WEBVTT - 09/02/21 DPS Best Of 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:03.680 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:08.119 Sports Radio. Paulie says he might have an interesting poll question. 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:11.440 This is a college football related poll, specifically to college football. 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:16.720 If you could only attend one the game, the tailgate. 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:20.040 So you're going to whatever college football game you got 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:22.400 scheduled this weekend, you can eat a tailgate all day 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:24.000 and then you have to split and watch it at 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:27.080 a bar home wherever, or you miss the tailgate show 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:29.240 up kickoff, and you just get to go to the game. 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:34.960 I would say the game, because just about anything I 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:37.400 can do with the tailgate I can probably do when 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:39.800 I go to the game inside. Though it's hard to 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:42.519 eat well and drink well inside of college football game. 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:44.880 Now a lot of beer legal beer sales in college football. 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:48.520 How many places serve beer in college football? Not a lot. 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:51.279 If it's a campus field, or at least it used 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:53.320 to be a rule. If it's a campus field, yes, 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:55.040 I think you got to go tailgate. You throw a 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:57.360 football around, You're hanging out next all the RVs and 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:01.080 all these fancy colors and logos and flags, barbecuing. You 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:03.440 can kind of stretch out. You can have a little 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:05.120 TV or radio to kind of follow what's going on 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:07.520 with the game while you're pigging out on your favorite foods. 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:09.919 I know there's a lot of people who will agree 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:11.720 with you. I just if I'm going to the game, 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:14.640 I'm going to the game. If you said, okay, Ohio 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:18.600 State Michigan, great tailgate, and then you're going to stay outside, 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:21.960 what about Ohio Western Michigan, I'm gonna tweak it a 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:25.280 little bit, so it's not a couple top twenty five 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:30.440 Ohio Bobcats against is it Western Michigan? Brocos. We went 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:34.000 to a Harvard Yale game and I said, let's go, 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:37.280 let's go inside ready for kickoff, and nobody wanted to 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:40.040 go inside. Yeah, you were on an island, I know. 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:42.160 And I went inside and I realized I was just 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:44.160 about on an island. Nobody was in there, and I go, 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:47.720 it's Yale and Harvard battle. Everybody was outside, you know, 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:51.320 and they're they're plaid blankets and they're vests and twee 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:57.200 tweet jackets. Yeah, I you know, call me old school. 0:01:57.200 --> 0:02:00.480 I'd rather go see the game, all right, eight seven 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:03.560 three d P show email address DPA Dan Patrick dot com. 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:07.520 John McClean from the Houston Chronicle had a tweet Deshaun 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:11.200 Watson will never take another snap with the Texans. He 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:15.079 wants out. They want to accommodate him and will when 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:19.600 somebody makes the team an offer that they want. John 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:21.800 McClean goes on to say, I imagine his best chance 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:24.400 to get what he wants is close to the twenty 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:27.320 twenty two draft. Yeah, that's what I've been saying that. 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:29.839 There was all this talk a couple of days ago. 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:33.680 Oh my gosh, you know they're they're fielding calls for Watson, 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:38.240 and I thought, Okay, who's ponying up for this? Do 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:40.320 they know if he's going to play? Do they know 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:43.200 when he's going to play? Do they want him to play? 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.320 What I was told this morning by his sources, the 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:50.079 Texans are basically spending ten million dollars, just over ten 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:53.280 million dollars to tank. That's what they have to pay 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:58.120 Deshaun Watson to not play for them, because they're they're 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:00.560 a bad team with him. They're the worst team in 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:03.760 football without him. If you're going to pay him to 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:07.440 not play, he's healthy and he's one of the top 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:11.520 five quarterbacks in the league. But the Texans are going 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:16.400 to accommodate him. What if the Texans said, hey, you're healthy, 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:19.400 we want you to play. You haven't been charged. We 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:21.160 want you to go in and play, and then we'll 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:24.280 pay you. And then if he refuses, then you find him. 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:28.160 Then I can suspend him without pay if he doesn't 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:31.679 want to play. All right, That's where I was told, 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:34.440 as source said, they're paying ten million dollars to tank 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:38.200 like he's a great quarterback. We don't want you to play. 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:41.280 He doesn't want to play. We still haven't heard from 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:43.280 the NFL. And I don't know if the NFL is 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:46.920 going to wait until after you know, the legal system 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:50.880 runs its course here. But my guess is next year, 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:55.840 after all of this somehow is settled, then you're going 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.520 to find the trademarket for him, which makes the most 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:01.600 sense if I'm my emmy and I want him, Okay, 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:03.640 what am I giving you? Well, you're not going to 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:07.680 give me what you would give me next April. And 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:10.160 I got other teams that now will get involved in 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:14.040 this because there will be other teams. Once Deshaun Watson 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:17.479 this is settled one way or another, unless he goes 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:21.080 to prison, you're gonna give more. Yeah, Seed, So do 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:24.560 we know then at this point, if the Texans aren't 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:29.040 playing Deshaun Watson, or Deshaun Watson won't play for the Texans, 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:31.160 Like right now where we stand, are they sitting him 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:34.680 or is he sitting himself? I don't know that. And 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:37.120 you know, the more I ask my source and my 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:42.960 source said, you're being reasonable talking about an unreasonable organization, 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:46.359 because that's well, and it might be an unreasonable organization, 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:49.920 but I just find the audacity of someone in Deshaun 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:53.160 Watson's place to still be like, yeah, I know all 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:55.159 this is going on, and I'm still not playing for 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:58.680 you guys. That is fascinating. You know what. Yeah, I 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:00.560 know I got all of this others stuff going on, 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:02.960 and nobody'll trade for me, and I still won't play 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:05.120 for you guys. I'd rather sit and wait until you 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:08.560 can finally get rid of me. That's amazing because the 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.960 Texans would have every right to say suit up and play, 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:15.720 and then he would say, I'm not playing for you. 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:20.159 I don't want to play for this organization ever again. Okay, 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:22.560 well then we're going to find you. And then what's 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:27.400 his legal recourse after that he refuses to play? Yeah? Point, 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:30.960 I just checked the Texans official depth chart. Tyrod Taylor's 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:33.640 first string, David Bill is a second string. Deshaun Watson's 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:36.320 list his third string. Why is he listed third string? 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:38.760 He hasn't been charged with anything, he's not suspended. He's 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:42.680 completely eligible to play, and at least officially. I don't 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:45.000 know if behind the scenes he's eligible to play. But 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:46.919 this is we're ten days away from the start of 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:50.480 the season for the Texans. Like this, it's still one 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:53.440 of those stories where you go, Okay, he's gonna play 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:56.600 or they're going to trade him. Well, my source said, 0:05:57.279 --> 0:06:01.520 Miami is interested, but they're only interested in what they're 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:05.120 they're willing to give. Now. It's not full value, and 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:08.720 he's not going to be cleared anytime soon. What is 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:10.880 the rush to trade for him unless you're trying to 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:13.279 get him at a bargain basement price. Well, the Texans 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:17.000 realize this, I'd say they're not stupid, But then I 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:20.800 don't know if they're not stupid. But if you're Miami 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:24.160 and you're going, what do we need to give you? Now? 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:27.800 You want four ones and you want two twos? All right, 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:31.559 we're going to give you three ones and one two. 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:35.920 But also, what's happening with the Texans is you know, 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.800 they know that there's language here. Teams are going to 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:41.920 trade you something, and then they go, well, hey, if 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:46.279 he gets charged, if he gets suspended, if he goes 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:50.680 to jail, like all these things. They want contingency plans. 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:55.080 That clause is based on these draft picks, and you 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:57.800 know the Texans don't want to do that, Like they 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:00.279 want to get rid of Deshaun Watson and be done 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:04.320 with Deshaun Watson. Not go let me see he has 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:08.159 to play a certain number of snaps. You know, he's 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:11.400 only going to play X number of games. Therefore, it's 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:14.200 like what the Eagles did with Carson Wentz when you know, 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:15.880 what are we going to get in return? How many 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:18.480 games are you gonna play? And then that increases our 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:21.160 draft pick or we get a higher draft pick. Yeah. Point, 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:23.600 if you're Deshaun Watson, then you maintain your innocence, with 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:26.400 which he and his lawyer completely have. He said they're 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:29.960 completely innocent of these accusations. Wouldn't you demand to play? 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:33.000 Wouldn't you want to play? You know, why would you 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.320 hide out? Why would you refuse to play for this team? Yeah? 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:36.960 I know you're getting paid but you want to lose it. 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:39.160 He's already lost one season due to injury. You want 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:42.880 to lose another prime season? Or do you not care? Yeah? Soson, 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:45.840 But maybe I'm getting my timeline mixed up. But even 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:49.080 before all of these allegations came out, he was already 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:52.040 telling them he wanted out right. This is back in January. Yeah, 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:55.080 so he's never gotten off that line of I want 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:56.800 to leave here and I don't want to play here anymore, 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:00.520 regardless of whatever else has happened since then. And based 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:04.880 off of that, the Texans should have traded him. Now 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:08.080 I know that you can say this is revisionist history 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:11.680 or armchair quarterback, Monday Morning quarterback. They didn't know this 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:14.520 was happening, just based off that he doesn't want to 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:18.080 be with the organization. All right, I can trade you. 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:21.240 You don't want to be here, I'll trade you. But 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:24.239 now you have this that goes along with this everything else, 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:25.600 that he doesn't want to be here, and you have, 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:30.760 you know, this legal quagmire, and now you can't trade him, 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:33.000 or at least you can't trade him and get what 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:36.319 you think you deserve. He is a legitimate top five, 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:42.280 maybe top three quarterback. His stats for a bad team 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:48.040 were incredible. Deshaun Watson had an unbelievable year for a 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:52.280 team that was bad. You got his stats, PAULI, Yeah, 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:54.319 sixteen games, they were four and twelve. He was a 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:57.600 seventy percent passer, best of his career, five thousand yards, 0:08:57.600 --> 0:08:59.760 best of his career, thirty three touchdowns and only seven 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:03.760 p yes on one of the worst teams. He was unbelievable. Yes, John, 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:05.960 on top of all the legal stuff, if they continue 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:09.160 to ask for unrealistic things, and that's just yet another 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:10.960 brick of why they're not going to be able to 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.480 trade him, because, from what we've heard, teams that are 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:15.000 interested in dealing with them and they're not going to 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:17.360 give him all that stuff that they're asking for in 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:20.400 return for DeShawn. I don't want an average offer, I 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:24.400 don't want a medium offer. I want a great offer, 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:27.480 a true offer for Deshaun Watson. But that's not going 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:32.080 to happen until after February. It feels like unless somebody 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:35.920 is willing to if the Texans are willing to take less, 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:39.559 or somebody's willing to give more than what they've offered, 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:43.280 and the Dolphins are interested in Deshaun Watson, even though 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:46.840 Brian Flores has said two is my quarterback. Well, of 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:51.680 course he's your quarterback for now. Jared Goff was the 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:57.959 Rams quarterback until Matthew Stafford became available. Jimmy Garoppolo the 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:01.600 Niners quarterback until they traded up to get Trey Lance. 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:05.840 That's how this works, Andy Dalton, he's our quarterback until 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:11.160 we draft justin fields. They're all interchangeable. And maybe it's 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:13.920 not fair to a tongue of ioloah, they did shrink 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:17.760 the playbook when he came in. He wasn't consistent, he 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:22.280 wasn't comfortable. He's admitted that. But that's a good team. 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:27.080 You win ten games, and I love that matchup Week one, 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:32.000 Dolphins Patriots. Mac Jones to a tongue of ioloah, and 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:36.280 I do think the Patriots are making the playoffs. I do. 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:38.160 I think they are. I think they're going to be 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:42.600 a very good team. Now, I think that you know 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:45.160 you have you know what you have in Mac Jones. 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:48.320 You know his strengths and his weaknesses. He knows his 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:51.720 strengths and his weaknesses. You didn't have that in Cam Newton. 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:54.160 You weren't quite sure which Cam was going to show 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:57.640 up each weekend. How's the arm? Is it accurate? Are 0:10:57.679 --> 0:10:59.800 we going to do this with our legs? Now? You 0:10:59.880 --> 0:11:03.439 have a blueprint, a game plan that you've had for 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:07.600 twenty years with Tom Brady. You got a good offensive line, 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:10.640 You've got two good tight ends, you got good running backs, 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:13.240 you got depth there, and you get these players who 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:15.840 sat out last year, and all of a sudden, that 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:21.280 defense looks feels like it'll be formidable as well. And look, 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:23.400 I know Miami's good, and we know Buffalo as a 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:27.560 Super Bowl contender, but and maybe the Jets are improved, 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:31.120 but I think the Patriots are a playoff team absolutely. 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:34.520 All right, what's the full question we're going to set alone? 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:37.719 If you can only go to one the tailgate of 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:39.800 the game for college football, a lot of people saying, 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:42.000 we got I got to know what the matchup is like? 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:47.040 You said, well, yeah, I mean there are times when 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:48.920 you go to a game and the game is not 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:53.880 as exciting as the tailgate was or is interesting, but 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:56.720 I'm still going to the game. Yeah. See, and what 0:11:56.800 --> 0:12:00.560 if if we're going with a non exciting game, probably 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:04.240 the tailgate would be non exciting as well. Oh not necessarily. Well, no, 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:06.240 because we kind of have to balance it out. Why 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:08.319 do we get to have this amazing tailgate and spread 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:11.640 and a crappy football game and choose between the answer. 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:16.640 So you're saying a subpar game with a good tailgate, Well, 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:19.440 I mean it's not as great as you're thinking. Perhaps 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:22.960 it's not like Chad is coming in from Trigger and 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:28.560 cooking for that tailgate. Fair point. Okay, Louisiana Texas this 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:30.680 week is actually a good game and a good tailgate. 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:34.560 They'd have good food there. Yeah, it's a Texas right right, Yeah, 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:37.559 he needs on like a big line. Okay, Florida Atlantic 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:42.760 at Florida. Fau was getting twenty three in a right 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:47.920 back right. Oh, I'm sorry? Why have you after Scott Fitzgerald? 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:53.240 Why what do you ever do? How's that line going? 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:57.719 Ted Todd? Oh what Scott Fitzgerald everde to you? Yeah? 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:01.600 You just said Scott fitz Yeah, Pritt, you froze off. 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:03.719 That was I was trying to remember exactly how it 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:06.560 was set up by Melacunas, but that was I thought 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:13.480 that was hysterical. Thank you. Oh KU's here? Yeah, yeah, 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:17.360 how how was the last two hours of your life? Oh? Really? Fun, 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:21.400 but I pulled a power play. I was talking to 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:24.760 a very nice fireman who was blocking the roads of 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.520 a flood. I told him, hey, you know, the traders 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:29.480 are fired up. I gotta get to work right now. 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:31.240 And he asked me what I did. I told him 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:33.160 all about the show. It goes, all right, you gotta 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:35.240 go down this one way street the wrong way, and 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:37.640 then you can get back to the road. So we 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:39.560 had a We had a fan who let me through. 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:43.000 All right, I respect that. It's good to have you. 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:48.400 I'll send him some gear. Yeah, Seaton, that's Clesson. That's 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:50.800 a good move. Andy, Yeah it is. It is pretty 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:52.960 crazy out there. I don't know what your guys night 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:55.480 was like. I'm sure you have discussed, but it was wild. 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:58.679 Did you see the New York subways? Yeah, the water 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:03.439 gushing in man. People had videos that they posted. It 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:06.680 almost looks like you're in venice, like you would see 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:09.760 a gondola going down the track. And there was just 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:13.040 this video I saw from Philadelphia actually too, the what 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:16.000 is it, Andrew? What's the river? The Schuylkill school Kill 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:21.200 school Kill? Yeah, whatever, with some crazy rivers flooded over 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:27.880 like nuts the school kill. Look at the way. That's 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:32.240 spells and there's it's not possible. That's seventeen consonant skill kill. 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:36.280 It's got too many c k's, s's and y's and 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:43.480 l's skill kill. Well, there's always els in Philadelphia. Oh wow, 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:49.680 wow wow yeah, yes, okay, So for the means, guy's 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:52.960 been in traffic or eight hours. All right. So this weekend, Dan, 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:55.720 you got Kent State at Texas A and M. The 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:58.640 line is like thirty if you're at the tailgate, are 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:01.240 you going in? You have to you have to stay 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:03.120 at the tailgate or go into that game. You're an 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:05.080 A and M fan, This is probably gonna be an 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:07.040 easy one, no offense. Kent State, Well, you kind of 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.360 want to go in because it's the first game of 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.880 this season. If this was the third game of the 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:16.080 season and you're playing Kent State, then you might want 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:20.440 to stay. You know. I went to a South Carolina 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:25.400 game with Darius Rucker, and Darius has this unbelievable tailgate setup. 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.200 He's got one of those train cars that you park 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.400 and then they refurbished it and he's got his trigger 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:35.080 grill there. I mean, it's it's really spectacular. They were like, 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:37.080 come on, you're ready to go in. And I wasn't 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:39.800 ready to go into the game, even though it was 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.760 South Carolina and there's a lot of sights to see 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:47.120 in South Carolina football game. But I said, I'm good here. 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:49.000 I mean, we can. We can stay and watch the 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:52.760 game if you want to. Yeah, pa Ulane at Oklahoma. 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:54.760 The line's thirty one and a half. The game got 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:57.320 moved to Norman. You're at the tailgate. You may stay 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:00.360 at the tailgate. Be sure to catch the libation of 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:03.560 The Dan Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:07.320 am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio in the iHeart Radio 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:11.120 app bringing Peter King and Football Morning in America. Column 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:16.240 Thistend also contributes to NBC Sports as well. Peter, good morning, 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:19.800 How are you hey, Dan? Everything's going great? How about you? 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:22.640 All good? If I told you a week ago that 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:25.720 Mac Jones would be the starter in New England, or 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.400 that Cam Newton was going to be released, which one 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:32.160 would have surprised you the most? Cam Newton being released, 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:35.480 and it just says to me that a Bill Belichick 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:38.240 wants to make a clean break and look Dan. For 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:41.920 the last twelve months, everybody who was watched Cam Newton 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:45.520 play has been trying to think of reasons why he 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:49.040 doesn't look like Cam Newton and why he wasn't the 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:53.440 Cam Newton of five six years ago. He's still young, 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:59.600 relatively speaking in quarterback age. But the fact is Cam 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:05.359 Newton had not played well. And you know, I remember 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:09.880 covering Bill Parcels for four years in the eighties when 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:12.960 I worked for Newsday, and he's coaching the Giants with 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:17.280 Bill Belichick on the staff. Once a week, Bill Parcels 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:20.520 would have this mantra Fellas saying the guys in the 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:23.119 press because at that time there were no women covering 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:26.440 the team. Fellas. I can only go by what I see. 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:33.840 And Bill Belichick this summer watched as Mac Jones maybe marginally, 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:37.800 but certainly did I would perform Cam Newton in training camp. 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.440 So I think he just felt like I didn't see 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:45.439 very much with Cam Newton last year, and the rookie 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:49.880 has outperformed him this year, and the rookie certainly doesn't 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:53.720 either play or act like a rookie. I'm going with him, 0:17:53.760 --> 0:18:00.000 so I applaud Bill Belichick. I really think that quarterbacks 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:03.600 come in different shapes and sizes and mental acuity. And 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:09.000 obviously this guy who he has, he feels can handle 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:11.600 what Brian Flores is going to throw at him in 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:18.760 ten days. What about Cam's future as a starter. I mean, 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:21.639 would you hire Cam Newton and put him in a 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:24.840 starting quarterback role right now? I wouldn't. If you're the 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:30.120 would you, well, you know, you ask yourself. Here's the question. 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:34.280 If you're to Houston, Texans, do you bring Cam Newton, 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:39.960 a tarnished Cam Newton in who has not done anything 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:43.359 in your playbook in the entire offseason, and do you 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:45.679 bring him in and give him a crash course and 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:48.800 try to get him ready to play Jacksonville in ten 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:51.199 days or to get him ready to play at some 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:55.720 point this year? Maybe you do. But I just dan, 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:58.399 I watched Cam Newton play last year. I don't know 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:03.760 what that was. Really. He's okay. But to me, the 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:08.199 big question is would Cam Newton be a backup for 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:14.239 backup money and maybe work himself back into position to 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:17.040 earn a starting job. I think it would take a 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:19.239 lot of humility to do that. He might do it, 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:21.960 I don't. I don't really know Cam Newton, so I 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:25.160 can't tell you what he might do. But I think 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:28.000 it would take some humility for him to go somewhere 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:32.480 right now as a backup player. So if I were him, 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:36.320 I'd I'd sit out, wait until somebody had a desperate 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:39.040 need for a quarterback had a big injury, and then 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:41.160 I would sign with that team. Yeah, I can't see 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:43.840 him doing what Jameis Winston did in New Orleans, where 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:46.040 you know, you go in there and you're just going 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:48.720 to sit and be quiet and watch Drew Brees. You know, 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:51.359 I know there are other landing spots, you know, would 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:56.320 the Pittsburgh Steelers work for Cam Newton? Would the Ravens 0:19:56.359 --> 0:20:01.000 work as a backup quarterback? Minnesota Viking situation? And I 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:04.240 don't buy the Dallas Cowboys, you know, bringing him in 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:09.080 as a big personality. I just knowing Cam, he he 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:12.120 doesn't want to. I just don't think he can process 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:15.000 being a backup quarterback. I just don't. I just don't 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:19.520 see that happening. I mean, look, football, I think is 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:23.040 so different from the other sports. You know, in baseball, 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:26.240 I turned on the TV the other night and I 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:31.119 see the Red Sox or pitching Brad Peacock, and you know, 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:36.960 so in in baseball, everybody gets recycled about six times, 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:42.160 And in football, you know, a backup quarterback can get recycled. 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:46.640 Josh McCown can play for fifteen years as a backup quarterback, 0:20:46.760 --> 0:20:49.040 which he did. He made a lot of money, he 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:50.959 had a little bit of glory. I'm sure he had 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:54.640 a lot of fun. But you have to be willing 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:59.320 to say I am in service to the guy in 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:03.600 front of me, and maybe Cam Newton can say that 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:07.680 as I say. I don't know, but I certainly wouldn't say, hey, Cam, 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:11.680 you're our guy. What has he done recently to prove 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:15.040 that he should have a franchise put in his hands. 0:21:15.880 --> 0:21:19.080 I know urban Meyer came out and talked about those 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:21.679 that weren't vaccinated, that they he did factor that in 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:25.480 and who he was going to cut. I was told 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:30.119 this morning that the NFL Players Association might be looking 0:21:30.119 --> 0:21:33.040 into the Titans and the Colts for doing the same thing. 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:35.760 But I just don't know how you prove that. I 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:38.600 don't know if Bill Belichick didn't want to keep Can 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:42.200 Newton because he wasn't vaccinated on top of not performing 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:47.200 that well. Can the league? Can the Players Association fight this? 0:21:47.840 --> 0:21:50.120 Do this? You know? Is there any headway that can 0:21:50.160 --> 0:21:53.359 be made here that guys got cut because in part 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:56.720 they're not vaccinated. I think you would have to prove 0:21:56.880 --> 0:22:01.199 that the guy had equal ability to another player and 0:22:01.320 --> 0:22:04.320 the only reason that he was cut is because he 0:22:04.359 --> 0:22:07.520 was unvaccinated. I think if you can prove that, and 0:22:07.560 --> 0:22:09.840 I think that's going to be hard to prove, then 0:22:09.880 --> 0:22:12.400 you probably have a case. I think this is one 0:22:12.400 --> 0:22:15.679 of the dumbest rules I've ever seen enacted in my 0:22:15.800 --> 0:22:21.520 thirty eight years covering the NFL. Who wouldn't consider vaccine 0:22:21.600 --> 0:22:28.040 status when understand this, Dan an unvaccinated player test positive 0:22:28.600 --> 0:22:33.719 on a Friday, he is missing his team's next two games. 0:22:34.960 --> 0:22:41.240 I mean, what if you're the Miami Dolphins or Jacksonville Tampa, 0:22:41.520 --> 0:22:44.800 you were in a state where the virus is on 0:22:45.160 --> 0:22:48.960 fire and it's all you can do every day to 0:22:49.080 --> 0:22:54.000 avoid any of your guys getting the virus. I don't 0:22:54.119 --> 0:22:59.000 I think you would be irresponsible to not consider a 0:22:59.080 --> 0:23:03.520 player's vaccine nation status when figuring out your final roster, 0:23:03.640 --> 0:23:08.160 particularly if you're a team in Florida. But it feels 0:23:08.200 --> 0:23:12.280 like urban Meyer said what others think, and maybe that's 0:23:12.320 --> 0:23:15.280