Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio Final Hour. In this Thursday, Dan and The
Speaker 1: Dan h. Stan Patrick Show covered a lot of ground.
Speaker 1: Spoke to Chris Collinsworth, NBC Sports Football Night in America
Speaker 1: analyst Denny Hamlin, NASCAR driver. He won last night at Darlington.
Speaker 1: He'll join us coming up phone calls. We have an
Speaker 1: old poll question, apparently because mclovin says he has a
Speaker 1: new poll question. Okay, the first two hours was what's
Speaker 1: the best part of the experience of college football? Tailgating
Speaker 1: or being in the game? Sixty forty being in the
Speaker 1: game kind of obvious. So you have a choice. You
Speaker 1: want to switch to NBA season or what they should do,
Speaker 1: or do you want something off of Dak Prescott. Oh,
Speaker 1: we'll give me the Dank Prescott. You're looking for clicks? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's totally clicks. But can you win a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl if you pay your quarterback forty million dollars
Speaker 1: a year? I will put Dak's name. I'm just asking
Speaker 1: that question. Well, because we say forty million now, and
Speaker 1: then it's going to be forty five million, and then
Speaker 1: it's going to be fifty million. I think history sounds
Speaker 1: pretty big. Well, history shows that you're not. You haven't
Speaker 1: had teams win super Bowls with quarterbacks making that kind
Speaker 1: of money. A lot of these teams have used that
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback contract to be able to build a team,
Speaker 1: and then by the time that quarterback matures into you know,
Speaker 1: a good quarterback, a leader, then you have a chance
Speaker 1: to win a Super Bowl there. I mean, that's what
Speaker 1: the Rams were hoping with Jared Goff. But now that
Speaker 1: you pay him, the Eagles, you pay Carson Wentz, you know,
Speaker 1: the Kent City with Patrick Mahomes when you pay him,
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson when he gets paid. You know, Cleveland's hoping
Speaker 1: they get something out of Baker Mayfield, the Jets still
Speaker 1: hoping they get something out of Sam Darnold, the Bills
Speaker 1: with Josh Allen, you get these young quarterbacks, Miami taking
Speaker 1: tah the Chargers, you know, with Justin Herbert. You know,
Speaker 1: I still think about that if you said that, I
Speaker 1: could have Justin Herbert, who I'm not sure about, or
Speaker 1: I could have Cam Newton. If I'm the Chargers, am
Speaker 1: I ready to win now? And who gives me a
Speaker 1: better chance of winning now? Assuming Cam Newton is healthy,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have a guy who is gonna be there's
Speaker 1: some star power with him. He is meant to be
Speaker 1: a starter, not a backup. And if I have Tyrod Taylor,
Speaker 1: there's the backup. I feel better. If something happens to Cam,
Speaker 1: you did not get to a that would have been
Speaker 1: the direction I would have gone in if i'd the Chargers.
Speaker 1: And then if let's say you took Isaiah Simmons and
Speaker 1: you put him on that defense that's all ready an
Speaker 1: elite defense. Now all of a sudden, I think you
Speaker 1: got people's attention because you're gonna go after Kansas City
Speaker 1: with that defense, and you have Cam that gives you
Speaker 1: a respectable offense. You have some weapons there Cam. A
Speaker 1: healthy CAM makes you a super contender in my opinion,
Speaker 1: with the Chargers. And if I can use that draft
Speaker 1: pick and I get a guy who's going to be
Speaker 1: impactful like Isaiah Simmons will be, then I think that
Speaker 1: I've strengthened my offense, strengthened my defense. And in the draft,
Speaker 1: at least with your first pick, you didn't strengthen your
Speaker 1: offense or your defense. Yes, McLevin, is there some fear
Speaker 1: of injury in the Chargers because they've been guided by
Speaker 1: injuries for the last four or five years. Remember that
Speaker 1: the year you had him going far, they got they
Speaker 1: got hit hard, and they still won twelve games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had him going to the super Bowl that year,
Speaker 1: but I just think that would have made more sense
Speaker 1: for Cam Newton. He's just going to wait until something
Speaker 1: happens to a quarterback. You know, he's putting out these
Speaker 1: videos and just showing you know, I don't know how
Speaker 1: healthy he is. I don't know how healthy his foot is.
Speaker 1: Shoulder looks good, but throwing passes in the backyard or
Speaker 1: on a football field, doesn't that you're not simulating, you know,
Speaker 1: game action. And I'd like to know Kenny throw deep,
Speaker 1: what kind of velocity does he have on that? How
Speaker 1: does he feel as they're swelling when he's done with this?
Speaker 1: Shoulder surgery is tricky having had it done, and it's
Speaker 1: never it doesn't feel like it's ever. Like when they
Speaker 1: say surgery, the successful surgery. How many times we hear
Speaker 1: that with an athlete, Oh yeah, it was successful. I
Speaker 1: don't think you can say that about the shoulder. Look
Speaker 1: at Andrew Luck, Cam Newton. It is tricky and who
Speaker 1: knows how long it's going to stay in place. You know,
Speaker 1: my shoulder is and I'm just a regular person. My
Speaker 1: shoulder is not successful. I mean, is it better than
Speaker 1: it was? I couldn't lift my shoulder much higher than
Speaker 1: my head, and you know, so I couldn't throw a baseball,
Speaker 1: even shooting hoops or playing golf, and I wanted to
Speaker 1: get that corrected. I'm just an average person and it's
Speaker 1: still tricky, and I still have problems with my shoulder.
Speaker 1: And I had a great doctor. It's an inexact science.
Speaker 1: That's what I don't know about Cam Newton. He's not
Speaker 1: a great passer, accurate passer. This doesn't help that. It
Speaker 1: hurts that. But I would want to know if I
Speaker 1: get in front of him, you know, can he be
Speaker 1: a different quarterback or is he just going to be
Speaker 1: Cam Newton? This is the way it is. I'm gonna run,
Speaker 1: I'm going to take chances. But if I'm the Chargers,
Speaker 1: I would have taken Cam Newton in because it felt
Speaker 1: like they wanted to. They didn't get to. You settled
Speaker 1: for Justin Herbert. Then maybe settles not the right word.
Speaker 1: I just don't know if Justin Herbert is great, can
Speaker 1: be great athletic. Absolutely came up and played well in
Speaker 1: some big games. Absolutely. I just I need some star power.
Speaker 1: If I'm the Chargers, Cam Newton would have given me that,
Speaker 1: and I get a defensive player who's going to be
Speaker 1: a great player for a long time. Yeah. P A
Speaker 1: question for you and Andrew about the Cowboys when both
Speaker 1: are healthy and they both have good teams around them,
Speaker 1: is Dak Prescott drastically better than Andy Dalton? No? Is
Speaker 1: he better than Andy Adalton? Yes, casually better or like
Speaker 1: a lot Well, neither does well in the playoffs. Okay,
Speaker 1: and that's a knock I have on Dak. He's not
Speaker 1: good in the playoffs. But I think he's a good quarterback.
Speaker 1: I think he handles everything that goes around that circles
Speaker 1: you as as the quarterback for the Cowboys. But I
Speaker 1: will say he should be doing what Patrick Mahomes is doing.
Speaker 1: From the standpoint of you got the offensive line, you've
Speaker 1: got a you know, all pro running back, you've got
Speaker 1: weapons wide receiver like this year, there's no excuses for
Speaker 1: this team not to win that division. None. Now, I
Speaker 1: know that they haven't spent as much time on the
Speaker 1: defense offensively, Dak Prescott should have a monster year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: mclubn Yeah. I was gonna say, where do you rank
Speaker 1: his set of weapons? Is it sort of a top
Speaker 1: five top ten set of people around it? If I
Speaker 1: put offensive line, running back and wide receivers, I don't
Speaker 1: know who comes close close to that. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: got young receivers. They don't have Jason Witten any longer.
Speaker 1: But I put Cdee Lamb in there, who I think
Speaker 1: is awesome. Amari Cooper, Okay, paid him a lot of money,
Speaker 1: But I got Zeke Elliott and that offensive line like
Speaker 1: they should be a dynamic scoring offense, and they were
Speaker 1: last year. They outscored the opposition by over one hundred points,
Speaker 1: and you didn't. You didn't win your division. Now you
Speaker 1: got a new head coach. Can Mike McCarthy bring in
Speaker 1: some magic that he had with Aaron Rodgers. That's what
Speaker 1: I'd be curious about. Yeah, point perloff. Cover your ears.
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton career in the playoffs, he's owing four one
Speaker 1: touchdown six picks. What is Dak Prescott in the postseason? Please? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's J. J. Watt's fault. He used to remember the
Speaker 1: Bengals will play every Saturday weekend. It was so bad
Speaker 1: we didn't even consider that starting the playoffs. It was
Speaker 1: like that game doesn't start the playoffs. Yeah, in three
Speaker 1: playoff games, Dak Prescott's one and two. He's got five
Speaker 1: touchdowns and two picks. You gotta win those games though,
Speaker 1: if you're yeah, wait, did he did he drow the
Speaker 1: Dez Brian catch? Not? Catcher was at Romo? I think
Speaker 1: that was Romo. Yeah, that was Romo. Okay, and it
Speaker 1: was a catch. Yeah. And I'm not even a cowboy.
Speaker 1: I mean I should you know, qualify that that I
Speaker 1: didn't grow up being a Cowboy fan. I have become
Speaker 1: a Cowboy fan because my Cowboys are doing damage this year.
Speaker 1: My Cowboys. What about your bucks? Oh? I love my bucks.
Speaker 1: I fall in love easily, I do. I see a
Speaker 1: lot of teams. I see some teams behind other teams backs,
Speaker 1: I have to admit, but I yeah, I love the Buccaneers,
Speaker 1: but I think the Cowboys. I wouldn't want to pay
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott that kind of money unless I felt like
Speaker 1: he is the right guy for this team And they
Speaker 1: should have made up their mind a while ago and
Speaker 1: just said here's the number that we're going to give you.
Speaker 1: If not we're going to franchise you, and then what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do is will franchise you the next year,
Speaker 1: and then we're going to draft a quarterback because at
Speaker 1: some point there's diminishing returns of paying somebody that amount
Speaker 1: of money, and that's what all these teams are trying
Speaker 1: to avoid. And Dallas, because he wasn't a first round pick,
Speaker 1: you didn't get that extra year at Dak Prescott. But
Speaker 1: if Deshaun Watson steps up to the plate and gets
Speaker 1: forty million, the price of poker just went up again.
Speaker 1: And we know that Mahomes is going to be a
Speaker 1: separate entity. But all right, a couple of phone calls
Speaker 1: in here. Let me see Garrett in Kansas City. Garrett
Speaker 1: is back, Hey Dan, sorry about that foot one five,
Speaker 1: first time, long time. I wanted to call in a
Speaker 1: story about double birds to follow up on yours. So
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, my wife, my soon to
Speaker 1: be ex wife, and I were coming over from dinner
Speaker 1: and a truck pulled out of his driveway and about
Speaker 1: TBone dust. So I honked on my horn, drove past him.
Speaker 1: He started tailing me, kind of following me home. My
Speaker 1: wife flipped him off and we pulled in the driveway,
Speaker 1: he drives by. Don't think anything of it. Go inside.
Speaker 1: Three am that morning, here loud knocking on our front door.
Speaker 1: I go down and I opened the front door and
Speaker 1: the fire department standing there, and the firefighter asked me
Speaker 1: if this is my jeep, Grand Cherokee that's sitting in
Speaker 1: the driveway. And I look out and the whole back
Speaker 1: half is completely melted and had been on fire and
Speaker 1: was just smoldering and smoke. And one of the worst
Speaker 1: parts of it I seen on the cake where my
Speaker 1: callaway epic irons were in the back trunk at the car,
Speaker 1: so those were those were taking care of as well. Well,
Speaker 1: now it's a tragedy if your callaway clubs were all
Speaker 1: from the ex wife flipping the bird to the to
Speaker 1: this guy circle back around. Did they arrest that guy? Um?
Speaker 1: So I pursued that, but since we didn't have any
Speaker 1: video evidence or no one saw him, we weren't able
Speaker 1: to press charges. They could go question him. But the
Speaker 1: last thing I wanted to do was go question this
Speaker 1: guy that uh burnt down my car for, you know,
Speaker 1: flipping the bird. And we found we found at the
Speaker 1: top of a bottle of a Jack Jack Daniels bottle
Speaker 1: under my gas tank, so he had lit that on fire,
Speaker 1: but my gas tank was completely full, so the fire
Speaker 1: department said that it was bubbling and it didn't explode.
Speaker 1: If it would have been any less, the vapors would
Speaker 1: have exploded, and that would have been even more. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: thank you, Garrett. Yeah, poll, it sounds like a country song.
Speaker 1: A bottle of Jack, a burn up truck, and I'm
Speaker 1: flipping the bird my jeep. Cherokee Kyle in Wisconsin high Kyle,
Speaker 1: would you have me? Yeah, good morning Dan. First of all,
Speaker 1: thanks right, you can found the class boy. What is
Speaker 1: it eight or ten weeks to keep all of us
Speaker 1: sports had kind of a saying, So I've been hearing
Speaker 1: you talk about having a quarterback only salary cap, and
Speaker 1: we know that the salary cap was implemented a number
Speaker 1: of years ago to kind of level the playing field
Speaker 1: for all thirty two NFL teams. But how would you
Speaker 1: how would a quarterback only salary cap operate when you
Speaker 1: have a team like Cincinnati that will most likely probably
Speaker 1: start Joe Burrow week one uh this year, paying him
Speaker 1: on a rookie wage scale compared to uh, you know,
Speaker 1: Pampas City. That's probably gonna give Patrick Mahomes forty five
Speaker 1: to fifty million. How would how would because if you
Speaker 1: have a salary cap, you would also have to have
Speaker 1: a floor correct to like a salary floor like you
Speaker 1: have to spend How would that? How would that work? Well?
Speaker 1: I didn't have this thought out crazy, Kyle, I just
Speaker 1: throw it out there that why don't we have a
Speaker 1: separate salary cap there? I wonder if you could take
Speaker 1: that that you can allocate a certain amount of money
Speaker 1: for your quarterback and it doesn't hurt you. But I
Speaker 1: don't know if you look at this overall picture and
Speaker 1: say the entire since Joe Burrow is going to be
Speaker 1: on a rookie deal, therefore do you have more money
Speaker 1: to spend on other players until you get to that
Speaker 1: point where Joe Burrow in four years is going to
Speaker 1: be asking for sixty million dollars a year. Paulie and
Speaker 1: I just discussed it, and we just thought, well, they
Speaker 1: the fact that the NFL considered this, we thought that
Speaker 1: that was progress on our part that they actually discussed
Speaker 1: a separate salary camp four quarterbacks this year. Yeah. Plus,
Speaker 1: don't you say be fascinated if the salary cap for
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks in league was a fixed number. Let's say
Speaker 1: you had forty million dollars to spend on the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: You could have as many of them as you want.
Speaker 1: You could have seven of them if you want, or
Speaker 1: you could have one. Or you could have a guy
Speaker 1: making thirty nine million and a guy making one, or
Speaker 1: a guy making twenty six and a guy making fourteen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but if Joe Burrow is going to make nine million
Speaker 1: dollars this year, you don't have to spend that money elsewhere,
Speaker 1: but you can get you can upgrade at the position
Speaker 1: as a backup for Joe Burrow as much as you want. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we gotta work on that. Yeah, we got Dave in Pennsylvania. Hi, Dave, Hey, Dan,
Speaker 1: thanks for taking my call. Five ten to thirty. Question
Speaker 1: for you, actually two questions. First of all, going with
Speaker 1: the Oscar robertson nobody seeing him play. Just want to
Speaker 1: know how you feel like the greatest baseball player of
Speaker 1: all time. Everybody's going to say one person and nobody
Speaker 1: ever saw him play back in the nineteen twenties. And
Speaker 1: my second question is, I'm from Pennsylvania. We just saw
Speaker 1: a picture of a certain quarterback that was getting a
Speaker 1: haircut and a shave on video. When we're not allowed
Speaker 1: to do that, it gets law in Pennsylvania. Well, shaving.
Speaker 1: Shaving is legal though, thank you Dave. Shaving is legal,
Speaker 1: but going to a barbershop is not legal. Shaving is illegal. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't have to see Babe Ruth to know that
Speaker 1: Babe Ruth is the greatest baseball player, because I see
Speaker 1: all of his numbers, and the fact that he won
Speaker 1: almost one hundred games as a pitcher would lead me
Speaker 1: to believe that that's as balanced as well rounded. We
Speaker 1: talked about five tool players. Babe did it all. Now
Speaker 1: you can say, oh, well he did it against you
Speaker 1: know though there was no integration there, and we can
Speaker 1: argue all of that, or you know, maybe it's not
Speaker 1: even an argument it is in fact, but Babe Ruth,
Speaker 1: with those numbers compared, he was hitting more home runs
Speaker 1: than teams and that he could have been a Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame pitcher by all accounts. I didn't have to
Speaker 1: see him. What I'm saying about Oscar Robertson is great player,
Speaker 1: great stats. I don't think many people saw him because
Speaker 1: he was in Milwaukee and he was in Cincinnati, that's all.
Speaker 1: And we didn't have TV back then to be able
Speaker 1: to watch him. I saw him because I'd go to
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Royals games, and it's a college basketball town,
Speaker 1: not a pro basketball town. People did not show up
Speaker 1: to see the Cincinnati Royals. Nate Archibald is one of
Speaker 1: the greatest players I ever saw, but I got to
Speaker 1: see him in person. Not many people did. They saw
Speaker 1: him when he was either in Kansas City with the
Speaker 1: Kings there or when he was with the Celtics. When
Speaker 1: he was with the Cincinnati Royals, Nate Archibald was spectacular.
Speaker 1: Let me see here, Nick and Indiana. Then we'll take
Speaker 1: a break. Hey, Nick, Hey, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1: Six two two eighty five. Chris Mannick last week said
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook and Rick Berry aren't even in the same league.
Speaker 1: That's insane. Rick Berry was a bad man. If you
Speaker 1: watched ten minutes of film, all you gotta see he
Speaker 1: could do it all, shoot past I mean it didn't matter.
Speaker 1: I mean, go down the court and fight you. Oh,
Speaker 1: I know. I just Mannix never saw him, and therefore
Speaker 1: if you didn't see him, then he can't be good.
Speaker 1: And I just wanted to let Chris Mannox know rick
Speaker 1: Berry led a team to the NBA title, was a
Speaker 1: great score and great passer, rebound rebounder as well. I mean,
Speaker 1: rick Berry was a great player. That's all we get
Speaker 1: caught up in. Oh Russell Westbrook triple double? Is he
Speaker 1: more athletic than Rick Berry? Yes? He is. Is he
Speaker 1: a better player than Rick Berry? Not in my opinion,
Speaker 1: And I love watching Russell Westbrook play. Love one of
Speaker 1: my I'm on record who's saying he's one of the
Speaker 1: players that I would pay to see, But he's not
Speaker 1: a better player than rick Berry. Yes. One of the
Speaker 1: things that gets tough though, as someone who didn't get
Speaker 1: to watch then, right, like there's a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: us that weren't alive so we didn't watch back then,
Speaker 1: is like comparing the athletes of today or even like
Speaker 1: an Allen Iverson and saying that they're just as good
Speaker 1: when people didn't even dribble through their legs yet then
Speaker 1: or something, you know what I mean, where you're like, well,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, Like the athleticism is just completely different.
Speaker 1: It's like two totally different games. So it gets hard
Speaker 1: to say, like, well, yeah, like who could back then
Speaker 1: could guard Alan Iverson, probably nobody, but it was a
Speaker 1: totally different game. So, but I have to look at
Speaker 1: what you did in your time, and Iverson was spectacular
Speaker 1: in his era, and because of Iverson, you had people
Speaker 1: who added to their games. Because of Alan Iverson. It
Speaker 1: feels like everybody keeps sampling off everybody as they built.
Speaker 1: If I said Lebron James is going against Bill Russell,
Speaker 1: Lebron James is bigger than Bill Russell. Who do you have?
Speaker 1: So if I'm going to compare like that, you would
Speaker 1: take Lebron James because he's a better athlete. He's bigger
Speaker 1: than Bill Russell, He's more versatile than Bill Russell. Bill
Speaker 1: Russell's people put him, you know, as the greatest basketball player,
Speaker 1: one of the greatest basketball players of all time. If
Speaker 1: we matched athleticism, it's not close Lebron with what he
Speaker 1: does at that size, it's not even a comparison with
Speaker 1: Bill Russell. Yeah, McLevin, I kind of assume it. Rick
Speaker 1: Barry's athletic because his son Brent won the dunk contest
Speaker 1: wearing sweatpants. Is that a complete No? No No, he's athletic,
Speaker 1: He's not as athletic as Russell. How many people are
Speaker 1: is athletic as Russell Westbrook? Oh? Very few. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: mean it's not fair to say, oh if if they
Speaker 1: played one on one, that was Mannox's argument. They played
Speaker 1: one on one. That's not what this is about. What
Speaker 1: did you do for your team? How great were you?
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what we're talking about. Let me take
Speaker 1: a break here and get some more phone calls. Denny
Speaker 1: Hamlin will join us fresh off a win last night
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Speaker 1: s R. Denny Hamlin, driver of the Number eleven FedEx
Speaker 1: to Toyota camera car, big winner last night the rain
Speaker 1: shortened Toyota five hundred race from Darlington. He and his
Speaker 1: crew unveil the Number eleven FedEx Small Business Paint scheme
Speaker 1: ahead of this weekend's race and Charlotte, and it pays
Speaker 1: tribute to small business owners. The real backbone of America,
Speaker 1: which is represented through the stars on the car. Denny
Speaker 1: joins us on the program, how are you feeling today?
Speaker 1: So I'm good. I kind of knew this interview was coming,
Speaker 1: so I had to put up a good performance to
Speaker 1: make sure O jitomized it. Yeah, if you weren't on
Speaker 1: the show, would you have won last night? Is that
Speaker 1: what you're saying. I think we've talked about this, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Paul and those guys have talked
Speaker 1: about you come on there and you win. I don't
Speaker 1: want the word to get out, Denny. Then we'll be
Speaker 1: inundated with the drivers trying to win. Is the job different?
Speaker 1: First of all, you're you're racing on a Wednesday night
Speaker 1: and you're racing, you know, with what's going on with
Speaker 1: no fans there. How different is that? It's different? I
Speaker 1: mean it's just it's quiet. I mean, I don't I
Speaker 1: can't express like just the silence of it is the
Speaker 1: biggest thing inside the race car where the race is
Speaker 1: going on. We don't notice a huge difference. But when
Speaker 1: you get out and you win the race, and it's
Speaker 1: like okay, um, come back to your body for your
Speaker 1: your zoom media availability. That's that's when things become a
Speaker 1: little different. Did you pour like a drink on your
Speaker 1: head and like, do you celebrate it all? Uh? I haven't,
Speaker 1: but I will in due time. Do you smoke the tires?
Speaker 1: I mean when you come on? No? Well we know,
Speaker 1: because you know, we got to reuse this engine in
Speaker 1: another race. So I got you know, I got an
Speaker 1: email the night the night before saying, hey, take this engine,
Speaker 1: no burnouts. Do you ever have to get like you
Speaker 1: gear up for the weekend, but here it is a
Speaker 1: Wednesday night? Is it? Is it different to gear up
Speaker 1: for a Wednesday night race as opposed to a weekend race? Well,
Speaker 1: we usually you know, like like golf, you know, we
Speaker 1: have one event per week usually, Well when now we're
Speaker 1: doing two per week for the next few months, trying
Speaker 1: to catch up. And so the biggest issue we have
Speaker 1: in motorsports is dehydration, right, I mean it's so hot
Speaker 1: in the cars, you sweat out so much it takes
Speaker 1: you days to get that back. Well now we used
Speaker 1: to have a week to get it back. Now we
Speaker 1: just got a couple of days before we're back in
Speaker 1: our car again. So the fatigue factor is the biggest
Speaker 1: thing that we need to kind of be aware of.
Speaker 1: Do you ever eat during a race sometimes? I mean
Speaker 1: you get some snacks in there every now and then,
Speaker 1: but I haven't done it in years. I kind of
Speaker 1: just load up before beforehand. I'm assuming you watched the
Speaker 1: last dance since your buddies with Michael Jordan. Did you
Speaker 1: see anything in there that surprised you? Surprised me? Well,
Speaker 1: you know that competitive side of him you've seen, so
Speaker 1: I knew it. But in and obviously you hear stories,
Speaker 1: you read articles things like that, but you kind of don't.
Speaker 1: You don't understand. You know, I was so young when
Speaker 1: when all this stuff was going on that like I
Speaker 1: didn't I wasn't able to appreciate it. Now. I remember
Speaker 1: watching that you know, ninety seven ninety eight finals, but
Speaker 1: I don't. I didn't remember the significance of it. And
Speaker 1: so going back and seeing everyone's testimony and everyone talking
Speaker 1: about it, uh, was was amazing. And for me, I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm telling you, if that doesn't get you
Speaker 1: jacked up to like perform at your best and push
Speaker 1: all your teammates to perform better, I don't know what
Speaker 1: it is. And so you know, I talked to them
Speaker 1: last night a little bit as well. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: people don't know that Darlington is the racetrack that grew
Speaker 1: his love for NASCAR racing. His dad used to take
Speaker 1: him to Darlington every year, so that's where he got
Speaker 1: that relationship and to win there kind of right after
Speaker 1: the last dance. I think it's pretty cool. You ever
Speaker 1: taken him for a ride? Alonge, No, I don't think.
Speaker 1: I don't think he'll do it. First of all, get
Speaker 1: him in a car, it's gonna be the be a problem.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're you know, we're not jockeys or anything,
Speaker 1: but we're you know, we're not you know, exceed So
Speaker 1: I remember them. They haven't. When Shack got in a
Speaker 1: race car, they had to like cut out the centers
Speaker 1: of this race car, like expand it so you can
Speaker 1: get in. But can that now there is there weight
Speaker 1: like as the car has to be a certain Every
Speaker 1: car is to be a certain weight. Yeah, okay, so
Speaker 1: if Shack, like Shaq couldn't be a even if you
Speaker 1: could put Shack in a car, I'd have to get
Speaker 1: rid of like a couple like the engine with my
Speaker 1: right to be equal with everyone else. Yes, you can't
Speaker 1: shut enough metal off that thing to get it an
Speaker 1: equal But if you is there an advantage to weighing
Speaker 1: less in Nascar? Uh no, because they always they base
Speaker 1: it off of a two hundred pound driver, So if
Speaker 1: you weigh one ninety, you have to add ten pounds
Speaker 1: and so they even in out that way. Who would
Speaker 1: have a personality similar to Michael Jordan's at Nascar? UM
Speaker 1: from the competitive side, I don't know that there's anyone
Speaker 1: as competitive as as I am. I mean maybe Kyle
Speaker 1: busch Um with you know, being kind of sometimes tough
Speaker 1: on his team things like that, but he's just trying
Speaker 1: to push, same as Michael those guys to to get
Speaker 1: to the next level. We're talking to Denny Hamlin, driver
Speaker 1: of the number eleven FedEx Toyota Camray car had to
Speaker 1: win last night. Next up is Charlotte, I believe, Is
Speaker 1: that right this weekend? Yeah? Yeah, And you talked about
Speaker 1: it the small business and they're actually providing your grant
Speaker 1: for small businesses. A million dollars is available in grant money.
Speaker 1: So I encourage everyone to go to FedEx dot com, uh,
Speaker 1: back Backspace, Sports, Small Grants and UM and see if
Speaker 1: you can get a get a grant from them, So, yeah,
Speaker 1: they've just been a huge supporter of my career. This
Speaker 1: is my fifteenth year now with them. We got the
Speaker 1: Coke six hundred coming up this weekend in Charlotte and
Speaker 1: then we go back there on Wednesday, So we're cramming
Speaker 1: a lot of races in here in a very short
Speaker 1: amount of time. Did you ever drive a ride a
Speaker 1: FedEx trunk? I did. I've delivered race tickets. I believe
Speaker 1: it was out in Phoenix, went out on full uniform,
Speaker 1: full uniform. Yep. They were surprised to see too. Over
Speaker 1: the over the normal guy. Explain the middle finger etiquette
Speaker 1: in NASCAR with Chase Elliott last night. He actually had
Speaker 1: pretty good form with it, to be honest with you.
Speaker 1: I mean had a few knuckles up, you know. You know,
Speaker 1: he didn't, you know, move his hand around. He just
Speaker 1: kept it steady right there in line with the car.
Speaker 1: So it was a good form in my opinion. Okay,
Speaker 1: but what is middle finger worthy on the track? I
Speaker 1: don't know. I guess that one probably was. I mean,
Speaker 1: we all, you know, everyone that knows racing knows that
Speaker 1: you know, was an accident. But still, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: he got screwed in the process. Um, you know worked
Speaker 1: out good for me, but yeah, it's you know. The
Speaker 1: one thing that really does piss me off, though, is
Speaker 1: getting it while you're racing, like you know a guy.
Speaker 1: You're racing a guy and maybe bump into him whatever
Speaker 1: and he sticks his middle finger out out of the
Speaker 1: window and you can see it like it's time to
Speaker 1: send him. What do you mean you gotta send him
Speaker 1: in the fence. Don't be giving me the middle finger?
Speaker 1: What if I give you the double bird, it means
Speaker 1: you're in the fence because no one no hands are
Speaker 1: on the wheel. But you haven't been in a fight
Speaker 1: in a while, right, Uh. Last year we had a
Speaker 1: little tussle with Joe Lagano again bust We butt heads
Speaker 1: a little bit. You know, he kind of came over
Speaker 1: to talk to me, and I'm cordial. I stood there
Speaker 1: like a man and wanted to talk to him and
Speaker 1: that's all good. But then kind of as he walked away,
Speaker 1: kind of gave me a shoving the shoulder as he
Speaker 1: was walking away. And so, you know, I like your fire,
Speaker 1: but he's got some reach on you, Denny. Yeah he does.
Speaker 1: But you know, big man like that's gotta have small
Speaker 1: slow reflexes. Well, congrats on the wind last night, Good
Speaker 1: luck this weekend. Always great to check in with you.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. Thanks Dan, see you guys appreciate it.
Speaker 1: It's Denny Hamlin, driver of the number eleven FedEx Toyota
Speaker 1: and win last night. Some phone calls here, Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: watching the situation last night with the flipping the finger.
Speaker 1: He's just holding it up there for like ten seconds.
Speaker 1: Let me see. How about Jim in Arizona. Hey, Jim,
Speaker 1: what do you have for me today? How are you good? Good? Good?
Speaker 1: What do you have? First time? Long time six born
Speaker 1: a stealth like hundred and eighty five. I know you
Speaker 1: guys talked about always coming out to Scotsdale watching some
Speaker 1: spring training and what have you. Next year would be
Speaker 1: a great year. Talking about great players. Connie Hawkins. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well Connie probably I saw him when he was with
Speaker 1: the Phoenix Suns and he came into Cincinnati Cincinnati gardens
Speaker 1: and I'd never seen somebody grab a basketball like that
Speaker 1: with hands that size, But you know, Connie had you know,
Speaker 1: there was trouble in college and even going into ABA NBA,
Speaker 1: and then he came over to Phoenix and it's not
Speaker 1: the same as Doctor Jay when Doctor Jay got to
Speaker 1: the NBA. But but there are parallels there. We had
Speaker 1: heard about the myth of Connie Hawkins. We got to
Speaker 1: I got to see Doctor Jay in person, but then
Speaker 1: he came to the NBA. He was not the same
Speaker 1: Doctor Jay, but Connie Hawkins. I was underneath the basket
Speaker 1: at Cincinnati Gardens and I just wanted to see Connie
Speaker 1: Hawkins and in the layup line he had hands that
Speaker 1: it felt like they he treated that basketball like it
Speaker 1: was a cantaloup. He had the biggest hands I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: And he wasn't a you know, great shooter. You know,
Speaker 1: he was just a very, very athletic person basketball player.
Speaker 1: And if you get a chance to read the book Foul,
Speaker 1: it's about Connie Hawkins. And I think I came out
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy. I remember reading that. But Connie and
Speaker 1: I saw during the nineteen ninety three NBA Finals when
Speaker 1: the Phoenix Suns were in the NBA Finals, I got
Speaker 1: to meet Connie Hawkins and I said, I went to
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Gardens and his eyes light up. He's like
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Gardens. Nobody went to the Cincinnati Gardens. I said,
Speaker 1: I know I was there watching you in layup line
Speaker 1: with Tom van Arsdale or no, Dick van Arsdale. Tom
Speaker 1: van Arsdale played for the Royals, but I remember the
Speaker 1: Nick Suns. They were fun, yes, Paul. Yeah, I've read
Speaker 1: about Connie Hawkins before because I always I saw his
Speaker 1: stats and he didn't even he wasn't even a rookie
Speaker 1: till he's twenty five. He had trouble in college. Was
Speaker 1: he at Iowa? There's always rumors about him with getting paid. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just it's another one of those guys. If he
Speaker 1: was a round her in the TV era in his prime,
Speaker 1: we'd be talking about him, yeah, because he would have
Speaker 1: been coming out of high school right to the NBA
Speaker 1: or he would have been a one and done. But yeah,
Speaker 1: Connie Hawkins, huge hands. Man Matt in Virginia, Hey Matt,
Speaker 1: what do you have for me today? Hey? Dan, how's
Speaker 1: it going? Man? Five eleven a fluctuating one, seventy one,
Speaker 1: seventy five. Yeah, I just want to let you know
Speaker 1: the pipe sound good today? Man. But I heard you
Speaker 1: talking about the quarterback pay wage or whatever, and I
Speaker 1: was thinking, why not have a game started scale? So
Speaker 1: after you know, forty eight games you're eligible for X
Speaker 1: amount of dollars. After ninety six games, you're eligible for
Speaker 1: X amount of dollars. Not saying you'll make that much,
Speaker 1: but that's so much you're eligible for until you reach
Speaker 1: the next tier of game started. They always say your
Speaker 1: best ability is your availability. That way, you're you're getting
Speaker 1: paid for showing up, you know what I mean? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's that's valid. Great point, Matt. I like that.
Speaker 1: I want somebody else to do the heavy lifting for me.
Speaker 1: I just want to come up with an idea. Then
Speaker 1: you take it from there. Justin and Michigan, Hey, Justin,
Speaker 1: what do you have for me at another day? Damn?
Speaker 1: I'm since three two sifty all right here in Michigan.
Speaker 1: You either love matt Stafford or you hate them. And
Speaker 1: it's been talking at if he was on as a
Speaker 1: pending team, you'd already have a couper Bowl. So who
Speaker 1: would you rather have? If you're a Cowboys? That or
Speaker 1: mac or turns you to a couper bowl? All right,
Speaker 1: thank you? Justin. Well, I don't know how healthy Matthew
Speaker 1: Stafford is with his back, and if I look at
Speaker 1: his salary, he looks like a bargain compared to Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1: What is Stafford? Thirty one? Yeah, thirty one. I'd have
Speaker 1: to look at his numbers here. I don't want to
Speaker 1: be flipping day. Well, I'd take Matthew Stafford. Matthew Stafford's
Speaker 1: got a lot of talent, but you know, we haven't
Speaker 1: seen the results of that when they made the playoffs
Speaker 1: once since he's been there. I thought he's owing three
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford in the playoffs? Oh is he? Okay? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So I I like Dak Prescott. I just don't like
Speaker 1: him at that price because I don't want to lose
Speaker 1: other players. And you know, maybe Jerry Jones just says,
Speaker 1: all right, we're all in, and who knows what this
Speaker 1: team is going to look like. You know, after all
Speaker 1: these contracts come due, you just can't keep paying everybody
Speaker 1: like this. Yeah, Matt Stafford and three in his career
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Last start in the playoffs was twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: All right. Here is the highest percentage of salary cap
Speaker 1: used by Super Bowl winning quarterback this since nineteen ninety four,
Speaker 1: the highest percentage used on a quarterback was thirteen percent
Speaker 1: of the salary camp who's used on Steve Young nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety four. Eli Manning is second on that list, Peyton
Speaker 1: Manning Tom Brady in twenty fourteen was ten percent of
Speaker 1: the salary cap, Peyton Manning again add a little over
Speaker 1: ten percent, and Brett Farr Brett bar at ten percent
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety six. I don't know what can we McLevin?
Speaker 1: Can you do the numbers on Patrick Mahomes? What would
Speaker 1: his salary be compared to the like the percentage of
Speaker 1: the salary cap, assuming fifty million. I don't think they're
Speaker 1: giving him fifty million. I'm going to guess that it
Speaker 1: probably would be forty five million. But let's say forty
Speaker 1: five million of the current salary cap? Do we have canstatsinc?
Speaker 1: Bring that up for me? Which quarterback has the highest
Speaker 1: percentage of his team's salary right now? And if we'd
Speaker 1: run down the list here, how long does it take
Speaker 1: to get to a Super Bowl winning quarterback who has
Speaker 1: a real high number there? Now, Brady's numbers we're high,
Speaker 1: but not they were not crazy high, because he'd always
Speaker 1: give them sort of a discount, or he'd extend that
Speaker 1: salary or stretch it out a little bit here. But
Speaker 1: I don't know if we've had it once, the last
Speaker 1: time we had a quarterback making elite money winning a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. We'll take a break, we'll see if we
Speaker 1: can find that out. Before we exit stage left, we'll
Speaker 1: get some more phone calls. We'll tell you what's in
Speaker 1: store tomorrow right after this. Thanks for listening to The
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Speaker 1: So the NFL salary cap is supposed to be one
Speaker 1: hundred ninety eight million dollars, so basically two hundred million
Speaker 1: dollars this year. If Patrick Mahomes gets forty five million
Speaker 1: dollars this year, that would be twenty two and a
Speaker 1: half percent of the salary cap. That would blow away
Speaker 1: the previous high for a quarterback salary versus the salary
Speaker 1: cap of those winning the Super Bowl. Now, Mahomes would
Speaker 1: have to go out and win the Super Bowl, but
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some casualties for the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 1: It just will be with Mahomes. With that salary. We
Speaker 1: don't have a winner today for Fritzie's scoreboard, and Paulie
Speaker 1: thinks he knows why. It's one of the numbers Tyler
Speaker 1: forty four and three. I will admit one of those
Speaker 1: two is tricky but still getable. And I was told
Speaker 1: that the three of the forty four and three was
Speaker 1: embarrassingly obscure. Embarrassingly, yes, embarrassingly obscure. You give the hint. Okay,
Speaker 1: we can go back with the hint for three is
Speaker 1: it's a pity if you forgot. And it also has
Speaker 1: to do with the hat that I'm wearing encouraging people
Speaker 1: to check us out on the YouTube channel. Yes, McLevin,
Speaker 1: so it's Rocky three Hockey three because Club Lang mister
Speaker 1: T was born on this date in nineteen fifty two.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's incredibly difficult. No, embarrassingly were embarrassing.
Speaker 1: We can't just give away you know. Oh oh, I realized,
Speaker 1: I know. I know we're given away merchandise. What do
Speaker 1: we got for forty four? I have no idea. I
Speaker 1: don't know what the hint is. The hint is, pinch me,
Speaker 1: that can't be true, Pinch me that can't be true.
Speaker 1: On twenty first, nineteen sixty nine, after niney fifteen at bats,
Speaker 1: Hank Aarons jersey number forty four lifted for a pinch hitter.
Speaker 1: Good old Mike Lum double three win over the Mets,
Speaker 1: But Hank Aaron was pinch hick four on this date,
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty nine. Thank you, Ton. Was Mike Lum the
Speaker 1: first player from Hawaii to play in the major leagues
Speaker 1: For some reason, I know, I don't know if I'm
Speaker 1: impressed or depressed for hearing you know that. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: he's from Honolulu, straight out of Hotel High school. Segment
Speaker 1: on the show impressed to the press. Highest percentage of
Speaker 1: salaries against the salary cap this year Aaron Rodgers eighteen percent,
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson eighteen percent, Ben Roethlisberger eighteen, Jared Goff seventeen,
Speaker 1: Wins seventeen, Matt Ryan sixteen, Kirk d Cousins sixteen, Stafford sixteen,
Speaker 1: Garoppolo fifteen percent, Derek Carr fourteen percent. These would if
Speaker 1: anybody in this group wins the Super Bowl, it would
Speaker 1: be the highest salary against the cap buy a quarterback
Speaker 1: in NFL history. So Mahomes is going to be up
Speaker 1: to twenty five percent, or over twenty percent of his
Speaker 1: team's salary. Cap Patrick and Ohio joins us Hey Patrick
Speaker 1: thanks to taking McCall a long time first time. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: I drove a truck for eleven so getting slipped off
Speaker 1: its pretty much like part of it thirteen have a
Speaker 1: drunk dump truck. I'm from Franklin, Ohio, so I haul
Speaker 1: around that you know general area, And that particular day,
Speaker 1: I was hauling salt straight off the barge and have
Speaker 1: a cincinnat off the river taking it to all the
Speaker 1: you know places around that surrounding area to their salt
Speaker 1: shids in the cities. And this one was going all
Speaker 1: the way from the river to the Dayton Airport area,
Speaker 1: all the way up there in Dayton, and I'm going
Speaker 1: up seventy five North, and you know, the tops do
Speaker 1: what they do, but they don't hold it all in.
Speaker 1: And I'm blowing salt a little like a big white
Speaker 1: cloud behind me like a comet. And I figured I'm
Speaker 1: doing them a favorite salting seventy five norths you know,
Speaker 1: if I'm getting a lot of angry hawks and birds
Speaker 1: and stuff. But this one particular guy, he had the
Speaker 1: Florida tags and he come by me waving his arms
Speaker 1: to a hawking and raising all cards of cane and
Speaker 1: and uh he gets in front of me and proceeds.
Speaker 1: This man proceeds to hang out the window. It contort
Speaker 1: his whole body. Look at me and give me the
Speaker 1: double burden. I don't have any clue how he maintained
Speaker 1: his speed, held this lane and control of the vehicle.
Speaker 1: He must have to leander home the wheel. But I
Speaker 1: was so impressed. I keep a paper played in here
Speaker 1: on a stick with a tin on it for the
Speaker 1: pretty girls to go buying, you know, but I just
Speaker 1: was like, so impressed. I shouldn't even get mad, un
Speaker 1: I'll flip them back all. But this guy the degree
Speaker 1: of difficulty and he's pulled off on that trick. I
Speaker 1: gave him the tin and clapped. I couldn't even be
Speaker 1: mad about that. I was pretty impressive. That's good stuff. Patrick,
Speaker 1: be safe out there. Thank you. Good to hear from him. Uh,
Speaker 1: Jesse and Los Angeles, Hi, Jess, what do you have
Speaker 1: for me today? Hi? Dan five ten and a hard
Speaker 1: one seventy three. I love the show Guys Hard that's
Speaker 1: always wanted to hear that. Um. I got a comment
Speaker 1: in question for you the combat would be kissedon and
Speaker 1: the sound crew. The best part about the Last Dance
Speaker 1: is the celebrity journalists flow Anthony clip that keeps coming up.
Speaker 1: It's it's the best that makes my day. Anthony, who
Speaker 1: claims to expects is not doing so good. So the
Speaker 1: question is for you, is that we see athletes all
Speaker 1: the time on social media these days, and it's it's
Speaker 1: not really behind the scenes or as close as what
Speaker 1: we saw on the Last Dance, and it's not really
Speaker 1: as meaningful because it's it's usually controlled by the athlete
Speaker 1: want a personal time. So I was wondering if you
Speaker 1: can see that the Last Dance like producers are inspired,
Speaker 1: say someone on a meteorc rise in the athlete, like
Speaker 1: in the professional sports world like Patrick Mahomes or maybe
Speaker 1: the Greek freak Um you know, later on in their
Speaker 1: career and knowing it would be their last season doing
Speaker 1: something very similar like I don't think it'd be as intriguing,
Speaker 1: but because we know how the Bull story played out
Speaker 1: with just six titles. But I'm wondering if you think
Speaker 1: this one in spire today's professional athlete. Absolutely, I think
Speaker 1: you have so many people doing podcasts their own special shows.
Speaker 1: Look at Lebron with this production company. I mean, so
Speaker 1: many of these athletes are getting into this business. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I see that, Todd. What did I learn on the program?
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