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Speaker 2: Poll question for the final hour of the program is
Speaker 2: going to be what seed O'Connor?
Speaker 3: Let's see.
Speaker 4: Let me update you here. Who looks more super bowlish?
Speaker 4: Chargers have about sixty seven percent of that vote. Okay,
Speaker 4: to an OAFC team that won't make the playoffs? Your
Speaker 4: options there, Bill's Chargers, Bengals, Colts. Bengals have seventy seven
Speaker 4: percent of the all right, so they're buying into my
Speaker 4: Colts here, all right?
Speaker 2: I like it. Danny in second place there, Danny dimes
Speaker 2: whether or not in last though, Yes, Paul.
Speaker 5: Your Colts had the highest scoring margin in the NFL,
Speaker 5: outscoring their opponents so far.
Speaker 2: You sound surprised.
Speaker 6: I think America is surprised.
Speaker 2: H I'm not America. I just try to entertain America.
Speaker 2: And so does Dean Blandinos segue Fox Sports, NFL college
Speaker 2: football rules analyst, former NFL VP of Officiating, watching the game.
Speaker 2: Next thing I know, Dean Blandino's says he's done with
Speaker 2: the toush push can't officiate. I go, Dean, your microphone
Speaker 2: is on. What was what was the reaction? Why did
Speaker 2: you have that reaction in the moment?
Speaker 7: That was a visceral reaction.
Speaker 8: Look, we had the game obviously Chiefs Eagles, big Super
Speaker 8: Bowl rematch, and you know, we had a couple of
Speaker 8: the Eagles. Look the play, they run it better than
Speaker 8: anyone else, and they work at it and it's impressive
Speaker 8: what they do. But just in that game, we had
Speaker 8: a couple two goal to goal plays. Third down looks
Speaker 8: like Hertz is in, they rule them short. It's really
Speaker 8: tough to review. Can't see the football all these bodies.
Speaker 8: Next play fourth and goal, they will touchdown. You've got
Speaker 8: both guards moving early. Should have been a false start.
Speaker 8: Then later in the game another big first down conversion
Speaker 8: and you've got the guard moving early. So it just
Speaker 8: got to the point for me where I've never I've
Speaker 8: been on record, I don't love the play. It was
Speaker 8: illegal to push runners forever, you know, since the inception
Speaker 8: of the league until two thousand and five. We took
Speaker 8: it out, and in hindsight, I think that was a mistake,
Speaker 8: and now we're stuck with this play that that is
Speaker 8: a really difficult play to officiate. It just is and
Speaker 8: personally it's not a I just don't think it's a
Speaker 8: great play to watch.
Speaker 2: But you can officiate this by calling the guards, you know,
Speaker 2: off side. Why don't we start with that, no question?
Speaker 7: Look, look those are those should have been called.
Speaker 8: That's not that I'm not condoning and making an excuse
Speaker 8: for that.
Speaker 7: Was that should have been called.
Speaker 8: But I think once you take that out of the mix,
Speaker 8: it's just with all those bodies and trying to get
Speaker 8: the spot and we're trying to be perfect on these spots,
Speaker 8: and now we have virtual measurements, it's.
Speaker 7: Just a tough play.
Speaker 8: My thing is, it's just not a it's it's not
Speaker 8: when you think about the rules, it's just not a
Speaker 8: fair play. The defense can't push the runner back and
Speaker 8: gain an advantage. There's always forward progress, but we let
Speaker 8: the offense do it. And and look, I was watching
Speaker 8: the highlights of the Cowboys Giants game and the fourth
Speaker 8: quarter that's everything the NFL is.
Speaker 7: You've got, you know, Russ.
Speaker 8: Wilson is is to elite neighbors and Dak leading. And
Speaker 8: then in the history of the tush push, not once
Speaker 8: have I ever seen it on Sports Center's top ten plays.
Speaker 7: I just haven't.
Speaker 2: It's just I don't know how these officials spot the
Speaker 2: ball in that scrum. I really don't. Now you have
Speaker 2: the overhead shot, but those the officials, they can't rely
Speaker 2: on that overhead camera shot. Can they just spot the ball.
Speaker 7: After the fact in review.
Speaker 8: Yes, But but you've got two officials that are down
Speaker 8: the line looking at it, and they're they're gonna they're
Speaker 8: gonna come in as the play, you know, as the
Speaker 8: as the pile kind of starts, and try to get
Speaker 8: a look at the football and quite frankly, look at
Speaker 8: the goal line mechanically. And this this has been the
Speaker 8: deal forever. If they don't see the football, they're not
Speaker 8: going to rule on it. They're going to go in
Speaker 8: dig in the pile. And if the ball is over
Speaker 8: the goal line at that point, that's a touchdown. And
Speaker 8: so that ball may have been short, but eventually it
Speaker 8: worked its way after the runner was on the ground
Speaker 8: over the goal line.
Speaker 7: So again, it's a tough play that's been look.
Speaker 8: Short yardage plays are tough sneaks, those types of things.
Speaker 8: But I think this play just kind of adds another
Speaker 8: layer to it.
Speaker 2: But Dean, I am shocked that the officials didn't convey
Speaker 2: this to the owners to say we're having a hard
Speaker 2: time officiating this. This is no bias against anybody. This
Speaker 2: is we're trying to do our job and we can't
Speaker 2: do our job given the context of this play. I
Speaker 2: don't know if that's enough of an out for the
Speaker 2: NFL and these owners this next go around. They it's
Speaker 2: not a pretty play. We know that if I can't
Speaker 2: spot the ball and do my job, then that factors
Speaker 2: in something else. They keep trying to say health. There's
Speaker 2: no data yet of injuries there. You can't say, hey,
Speaker 2: somebody's going to get hurt, which they probably will. But
Speaker 2: you got to say, hey, guys, esthetically, it's not pleasing
Speaker 2: and we can't do our job. Is that enough to
Speaker 2: have them get rid of this play?
Speaker 8: It should be when you think about like I said,
Speaker 8: it's not when we think offense, defensive balance, it's not
Speaker 8: a fair play when you do have the difficulty in officiating,
Speaker 8: and that's when you look at rules changes, you look
Speaker 8: at player safety, you look at competitive equity, and you
Speaker 8: look at officiating consistency. And if you can't consistently officiate this,
Speaker 8: it's a problem.
Speaker 7: I think everybody.
Speaker 8: Look, they were two votes short of getting it out.
Speaker 8: I think everybody had Each club had its own reasons.
Speaker 8: I do believe because the Eagles won the Super Bowl,
Speaker 8: there were some teams that didn't want to come across
Speaker 8: is we can't stop this play. We're going to take
Speaker 8: the easy route and we're going to vote it out.
Speaker 8: I think if they don't win the Super Bowl and
Speaker 8: we still have issues with this play, there's probably a
Speaker 8: better chance that it goes away.
Speaker 2: Talking to Dean Blandino, he used to be the head
Speaker 2: of officials for the NFL. He doesn't need that headache anymore.
Speaker 2: Fox Sports, NFL college football rules analysts, even the neutral
Speaker 2: zone like it seems like there's there's an infraction on
Speaker 2: every one of these toush pushes. And I don't the
Speaker 2: Eagles would still be successful. They would with with Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 2: You don't need somebody pushing from behind. You can still
Speaker 2: call it a quarterback sneak. I just can't have somebody
Speaker 2: pushing from behind. That just seems you want to think
Speaker 2: about an injury. You could have an injury with your
Speaker 2: quarterback being pushed from behind. Jamin Is you know head
Speaker 2: in there.
Speaker 9: But.
Speaker 7: No question and look, and I agree with you.
Speaker 8: And I was talking to somebody yesterday at one of
Speaker 8: the clubs, and I think the Eagles would be successful
Speaker 8: on QB sneaks.
Speaker 7: QB sneaks.
Speaker 8: You know, that's a high percentage play when it's third
Speaker 8: and one, fourth and one, So they would be successful.
Speaker 8: And that's why I don't think this needs It was
Speaker 8: illegal forever. I don't know why we need to keep
Speaker 8: this push. We don't let the defense do it.
Speaker 7: Why are we letting the offense do it?
Speaker 2: Point of emphasis with taunting this year? How did this
Speaker 2: come about?
Speaker 8: I think the league the data that they presented in
Speaker 8: the off season, and how they quantify this, I don't know.
Speaker 8: But they said, okay, they said they said taunting was
Speaker 8: up like fifty percent. Violent gestures, sexually suggestive, those types
Speaker 8: of things that are in bad taste were up.
Speaker 7: Oh, I mean it was like one hundred and thirty
Speaker 7: percent whatever the number was.
Speaker 8: So they've obviously looked at film and they felt, okay,
Speaker 8: identified these actions and they want to emphasize it because
Speaker 8: it it does look sportsmanship is important, it's something you
Speaker 8: know it. Trey has that trickle down effect. Kids are
Speaker 8: watching those types of things and you saw it. I
Speaker 8: mean there was a big play in that in that
Speaker 8: Dallas Giants scheme where where you had three fouls on
Speaker 8: the Giants, three fouls and CD Lamb gets up and
Speaker 8: gets a taunt and it all offset. So it's a
Speaker 8: big penalty and this is going to be a major deal.
Speaker 8: You know, as long as this emphasis is in place.
Speaker 2: And protecting quarterbacks, has anything changed.
Speaker 8: Nothing's changed. I think we've gone again player safety. Health
Speaker 8: and safety is the top priority. I think we've gone
Speaker 8: a little too far with some of these hits. I
Speaker 8: think the quarterback position obviously, it's you're in a defenseless
Speaker 8: posture when you're in that passing posture and your focus
Speaker 8: is downfield. So yeah, the headneck area, those types of things,
Speaker 8: the late hits, I do think we've you know, we
Speaker 8: see some of these hits where it's just a defensive player,
Speaker 8: especially a big defensive lineman, you know, fighting through blocks
Speaker 8: and making a tackle and just happens to land the
Speaker 8: wrong way and it's fifteen yards. I think that's tough.
Speaker 8: But that's not going away that you listed all these
Speaker 8: injuries that we have in this league, right, we need
Speaker 8: the Joe Burrows, we need the Jayden Daniels and so
Speaker 8: they're going to protect that position.
Speaker 2: What about listening in on replay? We've seen this with
Speaker 2: the acc I've been saying for years, I think with gambling,
Speaker 2: with total transparency, and I don't know if that's enough
Speaker 2: that the NFL or the officials are going to say, yeah,
Speaker 2: come on in and listen. But boy'd be entertaining.
Speaker 8: What do you think would definitely be entertaining because I've
Speaker 8: been involved in a lot of discussions where if that
Speaker 8: went out publicly, people, we definitely definitely.
Speaker 7: You know, get a chuckle out of it. Look, I
Speaker 7: think can you.
Speaker 10: Give me it?
Speaker 2: For instance, though without names.
Speaker 7: No, I'll I'll look. I was involved in a very
Speaker 7: controversial play.
Speaker 8: You might have heard of it, the des Bryant play,
Speaker 8: you know, Packers Cowboys.
Speaker 2: Should have been a touchdown by the way.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there you go. So the play happens that we
Speaker 7: see it happen.
Speaker 8: I'm watching, you know, Mike mccartheugh's coaching the Packers at
Speaker 8: the time, and in my head, I'm going, he's going
Speaker 8: to throw the challenge flag.
Speaker 7: He's going to throw the challenge back. And as soon
Speaker 7: as it came out, I said to the room. Get
Speaker 7: ready the.
Speaker 8: S h I T is about to hit the fan
Speaker 8: because I knew it was going to be controversial either way, right, So,
Speaker 8: so those conversations and I think it's it's it's two sides.
Speaker 8: I think transparency is so important, like you said, because
Speaker 8: if you can just listen in, it eliminates any of
Speaker 8: the conspiracy. Right now, it might it might be like, Wow,
Speaker 8: those guys don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 7: You know, it might go from conspiracy to competence. You
Speaker 7: don't want that, but but it.
Speaker 8: Definitely would eliminate some of that, some of that hey,
Speaker 8: what what are they doing?
Speaker 7: We we just don't get it.
Speaker 2: If you had it, I'll give you a do over
Speaker 2: with Dez Bryant.
Speaker 7: Under the current rule. Now, that was the that was
Speaker 7: the rule. That was an easy one. Today it's a catch,
Speaker 7: and I get it. I understand why people would have
Speaker 7: thought that that was a catch. It was a layup,
Speaker 7: damn come.
Speaker 2: On, stupid rule. Right, well, it.
Speaker 7: Was a I think the catch rule.
Speaker 8: I think the problem we ran into is that forever
Speaker 8: before replay, the catch rule was written so the on
Speaker 8: field officials could make that call in real time, right,
Speaker 8: they can't slow it up.
Speaker 7: They can't.
Speaker 8: So that was the rule and that's why, you know,
Speaker 8: hold on to it when you hit the ground was
Speaker 8: a thing. But now we have replay, it changes how
Speaker 8: we can look at these things.
Speaker 2: Are officials allowed to be out of shape?
Speaker 7: There shouldn't be? That's that's I mean.
Speaker 2: It feels like there's a workout program here that like
Speaker 2: the ED Hockey League propars.
Speaker 7: Definitely it has been, and I think we just know more.
Speaker 8: Look when I first started at the league office, and
Speaker 8: I don't know if I've ever told you this, but
Speaker 8: ninety five my first officiating clinic, the physical test that
Speaker 8: they had to pass to be an official at that
Speaker 8: clinic was walk a mile, not even times, just not die.
Speaker 7: And now it's much much more stringent.
Speaker 2: Do you have a combine for officials?
Speaker 7: They do? They do.
Speaker 8: They have a They have a group that comes in
Speaker 8: and you know, strength and conditioning and works with them
Speaker 8: and and and you know, and Ed.
Speaker 7: I think Ed might actually.
Speaker 8: Do like his own combine where it's just it's just arms,
Speaker 8: you know, it's it's arm dead every day.
Speaker 2: It was great to talk to you. Thank you day.
Speaker 10: All right.
Speaker 2: That's Dean Blandino, Fox Sports, NFL College football rules analyst,
Speaker 2: former VP of officiating. All Right, guys, we got to
Speaker 2: walk a mile. You don't have to run, not gonna
Speaker 2: be timed. Just make sure you finish up and don't die.
Speaker 2: All right, you can be an NFL official. You're in shape.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 2: That's good stuff from him. Good stuff, Rick and Florida. Hi, Rick,
Speaker 2: what's on your mind today?
Speaker 11: So when I saw that snippet about Kurt Warner and
Speaker 11: how they are Patriots intentionally with defending him, I believe
Speaker 11: similar coaching is going on the NFL, especially with past interference.
Speaker 11: The offense has so much edge, and I think they're
Speaker 11: coaching the defensive backs hold that arm, to wrap that
Speaker 11: arm around and make them make the cold Because I
Speaker 11: see so much illegal contact after the five yards and
Speaker 11: pass interference and have been watching football sixty five years,
Speaker 11: I believe they need to go back to have the
Speaker 11: coaches replay, have a few selections if they can replay
Speaker 11: a penalty that is not called. And the second point Dan,
Speaker 11: I think to count to that is why aren't the
Speaker 11: other teams doing what the Eagles are doing? Is it
Speaker 11: just because the Eagles happen to have Jalen Hurts who
Speaker 11: can bench press six hundred pounds.
Speaker 2: No, he can squat six hundred pounds. And they have
Speaker 2: a great offensive line, and they have a quarterback who
Speaker 2: is stronger than any other quarterback with his legs. I'd
Speaker 2: love to see him in Saquon Barkley have a squad
Speaker 2: off or deadlift because they would probably that'd be a
Speaker 2: pretty good showdown there. They would still be successful if
Speaker 2: you don't need to have somebody behind Jalen Hurts. I
Speaker 2: don't know if this is around next year, but Dean
Speaker 2: brought up a very good point. They won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: It doesn't You don't want to seem like sour grapes.
Speaker 2: We couldn't stop them. They won a Super Bowl, and
Speaker 2: if the Eagles don't win a Super Bowl this year,
Speaker 2: maybe that would open the door to get rid of
Speaker 2: the tush push. When we come back, we pay tribute
Speaker 2: to Robert Redford who passed away at the age of
Speaker 2: eighty nine. Great actor, a great director as well. More
Speaker 2: of your phone calls as well, and a QB question
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Speaker 2: Earlier this morning, got word that Robert Redford had passed
Speaker 2: away at the age of eighty nine. Quite a life
Speaker 2: and leading man. He was in a lot of movies.
Speaker 2: He was also a director on some big movies as well,
Speaker 2: and Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, The Sting. I mean,
Speaker 2: there's a variety of movies that Redford was in, but
Speaker 2: also became a famous director and really a remarkable, remarkable career,
Speaker 2: very very big on conservation throughout his life. Sundance Film
Speaker 2: Festival that was started by him as well. Don't think
Speaker 2: I ever met him. I don't think we ever had
Speaker 2: him on either, but I know later in his life
Speaker 2: he talked about how he was the leading man, you
Speaker 2: were the good looking guy, and he was trying to
Speaker 2: get out of that, and you know, it sounds weird
Speaker 2: to be I don't want to be a leading man.
Speaker 2: But I think he wanted to get out of the
Speaker 2: pretty boy. But I don't as much as you want
Speaker 2: to try, he wasn't able to get out of that.
Speaker 2: Poor guy, can't get out of this damn good looking
Speaker 2: leading man.
Speaker 5: Yes, PAULI imagine having that as your main problem life,
Speaker 5: being too good looking. Yeah, because there was a point
Speaker 5: where he was the one seed for good looking guys
Speaker 5: in America. Yeah, I mean a long run.
Speaker 2: And then you put him with Paul Newman and they
Speaker 2: were in a couple of movies. Butch Cassidy and certainly
Speaker 2: The Sting. I love the Sting. It's still great, All
Speaker 2: the President's Men. He also directed Ordinary People River Runs
Speaker 2: through it as well. At eighty nine years of age,
Speaker 2: pretty good, Pretty good. He went to play baseball at
Speaker 2: Colorado and his mom died. I think she was around
Speaker 2: forty when he was going to go play baseball, started drinking,
Speaker 2: got kicked out of school, lost his scholarship, and then
Speaker 2: he kind of had to start figuring out what he
Speaker 2: was going to do for his career and ended up
Speaker 2: taking theater lessons in New York City, and I love that.
Speaker 2: He bought a piece of property, two acres of land
Speaker 2: for five hundred dollars, built a cabin in Utah in
Speaker 2: nineteen sixty one, and that's where he kind of started
Speaker 2: his love affair with that state. But Butch Cassidy and
Speaker 2: The Sundance Kid and The Sting, and Radford said that
Speaker 2: he really owed Paul Newman because he helped him get
Speaker 2: the role in Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid and the
Speaker 2: Sting too in nineteen seventy three, won the Academy Award
Speaker 2: for Best Picture. He was also in The Way We Were,
Speaker 2: Barbara Streissan, The Great Gatsby and Dustin Hoffman and All
Speaker 2: the President's Men, which was about Watergate.
Speaker 6: Yes, Pauling and the great sports movie.
Speaker 5: The Natural came out in nineteen eighty four, and it
Speaker 5: was a very controversial decision at the time. He played
Speaker 5: both himself as the older Roy Haws, but he played
Speaker 5: himself at eighteen years old in the movie, which is
Speaker 5: very in Glenn Close did it as well. They're twice
Speaker 5: that age, more than twice that age. So the earlier scenes.
Speaker 6: Of the movie, how old was he when he filmed
Speaker 6: The Natural? Yeah, forty he died.
Speaker 5: He would have been about forty five years old when
Speaker 5: he filmed The Natural, and he's playing himself as a
Speaker 5: senior in high school.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I wasn't big on that movie, but I understand why people.
Speaker 2: Robert Duval to me was great in that movie as
Speaker 2: the sports writer, the columnist. But Glenn Close, all right,
Speaker 2: But who was the the cocoon demanded Wilfrid Brimley. Wilford
Speaker 2: Brimley Lean for QUAKEERU.
Speaker 6: He was like thirty one?
Speaker 10: He was.
Speaker 2: He looked the same. He always looked old always. But uh,
Speaker 2: Robert Redford that at the age of eighty nine. I'll
Speaker 2: sign up for that right now.
Speaker 13: Yes, Tom, Why do you think guys in their forties
Speaker 13: looked like there was seventy back then?
Speaker 14: Like Carl O'Connor, Archie By you can name if.
Speaker 2: You go back to older Robert Redford didn't look seventy
Speaker 2: when he was forty, but almost everyone else.
Speaker 14: Was like forty going on seventy three for somebody All.
Speaker 2: Newman didn't look seventy at forty.
Speaker 5: In the seventies. It was before like gym's and workouts, yeah,
Speaker 5: and feeling good about yourself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we didn't care what we looked like back then.
Speaker 6: He grew old like a man.
Speaker 2: We were a man. We're a man's man.
Speaker 15: Yes, Margaret, maybe he might be generational. But first Robert
Speaker 15: Reverend Redford movie I think of is indecent proposal.
Speaker 3: Oh, Woody Harrelson.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he didn't look good and I mean he didn't
Speaker 2: come across well in that movie.
Speaker 3: But he was an older, devineer, handsome guy.
Speaker 2: Creepy to you. Yeah, and then he's saying, I'll give
Speaker 2: you a million dollars if I can sleep with your wife.
Speaker 2: Woody Harrelson.
Speaker 5: When you're a billionaire and you're creepy, you're eccentric a
Speaker 5: different word. That's a great movie, though, to me, more I.
Speaker 2: Felt bad for Woody Harrelson. Woodrow should have held on better.
Speaker 6: You don't loan out your.
Speaker 2: Why they wanted the money, they needed the money.
Speaker 6: You don't loan out to me more. That's a lesson
Speaker 6: that should have met in the name of the movie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was prime to me more.
Speaker 5: Yeah, alrighty, When Robert Redford is the second hottest person
Speaker 5: in the movie.
Speaker 6: You know it's good.
Speaker 16: M m.
Speaker 2: Uh. It's about a couple of phone calls. George in Texas, Hi, George,
Speaker 2: Nobody nobody wraps up, you know a movie career quite
Speaker 2: like we do. Nobody eulogizes quite like we do here.
Speaker 2: Sorry about that, Robert, Uh, Hey, George, what's on your
Speaker 2: mind today?
Speaker 1: Hey?
Speaker 17: Well, Radford looked like he was forty when he was
Speaker 17: in so anyway, but I've got to take on the
Speaker 17: push push. You called it a scrum.
Speaker 2: Because it is.
Speaker 17: It's a rugby play.
Speaker 18: So what they.
Speaker 17: Should do is just go on first count and that
Speaker 17: way everybody goes at the same time.
Speaker 2: Well they you know, Dean Blendino said they missed two
Speaker 2: calls on that the offensive line, the two guards they
Speaker 2: move before anybody else does. You got to call that
Speaker 2: like that has nothing to do with this. Is really
Speaker 2: hard to officiate this play. Officiate and off sides or
Speaker 2: there's motion here, that's all now, trying to spot the ball,
Speaker 2: I understand that. Just take away the blocker, take just
Speaker 2: take away the guy who's doing the pushing, that's all. Now,
Speaker 2: that doesn't make it easier to be able to call
Speaker 2: this and officiate this because it's still going to look
Speaker 2: like a scrum. It's still my line, your line, and
Speaker 2: I'm going to run and do a quarterback sneak. Now
Speaker 2: you're going to try to find where the spot is.
Speaker 2: It'll still be difficult, but the Eagles will still be successful.
Speaker 2: But I thought Dean Blandino said something that will stand out,
Speaker 2: and I'll keep this in my mind in the offseason.
Speaker 2: If the Eagles hadn't won the Super Bowl, maybe these
Speaker 2: owners would have voted to get rid of it. But
Speaker 2: now it looks like sour grapes.
Speaker 15: Yes, Marv, I think if they do take away the
Speaker 15: tush push, the rallying cry for the Eagles will be, see,
Speaker 15: they don't want us to win, they hate us because
Speaker 15: they ain't us, and then it's going to give them
Speaker 15: a nice little boost going into the next season. It's
Speaker 15: going to be a jealousy thing if you're an Eagles
Speaker 15: player or Eagles.
Speaker 2: Fan, and that's what I would be saying, that's the
Speaker 2: rallying cry. If I'm Nick Sirianni, I'd be like, Hey,
Speaker 2: you know you're ostracizing us, you're singling us out here.
Speaker 2: We just do it better than everybody else. Everybody else
Speaker 2: can do this. We do it better than anybody else.
Speaker 2: Ron in Portland, Hi, Ron, good morning.
Speaker 9: Hey Dan, first time, long time, six one and a half,
Speaker 9: two seventeen.
Speaker 10: Dude.
Speaker 9: Hey, I've been a Miami Dolphin fan since nineteen seventy
Speaker 9: and like Darius, the Dolphins are making me cry. And
Speaker 9: you did such a good job getting Brent Musburger in
Speaker 9: the Hall of Fame, and I'd like to get a
Speaker 9: rally cry going for John Gruden to the Dolphins.
Speaker 2: Okay, John Gruden, I think will coach next year somewhere.
Speaker 2: And I was listening to Gary Danielson yesterday, longtime college analyst.
Speaker 2: He was on with Mad Dog RUSSA and Gary said,
Speaker 2: what about John Gruden to UCLA. I don't know if
Speaker 2: there is a downside to it, but if John's coming in,
Speaker 2: then all of a sudden, you're going to be He's
Speaker 2: expecting to be a football school. He's not coming in
Speaker 2: to be the like Kentucky football it used to be
Speaker 2: to Kentucky basketball. He's coming in. He would be coming
Speaker 2: in to win. But I think that John now, I
Speaker 2: don't know if he gets back into the NFL, and
Speaker 2: I don't know if he wants coach college. But I
Speaker 2: think John Gruden will be coaching again. It just feels
Speaker 2: like there's a ground swell there. But if you had Gruden,
Speaker 2: he's got energy, and he's got a chip on his shoulder,
Speaker 2: and he'd be ready to go. Have him in Los
Speaker 2: Angeles that could be fun. Keith and Chico. Hi, Keith,
Speaker 2: Welcome back.
Speaker 10: Hey guys, Good morning, Good morning five six.
Speaker 19: I had a couple of random quarterback questions for you guys.
Speaker 19: First question, do you think the twenty eighteen quarterback draft
Speaker 19: class is the best of all time? I mean, you
Speaker 19: have Baker, Sam Darnold, Josh Allen Lamar, and you can't
Speaker 19: forget Josh ros In.
Speaker 10: My other question is, as.
Speaker 19: Of now, would you rather have Bryce Young or Caleb
Speaker 19: Williams as your quarterback of the future. After the Bears
Speaker 19: and Panthers make that trade, someone's got to be considered.
Speaker 2: The winner, right I think I would think so. I
Speaker 2: would go back to the eighty four draft if I
Speaker 2: was talking about quarterbacks, I'd say that that one was
Speaker 2: that was pretty good, pretty good. I would take Caleb
Speaker 2: Williams over Bryce Young. I like Bryce Young personally when
Speaker 2: we met him in New Orleans. I mean you can't help.
Speaker 2: But like him, he's just slight. He doesn't seem to
Speaker 2: be as athletic as Caleb, but I guess Caleb. I
Speaker 2: expect Caleb to be great. I'm not expecting Bryce Young
Speaker 2: to be great. I'm expecting him to be good. But Caleb,
Speaker 2: I think the expectation level is a whole lot higher.
Speaker 2: You can have any thirty year old quarterback is your
Speaker 2: quarterback for this season and next season at least thirty
Speaker 2: years of age. You got to have him for two years.
Speaker 16: Now.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna run down the list you can have. I
Speaker 2: got nine quarterbacks. Aaron Rodgers forty one, Joe Flacco forty,
Speaker 2: Kirk d Cousins thirty seven, Matthew Stafford thirty seven, Russell
Speaker 2: Wilson Junior the third thirty six, Gino thirty four, Dak
Speaker 2: Prescott thirty two, Baker Mayfield thirty, Jared Goff thirty. You
Speaker 2: can have any of those quarterbacks, but you got to
Speaker 2: take him for this year and next year. I think
Speaker 2: it comes down to maybe two quarterbacks here, and that's
Speaker 2: the guys who were thirty Baker Mayfield and Jared Goff.
Speaker 2: Dak Prescott at thirty two. Gino thirty four. Now I
Speaker 2: don't it's Baker Mayfield or Jared Goff. I don't think
Speaker 2: there's anybody else to be in the mix. I mean maybe,
Speaker 2: you know, if you like Dak Prescott just injury prone,
Speaker 2: he's thirty two. Uh, Baker and Jared Goff, and I
Speaker 2: think that would be it's only those two guys.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, I'm I'm thinking Jared Goff there too, just
Speaker 4: because he's made it to the super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's such to me.
Speaker 4: I put a lot of value in that, and he
Speaker 4: knows what it takes to get there that.
Speaker 2: Anybody have anybody else on that list?
Speaker 5: Yes, Paul, I think if my talent was the same
Speaker 5: on my team, which is the question, I would go
Speaker 5: Baker just to touch clutchness over Jared Goff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's only those two because none of those other
Speaker 2: quarterbacks do I want for two years?
Speaker 3: Yes, Marvin, I'm going Baker.
Speaker 15: Maybe recency biased, but I think he's just been playing
Speaker 15: a lot better lately.
Speaker 3: I'm Baker.
Speaker 2: All right, Let's see Joe and Colorado Springs.
Speaker 20: Hi Joe, Hey, Dan, thanks for having me on again.
Speaker 20: I was the one that called in on Friday, made
Speaker 20: the bed with two to the pilot, so I just
Speaker 20: wanted to say good on him for taking that pie.
Speaker 20: I was ready to hold up my end. My wife's
Speaker 20: a Broncos fan, so she was more than willing to
Speaker 20: administer the pie. Had the coast loss. Thankfully they didn't,
Speaker 20: So good on you, Fritzy Dan love the show, Go Colts.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you, Joe. Yeah, I saw that the
Speaker 2: back room guys. Dylan went out and did some shopping
Speaker 2: during the show. I look in the bag and it's
Speaker 2: like five containers of whipped cream, and there's pie filling
Speaker 2: and there's crust in there. Seems like a little excessive,
Speaker 2: but there it is. If you're watching on Peacock the
Speaker 2: the bag is there with all lovely. Yeah, they're gonna
Speaker 2: whip up the pie. Who do you want to hit
Speaker 2: you in the face with the pie?
Speaker 14: I'm gonna go Dylan.
Speaker 2: Actually, oh you want Dylan trick?
Speaker 14: You know what I Bill Parcells about it. If you
Speaker 14: want to make the groceries and you got you could
Speaker 14: pick out the.
Speaker 2: Groceries, Okay, well then Dylan will hit you. I don't
Speaker 2: know if are you quo him? Exactly?
Speaker 14: Definitely not.
Speaker 2: Something about picking out the groceries.
Speaker 13: Yeah, like, if I gotta if I got to play
Speaker 13: the guys that you know that you're giving me, let me,
Speaker 13: you know, have some say in picking them out.
Speaker 6: Now, let's go get them guys.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 14: If I'm gonna cook the meal, let me pick up
Speaker 14: the groceries. Said something.
Speaker 2: Andrew in Texas. Hi, Andrew, what's on your mind?
Speaker 10: Vp ay?
Speaker 18: Thank you for having me on a long time listener,
Speaker 18: first time caller. I just wanted to say I agree
Speaker 18: with you on the Tom Brady situation.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 18: And I don't fault any team for wanting to limit
Speaker 18: him or exclude him from those meetings. And but also
Speaker 18: on the other side of it, didn't look like it
Speaker 18: helped the whole lot because the quarterback situation on the
Speaker 18: Raiders are pretty weak, all right now, Yeah.
Speaker 2: But that's not the point. The point is that does
Speaker 2: Tom have access? Will he have access? And how does
Speaker 2: he use that access? But yeah, you're right, last night
Speaker 2: Tom helping Chip Kelly call all plays for Gino Smith
Speaker 2: didn't go well. Uh. Let's see Dane in Texas. Hi, Dane,
Speaker 2: what's on your mind today?
Speaker 14: Hey?
Speaker 10: Uh, good morning Dan?
Speaker 2: How are you great?
Speaker 3: Great?
Speaker 2: Ding?
Speaker 3: Great day?
Speaker 10: Well? First, I first I like to say Police said
Speaker 10: tembre to all your fans in Mexico, and I like
Speaker 10: to thank you for that interview with Gary Myers. I
Speaker 10: can't wait to get my hands on that book. The
Speaker 10: first you had a caller that was talking about greatest
Speaker 10: resurgence and he cited Baker Mayfield. I think I got one,
Speaker 10: and I think he'll agree. I think it was Jim Plunkett.
Speaker 10: I mean, I remember he had a Rookie of the
Speaker 10: Year for the Boston Patriots, and then he went downhill.
Speaker 10: There was injuries. He traded him the San Francisco and
Speaker 10: he comes back and gets two Super Bowl Super Bowl
Speaker 10: the Raiders. Yeah, that's great, great call, Dan he I remember.
Speaker 2: I think his receiver was Randy Vataha, who played with
Speaker 2: Plunkett at Stanford. So Jim Jim went to a bad
Speaker 2: team and was Randy Vataha either eighteen or eighty one
Speaker 2: with the Patriots? Was he number eighty one? Does that
Speaker 2: sound right? Randy Vataha?
Speaker 5: He's got Randy Vataha number twenty four?
Speaker 2: No, I gotta check that, Okay, I don't he was
Speaker 2: a wide receiver. I don't think they would have given
Speaker 2: him twenty four.
Speaker 13: Yes, Hunt, I see a Jersey on eBay from the
Speaker 13: seventies that has a Vataha eighteen on it.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, glop bloop, yes, Marvin.
Speaker 15: As far as the greatest career resurgences, where do we
Speaker 15: rank Kurt Warner after the Giants?
Speaker 2: Well, I got him into the Hall of Fame, so
Speaker 2: I would look at his resurgence as more impactful than
Speaker 2: Jim Plunkett. I mean, Jim was forgotten. It's a different era.
Speaker 2: If you're winning two Super Bowls now with a team,
Speaker 2: you know, then we might be talking about him being
Speaker 2: a Hall of Famer because he's got two super Bowls.
Speaker 2: But Jim was a Heisman Trophy winner and then he
Speaker 2: went to the Patriots and they weren't good and got
Speaker 2: kicked to the curb and then ended up winning two
Speaker 2: Super Bowls. All right, last call for phone calls? What
Speaker 2: we learned? What's in store tomorrow? By the way, Wilfred
Speaker 2: Brimley was forty nine in the Natural, Robert Redford was
Speaker 2: forty seven, And if you see them next to each other,
Speaker 2: you're like, Robert Redford and his grandfather are there in
Speaker 2: the dugout with the naturals. Wow, Wow, we're.
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Speaker 1: What we learned this day in sports history? All of
Speaker 1: that coming up. Final results of the poll question as well.
Speaker 1: My thanks Gary Myers.
Speaker 2: The book is Brady Versus Belichick and it's available today.
Speaker 2: And Dean Blandino, Fox Rules analyst who joined us earlier
Speaker 2: in the hour, All right, see final results of the
Speaker 2: poll question.
Speaker 3: Please.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we got a couple of them up there, and
Speaker 4: they're sort of all runaways. Actually, who looks more Super
Speaker 4: Bowl as Chargers by a long shot two and AFC
Speaker 4: team that won't make the playoffs. Bengals are running away
Speaker 4: with that one called second Bills and Chargers have almost
Speaker 4: no votes in that.
Speaker 18: You know.
Speaker 2: The Keenan Allen's career is fascinating to me because he's
Speaker 2: one of those guys if he stays healthy, if he
Speaker 2: had stayed healthy, had five catches sixty one yards in
Speaker 2: a touchdown last night. He's second all time among Chargers
Speaker 2: receivers in both receptions and receiving yards, so he has
Speaker 2: over nine hundred catches over ten thousand yards receiving. He
Speaker 2: also has sixty one touchdowns that ranks him behind Antonio
Speaker 2: Gates and Lance Alworth.
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Speaker 5: Yes, Paul keenan Allen, like you said, approaching one thousand catches,
Speaker 5: six Pro bowls more likely to be Hall a very
Speaker 5: good first ballot. Yeah, or get a Hall passed for
Speaker 5: the injuries and sneak into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: No, No, which one is it in? Isaac Bruce or
Speaker 2: Tory Holt.
Speaker 3: Tory Holt is not in.
Speaker 2: Yes, tory Holt's got to get in. But the problem
Speaker 2: is with what I just did. Is it Isaac Bruce
Speaker 2: or Tory Holt? And then you got overshadowed with Kurt
Speaker 2: Warner and Marshall Folk. Marshall, that's Marshall Folk. Yeah, Yes, Paul.
Speaker 5: Tory hul had seven Pro bowls in eleven years and
Speaker 5: nine hundred and twenty catches back when that meant a
Speaker 5: lot more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how about this day in sports history, Paul.
Speaker 6: Yeah, just a couple for you.
Speaker 5: I have Jim Bottomley nineteen twenty four knocked in twelve
Speaker 5: runs in a single game. And then Uh, nineteen eighty
Speaker 5: and eight, Tom Browning pitched the twelfth perfect game in
Speaker 5: Major League Baseball history for the Reds.
Speaker 2: Dave Linfield got his three thousandth hit in nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 2: Paul Mollitor on this date got his three thousandth career hit.
Speaker 2: His was a triple and Oh, nineteen eighty nine Number
Speaker 2: one Notre Dame beat number two Michigan thanks to two
Speaker 2: kickoff returns by Rocket Ishmael eighty eight and ninety two yards. Uh,
Speaker 2: Robin Boca, Hi, Rob, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 10: Hey Dan?
Speaker 2: How you doing good?
Speaker 10: Going back to the Natural?
Speaker 22: That movie gets an extra star are because uh Kim
Speaker 22: Bassinger was at the height of her powers? And uh
Speaker 22: little trivia question about the movie. A member of Roy
Speaker 22: Hobbs's New York Knights. A member of that team was
Speaker 22: actually a Rookie of the Year in Major League Baseball?
Speaker 10: Who was it?
Speaker 2: Joe Charboneau the Indians correct?
Speaker 22: Who might have been best known for being able to
Speaker 22: open the beer bottles with his pocket.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, thank you, Ron heard of him. Joe Charboneau,
Speaker 2: great name. Uh Tony in California? High tone? What's on
Speaker 2: your mind today?
Speaker 16: Hey?
Speaker 22: Dan?
Speaker 16: Good morning?
Speaker 2: How are you doing? Good morning?
Speaker 10: Good good?
Speaker 16: Hey?
Speaker 23: That quick question about you know, the leverage call and whatnot.
Speaker 23: How you you know you can't really you know, push
Speaker 23: off or anything, but somehow the tush push is allowed,
Speaker 23: which is essentially, you know, pushing assisting someone. I mean,
Speaker 23: to me, it doesn't seem like there's any difference. I mean,
Speaker 23: what's your thoughts on that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't really fully understand the leverage call, but
Speaker 2: you can't be assisted by one of your teammates if
Speaker 2: you're going to go up the middle and try to
Speaker 2: block the kick. But I think that's more of elevation
Speaker 2: than it is just moving straight ahead. The tush pushes
Speaker 2: to move straight ahead. Leverage is you're trying to get
Speaker 2: leverage to move into the center and go up and
Speaker 2: try to block the field goal. At least that's what
Speaker 2: I've been led to believe.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you're right on that leverage call.
Speaker 5: You also can't use the opposition like the offensive guard
Speaker 5: use him to push up.
Speaker 2: Eric and Tucson. Hi, Eric, what's on your mind?
Speaker 16: Good morning Dan. Hey, I'll make it quicks. I know
Speaker 16: you're at the end. Two quick things. I'm wondering if
Speaker 16: you saw the diego to Via bet over the weekend,
Speaker 16: since you give a Diego to Villa award on your
Speaker 16: gambling podcast.
Speaker 2: About letting somebody date his mom.
Speaker 16: Yes, I believe it is Coo Vaughn. I think he's
Speaker 16: a podcasterist median. I'm not quite sure the nexus of
Speaker 16: the bet, but I found that cross over pretty interesting.
Speaker 16: And that's secondly, just real quick, as you're talking about it. Yesterday,
Speaker 16: I believe they changed the rules on the kicking footballs
Speaker 16: where they now allow the kickers to keep the ball
Speaker 16: throughout the season versus just giving them two them ninety
Speaker 16: minutes before game time. So as those faults get broken in,
Speaker 16: I think they're going to see longer and longer kicks
Speaker 16: because they, you know, just like the quarterbacks, they find
Speaker 16: their favorite balls and they're able to use them.
Speaker 2: All right, Thank you, Eric, I have no problem with that.
Speaker 2: It's your football that you're kicking, it's your football that
Speaker 2: you're throwing. It's your team that has to catch the ball.
Speaker 2: I don't have any problem with it. It was just
Speaker 2: Tom light about the flat gate and that's what got
Speaker 2: him in trouble. I think if he was maybe forthcoming,
Speaker 2: then you know, the penalty would not have been nearly
Speaker 2: what it was, and that was pretty harsh pen Let's
Speaker 2: go around the room. What we learn on the program, Todd,
Speaker 2: what you learn today?
Speaker 13: Fox's Dean Blendinos all for viewers being able to hear
Speaker 13: replay discussions, but while can eliminate conspiracy theories, it might
Speaker 13: also advertise officials incompetence.
Speaker 2: I know I would love to hear that seat O'Connor.
Speaker 4: League is gonna have to figure out what to do
Speaker 4: with Tommy.
Speaker 2: Hashtag Tommy uh Marvin is a combine for the rest.
Speaker 6: I did not know that Paul Baker Mayfield is thirty?
Speaker 2: Todd, wit did I learn?
Speaker 13: We all learned that you would like to see Jail
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