Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. Ross Chucker played for Bill Belichick. Did you
Speaker 1: ever talk to Bill Belichick while you played in New England? Ross, Yeah,
Speaker 1: three times? Okay, how long were those three conversations? Actually?
Speaker 1: Know what? Four times? The first three were probably three
Speaker 1: to five words. I would say. The last time we
Speaker 1: actually had to sit down was when he traded me
Speaker 1: to Cleveland. That was the only time I actually had
Speaker 1: a conversation with him. They signed me midway Dan through
Speaker 1: the O five season. He and I just went in
Speaker 1: the team meeting room and it was the first meeting
Speaker 1: and he walked up the steps to meet me, and
Speaker 1: I stand up to shake his hand. He says, you
Speaker 1: don't have to stand up. That was it. And then
Speaker 1: about a week later in practice, I fell on the
Speaker 1: ground and he had this really interesting way and ability
Speaker 1: to talk to you without anybody else knowing. He was
Speaker 1: talking to you as he was walking by you. So
Speaker 1: I fell in practice all of a sudden, like behind
Speaker 1: my right ear, I heard somebody say, stay off the
Speaker 1: freaking ground. And then and then when we played Jacksonville
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, Jacksonville starting center was actually my teammate
Speaker 1: at Princeton, and he said, like over my left shoulder
Speaker 1: walking away, we got half the Princeton offensive line in
Speaker 1: this game. Those are the only three things he said
Speaker 1: to me, Dan, until I got traded to Cleveland. I
Speaker 1: promise you did he know your name? Yeah? I mean
Speaker 1: he didn't ever use it, but I think he was
Speaker 1: generally aware of it. Yes, all right, full introduction. Ross
Speaker 1: will be on the call tonight the Eagles at the Jets,
Speaker 1: seven thirty Eastern on the Eagles Television Network. A couple
Speaker 1: of things here that we'll get to. Who do you
Speaker 1: think has a better chance get back to the Super Bowl?
Speaker 1: Chiefs of the Buccaneers? I'll say Bucks, and I'll say
Speaker 1: the Bucks for two reasons. Number One, I think the
Speaker 1: NFC is easier. You know, you look at the AFC.
Speaker 1: I think Buffalo's legit, Cleveland's legit, Baltimore has a shot,
Speaker 1: even maybe Pittsburgh has an outside shot. You look at
Speaker 1: the NFC, Dan, how many teams in the NFC do
Speaker 1: we really think can beat Tom Brady and this Buccaneers
Speaker 1: team in the playoffs? I think green Bay maybe, I
Speaker 1: guess one of the NFC West teams, if Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: or Matthew Stafford goes crazy, but I don't see it happening.
Speaker 1: So the combination of the NFC being easier and the
Speaker 1: Chiefs essentially having three rookie offensive lineman starting at center,
Speaker 1: right garden, right tackle, I'll lean with the Bucks handicap
Speaker 1: the NFC East for me, Washington ended up winning that division.
Speaker 1: But you're looking at a division that might be the
Speaker 1: worst division in football. I think it's pretty jumbled again, man,
Speaker 1: I really do. I think all four teams probably win
Speaker 1: between seven and ten games, maybe six and ten games.
Speaker 1: I happen to think and people will say I'm biased,
Speaker 1: but I think the Eagles are going to be better
Speaker 1: than outside opinions seem to think they have a top
Speaker 1: five offensive line and defensive line if those guys stay healthy.
Speaker 1: And Carson Wentz unfortunately led the NFL and interceptions and
Speaker 1: sacks last year and didn't play the last four games.
Speaker 1: I mean, think about basketball or baseball the other sports
Speaker 1: stand you lead the league in two categories and you
Speaker 1: don't play twenty five percent of the season. If Hurtz
Speaker 1: just throws five less interceptions and takes five less sacks,
Speaker 1: there's a couple of wins right there. The team I
Speaker 1: don't have a great handle on is the Giants. I
Speaker 1: think Washington is the favorite. I know everybody says Dallas.
Speaker 1: To me, Dallas still has issues on defense and there's
Speaker 1: a lot of injury concerns there. Dak and Amari Cooper,
Speaker 1: the offensive line still. I think Washington they won the
Speaker 1: division last year. The defense is beastly. I like some
Speaker 1: of their editions, and I think they're gonna get much
Speaker 1: better quarterbacks play in Ryan Fitzpatrick than they got from
Speaker 1: Alex Smith and Dwayne Haskins last year. Yeah, the defense
Speaker 1: is going to be elite. It'll be right there with
Speaker 1: the Rams. Is the best defense in football. My concerns
Speaker 1: are the skill position players for Washington and with Ryan Fitzpatrick,
Speaker 1: because he's a great story, but he giveth and he
Speaker 1: taketh away. I just like they don't have a great
Speaker 1: tight end, they don't have a great number one wide receiver,
Speaker 1: they don't have a Marky running back. But you know,
Speaker 1: can you win with defense in the NFL? I guess
Speaker 1: that's what it comes down to. Because the Rams realized,
Speaker 1: hey we can have a great defense, we still need
Speaker 1: to have offense. Let's go out and get Matthew Stafford. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: so for the Washington skill guys, I think they're all
Speaker 1: probably a little bit better than you give him credit
Speaker 1: for Terry McLaurin, Logan, Thomas Antonio Gibson. And your point
Speaker 1: about Fitz is well taken. Dan every fourth gamer, so
Speaker 1: he has a bad game, right, But they don't need
Speaker 1: to go fourteen and three or thirteen and four. They
Speaker 1: probably only need to win ten or eleven games, so
Speaker 1: he can have a fitz stinker, you know, every fourth
Speaker 1: or fifth game, as long as the other three or
Speaker 1: four he plays well. So there's Fitch magic and fitz Stinker.
Speaker 1: I just made that up, and I'm actually really good
Speaker 1: friends with him, and I'm probably gonna hear about this later.
Speaker 1: I don't know where that came from, and I apologize
Speaker 1: to everyone. Did you face him in college? No, I
Speaker 1: think he was a freshman when I was a senior.
Speaker 1: And it's a shame that evidently he wasn't able to
Speaker 1: get accepted to Princeton and go to the humble one
Speaker 1: school in the country. If I said, you could never
Speaker 1: tell anybody you went to Princeton and never wear any
Speaker 1: kind of gear that said you went to Princeton. Would
Speaker 1: you have gone to Princeton? Yes, Yeah, for sure. Okay
Speaker 1: you know why? Well, first of all, I don't need
Speaker 1: to say I went to Princeton because it seems like
Speaker 1: everybody already knows. The gear thing is an issue, though, Dan,
Speaker 1: because every time I go back, they give me a
Speaker 1: bunch of stuff, so I have, like all my dry
Speaker 1: fit stuff is Princeton. We're just hilarious because when I
Speaker 1: dropped my daughters off at their private school, everybody looks
Speaker 1: at me as like I think I'm great or some
Speaker 1: academic snob. They have no idea. Meanwhile, I'm meathead James Vanderbeek.
Speaker 1: They think I like think I'm some academian. By the way,
Speaker 1: they off care way more about academics than I do.
Speaker 1: Meathead James Vanderbeek. Yeah, you see my shirt, Dan, Let's
Speaker 1: see no such thing as boneless wings. That's one of ours.
Speaker 1: That's that's an old school shirt, that's right. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's still available on the website, but it's
Speaker 1: one of my favorite because you wear this anywhere, especially
Speaker 1: if you wear this around fancy people, it sets a
Speaker 1: tone right away about where the conversations are going to be.
Speaker 1: For the rest of that day. He's Ross Tucker, former
Speaker 1: NFL offensive lineman, host of the Ross Tucker Football Podcast,
Speaker 1: Eagles preseason color analyst. Are you pro Cleveland Browns? Yes,
Speaker 1: very much, so, very much so. Their roster is so
Speaker 1: good it's kind of unbelievable, isn't it that? What was
Speaker 1: it like two years ago or three years ago? They
Speaker 1: won one game and now I'm not sure there's a
Speaker 1: better roster in the NFL top to bottom. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's right there with Buffalo and Tampa and Kansas City. Really,
Speaker 1: the difference between the Browns and those other three teams
Speaker 1: is whether or not Baker Mayfield can play at that
Speaker 1: high of a level, you know, the way Josh Allen
Speaker 1: played last year. Mahomes of course, Brady of course. But
Speaker 1: other than that, I mean, they get Odell Beckham junior back,
Speaker 1: They've got two good tight ends, the best offensive line
Speaker 1: in football, two good running backs. Now, they've got a
Speaker 1: really good defensive line that they invested in. I love
Speaker 1: the guys they got in the secondary, like John Johnson
Speaker 1: from the Ramp. It's kind of weird to be on
Speaker 1: your show talking about the Browns having maybe the best
Speaker 1: roster in football. But it really it's a beautiful roster.
Speaker 1: They've done an awesome job. Do they have a great
Speaker 1: quarterback or a good quarterback? I think so far they
Speaker 1: have a good quarterback. I think Kevin Stefanski did an
Speaker 1: unbelievable job with them last year. And let's be honest.
Speaker 1: If you're playing behind the best O line in the league,
Speaker 1: and you have the best running back duo and you're
Speaker 1: averaging whatever it is over five yards to carry and
Speaker 1: most of what you're doing in the passing game is
Speaker 1: off of bootlegs and play action, it would be really
Speaker 1: weird if Baker Mayfield hadn't played pretty well last year. Right,
Speaker 1: You're not going to get a better situation than Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield had last year and has this year, which, by
Speaker 1: the way, is what makes the contract situation for him
Speaker 1: kind of interesting, Right, Like do you pay him over
Speaker 1: forty million dollars when I would venture to guess there's
Speaker 1: at least twenty guys in the NFL that could perform
Speaker 1: as well as Baker did last year under the same circumstances. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's tricky. I don't want to pay him too soon, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, I might have to pay him a little
Speaker 1: bit more. But I want to see what this season's
Speaker 1: all about. Can you imagine your former coach Bill Belichick
Speaker 1: having a starting quarterback Mac Jones start the season open.
Speaker 1: I can. Yeah. You know the fact that he put
Speaker 1: Brady in that second year after Bloodsow got hurt and
Speaker 1: then never put blood Sew back in. I think Belichick
Speaker 1: just goes with who he thinks the better guy is,
Speaker 1: and that was proof of it. You know, Brady didn't
Speaker 1: really play that great while Bledsoe was hurt. They just
Speaker 1: won a bunch of games and they thought, we think
Speaker 1: he's playing a little better than Drew. But it wasn't
Speaker 1: like he was Tom Brady back then. I think if
Speaker 1: Belichick believes Mac Jones is one tenth of one percent
Speaker 1: better than Cam Newton, that he'll start mac Jones. I
Speaker 1: don't think that's gonna happen. I think he'll start Cam
Speaker 1: Newton in the opener, But honestly, Dan, if Cam Newton
Speaker 1: has a bad first half in the opener, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be surprised if mac Jones goes in there. It feels
Speaker 1: like the offense is built more for mac Jones because
Speaker 1: Bill and Josh McDaniels are accustomed to that style of quarterback,
Speaker 1: that guy who has the same characteristics here. Cam is
Speaker 1: just a rental. The question is how long are you
Speaker 1: renting him for? Because nobody else was interested in Cam
Speaker 1: Newton until Bill brought him in. You got running backs,
Speaker 1: you got a good offensive line, the defense will probably
Speaker 1: be formidable. Skill position. You brought in some you know,
Speaker 1: new tight ends, but I don't. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's a great offense here. That's why I still keep
Speaker 1: leaning towards Cam. I think Cam gives them a dimension
Speaker 1: that they need this year, where maybe they won't need
Speaker 1: that next year because they will go out and get
Speaker 1: a couple of wide receivers to help out Mac Jones.
Speaker 1: What do you think of that philosophy? Totally agree. You know,
Speaker 1: I've you know, the Patriots played the Eagles last week,
Speaker 1: so I was talking with some people for the Patriots.
Speaker 1: Then they're gonna run the crap out of the ball. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean their rookie running back Romandre Stevenson from Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: he is a stud. Their offensive line is legit, and
Speaker 1: I think, quite frankly, now that they have Mac Jones
Speaker 1: as a number two and even Brian Hoyer as a three,
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna run Cam Newton a lot. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think they think that's their way to win games,
Speaker 1: is to run the heck out of the ball, and
Speaker 1: I think they'd rather do that and have that element
Speaker 1: with Am early and see how that goes. Great to
Speaker 1: talk to you as always. We'll talk to you during
Speaker 1: the season. Have fun tonight. Thank you, buddy, my pleasure day.
Speaker 1: I wanted to say congratulations on the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: To be honest, I kind of thought you were already
Speaker 1: in it. But congratulations. It's awesome. Thank you Ross. You're right,
Speaker 1: it was an oversight by the Hall of Fame. It
Speaker 1: took a little longer than it should, but thank you.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. All right, Take care. Be sure to
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Speaker 1: thought we got some drama here going on in soccer
Speaker 1: right now. And wait, you're wearing a Chicago Bears had.
Speaker 1: Old School Bears had Super Bowl twenty Bears had. It's happening.
Speaker 1: This is. It's not anyway. When you said in your recap,
Speaker 1: which I had to listen to, when you said the Bears,
Speaker 1: I think they could be average, I've got to be honest.
Speaker 1: I'd bite your arm off for average right now. I
Speaker 1: really really would. But I'm feeling quite bullish. This is.
Speaker 1: I love the way you noticed the hat and you
Speaker 1: didn't notice that I didn't even know it was Meat Friday.
Speaker 1: And good lord, here I am dressed for it in
Speaker 1: in my Meat Friday tracksuit. You have an Arby's track
Speaker 1: suit and it looks like a piece of roast beef. There.
Speaker 1: I've actually got it's a full track suit. I wrote
Speaker 1: it in my book about how the first time is
Speaker 1: a fifteen year old I ate Arby's and just the
Speaker 1: taste of that beef dip tasted like democracy and freedom
Speaker 1: and so below. And behold, Arbi's possibly the greatest press
Speaker 1: they've had in about thirty years I received from Abby's
Speaker 1: a full meat track suit which I wear often, and
Speaker 1: your patius just told me a look like Lady Gaga.
Speaker 1: Well she did have that outfit where she actually had
Speaker 1: meat as her outfit. Yeah, she wore it. Well, we
Speaker 1: won't even do it. Who wore it better? I'll give
Speaker 1: it to her. Look like a bull, I'll take it.
Speaker 1: I'll be the bulled Lady Gaga. But it's a jointed
Speaker 1: me with you on meat Fridays as football, the world
Speaker 1: of football eats itself down. Patrick. Um, you know, before
Speaker 1: we get to soccer here, I went on my honeymoon
Speaker 1: to London in Scotland and when I got the food
Speaker 1: was horrible. So this is I'm coming up on my
Speaker 1: thirty fourth wedding anniversary this weekend and I just remember
Speaker 1: I ate it pizza hut almost the whole time I
Speaker 1: was in London. Has the food gotten better in London?
Speaker 1: When you said pizza hut, fifteen year old me was like,
Speaker 1: oh that's a humble track. In England when I grew up,
Speaker 1: I want you today, pizza was a mitcheled in stars restaurant.
Speaker 1: I had one or two stars. You know. In my book,
Speaker 1: I write about when McDonald's opened. When I was a
Speaker 1: kid in Liverpool, we would drive for hours to go
Speaker 1: to the nearest McDonald's. Like you would drive for three
Speaker 1: or four hours. It would be like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: to be a line around the block. You'd see the
Speaker 1: golden arches and it would be like the Simpsons, Oh noise.
Speaker 1: You dropped to your knees. You would wait patiently. You
Speaker 1: get to the front, the person would be like, what
Speaker 1: do you want? You'd be like, what do you mean?
Speaker 1: When I would one, I want the whole bloody menu,
Speaker 1: and then you would sit there for hours until a
Speaker 1: food come coma of just meet gristle and utter crap
Speaker 1: and filled your belly. And you looked at the styrofoam
Speaker 1: castle that was in front of you and you were like, America,
Speaker 1: you hit the best, you at the best of Well
Speaker 1: that's where your marriage has lasted thirty four years. Can
Speaker 1: you set expectations low? All right? As you point out,
Speaker 1: football has gone a bit bonkers here, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: where are we right now with with Christiano Ronaldo. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Christiano Ronaldo, who your viewers may know, is
Speaker 1: really essentially a bottle of dracon war made into human flesh,
Speaker 1: one of the world's greatest footballers. Thirty six years old.
Speaker 1: Now I mean just still an elite athlete, still scoring goals.
Speaker 1: Is game has changed. He's no longer the all round
Speaker 1: footballer who can dominate games. He now kind of hangs
Speaker 1: around the area on the counter, scores a ton. He
Speaker 1: wants away from Juventus. He said his goodbyes to Italian
Speaker 1: powerhouse Juventus. I imagine him sittling, sitting on a plane,
Speaker 1: just idling on the tarmat, trying to work out where
Speaker 1: the heck he's going to go, probably plucking his eyebrows
Speaker 1: to kill the time. And right now, will football has
Speaker 1: become insane. You remember the Super League, don't you? Damn
Speaker 1: you remember cast your mind about those many years ago.
Speaker 1: That's what it feels like to the super League failed.
Speaker 1: That was, But now what I realize is the Super
Speaker 1: League was really an effort by the second level of
Speaker 1: superpower teams, many of them owned by American owners Liverpool, Arsenal,
Speaker 1: Manchester United, you know, even Barcelona and Real Madrid. They
Speaker 1: felt threatened by the upper echelon of super super teams
Speaker 1: PSG Paris and ger Man Chelsea and also Manchester City,
Speaker 1: one owned by an Oli Guard. The other two owned
Speaker 1: by sovereign states who have limitless financing that no one
Speaker 1: else can keep up with, and they have essentially stretched
Speaker 1: the market. They're willing to pay wages beyond belief no
Speaker 1: one else can compete. And so the reality is with
Speaker 1: Christiano Ronaldo, who is really more a Instagram platform than
Speaker 1: a football He's an excellent footballer, but just the Instagram,
Speaker 1: the social media grand platform that he is. That's why
Speaker 1: teams currently wanted more than anything. There's very few places
Speaker 1: that he can actually go. It was thought, who was
Speaker 1: going to go to Manchester City which has already got
Speaker 1: just a glut of Manchester United? Yeah? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it's chaos is a ladder World Football Dawn has essentially
Speaker 1: become the equivalent of watching Bezos, Branson and Musk compete
Speaker 1: to send phallic rockets towards the moon. There's like three
Speaker 1: teams were essentially just cheering for Excel balance sheets. Would
Speaker 1: you rather have Messi or Ronaldo? I'd rather I'd rather
Speaker 1: have a young gentleman with a huge Right now, there's
Speaker 1: a player and Bape about to leave Paris and Jaman
Speaker 1: and go to Real Madrid because Messi has arrived. These
Speaker 1: two are massive brand platforms. They're incredibly aged. Deep respect
Speaker 1: to Tom Brady going to Tampa Bay. But football is
Speaker 1: at such a cohesive game you need players at the
Speaker 1: elite level who can now play both ends, play ninety
Speaker 1: minutes backwards, and for neither of those gentlemen can do it.
Speaker 1: I adore Messi in this argument. Essentially, there's two kinds
Speaker 1: of fans, those who do believe in plucking their eyebrows deeply,
Speaker 1: those who don't. If you are in the former, you
Speaker 1: adore and revere the godlike Ronald. If you don't, you
Speaker 1: love the super cuts approach to life of lineal method.
Speaker 1: We are blessed. We are blessed who have been alive
Speaker 1: to watch both of them men play, and when they
Speaker 1: both go, you know, we've taken their just consistent, superlative
Speaker 1: excellence for granted. But they're both now in a situation
Speaker 1: where they are so big there's only one or two
Speaker 1: clubs they can go to. There's essentially a secret VIP
Speaker 1: room within football's VIP room, and that's where they've both
Speaker 1: got themselves into. But God bless them both. They've given
Speaker 1: us incredible thrills. I don't know where Ronaldo is going
Speaker 1: to go and that idea of him on the plane
Speaker 1: just anxiously waiting and my lord, that plane ends up
Speaker 1: in MLS in America. It will be hilarious. Oh he's
Speaker 1: not ready for that. Yeah, you know. The reality is
Speaker 1: there could be a plan C if I've better feeling.
Speaker 1: Manchester United will take him for a variety of reasons.
Speaker 1: Manchester United owned by the Tampa Bay owners, the Glazers.
Speaker 1: That's where he came through as a youth. It's a
Speaker 1: fine fitting legacy to end his career. They truly need
Speaker 1: a gentleman. Their team is highly paid, it's got so
Speaker 1: many stars, it's not quite cohesive. I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: to be. It will be hilarious to watch him wash
Speaker 1: up there. But very soon, very soon, both of those
Speaker 1: gentlemen could well come here because MLS is not a
Speaker 1: footballing challenge, but to dominate America. That final brand play
Speaker 1: for your legacy to come here and set up a
Speaker 1: brand deal with shape Weights. Have a Ronaldo doing a
Speaker 1: shit weight commercial. O QVC god, that will be? That
Speaker 1: will be I did that as shape Weights. Just be clear, America.
Speaker 1: That is that. That is the future that I want
Speaker 1: to see better career run honor or Tom Brady. Damn.
Speaker 1: I mean they're both. They have both rewritten our understanding
Speaker 1: of aging athletes. They have both superlative competitors. They are both,
Speaker 1: you know, so disciplined in their approach to the game.
Speaker 1: Better looking, better looking four that would be oh that one,
Speaker 1: that one. You know. The reality is I believe, I believe,
Speaker 1: and I've only met him once. Ronaldo still has all
Speaker 1: of his own hair, So I am, you know, as
Speaker 1: a Bears fan. One of the things that upsets me
Speaker 1: most in life, Dan Patrick, is I love the city
Speaker 1: of Chicago. It's my spiritual home. I yearned to be there,
Speaker 1: and whenever I land at the airport, as I did
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago to go and throw out
Speaker 1: a pitch at the White Sox, you land, you have
Speaker 1: that joy of being home, and then all the way
Speaker 1: in on the road from the airport to the city,
Speaker 1: you are taunted by Brian Lacer pitching hair transplants. There's
Speaker 1: nothing that annoys me more because that man I idolize,
Speaker 1: that man balder Lacker was put him on the pedestal newly, freshly,
Speaker 1: fakely haired braner La. Frankly, he's gone a bit off
Speaker 1: the rails, and so I do think if you if
Speaker 1: you if you go into that, if you steroid your hair,
Speaker 1: you do lose style points. So I've got to go.
Speaker 1: I've got to go with Ron. But both for those
Speaker 1: human beings. Ultimately, what you worship is that meant for that?
Speaker 1: That the rage eating of one almond when you lose
Speaker 1: a game allowed that kind of discipline. Um is why
Speaker 1: what I revere about that. It's the opposite of me. Essentially.
Speaker 1: In my meeting Albis Traxie, I love it. Hey, congrats
Speaker 1: on the book. It's great to talk to you. You
Speaker 1: you cleared it all up there. We know, we know
Speaker 1: exactly what's going on in soccer right now. Yeah. Me. Essentially,
Speaker 1: it's best us, It's Ransom, It's Musk, it's fell It
Speaker 1: rockets to the moon. Thank you, buddy, and muzzles off
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Speaker 1: get your podcast. Jared Goff the Lions quarterback. Let me see,
Speaker 1: I got the numbers here. Last year he threw for
Speaker 1: almost four thousand yards, twenty touchdowns, thirteen interceptions, and of
Speaker 1: course was the quarterback when the Rams went to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. And Jared Goff joining us on the program.
Speaker 1: What how long did it take for you to feel
Speaker 1: comfortable looking at yourself in a Lions uniform? You know,
Speaker 1: it wasn't wasn't too long, pretty quickly, I think, you know,
Speaker 1: seeing that in Jersey for the first time is you know,
Speaker 1: maybe a little a little different, but you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's been a fun. Man, It's been a good transition.
Speaker 1: And yeah, so maybe a week. And what was your
Speaker 1: first impression of coach campbell Man when I first met him?
Speaker 1: I mean when I first talked on the phone. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, it was it was obviously exciting and um
Speaker 1: to hear from him and to hear his voice and
Speaker 1: to hear how excited he was about me, and and
Speaker 1: just furthermore, getting a chance to talk to him was
Speaker 1: was fun. It was really cool and really really gave
Speaker 1: me a you know, the rejuvenation, that breath of fresh
Speaker 1: air thing and um, and then being around him ever
Speaker 1: since then it's it's more the same. You know, the
Speaker 1: dude's genuine, he is who he is, and um, I'm
Speaker 1: excited to see him and and be a part of
Speaker 1: this you know, whole turnaround here. But what hell's his
Speaker 1: coaching style play into what you need to do to
Speaker 1: be successful? Me personally? Yeah, yeah, you know, I think
Speaker 1: he has a nice mix of you know, telling you
Speaker 1: the truth when it's not what you want to hear.
Speaker 1: And at the same time, you know, he's he's he's
Speaker 1: a loving guy. He's a loving coach and and gives
Speaker 1: you that as well. So it's a good mix of
Speaker 1: that and and for me personally, I love it. You know,
Speaker 1: I love being held accountable, but I need to do
Speaker 1: and at the same time, you know, just if I
Speaker 1: do something right. Let me know, how would you do
Speaker 1: arm wrestling with him? He'd kick my ass. He looks
Speaker 1: like he can still play. He looks like he can
Speaker 1: still play. And uh, you know, we joke at them
Speaker 1: all the time. Ay man, you got a few reps
Speaker 1: in you? And he says, no, of course not. But
Speaker 1: you know, maybe one of these days we've got him
Speaker 1: to run a couple of outs. But you can't be
Speaker 1: hurt around him, can you? Like, you can't say I'm
Speaker 1: banged up because he tells all these stories where he
Speaker 1: played through a lot of pain. Yeah, no doubt. I
Speaker 1: mean it is. It is fun to play for a
Speaker 1: guy who's kind of been through it, truly firsthand experience
Speaker 1: on multiple teams, on multiple good teams and on teams
Speaker 1: that haven't had success. He's seen both sides of it,
Speaker 1: and he's obviously had his charles and tribulations as a player.
Speaker 1: And like you mentioned, you know, he's been he's been
Speaker 1: banged up, I'm sure at the tight end position playing
Speaker 1: the way he did. So, yeah, there isn't much much
Speaker 1: to complain about around him, that's for sure. Explain this
Speaker 1: to our audience and those of us who never played.
Speaker 1: When a coach said, oh, it was a bad practice,
Speaker 1: Like what is a bad practice in August? Yeah? Usually,
Speaker 1: I mean, and at least now, it's you know, it's sloppy,
Speaker 1: it's hot, it's you know, you know, guys are jumping
Speaker 1: off sides, balls getting dropped or missing throws. It's more
Speaker 1: so mental than anything at this point. You know, when
Speaker 1: when guys get tired, you know, some of those mental
Speaker 1: mistakes come up. And I think that's the sign of
Speaker 1: a good team is when you know it is hot
Speaker 1: and you are tired and things aren't going your way,
Speaker 1: to stay on point and do what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 1: What's the worst thing a rookie can do show up
Speaker 1: late or or or not do what the veterans tell
Speaker 1: him to do. What happens if they show up late.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a it's a fine, it's it's whatever
Speaker 1: the coach decides to do. But it's it's more so
Speaker 1: just kind of a you know, showing that you're not
Speaker 1: really a pro yet, you know. And for them, we
Speaker 1: haven't had any of that. It's just been good. But
Speaker 1: I think furthermore, you know, if if that asks you
Speaker 1: to go pick them up some food, you go pick
Speaker 1: them up some food or something like that. Did you
Speaker 1: get hazed with the Rams? Uh? You know. When I
Speaker 1: was there, Fisher was the head coach as a rookie
Speaker 1: and he was pretty, you know, firmly against that, so
Speaker 1: I didn't have much of it. I remember I had
Speaker 1: to I had to run coffee runs for for Case
Speaker 1: and and Sean Manuel at the time, and that was
Speaker 1: that was that was part of the job at that time.
Speaker 1: And Case couldn't have been have been better than me
Speaker 1: as a rookie. So it was good with it. But
Speaker 1: also when you get to that point where they know
Speaker 1: that you're going to be the starting quarterback, but in
Speaker 1: the meantime you kind of have to do what they
Speaker 1: tell you to do. You got to pay your dues man,
Speaker 1: everyone does, no matter no matter who you are, And
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of consistent across the league and
Speaker 1: it was no different for me, that's for sure. What
Speaker 1: are the expectations in Detroit and how did they change
Speaker 1: from what they were with the Rams? Yeah, I mean internally,
Speaker 1: they don't change. Internally, it's you know, win games and
Speaker 1: first goal is when you're a division and then go
Speaker 1: from there and be in the playoffs. Internally, Obviously the
Speaker 1: external you know, implications are different, and what people think
Speaker 1: of the team may be different, but internally it's the
Speaker 1: same every year for all threety two teams, I would imagine,
Speaker 1: and we're no different. You know, We've got all the
Speaker 1: players we can we could ever want, and all the
Speaker 1: coaches we could ever want. We got everything here. It's
Speaker 1: about going out and executing, doing your job and showing
Speaker 1: up on Sundays. What's the biggest difference between LA and Detroit?
Speaker 1: Oh man, I mean, the culture is entirely different. I'm
Speaker 1: speaking about the city. Um, you know, I'll just being
Speaker 1: around the city, it's it's different. It's it's the Midwest,
Speaker 1: you know, It's it's it's more. There's more, like I
Speaker 1: think there's a little more colon area out here, which
Speaker 1: is cool for me to experience. There's obviously more you know,
Speaker 1: green more lakes, which is cool. Um. I've lived in
Speaker 1: California in my whole life, so getting too experience this
Speaker 1: has been really fun for me and really a cool experience.
Speaker 1: But it's a kind of a beer and shot kind
Speaker 1: of place. It's not not one keeps saying this now
Speaker 1: and everyone keeps telling me, I'll just wait till the winter,
Speaker 1: and I know it's I'm I'm enjoying it right now
Speaker 1: and think, you know, thankfully we're playing inside and got
Speaker 1: some indoor games later in the year as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're okay, Minnesota, you're inside Detroit to play inside. I
Speaker 1: mean you gotta go to Lambeau. Yeah, that's all right.
Speaker 1: We played there in January. Chicago, Yep, yep. What's the
Speaker 1: worst weather you ever played in? Worst weather? Oh man? Um?
Speaker 1: We hadn't one in Denver that was surprisingly cold a
Speaker 1: few years ago. I think it was about ten degrees.
Speaker 1: It wasn't snow and it was just cold. M and
Speaker 1: snowed a little bit in that Green Bay game last year,
Speaker 1: but that wasn't particularly cold. It was just it was
Speaker 1: just a little drizzle snow. I've never had like the
Speaker 1: white field stuff. I've never had to experience that, so
Speaker 1: maybe I will. But it'll be fun. You're going to
Speaker 1: I can't wait. We're talking to the Lions quarterback Jared
Speaker 1: Goff finished this sentence. The reason why I'm no longer
Speaker 1: a Ram is oh man, Dan, that's not a question
Speaker 1: for me, Um, Well, why you think you're not a ram? Yeah? Hey,
Speaker 1: then they had they had decisions to make. They wanted
Speaker 1: to make the decision. That's part of this league and
Speaker 1: the way things go. But I couldn't be happy to
Speaker 1: be here. And I've had so much fun, um, you know,
Speaker 1: building this thing up with Dan and the rest of
Speaker 1: the coaches and players, and it's been it's been a
Speaker 1: joy for me. It's really has been. It's it's been.
Speaker 1: It's been a really fun challenge and something that I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to putting on the field this fall. I
Speaker 1: know you don't want to look back. I'm just care
Speaker 1: about the curious about the process of moving forward. How
Speaker 1: do you get over a breakup when somebody says they
Speaker 1: no longer like you. I mean, it's it's the same
Speaker 1: way as anything else. You know, I got people who
Speaker 1: do like me, and you focus on that. You focus
Speaker 1: on what you have and and all the good things,
Speaker 1: and you know that it's part of this league, it's
Speaker 1: part of the business. I mean, I'm sure you know
Speaker 1: it's not quite the same, but in some regards you
Speaker 1: guys go through it in the media with you know,
Speaker 1: ESPN or or or where you're at now, Like it's
Speaker 1: it's you know, you got people that do love you,
Speaker 1: and you got people that don't anymore, and that's the
Speaker 1: way things go. Yeah, but I'm still mad at ESPN.
Speaker 1: See i'd gotten past that. Yeah, Yeah, are you still mad? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And you can be mad and and there's parts of
Speaker 1: me that still are, of course. But you know, I've
Speaker 1: got I've got some things to look forward to here
Speaker 1: that I'm excited about. Uh what do you do with
Speaker 1: your old rams gear? Because if you don't want it,
Speaker 1: maybe I could give it to the Dan Edge for
Speaker 1: a Christmas gift. I'd self cent it to you guys.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I have it anymore. I've probably
Speaker 1: been donated at this point. But uh, also you got
Speaker 1: some lions here instead. How's that sounds? That's okay? I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm I mean, I'm okay with that. But have you
Speaker 1: gotten mistaken for Ryan Gosling in Detroit? Uh? No, I
Speaker 1: have not. No, that was just and LA thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that doesn't I mean I haven't had that happened
Speaker 1: in about a while. But uh, you know that would
Speaker 1: if that were to happen, it would happen much more
Speaker 1: in LA. And it's a good thing that if it happens,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, if somebody says, oh, hey, I
Speaker 1: love you in your movies like that's okay, Yeah, that's okay,
Speaker 1: that's okay. Yeah, I'll just I'll play along with it
Speaker 1: at times. Yeah. Well, uh, good luck there in Detroit.
Speaker 1: Great to talk to you again, and uh, we appreciate
Speaker 1: your time. Thank you, dan, I appreciate it's always fun
Speaker 1: on here, and I hope you and the Danettes have
Speaker 1: a have a solid weekend. But I got the I
Speaker 1: got the the old Rams jersey. Here the Jared golf jersey. Um,
Speaker 1: well it's time for a new one. Huh. How about
Speaker 1: after your first win? Could I could we get the
Speaker 1: Lions first win and we hang that up. I can
Speaker 1: give you one that looks like it. Wait are you
Speaker 1: gonna use that for somebody? Wait? You're gonna keep that
Speaker 1: for yourself? That one? Yeah? Okay? How about the third win?
Speaker 1: Sure you can have the third? Third? Third? Mcleven? Would
Speaker 1: you check when when golf is playing? Who's he playing?
Speaker 1: Like the third game? Whens he play Rogers or somebody?
Speaker 1: Can we find this out? We need like I need
Speaker 1: you to beat somebody substantial here. We played green Blay
Speaker 1: a week two. Oh so I can't get that jersey? Yeah, Paully,
Speaker 1: you got to Yeah, that's early. Uh. Bears week four,
Speaker 1: Vikings week five, Oh, okay, conference, I like it. I
Speaker 1: like the host, the Bengals. Are you wait? Are you
Speaker 1: calling your victory here? No, I'm saying which one would
Speaker 1: you like? Uh? How about Rams week seven? Okay? I
Speaker 1: didn't want to bring that up. Paully made to bring
Speaker 1: that up. That's all right. Yeah, Hey, thanks for joining us,
Speaker 1: good luck. I appreciate it. Man, thanks for having me