to figure out that Russ and Rondo can't 507 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:49,520 Speaker 1: be on the court at the same time. Did you 508 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:54,640 Speaker 1: love when nine months after the brilliant tactician Steve Nash 509 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:58,800 Speaker 1: realized DeAndre Jordan is cooked, he was still starting games 510 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:01,000 Speaker 1: for your team. Like, I do not put this all 511 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:04,720 Speaker 1: on Vogel, but there have been better coaches fired for 512 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:09,560 Speaker 1: far less malfeasance, and I find it very peculiar. It's 513 00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,760 Speaker 1: an odd Vin diagram of people in the media who 514 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:17,080 Speaker 1: have been the loudest and most most articulate Lebron James critics, 515 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:19,000 Speaker 1: and people in the media who are all of a sudden, 516 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:21,480 Speaker 1: giant Frank Vogel fans. Oh, like, oh my god, do 517 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:24,000 Speaker 1: you remember him with Hibert look at those defensive roads 518 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:27,880 Speaker 1: to shut up stop. I just thought that if you're 519 00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:30,320 Speaker 1: going to fire him, fire him, that's all you leak. 520 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:34,520 Speaker 1: Somebody leaked that information to the athletic and now you 521 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:36,960 Speaker 1: know everybody's waiting. And then I just wondered if he 522 00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:38,720 Speaker 1: was getting on the plane to go on the road trip, 523 00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:41,600 Speaker 1: and then found out that he was. But it just 524 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:45,080 Speaker 1: feels like, you know, it's inevitable that's going to happen. 525 00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:47,440 Speaker 1: That's the only part of this that's not fair. If 526 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:50,440 Speaker 1: he's your guy, then let him coach. If not, then 527 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:53,800 Speaker 1: firing I agree with that. With that said, they just 528 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:56,920 Speaker 1: played the Pacers, his previous team, and now tonight they're 529 00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:00,400 Speaker 1: in Orlando. Maybe they're like, hey, I got or maybe 530 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:05,960 Speaker 1: some family a reunion tour. Yeah, let him take the trip. Yeah, 531 00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,040 Speaker 1: I think that is nice. There is an odd The 532 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:10,800 Speaker 1: line in that game, by the way, is the Lakers 533 00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:16,280 Speaker 1: minus just five, and like, assume Lebron's gonna play. That 534 00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:20,040 Speaker 1: tells me there are people in Vegas that think that 535 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,280 Speaker 1: the Lakers players might be trying to get him fired, 536 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:25,760 Speaker 1: because as bad as the Lakers have been, Orlando is 537 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:28,880 Speaker 1: a travesty of a team and for the Lakers only 538 00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,200 Speaker 1: be five point favorites. I think there's some concern from 539 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:35,000 Speaker 1: the bookmakers that the Lakers might try to expedite this 540 00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:40,520 Speaker 1: firing process. Does Frank Vogel accompany the team back to 541 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:44,360 Speaker 1: Los Angeles from this road trip? I'm gonna say yes. 542 00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:47,160 Speaker 1: I'm gonna say yes. I think he does. I think 543 00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:49,800 Speaker 1: Frank Vogel survives. I think he does just enough to 544 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:53,960 Speaker 1: survive until Anthony Davis comes back and then there's you know, 545 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,480 Speaker 1: a little resurgence again. I don't know if I said 546 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:58,640 Speaker 1: this earlier, but Lebron James is gonna win the scoring title. 547 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:01,160 Speaker 1: He's in year nineteen, Dan, Yeah, that's got to count 548 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,680 Speaker 1: for something. Lead the league in thirty point games? You know? 549 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,000 Speaker 1: Is he not a scorer? Though? Of course? Uh? And 550 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:08,560 Speaker 1: so I No, No, No, he's a scorer. He's just 551 00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:13,160 Speaker 1: not a shooter, right, Dan, hire career you know of 552 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:16,480 Speaker 1: three point percentage than Kobe and Michael. But that's fine, 553 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:19,680 Speaker 1: that's right. Not a shooter. But I'm on your side 554 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:23,800 Speaker 1: with Lebron. Oh. I know, Dan, but I don't. It's 555 00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:26,200 Speaker 1: not just you and I talking. There's people listening. I'm 556 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:30,240 Speaker 1: talking about that. But I but I'm on your side. 557 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:35,360 Speaker 1: You sometimes go over the side. There's go overboard. You're saying, 558 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:38,320 Speaker 1: I go overboard. Do you think there were I don't 559 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:41,200 Speaker 1: know if there were physics. There's that voice going up again, 560 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:44,680 Speaker 1: there's that octave. I don't I don't know Dan, if 561 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:49,440 Speaker 1: there were physics talk shows in the nineteen oughts. But 562 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:51,600 Speaker 1: do you think people were like listen, I like, I'm 563 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:54,560 Speaker 1: an Einstein guy too. But you go a little too far? Like, no, 564 00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:58,520 Speaker 1: you can't go too far. Well, yeah you can't, you 565 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:01,280 Speaker 1: can't you can Oh, yeah, yeah, you can, you can go. 566 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:09,480 Speaker 1: That's bullying. You're bullying me. I'm bullying you. Well, I'm 567 00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:12,240 Speaker 1: sorry that I didn't. I didn't know what I didn't mean. 568 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:14,840 Speaker 1: You know what? You know what this is? This is 569 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:19,880 Speaker 1: punching down. You're a broadcast Hall of Famer with millions 570 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:23,200 Speaker 1: of dollars and millions of listeners and viewers. I'm just 571 00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:26,760 Speaker 1: an up and coming This is how I got here. Yeah, 572 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:31,760 Speaker 1: by by bullying, though, did you know? Down? By plunging down? 573 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,680 Speaker 1: True story, Dan, And then you can you can hang 574 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:39,680 Speaker 1: up on me. If I'm a senior in high school 575 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:43,960 Speaker 1: going on a tour of Syracuse University and happened to 576 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:46,320 Speaker 1: you know, set up a meeting with the Dean of 577 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:50,000 Speaker 1: New House. He'll remain nameless, Dean Reuben, I'll never forget it. 578 00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,680 Speaker 1: Um but uh. And he's talked with me, and my 579 00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,560 Speaker 1: mother says, well, you know, I've seen your record. I've 580 00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:58,280 Speaker 1: seen this. You know, I'd be shocked if you're not admitted. 581 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,240 Speaker 1: Love to have you. But I you want to do radio, right, 582 00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:03,280 Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, that's all I've ever want to do 583 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:06,640 Speaker 1: is radio. He's like, well, I'm sorry to tell you, 584 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:12,160 Speaker 1: it'll never work. Your voice is awful for radio. It's like, oh, thanks, Dean. 585 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:16,040 Speaker 1: Take that, Dean. But now Dan Padget's co signing it. 586 00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:18,800 Speaker 1: So maybe he was right all along. Yeah he was. 587 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:25,440 Speaker 1: Oh he was subject. I'm sorry. I like, sometimes I 588 00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:28,680 Speaker 1: don't know i'm speaking. You ever thought maybe I'm a 589 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:32,000 Speaker 1: little self conscious about this. You ever thought maybe I'm like, ah. 590 00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,720 Speaker 1: Maybe the reason that even to this day I smoke 591 00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:37,240 Speaker 1: one dollar black and mild cigars by the pack is 592 00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:40,080 Speaker 1: because I'm like, one day I'll get the grizzled broadcaster voice. 593 00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:43,440 Speaker 1: I am literally killing myself so I can sound like you. 594 00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:46,280 Speaker 1: I complimented you in the beginning, and now you're all 595 00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:51,400 Speaker 1: making me mclovin, not your old Nick Lovin. I'm talking 596 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:54,000 Speaker 1: about from the actual movie, the original mcloven with the Boys. 597 00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,440 Speaker 1: It's not fair. It's not fair, and it's me. I 598 00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:58,520 Speaker 1: want an apology before I come on again. I would 599 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:07,120 Speaker 1: say brown lick, I did that too. Oh more of it? 600 00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:11,480 Speaker 1: Look at him, Look at this guy. You'll never be 601 00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:17,359 Speaker 1: as good as me, not as always, jerk. I'll apologize 602 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:21,479 Speaker 1: the next time before you come on, Fritz lose my number? 603 00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:25,360 Speaker 1: Yeah wow. But in the meantime, I just want to 604 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:32,319 Speaker 1: say good luck to Patrick. Do you want to hear 605 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:36,359 Speaker 1: Fritzie's Patrick mahomes impersonation? I don't want to hear from 606 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:39,839 Speaker 1: anyone show ever again. Okay, all right, fair enough, all right, 607 00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:42,759 Speaker 1: thank you Nick? Bye? All right, that's Nick right. He 608 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:45,279 Speaker 1: does a great job at Fox Sports One. 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And tap 625 00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,799 Speaker 1: in with me on kJ Live wherever you get your 626 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:49,160 Speaker 1: podcast from DeMarco far Rams Radio Network, Sideline Reporter. Want 627 00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:51,960 Speaker 1: a Super Bowl Rams over the Titans? You got the 628 00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:56,440 Speaker 1: Rams visiting the Buccaneers. Sunday, NFC Divisional playoffs kickoff at 629 00:35:56,440 --> 00:36:01,560 Speaker 1: three Eastern. DeMarco, How you feeling, brother, I'm good, mister Patrick. 630 00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:04,120 Speaker 1: How are you, sir? I'm good. When's last time you 631 00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:08,480 Speaker 1: hit somebody? Oh? God, like, you know, legally or illegally? 632 00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:13,560 Speaker 1: Well either it might be a better story. Well I'm 633 00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:15,279 Speaker 1: not gonna tell you the other one. But yeah, I 634 00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:18,600 Speaker 1: mean it's been about twenty years. Yeah, since I tackled somebody. Yeah, 635 00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:22,120 Speaker 1: no doubt. How is that it's weird though, that you 636 00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:25,960 Speaker 1: spend twenty years of your life hitting people. Yeah, and 637 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,680 Speaker 1: then you have to stop hitting people. You know, it's 638 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:30,960 Speaker 1: it's it's a's it's something you have to learn. Um. 639 00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:34,960 Speaker 1: When you're playing football, you really get a chance to 640 00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:37,279 Speaker 1: take your aggressions out, and then when it's done, you 641 00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:40,799 Speaker 1: have to learn how to like talk. You know, how 642 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:44,640 Speaker 1: many Hall of famers did you sack? Oh? God, Steve Young, 643 00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:47,560 Speaker 1: I never got Jim Kelly, but I got fine for 644 00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:49,880 Speaker 1: drilling them. I think I touched Elway on a sack, 645 00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:55,440 Speaker 1: Warren Moon a couple a few Elway I touched him 646 00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:58,640 Speaker 1: down or he got away, Brett Farve twice, a few 647 00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:00,960 Speaker 1: Hall of Fame guys. Yeah, did you talk to him? 648 00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:05,040 Speaker 1: You know? I tried to talk to Jim Kelly. He 649 00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:08,120 Speaker 1: kind of like set me straight because I blasted him 650 00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:10,680 Speaker 1: in Saint Louis on that hard turf. And you know, 651 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:12,600 Speaker 1: when you run through a guy, you know, when it 652 00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:14,600 Speaker 1: hurts a guy, I can hear his like backcrack. So 653 00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:16,839 Speaker 1: I got up and said, yeah, baby, how did that feel? 654 00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:18,480 Speaker 1: And he looked at me and says, I've been hit 655 00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:21,760 Speaker 1: by better than you, and it just it just took 656 00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:25,880 Speaker 1: everything out of me, you know what I mean. I 657 00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,080 Speaker 1: went from this, you know, this rampaging beast to this 658 00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:30,439 Speaker 1: little kid back in the sixth grade. So yeah, it's weird. 659 00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:33,400 Speaker 1: Tried to talk me out of a game because we 660 00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:35,839 Speaker 1: go back to Washington. So he kept bringing up stuff 661 00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:37,640 Speaker 1: from my past, like trying to keep me from being 662 00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:42,200 Speaker 1: aggressive lead during the game, like he would just throw 663 00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:46,200 Speaker 1: something out, throw something out. He brought up Don James, 664 00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:48,400 Speaker 1: which is always a soft spot. Then he brought up 665 00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:50,759 Speaker 1: Jim Lambertight, he brought up where I lived in Mcmanhall 666 00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:53,640 Speaker 1: at dub I mean, all this you dumb stuff, you know, 667 00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:56,399 Speaker 1: it just it kept me from like wanting to break 668 00:37:56,440 --> 00:38:00,600 Speaker 1: his leg or something. Best lineman you went against oh Man, 669 00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:04,560 Speaker 1: Randall McDaniel and Bruce Matthews. If you ask me the 670 00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:08,279 Speaker 1: first two plays of the Super Bowl in Atlanta, I 671 00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:10,960 Speaker 1: couldn't tell you. I was on my face with Bruce 672 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:15,960 Speaker 1: Matthews on my back. So Bruce Matthews, Random McDaniel, absolutely 673 00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:18,880 Speaker 1: the best ever. Random McDaniel with that ugly ass stance. 674 00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:21,319 Speaker 1: I'm sorry you look at it and say there's no 675 00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:23,080 Speaker 1: way he can get me from there, and then boom, 676 00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:27,839 Speaker 1: he's on your shoulder. It's setting up for disappointment in Tampa. 677 00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:30,280 Speaker 1: And follow me on this because I think the Rams 678 00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:34,320 Speaker 1: are the better team, and everybody is embracing the Rams. 679 00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:36,600 Speaker 1: That makes me a little nervous when you go against 680 00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:39,439 Speaker 1: Tom Brady. I know they got line issues. You got 681 00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:42,160 Speaker 1: two top receivers. God went in Brown, not in I 682 00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:48,319 Speaker 1: don't know how good Leonard Fournette's going to be. Too 683 00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:51,520 Speaker 1: many people like the Rams here. What do you think 684 00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:54,200 Speaker 1: that makes you nervous? I'm with you a little bit, 685 00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:57,439 Speaker 1: a little bit. You've been in this biz a long 686 00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:00,279 Speaker 1: time to you know when everyone thinks you're gonna win. 687 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,080 Speaker 1: I mean, that's it just gives bulletin board material to 688 00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:05,480 Speaker 1: the other side. And Tom Brady is sitting over there. 689 00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:09,600 Speaker 1: So the people, the fact that people favor Rams right now, 690 00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:13,319 Speaker 1: it's it's it doesn't even get into my kitchen. It's 691 00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:16,440 Speaker 1: Tom Brady and you're going to his house? Are he 692 00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:19,000 Speaker 1: is the defending champs? I said this right after we left. 693 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:22,480 Speaker 1: So far when the Rams beat Arizona, great game. Your 694 00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:25,279 Speaker 1: your gift for beating the Arizona Cardinals is you get 695 00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:28,680 Speaker 1: the defending champs at their house next week. The NFL 696 00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:30,800 Speaker 1: is doing you know, favors you did yourself, no favors 697 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,319 Speaker 1: with that, so favor in the Rams good. But it's 698 00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:35,680 Speaker 1: still gonna be a tough out no matter what. Rams 699 00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:40,479 Speaker 1: win this game because of defense or offense. Hopefully because 700 00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:44,520 Speaker 1: of offense. Really, UM, I hope the the good Matthew Stafford, 701 00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:46,759 Speaker 1: you know, shows up, the one we saw in Arizona, 702 00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,040 Speaker 1: the one that is great behind a running game where 703 00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:51,920 Speaker 1: you don't have to put it up thirty five forty times, um, 704 00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:55,040 Speaker 1: the one that doesn't turn the ball over and put 705 00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:57,760 Speaker 1: your defense in bad situations. So I hope it's the offense. 706 00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:01,320 Speaker 1: I hope cam Akers coming back has as much impact 707 00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:04,000 Speaker 1: as it did versus Arizona. I hope Sony Michelle being 708 00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:07,919 Speaker 1: sharing the load at running back is going to kind 709 00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:11,400 Speaker 1: of keep the offense on pace, on schedule and the 710 00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:14,120 Speaker 1: defense off balance. If you got to throw it and 711 00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:17,799 Speaker 1: it becomes a passing game between Brady and Stafford, that's 712 00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:20,760 Speaker 1: I wouldn't want that for anybody's quarterback. I really wouldn't. 713 00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:22,800 Speaker 1: I wouldn't want that pressure. So I hope the running 714 00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:25,520 Speaker 1: game is there to kind of pace. It help Sean 715 00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:28,480 Speaker 1: McVay call a better game and you keep Brady on 716 00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:31,240 Speaker 1: the sidelines for as long as possible. Who is Odell 717 00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:35,839 Speaker 1: Beckham now? A man? He's a star. Uh, there's ever 718 00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:37,800 Speaker 1: a guy. Yeah, And you've been out here to Los Angeles, 719 00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:39,839 Speaker 1: you know what this is all about, what this city's about. 720 00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:43,000 Speaker 1: And so PLoP an NFL football team here that's trying 721 00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:46,719 Speaker 1: to grow its fan base. He's perfect for this environment. 722 00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:50,360 Speaker 1: He's a great athlete, he's tremendous. He's he's must watch, 723 00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:53,200 Speaker 1: he's much CTV and he's he's a pretty damn good 724 00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:55,680 Speaker 1: receiver too. I mean that touchdown pass he caught for 725 00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:57,920 Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford where he went up and over the corner. 726 00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:00,960 Speaker 1: Not many guys can do that with body control. So 727 00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:03,520 Speaker 1: the guy makes catches. He's got big hands, he's bigger 728 00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:06,160 Speaker 1: than what you think. And he's a star. When he 729 00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:09,480 Speaker 1: takes his helmet off, he gets the same reaction as 730 00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:11,959 Speaker 1: when he has it on. They just love him here 731 00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:17,239 Speaker 1: at their best Jalen Ramsey or Aaron Donald. If you're 732 00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:23,279 Speaker 1: starting your team wood and that's that's hard, um ad 733 00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,359 Speaker 1: because I've seen him do it longer and he's he's 734 00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:30,040 Speaker 1: headed the canton. Everybody I've talked to John Randall to Warrenzap. 735 00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:33,040 Speaker 1: To all the special guys that I came up with, Uh, 736 00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:35,640 Speaker 1: they all say the same thing. They've never seen anything 737 00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:39,040 Speaker 1: like this. He's he's he's awesome. But that's still tough 738 00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:42,000 Speaker 1: because Jalen Ramsey here's a guy who just loves the 739 00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:45,440 Speaker 1: violence of the game. He really does. Um he's a corner, 740 00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:48,200 Speaker 1: but he plays it like a safety, and he coaches 741 00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:50,920 Speaker 1: it like he's a coordinator, and he has the presence 742 00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:53,480 Speaker 1: of an outside linebacker. You don't see guys like that 743 00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:56,160 Speaker 1: too often. I keep wondering. I keep saying this to 744 00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:59,160 Speaker 1: Mary's Jones Drew, how the heck did Jacksonville let him go? 745 00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:04,520 Speaker 1: Really that you don't let talents like this leave so good, 746 00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:07,360 Speaker 1: but Brandy force his way out. He didn't want to 747 00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:10,000 Speaker 1: stay there. Well, I mean you could with a guy 748 00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:11,719 Speaker 1: this good. I would just turn a blind eye to 749 00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:13,239 Speaker 1: what he says or what he does, and I try 750 00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:15,320 Speaker 1: to make him happy because you want him on the field. 751 00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:17,239 Speaker 1: He's been a difference maker. I mean at times he's 752 00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:19,920 Speaker 1: been your best defensive player, even with ninety nine. But 753 00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:22,480 Speaker 1: to answer your question, I'd have to start with Aaron Donald. 754 00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:26,600 Speaker 1: That's why the draft is so unscientific. Certainly at quarterbacks, 755 00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:29,920 Speaker 1: But how many teams passed on Aaron Donald? Like, what 756 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:33,080 Speaker 1: was it that they didn't see? Because I always say 757 00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:36,360 Speaker 1: that GM sort of talk themselves out of drafting a 758 00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:38,680 Speaker 1: player because they look at the negatives more than what 759 00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:41,719 Speaker 1: he does well. They look at what he doesn't do well. 760 00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:44,680 Speaker 1: You know, this is funny. And I was kind of 761 00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:47,560 Speaker 1: there in the area when they were debating Aaron Donald, 762 00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:50,480 Speaker 1: and it was split. You know, I've never heard this before. 763 00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:52,839 Speaker 1: He's a change of pace defensive tackle. What the heck 764 00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:55,239 Speaker 1: does that mean? You know, I've never heard that. But 765 00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:57,480 Speaker 1: I mean, all they kept looking at was his dimensions. 766 00:42:57,480 --> 00:43:00,719 Speaker 1: He's only six six feet one, about two eighty five 767 00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:03,040 Speaker 1: on a heavy day on a good day. But if 768 00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:05,560 Speaker 1: you just look at that, you'd say, Okay, we can't 769 00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:07,960 Speaker 1: take him in the first round. He's not big enough. 770 00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:09,960 Speaker 1: But then you turn on the film of the Senior 771 00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:12,879 Speaker 1: Bowl and no one touched him, no one can block him. 772 00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:16,040 Speaker 1: He's the best player at the Senior Bowl, So why 773 00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:18,960 Speaker 1: wouldn't you draft him? So it was split down the middle, 774 00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:22,279 Speaker 1: and I'm glad the right side one because and even 775 00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:24,520 Speaker 1: when they drafted him, he had to wait to start. 776 00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:27,120 Speaker 1: They just didn't. I mean really, it was just it 777 00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:28,799 Speaker 1: was just strange. I mean, the guy has been Aaron 778 00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:30,719 Speaker 1: Donalds since day one and he had to wait to start, 779 00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:32,799 Speaker 1: but as soon as they let him go, you haven't 780 00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:35,880 Speaker 1: stopped him since. But they also missed on Cooper Cump 781 00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:39,880 Speaker 1: all these teams. You know, I think being white playing 782 00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:44,319 Speaker 1: at Eastern Washington, Hey, he's not. He's a four six guy. 783 00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:48,840 Speaker 1: You know, he's not like a less Welker Edelman because 784 00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:52,520 Speaker 1: he's so much bigger than those guys. So why why 785 00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:55,319 Speaker 1: do you think teams passed on Cooper Cump? You know, 786 00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:59,319 Speaker 1: this is why Steve sarkisian will. I mean, it's hard 787 00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,160 Speaker 1: for me like to like him because Cooper cup was 788 00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:05,680 Speaker 1: right up there in Washington and we missed the Husky's 789 00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:08,319 Speaker 1: missed on him and he's right there. Same with all 790 00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:11,640 Speaker 1: the Pacific Northwest teams. You missed on him. But from 791 00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:13,600 Speaker 1: what I hear, he just didn't look the part in 792 00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:16,000 Speaker 1: high school. He just didn't look like a guy that 793 00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:17,640 Speaker 1: could play. But when you turn on the film, the 794 00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:20,640 Speaker 1: guy can play. So I guess it's easy to overlook. 795 00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:23,640 Speaker 1: And the white thing is funny. You know that lasted 796 00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:25,839 Speaker 1: about a half of practice here. And you know how 797 00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:28,640 Speaker 1: some powners are when they see guys like Cooper Cup, 798 00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:30,919 Speaker 1: you know, step up in that line, Oh my god, 799 00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:32,360 Speaker 1: this is gonna be an easy day. They give you 800 00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:35,360 Speaker 1: the look. So Tremaine Johnson was the Rams corner and 801 00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:37,720 Speaker 1: he was kind of our resident tough guy. We couldn't 802 00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:40,480 Speaker 1: wait for this matchup Cup versus Tremaine, and the first 803 00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:43,439 Speaker 1: pass in one on ones, he spun Tremaine into a hole, 804 00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:46,080 Speaker 1: caught a touchdown pass and then like kind of laid 805 00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:48,920 Speaker 1: the ball down. Tremaine shook his hand like immediately, so 806 00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:52,319 Speaker 1: the white stuff was gone. Then, you know, gone, no 807 00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:54,439 Speaker 1: more white guy. This guy could play. You better treat 808 00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:56,400 Speaker 1: him like every other receiver. It's funny, Well he was 809 00:44:56,440 --> 00:45:01,279 Speaker 1: still white, right, Yeah, yeah, he was still Yeah. Mike, yeah, 810 00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:03,560 Speaker 1: get in the respect. I X Ricky Proll the same thing. 811 00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:05,760 Speaker 1: You know, what is that like? And he said it's 812 00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:08,560 Speaker 1: an ongoing battle. But with Cooper Cup, you'd never know it. 813 00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:10,959 Speaker 1: He's just out there playing his game and it still 814 00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:12,960 Speaker 1: feels like he's underrated and he had one of the 815 00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:18,000 Speaker 1: greatest seasons of receivers ever had. Yeah, I think there's 816 00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:21,480 Speaker 1: some jealousy there because there was a concerted effort to 817 00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:24,239 Speaker 1: get him the football early. There were some problems early. 818 00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:27,319 Speaker 1: Let's not lie. Matthew Stafford was looking for him. Even 819 00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:29,239 Speaker 1: Robert Woods when he was healthy, there was a game 820 00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:33,160 Speaker 1: where he showed his frustration because there were guys open 821 00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:35,400 Speaker 1: and Matthew Stafford still tried to fit the ball to 822 00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:38,160 Speaker 1: the Cooper Cup. So they're trying to get him the football, 823 00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:40,080 Speaker 1: they're trying to get him open. He can get open 824 00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:44,080 Speaker 1: on his own. Even Sean McVay had said that the 825 00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:47,200 Speaker 1: offense runs through him. Now you don't get head coaches 826 00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:50,000 Speaker 1: saying that often, but it's true. The offense does go 827 00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:53,839 Speaker 1: through Cooper Cup. It's always great to talk to you. Sorry, 828 00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:58,319 Speaker 1: I haven't stayed in touch with you. Always appreciated your personality. 829 00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:00,879 Speaker 1: The first time this is the first time that you've 830 00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:05,239 Speaker 1: actually interviewed me. The last time we were together, I 831 00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:08,560 Speaker 1: actually interviewed you. You came to la Oh. I think 832 00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:11,040 Speaker 1: it was Gary Miller or Kevin Kylie. You came and 833 00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:13,200 Speaker 1: now you said I was profiling you because you said 834 00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:14,919 Speaker 1: you had like a thirty inch vertical and I didn't 835 00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:18,400 Speaker 1: believe you, and you looked at me. I still do. 836 00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:23,160 Speaker 1: I still have their bad I want to see. Yeah, 837 00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:26,120 Speaker 1: safe travels. Thank you, DeMarco, you got it man, Thank you. 838 00:46:26,239 --> 00:46:31,480 Speaker 1: That's DeMarco farm Rams Radio Network sideline reporter. And I 839 00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:34,480 Speaker 1: remember talking to him at the Mother's Ship. We'd have 840 00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:37,799 Speaker 1: him on and I just I forgot how good his 841 00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:41,920 Speaker 1: personality is. And that was a little sampling there. Thanks 842 00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:44,399 Speaker 1: for listening to The Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be sure 843 00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:47,040 Speaker 1: to catch us live every weekday morning nine until noon 844 00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:50,200 Speaker 1: eastern six to nine Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, and 845 00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:53,680 Speaker 1: you can find us on the iHeartRadio app at FSR 846 00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:56,280 Speaker 1: or stream us live on the Peacock app.