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Speaker 6: welcome to the program. Good morning if you're watching on Peacock. Yes,
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Speaker 2: and he will make up for the last you know,
Speaker 2: last three days he wasn't able to join us, and
Speaker 2: he promises to be extra funny today. May be waiting
Speaker 2: a while, uh seating us here, Marvin and Paulie as
Speaker 2: well yours truly, we got basketball coming up in two hours.
Speaker 2: Congratulations to Xavier gets by Texas, Mount Saint Mary's beats American.
Speaker 2: There is this ground swell for North Carolina and now
Speaker 2: the number of analysts I heard yesterday walk back. Probably
Speaker 2: a lot of their comments. They're like, hey, you know what,
Speaker 2: they're sneaky good? Okay? Should they Did they deserve to
Speaker 2: get in the tournament or not?
Speaker 4: Like that's the only question I have.
Speaker 2: You can be a good team, a sneaky team, but
Speaker 2: not be good enough to get into the tournament. Jim
Speaker 2: Beheim has North Carolina going I think to the Sweet sixteen,
Speaker 2: maybe the Elite eight, but everybody seems to be walking
Speaker 2: back a little bit with North Carolina. North Carolina should
Speaker 2: be good. You know this isn't high Point. It's North Carolina.
Speaker 2: We look surprised, sound surprised. Where we go, Hey Carolina,
Speaker 2: they could be a bracketbuster. Okay, underdog, gritty gutty underdog.
Speaker 2: It's not Drake, it's North Carolina. Like a feel good story.
Speaker 2: They become a feel good story as an underdog here. Yes, Bow, there.
Speaker 7: Has to be blame for this, like North Carolina barely
Speaker 7: making the tournament they used to recruit they would probably
Speaker 7: pass on top recruits ten years ago, twenty years ago,
Speaker 7: or Syracuse not making it for four years. This has
Speaker 7: to be anil based that spreads the talent around.
Speaker 2: Well, North Carolina lost one of their best players to Arizona,
Speaker 2: who was a Caleb Love ended up like you know,
Speaker 2: who would have thought that North Carolina would lose a
Speaker 2: player to Arizona. But this is a whole different era
Speaker 2: here and Hubert Davis and you know, I even saw
Speaker 2: where some analysts were like, you know, mate, should they
Speaker 2: move on from Hubert Davis? Well, he's a tar heel.
Speaker 2: You just gave him a contract extension. Weren't they in
Speaker 2: the title game? What last year or the year before?
Speaker 2: So I don't think he's going anywhere anytime soon. And
Speaker 2: I don't think he should. But this man, Carolina, we
Speaker 2: don't know what's going on. I mean, let's just be honest,
Speaker 2: total transparency. For the most part. Even if you watch
Speaker 2: college basketball all year long, something happens in March where
Speaker 2: you go, it's unexplainable, and you'll have somebody's coming out
Speaker 2: of nowhere. Happens every single year, and there's going to
Speaker 2: be a number one seed where you go, oh.
Speaker 4: My god, they got bounced early, yes, Martin.
Speaker 6: And in the NCAA tournament. All it takes is one
Speaker 6: bad game or on the other side, have a Cinderella,
Speaker 6: have just one great game to get high from three
Speaker 6: point range and that's it for your season.
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Speaker 2: DP show. Dina Racini has done a great job in
Speaker 2: the off season as an NFL insider for the Athletics.
Speaker 2: She'll join us coming up here in a little bit.
Speaker 2: And she had a report on Aaron Rodgers. ESPN had
Speaker 2: a report on Aaron Rodgers. I'm not sure kind of
Speaker 2: where this story is headed or even where it is
Speaker 2: right now, but it felt like the Vikings weren't interested
Speaker 2: in Aaron Rodgers, and then it felt like they're interested maybe,
Speaker 2: And I'm like, either you are or you're not. So
Speaker 2: I thought Diana Russini can join us and we can
Speaker 2: talk to her about are the Vikings waiting for something?
Speaker 4: And if they are, what are they waiting for?
Speaker 2: And as a result, is Aaron Rodgers either going to
Speaker 2: the Vikings or going into retirement? But also you have
Speaker 2: the Brown situation, the Steelers situation. Russell Wilson is still
Speaker 2: out there. There's still some there's chairs available in the
Speaker 2: musical chairs with quarterbacks here, but we're running out of
Speaker 2: music and we're running out of chairs, all right, So
Speaker 2: later today tonight Houston, Auburn, Tennessee. Saint John's among the
Speaker 2: luminaries that will be playing. Also Rick Patino and Saint
Speaker 2: John's feels like a feel good story, Like Patino feels
Speaker 2: like a feel good story. And who would have thought
Speaker 2: that if you go back to what happened in Louisville
Speaker 2: he was coaching in Greece. I remember when he came
Speaker 2: back and he got the job at Saint John's and
Speaker 2: I said to Fritzi, I said, reach out to Patino.
Speaker 2: And I think it was Saint John's. I don't think
Speaker 2: it was Iona. But he went from cross Town. We
Speaker 2: were in New York and he wanted to be on
Speaker 2: the show. Was he going to IONA or Saint John's. Fritzi,
Speaker 2: do you remember that day?
Speaker 5: I have to check.
Speaker 2: I thought he was going to Iona, but you may
Speaker 2: be right. But he goes and he spends two years
Speaker 2: and then he turns a team around. That's his mo.
Speaker 2: He's done that every place he goes. Now, was he
Speaker 2: a great NBA coach? No, but he's the kind of
Speaker 2: coach that's a control freak and college he can control,
Speaker 2: he can make you play his style. He has different styles.
Speaker 2: But Jim Beheim was saying, if you're going to say
Speaker 2: coach K's the greatest coach, let's take John Wooden out
Speaker 2: of it. Rick Patino's right there with coach Mike Kryzewski.
Speaker 2: That is high praise from a Hall of Fame coach
Speaker 2: in Jim Beheim.
Speaker 4: Yes, Marvin, and.
Speaker 6: I think it's the combination of Patino and Saint John's
Speaker 6: both making a comeback, because, like you said, Saint John's,
Speaker 6: I don't ever remember Saint John's being this good. I
Speaker 6: remember a couple of years of our test years, but
Speaker 6: never like this. So it seems like both of these
Speaker 6: entities have just you know, making big comebacks this season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's a big deal in New York.
Speaker 2: Therefore you got the media capital and everybody writing about
Speaker 2: Saint John's and Rick Patino. But it is a really
Speaker 2: good story. If you get an opportunity, and you didn't
Speaker 2: see that thirty for thirty on the Big East, watch
Speaker 2: it and you'll understand basketball in New York at that
Speaker 2: time in the eighties. Saint John's, Georgetown, Villanova, Syracuse, just
Speaker 2: to name a few of these schools.
Speaker 8: Yes, Tom, and when he goes white on white with
Speaker 8: that suit, look out, that is just that's trouble.
Speaker 4: It's terrible.
Speaker 1: It's terrible.
Speaker 4: That is terrible.
Speaker 5: You're like the Tony Monaro syn night fever. Look, No,
Speaker 5: it's not trouble. It's troubleling.
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Speaker 2: Patrick dutt on Twitter handled and shot the show. It's terrible. Look,
Speaker 2: I lived through the disco era on the back end
Speaker 2: of the disco era, and I had a couple of bad,
Speaker 2: bad outfits. I mean they felt like they were bad
Speaker 2: in the moment, and then all of a sudden, you
Speaker 2: see him after the fact, and you go, oh my god,
Speaker 2: no wonder a woman didn't talk to me. And all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, you're walking up platform shoes at bell bottom,
Speaker 2: pants on, tight shirt, hair parted down the middle. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: well that says a lot about you.
Speaker 4: Todd Yes Ball.
Speaker 7: The IT team looked back to find when Rick Patino
Speaker 7: debuted the white Suit. It was a winter of two
Speaker 7: thousand and eight with Louisville, and he said he'd had
Speaker 7: it for a while and been waiting for the right time.
Speaker 7: The right time was when your team was thirty one
Speaker 7: and six. That's the perfect time to debut it. By
Speaker 7: the way, three months after he debuted the White Suit,
Speaker 7: they won the NCAA title.
Speaker 2: Mm boom m hmm. Who has How far do you
Speaker 2: have Saint John's going? I have I think I have
Speaker 2: them an Elite eight.
Speaker 4: I do them in the Elite eight too, Elite eight, Marvin, I.
Speaker 6: Have them winning the national title.
Speaker 4: I do think.
Speaker 5: You know I was close to doing that too.
Speaker 9: Well, you know, who I have them have knocking out
Speaker 9: Saint John's North Carolina, not Seaton Hall I wish. Unfortunately
Speaker 9: they're not available. Marvin's Yukon Huskies. Oh wow, Yeah that's.
Speaker 5: Right, Marvin.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you believe.
Speaker 9: I'm not really sure why because I either think they're
Speaker 9: going to lose in the first round or win the
Speaker 9: whole thing.
Speaker 4: Same.
Speaker 5: It's one of the two.
Speaker 4: You can't believe, Yes, Todd.
Speaker 6: I have Johnny's eighty three Dukes seventy seven in the
Speaker 6: national title game.
Speaker 10: Store.
Speaker 5: Okay, we are so in the bubble.
Speaker 4: That's in the bubble right now.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, what's the pole question for our two Seaton
Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
Speaker 4: If I ask you that or not.
Speaker 5: Uh well, let me see.
Speaker 9: Let me give you hour one because we have a
Speaker 9: brotherly shove in there. Is that a football play or
Speaker 9: a rugby play?
Speaker 5: Right now?
Speaker 9: Sixty five percent of the audience have that as a
Speaker 9: rugby play?
Speaker 4: Rugby play? Yeah? Yeah, uh you know what.
Speaker 9: We go here, here's another one for Paulie. We might
Speaker 9: as well just based on what we were talking about. Are
Speaker 9: you rooting for or against Saint John's and Rick Patino
Speaker 9: Hm hmm.
Speaker 2: I think it's a great story. Rick is complicated. I've
Speaker 2: known Ricks since the mid eighties, and but but he's
Speaker 2: always been recognized as one of the great coaches in basketball.
Speaker 2: He just never days very long at places. But you
Speaker 2: know that there are a lot of guys who are
Speaker 2: like that that they just think, hey, I did this,
Speaker 2: fix this. Now, let me go to the next team,
Speaker 2: and then the next team and then the next team.
Speaker 2: If they had gotten Tim Duncan, who knows what kind
Speaker 2: of coach he would have been in the NBA. By
Speaker 2: the way, Bill Simmons documentary on the Celtics is wonderful,
Speaker 2: even if you don't like the Celtics. There is so
Speaker 2: much footage, interviews, Bill Russell read arback, Bob Coosey's wonderful
Speaker 2: and so far what I've seen, it's great. The first
Speaker 2: two episodes been really wonderful. You get an opportunity.
Speaker 1: There is.
Speaker 2: Jerry west Is on there in the first episode and he,
Speaker 2: like you can see in his eyes, it hurt him
Speaker 2: to the day he died that he couldn't eat the Celtics.
Speaker 2: It's still so fresh. He's talking about a game in
Speaker 2: nineteen sixty two where Frank Selvy has an open fifteen
Speaker 2: footer and it was still bothering Jerry when they interviewed him,
Speaker 2: and probably interviewed him, you know, not long before he died.
Speaker 2: The look in his eyes and he talks about being
Speaker 2: a wolf when he's on the floor. You don't bleep
Speaker 2: with the wolf. It's so personal and painful as well.
Speaker 2: And I remember those Celtics teams were great. They just
Speaker 2: they were just a little bit better than the Lakers.
Speaker 2: But Jerry, to his dying day, still painful, all right, Yes, Marvin, And.
Speaker 6: You saw some of those NBA Finals with the Celtics
Speaker 6: against Wilt Chamberlain's Warriors or the Lakers with Jerry Weston
Speaker 6: Elgin Baylor. Those games were coming down to the wire,
Speaker 6: game seven, so it was like they were just barely
Speaker 6: so it wasn't like they were sweeping them or anything
Speaker 6: like that. And it was just like they were saying
Speaker 6: the difference between Russell and Chamberlain was Russell was trying
Speaker 6: to win and that was bothering Wilt Chamberlain also, and
Speaker 6: rout Uarback just kind of sticking it to Wilt Chamberlain.
Speaker 4: Until he died.
Speaker 2: Yes, Yeah, he just said there was a difference between
Speaker 2: Russell and Chamberlain of their approach. Bill Russell wasn't about
Speaker 2: his numbers. He was about winning. And I think Red
Speaker 2: you know, was saying that Wilt was about his numbers.
Speaker 2: Russell was about winning the game. But great footage in there,
Speaker 2: and uh, you know a lot of great interviews as well. Uh,
Speaker 2: Tyler in Portland, Hi, Tyler, went's on your mind today?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Oh my god, we need a ceasefire on Pandora brother
Speaker 8: for a charity of your choice. Not to play that.
Speaker 4: So the singer Pandora, not Pandora the music site.
Speaker 8: Yes, sir, Pandora. Stat of the day has got to
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Speaker 12: I'll pay you, please, pay you man.
Speaker 4: I like it.
Speaker 2: I mean it's it's a it's a moody stat of
Speaker 2: the day. I think it's kind of I don't know,
Speaker 2: maybe a little too sexy for early in the morning,
Speaker 2: but I like it.
Speaker 13: Stata the Jay start of the Jay.
Speaker 4: We love your.
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Speaker 13: Give us.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, PAULI.
Speaker 7: We have some quick NBA news, so we're gonna call
Speaker 7: it the NBA News game, a little fill in the blank, Okay,
Speaker 7: all right, all right, perfect Marvin, all right, Uh managing
Speaker 7: Bill Chisholm, I think that's his name. Chisholm, managing partner
Speaker 7: of Symphony Technology Group, has agreed to purchase Blank or
Speaker 7: the valuation of Blank. It's an NBA team, which MB
Speaker 7: team was bought this morning? And for how much?
Speaker 4: Here's a hint.
Speaker 7: It's the biggest sale of a sports franchise in North
Speaker 7: American history.
Speaker 4: Any sports. The Celtics Celtics is correct.
Speaker 7: Oh, okay, Celtics have been sold this morning.
Speaker 4: Damned it.
Speaker 7: Okay, closest to the Hall for the price of the Celtics.
Speaker 2: Okay, wow, Marvin, I'll start with you. What do the
Speaker 2: Celtics cost?
Speaker 6: Five point nine billion dollars?
Speaker 2: Okay, Todd five point three billion dollars?
Speaker 5: All right, seat, No Connor, I'm gonna say four point seven.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go five point four five point four billion dollars.
Speaker 7: He got the Celtics for the low low price of
Speaker 7: six point one billion dollars.
Speaker 2: Do you get the arena, because that's always the big
Speaker 2: thing when you get a team.
Speaker 4: Do you get the arena or the stadium? Checking? What
Speaker 4: do you get for six billion dollars?
Speaker 1: Paul?
Speaker 5: We are going to get the whole list of what
Speaker 5: he got and.
Speaker 9: Then knock it down built condos. Right, there's the plan
Speaker 9: that's about people, real estate. Okay, possibly it's gonna be
Speaker 9: mixed use kind of office, live space, casinos.
Speaker 2: I'm waiting for the the condo stadium with a casino
Speaker 2: in it. That's just you don't have to leave. You
Speaker 2: don't have to leave home. You can watch your games, concerts,
Speaker 2: go gamble, you don't.
Speaker 4: Have to leave your neighborhood. All right.
Speaker 2: When we come back Dina Rassini, we'll get an update
Speaker 2: on her for some NFL news. More of your phone
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Speaker 2: Got some teams making proposals. Packers still want to get
Speaker 2: rid of the Brotherly Shove, the Lions looking at a
Speaker 2: new format for seating in the tournament as well the playoffs,
Speaker 2: so a lot of things going on. The NFL is
Speaker 2: always in play, certainly with the quarterbacking situations given what's
Speaker 2: going on with the Giants and the Browns and the Steelers,
Speaker 2: the Vikings, Aaron Rodgers, Russell Wilson, Diana Rossini, the Athletics
Speaker 2: senior NFL insider, co host of the Athletics Scoop City
Speaker 2: podcast with Chase Daniel. First of all, you've done a
Speaker 2: wonderful job. You've done a wonderful job here in the
Speaker 2: off season, not to say you don't do it in
Speaker 2: the regular season, but did want to have you on
Speaker 2: to say that great work. Now give us the latest tier.
Speaker 2: Let's start with Aaron Rodgers, because there were conflicting reports yesterday.
Speaker 2: Were the Vikings interested? Are they still interested in Aaron Rodgers?
Speaker 8: Hi?
Speaker 13: Well, first of all, thank you, happy spring. We made it, buddy.
Speaker 13: We're here just the fact that it's pouring in our region.
Speaker 10: But we'll take it right as it just fell a
Speaker 10: really long winter. And you sound annoyed by the quarterback
Speaker 10: carousel situation here a little bit.
Speaker 13: Are you the Steelers? Are you the Giants? Are you
Speaker 13: talking to them? Because I can tell you that they are.
Speaker 10: They're they're pretty annoyed by all this as they're just
Speaker 10: waiting and you know, everyone knows the tell at this
Speaker 10: point that the Pittsburgh Steelers and the New York Giants
Speaker 10: are both very interested in Aaron Rodgers. Rogers knows what
Speaker 10: kind of contract that both teams are offering, and the
Speaker 10: Minnesota Vikings spent i'd said, probably the last week and
Speaker 10: a half or so having really serious discussions about what
Speaker 10: this would mean for this team moving forward if they
Speaker 10: were to bring Aaron Rodgers on.
Speaker 13: And you had a lot of people in that building in.
Speaker 10: Favor of Rogers after watching some film of him, and
Speaker 10: you know, those guys know a lot about him, They
Speaker 10: have good relationships with Rogers, and so there were certainly
Speaker 10: many people with Minnesota who believe that bringing Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 10: in this season was the best.
Speaker 13: Thing for the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 10: And I think from their perspective, it's, well, you don't
Speaker 10: get extra points winning a super Bowl because you want
Speaker 10: it with your draft pick, with you because you want
Speaker 10: it with the young quarterback. They built this team in
Speaker 10: free agency, and you have to give them so much
Speaker 10: credit with how they've built this Vikings team on paper.
Speaker 10: At this point right now, I think it's really reasonable
Speaker 10: to say that this is a super Bowl, super Bowl
Speaker 10: caliber team.
Speaker 13: They just need the quarterback.
Speaker 10: And the fact that the Vikings have now made the
Speaker 10: decision to table this to say, okay, we want to
Speaker 10: give JJ McCarthy an opportunity. This spring tells me that
Speaker 10: Kevin O'Connell has hitched his wagon into JJ McCarthy and
Speaker 10: believes that this player is the future of the Minnesota Vikings,
Speaker 10: that he is the absolute best option over let's say,
Speaker 10: a future Hall of Famer in Aaron Rodgers. So serious
Speaker 10: discussions happened, but Kevin O'Connell came to the decision that
Speaker 10: he believes that JJ McCarthy gives the Vikings a much
Speaker 10: better chance at winning than Aaron Rodgers does.
Speaker 2: At this point, well, okay, this is what I was
Speaker 2: told yesterday. Kevin he knows he can mold JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 2: He's not molding Aaron Rodgers. And does Aaron Rodgers style
Speaker 2: of play fit with what Kevin wants with his offense?
Speaker 2: And I was told that it's not necessarily a great marriage.
Speaker 2: It's Aaron Rodgers and the high high that you can
Speaker 2: get could be a super Bowl. But Kevin has he
Speaker 2: is showing confidence in JJ McCarthy, and he wants to
Speaker 2: make sure that he that McCarthy doesn't lose, you know,
Speaker 2: going through rehab. He wants to make sure he understands
Speaker 2: I got rid of Sam Darnold. You're my guy, but
Speaker 2: I'm doing my due diligence that probably ownership is asking
Speaker 2: him to do.
Speaker 10: Yeah, he's it's beyond confidence in JJ McCarthy. If he's
Speaker 10: making this decision, he is hitching his wagon to JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 13: As JJ McCarthy goes.
Speaker 10: The Minnesota Vikings now go because they had an opportunity
Speaker 10: to bring in Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 13: And to the point that you're making.
Speaker 10: Of well, he doesn't fit in this style of offense.
Speaker 10: I think Kevin O'Connell, the Coach of the Year, has
Speaker 10: proven that he can make any quarterback fit and find
Speaker 10: their best qualities to get the most out of them.
Speaker 10: I think that's Kevin's best trait. He is so adaptable.
Speaker 10: He is able to figure out pretty quickly what the
Speaker 10: strengths of these quarterbacks are. And we've talked on this
Speaker 10: show so many times about the Rogers experience in New York,
Speaker 10: and while I don't ever I never thought it was
Speaker 10: the right fit. I always understood what New York was doing.
Speaker 10: When you think about fit, when you think about personality.
Speaker 10: When you think about what a player like Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 10: needs around him at this point in his career, he
Speaker 10: does need somebody that he really truly respects and can
Speaker 10: hold him accountable. And in my opinion, I think that's
Speaker 10: Kevin O'Connell. I think there's probably about five coaches in
Speaker 10: football right now that I would say yep, that works right,
Speaker 10: Like Andy Reid can handle Aaron Rodgers, Mike Vrabel, Mike Tomlin,
Speaker 10: Sean McVay, Kevin O'Connell. Those are five off the top
Speaker 10: of my head that I feel very comfortable saying Aaron
Speaker 10: Rodgers respects. And I think Rogers is looking at the
Speaker 10: situation right now, going I wanted to play for the
Speaker 10: Rams that didn't work out, what's the next best And
Speaker 10: based on these offseason moves, Minnesota is, without a doubt
Speaker 10: the best option for Aaron Rodgers. And so now you
Speaker 10: have the Pittsburgh Steelers who don't have a plan past
Speaker 10: Mason Rudolph, who are just waiting to hear from Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 10: And you know, the Giants would probably love this opportunity.
Speaker 10: But I think in their building, they know what's happening here.
Speaker 10: They know that they're probably not the prom queen here
Speaker 10: in this situation. So to me, the biggest takeaway was
Speaker 10: the Minnesota Vikings have very strong belief and confidence that
Speaker 10: JJ McCarthy is the guy, yet they're still going to
Speaker 10: discuss Aaron Rodgers. Rogers is still on their radar, so
Speaker 10: they need to learn something this spring. I don't know
Speaker 10: what that is, but they need to see something. And Agan,
Speaker 10: you've been doing this a long time. What is spring football?
Speaker 13: Not much? Right Like, you don't know too much.
Speaker 10: It's pretty easy, laid back, but I think they want
Speaker 10: to see where he's at physically, where he's at mentally.
Speaker 10: There's a lot in play here before they really make
Speaker 10: their decision that they're officially done with Aaron Rodgers, because
Speaker 10: there's no in or out on Rodgers.
Speaker 13: It's just for right now.
Speaker 2: Diana Rossini, the Athletics senior NFL insider co host of
Speaker 2: the Athletics Scoop City with Chase Daniel. I thought the
Speaker 2: Steelers were going to bring back justin Field, so I
Speaker 2: thought that made sense.
Speaker 4: Maybe it's a bridge quarterback, but.
Speaker 2: I'm kind of surprised the Steelers aren't acting like the
Speaker 2: Steelers and saying to Aaron Rodgers dude, at the end
Speaker 2: of the business day, you're either in or you're out.
Speaker 4: We're the Steelers. You want to play.
Speaker 2: It's a privilege to play for the Steelers and a
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame coach and Mike Tomlin, TJ. Watt, Mika Fitzpatrick,
Speaker 2: Cam Hayward. We brought in DK Metcalf. You make up
Speaker 2: your mind and then if not, we're moving on. But
Speaker 2: you allow Justin Fields to get out of the building.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you can bring Russ back. But
Speaker 2: where do the Steelers stand with this whole mess?
Speaker 13: Where are they going? Dan? What do you mean they
Speaker 13: have no choice?
Speaker 10: Like you want Mike Tomlin and Omar Khan to call
Speaker 10: Aaron Rodgers today and say, whe're the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 13: Are you in or you out?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 13: I'm Aaron Rodgers. I'm going.
Speaker 10: Okay, Okay, I'm out If you don't want to wait
Speaker 10: for me, because what are your options for?
Speaker 2: What am I waiting for? You're the Steelers? I mean,
Speaker 2: is it is money involved in this? Or is it
Speaker 2: just the chance to be with a better team, a
Speaker 2: chance to play in an NFC North and win a
Speaker 2: Super Bowl? I mean, is that what this is all?
Speaker 4: Okay, Yeah, this is this is Aaron.
Speaker 10: This is Aaron Rodgers going. Okay, the Vikings are telling
Speaker 10: me right now that they're not in, but they're not
Speaker 10: taking it off the table. Do I sit here and
Speaker 10: just be patient and just wait to see if maybe
Speaker 10: in the spring they realize that maybe JJ McCarthy isn't
Speaker 10: the guy, or maybe there's a setback physically, or maybe
Speaker 10: there's another quarterback on a different team that he would
Speaker 10: want to play for injured. Should I just sit back
Speaker 10: here right now and wait for a better opportunity, or
Speaker 10: do I go to Pittsburgh and look, you just ripped
Speaker 10: through some of the guys in this roster.
Speaker 13: I'm not sure how.
Speaker 10: Aaron feels about Pittsburgh, but I think we could probably
Speaker 10: all agree if he was blown away by them, this
Speaker 10: would be done. He wouldn't be watching what the Minnesota
Speaker 10: Vikings were doing. It seems just like a really far
Speaker 10: backup plan for Rogers if he even wants to do that.
Speaker 10: And then you have the New York Giants, and I
Speaker 10: don't even think that they have that much of a
Speaker 10: push in this in terms of Rogers wanting to be there,
Speaker 10: because we know the uphill battle that they have in
Speaker 10: terms of their roster and everything that they're dealing with
Speaker 10: with their coaching staff. So I think for Rogers, his
Speaker 10: mindset's like, I'm in no rush because you all need me.
Speaker 10: I don't really need you, because if I choose not
Speaker 10: to play football, I choose not to play football. But
Speaker 10: I think the Minnesota Vikings are worth waiting out for,
Speaker 10: and I think he's willing to roll the die there.
Speaker 4: What are the Giants doing.
Speaker 10: Hoping that Russell Wilson or Joe Flacco decide to come
Speaker 10: to New York. I think that's gonna wind up being
Speaker 10: one of their backup plans one or the other.
Speaker 13: They've been operating.
Speaker 2: Taking a quarterback. You think they're taking Shade or Sanders.
Speaker 13: I do.
Speaker 10: I think they've always had the focus has always been
Speaker 10: to get a quarterback here. I think they've aggressively called
Speaker 10: up to Tennessee to try to move up. I don't
Speaker 10: get the sense right now out of Tennessee that they've
Speaker 10: made a final decision yet. I just know that they haven't.
Speaker 10: They've obviously have not made this trade. I think Tennessee
Speaker 10: winds up going quarterback, and I think the New York
Speaker 10: Giants do as well. I think the Giants are going
Speaker 10: to do whatever they can to just try to get
Speaker 10: up and get a quarterback and then sort of.
Speaker 13: Figure out where to go from there.
Speaker 10: And what I find is fascinating in all this, And
Speaker 10: obviously I can't share every conversation I have and all
Speaker 10: the information we collect, but there have been so many
Speaker 10: moves made over the past two three weeks here with
Speaker 10: all three of these organizations that we're talking about big
Speaker 10: teams here, the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Minnesota Vikings, the New
Speaker 10: York Giants, where I wonder if they're going to reflect
Speaker 10: on some of these calls and regret them. Right starting
Speaker 10: with Minnesota letting Sam Darnold walk. We want to invest
Speaker 10: in the young guy, right, so we're gonna let the
Speaker 10: guy that just won fourteen games for us leave the building.
Speaker 10: We have no insurance plan now right now? Oh well,
Speaker 10: we will get Daniel Jones Dean he wants to be here.
Speaker 10: We can win with Daniel. We've got the best quarterback
Speaker 10: whisper in football. He can get the most out of
Speaker 10: DJ Well. Daniel Jones wants to be the starter without
Speaker 10: having to deal with a young draft pick that's going
Speaker 10: to compete for the job. That because he was hand
Speaker 10: picked by Quacy and Kevin O'Connell. The young guy's going
Speaker 10: to get the edge, right, Like we see it all
Speaker 10: the time in sports.
Speaker 13: Whoever that guy's coach is, they usually get the edge.
Speaker 13: They're the favorite.
Speaker 10: So Daniel Jones looks at the situation, He's like, I
Speaker 10: don't want to be in this mess. I can go
Speaker 10: in to India and just win this thing. So this
Speaker 10: is why when I say Kevin O'Connell is tedd to
Speaker 10: JJ McCarthy, because if not just Aaron Rodgers, it's Sam,
Speaker 10: it's Daniel Jones, and it's.
Speaker 13: A future Hall of Fame quarterback.
Speaker 10: All three of these quarterbacks, they're willing to say, no,
Speaker 10: we can win with JJ with this roster, and if
Speaker 10: they feel good about.
Speaker 13: It, I guess we got to just believe them.
Speaker 2: The brotherly shove just keeps. It doesn't go away. It
Speaker 2: feels like the Packers are like, can you please take
Speaker 2: this out of the game. We can't stop it, but
Speaker 2: nobody else can as well. My simple solution is just
Speaker 2: don't allow somebody to be behind Jalen Hurts and block
Speaker 2: him from behind.
Speaker 4: That's all.
Speaker 2: I still think they would be just as successful running
Speaker 2: a quarterback sneak with that line in Jalen hurts. But
Speaker 2: is there any chance that the NFL, when the owners
Speaker 2: get together, they're going to say, you know what, none
Speaker 2: of us can stop it, we want it out of
Speaker 2: the game, and then we vote on it.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think it's a long shot still. I actually
Speaker 10: thought it had I thought there was more teeth to
Speaker 10: it a year ago, you know.
Speaker 13: And you saw the report that Green Bay is the.
Speaker 10: One that proposed it because they they bring up player safety.
Speaker 13: There's there's no information.
Speaker 10: About that out there that that's not really a strong
Speaker 10: leg to stand on at this point. But but even
Speaker 10: having conversations about this over the last few weeks when
Speaker 10: it started to bubble up again, I think you always
Speaker 10: have to look at some of the players involved, and
Speaker 10: and I never got the sense that Roger Goodell was
Speaker 10: for it. I always felt that he didn't like it
Speaker 10: because he thought it was an ugly play. He didn't
Speaker 10: like the optics, the esthetics. And I know that there
Speaker 10: are some on the competition Committee who feel that way
Speaker 10: as well. But I think in the end, most around
Speaker 10: the league, including owners, have the same mindset that you do,
Speaker 10: and and that I think a lot of teams do.
Speaker 10: It's let's not punish this team because you can't figure
Speaker 10: out a way to stop it. Maybe put your efforts
Speaker 10: into solving that problem before having to change the rule
Speaker 10: because your team doesn't have that advantage.
Speaker 2: Great to talk to you, and we'll be watching. We'll
Speaker 2: be watching to make sure we find out where Russ
Speaker 2: is going, where Eron is going.
Speaker 4: If you had to bet though, just guess.
Speaker 10: You know, insiders hate this stuff. I hate because you
Speaker 10: know Bobby the aggregator out there. It's like headline mrssini says,
Speaker 10: Rogers to Seattle, Sam Darnold's getting cut.
Speaker 13: You know, like, uh, do.
Speaker 4: You want to do?
Speaker 2: Just just a guess on any of those topics. So
Speaker 2: like the giants of the Browns, of the Steelers, with
Speaker 2: the Vikings, with retirement, with whatever one just give me
Speaker 2: one guess. Not a report. Once again, this is not
Speaker 2: a report by Diana Rossini. This is not a report.
Speaker 13: This is a guess. This is a guess. We have
Speaker 13: to just emphasize this. Yes, I think Aaron Rodgers is
Speaker 13: going to be a Minnesota Viking.
Speaker 2: That is breaking news. Hey, let's get that out social media.
Speaker 2: We're gonna get some We're gonna get some hits reports.
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers will be the Vikings quarterback. Thank you, thank you, Diana.
Speaker 2: That was a guess. That's all that was. It was
Speaker 2: a guess. It was not a report.
Speaker 5: Not as amused as we were with that joke, she
Speaker 5: wasn't She.
Speaker 2: Knew what she was walking into. At least she thought
Speaker 2: you did all of a sudden. A bunch of the
Speaker 2: podcast is Scoop City with Chase Daniel. That's Diana Rassini.
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Speaker 2: You guys want to take a guess on what are
Speaker 2: the odds of a perfect bracket?
Speaker 4: One in how many seaton I'll start with you.
Speaker 5: Two hundred and thirty five million?
Speaker 7: All right, Paul, I'm gonna say similar to the Celtics
Speaker 7: sale one in six billion.
Speaker 4: What in six billion?
Speaker 2: Celtics went for a little over six billion dollars a
Speaker 2: sale in the middle of a season, Marvin, a perfect bracket?
Speaker 4: What are the odds one in three billion, all right, Todd, one.
Speaker 5: In four hundred and thirty seven million.
Speaker 2: You have a one in nine point two quinn trillion
Speaker 2: chance of a perfect bracket?
Speaker 4: Is that real?
Speaker 6: Worse?
Speaker 2: So you're saying there's a chance. To give you an
Speaker 2: eye what that is. Let's say you have a picture
Speaker 2: that has one million dots. Each dot had a million
Speaker 2: dots within itself, so that's a trillion dots. You would
Speaker 2: need nine point two million images of that to get
Speaker 2: to nine point two quinn tillion dots.
Speaker 9: Yes, see, a quintillion is a one followed by eighteen zero.
Speaker 9: Remember when Warren Buffett would offer up whatever, a million
Speaker 9: dollars if any of his employees got a perfect bracket, Yes, Todd.
Speaker 5: Based on those dogs, it's being pretty cheap. You got
Speaker 5: to make that at least a twenty million dollar proNT.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say a billion. I would say a
Speaker 4: billion dollars to kill.
Speaker 5: Off film to make that happen.
Speaker 4: He could do that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yes, Pauline, I'd never heard that numerical phrase before.
Speaker 7: That's how rare it is.
Speaker 2: Quinn tillion. I thought it was trillion, but it's quinnion.
Speaker 2: That's isn't that like a dance or something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a cotillion, Oh, a cotillion all dressed up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're going to the quintillion.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, I am hons in Arizona joins us on
Speaker 2: the program.
Speaker 4: Good morning, Houns. How are you?
Speaker 8: Hey? Dan? Doing great? Thanks for taking my call. Six
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Speaker 8: So I'd like to submit my entry for another stat
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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, So a live stat of the Day
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Speaker 9: Yeah, hey, all right?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: David in Michigan, Hi David, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 8: Hi?
Speaker 13: Dan?
Speaker 11: First time, long time, five feet nine and a smelt
Speaker 11: one point five. Well, yesterday you talked about stem cell harvesting,
Speaker 11: and my wife and I are at Mayo Clinic right now.
Speaker 4: And Teresa's going through.
Speaker 11: Harvesting five hours on a machine. Teresa's called in your
Speaker 11: show and is now lovingly known in our family as
Speaker 11: Teresa from Michigan. She never ever misses your show.
Speaker 8: Including this morning.
Speaker 11: You and the Dan Nets are so important in our
Speaker 11: dayly life going through cancer treatment. This is her second
Speaker 11: go around anyone going through cancer treatment those that's very
Speaker 11: personal and very scary. You've had multiple callers through the
Speaker 11: years that have called about this, but it's your show
Speaker 11: that allows threeson me to thank you something else. For
Speaker 11: three hours Monday through Friday. We feel we are part
Speaker 11: of the wider sports world. We recap your shows literally
Speaker 11: every day, and she's become the sports authority in our
Speaker 11: extended family, and I mean the sports authority. We have
Speaker 11: a motto Dan through this journey which has been incredibly
Speaker 11: successful thanks to Mayo Clinic, and that motto is grace, gratitude,
Speaker 11: grits and courage. And I would add the Dan Patrick's show, thank.
Speaker 2: You, David, thank you, and to Teresa. We were with
Speaker 2: you every step of the way and we hope to
Speaker 2: hear from you.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I had reaction from I brought up stem Cell. I
Speaker 2: went to Panama. This is a little while ago i'd
Speaker 2: be still trying to fix the autoimmune disease that I
Speaker 2: have wonderful people there and had some progress and have
Speaker 2: felt as good as I've felt in the last twelve years.
Speaker 2: I don't know diet has played a role, Vitamins have
Speaker 2: played a role, but Jay Glazer is the one who said,
Speaker 2: I know you're going through a lot, go down, try it,
Speaker 2: and my wife and I went, that was I don't
Speaker 2: know if it's a vacation, but they put fifty thousand
Speaker 2: stem cells in you a day through an IV and
Speaker 2: you know they don't guarantee anything, didn't know how long
Speaker 2: months after it would take. But I have turned the
Speaker 2: corner here, and for all of those who've been involved,
Speaker 2: certainly the dan ets, because that was every day, every day.
Speaker 2: But thank god I had work to go into instead
Speaker 2: of just sitting around feeling sorry for myself. But thank
Speaker 2: you for the reaction to that. I'm not telling you
Speaker 2: that stem cells for you. I'm telling you that it
Speaker 2: was for me. Do your research and I did that,
Speaker 2: and Jay Glazer said try it. And Jay has had
Speaker 2: some great results with that. Uh Sean and Oregon. Hi Sean,
Speaker 2: what's on your mind today.
Speaker 12: Hey, thanks for taking my call, Dan, I just wanted
Speaker 12: to call and stick up for defense of the defensive players.
Speaker 12: And you look at you know, last year's MVP, Joel Embiid.
Speaker 12: You know he has been the Defensive Player of the
Speaker 12: Year before. And when you go back five years ago
Speaker 12: to Jannis, he was Defensive Player of the Year when
Speaker 12: he won that MVP. And when I think of the Joker,
Speaker 12: When I think of the Joker, I think at the
Speaker 12: time a few years back when he was the next
Speaker 12: to the very last person chosen at the All Star selection,
Speaker 12: And I think what MVP has ever been chosen next
Speaker 12: to last? I mean he had to stand up actually
Speaker 12: before he has even chosen because he was about to
Speaker 12: be the last player. That's how I think. He's unathletic
Speaker 12: and he's not fun to watch. Brother, He's a.
Speaker 2: Great battle but that's the All Star game. And now
Speaker 2: we were building a team, where do you think Joker
Speaker 2: would be drafted If we're drafting a team Sean not
Speaker 2: an All Star lineup.
Speaker 12: Well, he ain't cool enough to be on my team.
Speaker 8: I think that's what it comes down to.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll take him on my team. You can take
Speaker 2: the cool guys if you want to, but thank you
Speaker 2: for the phone call. Joker is not Jannis not Embeid,
Speaker 2: but he leads all centers in defensive rebounding, and he
Speaker 2: leads all centers and steals. Something has to be said
Speaker 2: for that as far as defensive stats.
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