Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. Paulie says he might have an interesting poll question.
Speaker 1: This is a college football related poll, specifically to college football.
Speaker 1: If you could only attend one the game, the tailgate.
Speaker 1: So you're going to whatever college football game you got
Speaker 1: scheduled this weekend, you can eat a tailgate all day
Speaker 1: and then you have to split and watch it at
Speaker 1: a bar home wherever, or you miss the tailgate show
Speaker 1: up kickoff, and you just get to go to the game.
Speaker 1: I would say the game, because just about anything I
Speaker 1: can do with the tailgate I can probably do when
Speaker 1: I go to the game inside. Though it's hard to
Speaker 1: eat well and drink well inside of college football game.
Speaker 1: Now a lot of beer legal beer sales in college football.
Speaker 1: How many places serve beer in college football? Not a lot.
Speaker 1: If it's a campus field, or at least it used
Speaker 1: to be a rule. If it's a campus field, yes,
Speaker 1: I think you got to go tailgate. You throw a
Speaker 1: football around, You're hanging out next all the RVs and
Speaker 1: all these fancy colors and logos and flags, barbecuing. You
Speaker 1: can kind of stretch out. You can have a little
Speaker 1: TV or radio to kind of follow what's going on
Speaker 1: with the game while you're pigging out on your favorite foods.
Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of people who will agree
Speaker 1: with you. I just if I'm going to the game,
Speaker 1: I'm going to the game. If you said, okay, Ohio
Speaker 1: State Michigan, great tailgate, and then you're going to stay outside,
Speaker 1: what about Ohio Western Michigan, I'm gonna tweak it a
Speaker 1: little bit, so it's not a couple top twenty five
Speaker 1: Ohio Bobcats against is it Western Michigan? Brocos. We went
Speaker 1: to a Harvard Yale game and I said, let's go,
Speaker 1: let's go inside ready for kickoff, and nobody wanted to
Speaker 1: go inside. Yeah, you were on an island, I know.
Speaker 1: And I went inside and I realized I was just
Speaker 1: about on an island. Nobody was in there, and I go,
Speaker 1: it's Yale and Harvard battle. Everybody was outside, you know,
Speaker 1: and they're they're plaid blankets and they're vests and twee
Speaker 1: tweet jackets. Yeah, I you know, call me old school.
Speaker 1: I'd rather go see the game, all right, eight seven
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Speaker 1: John McClean from the Houston Chronicle had a tweet Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson will never take another snap with the Texans. He
Speaker 1: wants out. They want to accommodate him and will when
Speaker 1: somebody makes the team an offer that they want. John
Speaker 1: McClean goes on to say, I imagine his best chance
Speaker 1: to get what he wants is close to the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two draft. Yeah, that's what I've been saying that.
Speaker 1: There was all this talk a couple of days ago.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, you know they're they're fielding calls for Watson,
Speaker 1: and I thought, Okay, who's ponying up for this? Do
Speaker 1: they know if he's going to play? Do they know
Speaker 1: when he's going to play? Do they want him to play?
Speaker 1: What I was told this morning by his sources, the
Speaker 1: Texans are basically spending ten million dollars, just over ten
Speaker 1: million dollars to tank. That's what they have to pay
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson to not play for them, because they're they're
Speaker 1: a bad team with him. They're the worst team in
Speaker 1: football without him. If you're going to pay him to
Speaker 1: not play, he's healthy and he's one of the top
Speaker 1: five quarterbacks in the league. But the Texans are going
Speaker 1: to accommodate him. What if the Texans said, hey, you're healthy,
Speaker 1: we want you to play. You haven't been charged. We
Speaker 1: want you to go in and play, and then we'll
Speaker 1: pay you. And then if he refuses, then you find him.
Speaker 1: Then I can suspend him without pay if he doesn't
Speaker 1: want to play. All right, That's where I was told,
Speaker 1: as source said, they're paying ten million dollars to tank
Speaker 1: like he's a great quarterback. We don't want you to play.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want to play. We still haven't heard from
Speaker 1: the NFL. And I don't know if the NFL is
Speaker 1: going to wait until after you know, the legal system
Speaker 1: runs its course here. But my guess is next year,
Speaker 1: after all of this somehow is settled, then you're going
Speaker 1: to find the trademarket for him, which makes the most
Speaker 1: sense if I'm my emmy and I want him, Okay,
Speaker 1: what am I giving you? Well, you're not going to
Speaker 1: give me what you would give me next April. And
Speaker 1: I got other teams that now will get involved in
Speaker 1: this because there will be other teams. Once Deshaun Watson
Speaker 1: this is settled one way or another, unless he goes
Speaker 1: to prison, you're gonna give more. Yeah, Seed, So do
Speaker 1: we know then at this point, if the Texans aren't
Speaker 1: playing Deshaun Watson, or Deshaun Watson won't play for the Texans,
Speaker 1: Like right now where we stand, are they sitting him
Speaker 1: or is he sitting himself? I don't know that. And
Speaker 1: you know, the more I ask my source and my
Speaker 1: source said, you're being reasonable talking about an unreasonable organization,
Speaker 1: because that's well, and it might be an unreasonable organization,
Speaker 1: but I just find the audacity of someone in Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson's place to still be like, yeah, I know all
Speaker 1: this is going on, and I'm still not playing for
Speaker 1: you guys. That is fascinating. You know what. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: know I got all of this others stuff going on,
Speaker 1: and nobody'll trade for me, and I still won't play
Speaker 1: for you guys. I'd rather sit and wait until you
Speaker 1: can finally get rid of me. That's amazing because the
Speaker 1: Texans would have every right to say suit up and play,
Speaker 1: and then he would say, I'm not playing for you.
Speaker 1: I don't want to play for this organization ever again. Okay,
Speaker 1: well then we're going to find you. And then what's
Speaker 1: his legal recourse after that he refuses to play? Yeah? Point,
Speaker 1: I just checked the Texans official depth chart. Tyrod Taylor's
Speaker 1: first string, David Bill is a second string. Deshaun Watson's
Speaker 1: list his third string. Why is he listed third string?
Speaker 1: He hasn't been charged with anything, he's not suspended. He's
Speaker 1: completely eligible to play, and at least officially. I don't
Speaker 1: know if behind the scenes he's eligible to play. But
Speaker 1: this is we're ten days away from the start of
Speaker 1: the season for the Texans. Like this, it's still one
Speaker 1: of those stories where you go, Okay, he's gonna play
Speaker 1: or they're going to trade him. Well, my source said,
Speaker 1: Miami is interested, but they're only interested in what they're
Speaker 1: they're willing to give. Now. It's not full value, and
Speaker 1: he's not going to be cleared anytime soon. What is
Speaker 1: the rush to trade for him unless you're trying to
Speaker 1: get him at a bargain basement price. Well, the Texans
Speaker 1: realize this, I'd say they're not stupid, But then I
Speaker 1: don't know if they're not stupid. But if you're Miami
Speaker 1: and you're going, what do we need to give you? Now?
Speaker 1: You want four ones and you want two twos? All right,
Speaker 1: we're going to give you three ones and one two.
Speaker 1: But also, what's happening with the Texans is you know,
Speaker 1: they know that there's language here. Teams are going to
Speaker 1: trade you something, and then they go, well, hey, if
Speaker 1: he gets charged, if he gets suspended, if he goes
Speaker 1: to jail, like all these things. They want contingency plans.
Speaker 1: That clause is based on these draft picks, and you
Speaker 1: know the Texans don't want to do that, Like they
Speaker 1: want to get rid of Deshaun Watson and be done
Speaker 1: with Deshaun Watson. Not go let me see he has
Speaker 1: to play a certain number of snaps. You know, he's
Speaker 1: only going to play X number of games. Therefore, it's
Speaker 1: like what the Eagles did with Carson Wentz when you know,
Speaker 1: what are we going to get in return? How many
Speaker 1: games are you gonna play? And then that increases our
Speaker 1: draft pick or we get a higher draft pick. Yeah. Point,
Speaker 1: if you're Deshaun Watson, then you maintain your innocence, with
Speaker 1: which he and his lawyer completely have. He said they're
Speaker 1: completely innocent of these accusations. Wouldn't you demand to play?
Speaker 1: Wouldn't you want to play? You know, why would you
Speaker 1: hide out? Why would you refuse to play for this team? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I know you're getting paid but you want to lose it.
Speaker 1: He's already lost one season due to injury. You want
Speaker 1: to lose another prime season? Or do you not care? Yeah? Soson,
Speaker 1: But maybe I'm getting my timeline mixed up. But even
Speaker 1: before all of these allegations came out, he was already
Speaker 1: telling them he wanted out right. This is back in January. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so he's never gotten off that line of I want
Speaker 1: to leave here and I don't want to play here anymore,
Speaker 1: regardless of whatever else has happened since then. And based
Speaker 1: off of that, the Texans should have traded him. Now
Speaker 1: I know that you can say this is revisionist history
Speaker 1: or armchair quarterback, Monday Morning quarterback. They didn't know this
Speaker 1: was happening, just based off that he doesn't want to
Speaker 1: be with the organization. All right, I can trade you.
Speaker 1: You don't want to be here, I'll trade you. But
Speaker 1: now you have this that goes along with this everything else,
Speaker 1: that he doesn't want to be here, and you have,
Speaker 1: you know, this legal quagmire, and now you can't trade him,
Speaker 1: or at least you can't trade him and get what
Speaker 1: you think you deserve. He is a legitimate top five,
Speaker 1: maybe top three quarterback. His stats for a bad team
Speaker 1: were incredible. Deshaun Watson had an unbelievable year for a
Speaker 1: team that was bad. You got his stats, PAULI, Yeah,
Speaker 1: sixteen games, they were four and twelve. He was a
Speaker 1: seventy percent passer, best of his career, five thousand yards,
Speaker 1: best of his career, thirty three touchdowns and only seven
Speaker 1: p yes on one of the worst teams. He was unbelievable. Yes, John,
Speaker 1: on top of all the legal stuff, if they continue
Speaker 1: to ask for unrealistic things, and that's just yet another
Speaker 1: brick of why they're not going to be able to
Speaker 1: trade him, because, from what we've heard, teams that are
Speaker 1: interested in dealing with them and they're not going to
Speaker 1: give him all that stuff that they're asking for in
Speaker 1: return for DeShawn. I don't want an average offer, I
Speaker 1: don't want a medium offer. I want a great offer,
Speaker 1: a true offer for Deshaun Watson. But that's not going
Speaker 1: to happen until after February. It feels like unless somebody
Speaker 1: is willing to if the Texans are willing to take less,
Speaker 1: or somebody's willing to give more than what they've offered,
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins are interested in Deshaun Watson, even though
Speaker 1: Brian Flores has said two is my quarterback. Well, of
Speaker 1: course he's your quarterback for now. Jared Goff was the
Speaker 1: Rams quarterback until Matthew Stafford became available. Jimmy Garoppolo the
Speaker 1: Niners quarterback until they traded up to get Trey Lance.
Speaker 1: That's how this works, Andy Dalton, he's our quarterback until
Speaker 1: we draft justin fields. They're all interchangeable. And maybe it's
Speaker 1: not fair to a tongue of ioloah, they did shrink
Speaker 1: the playbook when he came in. He wasn't consistent, he
Speaker 1: wasn't comfortable. He's admitted that. But that's a good team.
Speaker 1: You win ten games, and I love that matchup Week one,
Speaker 1: Dolphins Patriots. Mac Jones to a tongue of ioloah, and
Speaker 1: I do think the Patriots are making the playoffs. I do.
Speaker 1: I think they are. I think they're going to be
Speaker 1: a very good team. Now, I think that you know
Speaker 1: you have you know what you have in Mac Jones.
Speaker 1: You know his strengths and his weaknesses. He knows his
Speaker 1: strengths and his weaknesses. You didn't have that in Cam Newton.
Speaker 1: You weren't quite sure which Cam was going to show
Speaker 1: up each weekend. How's the arm? Is it accurate? Are
Speaker 1: we going to do this with our legs? Now? You
Speaker 1: have a blueprint, a game plan that you've had for
Speaker 1: twenty years with Tom Brady. You got a good offensive line,
Speaker 1: You've got two good tight ends, you got good running backs,
Speaker 1: you got depth there, and you get these players who
Speaker 1: sat out last year, and all of a sudden, that
Speaker 1: defense looks feels like it'll be formidable as well. And look,
Speaker 1: I know Miami's good, and we know Buffalo as a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl contender, but and maybe the Jets are improved,
Speaker 1: but I think the Patriots are a playoff team absolutely.
Speaker 1: All right, what's the full question we're going to set alone?
Speaker 1: If you can only go to one the tailgate of
Speaker 1: the game for college football, a lot of people saying,
Speaker 1: we got I got to know what the matchup is like?
Speaker 1: You said, well, yeah, I mean there are times when
Speaker 1: you go to a game and the game is not
Speaker 1: as exciting as the tailgate was or is interesting, but
Speaker 1: I'm still going to the game. Yeah. See, and what
Speaker 1: if if we're going with a non exciting game, probably
Speaker 1: the tailgate would be non exciting as well. Oh not necessarily. Well, no,
Speaker 1: because we kind of have to balance it out. Why
Speaker 1: do we get to have this amazing tailgate and spread
Speaker 1: and a crappy football game and choose between the answer.
Speaker 1: So you're saying a subpar game with a good tailgate, Well,
Speaker 1: I mean it's not as great as you're thinking. Perhaps
Speaker 1: it's not like Chad is coming in from Trigger and
Speaker 1: cooking for that tailgate. Fair point. Okay, Louisiana Texas this
Speaker 1: week is actually a good game and a good tailgate.
Speaker 1: They'd have good food there. Yeah, it's a Texas right right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he needs on like a big line. Okay, Florida Atlantic
Speaker 1: at Florida. Fau was getting twenty three in a right
Speaker 1: back right. Oh, I'm sorry? Why have you after Scott Fitzgerald?
Speaker 1: Why what do you ever do? How's that line going?
Speaker 1: Ted Todd? Oh what Scott Fitzgerald everde to you? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You just said Scott fitz Yeah, Pritt, you froze off.
Speaker 1: That was I was trying to remember exactly how it
Speaker 1: was set up by Melacunas, but that was I thought
Speaker 1: that was hysterical. Thank you. Oh KU's here? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: how how was the last two hours of your life? Oh? Really? Fun,
Speaker 1: but I pulled a power play. I was talking to
Speaker 1: a very nice fireman who was blocking the roads of
Speaker 1: a flood. I told him, hey, you know, the traders
Speaker 1: are fired up. I gotta get to work right now.
Speaker 1: And he asked me what I did. I told him
Speaker 1: all about the show. It goes, all right, you gotta
Speaker 1: go down this one way street the wrong way, and
Speaker 1: then you can get back to the road. So we
Speaker 1: had a We had a fan who let me through.
Speaker 1: All right, I respect that. It's good to have you.
Speaker 1: I'll send him some gear. Yeah, Seaton, that's Clesson. That's
Speaker 1: a good move. Andy, Yeah it is. It is pretty
Speaker 1: crazy out there. I don't know what your guys night
Speaker 1: was like. I'm sure you have discussed, but it was wild.
Speaker 1: Did you see the New York subways? Yeah, the water
Speaker 1: gushing in man. People had videos that they posted. It
Speaker 1: almost looks like you're in venice, like you would see
Speaker 1: a gondola going down the track. And there was just
Speaker 1: this video I saw from Philadelphia actually too, the what
Speaker 1: is it, Andrew? What's the river? The Schuylkill school Kill
Speaker 1: school Kill? Yeah, whatever, with some crazy rivers flooded over
Speaker 1: like nuts the school kill. Look at the way. That's
Speaker 1: spells and there's it's not possible. That's seventeen consonant skill kill.
Speaker 1: It's got too many c k's, s's and y's and
Speaker 1: l's skill kill. Well, there's always els in Philadelphia. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: wow wow yeah, yes, okay, So for the means, guy's
Speaker 1: been in traffic or eight hours. All right. So this weekend, Dan,
Speaker 1: you got Kent State at Texas A and M. The
Speaker 1: line is like thirty if you're at the tailgate, are
Speaker 1: you going in? You have to you have to stay
Speaker 1: at the tailgate or go into that game. You're an
Speaker 1: A and M fan, This is probably gonna be an
Speaker 1: easy one, no offense. Kent State, Well, you kind of
Speaker 1: want to go in because it's the first game of
Speaker 1: this season. If this was the third game of the
Speaker 1: season and you're playing Kent State, then you might want
Speaker 1: to stay. You know. I went to a South Carolina
Speaker 1: game with Darius Rucker, and Darius has this unbelievable tailgate setup.
Speaker 1: He's got one of those train cars that you park
Speaker 1: and then they refurbished it and he's got his trigger
Speaker 1: grill there. I mean, it's it's really spectacular. They were like,
Speaker 1: come on, you're ready to go in. And I wasn't
Speaker 1: ready to go into the game, even though it was
Speaker 1: South Carolina and there's a lot of sights to see
Speaker 1: in South Carolina football game. But I said, I'm good here.
Speaker 1: I mean, we can. We can stay and watch the
Speaker 1: game if you want to. Yeah, pa Ulane at Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: The line's thirty one and a half. The game got
Speaker 1: moved to Norman. You're at the tailgate. You may stay
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Speaker 1: How are you hey, Dan? Everything's going great? How about you?
Speaker 1: All good? If I told you a week ago that
Speaker 1: Mac Jones would be the starter in New England, or
Speaker 1: that Cam Newton was going to be released, which one
Speaker 1: would have surprised you the most? Cam Newton being released,
Speaker 1: and it just says to me that a Bill Belichick
Speaker 1: wants to make a clean break and look Dan. For
Speaker 1: the last twelve months, everybody who was watched Cam Newton
Speaker 1: play has been trying to think of reasons why he
Speaker 1: doesn't look like Cam Newton and why he wasn't the
Speaker 1: Cam Newton of five six years ago. He's still young,
Speaker 1: relatively speaking in quarterback age. But the fact is Cam
Speaker 1: Newton had not played well. And you know, I remember
Speaker 1: covering Bill Parcels for four years in the eighties when
Speaker 1: I worked for Newsday, and he's coaching the Giants with
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick on the staff. Once a week, Bill Parcels
Speaker 1: would have this mantra Fellas saying the guys in the
Speaker 1: press because at that time there were no women covering
Speaker 1: the team. Fellas. I can only go by what I see.
Speaker 1: And Bill Belichick this summer watched as Mac Jones maybe marginally,
Speaker 1: but certainly did I would perform Cam Newton in training camp.
Speaker 1: So I think he just felt like I didn't see
Speaker 1: very much with Cam Newton last year, and the rookie
Speaker 1: has outperformed him this year, and the rookie certainly doesn't
Speaker 1: either play or act like a rookie. I'm going with him,
Speaker 1: so I applaud Bill Belichick. I really think that quarterbacks
Speaker 1: come in different shapes and sizes and mental acuity. And
Speaker 1: obviously this guy who he has, he feels can handle
Speaker 1: what Brian Flores is going to throw at him in
Speaker 1: ten days. What about Cam's future as a starter. I mean,
Speaker 1: would you hire Cam Newton and put him in a
Speaker 1: starting quarterback role right now? I wouldn't. If you're the
Speaker 1: would you, well, you know, you ask yourself. Here's the question.
Speaker 1: If you're to Houston, Texans, do you bring Cam Newton,
Speaker 1: a tarnished Cam Newton in who has not done anything
Speaker 1: in your playbook in the entire offseason, and do you
Speaker 1: bring him in and give him a crash course and
Speaker 1: try to get him ready to play Jacksonville in ten
Speaker 1: days or to get him ready to play at some
Speaker 1: point this year? Maybe you do. But I just dan,
Speaker 1: I watched Cam Newton play last year. I don't know
Speaker 1: what that was. Really. He's okay. But to me, the
Speaker 1: big question is would Cam Newton be a backup for
Speaker 1: backup money and maybe work himself back into position to
Speaker 1: earn a starting job. I think it would take a
Speaker 1: lot of humility to do that. He might do it,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't really know Cam Newton, so I
Speaker 1: can't tell you what he might do. But I think
Speaker 1: it would take some humility for him to go somewhere
Speaker 1: right now as a backup player. So if I were him,
Speaker 1: I'd I'd sit out, wait until somebody had a desperate
Speaker 1: need for a quarterback had a big injury, and then
Speaker 1: I would sign with that team. Yeah, I can't see
Speaker 1: him doing what Jameis Winston did in New Orleans, where
Speaker 1: you know, you go in there and you're just going
Speaker 1: to sit and be quiet and watch Drew Brees. You know,
Speaker 1: I know there are other landing spots, you know, would
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers work for Cam Newton? Would the Ravens
Speaker 1: work as a backup quarterback? Minnesota Viking situation? And I
Speaker 1: don't buy the Dallas Cowboys, you know, bringing him in
Speaker 1: as a big personality. I just knowing Cam, he he
Speaker 1: doesn't want to. I just don't think he can process
Speaker 1: being a backup quarterback. I just don't. I just don't
Speaker 1: see that happening. I mean, look, football, I think is
Speaker 1: so different from the other sports. You know, in baseball,
Speaker 1: I turned on the TV the other night and I
Speaker 1: see the Red Sox or pitching Brad Peacock, and you know,
Speaker 1: so in in baseball, everybody gets recycled about six times,
Speaker 1: And in football, you know, a backup quarterback can get recycled.
Speaker 1: Josh McCown can play for fifteen years as a backup quarterback,
Speaker 1: which he did. He made a lot of money, he
Speaker 1: had a little bit of glory. I'm sure he had
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. But you have to be willing
Speaker 1: to say I am in service to the guy in
Speaker 1: front of me, and maybe Cam Newton can say that
Speaker 1: as I say. I don't know, but I certainly wouldn't say, hey, Cam,
Speaker 1: you're our guy. What has he done recently to prove
Speaker 1: that he should have a franchise put in his hands.
Speaker 1: I know urban Meyer came out and talked about those
Speaker 1: that weren't vaccinated, that they he did factor that in
Speaker 1: and who he was going to cut. I was told
Speaker 1: this morning that the NFL Players Association might be looking
Speaker 1: into the Titans and the Colts for doing the same thing.
Speaker 1: But I just don't know how you prove that. I
Speaker 1: don't know if Bill Belichick didn't want to keep Can
Speaker 1: Newton because he wasn't vaccinated on top of not performing
Speaker 1: that well. Can the league? Can the Players Association fight this?
Speaker 1: Do this? You know? Is there any headway that can
Speaker 1: be made here that guys got cut because in part
Speaker 1: they're not vaccinated. I think you would have to prove
Speaker 1: that the guy had equal ability to another player and
Speaker 1: the only reason that he was cut is because he
Speaker 1: was unvaccinated. I think if you can prove that, and
Speaker 1: I think that's going to be hard to prove, then
Speaker 1: you probably have a case. I think this is one
Speaker 1: of the dumbest rules I've ever seen enacted in my
Speaker 1: thirty eight years covering the NFL. Who wouldn't consider vaccine
Speaker 1: status when understand this, Dan an unvaccinated player test positive
Speaker 1: on a Friday, he is missing his team's next two games.
Speaker 1: I mean, what if you're the Miami Dolphins or Jacksonville Tampa,
Speaker 1: you were in a state where the virus is on
Speaker 1: fire and it's all you can do every day to
Speaker 1: avoid any of your guys getting the virus. I don't
Speaker 1: I think you would be irresponsible to not consider a
Speaker 1: player's vaccine nation status when figuring out your final roster,
Speaker 1: particularly if you're a team in Florida. But it feels
Speaker 1: like urban Meyer said what others think, and maybe that's
Speaker 1: what got him in trouble. I mean he's used yeah,
Speaker 1: but I mean he's used to saying what he wants
Speaker 1: to because he was in college and nobody was really
Speaker 1: checking him on this. You know what I was told
Speaker 1: this after urban said what he said, and that is
Speaker 1: that there was not a single one of the final
Speaker 1: cuts of the Jaguars that it came down to vaccination status?
Speaker 1: Was you know, did were they aware of vaccination status
Speaker 1: of the players they kept and the players they cut? Yes?
Speaker 1: And again, Dan, I am not saying, I am not
Speaker 1: reporting that vaccination status had nothing to do with it,
Speaker 1: because I don't know that. But what I do what
Speaker 1: I have heard reliably is that it wasn't the driving
Speaker 1: force in any of the roster decisions they made. But
Speaker 1: I figure urban Meyer was simply saying what every other
Speaker 1: coach in the league, every other general manager in the
Speaker 1: league takes into account, which is we will know and
Speaker 1: factor in a player's vaccination status. You know why, because
Speaker 1: it is irresponsible not to. Deshaun Watson situation to me
Speaker 1: is he's going to be a healthy scratch, he's eligible
Speaker 1: to play, hasn't been charged, and it feels like the
Speaker 1: Texans are saying we'll pay him ten million dollars for
Speaker 1: us to tank that he's not going to play, doesn't
Speaker 1: want to play. We don't want him to play. We're
Speaker 1: gonna wait until we get a good offer. How do
Speaker 1: you make sense of this? I think they have gotten
Speaker 1: a couple of good offers, but they haven't gotten the
Speaker 1: offer recently. In my opinion, I think when the history
Speaker 1: book history chapter is written on this story, if we
Speaker 1: ever find out exactly what Caroline offered way back before
Speaker 1: we knew any of this stuff, we'll say, holy cow,
Speaker 1: they turned down that. And obviously in retrospect, I'm sure
Speaker 1: they wish they took that, whatever that exactly is. But
Speaker 1: I think that the reason why he's not on the
Speaker 1: Commissioner's example list yet and why the NFL has really
Speaker 1: got to think hard about this that Lindsay Jones wrote
Speaker 1: a good story about it at The Athletic. They have
Speaker 1: to think about whether they want this sort of sort
Speaker 1: of damocles hanging over their heads. And if the Texans
Speaker 1: tomorrow said our starting quarterback is Deshaun Watson, is the
Speaker 1: league going to let that happen? That is going to
Speaker 1: be the test. I don't think the Texans are going
Speaker 1: to say that, but I do think that the league
Speaker 1: should clarify his status before the start of the year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was wondering, can they punish him prior to this
Speaker 1: investigation being completed. That's a good question. I don't think
Speaker 1: they want to set that precedent, But I also don't
Speaker 1: think they want to put a quarterback on the field.
Speaker 1: With twenty two cases involving a possible sex crime in each,
Speaker 1: they don't want to put that guy on the field.
Speaker 1: And I have a feeling right now that the Texans
Speaker 1: are doing the NFL office a solid by just keeping
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson and Limbo. He's Peter King and his column
Speaker 1: must read every Monday morning Football Morning in America. The
Speaker 1: Packers and Saints relocate to Jacksonville. Why Jacksonville. I was
Speaker 1: a little surprised it was in Dallas because that's where
Speaker 1: the Saints are. But I think logistically the NFL thought
Speaker 1: that Jacksonville was the best play for them because of
Speaker 1: availability and because quite honestly, they absolutely didn't want to
Speaker 1: do anything that would give the Packers any sort of
Speaker 1: home field advantage. And as strange as this sounds, in
Speaker 1: I think it's a slight bit of a home field
Speaker 1: advantage for New Orleans fans who can drive seven hours
Speaker 1: to this game and it's going to be outside, so
Speaker 1: that is an advantage. Even though New Orleans plays inside,
Speaker 1: they're practicing in that you know, ninety five degree heat
Speaker 1: index most days. And so I just think in terms
Speaker 1: of home field advantage, Jacksonville seemed like a better place
Speaker 1: than Dallas. But again I think that logistically there must
Speaker 1: have been some issues also in Dallas that prevented the
Speaker 1: relocation of the game there. When do you make your
Speaker 1: Super Bowl pick Monday? And I haven't done it yet.
Speaker 1: I the one thing I do know is I just
Speaker 1: can't pick Kansas City Tampa. I want to. I think
Speaker 1: they are the two best teams, but it never happens.
Speaker 1: So let's say that happened with what Dallas and Buffalo
Speaker 1: right almost thirty years ago. I just, I just it's
Speaker 1: just so rare, and I'm not sure whether I'm gonna
Speaker 1: pick either one of them. I've got some interesting candidates
Speaker 1: on the outside that I'm considering. Okay, But if I
Speaker 1: said you could pick Kansas City or Tampa to go
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl, which one would you take? I'd
Speaker 1: probably take I'd probably take Kansas City. And that's an
Speaker 1: odd thing to say, because I do think that in
Speaker 1: many ways Tampa's road is slightly easier. I know, this
Speaker 1: is crazy, Dan, I just I just think that COVID
Speaker 1: is going to impact teams in these high spot areas.
Speaker 1: I just don't know how. It's just too it's too prevalent,
Speaker 1: and it's just too hard to put your players in
Speaker 1: bubble rap for the year. Maybe it'll maybe it'll have
Speaker 1: an impact on Kansas City players too, because in Missouri
Speaker 1: there's obviously, you know, scattered out breaks as well. So
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I think both of those teams
Speaker 1: on paper right now are the best in the AFC,
Speaker 1: in NFC. If you were going to bet whether the
Speaker 1: Patriots make the playoffs or not, definitely, yes, definitely, definitely, yes,
Speaker 1: Oh I would bet that. In fact, right now, I
Speaker 1: am really on the precipice to try to determine which
Speaker 1: team is better right now, Miami or New England. And
Speaker 1: I think, Dan, there has been this thought that, Okay,
Speaker 1: New England's got a lot of areas to rebuild. You know,
Speaker 1: I didn't watch a lot of preseason football of the Patriots,
Speaker 1: but I'll tell you that front seven is damn good
Speaker 1: and it's very deep, and they are going to give
Speaker 1: a lot of quarterbacks a lot of problems. I watched
Speaker 1: the Giants game the other day and they just they
Speaker 1: were they overmatched, if that's such a word. The Giants
Speaker 1: offensive front. Now we all know that the Giants are
Speaker 1: in trouble on the offensive front, but I'll tell you
Speaker 1: it's New England toyed with them, and I, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't put a lot in preseason games,
Speaker 1: but when Bill Belichick plays the ones, he is asking
Speaker 1: them to play at a regular season level, and I
Speaker 1: think their front seven could be really, really good. Give
Speaker 1: me a good team that will disappoint this year. If
Speaker 1: you ask me the opposite, I would say the Chargers.
Speaker 1: If you asked me a good team that will disappoint,
Speaker 1: I might say Miami because even though I like Miami
Speaker 1: and I like a lot of moves they've made. I
Speaker 1: right now, as we sit here, I just have no
Speaker 1: idea how Too was going to play. And you can
Speaker 1: have all of the good wishes and good feelings going
Speaker 1: for you, but if your quarterback doesn't play well, you're
Speaker 1: not going to be good. And you know, I worry
Speaker 1: a little bit about the Vikings too. I worry that
Speaker 1: the Vikings, which have who have so many good defensive
Speaker 1: players back for him are really reliant on Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: in a huge, huge way. And as I said at
Speaker 1: the start of this conversation, if an unvaccinated player test
Speaker 1: positive on Friday, he misses his next two games, and
Speaker 1: whether it's going to be a pickup of Seawan Mannion
Speaker 1: or a very weak backup quarter situation led by Kellen
Speaker 1: Mond in Minnesota, I would not be confident you can win.
Speaker 1: Maybe you can win one game without Kirk Cousins. And
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that Kirk Cousins is Tom Brady, but
Speaker 1: I'm saying that he's a lot better than anybody else
Speaker 1: they have. Thank you, Pete. We look forward to Monday's column.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. All the best, Dan, Thank you
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Speaker 1: PAD forty Sports Illustrated Senior Writer. Where did you go
Speaker 1: to college? Pad? University of Missouri and above average partying school?
Speaker 1: I would say, I don't know. I don't know how
Speaker 1: high we will rank on this list. Did you have
Speaker 1: a famous classmate at Missouri? Well, there was this guy.
Speaker 1: He was in journalism school and he dropped out three
Speaker 1: hours shorter graduation. I'm not sure what became of him,
Speaker 1: but his name was Brad Pitt. He was in journalism, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was in advertising at Missouri. Did you have classes
Speaker 1: with Brad Pitt? If I did, I didn't know it.
Speaker 1: You know, I might have. I tried to stay away
Speaker 1: from the ad classes, but you know we might have
Speaker 1: had some of those, you know, history and Principles of
Speaker 1: journalism class. What did you make of Week zero for
Speaker 1: college football? Why did we have to have Week zero
Speaker 1: so that Nebraska fans could absolutely lose their minds. That's
Speaker 1: why we had to have weeks too. And that was
Speaker 1: really the only major takeaway from it is, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: what a disastrous start for Nebraska. And I gave the
Speaker 1: Big Ten credit. They have given us stuff to watch
Speaker 1: early with that game and then with a bunch of
Speaker 1: good games this weekend, so we're not sitting around watching,
Speaker 1: you know, Big ten schools against directional you. But that
Speaker 1: was woo. That was a bad start for Nebraska. Is
Speaker 1: the Heisman Spencer rattlers to lose? I think that might
Speaker 1: be a little too simple, but you know what, you
Speaker 1: plug him in and the way he ended last year,
Speaker 1: if that carries over and he has that second year
Speaker 1: bump up like Baker Mayfield did, his numbers should be
Speaker 1: spectacular and if they win their games, then he would
Speaker 1: be a logical favorite. But I think you look at
Speaker 1: Sam Howell at North Carolina and there's gonna be you know,
Speaker 1: somebody's gonna put up a bunch of stats for Ohio State.
Speaker 1: Somebody's gonna put up a bunch of stats for Alabama.
Speaker 1: Maybe du dj Oungea at Clemson. So there's some other alternatives.
Speaker 1: For now. Ohio State kicks off its season against Minnesota.
Speaker 1: What other the other intriguing games do you have this weekend?
Speaker 1: That one's super intriguing. You know, Thursday night we've got
Speaker 1: some stuff, but Friday we have North Carolina Virginia Tech,
Speaker 1: and then Saturday so much, I mean LSU at UCLA
Speaker 1: and LSU was displaced by Hurricane Ida. You know, how
Speaker 1: prepared are they to go into the Rose Bowl to
Speaker 1: play Chip Kelly's best team. Miami brings a lot of
Speaker 1: confidence and experience in against an inexperienced Alabama offense. We'll
Speaker 1: see if they can keep it close. And then I'm
Speaker 1: going to Georgia Clemson, which is a big time heavyweight game,
Speaker 1: but both sides could have COVID issues there. We'll see
Speaker 1: if there are players missing on both sides. If I
Speaker 1: said that you could have Ohio State, Clemson, Alabama or
Speaker 1: everybody else in America for the national title, would you
Speaker 1: take those three or an outlier? I would probably take
Speaker 1: those three since my top two going into the season,
Speaker 1: or Alabama and o'ha. Stay that said, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't think they're way above Georgia and Oklahoma, but I still,
Speaker 1: you know, past history and recruiting, I would put those three. Certainly,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna give me those three, I'd take him.
Speaker 1: Who is the most intriguing player slash person in college
Speaker 1: football this year? I'm gonna say Bryce Young, the quarterback
Speaker 1: at Alabama. He has not played a meaningful snap yet,
Speaker 1: and he's gotten six seven figures in endorsements. He steps
Speaker 1: into a position that, as we have seen, has produced
Speaker 1: three straight NFL starters first round guys that are you know,
Speaker 1: going gone on to do well. And he's got a
Speaker 1: new offensive coordinator, Bill O'Brien coming from the NFL. You know,
Speaker 1: doesn't work the way it has the last several years
Speaker 1: at Alabama. He's a super talent, but again, haven't seen
Speaker 1: him do it at the college level yet. The most
Speaker 1: intriguing coach this season in college football is Steve Sarkisian Texas,
Speaker 1: you know, stepping in. They spent a lot of money
Speaker 1: to get rid of Tom Herman. They just made one
Speaker 1: of the most audacious moves in the history of college
Speaker 1: athletics to jump to the SEC. And while they're not
Speaker 1: in there yet, that's still that's the context for this season.
Speaker 1: And sark He's coming from the you know, the the
Speaker 1: Alabama rehab mode. There you know where they do, they
Speaker 1: recycle coaches and give him a second chance, and we'll
Speaker 1: see is he a better coach than he was at
Speaker 1: USC and at Washington because he was okay there but
Speaker 1: he wasn't great. Can he get Texas up to a
Speaker 1: level where they can go into the SEC and compete
Speaker 1: eye to eye with people you have the Big ten
Speaker 1: acc in Pact twelve. This is sort of they're in
Speaker 1: the on deck circle, just like Texas and Oklahoma and
Speaker 1: in the SEC. But it feels like there's so many
Speaker 1: questions and not any answers with this alliance here that
Speaker 1: they just want to be able to say, hey, we
Speaker 1: got veto power with these three conferences against the SEC.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm trying to figure this out of
Speaker 1: is there another shoe to drop with this or is
Speaker 1: it just sort of going to move along in a
Speaker 1: snails pace. I think that there were some obviously some
Speaker 1: huge action and significant reaction, but mostly I think this
Speaker 1: was them saying, hey, we all need to do something here.
Speaker 1: We're not sure exactly what we're doing yet, but we
Speaker 1: got to do something. And so this alliance, Yeah, what
Speaker 1: it does It gives a proactive win to three relatively
Speaker 1: new commissioners who need something to show their constituency like, hey,
Speaker 1: we're on top of this. Secondly, I think the biggest
Speaker 1: thing it does is trying to slow down an ESPN
Speaker 1: SEC power play and say we're not voting for your
Speaker 1: expanded playoff if it's all going to be an ESPN property,
Speaker 1: because two of our conferences, the Big Ten and the
Speaker 1: PAC twelve, are closely in line with FOX, and we
Speaker 1: don't want to give everything to the to have everything
Speaker 1: continue to be with the ESPN, especially now that you
Speaker 1: have even made it very clear that SEC gets most
Speaker 1: Favored Nation status with that network. So I think this
Speaker 1: is as much a way to stop an ESPN slash,
Speaker 1: SEC moved to just have even more influence over the
Speaker 1: way college football is run. I'm surprised that the SEC
Speaker 1: didn't reach out to Oregon USC unless we didn't hear
Speaker 1: about it, But I would have. I would have truly
Speaker 1: had a SEC East and an SEC West, and you
Speaker 1: could have put Texas and Oklahoma in with USC and
Speaker 1: Oregon in Washington and Arizona State. Do you think that
Speaker 1: Greg Sankey reached out to those schools. I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: shocked if he did. You know, as you said. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're if you're gonna go big, why not go humongous? Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean you've gone to sixteen. What's to op you
Speaker 1: now from continuing to go further and just try to
Speaker 1: do everything you can tee to put even your one competitor, really,
Speaker 1: which is the Big Ten in terms of revenue and
Speaker 1: fan bases and all that stuff, even further behind the
Speaker 1: one thing though, I mean, the PAC twelve is different.
Speaker 1: We know that. And USC as much as they like
Speaker 1: football and want to be back to being prominent in football,
Speaker 1: it's also a pretty serious academic institution, as is most
Speaker 1: of the states that all the PAC twelve schools in
Speaker 1: the in the state of California, and I'm not sure
Speaker 1: they're ready to just say, Okay, let's make this incredibly
Speaker 1: different move just for football reasons. Well, that's what I
Speaker 1: wondered about the Big Ten. That does the Big Ten
Speaker 1: pick off a couple of schools. I mean, it didn't
Speaker 1: go well with Rutgers and Nebraska and Maryland, But do
Speaker 1: you know, do you I wouldn't be sitting back waiting,
Speaker 1: But I don't know if this is the right move
Speaker 1: for the Big Ten to be in bed with the
Speaker 1: AC sort of be in bed the ACC in the
Speaker 1: PAC twelve. Well, I mean, I think the one thing
Speaker 1: you look at is why are they doing it? Because
Speaker 1: they don't necessarily need the other two whereas the other
Speaker 1: two need the Big ten more. But I think your
Speaker 1: point of veto power of three versus one is significant
Speaker 1: there the other thing, and again, I just think most
Speaker 1: of these schools look at this more as an academic
Speaker 1: alignment at the presidential level. You know, who are we
Speaker 1: aligned with academically? And now that's where you could see
Speaker 1: the Big ten saying yeah, we'd like to align with
Speaker 1: those California schools and sure give us Virginia, North Carolina
Speaker 1: and hey Notre Dame. Maybe, you know, I just that
Speaker 1: wouldn't shock me if it ends up going that way.
Speaker 1: I do think we seem headed towards an era of
Speaker 1: the power schools in each conference exerting themselves a little
Speaker 1: bit more. Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State saying you know what,
Speaker 1: we shouldn't be getting more money than Illinois and Purdue,
Speaker 1: Anda and USC and Oregon those saying maybe the same
Speaker 1: thing out there. I just think that we're going to
Speaker 1: see schools trying to at least flex their muscles for
Speaker 1: either a better arrangement within their conference or to get
Speaker 1: out of their conference and go join other powerhouse schools.
Speaker 1: I know you were at the Olympics, you were working,
Speaker 1: but your daughter was swimming for the United States. What
Speaker 1: was it like to go to what were you covering
Speaker 1: your daughter in her event when she was swimming? Fortunately, no,
Speaker 1: we had somebody else there from Sports Illustrated to handle
Speaker 1: coverage that night, and so I got to just watch
Speaker 1: as a as a bite your lip fan in the
Speaker 1: middle of the media seating because that's there was no
Speaker 1: fans to go sit with anything like that. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm just I am there in the in the I
Speaker 1: was cheering in the press box. I was violating that rule.
Speaker 1: Let's let's be clear about that. But what's not feeling
Speaker 1: like though your daughter is swimming in the Olympics. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you see he real you see her dive in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's unbelievable. I mean, you can't. I failed to find
Speaker 1: the right words for it. But just to see her
Speaker 1: come out on the pool deck with her relay teammates
Speaker 1: wearing the stars of Stripes cap and it says forty
Speaker 1: on the side It's like that is my kid that
Speaker 1: I've watched swim since she was five years old in
Speaker 1: the little neighborhood meets, you know, and through elementary school,
Speaker 1: high school, college, and now the Pinnacle. It was overwhelming.
Speaker 1: It was extremely emotional. And then as soon as she
Speaker 1: was done, I ran down to the mixed zone where
Speaker 1: you can actually interact with your athletes. Now we were
Speaker 1: separated by barriers because COVID restrictions, but just to be
Speaker 1: there with her right after that moment, that's that's a
Speaker 1: lifetime highlight for sure. Did you cry? Oh yeah, absolutely
Speaker 1: I didn't right there with her, but as soon as
Speaker 1: she left the room, yeah, then the waterworks started and
Speaker 1: I cried like eight times when she made the team
Speaker 1: at Olympic trials. You're softy, I admit. It made great
Speaker 1: to talk to you, so always well check in with
Speaker 1: you during the season. Thanks again for joining us my pleasure. Dan.
Speaker 1: Thank you,