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Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins Falcons quarterbacks. That an interesting couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: What was it three weeks ago? We had the NFL Draft.
Speaker 2: There are a lot of things that have happened. Kirk
Speaker 2: Cousins watching the draft. How did he get the heads
Speaker 2: up that they were going to take Michael Pennox junior?
Speaker 2: And how did that go over? He'll join us coming
Speaker 2: up here a little bit. Dan Orlovsky analysts with the Mothership.
Speaker 2: He'll stop by as we look at the NFL schedule.
Speaker 2: The full schedule dropped last night. Selda's close out the Calves.
Speaker 2: They await the winner of the Knicks and the Pacers
Speaker 2: could be the last game for Donovan Mitchell. His one
Speaker 2: year left on his contract, and now it's a case
Speaker 2: of if they were going to sign an extension, they
Speaker 2: probably would have in Cleveland. Now it might be I
Speaker 2: can just play out this last year and then I
Speaker 2: can leave on my own, or do you want to
Speaker 2: trade me? And I'm sure you're there's not gonna be
Speaker 2: a shortage of suitors for Donovan Mitchell. Mavericks win at
Speaker 2: the Thunder, they go up three games to two. Give
Speaker 2: credit to Luca. Luca played great also at a big
Speaker 2: defensive play at the very end, and he finished with
Speaker 2: thirty one, eleven and ten. He has three triple doubles
Speaker 2: this postseason, most in the NBA. And the Thunder, we're
Speaker 2: held to ninety two. You're at home. This is your
Speaker 2: lowest point total of the past two seasons. That's regular
Speaker 2: season and postseason combined, ninety two points. And it's stat
Speaker 2: of the day, stat of the day, that bust, stat
Speaker 2: of the day, stat of the day. Here comes that
Speaker 2: what stat of the day? Ninety two points at the
Speaker 2: worst possible time, because you have to win this game.
Speaker 2: You give credit to Dallas, give credit to Luca. And
Speaker 2: now they go home. Now they can close out this
Speaker 2: series and perhaps to face the Denver Nuggets. Now the
Speaker 2: Nuggets are on the road tonight in Minnesota. They are
Speaker 2: a slight underdog in this game. But Boston Celtics looked
Speaker 2: great last night, and everybody still says the same thing.
Speaker 2: Let's wait till they get back to the NBA Finals.
Speaker 2: They can get some rest, not that they need the rest.
Speaker 2: Cleveland was outmanned injuries, and they still have a nice nucleus.
Speaker 2: I just don't think they can keep it together now.
Speaker 2: I don't know if Donovan Mitchell looks at this nucleus
Speaker 2: the way I do and goes all right, Darius Garland,
Speaker 2: he can get you twenty, Evan Mobley, Jared Allen, those
Speaker 2: are good big men here. Now can we fill out
Speaker 2: this roster? Because Mitchell is a wonderful player. I just
Speaker 2: don't know if he looks at this situation as it
Speaker 2: was temporary. I think people thought that it was temporary
Speaker 2: when that deal was made and he went to Cleveland. Now,
Speaker 2: who's going to be interested? Brian Winhorn said, Miami, Brooklyn,
Speaker 2: you'll have to throw in the Lakers, of course for clicks.
Speaker 2: But Donovan Mitchell might have played his last game, and
Speaker 2: I wonder if he needs surgery, because I'll go back
Speaker 2: earlier in the week with what I was told that
Speaker 2: the calf injury was more serious and he more than
Speaker 2: likely he wasn't going to play the rest of the playoffs,
Speaker 2: and he sat out the last two games, and I
Speaker 2: was told that it might be a little more serious
Speaker 2: than that. All right, so you got PJA Championship going
Speaker 2: on beautiful day in Louisville, Kentucky at Valhalla. We'll give
Speaker 2: you an update on the leaderboard here in a moment,
Speaker 2: but Nuggets at the Timberwolves coming up tonight. In case
Speaker 2: you're wondering, according to DraftKings, Anthony Edwards over under is
Speaker 2: the same as Nikola Jokich over under Marvin you want
Speaker 2: to guess.
Speaker 3: Twenty nine and a half bloo blue blue.
Speaker 2: What Here's really the key for me is Karl Anthony
Speaker 2: Towns over under. Like, I think this is what this
Speaker 2: game hinges on. If Minnesota's gonna win, you gotta have
Speaker 2: Karl Anthony town step up, because Denver's gonna do that.
Speaker 2: They're gonna have the same philosophy. Now, I don't know
Speaker 2: if Mike Conley is going to be able to play,
Speaker 2: but if not, or he's not one hundred percent, then
Speaker 2: Anthony Edward's going to be handling the ball and they're
Speaker 2: going to just send a double team his way and
Speaker 2: have somebody else beat them. Plus you're going to have
Speaker 2: your big men rotating on the Joker. Do you realize
Speaker 2: there were three consecutive plays by Joker last game where
Speaker 2: he went against three different seven footers and scored. So
Speaker 2: he scored against Rudy and the Go Bears, Karl Anthony
Speaker 2: Towns and then Read as well. So he went back
Speaker 2: to back to back, three different plays against three different
Speaker 2: big men and scored in three different ways. Yes, Marvin, this.
Speaker 4: Run is starting to feel like a team in ninety
Speaker 4: four to ninety five. Okay, well, just for a stretch
Speaker 4: he was like just unstoppable. I mean great the rest
Speaker 4: of their careers too, but just for that point, like
Speaker 4: they're winning it and.
Speaker 2: There's no asterisk here where you go. Well, Jordan wasn't
Speaker 2: playing then and team got his two titles. You just
Speaker 2: have you know, Joker, He's at the right place at
Speaker 2: the right time. Because you have young players who don't
Speaker 2: have great teams or they're not ready for this moment,
Speaker 2: and you have your older players who are older. You know,
Speaker 2: Lebron is out and Steph's out and Kd's out. He's
Speaker 2: got this window of opportunity. Now you do have the
Speaker 2: Boston Celtics will probably meet you in the finals. They've
Speaker 2: been there before. They do have a really good team.
Speaker 2: They have a couple of really good players stars. But
Speaker 2: we want to see them again on the big stage
Speaker 2: because last time we saw them, they didn't act like
Speaker 2: they were ready for that moment. Our two pole questions
Speaker 2: Seaton O'Connor. I think we're going to go with who
Speaker 2: you got this weekend? Scotty Scheffler of the Field. Why not?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 5: Okay, it could be fun see if he's really getting
Speaker 5: the field treatment just yet.
Speaker 2: This is the first time I think we've done Scotty
Speaker 2: versus the Field.
Speaker 5: I can't think of another time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so, it's like we're it's a big moment.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you that we should mark this down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like we're doing it kind of begrudgingly, like gosh,
Speaker 2: how dare we do that to Tiger that we put
Speaker 2: Scotty in there? But I mean the numbers show that
Speaker 2: he is worthy of this. His wife finally had her baby,
Speaker 2: by the way, that was a month after the Masters.
Speaker 2: You know, the way it was kind of portrayed was,
Speaker 2: you know, if he's having she's having the baby, goes
Speaker 2: into labor, and he's walking up eighteen he's leaving. I'm like,
Speaker 2: she finally had the baby. It's like, oh, okay, congratulations.
Speaker 2: Made it seem like it was imminent. Uh So he's
Speaker 2: he's the odds on favorite, and then it's Rory uh,
Speaker 2: Xander Shoftley, my pick Brooks Koepka, and then John Rung.
Speaker 2: So do you have a leaderboard there, Paulie.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I got early Tiger he's plus one after six
Speaker 6: holes doing well. Some people are scoring early. Xander Shopley
Speaker 6: three under, Victor Hobland he's making a little comeback lately,
Speaker 6: three under, Jordan Spieth three under, and Rory McElroy two under.
Speaker 2: Okay, oh wow. I played that golf course many years
Speaker 2: ago and I didn't do well, but you know, it's
Speaker 2: one of those where you're like, I'm playing where they're
Speaker 2: going to have the PGA Championship and it was beautiful
Speaker 2: golf course. Sometimes, like I played Pinehurst number two, one
Speaker 2: of the great courses in the world. Hated it, but
Speaker 2: it's because like it beat me up. There's certain golf
Speaker 2: courses you play and you go, this isn't any fun,
Speaker 2: and Pinehurst number two not any fun. It was just
Speaker 2: so tough. And the greens in Pinehurst are like if
Speaker 2: a turtle is out there and you know there's a
Speaker 2: flagstip stick on top of the turtle's shell because if
Speaker 2: you don't get it up there and keep it on
Speaker 2: there like the greens just roll off like that. It's
Speaker 2: like they buried, you know, big turtles up there. And
Speaker 2: it wasn't fun at all. Got absolutely roughed up and
Speaker 2: it was hot, and I'm just like God, this is
Speaker 2: this is work and expensive too. You know, like pebble,
Speaker 2: you can have a bad round. You can't have a
Speaker 2: bad day. Not possible. I don't care if there's rain,
Speaker 2: if there's mist or fog, or when I've played it
Speaker 2: it's been sunny. But you know, that's that's just one
Speaker 2: of those great courses no matter what. You get an
Speaker 2: opportunity play pebble. It's expensive, but play it, and if
Speaker 2: you can stay there, do it. It's a wonderful experience there.
Speaker 2: All right, some phone calls here and then we'll take
Speaker 2: a break. Kirk Cousins, we'll join us. Coming up, Paul
Speaker 2: and Iowa. Hi, Paul, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 7: Hey? Dan?
Speaker 8: First, the Packers over ten and a half is free money.
Speaker 8: But I have two quick questions for you about the
Speaker 8: NFL schedule this year. The first question is Jet's open
Speaker 8: the season in primetime again, so what we see Rogers
Speaker 8: run out with the flag again? And then My second
Speaker 8: question is what are the books doing by putting the
Speaker 8: Steelers at eight and a half. Do they want us
Speaker 8: to bet on Tomlin Street to continue or bet on
Speaker 8: how hard their schedule is this year?
Speaker 2: I think you bet on Mike Tomlin. But I was
Speaker 2: surprised at that. Thank you, Paul. You got the Cowboys
Speaker 2: I think at ten and a half wins Packers at
Speaker 2: ten and a half. I mean, usually you're getting that.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of teams in that nine to eleven,
Speaker 2: and yeah, you start to look at this. Mike Tomlin
Speaker 2: always has a winning record, but that's a tough schedule
Speaker 2: and we just don't know how good Russell Wilson's going
Speaker 2: to be. That really is what it comes down to.
Speaker 2: But he's got to be better than Kenny Pickett, wouldn't
Speaker 2: you think. And I still love that you got Justin
Speaker 2: Fields there warming up in the bullpen or that he
Speaker 2: can give you a different look. I'm in the minority,
Speaker 2: but I still like Justin Fields as a starting quarterback
Speaker 2: in the NFL. I think if he had consistent coaching,
Speaker 2: offensive coordinator and you actually had some weapons there, because
Speaker 2: he went into Chicago and they basically said, I don't
Speaker 2: know going out there. Hey, run around? Didn't that what
Speaker 2: you do? Well? I'm running around? Can I get some blockie?
Speaker 2: Can I throw to somebody? Let me see Aiden in Utah, Hi, Aidan,
Speaker 2: what's on your mind.
Speaker 7: Yesterday? Yes? Aiden?
Speaker 9: All right, I've been disappointed with your show last Tuday,
Speaker 9: and there's one reason for that.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 7: I have been waiting for you to.
Speaker 1: Talk about the Dolphins backfield, and I have been disappointed
Speaker 1: last today.
Speaker 2: Hayden, I did say I would in the final hour
Speaker 2: on Thursday, I would spend the entire hour on the
Speaker 2: Dolphins running back and their running game, their backfield. Okay.
Speaker 2: So I didn't promise that yesterday, on my birthday or
Speaker 2: the day before, but I did say, coming up Thursday,
Speaker 2: the entire hour, we'll just talk about their backfield. Thank you, Aden.
Speaker 2: I can hear him, Chuck one.
Speaker 5: I mean, should we go over the guest list real quick?
Speaker 5: If you want who do we want to get for
Speaker 5: the backfield talk? Do you want an analyst? Do we
Speaker 5: want a former player?
Speaker 2: A couple of analysts? Probably? Yeah. I mean, let's just
Speaker 2: havesk to say break this down. Get Chefty on here
Speaker 2: Orlovsky can join us, maybe Dan Marino can join us.
Speaker 2: Maybe Chad Penning and A J. Dewey, Jay Fiedler.
Speaker 6: Former Dolphins running backs to help give respective all the
Speaker 6: great Dolphin running backs. Let's get Reggie Reggie Bush. Reggie
Speaker 6: Bush can join us, Ricky Williams can join us. It'll
Speaker 6: be a final hour.
Speaker 2: Letstravaganza. Mercury Morris, whoa, okay, Larry Zanka, and we'll get
Speaker 2: all the great Dolphin running back I can't name that, No,
Speaker 2: Bernie Parmally, whoa. I had a good poll by you,
Speaker 2: So that's coming up in the final hour. I think
Speaker 2: that I'd promise that. What happened was we had a
Speaker 2: caller say, hey, can you break down the Dolphins running
Speaker 2: back game? And I go, no, We'll do that Thursday
Speaker 2: in the final hour. Adam and West Virginia High.
Speaker 5: That's so funny too, by the way, sorry Adam to
Speaker 5: cut you off, because one of our longest running punchlines
Speaker 5: is like, okay, yeah, we'll just break down the Mariner's
Speaker 5: bullpen next.
Speaker 2: Just something we would never do.
Speaker 5: But Dolphins running game randomly is very much like yeah,
Speaker 5: an extension of the Mariner's bullpen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna break down the Brewers'
Speaker 2: bullpen coming up, I'll do that. It's like when somebody's listening,
Speaker 2: but they're not really listening. They have something they want answered.
Speaker 2: So hey, this doesn't serve anybody but me. Could you
Speaker 2: break down the Dolphins backfield? Hey, Adam, what's on your mind?
Speaker 9: Actually, Dan, I'm a huge Dolphins fan, so you can
Speaker 9: break it down in time you want that. KD. You
Speaker 9: mentioned him possibly going to the Heat, But my thought was,
Speaker 9: do you think the Knicks would be willing to make
Speaker 9: an offer to somebody like KD? Considering they got Brunson,
Speaker 9: this is the best they've been in a long time.
Speaker 9: New York is actually attractive. For one, maybe they could
Speaker 9: lure somebody like KD to give him that kind of
Speaker 9: to be since Kd's kind of gone into the twilight
Speaker 9: of his career. But do you think that would put
Speaker 9: to get them enough to possibly take on someone like
Speaker 9: the Celtics and make it to the finals.
Speaker 2: I mean, if nothing's crazy, nothing's out of the question.
Speaker 2: I just think that the Knicks kind of have that
Speaker 2: nucleus or that mindset of what they want. KD changes
Speaker 2: that when he comes in, because if he didn't like
Speaker 2: what was going on in Phoenix, where you know you
Speaker 2: had Bradley Beal and Booker getting a lot of touches
Speaker 2: and he didn't know his role. He's going to go
Speaker 2: there and he's going to watch Jalen Brunson just pound
Speaker 2: the ball. But Miami, I don't know. Feels like all
Speaker 2: of these guys want to go to Miami and I
Speaker 2: don't have any insight on that. I just know that
Speaker 2: he's not happy in Phoenix. Didn't talk to Frank Vogel
Speaker 2: for a month and he's his head coach at least
Speaker 2: not anymore. But what can you get for him? Where
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Speaker 2: Three weeks ago today, we're thinking about the Falcons. Oh,
Speaker 2: could they add another weapon, another receiver, Maybe they get
Speaker 2: an edge rusher. They already had their quarterback, they got
Speaker 2: their running back. They got a good tight end, a
Speaker 2: good wide receiver. Defense could use some help. They plan
Speaker 2: a bad division, and Kirk Cousin's coming off surgery but
Speaker 2: going home where his wife is from. Everything was looking good.
Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden, with the eighth pick
Speaker 2: in the NFL Draft, the Falcons take Michael Pennix, Junior.
Speaker 2: The schedule came out last night. The Falcons do have
Speaker 2: one of the easiest schedules this upcoming season. So we
Speaker 2: make way for the Falcons quarterback Kirk Cousins, who joins
Speaker 2: us on the program. Whoa look at that got the
Speaker 2: guns out there.
Speaker 11: Well, I haven't got under a bench president a very
Speaker 11: long time. I got sophomore in college. My max was
Speaker 11: I did two twenty five sixteen times, okay, And I
Speaker 11: realized that it started to become a concern, Like the
Speaker 11: more you lift as a quarterback, the more the NFL
Speaker 11: coaches may think you're too stiff.
Speaker 7: So then they kind of backed away from it.
Speaker 2: Describe the emotions the last three plus weeks.
Speaker 11: I mean, I'm excited. There's been a lot of change.
Speaker 11: I think that's the biggest thing right now for me.
Speaker 11: Is as one old teammate said to me, when you
Speaker 11: go to a new team, nothing is on autopilot.
Speaker 7: Nothing's on cruise control.
Speaker 11: There's days where I miss lunch because I don't know
Speaker 11: where the cafeteria is or I don't know when lunch ends.
Speaker 11: And so everything is new, even like figuring out what
Speaker 11: room can I use to watch film? And you know,
Speaker 11: how do the lifts work. Everybody's new. Everything's new, and
Speaker 11: so there's a lot of unknown and you're starting to
Speaker 11: settle in, but a lot of change.
Speaker 7: And that's part of what you sign up for.
Speaker 11: I did it going from Washington, Minnesota and now again
Speaker 11: coming to Atlanta.
Speaker 2: Okay, but three weeks ago, how are your spirits?
Speaker 11: Well, I mean my spirits have kind of always been
Speaker 11: understanding that competition is a part of this job, this league.
Speaker 11: I go back to my story, and you know my
Speaker 11: story quite a bit, dam But in high school I
Speaker 11: commit to Michigan State and a few weeks later, Mark
Speaker 11: D'Antonio calls me to tell me that Nick Foles is
Speaker 11: going to be offered a scholarship as well.
Speaker 7: And I then looked.
Speaker 11: Up what Nick Foles had done in high school, and
Speaker 11: I thought he lived the movie Friday Night Lights. I mean,
Speaker 11: he played in state championship games. He played in front
Speaker 11: of you know, ten thousand plus CE crowds like this
Speaker 11: is not my high school experience, So I'm in trouble.
Speaker 7: But you learned that, Hey, we go to work.
Speaker 11: We practice, we get better, we improved, We played a
Speaker 11: long game, and you know, Nick and I were both
Speaker 11: able to have long college careers and pro careers. Then
Speaker 11: I go to Washington and it was a similar dynamic
Speaker 11: where you realize there's a quarterback in the same draft
Speaker 11: class as me here in this quarterback room.
Speaker 7: What does that mean for our careers?
Speaker 11: And you realize that, you know, both of us were
Speaker 11: able to have productive careers in the sense that we
Speaker 11: both played a lot of football. And then again, now
Speaker 11: when you see us take a quarterback, you say, hey,
Speaker 11: you know, this is more the norm than the exception,
Speaker 11: and I would expect both of us to go on
Speaker 11: to have, you know, great careers up ahead. You just
Speaker 11: don't know how. That's the thing. You don't know how
Speaker 11: it's going to play out. I didn't know how Nick
Speaker 11: Foles and I were both going to have long pro careers.
Speaker 11: I didn't know how Griff and I were going to
Speaker 11: end up playing. But it all works out and I
Speaker 11: think this will be no different.
Speaker 2: I take me back to Minnesota. Did they tell you
Speaker 2: they were going to draft a quarterback?
Speaker 11: Well, they let me know, like pretty right before the pick.
Speaker 11: But outside of that.
Speaker 2: No, But if you had stayed there, were they still
Speaker 2: going to go after JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 11: Oh, I'm sorry, Sorry you were saying Minnesotaelkins. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 11: trying to remember the conversations. You know, so much of
Speaker 11: it was through my agent. No, it was very gray.
Speaker 11: It was very you know, we don't know what we're
Speaker 11: going to do. And speaking with Kevin O'Connell, who was
Speaker 11: always you know, very communicative with me, it was, you know,
Speaker 11: we're not we're not sure. He said, if we bring
Speaker 11: you back, we'd love to use the draft picks on defense.
Speaker 11: But you understand there nobody really knows in March what
Speaker 11: they're going to do in late April.
Speaker 2: But if you had known, if I gave you a
Speaker 2: do over, you know, Minnesota's going to take JJ McCarthy,
Speaker 2: and you know what Lanta is going to take Michael Pennox.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 11: No, I just don't think it's helpful to deal on hypotheticals.
Speaker 11: I mean, you can do that with any scenario at
Speaker 11: any point in your career. If this, then what and
Speaker 11: you can go down a lot of trails. But I'm
Speaker 11: excited to be here in Atlanta, be the quarterback of
Speaker 11: the Falcons. I think we've got a great opportunity to
Speaker 11: win a lot of games here and have a lot
Speaker 11: to look forward to up ahead.
Speaker 2: So you're watching the draft and then you get a
Speaker 2: heads up, what thirty seconds before the pick?
Speaker 7: Yeah, maybe maybe a minute and a half.
Speaker 2: You know, it wasn't much, Okay, are you at home
Speaker 2: with the wife and kids.
Speaker 7: I was.
Speaker 11: I was at a draft function at the at the
Speaker 11: stadium and I was driving back up to my house.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So then you call your wife and you say, what.
Speaker 11: Basically what the team told me that hey, they're gonna
Speaker 11: be drafting a quarterback, And you know, I think again,
Speaker 11: I'm just like, I'm kind of rehashing with you. I
Speaker 11: remind and my wife, Hey, this is this is a
Speaker 11: big part of my story, going back to when I
Speaker 11: committed to Michigan State, going back to when I was
Speaker 11: drafted to Washington, and it's always had a way of
Speaker 11: working itself out, and so let's draw on past experience
Speaker 11: to trust that the future you know, can be the same.
Speaker 2: We're talking to Kirk Cousins, the Falcons quarterback. Yeah, if
Speaker 2: the season started today, your role would be. What with
Speaker 2: the team.
Speaker 7: I believe I'm the starting quarterback, but health wise, oh yeah, no,
Speaker 7: I'm I'm good to go.
Speaker 11: I've told people for a while, uh that if the
Speaker 11: super Bowl were today, I'm playing, And that goes back
Speaker 11: probably I think when I first got here, I was
Speaker 11: working out and we got maybe a week or two
Speaker 11: into my rehab and I did some drills where I said, hey,
Speaker 11: if the super Bowl were today, I'm playing, and they
Speaker 11: seem to agree. So, you know, once that tendon gets
Speaker 11: stabilized and healed and the tissue connects, you really just
Speaker 11: are trying to work through telling your body that you're
Speaker 11: good now because the brain still wants to guard and
Speaker 11: protect and it takes some time. But I feel really
Speaker 11: good and there's more to go get but I can operate.
Speaker 11: I've been out practicing now, and I think that's a
Speaker 11: great sign.
Speaker 2: It feels like this was a death sentence a decade ago,
Speaker 2: and now all of a sudden, the Achilles surgery is
Speaker 2: something that Okay, Aaron Rodgers like, has that surgery changed
Speaker 2: further surgeries for anybody who has an achilles injury.
Speaker 11: I think maybe the ACL two has been similar where
Speaker 11: where when Gail Sayers did it, it was a death
Speaker 11: sentence to his career. But guys do it now and
Speaker 11: they come back stronger. Adrian Peterson does it and you
Speaker 11: know the next year runs for two thousand yards and
Speaker 11: his offensive Player.
Speaker 7: Of the Year. So you know.
Speaker 11: I remember when my agent, after I did the injury,
Speaker 11: we were talking and he said, look, this used to
Speaker 11: be a twelve month injury. Now it's a nine month injury.
Speaker 11: Some guys are coming back in seven to five months,
Speaker 11: so he said. And plus he said, you're a pocket
Speaker 11: passing quarterback. So this just is not This is not
Speaker 11: the issue that it might be made out to be
Speaker 11: in the media. It just won't be that, And it
Speaker 11: is reality. And I think it's a credit to you know,
Speaker 11: the medical advances and the rehab teams and what they're doing.
Speaker 2: Well. I don't think you can run less than you
Speaker 2: normally do, right.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I.
Speaker 11: Have never been a like scrambling quarterback, so it shouldn't
Speaker 11: really change the way I play, even if I were
Speaker 11: to not heal fully, which I expect to. But no,
Speaker 11: I expect to be the same player, if not maybe
Speaker 11: a little more athletic because of how aggressive I'm going
Speaker 11: in the rehab with calf raises and jumping and leg
Speaker 11: presses and squats and things where maybe I wouldn't normally
Speaker 11: be doing that. So I should have an even better
Speaker 11: lower half than I've always played with. And speaking of
Speaker 11: achilles injuries from the past, I when I first did it,
Speaker 11: I went and looked up people like notable people who
Speaker 11: have torn their achilles, and obviously recently was Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 11: it was Megan Rapino. But I realized there were some
Speaker 11: names going way back, like obviously Dan Marino, like Judy Dench,
Speaker 11: the actress and dancers he tore achilles. Brad Pitt, Russell Crowe,
Speaker 11: George Clooney all tore their achilles. Al Gore Tor's achilles.
Speaker 11: So I realized, like, there's a lot of people who
Speaker 11: accomplish great things post achilles tear.
Speaker 7: So I feel like I'm in good company.
Speaker 2: Did you reach out to George Clooney or Brad Pitt
Speaker 2: or Judy Dench?
Speaker 11: Well, I reached out to Rogers, and I know he's
Speaker 11: you know, Rogers has a little bit bigger platform than me, right,
Speaker 11: So I said, he aarin. I said, you know, maybe
Speaker 11: during Super Bowl week or something, we have like an
Speaker 11: Achilles tear summit in Vegas where we get all the
Speaker 11: heavy hitters together who have torn their achilles, and I
Speaker 11: think with your contacts out there in California, we can
Speaker 11: make something happen. So he seemed to agree, But we
Speaker 11: just never really made it happen.
Speaker 2: That'd be great if you've got all these actors that
Speaker 2: came there, Rogers hosted the seminar, get the doctor in there, because.
Speaker 7: There's still time. There's still time.
Speaker 11: We could have an Achilles tear summit it and get
Speaker 11: all the all the heavy hitters in one room.
Speaker 7: I think you could make for a lot of great conversation.
Speaker 2: How important was it to bring your family back home
Speaker 2: for your your wife?
Speaker 11: Yeah, my wife is somebody who if I told her, Hey,
Speaker 11: I'm retiring tomorrow, she'd say, no problem. If I told
Speaker 11: her I'm playing ten more years, she'd say no problem.
Speaker 11: If I said we're playing in Japan, she'd say, great,
Speaker 11: the boys can go learn Japanese. So she's kind of
Speaker 11: up for whatever, up for the adventure. She loved the
Speaker 11: Minnesota but the fact that we're coming to Atlanta for
Speaker 11: her family, her parents, her siblings. They're huge sports fans,
Speaker 11: lifelong Atlanta sports fans.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 11: I think for them it's hard to even believe that
Speaker 11: they have a family member now who's playing for the Falcons.
Speaker 11: So that that's fun.
Speaker 2: What'd you do with all your vikings gear?
Speaker 7: What a great question.
Speaker 11: We do have a lot of it, and we're putting
Speaker 11: it in boxes and then mailing it back up to
Speaker 11: like our next door neighbor, you know, other teammates, because
Speaker 11: we have clothes for our kids and things where they're
Speaker 11: you know, teammates kids can use. So we're trying to recycle,
Speaker 11: if you will, the best we can, because we do
Speaker 11: have a lot of purple and gold around and I've
Speaker 11: had a lot of friends and family text me saying, man,
Speaker 11: the only challenge is now we got to buy new jerseys,
Speaker 11: new hats, new seatshirts, so it can get expensive changing
Speaker 11: teams for your support support cast.
Speaker 2: How many players do you know on the team if
Speaker 2: they don't have their jerseys on or they're not standing
Speaker 2: by their lockers.
Speaker 11: Yeah, another great question. You know, we have ninety guys
Speaker 11: in the locker room, so it's not like a basketball
Speaker 11: team where if you learn twelve to fifteen names, you're good.
Speaker 11: So I know the offense, and that's partly because that's
Speaker 11: the group I'm with at the lifts and at the meetings.
Speaker 11: It's the defense where it's harder for me because we
Speaker 11: just brought in a whole new cast to rookies now
Speaker 11: and I don't have as many shared times with the defense,
Speaker 11: So I'm trying to learn names, but I still got
Speaker 11: a ways to go. And even the coaching staffs, I
Speaker 11: feel like support staff and coaching staffs have almost doubled
Speaker 11: since my.
Speaker 7: Rookie year in this league.
Speaker 11: So there's a lot of support staff, which is great
Speaker 11: to have the help, but it's a lot of names
Speaker 11: to learn.
Speaker 2: But are you one of those guys that hey Bud
Speaker 2: like you like, yeah, Like what do you say when
Speaker 2: you don't know who somebody is? But you don't want
Speaker 2: to be like man, nothing even say a low to me,
Speaker 2: like you gotta go hey.
Speaker 7: Yeah, No doubt. I think I think there's a lot
Speaker 7: of that, Dan, you get it.
Speaker 11: I mean I'm walking across the field to day to
Speaker 11: go to my next meeting and crossing the defense.
Speaker 7: And it's Hey Bud, Hey, how you doing guy? You know,
Speaker 7: so you have to do it, you do. Plus, if
Speaker 7: I said to everybody, hey, what's your name? What's your name?
Speaker 7: What's your name?
Speaker 11: There's a good chance I forget it, you know, by
Speaker 11: the time I get through the next lift. So it's
Speaker 11: just a process. And uh, I haven't yet gone home
Speaker 11: and like really tried to like study names with flash cards,
Speaker 11: but it may be something I have to do if
Speaker 11: it drags on.
Speaker 2: How about name tags? Hello, my name is.
Speaker 11: Name tags are a game changer. And at College Michigan
Speaker 11: State Mark D'Antonio, it was mandatory at training camp no
Speaker 11: matter who you were, you had to wear a tape
Speaker 11: name on your helmet or on your shirt if you
Speaker 11: were a coach. So even coach Dantonio had a you
Speaker 11: know deal Coach Stantonio, nobody was immune. So that would
Speaker 11: really help new guys certainly if we can just all
Speaker 11: have name tags.
Speaker 2: Before I let you go. You've you're a good businessman
Speaker 2: or somebody you know as a good businessman because you
Speaker 2: and Darrell Reves have had two unbelievably financial, great financial
Speaker 2: careers making really good decisions.
Speaker 7: No, I appreciate the kind words.
Speaker 11: It really goes back to my agent, Mike McCartney, I
Speaker 11: just kind of did what he told me over the
Speaker 11: last twelve years. I remember when Joe Flacco was playing
Speaker 11: in the Super Bowl my rookie year. I didn't know
Speaker 11: anything about contracts or how the league works, and my
Speaker 11: agent in New Orleans the week of the game explained
Speaker 11: to me Joe's situation now he was going to be
Speaker 11: a free agent, that the franchise tag is something that
Speaker 11: a team would use, that it's probably in Joe's best
Speaker 11: interest to be tagged, play on that tag twice, and
Speaker 11: then go to the market. And me explained this whole path,
Speaker 11: not knowing that in four years, three years from that moment,
Speaker 11: we would be living out that path. And so my
Speaker 11: agent explained to me. Then when it came our turn,
Speaker 11: he said, unless we can do a fully guaranteed contract
Speaker 11: over three years, we will just play on the franchise tag,
Speaker 11: and so that was what was offered, that was what
Speaker 11: was explained. The team chose not to do that. We
Speaker 11: played on the two franchise tags, then went to the market,
Speaker 11: and then we did a three year, fully guaranteed contract.
Speaker 11: So I pretty much just did what Mike McCartney told me.
Speaker 11: His wisdom proved to be true, and I've just kind
Speaker 11: of followed his hit him every step of the way,
Speaker 11: and we'll see where it.
Speaker 7: Goes from here, he joked. When we signed with the Falcons.
Speaker 11: As he was leaving the building, he said to the staff,
Speaker 11: he said, we'll see you guys in three years of
Speaker 11: the ex I thought it was a good line, So
Speaker 11: we'll see if you know where it goes from here.
Speaker 2: Well, you're you're able to go out and buy another minivan,
Speaker 2: and really, that's that's your quality of life, isn't it.
Speaker 2: That is that your big splurge that you get a
Speaker 2: minivan for the family.
Speaker 11: You know, I've kind of been known as a guy
Speaker 11: who's pretty cheap, and I will say that I I
Speaker 11: do have a bit of a like everything I spend
Speaker 11: on has to have like usefulness has to have utility.
Speaker 11: So if a conversion bank ca and have utility for
Speaker 11: my family, I'm going to get a nice conversion van.
Speaker 11: But yeah, like when people say, oh, are you gonna
Speaker 11: get some chains? Are you gonna get an awesome sports car,
Speaker 11: it's like, well, the utility.
Speaker 7: Is not really there, so it's hard for me to
Speaker 7: get excited about it.
Speaker 11: But yeah, I mean, I don't want the narrative be
Speaker 11: that I don't spend money, because, believe me, I've flown
Speaker 11: in a private jet before. You know, I've done some
Speaker 11: nice things. I bought a golf course in my hometown.
Speaker 11: So you know, when there's utility or I see a
Speaker 11: reason to do it, I'll write the check just like
Speaker 11: anybody else. But I also can get pretty cheap if
Speaker 11: I don't see the utility in it.
Speaker 2: Great to talk to you, Good luck again with the rehab,
Speaker 2: and hopefully we'll check in with you when you start
Speaker 2: the season. Thank you.
Speaker 11: Yeah, great catching up always good to see. It takes
Speaker 11: me back even to my college days and we've had
Speaker 11: our first interviews. And happy birthday to you and excited
Speaker 11: for there to be many more up ahead.
Speaker 2: Thank you a bun Kirk d Cousins. I got the
Speaker 2: over under according to DraftKings for the Falcons. Now they
Speaker 2: have one of the easier schedules, Todd, I'll start with
Speaker 2: you the Falcons over under this year nine and a
Speaker 2: half blue blue bloop. Well done, nailed it, well done,
Speaker 2: all right, there's a couple of surprises in here. How
Speaker 2: about the Bengals over under? So this just came out
Speaker 2: after the schedule release last night. So now we have
Speaker 2: an idea. We know who you're playing. Now, we know
Speaker 2: when you're playing them, and you know when your bye
Speaker 2: week is and how many conference games you have. What's
Speaker 2: it like at the end of the season, Todd, Bengals
Speaker 2: over under ten and a half. Did you look at this?
Speaker 3: I did not. I figured they got to be just
Speaker 3: maybe one better than what Atlanta's is.
Speaker 2: Well, they're ten and a half. Blue Blue nailed it. Yeah, congratulations,
Speaker 2: Cowboys at ten and a half, Ravens eleven and a half,
Speaker 2: Chap's eleven and a half, nine Ers eleven and a half.
Speaker 2: How about let me see Jets, Todd.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say nine and a half.
Speaker 6: Oh, come, no, he's got on fire, literally on fire.
Speaker 2: No, he's not literally on fire. It's nine and a half.
Speaker 3: That some third degree burns.
Speaker 2: Okay, Now, let me see if you can get your team.
Speaker 2: The Bronco's over under as of this morning.
Speaker 3: The Denver Bronco's over under a six and a half. Uh,
Speaker 3: I had such a run going?
Speaker 2: Is it less than that five and a half? Too optimistic?
Speaker 2: I'd your optimism got.
Speaker 3: You, buddy, gets to seven and ten comfortably.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I got the Eagles at ten and a half.
Speaker 2: Let me see who is gonna be really bad? Uh?
Speaker 2: Are four and a half? Four and a half? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Four and a half wins this year? Wows gonna be
Speaker 2: rough rough sledding up there this year? Who else is
Speaker 2: the Giants hard knocks? There are six and a half
Speaker 2: Now the Giants hard knocks is not in season. Hard
Speaker 2: knocks even in the training camp. This is off season
Speaker 2: with the Giants. We'll talk about that strategy coming up.
Speaker 2: More phone calls as well. Dan or Lobski will join
Speaker 2: us in the final hour of the program.
Speaker 1: Back 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
Speaker 1: wapp I.
Speaker 2: Saw this story about what USC paid Lincoln Riley, their
Speaker 2: head football coach twenty twenty two. This according to USA Today,
Speaker 2: Lincoln Riley, who left Oklahoma to go to USC, made
Speaker 2: almost ten million dollars in his first year at USC.
Speaker 2: The university also spent almost ten million dollars related to
Speaker 2: Riley's buyout and taxis. They paid one of their coaches
Speaker 2: nearly two million dollars and there was also a buyout
Speaker 2: that they had to pay Clay Helton. They had to
Speaker 2: pay him nearly four million dollars in severn. So they
Speaker 2: spent twenty eight million dollars in twenty twenty two on
Speaker 2: three of their coaches.
Speaker 12: Woh cow stead of a day, stall of a day,
Speaker 12: Statuta Day, Scoututa Day, this is the stat of the day.
Speaker 2: Stat of the Day rot ubon Canadian America. The official
Speaker 2: trading cards of the Dan Patrick Show. We were wondering
Speaker 2: the Giants are going to be It's Hard Knocks with
Speaker 2: the New York Giants. They're not going to be good
Speaker 2: this year. They're not interesting this year. They are in
Speaker 2: New York. But it's the off season with the New
Speaker 2: York Giants. It's not even training camp with the Giants. Now.
Speaker 2: I don't know what storylines because normally when we tuned
Speaker 2: into Hard Knocks, you always fell in love with a
Speaker 2: player or players. Their wife could be pregnant. You know,
Speaker 2: they're hanging on by a thread. Maybe if they perform
Speaker 2: well in a preseason game, they might make the roster,
Speaker 2: and then they fumble or they get beat for a touchdown,
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden, we go no Tommy's
Speaker 2: gonna get cut, and then Tommy goes in to see
Speaker 2: the coach and the coach goes, ah, there's no good
Speaker 2: way to say this. I'm going to have to let
Speaker 2: you go. But you know what, this could be a
Speaker 2: good thing for you. That's what we tuned in to watch.
Speaker 2: You weren't watching to see the big names because for
Speaker 2: the most part, unless it was JJ Watt or Tim Tebow,
Speaker 2: they weren't prominently featured. The stars didn't want to be
Speaker 2: and the team gets editorial control here and I was asking, Paulie,
Speaker 2: are you allowed to cut players on TV? On Hard Knocks?
Speaker 2: Do they allow you to do that anymore? Yeah, paul.
Speaker 2: I can't find anything.
Speaker 6: That the that HBO got rid of it, because you
Speaker 6: couldn't imagine HBO would want to get rid of that
Speaker 6: to be friendly, that's the hook of the show. I
Speaker 6: can't find anything that the NFL directed HBO or the
Speaker 6: team's not do it. I can only find an Adam
Speaker 6: Chef report from last year that said the Jets said
Speaker 6: we're going to limit access to player cuts for HBO,
Speaker 6: and shockingly HBO went along with it. They should have
Speaker 6: said no go, but they didn't.
Speaker 2: So that is there won't be any cuts.
Speaker 6: Obviously with the New York Giants, there's another version of
Speaker 6: Hard Knocks that's gonna be in season this year and
Speaker 6: they're gonna focus on a division that's still to be announced.
Speaker 6: But it's like, it's like Chick fil A get rid
Speaker 6: of chicken sandwiches. It's Hard Knocks as hook and that
Speaker 6: made it cringe worthy and watch The reason you watch
Speaker 6: it was that was a big part.
Speaker 2: But has it outlived its usefulness because it gave us
Speaker 2: a glimpse into what it's like. And you're trying to,
Speaker 2: you know, hold on and get a job, and you're
Speaker 2: a long shot and you're playing guitar in your your
Speaker 2: dorm room and all of a sudden, coach calls and
Speaker 2: you got to bring your playbook and then we go,
Speaker 2: oh no. We sort of tuned in for that. It
Speaker 2: was formulaic and we were fine with it. Now all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, it's like taking away the encore of
Speaker 2: a band that you're going to go see. By the way,
Speaker 2: they're not going to play their hits. You're gonna get
Speaker 2: to see them, but they're not playing those four songs
Speaker 2: in the encore.
Speaker 5: This is the hundredth season, the hundred on the Giant
Speaker 5: one hundred, Yes, the season.
Speaker 2: One hundredth is a tough word to They've been playing
Speaker 2: football for one hundred years, and it feels like a thousand, Yes, Todd.
Speaker 3: There's also a lot of been there, done that moment
Speaker 3: where the rookie gets up and sings a song in
Speaker 3: front of the group in the auditorium. It's like, how
Speaker 3: many different scenarios are there at some point after you know,
Speaker 3: we've seen a.
Speaker 2: Lot of kids. I'm okay with that, and the Lions
Speaker 2: did it. I was okay with that. I thought it
Speaker 2: was entertaining, but I'm not I love the banter that
Speaker 2: you have sometimes, you know, had coaches and offensive coach,
Speaker 2: defensive court coach, they'd be drawn at each other during
Speaker 2: a scrimmage and you would have somebody who had an
Speaker 2: interesting storyline. I just I don't know what the off
Speaker 2: season is like. You know, with the Giants, where you
Speaker 2: go that's going to be compelling in season, okay, But
Speaker 2: I don't even know with the Cardinals in season last year?
Speaker 2: Do we even know?
Speaker 5: Fourth of July is on the horizon, But already preparations
Speaker 5: have begun for the Giants one hundred season.
Speaker 6: Sprinklish.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, you always have to sprinklish.
Speaker 5: Yeah, somebody's walking into the office.
Speaker 2: Hey, good morning, everybody. Let's get to work today, all right.
Speaker 4: Yes, Colle's girlfriend helping the new rookie move into their
Speaker 4: new born.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's gonna get kicked to the curbs, so for sure.
Speaker 4: And then on the other hand, there's the wife pregnant
Speaker 4: with baby number three and it's a free agent corner
Speaker 4: or free agent d n you know, you know, I
Speaker 4: have this new miracle coming and then learning from.
Speaker 5: A knee injury though, and they're like, I don't know, And.
Speaker 2: Then they show them in the stands. You know, mom
Speaker 2: is there with the two little ones, probably her mother
Speaker 2: is there to help out, and you're watching and all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, every moment you live vicariously through her. Yes, Mark, I.
Speaker 4: Remember vividly Victor Cruz. So they were doing the hard
Speaker 4: knocks on the Jets, and Victor Cruz had two ridiculous
Speaker 4: plays and Rex Ryan was like, I don't know who
Speaker 4: number three is for the Giants, but you guys should keep.
Speaker 3: Him, and he was right.
Speaker 2: So off season with the New York Giants.
Speaker 3: I don't want to see them end season either.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Pauline.
Speaker 6: When you would see the cuts happening on the old
Speaker 6: Hard Knocks, the music would go down and there'd be
Speaker 6: a staffer with khaki pants and glasses walking around there
Speaker 6: the room the.
Speaker 2: Weather known as the Turk. Yeah, the Turk is here.
Speaker 6: Hey's Steve, Can you come with me?
Speaker 2: And everybody knows when that guy comes in depending on
Speaker 2: the time of training camp. Oh, we won't see him again.
Speaker 2: Dan Orlovsky from the Mothership will join us final hour
Speaker 2: of the program on this Thursday,