WEBVTT - Hour 2 – Jon Blau, Courtney Cronin 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:03.560 You are listening to The Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:04.440 Sports Radio. 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:09.039 Hour two of The Dan Patrick Show on a simply 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:12.600 Irresistible Friday. What is it? Simply irresistible Friday? I've had 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.720 an earworm in my life going on for three decades 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:20.120 as the song simply Irresistible? And what is it? It means? 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:21.520 There's no telling where the money went? 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:22.040 Is that? 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:23.560 That's what it means. I don't know what it means. 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:26.000 But it is a meet Friday and we're gonna be 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:29.840 carving that up in a little bit later hour three. 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:33.120 Right now, hour two, Cordy Cronin be on the program 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:36.559 and a little bit to talk Chicago Bears and the NFL, 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:39.239 which is exciting because the Bears were part of a 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:43.080 rumor that was one million percent unfounded this week. But 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:45.680 I want to have her laugh on camera for me 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:48.519 at the idea that they may had been given a 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:52.720 new name for a brief, short period of time. And 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:56.880 we're about to unpack the Jade and Daniels story as well. 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:00.640 It's a day two Jade and Daniels story with our guests. 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:02.600 And he's right there right now, so let's bring him in. 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:07.040 Why not John Blow here, sit down, LSU football reporter 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:09.440 for The Advocate in Times. Pick a Youwn John. My 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:12.120 name is Anthony Joseph Paul Reality and it's great to 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:12.480 meet you. 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:14.960 It's great to meet here too, Tony John. 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:18.480 Please talk to me like I am a ten year 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:22.680 old or a golden retriever. Okay, like I don't know anything. 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:27.240 Take me back to how this started, this kerfuffle over 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:31.200 the number five and this relationship Jadeen Daniels and LSU 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:31.959 going sour. 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:37.160 Yeah. So DJ Pickett, who's a sophomore cornerback, has Warren 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:39.560 number five his entire life, going back to being four 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:43.600 years old, and supposedly Brian Kelly promised him while he 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:46.040 was being recruited that he could have number five. Obviously, 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:49.680 number five very important LSU because Jadeen Daniels wore that 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:51.960 number in twenty twenty three when he won the Heisman. 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:56.480 Daniels apparently found out his team found out the DJ 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:59.280 Pickett wanted this number. I think Wayne Kippet had made 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.920 contact with all the representatives to let them know, and 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:07.400 Jayden was not happy about that. And obviously there now 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:10.840 has been the cease and desist letter that Jayden's attorney 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.960 sent to LSU saying no longer use my name, image 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:18.280 likeness please, and so dj Piggott, I mean he's still 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:21.079 wearing the number. Lane's not saying a whole lot other 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:23.560 than again, it was a promise made by the previous 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:26.680 staff and so we're gonna let the kid wear the number. 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:31.400 So Kiffin did reach out to Daniels beforehand. 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:35.079 That's what that's the impression I'm under, yes, is there 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:38.000 was contact, and so Jayden was aware this was happening, 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:40.840 has been bruined for a little bit, and then obviously 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:43.320 it led to the letter from his lawyer. 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:49.239 How does it go from bother to cease and desist 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:53.519 letter and the sprinkling of lawsuit in here. 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:57.320 I don't know, that's an interesting question. I mean, obviously 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:00.200 all of us are watching this as observers and saying 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:04.000 this seems a little drastic. Maybe this isn't you know, 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:07.560 a great look for a former Heisman winner to kind 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:10.280 of have be in a dispute with their with their school, 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:13.120 and and that's at the school couldn't resolve this without 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:16.560 it getting to this point. It's kind of on a 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:18.280 lot of people's faces right now. So that is a 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:20.920 good question. I don't know how we get from you know, 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:24.440 obviously there's upset and the camp, the Jane Daniels camp 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:28.639 is upset to obviously this this letter being made public, 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:31.120 and obviously there was a statement from the ESPN report 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:33.480 that kind of came along with it that hey, we're 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:37.640 extremely disappointed and feel disrespected and all that stuff. So yeah, 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.280 it's uh, it's a little confounding how we got to 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:40.640 this point. 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:44.560 I would say, how did Lane Kiffin respond yesterday? 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:47.280 So we asked him if you had any comment. All 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:50.240 he did was refer back to his previous statement, which 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:53.680 is that again, Brian Kelly, previous staff promised it to 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:57.000 him that he was just gonna follow through with that promise, 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:59.640 and he wasn't adding anything more, we're moving on. It's 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.520 what he's I even specifically asked them because there's a 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:05.920 lot of wonderment out there. The number nine is not 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:09.240 officially retired, but no, he's more number nine since show Burrow. Like, 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:12.240 if you, as the coach were to have a player 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:14.040 come to you and say can I have number nine? 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:16.800 What would your thought process being? Obviously, because he's referring 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:19.800 back to the previous staff on this issue, so then 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.280 he didn't he said, hey, there's a lot of hypotheticals. 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:24.720 I'm not going to get into that, and that's it. 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:27.360 So he really didn't want to address the issue much 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:27.760 at all. 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:32.039 Any Further, every team has its standard practice, the letter 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:34.440 of the law, if it is in fact a law 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:40.160 for this is jerseys can be retired or current jerseys 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:43.279 cannot be retired. This is where I'm a little bit perplexed. 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:45.520 Yeah, and this is probably where the issue is with 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:47.919 LSU is they don't really don't. I mean, they have 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:51.320 their their practice, which is that, yeah, after five years, 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:53.560 your jersey can be retired, but that doesn't take the 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:56.680 number out of circulation. The only number at LSU that 0:04:56.800 --> 0:05:00.480 is truly retired is Billy Cannon's number twenty for he 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:04.240 won the Heisman in nineteen fifty nine. Joe Burrow's not 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:07.240 officially retired, Jane Daniels is not officially retired. Nobody else 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:11.560 is officially retired, and so it's really more of an unofficial, 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:15.279 unwritten rule out of respect, and I think Joe Burrow 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:17.320 even made a comment that he's been told by people 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:19.400 at LSU that, you know, they're not going to use 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:22.200 his number, and I think Jane was under the same impression, 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:26.719 but there is no you know, this is retired done, 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:30.120 that's it, so that that kind of creates the situation. 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:34.559 I think John Blow, LSU reporter The Advocate Times picking 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:39.640 you please tell me how LSU fans are feeling at 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:43.520 this moment and perhaps if you can gauge which side 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:44.040 they are on. 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:47.400 Oh yeah, I don't think this was good for Jane 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:50.960 Daniels at all. You know. We even went back and 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:53.200 talked to DJ Pickett's family, talked to his dad because 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:55.200 we were actually working on a story just about why 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:58.200 the number five was important to DJ Pickett, and he said, hey, man, 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:00.800 this the whole situationation makes us to wear the number 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:04.520 even more. And when we posted that story, all kinds 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:07.039 of LSU fans are saying, man, we love DJ Peckett 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:11.080 even more, like go DJ, you know very much. I 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:14.520 think a lot of LSU fans are upset that again 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:19.279 this became this public, this this kind of you know, nasty, 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.719 that this whole thing happened. I don't think that LSU 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:24.520 fans are really on board with Jadan Daniels with this. 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:29.200 Getting back to my request, respectfully to talk to me 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:31.360 like I'm a five year old or a golden retriever, 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:34.440 explain to me the name image and like this part 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:36.280 of this, like what was really the claim? 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:40.159 We don't know. I mean, it really doesn't make a 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:43.040 whole lot of sense because I guess the only thing 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:45.839 that maybe that they could say is, hey, take you know, 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:48.760 Jayden's image out of these, you know, highlight reels or 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.320 something like that, if you're showing you know, past highlight reels. 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:53.320 Take Jayden out. But then is that good for Jayden 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:56.479 that he's no longer being recognized or seen for what 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:59.839 he did at LSU. I know there was a request 0:06:59.880 --> 0:07:03.600 for maybe the Heisman trophy, LSU's copy of the Heisman 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:07.000 trophy be returned and maybe Jaden could put it where 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.520 he wants to put it, maybe his old high school 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:11.440 or something like that. But at the same time, it's 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:14.720 LSU's copy, so I don't think he really has any 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:16.560 right to that either. We're actually trying to get IP 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:20.120 attorneys on the phone because yeah, yeah, who knows. 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:24.440 Is there a way out of this? I mean, it 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:29.680 seems like there's two sides ten toes down, and we 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:31.840 did a poll here on Dan Patrick showed it was 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:36.720 in favor of LSU. Side of it eighty twenty and 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:39.400 you're telling me you're hearing very similar things, and it 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:42.640 does make sense. Is there a way? Can you imagine 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:44.280 a way out of this for Jade and Daniels? 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:48.200 Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, again, you already put it 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:51.560 out there. You're upset, so everybody knows that. I don't know. 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:53.920 If DJ Pickett's gonna stop wearing the number. I mean, 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:56.240 I don't that's a way out of it. If DJ 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:58.560 wanted to change numbers and go back and say sorry, 0:07:58.560 --> 0:07:59.680 I didn't know it was gonna be this big of 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:02.760 a problem. But that doesn't sound like that's happening. And 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:05.000 so yeah, I don't know. I mean, build a statue 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:07.760 for Jayden, try to get the two sides together to, 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:10.480 you know, say hey, we have respect for you. This 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:12.880 is how we're respecting you. Put a jersey, I don't know, 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:14.560 patch on DJ Pickett's jersey. 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.920 There you go, John Solutions oriented John Blow here, Yes, 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:21.160 the patches, the statues, I can I can see where 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:23.800 that is real quick. On the statue the Heisman trophy again, 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:28.800 factor fiction asking for the high the Lsu version of 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.760 the Heisman, where he already has his own version of 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:33.640 the heisman, but asking for the l s U version 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:35.760 of the heisman? Is that true? Is that? Is that 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:37.040 what you've been able to surmise. 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:42.040 Yeah, I think that has come up. I don't know, 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:45.760 you know how you know stringent that demand was. It 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:50.319 wasn't in the actual ceasoned assist letter part. So I 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.240 don't know if they're gonna take him to court over it, 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:55.320 but it's but from what I've heard, yeah, I mean 0:08:55.360 --> 0:09:00.480 that that was something that was asked. Again, it's LSU's I'm. 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:02.240 My understanding as ells you buys that right. 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:06.920 Yes, I don't think he can demand. He can ask, 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:08.280 but I don't think he can demand. 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:12.360 Still searching for a way to get onto Daniel's head 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:15.680 here and his side of it. I'm not there quite yet. 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:18.240 One last question here, what would you consider a successful 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:19.280 season for Link if. 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:24.240 For this year the playoff? I think you know obviously BUS, Yes, 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:25.880 I would say playoff or BUS. I know some people 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:28.679 are saying National championship or BUS obviously, because they invested 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:31.160 like forty plus million dollars in this roster, and obviously 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:33.920 you paid fifty four million for Brian Kelly to leave, 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:36.560 and so there's a lot invested. A lot riding on this, 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:38.439 but I think as long as you make the playoff 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:41.960 and or you're at least very much on the border line, 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:43.400 I mean, I think if you missed it near the 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:45.720 border line is gonna be allowed disappointment. But I just 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:47.960 think you got to get to the playoffs, show your 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:52.200 in contention, you know, for for bigger things, whether it 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:54.920 had again winning a Natty like Urban Meyer said, they 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:56.360 have to be within a swig of it. I don't 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:58.720 know if that's it, but I think getting to the playoff, 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:00.360 I think is kind of the benchmark for the those guys. 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:04.920 He's John blou LSU football reporter for The Advocate timespicking 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:08.000 you so thankful for your time today being here with us. 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:10.000 John, I appreciate it. Thanks for having me. 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:12.440 All right, that's John Blow and the Dan Patrick Show. 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:16.680 Solutions oriented here. I'm still in a place where we 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:21.200 have to get Jade and Daniels right. I'm not okay 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:24.280 with the world where former grade isn't allowed back in 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:26.439 the college, or not going back to the college, or 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:30.240 over something as silly as a number. Anyone have a 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:31.319 solution here. 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:34.480 Baullie, we were talking about this over here. Oklahoma football 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:37.520 gives you a statue automatically if you win the heisman 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:42.080 Kyler Murray, Jason White, et cetera, et cetera. Automatic. Why 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:44.280 doesn't LSU just do that? Do a billy I think 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:46.280 they have a billy cannon. But you give one to 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:48.160 Joe Burrow, you give one to Jade and Daniels, and 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:50.840 you don't retire numbers anymore. So you keep the numbers 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:53.640 in play. You cover yourself. And I think I'd rather 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:55.920 have a statue than a retired number. A retired number, 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:59.200 just as Michael Evern said, goes away the statue. You 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:02.440 have to walk by going into the building. Problem south. 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:06.320 The numbers part of this is odd because again one 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:09.680 hundred and ten uniforms in the sidelines of a home game, 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:13.240 we've got two number twelves, two number eights. One's a 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:16.440 kicker and one's a defensive lineman. It doesn't even make sense. 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:18.920 They're two different bodies. Yeah, pull it. 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:21.640 Going back to Oklahoma, just checked it. They don't retire 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:24.800 numbers officially. Sometimes they hold it back like this, but 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.319 they do the statue thing as a way to keep 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:28.520 all their numbers in play. 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:31.200 I hear you, Billy Simms, but I think what you're 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:35.440 experiencing now is a different sales pitch that has become 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:39.920 more popular in the current era of college football transfer portal. 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:43.800 What chip can we put on the table to really 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:46.200 bring these guys in here? I mean it's yeah, statue 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:50.800 might do that, but just saying the kid wants the 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:53.160 number they wore in high school, they got a tattoo, 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:56.480 their first tattoo, they got an earring, they got they 0:11:56.559 --> 0:12:00.120 want that number. That's the chip that matters most. That 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:02.520 woe is something that's just so much, so far out there. 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:08.440 So coaches are doing anything they can. What means less 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:10.480 than a problem is from a coach a college rebel culture, 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:12.480 I don't know, but they're doing anything they can to 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:14.960 put it out there. And that's part of this doing 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:18.520 a solution. Please, we'll play a little Devil's Advocate. 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:22.320 Why doesn't What if DJ Pickett just says I'm gonna 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:23.640 wear a different number. 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:26.439 Of course, that would be an out here. I get it. 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:32.319 He's an All American. Yeah, he was promised. And if 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:37.640 you're an LSU football fan on Saturday, the most important 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:41.359 thing is that your man lined up on the outside 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:44.400 is in the best position to get that pick and 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:47.800 win the game for you, and that's where your focus is. 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:50.400 It's not so much you remember the good times with 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:53.960 Jayden Daniels. You have a nice remember when. But the 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:57.360 player that's playing this Sunday or Saturday right now means most. 0:12:57.600 --> 0:12:59.720 I'm gonna go back to Oklahoma. I'm on their website 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:01.720 right now. You can make the case at Billy Simms, 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:03.680 the Heis and Winner from the eighties might be the 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:06.960 greatest Oklahoma players. There's others, but you think if someone's 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:09.840 gonna have his jersey retired, there's two number twenties on 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:11.920 the roster this year. They keep it in play. There's 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:13.480 a running back in the defensive back, so. 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:15.320 Other teams are gonna do it their way. If it 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:17.959 comes back down to a head coach who's maybe been 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:20.560 at that college for one or two years, maybe in 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:24.800 this instance, has a very unique accent, who's making promises 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:29.760 that Canny keep, yes, Willie keep, Who knows does he 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:31.800 keep for the rest of his life? Not what he 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:35.280 has to move on because it didn't work. Marvin. 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:37.760 Should they treat the number five or the number nine 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:40.680 like LSU treats the number seven. I think it's a 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:43.640 new thing where Patrick Peterson War seven, and now you 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:47.440 earn the number seven, Honey Badger War seven, Jamar Chase 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:51.360 War seven, Tyron, I mean Leonard four at War seven. 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:54.520 So that could be the new standard, like you could 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:57.720 work your way to getting this number, and that means 0:13:57.720 --> 0:13:58.560 you're a guy there. 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:02.360 I see the vision. I see the vision, Marvin. And 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:05.120 that's what today is all about. We've got first weekend 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:07.400 of preseason football. We'll go through some more of the 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:10.719 games last night, maybe any from this weekend that are 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:14.640 catching our eye. Fields of Dreams game was yesterday. I 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:18.280 love this, I absolutely love this. I'm gonna wax poetic 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:21.840 on our national pastime getting it right with the Field 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:24.680 of Dreams game. And in a little bit time, and 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:27.720 we have Courtney Cronin ahead just on the other side, 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:32.640 my friend Courtney Cronin ESPN reporter. Chicago Bears always a 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:37.000 team you're gonna be watching right now. But more than that, 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:39.400 they have a head coach knowing to take off his 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:43.080 shirt in the locker room, give some rousing speeches and 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:46.920 in one of his public appearances in the preseason said, 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:51.120 we will put together the greatest offense ever. That's our goal. 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:54.320 That's our goal. Is He's setting the bar too high 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:58.040 for Caleb Williams. That's where we are today on a 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:02.720 simply a resistible Friday, The Dan Patrick Show. Bears had 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:06.600 a magical season last year. Everything went right at the 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:11.800 end of games. Specifically, can you duplicate that? We've seen 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:16.320 it go many many ways, Paulie, you're smiling. Blame me. 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:18.640 It's a Bears guy. That felt like a magical season 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.520 without the payoff of a Super Bowl, but the games 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:24.160 how they won them. It's tough to think that it's 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:26.200 sustainable to do that, to pull it out of your 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:27.680 you know what every weekend. 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:31.000 Fritzy, You've been pulling things out of you know what 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.400 with the jokes all the time. What do you got? 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:39.000 I got nothing, Fritzy, He's got nothing in the spot. 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:41.480 I didn't mean to do that, you know here, Well, 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:44.320 let me not do that. My observations. I told Dylan 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:47.640 exactly how I feel about him, real quick on, Fritzy. Here, Fritzy, 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:53.360 your focus face is outstanding. It's a real face. I'm 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:56.480 not putting on it. You look like a great horned 0:15:56.680 --> 0:16:02.840 owl trying to learn algebra while also learning exactly how 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:05.480 many licks it takes again to the center of it. 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:07.360 Do I look like I'm contracted too hard, Like it's 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:08.720 like I'm putting on some kind of show. 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:12.120 Oh you look great. Every mention about I was gonna 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.600 host the show, watch out for Fritzi. I was expecting 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:18.320 some sort of woody page Jay Mariotti, Tony Corneiser combo 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:22.160 with a side of Zach Galifanakis. You're charming, You're charming. 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:26.000 You won our show yesterday when we went around the 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:28.240 man Cave, and we're gonna do that again in hour three. 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:31.000 You won our show with it takes so good. None 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:33.320 of us remember none of it. But what do you say? 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:34.560 It doesn't matter. It was perfect. 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.000 Dan threatened me to behave so that we had a 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:38.360 long talk before you got here. 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:41.520 So you're more than behaving. You're absolutely charming. 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:41.720 We do. 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:44.200 You have Corny Cronin on the other side talking all 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.920 things bears in NFL back on The Dan Patrick Show. 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:49.600 Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:52.760 Patrick Show week days at nine am Eastern six am 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:56.560 Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio WAPP. 0:16:58.720 --> 0:16:59.480 So that gots here. 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.800 I have a podcast empire. 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Taylor's livelihood depends on it. You do it 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:50.439 today and you can check all of those out on 0:17:50.520 --> 0:18:00.000 the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:02.960 So there are times in your life where you get 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:08.199 a report, you hear a rumor, and you say, absolutely not, 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:12.439 this is not even closely remotely true. Guys. When I 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:15.280 was dreaming I would be on Jeopardy and I was 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:19.080 dreaming a sports how you know question would come up 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:22.600 for final Jeopardy and you know Alex at the time, 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:24.679 and my dream would ask me, Tony, what did you wager? 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:27.359 And my answer would be life. I wager my life. 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:28.840 I'm not going to get this wrong. It's a sports 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:30.560 question on Jeopardy. If I do get it wrong, my 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:32.240 life's over. So if I do get it right, my 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:35.280 life's over. I would wager my life that the rumor 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:39.520 I read this week that Indiana Bears was in play 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:42.960 for a team name change, I mean, come on out, 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:45.359 what do we say? No shots? And that's what we 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:48.320 found out this week. But now I turn to my 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:51.080 friend Courtney Cronin, who I am just so happy it is. 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:54.160 See Courtney, how are you? How's the family? It's been 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:56.800 so long. Oh look at that. I know that's the 0:18:56.880 --> 0:18:58.720 smiling face of Courtney Cronin. 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:01.320 I've missed you. I've missed you a lot. I'm so 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:03.800 glad that I miss you more in the seat, and 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:06.240 I'm glad that we have a chance to talk about 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:10.080 the non Indiana Yes him into Bears, I think is 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:14.240 what they were rumored to have maybe been thinking about 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:16.359 changing their name too, but that's not going to happen. 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:19.560 We heard from George McCaskey yesterday they go to Hammond. 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:22.359 If they stay in Arlington Heights, stay in Illinois and 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:25.360 build in Arlington Heights, they are still the Chicago Bears. 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:28.240 It's a saga though, all right, we're going on four years, 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:32.240 five years? How real is Hammond now? Is Illinois actually 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:35.920 losing the Bears? Should it happen? Can can a team 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:39.040 feel it's still their state team even if it's over 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:42.280 a state line? How do I live in New York 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:45.000 and the New York teams playing New Jersey? But how 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:47.520 does a Midwesterner feel about that? 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:53.240 So for me, I try to think geographically, what is 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:57.199 going to be the biggest burden for fans and the 0:19:57.240 --> 0:19:59.400 people who are going to games at Soldier Field right 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:03.120 now won't have to travel that much further if they 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:06.399 move to Hammond, because it's right around the bend in 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:10.640 the Lake. It's twenty something miles away. It's not that far. 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:15.199 But there are people who look at this and say, 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:17.600 how could you move a charter franchise, a team that's 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:22.720 going into its one hundredth and seventh season across state 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:26.000 lines into Indiana? How can the state of Illinois allow 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:28.160 this to happen? How can they not throw a hail 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:30.160 Mary Well, They've had four years to try to figure 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:34.480 it out, and we are still at this conundrum that 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:38.000 the Bears clearly don't want to go to Indiana because 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:42.359