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Speaker 1: this festive Tuesday, Dan and the Danets, Dan Patrick Show,
Speaker 1: my new best friend Todd Fritz in here in the
Speaker 1: man cave, all decked out is festive Denver Bronco Christmas gear.
Speaker 1: It's a nice get up. Thank you. You look good.
Speaker 1: And then we guilted, We shamed the other Danets into
Speaker 1: dressing a little more festive. So they went to their closets,
Speaker 1: their respective closets, and they brought out something. It just
Speaker 1: looks like you guys are cold. You guys don't look
Speaker 1: like you're in the festive spirit the season, Dan, no Seaton.
Speaker 1: You just look like you're cold, that's all. Yeah, Paul,
Speaker 1: I grabbed what are my numerous moose sweaters? You don't
Speaker 1: like this one? Yeah, it's nice. It's sorry, but you
Speaker 1: didn't lead with it. You didn't come in with that.
Speaker 1: You came in from the bullpen. Todd and I are
Speaker 1: starters here. You know, we're shilling in a big unit,
Speaker 1: like we're bringing noise today with our festive spirit. Here
Speaker 1: wait till tomorrow. If you're watching on Peacock Ladies, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna want to miss that. Well, ladies, you might
Speaker 1: want to miss this. If you can handle the calendar,
Speaker 1: you could have pretty much handle anything in life. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I get we didn't let anybody know what,
Speaker 1: you know, the pictures look like in the calendar. So
Speaker 1: now I'm hearing from people going, you didn't tell us,
Speaker 1: you didn't warn us. I go, I didn't know. I
Speaker 1: had to warn you. I told you there was nudity
Speaker 1: in the calendar. I just didn't tell you. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're known for our nudity, and that's where people are going, Wait,
Speaker 1: you didn't I can't show this in my office. And
Speaker 1: I go, okay, So we have put some rated sticker
Speaker 1: on the front like that they're with the video games.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's on us, like, you know, for mature audiences
Speaker 1: or something. Yeah, well they used to do that with
Speaker 1: rap albums and CDs, so maybe we need to do
Speaker 1: that with the calendar next year. Well you know what, Okay,
Speaker 1: no nudity next year. There. I hope you're happy that
Speaker 1: I'm out. That's not our calendar though, is for extremely
Speaker 1: immature audiences. All right, we'll come up with a poll question.
Speaker 1: We have a poll question and I don't know if
Speaker 1: we're staying with a poll question, but McLevin was very
Speaker 1: proud of it. Coming up, he's a keep to Leeb.
Speaker 1: He is a former Pro Bowl defensive back and now
Speaker 1: he's an analyst for Fox Sports. And I was listening
Speaker 1: to the Eagles Cardinals game. I was watching it, and
Speaker 1: the more I'm listening, the more I'm enjoying what a
Speaker 1: keeb to Leeb is doing. He sounds like a former player.
Speaker 1: He sounds like a former player who didn't go to
Speaker 1: broadcasting school. He's just a former player. He's also not
Speaker 1: a quarterback, so he's giving you a different view of
Speaker 1: the game because a lot of your analysts are former
Speaker 1: offensive players and certainly quarterbacks. But he is a defensive back,
Speaker 1: and I just I appreciated what he was bringing to
Speaker 1: the broadcast. And he'll join us coming up here. Bengals
Speaker 1: beat the Steelers last night twenty seven to ten. You know,
Speaker 1: it was a night where Ben Roethlisberger goes over sixty
Speaker 1: thousand yards in his career and he got beat by
Speaker 1: quarterback who throw for less than one hundred yards last night.
Speaker 1: Here you go, here's Ben Roethlisberger versus Ryan Finley in
Speaker 1: their careers, Ben has one hundred fifty five wins, Ryan
Speaker 1: Finley has one. Last night, Ben is thrown for sixty
Speaker 1: thousand yards. Ryan Finley has thrown for six hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty eight. Ben has thrown three hundred ninety three touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Ryan Finlay has thrown three. Sounds like a stat of
Speaker 1: the day to me, a couple of stats of the day,
Speaker 1: stad day, stat of the day, a bag out of
Speaker 1: the day, stat of the day. What here comes that?
Speaker 1: What stat of the day? Here's Mike Tomlin, the Steelers
Speaker 1: head coach, on is his team any good right now? Man?
Speaker 1: We got a lot of work to do. We're not
Speaker 1: a good football group right now, and so we understand it.
Speaker 1: Consequences that come with that. We're working on a short week.
Speaker 1: We gotta be better than what we've been and that's
Speaker 1: just the reality of it. The Steelers are the third
Speaker 1: team in NFL history to win at least eleven games
Speaker 1: to start the season then lose at least three in
Speaker 1: a row. The other two very different end results. The
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty nine Rams eleven and Ozer lost their last
Speaker 1: three and then they lost their first playoff game two
Speaker 1: thousand and nine Saints started out thirteen and ozer last
Speaker 1: they lost their last three. They finished thirteen and three
Speaker 1: and then went on to win the Super Bowl. The
Speaker 1: Steelers had forty total yards in the first half last night,
Speaker 1: forty the lowest output and Mike Tomlins fourteen years as
Speaker 1: they head coached there they had more turnovers in the
Speaker 1: first half. Three then first downs, two, stat Day, stat
Speaker 1: of the days, stat of the days, stat of the day,
Speaker 1: stat Days, stat Day, Star Day Stum. We'll get to
Speaker 1: phone calls coming up. Mclevin'll give me the results of
Speaker 1: the first hour poll question. Okay, who is the least
Speaker 1: scary potential AFC playoff team? The Dolphins are the least scary,
Speaker 1: with the Steelers right behind them. Okay, it feels like
Speaker 1: Miami knows who they are and Pittsburgh doesn't know, or
Speaker 1: they forgot who they are, or they can't be who
Speaker 1: they once were. But that's the poll question. If you did,
Speaker 1: you have any other poll questions, McLevin. Yeah, And by
Speaker 1: the way, Miami has the Raiders and the Bills coming
Speaker 1: up and probably has to win both to get in,
Speaker 1: So it's not a guarantee free agent quarterbacks next year.
Speaker 1: If you have a choice at these guys, Who do
Speaker 1: you want, Mitchell Trubisky, Sam Darnold, Cam Newton or Jamis Winston.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna put and unless you think I should.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't put Dak Prescott on that, assuming he'll probably
Speaker 1: go back to Dallas. I'm gonna say Sam Darnold, I
Speaker 1: still think he can play at a high level. I
Speaker 1: don't know what Jamis Winston has learned in New Orleans.
Speaker 1: I'd be really curious about that, as if he stays
Speaker 1: or if he goes to another team. Mitchell Trubisky, I
Speaker 1: have no idea what I'm getting, but I commend him
Speaker 1: for kind of regrouping because he got kicked to the
Speaker 1: curb and he's played pretty well for the Bears, and
Speaker 1: they might even slip in and make the playoffs. I
Speaker 1: don't think Cam can play, not at a high level,
Speaker 1: not even a reasonably high level anymore, not on a
Speaker 1: consistent basis. Sam Darnold, I think with a better situation,
Speaker 1: I'd love to see what he could do. If you
Speaker 1: said that Sam Darnold on the Niners, Sam Darnold on
Speaker 1: the Steelers, Sam Darnold plug and play some other plays.
Speaker 1: I'd like to see what he can do. I think
Speaker 1: he's still very athletic, and I think he's still very talented,
Speaker 1: and Jameis Winston has all the talent. I just didn't
Speaker 1: think that he he wasn't able to process the game
Speaker 1: where I need to stop taking chances here or that
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense to do that right now. And he
Speaker 1: needs a filter and hopefully Sean Payton and Drew Brees
Speaker 1: have given him that or they at least see how
Speaker 1: Drew approaches the game, and maybe that helps. Because he
Speaker 1: does have the talent, I just don't know if he
Speaker 1: can be a great quarterback, might be a good quarterback,
Speaker 1: maybe a starter. Again, you sort of see the blueprint
Speaker 1: of what we saw with Ryan Tannehill, and maybe Marcus
Speaker 1: Mariota is going to follow the same blueprint where it
Speaker 1: takes a little while, you go to another team, you're
Speaker 1: a backup, you get to start, and then you continue
Speaker 1: to play well. And I think that that's the interesting
Speaker 1: part with some of these quarterbacks who aren't going to
Speaker 1: get extended and where do they go. Also, you have
Speaker 1: to factor in what's going on with the Jets. If
Speaker 1: the Jets aren't getting Trevor Lawrence, I would think long
Speaker 1: and hard about staying with Sam Darnold. Now, I don't
Speaker 1: know what Sam's gonna cost me, so I'm gonna factor
Speaker 1: that in as well. You know, I love having that
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback because I get that rookie salary, that rookie contract,
Speaker 1: and then you can build on that. But Sam Darnold.
Speaker 1: If you said I can have Justin Fields or Sam Darnold,
Speaker 1: I'd probably still I would stay with Sam Darnold. I
Speaker 1: don't know about Justin Fields, and to go into a
Speaker 1: situation like that as a rookie, I don't know if
Speaker 1: he's Dwayne Haskins two point zero from the standpoint of
Speaker 1: he was unbelievable for one year at Ohio State. Justin
Speaker 1: Fields hasn't been great this year and he hasn't you
Speaker 1: know this stop in the start games, you know, canceled.
Speaker 1: I understand all of those things. But you got a
Speaker 1: great running back, you got weapons there. I mean, Ohio
Speaker 1: State has everything, But I would like to see a
Speaker 1: little bit more out of Justin Fields, and maybe we'll
Speaker 1: see that come up, you know, playoff time. You know,
Speaker 1: if I'm if I'm the Jets, I would certainly entertain
Speaker 1: trading that pick. And I don't know if somebody is
Speaker 1: going to be in love with Justin Fields, feels like
Speaker 1: they're more in love with the Kyle Trask, Trey Lance,
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson because you don't have to go up and
Speaker 1: get them at number two. Justin Fields, it feels like
Speaker 1: you might have to go up and get him, And
Speaker 1: I don't know if teams are willing to do that.
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence. Yes, Justin Fields. No, and he's extremely talented,
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong. I just I haven't seen that
Speaker 1: yet from him this year, and we certainly saw that
Speaker 1: from him last year. Army got a Bowl game. We
Speaker 1: are happy to have their coach on Coach Monkin yesterday
Speaker 1: and he said, look, we're nine in two. We want
Speaker 1: to play now. This is really important to these kids
Speaker 1: their last football game, those who were seniors. We want
Speaker 1: to play, will play wherever. And Liberty Bulls said. Tennessee's
Speaker 1: balling out. Come on in, you guys get to play.
Speaker 1: West Virginia's so happy to see that. Games coming up
Speaker 1: tonight to Lane, Nevada, Central Florida BYU. You got the NBA,
Speaker 1: but the Warriors, Nets Clippers and the Lakers. Yes, Milwaukee
Speaker 1: Bucks fans, I forgot to mention Jannis. We were talking
Speaker 1: about those who can win the MVP, and Jannis I
Speaker 1: mentioned Anthony Davis and Luca don Chick. I don't know
Speaker 1: if there's anybody else in there. I forgot the Greek Freak.
Speaker 1: Greek Freak has won it back to back times. I
Speaker 1: was wondering the last time a player won three consecutive
Speaker 1: NBA MVPs. Do you realize when Derrick Rose won in
Speaker 1: twenty ten, that interrupted Lebron? So Lebron won four of
Speaker 1: those five years from O eight to twenty twelve, Lebron
Speaker 1: won four the five times. So Derrick Rose comes in
Speaker 1: and Derrick Rose was great, but Lebron could have won
Speaker 1: five in a row. Michael want back to back MVPs magic?
Speaker 1: I think I had back to back. There was a
Speaker 1: run where it was magic in eighty six, Jordan eighty seven, Magic,
Speaker 1: eighty eight, Magic eighty nine, Michael ninety, Michael ninety one. Oh,
Speaker 1: that was a great run. The last player to win
Speaker 1: three consecutive MVPs was Larry Bird nineteen eighty three, eighty four,
Speaker 1: eighty four, eighty five, eighty five, at eighty six. I
Speaker 1: think prior to that it was Wilt Chamberlain back in
Speaker 1: the mid sixties that he won three in a row.
Speaker 1: There was a run with Kareem nineteen seventy seventy one,
Speaker 1: seventy three, seventy five, seventy six, Dave Cowens and Bob
Speaker 1: McAdoo ended up winning MVPs in there. But the Greek
Speaker 1: freak with back to back and you know, re energized.
Speaker 1: I'm sure with that new contract and Drew Holliday in there,
Speaker 1: and maybe they're ready to go in Milwaukee. Well, doctor
Speaker 1: Nick right from Fox Sports. He has some thoughts on
Speaker 1: the NBA. He'll join us coming up next hour eight
Speaker 1: seven seven three d P Show email address DP at
Speaker 1: Dan Patrick dot com, Twitter handle at DP show Kyle
Speaker 1: in California, Hi, Kyle, what's on your mind? ADP. I
Speaker 1: hope you guys on the East Coast tonight get the
Speaker 1: chance to stay up for the Lakers ring ceremony against
Speaker 1: the Clippers. I'm gonna be grinned from ear to ear.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be glorious. In DP, the Lakers got better.
Speaker 1: Lebron is still the best player in the league. AD's
Speaker 1: the second best player in the league. They're laser focused.
Speaker 1: They're thinking two pete Lebron is legacy focused. They're thinking
Speaker 1: two three pete. Who else got really that better? I
Speaker 1: need to be host off. I'm going thirty. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Kyle hosed off. I need to be hosed off. Sounds
Speaker 1: like a T shirt. I need to be hosed off. Um.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much Lebron is going to play,
Speaker 1: like how many true games he plays. I don't think
Speaker 1: it'll be minutes restriction load management from that standpoint, But
Speaker 1: if I'm the Lakers, I want to limit the number
Speaker 1: of games I can without drawing the glare of the
Speaker 1: league office here. I don't think Anthony Davis is the
Speaker 1: second best player in the NBA. He's too inconsistent for me.
Speaker 1: I would still say the Greek freak, and you know
Speaker 1: there's certain things. The Greek freak has got to be better.
Speaker 1: From the free throw line, I don't know what that
Speaker 1: is about certain players. It can't shoot free throws. Don't
Speaker 1: know what that is. I don't know if it's mental
Speaker 1: or you just don't practice, you don't want to practice.
Speaker 1: It's probably mostly mental. But he's working on his form.
Speaker 1: And I was noticing this looking at old free throw
Speaker 1: attempts by him, and he wasn't using he would he
Speaker 1: would kind of stiff his arms up to shoot. It's all.
Speaker 1: It's all from the bottom up. It's just a flow,
Speaker 1: like you just it's a rhythm when you shoot your freak.
Speaker 1: Even Lebron's free throw doesn't look good, then look at
Speaker 1: all because he gets up there and he gets and
Speaker 1: then he goes. Just all you need to do is
Speaker 1: watch what you have with Steph Curry. It's just it's
Speaker 1: just a pure nice motion, no extra movement. No, you know,
Speaker 1: it's not you know, jittery, it's not cumbersome. It's just
Speaker 1: whenever you shoot a free throw, it's think about your
Speaker 1: knees and then you just go up and you follow
Speaker 1: through and keep your hand up there as long as
Speaker 1: you can. That's what you need to do. And a
Speaker 1: lot of these guys they'll short arm it. It's not
Speaker 1: a flow. They'll start and then they'll stop, or they won't.
Speaker 1: You finish it all the way through. And if the
Speaker 1: Greek freak is able to continue to add, which great
Speaker 1: players do, then you know he's going to be the
Speaker 1: guy to beat for the MVP because he will play.
Speaker 1: They've had the best record in the NBA, but this
Speaker 1: is what happens. I ran down all the MVPs. At
Speaker 1: some point the writers go, you know what, we've had
Speaker 1: this story, I mean Jordan. They'd had the Jordan's story. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll give it to Charles Barkley. Barkley was great. They
Speaker 1: gave it to Carl Malone. Carl Malone was great, but
Speaker 1: they got tired of the Jordan's story. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: this happens and I think you might have Greek freak.
Speaker 1: They'll be uh weary of this. It feels like fatigue,
Speaker 1: Greek freak fatigue. But you know everybody's gonna say, Luca,
Speaker 1: don chick here. Okay, I want to see what else
Speaker 1: he can do. I want to see, you know, night
Speaker 1: in and night out. He's great. But everybody's gonna look
Speaker 1: at Luca and they're kind of what the Greek freak like. Okay,
Speaker 1: let me see when you get to the postseason. No
Speaker 1: Is Kristaps porzingis gonna be healthy there now that I
Speaker 1: want to see how good the team is with Dallas.
Speaker 1: But you know, if you said, uh, Luca Greek freak.
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis Lebron, I thought the writers wanted to give
Speaker 1: Lebron the MVP last year, and they may still want
Speaker 1: to do it this year where they go, you know what,
Speaker 1: we should give him one more here. I know it
Speaker 1: sounds strange, crazy to say that that that's how writers
Speaker 1: think now, maybe not consciously, but subconsciously. It felt like
Speaker 1: there was a soft spot in the in the hearts
Speaker 1: of these writers and it was with me because I go,
Speaker 1: you got has everybody realize and what's going on here?
Speaker 1: Like like this guy is unbelievable. This guy has put
Speaker 1: up great numbers, reinvented himself playing point guard, deferring playing defense,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna win a title and he was the
Speaker 1: best player. Like whether whether you want to buy into
Speaker 1: that or not. And I'm sure you know people have
Speaker 1: their you know, love hate relationship with Lebron. It's a
Speaker 1: pretty unique story because if you said at the end
Speaker 1: of the year, end of the season, Lebron would have
Speaker 1: been your MVP because of what happened in the bubble,
Speaker 1: and that's as challenging as anybody has ever had in
Speaker 1: winning a championship. Not everybody agrees, but I think that
Speaker 1: that's as challenging as you'll ever find given the circumstances there,
Speaker 1: because guys were they're ready to climb the walls, like
Speaker 1: the walls were closing in, and you had players who said,
Speaker 1: you know, basically, I need to get out of here.
Speaker 1: But Lebron and that team and it almost fell apart.
Speaker 1: Remember when they had the players only meeting Lakers were
Speaker 1: leaving the bubble? Is that tenuous? Is that crazy? So
Speaker 1: a lot of respect for what they did. And I'm
Speaker 1: curious to see what kind of shape Lebron is going
Speaker 1: to be in because he that's that's a lot of
Speaker 1: wear and tear. Nobody's had that wear and tear on
Speaker 1: their body this late in their career and played at
Speaker 1: this highland level and been the leader of that team.
Speaker 1: So extremely impressed with what I saw with Lebron. And
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's going to have a great
Speaker 1: regular season, but that doesn't mean he won't have a
Speaker 1: great postseason. All Right, we'll take a break. It's twenty
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Speaker 1: watching the Eagles game against the Cardinals and I was
Speaker 1: enjoying the commentary by keep to Leib, the Fox Sports analyst,
Speaker 1: five time pro bowler, won a Super Bowl with the
Speaker 1: Broncos and now working for Fox and keep to Leib
Speaker 1: joining us on the program. How would you rate your
Speaker 1: performance so far? Keeb? I don't have to rate it, Dan,
Speaker 1: And you know is that I just go out and
Speaker 1: try to have a little fun, so, you know, I
Speaker 1: got pretty good feedback. I rate it off the feedback,
Speaker 1: so you know, I got pretty good feedback from the
Speaker 1: guys over at five, so I guess it was decent.
Speaker 1: But also it's really important to get people who are
Speaker 1: going to be honest with you because a lot of
Speaker 1: people just say, hey, man, sounded good. And if they
Speaker 1: say that, then say, well, what did you like? Like?
Speaker 1: You gotta if you really want to know if you
Speaker 1: approach this the way you did as a defensive back, hey,
Speaker 1: I want to be great, how do I be great?
Speaker 1: You have to approach it the same way? And hopefully
Speaker 1: you got some people who won't just go, yeah, that
Speaker 1: was good, man, I enjoyed it. Ask them or was
Speaker 1: there anything that I you didn't like? Because if you
Speaker 1: if you do ask those questions, you might get some
Speaker 1: answers that can really help you, right right. That's and
Speaker 1: I do I do that, rich a man, Damn sorry,
Speaker 1: I do that all right. I got some people on
Speaker 1: my team who routed leanness. So I think from week one,
Speaker 1: from the first game to the second game, I think
Speaker 1: I improved, and I think it had a lot to
Speaker 1: do with the criticism that I received from people who
Speaker 1: I ask, but also you're looking at this from a
Speaker 1: defensive perspective, or at least I get that feeling a
Speaker 1: lot of analysts or offensive you know, players, former quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Are you purposely looking at it from a different perspective
Speaker 1: because you played defensive back? Well, I think I look
Speaker 1: at it. I just watched the game and talk about
Speaker 1: it as I see it, so naturally, I see it
Speaker 1: as a defensive person a defensive perspective, So I think
Speaker 1: I called a game that way. So I think I
Speaker 1: think that just comes naturally. And then you start to
Speaker 1: break things down like it's weird to watch a game
Speaker 1: that way. Are you watching off the monitor? Are you
Speaker 1: watching the actual game itself? Well, I watch. I watched
Speaker 1: the actual game itself, So I watch. I just watch
Speaker 1: to see what coverage than in. Once the play starts,
Speaker 1: I see what coverage thy m, I kind of moved
Speaker 1: to the quarterback and I see where he told a ball,
Speaker 1: and I know kind of what are he's throwing the
Speaker 1: ball into, you know, because I know what coverage stay in.
Speaker 1: So I always start with the defense and see what
Speaker 1: they played first, and then my eyes loves of the offense.
Speaker 1: But I'm watching a game off the field itself. And
Speaker 1: I love that you just tell it as it is.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm watching a game with a former player,
Speaker 1: but not a former player who went to broadcast school.
Speaker 1: You're just saying, Hey, this is what I see, and
Speaker 1: this is what I'm saying. And it's refreshing. And I
Speaker 1: hope you're able to still be yourself because a lot
Speaker 1: of times the executives come in, or producers or directors
Speaker 1: and then they want to change you a little bit.
Speaker 1: I like that it's it's not polished, but I didn't
Speaker 1: expect it to be because you're still you're starting out
Speaker 1: and trying to figure all this out. But it feels
Speaker 1: honest to keep. That's probably the best compliment I can
Speaker 1: give you. It feels honest in what you're telling me
Speaker 1: when you're breaking things down. Are you worried about being
Speaker 1: too honest in that position? I'm not. I'm just I
Speaker 1: go off the audition during a pandemic, I had an
Speaker 1: audition and uh, we kind of did it over the
Speaker 1: Zoom called we called a game. Me and Kevin Burkhart
Speaker 1: called a game over Zoom and I just however, I
Speaker 1: called the game on there. It was good enough for
Speaker 1: me to sign a three game deal with Fox good
Speaker 1: So you know, uh, if it was good enough to
Speaker 1: do that, and it was, it was good enough to
Speaker 1: get me a second game, you know. So I only
Speaker 1: know one way to do it, you know what I'm saying, Dan,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know how to not be myself
Speaker 1: an executive having came in and told me to not
Speaker 1: be myself and not be honest yet, So I'm only
Speaker 1: I only know one way to do it. So that's
Speaker 1: the way I'm doing it. Who's picking up the game
Speaker 1: day outfits there for you? Oh? I am? I am.
Speaker 1: I'm doing all the all the wardrobe. I've always been
Speaker 1: a dresser of myself, you know. But but I I
Speaker 1: have a suit lady. I have a suit lady at
Speaker 1: the company Elevator, and she always does a great job.
Speaker 1: I kind of give her to feel what I'm kind
Speaker 1: of going for and she always do a great job
Speaker 1: bringing it to life. Who would you rather face, Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray or Jalen Hurts. Oh that's a tough question. They
Speaker 1: both so similar. They bring a lot of stuff to
Speaker 1: the table as far as man. When that pass played breakdown,
Speaker 1: they can turn the running backs and they both throwing
Speaker 1: the ball super good right now as well. Man, that's
Speaker 1: a tough question. Man, you're gonna have your hands for
Speaker 1: with either one. Dan, Yeah, but you gotta pick though o'keep.
Speaker 1: Come on, you're an animalist. Now. I'd rather play, I'd
Speaker 1: rather play. I'd rather play Jalen Hurts Kyler Murray. He
Speaker 1: just got another year of experience under his belt. I
Speaker 1: think he had a little further along and in this
Speaker 1: progression right now. So as of right now today, I
Speaker 1: take Jalen Hurts. What was she play against Jane Hurts?
Speaker 1: What was the scouting reporter on Roethlisberger when you when
Speaker 1: you played, Uh, that he'll hold the ball, create that
Speaker 1: extra second. He was in that category with those quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: the ones that you gotta instead of two and a
Speaker 1: half seconds, we gotta guard our receiver for three and
Speaker 1: a half seconds because big being he'll shake his eye
Speaker 1: off and h he created the extra second. What else
Speaker 1: we had on big being, Uh, he had a great
Speaker 1: deep ball. If a guy covered, he's still trying with
Speaker 1: a great deep ball. And us as far as Big Ben,
Speaker 1: not Pittsburgh, as far as big Being, that was probably
Speaker 1: the main two things that I had in my notebook. Yeah. Uh,
Speaker 1: And then you played against and with Brady. What definitely,
Speaker 1: but what is that book still accurate of if you
Speaker 1: were facing Tom now as opposed to you know, five
Speaker 1: seven years ago. Uh, it's different, it's different. It's changing
Speaker 1: a different offense. Man. It was a lot of quick game,
Speaker 1: a lot of over the middle, inside the numbers teams.
Speaker 1: It was a lot of those kind of passes. Now
Speaker 1: it's it's the field is definitely stretching with that Bruce
Speaker 1: Arians offense. So it's it's you have some adjustments. It's something.
Speaker 1: It's something still vintage Tom Brady still in that offense,
Speaker 1: but it's definitely a lot more a lot more passes
Speaker 1: downfield for Tom. Didn't you stay back in March? I
Speaker 1: think that Brady was leaving the Patriots? Is that right?
Speaker 1: I'm right. I mean, I'm sure this is what y'all doing.
Speaker 1: Y'all be able to bring the record and uther, But
Speaker 1: I definitely I had to. I had to feel in
Speaker 1: news over. I remember I remember me saying I think
Speaker 1: that the marriage is over. Man, It's it's burnt out.
Speaker 1: I remember saying it's burnt out, I think, And I
Speaker 1: remember predicting that Tom was gonna move on. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: It's a weird thing though, just to see him, you
Speaker 1: know in Tampa. Um, did you get yelled at by Belichick? Uh?
Speaker 1: I did? I think just about everybody got your so yeah,
Speaker 1: practice definitely, definitely in practice a few times in the game. Yeah, Bill,
Speaker 1: He's not gonna bite his tongue. So if you're in
Speaker 1: the mix, if you're in the game, in the mix,
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna get yelled at from him, in him
Speaker 1: saying sooner or later he should keep to leave. The
Speaker 1: Fox NFL analyst five time pro bowler won the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl with the Broncos Super Bowl fifty. This Friday, the
Speaker 1: Vikings take on the same special Christmas Day matchup. Coverage
Speaker 1: begins at three thirty Eastern on Fox NFL Network and
Speaker 1: streaming on Prime Video. Do you have any beef leftover
Speaker 1: with somebody that you know that's not going away even
Speaker 1: though you're not playing anymore, you still are you mad
Speaker 1: at anybody? Na? No, I've never really played mad at
Speaker 1: mad at nobody. I mean, somebody do something disrespectful in
Speaker 1: the game. I usually handle it, but no, I kind
Speaker 1: of kind of leave leave it where it's a I
Speaker 1: don't know, beef with nobody in the NFL, right now, man,
Speaker 1: a lot more friends than enemies. And who's the wide
Speaker 1: receiver that you lined up and you knew this is
Speaker 1: gonna be a long day? Calvin Johnson. Yeah. I followed
Speaker 1: him around I think three times or two times in
Speaker 1: my career, and I think I played against him, uh
Speaker 1: maybe four times in my career, and every time and
Speaker 1: I watching it on tape, I'm like, this guy is
Speaker 1: the best. Then when we got to the game, it
Speaker 1: definitely translated and he was definitely the best in the game.
Speaker 1: Who's the quarterback you loved to face? Quarterback who I
Speaker 1: loved to face? Oh, let me go back, take you
Speaker 1: Jason Campbell. I'm gonna go back a little bit. Man.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed playing against Jason Campbell. I felt like he
Speaker 1: was on my team some of the times. Now, I definitely,
Speaker 1: I definitely love He threw me three interceptions one game. Man.
Speaker 1: I seeing him in the lobby. I seen him in
Speaker 1: the lobby at the hotel one time in Miami Super
Speaker 1: Bowl time told him he was my favorite quarterback. Definitely, definitely,
Speaker 1: Jason cow Oh, that is so good. Wow. Did he
Speaker 1: think that it was a compliment or did he know?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know it was. It was
Speaker 1: Super Bowl time, so you know, it was a young
Speaker 1: leaves Super Bowl time and had a couple of guys
Speaker 1: with me. My brother was with me. Man, he was
Speaker 1: hanging out man and into the room. So that is real.
Speaker 1: I think I think coming from me, he probably knew
Speaker 1: what I was talking about. Well, I think he would
Speaker 1: remember he threw three picks and uh so if you
Speaker 1: can walk up to him and he's like, you're my
Speaker 1: favorite quarterback, man, yeah, he knew exactly what. Hey, well,
Speaker 1: good luck with you know the rest of the year.
Speaker 1: Hopefully you got some more games in there, and we
Speaker 1: appreciate your time and keep appreciate too. Thank you. So
Speaker 1: I'll take care all right, let's keep to leave. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I enjoy it. Like I said, it's he's not for everybody.
Speaker 1: I'm sure the purist or but but I just felt
Speaker 1: that I was listening to somebody who just it's almost
Speaker 1: like they just left the field and they were just
Speaker 1: up in the booth they stopped by to do a game,
Speaker 1: and he just has fun with it. He just says
Speaker 1: what he sees. And I thought it was refreshing. It
Speaker 1: was just and it was different coming from the perspective
Speaker 1: of a defensive back because when you think about it,
Speaker 1: how many defensive players are analysts. Most of them are
Speaker 1: offensive players, former players, I'm guessing right. You run down
Speaker 1: the list of players who were doing games, mostly you
Speaker 1: got offensive players. But you know, to give that perspective.
Speaker 1: I always thought Ed Reid of the Ravens could be
Speaker 1: a great analyst. But you know what I loved about
Speaker 1: Ed Reid was he's seeing it from center field. So
Speaker 1: he's your quarterback back on defense, and I always wondered
Speaker 1: what he saw. Here's a little taste of a key
Speaker 1: to lead Cord touchdown. Hocks. What do you what do
Speaker 1: you do trying to play man coverage? You gotta guard
Speaker 1: Hopkins trying to play solo coverage. Kyler Murray dices it up,
Speaker 1: great pass, great location of the football, back, shoulder fade
Speaker 1: right there by, great hands by Hopkins on what he
Speaker 1: does best. Yeah, you know, it's just I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: not dressing it up. I don't need to give you,
Speaker 1: you know, a gap and all of that stuff. It's
Speaker 1: just this is the reason why it worked. Uh, you
Speaker 1: know you're gonna do man coverage and then you pay
Speaker 1: the price there. Yeah, mclovin. That's so cornerback though, or
Speaker 1: defensive back to say, instead of what a great throw,
Speaker 1: he immediately talks about the coverage they were. You know,
Speaker 1: you're right, you never hear that, but what a burn.
Speaker 1: You walk up to Jason and poor Jason Campbell, the
Speaker 1: former Auburn quarterback played for the Washington Redskins, and he now,
Speaker 1: I'm just wondering what it must have been. Jason Campbell's
Speaker 1: with his boys, he said, and you walk up and
Speaker 1: you go, hey, keep hey, Jason, man, you're my favorite quarterback.
Speaker 1: And he's probably thinking, damn, man, you played with some
Speaker 1: great quarterbacks here, Damn dude. And then that's where they
Speaker 1: walk away. And then Jason probably is going, man, what
Speaker 1: did he mean by that? Dude? He was burning you.
Speaker 1: I mean you threw three picks to him. That's why
Speaker 1: that's why you're his favorite quarterback? What damn yeah, boy?
Speaker 1: In one game, that career, in one game. I always
Speaker 1: wondered about that with players, How you leave those grudges
Speaker 1: bad blood on the field. That it happened there, it
Speaker 1: stays there. That's part of life in the NFL. I
Speaker 1: just don't if you said somebody had an illegal block
Speaker 1: on me a crack back, or if I played against
Speaker 1: the Broncos when they were doing that cheap chop block
Speaker 1: stuff that was illegal. You put my career on the line,
Speaker 1: like I would, I would still harbor a grudge, not
Speaker 1: that you can do anything about it, but they may go, well,
Speaker 1: it's wasted energy, like nothing I could do, But man,
Speaker 1: I would be mad. Imagine if somebody's spit in your
Speaker 1: face that never leaves. Wasn't a JJ Stokes and Bill
Speaker 1: Romanowski like that never leaves when you do? There are
Speaker 1: certain things if that happens that would never go away.
Speaker 1: T Buckley, Steve Smith super Bowl that ain't going away.
Speaker 1: Knowing Steve Smith, there is no way he's letting ed go.
Speaker 1: Yes time now, you can let it bother you if
Speaker 1: you years to come. But if you happen to run
Speaker 1: into them somewhere wherever that may be on the field
Speaker 1: or act, are you going to approach them and fight
Speaker 1: as you get up in your older years for something
Speaker 1: that may have happened five, ten, fifteen years ago? Like
Speaker 1: what would you do? I don't know that much. You
Speaker 1: can't just ignore it. But if I'm in my late
Speaker 1: thirties and I run into somebody who may have done
Speaker 1: something illegal or never apologize to whatever. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I I don't know what I would do, But I
Speaker 1: don't think I could go up and say all. I
Speaker 1: don't think I could shake somebody's hand to be like, nah,
Speaker 1: we ain't good, We're not cool. I got nothing to
Speaker 1: say to you, man, And I know it's wasted energy,
Speaker 1: but I just think that you play, you know that
Speaker 1: you have a finite amount of time that your body
Speaker 1: is going to give out at some point. And somebody
Speaker 1: does something where they chop block you, they blindside hit,
Speaker 1: whatever it might be. That's something where you go above
Speaker 1: beyond the call of duty. Like Vantes Berfect would bother me,
Speaker 1: Like I'd have a problem if I'm Antonio Brown with
Speaker 1: Vontes Berfect the rest of my life because I think
Speaker 1: he's cheap shot. I'd have no respect for Vontes Perfect.
Speaker 1: And he was like this in college and he proved
Speaker 1: that he was like that in the NFL, and I
Speaker 1: don't think Antonio Brown was ever the same after what
Speaker 1: Vontes Perfect did to him. But I'd have a hard
Speaker 1: time going, yeck, hey, what's up man? Give me a
Speaker 1: bro huk napp and that ain't happen. That ain't happen.
Speaker 1: All right, We'll take a break. Phone calls coming up
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Speaker 1: This was Steve Smith and the spitting incident was with
Speaker 1: the cornerback of the Patriots, Tyrone Pool is what I had.
Speaker 1: Steve Smith said, he's still upset about the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: game with the Patriots Tyrone Pool, who he accused Pool
Speaker 1: of spitting in his face in the second quarter. Pool
Speaker 1: denies the allegation, says that he was shouting at Smith
Speaker 1: when saliva came out of his mouth. All right, oh,
Speaker 1: here we go. Tom Pellisero, NFL Network reporting the Washington
Speaker 1: football team is aware of social media posts showing quarterback
Speaker 1: Dwayne Haskins partying maskless in a strip club. They're in
Speaker 1: contact with the NFL yesterday about the matter and is
Speaker 1: handling the matter internally. According to Tom Pellisero, that would
Speaker 1: be a strip sack. I would believe on Dwayne Haskins there.
Speaker 1: I like it. He just got back on the field.
Speaker 1: What are you doing? Stzack. But this is also the
Speaker 1: same guy after a loss where he threw for three
Speaker 1: hundred yards, was bragging about how good his stats were
Speaker 1: reportedly and they lost the gang. Oh boy, come on, duaye,
Speaker 1: come on better than that, right, damn strip sack? What
Speaker 1: do you think, Todd? I think that's that's the winner
Speaker 1: in the clubhouse, thank you. Of course, I'm thinking about
Speaker 1: this right now. But that's let's just keep it right there.
Speaker 1: It's just a one it's a one off mock headline.
Speaker 1: Isn't there a Mark Maskey that works with a watching
Speaker 1: the post? That should be his story if it's about
Speaker 1: a mask ruined, I ruined it. You just let it
Speaker 1: stand alone? Thank you? Just go. I do think it's
Speaker 1: interesting though, that there's a writer in Washington we're talking about.
Speaker 1: But you didn't let it stand alone. Strip Sac. It's
Speaker 1: just a stand alone and then we all move on.
Speaker 1: We'll go with strip SAC. That's that's the one. But
Speaker 1: it's just ruined it. I don't know if we're gonna
Speaker 1: do the don't I don't know if we're going Why
Speaker 1: would you do that? I don't know? Is it that
Speaker 1: egregious what I just said? That when you're ruined the hole?
Speaker 1: We've been counting down to the last show. You kind
Speaker 1: of big footed me. How good? Strip? How about this?
Speaker 1: We'll do it on Friday? Wow? I know where that means.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow's the last year with the year, isn't it. That's
Speaker 1: your way of saying, I can't do it. I'll come
Speaker 1: in on Friday. Oh, you can make a special trip Friday. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's Christmas Day Friday. Yeah? Wow? But yeah, yeah, Well
Speaker 1: we celebrated Hanaka we did. Yeah, I think you'll give
Speaker 1: me a second chance. I think it's worth it. Honeka
Speaker 1: is over right, Honneka has been over for a little while.
Speaker 1: But I still have the Manolas. I I just can't
Speaker 1: let it go. I just because I want. I think
Speaker 1: it's nice for a few extra days to have all
Speaker 1: the candles lit, but you don't look at it. I
Speaker 1: have like three manulas at my house. I've seen more
Speaker 1: than enough festivals of lights to get me through the year.
Speaker 1: But I like that we're a showing support for different
Speaker 1: religions and cultures. It's nice. I would think your favorite singer,
Speaker 1: oh here we go. What you're gonna say something corny? Man?
Speaker 1: But if I were to say destroy it is strip
Speaker 1: sack a good headline for Dwayne has an excellent one.
Speaker 1: So if he gets punished strip sack, yes, at a
Speaker 1: strip club with no Maska this moment, I think of
Speaker 1: something else. I think that is okay, that should win,
Speaker 1: that should stripped, got stripped. Quarterback's perfect. Okay, then I'll
Speaker 1: move on. No, no, you know who's the minor Jones?
Speaker 1: Minora Jones. Okay, Okay, it's not better than sack, but
Speaker 1: I'll let you get it within all right? Ryan and Maryland? Hi, Ryan,
Speaker 1: what's on your mind today? Hey? What's going on? They run?
Speaker 1: Hold on one second. I just gotta take this though.
Speaker 1: Um yeah that the um the key to leave interview
Speaker 1: was funny, and especially when he said, well, of my
Speaker 1: favorite quarterback with Jason Campbell because he felt like he
Speaker 1: was one. But but you know, I feel bad for
Speaker 1: Jason Campbell's career because I like Jason Campbell coming out
Speaker 1: at all Burn. I don't think he really had a
Speaker 1: fair chance to really get a shot at an official Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't want to discussed. I don't want to discuss
Speaker 1: Jason Campbell's career. It was just a funny line. Jeff
Speaker 1: in Detroit, I Jeff, what up though? Dawn one time
Speaker 1: for chat Row, I wanted to expond upon the interview
Speaker 1: with a Kiev to leave as well. Listen in the
Speaker 1: booth and I had he's my new favorite analyst in
Speaker 1: the booth. He was going back and forth with his partner,
Speaker 1: and his partner says, I guess you don't agree with
Speaker 1: him getting rid of DeAndre Hopkins, and you don't agree
Speaker 1: with what Bill o'blien did, And he times and says well,
Speaker 1: that's why he don't have a job right now anyway,
Speaker 1: or something like that, And it was the funniest thing.
Speaker 1: Probably about two seconds later, DeAndre Hopkins catches a touchdown. Now,
Speaker 1: my question to you was this, man, if you're the
Speaker 1: gem of the Detroit Lions at this point, what do
Speaker 1: you do with Matthew Stafford Because it's a lot of
Speaker 1: teams that I think are gonna be kicking up, tired
Speaker 1: and trying to get that guy to come. The forty
Speaker 1: nine ers, Bill Belichick in New England Patriots. I mean,
Speaker 1: I could even see him in some type of situation.
Speaker 1: Could you imagine him in La with La Rams. Oh
Speaker 1: that is not going to happen. But thank you, Jeff.
Speaker 1: I gotta have Jeff move on from the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 1: I feel bad for him. He's holding on for dear life.
Speaker 1: Nick Wright, it's Fox Sports coming up.