Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
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Speaker 2: Two on this Monday, Dan and the Dan's Dan Patrick Show,
Speaker 2: including Fritzie Glad to have you with us, a couple
Speaker 2: of coaches fired, Ron Rivera by the Commanders, Arthur Smith
Speaker 2: by the Falcons, and a couple of teams probably waiting
Speaker 2: to deliver that news, including the Patriots. Bill Belichick earlier
Speaker 2: this morning met with the media and he is going
Speaker 2: ahead with his normal schedule as the head coach of
Speaker 2: the Patriots. Said that he'll meet with Robert Kraft. At
Speaker 2: least that's the report. Later on this week, we'll get
Speaker 2: to phone calls as we always do every Monday, Best
Speaker 2: and worst of the weekend. What you saw that you liked,
Speaker 2: didn't like? Eight seven to seven three DP show. Also
Speaker 2: poll question from our one and what's the poll question
Speaker 2: for hour two seton We.
Speaker 3: Had a second one up there, Dan. If Michigan wins
Speaker 3: dot dot dot Okay, Jim Harbaugh is more likely to
Speaker 3: stay or go okay right now, go is at eighty
Speaker 3: six percent of the vote on okay.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know if his coaching future hinges on whether
Speaker 2: they win or lose. In my opinion, now I haven't
Speaker 2: heard anything. I just a gut feeling of Harball. Okay,
Speaker 2: got you back here. Now we're playing for a national title,
Speaker 2: although they are favored, and I wonder what the future
Speaker 2: looks like for Michigan football. You know, JJ McCarthy's going
Speaker 2: to go into the NFL draft finding that quarterback. But really,
Speaker 2: what Jim does. Jim finds a style. He finds players
Speaker 2: who fit the style that he wants. And do you
Speaker 2: think it's just a coincidence that John Harball has the
Speaker 2: best defense in the NFL and Jim Harball has one
Speaker 2: of the best defenses in college football. It's not a
Speaker 2: coincidence that this is how they built their teams. They
Speaker 2: play physical football, and you got, you know, Jim Harball
Speaker 2: playing for the national title and John Harball has got,
Speaker 2: you know, maybe the best team in the AFC. What
Speaker 2: else do you have their seat O'Connor. When Jim Harbaugh speaks,
Speaker 2: this isn't a pole question. I'm just asking you something.
Speaker 5: Uh Is that a bit? Is that a joke? Wow?
Speaker 3: Like he'll say, like they're like asking him questions just
Speaker 3: this past weekend about his future and he's like, well,
Speaker 3: I address my future after the game. I mean, I
Speaker 3: hope I even have one. I mean, I hope we
Speaker 3: all have a future. We obviously want to continue living
Speaker 3: as long as possible, and uh that would entail a
Speaker 3: future that we all need to be Hopefully we'll have
Speaker 3: one coming. He got nothing guaranteed, nothing's guaranteed about today
Speaker 3: or what like. He goes on these weird diatribes about
Speaker 3: random things.
Speaker 5: Is that a joke? I don't think so.
Speaker 2: But this is a guy who recently said that if
Speaker 2: Jesus was playing, he'd be a five tool player.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, and I go, okay, I.
Speaker 2: Like of all the random thoughts that sandals really cuts
Speaker 2: down on your speed though when you're playing at you know,
Speaker 2: not aim in that long grass. Oh oh he you know,
Speaker 2: touchdown Jesus out there. Yeah, but he said he'd be
Speaker 2: a five five tool player.
Speaker 3: That's the he's serious when he's speaking, or is he.
Speaker 2: Just I think so I've been you know, I've been
Speaker 2: around him, and even when you're around him, you're like, Okay,
Speaker 2: is this is this real? You know, like Andy Kaufman,
Speaker 2: the great comedian that people would be around him and
Speaker 2: then they'd be like, Andy, is this a bit?
Speaker 5: And he just kept going he just that's the way
Speaker 5: he was. He didn't change.
Speaker 2: Now, Jim's not trying to be a comedian, but he
Speaker 2: is quirky, he's different, He's funny.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Jim Harbaugh feels like an actor who's in a
Speaker 6: TV show with a football coach and he decides to
Speaker 6: never ever ever break character, like Daniel day Lewis. Like
Speaker 6: you meet Harbaugh, he walks up to his shoulders are up.
Speaker 6: He went shakes your hand like it's the fourth down.
Speaker 6: You know, he's intense and he's if I feel like
Speaker 6: he's always in character.
Speaker 2: National Title game coming up tonight. DraftKings has Washington getting
Speaker 2: four and a half. So you go from this setting
Speaker 2: the Rose Bowl to NRG Stadium in Houston, which would
Speaker 2: be like going from the Grand Canyon to the Mall
Speaker 2: of America. Like, hey, you want some ambiance the Rose Bowl.
Speaker 2: Hey you don't want any ambionce come on down to
Speaker 2: Houston and NRG Stadium. Now, I have been in the
Speaker 2: stadium for a Super Bowl and it gets lively there.
Speaker 2: But man, having a National Title game in some of
Speaker 2: these great stadiums, that Rose Bowl, if you said that's
Speaker 2: the permanent home of the National Title Game, I'd be like,
Speaker 2: I'll sign up for that, love it every time. Now,
Speaker 2: I know it's business and they shop these things around.
Speaker 2: I get it, but i'd be all in, you have
Speaker 2: a National title game at the Rose Bowl, Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 7: I don't even like the Orange Bowl and hard Rock Stadium.
Speaker 7: I want the Orange Bowl at the Orange Bowl. I
Speaker 7: knowed Orange Bowl has been torn down, but bring it back.
Speaker 2: No no, no, no, no, no, no no no. That
Speaker 2: wasn't a good stadium at all. It's like the Boston Garden,
Speaker 2: the original Boston Garden. People would be like, eh, they'd
Speaker 2: roman they'd romanticize about the Boston Garden. I go, have
Speaker 2: you been in there? Have you been in there? That
Speaker 2: floor on TV? Growing up?
Speaker 5: I'm like, God, look at the park floor, you know.
Speaker 2: I was like, I remember asked my mom why can't
Speaker 2: we have a parquet floor? And she goes, we have carpet.
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, all right, just wondering like a park floor.
Speaker 2: And then I went nineteen eighty four, eighty three, eighty four,
Speaker 2: I think first time I went to the Garden, I'm like,
Speaker 2: what now you go into the locker room, visiting locker room.
Speaker 2: My high school locker room was Nicer didn't have hot
Speaker 2: water in the Boston Garden. Teams would say, I'm like,
Speaker 2: it looks better on TV. Yeah, there's just certain things
Speaker 2: that look better on TV. You don't want to get
Speaker 2: too close, Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 7: Maybe I'm just thinking about the pageantry, the patch like
Speaker 7: it's a dump.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's our dump. So the Falcons announced that Arthur
Speaker 2: Smith is fired. Ron Rivera's gone, Belichick likely out of
Speaker 2: New England. Antonio Piers went five and four as an
Speaker 2: interim coach. Looks like he would be the guy to
Speaker 2: get that. Now, this is what it's going to come
Speaker 2: down to. I think that if Mark Davis, the owner
Speaker 2: of the Raiders, has a chance at Jim Harball or
Speaker 2: Bill Belichick that he's going to he would hire those
Speaker 2: one of those two coaches. If he doesn't get those
Speaker 2: two coaches, I think that he's going to stay with
Speaker 2: Antonio Piers. I don't know if he can afford them.
Speaker 2: He's still paying coaches. But I get the feeling that
Speaker 2: if Harball or Belichick decide they want the Raiders job,
Speaker 2: that Antonio Pierce would not get it. Now there's also
Speaker 2: Mike Rabel, I don't I think Dennis Allen is probably
Speaker 2: safe in New Orleans. Although man, what a wild finish
Speaker 2: there yesterday. All right, I'll get to that in a moment. Here,
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Speaker 2: the weekend. The guys have been on hold since last hour.
Speaker 2: We'll get to those coming up, and a few things
Speaker 2: to talk about the Buffalo Bills. The Buffalo Bills have
Speaker 2: the third best odds according to DraftKings to win the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl. So it's the Niners, it's the Ravens, the
Speaker 2: Buffalo Bills, who had to squeak in and now they
Speaker 2: have the number two seat after beating the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 2: in Miami. Now Miami gets to go to Kansas City
Speaker 2: and Josh Allen giveth and he taketh away. But here
Speaker 2: they are. They're in Bob and Montana leads us off. Hi, Bob,
Speaker 2: what's on your mind today?
Speaker 4: Hey DP, I'm calling here with my worst and best
Speaker 4: and the bestest of the weekend. You know, obviously my
Speaker 4: worst being from Missoula, Montana. The Grizzloft they only got
Speaker 4: one field goal in the game, so that was a
Speaker 4: bit disappointing. But I watched the game live from this
Speaker 4: little tiny sports bar in Memphis and I try to
Speaker 4: sample for the first time ever of Pathy Van Winkle
Speaker 4: and it was delicious. So thanks for the recommendation. And
Speaker 4: then the bestest I've actually I was on Hope for
Speaker 4: a little bit during the Elvis Birthday proclamation ceremony. I'm
Speaker 4: actually calling you live right now from the front lawn
Speaker 4: of Graceland and everything, and I figured you would appreciate
Speaker 4: that sence you and your wife are getting your vows.
Speaker 4: We do in here next month. So that's my bestest best.
Speaker 4: So the weekend I got to do all the Elva
Speaker 4: stuff and I'm talking to you live from Graceland, all.
Speaker 5: Right, Bob.
Speaker 2: Now, I'm not sure I might rene renew my vows
Speaker 2: at the Elvis Champel again like I did many many
Speaker 2: years ago with my wife and Bob, I think you're
Speaker 2: an Elvis impersonator. So you have a lot of Elvis outfits.
Speaker 4: I have. I have three Elvis suits. I have the
Speaker 4: Aloha suit, a red one, and a black one. So
Speaker 4: I was going to drive now with a buddy bring
Speaker 4: all my suits all my capes and my boots and
Speaker 4: my belts and all that stuff, So I figured you
Speaker 4: could have first, I'll wear one of them, and then
Speaker 4: one of the other guys, probably Marvin would probably be
Speaker 4: the best ship for the third one. Okay, you know what,
Speaker 4: and I am looking forward to it.
Speaker 5: Are you going to drive to Vegas for the show?
Speaker 4: I am, okay, down to Vegas?
Speaker 2: All right, stay on hold. Tyler's going to get your
Speaker 2: information so you can stop by the set with your
Speaker 2: elvis gear and then be more than happy to have
Speaker 2: you put on your elvis costume and I'll put on
Speaker 2: one as well.
Speaker 4: Wow, that would be awesome.
Speaker 2: Thanks, all right, Bob, have fun there down there Graceland, Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee.
Speaker 2: Alan in Florida, Hi, Alan, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 8: Hey?
Speaker 5: Can you get off speakerphone there?
Speaker 9: Al?
Speaker 5: Yes, there you go? What's on your mind?
Speaker 4: Heay? Okay, Phil's Mafia and it is called squish the
Speaker 4: fish when you beat the Dolphins.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 4: And the worst of the weekend was by far having
Speaker 4: to watch Tampa Bay win a field goal best nine nothing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it but it works. The Buccaneers beat the Panthers
Speaker 2: nine to nothing. The third game this season without a
Speaker 2: touchdown for the Panthers. That's the most games without a
Speaker 2: touchdown in this single season since two thousand and six.
Speaker 2: Rysterarius Rucker Stat of the Deck.
Speaker 10: Stat of the Day of the day. Here comes the
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Speaker 2: the official trading cards of the program. Jake and Buffalo, Hi, Jake,
Speaker 2: what's on your mind today?
Speaker 8: Hedp blest and worse? And then I had a Who's
Speaker 8: stats for you. Obviously, my bill's never easy, but win's
Speaker 8: a win. Finally made it in, so that's good. The
Speaker 8: worse is the Jaggs and Jaggs fans. Five weeks ago
Speaker 8: they had like a ninety chance to get in the
Speaker 8: playoffs and they missed out yesterday.
Speaker 5: You feel for those guys, Oh my gosh, yeah yeah.
Speaker 8: And then blind stats for the MVP taking Josh Allen
Speaker 8: completely out of it. Quarterback one sixty seven percent passer
Speaker 8: thirty six hundred yards, twenty nine total touchdowns. Quarterback two
Speaker 8: sixty nine percent forty five hundred yards, thirty eight total touchdowns.
Speaker 8: Quarterback three sixty nine percent, forty two hundred yards, thirty
Speaker 8: three total touchdowns.
Speaker 5: So whose stants would I want?
Speaker 8: Who would be the MVP?
Speaker 4: Out of those?
Speaker 8: Those are three quarterbacks and it seems like it's a
Speaker 8: shoe win for Lamar. But I don't get it. It's
Speaker 8: one of your thoughts and why it's automatically.
Speaker 5: The who would you give it back?
Speaker 8: On the teamster?
Speaker 5: Who would you give it to?
Speaker 8: I mean, if we take Allen out of it, the
Speaker 8: interceptions are definitely an issue. I mean, Dak quarterback two
Speaker 8: is DAK quarterback three is brock Party. They are better
Speaker 8: stats than Lamar.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 8: I just I'm confused. Why it's automatically always the quarterback
Speaker 8: on the team with the best record.
Speaker 2: Well, it's been that way the last ten years, and
Speaker 2: thanks for the phone calls. You have to be a
Speaker 2: number one or number two seed and usual year quarterback
Speaker 2: is going to win the MVP or at least be
Speaker 2: in consideration for that.
Speaker 5: How about Jordan Love? Last half of the season. Has
Speaker 5: there been a.
Speaker 2: Better quarterback than Jordan Love? Packers are six and two
Speaker 2: their last eight games, eighteen touchdowns, one pick in eight
Speaker 2: games eighteen and one pick. Big win yesterday and his
Speaker 2: numbers his first year is a starter, Aaron Rodgers first
Speaker 2: year as a starter. By comparison, Jordan Love had a
Speaker 2: better season.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Paul, I was looking at Jordan Love this year.
Speaker 6: He didn't have a monster game. He didn't have one
Speaker 6: game where we featured him all year. He would have
Speaker 6: games with you know, two touchdowns, no picks, and two
Speaker 6: hundred and sixty yards, you know, like they were all
Speaker 6: nice games. He didn't have that four or five touchdown,
Speaker 6: four hundred yard game to get where the week became
Speaker 6: about him. He just steadily put up good stats and
Speaker 6: better stats as a week went along.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know, that's a balanced team. And if
Speaker 2: they have a running game, I mean that's really the
Speaker 2: key because I thought that you get that healthy running
Speaker 2: game that helps him, then you do have to, you know,
Speaker 2: be respectable towards play action pass and you get good
Speaker 2: defense there. But they won the game that they had
Speaker 2: to win. By the way, all four teams in the
Speaker 2: AFC North finished with winning records. The last time that
Speaker 2: happened in the NFL that one division had all teams
Speaker 2: all four teams winning records nineteen thirty five.
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Speaker 2: All right, I'm watching the Saints game against the Falcons,
Speaker 2: and I'm just thinking, all right, I think I fire
Speaker 2: Arthur Smith as he walks off the field, the Falcons
Speaker 2: head coach. Now they're being blown out by the Saints,
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden, Jameis Winston is in
Speaker 2: the game mop up duty and they're in a victory
Speaker 2: formation down at like the two yard line, and all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, Jameis Winston decides that he's going to
Speaker 2: change the play. They're supposed to be taking a knee
Speaker 2: now at the time, I don't know if the Saints,
Speaker 2: if Dennis Allen, the head coach, called in the play,
Speaker 2: and here's Jameis Winston after they scored a touchdown. After
Speaker 2: the game, Arthur Smith and Dennis Allen, you know, they
Speaker 2: had a little confrontation there where Arthur Smith said that
Speaker 2: was basically bs Dennis Allen didn't send that play in.
Speaker 5: Jamis Winston changed the call.
Speaker 12: And I almost start off by apologizing Arthur Smith and
Speaker 12: the and Falcons. That was not a play that we
Speaker 12: intended to run down there to finish out that game.
Speaker 12: That's not who we are, that's not how we operate.
Speaker 12: We should have taken a knee, So I want to
Speaker 12: apologize to them. We got a good rivalry, and it's
Speaker 12: a heated rivalry, but there's a way we go about
Speaker 12: doing our business and I wasn't happy about that.
Speaker 5: All right, here's Jameis Winston.
Speaker 13: Well, I apologize to Day because the play was was victory,
Speaker 13: but I also explained to d A it was a
Speaker 13: team decision. And uh, and I think when you have
Speaker 13: a team around and I actually guys say, guys, like,
Speaker 13: what do you what do you want to do? We
Speaker 13: know how much of them all means to this team.
Speaker 13: And I understood from DA's perspective, So I give him that.
Speaker 13: But the DA didn't condone it at all, you know,
Speaker 13: he didn't. However, Uh, we decided as a team to
Speaker 13: do it, and we got an interception to the one
Speaker 13: yard line, you know, like so if if we were scored,
Speaker 13: what is there would have been disrespected?
Speaker 5: Oh my god, somebody's got to help James.
Speaker 2: It was a team decision, even though the coach said
Speaker 2: it's victory formation. And you want to get Jamal Williams
Speaker 2: into the end zone and you change the play and
Speaker 2: he's standing by that. Can you trust him as you're
Speaker 2: starting quarterback? Yeah, well, you know we just got I mean,
Speaker 2: would have been disrespectful if we scored on an interception? No,
Speaker 2: that wouldn't have been disrespectful. But you're in victory formation.
Speaker 2: The defense is giving up, the game is over, and
Speaker 2: then you want to take matters in your own hands.
Speaker 2: There Johnny Unitis.
Speaker 3: Yeah, see, like the defense are barely even in like
Speaker 3: an athletic stance, let alone you're ready for them to.
Speaker 5: Do Let's go ahead. Oh yeah, Do.
Speaker 6: You not blame Jamis because he's a little uh here, Okay,
Speaker 6: I don't know how to say this. He seems to
Speaker 6: be going on his own path in life when he talks,
Speaker 6: when he does things. I don't think he's aware of
Speaker 6: what he did yesterday. Like can you hear his apology?
Speaker 6: It was started to be an apology and then they
Speaker 6: think he said, I kind of stand by it.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, Yeah, Todd.
Speaker 9: How could you be so disrespectful for your coach? Can
Speaker 9: you not have that conversation? Was there no time Briver
Speaker 9: to say, Hey, the guys really want to get Jamal
Speaker 9: a touchdown? And then Dennis Allenboud obvious say no, we're
Speaker 9: not doing that, and that'll be the end of it.
Speaker 9: Put in such a bad position. Of course, author Smith's
Speaker 9: can be pissed off at the end of that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I get it. Yeah, yeah, uh, Tod.
Speaker 3: I'm going to apologize in advance for this, but that
Speaker 3: sound bite when watching Jamis Winston and listening to him
Speaker 3: speak while he was at his library excuse me, while
Speaker 3: he was at his locker. I don't know he might,
Speaker 3: but he was standing there at the locker and he
Speaker 3: was talking, and those soundbites go on. There's many more
Speaker 3: of them of him being like, but this is great, right,
Speaker 3: I mean, uh, it has all the same energy as
Speaker 3: when when we were trying to convince Todd about the
Speaker 3: sausage off things and how those things don't rhyme or
Speaker 3: like Todd, but you realize that, like like fork and
Speaker 3: Falk don't rhyme. You realize that, right, And he just
Speaker 3: was not like, what do you mean, No, this is
Speaker 3: I'm doing the thing right.
Speaker 5: Look, isn't this exactly what it's like?
Speaker 3: It was the exact same energy from Jamis a nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but we love him, We want to get down
Speaker 2: Todd was singing the Oliyan Newton John tribute and didn't
Speaker 2: realize that it was horrible.
Speaker 5: Well yeah, but you just blew through the stop.
Speaker 3: So nobody in the moment though, was like, Todd, do
Speaker 3: you realize this is awful?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: The sausage off that we're trying to be like, no mancy,
Speaker 3: but the thing that you're doing it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, go back to when Jamis was eating the
Speaker 5: w oh darn.
Speaker 6: But I don't want him to go away though. I
Speaker 6: want him in the NFL because when he comes in
Speaker 6: a game, someone scoring.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well even when you're not supposed to, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: one of the two teams is scoring when he goes
Speaker 2: on there. How about we take a break. We're going
Speaker 2: to take a break. Let me let me ask Tim Hasselback,
Speaker 2: the former quarterback works for the Mothership, how that works
Speaker 2: that all of a sudden now victory formation, you decide
Speaker 2: to change the call at the line of scrimmage. Also
Speaker 2: the most disappointing team in the NFL, and once again,
Speaker 2: it's been over three decades that we've had at least
Speaker 2: four teams get into the playoffs who didn't make the
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Speaker 2: Hey, if you won consistency, the Atlanta Falcons had consistency,
Speaker 2: how about this twenty twenty one, seven and ten, eighth pickoverall,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, seven and ten, eighth pick overall twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three, seven and ten, and they'll have the eighth
Speaker 2: pick overall. Congratulations Atlanta, And that's why you're going to
Speaker 2: get a new head coach. I gotta find a quarterback
Speaker 2: skill position, guys, certainly on offense, and you see that
Speaker 2: sometimes you'll just get sort of the embryonic stages of
Speaker 2: this where you go go Lee, they got something there,
Speaker 2: they just don't have that quarterback. And not having that
Speaker 2: quarterback is a big reason why Arthur Smith got fired.
Speaker 2: Ron Rivera got fired as well. Probably a couple more
Speaker 2: coaches will be fired today or this week.
Speaker 5: Ass point this may be irony.
Speaker 6: But I'm finding a few articles around the twenty to
Speaker 6: twenty one draft. Remember Matt Ryan was kind of on
Speaker 6: his way out, and the Atlanta Falcons had the fourth
Speaker 6: pick of the draft that was the highest in the
Speaker 6: Matt Ryan era. And a lot of people encourage them
Speaker 6: to take a quarterback because they're never in the top four.
Speaker 6: They could have had Justin Fields or mac Jones. But
Speaker 6: let's say Justin Fields, who is there a lot of
Speaker 6: people think they're going to trade for. They could have
Speaker 6: had Justin Fields three years ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think Justin Fields with that offense would
Speaker 2: be a whole lot of fun. All Right, our good
Speaker 2: buddy Tim hansel Beck. We always love having him on.
Speaker 2: He makes us smarter. He appears on Sports Center tonight
Speaker 2: after the Michigan Washington game to break down the college
Speaker 2: football title gain. All right, let me start there. Tell
Speaker 2: me how Washington wins this game.
Speaker 16: Oh.
Speaker 17: I think Washington wins the game if Michael Pennox Junior
Speaker 17: plays the way he did last week, because look, his
Speaker 17: passing is special, you know, I mean I think when
Speaker 17: you look at him his deep ball accuracy and what
Speaker 17: that means. If you can, you know, have time to
Speaker 17: get the ball off talented receivers like that. To me,
Speaker 17: Dan is like the differentiator for them. Look at the
Speaker 17: two teams. Washington's quarterback in terms of as a passer
Speaker 17: accuracy down.
Speaker 16: The field, he's special and he's different than the other side.
Speaker 2: Okay, Michigan is going. It's pretty obvious how Michigan wins
Speaker 2: this game.
Speaker 17: I think it's a bit of bullyball for them. Yeah,
Speaker 17: I mean it's the physical team. And you know, saying that,
Speaker 17: like it doesn't work the entire game. You know, much
Speaker 17: like the game last week, there does need to be
Speaker 17: up a few plays and so whether it's you know,
Speaker 17: something creative with a back out of the backfield or
Speaker 17: hiding somebody to get open, or you know, a really
Speaker 17: good catch on a play that's closely contested, something like
Speaker 17: that will need to happen for Michigan or.
Speaker 16: Quarterback run whatever. But yeah, that like they are who
Speaker 16: you know we think they are.
Speaker 2: Well, I was wondering is it just a coincidence that
Speaker 2: Jim Harball and John Harball have similar teams this year?
Speaker 17: So I think probably the household they grew up in,
Speaker 17: maybe some things were instilled in them in terms of
Speaker 17: what we truly believe works. Yeah, and really I think
Speaker 17: if you were to look at their coaching careers in general,
Speaker 17: and every team's different.
Speaker 16: You know, Jim had Andrew Luck at one point.
Speaker 17: They're pretty good throwing the football, but they also ran
Speaker 17: the heck out of football with Toby Gerhart too, right.
Speaker 16: I think that.
Speaker 17: These guys have definitely had a personality of their football
Speaker 17: teams that's been consistent.
Speaker 2: Any inkling one way or another, the result, the impact
Speaker 2: that will have on Harball's future.
Speaker 16: You know, I would just totally be speculating, but.
Speaker 17: I do think that a lot of college coaches, when
Speaker 17: they climb to the mountaintop in college football, start to
Speaker 17: get curious about, well, could I do this again at
Speaker 17: the next level, Like you and I have talked before about,
Speaker 17: like I played for Steve Spurrier, like he just had
Speaker 17: a lot of success. I think there's always going to
Speaker 17: be curiosity when you get to the top in college football.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but control. College coaches love control, but they don't
Speaker 2: have that control anymore.
Speaker 16: No, Yeah, that's one hundred percent sure. The environment is different.
Speaker 17: But I as much as coaches will say, and I
Speaker 17: think a lot of coaches truly believe this, Like Hey,
Speaker 17: the logo on your polo like that doesn't say anything
Speaker 17: about what type of coach you are. But listen, Bill Belichick,
Speaker 17: if he were to have accomplished what he accomplished with
Speaker 17: the Patriots in college football, people want to say, like, hey,
Speaker 17: that's the best coach of all time? Right, like they
Speaker 17: would they would say, well, I wonder if he could
Speaker 17: do that in the NFL. So it doesn't matter to
Speaker 17: me if Steve Spurrier, Nick Saban, Chip Kelly, you know,
Speaker 17: Jim Harball, Like I think the conversation around it at
Speaker 17: the highest level that the sport has played, and these
Speaker 17: guys are competitive, I think that at some point it's
Speaker 17: somewhere in their brain of could I have that same
Speaker 17: success at the top.
Speaker 2: Okay, but Saban was not successful in the NFL, but
Speaker 2: he's considered the greatest college coach of all time. Not
Speaker 2: the greatest coach. But is he in the conversation of
Speaker 2: greatest coach of all time?
Speaker 5: In your opinion?
Speaker 16: Well? Probably?
Speaker 17: For what I just said, Probably not right because I
Speaker 17: think there there's also an element that we would probably
Speaker 17: say and not every coach took the same path of like, hey,
Speaker 17: he coached in college and then he coached in the pros.
Speaker 17: But you know, some guys have had that crossover. I
Speaker 17: think many people would say, well, look, Belichick would have
Speaker 17: had similar success in college. He's just that good, that innovative,
Speaker 17: that that could have a game day coach.
Speaker 16: He would have surrounded himself with good coaches.
Speaker 17: So but because he's done it at the highest level,
Speaker 17: we're talking about winning super Bowls, I think that, you know,
Speaker 17: it's a natural thing to say it for him, but
Speaker 17: not say for somebody that's had similar success.
Speaker 16: But at the college.
Speaker 2: Level, if you had the number one pick in the
Speaker 2: NFL Draft, you would take Grick May.
Speaker 17: I think I told you guys that probably before the
Speaker 17: season started, and you know, in his season wasn't probably
Speaker 17: what I thought that it would be or what he
Speaker 17: thought that it would be. But this next phase of
Speaker 17: the evaluation process, Dan is.
Speaker 16: Everyone's gonna love him.
Speaker 17: Like there's his competitiveness, his intelligence, his physical ability, the
Speaker 17: things that you can measure, you know, the care factor
Speaker 17: for him, I was like, all of it, You're gonna look,
Speaker 17: everyone's gonna look at it and say, like, in terms
Speaker 17: of leading your franchise, like there there aren't gonna be
Speaker 17: things that give you pause they're just there are They're
Speaker 17: not gonna pop up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it felt like he was under the radar
Speaker 2: this year and we didn't expect him to be great.
Speaker 2: We expected Caleb Williams in USC to be great this year,
Speaker 2: and Caleb did it. Caleb was great this year when
Speaker 2: you consider that defense was horrible. He kept them in games.
Speaker 2: It felt like with Drake May, were like, oh, that's right,
Speaker 2: Drake May. We didn't hold him to the same standard
Speaker 2: I think as we did some of these other quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: Why do you think that is?
Speaker 17: Yeah, probably expectation of the program. You know, obviously a
Speaker 17: lot surrounding USC, what we thought they would be, what
Speaker 17: we thought they would be offensively, and then maybe how
Speaker 17: I had the defense was that's probably you know, kind
Speaker 17: of alarming and yeah, and then just like postgame reaction
Speaker 17: stuff that generated criticism that you know, I think was
Speaker 17: you know, probably surprising for some and I.
Speaker 16: Would say this for you know, look, Carolina's program was
Speaker 16: not the same, like I just it wasn't and they
Speaker 16: had to change in offensive coordinator. So I think there
Speaker 16: was a lot to all of that.
Speaker 2: But does the Mitch Trubisky career have anything you know,
Speaker 2: is there any impact on Drake May. If you're the Bears,
Speaker 2: would you have pause of drafting another North Carolina quarterback?
Speaker 17: No, because I think the skill set, the experience, like
Speaker 17: this guy checks free box, so it does not wears
Speaker 17: like tis you know there was limited starts.
Speaker 16: There was you know, there were other things to say.
Speaker 17: Like we definitely are projecting, and now look, we're projecting
Speaker 17: with all of these guys, Like anybody who acts like
Speaker 17: they're not out his line, Like he's projective with Justin Fields.
Speaker 17: We're projected with Jared Goff, Matt Stafford, like projected with
Speaker 17: Rock Purty. We're we're projecting right, Like I think it
Speaker 17: was Chip Kelly's comment like quarterbacks are a little bit
Speaker 17: like tea bags, Like you can think you're getting green tea,
Speaker 17: but like until you put it in the hot water,
Speaker 17: like you're not really sure like what exactly it is.
Speaker 16: But with Drake May, like when you go through.
Speaker 17: The process and you see the ability and all of
Speaker 17: that stuff and the competitive nature, the intelligence all of that,
Speaker 17: there aren't gonna be similarities to mis Trupisky.
Speaker 2: He's Jim hasselback espn ACC football. Elaine former NFL quarterback,
Speaker 2: all Right, explain this to me, you being a backup
Speaker 2: quarterback for most of your career, you're in a game
Speaker 2: victory format.
Speaker 5: That was really really that was really nice.
Speaker 16: It was all of my career.
Speaker 2: I know, I was trying trying to be respectful.
Speaker 16: Colly that you like turned over a new leaf.
Speaker 5: Really soft hassleback I've been not only.
Speaker 16: Was I a career back, like in my own family, you're.
Speaker 2: Not even the best quarterback in your own family. Okay, okay,
Speaker 2: explain to me. Jameis Winston goes in victory formation, run
Speaker 2: out the clock, you won the game, and he decides
Speaker 2: he's going to change the play and they run in
Speaker 2: for a touchdown, and he stands by that that it
Speaker 2: was a team decision. Even though Dennis Allen said victory formation,
Speaker 2: how does that work?
Speaker 17: Well, I mean the way it works is they send
Speaker 17: in Peter, Carl Michael Junior sends in, Hey, you know
Speaker 17: victory and that's what you should do.
Speaker 16: And James being one of.
Speaker 2: One, for sure, that's very nice on your part. There
Speaker 2: a one of one, you know, New Year's resolution. You're
Speaker 2: being nice too, one of one okay, And in.
Speaker 17: Fairness, how Jamis came into the league versus how back
Speaker 17: a quarterback like myself came into the league, I would
Speaker 17: have melted the ball down. Jamis probably maybe with a
Speaker 17: little more creativity and willingness to take a chance saying hey, look,
Speaker 17: this is what we're going to do. It should be
Speaker 17: told on the timing of it. There's no way that
Speaker 17: was a team consensus. I think, Look, I actually don't
Speaker 17: think this is as clear cut as maybe people would
Speaker 17: think that.
Speaker 16: I think that it is melted the ball down. I
Speaker 16: think they should have melt the ball down. However, there
Speaker 16: is an element of like, look, this is pro football
Speaker 16: and you're paid to stop the other team.
Speaker 17: And we just had a week where we're talking about incentives,
Speaker 17: and we're talking about rewarding guys that you know don't
Speaker 17: always get the same opportunities, and so could there be
Speaker 17: an environment where that team, that locker room would love
Speaker 17: to see him score. Yes, absolutely, and would feel you know,
Speaker 17: no sympathy to the Atlanta Falcons for trying to do that. Now,
Speaker 17: now saying all of that, I do think in the
Speaker 17: culture of your football team, if you're going to do
Speaker 17: something like that, victory formation comes in and say, hey,
Speaker 17: d you Dannas Allen, like, we'd love to get him
Speaker 17: a score.
Speaker 16: Okay, like like, let's let can we do this? I
Speaker 16: think you'd have time to have that conversation.
Speaker 2: I think if they didn't line up in the victory formation,
Speaker 2: I would have been fine, Yeah, because I.
Speaker 16: Don't think they would have had been addressed with the
Speaker 16: coaching staff.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I felt bad for Dennis Allen going out there to
Speaker 2: midfield and Arthur Smith wants to give him a piece
Speaker 2: of you know, he knows he's gonna get fired and
Speaker 2: he's gonna, you know, say and Dennis Allen's like, hey,
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry about that. You know, not my fault.
Speaker 2: Blame jamis there.
Speaker 17: Well, Jamison's reaction after he kind of cop to the situation,
Speaker 17: it was probably not an idea.
Speaker 2: It wasn't no no. If he said, look I went rogue,
Speaker 2: it's on me. I take the blame. But I wanted
Speaker 2: to get my guy a touchdown there. Okay, By the way,
Speaker 2: who do you have tonight?
Speaker 16: So I think Michigan wins the football game?
Speaker 5: Okay, close.
Speaker 17: I do think it's close because I because like they
Speaker 17: to me, it don't seem like they're they're blowing Washington out.
Speaker 17: With Washington's ability to stay competitive, especially with the passing game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I hope it's a great title game. You
Speaker 2: know that this last go round of the Final four.
Speaker 2: I just hope we get treated and the last game
Speaker 2: for a PAC twelve team.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I hope.
Speaker 17: And how great was last weekend? Like I you know,
Speaker 17: the game got over so late. You know, Scott was
Speaker 17: looking at me. He's like, man, this is really this
Speaker 17: is late, and uh like if games are going to
Speaker 17: be like this, we can three of them.
Speaker 5: One have fun tonight. Thank you, Tim, I appreciate to you.
Speaker 13: That.
Speaker 2: That's Tim hasselback E SPNACC Network football analyst, former NFL quarterback.
Speaker 2: He'll be with Scott Van Pelt after the National Title
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Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence, oh and five down the stretch and it
Speaker 2: didn't didn't end well in Nashville yesterday. Jags go nine
Speaker 2: to eight and this was a gimme playoff game win
Speaker 2: and you're in.
Speaker 5: That's it.
Speaker 10: Now.
Speaker 2: I think it's obvious you're picking up the fifth year option.
Speaker 2: Maybe not as obvious as we would have thought it
Speaker 2: was starting this season.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It just feels like there's you know, what are we
Speaker 2: waiting for? What are we waiting for with Trevor Lawrence?
Speaker 2: Is it the same we're waiting for with Justin Herbert?
Speaker 2: Have you seen more out of Justin Herbert than you
Speaker 2: have Trevor Lawrence? Justin Herbert got paid a lot of times.
Speaker 2: These quarterbacks, they're speeding it up and they're getting it
Speaker 2: after their third year in the league. I mean, that
Speaker 2: is the goal to get into that next contract a
Speaker 2: year earlier. But six teams Browns, Lions, Packers, Texans, Rams
Speaker 2: Steelers made the playoffs after not making the playoffs last year.
Speaker 2: So that's thirty four consecutive years that at least four
Speaker 2: teams have qualified for the playoffs after missing the playoffs
Speaker 2: the previous year. And that's the fun part. For next year.
Speaker 2: You're going to look at at least four teams are
Speaker 2: going to make the playoffs, you know, and one of
Speaker 2: those teams. Might be the Bengals because they lost Joe Burrow.
Speaker 2: Everybody in that division finished with a winning record. Maybe
Speaker 2: Minnesota with Kirk Cousins coming back, that might be two
Speaker 2: of the four or five, maybe six. All right, let
Speaker 2: me get to Buddha, San Francisco been holding Buddha. Thanks
Speaker 2: for holding best and worst to the weekend?
Speaker 5: What FDP, Bud?
Speaker 18: Good morning boys, Stay strong, Fritzy. But Dan, the NFL
Speaker 18: is fascinating. I mean, that's why it's the King right.
Speaker 18: I mean to add your quick stat all three Lake
Speaker 18: Erie teams made the playoffs.
Speaker 4: First time that's ever happened in NFL history.
Speaker 18: That's pretty cool, the bill, Dan, since the infamous neutral
Speaker 18: zone in fraction heard around the world, moved up nine
Speaker 18: spots and finished in second place in the AFC. Suck it,
Speaker 18: Nick right, and then Dan, Joe Flacco sits out and
Speaker 18: watches his backup play the last.
Speaker 16: Week of the season.
Speaker 18: What but Ba's of the weekend? Dan, fifth rounder Puka
Speaker 18: Nakua sitting a sixty three year old record. Kid bawled
Speaker 18: his tail off all year. I couldn't be happier for
Speaker 18: him and his mama. What a cool scene that was
Speaker 18: yesterday and the worst of the weekend DP Jamis went
Speaker 18: Jameis Winston and a Saints player, I mean, in a
Speaker 18: very polarizing move going for the TV while in like
Speaker 18: you know, big three formation.
Speaker 4: That's the rub, right, I.
Speaker 18: Mean, Jamis has always had a little that Cam Newton
Speaker 18: rogue like kookie egotistical vibe going on.
Speaker 5: Not good good, thank you Buddha.
Speaker 2: Pooka Nakua one hundred and five receptions, fourteen hundred eighty
Speaker 2: six yards, So the NFL records for most receptions by
Speaker 2: a rookie and the most receiving yards by.
Speaker 5: A rookie as well.
Speaker 2: And now you go into Detroit, which is gonna be
Speaker 2: really really spicy there, all right, best and worst of
Speaker 2: the weekend, Tom, I'll start with you.
Speaker 9: Best of the weekend Texans wide receiver a Nico Collins
Speaker 9: Saturday night in Indy Houston didn't have number two, three
Speaker 9: and four receivers. Colin steps up nine catches, one hundred
Speaker 9: and ninety five yards and a TV worst going hockey
Speaker 9: Blackhawk's lookie forward number one picking the twenty twenty three drip.
Speaker 9: Connor Bedard injured reserve could miss extensive time, jaw broken
Speaker 9: Friday night after a hit by Devil's defender Brendon Smith.
Speaker 5: Ain't see no connor.
Speaker 3: I have two worsts of the weekend. One was we
Speaker 3: need to pump the brakes a bit on how great
Speaker 3: snow games are, because not all snow games are created equal.
Speaker 3: And you didn't enjoy the Jets and Patriots. It was
Speaker 3: a little bit like, uh, what's that call when you like,
Speaker 3: like you whip your own back? Uh, you know, like
Speaker 3: they did it in flogging, Yes, when you're like self
Speaker 3: flogging yourself. Watching that game was a little bit like
Speaker 3: flogging yourself because I felt like a certain obligation to
Speaker 3: watch Bill Belichick's potentially last game with the Patriots. You're like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, this feels like a big occasion.
Speaker 5: Wait, what is that called?
Speaker 2: It's the Da Vinci code, and the albino is is
Speaker 2: punishing himself.
Speaker 3: That like one like monk or priest or whatever he is.
Speaker 3: He's like, yeah, he like has like a cat in
Speaker 3: nine tails or whatever it's called, and he's getting himself
Speaker 3: on the back with it. That's what watching that game
Speaker 3: was like. Sitting on my couch, I might as well
Speaker 3: have been like it was like punishment for like, thank you,
Speaker 3: Bill for everything you've given us. I'll just suffer through
Speaker 3: this horrendous game that was.
Speaker 2: Rob And then his face was covered so we couldn't
Speaker 2: even see the facial expression.
Speaker 3: You don't even get to try and read his lips.
Speaker 3: You don't even get to see. All you saw was
Speaker 3: his you know, lifeless dead eyes like the Jaws, like
Speaker 3: a dollar's eyes the Jaws.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, it's terrible.
Speaker 3: And the other one, the other worst of the weekend
Speaker 3: was Hollywood Award shows. I don't mind them, I like
Speaker 3: them a lot, but we have to stop playing with
Speaker 3: the categories so much. Okay, The Bear, which is a
Speaker 3: great show. I absolutely loved it. I've seen it three
Speaker 3: times already. I absolutely loved that show. And it won
Speaker 3: the Golden Globe for Best Musical or Comedy Series. And
Speaker 3: if anyone has seen The Bear, Wow, the thing that
Speaker 3: they know most about that is that one the show
Speaker 3: is not a musical and two it is not funny.
Speaker 3: It is that show is not a comedy at all.
Speaker 3: Now there's funny moments, but it is absolutely not a comedy.
Speaker 5: They just took no, they just took.
Speaker 3: An award away from a show that say was more
Speaker 3: of like a musical like Daisy Jones in the sixth
Speaker 3: probably would fit better in that category than It's like
Speaker 3: saying the bear. Calling that a comedy or a musical
Speaker 3: is like saying Succession was a comedy in a musical.
Speaker 5: It's not.
Speaker 3: It's absolutely not. But they put shows in these other
Speaker 3: categories so they have a better chance of winning, which
Speaker 3: feels like they should do better.
Speaker 2: Back after this, all right, No, I still got a
Speaker 2: minute to go before uh, Marvin, I'll get to you
Speaker 2: and Paulie's best and worst of the weekend coming up.
Speaker 2: I only watched the opening monologue by who is that
Speaker 2: Joe Coy I don't. Yeah, I think he's kind of
Speaker 2: famous only because he was dating Chelsea Handler.
Speaker 3: Now he's famous for making a really lame Taylor Swift joke.
Speaker 5: Yeah it was.
Speaker 2: It was an uneven monologue, and then he was kind
Speaker 2: of putting it on others like I didn't write all
Speaker 2: these jokes, and hey, I've only been writing this for
Speaker 2: a week and a half, Like where's Ricky Gervais although
Speaker 2: he won last night. The word is self flagellation.
Speaker 5: There you go.
Speaker 3: I was self flagellating myself yesterday for about three hours
Speaker 3: and it was terrible.
Speaker 5: So it's Todd privately all right,