WEBVTT - 12/21/21 DPS Hour 2 Ross Tucker 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.520 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.640 Sports Radio. It's our two on this Tuesday, Dan and 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:10.520 the Dane Stan Patrick Show. He's Ross Tucker otherwise known 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:15.680 as Meadhead, James Vanderbeek, he'll join us coming up. Also 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:17.680 the Hall of Famer Steve Young on loan from the 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:20.680 mother Ship. Will stop by. Phone calls always welcome eight 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:24.520 seven seven three DP Show email address dpat dan Patrick 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:27.479 dot Com, Twitter handle at DPS show. Say good morning 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:30.920 to our streaming partner Peacock and our radio affiliates around 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:34.440 the country. If you are a subscriber to the newsletter 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:36.960 that wraps up the show, you get that every afternoon. 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:39.440 I got an interview that I recorded with the former 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:43.519 Steeler linebacker Ryan Shazier. He discusses the journey after his 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:46.760 career ending injury, and also we take you behind the 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:50.680 scenes of one of our rejected calendar pictures, Fritzie mclovin 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:54.160 try to portray Simon and Garfunkel. So that'll be on 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:59.080 the newsletter later today. It's usually released around five Eastern time. 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:01.400 Whole question, Nickolobin, what are we going with an hour 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:04.120 or two? Okay? Our one was which vacancy would you 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:06.880 want Raiders, Jag or Bears. The Raiders run away with it. 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:09.160 I have a question for you. You could build around 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.760 one young wide receiver in the NFL. Who are you taking? 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:19.160 Justin Jefferson is twenty two, Jamar Chase is twenty one, 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:24.479 DK Metcalf twenty four, and maybe Deebo Samuel twenty five? 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:27.880 That's a twenty five and under a crew. Jaylen Waddle 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:30.200 and DeVante Smith I think are too young. So I'm 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:32.800 not sure if there's anyone else that jumps to mind. 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:35.880 Chase Claypool not quite there. Well, if you're gonna put 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:38.480 in Jamar Chase, and you gotta put in Jaalen Waddle 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:40.759 because why would you think he's that and that he's 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:44.480 gonna have a hundred catches? Yeah, I mean they came 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:47.760 out in the same draft. I still think everyone would 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:51.560 pick Chase over him right now? Probably, yes, Well, you 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:53.920 don't focus on the Dolphins. It's one of those where 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:56.120 you look at two his numbers and you go, those 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:59.840 are decent numbers. Waddle has had a really good year, 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:03.520 a quiet year because they weren't winning. Now they're winning. 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:11.680 I guess I'm taking Justin Jefferson because he's proven it now. 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:17.440 You know, for two seasons, Chase started out great, kind 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:22.639 of cooled off, I think, but yeah, i'd probably DK Metcalf. 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:25.800 I just I think there's a fascination and he'll always 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:27.639 have highlights. I don't know if he's going to be 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:31.720 a great receiver. I just don't know. You know, you 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:33.680 have to be able to run routes. You can be 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:37.920 physically imposing, you can be fast, you can be strong. 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:41.639 You look at guys who kind of defy logic. They 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:48.680 ran routes really well, precise, great hands, consistent. You know, 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:50.480 he got a lot of receivers who just want that 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:53.160 home run ball that you got to do the dirty 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:56.440 work too. And I don't know if DK Metcalf is 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:00.160 in that system, you know, if he's the right guy 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:02.040 to do something like that, or it might be one 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.520 of those guys that goes, hey, he had two catches 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:07.040 and one was for sixty four yards on the club. 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:10.080 We already got to note ceed Lambs twenty two seeing 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:15.639 that list too. Yeah, yeah, I like him. I don't 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:22.760 I don't know if they spread the wealth there, but 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:26.120 it feels like he's, you know, he's a number one receiver. 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:30.680 He makes plays. You know, you have to clear your 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:33.560 schedule now with what's going on with COVID, because the 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:37.040 NFL moved two games to tonight because of teams dealing 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:39.680 with COVID, And you know, both of these games have 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:43.160 playoff implications. With the win over Seattle, the Rams will 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:45.680 take sole possession of first place in the NFC West. 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:49.240 Philadelphia and Washington are both in the running, as is 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:52.920 everybody for a wild card card spot. The Rams have Seattle, 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:56.680 then they're at the Vikings and at the Ravens closing 0:03:56.680 --> 0:04:01.040 out their season. But you know, these games will feature 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:03.080 a lot of players you probably never heard of. All 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:06.680 four will be starting multiple backups here, and the quality 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:09.160 of play doesn't appear to be a big concern for 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:13.240 the NFL. The schedule change has led to shortened weeks 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:16.400 across the NFL, and all four teams will be forced 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:19.839 to play on four days rest next week, which leaves 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.520 them very little time to game plan, even less time 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.839 for the players to rest. And it's far from ideal. 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:28.880 You're making a final playoff push, and this just comes 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:33.880 down to mental toughness, you know, just the health of 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.480 your roster. It's it's a battle of attrition and it 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.159 was that with a sixteen game schedule. Now you add 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:45.680 a seventeenth and you just hope that teams are able 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:50.240 to field something that resembles who they really are, because 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:53.960 that's the shame if somebody would miss out because you know, 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:57.799 a shortened work week, or you know their their roster 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:01.960 is greatly reduced to their star players. But that's what's happening. 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:04.720 The NFL is going to plow a him. I think 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:08.000 Mike Florio pointed this out that the NFL is playing 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:11.360 these games and they don't care who's playing in these games. 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:15.279 They just want to get to the postseason. And I thought, 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:19.359 maybe you do away with Week seventeen and be fair 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:22.039 to the teams going into the playoffs. I know we'd 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:25.120 love to have the seventeenth game, but do you want 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:27.560 to have quality play in the playoffs? Do you want 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:31.560 to have guys who have been injured had that opportunity 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:36.280 level the playing field for everybody. But the NFL has 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:38.960 no interest in that. It's full speed ahead. We're getting 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:41.000 these games in no matter what. Yeah, Paul I saw 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:43.599 the interview with Doctor Sill's NFL's doctor with Jeremy Shappan. 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:46.400 He said, the policy is when you come to the facility. 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:49.320 If you're vaccinated, you are not tested unless you voluntary 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:51.480 walk up to a medical staffer and say I've got 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:54.640 an issue, I want to be tested, I feel something, 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.839 And otherwise you just go about your business. Yeah, you 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:01.120 don't have to tell anybody anything. If you have symptoms, 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:04.400 then if you want to come forward. I think it 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:09.000 encourages players to not say anything. And it feels like 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:12.880 the NFL is quietly okay with this, like all right, 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:16.800 you know we're not going to test. If you feel bad, 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:19.600 you know you got flu like symptoms, then just let 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:24.320 us know. And I talked to a doctor, this was 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:28.080 two days ago, and he said, you know how contagious 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:31.119 this variant is right now, but it in his mind, 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:34.000 is going to burn off in about a month. But 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:37.760 it's going to be this this tidal wave. But it's 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:41.000 not going to hospitalize people. It doesn't infect your lungs. 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:44.880 And because I was curious because I have autoimmune issues 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:46.960 and I just wanted to make sure because I've had 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:50.440 the shots and I had the booster, and he said, 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:53.280 you've done everything you can do. If you do get it, 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:55.120 you're probably going to feel like you have the flu. 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.560 That's that's what we're seeing is pretty much the prevalent 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:02.720 feeling that that people have. So you know, for whatever 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:06.240 that means, but it feels like in a month's time 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:09.240 that maybe there is some relief there. But that's coming 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:11.640 from a doctor who's involved in this field. Yes, mclove. 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:14.080 Is it interesting how a lot of what I seem 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:16.200 to know about this is through the sports world, you know, 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:18.920 that's where it starts with all these NBA and NFL 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:21.560 and NHL players get it. But this is playing out 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:24.960 on TV for us that we know people who have 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:29.400 this and how it affects players or teams. Twitter, it's 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:31.960 playing out. Everybody has an opinion. You know. There was 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:36.200 a story that was going around yesterday that you know, 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:39.360 you had Mark Davis, the Las Vegas Raiders owner. He 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:43.880 complained that his team was given a competitive disadvantage because 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:47.480 the game was moved another day for the Cleveland game, 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:52.280 and the Raiders cornerback Casey Hayward. He wondered on Twitter 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:55.480 if the Browns got a break and they were able 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:58.840 to move it till last night because JC Tretter, who's 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:01.920 the starting center for the Browns, is the NFL Players 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:06.760 Association president So there's a lot of things going on here. 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:10.680 It's not simple. And now you've got people wondering if 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:14.560 somebody's getting favors with the NFL Players Association. Yeah, mclev. 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.800 There's also a report the Philadelphia Eagles ownership and management 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:21.120 when nuclear on the NFL for moving the Big Game. Yeah, 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:25.200 and I understand it. I understand it from their perspective 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:28.480 or like we're doing everything now you're going to give 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:30.960 them an extra day that you're going to allow them 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:34.880 to get healthier, and they're probably saying, why why can't 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.320 we play the game when we're supposed to play the 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:41.560 game with whoever is available to play. And I think 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:45.080 that there's there's concern. I gotta be careful in how 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:51.080 I describe this that certain teams are benefiting from this 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:53.920 and they shouldn't. That if you if you do what 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:57.120 you're supposed to do and you know you're going to 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:00.160 have an outbreak of COVID, But the question is, as 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:02.960 you know, how many does it take before you move 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:07.240 the game, And it should be similar numbers for both teams. 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.880 Because it felt like Washington was devastated by this and 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:14.160 the Eagles not as much. But then this game got 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:16.800 moved to Tuesday, all right, eight seven seven three D 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:19.800 show email ADDRESSDP at dan Patrick dot com, Twitter handle 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:22.440 a TP show. Rick Stroud, who does a great job 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:25.240 covering the Buccaneers for the Tampa Bay Times, he was 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:29.120 with us yesterday and I wondered Chris Godwin's out for 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:33.360 the year with the torn ACL Mike Evans is a 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:36.680 little banged up with a hamstring injury, and I wondered 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:40.320 that if those guys were healthy, are they bringing Antonio 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:43.880 Brown back? And Rick Stroud said, what Tom Brady wants, 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:49.440 tom Brady gets. Tom Brady wants Antonio Brown back. Bruce Arians, 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:54.360 Buccaneers head coach, is tired of the topic. What was 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:57.520 the decision making process for you? Like knowing that some 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:00.840 people might go back to those comments you publicly about 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:03.000 Brown and say, wait a minute, hasn't this guy had 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.560 enough chances? I could give it what they think. The 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:08.080 only thing I care about this football team and what's 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:11.960 best for us. It's a fair question. He told us 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:16.080 last week that you know it could go either way. 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:19.600 Now I don't know what it came down to. You know, 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:21.880 we know what Antonio Brown did. He did serve three 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:25.120 games suspension, but you know, Tom Brady wanted to keep 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:29.240 Antonio Brown in New England and he's not letting go 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:33.480 of Antonio Brown for whatever reason. Well, the reason is 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:36.720 he knows he's still a valuable football player. Yes, Bruce 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:39.520 Arians has been pretty consistent though, saying he always says 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:40.880 that one line, We're going to do what's best for 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:45.320 the football team. Yeah, yeah, I get it. I mean 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:49.840 his job is to win games. He's not worried about 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:53.000 being popular. He wants to win football games. Ye. And 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:55.600 the national reaction and local reactions usually quite different. Now, 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.440 national is more judgmental because we don't care if the 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.160 Tampa wins a loser. But Tampa, the local fans, they're like, 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:03.040 just get him on the field. Yeah, we'll deal with 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:08.439 issues later. Yeah. Everybody, it feels like, has a with 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:10.960 their favorite team. There's a player that you love that 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:12.760 they're on your team, but you would hate that player 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:15.320 if he was playing against your team. I mean, I 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:18.240 grew up with the Cincinnati Reds with Pete Rose. Loved 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:24.120 Pete played hard, winning his player in baseball history. But 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:27.240 if I was a fan of somebody else's playing against 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:29.120 you know, the Big Red Machine with Pete Rose, I'd 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:33.000 hate Pete Rose, but he was my guy and loved him. 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:37.480 But there's always that guy, that agitator. Yeah, Paul. There 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:39.880 are some athletes, though, that are so good at what 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:42.360 they do that they both bother you and your respect. 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:44.520 I was a Cubs fan, obviously, but when Mike Schmidt 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:46.719 would come to town, I hated what he did to 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:48.920 the Cubs. We're like, man, he's good. I would do 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.400 anything to have Mike Schmidt on my baseball team. And 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:54.480 I think there's certain athletes like that. Jeff and Indiana 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:58.280 leads his song, Hey, Jeff, what's on your mind today? Hey? 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:01.720 What's going on? Fellas? Hey? Shout out to the dance 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:04.720 and you guys chirp chirp for BSU fly to w 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:08.120 for the Cubs. Hey, I got three quick things. One 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:15.079 I actually used to date because of the Chicago quarterback 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:17.400 I won't say the name for a long time. Actually 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:22.120 mother's nephew. But we broke up because of the same 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:26.760 thing Chicago had problems with. I didn't have enough execution. Secondly, 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:30.400 night he him, didn't he get a good contract from 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:33.400 the coach. Yet he's out performing like Taylor. Yet Taylor's 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:36.839 a better running back. And thirdly, you guys are talking 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:42.319 about taking a blowout and equated it to a girlfriend 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:44.959 dumping you. Forget that man, blow up the DM that way. 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:51.480 No one knows love you guys. Thank you. Jeff kind 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:54.640 of felt a little all over the place there. Journalists 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:56.920 blow Anthony, who claims to have spoken to a source 0:12:56.960 --> 0:13:00.000 with knowledge from someone close to Woods, says Tiger is struggling. 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:04.959 Did he date somebody's cousin's sister who's was the Bears quarterback? 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:11.360 Did I get that, Lenny and Troy lack of execution? Yeah, 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:13.960 and in rehearsal it was great. Yeah, I bet when 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:15.199 he was in this car, like I got this, I'm 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:17.920 gonna crushed. Okay here, I'm gonna say it this no, 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:20.160 no, no no, I'm gonna say it thing. No, no, it's 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:23.160 gonna kill He's rehearsing in a stoplight there, yeah, drive 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:25.600 up right by him. He's they're talking to himself. And 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:29.720 then I'm and I dated the sister of the cousin 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:33.400 of the quarterback of the Bears. And lack of execute 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:35.959 yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not easy. You got about 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:38.640 thirty seconds to nail it. You know, it's a lot 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:40.360 of pressure and you got all of a sudden, you 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:42.160 hear your name and get buzzed in. You're like, oh, 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:45.120 I gotta do it now. Well Todd can't do it, 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:48.520 and he's a professional cannot No, you're not, I never 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:50.880 will not able to do it. You guys ever call 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:55.520 into a radio station before Nick Levin, I randomly did 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:57.880 to w IP in Philadelphia. They did a night where 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:00.360 there who is the ugliest professional athlete? And it was 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:02.120 so funny that I had to weigh in, and I 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:08.440 said Paul mcktski of the Box Big Moe. And they 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:10.520 also had Randy Brewer and Alton Lister, who are not 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:14.760 exactly mattenee idols. Remember that era of Milwaukee bus. Yes, yes, 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:19.360 you had to be seven foot and ugly. Um who else? 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:22.120 Willie McGhee always gets votes there, Oh he was on 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:24.400 that show. Yeah. But by the way, I could barely breathe. 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:26.880 I was so nervous. It was a nighttime shift at 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:32.400 w I paid, and I was sixteen. It was terrifying. 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:36.400 I tried to call in. I never got in. Um 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:41.800 Bob Trumpy, former tight end of the Cincinnati Bengals, and 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:44.680 you know, I'd i'd call, I'd be like die on 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:48.240 you didn't you know, you didn't have speed dialing, you know, 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:51.040 you just had to pound those numbers or you had 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:57.840 to go the old phones there, the rotary phones. But 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:00.720 never got in. I thought, oh, I'm gonna show this 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:03.400 guy I know sports there, never got into to tell 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:07.560 him that Paul you Yeah, in Chicago. I was probably eleven, 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:10.800 so my voice hadn't changed yet. And remember guy named 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:14.600 chet Copic. Oh yeah, great old chet shit chit check coming. 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:18.400 He was a classic Chicago sports host. And I got 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:20.760 on and my little and he's got this booming voice. 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:23.240 I was like, do you think that very fensic is 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:25.600 going to be healthy for the playoffs? He not talking 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:28.000 about Fensic tonight, kiddo, but we'll talk about that after 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:30.000 the BA He blew off my call because of a 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:33.440 stupid question, but yeah, you can think he'll be okay. 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:40.120 Uh so you were Jake before Jake totally Jake. Yeah, yes, McLevin, Yeah, 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:41.760 I was gonna say it was Chet me about it, 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:44.760 like Dan, I know, I know, I know, as my 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.000 wife says, not everybody gets your sense of humor. And 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:51.320 that was a classic moment there. Uh, you were just 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:54.160 being funny with Jake I was trying to be funny. 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:57.280 I was trying like, oh no, Jake, we're not talking 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:02.560 about that. I was just trying too just and I went, oh, 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:09.920 my god, like I'm supposed to do. Really wait, wait, Jake, 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:15.800 don't overreact like this. You're you're better than that. Rights 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:19.880 give my opinion. I know, I'm kidding. It's worse. It's 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:24.040 worse than I remember it is. It is. I just 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:29.760 given my opinion like i'm supposed to. Yeah, did you 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:31.640 tell a nine year old you're better than that? Yes? 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:35.360 You did, Jake, don't overreact. All right, you're better than that. 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:38.520 Just trying to give my opinion like I'm supposed to. 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:42.040 And that's why you're probably surprised that my four kids 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:46.960 have grown up with some normalcy. That I once said 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:49.760 to them, if nobody beats me in a foot race, 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:53.600 there's no gifts for Christmas. I once said that to them. 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:59.600 It's a challenge. I did front yard and I said, 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.280 are you because they're like, hey, let's have a race, 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:04.600 And I said, all right, if you guys, don't, if 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.760 nobody beats me, no gifts for Christmas. And and so 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:09.720 my wife goes, what are you doing? I go that 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:12.200 gotta learn, and she goes, no, that that this isn't 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:14.159 how you learn. Is that like a Christmas tradition in 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:16.600 the Midwest somewhere that we don't know about the Great 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:19.159 Christmas Race. I didn't even have a race and I 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:22.160 didn't get gifts when I was growing up. Kids who won? 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:25.960 I did? You did? Yeah? And then where they crying tears? 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:31.840 Oh it was God? Once again. Not everybody gets my 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:35.000 sense of humor. Yes, you know, Jake's well on his 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:37.640 way to becoming the youngest general manager NBA. Yeah, he's 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:42.040 incredibly impressive. A kick, Yes, yeah, Jake the Oracle probably 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:45.879 partially dude to getting tough and up when you know, 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:47.960 I'm kind of like Urban Meyer. You know these guys 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:50.840 are soft. Now you're welcome, Jake. 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He's the host of the Ross Tucker Football podcast, 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:48.920 and he was the color analyst for the Raiders Browns 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:51.919 game last night on Westwood One. He'll be going to 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:55.400 the Eagles game. He'll be doing pregame for that tonight 0:19:55.760 --> 0:20:00.720 ahead of Washington versus Philadelphia. How are you feeling. I'm 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:03.359 doing fine, man. It's football season. I got about a 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:07.480 month more to push through. Although I will tell you, yeah, 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:09.879 I don't often do what I did yesterday. I mean 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:14.520 I live in central Pennsylvania, the Harrisburg Hershey area. I 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:17.359 drove out to Cleveland in the morning, listen to you 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:21.320 guys the whole way. The mclovin's friend that came up 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:24.240 to you during taps had me rolling, but I listening 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:27.919 to the whole way out five hours. I got to 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:31.920 the hotel, worked out, showered, did the game, and then 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:34.479 just drove home. Got home at like two am. Last night. 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:36.200 I didn't feel like staying over. I had too much 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:38.320 stuff to do. I don't I don't often do that, 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:42.120 and I don't often Dan go to a game not 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:45.160 knowing who was going to play in the game. I mean, 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:48.240 I really like, like I've heard of a game time 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:51.960 decision before, we're now getting we're in the era of 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:54.600 a lab time decision. Like I was waiting to hear 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:57.040 back from the lab to see who would be the 0:20:57.080 --> 0:21:00.480 starting quarterback for the Cleveland Browns three hours before the game. 0:21:01.560 --> 0:21:05.359 Do you think players just don't want to be tested anymore, Like, 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:09.000 let's just let's just go, let's just you know, we're 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:12.120 in the home stretch, and who cares if somebody test 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:16.120 positive or got flu like symptoms or they're asymptomatic. Does 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:21.240 the NFL care? Well? I think there are some players 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:25.879 that do, and those players had been previously pushing for 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:29.640 daily testing. I think the majority of the players at 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:34.560 this point are like, you know what, I'm vaccinated, maybe 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:37.840 I'm boosted, maybe I'm not. You know, eighty percent of 0:21:37.840 --> 0:21:42.159 the guys they're testing positive now are asymptomatic. Like, we 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:45.240 got to play these games because Dan, it's kind of crazy, 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:48.720 right the game was supposed to be Saturday at four thirty. 0:21:49.280 --> 0:21:53.480 They postponed it forty eight hours. The Browns got three 0:21:53.560 --> 0:21:59.360 guys back, Whyatt Teller as well as Tach McKinley and 0:21:59.520 --> 0:22:04.800 John Johnson. But they lost Jadevion Clowney and they're starting 0:22:04.880 --> 0:22:08.440 right tackle James Hudson in those forty eight hours. So 0:22:08.600 --> 0:22:12.560 the Browns got a net one more guy, Dan, one 0:22:12.600 --> 0:22:15.200 more guy. So they moved the whole The NFL moved 0:22:15.240 --> 0:22:20.320 everything forty eight hours for one extra player for the 0:22:20.400 --> 0:22:23.159 Cleveland Browns. I'll tell you what's really weird now. The 0:22:23.240 --> 0:22:26.680 two things we got to talk about. Number One, they're 0:22:26.680 --> 0:22:30.920 not testing guys unless you have symptoms. Well, guess what 0:22:31.520 --> 0:22:34.040 nobody's gonna say they have symptoms. Can you imagine me 0:22:34.080 --> 0:22:37.400 an NFL offensive lineman and what your offensive line coach 0:22:37.440 --> 0:22:40.440 of saydie if you came in said, uh, yeah, trainer, 0:22:40.560 --> 0:22:43.159 I have the sniffles. I mean, they would look at 0:22:43.160 --> 0:22:45.679 you like you have three heads. But then I just 0:22:45.720 --> 0:22:48.959 found out yesterday I didn't realize this. Do you know 0:22:49.000 --> 0:22:52.840 They're still gonna do some random testing though, like almost 0:22:52.840 --> 0:22:56.280 like you're at the airport and it's tsa pre check 0:22:56.359 --> 0:22:58.919 and you go through and you get buzz and you're like, 0:22:59.359 --> 0:23:01.080 I don't have any metal. I mean, they're like, oh no, 0:23:01.160 --> 0:23:04.760 it's just a random they're doing random, which I think 0:23:04.840 --> 0:23:08.760