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Speaker 2: here today, he's out for the next couple of days.
Speaker 2: Dylan in his chair, but he loves this. He loves
Speaker 2: He'll be like, can I reach out to whoever I
Speaker 2: want to? I say yes, And usually you'll get a
Speaker 2: couple of weather casters, of female weather casters locally, and uh,
Speaker 2: he'll reach out to swimsuit models. He'll reach out to
Speaker 2: actresses as well, like Jennifer Lawrence. She's never been on
Speaker 2: the show. I've never met her. And Fritzy goes, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, who knows. Maybe, And I said, you just
Speaker 2: want to try to see if you can. He goes, yeah,
Speaker 2: I know, but you know that would be good. It's content.
Speaker 2: You always say content. All right, See if you can
Speaker 2: get Jennifer Lawrence to be in our bracket challenge. Show
Speaker 2: me your brackets, Hey, Marvin.
Speaker 3: Fritzie's motto is you miss one hundred percent of the
Speaker 3: shots you don't take. I respect it.
Speaker 2: Fritzi. Is John starts in the NBA Finals against the Rockets.
Speaker 3: I mean he made two of eighteen.
Speaker 2: Is that what he was?
Speaker 3: I think it was something like that double chair.
Speaker 2: Okay. I thought he was like three for seven than teen,
Speaker 2: but he kept shooting. Yep, shooting all right. Stat of
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Speaker 2: question for the final hour of the program. We will
Speaker 2: check in with the Pittsburgh Steelers to see are they
Speaker 2: waiting for Aaron Rodgers And if they don't get Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 2: what's plan B or C or D? Yes seton?
Speaker 4: We have up there right now one of Paul's favorite
Speaker 4: poll questions, if we could make one a holiday aka
Speaker 4: a day off Monday after Super Bowl or the first
Speaker 4: Thursday Friday of the NCAA tournament. Right now, super Bowl
Speaker 4: has a fifty one percent lead.
Speaker 2: Okay, fifty one okay.
Speaker 4: We also have up there who had the best weekend?
Speaker 4: Rick Patino, North Carolina Basketball, Jamar Chase and T Higgins
Speaker 4: or other Right now, Jamar Chase and T Higgins have
Speaker 4: sixty three percent of that vote, followed only twenty two
Speaker 4: percent for Rick Patino.
Speaker 2: That is crazy, Okay, that's a renaissance, bigger East Coast
Speaker 2: story than it is. Are we in the bubble for
Speaker 2: that one?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: We are East Coast spines?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Absolutely. Bubba Cunningham, he's the athletic director at North Carolina.
Speaker 2: He also heads up the nc double A selection committee.
Speaker 2: No conflict of interest from what I was told, No
Speaker 2: conflict of interest. And he talked about the teams that
Speaker 2: were snubbed yesterday.
Speaker 6: The last four teams that were out for you know,
Speaker 6: it was a tough call. The next team out was
Speaker 6: West Virginia and they had an out standing year and
Speaker 6: unfortunately no Tucker debreeze was hurt and player availability is
Speaker 6: something that we talked about quite a bit, and then
Speaker 6: it just you know, Indiana was close, Ohio State was close,
Speaker 6: Boise was close, and we had a lot of conversations
Speaker 6: about those teams as well. But as I said at
Speaker 6: the onset here is that's the hardest part of being
Speaker 6: on the committee is having to draw that line. But
Speaker 6: with only one real upset this year, there were an awful
Speaker 6: lot of teams on the bubble that got in and
Speaker 6: last year, as you guys all know that we had
Speaker 6: five and so we couldn't go very deep into the
Speaker 6: to that fool.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: That's Bubba Cunningham of North Carolina as North Carolina gets
Speaker 2: into the tournament. By the way, PGA Tour's best going
Speaker 2: into the snake pit. It's the Valance Bar Championship. You
Speaker 2: can see it on NBC Golf Channel, streaming on Peacock
Speaker 2: coming up later this week and weekend. The PGA Championship
Speaker 2: is over the Tour Championship and Rory McElroy won it.
Speaker 2: Today it was a three hole playoff with JJ Spahn,
Speaker 2: so he picks up the win. Never won the Masters,
Speaker 2: and he'll head in as one of the co favorites,
Speaker 2: probably with Scottie Scheffler. I would imagine Scottie Scheffler never
Speaker 2: got it going. Did watch a lot of the tournament
Speaker 2: and got delayed yesterday with the rain and then they
Speaker 2: ran out of light and then they had to come
Speaker 2: back for the playoff today for three holes. The number
Speaker 2: one seeds you have Houston, Duke, Florida and Auburn. We
Speaker 2: had Seth Greenberg and the Mothership on. He's taken Florida
Speaker 2: to win it all. I've watched them play a couple
Speaker 2: of games, and you know, it's it's the SEC is
Speaker 2: so tough. You know, you're just Auburn in Alabama, Tennessee.
Speaker 2: It just felt like, well, they got fourteen teams in
Speaker 2: and it was a slugfest all the time. And I
Speaker 2: watched Florida and I was impressed by them, but then
Speaker 2: you're trying to compare them with other teams, and that's
Speaker 2: where it gets like Houston every year it's Kelvin Simpson.
Speaker 2: He's got another one of his. You know, they're gonna
Speaker 2: win score, you know, games with scores in the fifties.
Speaker 2: They play great defense, tough, you know all that stuff.
Speaker 2: Auburn has been in and out Number one team Duke
Speaker 2: as long as Cooper Flag is able to play, Duke
Speaker 2: is a really balanced team, you know, big and small
Speaker 2: inside and out. But you know, I watched Alabama a
Speaker 2: couple of times and Sears is great. He's a closer,
Speaker 2: and that's what you need, the guy you can go to,
Speaker 2: the guy who can pick you up when it's going bad.
Speaker 2: And really that's in any sport. But in March Madness,
Speaker 2: where you got to win six games and you just
Speaker 2: got to have that momentum and there are going to
Speaker 2: be a couple of real close games, maybe one real
Speaker 2: close game that you're going to have to win, and
Speaker 2: you might not be playing your best. Do you have
Speaker 2: that player? Do you have that coach? And I would
Speaker 2: say that March Madness it's not about the coach as
Speaker 2: much as it used to be because at Villanova is
Speaker 2: not there. You know, Patino is back and Tom Izzo
Speaker 2: coach k is not there. Roy William's not there. Bill
Speaker 2: self is still there to a lesser degree, but it
Speaker 2: used to be you filled out your bracket and you go, oh,
Speaker 2: that coach like Jay Wright at Villanova, one of the
Speaker 2: more underrated coaches in the history of the sport. That
Speaker 2: guy knew what he was doing. He knew that he
Speaker 2: could get the guy who wasn't going to go pro
Speaker 2: after one year. He knew that he was going to
Speaker 2: get a guy who would play three years for you,
Speaker 2: maybe four. He would always have a strong backcourt. He
Speaker 2: was really brilliant and understanding. You know, this is what
Speaker 2: Danny Hurley has done with Connecticut. Now not as much
Speaker 2: this year, because you take a chance with these portal guys,
Speaker 2: where you go, boy, that guy he really played well
Speaker 2: at Saint Mary's and then you bring him in you go,
Speaker 2: this ain't that you know kind of competition. Jay Wright
Speaker 2: knew what he had and went out and got those players.
Speaker 2: He was very, very specific, it felt like, and Danny
Speaker 2: Hurley did that winning those two championships. You get one
Speaker 2: or two really good recruits and then you go into
Speaker 2: the portal and he was great at doing that. And
Speaker 2: Jay Wright did that at Villanova, winning a couple of
Speaker 2: national titles tom Izzo. Tom Izzo doesn't get one and Dons.
Speaker 2: Virginia doesn't get one and dones. You know, you just
Speaker 2: have to understand who you are as a coach and
Speaker 2: get the players who fit with what you want to do.
Speaker 2: Rick Patino doesn't want freshman. Rick Patino actually, let me
Speaker 2: take him out of the equation. He could coach your
Speaker 2: team or his team. He could coach your team and
Speaker 2: beat his. He can coach his team and beat yours.
Speaker 2: That's just how good he is, yes, Marvin, But.
Speaker 3: Doesn't that seem to be the case with every you know,
Speaker 3: great coach where you just have a bunch of guys
Speaker 3: that stay three and four years. Right, maybe you put
Speaker 3: in a great one and done like an Anthony Davis
Speaker 3: or Carmelo Anthony. But for the most part, you're doing
Speaker 3: it with you know, juniors and seniors.
Speaker 5: For the part.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is why I would I said this
Speaker 2: years ago. Give me the juniors and seniors. They might
Speaker 2: not be as good, you know, in the overall picture
Speaker 2: as your freshman at Kentucky, but we can beat you.
Speaker 2: We will get you in a situation where you'll act
Speaker 2: like a freshman. And it happened almost every year I mean,
Speaker 2: wasn't it is today the day that Kentucky lost to
Speaker 2: Robert Morris in the NIT? Or does that sound right?
Speaker 2: It was like twenty thirteen, Like it was one of
Speaker 2: those where you go, what just happened? Maybe it was
Speaker 2: the NCAA, but you had these moments where freshman acted
Speaker 2: like freshmen. And I love getting those teams that have
Speaker 2: somebody who's been there before, they played together, they understand
Speaker 2: each other, and Iszo does that?
Speaker 7: Iszo is great at doing that? Yes, Pauline, Wednesday is
Speaker 7: anniversary twenty nineteen or nineteen? I checked twenty twenty three.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry, it's on the screen. Twenty thirteen, March nineteenth.
Speaker 7: Robert Morris fifty nine, Kentucky fifty seven?
Speaker 2: Was that nit? Yes? You sent an IT game?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's one of those where you go, how
Speaker 2: does that happen? Well, these kids who are just out
Speaker 2: of high school, all Americans, they probably go, this doesn't
Speaker 2: mean anything. With Robert Morris, it meant everything. But yeah,
Speaker 2: a long winded way of saying, you know, when you're
Speaker 2: filling out your brackets, what are you looking for? And
Speaker 2: I look it up? Her classmen. Now, granted, Duke, has
Speaker 2: you know young players and they could easily win this,
Speaker 2: but I still love that. I trust that team that
Speaker 2: they've been here before might not be as talented, but
Speaker 2: we've all played on the playground where you go, you know,
Speaker 2: you're you're shooting around and that one guys like, damn,
Speaker 2: he talented. And then you start to play the game
Speaker 2: and then you're like, we're beating them because if you
Speaker 2: know how to play basketball, sometimes you having ability, too
Speaker 2: much ability can be a curse because sometimes you don't
Speaker 2: try to understand how to play basketball. You can just
Speaker 2: get by with athleticism. Yes, Marvin, you just brought up
Speaker 2: a good points. Sometimes your basketball players versus athletes. That's
Speaker 2: when you see like a Joker and a Luca on
Speaker 2: the NBA level, like, oh, they can't running jump, but
Speaker 2: they could play basketball. Though I didn't ask if you
Speaker 2: could run and jump. Charles Barkley says, deer can run
Speaker 2: and jump. How about we go around the room. Best
Speaker 2: and Worst of the weekend Dylan in for Fritzie Dylan.
Speaker 2: Best and Worst of the weekend?
Speaker 8: All right, Dan, Best of the weekend. It's officially March
Speaker 8: Madness time. We got the brackets and as a gambler,
Speaker 8: that Thursday and Friday our hands down.
Speaker 2: The best days of the year. Yeah.
Speaker 8: Worst of the weekend is that JJ spaond had to
Speaker 8: wait till this morning to lose to Rory McElroy.
Speaker 2: Couldn't wrap it up yesterday, had to sleep on it.
Speaker 2: Then he got out there and he I think triple
Speaker 2: bogied the seventeenth. He put it in the water.
Speaker 8: You know, he wanted to have that over and done
Speaker 8: with yesterday. Once they went to a playoff, those thoughts
Speaker 8: start trickling in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's a great underdog story, but it felt
Speaker 2: like the network and the crowd really wants Rory McElroy
Speaker 2: to step up and be a star again. Seaton Best
Speaker 2: and worst of the weekend.
Speaker 4: My best of the weekend going to the South region
Speaker 4: the number thirteen seed, your Yale Bulldogs.
Speaker 2: Early Cinderella story. I don't know.
Speaker 4: They got a guard named bez Mbang, who some people
Speaker 4: are saying might be the most overlooked guard in the country,
Speaker 4: just saying throw it on there. Their play Texas A
Speaker 4: and M I.
Speaker 2: Believe that would be Mike Breams's favorite college player, bez Embangan. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna call them early Cinderella Stikay, alright, I like it,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 4: Okay, my worst of the weekend, well, obviously West Virginia
Speaker 4: about a moment of silence for Seaton's Mountaineers, poured one out.
Speaker 2: Here we go, all right, Marvin, best and worst.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm gonna start off with the worst. Jalen
Speaker 3: Withers of North Carolina with the lame violation when they
Speaker 3: were down by one against Duke and they lost. Best
Speaker 3: of the weekend Hubert Davis doing the press conference with
Speaker 3: Withers after he lost, with his arm around him and
Speaker 3: just being there to support him. So love that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was That was a feisty game. Duke blown
Speaker 2: him out. Okay, if Duke blows out North Carolina, they're
Speaker 2: not in North Carolina's not. But they came back. They
Speaker 2: could have tied the game, won the game. Paulie bestin
Speaker 2: Worst of the week.
Speaker 7: Your Cavaliers are in a free fall, Dawn. They've lost
Speaker 7: one in a row. Off the map off Carol.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, now fifty six and eleven.
Speaker 2: It's over one game losing streak. It's over. Best of the.
Speaker 7: Weekend is the baseless media speculation that Cooper flag if
Speaker 7: Duke bows out early because he can't help them out,
Speaker 7: would come back for his sophomore year. It's kind of
Speaker 7: cool to think about. There's nothing to it yet, but
Speaker 7: he is only eighteen years old and this would technically
Speaker 7: be a senior year of high school.
Speaker 2: So yeah, his brother is still in high school. His
Speaker 2: twin brother's still in high school. I thought they did
Speaker 2: everything together and he was not held back the other brother. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's on normal pace. Yes, yes, but I mean if
Speaker 2: Cooper Flag decides he wants to come back, I mean
Speaker 2: I'm seeing where guys at Kansas State were getting two
Speaker 2: million dollars a year. I think Kansas State.
Speaker 3: Yes, he's a big transfer guy.
Speaker 2: Two million dollars.
Speaker 3: At Kansas State. Yes, how did Michael Beasley get there? Again?
Speaker 2: Got two million dollars? That wasn't nil, that was different.
Speaker 2: Like what's Cooper flagworth to do? He's worth ten million dollars?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: I think, yes, Marvin.
Speaker 3: And remember he's got that new Balance shoe deal too,
Speaker 3: so he's already got a sneaker.
Speaker 2: But another year. I mean, it'd be pretty cool. If
Speaker 2: I'm his dad, I would just say, do you love this?
Speaker 2: Like you truly love this? You truly love school? You
Speaker 2: truly love being in college, Stay another year, because that's
Speaker 2: really what it comes down to. You know, we rush
Speaker 2: these kids, and maybe maybe he'll he would say, I'd
Speaker 2: like to come back if they don't win a national championship.
Speaker 2: Let's say they don't make it to the Elite eight.
Speaker 2: More likely, less likely. I'd be curious about that. All right,
Speaker 2: let me take a break. We'll check in with the
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Steelers, because the Steelers are waiting for the Vikings,
Speaker 2: but then everybody's waiting for Aaron Rodgers. But then Rogers
Speaker 2: might be waiting for the Vikings, but not the Steelers
Speaker 2: or the Jonkers. Yes, exactly. Aaron Rodgers got a choke
Speaker 2: hold on the media right now, he'd like to have
Speaker 2: a choke hold on some members of the media. I'm
Speaker 2: sure we'll take a break check in with the Steelers
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Speaker 2: Jerry Dulac has been covering the Steelers for a long time.
Speaker 2: By the way, Bill Kauer will join us on the
Speaker 2: program tomorrow. Jerry Dulac covers the Steelers for the Pittsburgh
Speaker 2: Post Gazette and These Steelers Radio Network. If I asked
Speaker 2: you a month ago, what are the Steelers doing at quarterback?
Speaker 2: You would have said what.
Speaker 10: I would have said, Not Aaron Rodgers, for sure, And
Speaker 10: it was the last thing I thought they would do.
Speaker 10: I thought it would be between excuse me, Russell Wilson
Speaker 10: and Justin Fields, with a split internally in the organization
Speaker 10: as to who wants as to which person wants which quarterback,
Speaker 10: and so knowing that the offensive coordinator did not get
Speaker 10: along with Russell Wilson at the end they butted heads
Speaker 10: over how the game, how the offense should be run,
Speaker 10: and knowing that he was a big fan of Justin Fields,
Speaker 10: I thought they would lean toward that. But then the
Speaker 10: offensive coordinator doesn't trump the head coach at the GM
Speaker 10: and the owner. But there was a split there. So
Speaker 10: that's what the way I thought it would unfold. And
Speaker 10: given the age difference and the potential with what they
Speaker 10: saw from Justin Fields, I would have guessed Justin Fields.
Speaker 10: I would not have guessed waiting for Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 2: The Steelers don't feel Steeler, Like, right now that you
Speaker 2: bring in DK Metcalf, you don't have a quarterback. You're
Speaker 2: waiting for a quarterback that might not show up, and
Speaker 2: if he shows up, who knows what you're getting. But
Speaker 2: is there a change of philosophy, Like, it's not just hey,
Speaker 2: we went nine to eight and we had a winning
Speaker 2: season and we lose in the first round. Eventually you
Speaker 2: got to aspire to a little more than that.
Speaker 10: I would think, Yeah, you know, Dan, they've made a
Speaker 10: playoffs four the last five years, so it's not like
Speaker 10: the sky is falling and there are more bun franchised
Speaker 10: but ten and seven each of the last two years,
Speaker 10: but more significantly first round playoff exits. You know, that's
Speaker 10: eight years now without a playoff win. Mike Tomlin has
Speaker 10: now had eight one and Don Marty Schottenheimer is the
Speaker 10: only guy with more with nine. So yeah, they aspire
Speaker 10: to more. The move for Aaron Rodgers with that question,
Speaker 10: Dan is very on Steeler, Like That's why I said
Speaker 10: just a bit earlier that that was the last thing
Speaker 10: I thought they would do, would be getting involved with
Speaker 10: that guy with a lot of the you know, let's
Speaker 10: face it, strange behavior that he exhibits. But that's where
Speaker 10: they are and where you know, what they are interested
Speaker 10: in right now is the same thing they were interested
Speaker 10: in last year. That is the immediacy of trying to
Speaker 10: win a playoff game and getting back on track. It's
Speaker 10: almost one step at a time. That's the next objective.
Speaker 10: But they haven't even reached that. I will tell you this,
Speaker 10: whether Aaron Rodgers or if they feel compelled that they
Speaker 10: need to bring in a veteran through a trade, nobody's
Speaker 10: getting more than a one year deal. They are fully
Speaker 10: aware that it's time to move on and try to
Speaker 10: find try to find that franchise quarterback.
Speaker 2: Can you see them doing anything in the draft quarterback wise.
Speaker 10: Well, you know, Dan, they gave up that number two
Speaker 10: pick in the DK Metcalf, so it's either, you know,
Speaker 10: it's either number one and I don't see him going
Speaker 10: into the first round this year. But certainly they know
Speaker 10: they have to do it by next year, maybe the
Speaker 10: third round. Take a chance on a guy. If there's
Speaker 10: someone they like. I'm not going to sit here and
Speaker 10: tell you it's Jackson dart or Will Howard, but I
Speaker 10: do know they have interest in those guys and don't
Speaker 10: know if they'll be there in the third round. Maybe
Speaker 10: they have to move into the second round to do so,
Speaker 10: but I know that is certainly if it's not an
Speaker 10: urgency this year, it certainly is by next year.
Speaker 2: Would the Steeler fan base embrace Aaron Rodgers?
Speaker 10: The feedback slash blow back that I've received Dan, during
Speaker 10: this whole period is I don't think anybody is thrilled
Speaker 10: to see Oh some people are, but the majority are
Speaker 10: not in favor of the move somewhat for what you
Speaker 10: referenced earlier about it not seeming like the Steeler way.
Speaker 10: The guy's forty two years old. He won five games
Speaker 10: last year with the Jets and hit the hit. You know,
Speaker 10: he had Garrett Wilson, DeVante Adams, Alan Lazard, he had
Speaker 10: much better receivers than the Steelers had. And that's what
Speaker 10: you're looking at here. So it's not like it offers
Speaker 10: a lot of promise, you know, Dan, I'll say this,
Speaker 10: Aaron Rodgers is the greatest thrower of the football that
Speaker 10: I have ever seen. But he's forty two and you know,
Speaker 10: let's face it, I think he's putting out on the
Speaker 10: eighteenth green if he isn't already finished with his round
Speaker 10: Professionally speaking.
Speaker 2: He's Jerry Dulac. He covers the Steelers for the Pittsburgh
Speaker 2: Post Gazette. Steelers Radio network handicapped the rest of the
Speaker 2: division here. Let me start with the Bengals with what
Speaker 2: they did last night by tying up I was to
Speaker 2: receivers and maybe they have enough money to sign Trey Hendrickson.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's going to be a big key because now
Speaker 10: you're you know, let's face you sign those two, you're
Speaker 10: going to weaken the rest of of your team. I
Speaker 10: don't blame them for what they did, but that is
Speaker 10: a lot of money tied up in a quarterback and
Speaker 10: two wide receivers, probably at the sake of the rest
Speaker 10: of your team. You know, Trey Hendrickson was the one
Speaker 10: guy on that defense that you know gave them a
Speaker 10: bit of a spark. But if you can't sign him,
Speaker 10: and if they do, now you're really hamstrung with how
Speaker 10: much money you have left. So really, are those four
Speaker 10: guys enough to challenge the Ravens. Well, I'm a big
Speaker 10: Joe Burrow fan, and there's two wide receivers, the one
Speaker 10: in particular is elite, So you know I would because
Speaker 10: of the issues right now, I'd put him ahead of
Speaker 10: the Steelers. I never would rank the Browns ahead of
Speaker 10: the Steelers because along with the Jets, to me, they're
Speaker 10: the two most dysfunctional franchises in the NFL. And you know,
Speaker 10: the Ravens are still the Ravens. So you know, if
Speaker 10: you want me to handicap it, I'd say Baltimore one,
Speaker 10: Cincinnati two Steelers three Browns.
Speaker 2: For it's always nice to have the Browns still in
Speaker 2: the division there, Jerry.
Speaker 10: Yes, it is. It means you don't have to finish
Speaker 10: in the basement.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I wonder what they're going to do. Can
Speaker 2: they get squirrely and take a quarterback you know at two, Well.
Speaker 10: They would have to trade it into the round to
Speaker 10: get it, Dan, because that second round pick is gone.
Speaker 10: You know, I will tell you this, I have not
Speaker 10: gotten any sense of panic in the organization. They feel,
Speaker 10: if need be, based on what they saw the last
Speaker 10: three games of the twenty twenty three season from Mason Rudolph,
Speaker 10: that if he has to be your starter, then they
Speaker 10: will go along with that. All that being said, Dan,
Speaker 10: this is a team that always, always, always has two
Speaker 10: quarterbacks that they're ready, two veterans, and so even if
Speaker 10: they don't sign Aaron Rodgers, they have to bring in
Speaker 10: some type of quarterback with starting experienced, veterans, starting experience.
Speaker 10: Skyler Thompson isn't that guy. And so either way, even
Speaker 10: if it is going to be Mason Rudolph, and even
Speaker 10: if they draft a quarterback, they still want to have
Speaker 10: a veteran either as the second quarterback or the third quarterback.
Speaker 2: Do you think Russell Wilson is still a starter in
Speaker 2: this league?
Speaker 10: I will let me say this. He is still an
Speaker 10: option for the Steelers, but not a solid one, Dan
Speaker 10: because you know, he's down the total pole, because if
Speaker 10: he was any type of option that they seriously considered,
Speaker 10: I think they would have made that move by now.
Speaker 10: You know, I think Russell Wilson gets a bad rap.
Speaker 10: I look at what he did for those first seven
Speaker 10: games that he started, This offense average nearly twenty nine
Speaker 10: points a game, and it finally finally looked like a
Speaker 10: unit that was capable of bailing out the defense, which
Speaker 10: is exactly what he did in that game in Cincinnati
Speaker 10: when he put up forty four points, the Bengals scored
Speaker 10: thirty eight, and he threw for four to fourteen and
Speaker 10: actually outduled Joe Burrow. It was from that point on,
Speaker 10: strangely enough, where I think the headbutting began with the
Speaker 10: coordinator and we know what happened. I'm not saying that's
Speaker 10: the reason, but they lost their last five games. So
Speaker 10: I think Russell Wilson can be an effective starter, but
Speaker 10: he's certainly not a guy who I think in the
Speaker 10: short term, but I don't think you're going to bring
Speaker 10: him in think he's going to be your quarterback for
Speaker 10: the next two or three years.
Speaker 2: Can Mike Tomlin survive another ten and seven first round
Speaker 2: exit or you know, sometimes both say both sides say,
Speaker 2: maybe you know, we've gone as far as we could go.
Speaker 2: So I don't know. The Steelers don't fire coaches, But
Speaker 2: can he survive that scenario?
Speaker 10: I think he could survive another ten and seven. I
Speaker 10: think he can survive nine and eight. They gave him
Speaker 10: a three year extension. He's good through twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 10: And I've always gotten a sense Dan that you know,
Speaker 10: it's up to Mike Tomlin if and when he feels
Speaker 10: maybe I've had enough. You know, all this none of
Speaker 10: this debate is about whether Mike Tomlin is a good coach.
Speaker 10: We know that. It's about how much longer are you
Speaker 10: going to continue to watch the same thing before you think, hey,
Speaker 10: you know what, maybe we just need a change. And
Speaker 10: it's no reflection on whether Mike Tomlin is a good
Speaker 10: coach or not.
Speaker 2: Great to talk to you as always, Thank you, Jerry, Yeah, Dan,
Speaker 2: you got a good being with that's Jerry Dulek. Then
Speaker 2: with the Steelers a long long time. Bill Cower will
Speaker 2: join us on the program tomorrow. Yeah, it's Unsteeler like that.
Speaker 2: You don't know who your quarterback is and you're waiting
Speaker 2: for Aaron Rodgers. How much does that solve? Can you
Speaker 2: get two years out of him? What are those two
Speaker 2: years going to look like? Do you want a guy
Speaker 2: who may not want you? Like that guy wants the
Speaker 2: Vikings or he would have gone to the Steelers already
Speaker 2: or the Giants.
Speaker 11: Yeah, the Steelers right now are a perfect example of
Speaker 11: what happens when you take one wrong guy and like
Speaker 11: the dominoes that happened after that, when you're looking and
Speaker 11: you think Kenny Pickett's going to.
Speaker 4: Be the guy and then he's not, and you're like,
Speaker 4: oh crap, well we thought he was going to be
Speaker 4: the guy. Now we got to find this other guy
Speaker 4: who wasn't the guy, and then another guy who wasn't
Speaker 4: the guy, and we're still trying to find that guy.
Speaker 4: And we're not used to not having the guy. You know,
Speaker 4: one wrong pick and all of the you're just kind
Speaker 4: of spinning your wheels looking for a quarterback.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, everybody's looking for their quarterback. They think they find
Speaker 2: their quarterback and then they re you know, Tennessee, Tennessee.
Speaker 2: They were warning signs, don't take that quarterback. But you know,
Speaker 2: you get caught up in you fall in love, and
Speaker 2: you know that's what's dangerous. These teams will fall in
Speaker 2: love with somebody.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: Johnny Manziel blew away the Browns in his interview. They
Speaker 2: were like, this guy is unbelievable. And he went in
Speaker 2: and if you've been around Johnny, yeah, I could see him.
Speaker 2: He'd go in there and he if you're old enough
Speaker 2: to remember, leave it to beaver. Eddie Haskell. Johnny Manziel
Speaker 2: was Eddie Haskell. He'd come in and hello, mister and missus.
Speaker 2: Cleaver is Wallace at home, and then he'd go up
Speaker 2: there and Eddie was a knucklehead. That was Johnny Manziel,
Speaker 2: he could get in the door. Yeah, you didn't want
Speaker 2: to know what he was doing upstairs.
Speaker 7: Yes, Paul I just went back and looked at that
Speaker 7: twenty twenty two draft where Pittsburgh took Kenny Pickett. He
Speaker 7: was the only quarterback to be drafted in round one,
Speaker 7: in the second round. The only quarterback. There's no quarterbacks
Speaker 7: drafted in round two, round three was Desmond Ritter. So
Speaker 7: in the first two and a half rounds, two quarterbacks.
Speaker 7: That's an ultimate anomaly in this NFL.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you don't need to take a quarterback if
Speaker 2: it's not the right quarterback.
Speaker 7: There wasn't one dude on earth who could be a
Speaker 7: first rounder.
Speaker 2: But there's only one maybe this year, maybe two that
Speaker 2: are going to be drafted in the first round. For
Speaker 2: the emphasis, the importance, the amount of money that's attached
Speaker 2: to that position. We still have teams that can't draft
Speaker 2: quarterbacks or how many teams have quarterbacks? Where you go,
Speaker 2: I don't know, right, And then that draft Rock Perdy
Speaker 2: gets taken is the last pick mister irrelevant and he's
Speaker 2: going to be making fifty million dollars a year, And
Speaker 2: you would have thought Kenny Pickett going to the Steelers
Speaker 2: with Mike Tomlin and that organization, and you know there's
Speaker 2: no turnover there that you would have a guy who
Speaker 2: would have the consistency year in and year out to develop,
Speaker 2: and he never did. But that's why, I mean, franchises
Speaker 2: are affected, you know, either really and such a like
Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts. Look at what he was with the Eagles.
Speaker 2: They had Carson Wentz MVP candidate, and they say, let's
Speaker 2: get Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 3: Yes, Marv, why do you always look at me when
Speaker 3: you mentioned Kenny Pikett?
Speaker 12: Dang you did?
Speaker 2: I did? I did.
Speaker 3: I could feel Dylan and seating behind me just staring at.
Speaker 2: Me, giggling.
Speaker 4: Just don't know how to relate to that anymore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Seaton's hands are massive compared to yours. Pause, Yes, God,
Speaker 2: there's nothing worse. Hey, Marvin Oll, you want to hide
Speaker 2: by hell, not one to high five from you. You're
Speaker 2: my least favorite. I just want to measure your hands.
Speaker 2: My bad. You're right, I do look at you when
Speaker 2: I when I say Kenny Pickett, I do look at
Speaker 2: you in your hands and I apologize. You did it
Speaker 2: like twice? I know, I did, I did, I did.
Speaker 2: That's bad I'm sorry. Corey in Kansas City. Hi, Corey,
Speaker 2: what's on your mind today?
Speaker 5: Top of the morning, mister Patrick, to you and the
Speaker 5: boys seat and Marv bu Tank forever, guys. Two things. One,
Speaker 5: last week, you guys were having some friend with firm
Speaker 5: and university. I don't know if you guys have ever
Speaker 5: heard of a Friends University of Central Kansas, which has
Speaker 5: since been changed just to Friends University.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. I got
Speaker 2: that one. It's where you put that on your jersey,
Speaker 2: the initials ah, Nick and Irvine. Hi Nick, what's on
Speaker 2: your mind today?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 12: Danny Nan from southern California, you cannot there's nothing good
Speaker 12: about green really.
Speaker 13: But you know I'm wearing it.
Speaker 3: Don't like to be pinched.
Speaker 12: The best of the weekend, Uh, Goddess gotta give it
Speaker 12: to the Tigers in Tokyo shutting out the Cubs and
Speaker 12: the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: Back to back days.
Speaker 12: That was very impressive. The second best of the weekend
Speaker 12: is how hyped everyone is here in California, especially so
Speaker 12: Cow with the Lakers. No one's going to beat the Lakers.
Speaker 3: Day and you know it?
Speaker 12: And uh and.
Speaker 2: Does anybody want to do a pie? Of the face
Speaker 2: with Nick. Nick says the Lakers are winning the NBA title. Yes, boy, yeah,
Speaker 2: not anti Lakers all right?
Speaker 5: Nick?
Speaker 2: Uh, do you want to do a pile of the face.
Speaker 2: You got the Lakers winning the title? Yeah, I got
Speaker 2: the Lake winning the title.
Speaker 12: Do a pie to the face?
Speaker 2: Sure, whatever that is, and I will.
Speaker 12: Yeah, the Lakers and the Dodgers Dodgers. Here's the stat
Speaker 12: of the day for you. The Dodgers have improved more
Speaker 12: than any defending World Series team in history thirty three
Speaker 12: point seventy five percent, according to Nick's stats. And it's
Speaker 12: unbelievable how much better the Dodgers are. And it's going
Speaker 12: to be outstanding. I predict fifteen wins for sho heo TONI.
Speaker 12: That's over under fifteen wins right there. Anyone want to
Speaker 12: do a pile of the face.
Speaker 2: Anybody want to? Marvin? Marvin will take the under on
Speaker 2: that show Hall does under Marvin?
Speaker 3: Yes, really, starting pitchers pitch what five and a half innings?
Speaker 2: Nick, you got two pies to the face. So you
Speaker 2: got the Lakers winning the title and show heyo Tony
Speaker 2: winning at least fifteen games. Marvin took the under. Paulie
Speaker 2: and Seaton took the field against the Lakers. I mean,
Speaker 2: I gotta get Lebron back. You know, I'm not sure
Speaker 2: what the timeframe on that is.
Speaker 3: Yes, I already know what's going to happen. If the
Speaker 3: Lakers play the Nuggets, is going to be Game seven.
Speaker 3: Some Jamal Murray misses a big shot, a Jokis gets
Speaker 3: a big offensive rebound. Because they don't have any size
Speaker 3: that I'm calling it.
Speaker 2: Oh, y are that's it? Okay? Wow, last call for
Speaker 2: phone calls. What we learned, what's in store tomorrow, They's
Speaker 2: stay in sports history, all of that.
Speaker 1: Right after this, be sure to catch the live edition
Speaker 1: of The Dan Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern
Speaker 1: six am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio wapp.
Speaker 2: Bagpipes came in earlier today. Paulie goes, I'd like to
Speaker 2: try to play the bagpipes. I said, all right, we'll
Speaker 2: see if we can ask one of the guys if
Speaker 2: you can blow on his bagpipes. And so had the
Speaker 2: band in here they were playing. Paulie, how was it?
Speaker 7: It's quite complex. You have just holding the apparatus. There's
Speaker 7: a bunch of stuff. You have to have two hands
Speaker 7: on the holes. You have to fill up the bag
Speaker 7: of air every couple seconds and then use your arm
Speaker 7: to press it out. I'm not exactly a cardio guy
Speaker 7: on a good day. I was barely to get any
Speaker 7: audio out of it.
Speaker 2: But you did make some noise I did, thankfully their
Speaker 2: noise drowned out your noise. Correct. But yeah, they came
Speaker 2: in bagpipes. They're yearly visit here to the man Cave.
Speaker 7: I would have picked any of those guys for being
Speaker 7: great cardio people, either by looking at them up and down.
Speaker 7: But no, they said they have to march and do this.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, I mean they're not iron men.
Speaker 2: You know, it's not like a triathlon, and they're making
Speaker 2: it seem like, yeah, how about if you walked up
Speaker 2: a hill with this? Yeah, okay. I wouldn't want to
Speaker 2: challenge them at the bar, but as far as a
Speaker 2: cardio contest, I think I could hold my own there. Yes, Dylan,
Speaker 2: I's gonna say it.
Speaker 8: It turns into cardia depending on how many drinks you've
Speaker 8: had that day, because all of a sudden, walking with
Speaker 8: bagpipes is actually pretty impressive.
Speaker 2: You know, these guys wear their kilts and some don't
Speaker 2: wear anything underneath it, as McLevin found out the hard
Speaker 2: way a couple of years ago. I think he was
Speaker 2: lying on the floor and all of a sudden one
Speaker 2: of the guys came over and showed his bagpipes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they all had to like march over him. I
Speaker 4: think he lost the bet and they had to lay
Speaker 4: on the ground and they all marched over him, traumatizing.
Speaker 2: I had a guy described a guy have he was
Speaker 2: wearing short shorts and one of his testicles popped out,
Speaker 2: and he says, yeah, the guy one of his chandeliers
Speaker 2: fell out in the ballroom or there was something like
Speaker 2: I'd never heard the expression, but it was something like that,
Speaker 2: that one of his chandeliers fell out in the ballroom.
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, I'll take your word on that. Let's see.
Speaker 2: Uh Jim in Michigan, Hi Jim, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 14: I second time caller. I was listening to you guys
Speaker 14: talk about shows you like to watch on cable whatever.
Speaker 14: My granddaughter got me involved with a show called squid Games.
Speaker 14: Oh yeah, Korean product, and I was it blew my mind.
Speaker 14: It was pretty squirrely. I'm not used to that kind
Speaker 14: of violence.
Speaker 13: But it was.
Speaker 14: I thought if anybody, you guys wouldn't know about it.
Speaker 2: So oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's you know, a couple
Speaker 2: of years ago that came out. That was a big deal.
Speaker 2: Red Light green Light. That was hell of the show.
Speaker 2: That's all you needed to watch. I was hooked. The
Speaker 2: other shows that have followed up didn't really gather my
Speaker 2: interest much. But the first season of Squid Game pretty well, yes, Dylan.
Speaker 8: Then they made a second season. Yeah, they came out recently.
Speaker 8: They didn't watch that.
Speaker 2: No, it was the same guy who won, and then
Speaker 2: he comes back because he wants to take down these people.
Speaker 8: I feel like that was kind of a one and
Speaker 8: done season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it was amazing the shock value there.
Speaker 2: Season two is good.
Speaker 4: It's just a different experience because he's going through it
Speaker 4: the second time and so are you. Yeah, and so
Speaker 4: the way that it keeps like sort of the first season,
Speaker 4: it keeps ramping up and getting more and more terrible.
Speaker 4: It doesn't quite have the same effect, but they don't.
Speaker 4: They don't really try to duplicate it either.
Speaker 2: Frankie in Milwaukee, Hi, Frankie, Hey, I'm just calling.
Speaker 13: In to say how important I think it is for
Speaker 13: Aaron Rodgers to be of Minnesota Viking. And my rationale
Speaker 13: is it's been fifty eight years and a rookie quarterback
Speaker 13: has never won the Super Bowl, So I think their
Speaker 13: only shot is to get Aaron Rodgers on board.
Speaker 2: But JJ McCarthy would not be a rookie. This would
Speaker 2: be his second year, Mahomes his first year as well.
Speaker 2: He wasn't injured this day in sports history, Paul, what
Speaker 2: do you have for me today?
Speaker 7: Just a couple Two thousand and three, jose Canseco was
Speaker 7: released from jail a brawl in a night club, shockingly,
Speaker 7: and he was sentenced to two years of house arrest.
Speaker 3: And then two.
Speaker 7: Thousand and five, staying with the theme, several MLB players
Speaker 7: spoke about steroid US to the House Government Reform Committee.
Speaker 7: Mark McGuire, jose Can Sing, Sammy Sosa, Raffie pal Marrow
Speaker 7: joined the hearing.
Speaker 2: I remember that morning. I was at ESPN and I
Speaker 2: was talking to Mark McGuire's agent and I said, what's
Speaker 2: Maart going to say? We said, you know, we have
Speaker 2: we what we need to say. You know, we have
Speaker 2: a game plan, and the game plan was I'm not
Speaker 2: here to talk about the past, and I wish you
Speaker 2: would have run that by me and just said, you know,
Speaker 2: we're just going to say we're not here to talk
Speaker 2: about the past, because I would have said, don't do that,
Speaker 2: don't do that. But I mean, you had Rafael pal
Speaker 2: Marrow in there waving his finger. Who would have thought
Speaker 2: that Conseko was the only honest guy up there? This
Speaker 2: day in sports history, nineteen ninety nine, Blue Jays manager
Speaker 2: Tim Johnson was fired. You know why he was fired?
Speaker 2: So it's not even baseball, you know, it's spring training.
Speaker 2: He admitted that he made up war stories from Vietnam
Speaker 2: that he used to fire up the team. And he
Speaker 2: made him up. Dah, I mean it's baseball. You need
Speaker 2: to fire up your team. That football win one for
Speaker 2: the gifference. Yes, I remember ANUM sixty eight, like what
Speaker 2: are we doing?
Speaker 5: Dag that is.
Speaker 2: You know like Giorgio Leary he lost dout on the
Speaker 2: Notre Dame John that he lied about his resume. Who's uh,
Speaker 2: Brian the news guy Williams. Brian Williams, didn't you lie
Speaker 2: about being shot down in a helicopter? He shot at?
Speaker 7: He said, as helicopter was shot at. And during the
Speaker 7: investigation into it, they actually used audio and subpoenut audio
Speaker 7: from our show when Brian Williams is on.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh I didn't know.
Speaker 7: The investigators asked for audio from Brian's appearance on our show,
Speaker 7: where he also referenced it.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay, let's go around the room. What we
Speaker 2: learn in the program? Dylan is in for Fritzie. What
Speaker 2: did you learn today? Dylan?
Speaker 8: I learned that there is a friend's University and it
Speaker 8: is in Central Kansas.
Speaker 2: Seaton O'Connor got some pie bets coming, Yes we do. Marvin,
Speaker 2: what did you learn today?
Speaker 3: You compare Johnny Manziel to Eddie Haskell.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're old enough to remember, leave it to beaver, Paul.
Speaker 7: Dylan kind of smells like Saint Patrick's day.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Did you wear that outfit yesterday?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: I actually didn't. This is afresh then, okay, afreshy afreshye okay,
Speaker 2: Marvin Wood and I learned today?
Speaker 3: You learned that Dylan didn't wear that yesterday.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you. Have a great day, everybody,