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During a normal 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:31.600 week in the fall, there's a sense of emptiness on 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:34.480 Tuesday night when you don't have NFL games to watch. 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:38.960 This week, we got more than enough midweek football, and 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:41.640 to be honest, it wasn't that great. One of the 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:44.479 reasons the NFL is so popular is the schedule. The 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:48.640 scarcity of the product makes every game special. Baseball seasons 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:52.360 are endless by comparison, and it doesn't help. The quality 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:55.720 was inconsistent in the games that were delayed by COVID. 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:59.560 Cleveland started Nick Mullins at quarterback. Washington had to go 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:02.840 with Gary at Gilbert and they just picked him up 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:06.160 from the Patriots. Seahawks Rams game was supposed to be 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:09.640 a more key game, and it turned out to be 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:13.160 a sloppy win for La and I understand that, you know, 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:16.560 the postponements were a matter of necessity, but it is 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:19.360 a reminder the NFL has pretty much figured out what 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:22.360 to do with a regular season schedule, and while we 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:26.200 might fantasize about having a game every night, the reality 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:30.119 is the product wouldn't be up to the sports normal standards. 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:33.400 And you saw that last night. You know, there were 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:36.080 moments of good football, but there were also moments of 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:40.000 bad football as well. We did pose the question of 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:43.800 Tuesday night football. You know, the NFL is all about 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:48.240 revenue streams, and if the players would get that money, 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:51.040 they might sign up for something like that, because that's 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:53.800 what it comes down to. But the quality of play. 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:57.400 I'm not big on Thursday night games either, just because 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:00.560 you know, you end a game on Sunday by the 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:02.680 time you show up for work, and then how much 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:04.480 prep time and then you're going to play in a game, 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:08.120 you know, Chargers against the Chiefs, you know, in a 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:11.240 big game on a Thursday night. You know, good game, 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:14.360 But you know, are we being fair to these players 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:17.040 and what's it going to mean long term? As far 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:19.559 as long term for the season going into the postseason. 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:24.040 You know, the you know, sheer attrition that happens with 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:27.960 injuries in COVID and look at the Buccaneers. You know, 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:30.880 the Buccaneers are decimated with injuries. Last year. They were 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.440 healthy at this time and one of the reasons why 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:36.520 they won the Super Bowl. You look at teams who's 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:40.200 getting healthy. The Buccaneers are trending in the opposite direction. 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:44.320 Green Bay going to get some players back, Kansas City 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:48.000 getting healthier. But you start to look at some of 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:49.800 these other teams and you say, all right, what are 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.640 they going to be like in two weeks, three weeks, 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.920 even a month down the road? Eight seven seven three 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:59.600 d P show email address DPA dan Patrick dot com. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:04.280 Paully asked this morning, where did the term dropping dimes 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:07.600 come from? And I said, well, I have an opinion. 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:11.280 We were talking about basketball. Paully goes, everybody save it 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:15.200 dropping dimes? All right, Todd, do you want to give 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:20.799 your explanation definition of dropping dimes in basketball? Thigs, Dropping 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.560 dimes is just the way you release the ball and 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.679 just kind of putting it like over the defender. That's 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:32.200 dropping a dime. Okay, Mclubbin, I'm not sure I understand that, 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:35.520 but okay, I don't know exactly how. But I think 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:39.120 it's a reference to payphones. Okay, pay phones, see an O'Connor, 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:46.960 m something so great just happens. You need to call somebody, kay, Polly, 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:49.960 Like you got so much change in your pocket, it's 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:52.000 just fall out over place you you got so many 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:56.160 assists are just flying out. I always thought that you 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:59.160 you're gonna help somebody out by giving them a dime 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.400 when you to be a dime to use a payphone. 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:05.640 Now I know it's going to sound strange to a 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:08.200 portion of our audience, so they're gonna go, what are payphones? 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:12.520 What's a dime? What's a dome payphone? But that's what 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:14.640 I always thought. It was that, hey, can you help 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:17.080 a brother out, give me a dime, give him a dimon. 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:20.120 Then you know they're making a call. Yeah, Dan, I 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:23.359 think you're the closest explanation so far. We did a 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:25.520 deep dive the I team. We have a lot of 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:28.520 free time. The first explanation for dropping dimes comes from 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:30.839 the early days of payphones. It would cost a dime 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:32.880 to make a phone call. If someone would assist you 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:35.360 in helping with a phone call, they would be dropping 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:38.159 a dime for you. This term, like most terms, made 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:41.160 it way into sports and became known as a spectacular 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:44.960 well time passed well time pass. It's also become a 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:48.400 football term of a great pass. But dropping a dime 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:52.120 the origins payphone. You have Danny dimes with the New 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:57.760 York Giants. That's not helping the cost, no, But there's 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:00.120 also a term dropping a dime on someone, which means 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:03.160 to wrap them out. That would mean to call the cops, 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:05.600 to nark someone out, as we used to say. So 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:08.440 I think it it's it's it's phone related. Yes, the 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:11.640 origin is to drop a dime on somebody. You're gonna 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:14.440 write them out, or I'm dropping a dime. I'll help 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:16.560 a brother out, and here you go, exactly, here's a dime. 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:21.120 Make a call dropping dimes. I never dropped dimes when 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:23.640 I played, so that's why it's kind of foreign to me. 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:27.480 And I never knarked anybody out and dropped a dime 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:33.000 on somebody either. Yes, MC club, is it you're saying 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:34.440 you didn't drop a dime because you just wanted to 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:37.760 shoot every time? Yes? I do, got it? Yes, like good? Yeah. 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:39.920 So if I was big number fifty two down low 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:44.040 and I felt open, I wasn't getting it. Probably not, probably, 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:47.640 but I would look your way. I always loved doing this, 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:50.280 and you'll see players who do it like they the 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:52.279 guy's open, but you don't want to throw it to 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:55.479 him because you know he's not that good. But you 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:59.279 give it the oh and then you turn away and 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:01.960 you throw it just somebody else. I kind of mastered that. 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:05.719 I'm like, I can't get a two you down low 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:09.360 even though you're wide open. Yeah. NBA TV last night 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:12.200 after you left, had an old Lakers Bulls game on, 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:14.239 I think it was from eighty eight with Michael Jordan, 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:18.400 and the Bulls would start every single game by getting 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:21.919 the ball download to Bill Cartwright, the Aging Service bull Center, 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:24.000 and that was the Bulls plan for years and years. 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:26.440 So Cartway would get the first pass, the first shot, 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:28.280 and then Michael Jordan would take away you. You're right 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:31.719 he would. It always felt like Bill Cartwright had the 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:34.919 first basket for every Chicago Bulls game and then he 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:37.440 never got the ball after that. Yes, can I say, 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:39.600 is the guy who doesn't get that pass? There's nothing 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:42.720 more deflating to their confidence. That guy's never going to 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:44.520 hit a shot now, because when the guy looks at 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:45.719 you and knows you're not going to get you're a 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:48.400 star player. You just can't hit the shot after that. 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:52.080 It's terrible. I know, I know. Let's get some phone 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:56.320 goals in here. Age seven seven three DP show Fritzie. Um, 0:06:56.920 --> 0:07:00.520 do you have a limerick today? I kind of do? Wait, 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:02.960 do you or don't? I do have a limerick? Okay, 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:04.640 I'm kind of meeting I don't know, have you love 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.000 it or not? But it isn't limerius. Well I kind of. 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:11.200 I know I won't like it, but you kind of 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:15.320 have a limerick? Would you like me to share it? Yeah? 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:19.040 It was tiight. What's the topic the Rams Seahawk Rams 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:23.840 overaw Seahawks is the thank you? Thank you for the annunciation. 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:26.480 There it was time to show us what's up the 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.520 Rams A big dog, not a pup. They gave us 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:32.560 a good reason Hawk's clinch losing season. So far, so 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:41.520 good with staffords to cup. Okay, yeah, thank you, that's nice. 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:44.480 That once again was a limerick of Rams over Seahawks. Yeah, 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:46.880 I got it, I got it. Thank you big game 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:49.640 for Cooper Cup last night. Yes it was, yeah it was. 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:51.000 And the so far part was because they were at 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:52.720 a home game. Yeah, I got it. I got the 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:56.320 Super Bowl. Thank you for explaining. I always appreciate that. 0:07:56.680 --> 0:08:00.120 Sean and Oregon. Hey Sean, what's on your mind today? 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:03.160 Good morning Dan? Thanks for taking my call. You know, 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:05.880 I know Michael Jordan's, you know, one of the best players, 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:09.560 and but I'm I want to say, you look at 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:13.760 YouTube and look at Clyde Drexler against Michael Jordan. I mean, 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:17.720 Clyde was never afraid. And I don't think or Jordan 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:21.000 ever tried that stuff in Portland or tried that stuff 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:24.400 outside the bus calling on the Blazers. And I wanted 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:28.240 to touch on Pete Carroll. You know, Pete's seventy and 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:31.640 seventies like the New sixty. You know, I think Pete's 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:34.160 in good health. I think you got to look at 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:36.800 the rest of the team diminishing, and you gotta look 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:40.520 at Russell Wilson diminishing last night over ten yards. He 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:44.240 has won for eleven this year that the Seahawks. There's 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:48.680 seven games they haven't scored more than seventeen points. Do 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:50.559 you want to kill do you want to keep Pete 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:52.840 Carroll or Russell Wilson If it came down to that, 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:56.480 I'm not a Pete Carroll fan, but I'm not going 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:59.120 to put it all on Pete Carroll, but it might 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:01.520 come down to that, Sean that that I don't know 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:05.520 if these two can coexist after this, you know, so 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:09.520 that they're gonna have to make a decision. And look, 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:12.520 Pete looks like he's you know, fifty years of age, 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:17.560 got the energy. But I don't know if Seattle looks 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:20.640 at this and going forward says we want to follow 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.880 Pete or do we still want Russ here? And I 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:26.360 think Russ would be amenable to going some other place. 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:28.400 I think it's one of those to be careful what 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:30.720 you ask for, because if you say, oh, Russ, we 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.160 can send you to the Giants, you know, we lost, 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:36.000 you know, our first round draft pick with Jamal Adams, 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:39.960 and Russ is gonna go there, and you're gonna go, 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:43.400 uh wait, this team isn't any better than what I 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:46.080 had in Seattle. Yeah. Don't you think that's a really 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:49.360 dicey situation From a PR standpoint? If somehow the management 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:51.720 of the Seahawks coach to Russell Wilson s that's luck, 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.080 would you be in favor of us replacing the quarter 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:58.720 the coach an offensive coordinator, like he always said, Russell said, 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:00.840 I want input. And if he agrees to it and 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:03.400 it gets out that Pete Carroll is gone because Russell 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:06.880 Wilson gave the green light to it, that's a tough 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:09.320 one PR wise, and he's a PR guy, Russell Wilson, Yeah, 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:13.200 I know, big PR guy. I get the feeling that 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:16.280 Russell be elsewhere, and I think that that would probably 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:23.880 be best for PR legacy, even for Russ's future. That 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:28.040 and for both sides here. Russ is a big figure 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:31.840 there and you don't have any help on the way. 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.520 You need some draft picks. You could get some draft picks. 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:38.440 Giants have a couple that are expendable Miami if it 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:42.320 would be a place like that Denver. So I think 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:45.480 that there's possibilities here. But you know, I don't think 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.160 Russ has been healthy since he had the finger surgery. 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:50.680 I don't think he's played well. And I can put 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:54.240 some of this on him, absolutely, but I always question 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:57.360 the game plan. They're not a team where you go, man, 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:01.679 Seattle can score some points. It's always would they get 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:06.319 like eighteen points? What they get twenty two points? It's 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:09.360 always some strange number there they're always going into the 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:13.480 fourth quarter down fifteen twelve. Yes, it just felt like 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:16.480 that and be like, oh my god, they're tough to watch. 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:20.439 Tough to watch. All right, well, let's see what else 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:22.559 do we have here? Andrew and Michigan. Hey Andrew, what 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:25.880 do you have for me? Hi? Dan, thanks for taking 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:30.319 the call. Six foot a hard two forty question, a 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:35.559 potential I team report. What is the sounds like there 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.640 may be a little conflict that mcloven may have been 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:41.840 using this as a power play to squeeze a little 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:44.320 bit more money out of the institution. I just wanted 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:46.760 to hang up and hear your thoughts on what the 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:48.800 potential of that was and then pail the tip that 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:55.640 mcleven had here. Okay, playing hardball, that's my style. Yeah, yeah, 0:11:55.840 --> 0:12:00.800 there was never any McLevin did not use this for 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:04.319 leverage to get a pay raise. He just says, I'm leaving. 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:08.000 So this is what happened. Mclovin came to me and 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:09.960 he goes, I need to talk to you. And once 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:12.640 he said that, I knew that mcleven was leaving because 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:14.400 I could tell it was written all over his face 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:18.000 that this was really going to be difficult. And I thought, 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:21.600 all right, let me let me make this easier for him. 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:24.839 And we go into my office. He sits down and 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:29.680 he says, I'm leaving, and I said, okay, I said, 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:32.200 and then he told me what the job is. I said, 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:35.400 I'm proud of you. I'm happy for you, and there 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:40.200 was no i'll stay if Yeah, I understood mclovin would 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:45.960 drive ninety minutes each way every morning from Brooklyn and 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:49.839 never complained, got here in time, did everything he was 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:53.600 supposed to do. I can't begrudge you to improve your life. 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:57.480 Now we'll miss you. Absolutely be a big void there. 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:00.840 But you know, once I could tell that you got 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:03.480 it out, and then I was able to kind of 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:06.560 just say, you know, feel feel proud for yourself. You 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:10.320 know you parlayed this into an afternoon radio show in 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:14.040 New York. My biggest relief was when you started doing 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:16.320 your to do list to replace me right in front 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:19.040 of me. You were just like, no, And in a sense, 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.559 because you're like you were, you weren't mad at all. 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:23.600 You were just like and you're including me. You you 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:25.640 didn't make me leave the officer. I think you just 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:27.680 talk to me like we always talked. So it was 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:30.920 it was. That was a hard moment to be honest, No, 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:33.920 it was, yeah, but I wanted you to know that 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:36.920 you should feel proud, and I know you had mixed emotions, 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:40.000 but I mean I move on. It was like, okay, 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:41.960 now I gotta go, Okay, what do we do here? 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:44.680 When are you going to leave? Okay? Uh, this person 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:47.439 can help and do those jobs, Like I had a 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:49.480 checklist here right in front of you, right. But it 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:52.040 was zero percent callous at all. It was totally just 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:54.600 like you're you know, you basically said you're still always 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:56.840 part of the family. Well, I wanted you to help 0:13:56.960 --> 0:14:00.360 me replace you or have people who we're going to 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:02.200 be able to do what you do on the show. Yea. 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:04.760 And that was it. That's I wanted your input, not 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:08.320 like all right, mclovin's gone all so you know I didn't. 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:11.040 I didn't want to replace you with anybody. Yeah, I 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:12.800 mean security walked me out that day. It was no 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:17.719 big deal. I uh, we have breaking NBA news pointing, Yes, 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:19.000 we do it. First, do you want us to just 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:20.840 clip that last four minutes and play at the end 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:22.880 of tomorrow's show and then we could all leave a 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:26.080 form us early I'm not going to feel that way tomorrow, right, 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:27.440 so maybe I could just clip it and then make 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:31.080 you seem emotional. Oh well, Todd, and I have a 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.480 bet you do need to shed one tier God says, 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:36.360 I will shed a tear, may bring it an onion 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:37.840 and kind of sneak it on your side of your 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:42.120 glass dead that bet. Will mclovin shed a tear? Oh 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:45.880 my god, are you kidding me? Definitely? Oh? Okay, I 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:48.040 think so. I don't know. Yeah, but that was our 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:50.760 most emotional moment. We just ruined the whole bit right there. 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:52.720 You know when you say, don't give everything away before 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:56.480 the show. Yeah, yeah, but trust me, tomorrow it is 0:14:56.520 --> 0:15:00.480 going to hit you hard that you're leaving a show 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:04.040 and everything that you meant to this show. You know, 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:11.560 you're gonna you better cry, I would word. Yeah. If 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:15.040 you don't cry, I'm gonna be really upset. What's the 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:18.720 breaking NBA news? We got breaking news. Not to mess 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:21.920 with this beautiful moment, but this is gigantic from WOA. 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:26.840 Free agent guard slash forward Joe Johnson is signing a 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:30.640 ten day deal with the Boston Celtics. Yeah, Joseph, Joe 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.680 Johnson is back. Johnson is expected to return to the 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:36.280 franchise that drafted him twenty years ago. I expected to 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:38.440 play tonight versus Cleveland. He's already ready to play. I 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:44.200 love it. I'm gonna pencil him in for fifteen The 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:48.360 Hall of Good still, Yes he is. He greed shit 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:51.240 the door for the Hall of Good. Yes. McLeman. Paul 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:54.720 Kind stored our emotional moment for the eleventh Joe Johnson 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:57.480 to the Celtics signing. It is kind of emotional that 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:00.360 Joe Johnson. I mean, listen to the emotion in this 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:05.440 laugh by Joe Johnson. That's a man full of emotion. 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:07.320 I mean, I think it's fair to ask who's meant 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:11.320 more to the program, Andrew or Johnson, because it's Joe 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:15.920 Johnson has been a major figure. Yeah, let's take a break. 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:19.840 Starting to get a little misty on right here for 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:22.760 Joe Johnson, not McLevin leaving, And we'll take a break 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:27.680 back after this, Dan Patrick show, M Drive. You want 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:29.640 to achieve your health and fitness goals, you got to 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:32.800 put in the work every day, Todd, every day. Every 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:35.160 is going to get it done. But you know, I 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:37.960 realize M drives not for everybody. Todd. It's for the driven. 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:41.160 Oh and I don't know. I don't know if you're driven. 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:43.400 I could be driven, but you're not. 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You can check 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:36.119 out the podcast and go to pro football focus dot com. 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:40.240 Their sale going on on Elite subscriptions a great gift 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:43.920 for the holiday season, and the promo code is Elite. 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:47.720 Up there to take advantage of that, Steve joins us. Now, Steve, 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:50.480 you do this for a living where you're grading players 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:54.119 and looking at all the film. Uh, what kind of 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:58.719 seasons Matthew Stafford having right now, this is great. This 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:01.800 is the season that I predicted for him. I thought 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:03.480 I was gonna lose it for a while, but my 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:07.239 prediction was he was gonna grade in our system in 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:09.760 a similar manner as he did in previous seasons, which 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:13.360 for US was low eighties, which is good, very good quarterback. 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:16.199 But I predicted that his production would be a lot 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:19.440 better in that system with the great receivers that he have. 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:21.080 I didn't know Pooper Copp was going to be as 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:23.520 good as he's been this year, but I figured the 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:26.840 system and the supporting cost would would increase Stafford's production. 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:29.560 I think we're seeing that Stafford has been good this season. 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:32.040 Had a couple of those rough games in the middle, 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:35.000 the turnovers, the Sunday night football game against Tennessee, but 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:40.119 overall Stafford has He's made some big plays. He's missed 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:42.560 a few open throws, had some turnover worthy throws. But 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:44.720 I think these last few weeks we're seeing the big 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:46.680 time throws that they got him for right the fifty 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:48.840 yard or a couple of weeks ago to Van Jefferson 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:53.520 special pros into tight coverage. So overall, I think Stafford 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:55.399 is having one of the better years of his career, 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:58.200 but not as good as maybe the he's a passer 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:00.720 rating one of Waight and you know, most productive passing 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:02.560 offense in the league. I don't think he's been that good, 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:05.000 but he's been good and the supporting cast has helped 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:07.200 to elevate his game even further. Is he a top 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:11.080 ten quarterback this year? Yeah? We have him at number 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:13.680 seven overall as a passer, so yeah, he's in that 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:15.840 top He's definitely in that top ten range right now, 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:18.440 especially in a year where there hasn't really been There 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:21.479 hasn't really been elite quarterback play across the NFL. Nobody's 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:24.280 really standing out. So Stafford's got They've got the best 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:26.800 passing production in the league and he's at number seven 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:29.359 in our passing grade. So far this year, Rodgers has 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:33.120 been pretty elite. Yeah. I think I think people are 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:36.960 forgetting a couple of Rogers games in here, because Week 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:38.800 one he had that game against the Saints where he 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:40.600 was terrible. They lost thirty eight to three. It was 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:42.000 I mean, it was pretty much the same thing we 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:44.040 just saw from Tom Brady the other night. It just happened, 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:46.000 you know, months ago, so I think people forget it. 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:48.960 And honestly, the game they won seventeen to nothing against 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:50.840 the Seattle Seahawks, he was just as bad through an 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:53.520 end zone interception he was. He was not good in 0:20:53.520 --> 0:20:55.879 that particular game. So Rogers has had a few duds 0:20:56.320 --> 0:20:58.400 and he has not been I don't think as good. 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:00.680 Throw up with Rosy was last year in the NBA. Yeah, 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:05.760 but thirty touchdowns, four interceptions, that's an off year. No, 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:08.200 I get it. He also has twelve turnover worthy plays 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:10.320 because again we tracked this stuff. So he's got far, 0:21:10.359 --> 0:21:12.720 but he's usually he's one of the best in the league. Wait, wait, 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:17.000 I can explaining that Steve turnover worthy. So we're grading 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:18.719 every player in every place. So we're going in there 0:21:18.720 --> 0:21:20.960 and saying, if you misread the play and throw the 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:24.160