WEBVTT - 08/27/21 DPS Best Of 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:03.600 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:08.000 Sports Radio. Ross Chucker played for Bill Belichick. Did you 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:12.360 ever talk to Bill Belichick while you played in New England? Ross, Yeah, 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:20.000 three times? Okay, how long were those three conversations? Actually? 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:25.040 Know what? Four times? The first three were probably three 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:28.880 to five words. I would say. The last time we 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:30.920 actually had to sit down was when he traded me 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:33.720 to Cleveland. That was the only time I actually had 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:38.199 a conversation with him. They signed me midway Dan through 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:41.440 the O five season. He and I just went in 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:44.240 the team meeting room and it was the first meeting 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:46.760 and he walked up the steps to meet me, and 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:48.839 I stand up to shake his hand. He says, you 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:51.920 don't have to stand up. That was it. And then 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:55.279 about a week later in practice, I fell on the 0:00:55.320 --> 0:01:00.160 ground and he had this really interesting way and ability 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:03.680 to talk to you without anybody else knowing. He was 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:06.280 talking to you as he was walking by you. So 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:09.000 I fell in practice all of a sudden, like behind 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:12.280 my right ear, I heard somebody say, stay off the 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:17.880 freaking ground. And then and then when we played Jacksonville 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:22.360 in the playoffs, Jacksonville starting center was actually my teammate 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:25.640 at Princeton, and he said, like over my left shoulder 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:29.480 walking away, we got half the Princeton offensive line in 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:32.800 this game. Those are the only three things he said 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:35.200 to me, Dan, until I got traded to Cleveland. I 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:40.720 promise you did he know your name? Yeah? I mean 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:42.959 he didn't ever use it, but I think he was 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:46.520 generally aware of it. Yes, all right, full introduction. Ross 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:48.919 will be on the call tonight the Eagles at the Jets, 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:53.320 seven thirty Eastern on the Eagles Television Network. A couple 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:55.880 of things here that we'll get to. Who do you 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:59.520 think has a better chance get back to the Super Bowl? 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:04.880 Chiefs of the Buccaneers? I'll say Bucks, and I'll say 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:08.880 the Bucks for two reasons. Number One, I think the 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:12.119 NFC is easier. You know, you look at the AFC. 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:17.880 I think Buffalo's legit, Cleveland's legit, Baltimore has a shot, 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:21.960 even maybe Pittsburgh has an outside shot. You look at 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:25.040 the NFC, Dan, how many teams in the NFC do 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:29.160 we really think can beat Tom Brady and this Buccaneers 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:35.440 team in the playoffs? I think green Bay maybe, I 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:39.520 guess one of the NFC West teams, if Russell Wilson 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:42.360 or Matthew Stafford goes crazy, but I don't see it happening. 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:46.680 So the combination of the NFC being easier and the 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:51.240 Chiefs essentially having three rookie offensive lineman starting at center, 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:55.000 right garden, right tackle, I'll lean with the Bucks handicap 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:59.320 the NFC East for me, Washington ended up winning that division. 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.840 But you're looking at a division that might be the 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:07.080 worst division in football. I think it's pretty jumbled again, man, 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:11.800 I really do. I think all four teams probably win 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:16.560 between seven and ten games, maybe six and ten games. 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:18.880 I happen to think and people will say I'm biased, 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.120 but I think the Eagles are going to be better 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:24.440 than outside opinions seem to think they have a top 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:27.920 five offensive line and defensive line if those guys stay healthy. 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:33.160 And Carson Wentz unfortunately led the NFL and interceptions and 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:36.120 sacks last year and didn't play the last four games. 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:39.120 I mean, think about basketball or baseball the other sports 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:42.080 stand you lead the league in two categories and you 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:45.280 don't play twenty five percent of the season. If Hurtz 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:49.440 just throws five less interceptions and takes five less sacks, 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:52.000 there's a couple of wins right there. The team I 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:54.320 don't have a great handle on is the Giants. I 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:57.200 think Washington is the favorite. I know everybody says Dallas. 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:01.280 To me, Dallas still has issues on defense and there's 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:04.720 a lot of injury concerns there. Dak and Amari Cooper, 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:08.800 the offensive line still. I think Washington they won the 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:12.720 division last year. The defense is beastly. I like some 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:14.960 of their editions, and I think they're gonna get much 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:18.440 better quarterbacks play in Ryan Fitzpatrick than they got from 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:21.880 Alex Smith and Dwayne Haskins last year. Yeah, the defense 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:23.640 is going to be elite. It'll be right there with 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:26.760 the Rams. Is the best defense in football. My concerns 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:30.560 are the skill position players for Washington and with Ryan Fitzpatrick, 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.320 because he's a great story, but he giveth and he 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:39.240 taketh away. I just like they don't have a great 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:42.239 tight end, they don't have a great number one wide receiver, 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:46.599 they don't have a Marky running back. But you know, 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:49.559 can you win with defense in the NFL? I guess 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:51.880 that's what it comes down to. Because the Rams realized, 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:54.880 hey we can have a great defense, we still need 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:58.560 to have offense. Let's go out and get Matthew Stafford. Yeah, well, 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.440 so for the Washington skill guys, I think they're all 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:04.400 probably a little bit better than you give him credit 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:09.599 for Terry McLaurin, Logan, Thomas Antonio Gibson. And your point 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:13.160 about Fitz is well taken. Dan every fourth gamer, so 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:16.280 he has a bad game, right, But they don't need 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:18.880 to go fourteen and three or thirteen and four. They 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:21.360 probably only need to win ten or eleven games, so 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:24.880 he can have a fitz stinker, you know, every fourth 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.000 or fifth game, as long as the other three or 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:30.520 four he plays well. So there's Fitch magic and fitz Stinker. 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.800 I just made that up, and I'm actually really good 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:36.359 friends with him, and I'm probably gonna hear about this later. 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:38.560 I don't know where that came from, and I apologize 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:43.520 to everyone. Did you face him in college? No, I 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:46.359 think he was a freshman when I was a senior. 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:49.800 And it's a shame that evidently he wasn't able to 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:51.680 get accepted to Princeton and go to the humble one 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.960 school in the country. If I said, you could never 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:57.800 tell anybody you went to Princeton and never wear any 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:00.520 kind of gear that said you went to Princeton. Would 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:05.880 you have gone to Princeton? Yes, Yeah, for sure. Okay 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:08.160 you know why? Well, first of all, I don't need 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:10.159 to say I went to Princeton because it seems like 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:14.080 everybody already knows. The gear thing is an issue, though, Dan, 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:17.000 because every time I go back, they give me a 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:20.000 bunch of stuff, so I have, like all my dry 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:24.279 fit stuff is Princeton. We're just hilarious because when I 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:28.200 dropped my daughters off at their private school, everybody looks 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:30.680 at me as like I think I'm great or some 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:36.480 academic snob. They have no idea. Meanwhile, I'm meathead James Vanderbeek. 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:40.560 They think I like think I'm some academian. By the way, 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:42.800 they off care way more about academics than I do. 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:48.760 Meathead James Vanderbeek. Yeah, you see my shirt, Dan, Let's 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:53.080 see no such thing as boneless wings. That's one of ours. 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:55.880 That's that's an old school shirt, that's right. I don't 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:58.159 know if it's still available on the website, but it's 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:01.960 one of my favorite because you wear this anywhere, especially 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:04.880 if you wear this around fancy people, it sets a 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:07.760 tone right away about where the conversations are going to be. 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:11.440 For the rest of that day. He's Ross Tucker, former 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:15.400 NFL offensive lineman, host of the Ross Tucker Football Podcast, 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:22.280 Eagles preseason color analyst. Are you pro Cleveland Browns? Yes, 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:26.480 very much, so, very much so. Their roster is so 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.880 good it's kind of unbelievable, isn't it that? What was 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.000 it like two years ago or three years ago? They 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:35.480 won one game and now I'm not sure there's a 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:38.400 better roster in the NFL top to bottom. I mean, 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:43.520 it's right there with Buffalo and Tampa and Kansas City. Really, 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:47.040 the difference between the Browns and those other three teams 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.320 is whether or not Baker Mayfield can play at that 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:52.440 high of a level, you know, the way Josh Allen 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:56.160 played last year. Mahomes of course, Brady of course. But 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:58.880 other than that, I mean, they get Odell Beckham junior back, 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:02.640 They've got two good tight ends, the best offensive line 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:06.320 in football, two good running backs. Now, they've got a 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:09.400 really good defensive line that they invested in. I love 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:12.080 the guys they got in the secondary, like John Johnson 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:14.840 from the Ramp. It's kind of weird to be on 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:17.800 your show talking about the Browns having maybe the best 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:20.800 roster in football. But it really it's a beautiful roster. 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:24.040 They've done an awesome job. Do they have a great 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:29.080 quarterback or a good quarterback? I think so far they 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:33.360 have a good quarterback. I think Kevin Stefanski did an 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:37.040 unbelievable job with them last year. And let's be honest. 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:41.200 If you're playing behind the best O line in the league, 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:45.439 and you have the best running back duo and you're 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:49.120 averaging whatever it is over five yards to carry and 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:52.240 most of what you're doing in the passing game is 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:55.960 off of bootlegs and play action, it would be really 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:59.760 weird if Baker Mayfield hadn't played pretty well last year. Right, 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:03.920 You're not going to get a better situation than Baker 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:07.439 Mayfield had last year and has this year, which, by 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:11.079 the way, is what makes the contract situation for him 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:14.000 kind of interesting, Right, Like do you pay him over 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:17.679 forty million dollars when I would venture to guess there's 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:21.120 at least twenty guys in the NFL that could perform 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:25.360 as well as Baker did last year under the same circumstances. Yeah, 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:29.160 it's tricky. I don't want to pay him too soon, Like, 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:31.160 you know, I might have to pay him a little 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:32.960 bit more. But I want to see what this season's 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:36.720 all about. Can you imagine your former coach Bill Belichick 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:41.760 having a starting quarterback Mac Jones start the season open. 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:47.560 I can. Yeah. You know the fact that he put 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:51.920 Brady in that second year after Bloodsow got hurt and 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:55.959 then never put blood Sew back in. I think Belichick 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:58.240 just goes with who he thinks the better guy is, 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:01.360 and that was proof of it. You know, Brady didn't 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:05.800 really play that great while Bledsoe was hurt. They just 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:08.680 won a bunch of games and they thought, we think 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:11.000 he's playing a little better than Drew. But it wasn't 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:14.760 like he was Tom Brady back then. I think if 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:19.440 Belichick believes Mac Jones is one tenth of one percent 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:23.760 better than Cam Newton, that he'll start mac Jones. I 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:26.000 don't think that's gonna happen. I think he'll start Cam 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:29.080 Newton in the opener, But honestly, Dan, if Cam Newton 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:32.120 has a bad first half in the opener, I wouldn't 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:36.680 be surprised if mac Jones goes in there. It feels 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:41.480 like the offense is built more for mac Jones because 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:45.640 Bill and Josh McDaniels are accustomed to that style of quarterback, 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:49.000 that guy who has the same characteristics here. Cam is 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:51.960 just a rental. The question is how long are you 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:55.040 renting him for? Because nobody else was interested in Cam 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:58.480 Newton until Bill brought him in. You got running backs, 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.440 you got a good offensive line, the defense will probably 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:05.360 be formidable. Skill position. You brought in some you know, 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:08.080 new tight ends, but I don't. I don't know if 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:11.839 it's a great offense here. That's why I still keep 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:15.400 leaning towards Cam. I think Cam gives them a dimension 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:18.120 that they need this year, where maybe they won't need 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.760 that next year because they will go out and get 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:22.959 a couple of wide receivers to help out Mac Jones. 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:26.600 What do you think of that philosophy? Totally agree. You know, 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:29.800 I've you know, the Patriots played the Eagles last week, 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:32.280 so I was talking with some people for the Patriots. 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:35.320 Then they're gonna run the crap out of the ball. Yeah, 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:39.439 I mean their rookie running back Romandre Stevenson from Oklahoma, 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:44.280 he is a stud. Their offensive line is legit, and 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:46.960 I think, quite frankly, now that they have Mac Jones 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:49.920 as a number two and even Brian Hoyer as a three, 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:52.760 I think they're gonna run Cam Newton a lot. Yeah. 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:54.920 I think they think that's their way to win games, 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:57.480 is to run the heck out of the ball, and 0:11:57.520 --> 0:11:59.600 I think they'd rather do that and have that element 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:03.520 with Am early and see how that goes. Great to 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:05.240 talk to you as always. We'll talk to you during 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:08.760 the season. Have fun tonight. Thank you, buddy, my pleasure day. 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:11.000 I wanted to say congratulations on the Hall of Fame. 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:12.680 To be honest, I kind of thought you were already 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:16.760 in it. But congratulations. It's awesome. Thank you Ross. You're right, 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:19.400 it was an oversight by the Hall of Fame. It 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:22.240 took a little longer than it should, but thank you. 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:25.520 I appreciate that. All right, Take care. Be sure to 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.520 catch the live edition of The Dan Patrick Show weekdays 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:32.040 at nine am Eastern six am Pacific on Fox Sports 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:36.000 Radio and the iHeartRadio w APP. 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When you said in your recap, 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:15.160 which I had to listen to, when you said the Bears, 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:17.080 I think they could be average, I've got to be honest. 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:19.240 I'd bite your arm off for average right now. I 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:22.080 really really would. But I'm feeling quite bullish. This is. 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:24.600 I love the way you noticed the hat and you 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:27.360 didn't notice that I didn't even know it was Meat Friday. 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:31.400 And good lord, here I am dressed for it in 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:36.240 in my Meat Friday tracksuit. You have an Arby's track 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:39.120 suit and it looks like a piece of roast beef. There. 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:43.040 I've actually got it's a full track suit. I wrote 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:45.360 it in my book about how the first time is 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:48.559 a fifteen year old I ate Arby's and just the 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:51.760 taste of that beef dip tasted like democracy and freedom 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:56.079 and so below. And behold, Arbi's possibly the greatest press 0:13:56.120 --> 0:14:00.480 they've had in about thirty years I received from Abby's 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:04.240 a full meat track suit which I wear often, and 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:08.520 your patius just told me a look like Lady Gaga. 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.440 Well she did have that outfit where she actually had 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:15.040 meat as her outfit. Yeah, she wore it. Well, we 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:17.240 won't even do it. Who wore it better? I'll give 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:18.880 it to her. Look like a bull, I'll take it. 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:21.120 I'll be the bulled Lady Gaga. But it's a jointed 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:24.080 me with you on meat Fridays as football, the world 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:27.440 of football eats itself down. Patrick. Um, you know, before 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:30.200 we get to soccer here, I went on my honeymoon 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:34.400 to London in Scotland and when I got the food 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:38.000 was horrible. So this is I'm coming up on my 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:42.400 thirty fourth wedding anniversary this weekend and I just remember 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:46.520 I ate it pizza hut almost the whole time I 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:49.440 was in London. Has the food gotten better in London? 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.760 When you said pizza hut, fifteen year old me was like, 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:56.400 oh that's a humble track. In England when I grew up, 0:14:56.440 --> 0:15:00.000 I want you today, pizza was a mitcheled in stars restaurant. 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:04.520 I had one or two stars. You know. In my book, 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:06.880 I write about when McDonald's opened. When I was a 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:10.000 kid in Liverpool, we would drive for hours to go 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:13.040 to the nearest McDonald's. Like you would drive for three 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:15.640 or four hours. It would be like, oh my god, 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:17.600 to be a line around the block. You'd see the 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:20.880 golden arches and it would be like the Simpsons, Oh noise. 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:23.760 You dropped to your knees. You would wait patiently. You 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:25.520 get to the front, the person would be like, what 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:26.800 do you want? You'd be like, what do you mean? 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:28.840 When I would one, I want the whole bloody menu, 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:31.960 and then you would sit there for hours until a 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:35.920 food come coma of just meet gristle and utter crap 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:38.320 and filled your belly. And you looked at the styrofoam 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:41.440 castle that was in front of you and you were like, America, 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:44.640 you hit the best, you at the best of Well 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:47.480 that's where your marriage has lasted thirty four years. Can 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:52.600 you set expectations low? All right? As you point out, 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:55.760 football has gone a bit bonkers here, Oh my god, 0:15:56.560 --> 0:16:00.800 where are we right now with with Christiano Ronaldo. I 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:04.840 don't know. Christiano Ronaldo, who your viewers may know, is 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:09.080 really essentially a bottle of dracon war made into human flesh, 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:12.640 one of the world's greatest footballers. Thirty six years old. 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:17.120 Now I mean just still an elite athlete, still scoring goals. 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:19.520 Is game has changed. He's no longer the all round 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:22.400 footballer who can dominate games. He now kind of hangs 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:26.280 around the area on the counter, scores a ton. He 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:29.520 wants away from Juventus. He said his goodbyes to Italian 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:33.080 powerhouse Juventus. I imagine him sittling, sitting on a plane, 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:36.040 just idling on the tarmat, trying to work out where 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:38.720 the heck he's going to go, probably plucking his eyebrows 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:42.720 to kill the time. And right now, will football has 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:46.000 become insane. You remember the Super League, don't you? Damn 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:48.480 you remember cast your mind about those many years ago. 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:51.480 That's what it feels like to the super League failed. 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:54.160 That was, But now what I realize is the Super 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:58.080 League was really an effort by the second level of 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:03.200 superpower teams, many of them owned by American owners Liverpool, Arsenal, 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:07.800 Manchester United, you know, even Barcelona and Real Madrid. They 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:12.600 felt threatened by the upper echelon of super super teams 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:17.879 PSG Paris and ger Man Chelsea and also Manchester City, 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:20.320 one owned by an Oli Guard. The other two owned 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:24.560 by sovereign states who have limitless financing that no one 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:27.240 else can keep up with, and they have essentially stretched 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:31.040 the market. They're willing to pay wages beyond belief no 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:33.600 one else can compete. And so the reality is with 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:38.960 Christiano Ronaldo, who is really more a Instagram platform than 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:42.240 a football He's an excellent footballer, but just the Instagram, 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:46.080 the social media grand platform that he is. That's why 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:49.919 teams currently wanted more than anything. There's very few places 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:52.280 that he can actually go. It was thought, who was 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:55.720 going to go to Manchester City which has already got 0:17:55.760 --> 0:18:01.000 just a glut of Manchester United? Yeah? Yeah, I mean 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:04.000 it's chaos is a ladder World Football Dawn has essentially 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:09.120 become the equivalent of watching Bezos, Branson and Musk compete 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.800 to send phallic rockets towards the moon. There's like three 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:16.760 teams were essentially just cheering for Excel balance sheets. Would 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:23.199 you rather have Messi or Ronaldo? I'd rather I'd rather 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:26.400 have a young gentleman with a huge Right now, there's 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:28.879 a player and Bape about to leave Paris and Jaman 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:31.440 and go to Real Madrid because Messi has arrived. These 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:36.200 two are massive brand platforms. They're incredibly aged. Deep respect 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:39.040 to Tom Brady going to Tampa Bay. But football is 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:41.879 at such a cohesive game you need players at the 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:45.719 elite level who can now play both ends, play ninety 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:48.560 minutes backwards, and for neither of those gentlemen can do it. 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:52.280 I adore Messi in this argument. Essentially, there's two kinds 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:55.879 of fans, those who do believe in plucking their eyebrows deeply, 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:57.879 those who don't. If you are in the former, you 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:01.000 adore and revere the godlike Ronald. If you don't, you 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:04.760 love the super cuts approach to life of lineal method. 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:08.720 We are blessed. We are blessed who have been alive 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:10.639 to watch both of them men play, and when they 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:15.119 both go, you know, we've taken their just consistent, superlative 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:18.840 excellence for granted. But they're both now in a situation 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:21.120 where they are so big there's only one or two 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:24.160 clubs they can go to. There's essentially a secret VIP 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:28.400 room within football's VIP room, and that's where they've both 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:31.600 got themselves into. But God bless them both. They've given 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:34.439 us incredible thrills. I don't know where Ronaldo is going 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:36.159 to go and that idea of him on the plane 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:39.520 just anxiously waiting and my lord, that plane ends up 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:43.639 in MLS in America. It will be hilarious. Oh he's 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:47.520 not ready for that. Yeah, you know. The reality is 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:50.960 there could be a plan C if I've better feeling. 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:53.560 Manchester United will take him for a variety of reasons. 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:57.200 Manchester United owned by the Tampa Bay owners, the Glazers. 0:19:57.200 --> 0:19:59.199 That's where he came through as a youth. It's a 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:02.720 fine fitting legacy to end his career. They truly need 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:05.760 a gentleman. Their team is highly paid, it's got so 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:08.800 many stars, it's not quite cohesive. I mean, it's just 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:11.640 to be. It will be hilarious to watch him wash 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:14.240 up there. But very soon, very soon, both of those 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:17.800 gentlemen could well come here because MLS is not a 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:21.639 footballing challenge, but to dominate America. That final brand play 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:24.600 for your legacy to come here and set up a 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:27.760 brand deal with shape Weights. Have a Ronaldo doing a 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:32.280 shit weight commercial. O QVC god, that will be? That 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:35.720 will be I did that as shape Weights. Just be clear, America. 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:37.800 That is that. That is the future that I want 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:42.480 to see better career run honor or Tom Brady. Damn. 0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:46.720 I mean they're both. They have both rewritten our understanding 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:52.200 of aging athletes. They have both superlative competitors. They are both, 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:56.920 you know, so disciplined in their approach to the game. 0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:04.240 Better looking, better looking four that would be oh that one, 0:21:04.440 --> 0:21:08.040 that one. You know. The reality is I believe, I believe, 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:10.160 and I've only met him once. Ronaldo still has all 0:21:10.200 --> 0:21:13.240 of his own hair, So I am, you know, as 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:17.280 a Bears fan. One of the things that upsets me 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:19.800 most in life, Dan Patrick, is I love the city 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:22.840 of Chicago. It's my spiritual home. I yearned to be there, 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:25.000 and whenever I land at the airport, as I did 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:26.600 a couple of weeks ago to go and throw out 0:21:26.640 --> 0:21:29.199 a pitch at the White Sox, you land, you have 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:31.560 that joy of being home, and then all the way 0:21:31.600 --> 0:21:34.200 in on the road from the airport to the city, 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:39.600 you are taunted by Brian Lacer pitching hair transplants. There's 0:21:39.720 --> 0:21:42.040 nothing that annoys me more because that man I idolize, 0:21:42.080 --> 0:21:46.639 that man balder Lacker was put him on the pedestal newly, freshly, 0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:50.320 fakely haired braner La. Frankly, he's gone a bit off 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:53.560 the rails, and so I do think if you if 0:21:53.600 --> 0:21:56.600 you if you go into that, if you steroid your hair, 0:21:56.800 --> 0:21:58.920 you do lose style points. So I've got to go. 0:21:59.000 --> 0:22:01.200 I've got to go with Ron. But both for those 0:22:01.280 --> 0:22:04.879 human beings. Ultimately, what you worship is that meant for that? 0:22:04.880 --> 0:22:07.440 That the rage eating of one almond when you lose 0:22:07.480 --> 0:22:11.400 a game allowed that kind of discipline. Um is why 0:22:11.560 --> 0:22:14.360 what I revere about that. It's the opposite of me. Essentially. 0:22:14.359 --> 0:22:17.800 In my meeting Albis Traxie, I love it. Hey, congrats 0:22:17.840 --> 0:22:19.640 on the book. It's great to talk to you. You 0:22:19.640 --> 0:22:21.840 you cleared it all up there. We know, we know 0:22:21.960 --> 0:22:25.120 exactly what's going on in soccer right now. Yeah. Me. Essentially, 0:22:25.240 --> 0:22:30.359 it's best us, It's Ransom, It's Musk, it's fell It 0:22:30.480 --> 0:22:34.280 rockets to the moon. Thank you, buddy, and muzzles off 0:22:34.320 --> 0:22:38.640 on your wedding thirty four years ago, Dan Patrick courage. 0:22:40.320 --> 0:22:43.280 Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in 0:22:43.280 --> 0:22:46.240 the nation. Catch all of our shows at Fox sports 0:22:46.359 --> 0:22:50.040 radio dot com and within the iHeartRadio app search f 0:22:50.400 --> 0:22:54.120 s R to listen live. Hey it's me Rob Parker. 0:22:54.800 --> 0:22:59.080 Check out my weekly MLB podcast inside the Parker for 0:22:59.200 --> 0:23:02.119