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Speaker 2: Coach of the Year, the Vikings head coach, will stop
Speaker 2: by a little bit later on. He was voted, I
Speaker 2: don't know how scientific this vote, was the second best
Speaker 2: looking coach in the NFL.
Speaker 3: Yes, bo, well, you said that. I thought you're gonna
Speaker 3: say sexiest coach alive.
Speaker 2: No, well, second best sexiest coach alive. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Now I have an idea. Who is the best looking
Speaker 2: coach in the NFL? Todd, would you like to guess
Speaker 2: who is the best looking?
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 2: Once again, I don't know the results of this, but
Speaker 2: I know that Kevin O'Connell finished second as the best
Speaker 2: looking coach in the NFL.
Speaker 4: Could I get a minute to think about that?
Speaker 2: Okay, Marvin, how about you? Who's your coach?
Speaker 4: Matt Laflor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's the guy. I think that's a
Speaker 2: bloop bloop. Kevin O'Connell's not even the best looking coach
Speaker 2: in his own division. I think is what we're saying.
Speaker 4: Yes, where we put Sean mcvagh, would he be a
Speaker 4: top five?
Speaker 2: Sorry, you can put him in there. Yeah. I don't
Speaker 2: know how you get your beard like that where it
Speaker 2: doesn't get, you know, thicker, it's a you know, Don
Speaker 2: Johnson used to do that with Miami Vice, where you
Speaker 2: were like, how does he get it to look like
Speaker 2: that every single day? Yes, Pauline, you get.
Speaker 3: One of those beard trimmers and put on setting three
Speaker 3: and just do one lap around and it keeps it permanently.
Speaker 2: As a four D eight growth.
Speaker 3: Hmmm, he's definitely got one of those.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I could never do that anyway, it wouldn't look good.
Speaker 2: But I always was envious of those guys like Sean McVay.
Speaker 2: It feels like he wakes up with the five o'clock
Speaker 2: shadow and he looks good with it. But we'll talk
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Speaker 4: Yes, Marvin, surprisingly she's not black.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, we found that out as well. Good morning.
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Speaker 2: NBA at the All Star break and it's the Cavaliers
Speaker 2: and the Thunder. As the network executives go, oh my god,
Speaker 2: if it's the Cabs and the Thunder in the NBA Finals,
Speaker 2: what are we going to do? I'm going to watch?
Speaker 2: But they played great basketball. The Lakers after the joy
Speaker 2: of Luca's debut against Utah. Then they go to you,
Speaker 2: you're not beating Utah at Utah. Mister. They got roughed
Speaker 2: up last night and so they're five hundred with Luca
Speaker 2: right now. Todd, you got poll questions today. You're fired up.
Speaker 2: By the way. This is a meet Thursday because we're
Speaker 2: off tomorrow. I wanted to spend the entire day with
Speaker 2: my wife from morning. Mister Love, Yes, doctor Love, I'm
Speaker 2: Kevin Love, that's me. But uh so we're off tomorrow
Speaker 2: to get started on a vacation week. The guys certainly
Speaker 2: earned it. We uh worked hard during the NFL season,
Speaker 2: very little time off. So we're going to take a
Speaker 2: Valentine's Day off and then next week off as well.
Speaker 3: Yes, Paul, quick question for you in the room on
Speaker 3: Valentine's Day? Is a nice dinner out enough or is
Speaker 3: a gift assumed included in the process.
Speaker 2: I think that really has to go with just the
Speaker 2: individual of you've got to I don't think there's a
Speaker 2: universal if you do this or you should should do that.
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't. I wouldn't subscribe to that. I
Speaker 2: would just say you probably know what you did before,
Speaker 2: or maybe you need to do a little more this year. Yes, Dodd,
Speaker 2: my watch says at.
Speaker 6: Least and I believe her that she does not want anything.
Speaker 6: And I mean she doesn't want anything, if you know
Speaker 6: what I mean. It's just Friday on the calendar. I
Speaker 6: don'tkay Valentine's Day. It's a man made, made up bend
Speaker 6: cute babies or not.
Speaker 2: Like a present. She just doesn't want your present.
Speaker 3: She doesn't want to unwrap you.
Speaker 4: I like to go to bed at eight thirty and
Speaker 4: i'll see you tomorrow and we'll figure out what.
Speaker 2: By the way, it's a meet Thursday, So I said
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Speaker 2: questions today.
Speaker 4: Uh, we'll start with I have here.
Speaker 6: If I only said four Nations and left off the
Speaker 6: face off part, would you know what sport I was
Speaker 6: talking about?
Speaker 4: Absolutely?
Speaker 6: Possibly, no chance four Nations versus four nations face off?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but if you're watching ESPN, then you know what
Speaker 2: is happening. And I watch ESPN usually around the horn
Speaker 2: part in the interruption, and I saw the promos there.
Speaker 2: I loved it. I thought it was wonderful. I thought
Speaker 2: there was true excitement for what is deemed their All
Speaker 2: Star weekend. I thought they did a great job. I
Speaker 2: thought it was fun. And I know we keep talking
Speaker 2: about this with the NBA, the United States versus everybody else,
Speaker 2: and the pushback I always get from an NBA anostar,
Speaker 2: are there enough talented players from around the world to
Speaker 2: compete with the US team? And I said, well, you
Speaker 2: probably have five of the best seven players who weren't
Speaker 2: from the United States, so that's a good start. But
Speaker 2: you know you got that it meant something.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's going to mean something to
Speaker 2: Joker to be playing or Yannis. I mean whoever, whoever
Speaker 2: you want to put in there, are they going to be?
Speaker 2: How excited? How important is this to them? But you know,
Speaker 2: with the Four Nations, I loved it. It was exciting.
Speaker 2: The uniform that Canada Jersey gorge awesome, look like it
Speaker 2: was out of the nineteen twenties, something that Montreal Canadians
Speaker 2: would have worn, but it was gorgeous. So watching that
Speaker 2: it was exciting. And I think anything that you're watching,
Speaker 2: you want to know why am I getting invested? If
Speaker 2: you're not? Well, they were invested, and so was. I
Speaker 2: thought it was exciting, So I'm fine with it. I
Speaker 2: knew exactly what it was and it lived up. No,
Speaker 2: it exceeded expectations because they played hard. All right? What else?
Speaker 4: Don Okay, how about this one? How would you feel?
Speaker 6: This is Tristan Thompson had a late dunk in the
Speaker 6: Cavs Raptors game in Toronto and that kind of upset
Speaker 6: some of the Raptors players. So my question is, how
Speaker 6: would you feel of your opponent dunked on your team
Speaker 6: in the final seconds of a blowout win. Choices being
Speaker 6: I would be livid and might even getting that player's face.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't appreciate it very much.
Speaker 6: Hope to return the favor though down the road shrug
Speaker 6: my shoulders and think to myself, was that.
Speaker 4: Really necessary or I wouldn't care at all? We lost?
Speaker 4: Move on.
Speaker 2: This is really really deep for a meaningless game against
Speaker 2: the Toronto Raptors.
Speaker 6: It's also after the super Bowl in mid February, and
Speaker 6: we could talk about Luca over one and one.
Speaker 4: They're two and one. They're two and three with Luca.
Speaker 4: They're three and four with Luca.
Speaker 2: If you dunked against the Raptors, did it really happen?
Speaker 2: Nobody cares the fact that it's Tristan Thompson. Then I'm
Speaker 2: gonna say, hey, good for him. Now he's still holding
Speaker 2: on for you know who's still in the NBA. I
Speaker 2: had no idea. I thought that this might have been
Speaker 2: his son. Taj Gibson had ten points in the Hornets
Speaker 2: win or a loss against the Magic. He is almost
Speaker 2: forty years of age. I thought that can't be the
Speaker 2: Taj Gibson that I remember, but it is. He is
Speaker 2: the oldest Hornet to record a double double since Robert
Speaker 2: Parrish in nineteen ninety six. Whoa stead of.
Speaker 7: A day, Stana day Statava day stand outa day.
Speaker 2: This is the Stan of the day. Who were the
Speaker 2: oldest player? I know, we look at Lebron, but we
Speaker 2: got to take him off the board. But the oldest
Speaker 2: players in the NBA.
Speaker 3: Active players this year, Lebron James is the oldest. Taj
Speaker 3: Gibson at thirty eight. Second, Chris Paul, PJ. Tucker still
Speaker 3: do it, Jeff Green, m Al Horford, Kyle Lowry, et cetera,
Speaker 3: et cetera.
Speaker 2: No, Taj is thirty nine years, two hundred and thirty
Speaker 2: three days. He's not thirty eight. Oh sorry, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: he's thirty nine going on forty years of a Taj Gibson.
Speaker 2: By the way, I know I focus on Joker when
Speaker 2: he gets his triple doubles. Russell Westbrook Junior the third
Speaker 2: won an MVP because he averaged a triple double. We
Speaker 2: go back to Oscar Robertson back in what nineteen sixty
Speaker 2: two when he had a triple double, when we didn't
Speaker 2: even know it was a triple double. It was just
Speaker 2: he averaged double figures in three different categories and then
Speaker 2: somebody said that's a triple double. Well, everybody is putting
Speaker 2: up triple doubles. It feels like there have been one
Speaker 2: hundred triple doubles so far this season. That's the second
Speaker 2: time in the last twenty years there have been at
Speaker 2: least one hundred triple doubles prior to the All Star break.
Speaker 2: The only other season that had more was twenty twenty
Speaker 2: one to twenty twenty two, so hasn't been that long
Speaker 2: of a stretch in between. Here Also, everybody gets thirty points.
Speaker 2: It feels like one hundred and twenty three different players
Speaker 2: have had a thirty point game so far this season.
Speaker 2: Only one other season in NBA history had more. That's
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three season. Steat of
Speaker 2: the Day, SAT of the Day, that past stat of
Speaker 2: the day, stat of the day?
Speaker 8: Here comes that what stat of.
Speaker 9: The new.
Speaker 2: And we suggested this last week. How about we have
Speaker 2: a triple dozen where you have to have at least
Speaker 2: twelve points, twelve rebounds, welve assists. Can we dress it
Speaker 2: up a little bit here, or we make it just
Speaker 2: like Joker does he gets a triple double in three quarters.
Speaker 2: That if you get it in three quarters, then we'll
Speaker 2: count it as a triple double. If you get it
Speaker 2: in four I mean the degree of difficulty of what's
Speaker 2: going on right now. I mean, there are incredible scores.
Speaker 2: I watched the Knicks and the Hawks last time. I
Speaker 2: wish they played once a week. Absolutely, it was great
Speaker 2: back and forth and the Knicks winning that game, although
Speaker 2: I would have thought up six with ten seconds to
Speaker 2: go in regulation. But Trey Young played well, Karl Anthony
Speaker 2: Towns played well, Brunson had a big night. It was
Speaker 2: a lot of fun. But the triple double is kind
Speaker 2: of losing its luster there.
Speaker 10: Yes, Marvin going back to the Knicks, can we apologize
Speaker 10: to Carl Anthony Towns. We've been calling him soft, as
Speaker 10: Jimmy Butler said he was soft.
Speaker 2: Who called it? I didn't call him soft, the general
Speaker 2: I'm not the general public.
Speaker 10: Everyone except Dan Patrick. Yes, I was calling him.
Speaker 2: I just said, he said he's the best shooting big
Speaker 2: men of all time. Right he did. Yes he's not.
Speaker 2: He's not. But he he's a perimeter big, he's a
Speaker 2: finesse big man.
Speaker 4: He's a tall man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's not a big man. Yes, excuse me. He
Speaker 2: changed the game, he gained Yeah. So when you say
Speaker 2: things like that, then people there you invite criticism. But
Speaker 2: I mean, he had what forty four last night.
Speaker 5: Yes, Karl Anthony Town's statements about how he changed the
Speaker 5: game are the basketball equivalent of Tommy Shaw saying it
Speaker 5: was Zeppelin Stones sticks.
Speaker 8: What was wrong with that?
Speaker 2: Uh? So you're saying it should have been Zeppelin sticks,
Speaker 2: the sticks and stones right right, exactly exactly So Tommy
Speaker 2: Shaw lead singer of Sticks, he was a guitar player
Speaker 2: player one of Dennis the Young was the lead singer.
Speaker 2: Y Yes, Jepeland Stones Sticks. I went to a Braves
Speaker 2: game with Tommy Shaw, of course. Awesome. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: the yeah Thomas, Yeah, big baseball fan, nice guy. But
Speaker 2: uh yeah, Rando, But yeah, I ended up going to
Speaker 2: a baseball game, Yes, Paul Karl Anthony Town.
Speaker 3: Though five years ago he was averaging twenty seven points
Speaker 3: and twelve rebounds, and then the last two years of
Speaker 3: Minnesota his rebounds dropped to eight point one eight point three,
Speaker 3: and he started getting the rep that we'd seen his
Speaker 3: best work and he's not battling hard by the boards.
Speaker 3: This year he's up to twenty five points per game,
Speaker 3: thirteen point five rebounds.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and those are great numbers, absolutely, But if you're
Speaker 2: that great, you should put up great numbers if you
Speaker 2: tell me you're great, I expect you to put up
Speaker 2: great numbers. Carl Anthony Towns, Yeah, Cat, as they like
Speaker 2: to call on Cat. You know, when the timber Will
Speaker 2: made him expendable, nobody was crying out, Like when Luca
Speaker 2: was made expendable by the Dallas Mavericks. It wasn't one
Speaker 2: of those Are you're giving up one of those generational
Speaker 2: But if this is the guy who's changed the game
Speaker 2: and the best shooting big man of old time, you
Speaker 2: would have thought there have been a lot of people
Speaker 2: interested in Karl Anthony Towns. Bunny had a big night
Speaker 2: last night and the Knicks got the win prior to
Speaker 2: the All Star break. What else do you have there?
Speaker 2: You know what, Todd, let me take a break.
Speaker 4: We can do that.
Speaker 2: We're just getting started. Oh my goodness, I just found
Speaker 2: out from Todd there will be a Rhyme Time coming.
Speaker 6: Up, Valentine's Day edition of Rhyme Time. Can you only
Speaker 6: have a good idea to when we make it a
Speaker 6: round of them?
Speaker 2: Can you give the audience just a sample because they're
Speaker 2: gonna have to plan their morning accordingly. We could do that, right, Okay, okay,
Speaker 2: just explain, give us an example of rhyme time, just
Speaker 2: so people can say, you clear my calendar, Sally, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna be waiting for rhyme time.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna give you two words or phrases, and the
Speaker 6: answers for those clues rhyme with one another.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 4: So for example, we would have.
Speaker 6: Money a thing for her, quiet, money a thing for her,
Speaker 6: and that answer would.
Speaker 2: Be hush, crush, hush crush.
Speaker 4: Good job, Seaton.
Speaker 2: See how easy how it is. That's it, that's nailed.
Speaker 2: That's how we rolled today.
Speaker 4: That have seventeen others on this so we got this show.
Speaker 2: Okay, just to let the audience know, this was a
Speaker 2: homework assignment that PAULI gave to Fritzie about thirty five
Speaker 2: minutes ago. And you've you came up with eighteen of
Speaker 2: the rhymetimers. So now we're down to seventheen, all right, Great.
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Speaker 2: and the NFL Coach of the Year, Kevin O'Connell joining us.
Speaker 2: Didn't I tell you were going to be the Coach
Speaker 2: of the Year the last time you were on.
Speaker 8: You called it, Dan, You absolutely called your shot and I.
Speaker 2: Didn't get a shout out. I didn't get a shout
Speaker 2: out that night when you were accepting your award.
Speaker 9: Let me, I'm gonna throw you on the list of
Speaker 9: folks that I've heard that from. And whether it's Doohn McVay,
Speaker 9: Damn Patrick, you would you would not believe that. But you,
Speaker 9: I'm sure you would know with all the hardware that
Speaker 9: you've earned over the over illustrious career, about those threats
Speaker 9: you get to the folks from Hey, you you know
Speaker 9: when you hear the music, just know you better get
Speaker 9: off the stage because the armed guards are coming after
Speaker 9: that and they're gonna escort you right off, so you
Speaker 9: better keep it tight.
Speaker 2: Where's your award?
Speaker 9: I actually don't have it yet. They they take it
Speaker 9: back from you. It's the award you cherish. You're so
Speaker 9: excited to have it, and then somebody takes it back
Speaker 9: and says, we'll send it to you. I didn't know
Speaker 9: if that was you know, them saying there could be
Speaker 9: a recount for something. But no, I'm hoping to get
Speaker 9: it soon.
Speaker 2: Where did you watch the Super Bowl?
Speaker 9: I actually made it, made it back home to Minneapolis.
Speaker 9: I always like watching it with my with my kids.
Speaker 9: My two boys love watching football, So I made it
Speaker 9: back and watched the game at home.
Speaker 2: Are you watching as a dad or a coach?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 9: The second that ball gets kicked off, I was watching
Speaker 9: as a coach, just knowing. You know, obviously Andy Reid
Speaker 9: his staff's bags like, I got so much respect for them.
Speaker 9: I was fascinated to see kind of how Vic Fangio
Speaker 9: would decide to play against that offense and Patrick and
Speaker 9: just the unique little things that take place in a game.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 9: The funny thing is that that game gets two weeks
Speaker 9: of coverage, and having coached in it in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 9: you look back on it and it's always these small,
Speaker 9: impactful plays normally that have such magnified impacts on the game,
Speaker 9: and it's all it's all it's all rhythm of the game,
Speaker 9: it's all momentum. But when you know, you get a
Speaker 9: performance out of a front like like what Philly's front
Speaker 9: was able to do, that can be such an equalizer.
Speaker 9: And we've seen that over you know, I even think
Speaker 9: back to when I was going through the draft process.
Speaker 9: I was in Arizona and and and watched that Giants
Speaker 9: versus Patriots kind of perfect team. I inevitably was drafted
Speaker 9: by that Patriots team after that. But just what a
Speaker 9: defensive front can do to equalize a game and the
Speaker 9: greatness and in many ways of an offense can be
Speaker 9: neutralized like Philly was able to do.
Speaker 8: It was remarkable.
Speaker 2: But a defensive philosophy going in to Patrick Mahomes is
Speaker 2: we're not going to blitz. I mean, that's pretty amazing.
Speaker 2: I would think that you're comfortable with your four and
Speaker 2: then I mean, if you do the math, that's a
Speaker 2: great advantage for the Eagles defense and their secondary if
Speaker 2: for can get there. And uh, and it certainly looked
Speaker 2: like Mahome he didn't get uncomfortable very often, but he
Speaker 2: was uncomfortable in the pocket. Yeah.
Speaker 9: And I think Dan, like historically you've seen a lot
Speaker 9: of teams with strong fronts, like that's the game plan, right,
Speaker 9: try to maximize your coverage. You've got Travis Kelce, you've
Speaker 9: got some you know, speed and and and d Hop
Speaker 9: and different skill players, and you're really kind of daring
Speaker 9: them to be able to, you know, overcome your four
Speaker 9: man pass rush, and then are they you know, they
Speaker 9: always do a really good job running the football both
Speaker 9: under center out of a gun, but you've historically seen
Speaker 9: that and the problem is when that game plan doesn't
Speaker 9: have success, Uh, then Andy Reid and Patrick Maholmes, they
Speaker 9: know what's coming. So now the pressure will start showing
Speaker 9: up the five six man blitzes, and that's when they
Speaker 9: have made a lot of plays to create the dynasty
Speaker 9: that they are at that point.
Speaker 8: So it's a it's an.
Speaker 9: Aggressive strategy and a lot of ways because you're setting
Speaker 9: yourself up. If they're able to move the football against
Speaker 9: that four man Russian seven man coverage, you're gonna have
Speaker 9: to kind of show your cards from there. And those
Speaker 9: are some pretty world class people to do that against.
Speaker 9: So when it does work and it is effective, now
Speaker 9: it's about can you sustain it long enough and also
Speaker 9: play I have the right kind of offense on the
Speaker 9: other side, which they certainly do with Saquon and Jalen
Speaker 9: Hurts and those receivers all behind that offensive line. It
Speaker 9: was impressive night for the Eagles, for sure.
Speaker 2: The NFL Coach of the Year Kevin O'Connell of the Vikings.
Speaker 2: Can you play this what if can you play this hypothetical?
Speaker 2: If JJ McCarthy doesn't get injured, who is your starting
Speaker 2: quarterback this past season?
Speaker 8: Well, I would say this, Dan.
Speaker 9: We had just seen JJ, you know, play in his
Speaker 9: first preseason game. There was a lot of positive things
Speaker 9: on that tape that you know, left us as a
Speaker 9: coaching staff saying, you know, we absolutely need to see
Speaker 9: this thing through to the end of training camp. But
Speaker 9: at the same time, everybody, and rightly so, everybody was
Speaker 9: talking about JJ as the first round pick and exciting
Speaker 9: young player. We're fired up to have an organization. Sam
Speaker 9: Darnold was having a really good camp and it was
Speaker 9: showing up day in and day out. You know, It's
Speaker 9: it's one thing to you know, go to training camp
Speaker 9: practice every day, but when those guys are competing against
Speaker 9: Brian Flores in that defense, it's not exactly you know,
Speaker 9: standard defense that you're going to be able to say.
Speaker 9: You know, your quarterbacks really haven't been in stressful environments yet,
Speaker 9: so we need to get to the games our quarterbacks.
Speaker 9: You know, over since flow has gotten here, they can't
Speaker 9: wait for those preseason games to come because what.
Speaker 8: They're going up against every every single day in practice.
Speaker 9: So I love the fact that flow pushes us all
Speaker 9: to be better and our quarterbacks get to be in
Speaker 9: a massively stressful environment every day, which only helps competitions
Speaker 9: and helps you figure.
Speaker 8: Out what you have.
Speaker 9: But I would I would argue that I think both
Speaker 9: guys would have continued on through and I would I
Speaker 9: would probably say, you know, Sam Donald would have been
Speaker 9: our starting quarterback just out of the experience and knowing
Speaker 9: that I am very much constantly aware of the minute
Speaker 9: to minute, hour to hour, day to day development of quarterbacks.
Speaker 9: It's very important to me that I take the personal
Speaker 9: ownership and accountability to what that position ultimately feels for
Speaker 9: me from a support structure, but also coaching Josh McCown
Speaker 9: in the quarterback room, Wes Phillips Hays our offensive coordinator.
Speaker 8: We've got a pretty good setup.
Speaker 9: Around these guys that we feel like if we just
Speaker 9: invest in the daily, we're going to get positive results
Speaker 9: and these guys are going to be kind of building
Speaker 9: themselves up to the opportunity to go have success playing
Speaker 9: in NFL games.
Speaker 2: When do you make your decision of the team makes
Speaker 2: its decision on Sam Donald.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's you know, it's an ongoing process right now. Dan.
Speaker 9: We we're very proud of what Sam was able to accomplish.
Speaker 8: I mean, it's hard to win.
Speaker 2: Are you planning on him being there next season?
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's people to let me finish. I'm sorry, I
Speaker 8: just know, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 9: But the idea is this, We're you know, we're we're evaluating,
Speaker 9: you know, how we're going to move forward and put
Speaker 9: the best possible team together in twenty twenty five and beyond.
Speaker 8: We know, we're excited about JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 9: He confirmed a lot of the things in a very
Speaker 9: short amount of time that we had hoped to see
Speaker 9: from him before unfortunately getting hurt. And then Sam, you know,
Speaker 9: took advantage of his opportunity and has really put himself
Speaker 9: as probably the premier player at the position going into
Speaker 9: free agency, and Sam's going to have some opportunities. We're
Speaker 9: working through what that looks like for us, while also
Speaker 9: having some other real impactful players set to be free
Speaker 9: agents as well, so.
Speaker 8: I think a lot goes into it. We haven't made
Speaker 8: that decision yet.
Speaker 9: I talked to really all three, you know, both JJ's
Speaker 9: here every day, but I talked to Sam yesterday for
Speaker 9: a long time, talk to Daniel Jones for a long time.
Speaker 9: I just want those guys to know that there's an
Speaker 9: element in this where our relationship matters. The communication between
Speaker 9: me and those guys has to be paramount, and the
Speaker 9: agents in our front office. Those conversations will go on,
Speaker 9: but what we try to build here is something that
Speaker 9: I hope is always beyond that. Above that, especially me
Speaker 9: personally with the players.
Speaker 2: If we did a combine for the head coaches in
Speaker 2: the NFC North, who would grade out better?
Speaker 8: Are we talking all events here?
Speaker 2: Yeah? One morning bench press, cone, drill, you three cone
Speaker 2: and drill.
Speaker 8: Well, I think we all know who's winning the bench press.
Speaker 2: Okay, so we take that off the table with Dan Campbell.
Speaker 9: Yeah, And you know I would I would probably argue
Speaker 9: Dan that, uh you know, I would be pretty competitive
Speaker 9: in uh, you know, the straight line stuff running wise,
Speaker 9: you know, I think I would put my I would
Speaker 9: put Matt Lafleur in that McVeigh category. These guys are
Speaker 9: more of those change of direction, short area quickness, those
Speaker 9: types of things.
Speaker 8: So maybe maybe he gets gets me there.
Speaker 2: But I don't know about Ben Johnson. Is he sneaky athletic.
Speaker 2: I don't know much about.
Speaker 8: You know, one of the things I'm always doing dan
Speaker 8: pregame is I'm always watching who's throwing throwing the pill
Speaker 8: around the field, because that's probably the big ball.
Speaker 9: Biggest mistake I ever made was hiring Josh McCown because
Speaker 9: he can he can still throw it and probably could
Speaker 9: go play in a game right now. So I didn't
Speaker 9: really think that all through when you know, I started
Speaker 9: throwing some wobblers around a pregame.
Speaker 8: But I'm smart.
Speaker 9: Indoors Stadium a US Bank stadium, elite place to throw
Speaker 9: the football. We played in London and it was kind
Speaker 9: of spitting ring in a little bit. I didn't touch
Speaker 9: a football for that entire warm up. Very smart, you
Speaker 9: know some other it was Wendy and Wendy kind of
Speaker 9: spitting rain in Jacksonville. There was not a football near
Speaker 9: me for that entire time. So I'm I've learned to
Speaker 9: pick my spots in my moments to shine.
Speaker 2: I saw there was an award handed out and went
Speaker 2: to the best looking coach in the NFL. You finished
Speaker 2: that one, You finished second. I think I think Lafloor,
Speaker 2: I think Lafloor got you.
Speaker 8: I would argue though, like if we could have a
Speaker 8: little bit of a campaign for that, and and you know,
Speaker 8: I think I think he puts a little bit more
Speaker 8: time and effort into what I do.
Speaker 2: Okay, who puts who puts more time and effort into
Speaker 2: their looks? Sean McVay, Matt Lafloor, well other.
Speaker 9: It's different, right because I think I think Sean probably
Speaker 9: has like a four step process that finishes with that
Speaker 9: hair looking the way it does. You know, I respect
Speaker 9: Matt because he changes up his game sometimes sometimes it's
Speaker 9: a hat, sometimes it's not. But as far as as
Speaker 9: far as facial hair goes, you know, nobody keeps it
Speaker 9: cleaner than Matt.
Speaker 2: I think Matt Lafleur tweezes. I think there's some eyebrow
Speaker 2: work being done there.
Speaker 9: I thought I thought the guys were gonna hit the
Speaker 9: breaking news right there.
Speaker 8: You know, though, I thought I was gonna do something.
Speaker 2: I don't know what you can do in the off
Speaker 2: season to win this award.
Speaker 8: Yeah, my wife's got a few ideas. Something.
Speaker 2: You don't show the hair though, because I don't.
Speaker 8: Have that much of it left. I mean, this job's
Speaker 8: taking it.
Speaker 2: Out of it Laflora and McVeigh show it off. They
Speaker 2: you know, McVeigh has good moss though. I mean, you
Speaker 2: got to admit he's he's.
Speaker 9: One of my closest friends, you know, on on on
Speaker 9: the planet. And I told I got a chance to
Speaker 9: spend some time with them down in the Orleans and
Speaker 9: I told my sons that, hey, I saw coach Sean
Speaker 9: and they immediately started, you know, the hair, and he's
Speaker 9: been an inspiration to them. And they they always asked me,
Speaker 9: why why don't I make my hair look like that?
Speaker 8: And I just shake my head.
Speaker 2: But did Sean, like he had the Super Bowl ring?
Speaker 2: Do you need to wear the Super Bowl ring?
Speaker 8: You know what, when you win one as a head coach,
Speaker 8: I think you can wear just about any time you want.
Speaker 9: I know when when Coach Belichick, which was how wild
Speaker 9: was that that the guy that drafted me in the
Speaker 9: NFL hands me the award? But you know, as he
Speaker 9: as they handed it to me and we were walking
Speaker 9: off the stage, you know it was you know, I
Speaker 9: bumped into him and it just clanked against about four
Speaker 9: or five of those rings. So I wanted to make
Speaker 9: sure it wasn't scuffed up or anything.
Speaker 8: I mean it was. It was spectacular.
Speaker 2: Enjoy the off season, big decisions coming up and congratulations again.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I appreciate you guys having me on. Always enjoy
Speaker 8: it man.
Speaker 2: That's Kevin O'Connell's second best looking coach of the NFL.
Speaker 1: Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan
Speaker 1: Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six am Pacific
Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: Heidi Gardner. She's a Saturday Night Live cast member and
Speaker 2: a die hard Chiefs fan. The SNL fiftieth Anniversary special
Speaker 2: Sunday at eight Eastern on NBC and Peacock. Heidi is
Speaker 2: also in the Apple TV comedy Shrinking plays the character Grace.
Speaker 2: Harrison Ford and Jason Siegel are in that Heidi joins
Speaker 2: us now. When I told Fritzy to reach out and
Speaker 2: have you join us, this was before the Super Bowl,
Speaker 2: and I know you're a big Chiefs fan and we
Speaker 2: thought you were going to be in a great mood.
Speaker 2: So what kind of mood are you in?
Speaker 7: Okay, I am in a mood where I am very
Speaker 7: fortunate and blessed. We won two years in our row.
Speaker 7: We've won three times in the last six years. Very Lucky.
Speaker 7: Sunday was really hard. I love the Chiefs. The only
Speaker 7: thing I'm upset about are some of these false narratives
Speaker 7: after the fact that you know, like Mahomes's legacy is
Speaker 7: questioned like that is crazy to me. The fact that
Speaker 7: some people are saying that the Chiefs had already copyrighted
Speaker 7: three pete and that was like the motivation for the Eagles.
Speaker 7: Like I love bulletin board material, we use it. But
Speaker 7: I can assure you all season there was no chief
Speaker 7: or coach read it was saying anything about three pete.
Speaker 7: I feel like they were trying to ignore that noise.
Speaker 7: Of course, it's in your head. And I just want
Speaker 7: to say, at the beginning of the season, a lot
Speaker 7: of people were talking smack on the Eagles and that
Speaker 7: they had lost it. They were talking this last year.
Speaker 7: They were talking it on Jalen Hurts, and now it's
Speaker 7: just like they were always the inevitable team. I'm just
Speaker 7: a little frustrated and I needed to get all that out.
Speaker 2: Did you cry Sunday.
Speaker 7: No, I didn't cry. I think my job as a
Speaker 7: Chiefs fan is just to give them love and hope,
Speaker 7: and I just continued to try and love and hope
Speaker 7: us into a win and it didn't happen, and I
Speaker 7: love them all the same.
Speaker 2: When did you begin your love affair with the Kansas
Speaker 2: City Chiefs growing up in Kansas City?
Speaker 7: Yeah, so I was born there, so it was faded.
Speaker 7: But my mom has just always been a sports fan,
Speaker 7: and it was probably like around five and a half
Speaker 7: or six years old. I just accepted that on Sundays
Speaker 7: we were going to be watching football like that, and
Speaker 7: I needed to embrace that because I loved my mom
Speaker 7: and that was the thing that I needed to learn
Speaker 7: how to love to.
Speaker 2: Okay, but this fandom, though, now it's with you the
Speaker 2: rest of your life.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, and I still consider it a blessing, even
Speaker 7: though it takes over my persona and my anxiety quite
Speaker 7: a bit, but I love it.
Speaker 2: Did you talk to Taylor Swift when she was on
Speaker 2: Saturday Night Life? Well, so I.
Speaker 7: Had talked to her pre her becoming a Chiefs fan,
Speaker 7: so I haven't gotten to connect with her since, but
Speaker 7: I would love to talk Chiefs with her.
Speaker 2: Feels like it's inevitable her and Travis are going to
Speaker 2: get engaged. I mean, I love love. I'm rooting for
Speaker 2: love is what I'm rooting for me too.
Speaker 7: I'm rooting for Love. I was scared in the beginning
Speaker 7: because like as a fan first, like I love both
Speaker 7: those people, but I was like, is this going to
Speaker 7: be a distraction? But it's been all good and I
Speaker 7: love Love and I love that like she's brought even
Speaker 7: more eyes on our team.
Speaker 2: Are you a competitor the way an athlete is with
Speaker 2: whatever roles you have on SNL or when you're you know,
Speaker 2: doing other shows, for sure?
Speaker 7: I Mean I always say that I played sports growing up,
Speaker 7: and the only one of the only reasons I wish
Speaker 7: I would have continued on is because I wish I
Speaker 7: had like the total discipline of an athlete. But I
Speaker 7: will say recently work, there's a few times when I've
Speaker 7: gotten thrown things where I have to go perform with
Speaker 7: no rehearsal, and that is scary. I mean, it's live anyways,
Speaker 7: but if I haven't had a rehearsal and they're just
Speaker 7: like you're in this now or you're doing this now,
Speaker 7: and I'm like, you know, I want to come back
Speaker 7: and be like, we didn't even do a rewriter, we
Speaker 7: didn't do this, And I just think to myself, what
Speaker 7: would mahomes do he would play.
Speaker 8: So that's what I do.
Speaker 2: Heidi Gardner's Saturday Night Live cast member. So it's actors, comedian, writer,
Speaker 2: die Hard chiefs fent is that the order.
Speaker 7: Yes, I mean you can always move Diehard Chiest to
Speaker 7: the top. That is like the thing that has stayed consistent.
Speaker 7: That's probably my number.
Speaker 2: One fiftieth anniversary special Sunday, February sixteenth at eight Eastern.
Speaker 2: That'll be NBC and Peacock. Also, you play Grace in
Speaker 2: the Apple TV Shrinking then you push your boyfriend off
Speaker 2: a cliff.
Speaker 8: I did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how was that?
Speaker 7: It felt good? He was a jerk coming, Yes, he
Speaker 7: had it coming.
Speaker 2: What was the first sketch you did where you go
Speaker 2: uh oh uh oh in a good way or oh
Speaker 2: in a bad way?
Speaker 7: Oh in a good way? Was I did a weekend
Speaker 7: update and the character was every boxer's girlfriend from every
Speaker 7: movie about boxing ever, And that one just connected with
Speaker 7: the audience, and I think people were like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 7: that's a trope. I see the girlfriend in a boxing
Speaker 7: movie or the wife always has the exact same script. Yeah,
Speaker 7: and that and I just I got a lot of feedback,
Speaker 7: And that's the first time I started like people would
Speaker 7: recognize me and they would say like a catchphrase, and
Speaker 7: they go.
Speaker 2: I'm going to my sisters. Yes, yeah, is that like
Speaker 2: you walked in the streets of New York. What do
Speaker 2: you get?
Speaker 7: I get that. You know. What's cool is I think
Speaker 7: because SNL is such an institution here and it's been
Speaker 7: around for so long, it feels like a sports team.
Speaker 7: So people New Yorkers actually, instead of like necessarily calling
Speaker 7: out a sketch or anything, they just are like, go, Heidi,
Speaker 7: go like I'm me Yankee or something like cool, I'm
Speaker 7: on the team.
Speaker 2: What was your dress? What your audition?
Speaker 7: Like, Oh my gosh, well it was on I just
Speaker 7: feel like I have to relate everything to sports. You're
Speaker 7: not pushing me into that.
Speaker 2: But it was on.
Speaker 7: August twenty third, So I put a picture of Lebron
Speaker 7: and Michael Jordan on my phone to just be like
Speaker 7: twenty three greatness, So I remember that from it. And
Speaker 7: then it was five minutes and I think I did
Speaker 7: about twelve characters because I wanted to be undeniable. I
Speaker 7: wanted to give them everything I had. But it was
Speaker 7: also my first time ever seen that SNL stage in person,
Speaker 7: so it was also just like I stepped on it
Speaker 7: and I wanted to be like, can I take a selfie?
Speaker 7: And they were like, and your audition is five four three,
Speaker 7: And then suddenly it was happening. So I kind of
Speaker 7: blacked out. And then a week later they called me.
Speaker 7: They said we wanted to come back. I blacked out,
Speaker 7: but I did the audition. They said, we wanted to
Speaker 7: come back and do the audition another audition, but this
Speaker 7: time it has to be totally new one. We want
Speaker 7: to see if she can, oh well, ceial in a week.
Speaker 7: And I was like, I gave you like my stars,
Speaker 7: and so my second audition was like me rifling through
Speaker 7: old sketches and characters. And I always say like my
Speaker 7: second audition was like me playing my bench and then
Speaker 7: I won the game.
Speaker 8: Who's Cool?
Speaker 2: Sandler and Will Ferrell, you know, they talk about how
Speaker 2: it gets kind of cold in there, you know, in
Speaker 2: a variety of ways where you know there's no ambiance
Speaker 2: really like Lauren can be out there and you don't
Speaker 2: even know if he's there's no reaction or any like,
Speaker 2: how do you know when you're doing well in your audition?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 7: I actually think it's the type of person you are possibly.
Speaker 7: I mean I did hear laughs. I don't know if
Speaker 7: I heard Lauren's laugh, but like it's warm enough where
Speaker 7: I mean, anybody who's auditioning this funny and I think
Speaker 7: you're gonna hear some laughs, but you don't know, you know,
Speaker 7: if it's enough laughs to get the job. I remember
Speaker 7: leaving the audition and having the anxiety start to set in,
Speaker 7: and there were a couple guys outside who had also
Speaker 7: just auditioned, and they approached me and they were like, so,
Speaker 7: did you kill it? And I was like, I don't.
Speaker 7: I I don't know, did you And they were like.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 7: So I was like, Okay, I think it's just who
Speaker 7: you are. It's like you might have that inner confidence.
Speaker 2: Okay, give me your ideal hope. I'm going to let
Speaker 2: you create your own show from the standpoint of your
Speaker 2: guest host is going to be and your musical guest
Speaker 2: will be who you can pick anybody ooh.
Speaker 7: Okay my guest host. I mean I do want I
Speaker 7: got Travis Kelcey, I want Mahomes, I want my homes
Speaker 7: or I want Lebron two debatable goats, but you know
Speaker 7: those are ones that I really want and then music wise,
Speaker 7: I mean I really liked the Kendrick halftime show. I'd
Speaker 7: love to see him do whatever he wants on SNL
Speaker 7: as well.
Speaker 2: Okay, who do you think had a worse night, Mahomes
Speaker 2: or Drake?
Speaker 7: Drake.
Speaker 2: I think that that's pretty bad. That's pretty bad when
Speaker 2: the entire crowd is singing a song that's about you,
Speaker 2: and he went as far away as possible he went
Speaker 2: to Australia.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, yeah, but again Mahomes really you know his
Speaker 7: tweet after he likes to win, so I mean he
Speaker 7: I feel his pain too.
Speaker 2: Keep your head up though, honey. I hope something's good
Speaker 2: or coming your way, thank you? Yeah. I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: the Chiefs losing, so I hope something you know good
Speaker 2: happens here, thank you. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Life works that way. Then you know, maybe a big
Speaker 7: movie or TV show it's coming my life?
Speaker 8: Do you think?
Speaker 2: Do you have a big movie come in your way?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 7: But I'm looking for one or just some sort of
Speaker 7: series that I get to create. I would love anything
Speaker 7: like that.
Speaker 2: Would you like for me to talk to Sandler?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 2: Okay, well we missed you and happy Gilmore too, But
Speaker 2: I don't know what he's going to have but you
Speaker 2: know what we get done with this. I think I'll
Speaker 2: do that. I'll just say, hey, I know this person
Speaker 2: down in the dumps chiefs lost needs to pick me up.
Speaker 7: How about the water boy, water Boy to water Daryl
Speaker 7: Water GARYL We got it.
Speaker 2: Yes, have fun. Thank you again, Heidi, Thank you. Heidi Gardner.
Speaker 2: Saturday Live cast member and Diehard Chief spent fiftieth anniversary
Speaker 2: this Sunday on NBC and Peacock that's at eight Eastern,
Speaker 2: And of course you can see her on the Apple
Speaker 2: TV show Shrinking with Harrison Ford and Jason Siegel