WEBVTT - 25 Whistles: Dan Patrick on What He Looks for When Interviewing Athletes + Coach Sam Pittman Discusses Dealing with the New Age of College Football & the NIL + Show Introductions + Bobby’s Weird Estate Sale Purchases 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.720 Hey guys, Bobby here, thank you for being subscribed to 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:04.640 the Bobby Cast. We just appreciate it. The thing has 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:09.240 grown so much, and just appreciate you obviously. So we 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.080 have a new football podcast called Whistles, and the reason 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:14.600 is it's because we're doing twenty five episodes and then 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:17.239 it's just gonna die. And isn't that just a metaphor 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:19.840 for life. We live, we love, and then we die. 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:22.439 That's kind of sad, but that's what's happening here twenty 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:25.360 five Whistles. We're talking in college football NFL. And so 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:28.080 this is an episode that this was our starter episode 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:29.960 and the goal is in like five episodes, to be 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:32.640 embarrassed of this episode because it was so bad compared 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:34.800 to what we're doing now. But we're very proud of it. 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:39.000 And mostly if you like it, go and subscribe and 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:42.120 follow our podcast. I think it's the only ever limited 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:46.400 sports podcast that's focused on current sports. So Dan Patrick 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:48.320 is a guest. We're very excited he came on. I 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:50.320 just didn't expect to get somebody so awesome in the 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:53.440 first episode. Also, the Arkansas had football coach Sam Pittman, 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:55.520 and even if you hate Arkansas and you've heard me 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.080 talk about it so much you're like, please stab me 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:00.200 in the ear. We don't really talk about ark saw 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:03.440 football that much doing Mike. It's mostly like being an 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:06.440 SEC coach and the challenges behind the scenes stuff. Yeah, 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:08.280 and what it's like to be married and your wife 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:11.280 has to go well, football season so way less balanced now, 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:13.560 stuff like that. So I hope you listen to this, 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:16.160 and if you like it, go subscribe to twenty five 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:19.880 Whistles on I Heart Radio, Apple podcast or wherever you 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:22.760 listen to podcasts. Again, just search twenty five Whistles, the 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:25.520 number two five Whistles and I mean, we've got two 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:28.039 episodes up now, and I hope you listen to it. 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:29.840 And it's weird. People are like, well, I didn't know 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:32.600 you did sports. I'm out of retirement. I got called 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:35.160 back in back in back at a national sports you 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:37.480 on Fox Sports Radio for many years covered the draft 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:40.600 for ABC and ESPN, and it's just generally my my 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:42.959 obsession and hobby. And you're not gonna hear us breaking 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:46.199 down coverages in this podcast. It's just hopefully the stuff 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:48.680 that you want to hear your friends talking about sports. 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:50.640 All right, that's what's up. And we're gonna do it 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:53.280 till the super Bowl. But here is episode one with 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:55.480 Dan Patrick and all of us here in twenty five 0:01:55.480 --> 0:02:04.640 whistles is the podcast called tim Sucking fun Ball and 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:09.440 they whist yes, but what didn't you expect? It's a 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:17.200 podcast whistles whatever, everybody, we we actually are wearing whistles, 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:18.760 and we'll get to that in a second. But whoever 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:20.200 has the best show today gets to blow the whistle 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:22.880 at the end. It's the it's the reward for winning, 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:26.240 doing the best job. If you overplay, though, we'll take 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:28.840 your whistle away for next game. That's quite the reward, 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:30.959 big one. The only one person gets to blow the 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:35.360 whistle at the end. What's happening, everybody. So what we're 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:37.239 gonna do here is we're gonna do our warm ups, 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:38.680 just like in a game. I'm gonna give you a 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:40.880 warm up question. We'll go around the room, we'll introduce you. 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:42.560 This is how we get to know each other. So 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:45.200 we'll go around there and first up, the question will 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:46.880 be who is your favorite football player as a kid. 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:49.440 So think about that for a second. Your favorite player 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:53.520 as a kid. First up, Adam Handbrick. Adam your favorite 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:58.359 football player as a child, Smithy, I grew up a 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:01.639 Cowboys fan. Yeah, you know, the the other Cowboys get 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:04.320 the traditional TV coverage in Arkansas, and that's who was 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:05.880 on and that's who my dad was a fan of, 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:07.840 and so I was. I got duped into being a 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:09.720 Cowboys fan when they were winning all those Super Bowls 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:13.280 and the nineties Eddie Joe Montana. So before I was 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:16.399 there a Cowboys hear me, Before I was a Cowboys fan, 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:18.760 I was the Ford Niners fan obviously, because Joe Montana 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:20.960 and Jared Rice and all those dudes were just dominating. 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:24.560 And then once Joe Montana went to the Chiefs retired, 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:26.680 bah blah, I was like, I need a team, and 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:29.480 so my mom was really into the Cowboys. Obviously I'm 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:32.000 from South Texas. Let's go Cowboys and we started winning. 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:35.400 That's my team now. But you can't really change teams. 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:38.240 Well you're not, as I literally thought you were a 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:42.680 much like deeper Cowboys fan. Yeah, I feel borderland trade Listen, 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.240 you can't trade teams. Listen. When you're a kid, you 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:47.200 like who you like and at that time it's just 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:50.640 whoever is winning it. I don't have a team, like 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:52.960 can you imagine. I can't imagine me a Ford Niners 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:56.240 fans still like that. That's ridiculous. I'm not from California, Texas, 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:57.920 but I'm surprised you just warn't as a kid, I 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:00.400 guess that's what I'm saying. Are there any I heart 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:03.960 Texans fans? I mean, like, unless you like live there 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:06.120 and you're like soup, you know that would be I 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:08.640 remember as a kid kid maybe a Texans fan because 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:10.040 they grew up there. I remember as a kid there 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:12.240 were a lot of Oilers, like it was split Cowboys. 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:14.840 Oilers and Cowboys weren't I mean, stop back. Those were 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:16.720 great days for them. But I think there were more 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:19.600 Oilers fans when Texans took over. I mean I didn't 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:22.520 know anybody kick off Kevin Your favorite football player as 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:25.279 a kid as a kid? Um, well, either one would 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:27.200 be Tom Brady, but he's still playing, so I'll go 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:31.480 with Randy Moss. That's crazy. I was nine. Do you 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:33.160 have such a beer and big muscles? How old are 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:37.440 you at a young age? No? You do not do 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:44.359 that's all. Yeah, like the oil fields for like twenty years. 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:46.600 Is that a good thing? That's a good thing. That's 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:50.600 a good thing. He's like se Kwan Barkley as a kid, 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:54.280 like Joe Burrow. Mike d favorite football player as a 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:57.760 kid Troy Aikman. Okay, that's a good one. How old 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:01.240 are you, Mike thirty one? There we go. There's like 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.560 a generation difference still on your favorite players, though, I 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:05.760 guess Tom Brady the first part of Tom Brady, Yeah, 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:08.159 like the earlier. But like I said, the first player 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:10.440 I remember liking was Randy Moss. Dear God, we have 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:14.120 three Cowboys fans here. It's a Cowboys show. Welcome to 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:18.039 the Cowboys club. Mine is boom Assayasin because when I 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:20.599 was a kid, he was the only left handed quarterback 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:23.080 that I really like, and in the Forts were winning, 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:25.719 so I didn't go with Steve Young and Joe Montana 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:27.600 was hit early in my early days. And then when 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:30.000 Steve Young became the quarterback and he was left handed, 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:32.200 I don't like a winner. I like somebody that's a 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:34.200 loser that becomes a winner. So I was a big 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:36.600 Cincinnati Bengals fan. I remember watching them beat by the 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:39.320 forty niners and being so sad. I cried. It was 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.240 it was awful. But Boomersia said he was my inspiration 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:45.360 until like seventh grade when I wasn't quarterback anymore. And 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:47.280 he also like went to the Jets. And there's a 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:49.200 whole weird thing. So but I don't have a team. 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:50.960 I don't have an NFL team. I like a lot 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:52.920 of the NFL teams. I hate a few NFL teams, 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:55.640 mostly just the Cowboys. But and I don't even have 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:57.880 But I don't even hate him as much. I hated 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:00.719 a winner, so I hated the Cowboys all throughout the 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:04.120 you know, mid to late nineties. We should love us now, well, yes, 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.600 you're a big losers. But you guys are so annoying. 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:11.640 So you say annoying, I say, we're very hopeful. But yeah, 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:15.080 it's a passion, hope because every start of the year 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:16.720 we're like, this is it, this is our year. But 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.839 I can appreciate that. I don't I like that about you, 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:22.880 but I can respect and also hate the passion. Hey, 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:25.080 is it too late for you to come up with 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.840 a favorite NFL team? Like? Um, I have a couple 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:31.599 of friends that play, and that makes it weird. Weish 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:35.040 we should take some tweets and like get people to 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.920 to for their teams. I don't give a crap. I'm 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.080 good watching. I'll watch fantasy. I'll root for the Titans 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:42.520 because they're close and there some people over there. I'll 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:45.200 follow Arkansas players like Traylon Brooks with the Titans. I'll 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:48.200 keep up with that. So okay. Second question, name a 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:53.640 dumb sports mascot? All right, name a dumb sports mascot. Question. 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:57.160 Eddie says he's in go Blue Devils. Okay, the duke 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:00.960 blue Man? What is that? High school was red Devils? 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.240 I get it when you pictured the devil, it's red, right, 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:08.040 But what's a blue Devils like the ice a devil? 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:10.440 Is that his? Like? I just don't get it. His 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:13.520 twin brother, that's the good devil. That's a good point. 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:17.640 Kick off, Kevin, let's go with the Philly fanatic. I 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:21.400 think it's just random to me. His look. You know, 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:24.320 that's an interesting tea too, because when the mascot doesn't 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.840 actually like Stanford, what is it? They have a tree 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:32.680 and they have Christmas year round. That wasn't my answer. 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:37.440 Oh that's but yeah, Toledo. You know Toledo's mascot. Are 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:41.960 they Rockets? Rockets? Um? So, I hate the Toledo Rockets. 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:46.280 First of all, I hate because we went and Brad 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:48.360 Paisley asked Eddie and I to go play a show 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:53.880 after Arkansas played Toledo. It was a little more memorial stadium, 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:55.960 and so we're supposed to kill him, and Eddie and 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:58.960 I are like, absolutely so, somebody an opener. Eddie and 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:00.760 I the reging idiots and Brad easily right after the 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.440 game we're supposed to win. We lost the game to Toledo. 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:05.800 They beat us, and we were miserable. I didn't want 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:09.120 to do as awful, So I hate the Rockets. I mean, 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:11.960 Toledo's cool and fine. I was really worried that night 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:15.560 that you weren't gonna go on my boycott. Straight up, 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:20.640 Mike d named dumb sports mascot. I can't even think of, 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:25.680 not a single dumb mascot. No, if I thought some 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:29.080 of the go razor back. No, somebody gets fired the 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:33.280 first ever hear from them again, h Adam hambroke a 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:36.760 dumb sports mascot. Why is Alabama the Elephants? I still 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:39.319 don't understand it. I've been it's been explained to me 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:42.959 multiple times, but I still don't get into care. I 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:46.360 think a war eagle similar meaning what's a war eagle 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:48.440 I like, but I like a piece eagle like the 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:50.959 American eagle. Yeah, I mean yeah, I forget to pick 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:54.240 the kind of eagle. Okay, we're all stretching out. We 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:58.120 got one more. Would your wife or Kevin? I don't 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:00.360 think you have a you know, married, Sorry, you have girl? No, 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:05.880 I don't. Would your wife or have you athetical? Have 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:08.400 you ever had a girlfriend? What's the last time? The 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:12.160 last serious one was probably four years ago. Okay, let's 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:18.600 just act like you're still together. Okay, perfect it Would 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:22.319 your wife rather you be generally a good athlete, or 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:25.600 would you rather you generally have good fashion sense? If 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:29.120 it was just naturally in you, Mike d fashion sense. 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:30.480 My wife gives on me all the time that I 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:35.120 dressed like crap Adam hambrig Oh, definitely fashion sense. Yeah, 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:41.160 Kevin athlete for sure, Eddie. I mean I don't dress well. 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:43.320 My wife never says anything, and she loves that. My 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:46.440 boys are athletes, like my little kids are really good athletes, 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:48.400 and she loves that. So I think she would like 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:50.920 for her husband to be an athlete. Yeah, I'm gonna 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:54.640 go with athlete to My wife is extremely athletic. It's annoying. 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:58.559 She's so gifted athletic, athletically and so I think she 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:01.880 would like that for kid. Time for the kid to 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:04.000 dear God, if it gets my athletic ability, not hers. 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:06.559 She can kill me. And I was a pretty good athlete, 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:09.040 but she's you know, um and she can handle the 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:11.240 fashion stuff for me out. Yesterday I went to dinner 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:14.240 and I walked down all my clothes landing on the bed. 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:15.640 I don't put him out. She pick him out for me. 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:18.960 That's nice. Yeah, yeah, she kills that. Um. So all right, 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:22.400 twenty five whistles. Here's why we're named this draft. Kings 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:23.640 was like, hey, let's I want you to do a 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:25.319 show and I said, okay. We talked about it for 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.560 a long time and I said, I don't want to 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:30.280 commit to a show for all year. I don't know 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:32.080 who's gonna do it with me. I don't know if 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:33.640 we have the capat. I said, let's lot do a 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.120 sports show and we'll do it till the Super Bowl. 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:37.640 They were like, great, I'll do one a week, which 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:39.080 we're doing here. We'll probably do a little more than 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:41.120 one a week occasionally, but I said I'll do twenty 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:43.480 five and then we're retiring, and so that's why it's 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.120 twenty five. Whistles will build whistled into each show, episodes 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:49.720 over and then we're good. Episode two. That's it. Dan 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:51.959 Patrick coming up in a little bits. As I look 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:55.199 back at my favorite interviews ever and like the coolest ones. 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:58.600 I put Steven Tyler up there, half Hourady with John Mayer, 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:01.240 and I put Dan Patrick because I'm just a massive 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:03.160 Dan Patrick fan. You guys thought it was cool, right 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:06.679 it was? It was awesome. So Dan Patrick coming up. 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:09.000 And obviously the first episode, we're gonna have Sam Pittman, 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:11.400 the Arkansas football head coach. We don't really talk about 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:14.720 Arkansas football, meaning we don't get in. It's mostly like 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:18.600 being an SEC coach, being famous, now in a town, 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:20.640 all of that. So we talked with Sam Pittman a 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:22.880 little bit. I was worried that when you book Sam Pittman, 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:24.920 I'm like, here we go, it's gonna be an Arkansas podcast. 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:26.640 It easily could have been, but I didn't make it 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:29.160 that I It was could have been any SEC head coach, 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:30.880 but I just felt like I needed to go Pittman 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:34.480 because that's my guy, and I knew I could get 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:36.640 out just texted him, honestly, So next week and we 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:41.840 get the quarterbacks coach, you to play quarterback for it. 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:44.280 Logins coming on the polic All right, here's what we're 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:45.960 gonna do. This is a little game we're gonna play 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.000 for the episodes that we do. You don't have to play, 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:49.360 but if you don't get in today, you can't play 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:52.640 the rest of the year. Oh my gosh. Right, So 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:56.920 we're gonna play who Wins It All? So for one dollar. 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:59.680 For one dollar, you can buy a team in college 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:03.000 footb all you can somebody else can buy the same 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:05.719 team for one dollar. You can buy a team in 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:07.400 the NFL. Right now, you go who Wins it All? 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:09.679 Put a dollar in on it, and you can keep 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:11.240 that one dollar in it. Now, if you change your 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:13.679 pick at any time, you gotta double your dollar bet 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:17.760 to two dollars. You can change and pick another team. 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:21.800 So that being the case, we'll have to shut it 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:23.880 down at one point. Obviously. What figure out when that is? 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:26.240 Maybe it's new Year. Maybe it's because I just made 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:28.679 the scheme up last night. So I don't want you 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:30.000 guys to go beautiful mind to figure out how to 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:32.199 actually beat the system. So We're gonna play who wins 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:34.720 it all? Nobody got a heads up, But for one dollar, 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:37.600 you get to pick a team, and each one dollar college, 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:40.240 one dollar NFL, and we'll keep up with it. Um 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:45.480 does everybody want in for a dollar? It would be dumb. 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:49.640 Let's play who wins it all? And we'll check every 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:51.480 week if we wants to change your mind? Who wins 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:56.120 it all? In college football? Okay? Now, remember, if you 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:58.880 pick a big team, someone else might pick it with you. 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:01.920 You just can't come in on a team that's already 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:06.120 picked a week after. We're later. So if you pick 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:09.400 Alabama right now and you have been changing your mind 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:12.000 to go to somebody else, I can then go to Alabama. 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:14.080 But if you have it, I can't take Alabama later 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:16.440 because we gotta split the money up in a weird way. Also, 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:19.679 I'm making up the rules as I go. Right there. Okay, 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:24.360 let's play who wins it all? Adam Handbrike college football? 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:29.079 Who wins it all? Oh man, I'm gonna it's hard 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:32.199 to argue against Alabama. I'm gonna argue against Alabama though, 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:35.480 and take Ohio State just big. We can't. We can't 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:37.680 just have Alabama win it every year. You guys, well, 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:41.320 I mean they didn't. I know, um, Eddie, give me 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:45.400 a dollar for Alabama? Okay, I mean why not was 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:49.120 guaranteed money? Man kick off? Kevin roll tied, I'm going Obama. Oky, 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:55.640 we got two Obamas. Mike d I'm going with Georgia. Okay, 0:13:56.120 --> 0:14:00.559 you know what. First week, I'm also gonna go Alama. 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:08.640 I'm gonna go. I do want, but I just want 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:10.360 to be differently. I don't want to go three deep 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:13.319 on Alabama. We should have all written it down before, 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:15.160 but I thought if I could read it, read you 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:16.719 just up. I know. But I'm just coming up with 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:18.440 the game as we go here. But yesterday he means, 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:23.080 like an hour ago, I'm gonna go with Alabama. After 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:25.560 all that thought, I still go to help. Okay, So 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:27.320 there we go. That's that's NFL. That money is at 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:30.560 one pot in FL. Ready, yea, let's go around the room, 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:32.320 pick your team and it'll cost you one dollar to 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:34.240 get in. Mike, do you get to go first? I'm 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:36.840 going with the Bucks kick off? Kevin. See you want 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:40.280 to go to the Bucks to Yeah, let's go to 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:45.080 the Bucks, big Adam. I'm going Bengals. Okay, yep, Eddie 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:47.480 a bunch of videots. It's a dollar. Give me the cowboys. 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:50.720 Give me the Cowboys. In week five, I'll probably change 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:53.480 another dollar. I didn't say when they started out over 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:57.640 for I'm gonna go with the packers so that you know, 0:14:57.680 --> 0:14:59.400 you guys can't hop on the packers. So I'm gonna 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:01.400 sit on the packers for a little bit. I'll go 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:05.120 with the packers to win at all. Just we should 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:08.320 have like a jar and have actual dollar bills. We 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:10.560 should put it somewhere. But people steal from here. But 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:12.120 it's only against like five bucks, so it's like a 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:17.640 big deal. But everybody has, yes, everybody, everybody has two dollars. Yes, 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:19.880 So just so I'm clear on the rules. Can once 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:23.480 we pick a team, we can't and then we change 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:25.160 from that team, we can't come back to that team. 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:26.880 You can if nobody else is on it. If no 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:29.880 one else but like Alabama's already been packed, Alabama's on. 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:32.640 So it's long if one of you Alabamas or me 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:34.720 move off of it, as long as somebody's still on it, 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:37.200 it's not open to take. If everybody moves off, somebody 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:39.160 else can get back on. But if I were to 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:41.440 get in a week four, then the money's all weirdly 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:43.400 split up and we gotta do percentages. We got it, 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:47.040 and if I that's the rules and I don't, I 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:50.480 have to look back what I said. Okay, so we 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:52.080 all have our teams here. I do want to talk 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:54.000 about Draft Kings for a second, because they're awesome and 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:55.680 they're the reason that I'm doing this, and I've been 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:58.120 with Draft Kings for a long time as in not 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:00.840 just spokesperson, I'm not just spokespert, and I'm also a client. 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:04.720 Um So when we're talking about the futures, the Bills 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:08.400 are the favorite at plus six hundred, so they nobody 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:11.000 picked the Bills or the betting favorite. The Bucks are 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:13.600 at seven plus seven hundred, the Chiefs plus thousands, the 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:15.560 Packers of plus a thousand, and the Rams of plus 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:18.040 twelve hundred. So those are your top five teams right 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:20.360 now if you're gonna bet. But even picking a favorite 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:23.280 this early, because I'm not a big favorite guy to bet, 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:25.800 but even picking a favorite, the odds are long enough 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:28.520 that this early there's still some pretty good money there. 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:31.240 If you've got Buffalo a plus six hundred eddie, if 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:33.280 I bet if I've got a hundred bucks on Buffalo 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:35.440 the plus six hundred, how much of money will I make? 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:41.600 Uh five dollars? Right, because it would not not counting 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:44.240 your one eddie. If I bet a hundred bucks, yeah, 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:47.120 you're all you're almost right. I mean, if it's you're 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:49.760 not counting. If I bet a hundred bucks Buffalo plus 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:53.240 six hundred, that is how much money? But so it's seven. 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:55.760 But it's the one the back exactly. You got it. 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:58.960 So we've all made our picks. But Draft Kings is awesome. 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:01.120 It's easy to use. You get your money quick back. 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:03.880 It's not like some people that we know that go 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:08.160 through odd foreign places and that's a whole situation. Yeah, 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:11.080 don't don't be that guy. Oh yeah, appreciate Draft Kings 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:13.320 and being a part of it. Here. Let's do this. 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:14.639 I think this is intric We already kind of got 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:17.199 on a little bit. But we're gonna do identify your 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:19.399 team in the first episode, so you know bias the 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:21.760 whole season. So when people say crap, you know that 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:24.000 they have a bias. Um, I'll go first. I don't 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.639 have an NFL team, but in the Arkansas player on 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:29.760 bias four and I'm a massive Arkansas Razorbacks fan. Um, 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:33.480 but I'm not biased there either, just in case at 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:35.639 a bias alert. I don't have a college team. I 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:39.360 went to sam Houston State. I mean, they're decent at 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:43.639 the Division one, doful, but you're not like following them 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:45.639 every week? No, no no, no. But on ESPN plus they 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:47.639 do play some of their games, and I scan it 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:49.760 on a Saturday and they're playing, I watch it. I 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:51.439 guess my point with this is if you hear us 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:53.560 talking about a team in a segment here, so I 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:56.800 guess Samson says rocking for some reason if they're coming up. 0:17:57.200 --> 0:17:59.960 But so, no college team, but also you're in a 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:03.120 all teams is the Dallas Cowboys kick off? Kevin uh 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:05.359 No allegiance to a collegiate team, I'm like you, Or 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:07.800 I have teams that I don't like and then teams 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:09.679 that I kind of root for for whatever reason, So 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:11.240 that's a bias or who do you not like? Because 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:14.400 I don't like Notre Dame. See I grew up watching them, 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:16.440 but I'm not a huge fan. I don't like Ohuse State, 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:18.240 I don't like I might not want to hear this. 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:22.240 Oklahoma I didn't like Oklahomila till I had to, but 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:24.480 now I do. I can't hate them anymore. But State 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:27.720 it's another one. I don't like Texas, USC. I like Texas, 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:32.520 I don't like USC. Uh. That's pretty much it for 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:34.840 the most part. NFL, you have a New England had on, Yes, 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:37.520 Patriots fan. My dad from back East Rhode Island. So 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:40.159 I grew up in California, but dads from I've never 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:43.919 met anybody from rhodel Ken just a whole like Mystery. Yeah, 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:49.120 Mighty Texas, the Cowboys. Okay, I don't hate people from 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:55.879 Texas or even individual long Horns, the brand on Arkansas. 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:59.520 I'm supposed to hate the long Horns. Adam Hamburg, massive 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:02.040 Razorback fan. This is part of the reason why me 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:05.560 and Bobby your friends, um and uh. Yeah. I grew 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:08.080 up in Arkansas, but a lot of my growing up 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:10.120 was in Mississippi. So I was like the only Arkansas 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:13.760 Razorback fan within like two hundred miles, and so I 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:16.480 just like, you know, I just like clung onto that 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:19.680 as a kid, the Razorbacks and Cowboys. Razorbacks and Cowboys. 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:22.359 But also since moving to Nashville, it was kind of 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:24.879 made made space in my heart for the Titans. And 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:27.040 so it's can have multiple teams, can multiple teams, you 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:30.720 can't have a one one. That's different conferences, though it 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:34.040 was now different conferences. You can't have two teams. You 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:36.119 can root along for two teams, but you can't have 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:40.359 two teams. You have one team or no teams. Is 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:42.119 that is that if you have three teams, you have 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:44.280 no teams. You have two quarterbacks, you have no quarterbacks. 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:47.960 That's like having multiple favorite teams. Um, okay, so this 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:50.200 is our first episode and we're today, we're gonna start 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:53.320 and I've introduced you to Kevin. Now I horribly named 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:54.560 him kick Off Kevin because I was just like, we 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:57.280 gotta call you something, and so it's a terrible names 0:19:57.280 --> 0:19:59.520 that you can change it, but we didn't. And so 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:03.479 in the theme of naming you horribly, I've named your 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:06.959 segment horribly. So this segment is called kick Off Kevin's 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:14.080 five question tittle tattle that makes no sense whatsoever, But 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:17.080 this is this five question tittle tattle where and here's 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:18.720 the rules And went up to this every time, but 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:21.200 Kevin will come and he'll bring me five questions about 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:23.040 NFL and n C double A I will answer it, 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:24.440 and if you disagree with me, this is your first 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:27.600 shot at the whistle. If I finish and you disagree, 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:30.760 blow the whistle and I will come to you and 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:33.400 you can say your part. I like it. Okay, we're 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:36.439 seeing I made this up to and I can't disagree. Correct. 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:40.119 You are in this. You are the reporter. You cannot disagree. 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:42.159 If later we bring it up again, that's fine, but 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:45.680 you have to be absolutely impartial. Okay. I see the 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:47.479 question and I shut my mouth like a good reporter. 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:50.800 Is okay, first question and the tittle tattle Kevin. Alright, 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:54.679 which offseason quarterback in the collegiate World transfer will result 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:57.680 real result in the most wins for their respective program. 0:20:57.760 --> 0:21:00.560 Caleb Williams going to USC Quinn you were is going 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:03.920 to Texas? Dylan Gabriel to oh You or Jackson Dart 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:07.320 down to old Miss Jackson Dart's interesting. I mean, all 0:21:07.359 --> 0:21:09.240 those guys are kind of leaving the same place. It's 0:21:09.280 --> 0:21:12.159 like it's like justin Fields and Borough and when you 0:21:12.160 --> 0:21:14.320 know State Georgia, they all kind of just shifted a 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:16.480 little bit. But that's happening here a little bit. Darts 0:21:16.760 --> 0:21:22.880 interesting because that Lane Kiffin's system is ready to win 0:21:22.920 --> 0:21:24.479 a little bit they have. I think they have a 0:21:24.520 --> 0:21:28.040 pretty decent shot to be competitive in the SEC West. Um, 0:21:28.200 --> 0:21:32.000 the kid at Oklahoma's from UCF. They are good and 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:34.479 they play in a conference it's not that good, so 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:38.119 that's a factor. Caleb Williams awesome. I watched him a 0:21:38.119 --> 0:21:39.480 lot because I watched a lot of the games of 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:42.840 my my wife last year. And when he came in, 0:21:42.960 --> 0:21:46.880 he took over for Spencer Rattler. It was the win 0:21:47.040 --> 0:21:50.000 over Texas. When they came back they wanted. He took 0:21:50.040 --> 0:21:53.000 over the whole game. Uh, that was pretty awesome. And 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:56.720 who's who's the other option you get? And he hasn't 0:21:56.720 --> 0:21:58.439 even won the job. He's going to be the quarterback, 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:00.680 but he hasn't officially won the job yet, at least 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:03.200 as we're recording this. Uh, he's the kid from Ohio State. 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:05.760 He got a million bucks. I think designing pieced out, 0:22:06.320 --> 0:22:08.320 which is gonna be interesting too with Manning coming in 0:22:08.440 --> 0:22:11.080 Arch Manning next year into Texas. Now, if he doesn't play, 0:22:11.119 --> 0:22:13.439 which they're saying he's not going to freshman year, that 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:15.760 kind of works out because you also have this year 0:22:15.800 --> 0:22:18.120 and next year and then maybe he goes pro. That way, 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:20.440 you can sit for a year spent a rattlers another 0:22:20.440 --> 0:22:22.920 option in South Carolina. I thought about him, but he 0:22:23.000 --> 0:22:24.280 kind of had a down year last year, so I 0:22:24.320 --> 0:22:29.320 was like, yeah, but then you're getting getting replaced. Yeah. 0:22:29.359 --> 0:22:30.880 He was the odds on favorite to be the first 0:22:30.920 --> 0:22:33.600 round draft pick this year though at one point last year. 0:22:34.240 --> 0:22:38.240 I'm gonna go with but from your options, give me 0:22:38.240 --> 0:22:41.240 your options one more time, just a quarterbacks. Since Caleb 0:22:41.240 --> 0:22:44.520 Williams you see winning yours in Texas dealing Gabriel to Ou, 0:22:44.560 --> 0:22:47.280 I'm gonna go Gabriel. Gabriel is a good quarterback from 0:22:47.320 --> 0:22:50.399 ucf UM, and I think, oh you, of all those programs, 0:22:50.640 --> 0:22:54.240 has the best shot to actually win a lot of games, 0:22:54.960 --> 0:22:59.560 win that conference, and possibly be in the playoff. So 0:22:59.800 --> 0:23:04.439 that my answer there, all right, who blew the whistle? Me? Adam? 0:23:04.560 --> 0:23:07.120 Blew the whistle? Alright, Adam, because Kayla Williams, he's got 0:23:07.119 --> 0:23:10.439 a way easier road man. The Pack twelve is is 0:23:10.480 --> 0:23:14.639 just not as good as the Big twelve. And I 0:23:14.680 --> 0:23:18.280 can't I can't think of more than three teams that 0:23:18.320 --> 0:23:21.520 should beat usc UM and so I think they're gonna 0:23:21.560 --> 0:23:23.680 at least win nine nine games. They have to win 0:23:23.760 --> 0:23:27.040 nine games. I think Oklahoma wins ten or eleven. They might. 0:23:27.400 --> 0:23:30.080 I don't know it's gonna beat them. Texas. Listen, Tech, 0:23:30.119 --> 0:23:32.639 I know Tech, he's got a first place vote. Texas 0:23:32.680 --> 0:23:34.840 is always just a craft shoot. And then they still 0:23:34.840 --> 0:23:36.359 have to get by Baylor, they had to give by 0:23:36.440 --> 0:23:39.160 Oklahoma State, and and I don't know that they can 0:23:39.160 --> 0:23:41.280 win those in our first year head coach. Those are 0:23:41.320 --> 0:23:43.960 all like really good programs right now, I would now 0:23:43.960 --> 0:23:45.800 I don't agree with, but Ventables has been in Oklahoma, 0:23:45.840 --> 0:23:47.159 so it's not like that's all new to him. He 0:23:47.200 --> 0:23:50.120 was defensive coordinated there for a long time. Um, I'm 0:23:50.160 --> 0:23:53.200 still going to Oklahoma. You blew your whistle. Now you're 0:23:53.280 --> 0:23:58.000 you're off the show. All right, that's my answer. That's 0:23:58.040 --> 0:23:59.399 number one. Give me ever two? All right. Do you 0:23:59.440 --> 0:24:02.439 think Rams quarterback Matt staffords sore elbow will be the 0:24:02.520 --> 0:24:05.880 downfall of l A's chance as repeating as Super Bowl champions? 0:24:06.040 --> 0:24:08.040 I mean downfall. No, I think it's gonna be something 0:24:08.040 --> 0:24:10.639 they have to watch, and I think they'll have to 0:24:10.640 --> 0:24:13.040 play a little different because of that. I think they'll 0:24:13.040 --> 0:24:16.439 probably not be able to run their offense as freely 0:24:16.520 --> 0:24:18.440 as they possibly would want to, even if he's feeling 0:24:18.480 --> 0:24:20.960 pretty good. I think they just gotta. They have to 0:24:21.080 --> 0:24:23.080 monitor it and take care of it, even if it's 0:24:23.080 --> 0:24:26.240 not killing it at Tendonita sucks and I never even 0:24:26.240 --> 0:24:27.960 had it at a level like that, but I had it, 0:24:28.000 --> 0:24:29.359 and it was for four months. Had it worked on 0:24:29.600 --> 0:24:32.880 dry needled, I had. I did everything to it. Um 0:24:33.000 --> 0:24:37.560 so downfall. No, and their defense is so good that 0:24:37.680 --> 0:24:42.040 they could actually keep them in it or not mine. 0:24:42.040 --> 0:24:44.000 They could actually still win a whole lot of freaking games. 0:24:44.040 --> 0:24:47.679 So no, And I think Stafford will probably be fine 0:24:47.960 --> 0:24:51.120 at the end of it. It's not like it's throwing elbow. 0:24:52.119 --> 0:24:55.040 It's that he's coming off reconstructive surgery. So I'm gonna go. 0:24:55.359 --> 0:24:57.320 They're still in it. They still have a chance, all right. 0:24:57.359 --> 0:24:59.560 Next one, Okay, old faces and new places for the 0:24:59.560 --> 0:25:02.040 wider evers. This year, will they have open or under 0:25:02.080 --> 0:25:04.520 their two thousand twenty one totals will start with Tyreek 0:25:04.600 --> 0:25:07.679 Hill with receiving yards in one had one thousand, two 0:25:07.760 --> 0:25:10.000 hundred thirty nine. But two is this quarterback And I know, 0:25:10.080 --> 0:25:11.480 like people hate too and they say you can't throw. 0:25:11.520 --> 0:25:14.879 I've been watching the Dolphins practice videos and I'm only 0:25:14.920 --> 0:25:16.600 seen the ones Dolphins ones want me to see. They're 0:25:16.600 --> 0:25:25.320 looking pretty good. Like Tyrenk is running fast everybody. He 0:25:25.480 --> 0:25:29.000 was it on Instagram, it was on Twitter. Actually, I'm 0:25:29.000 --> 0:25:33.600 gonna go with under only because it is to it 0:25:33.720 --> 0:25:37.040 and not my homes. Uh, they're gonna really, I mean, 0:25:37.080 --> 0:25:39.600 waddle is so good. Here's the thing about Miami though, 0:25:39.640 --> 0:25:45.920 They've got a couple elite wide receivers where the Chiefs didn't. 0:25:46.560 --> 0:25:48.080 She's had a great tight end. But I don't feel 0:25:48.080 --> 0:25:50.240 like they could open it. Why don't can fly to 0:25:50.920 --> 0:25:52.520 Like you got two of the fastest guys in the NFL. 0:25:52.760 --> 0:25:55.960 I'm still gonna go under because of the quarterback and 0:25:56.000 --> 0:25:58.320 not because I think I like to. Uh, but two 0:25:58.440 --> 0:26:00.960 is not my homes, so gonna go under. Give me 0:26:00.960 --> 0:26:03.040 another one, all right? A. J. Brown twenty one or 0:26:03.080 --> 0:26:05.919 two one touchdowns, had five over under five this year 0:26:05.960 --> 0:26:08.880 with the Eagles. I think he has more. I think 0:26:08.920 --> 0:26:13.600 his quarterback situation is slightly improved. I don't think that 0:26:13.920 --> 0:26:16.840 he's going to a quarterback that's going to change his life. 0:26:16.880 --> 0:26:18.640 I think he's got money that will change his life now, 0:26:19.000 --> 0:26:21.399 which is the Titans didn't want to pay him, but 0:26:21.800 --> 0:26:24.000 I'm gonna say more because I think he's gonna be 0:26:24.040 --> 0:26:26.959 more of a focus in that offense where Tannehill they 0:26:27.000 --> 0:26:28.520 threw a bit and he was they tried to make 0:26:28.560 --> 0:26:30.240 him the focus. They trying to make Julio the focus 0:26:30.280 --> 0:26:31.960 whenever he was not hurt, but he was also hurt 0:26:31.960 --> 0:26:33.800 a little bit. So I'm gonna go he's gonna have 0:26:33.880 --> 0:26:38.080 more in Philadelphia, Okay, And Davante Adams to twoptions had 0:26:38.119 --> 0:26:42.120 a dree over under twenty three this year under just 0:26:42.200 --> 0:26:48.240 because Renfroze there, uh, that system, he will get he 0:26:48.240 --> 0:26:51.119 will get a lot of balls. But um, you know 0:26:51.240 --> 0:26:58.439 between renfro Ah Davante Adams Ah that the tied end 0:26:58.480 --> 0:27:01.120 in in Vegas is really good to Waller last year 0:27:01.240 --> 0:27:02.919 came out and kind of came out of nowhere as 0:27:02.920 --> 0:27:05.080 far as the production he had. So I'm gonna go 0:27:05.160 --> 0:27:07.400 with still no, but I think they have a lot 0:27:07.400 --> 0:27:11.080 more options and I think he'll he will perform wonderfully, 0:27:11.119 --> 0:27:14.639 just won't get as many catches. All right, next question? Alright. 0:27:14.680 --> 0:27:17.560 Former pit wide receiver Jordan Adison, who transferred the USC 0:27:17.760 --> 0:27:20.199 this off season, recently said I definitely felt like I 0:27:20.240 --> 0:27:22.800 got drugged through the mud with the media after catching 0:27:22.880 --> 0:27:25.639 scrutiny from leaving Pit to go to USC Is this 0:27:25.680 --> 0:27:28.480 new era of college football free agency? Bad or good 0:27:28.520 --> 0:27:33.120 for the game? If you worked at a business, Eddie, 0:27:33.160 --> 0:27:35.919 let's say you work at a business. Let's let's call 0:27:36.000 --> 0:27:37.960 it Eddie's Cattle Company. Love, it's where do you work 0:27:37.960 --> 0:27:42.000 at your own company? But I and Eddie's cattle company 0:27:42.040 --> 0:27:44.640 made ten bucks a year and that was what everybody made. 0:27:44.640 --> 0:27:47.120 And my company makes ten dollars a year. Just follow 0:27:47.160 --> 0:27:49.960 me along. I'm keeping the numbers lower kill and Eddie's Cattle. 0:27:50.040 --> 0:27:53.359 Eddie's Cattle Company the next year made twenty bucks for 0:27:53.359 --> 0:27:56.199 a whole year. You like doubled, right, Hey, yeah, you 0:27:56.400 --> 0:27:59.119 do this. It's Eddie cattle companies growing in popularity. You 0:27:59.240 --> 0:28:02.080 just you've signed and uh different little deals for your 0:28:02.080 --> 0:28:05.280 cattle to go to certain places. Now, now five years later, 0:28:05.359 --> 0:28:08.160 Eddi's Cattle Company has gone from ten bucks a year 0:28:08.680 --> 0:28:11.760 to a thousand dollars. Let's go, you're there's so much 0:28:11.800 --> 0:28:14.880 money coming into the cattle company. Now, do you think 0:28:14.920 --> 0:28:16.720 that the people that are doing the work to make 0:28:16.760 --> 0:28:20.359 that money deserve to be paid more? You're asking me, 0:28:20.400 --> 0:28:22.440 as the owner of my Eddie's cattle come asking you, 0:28:22.480 --> 0:28:23.920 as a person sitting right here, do you think that 0:28:24.160 --> 0:28:26.520 the people that are actually making the doing the work 0:28:26.560 --> 0:28:28.000 should be paid a little more for the job that 0:28:28.040 --> 0:28:30.520 they're doing. This making more money, treat your people right, Yes, 0:28:30.560 --> 0:28:33.080 they will work harder for you. So this is a 0:28:33.200 --> 0:28:36.480 macro perspective of that. Yes, he's been dragged through the mud. 0:28:36.840 --> 0:28:38.840 That's not that's not him though he's basically a free agent. 0:28:38.880 --> 0:28:42.240 He let that be known. People were bidding for him. Um, 0:28:42.400 --> 0:28:44.880 players should make money because the n C Double A 0:28:45.000 --> 0:28:48.840 is college football is cru NFL been killing it for 0:28:48.840 --> 0:28:50.920 a while. They're making so much money in college football, 0:28:50.920 --> 0:28:52.840 the TV deals. You've had to have a billion dollar 0:28:52.920 --> 0:28:55.640 Big ten deal, a bit with a b billion dollar 0:28:56.680 --> 0:28:59.480 and so. But the only people who shouldn't get paid 0:28:59.480 --> 0:29:04.000 to the people they're actually doing the work. So I'm 0:29:04.000 --> 0:29:06.959 a big We should pay people for what they're doing. 0:29:06.960 --> 0:29:08.680 And I I understand people are going with this. College football 0:29:09.040 --> 0:29:11.800 like what he used to be. The only other thing 0:29:11.800 --> 0:29:14.400 that I could compare it to was the It was 0:29:14.440 --> 0:29:19.520 controversial when they started to give athletes scholarships because even 0:29:19.560 --> 0:29:21.160 back then they were like, wait, you're gonna pay You're 0:29:21.160 --> 0:29:22.960 gonna pay for their college to play. They should just 0:29:23.000 --> 0:29:25.280 play the sport for love of the game. It's the 0:29:25.360 --> 0:29:27.640 same thing. It's just more money and you and more 0:29:27.640 --> 0:29:30.080 people know about it now because of social media. You're 0:29:30.160 --> 0:29:32.520 you're paying them with a free education. Then college of 0:29:32.560 --> 0:29:34.280 ball didn't make a whole bunch of money, but now 0:29:34.320 --> 0:29:37.560 it's killing And so he was dragged with the mud. 0:29:37.640 --> 0:29:39.640 He deserves it, but he also deserves what he gets 0:29:40.000 --> 0:29:42.440 on the other side of the good stuff too. So 0:29:43.040 --> 0:29:45.960 that's the name of the game. You're public, you're making money, 0:29:46.240 --> 0:29:47.760 you get dragged to I get dressed with the mud 0:29:47.800 --> 0:29:52.520 all time. Do I deserve it? Sometimes? Uh? But I'm 0:29:52.560 --> 0:29:56.640 a big n I L fan. I think profit revenue 0:29:56.680 --> 0:29:58.800 sharing will be a thing with players. I think players 0:29:58.840 --> 0:30:02.160 should be paid. End. Your question was is it fair 0:30:02.240 --> 0:30:04.160 for him? You do you think it's good or bad 0:30:04.240 --> 0:30:06.840 for the game. It's good. It's good. They'll figure it out. 0:30:06.840 --> 0:30:08.440 It's a wild West right now. It's a little too wild, 0:30:08.680 --> 0:30:10.200 but you gotta go full while west before you can 0:30:10.200 --> 0:30:11.840 shut it down a little bit true, all right? Right? 0:30:11.840 --> 0:30:14.080 Next question, how is this the fifth tittle tattle or fourth? 0:30:14.080 --> 0:30:15.800 This is the last one, fifth and final one? The 0:30:15.840 --> 0:30:18.160 last three champions in college football have come from the SEC, 0:30:18.360 --> 0:30:21.720 and Alabama is the favorite. Again, if picking today, are 0:30:21.760 --> 0:30:25.680 you choosing the SEC or the field? Come January? The 0:30:25.720 --> 0:30:27.760 SE is probably gonna have one in it. So I'm 0:30:27.760 --> 0:30:30.239 just doing odds here, not about Alabama or Georgia. But 0:30:30.320 --> 0:30:31.920 if the SEC has this person in the championship game, 0:30:31.960 --> 0:30:35.560 that's still fifty fifty. I'm gonna go SEC. I'm big 0:30:35.640 --> 0:30:38.960 SEC homer, But if I'm just doing probabilities, I would 0:30:39.000 --> 0:30:42.320 still go SEC. New you said Alabama and Georgia and 0:30:42.360 --> 0:30:44.640 that's it versus the field. Maybe I feel a little 0:30:44.640 --> 0:30:46.640 different about that because I feel like somebody could squeak 0:30:46.720 --> 0:30:48.520 up and probably surprise one of those two teams on 0:30:48.520 --> 0:30:52.560 one of the sides. Possibly surprise those are my two 0:30:52.560 --> 0:30:55.200 words I'm using. I don't think they will, but the 0:30:55.280 --> 0:31:00.000 SEC is tough, so I would take the secure alright, Hey, 0:31:00.200 --> 0:31:02.680 kick off, Kevin, terrible name, tittle tattle, terrible name for 0:31:02.720 --> 0:31:05.640 a segment, but not bad. What the whole segment? Adam 0:31:05.680 --> 0:31:07.960 Blue whistle and he has big balls and he's done though. 0:31:10.120 --> 0:31:14.760 Yeah yeah, um so. Dan Patrick love him, Dan Patrick 0:31:14.960 --> 0:31:17.760 Radio Show, Dan Patrick, ESPN, Dan Patrick Sun Night Football. 0:31:17.960 --> 0:31:20.760 I was honored it was amazing, And here's my interview 0:31:20.760 --> 0:31:24.120 with Dan Patrick. Whoa Dan, good to talk to you. 0:31:24.160 --> 0:31:27.760 I'm big, just massive fan, just a massive, massive fans. 0:31:27.840 --> 0:31:29.840 So you know when they said you would actually spend 0:31:29.880 --> 0:31:32.520 a few minutes with me, I I was shocked first 0:31:32.520 --> 0:31:36.440 of all and elated. So just humble thank you before 0:31:36.440 --> 0:31:39.320 we start. Great, great, glad to Glad to hill. You know, 0:31:39.360 --> 0:31:42.920 whenever I'm doing an interview and in one capacity or 0:31:42.960 --> 0:31:44.760 the other, I do them all the day, all the time, 0:31:44.760 --> 0:31:46.960 either on the radio show or on a TV show, 0:31:47.160 --> 0:31:50.920 But I it starts to just be a wheel and 0:31:50.960 --> 0:31:53.680 you're just doing them as they come, and you rarely 0:31:53.720 --> 0:31:56.200 get excited. Sometimes you're a little more up for one 0:31:56.240 --> 0:31:57.600 because you know the value of a bit. At this 0:31:57.640 --> 0:32:01.320 point in your career, do you still get about interviews 0:32:01.360 --> 0:32:04.160 and with who especially? I think if you have somebody 0:32:04.160 --> 0:32:06.640 who's going to be honest with you, because you want 0:32:06.680 --> 0:32:09.560 to make sure you're not wasting the time of your audience. 0:32:09.640 --> 0:32:11.960 And I always want to make sure if I have 0:32:12.120 --> 0:32:13.840 somebody on maybe you don't know who they are, but 0:32:13.880 --> 0:32:15.800 I'm gonna bring out something in them that you would 0:32:15.840 --> 0:32:18.440 be interested in. I like the challenge of doing that, 0:32:18.640 --> 0:32:21.040 but it's the person who's going to be honest or 0:32:21.120 --> 0:32:24.360 most honest that I find interesting. It's the person who 0:32:24.400 --> 0:32:27.360 tries to dodge what you're asking, doesn't give you much, 0:32:27.680 --> 0:32:30.320 wants to be very vanilla. Then that's where it gets 0:32:30.400 --> 0:32:33.240 really tedious. Give me an example, somebody who's great that 0:32:33.320 --> 0:32:35.400 you know, all right, we're gonna do it, and they're 0:32:35.400 --> 0:32:38.840 gonna be awesome. Charles Barkley is always great, Reggie Miller 0:32:39.080 --> 0:32:42.760 is always great. I find that if you know my 0:32:42.880 --> 0:32:45.960 guests know if they come on the show that this 0:32:46.040 --> 0:32:48.760 is what we're asking them to do, don't come on 0:32:48.800 --> 0:32:52.719 the show unless you're ready to really give something, reveals something. 0:32:53.120 --> 0:32:55.840 But it's up to me sometimes to kind of extract 0:32:55.920 --> 0:32:59.959 them that from these guys. They get interviewed more than anybody. 0:33:00.040 --> 0:33:03.240 When you think about it, athletes are interviewed more than anybody. 0:33:03.280 --> 0:33:07.600 You know where they are, you know, every day at practice, um, 0:33:07.680 --> 0:33:09.960 you know, before a game, after a game with the NBA. 0:33:10.920 --> 0:33:13.520 You have to have an approach that is refreshing to 0:33:13.680 --> 0:33:16.440 them and their competitors. And I find I got to 0:33:16.440 --> 0:33:18.880 compete with you to get an answer out of you. 0:33:19.000 --> 0:33:22.360 John McEnroe said, you gotta work harder to get a 0:33:22.360 --> 0:33:24.720 better answer out of me. And he was right. This 0:33:24.800 --> 0:33:28.160 was early in my career and I never forgot that 0:33:28.360 --> 0:33:30.640 sometimes you gotta work harder to get a better answer 0:33:30.680 --> 0:33:32.760 out of somebody. Do you feel like you're a better 0:33:32.760 --> 0:33:37.640 interviewee because you interview so many people? Because you know, 0:33:37.680 --> 0:33:41.080 what I'll do is all critique your questions while you're 0:33:41.080 --> 0:33:44.960 asking them, and it's not fair to you. But I've 0:33:45.000 --> 0:33:48.080 given so much thought to interviewing. When I was at ESPN, 0:33:49.040 --> 0:33:53.000 I did a seminar that was five days, eight hours 0:33:53.040 --> 0:33:57.600 each day on interviewing. It was the best thing that 0:33:57.680 --> 0:34:00.120 ever happened to me in my career. But it's the 0:34:00.160 --> 0:34:02.880 worst thing when you start to listen to radio or 0:34:02.920 --> 0:34:06.200 you listen to somebody on TV doing interviews, because you're 0:34:06.280 --> 0:34:09.960 listening for the things that they're not doing what you 0:34:10.000 --> 0:34:12.080 were told to do to bring out a good interview. 0:34:12.880 --> 0:34:16.600 Open ended questions, short question, You know that first question, 0:34:17.080 --> 0:34:19.560 what are you setting up for the next question? For 0:34:19.600 --> 0:34:21.680 your last question? What are you trying to get at? 0:34:21.719 --> 0:34:24.719 Like there's a strategy to it. And I wouldn't have 0:34:24.760 --> 0:34:28.360 known this until I took this class. It was a 0:34:28.520 --> 0:34:31.440 guy named John Swatsky out of Canada. It was the 0:34:31.480 --> 0:34:35.520 master of the interview, and I was fascinated by it. Uh. 0:34:35.719 --> 0:34:38.320 I don't know who else, if anybody else was at ESPN. 0:34:38.680 --> 0:34:40.960 They they were mad at me because I wanted to 0:34:40.960 --> 0:34:43.040 bring this guy in to teach us how to interview, 0:34:43.160 --> 0:34:46.400 because I saw an article and people are like kicking 0:34:46.440 --> 0:34:49.960 and screaming going to this seminar, and they didn't realize 0:34:49.960 --> 0:34:51.719 that I'm the reason why they were going there, because 0:34:51.719 --> 0:34:53.400 I wanted this guy to come in and help us. 0:34:53.520 --> 0:34:55.800 You know, when you talk about the ESPN stuff, and 0:34:56.080 --> 0:34:57.560 I don't have a lot of questions about that, and 0:34:57.560 --> 0:34:59.799 I still don't, but it makes me think about, you know, 0:35:00.040 --> 0:35:02.799 my whole lifetime of watching you on ESPN and even 0:35:02.880 --> 0:35:04.640 Rock and Roll Jeopardy, which I was a big Jeopardy 0:35:04.640 --> 0:35:07.520 guys and a music guy obviously, and then you know, 0:35:07.520 --> 0:35:09.560 watch on Sunday nights and I would come home from 0:35:09.600 --> 0:35:12.320 the radio show and watch your radio show, you and 0:35:12.360 --> 0:35:14.640 all the dan neds, like just a massive fan. But 0:35:15.000 --> 0:35:17.200 you know, I've started to realize that I, as a 0:35:17.200 --> 0:35:19.799 public figure, people think they know me at times more 0:35:19.800 --> 0:35:22.919 than they actually do, and they'll come up and and so, 0:35:23.080 --> 0:35:24.879 you know, one of the things that I'm most curious about. 0:35:24.920 --> 0:35:27.080 It's like if you go to your house and I 0:35:27.080 --> 0:35:28.840 feel like I know, yeah, but I obviously don't on 0:35:28.840 --> 0:35:31.319 a personal level, like in your house, what is your 0:35:31.440 --> 0:35:34.920 favorite picture in your house? Which if I just asked 0:35:34.920 --> 0:35:36.600 that question, what is it, who's in it? I'm a 0:35:36.600 --> 0:35:40.520 big fan of the artist Wolf Khan. He passed away. 0:35:40.960 --> 0:35:43.160 I think he was just over the age of ninety. 0:35:44.120 --> 0:35:45.799 And you can't be in a bad mood when you 0:35:45.800 --> 0:35:49.600 look at a painting of Wolf Khan. Now pictures. Uh, 0:35:49.640 --> 0:35:52.680 there's a picture of my daughter in the library where 0:35:52.760 --> 0:35:58.960 she's in Galway and she's in a mud puddle and 0:35:59.000 --> 0:36:02.399 she's probably eleven years of age, and she's got mud 0:36:02.400 --> 0:36:04.279 all over her. She's thrown mud in the air, and 0:36:04.280 --> 0:36:06.919 she's got the biggest smile and it's one of those 0:36:06.960 --> 0:36:10.600 moments that you just go that person is having a 0:36:10.600 --> 0:36:14.920 great day. So I tend to gravitate towards you feel 0:36:14.960 --> 0:36:17.560 better after you you see that picture and you see 0:36:17.560 --> 0:36:20.560 a painting from Wolf Kan. What about if I ask 0:36:20.640 --> 0:36:23.879 about sports, what personal sports picture do you have? Either 0:36:23.920 --> 0:36:26.759 you're somewhere with someone that you look at and it's 0:36:26.800 --> 0:36:29.880 not it doesn't mean as much because obviously that's your daughter. 0:36:30.160 --> 0:36:32.359 But it's like, man, that was a great moment, either 0:36:32.360 --> 0:36:34.759 in sports life or my life. I was in a 0:36:34.920 --> 0:36:39.319 boxing ring. It was fight night in Arizona, and I 0:36:39.440 --> 0:36:43.600 was the host and we were honoring Mohammed Ali and 0:36:43.640 --> 0:36:47.520 we were going to give him this ring, and Mohammed 0:36:47.560 --> 0:36:49.920 Ali is standing next to me waiting for me to 0:36:50.080 --> 0:36:53.600 give him this ring. And I'm describing to the audience 0:36:54.320 --> 0:36:56.719 what this ring signifies, and I'm going to hand this 0:36:56.760 --> 0:37:01.800 to Mohammed Ali. And you know that this was probably 0:37:01.840 --> 0:37:06.520 a twenty years ago, but you know Parkinson's the onset 0:37:06.520 --> 0:37:10.759 of Parkinson had started there. And I just remember in 0:37:10.840 --> 0:37:14.440 the moment, I'm thinking I'm gonna give a ring to 0:37:14.680 --> 0:37:18.960 Mohammed Ali, and I sort of fanboyd that. I was like, 0:37:19.000 --> 0:37:21.120 I gotta get this out of my head, because I 0:37:21.280 --> 0:37:23.600 sometimes that's the problem. I have too many things I'm 0:37:23.640 --> 0:37:26.000 thinking of when I'm doing something that I shouldn't be 0:37:26.040 --> 0:37:29.200 thinking about. But that moment where I look and I go, 0:37:29.840 --> 0:37:31.680 who would have thought that a kid came from a 0:37:31.760 --> 0:37:36.320 small town in Ohio is there with Mohammed Ali, honoring 0:37:36.400 --> 0:37:39.960 Mohammed Ali, And I'm it's never lost on me where 0:37:40.000 --> 0:37:42.520 I came from and growing up in a big family, 0:37:43.880 --> 0:37:47.399 that I came a long way, but that you can 0:37:47.560 --> 0:37:50.440 come from a small town where you never would have 0:37:50.440 --> 0:37:52.359 thought you've gotten there. So it brings out a lot 0:37:52.400 --> 0:37:56.960 of different thoughts memories there of you're still this kid 0:37:56.960 --> 0:38:00.279 who was from Mason, Ohio, but you got here. Don't 0:38:00.280 --> 0:38:03.960 forget where you came from from Mountain Pine, Arkansas, population 0:38:04.080 --> 0:38:09.359 seven uh So similar instances, you know, growing up and 0:38:09.680 --> 0:38:12.439 there wasn't a lot of resource where I came from. 0:38:12.520 --> 0:38:16.319 So how what showed you and who showed you that 0:38:16.560 --> 0:38:19.239 there was actually a path to greater even though you 0:38:19.280 --> 0:38:23.000 couldn't quite define greater. I think I was too naive 0:38:23.120 --> 0:38:27.480 or stupid to let reality sink in and that you 0:38:27.560 --> 0:38:30.680 can't do this. I didn't have a plan b So 0:38:30.719 --> 0:38:32.400 when people said, oh, if you weren't gonna be a 0:38:32.440 --> 0:38:34.040 sports conister, what would you be? And I'd be like, 0:38:34.040 --> 0:38:37.319 I don't, I don't know. I'm guessing bartender. But I 0:38:37.520 --> 0:38:41.680 I didn't know, and I had been rejected in quite 0:38:41.719 --> 0:38:46.560 a few places. I lost a job, local job in Dayton, Ohio, 0:38:47.480 --> 0:38:52.240 and I was distraught. So I'm I'm twenty six seven, 0:38:52.600 --> 0:38:54.920 I don't have a full time job in sports, and 0:38:55.000 --> 0:38:58.040 that's old in this business to get started, and I 0:38:58.080 --> 0:39:02.120 thought I'm never gonna get I was doing morning drive 0:39:02.239 --> 0:39:04.880 radio rock and roll station, and I thought, this is 0:39:04.880 --> 0:39:08.839 what I'm gonna be doing. And the next girlfriend said, 0:39:08.920 --> 0:39:10.960 just come down to Atlanta. I said, day I don't 0:39:10.960 --> 0:39:13.239 want to go to Atlanta. She goes, no, just come 0:39:13.280 --> 0:39:16.080 down here. CNN's hiring. I go, I just I lost 0:39:16.080 --> 0:39:17.680 out on a job in Dayton, Ohio. I'm not going 0:39:17.719 --> 0:39:21.000 to get a job at CNN. So I go down there, 0:39:21.719 --> 0:39:24.160 lo and behold. I go in there last day I'm 0:39:24.200 --> 0:39:27.560 in Atlanta. Give him my resume. Tape guy says, when 0:39:27.560 --> 0:39:31.960 can you start? So if I don't go to Atlanta, 0:39:32.440 --> 0:39:35.560 I'm not here. I mean I'm somewhere, but I'm not 0:39:35.680 --> 0:39:40.800 here because CNN. I was there for five years and 0:39:41.200 --> 0:39:43.880 after that I went to ESPN for eight team. So 0:39:44.480 --> 0:39:47.360 I always tell people right place, right time, But you 0:39:47.520 --> 0:39:51.160 better be right about what you have to know, like 0:39:51.239 --> 0:39:53.400 you have to know it if you get that opportunity. 0:39:53.440 --> 0:39:56.719 And I'm sure that at some point somebody wanted to 0:39:56.760 --> 0:39:59.239 see if you knew exactly what you needed to know, 0:40:00.360 --> 0:40:03.400 and you did, or you wouldn't be seated there like 0:40:03.480 --> 0:40:06.000 we get those moments, but be ready for the moment. 0:40:06.000 --> 0:40:09.319 And that was something that stayed with me, stays with me. 0:40:09.440 --> 0:40:12.040 I tell that to my kids all the time. Be prepared, 0:40:12.160 --> 0:40:15.600 be overprepared, even if you don't get it, you'll still 0:40:15.600 --> 0:40:18.440 show that that person you you showed them respect by 0:40:18.480 --> 0:40:22.600 being prepared. You mentioned eighteen years at ESPN, and I 0:40:22.600 --> 0:40:24.399 worked on American Idol for four seasons, and I would 0:40:24.400 --> 0:40:26.520 talk to some of the old contestants from back when 0:40:26.560 --> 0:40:29.680 Idol was so big, and but they said they didn't 0:40:29.680 --> 0:40:31.799 know it, they couldn't feel it because they were in it. Now. 0:40:32.000 --> 0:40:36.600 ESPN was a culture, especially for me, Was that situation 0:40:36.719 --> 0:40:39.319 similar because you guys weren't changing culture. Did you know 0:40:39.440 --> 0:40:42.480 it and could you feel it then? Or was it 0:40:42.480 --> 0:40:46.440 its own bubble? We were cordoned off, absolutely, and I 0:40:46.480 --> 0:40:50.040 think that's by design by management. They didn't want us 0:40:50.800 --> 0:40:54.640 to be bigger than those four letters, not that we 0:40:54.719 --> 0:40:57.880 could be, but they didn't want us coloring outside the lines. 0:40:58.600 --> 0:41:01.799 Management even told me on one occasion, we don't want 0:41:01.800 --> 0:41:06.080 another Chris Berman, because Berman is the most important person 0:41:06.120 --> 0:41:09.359 in the history of ESPN. But he was sort of, 0:41:10.040 --> 0:41:12.560 you know, a hot air balloon that was higher than 0:41:12.560 --> 0:41:16.359 everybody else but still tethered. And they didn't want that. 0:41:16.440 --> 0:41:18.560 They didn't want that to happen to me or Keith 0:41:18.640 --> 0:41:21.200 Oberman or Stewart Scott or whoever you want to throw 0:41:21.239 --> 0:41:26.160 in there. So they didn't want you to be a personality. 0:41:26.680 --> 0:41:29.319 Um So I think that that was kind of eye 0:41:29.320 --> 0:41:35.960 opening that we were getting honored. Mentioned. Uh, people came 0:41:36.040 --> 0:41:38.160 up to us when we saw them when we were 0:41:38.239 --> 0:41:41.000 out of events, but we weren't in New York or 0:41:41.160 --> 0:41:44.480 l A. We're in Bristol, Connecticut. We didn't run into anybody, 0:41:44.520 --> 0:41:48.239 but when we did, then you heard the impact that 0:41:48.320 --> 0:41:52.800 we were having. And you kind of juxtaposed that too 0:41:53.600 --> 0:41:57.480 management that we never knew our ratings. They never told us. 0:41:57.600 --> 0:42:00.000 They didn't. They didn't want to empower you and say, 0:42:00.360 --> 0:42:03.759 you guys are really kicking ass here. It was like, yeah, 0:42:03.840 --> 0:42:06.480 you guys solid and improving, you know, kind of doing 0:42:06.520 --> 0:42:08.680 a good job there. You're like, damn, I thought I 0:42:08.680 --> 0:42:12.239 thought we were good. But that was that was eye 0:42:12.320 --> 0:42:15.120 opening there that management wanted to kind of keep us 0:42:15.200 --> 0:42:19.120 under their thumb. Final question about the ESPN days and 0:42:19.320 --> 0:42:21.359 as far as when who is would you say as 0:42:21.400 --> 0:42:24.759 your BFF. Now from those days, if you had to 0:42:24.800 --> 0:42:28.680 pick one, oh, I would say that I correspond with 0:42:28.840 --> 0:42:32.239 Rich Eyes and more than anybody else, the people I 0:42:32.280 --> 0:42:41.240 really enjoyed were producers, associate producers, the makeup people, camera people. 0:42:41.400 --> 0:42:43.640 Those are the people I always enjoyed being around. Nobody 0:42:43.680 --> 0:42:46.480 wants to be around talent because all we do is 0:42:46.520 --> 0:42:50.240 talk about ourselves. I wanted to be around the people 0:42:50.480 --> 0:42:53.560 who were just normal or as normal as possible in 0:42:53.600 --> 0:42:56.520 our business. And those are the people I'm still in 0:42:56.560 --> 0:43:00.879 touch with. Uh more the producers than the talent there, 0:43:01.600 --> 0:43:05.759 but probably Rich Eyes. Where does conference realignment end or 0:43:05.840 --> 0:43:09.040 where is it in five years? From where you sit 0:43:09.120 --> 0:43:11.920 right now, I still think we're headed towards an a 0:43:12.040 --> 0:43:15.359 f C NFC model with college football, where we just say, 0:43:15.440 --> 0:43:18.640 let's let's pull back the curtain. Let's not kill anybody. 0:43:18.680 --> 0:43:23.040 This is big time business. Have revenue sharing, UM gonna 0:43:23.080 --> 0:43:27.120 treat them like their professionals, which they are. And I 0:43:27.160 --> 0:43:31.280 think you might have thirty teams in the NFC version 0:43:31.360 --> 0:43:34.880 and thirty she has sixty teams. Let's say a sixteen 0:43:34.880 --> 0:43:39.880 team playoff, and you know you might have relegation where 0:43:39.920 --> 0:43:44.440 maybe the sixty team drops out with the team that 0:43:44.520 --> 0:43:47.400 won the national championship in one double A or or 0:43:47.520 --> 0:43:50.920 something that creates excitement at the top and the bottom. 0:43:51.239 --> 0:43:55.080 But I do think we're headed towards let's just have 0:43:55.200 --> 0:43:59.120 the fifty or sixty sixty best college football teams actually 0:43:59.160 --> 0:44:02.280 compete for a national championship and then you have everybody 0:44:02.320 --> 0:44:05.520 else after that with the fluidity of realignment or even 0:44:05.600 --> 0:44:07.960 in I L, like let's do five years in the future. 0:44:08.000 --> 0:44:10.920 There what's different about the n I L structure in 0:44:10.960 --> 0:44:14.760 five years? If you're just playing psychic then is today? Well, 0:44:14.880 --> 0:44:18.440 the coaches have to embrace this. You know, when Kirby's 0:44:18.440 --> 0:44:21.840 Smart at Georgia signs a ten million dollar a year contract, 0:44:21.920 --> 0:44:25.480 but then bemoans the fact that we're paying these players 0:44:26.400 --> 0:44:29.440 a hundred thousand dollars or two hundred thousand dollars, like, 0:44:29.520 --> 0:44:32.600 have a dose in reality here. Now you're getting paid 0:44:33.480 --> 0:44:35.840 and you don't want them to get paid. Your job 0:44:35.960 --> 0:44:38.760 is tougher because of name, image and like, plain and simple, 0:44:39.239 --> 0:44:42.040 these coaches, I don't care if it's Nick Saban, Kirby Smart, 0:44:42.080 --> 0:44:45.160 whoever it is. This makes your you know, the transfer 0:44:45.239 --> 0:44:48.200 portal name image and likeness makes it difficult. But when 0:44:48.200 --> 0:44:50.720 the source says to me, you know, the going rate 0:44:51.040 --> 0:44:54.040 for a running back is this price, the going rate 0:44:54.040 --> 0:44:56.200 for a quarterback is this, and the going rate for 0:44:56.239 --> 0:44:59.600 a wide It's almost like you have a list, like 0:44:59.680 --> 0:45:03.080 a men you where you go? How much is the stake? 0:45:03.440 --> 0:45:06.879 It's this, um you know, how much is that? It's 0:45:06.920 --> 0:45:10.400 that that's where we're headed with all. We're already there. 0:45:10.840 --> 0:45:14.960 So I think embracing name, image and likeness, maybe you 0:45:15.160 --> 0:45:18.760 kind of put them all under the same umbrella. Maybe 0:45:18.800 --> 0:45:21.480 you're you're paying them. Maybe there's a salary cap that 0:45:21.520 --> 0:45:25.560 you have. I got. You can't say that won't happen 0:45:25.640 --> 0:45:27.799 because look at where we are now. Who would have 0:45:27.800 --> 0:45:30.640 thought Texas and Oklahoma would be in the sec U, 0:45:30.680 --> 0:45:33.839 c l A and USC going to the big tent. See, 0:45:33.840 --> 0:45:36.520 you can't say, well, I don't ever happen, because in 0:45:36.520 --> 0:45:39.680 college football it could happen. And I think, as we 0:45:39.719 --> 0:45:43.280 move forward with this, how much are the players involved 0:45:43.360 --> 0:45:47.120 in this? Do we come up with legislation that limits this? 0:45:47.400 --> 0:45:50.759 I mean, you still have to declare this is income here, 0:45:51.200 --> 0:45:54.640 so it's got to be above board. And I think 0:45:54.680 --> 0:45:57.600 that that kind of takes away the If you take 0:45:57.640 --> 0:46:00.359 away name, image, and likeness. Bobby, you're going to have 0:46:00.760 --> 0:46:03.200 back to the old days of cheating. This is just 0:46:03.280 --> 0:46:05.360 above board. It's like, hey, would you give him a 0:46:05.440 --> 0:46:09.040 hundred thousand dollars? Okay? Whereas before would be like do 0:46:09.080 --> 0:46:11.239 you hear what Eric Dickerson got at s m U 0:46:11.880 --> 0:46:15.400 gave him a trans am and they gave his MoMA house. 0:46:16.320 --> 0:46:19.440 You know that that was always the kind of whispers 0:46:19.480 --> 0:46:22.239 behind all of the Now it's above board, Like Zion Williamson, 0:46:22.719 --> 0:46:24.920 I don't know what he got a duke, but he 0:46:25.000 --> 0:46:32.320 got something right, Yeah, yeah, but you know these guys 0:46:32.360 --> 0:46:35.160 get money. It may not be from the school, the coach, 0:46:35.280 --> 0:46:38.720 but the shoe company. So it's here. It's been here 0:46:39.120 --> 0:46:42.520 now at least it's above board. But five years down 0:46:42.520 --> 0:46:45.120 the road, I don't know what the goling salary is 0:46:45.160 --> 0:46:50.400 going to be. But a a star quarterback, you know 0:46:50.640 --> 0:46:53.840 he's gonna get a NFL like they're making more money 0:46:54.080 --> 0:46:59.040 when you factor that in, Alabama's quarterback Heisman Trophy winner 0:46:59.080 --> 0:47:03.280 made more than the previous quarterback at Alabama, Jalen Hurts 0:47:03.320 --> 0:47:06.560 playing in the NFL, So he makes more money at 0:47:06.560 --> 0:47:10.719 Alabama than Jalen Hurts does in the NFL. Crazy, But 0:47:11.520 --> 0:47:13.520 that's the reality we have right now. And the fact 0:47:13.600 --> 0:47:17.040 that it's snuck up on all these chancellors and presidents 0:47:17.040 --> 0:47:20.920 and athletic directors is like mind boggling because it was 0:47:20.960 --> 0:47:24.360 there to see the final three questions. Okay, talking about quarterbacks, 0:47:24.400 --> 0:47:27.000 you mentioned Arch, there's not a lot of not a 0:47:27.040 --> 0:47:29.839 lot of Arch not just tape, but not a lot 0:47:29.840 --> 0:47:33.200 of Arch data. He's not competing against other quarterbacks at 0:47:33.239 --> 0:47:36.560 that high school level. He's not going to camps where 0:47:36.640 --> 0:47:39.160 what do you see happening with Arch Manning. Well, that's 0:47:39.200 --> 0:47:42.040 a lot of hype. You know, Bryce Harper lived up 0:47:42.080 --> 0:47:44.879 to it. Lebron James lived up to it. There there 0:47:44.880 --> 0:47:48.000 have been players who live up to the hype, but 0:47:48.719 --> 0:47:51.680 as far as an NFL quarterback hype, boy, this is 0:47:51.760 --> 0:47:54.920 up there. I mean, this is bigger than Eli or 0:47:54.960 --> 0:47:59.040 even Peyton the hype living up to you know, Archie 0:47:59.120 --> 0:48:01.600 Manning at Old Us when he was up for the 0:48:01.640 --> 0:48:04.680 Heisman Trophy. I just wonder, can you be good enough 0:48:05.080 --> 0:48:07.880 where people go? Man, he's everything we thought he was 0:48:07.920 --> 0:48:11.120 going to be, Like Tiger Woods was everything we thought 0:48:11.160 --> 0:48:13.719 he was going to be, and then some Serena Williams 0:48:13.719 --> 0:48:16.560 everything we thought and then some I don't know if Arch, 0:48:16.719 --> 0:48:21.400 because it's based off of the people around you. He's 0:48:21.440 --> 0:48:23.680 relying on that. Bryce Harper goes to the plate, it's 0:48:23.719 --> 0:48:26.520 Bryce Harper. Lebron James can have the ball in his hands. 0:48:27.440 --> 0:48:30.040 Tiger has a club in his hand. You know, Serena 0:48:30.080 --> 0:48:33.239 has her tennis racket. Arch is gonna have to how 0:48:33.239 --> 0:48:37.040 good is his offensive line, how's goods his wide receivers 0:48:37.040 --> 0:48:39.840 like those? Is his defense any good to stop anybody? 0:48:40.239 --> 0:48:42.160 Those are the things that you have to factor in it. 0:48:42.239 --> 0:48:44.000 And I wonder if you'll be able to live up 0:48:44.040 --> 0:48:47.160 to that hype. I doubt it because that hype is 0:48:47.200 --> 0:48:49.920 so much, so big. You mentioned the word source. How 0:48:49.920 --> 0:48:52.440 hard is it to have a source that's telling you 0:48:52.520 --> 0:48:54.040 something but you can't say it, and you almost have 0:48:54.040 --> 0:48:55.960 to act like you don't know it. For the most part, 0:48:56.080 --> 0:48:58.040 I don't want to know if I can't use it. 0:48:58.080 --> 0:49:01.000 I say that too, And I'm fortunate having been in 0:49:01.000 --> 0:49:04.040 this business for almost forty years. You meet people that 0:49:04.080 --> 0:49:07.400 you trust because you can go back to them or 0:49:07.440 --> 0:49:09.520 they'll come. They'll they'll let you know if you're right 0:49:09.600 --> 0:49:12.799 or wrong on something. But I I don't want to 0:49:12.840 --> 0:49:15.440 know something that I can't even hint at because then 0:49:15.640 --> 0:49:18.440 I'm not being Then it's gossipy and I don't want 0:49:18.440 --> 0:49:21.400 to do that. But it is a tough situation to 0:49:21.440 --> 0:49:23.759 be in. Sometimes if somebody goes, hey, you can't use it, 0:49:23.880 --> 0:49:26.520 I don't, then don't tell me because I don't want 0:49:26.560 --> 0:49:29.440 to know. But when they're like, you didn't get it 0:49:29.480 --> 0:49:34.200 from me, which is different, but sources can be tricky. 0:49:34.480 --> 0:49:37.040 Last question, and this has really been a treat for me, 0:49:37.800 --> 0:49:39.680 way more for so for you. And I'm sure you've 0:49:40.040 --> 0:49:42.640 rated this and given it a low grade what you do. 0:49:42.760 --> 0:49:44.560 And as soon as you said that, I'm like, god, dang, 0:49:44.560 --> 0:49:46.000 And now I am going to actually feel like I 0:49:46.040 --> 0:49:47.759 bean critique during the interview. I didn't feel like that 0:49:47.800 --> 0:49:51.200 going in. But final question is, uh, you know, I'm 0:49:51.239 --> 0:49:54.120 about to go through a big contract negotiation here with 0:49:54.160 --> 0:49:58.239 a right so you know, and it's it's it's it's 0:49:58.320 --> 0:50:00.520 quite the monster. I'm not gonna lie to you. What's 0:50:00.760 --> 0:50:03.040 what's the What am I? What am I not knowing 0:50:03.080 --> 0:50:05.719 to ask for? What is it you don't have? I 0:50:05.760 --> 0:50:09.000 don't know. I'm pretty good. Yes, I always look at 0:50:09.000 --> 0:50:12.080 it this way. I love for fifteen years being at 0:50:12.280 --> 0:50:15.319 ESPN and I could have gotten jobs outside of it, 0:50:15.400 --> 0:50:17.800 but I loved what I was doing. But you can't 0:50:17.920 --> 0:50:20.719 tell them that you love it so much that you 0:50:20.800 --> 0:50:24.120 don't factor in what you're worth outside of what you're doing. 0:50:24.360 --> 0:50:27.920 If that makes sense that, hey, on the open market, 0:50:28.000 --> 0:50:30.439 what would I be worth? Take care of me here? 0:50:30.920 --> 0:50:34.200 And I always took less, but I didn't have any 0:50:34.280 --> 0:50:36.880 I didn't want to do anything else. So do what 0:50:37.040 --> 0:50:40.439 you love. And it's really hard to find that because 0:50:40.520 --> 0:50:43.479 if you let money be the carrot that's in front 0:50:43.520 --> 0:50:47.600 of you, you'll always chase it and you'll never be satisfied. 0:50:48.080 --> 0:50:51.200 But if you have people you like you've got, you know, 0:50:51.520 --> 0:50:54.640 they make sure that the people who are surrounding you 0:50:54.680 --> 0:50:58.240 are good people, fun people. I love seeing my guys 0:50:58.280 --> 0:51:02.160 every single day. We just laugh. I mean, you're serious 0:51:02.160 --> 0:51:04.719 when you need to be, but we have fun. I 0:51:04.840 --> 0:51:08.560 enjoy them. And it's twenty years for some of these guys. 0:51:09.160 --> 0:51:11.319 But I think that's the moment you know that you've 0:51:11.360 --> 0:51:14.040 got to kind of go. And if you say to 0:51:14.080 --> 0:51:17.920 your wife, what do you think, because sometimes it's my 0:51:18.000 --> 0:51:20.440 wife is the smartest person, and you know, you get 0:51:20.480 --> 0:51:22.360 somebody on the outside kind of looking at all this 0:51:22.640 --> 0:51:25.440 because we get too close to the sun and you 0:51:25.480 --> 0:51:27.600 don't want to be icarous here and you know, go 0:51:27.680 --> 0:51:31.239 down in flame. So do what you love as long 0:51:31.280 --> 0:51:33.719 as you can do it, or you can just take 0:51:33.760 --> 0:51:35.600 a shipload of money and then running with it. But yeah, 0:51:35.600 --> 0:51:42.200 I was hoping for like airplane. That's I'm just massive fan, 0:51:42.400 --> 0:51:45.240 just massive, And thank you for your time and um 0:51:45.280 --> 0:51:46.880 you know that's all. And I know you've got a 0:51:46.880 --> 0:51:48.520 busy day of head so thank you very much. And 0:51:48.560 --> 0:51:50.799 one day, hopefully I hope I can touch you soon. 0:51:51.600 --> 0:51:55.640 I would Uh yeah, I hope we crossed paths. Congratulations 0:51:55.640 --> 0:51:58.799 on all your success, and I think that it's not 0:51:58.880 --> 0:52:01.840 by accident, you know, but I think that that's important 0:52:01.840 --> 0:52:05.240 as you move move forward, don't forget the kid from 0:52:05.280 --> 0:52:08.520 a small town in Arkansas, because stay in humble, because 0:52:08.560 --> 0:52:11.960 this business will bite you in the ass quickly. Thank you, Dan, 0:52:12.040 --> 0:52:18.040 have a good day. Thank you, Bobby. Alright, awesome to 0:52:18.040 --> 0:52:20.560 have Dan Patrick on you guys. Follow us at twenty 0:52:20.640 --> 0:52:23.600 five whistles Instagram. We got like five pictures up. I 0:52:23.640 --> 0:52:25.279 hate going to an Instagram page whe they don't have 0:52:25.320 --> 0:52:27.120 the even the thing covered, it's still white under some 0:52:27.160 --> 0:52:29.080 of the pictures. Yeah, you feel like a loser, Like 0:52:29.080 --> 0:52:31.560 who would follow that? And I'm like, please follow us. Uh. 0:52:31.600 --> 0:52:34.400 So that's a story I will share with you guys, 0:52:34.520 --> 0:52:36.160 and you can tell me if I'm a weirdo or not. 0:52:36.440 --> 0:52:38.319 And I want to pull up exactly what I got here. 0:52:38.680 --> 0:52:44.240 But there was an estate sale from a former Arkansas 0:52:44.480 --> 0:52:46.960 and Adam, you're almost eliminated from this because of your bias. 0:52:47.520 --> 0:52:51.560 There was an estate sale from a former Arkansas UH sportscaster, 0:52:51.880 --> 0:52:54.000 like probably the most famous in my life. He died 0:52:54.080 --> 0:52:56.360 years ago in a car car wreck, as Paul Eels. 0:52:56.640 --> 0:53:00.600 He died, and so his I guess why his family 0:53:00.800 --> 0:53:03.600 they auctioned off a bunch of his stuff, and so 0:53:04.800 --> 0:53:07.440 I just told about it. So I went over to it. 0:53:08.080 --> 0:53:11.759 How about all kinds of stuff? Oh my gosh, Mike, 0:53:11.800 --> 0:53:16.560 did you just laugh at that? I bought all kinds 0:53:16.560 --> 0:53:20.000 of stuff like Paul El's estate sale? Um, what do 0:53:20.040 --> 0:53:22.479 you mean? How? I'm like, how much stuff did you buy? Well? 0:53:22.719 --> 0:53:25.960 I bought like a couple in the box still Arkansas 0:53:26.040 --> 0:53:29.840 razorback cheerleader barbies. Are you serious? Like what are you 0:53:29.840 --> 0:53:31.759 gonna do with this? I don't know, but I was 0:53:31.800 --> 0:53:35.640 like one it's Paul Els doing I don't know. And 0:53:35.840 --> 0:53:37.279 for that, somebody started bidding against me, and so I 0:53:37.320 --> 0:53:42.319 started getting competitive bucks on there's two barbies. I'm not 0:53:42.400 --> 0:53:46.040 saying Granny and Sheridan is piste. So that happened. I 0:53:46.040 --> 0:53:48.960 bought like some old cool Here we go, let's see 0:53:48.960 --> 0:53:50.880 what I got here. Please log into your account below. 0:53:51.520 --> 0:53:53.080 Hopefully it'll just show me what all I bought and 0:53:53.120 --> 0:53:55.360 this will be easy. I bought like some old signs 0:53:55.400 --> 0:54:01.400 stuff by nobody that's super cool to any buddy but me. Um, Like, 0:54:01.440 --> 0:54:03.960 I bought a Houston Nuts signed football who was fired 0:54:04.000 --> 0:54:05.840 as the coach. That was cool. Yeah. I bought some 0:54:05.880 --> 0:54:09.680 old sweatshirts. They're like extra two x large. Will you 0:54:09.719 --> 0:54:13.000 wear them? Nightgowns? Yeah? There you go. Yeah, so I 0:54:13.040 --> 0:54:15.680 bought like seven things. Is it weird that I went 0:54:15.680 --> 0:54:18.319 through a Sportscasters estate sale and bought a bunch of 0:54:19.120 --> 0:54:23.320 Razorbacks stuff? Kickoff, Kevin, No, I mean some of the 0:54:23.320 --> 0:54:25.520 stuff that you bought, for sure, like the Barbie's maybe 0:54:25.520 --> 0:54:29.319 a little weird questionable, But going or buying stuff from 0:54:29.360 --> 0:54:31.879 the state sale, No, I mean that's something that you, 0:54:32.080 --> 0:54:34.799 as you said your childhood growing up. He was a 0:54:34.800 --> 0:54:36.960 big impact in your childhood and your big sports fan, 0:54:37.040 --> 0:54:40.480 big Arkansas fans, so totally normal. I bought the football 0:54:40.520 --> 0:54:42.799 Fever package, a bunch of sign crap. I bought the 0:54:42.920 --> 0:54:46.080 forty minutes nineties sweatshirts forty minutes of hell. They were 0:54:46.239 --> 0:54:49.399 extra extra large. I'm not gonna wear that. I don't 0:54:49.400 --> 0:54:52.480 know what that means. It's fort hell. Nolan Richardson's basketball 0:54:52.520 --> 0:54:54.279 they play the full court pressed the whole time. The 0:54:54.320 --> 0:54:56.239 whole game, they would just run people off the court. 0:54:56.440 --> 0:54:59.200 I bought the two. Yeah, it makes her a good 0:54:59.200 --> 0:55:02.640 story if nothing else. He died. I bought it. I 0:55:02.640 --> 0:55:05.279 should get it in the next few days, and I 0:55:05.280 --> 0:55:07.239 think it's pretty cool. Most importantly, what does your wife 0:55:07.239 --> 0:55:11.560 think about all this? And her, well, I didn't tell 0:55:11.560 --> 0:55:12.960 her already bought it all and it was already on 0:55:12.960 --> 0:55:17.200 the way because I did tell her, But in her 0:55:17.239 --> 0:55:19.200 response was why what are you gonna do with it? 0:55:19.840 --> 0:55:21.000 And I was like, I just want to have it, 0:55:21.640 --> 0:55:24.960 and she was like okay, and so I I had. 0:55:24.960 --> 0:55:27.960 And she said, look, if I didn't know you were 0:55:28.000 --> 0:55:32.239 so responsible with the money, I would go, why are 0:55:32.239 --> 0:55:33.960 you buying that? You just wasted money? She was I 0:55:33.960 --> 0:55:36.400 know you're responsible, but I also know you're extra rabbid, 0:55:37.360 --> 0:55:39.400 and that's just what I deal with every day. So 0:55:39.440 --> 0:55:40.440 I will bring it in and let you guys know. 0:55:40.480 --> 0:55:42.000 Imnbe let you touch some of us. Okay, cool, I 0:55:42.000 --> 0:55:46.440 want to touch the barbies. One final one here Costco 0:55:46.560 --> 0:55:49.120 selling individual game football tickets in South Carolina where you 0:55:49.120 --> 0:55:50.600 can go through Costco and they have boxes and it's 0:55:50.600 --> 0:55:52.879 like buy individual game tickets, which I was pretty legit 0:55:53.239 --> 0:55:56.560 because it's like, hey, buy individual game ticket. Usually you're like, 0:55:56.600 --> 0:55:58.440 I don't know if you have a casual fan, I 0:55:58.680 --> 0:56:00.319 can get my phone out of there. But if you're 0:56:00.320 --> 0:56:02.200 going through their inner package at Costco and you're in 0:56:02.200 --> 0:56:03.680 South Carolina and you're like, oh, I like to go 0:56:03.719 --> 0:56:06.080 to this game, it's tangible, you can buy it. That's 0:56:06.080 --> 0:56:08.080 pretty cool. People were giving a crap, but that was brilliant. 0:56:08.280 --> 0:56:09.839 So if you're in South Carolina, would go a game 0:56:09.840 --> 0:56:13.120 called game and they may actually be pretty good this year. 0:56:13.640 --> 0:56:16.759 We shall see. They played well last year. At the 0:56:16.840 --> 0:56:18.319 end of the year, they have a good coach. We'll 0:56:18.320 --> 0:56:23.200 Spencer Relligan a really good quarterback. Regardless of what happened, 0:56:23.520 --> 0:56:25.360 he's still a really good quarterback. We'll see what happens 0:56:25.360 --> 0:56:28.560 in that system. Um So those are those two. We're 0:56:28.600 --> 0:56:30.839 gonna get to the Sam Pittman interview. Now, we didn't 0:56:30.840 --> 0:56:32.640 talk a lot about Arkansas specifically, but he is the 0:56:32.680 --> 0:56:35.760 head football coach the Unversity of Arkansas and it's awesome 0:56:35.760 --> 0:56:37.320 to have him on. So here it is my interview 0:56:37.360 --> 0:56:41.320 with Sam Pittman, coach. How are you man? I'm doing great. Hey, 0:56:41.360 --> 0:56:43.120 I've been good. You know, I've been trying to catch 0:56:43.160 --> 0:56:46.320 some practice reports. Like at this point before the season starts, 0:56:46.320 --> 0:56:49.960 as you guys are in camp, are you more nervous excited? 0:56:50.200 --> 0:56:52.800 Are you always thinking football now? Is there a switch 0:56:52.880 --> 0:56:57.880 that flips on? Yeah, I'm really excited about the progress 0:56:57.920 --> 0:57:01.640 of guys from spring Bold and out. I'm really excited 0:57:01.719 --> 0:57:03.680 to see the new guys, you know, the ones that 0:57:03.760 --> 0:57:07.040 weren't here. Uh there's only four of them, but you know, 0:57:07.080 --> 0:57:10.480 the guys that weren't here, Uh, see them participate, see 0:57:10.480 --> 0:57:13.719 how good they are, see them grow. But yeah, there's 0:57:13.760 --> 0:57:17.240 a big time excitement around Fatteville and certainly in our 0:57:17.240 --> 0:57:20.800 building and through our players about you know, the season. 0:57:21.240 --> 0:57:23.160 I'm not gonna ask you to name anybody, but it's 0:57:23.160 --> 0:57:25.600 always coming out of high school into college. Heck, just 0:57:25.680 --> 0:57:30.320 as a student, it's overwhelming much less you're seventeen than 0:57:30.360 --> 0:57:32.720 you go eighteen years old and now you're you know, 0:57:32.800 --> 0:57:36.320 competing for a spot against year old. Any of these 0:57:36.360 --> 0:57:39.360 freshmen in your time that come in, they're very had 0:57:39.520 --> 0:57:41.840 heralded and they get there and they're like, I don't 0:57:41.840 --> 0:57:45.040 know what's happening. Like these guys are all bigger and faster. Yeah, 0:57:45.080 --> 0:57:47.440 it happens all the time. But you know, you can 0:57:47.480 --> 0:57:50.680 wear yourself out anxiety wise. The first day we went 0:57:50.680 --> 0:57:53.960 out to practice, there's a hundred fifteen heatd index. It's 0:57:53.960 --> 0:57:57.360 a hot out there. But you you combine that with 0:57:57.800 --> 0:58:01.720 a new guy that has an anxiety, Uh, they're all 0:58:01.720 --> 0:58:04.000 over the place. The next day it was one twelve 0:58:04.080 --> 0:58:07.120 heat into x but they were much better. Uh. You know, 0:58:07.280 --> 0:58:11.400 so anxiety that's a little bit Bobby about going over 0:58:11.440 --> 0:58:14.160 into the stadium on a Saturday. You're gonna have a 0:58:14.200 --> 0:58:18.960 lot of anxiety if you're not prepared or you don't know. Uh. 0:58:19.000 --> 0:58:22.560 If you are prepared and you know and and you've 0:58:22.600 --> 0:58:25.080 taken the I hope we win to I know we're 0:58:25.120 --> 0:58:28.120 gonna win because I'm prepared in this I think you 0:58:28.280 --> 0:58:30.360 play a lot better. So these kids that come in, 0:58:30.520 --> 0:58:34.400 we didn't put a whole lot of value into day one. Uh, 0:58:34.520 --> 0:58:36.880 day two, a little bit more, Day three, and of 0:58:36.880 --> 0:58:39.120 course the day will be our fourth practice. If a 0:58:39.200 --> 0:58:42.640 hundred four star freshman come in, let's play with me here, 0:58:42.800 --> 0:58:44.640 a hundred four star freshman come in, how many of 0:58:44.640 --> 0:58:48.320 them will actually have the one be physically and mentally 0:58:48.360 --> 0:58:52.440 ready to play game one in our league? Ten? Maybe 0:58:53.120 --> 0:58:55.840 you know, maybe maybe fifteen, not not more than that. 0:58:55.880 --> 0:59:00.600 I wouldn't think now play play start start play probably 0:59:00.680 --> 0:59:05.440 ten play play probably uh you know, some type of 0:59:05.440 --> 0:59:08.200 special team or something like that, maybe thirty five or 0:59:08.240 --> 0:59:11.240 for in your history of coaching, and it could be 0:59:11.240 --> 0:59:13.920 at any level. Can you remember a freshman that came 0:59:13.920 --> 0:59:15.960 in and you're like, oh, this guy's immediately ready to play, 0:59:16.000 --> 0:59:18.960 and then he immediately played and was awesome. Andrew Thomas. 0:59:19.320 --> 0:59:24.280 Andrew Thomas was a tackle out of Georgia who I 0:59:24.400 --> 0:59:26.680 knew he was going to start in our top five 0:59:27.280 --> 0:59:31.640 fast early. Uh, not necessarily office high school take Bobby, 0:59:31.680 --> 0:59:34.560 but when he got to campus. Uh he started at 0:59:34.640 --> 0:59:37.840 right tackle, first game of the year, played three years, 0:59:38.400 --> 0:59:41.000 fourth pick in the draft. Yeah, that one I that 0:59:41.080 --> 0:59:44.320 when I knew what is the coolest thing about being 0:59:44.320 --> 0:59:47.080 a d one coach? That a head coach that you 0:59:47.160 --> 0:59:50.200 did not know meaning you've coached a lot of places 0:59:50.480 --> 0:59:51.720 for a lot of time and done a lot of 0:59:51.720 --> 0:59:54.760 great things, but you still didn't know blank whenever you 0:59:54.800 --> 0:59:58.000 became the head coach. Verse of parkinsas how awesome going 0:59:58.040 --> 1:00:01.840 into the locker room is after you beat somebody that named, 1:00:02.000 --> 1:00:04.920 somebody's got a name, somebody's got a good football team. 1:00:05.080 --> 1:00:08.760 How many employees that there is in the building. You 1:00:08.800 --> 1:00:12.080 know that those things were surprising to me, But the 1:00:12.160 --> 1:00:14.640 awesome part of it was going in and seeing the 1:00:14.720 --> 1:00:18.360 kid's face after you win a big game. It's incredible, priceless, 1:00:18.560 --> 1:00:21.120 can put a value on it, It's really cool. So 1:00:21.320 --> 1:00:25.000 for me, as I was, you know, rising up whatever ranks, 1:00:25.320 --> 1:00:27.120 I started to learn that the higher I got, it 1:00:27.160 --> 1:00:29.680 really was I wasn't doing all the little things as much. 1:00:29.680 --> 1:00:33.000 I was kind of uh doing big things and watching 1:00:33.080 --> 1:00:36.640 over people that I trusted to do the little things, 1:00:37.000 --> 1:00:40.760 um not less important things, but just more of the things. 1:00:41.440 --> 1:00:43.439 Was that an adjustment for you being the head coach 1:00:43.520 --> 1:00:47.320 is not being so super involved daily in schemes and 1:00:47.560 --> 1:00:50.800 game plans. I trade our coaches exactly like I wanted 1:00:50.840 --> 1:00:53.520 to be traded as an assistant. You know, I've got 1:00:53.520 --> 1:00:57.360 a title. When I was assistant, I wanted to, uh 1:00:57.600 --> 1:01:00.200 make sure that I did what I was supposed to do. 1:01:00.360 --> 1:01:02.480 I wanted the coach to think I was the best coach, 1:01:02.600 --> 1:01:06.240 best recruiter on his staff, most loyal guy. So I 1:01:06.360 --> 1:01:09.200 treat those guys like that until you know possible they 1:01:09.240 --> 1:01:13.560 give me a reason not to. But I loved my staff. 1:01:13.560 --> 1:01:17.840 I've got a really good staff. And and I visit 1:01:17.920 --> 1:01:22.240 with him. You know, you can really have anxiety over 1:01:22.320 --> 1:01:25.880 if somebody doesn't talk to you. You know, well, what's 1:01:25.880 --> 1:01:27.600 he think of me? Am I doing a good job. 1:01:28.080 --> 1:01:31.000 I let him know. Uh. Visit with the guys all 1:01:31.040 --> 1:01:33.240 the time. I want them to be as comfortable as 1:01:33.240 --> 1:01:35.760 they possibly can be, because I want them to to 1:01:35.920 --> 1:01:39.920 coach out of confidence and not out of nervousness, if 1:01:39.960 --> 1:01:42.160 that makes sense. When you go into a season like 1:01:42.160 --> 1:01:46.040 this season, where you've had two seasons in a row 1:01:46.200 --> 1:01:48.800 where you know there's been a different feeling about the team, 1:01:48.800 --> 1:01:52.400 obviously you're one, You're the first time head coach, not 1:01:52.480 --> 1:01:55.760 a lot of expectation, um and you know It was 1:01:56.080 --> 1:01:59.520 a weird year anyway with with COVID and last year, Uh, 1:02:00.480 --> 1:02:03.480 we overperformed a lot of folks expectation. Now here we are, 1:02:03.600 --> 1:02:05.440 we're going to do it again and there are now 1:02:05.520 --> 1:02:08.640 real expectations put on you, put on the razorbacks, put 1:02:08.680 --> 1:02:10.680 on the state of Arkansas, Like do you still have 1:02:10.720 --> 1:02:13.720 to find like dig through and find somebody disrespecting you 1:02:13.760 --> 1:02:16.560 to go look at this? They still don't think or 1:02:16.720 --> 1:02:20.400 do you just reposition on how to motivate these kids? Well, 1:02:21.200 --> 1:02:25.120 you know our expectations and I'm not lying here, not 1:02:25.280 --> 1:02:29.120 stretching the truth at all. Our expectations have been high 1:02:29.200 --> 1:02:31.360 ever since we walked in the building. I mean they 1:02:31.400 --> 1:02:35.840 really had and uh so that that's been a big 1:02:35.880 --> 1:02:39.560 deal for us. Uh. If I see Bobby, honestly, if 1:02:39.600 --> 1:02:43.320 I see uh ranking that has us ranked fifteen and 1:02:43.920 --> 1:02:46.480 one that has us not ranked, I'm gonna talk to 1:02:46.520 --> 1:02:48.880 the team about the not ranked one. I mean, I'm 1:02:48.920 --> 1:02:52.480 not I am, I'm I We're underdog, you know, a 1:02:52.520 --> 1:02:56.520 blue chip, hard working group of guys, and I want 1:02:56.520 --> 1:02:59.960 to I'm gonna find every reason for us to stay 1:03:00.120 --> 1:03:03.840 that way in the public eye and and until I guess, 1:03:03.920 --> 1:03:06.480 until you've got ranked number one. You know, you you 1:03:06.520 --> 1:03:09.040 would have that ability to put a chip on the 1:03:09.040 --> 1:03:11.680 guy's shoulder, and that's that's I like to do that. 1:03:11.760 --> 1:03:13.960 I think that's who we are and we thrive on that. 1:03:14.600 --> 1:03:19.720 Has fame been weird for you? Yeah? It really as 1:03:19.800 --> 1:03:24.880 I get um um um. A lot of times you 1:03:25.320 --> 1:03:27.720 may or may not feel the same way. But a 1:03:27.760 --> 1:03:30.760 lot of times people come up they want to touch you, 1:03:31.520 --> 1:03:36.800 autograph pictures, whatever that is, and I'm almost every time 1:03:36.840 --> 1:03:38.640 I'm going, I wonder why they want to do that, 1:03:38.760 --> 1:03:41.760 you know, But I also know that when I want 1:03:41.760 --> 1:03:46.520 to meet somebody that I I either walk away going, man, 1:03:46.560 --> 1:03:49.360 that guy's a jerk, or man that he's really what 1:03:49.440 --> 1:03:51.120 I thought he would be. And I always wanted to 1:03:51.120 --> 1:03:54.440 walk away from me with the feeling that, hey, this 1:03:54.520 --> 1:03:56.880 is what who I thought this guy would be. I mean, 1:03:56.880 --> 1:04:00.160 in Arkansas, you are wildly famous because the team is 1:04:00.240 --> 1:04:02.480 in an upper trajectory and we feel like that's gonna 1:04:02.480 --> 1:04:04.400 happen for a long time. Obviously, we love you very much, 1:04:04.800 --> 1:04:08.000 um but with that, there is everybody watching you everywhere 1:04:08.040 --> 1:04:10.680 you go. Now, what's cool about the level of fame 1:04:10.720 --> 1:04:12.400 that you have, at least I think is you could 1:04:12.440 --> 1:04:16.480 probably go to uh, San Diego and everybody's pretty chill, 1:04:16.480 --> 1:04:18.240 and you get to live more of a normal vacation 1:04:18.360 --> 1:04:21.560 life because nobody's hassling Coach Pittman from the razorback. Is 1:04:21.600 --> 1:04:25.080 that true? Yeah, that's true. I mean, um, here in 1:04:25.080 --> 1:04:27.840 the state though, you know, I have a home on 1:04:27.960 --> 1:04:31.200 Lake Hamilton's and I can get away somewhat, but not 1:04:31.200 --> 1:04:34.240 not much. Of course, when we put the hall out 1:04:34.280 --> 1:04:36.840 there on the lake kind of told where we lived, 1:04:36.880 --> 1:04:40.439 you know. But um, I'm very very grateful for that, 1:04:40.960 --> 1:04:45.440 I really am. I never get discouraged or frustrated with 1:04:45.520 --> 1:04:50.120 people coming up and saying hello, because I'm very honored 1:04:50.160 --> 1:04:52.480 that they want to meet me or be around me 1:04:52.600 --> 1:04:55.520 or whatever that case. Maybe how often do you eat 1:04:55.600 --> 1:04:57.880 then you find out someone's already paid your tab? Man, 1:04:57.920 --> 1:05:00.840 It's happened quite a bit, you know, I mean it 1:05:01.320 --> 1:05:04.680 really has. And and some people aren't even at the 1:05:04.720 --> 1:05:08.120 restaurant that you know, somebody will call us, say, Coach Pittman, 1:05:08.200 --> 1:05:12.320 Jamie's here and there. They hadn't even been at the restaurant. 1:05:12.400 --> 1:05:14.880 They paid for it, which, by the way, is awesome. 1:05:15.160 --> 1:05:17.440 Which other head coach in the SEC would you say, 1:05:17.440 --> 1:05:19.200 as your your bff. If you had to pick one, 1:05:19.720 --> 1:05:22.800 Kirby Kirby Smart, you know, that's that's the guy that 1:05:23.960 --> 1:05:28.280 has really taught me a lot when I was there. 1:05:28.320 --> 1:05:33.280 He's loyal to me as I am him. But he's 1:05:33.280 --> 1:05:37.280 a guy that that would be my my friend, my 1:05:37.360 --> 1:05:41.040 best friend. In in coaching, is there a text thread 1:05:41.040 --> 1:05:43.480 of like the cool SEC coaches and you guys have 1:05:43.600 --> 1:05:45.040 leave a couple of guys out. That's what I do. 1:05:45.960 --> 1:05:49.560 That's so awesome. Uh you know you probably you know, 1:05:49.680 --> 1:05:51.720 hopefully I'm not the one they want to leave out 1:05:51.720 --> 1:05:54.960 of it, but uh yeah, that is awesome. There there 1:05:55.000 --> 1:05:57.160 are days when you know, if you had that text 1:05:57.200 --> 1:05:59.680 fread though, you'd add a guy back into it, take 1:05:59.720 --> 1:06:02.160 another guy at this guy, take another guy out. But 1:06:02.880 --> 1:06:06.400 uh no, there's not one of those. But certainly I 1:06:06.400 --> 1:06:08.840 think everybody at some point in time would take a 1:06:08.880 --> 1:06:11.920 guy out and leave him out for a while. Is 1:06:11.960 --> 1:06:14.360 it true that if your buddies with somebody and I'm 1:06:14.360 --> 1:06:17.200 sure you have a lot of let peer coaches in 1:06:17.240 --> 1:06:19.760 the SEC, that you guys will not communicate the week 1:06:19.800 --> 1:06:21.680 over the week before if you're playing each other or 1:06:21.840 --> 1:06:24.200 or you find either way, there's a lot of truth 1:06:24.320 --> 1:06:27.280 to that. You know, um, you know Meil Tucker was 1:06:27.600 --> 1:06:32.640 at at Georgia, Shane was at Georgia. Um, Dan Lanning 1:06:32.840 --> 1:06:35.240 was at Georgia. You know, I think if we played, 1:06:35.280 --> 1:06:37.920 of course we played, shipped Baemer's team to South Carolina. 1:06:38.520 --> 1:06:41.000 But I don't think it makes a whole lot of difference. Uh. 1:06:41.960 --> 1:06:44.160 You know what, it depends on how close you are. 1:06:44.200 --> 1:06:46.439 If you're real close to him, you probably don't mind 1:06:46.440 --> 1:06:48.680 talking to him. If you send me close to him 1:06:48.760 --> 1:06:51.800 and you probably you probably won't talk to him the 1:06:51.800 --> 1:06:54.240 week of the game. Have you ever played Madden? Because 1:06:54.240 --> 1:06:56.200 I wonder if you played Madden, and let's say you 1:06:56.200 --> 1:06:59.160 didn't actually use the controller, but you just like someone 1:06:59.200 --> 1:07:00.960 played for you, but you told him what plays the call, 1:07:01.040 --> 1:07:02.680 what defense is to run. Do you think you can 1:07:02.720 --> 1:07:05.160 watch somebody play Madden and dominate them just based off 1:07:05.200 --> 1:07:09.520 of what you do as a head coach? No? I mean, now, 1:07:09.560 --> 1:07:12.280 Barry Might and Kendall Might. It's got Fountain Might on 1:07:12.360 --> 1:07:15.640 the punt when they need the punt. But I wouldn't 1:07:15.640 --> 1:07:19.520 know if it was coaching old line, I'd probably be 1:07:19.560 --> 1:07:22.440 okay and all that, but no, I wouldn't be able 1:07:22.480 --> 1:07:24.520 to do that. That would be the worst video game ever. 1:07:24.640 --> 1:07:26.920 Coaching old line. I don't think man's gonna put that in. 1:07:27.320 --> 1:07:30.120 It wouldn't sell many, would it. How often are the 1:07:30.200 --> 1:07:32.600 state troopers with you when you're traveling around the state. 1:07:32.680 --> 1:07:35.080 Is that just game day or is that all the time? Well, 1:07:35.120 --> 1:07:38.880 they take me to Catfish Hole on Wednesday nights, and uh, 1:07:39.240 --> 1:07:41.640 I don't know why. There's it's not dangerous at the 1:07:41.640 --> 1:07:45.160 Catfish Old, I can promise you. Uh, But then there 1:07:45.160 --> 1:07:49.320 with me on Friday and all through, all through until 1:07:49.320 --> 1:07:53.080 we get back home after the game more. Uh, you know, 1:07:53.240 --> 1:07:56.280 traveling back on a road game. So I've I've met 1:07:56.320 --> 1:07:58.560 your lovely wife a couple of times and yeah, thank you, 1:07:58.720 --> 1:08:07.560 and you've met my life and man, you know at yeah, 1:08:08.080 --> 1:08:09.800 thank you, thank you. I take that as a compliment, 1:08:09.840 --> 1:08:15.040 thank you. Yeah, it's okay. Um. So I guess my 1:08:15.280 --> 1:08:19.559 with my wife, I am constantly trying to make sure 1:08:19.560 --> 1:08:21.120 and I do not do a good job of it 1:08:21.160 --> 1:08:26.880 of having balance, meaning I have to remember to try 1:08:26.880 --> 1:08:28.479 to folk even though she's so supportive. I have to 1:08:28.520 --> 1:08:30.599 remember to focus and make sure that I'm not just 1:08:31.080 --> 1:08:33.280 using my my opic view of only my life and 1:08:33.320 --> 1:08:37.000 my careers when it's football season. Is there a different 1:08:37.200 --> 1:08:41.360 understanding in your relationship. Yeah, it has been for thirty 1:08:41.400 --> 1:08:44.240 six years. The only thing, Bobby, what I've done for 1:08:44.280 --> 1:08:46.760 a long long time is Jamie and I go on 1:08:46.840 --> 1:08:50.479 to date night every Thursday during the season, and we 1:08:50.600 --> 1:08:53.559 kind of look forward to that now because since I've 1:08:53.600 --> 1:08:56.720 gotten a head coaching job. Wednesday night is also she 1:08:56.840 --> 1:09:00.160 goes with me to the catfish Hole. But third day 1:09:00.240 --> 1:09:03.040 night we do something. It may be at home, but 1:09:03.120 --> 1:09:05.920 it's it's considered a day night, or maybe we get 1:09:05.960 --> 1:09:09.320 a private room somewhere and go go out on Thursday night. 1:09:09.400 --> 1:09:12.960 But um, I try to include her and as much 1:09:13.000 --> 1:09:16.639 as I possibly can because she's so important to me. 1:09:16.720 --> 1:09:19.559 But she's also important to how I feel and my 1:09:19.720 --> 1:09:22.080 daily you know, the way I walk and talk and 1:09:22.200 --> 1:09:24.120 things of that nature. She helps him with all that 1:09:24.200 --> 1:09:26.920 has for thirty six years. I hope I'm good at 1:09:26.960 --> 1:09:30.479 I'm conscious to be good at that coach. Final four 1:09:30.560 --> 1:09:32.160 questions I have here for you, and I'm gonna start 1:09:32.160 --> 1:09:34.640 with the n I l um, do you feel like 1:09:34.680 --> 1:09:36.880 it's advantageous to you that you started to be a 1:09:36.920 --> 1:09:38.599 head coach right as this was happening, and you weren't 1:09:38.600 --> 1:09:41.759 someone who's been head coaching that had to completely adjust whenever, 1:09:42.120 --> 1:09:44.240 like being born at the same time this was born. 1:09:44.240 --> 1:09:45.720 Do you feel like that was good for you. I 1:09:45.720 --> 1:09:49.000 don't think it hurt me. You know, you know change. 1:09:50.000 --> 1:09:52.759 Guys have been doing something and you just said it. Basically, 1:09:52.880 --> 1:09:55.479 guys have been doing something for a long time. You know, 1:09:56.160 --> 1:09:59.760 you either fight change or you go with change and 1:09:59.800 --> 1:10:01.920 try to find out how you can make it to 1:10:02.040 --> 1:10:06.200 your advantage. I'm a guy that when change happens, I'm 1:10:06.200 --> 1:10:08.240 trying to make an advantage out of it and not 1:10:08.360 --> 1:10:12.160 be graping about the change. It might be harder if 1:10:12.200 --> 1:10:14.160 I was a head coach for twenty years and I 1:10:14.200 --> 1:10:18.439 liked what I had, But um, right now, the rules 1:10:18.439 --> 1:10:20.400 a rule, and then you try to go see how 1:10:20.400 --> 1:10:23.160 it can be advantageous to your program. And that's how 1:10:23.200 --> 1:10:24.880 I feel about it. Do you feel like players are 1:10:24.880 --> 1:10:27.120 acting different because the n I l I think they're 1:10:27.160 --> 1:10:31.240 thinking different. Um, I don't know acting, but they are 1:10:31.320 --> 1:10:37.360 thinking different because you know, recruiting and also your own team. Uh, 1:10:37.479 --> 1:10:40.640 you have a lot more conversations about the name im 1:10:40.680 --> 1:10:44.519 and lightness than the math class or the you know, 1:10:44.720 --> 1:10:47.200 you miss study table, things of that nature. They want 1:10:47.200 --> 1:10:49.280 to talk about n I L and I want to 1:10:49.280 --> 1:10:53.960 talk about graduation more. Let's talk about parents. Um. And right, 1:10:53.960 --> 1:10:55.720 you're talking about graduation. I'm sure that's a big part 1:10:55.720 --> 1:10:57.599 in recruiting. We're talking to the parents of the grandparents 1:10:57.680 --> 1:11:01.120 or whomever the central figures are. Um. I get a 1:11:01.160 --> 1:11:02.640 lot of parents that asked me like, Hey, I got 1:11:02.720 --> 1:11:04.320 a kid that's really good at football. How do I 1:11:04.320 --> 1:11:07.000 get a coach to see a tape if they can't 1:11:07.040 --> 1:11:09.120 get to a camp or they can't get to some 1:11:09.160 --> 1:11:12.639 of the things like how does someone highlight their kid 1:11:12.680 --> 1:11:15.639 if they think their kid is really good? Well, first 1:11:15.680 --> 1:11:18.680 of all, I think that's the head coaches job, you know, 1:11:18.840 --> 1:11:22.839 their school. Uh. The other thing, there's not a social 1:11:22.880 --> 1:11:26.639 media how about that that's the answer. Get it out 1:11:26.680 --> 1:11:29.639 on Twitter, get it out on the Instagram, TikTok, whatever 1:11:29.680 --> 1:11:34.120 it may be. UM. But for right now, with huddle 1:11:34.240 --> 1:11:36.760 the way it is and our coaches being able to 1:11:36.800 --> 1:11:40.000 go out twice in the spring, Uh, you know, there's 1:11:40.040 --> 1:11:44.320 not many unturned stones in recruiting. But how they can 1:11:44.400 --> 1:11:47.280 do that is if they can't get to camp is 1:11:47.439 --> 1:11:51.200 get tape and have have the coach promote them and 1:11:51.240 --> 1:11:55.040 have themselves promote them on on Twitter, on on social media. Yeah, 1:11:55.040 --> 1:11:56.519 I feel like I was really missed there. I didn't 1:11:56.520 --> 1:11:57.920 get to the camps, so I feel like I was 1:11:57.960 --> 1:12:01.479 really just kind of pass app and what social media was? 1:12:01.760 --> 1:12:05.360 That's right? No, barely my space? You know? Off that alright? 1:12:05.360 --> 1:12:09.080 Two final questions for you, favorite TV show, movie and 1:12:09.200 --> 1:12:11.719 song ever in your whole life? You got movie, TV 1:12:11.800 --> 1:12:18.439 show host? Gun would be movie? Uh uh what? What? 1:12:18.439 --> 1:12:22.880 What was TV TV show ever? Oh? Man, Gilligan's Island 1:12:27.040 --> 1:12:34.200 loved Maryann and and uh figured and the Skipper Really 1:12:34.240 --> 1:12:36.559 I like Gilligan. I kept thinking he's going to get 1:12:36.560 --> 1:12:40.840 off the island too, man. They never did. And then uh, 1:12:41.160 --> 1:12:45.760 favorite song I'm gonna go currently, I like country on 1:12:46.400 --> 1:12:50.439 Uh Brian by look Brian right now. I mean I 1:12:50.479 --> 1:12:52.479 like it. It's got a lot of good cool meaning 1:12:52.560 --> 1:12:55.519 to it. Hit one ones that hit you in the heart. 1:12:55.720 --> 1:12:58.240 I like those kind of songs. All right, last one 1:12:58.320 --> 1:13:00.920 for you, coach. I appreciate your time, but my wife 1:13:00.920 --> 1:13:03.840 being from Oklahoma, we we just spent the last four 1:13:03.920 --> 1:13:07.080 days over in Oklahoma and your Tulsa and um so, 1:13:07.320 --> 1:13:11.680 I I never liked the Sooners, but I'm having to 1:13:11.760 --> 1:13:15.479 adjust to not hating the Sooners, and that is an adjustment. Um. 1:13:15.520 --> 1:13:18.599 And so I am actually very excited about them being 1:13:18.600 --> 1:13:20.920 in the conference because that's just more games that I 1:13:20.920 --> 1:13:25.880 get to go to. So I is when they're probably in? 1:13:26.320 --> 1:13:27.559 Do you I'm I'm not going to ask you to 1:13:27.640 --> 1:13:29.360 speculate a year or anything, but do you think it'll 1:13:29.360 --> 1:13:33.320 be sooner than that? Right now we're told, Bobby they'll 1:13:33.360 --> 1:13:39.120 come in. Um. Do I think there's a possibility of it? Yes, 1:13:39.520 --> 1:13:44.280 I do, UM, But right now I think the SEC 1:13:44.479 --> 1:13:49.559 is pretty steadfast at you know, financially. Um. You know 1:13:49.600 --> 1:13:53.320 they're gonna be a big pay buy out by Texas 1:13:53.320 --> 1:13:56.280 and Oklahoma, and I'm assuming if they're willing to do that, 1:13:56.320 --> 1:13:59.320 and then it might speed up a little bit. But 1:13:59.439 --> 1:14:04.240 right now we're coach, love you good luck. Uh. You know, 1:14:04.479 --> 1:14:06.600 this is a national show, so I'm not supposed to 1:14:06.600 --> 1:14:08.760 be biased, but I'm the most biased person in my 1:14:08.800 --> 1:14:10.760 whole life. I've at Arkansas helmet on my desk here. 1:14:10.960 --> 1:14:14.120 I mean that's on camera. So uh, let's get them. 1:14:14.120 --> 1:14:16.080 I'll see you soon, and thanks for your time, Coach. 1:14:17.080 --> 1:14:20.000 Appreciate the interview. Bobby, Thanks for your time. Go off 1:14:25.520 --> 1:14:28.040 all right, ending thoughts everybody has one sports take. I 1:14:28.040 --> 1:14:29.559 don't care how trivial it is. This is your chance 1:14:29.600 --> 1:14:34.519 to say your opinion and funny, predictive, serious, doesn't have 1:14:34.520 --> 1:14:37.800 to be long. Um, we'll start with Adam Hambroke, Adam 1:14:37.880 --> 1:14:39.720 the new guy here to the room. What is your 1:14:39.840 --> 1:14:42.200 ending thoughts? Oh? Man, it lots being made on this 1:14:42.280 --> 1:14:45.400 coaches poll right now, and h is the SEC having 1:14:45.439 --> 1:14:48.000 a down year? I'm gonna go with no, Why what's 1:14:48.000 --> 1:14:50.160 being made to the coaches pool? Uh? There's only five 1:14:50.400 --> 1:14:54.439 SEC teams ranked in the coaches poll, and I think 1:14:54.439 --> 1:14:56.840 that's you know, that's an opportunity for a lot of 1:14:56.840 --> 1:14:59.160 conferences say the SEC is not as good either, They're 1:14:59.160 --> 1:15:00.960 not gonna be as good. Um. A couple first year 1:15:01.040 --> 1:15:03.640 head coaches and all that stuff. Um, but what I 1:15:03.640 --> 1:15:05.880 think people are missing is like there might be a 1:15:05.880 --> 1:15:08.760 first year head coach at Florida, Um, but Florida is 1:15:08.760 --> 1:15:11.000 still Florida is still gonna be loaded with talent. Uh. 1:15:11.040 --> 1:15:14.759 Tennessee has a has a fantastic quarterback, hen and Hooker, 1:15:15.200 --> 1:15:17.560 UM and L s U like L s US have 1:15:17.640 --> 1:15:21.280 Brian Kelly, and they all they always have talent. They 1:15:21.360 --> 1:15:23.680 probably will Saven went six and six this first year. 1:15:24.000 --> 1:15:25.639 Ryan Kelly is a great coach. This year, they'll suck, 1:15:25.720 --> 1:15:28.759 but but there's still when you have athletes on the field, 1:15:28.800 --> 1:15:30.559 like you never know what's gonna happen in a given 1:15:30.560 --> 1:15:32.680 a weekend. I think they're all those question marks, and 1:15:32.680 --> 1:15:35.120 there's still all the talent L s u A in 1:15:35.160 --> 1:15:38.080 Florida and these other teams that aren't in the poll, Like, 1:15:38.120 --> 1:15:40.559 there's still gonna be opportunity for a lot of chaos 1:15:40.640 --> 1:15:43.400 and a lot of like, uh, you know, these teams 1:15:43.640 --> 1:15:46.000 are still gonna have high ceilings that maybe they could 1:15:46.240 --> 1:15:49.360 maybe they could reach, but they're also be probably inconsistent 1:15:49.360 --> 1:15:52.360 all that stuff. But I think everything outside of Alabama 1:15:52.400 --> 1:15:55.720 and Georgia, obviously, everything is gonna be competitive every week 1:15:55.760 --> 1:15:58.160 and it's gonna be a really fun year to watch. 1:15:58.200 --> 1:16:01.320 And then you have teams like my Razor Backs coming on. Uh, 1:16:01.360 --> 1:16:04.360 they're gonna be tough, hard nosed, blue collar kind of teams. 1:16:04.640 --> 1:16:07.160 You got old miss Who's gonna they're gonna win football games. 1:16:07.240 --> 1:16:09.680 Kentucky's gonna win football games in South Carolina coming on, 1:16:10.040 --> 1:16:12.760 all that way below Alabama and Georgia all the way 1:16:12.800 --> 1:16:15.640 down to maybe Vanderbilt in the Missouri. That middle is 1:16:15.640 --> 1:16:18.080 gonna be a really tough, tough road to home this year. 1:16:18.080 --> 1:16:20.560 I think it's gonna be as tough as it always is. 1:16:20.640 --> 1:16:22.080 So no, I don't think it's gonna be down here 1:16:22.080 --> 1:16:24.160 in the SEC. I think Kentucky can beat Georgia. I 1:16:24.160 --> 1:16:26.599 think they. I think they can. I don't think they wouldn't, 1:16:26.760 --> 1:16:29.200 But I think Kentucky can beat Georgia. I think Tennessee 1:16:29.400 --> 1:16:32.720 could possibly if the whole freaking world turns exactly right, 1:16:33.080 --> 1:16:35.679 they'd have a shot at it. But I think that's 1:16:35.760 --> 1:16:37.680 a bit of an unfair headline. When I saw an 1:16:37.760 --> 1:16:39.519 article too, like I see down only five teams like 1:16:39.560 --> 1:16:43.639 teamine all I SEC teams like a moote votes getting 1:16:44.160 --> 1:16:49.400 um so uh and Christmas comes slow for kids, water 1:16:49.520 --> 1:16:53.599 is wet, and the SEC is overrated. That no, no, no, no, no, 1:16:53.960 --> 1:17:01.080 what what universal truths? If people say yeah, yes, not uh, 1:17:01.280 --> 1:17:03.160 let's go to Eddie, give me your ending thought or 1:17:03.200 --> 1:17:05.160 you're not gonna like this. And especially since two people 1:17:05.160 --> 1:17:06.960 picked the Bucks to win the whole thing this year, 1:17:07.080 --> 1:17:10.000 look the Bucks. This is and I'm not being funny. 1:17:10.080 --> 1:17:13.240 The Bucks will start this season oh and four and 1:17:13.360 --> 1:17:15.920 it's gonna shock the world, there's oh my gosh, Tom Brady. 1:17:16.280 --> 1:17:18.240 The first four games, their first four games to start 1:17:18.240 --> 1:17:21.880 with the Cowboys. That's that's the lost is an automatical 1:17:23.560 --> 1:17:25.679 and a shocker. They're gonna play the Saints. They're gonna 1:17:25.720 --> 1:17:27.439 lose that one too, and then they go. I think 1:17:27.439 --> 1:17:28.760 they have a better shot to lose that one though 1:17:28.800 --> 1:17:31.040 than the first. I think because the Saints have owned 1:17:31.080 --> 1:17:34.960 them the last couple of years. Too stupid, you don't 1:17:34.960 --> 1:17:38.599 blow it all stupid takes go ahead, and then week 1:17:38.680 --> 1:17:41.559 three they play the Packers, will lose that week before 1:17:41.600 --> 1:17:43.920 they play the Chiefs. I'm telling you, Owen four, their 1:17:43.960 --> 1:17:46.360 first win will be against the Falcons, and it's gonna 1:17:46.400 --> 1:17:48.840 have the NFL going, oh my gosh, what's going on 1:17:48.880 --> 1:17:51.479 with Tom Brady? This is crazy. I can see one 1:17:51.520 --> 1:17:54.599 in three probably probably if you're asking me too into. 1:17:55.040 --> 1:17:56.880 I think Green Bay is gonna be interesting to Seaffle Zards, 1:17:56.920 --> 1:17:58.599 the number one righte receiver that they hope he is. 1:17:58.880 --> 1:18:00.960 I think to see who the I in Kansas City is. 1:18:00.960 --> 1:18:03.840 It's gonna catch balls on the outside from the homes 1:18:03.920 --> 1:18:05.920 is gonna be fine, somebody. It's gonna be somebody. My 1:18:05.960 --> 1:18:07.519 homes is too good. For there not to be somebody. 1:18:07.720 --> 1:18:10.240 It's like when Peyton Manning, it didn't matter who. It 1:18:10.280 --> 1:18:12.479 didn't matter if it was Eric Decker, it didn't matter. 1:18:12.600 --> 1:18:15.479 Peyton Manning made somebody a fantasy star because he just 1:18:15.520 --> 1:18:17.720 had some UM. So that would be interesting. But I 1:18:18.000 --> 1:18:19.760 think they could be two and two or three and one. Yeah, 1:18:19.760 --> 1:18:21.639 I mean, I like how you're certain that they will. 1:18:22.640 --> 1:18:29.559 I'm not starting anything something. Uh, let's go to kick off, Kevin, 1:18:29.600 --> 1:18:32.960 your final ending thought, kickoff, Kevin. Alright. Clemson had what 1:18:33.000 --> 1:18:35.040 people called a down year last year. They still went 1:18:35.040 --> 1:18:38.880 ten and three. UM quarterback DJ Lui Ngo Lele. I'm 1:18:38.880 --> 1:18:40.960 pretty sure I said that right, and you killed that. 1:18:40.960 --> 1:18:43.320 That wasn't bad. Yeah, and uh, he was one of 1:18:43.360 --> 1:18:44.920 the favorites coming in to win the Heisman. He had 1:18:44.920 --> 1:18:46.920 a down year as well. I think had ten interceptions 1:18:46.920 --> 1:18:50.160 and only nine touchdowns. But I think they bounced back 1:18:50.200 --> 1:18:52.439 this year because a CC is getting pretty weak, especially 1:18:52.479 --> 1:18:55.200 with Sam Hartman out for wake four is and I 1:18:55.280 --> 1:18:58.599 say he is the best sleeper bet for your money. 1:18:58.880 --> 1:19:02.040 He's at plus forty five hundred right now, so if 1:19:02.080 --> 1:19:03.800 you put your mind. I actually put twenty bucks on 1:19:03.800 --> 1:19:06.360 them this morning, that'll pay me nine hundred if you win, 1:19:06.439 --> 1:19:10.760 so do it for me. That's interesting about Clemson because yes, 1:19:10.800 --> 1:19:12.360 everybody says they had a bad year down here, but 1:19:12.360 --> 1:19:15.240 they lost them early, but they were over in everybody's mind. 1:19:15.880 --> 1:19:19.080 They really played well for most of the year after that, 1:19:19.320 --> 1:19:21.880 they did have a down year Clemson standards. Also, they're 1:19:21.920 --> 1:19:23.640 not gonna they don't mess with the n I l 1:19:23.720 --> 1:19:26.080 Really that's a weird thing. They're not big. They don't 1:19:26.080 --> 1:19:29.000 do it at all. Yeah, they're just like they're probably 1:19:29.880 --> 1:19:36.479 who knows, but I think I think that's actually a 1:19:36.600 --> 1:19:41.599 great pick on that. Plus yeah, I mean it's I mean, 1:19:45.840 --> 1:19:51.920 he's rich. Most tattoos, somebody, Mike, what you got final one? 1:19:52.000 --> 1:19:54.000 I think the fate of the Razorbacks depends on what 1:19:54.080 --> 1:19:56.000 you do with the stuff you got from the Estates Thill, 1:19:56.520 --> 1:19:59.960 meaning that if you take it and actually do something 1:20:00.040 --> 1:20:01.960 with it, they'll be great. If not, it's gonna be 1:20:01.960 --> 1:20:04.160 a bad season. They're all gonna sit in your room. 1:20:04.280 --> 1:20:07.439 Right What about to do? Why did you buy it? 1:20:07.439 --> 1:20:09.280 I'm not gonna do anything with it. I don't anybody 1:20:09.280 --> 1:20:11.680 else to have it. I wanted to. I wanted to 1:20:11.720 --> 1:20:14.840 be taken care of very much, so all right, uh, 1:20:14.880 --> 1:20:17.280 and then my final take is going to be I 1:20:17.320 --> 1:20:23.080 think that if Old Miss finish his second in the West, 1:20:23.120 --> 1:20:24.639 and I hate to say that, I think Lane Kiffin 1:20:24.680 --> 1:20:27.040 is a real candidate for Coach of the Year because 1:20:27.160 --> 1:20:29.600 the media loves them, and if Old Miss can be 1:20:29.640 --> 1:20:33.559 competitive with Alabama, I don't think they'll win the West. 1:20:33.600 --> 1:20:36.200 But if Old Miss, I think Lane Kiffin has a 1:20:36.240 --> 1:20:38.720 real shot because of their fat infatuation with him, and 1:20:38.720 --> 1:20:40.360 he's on TikTok. Now he's kind of killing on TikTok 1:20:40.360 --> 1:20:42.800 a little bit, he is. I think that all kind 1:20:42.800 --> 1:20:45.519 of plays into it. I think Lane Kiffin doesn't happen 1:20:45.520 --> 1:20:49.040 with the national championship, but if he can win ten games, 1:20:49.080 --> 1:20:51.760 he could be the coach of the Year this year. Um, 1:20:51.800 --> 1:20:53.880 So we're gonna end this show. But before we do 1:20:53.960 --> 1:20:57.120 the whistle we I wanted to end on Skinnered simple Man, 1:20:57.160 --> 1:20:59.840 just because I like that intro. We can't because licensing issues. 1:20:59.880 --> 1:21:02.439 But like kind of version called what Mike complicated dude. 1:21:04.120 --> 1:21:05.479 It sounds kind of like it but not really, but 1:21:05.560 --> 1:21:06.960 we have access to it, you know, it sounds like 1:21:07.000 --> 1:21:09.400 complicated dude. Okay, here we go. This is what When 1:21:09.439 --> 1:21:12.000 I do my final thing here. Mike's gonna play complicated 1:21:12.080 --> 1:21:17.599 dude from now on. Go ahead, it does sound good. Yeah, yeah, hey, thanks, 1:21:17.640 --> 1:21:20.280 it's our first episode. The credits will come up in 1:21:20.320 --> 1:21:22.800 a second, and usually I'll do my ending thought over this, 1:21:23.400 --> 1:21:24.840 but I and now I get to choose we had 1:21:24.880 --> 1:21:26.840 the best show, the first first day, best show, and 1:21:26.880 --> 1:21:28.120 they get to blow the whistle, and that'll be the 1:21:28.120 --> 1:21:32.760 first whistle out. Um, Mike didn't have a mascot. Is 1:21:32.760 --> 1:21:34.679 a tough game to play. So he's doing a stretch, 1:21:34.720 --> 1:21:39.599 so he's out. Uh, Kevin, solid job today. You still 1:21:39.680 --> 1:21:41.720 end than I kind of kicked out him out of 1:21:41.720 --> 1:21:44.559 a segments got a little too Arkansas way, So sometimes 1:21:44.560 --> 1:21:49.080 things happen. It's aboutam you're gonna be eliminated from this, uh, Eddie, Yeah, 1:21:49.240 --> 1:21:51.720 you're looking at great. Great by the way, go listen 1:21:51.760 --> 1:21:54.160 to The Sore Losers are on Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays 1:21:54.720 --> 1:21:57.400 on They're on the Nashville Podcast Network with us. They're 1:21:57.439 --> 1:22:00.639 like our cousins, except it's like a cross over episode. 1:22:00.640 --> 1:22:02.920 You're like Urcle on full House Eddie. Yeah, I just 1:22:02.920 --> 1:22:07.680 pop in sometimes I won a full house did Yeah, 1:22:07.800 --> 1:22:09.920 pretty good episode, Eddie. Also setting up the studio for 1:22:09.920 --> 1:22:12.040 the first thank you. I'm getting my whistle ready. Yeah, 1:22:12.200 --> 1:22:14.400 but in the end, I give it to me. I 1:22:14.800 --> 1:22:20.960 performed the best. Yeah. Yeah, I'll tell you what. We'll 1:22:21.000 --> 1:22:23.160 put it to a vote between three that didn't win. Mike. 1:22:23.200 --> 1:22:29.160 Who is it, Eddie or Kevin. I'm going with Eddie, Adam, 1:22:29.240 --> 1:22:35.719 I'm gonna go Kevin. I'm gonna go with Kevin too, 1:22:37.640 --> 1:22:40.080 first time on. Kevin's been a big part of this show. 1:22:40.479 --> 1:22:42.519 This is our first whistle twenty four more to go, Kevin. 1:22:42.560 --> 1:22:44.040 You blow the whistle and we're out of here. Another 1:22:44.040 --> 1:22:50.040 Cowboys Lost for Yet by Everybody theme song written by 1:22:50.320 --> 1:22:54.320 me Bobby Bones and performed by Brandon Ray. Brandon is 1:22:54.320 --> 1:22:59.280 an awesome artist. Follow Brandon on socials at Brandon Ray Music. 1:22:59.439 --> 1:23:02.200 Thanks to us and thanks to our crew, my co 1:23:02.280 --> 1:23:05.960 host Adam Hambroke at Adam Hambroke, our segment producer at 1:23:06.040 --> 1:23:09.280 kick Off Kevin, our video producer at Producer Eddie Head 1:23:09.320 --> 1:23:13.360 producer at Mike Distro. Most importantly, thank you for listening 1:23:13.479 --> 1:23:16.040 on Bobby Bones and we will talk to you next 1:23:16.120 --> 1:23:17.759 week on Whistles.