WEBVTT - 01/08/21 - HOUR 3 - Adam Thielen 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:03.600 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:06.600 Sports Radio. We made it to the final hour on 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:09.040 this Friday, Dan and the n Stan Patrick Show. Come 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:10.920 in and stay a while. We'll check in with Adam 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:16.279 thielin the Vikings wide receiver fourteen touchdown receptions this year, 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:20.760 third most in the NFL behind Tyreek Hill and Davante 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:24.200 Adam so Hillivan joined us coming up talk about the 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:27.800 playoff teams that he faced during the year. A couple 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:31.040 of stories here that I wanted to bring to your attention, 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:34.960 and you know they're kind of off of the main 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:39.360 headlines here, the main sports pages, But twenty five percent 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:43.880 of games in the NBA have resulted in twenty point blowouts, 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:48.480 as nearly twice the opening two week average from each 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:51.279 season in the last decade. You're seeing a lot of 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:56.200 blowout games in the NBA. Now, we haven't had a 0:00:56.280 --> 0:01:00.400 significant COVID nineteen outbreak. And this is before the annual 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:04.000 mid season, you know, malaise, you know, before it really 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:06.720 starts to become a grind. You're seeing this. I was 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:09.520 watching the Nets in the seventy sixers. The Nets didn't 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:12.640 have Katie or Kyrie. They blew out the seventy sixers. 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:17.480 It feels like there is load management taking place during 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:21.240 games that you're playing games. You're just load managing, and 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:24.200 it's almost like you take a night off. Calvin Murphy, 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:27.199 the Hall of Fame broadcaster, Hall of Fame player, broadcaster 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:30.319 for the Texans, was caught on a hot mic after 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:34.320 the Rockets, I should say lost a game. So Calvin 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:37.640 Murphy and NBA Hall of Famer, he's the broadcaster for 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:40.160 the Rockets, and he was caught on a hot mic 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:42.840 going to break where he said he quit and he's 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:46.679 talking about James Harden quitting during the game that they lost. 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:50.960 I'm not accusing anybody of quitting, but it feels like 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:54.560 players are taking nights off while they're still in uniform. 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:57.120 Just something to keep an eye on, and this is 0:01:57.160 --> 0:02:00.320 already a shortened season. If you like getting such with 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:03.040 a program eight seven seven three DP show email address 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:05.920 DP at Dan Patrick dot com, Twitter handle at DP show. 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:10.720 Here was another story. The Los Angeles clubhouse attendant for 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:18.520 the Angels has named names in pitchers doctoring baseballs. There 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:24.200 was a text message from Garrett Cole to Brian Harkins. 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:28.280 Brian Harkins, he gets a text he's the clubhouse guy. 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:31.919 He was fired by the Angels. Says hey, Bubba's Garrett 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:33.880 cous wondering if you could help me out with his 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:39.520 sticky situation, and then in parentheses winky face emoji. We 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:41.959 don't see you until May, but we have some road 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:44.320 games in April that are in cold weather places. That 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:47.440 stuff I had last year seizes up when it gets cold. 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:52.079 Harkins was fired last March, and he had been there 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:56.320 for over forty years, and he was providing pictures with 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:59.880 an illegal blend of rosin and pine tar, which is 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.560 obviously a violation of a rule that's really never strictly 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:08.880 enforced here. But his attorneys have filed suit against the 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:12.560 Angels in baseball that was back in August, and the 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:16.280 defendants filed emotion to dismiss it in early November. But 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:19.760 he is naming names with some of these players that 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:24.600 he provided the sticky stuff to this substance that you'll 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:29.079 find and it's a who's who of great pitchers. The 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:34.200 clubhouse attendant, Harkins claims Garrett Cole, Justin Verlander, Edwin Jackson, 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:39.760 Max Scherzer, Felix Hernandez, Corey Kluber, Jaba Chamberlain. Adam Wainwright 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:44.600 there among the pitchers who previously asked for his specific 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:47.960 blend of pine tarn rosin, which became popular throughout the 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:51.120 league when he made it for former closer Troy Percival. 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:55.400 That was more than twenty years ago. He also names 0:03:55.680 --> 0:04:03.280 current and former Angels players who use this blend, and 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.320 his nickname is Bubba and that's why Garrett Cole said that. 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:12.240 But he was the visiting clubhouse manager from nineteen ninety 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:18.200 until his termination in March of twenty twenty. Perceval taught 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:22.039 him to place rosin, pine tar and mota stick, a 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:25.359 form of pine tar in the bottom of a soda 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:29.520 caned melted with a lighter to create the sticky substance 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:32.920 that would be widely distributed to home and away pictures. 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:40.440 DA sounds like Walter White is cooking up something here 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:44.800 and breaking bad. Yeah, Paul. The official rule is no 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:51.560 player shall intentionally discolor damage the ball by rubbing with soil, rosin, paraffin, licorice, sandpaper, 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:55.040 emory paper, any other foreign substance. They basically say anything, 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:58.880 you cannot use spit, you cannot do other things. But 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:01.279 this year, because they don't want you licking your fingers. 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:04.800 They allowed you to have a moistened rag in your 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:08.120 back pocket to squeeze, to get a little wetness for 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:11.159 a grip. But that's considered natural because it's part of you. 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:15.040 And there are hitters who I've talked to, former hitters 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:18.279 they should say, who were fine if somebody need a 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:20.760 pitcher needed grip, because they would rather that you had 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:24.560 grip on your breaking ball than not have it, and 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:27.840 then you throw inside at them. Now, not everybody feels 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:32.960 that way, but a text message from Justin Verlander and 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:36.440 notes from a subsequent phone call were also prevented as 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:41.760 evidence by the former clubhouse attorneys Clubhouse attendance attorneys. In 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:44.279 a phone call, Verlander, who pitched with Garrett Cole in 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:47.320 the Astros before Cole left for the Yankees, alleged that 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:50.839 baseball began to crack down on pitchers use of ball 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:54.960 doctoring substances when it found out teams were conducting studies 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:59.640 to concoct more advanced blends to maximize the pitcher's spin rate. 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:05.320 According to Harkins notes, he used the clubhouse attendant. He 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:07.320 get a little like boutique in the you know, like 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:10.920 a little six ounce rosin Jar. I don't know if 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:13.280 he was selling it at you know, Sephora or something 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:16.719 like that. I like some moisturizer and uh, can I 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:18.800 get the stingiest out there? Give me the Troy Perceval 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:21.960 worked for him with the the emoji wink wink wink. Yes, 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:28.440 the nicknames clutch, that's interesting. It's Ken Grippy, that's my 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:33.280 that's a shot, A shot. No, I didn't mean to. 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:37.200 I didn't mean I should take the rest of the 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.440 segment off. But I can't, Todd, I can't you just 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:43.800 building off over mcaveg Ken Grippy. I'm still trying to fairy. 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:45.600 Why would they call him Buba' not the rosinator or 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:47.159 something like that. You had the inflator? Come on, you 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:50.839 goat name than that just layout? Dan nailed that one. 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:55.360 It took a shot layout. Yeah, sometimes you just go hey, 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.000 you know, throw the tally and I take twenty, take 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:01.560 twenty this segment. Nothing wrong with that. I've been counted out, 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:06.479 tap Ount. That should be your nickname, tap Ound, Ken Grippy. 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:10.080 Come on, n have a good name for a store 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:15.120 for illegal substance for Ken Grippy. Let's see what else 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.760 do we have we got our playoff weekend, and the 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:20.920 poll question was, if we're gonna pull off a surprise, 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:23.240 who's pulling off the surprise? The opposite? What's the most 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:27.120 likely blowout? And it's actually Washington over I'm sorry the 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:31.080 Bucks over Washington edged out. We need a new question. Well, 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:33.080 we have this question. It actually comes from a tweet 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:36.480 from Sam Munson for Pro Football Focus. He said, if 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:38.720 you're going to have an overall draft in the NFL, 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:44.080 DeShawn Watson would go number two behind Patrick Mahomes. I'm 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:46.080 not sure how we would word it, but do we 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:48.160 agree with that that Deshaun Watson if you're going to 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:51.360 start a team, he's twenty five years old? Would he 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.960 be the second guy you start with Mahomes? One? DeShawn 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:58.400 Watson too? Who else is in that mix? Josh Allen, Well, 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:01.560 wait a minute, Am I getting DeShawn Watson on the Texans? No, 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:04.559 you're a brand new team. It's open draft for the NFL. 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:06.640 I don't have to deal with that drama. Okay, because 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:08.000 you don't have to deal with that, Because if you're 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:09.880 saying I get to Shaun Watson, but I also get 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:13.280 the Texans, then no, I would not take him there. 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:18.640 Josh Allen, Yeah, Justin Herbert, it's a little too soon. 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:21.880 It's a little too soon. Kyler Murray. It's a little 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:25.679 too soon, I think, Joe Burrow, Yes, because keep in mind, 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:28.679 you know, Justin Herbert had a wonderful season, but Baker 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:31.920 Mayfield had a great rookie season. He had the second 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.360 best rookie season prior to Justin Herbert. And then we 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:37.920 saw what happened in that second year. I know everybody's 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:40.960 in on Justin Herbert. I just know how this happens. 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:44.319 You start out shining star, then all of a sudden 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:46.480 the defense is a just a little bit, You take 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:48.120 a dip, and then you come back and then we 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:50.600 find out if that third season or that fourth season 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:53.559 that you are who we think you are. It happens, 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:57.000 and it happens at that position. Eight seven seven three 0:08:57.080 --> 0:08:59.520 d P show email addres stp A Dan Patrick dot com. 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:02.000 Get a couple of phone calls in here, Jeff and 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:04.400 Detroit is back with a question. Hi, Jeff, what's on 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:07.559 your mind today? Hey? What up? The one time for 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.199 Chad ro Don chat Roll named John to sign a 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:12.480 two saying I think that's how he pronounces his name 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:15.600 is the Meme Master. He has a picture of Fritzie. 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:17.839 It's the funniest thing in the world. I'm gonna try 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:20.120 to tweet it real quick to the show. But Dan, 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:22.839 I know you're a man of great integrity and would 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:25.560 never give up your sources. But your sources have been 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:28.960 dropping some straight gold and knowledge on us here. Man, 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.600 My question to you is, has your source ever appeared 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:34.960 in any of your interviews in the last two years? 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:37.360 Have we ever seen your source? You know, I haven't 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:39.599 tell us four years. It just gets me wondering have 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:41.760 we ever seen them? Because I mean, you come up 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:44.520 with some really, really good stuff. Brother, Thank you, Jeff. 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.760 I've been doing this a long time, and I would 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:51.880 never tell you anything about my sources because all you 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:55.800 need is probably four or five sources. And these are 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:59.000 sources I've developed when I was at Sports Center, and 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:03.520 I've mainta a relationship with them, and they are people 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:07.120 who do not care about the limelight. What I've always 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:10.079 said to my sources is just keep me straight, keep 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:12.439 me honest on something, because if I say something wrong, 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:16.600 I want somebody to correct me. And there's no agenda 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:19.040 because I'll just say I'm trying to find out, you know, 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:22.880 how many Ohio State players tested positive for COVID, and 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:25.240 then my source will say, let me see what I 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:27.680 can find out, and then come back and say it's 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:30.319 probably close to twenty. So far. They're going to be 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:33.880 tested again today. They did reach out the big ten 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:35.839 in Ohio State to see if they could postpone the 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:38.880 national title game. They reached out to the SEC commissioner. 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.679 They also reached out to Alabama and we're told no. 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:44.880 But I don't know what's going to happen with Ohio State. 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:46.439 I was told they have a couple of starters on 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:49.880 the defensive line. You've tested positive. But you know, I 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:54.880 try to get one in each sport Baseball, I have two, 0:10:56.720 --> 0:11:00.600 but I you know, I haven't. You know, you get 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:02.439 into this and then you break a story, and then 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:04.960 people will be critical of you if you broke the story, 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:07.679 or people who do this for a living will be critical, 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:10.400 or they'll take what you broke or what like. I 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:12.920 just tell you, I tell the audience I don't care 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:16.560 what other websites or other networks carry this, and they 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:18.679 can have their own people who take credit for it. 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:22.839 I want the audience to know when you're in. You're in, 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:26.640 and I appreciate that. And if I can keep you 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:29.319 straight on things with what I hear, whether it's a 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:33.120 player or coach, a manager a team, then I tell 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:36.079 you that. And if I don't know, I have no 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:39.440 problem saying I don't know, but I'll try to find out. 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:42.600 So that's where I stand. But no, I would never 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.080 tell you who my sources are. In fact, you probably 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:47.839 wouldn't know who my sources are even if I told you. 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:52.360 It's not like we meet in an alley or anything, 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:54.599 or in a parking lot you got overcoat on. No, 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:58.480 although I'm very protective because you know, I've had people 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:02.080 that are friends who say, you know who's your source 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:06.480 on this? And I'll go, now, it ain't happening, ain't 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:10.719 gonna happen. Uh, let me see what else do we have? 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:15.320 The Browns We're gonna find out as of now, there's 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:19.800 no more positive tests there for them Ohio State. We're 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.080 gonna find out. There's no news they were being tested 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:26.760 again with COVID. But does somebody have their microphone on 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:30.320 because I hear somebody typing, sorry, okay, thank you. Setan. 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:35.679 The NBA has talked about expansion, and one city that 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:39.240 I know is really interested is is Seattle. And I 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:42.200 guess the price tag is two and a half billion dollars. 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:46.480 I don't know what that gets you, but that's the 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:49.200 entry fee. It sounds like to become an expansion team. 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:51.679 If you bring in Seattle, do I have to bring 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:57.600 in another city. I hope Seattle. I loved going to Seattle. 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:01.400 I love the basketball fans there. I was there for 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:06.040 the NBA Finals. I still have a Seattle SuperSonics warm 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:10.000 up that I got back in the mid nineties when 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:12.800 I was there covering the Sonics against the Bulls. I 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:17.800 also have an NBA ball that the Sonics used in warmups. 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:21.040 It says Seattle SuperSonics on it and it was given 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:25.080 to me by some the equipment people there with Seattle. 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:27.360 But they gave me a warm up and then they 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:29.280 gave me one of their basketballs. I still have it, 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:31.640 have it here in the man Cave. In fact, if 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:35.480 you're watching now, we're showing it to you. But I 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.960 it was I hated to see them lose their franchise 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:42.600 going to Oklhoma City. But there should be no doubt, 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:45.360 no question if Seattle gets a franchise, then you go 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:48.880 back to be in the SuperSonics like that, that can't 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:53.760 even be a discussion. I wouldn't have a naming contest. 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:56.800 But they you know, they may think differently, like the 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.320 Browns were the Browns, you know, when the Browns went 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:03.679 to Boltimore became the Ravens. You know, they're still the Browns. Yeah. 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.600 Point what really hurts for Seattle SuperSonics fans is oh 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:09.280 seven or eight, you know they were they had a downtime, 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:11.520 but they got Kevin Durant. So they had Kevin Durant 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:13.760 for one year year and then they get hardened in 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:16.199 Westbrook and they go on that run. I don't know 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:18.080 if they would have gotten the same exact players if 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:20.560 they stayed there, but in your mind that that has 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:22.840 to be in your head when you're watching Oklahoma City 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:25.720 go to fifty wins, fifty five wins, sixty wins. Yeah, no, 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:29.320 no offense, But is Kevin Durant going to be the 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:36.760 greatest player in Sonic's history. You got Gary Payton, Jack Sikma, 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:43.200 Sean Kemp, Delli Shrimle, you finish that. Nate McMillan. Yeah, 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:46.440 they had some talent that went through there. That Seattle team. 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:49.600 You were a big dale Ellis guy. I'd love Dale Ellis. 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.880 Dale Illness was one of the first long shooters. You know, 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:54.720 when you shoot a three, we always think you get 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:57.640 right up to the line. Dale Ellis, they didn't care 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:01.120 about the line. They had Ray two, Ray Allen for 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.680 five years there. They've had two of the greatest shooters 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:07.680 in the history of the game. Ray's top five. Dale 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:10.360 Ellis is there, Nan, you throw in well, Durant was 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:12.680 only there for a year, but one of the great 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:15.480 shooters of all time. Yeah, mclub. How did that seventies 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:17.720 Sonics team win a title? I don't feel like they 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:21.320 were loaded with super star names we remember, No, they weren't, 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:26.320 but they had They had like three or four guards. 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:32.320 Lenny Wilkins was the coach. Gus Williams was on there. Yeah, 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:35.880 Paul Yeah, Jack Sikma that that championship, Damed, Dennis Johnson, 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:40.800 Gus Williams, John Johnson, Lonnie Shelton, Fred Brown, Paul Silas, yeah, Downtown, 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:44.160 Freddie Brown. It was just a really good team. I 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:46.880 don't think it was a great team or how you know, 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:49.040 we don't think of them as a great team, but 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:51.960 they played like a great team. Yeah, mclub. I always 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:54.240 look at the seventies champions and it seems like a 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:56.840 ragtag time. Is that fair to say? I mean you 0:15:56.960 --> 0:16:00.640 I heard all the stereotypes that the league was. You 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:03.840 still have the ABA, and you didn't have Magic and 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:07.640 Bird and then you didn't have Jordan. But you know 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.680 there's no TV contract, big TV contract back then. You 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:14.480 know the fact that Golden State won, you know, Golden State. 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:20.120 I could make a case that is it doesn't sound 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:23.600 right to say the least talented, but the least known 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:26.960 NBA champion in a long time. You had Rick Berry, 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:33.280 you had Clifford Ray, you had Derek Dickey, you had 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:39.600 but Sonny Sonny Parker was on there like you just 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:42.960 had guys and you go wow, And they won a 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:46.760 title and they beat I think they beat the Bullets 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:48.640 that year, and the Bullets had a lot of talent. 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:50.640 Then yeah, poll. But if you go back and look 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:54.360 at pictures from the seventies, NBA plaid pants, plaid jackets, 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:59.920 a lot of tweets, afros, turtlenecks, afros, mustaches, tight shorts, 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.120 tall socks, Yeah, good time. That's right in my wheelhouse there, 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:06.560 right my wheel parted down the middle. Yep, Jeff in Texas. 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:10.359 Hi Jeff, what's on your mind? And we'll take a break. Hey, DP, 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:13.520 thanks for the call your first time, long time six 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:19.640 one two thirty, just turned forty three, benched personal best 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:23.600 three five. Who I wanted to say, I love you guys. 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:26.920 I wanted to say, Fritzy, You're an absolute favorite. Don't 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:33.400 stop being you Fritzy. Well, thank you, Jeff, Jeff. Somebody's 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:35.919 just it's such a shame. He was gonna say all 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:40.000 these nice things. Something happened then, ironically he's a fan 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:41.840 of Fritzy and his mic crap that you did a whole, 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:46.000 he did a whole celtically prepared for me. Wow, offense, 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:48.640 Thank you, Jeff, Thank you for I think those kind 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:51.240 words for to thank you. It's funny the guy calls 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:52.600 in to get town and all we do is just 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:55.160 bag on Fritzie even more, which is why he felt 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:57.040 compelled to call in, and that you keep being you 0:17:57.119 --> 0:17:58.919 don't listen to those jerks. And I'm not the only 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:02.240 one that didn't have micro today and I'm getting crushed somehow. 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:10.119 Took a shot at mclovin. Here we go, what wow, 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:15.440 right now, and my back real friend there, that's actually 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:17.800 not true. That it's very much in your nature. I 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:19.080 really don't like to go to that. I have to 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:21.160 keep it in my back pocket. But if I'm provoked enough, 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:24.439 then you know, you got the same clothes on from yesterday. 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:25.800 I do. I didn't sleep in it, but I am 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:28.520 wearing the same clothes. Yes, okay, Yes, mcl he's been 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:31.119 looking at pay me back ever since Thanksgiving or whatever, 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:33.560 the last time that I stole his names bit from him. 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:37.560 He's been looking for something, man, Todd, you gotta let 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:42.639 it go. Like mclovin, just he he just added something 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:44.720 to your name. It was unique. I didn't try to 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:47.080 steal it. No, it was unique, and it was different 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:49.600 than it spiced things up a little bit instead of 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:53.159 the same old And you get so territorial with stuff 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:56.240 I do, even mock headlines or even just a name, 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:59.760 a play on a name like Sean McVeigh. Yes that yeah, 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:08.200 that hurt ken, grippy ken, grippy hurt you like I'm 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:10.919 gonna take makes me laugh. I'm gonna take the long 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:16.280 way home to look digest a little bit. Yeah, Todd 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:18.800 has a pie to the face coming up and we 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:21.680 have chicken pot pies coming. Todd wanted chicken pot pies 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:23.119 and he said, all right, but you gotta take the 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:25.520 blueberry pie to the face. He lost the bet for 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:28.720 Washington making the plants fair. Yeah, it does, all right, 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:31.320 let me take a break. Adam Feeling, the Vikings wide 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:33.920 receiver will join us. More phone calls as well. It's 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:35.719 twenty one after the hour, and this is the Dan 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:38.920 Patrick Show. Be sure to catch the live edition of 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:41.800 The Dan Patrick Show week days at nine am Eastern 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:45.560 six am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeart 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:49.359 Radio WAP. Dan Patrick Show brought you bomb Orcedies, Benz 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:52.679 Go the Extra mile. You're very own upfitted Mercedes ben 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:55.600 sprinter Van. You could win Fox Sports Radio's Ultimate Tailgate 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:58.480 Rig Sweepstakes. To enter get official rules, visit Fox Sports 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:01.520 Radio dot com or Dan Patrick dot Come by January 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:06.119 twenty fourth, Mercedes Benz Vans. Todd put it out that 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:09.320 we're gonna have Adam Feeling on the Vikings. But you 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:13.720 said catch Adam Feeling. We're gonna catch up with Adam Feeling. 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:18.639 Was that week? Well, that's like the Today Show, like 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:22.280 a morning show would do. Hey, we're gonna catch up 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:26.000 with him. Well, Adam will save me because he's got 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:27.800 much more interesting creative things to say that I could 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:29.399 come up with. I do have a question here for 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:32.880 you guys before I get to Adam Feeland. The most 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:37.359 touchdown passes by an undrafted player in a season in 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:44.000 NFL history. This is touchdown the let's see most all 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:48.760 time touchdowns in a season. Now, Adam Feeland is won. 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:54.240 The guy before him who tied Adam tied him his record, 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:58.720 so tied for the most all time by an undrafted player. 0:20:59.080 --> 0:21:05.359 Doug Baldwin of the Seattle Seahawks. I's gonna got twenty fifteen. 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:08.840 He's Adam Feeling, the Vikings wide receiver. As we catch 0:21:08.960 --> 0:21:11.959 up with him and he joins us down, how are 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:15.760 you feeling pretty good? Can't complain, just uh got a 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:17.800 little conditioning in before I got on the show, So 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:21.199 feeling good? All right. I'm looking at what you guys did. 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:24.320 The Vikings did your twenty twenty playoff teams? One in 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:26.879 one versus the Packers, one in one versus the Bears. 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:29.280 Lost to the Colts, lost to the Titans, lost to 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:32.199 the Seahawks, lost to the Bucks, lost to the Saints. 0:21:32.720 --> 0:21:35.359 So two and seven. They're best team that you faced 0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:41.240 this year? Is who? Um, that's a great question. Probably 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:43.800 the Bucks. Just the way that they were able to 0:21:43.840 --> 0:21:47.040 play defense, get after us, um, you know, get after 0:21:47.119 --> 0:21:50.320 the passer. They got guys at every level on defense. 0:21:50.400 --> 0:21:51.960 And then the way that they're able to spread the 0:21:52.000 --> 0:21:55.399 ball around on offense and the weapons they have in 0:21:55.480 --> 0:21:58.399 office is offense is pretty impressive. Okay, give me that 0:21:58.520 --> 0:22:03.280 defense though. Tampa's defense, how impressive? Yeah, I mean, I 0:22:03.320 --> 0:22:06.000 think I think it just starts with their their front seven. 0:22:06.080 --> 0:22:07.560 I mean, the way that they're able to get after 0:22:07.640 --> 0:22:09.760 the passer. Um, the way that they're able to stop 0:22:09.800 --> 0:22:12.879 the run, fly around. I mean, obviously we have a 0:22:13.000 --> 0:22:16.120 pretty good run game in Minnesota and uh man, they're 0:22:16.119 --> 0:22:17.760 just able to fly around and then and then in 0:22:17.800 --> 0:22:20.119 the back end there are no slouches there. So um, 0:22:20.240 --> 0:22:22.480 I think, you know, there's a few of those teams. 0:22:22.600 --> 0:22:25.120 I mean, you look at the Colts very similar, Um, 0:22:25.400 --> 0:22:27.760 you look at you look at the Packers very similar. 0:22:27.840 --> 0:22:30.359 I think those those playoff teams that have a chance 0:22:30.440 --> 0:22:32.080 to go a long way as they have, they have 0:22:32.200 --> 0:22:33.639 guys that can get after the passer, and they have 0:22:33.680 --> 0:22:35.600 guys in the back end they can cover, So it's 0:22:35.640 --> 0:22:39.560 a good formula. Can you root for the Packers or 0:22:39.840 --> 0:22:42.639 do you like because they're in your division? Like, do 0:22:42.680 --> 0:22:45.120 you want them to do well because they're in your division? 0:22:45.920 --> 0:22:48.720 Or do you have to root against them? I don't 0:22:48.760 --> 0:22:51.680 necessarily root for or against to be honest, I just 0:22:51.800 --> 0:22:53.959