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Again, 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:03.520 that's netsuitet dot com Slashpatrick. We got to have all 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:06.640 the information right in front of you. Go to netsuitet 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:13.440 dot com. Slashpatrick broadcasting from the Mercedes man is dan 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:16.720 Patrick somehow made it to a Thursday Dan and the 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:18.720 Dan n S Dan Patrick Show. Glad to have you 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:21.760 on board. I begin the show with one word, one 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:27.319 word only, vindicated round of applause, perhaps on the other 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:29.520 side of the glass. Thank you, thank you. You did 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:32.440 a bus YEP. I told you this six years ago, 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:35.600 a little over six years ago, they were going to 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:39.120 expand the NFL playoffs. They were going to add another 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:42.479 wild card team in the AFC, in the NFC, it says, 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:46.320 I blame this on the owners. That's a six year delay. 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:50.040 Oh no, Nostter. Danny had this one right. It was 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:53.400 just six years ago, because I said the following that 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:56.400 this was going to happen. The NFL is planning to 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:59.520 expand the current playoff system by adding one wildcard team 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:03.440 to eat division. According to dan Patrick, the NFL denied 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:06.680 a decision had been made, and when they were reached 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:12.000 for a Monday morning statement, this was January six, twenty fourteen. 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:15.480 You know. The strange part of that story was the 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:18.120 person who told me what was going on with the 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:23.640 NFL was with the NFL. I'm not naming names. This 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:28.160 person has not spoken to me since then. But I 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:32.000 was on a plane with this person and we were 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:36.080 coming back from the Broncos season opener that was on NBC, 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:41.080 and we had a couple of beverages and he even said, 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:44.200 you got some questions, go ahead ask me. And I 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:46.200 was like, when are we adding a couple more wild 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:48.600 card teams? He goes, it's going to happen this year 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:53.760 in my opinion, could we have two more whiskeys over here, please? 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:58.040 And we just I just was chopping it up with him. 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:03.160 And maybe it was the wrong time, you know, January 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:05.639 of twenty fourteen, with what was going on with the 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:11.639 CTE investigation, lawsuits, all of that, but the NFL finally 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:15.760 got around to adding a couple more wild card teams. 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:18.480 That means the Steelers and the Rams would have got 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:21.639 in last year. Now you're going to extend the playoffs. 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:23.600 This is what I was told this morning, In fact, 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:26.720 six thirty am this morning, as my wife said, who 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:29.760 are you talking to? And I wasn't on a plane, 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:32.280 I was. I was in my basement on the phone 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:34.440 when I got a phone call from the source, and 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:38.120 you know, he's whispering because he didn't want to wake 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:41.080 up anybody in his house. And then I'm whispering because 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:44.840 he's whispering, and my wife was, who are you talking to? 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:48.200 I said, I'll tell you in a minute, and I 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:51.040 just wanted to know, you know, when when's this going 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:54.839 to happen? The playoff expanded playoffs will happen this year 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:58.800 if it goes through, and you know, everybody agrees with 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:02.680 the CBA it goes to this year. The seventeen game 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.920 schedule is going to go through as well. The question 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:08.560 is when is it going to be put into place? 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:11.680 When is it implemented? And I'm told it won't be 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:14.600 this upcoming season, and there might be doubts that it 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:18.040 would be ready for twenty twenty one, believe it or not, 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:21.680 because what do you do with that seventeenth game? You 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:25.159 got eight home, eight away? Is everybody going to play 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:28.120 a neutral sight game here? Are you going to have 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:31.280 Mexico City more teams playing in London? Are there other 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:34.640 places around the country or around the world that the 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.599 NFL wants to expand to. Those are the things that 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:40.080 have to be ironed out here. Now, the other stuff 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:43.880 that nobody's going to read you deeper than the headlines 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:46.320 here probably is, you know, the players are going to 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:51.200 be vested for you know, benefits by their third years. 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:53.839 So you play your third year instead of four years 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:56.000 in a couple of games. Now you're going to be 0:04:56.080 --> 0:05:01.719 vested for benefits there also by add a seventeenth game. 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:05.360 Now it's going to be a ten year collective bargaining agreement. 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:10.920 Ten years. That's an eternity, but ten years. And you're 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:14.600 talking about what that extra game means to the players now, 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:21.000 and I'm told it's five billion dollars total. That's seventeenth 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:24.799 game for the players to split up. They're gonna get 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:27.479 you know, increased revenue as well. So there's there's a 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:30.160 whole lot of money that's involved in this. There's five 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:33.240 billion dollars that's attached to all of this for the players, 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:36.120 So they're going to it feels like both sides are 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:38.800 going to get what they wanted. The question is do 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:42.840 you want a seventeenth game? I don't do I need 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:45.320 extra playoff teams. I only needed it so I can 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:49.039 feel vindicated. I didn't care about two more wildcard teams, 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:52.240 and plus you're gonna give the number one seed a 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:55.880 first round by. And I was curious about this. I 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:59.520 said to McLevin, could you check with our guy's tim 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.440 at us stats. Think, when's the last time a team 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:06.159 that didn't have a first round by won the Super Bowl? 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:10.560 And it's the twenty twelve Baltimore Ravens. So that's a 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:14.440 long time, and I think it gives that team. You know, 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.120 you only played two games to get to the super Bowl. 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:19.320 These teams playing three to get to the Super Bowl. 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:23.240 Back you know, then you had a run of twenty ten, 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:27.359 twenty eleven, twenty twelve where teams the Packers, the Giants, 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:29.880 and the Ravens didn't have that first round by. But 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:34.479 since then, you know, you've had quite a few, quite 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:38.720 a few years here, consecutive years that out of thirty 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:43.200 seasons with a twelve team format, non by teams won 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:46.119 eight super Bowls. So twenty seven percent of the Super 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:49.120 Bowls were won by teams that didn't have a first 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:52.360 round by. Now, I don't know if you guys are 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:57.680 against playoff expansion. I don't need it. I don't want 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:00.360 to water down the NFL. But I understand you can't 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:02.320 have a seven This is what I was told this morning. 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:06.159 You can't have a seventeen game schedule without adding a 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:09.840 couple more playoff teams because now you have to say, hey, 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:12.640 that seventeenth game is going to mean something. I don't 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.520 know how many of those seventeen games are going to 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.760 be meaningless If I have two more teams that are 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:20.960 going to get in, how many more teams have the 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:24.760 opportunity to maybe get in if things fall their way. 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.920 That's why you can't have a seventeen game schedule with 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:31.280 adding without adding more playoff teams. They go hand in 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:35.600 hand because I can't have We already have games fifteen 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:38.200 and sixteen that don't mean anything for some of these teams. 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:40.840 I mean, you might mean something in the draft order, 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:44.800 but it doesn't mean that much. Might mean something for 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:47.760 the team that you're playing against, but you're trying to 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:51.640 add as much drama as possible during the regular season. 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:53.720 The last thing you want is three weeks of water 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:57.520 down football, two weeks of water down football. But now 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:00.480 the number of teams do we get as seven and 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:05.200 nine team? In right, it's gonna happen. You'll probably get 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:07.800 a seven and nine team in to the playoffs. There 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:11.640 it's like we've eventually had so many bowl games that 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:13.480 all you had to do was win six games and 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:16.800 you you qualified to play in a bowl game. Yeah 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:20.560 that you mean a seven and ten team? Oh, you're right, 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:24.680 got me double digit losses would get into the playoffs. Yeah, yeah, yes, 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:28.200 I think the Seahawks in twenty and ten seven? Yeah yeah. 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:30.640 Was that the beast quake game and they wanted over 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:32.679 the Saints? I think so because Saints had to go 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.719 to Seattle different it is even more ridiculous that they 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:38.080 have to change. By the way, this program is brought 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:40.679 to you by True Car Shoppers stave an average who 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.959 over thirty five hundred dollars off MSRP see what other 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:46.240 people paid for the vehicle you want the new True 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:51.160 Car by Smarter Drive Happier mclovity got a poll question 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:53.640 apparently on this top I actually already put up whether 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:56.160 there's a couple of topics topics, but just to get 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:58.920 the baseline, are you in favor of expanding to seventeen 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:02.080 regular season game? Is that the question? Or do you 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:04.880 include the playoff expansion in that question? And the other 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:08.960 side question was are you upset about single season records 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:12.000 not meaning the same. I don't and I don't know 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:15.040 about that one. I don't care about what, Like what 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:19.520 sport do you care about records? Traditionally baseball? Yeah, but 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:22.800 like single season records. Do you really care if somebody 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:26.200 throws for fifty seven touchdown passes? Like, do you care 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:29.640 as far as oh, well you needed an extra game? 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:33.360 I don't. I don't care. None of these records matter 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:38.959 in the NFL. I mean, you got Michael Thomas with 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:43.439 one hundred and fifty catches, like O. J. Simpsons should 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.880 have the single season rushing record, he didn't have. He 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:49.640 did it in fourteen games. So I don't know if 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:53.360 anybody cares about this, even baseball once the last time 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:55.920 you really zeroed in and you go, boy, I care 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:59.640 about that. I think Pete Rose's all time hits record, 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:03.560 you know, I still think that that's pretty fascinating. You know, 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:06.199 there's somebody going to get anywhere near that. But all 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:09.960 time home runs? Who cares? Single season home runs? Who cares? 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:13.080 Like it's a big deal. If you get to like 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:15.360 eighteen or nineteen wins, like you can win the cy 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:17.440 Young it doesn't matter. Used to be had to win 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:20.040 at least twenty games. It doesn't matter the all time 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:24.440 single season save record. I don't even know who has that. 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:30.320 It's still Bobby Thigpen. I have no idea. I just 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:35.400 don't care about the NBA. I care about where if 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:38.520 somebody's gonna get over thirty thousand points, or can Lebron 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:43.680 challenge Abdul Jabar. Okay, I'm interested in that. All we 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:46.880 care about is hardware. In the NFL, it's how many 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:51.120 Super Bowls you want? Basketball, how many titles you've got, 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:54.000 because that's all we're you know, we're focused on is 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:57.800 where you rank among the greats. Not hey, he's got 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.360 more points like James Harden. Hey look at how many 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:05.439 points he's averaging. Okay, everybody's averaging a lot of points. Yes, love. 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.920 Isn't it funny that we almost view Jamis Winston's fifty 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:11.200 one hundred yards last year as a negative, like we've 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:14.640 come so far, he's the leading passer. But I was like, oh, yeah, 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:16.960 that's because he was giving the team the other team 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:19.200 of ball that. Yeah, it's like, we don't view that 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:22.199 stat as a positive even No, I just don't think 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:26.120 we care about stats. And I mean, I'm looking at 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:29.640 Alex Ovechkin to get seven hundred goals, like, Okay, I 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:33.640 mean that's a nice milestone. I don't I'm not fascinated. 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:35.600 And we all grew up with that. It feels like 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:38.720 if you're a certain generation, a certain age, where you 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:44.600 memorize those stats, it was really important. Now it's just not. 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:47.960 I just think, I know that's all the analytics, but 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:50.000 we don't even know what to do with those analytics. 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:53.520 Like I don't even know what's impressive anymore because of analytics. 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:58.200 When mclovin comes in with a new analytics theory and 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:02.079 you'll go, yeah, tackles don't matter, hits don't matter. I 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:04.440 was about to say your Pete Rose hit record, Yeah, 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:08.760 but apparently it doesn't matter. Right. Well, I'm not gonna 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:10.600 get it. By the way, a Vetchkan is stuck at 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:12.480 six ninety eight and you cannot get off of it. 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:14.920 It's driving me crazy. I don't know why we're always 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:16.920 tell me faceing with Fred McGriff couldn't get like guys 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:20.280 who end up right below a plateau. Well Dale Murphy 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:23.120 was I think three ninety eight, wasn't he? And would 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.959 four hundred have gotten him in? Maybe maybe we love 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:29.280 round numbers. There, he's got four hundred. He was to 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:34.160 two time MVP. It's a gold glug. I don't think 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:38.520 when the last time you really cared about the number? Yeah, mclub, 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:41.200 Is this just because of the steroid here in baseball 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:47.160 killed all this? Yes? Yes, absolutely, and of course sign stealing. 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:50.640 I had to get the estros hit here through the 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:53.960 first fifteen minutes of the show, I'm contractually obligated to 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:56.079 talk about the estro's cheating scane. Yes, boy, do you 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:59.040 think mission Manfred saw the release about the seventeen game 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:02.760 schedule and they expand, Yes, seven of a bouquet and 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:05.959 those gift baskets of munsons. Thank you, thank you, we 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:08.720 got a day off. Yes, mclovin. He is praying for 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.320 Tom Brady to hit the open market every day. Rob 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:13.880 Efford asked the two things. Seventeen games and Tom Brady 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:15.600 as a free agent. I know he's going, Oh Breeze 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:19.040 is going back to the Saints. That's no headline. Come on, 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:23.440 somebody's got to do something here. Brady to the Raiders. Yes, 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:25.240 that'll get me off the hook for a little while. 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:27.600 I can buy some time there before the start of 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:30.280 the regular season Age seven seven three d P Show 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:33.719 email address dpt dan Patrick dot com Twitter handle a 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:36.400 DP show got a play of the day, stat of 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:39.320 the day, got our poll question, a few more trigger 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:42.240 Meet Friday songs that we'll play for you coming up, 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:44.199 and we're going to settle on that poll question. Is 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:46.240 that right, mclovin. We'll start with that for our one. 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:48.720 Are you in favor of seventeen game? Maybe we'll change it, 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:51.520 tweak it to other NFL schedule questions later in the show. 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:53.800 What are the questions? Are you pondering it? Wow? I 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:57.679 really well? Um? Does this water down? I guess in 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:01.240 the same question, But does seventeen games expanded playoffs watered 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:03.880 down in the NFL season? The argument we were having 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:07.040 is the NCAA tournament expanding has watered down the NCAA 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:10.240 regular season. Nobody cares about these games. Is that possible 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:13.199 to happen to the NFL? Yeah, because you look at March, 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:16.160 and we love March in college basketball, but you don't 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:18.800 care about the other months here and in the NFL. 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:20.880 Are we going to get to the point where we're 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:24.640 just excited about the postseason? But right when you think 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:28.120 of all these sports when's the last time you went, gosh, 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:31.920 I can't believe the NBA is already over, or man, 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:35.280 a baseball season flew by, it's already over. The NFL. 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:37.880 We got done with the Super Bowl and we're like, 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:41.080 wait a minute, there's no there's no more football here 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:44.520 for a while. The NFL feels like you're always going, Yeah, 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.800 be nice if it was extended a little bit further. Yeah, 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:50.280 I really think the NFL nailed this one. I'm not 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:52.800 in favorite playoff expansion because I don't want teams that 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:54.680 aren't worthy in it. But they had to do the 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:57.520 playoff expansion, as you said, to get to the seventeen 0:14:57.520 --> 0:14:59.120 game schedule. The one thing that they put in that 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:04.120 that really helps them one team gets the week off. Now, 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:05.880 the first half of the season is going to be 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:07.800 less relevant because you could start oh and two and 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:10.440 still easily make the playoffs. You can start two and 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:12.200 four and you're still writing the sick of things. But 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:14.160 the second half of the season, now there's gonna be 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:15.960 a handful of teams that are in the mix that 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:17.800 weren't in the mix, and the high end teams, the 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:20.200 teams that are twelve and two, eleven and one, they're 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:22.720 now playing for something. They're not gonna rest guys. They're 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.720 not going to bench guys week sixteen seventeen, because that 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:28.800 week off is going to be the big karrot. I think, yeah, see, 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:33.160 I think that the NFL's biggest strength is that they 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:35.840 had everybody wanting more football at the end of the season. 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:37.920 I think that that's something that you really want to 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:41.440 hold on too. So I don't know that going down 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:44.440 the road of expanding things is necessarily the right move 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:51.160 because because the more football that you have, in a way, 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:55.480 the less relevant it becomes. Right, So you're the more 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:58.640 teams you add to the playoffs, the less relevant the 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:01.880 regular season it's becoming. I don't know if they're the 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:05.080 if it's the tipping point. Yeah, I understand what you're saying, 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:08.800 because there there were times this year why I said 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:11.560 it felt like there were too many games or there 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:15.440 was too much football on TV Believer or not. But 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:18.960 I do. Look, I'm in the minority there. But gambling 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:22.000 is coming. So gambling is going to make that seventeenth 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:25.360 game relevant. You know, the extra game to bet on. 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:28.360 You know what's that do for fantasy? Because now it's 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:31.400 an extra week there before you get to your playoffs, 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:35.160 and then you got the actual playoffs there. I don't 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:38.640 know the NFL is going to keep pushing. It's you know, 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:40.680 it goes back to when we were doing Sports Center 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:43.960 and we thought, you can't just rehair of Sports Center, 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.760 like nobody's gonna watch the rehair of Sports Center over 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:49.800 and over and over. And then we realized at that 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:53.880 time we couldn't give you enough Sports Center. Now we 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:57.200 eventually gave you too much Sports Center or it was 0:16:57.240 --> 0:17:00.160 watered down, but it took a while to get to 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:05.160 that point. The NFL. Everybody's happy. Everybody's making money. Now, 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:08.720 the players get some health benefits here, they are going 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:12.560 to make money. So I don't think we can talk 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:16.320 about players safety like I don't. I don't think either 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:19.359 side really has to address players safety like that era 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:22.879 is over? Right? Did that didn't last very long? The 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:25.760 Player's Safety Eric? Do you remember, hey, Grandpa, do you 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:28.879 remember when they had the player's safety era? Yes? I 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:36.920 remember that. It lasted about I don't know, four weeks. Oh, yes, Todd. 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:39.320 I kind of leaned with the Seaton on that. It 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:41.760 just it seems like it's so much participation trophies at 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:43.879 that point where you know you're adding more things, it's 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:46.000 less special to make the playoffs. I know it opens 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:48.399 the door for maybe some Cinderella team that's seven and 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:50.199 ten or eight and nine that can go on some 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:52.720 kind of run. But you know it just comes out 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:55.200 to I know, money and greed and doing this in game. Yeah, 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:57.040 but are you gonna watch less football because of this? 0:17:57.760 --> 0:17:59.800 I personally would not, but maybe part of it, just 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:01.800 if you know what I do for a living. But 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:04.760 I think that's just what the NFL is banking on, 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:07.120 Like you're still gonna want. You may not like it, 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:10.639 or it might deem the regular season less relevant, but 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:14.520 you're gonna be fine. Like the NFL knows this, Like 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:18.520 we could bottle up these comments right now and then 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:22.800 I could play them back in three years and be like, yeah, yeah, 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:24.320 I don't know what I was thinking that, Like, I 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:26.760 don't like it, I don't need it, but if it's there, 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:30.120 all watch it. So that's sort of my my thought 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:31.960 on this whole thing. It's been my thought on this 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:34.879 all alone. Yeah, if I'm at a restaurant or I 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:37.480 order a dozen buffalo wings and they bring me thirteen, 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:39.920 it doesn't water down my enjoyment of the first twelve, 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:42.400 and I don't need that thirteenth, but guess what, I'm 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:44.720 eating it because I know I'm full. But I'll pop 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:50.880 that thirteenth down like nobody's business. Yes, seem O'Connor. Wing 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:54.680 sounds pretty good right now? We do have too early 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:58.040 for wings. No, it's not because I have a surprise 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:01.080 for you, guys. I brought in Chad from No Way. Yes, 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:03.800 Chad from Tregger is showing up and he is making 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:08.160 buffalo wings. That's better than a seventeen. I'm just letting 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:10.840 you know, got a surprise for you. All right, let's 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:13.199 not a surprise anymore surprise. All right, we'll take a 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:15.800 break here. It's nineteen after the hour. We'll get to 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:18.480 your phone calls. Got our poll question there, Bob costUS, 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:19.920 who is going to join us a little bit later 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:23.320 on because once again I'm contractually obligated to talk about 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:27.199 the astros. 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