WEBVTT - Hour 1 - Paul Lukas (04-16-20) 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.520 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:06.000 Sports Radio. Glad you're part of the program. We got 0:00:06.000 --> 0:00:07.920 a poll question, we got a play of the day, 0:00:07.920 --> 0:00:09.640 We've got a couple of stats of the day. You 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:12.000 can watch on YouTube dot com slash with the Dan 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:15.760 Patrick Show. It's free all three hours, and you can 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:18.440 also listen three hundred and sixty two radio affiliates around 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:21.639 the country. As plans is starting to develop to open 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:24.599 up sports, leagues are facing the very real possibility of 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:27.560 competing without fans. And there's a lot of factors to 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:30.800 consider here. First of all, you have public safety, you 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:34.199 have the financial impact, and then just the logistics of 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:37.960 getting everybody in one area to try to play these games. 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:41.760 But something that's harder to quantify is really the bond 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:45.360 between fans and the competitors. You know, that adrenaline rush 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:47.280 you get from hearing the roar of the crowd, you 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:49.560 hit a last second shot, you hit a home run, 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:52.680 you strike somebody out with the bases loaded, the rituals 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:56.200 of tailgating, the sense of community you have when your 0:00:56.240 --> 0:01:00.280 team goes out there rallying for the home team, and 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:03.520 the stronger leagues can make this work financially. TV money 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:06.600 has changed the way many sports are organized, and most 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:10.320 of the industry should be able to survive without ticket revenue. 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:13.479 As fans were hungry to watch. We want to watch 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:17.039 something that's real, But something will be lost during the 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:20.880 strange and unprecedented time. It'll be lost in translation there 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:24.280 because we're going to be watching, we won't be there. 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:26.520 They're going to be playing, but they won't hear us. 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:30.240 It'll be something that we're not going to forget. Players 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:33.040 are not going to forget. But hopefully it's a brief 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:35.600 period that will be able to safely root for our 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:38.920 favorite teams in person at some point. I know that 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:42.039 we talk about jump starting the economy, and everybody wants 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:45.679 that to happen. I don't understand when we attach sports 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:49.480 to jump starting the economy. You jump start the economy 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:52.960 through sports. If you're able to go to sports. If 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:56.400 I can have one hundred thousand fans at the Big House, 0:01:56.800 --> 0:02:00.960 if I can get twenty thousand, it's staples. If I 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:05.000 can get ninety thousand at the Coliseum to watch USC football, 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:08.840 that's helping to jump start the economy. If you're playing 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.120 a game and I can't go to the game, and 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:13.000 all I'm doing is doing what I'm doing now, and 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:17.680 that's sitting at home. That's not jumpstarting the economy. So 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:20.639 I disagree with the leaders who say, hey, this will 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:23.320 help jump start the economy until we get to go 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:27.200 to a game. It's not jumpstarting the economy. It jump 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:31.720 starts our mood because now we have something that we 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:35.280 can watch that's live, instead of saying, hey, let me 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:38.239 go back and watch something from nineteen seventy two. It's 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:41.880 Kareem Abdul Jabbar and the Bucks against the Detroit Pistons, which, 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:45.320 by the way, I was watching this morning. Kareem is 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:49.000 so great. He is so great back then. So it 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:51.839 was Oscar too, his point guard. And then you had 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:55.680 some people talking yesterday, people who get paid to do this. 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:59.440 The Vice president Vice President Pence had a call with 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:05.240 college college commissioners, and you've had some reaction to this. 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:07.960 USA Today said part of the call had to do 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:12.520 with differentiating college sports from professional leagues. Pro athletes can 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:16.400 collectively bargain their working conditions in their return to play. 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:20.600 College athletes cannot. In fact, the liability of bringing college 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:24.639 sports back too soon and exposing athletes to infection could 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:30.320 be significant. The Commissioners USA Today goes on to say, 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:34.000 will be the main entity that will decide when college 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:38.720 sports return, with input from the NCAA and medical personnel. 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:42.560 Of course, college football does not have a central authority. 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:46.880 Most power is held by the Power five conferences, ACC, 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:51.800 Big ten, Big twelve, Pack twelve. In sec you can't 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:55.640 order them back, and you can't you can't say to 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:59.240 your athletes, hey, it's not safe enough for students to 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:03.600 come back, but come on back. Not gonna happen, can happen, 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:07.920 And you can't say to them they're student athletes. I 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:12.119 think it really puts them in a precarious position. Imagine 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:15.040 if your kids, you know your children are one of 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:18.480 those players, and you can't go back to school, but 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:21.000 we want you to go back and play football. If 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:25.200 they have safeguards put in place where everybody is tested, 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:27.920 where those who need to get tested can get tested. 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:29.719 But then we start to look at the athletes and 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:31.720 you want to get them tested, and you're going to 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:33.880 do that on a weekly basis. All it takes is 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:38.200 one person to test positive, and then you shut down 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:42.159 one person. Let's say Michigan's football comes back one player 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:48.240 test positive, you shut it down right. Those are some 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:50.440 of the hurdles that you have here, and that's where 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:54.440 it's difficult. You know, you're talking about a mayor in 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:59.560 Los Angeles, Mayor Garcetti. You're talking about the governor, Gavin Newsom. 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:02.520 They're not going to be having fans in Los Angeles 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:07.760 at sporting events, not anytime soon. You know, the NFL 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:09.839 is planning on this. I told you, I don't know 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:11.880 if it's I don't even know what day it is sometimes, 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:13.720 but was it a week ago or two weeks ago? 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:18.280 The NFL's looking at a truncated schedule that they're looking 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:22.679 at twelve game, fourteen game. Maybe you get to sixteen games, 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:25.880 but they have to look at alternative plans here. Washington 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:30.120 Post had that yesterday, Mark Maski, while still publicly committed 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:32.680 to kicking off its twenty twenty season in September to 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:36.920 pack stadiums, the NFL has been contemplating contingencies that include 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:40.640 a potentially shortened schedule, holding games and empty or partially 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:45.120 filled stadiums, and moving or rescheduling games if necessary. That's 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:48.840 three people familiar with the league's planning set on Wednesday. Yeah, 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:52.440 I got that information. Two weeks ago and they were 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:55.240 looking at you know, it was probably going to be 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:58.279 twelve games. I said, would they go down to ten? 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:01.159 And I got a pause at the other end and said, 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:04.200 probably not. They would want to try to get twelve 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:07.559 games if possible. A lot of scenarios, and we should 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:11.080 be thinking about scenarios. But I also think you got 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.279 to Mike Trout said yesterday to Mike Treco on NBC 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:17.520 Sports Network. Look, I don't want to be quarantined for 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:21.039 four months. My wife is pregnant. I can't leave to 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:24.440 then be there for the birth of my first child. 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:28.440 But they want to get paid. They need to get paid. 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.520 So there's so many different loopholes here. Can I put 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:36.560 a big bubble over Phoenix and Scottsdale and Chandler, Arizona 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:38.800 and say, yeah, go in there and it'll be safe. 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:43.479 I hope it's safe. Can I do that to Florida 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:47.800 where it's far more spread out. It's just a challenge 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:51.080 here to try to do it. You got the WWE 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:54.279 coming back, the UFC is going to be coming back. 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:56.880 We're going to talk to the Commissioner of Golf the 0:06:56.960 --> 0:07:01.719 PGA tomorrow and ask about golf coming back. You know, 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:03.800 I can see golf coming back. You know there is 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:07.760 social distancing. I could see tennis coming back. There's social distancing. 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:11.640 I don't have any fans there, but you could still 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:14.960 hold those types of events. You could do remote cameras 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:19.240 with golf. Augusta could set that up right now. They 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:21.560 have the money, they have the infrastructure there to just 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:24.080 set up remote cameras. It's not going to look pretty. 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:27.480 You'll have robotic cameras. That's what we have here in 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:33.000 the man Cave, robotic cameras. One person is in control 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.520 of that, set it up. Number of people. You limit 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:37.360 the number of people who go out to work on 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:42.160 the course, and you hold an event. Now the players 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:46.200 understand social distancing, You and your caddy. That's about it. 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:49.520 I think you can do some of these sports. It's 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:54.240 what are we rushing back for. You know, it's not 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:58.160 jump starting the economy. And if it was, I'd say, okay, 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:02.160 I understand, but if no fans can go, this is 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:05.880 about TV revenue, This is about the TV networks here, 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:09.800 This is about the players getting paid. That's not jump 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:13.559 starting any economy. But we continue to search here and 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:16.280 we continue to try to come up with scenarios which 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:19.480 which we should It's when we put a time frame 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:23.600 on these leagues on a decision. Look how many times 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:26.000 we've done this all of the sports, you know, what 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.560 should be able to come back in April. Hey, we're 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.200 planning on coming back first to May. Hey, we're thinking 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:35.640 about June. Hey, now there might not be football in 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:40.400 the fall. Now we're talking about springfoot. We're all over 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:44.680 the place here, and that's where it gets dangerous because 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:49.320 you're pushing something that maybe it's the immovable force against 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:53.199 the irresistible object. You've got to be careful of how 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:56.160 much we push, how much we open this up. And 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:58.880 I have friends who live in states and say, what 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:01.240 is the big deal here? I have a friend who 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:04.200 lived lives in Arizona. He's playing golf every day. He goes, 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:07.000 We don't see anything. This isn't a big deal out here. 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:09.920 I said, well, it might be, but there are other country, 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.360 parts of the country that are severely impacted by this, 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:16.439 and you've got to be fair to them. If you're 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:21.200 Rutgers playing in the New York City area, can you 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:27.600 really host a game? Can you travel Syracuse? Can you travel? 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:31.760 Can somebody you know they're all these logistical nightmares. But 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:35.360 I'm glad we're exploring it, and yes, we all want 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:38.320 it to come back, but I just don't think anything's 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:41.880 coming back anytime soon. There's gonna be a whole lot 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:44.120 of pressure to do it. I just don't know if 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:46.199 we could do it and make it safe for everybody. 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:49.680 I don't get on any political soapbox. I try not to. 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.679 I'm just trying to be realistic. I'm being honest with 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:54.800 you in what I see, what I hear, and what 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:59.040 I think. There're no political I don't want to weaponize 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:04.160 anything that to do with COVID nineteen. I don't. I 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:09.120 had opportunity to go to Yale Hospital two days ago 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:11.760 with my wife, who makes ice cream, and she wanted 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:14.760 to hand it out to workers, just to show up 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:17.240 and say, let's put a smile on their face. And 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:21.720 you're witnessing the front lines. They have four hundred cases 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:24.959 of corona virus there, and you could see in their 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:29.000 faces they're shell shocked. They're like, oh my god, thank you, 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:35.079 Like they just wanted something that's said thank you, smile 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:38.600 on your faith, just anything. And they said, well, how 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:41.880 come you're here, And I said, look I'm along for 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:43.840 the ride, just to try to get some credit here 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:46.839 with my wife. She's the one that's wanted to come here, 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:50.360 and they said, thank you. No one on the streets, 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:53.319 no one. It's like a ghost town in New Haven, 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:57.760 Connecticut at Yale, one of the great hospitals in the world, 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:01.320 and you could just see what they're going through. So 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:03.880 you can't go, hey, let's just be cavalier about this. 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:06.679 You can't be. If you're around it, you see it, 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:10.560 you feel it. And I'm fortunate that I'm I'm safe 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:13.880 and my kids are and nobody has contracted this. But 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:16.440 I feel lucky that I'm able to do this every 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:20.319 single day. So just understand it might not be where 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:24.120 you are, but it could, and it is affecting a 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:26.720 lot of people. Maybe not as many people as we thought, 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:31.760 but it's still affecting quite a few people. New York 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:38.000 City is apocalyptic. You don't even you know, people who've 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.040 been in New York and people who have to live 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:41.360 in New York and stay in New York and stay 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:44.280 in their apartment tell me you just look outside and 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:48.400 there's no life. There's nothing there. It's just you can 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:53.960 hear echoes when people talk. So it's haunting, and that's 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:56.360 why I always caution, let's not put a time frame 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:59.040 on this. Let's understand exactly what we have in front 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:02.760 of us here, tack it together, and hopefully we get 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:06.319 something in our lives that we've come to appreciate, expect 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:09.559 take for granted, and that is sports back in an arena, 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:13.760 in a football stadium, all of those things which I 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:16.079 think we could all use some comfort right now when 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:18.880 it comes to that, all right, eight seven seven three 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:21.679 d P show email address dp Adwanpatrick dot com, Twitter 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:25.360 handle a DP show, we'll get to phone calls coming up. 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.960 Mclov and you got a poll question for me. I 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:29.840 don't know if this is an actual poll question, but 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:33.080 if we put up are you okay having sports without fans? 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:37.680 How do people respond to that? At this point, I'm 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:40.640 fine with it, but but I don't have an option. 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:44.600 Do you think most fans feel that way? Well, you 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.200 can put it up there, but we don't. We don't 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:49.960 have an option. So it doesn't feel like there's any 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:53.400 other answer than yeah, I'll take sports because we have 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:56.959 we have no other choice here. Yeah, another question to 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.240 you said that it won't jump to start the economy 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:01.120 from like a dollar in sin San Clois. But is 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:03.840 there like a financial value of lifting the mood of 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:06.720 the country and putting sports on TV. I feel like 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:09.000 sometimes like the stock markets all based on the mood 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:10.960 of the country anyway, So I feel like lifting the 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:14.880 mood has a value maybe. So I'm just talking about 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:20.880 these smaller cities, these college cities, college towns, small businesses, 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:24.920 people who rely on tailgates and that they supply food 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:28.680 that you come in, there's takeout, there's atmosphere, Like, that's 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:32.079 the economy I'm talking about. It's the little guy who's 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:36.080 being crushed here. You know, bigger business they'll survive, they'll 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:39.360 take a hit, but they'll survive. The smaller guys. That's 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:41.760 where you go into these You know, you go to 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:44.200 Lambeau and you know there's certain places you can go 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:46.640 there and eat. You know, you can go there and drink. 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:49.600 Like those people, they're the ones that are hurt. They've 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:53.000 been stung and may not recover. So when you jump 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:56.520 start an economy and our mood changes and the stock 0:13:56.559 --> 0:14:00.000 market goes up, Okay, but that's not what I'm talking about. 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:03.120 When we're dealing with the economy. Yeah, McLevin, you're not 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.720 on Andy, Sorry. Another question about college sports. Do you 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:08.840 think that this will end up getting payers played or 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.679 just change the whole structure of college sports because you 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.600 said they can't go back as regular students. Is there 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:18.080 any chance that they label them professionals and go back. Well, 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:20.800 Pauli and I talked about this yesterday after the show. 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:23.120 Can you just say, look, we're going to treat you 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:29.240 as college employees, then we pay you minimum wage. I 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:32.640 wonder what the future of the NCAA is going to be. 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:35.800 I do I think big picture. I wonder what the 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.200 nc double A is going to be after this year, 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:41.040 after we get through this pandemic. I don't know, are 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:42.720 we going to expand A We're going to rip up 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.960 that contract with the final four that ESPN has and 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:50.040 make it sixteen teams because you have that might be 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.640 the lifeblood for some of these A lot of these 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:57.360 universities with their secondary sports, they may all go under. 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:01.200 And it started with since Mattie's saying we're getting rid 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:03.560 of our soccer program because they were going to save 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:06.200 close to eight million over the next ten years. And 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:09.720 then you had Old Dominion canceling their wrestling program. I 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:13.440 think they opened the door. They opened the door, and 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:16.440 all bets are off right now. So I just think 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:19.760 there's so much attached to this, and as much as 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:23.480 we want to come up with game plans, using caution 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:25.600 is the smartest thing that we can do. How can 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:28.440 I ensure safety for these football players when they come back? 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:31.360 How can I ensure safety for these baseball players when 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:35.200 they come back? The NBA, if it comes back, fans 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:37.880 aren't going to be able to go out. I'm of 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:40.960 the mindset I will not see a game in person, 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:45.400 probably in the next year. Like I really wonder when 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:47.840 we could actually go back. When do you feel confident, 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:50.760 when you feel safe going back? Because as we found 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:54.400 out with Rudy Gobert, when one guy test positive, he 0:15:54.480 --> 0:16:00.800 brought down an entire league. And you extrapolate that he 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:05.200 basically brought down sports because now we realize there's something 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:07.680 really attached to this. Now, it could hit anybody. Now, 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.080 it could be the people who came in contact with him, 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:13.680 the referees who did a game, they contracted this, you 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:16.720 know what, other players, Donovan Mitchell and then you know, 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.680 we're fans around this, the training step like it, it 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:22.840 just trickles down there, and that's where trying to jump 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:26.160 start the economy. I hope we can, and I hope 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:29.000 sports plays a large role on that, but I just 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:31.720 don't see that happening. We'll come up with a pole 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:36.680 question today. We'll talk about the Bulls documentary. And also 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:40.160 there was talk yesterday with Odell Beckham Junior, the third 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:43.600 maybe being traded. It was I'm going to say it 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:46.160 was more of a I'm hearing or a rumor by 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:49.400 a sports host a w f an in New York. 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:52.600 I did some work on that and have an update 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:56.520 on the possibility that Odell Beckham Junior was on the 0:16:56.800 --> 0:17:00.400 trading block to the Minnesota Vikings nineteen after they were 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:03.280 just getting started here Dan and the Dance Dan Patrick Show. 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:06.000 Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:08.879 sure to catch us live every weekday morning nine to 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:12.240 noon Eastern or six to nine Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:14.879 Find your local station for The Dan Patrick Show at 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:17.880 Fox Sports Radio dot com, or stream us live every 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:21.840 day on the iHeartRadio app by searching f s R. 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.440 They're doing well, doing well. I think we have seven 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:29.720 left on the shelf. Yeah, we have seven left. Why know? 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:32.000 We have a couple here in the mail room. That's it. 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:34.280 That's it. Yeah, this is one of the few shirts 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:37.199 that we've actually gotten people writing in like hey can 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:40.399 I get one of those? Not just like you know, 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:43.080 like fans of the show or whatever, other people that 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:45.240 are like, hey, can you send me one of those? Also, 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:49.680 people might be in the industry. It's like people, yeah, yeah, okay, 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:52.000 we'll tell them to order go to dan Patrick dot com. 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:56.080 Come on special treatment around here, just ask the dan Ets. 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:59.840 All right, I did some research yesterday, did some homework 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:02.720 and I saw the report. I don't know if it 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:05.720 was a report, Andy, can you tell me exactly how 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:09.080 that was presented by a host on wfa N. Yeah, 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:11.239 I believe it was Mark the Lusis said that he 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:14.399 was hearing that the vikings und we're talking. Yeah, I 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:17.800 was a hearing I'm talking about that Odobal trade. Okay, 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:21.360 all right, So you know, when if it's a report, 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:24.480 that's one thing. But I'm hearing, you know, then I 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:26.720 sort of go, Okay, I hear a lot of things, 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:28.800 and a lot of things I don't tell you because 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:31.719 I'm just hearing. That doesn't mean that it's happening. So 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:33.240 I thought, all right, let me reach out to a 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:38.840 source and I said, uh, let me see why would 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:42.359 Obj want to go to the Vikings run oriented, defensive 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:44.679 minded head coach. And my source said, well, he can 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:46.760 be the number one wide receiver and a very good 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:51.080 team offense is run by Kubiak and the staff includes 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:54.240 his son. They've been together for a while. And I said, yeah, 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:59.560 but Minnesota they need a big time guy. Since trading digs, 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:02.720 they go from one hard to coach wide receiver to another. 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:07.400 And I said, well, exactly, like, why is Minnesota wanted 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:10.520 to bring in Odell Beckham junior when you just had 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:14.080 Stefan Diggs who wanted to get out of Minnesota. And 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:17.199 I know Obj is great, I get it, all of 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:21.640 that stuff. I don't want him, and if anything, if 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:23.680 I'm Cleveland, I want to see if I can make 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:27.600 this work with Baker Mayfield, Jarvis Landry. I want to 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:30.600 see if now everybody's got to change the problem I 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:34.760 have with OBJ is I think Baker Mayfield tried to 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:37.800 force the ball to him to make him happy. I 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:39.880 want to go to OBJ as much as I can, 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:43.440 but when you force it and you're not looking elsewhere, 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:47.480 then it affects the overall performance of the offense. So 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:50.480 then I got a text this morning from the same 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:54.640 source and he says, sounds like the Vikings are more 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:57.720 inclined to draft a wide receiver than make that trade. 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:00.320 And I said, how come and he said, more of 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:03.880 the same headache. You know, Look, we're hoping for stories 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:07.200 like this, but in you know, the reality of this 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:11.080 is Mike Zimmer's a tough minded guy. They're not gonna 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:15.280 put up with this. That head coach is not why 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:20.000 you don't trade for that. Stephan Diggs was already there, 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:23.840 and then Stefan Diggs maybe became a different player. And 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:26.600 then you want your touches because hey, I had this 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:29.440 unbelievable catch to beat the SEC like I'm something now 0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:32.760 I need to have the ball. I need my touches. 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:36.280 But you're not looking for a headache. And that's what 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:40.160 you would be doing if you trade for OBJ. You're going, hey, 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:43.239 let's look for another headache here. Now that doesn't make 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:47.080 any sense. I want to see what Baker Mayfield does. 0:20:47.280 --> 0:20:49.240 There's a lot attached to this season. I think with 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:55.359 Baker Mayfield it may not be you know, success or 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:57.840 bust poring, but you know, we'll get close to that 0:20:57.880 --> 0:21:00.920 if he has another year where he struggles, but he 0:21:00.960 --> 0:21:04.199 has to stop zeroing in on one guy. You know, 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:07.400 the great quarterbacks spread it around. Go back to one 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:10.359 of my favorite moments in painful moments, because I was 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:13.600 a Bengal fan back then, when Joe Montana leads them 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:17.680 down and they score the touchdown under a minute ago, 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:21.679 and he throws it to John Taylor because you know 0:21:21.720 --> 0:21:25.640 what they did. They put Jerry Rice as a tight end, 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:31.119 and Joe knew Jerry was going to confuse them and 0:21:31.280 --> 0:21:34.560 open things up, and John Taylor had single coverage and 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:37.560 he threw it to John Taylor. One of the biggest 0:21:37.560 --> 0:21:41.200 moments in forty nine or history and the greatest wide 0:21:41.200 --> 0:21:46.840 receiver of all time was a decoy. That's the interesting 0:21:46.880 --> 0:21:50.040 part of that. Use all of the weapons you have, 0:21:50.200 --> 0:21:52.520 and if Baker Mayfield's going to be great, he has 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:55.560 to go back to that rookie year where simplify it. 0:21:56.000 --> 0:21:59.240 Don't try to be Brett Farve, just make the plays 0:21:59.280 --> 0:22:01.439 that are there in front of you. Because that team 0:22:01.560 --> 0:22:05.240 is so good in so talent I should say, not good, 0:22:05.560 --> 0:22:08.440 but talented. And I think that'll be interesting to see 0:22:08.760 --> 0:22:11.760 what happens with the Cleveland Browns trading Odell Beckham. I 0:22:11.760 --> 0:22:15.520 wouldn't have brought him in the first place, and don't 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:18.280 I don't want somebody to take this out of context. 0:22:18.480 --> 0:22:22.119 I'm fascinated watching him, but understand I was fascinated watching 0:22:22.200 --> 0:22:27.240 Jameis Winston. OBJ is an incredible talent. He's an entertainer. 0:22:28.720 --> 0:22:32.959 I don't like entertainers. I like guys who know what 0:22:33.000 --> 0:22:37.080 they do and how they make a team better. Entertainer, boy, 0:22:37.119 --> 0:22:40.800 that sounds so singular and selfish, and that makes me 0:22:40.880 --> 0:22:44.640 nervous here. I know wide receivers or divas, but even 0:22:44.720 --> 0:22:47.760