WEBVTT - 12/22/20 HOUR 2 - Aqib Talib 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:03.560 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:06.720 Sports Radio. Welcome to the program. It's hour two on 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:10.600 this festive Tuesday, Dan and the Danets, Dan Patrick Show, 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:13.520 my new best friend Todd Fritz in here in the 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:18.239 man cave, all decked out is festive Denver Bronco Christmas gear. 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:21.120 It's a nice get up. Thank you. You look good. 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:24.040 And then we guilted, We shamed the other Danets into 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:26.840 dressing a little more festive. So they went to their closets, 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:30.200 their respective closets, and they brought out something. It just 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:32.559 looks like you guys are cold. You guys don't look 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:36.479 like you're in the festive spirit the season, Dan, no Seaton. 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:38.520 You just look like you're cold, that's all. Yeah, Paul, 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:41.600 I grabbed what are my numerous moose sweaters? You don't 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:44.680 like this one? Yeah, it's nice. It's sorry, but you 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:46.720 didn't lead with it. You didn't come in with that. 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:50.040 You came in from the bullpen. Todd and I are 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:52.920 starters here. You know, we're shilling in a big unit, 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:56.360 like we're bringing noise today with our festive spirit. Here 0:00:56.400 --> 0:01:00.480 wait till tomorrow. If you're watching on Peacock Ladies, you're 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:03.160 not gonna want to miss that. Well, ladies, you might 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:05.200 want to miss this. If you can handle the calendar, 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:07.959 you could have pretty much handle anything in life. Yeah, 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:10.399 you know, I get we didn't let anybody know what, 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:12.759 you know, the pictures look like in the calendar. So 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:15.200 now I'm hearing from people going, you didn't tell us, 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:17.560 you didn't warn us. I go, I didn't know. I 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:20.319 had to warn you. I told you there was nudity 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:23.840 in the calendar. I just didn't tell you. I mean, 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:28.400 we're known for our nudity, and that's where people are going, Wait, 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:31.440 you didn't I can't show this in my office. And 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:34.200 I go, okay, So we have put some rated sticker 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:35.919 on the front like that they're with the video games. 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:38.520 Maybe that's on us, like, you know, for mature audiences 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:40.560 or something. Yeah, well they used to do that with 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:43.240 rap albums and CDs, so maybe we need to do 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:46.120 that with the calendar next year. Well you know what, Okay, 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:48.760 no nudity next year. There. I hope you're happy that 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:53.800 I'm out. That's not our calendar though, is for extremely 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:59.120 immature audiences. All right, we'll come up with a poll question. 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:00.720 We have a poll question and I don't know if 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:03.120 we're staying with a poll question, but McLevin was very 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:05.760 proud of it. Coming up, he's a keep to Leeb. 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:08.840 He is a former Pro Bowl defensive back and now 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:12.600 he's an analyst for Fox Sports. And I was listening 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:15.920 to the Eagles Cardinals game. I was watching it, and 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:19.359 the more I'm listening, the more I'm enjoying what a 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:22.360 keeb to Leeb is doing. He sounds like a former player. 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:25.280 He sounds like a former player who didn't go to 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:29.240 broadcasting school. He's just a former player. He's also not 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:33.120 a quarterback, so he's giving you a different view of 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:37.000 the game because a lot of your analysts are former 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:41.760 offensive players and certainly quarterbacks. But he is a defensive back, 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:46.160 and I just I appreciated what he was bringing to 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:49.880 the broadcast. And he'll join us coming up here. Bengals 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:53.080 beat the Steelers last night twenty seven to ten. You know, 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:56.119 it was a night where Ben Roethlisberger goes over sixty 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:59.840 thousand yards in his career and he got beat by 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:04.160 quarterback who throw for less than one hundred yards last night. 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:07.720 Here you go, here's Ben Roethlisberger versus Ryan Finley in 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:13.600 their careers, Ben has one hundred fifty five wins, Ryan 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:19.200 Finley has one. Last night, Ben is thrown for sixty 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:24.040 thousand yards. Ryan Finley has thrown for six hundred and 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:28.519 thirty eight. Ben has thrown three hundred ninety three touchdowns. 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:35.040 Ryan Finlay has thrown three. Sounds like a stat of 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:36.920 the day to me, a couple of stats of the day, 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:40.600 stad day, stat of the day, a bag out of 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:44.600 the day, stat of the day. What here comes that? 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:50.720 What stat of the day? Here's Mike Tomlin, the Steelers 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:54.600 head coach, on is his team any good right now? Man? 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:55.960 We got a lot of work to do. We're not 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:59.960 a good football group right now, and so we understand it. 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.360 Consequences that come with that. We're working on a short week. 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:06.000 We gotta be better than what we've been and that's 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:09.120 just the reality of it. The Steelers are the third 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:12.080 team in NFL history to win at least eleven games 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.480 to start the season then lose at least three in 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:18.599 a row. The other two very different end results. The 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:21.599 nineteen sixty nine Rams eleven and Ozer lost their last 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:24.920 three and then they lost their first playoff game two 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:27.800 thousand and nine Saints started out thirteen and ozer last 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.800 they lost their last three. They finished thirteen and three 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:33.640 and then went on to win the Super Bowl. The 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:37.120 Steelers had forty total yards in the first half last night, 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:42.840 forty the lowest output and Mike Tomlins fourteen years as 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:46.200 they head coached there they had more turnovers in the 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:54.279 first half. Three then first downs, two, stat Day, stat 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:57.680 of the days, stat of the days, stat of the day, 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:06.280 stat Days, stat Day, Star Day Stum. We'll get to 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:09.560 phone calls coming up. Mclevin'll give me the results of 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.080 the first hour poll question. Okay, who is the least 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:16.080 scary potential AFC playoff team? The Dolphins are the least scary, 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:20.800 with the Steelers right behind them. Okay, it feels like 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:24.479 Miami knows who they are and Pittsburgh doesn't know, or 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:26.760 they forgot who they are, or they can't be who 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:30.600 they once were. But that's the poll question. If you did, 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.160 you have any other poll questions, McLevin. Yeah, And by 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:36.040 the way, Miami has the Raiders and the Bills coming 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:38.160 up and probably has to win both to get in, 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:43.000 So it's not a guarantee free agent quarterbacks next year. 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:45.599 If you have a choice at these guys, Who do 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:51.960 you want, Mitchell Trubisky, Sam Darnold, Cam Newton or Jamis Winston. 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:57.400 I'm not gonna put and unless you think I should. 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:00.000 I wouldn't put Dak Prescott on that, assuming he'll probably 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:03.240 go back to Dallas. I'm gonna say Sam Darnold, I 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:05.880 still think he can play at a high level. I 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:08.479 don't know what Jamis Winston has learned in New Orleans. 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:11.680 I'd be really curious about that, as if he stays 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:16.640 or if he goes to another team. Mitchell Trubisky, I 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:19.400 have no idea what I'm getting, but I commend him 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:22.440 for kind of regrouping because he got kicked to the 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:24.359 curb and he's played pretty well for the Bears, and 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:26.680 they might even slip in and make the playoffs. I 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:29.920 don't think Cam can play, not at a high level, 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:32.560 not even a reasonably high level anymore, not on a 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:37.920 consistent basis. Sam Darnold, I think with a better situation, 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:40.120 I'd love to see what he could do. If you 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:43.560 said that Sam Darnold on the Niners, Sam Darnold on 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:47.760 the Steelers, Sam Darnold plug and play some other plays. 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:50.760 I'd like to see what he can do. I think 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:54.360 he's still very athletic, and I think he's still very talented, 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:59.080 and Jameis Winston has all the talent. I just didn't 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:04.000 think that he he wasn't able to process the game 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:08.000 where I need to stop taking chances here or that 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:12.760 doesn't make sense to do that right now. And he 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:15.880 needs a filter and hopefully Sean Payton and Drew Brees 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:18.000 have given him that or they at least see how 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:21.160 Drew approaches the game, and maybe that helps. Because he 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:23.480 does have the talent, I just don't know if he 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:27.120 can be a great quarterback, might be a good quarterback, 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:30.120 maybe a starter. Again, you sort of see the blueprint 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:34.080 of what we saw with Ryan Tannehill, and maybe Marcus 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:36.520 Mariota is going to follow the same blueprint where it 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:39.120 takes a little while, you go to another team, you're 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:42.480 a backup, you get to start, and then you continue 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:45.440 to play well. And I think that that's the interesting 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:48.520 part with some of these quarterbacks who aren't going to 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:52.160 get extended and where do they go. Also, you have 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:54.360 to factor in what's going on with the Jets. If 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:57.360 the Jets aren't getting Trevor Lawrence, I would think long 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:00.600 and hard about staying with Sam Darnold. Now, I don't 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:03.040 know what Sam's gonna cost me, so I'm gonna factor 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:05.640 that in as well. You know, I love having that 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:10.200 rookie quarterback because I get that rookie salary, that rookie contract, 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:13.000 and then you can build on that. But Sam Darnold. 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:16.760 If you said I can have Justin Fields or Sam Darnold, 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:19.880 I'd probably still I would stay with Sam Darnold. I 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:23.960 don't know about Justin Fields, and to go into a 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:29.480 situation like that as a rookie, I don't know if 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:32.079 he's Dwayne Haskins two point zero from the standpoint of 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:36.079 he was unbelievable for one year at Ohio State. Justin 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:39.160 Fields hasn't been great this year and he hasn't you 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:41.880 know this stop in the start games, you know, canceled. 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:44.720 I understand all of those things. But you got a 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.440 great running back, you got weapons there. I mean, Ohio 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:50.040 State has everything, But I would like to see a 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:53.240 little bit more out of Justin Fields, and maybe we'll 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:56.120 see that come up, you know, playoff time. You know, 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:59.480 if I'm if I'm the Jets, I would certainly entertain 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:03.959 trading that pick. And I don't know if somebody is 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:07.400 going to be in love with Justin Fields, feels like 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:12.439 they're more in love with the Kyle Trask, Trey Lance, 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:17.280 Zach Wilson because you don't have to go up and 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:21.320 get them at number two. Justin Fields, it feels like 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:23.600 you might have to go up and get him, And 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:25.280 I don't know if teams are willing to do that. 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:29.640 Trevor Lawrence. Yes, Justin Fields. No, and he's extremely talented, 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:33.160 don't get me wrong. I just I haven't seen that 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:36.360 yet from him this year, and we certainly saw that 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:40.280 from him last year. Army got a Bowl game. We 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:44.000 are happy to have their coach on Coach Monkin yesterday 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:46.880 and he said, look, we're nine in two. We want 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:50.360 to play now. This is really important to these kids 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:52.640 their last football game, those who were seniors. We want 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:57.239 to play, will play wherever. And Liberty Bulls said. Tennessee's 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:59.240 balling out. Come on in, you guys get to play. 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:03.600 West Virginia's so happy to see that. Games coming up 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:07.439 tonight to Lane, Nevada, Central Florida BYU. You got the NBA, 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:11.439 but the Warriors, Nets Clippers and the Lakers. Yes, Milwaukee 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:14.600 Bucks fans, I forgot to mention Jannis. We were talking 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:18.080 about those who can win the MVP, and Jannis I 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:21.319 mentioned Anthony Davis and Luca don Chick. I don't know 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:23.840 if there's anybody else in there. I forgot the Greek Freak. 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:26.640 Greek Freak has won it back to back times. I 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:30.040 was wondering the last time a player won three consecutive 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:35.720 NBA MVPs. Do you realize when Derrick Rose won in 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:40.960 twenty ten, that interrupted Lebron? So Lebron won four of 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:45.560 those five years from O eight to twenty twelve, Lebron 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.440 won four the five times. So Derrick Rose comes in 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:51.360 and Derrick Rose was great, but Lebron could have won 0:10:51.520 --> 0:11:00.640 five in a row. Michael want back to back MVPs magic? 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:03.480 I think I had back to back. There was a 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:09.640 run where it was magic in eighty six, Jordan eighty seven, Magic, 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:14.920 eighty eight, Magic eighty nine, Michael ninety, Michael ninety one. Oh, 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:17.360 that was a great run. The last player to win 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:23.079 three consecutive MVPs was Larry Bird nineteen eighty three, eighty four, 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:27.040 eighty four, eighty five, eighty five, at eighty six. I 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:29.720 think prior to that it was Wilt Chamberlain back in 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.400 the mid sixties that he won three in a row. 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:37.360 There was a run with Kareem nineteen seventy seventy one, 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:43.360 seventy three, seventy five, seventy six, Dave Cowens and Bob 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:47.840 McAdoo ended up winning MVPs in there. But the Greek 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:53.319 freak with back to back and you know, re energized. 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:56.400 I'm sure with that new contract and Drew Holliday in there, 0:11:56.559 --> 0:12:00.200 and maybe they're ready to go in Milwaukee. Well, doctor 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.760 Nick right from Fox Sports. He has some thoughts on 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:05.559 the NBA. He'll join us coming up next hour eight 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:08.080 seven seven three d P Show email address DP at 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:11.400 Dan Patrick dot com, Twitter handle at DP show Kyle 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:17.320 in California, Hi, Kyle, what's on your mind? ADP. I 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:19.839 hope you guys on the East Coast tonight get the 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:23.280 chance to stay up for the Lakers ring ceremony against 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:26.079 the Clippers. I'm gonna be grinned from ear to ear. 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:29.880 It's gonna be glorious. In DP, the Lakers got better. 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:34.239 Lebron is still the best player in the league. AD's 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:37.840 the second best player in the league. They're laser focused. 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:42.400 They're thinking two pete Lebron is legacy focused. They're thinking 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:47.360 two three pete. Who else got really that better? I 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:50.720 need to be host off. I'm going thirty. Thank you, 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:55.439 Kyle hosed off. I need to be hosed off. Sounds 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:58.559 like a T shirt. I need to be hosed off. Um. 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:01.640 I don't know how much Lebron is going to play, 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:04.040 like how many true games he plays. I don't think 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:09.200 it'll be minutes restriction load management from that standpoint, But 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:12.360 if I'm the Lakers, I want to limit the number 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:16.800 of games I can without drawing the glare of the 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:19.840 league office here. I don't think Anthony Davis is the 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:22.800 second best player in the NBA. He's too inconsistent for me. 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:26.880 I would still say the Greek freak, and you know 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:29.440 there's certain things. The Greek freak has got to be better. 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:31.720 From the free throw line, I don't know what that 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:34.960 is about certain players. It can't shoot free throws. Don't 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:37.440 know what that is. I don't know if it's mental 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:40.000 or you just don't practice, you don't want to practice. 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:44.360 It's probably mostly mental. But he's working on his form. 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:48.560 And I was noticing this looking at old free throw 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:53.280 attempts by him, and he wasn't using he would he 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:56.760 would kind of stiff his arms up to shoot. It's all. 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:59.520 It's all from the bottom up. It's just a flow, 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.120 like you just it's a rhythm when you shoot your freak. 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:04.640 Even Lebron's free throw doesn't look good, then look at 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:07.400 all because he gets up there and he gets and 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.480 then he goes. Just all you need to do is 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:14.240 watch what you have with Steph Curry. It's just it's 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:19.400 just a pure nice motion, no extra movement. No, you know, 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:23.960 it's not you know, jittery, it's not cumbersome. It's just 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:27.720 whenever you shoot a free throw, it's think about your 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:30.720 knees and then you just go up and you follow 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:32.840 through and keep your hand up there as long as 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:35.760 you can. That's what you need to do. And a 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.600 lot of these guys they'll short arm it. It's not 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:42.240 a flow. They'll start and then they'll stop, or they won't. 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:44.720 You finish it all the way through. And if the 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:48.160 Greek freak is able to continue to add, which great 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:51.240 players do, then you know he's going to be the 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:54.080 guy to beat for the MVP because he will play. 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.760 They've had the best record in the NBA, but this 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:01.680 is what happens. I ran down all the MVPs. At 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:06.440 some point the writers go, you know what, we've had 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:13.120 this story, I mean Jordan. They'd had the Jordan's story. Well, 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:16.640 we'll give it to Charles Barkley. Barkley was great. They 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:20.200 gave it to Carl Malone. Carl Malone was great, but 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:23.240 they got tired of the Jordan's story. In my opinion, 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:28.960 this happens and I think you might have Greek freak. 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:35.560 They'll be uh weary of this. It feels like fatigue, 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:38.920 Greek freak fatigue. But you know everybody's gonna say, Luca, 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:42.080 don chick here. Okay, I want to see what else 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:45.200 he can do. I want to see, you know, night 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:48.040 in and night out. He's great. But everybody's gonna look 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.840 at Luca and they're kind of what the Greek freak like. Okay, 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:53.320 let me see when you get to the postseason. No 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:59.240 Is Kristaps porzingis gonna be healthy there now that I 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:02.160 want to see how good the team is with Dallas. 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:07.560 But you know, if you said, uh, Luca Greek freak. 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:12.240 Anthony Davis Lebron, I thought the writers wanted to give 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:16.680 Lebron the MVP last year, and they may still want 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:18.440 to do it this year where they go, you know what, 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:21.840 we should give him one more here. I know it 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:25.120 sounds strange, crazy to say that that that's how writers 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:29.120 think now, maybe not consciously, but subconsciously. It felt like 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:31.840 there was a soft spot in the in the hearts 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:35.600 of these writers and it was with me because I go, 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.080 you got has everybody realize and what's going on here? 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:43.520 Like like this guy is unbelievable. This guy has put 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:50.920 up great numbers, reinvented himself playing point guard, deferring playing defense, 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:55.600 and they're gonna win a title and he was the 0:16:55.640 --> 0:17:00.520 best player. Like whether whether you want to buy into 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:02.320 that or not. And I'm sure you know people have 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:06.840 their you know, love hate relationship with Lebron. It's a 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:10.800 pretty unique story because if you said at the end 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:13.480 of the year, end of the season, Lebron would have 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:15.639 been your MVP because of what happened in the bubble, 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:20.439 and that's as challenging as anybody has ever had in 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:24.320 winning a championship. Not everybody agrees, but I think that 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:28.320 that's as challenging as you'll ever find given the circumstances there, 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:32.719 because guys were they're ready to climb the walls, like 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:36.760 the walls were closing in, and you had players who said, 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:39.120 you know, basically, I need to get out of here. 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:44.359 But Lebron and that team and it almost fell apart. 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:48.280 Remember when they had the players only meeting Lakers were 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:52.760 leaving the bubble? Is that tenuous? Is that crazy? So 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:56.160 a lot of respect for what they did. And I'm 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:58.359 curious to see what kind of shape Lebron is going 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:01.960 to be in because he that's that's a lot of 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:05.040 wear and tear. Nobody's had that wear and tear on 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:07.080 their body this late in their career and played at 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:09.800 this highland level and been the leader of that team. 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:13.359 So extremely impressed with what I saw with Lebron. And 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:15.359 I don't know if he's going to have a great 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:17.679 regular season, but that doesn't mean he won't have a 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:20.320 great postseason. All Right, we'll take a break. It's twenty 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:23.200 after the hour. We'll check in with a key to leave. 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:26.240 As he is in the broadcast booth. 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I don't have to rate it, Dan, 0:20:58.960 --> 0:21:02.040 And you know is that I just go out and 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:05.159 try to have a little fun, so, you know, I 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:07.440 got pretty good feedback. I rate it off the feedback, 0:21:07.480 --> 0:21:11.040 so you know, I got pretty good feedback from the 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:14.879 guys over at five, so I guess it was decent. 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:18.199 But also it's really important to get people who are 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:20.320 going to be honest with you because a lot of 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:23.840 people just say, hey, man, sounded good. And if they 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:26.240 say that, then say, well, what did you like? Like? 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:28.959 You gotta if you really want to know if you 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:32.240 approach this the way you did as a defensive back, hey, 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:34.399 I want to be great, how do I be great? 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:37.920 You have to approach it the same way? And hopefully 0:21:37.920 --> 0:21:40.439 you got some people who won't just go, yeah, that 0:21:40.560 --> 0:21:43.760 was good, man, I enjoyed it. Ask them or was 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:46.439 there anything that I you didn't like? Because if you 0:21:46.560 --> 0:21:49.280 if you do ask those questions, you might get some 0:21:49.320 --> 0:21:52.600 answers that can really help you, right right. That's and 0:21:52.880 --> 0:21:55.640 I do I do that, rich a man, Damn sorry, 0:21:55.840 --> 0:21:58.800 I do that all right. I got some people on 0:21:58.880 --> 0:22:03.720 my team who routed leanness. So I think from week one, 0:22:03.840 --> 0:22:05.720 from the first game to the second game, I think 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:07.639 I improved, and I think it had a lot to 0:22:07.680 --> 0:22:11.480 do with the criticism that I received from people who 0:22:11.520 --> 0:22:14.239 I ask, but also you're looking at this from a 0:22:14.280 --> 0:22:17.280 defensive perspective, or at least I get that feeling a 0:22:17.280 --> 0:22:21.080 lot of analysts or offensive you know, players, former quarterbacks. 0:22:22.000 --> 0:22:25.240 Are you purposely looking at it from a different perspective 0:22:25.280 --> 0:22:29.120 because you played defensive back? Well, I think I look 0:22:29.160 --> 0:22:31.440 at it. I just watched the game and talk about 0:22:31.440 --> 0:22:34.960 it as I see it, so naturally, I see it 0:22:35.000 --> 0:22:39.480 as a defensive person a defensive perspective, So I think 0:22:39.480 --> 0:22:41.359 I called a game that way. So I think I 0:22:41.400 --> 0:22:44.680 think that just comes naturally. And then you start to 0:22:45.440 --> 0:22:48.480 break things down like it's weird to watch a game 0:22:48.720 --> 0:22:51.080 that way. Are you watching off the monitor? Are you 0:22:51.160 --> 0:22:55.840 watching the actual game itself? Well, I watch. I watched 0:22:55.880 --> 0:22:59.960 the actual game itself, So I watch. I just watch 0:23:00.160 --> 0:23:02.840 to see what coverage than in. Once the play starts, 0:23:02.840 --> 0:23:04.840 I see what coverage thy m, I kind of moved 0:23:04.840 --> 0:23:08.120 to the quarterback and I see where he told a ball, 0:23:08.400 --> 0:23:11.320 and I know kind of what are he's throwing the 0:23:11.359 --> 0:23:13.800 ball into, you know, because I know what coverage stay in. 0:23:14.000 --> 0:23:16.280 So I always start with the defense and see what 0:23:16.320 --> 0:23:18.920 they played first, and then my eyes loves of the offense. 0:23:18.960 --> 0:23:22.719 But I'm watching a game off the field itself. And 0:23:22.800 --> 0:23:24.679