May 13, 2021 • 44 mins
Dan talks about the new NFl schedule and some of the key weekly matchups. Dan says the networks will have to do something if Aaron Rodgers is not back in Green Bay.
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You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio. Welcome to the program. All Fired Up this Thursday,
Dan and the Danettes. Dan Patrick Show schedule came out
last night. You're running down the schedule week week by week,
win loss, loss win. Looking at the Buccaneers schedule looks
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easy or easy er. There are certain teams where you
go and that doesn't bode well for them. But you
start to look at some of these teams and you say,
all right, I could see maybe thirteen wins, but thirteen
and four because we have seventeen games coming up this season.
But watching some of the matchups here, some of the
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matchups we already knew. The question is when were you
going to be playing a certain team? And was going
to be on a Sunday night, was going to be
on a Thursday, It was going to be on a Monday.
But I think with the Buccaneers, they open up with
the Cowboys Falcon then they're at the Rams and Tom
Brady has not won a game in Los Angeles and
in two d and ninety nine games. This will be
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the first time he's played a football game in Los
Angeles against the Rams and hoping he gets a return
visit in the middle of February for the Super Bowl
that will be in Los Angeles eight seven seven three
d P Show email address Dpadan Patrick dot com, Twitter
handle at DPS show. There's only one person or a
set of people you can really trust in the NFL.
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Those are the folks who set the betting lines for
the games, and as of now, there are spreads for
every game in Week one except four Green Bay at
New Orleans suspiciously missing. That means Vegas doesn't know if
Aaron Rodgers will be on the Packers, which basically means
nobody knows if Aaron Rodgers will be on the Packers.
Maybe not even Aaron Rodgers right now. The sports books
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obviously don't want to set a betting line assuming Rodgers
is on the field, then have people jump in on
the Saints early. And I don't know what the line
would be if Jordan Love was starting for the Packers,
but it would be different than Rogers. And don't worry
if you're dying to get some money down, we'll know
before September twelfth if Rogers will be back in a
Packers uniform, and knowing Vegas, they'll figure it out before
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everybody else does because they have to. Yes, MC loving.
So I'm waiting for some scoop here. We haven't had
a good Aaron Rodgers rumor a week. I don't have
any scoopage. I don't have anything. Last time we talked
about it, we had Adam Schefter on and all I
wanted to know was was there breaking news? Was this
a breaking news story on the day of the draft?
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And we found out that it wasn't. It was an accumulation,
but it did still feel like there was breaking news
to this. It's been quiet, and I'm imagining as many
years as I've been in this business, when it gets
quiet as when things get done, and maybe some things
are getting done now that could be a separation of
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divorce between the too. But my thought all along as
Aaron Rodgers is still the Packers quarterback come week one
of this upcoming season, Yeah, club, would you be comfortable
signing him to a long term deal at this age?
I think he's thirty seven or something, So how long
does he want to play? Like he's already under contract?
Do I want to pay him five years? Does he
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want to play five years? He wants security? Now? Once again,
I'm quoting what others are reporting. He reportedly wants to
be able to have a guarantee that he's going to
be the starter and probably wants to have a say
in the roster. I think he basically wants to say,
Jordan Love is not going to play in Green Bay
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unless I get injured. Now, Brady did that in New
England with a power play, going to Robert Kraft reportedly
and said you got to get this guy out of here,
Jimmy Garoppolo, and they traded him to the Niners. I
don't know if that's what Aaron Rodgers is basically saying.
I want to cancel Jordan Love out. I want to
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be able to play here, just so you guys admit
you guys made a mistake. Don't bet against me. But
I don't know. Once again, this is what people are reporting.
Aaron hasn't said anything, the Packers haven't verified anything. It's
just somebody is telling somebody a couple of things here.
Whether it's coming from Rogers side of the equation, it's
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coming from the Packer's side, or maybe it's an outlier
another team that could be saying this, yeah, play, I
check some Vegas odds and one sports book did run
odds with and without Rogers. With Aaron Rodgers, they're the
overall overwhelming favorite to win their division. If somehow there
is another quarterback, and they used Jordan Love as an example,
the Vikings will be the favorite to win division. The
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Packers will be second based off Vegas odds. I don't
see Jordan Love being the quarterback now. I know they
brought in Blake Bordles, but he's a backup quarterback. Jordan
Love is the backup to the backup right now. The
NFL does have an out. There's a flex in the
schedule the last two primetime games with the Packers the
final two games the Bears in Week thirteen, Vikings in
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Week sixteen. Those are Sunday night games. They come after.
Flexing schedule will kick in. So if Rogers doesn't play
for the Packers, or if they're out of contention with
Jordan Love or somebody else, or somebody else at quarterback,
then they can flex out of that. On NBC just
some of the things to keep an eye on. I
do love Brady going to New England against Belichick, and
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I was wondering who has more at stake there. I
know it's one game, but it's back in Foxborough. How
do the Patriot fans react? Part of them will want
Tom to probably play well, but not too well. And
then you have Belichick who has loaded up that roster,
free agency, the draft, and I don't know how important
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it is to Bill because Bill will never let on
and Tom probably won't eat either. You know, Hey, it'll
be emotional, and I look forward to going back, being
able to give an official goodbye, you know, to that
fan base and the wonderful people there, and Belichick will
probably say, uh, basically, it's another game on the schedule.
It's a game we got to win, and all its
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good to be, you know, basically quality opponent. And I
look forward to seeing Tom, yeah, do one of those
things where he only refers to the player. Well, you know,
the player is certainly good over there, but you know,
fifty other man we have to worry about. Yes, Todd,
he'll never admit it, but I think he's secretly he
definitely wants to win that game. He's his star quarterback
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to past who get decades, leaves and immediately wins a
Super Bowl with another team, and he's coming into your house.
You've got to make sure you fight a way to
win that game, which still doesn't take away the fact
that Brady just won a super Bowl with the buccaneer.
Thank you. Yes, point, Britty's right, But there's no upside
for Belichick even if he won the game because Brady
walks in and walks out as defending super Bowl quarterback. Yeah,
and same with Brady. Brady could lose forty five to
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three and go, oh cool, I'll put my ring on
and head back to house. Can Tom play with his
ring on? Could he take it up? And that that's
why it'd be great if he came down out during
warmups he got that big super Bowl ring. Oh yeah,
you'd have all of them on. Oh I forgot to
take off all these super Bowl rings. Yeah, he's all
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tilted to one side because there's five on one another
too heavy. He's walking like Phil Jackson. Yes. Yes. Do
they approach each other at all pre game, like when
the coaches come by for a quick high or whatever?
Or is it all business? They don't talk it all
before during the after the game. Nothing. I don't know
if Bill is chatty enough that he would seek out Tom.
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It strikes me that Tom would play nice in New
England and that that he would not that he's currying favor,
But but I think he would. I think it's smart business.
If Tom goes out there and kind of acknowledges the
crowd and maybe even walks over, He'll he'll definitely walk
over to Robert Kraft. You know that's happening, and Robert
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Kraft's not going to be far from Bill Belichick. I'm
gonna guess it's kind of like the greeting you know,
you go to the White House, there's the greeting line
there or a wedding reception high you know, I'm so happy,
so proud of you. You know, he could do that,
go down the list, down the line. Yes, but if
it goes poorly for the Patriots after the games, he
running off. Is there any type of acknowledgement between the
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two of them, especially if they didn't see each other
talk to each other at all the entire time before
the game? Do you would give him any kind of
I doubt acknowledgement. I doubt. I mean think it went
through with that guy, yeah, but I don't think he
likes him. I mean Tom wanted to get away from him.
How do you not just a quick good damn why
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you do it? No before the game. Get it out
the way before the game. Even if you want, you
know the camera's gonna be on you. You acknowledge like
games over and you wait, that's what I would do.
But you know, Bruce, Harrian's and Belichick will probably meet
at midfield and do that real quick shake and then
they go, Yeah, mclovin. If you're the Patriots and you're wondering,
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when do you put in mac Jones? Don't you want
a veteran? Don't you want Cam Newton in that game?
Because if they lost and mac Jones looked bad, that
would be even doubly depressing. But how many weeks in
before they play each other afore? Yeah mac Jones didn't playing.
Oh that's not a dangerous spot yet for Cam. He's
going to get the first half of the God, I
hope not. I mean mac Jones is just getting there.
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You got all those free I think you have to
be fair to Cam. You brought in, You basically turned
your team over, and I think you owe it to
Cam to at least give him halfway through the season
and then kind of find out where you are. Because
Miami's good and you know that Buffalo is going to
be good. That's you got to start to handicap your
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season here of when do we play him? When is
too soon? And I think that would be what I
would guard against if if I'm Belichick, Yeah, mclem but
Cam didn't look right last year, he shoulder wise, like
you're gonna know if everything that's his one concern with
him right, that is well, I gotta I gotta be
fair to him. He had no preseason, no camp, and
then he goes to New England and I don't know
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how healthy he was, and then you have a depleted
roster there. I'd like to see what he does with,
you know, maybe a cabinet that's a little fuller than
it was last year. And I think now two years
off surgery, he should be back to normal. I don't
know if he's going to be back to normal, not
with the shoulder, Like shoulder does. Shoulders so tricky. It's
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still the trickiest. You can have hip replacement, you can
have knee replacement, but when it comes to getting your
shoulder or your back treated, they haven't mastered that. And
on first hand knowledge, with the shoulder, I still have
issues just raising my arm up in a normal fashion.
I mean, it doesn't affect my jumper, but it's still
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like there's pain in there. I wish Fritzie had shoulder
surgery so he couldn't raise his hand as Offen what
I don't understand. Where did that come from? Where did
that come from? Uh, let's see what else do we have?
So we got our pole question? Is this? Yeah? The
pole question is of all the teams that had just
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one primetime game, who deserved more at Actually, Pauli is
right on. The Jaguars are running away with us. People
can't understand why they only have one game the Bengals
or second. I think people want to see Joe Burrow.
I want to see Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase. I
don't know if there's anybody else that I want to see.
The Texans got zero votes, by the way, zero. Nobody
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wants to see the Texans. David Culley, the new head coach. No,
but poor David. Yes, nobody wants to see that team.
Talk about not being relevant. I mean they're relevant if
Deshaun Watson is able to play, but they're like talk
about a nondescript team. You know, DeAndre Hopkins two years ago.
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See you JJ Watt last year, see you Deshaun Watson.
Not on the football field. It's not like you go.
And I still want to tune in to see exactly
David Johnson, Yeah even a name. Yeah, I don't think
he's guaranteed to make it. I don't think he is either.
I don't think so. They got Philip Lindsay he's a
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little spicy. No he's not. But who are their receivers?
I decided Google, Oh, they have Randall Cobb, Brandon Cooks
and Kiki qt. Yeah, they should trade Randall Cob back
to the Packers for like a six round draft pick. Clearhouse.
The Lakers raised their twenty twenty banner. Lebron is still resting,
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James Harden came back for the Nets. The Knicks clinched
a playoffs spot. The Lakers seem all but destined for
the seventh seed. The only way they can avoid the
play in tournament is if they win both of their
remaining games on the road against the Pacers and the Pelicans,
and at least one of the Blazers in Mavericks lose
both of their games. That's what the Lakers at the
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Pelicans loss officially eliminates them from the playoff contention if
they lose tonight. San Antonio Spurs, who lost to the Nets,
are two games ahead of the Sacramento Kings, and that's
about it. The MAVs are also one win away from
finishing sixth. You know, they host the Raptors and then
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they visit the Timberwolves, two teams who have already been
eliminated from playoff contention. Blazers, MAVs, Lakers all one last night,
so they maintain the five, six and seven seeds in
the West with two games left in the regular season.
A couple of phone calls in here eight seven seven
three DP show Paul and Iowa leads this off. Hi, Paul,
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what do you have for me today? Hey? Dan? First off,
quick shout out to Laureston Skate Park and been des
Moines on the River downtown last week. Largest skate park
in America, hosting Olympic qualifyings later this month. But my
question for you is it's one of my favorite way
too early and overreaction days on the sports calendar after
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the NFL schedule comes out. Okay, which of these eight
teams do you think has the best chance of continuing
the worst to first tradition in the NFL divisions Niners, Falcons, Eagles,
Lions in the NFC and Jags, Jets, Bengals and Broncos
in the AFC. That's a good question, Paul. I'd say
the Niners. I'd have to remove the Niners. That's that's
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a really talented team. That's you know, it's just a
one year there with all the injuries. I can't see
the Falcons winning that division. Can't see the Jets winning
that division. Lions, yeahmi club. How about if you give
the Eagles to Shaun Watson? Well but I can't, Okay, Yeah,
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I mean and even then, I don't think that's a game.
Is the poll question? It's not? Hey, how about I
get Aaron Rodgers to uh the Bears? Anything to make
the poll question better. But you know that isn't the
NFC South the one that always flip flops four to one,
four to one? Do you really think it's gonna like
the Buccaneers are gonna fall on their faces? I think Atlanta,
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I mean, you look at it, No, I don't. But
I don't see why people are discounting Atlanta as a
you know, they have a veteran quarterback. I mean even
the Saints. Saints might be a little better than average,
but it feels like they're still going to be better
than Carolina. Better than the Falcons. Yeah, yeah, if Falcons
are kind of like a good bad team. They were
four and twelve last year, but they were only outscored
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by eighteen points on the season. They were really strong,
but like a Broncos were five and eleven. They were
outscored by one hundred and twenty three points. The Oh
my gosh, the Jaguars were outscored by one hundred and
eighty six points. Last year. The Jets were outscored by
over two hundred points. That's only happened three times. Jeff
and Detroit. Hi, Jeff, what's on your mind today? Hold
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me closer? Tony Dan's Wider Life on the Highway. Got
that one from chat Row. What up though, Dan? Listen
mclov my, goodness, one game too many. I mean you're
gonna take away Thanksgiving on us. Listen when we go
to the playoffs this year, I'm hauling say suck it,
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mcloving Wow, I hope don't I sound confident? Hey listen, Damn.
My question to you today though, is this with the
resurgence of so many quarterbacks and we have this longevity
thing going on where these old guys are just balling out.
You try to write somebody off and they make you
look like a fool. Will the next Super Bowl winning
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quarterback be older thirty three years or older or younger
than thirty three? So that's kind of like, uh, you
got your Aaron Rodgers, you got Tom Brady, I think
Matt Staff and Matt Ryan, Russell Wilson. I think Russell's
thirty two, so you might just be out. So the
young gys compared to the old dogs? Which one you got? All?
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Thank you, Jeff. Let's let's discuss yes, MC. First of all,
can people stop calling in with better pole questions? And
and if the Lions bake, I will drive to Detroit
if the Lions make the playoffs, So let Jeff throw
a pie of my face. I'm that confident. Okay, you
can mark that down DP show Bets, Twitter Feed. Yeah,
I like that. I like that. It's I'm writing it down. Yeah, Paully.
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How many people are a room for the Lions now
for that last day? Everybody everybody is That is a
good Bowl question, though, even Packer fans are rooting for them. Okay,
so if I did hold Russell Wilson Junior the third
thirty three to thirty two, or's he turning thirty three?
But if I if I gave you all the under
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thirty threes and all the over thirty threes of who
wins the Super Bowl this year? Russ turns thirty three
in November. Old guy, young guyon So starting the season
he would be with the younger guys? Is Russ an
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old guy? Feels like an older guy considering the younger
guys here? Yeah, see he's an aging guy. Okay, not
quite old, but he's aging all right. Yes, yeah, Russell's
like going to the club. He just wants to sit
on the couch and watch Netflix tonight. He's an old
guy like us. I don't know. I see some of
those dance videos with his wife. Yeah, notice he's not
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dancing a little bit, but you don't notice he's dancing
because you're watching her dance. He's kind of keeping the beat,
if you know what I mean, A little bit, a
little bit. Yeah see that's all right, I mean he's
in the video, yeah he is, you know, yeah, as
he is that's all you want to do. You just
want to make sure you make the video. Yep, yep, yeah, McLevin.
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I'm looking at the young team. They got Josh Allen
and Patrick Mahomes, Like they got some chances here, yea,
Lamar Jackson, Baker Mayfield Junior the third. Um. Okay, well
you're you're you're basically saying Ken Patrick Mahomes win a
super Bowl. It feels like like you're kind of loading
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up on him with the chance that Lamar Jackson or
Josh Allen would would win a Super Bowl as well.
Then you get the older guys Rogers, Brady, matt Ryan,
Matthew Stafford. All right, a couple of if I I
don't think Seattle's winning the Super Bowl. Russ though, if
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I put him in there, that's pretty good. It's a
pretty good question there. Yeah, it's San Francisco. Is uh,
it would either Trey l Answer, Jimmy g on the eye,
Jimmy Gey. Yeah, they get both of those guys. Yeah, well,
I'm just saying you get both of those guys. I
like Staffords. In addition, I forgot about that. Yeah he's
thirty five. Yeah, all right, we'll take a break we'll
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come back more phone and Mina Kimes on loan from
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Today we have against the Grain schedule release coming up.
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Also some in fighting with the Danetts with Meat Friday
egg We have a cameraman here, his name is Weeks,
and I mean he's our cameraman now, but he has
celebrated his birthday this week. And I said, you're able
to control the menu. I'm going to let you decide
what we have on Meat Friday. And I came in today.
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I asked Tyler, the moderator, I said, what are we
cooking on meat Friday? And he said week Sauce. Wanted
pork roast, I believe deviled eggs and broccoli with parmesan
on it. And there were a couple of groans on
the other side of the glass. Yes, port tenerline. There's
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nothing wrong on port tenerline. It's pretty good. It's made incorrectly.
It could be horrendously dry. Now deviled eggs unless there's
something I don't know I don't think there's any meat
in those. And then what was the other thing? Broccoli
with something parmesan parmesan and bacon parmisan and cheese Farmersan cheese.
It's not shred fast Friday. No. Like, I think this
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is kind of uninspiring, like a trigger will make anything
taste better, but it just feels like a like a
little bit of a letdown, you know. It's one of
those am I regretting giving weeks our cameraman full control,
total autonomy, like I treated him like he was Aaron Rodgers.
I said, go ahead, and you can pick whatever you want.
You take control. But you know there's some people who
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are okay with the choice. Here. Yes, broccoli trees and
fresh lemon, herbs and parmesan for a refreshing summerside dish.
That sounds lovely. Rope us hardwood smoke. I think it's
the deviled eggs that I have a problem with. See
that's what this is about. I it's my favorite food
in the world. This is a consensus on deviled eggs.
They're amazing. It's eggs, mayonnaise and and egg yolks. Who
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doesn't like at deviled eggs? Poll? Yeah, do you know
there are people out there like me who love deviled
eggs like you got, I've made them, I bring them
to a party, they go like like hot cakes. Maybe
we should have hotcakes instead. There's a reason it's not
the expression, isn't. Oh man, those go like deviled eggs.
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No rope, Oh man, we couldn't keep them. The houses
like having deviled eggs, and there it flying off the shelf.
But if you bring hotcakes, does somebody say, oh man,
these are gonna go like deviled eggs. It's the greatest
thing since deviled egg? Yeah? What if you put a
little little piece of bacon on the deviled egg? All right?
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But this is where we go back to Brussels sprouts,
where you guys have a problem with Brussels sprouts, so
oh you gotta always doctor them up. Okay, but you
don't like anything. This is a mayonnaise referendum too, like
that you don't like. Man, mayonnaise is worthless, God, mayonnaise
is worthless. You know there are people who feel differently
than you. Yeah, really, but no, the mayonnaise haters think
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that they're right. That's and you're They all are so
convinced that mayonnaise is bad. It's not it's just not good. Yes,
I like mayonnaise sparingly, just not watson ly. Mclovin throws
it around like the Jackson Pollock painting. He's right, but
but mayonnaise. It's as long as I don't know it's
in something that I'm okay with it. It's when you
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lead with the mayonnaise, and I have a problem with that.
That's all. It's we can all celebrate and have fun tomorrow,
you know, fake it for the camera. Yeah, set again. Um.
I don't like Devil Deggs. I don't love them and
I don't always want them, but I do like them.
You know the problem with the me Friday menu is
that there's nothing on the menu that may she go,
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oh man, that's awesome, where you can't wait for Friday.
Pork tenderline is a nice dish. It can be made well.
Usually it's a nice thing. It's pork tenderloine we're talking about.
It's not tofu. He's not trying to like. Pork tender
loine is a major It's pork. This is good. I know,
it's fine. I'm fine with that. I'm fine with the
broccoli this menu is locked. We have yes, Tyler has
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already begun preparations for tomorrow's meet Friday. Todd, you're not
saying a word I was cut up with for Bronton Burgers.
I like to kind of keep it simple when we
still trying to get fancy with sprinkling things on broccoli.
And you know, if you're gonna do pork to me,
then you should be doing like some kind of ribs
or something like that. You're the one who puts duck
sauce on your ribs. I do. I like the sweet
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and sour sauce. The duck sauce. I don't even know
what parts of the country don't even know what duck
saus is. Maybe a New York thing. Well, if you
go to a Chinese restaurant, a little packings, yeah, some orange, yes, yes, yeah.
For Fritzie a barbecue hotspot for ribs is who and palace.
It has to be a Roman numeral involved or else
I'm out. Yeah. If it's just you know, one or
by itself, then that's not good to know. It was
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so successful. A couple of phone calls and we'll get
to mc levin's Against the Grain schedule release and then
a Lebron James theory coming up. Nate, Oklahoma High Nate,
what's on your mind? Hey, Dan Um. You know, maybe
I'm in the minority here, but being a Titans fan,
it always scared me with the schedule release because I
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don't really want that many primetime games. You know, we
kind of fly under the radar do ourything in Nashville.
We win some games, we lose some games, but when
we lose, it's usually to the Jaguars on Thursday Night
and everyone talks about the next day. Now, granted we
Derrick Henry did have that ninety nine yard run on
a Thursday nine game, but it usually doesn't end well
and we have the Ram the Bills in the forty
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nine ers. It's not gonna go great. Thanks guys, all right, well,
thank you, Nate. Nate sounds depressed. Yeah, we're in May.
He's already sounds like they lost these games. Yeah, I'm
a clevin. Well. When you look up Thursday Night football
through the years, it's always the Titans in the jackets.
Feels like, feels like um Leslie and South Carolina Hi Leslie, Hi,
(27:18):
Dan Hie. Hello, longtime listener, first time caller boy. I'm
coming into an angry room right now with mayonnaise and
weeks in pork tenderland. I hope I can lighten the
mood a little bit. I'm ready. Okay, Okay. When I
was growing up, now this is going to date myself, Dan,
But when I was growing up, I proudly announced to
(27:38):
my family that I was in a Beach Boys song.
And they wondered why I said that, and I said
life would be ecstasye you and me and Leslie. Needless
to say, my older brother burst my bubble quite quickly.
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All right, well, thank you brought a smile to our faces. There.
We've all had those problems where we think we're hearing something.
What's the clash rock the cans bar, rock the cash bar?
Is that what that was? Yeah, Shale was at Clydesdale,
Sharif I'd have no idea, I always thought the word
Clydesdale was a rockcass. But yeah, see, I thought when
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I was a kid, I thought that Lionel Richie song
truly yeah, was about the character from Facts of Life.
Tutti t tut in. I had some people say, now
there's the song by the Bgs. More than a woman
and that that's the lyric. More than a woman, it's
also the title. And there are people saying that they
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thought it was bald headed woman. Then I'm going, how
do you get bald headed woman? Bad woman? This came
up because was it James Harden? We thought he said braggery?
But he played that in three two one. Are you
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surprised at how quickly it kind of came back to
you and you were back in the flow of things.
Not really that's like brag or anything, but I'm like,
yeah or anything. And then the question I thought he
was saying the Philippines, and then he said, in the
flow of things when you get back from the Philippines,
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like a virgin touched for the thirty first time. I
think it's like a virgin touched for the first time.
But with Madonna, you're never quite sure. Are you here?
We are now in containers instead of here we are
entertain us? Any other any other great ones in here?
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Sometimes when I listened to Queen, I don't know what
the words are, but the music is fantastic. There's a
lot of their songs though right I'm just singing along
with them, But I don't know if I'm even close. Yeah.
See somebody on Twitter sent in a good one. Um,
you know Janis Joplin, me and Bobby McGee. Yeah. Uh,
let's say, when's hill Whippers Turpin time? I was old
and that's not the that's not the lyrics, okay. Uh
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Jason in New York, Hey, Jason, Hey, bun uh five
seven one ding misquoted song lyric TLC waterfalls, don't go
Jason water fall when it's supposed to be don't go
chasing waterfall. Yep, I've seen that one too. Thank you,
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Thank you, Jason, Jason, Jason Waterfalls. Also, I had somebody say,
you know, Billy Joel the piano Man, sing us a
song for the Yellow Man, and it sing us a
song You're the piano Man? Any other ones? I just
going back to this one. This might be my favorite.
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There's a bathroom on the right. I can't get that
on my head. Now, that's bad moon Rya. There's a
bathroom on the rhyme his voice, it's hard to make
out the words sometimes. Yeah, all right, against the grain
schedule release annual tradition going back to at least two
thousand and sixteen. Alright, so here's what I'm gonna do.
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I'm gonna play GM and I'm gonna give advice to
these teams based on the schedule release. It's gonna be
hard hitting. Okay, Pauli's Chicago Bears. They open up at
the Rams on Sunday night football. Now, you know how
much I love Andy Dalton, He's not great at night football.
In fact, he's not even very good at it. I
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just don't watch Chicago to panic if this first game
against Aaron Donald the Rams goes bad, because the following
week Dalton plays the Bengals at home in Chicago, and
you know he's gonna get so up to is one
pm you could possibly get. You cannot panic on the
Andy Dalton experience after one time they play earlier. Yeah, well,
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there are nine thirty games, but the I think the
jack Oh no, the Falcons are all the nine thirty
AM games. Another situation, not depending The Cowboys schedule came
out and it opens up with at the Bucks and
at the Chargers. Obviously big ratings. I could just see,
you know how we are with the Cowboys, how we
overplay everything. Yeah, if that goes badly, you know ESPN
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is going to August say it's get rid of microcore.
It's gonna go berserk. But then they have the second
easiest schedule in the league. So I just fear that
there's going to be a rush to judgment on the Cowboys.
Like I mentioned earlier, if they lose this Week one game,
are we all gonna make a consensus out of that?
But I think there's a referendum every Monday after a
Cowboy game. Yeah, and especially in September, there's going to
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be that, oh my gosh, they're either better than we
thought or it's going to be another disastrous season. But
look at this start at Tampa Bay, at Los Angeles,
then they host the Eagles, they host the Panthers, they
host the Giants. So they could like start out oh
and two and still be just fine for the season. Yes, yeah,
and they should be, but it depends on how those
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players that they you know, they drafted, signed for free
agency on defense, Like that's the key. I mean, is
Dad going to be healthy? And I also think the
offensive line, which has been their strength, might be one
of their weaknesses right now. Yeah, pauland you go back
to last year. I was looking at the Week one
last year, the Saints beat the Buccaneers and Brady had
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two interceptions, and remember I think it was the head
coach said something like, well, well we'll talk to him,
we'll get it worked out. He made some bathros. That
was the entire week. He spent the entire week on
Tom Brady being slow start. No, oh my god, did
you hear what Bruce arians? He called out Tom Brady.
Bill Belichick never did that. Remember when Brady held up
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the wrong number of fingers against the Bear, it was
over then? Okay, one couple more advice Detroit Lions. My
advice is that you create a time machine and you
go back and you draft Justin Fields at number seven,
because what the heck are they doing for Jared Goff here?
How on earth are they going to win any of
these games? San Francisco, Bay, Baltimore, at Chicago, at Minnesota.
Their first win might be Bengals at home. This is
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a really hard spot for Jared Goff. He doesn't have
a lot of talent around him. I don't understand why
they didn't take a quarterback and just start over. Well
they did get a lineman to protect him, yeah, I know,
but they're so lack of talent there. I know, Dan
Campbell is awesome as a guest, but it just feels
like that is a pure rebuild. I don't quite understand
why they didn't take the quarterback. And lastly, my Pittsburgh Steelers.
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So I was, when did that happen? Don't you? I
actually made a bet that they're gonna make the playoffs.
I thought, yeah, the steel No, you said, if the
Lions make the playoffs, you'll drive, will drive to Detroit
and let Jeff from Detroit throw a pie in your fit.
So I had said, everybody is under playing the Steelers,
like nobody is talking about nobody thinks they're gonna be good.
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What wait, who is nobody? Honestly, I will show you
the random articles and tweets. There is no buzz on
the Steelers. But but who were the people who were
issuing said tweets? NFL writers? They do not like the Steelers.
I'll show you Vegas odds because everyone thinks the way
they ended last year, they assume they're going to be
bad again this year. Okay, well, they're also in a
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competitive division with the Ravens and the Browns. You're guaranteeing
the Steelers make the playoffs? I was, but then I
saw their schedule, and now I'm going against the grain.
I'm saying the Steelers, you're not you. You went against
your own grain. I double against the grain. I'm backing.
I'm going with the grain here. The Steelers schedule is impossible.
Oh my god, they play everybody. It is so hard.
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Man Ben's gonna have to be the healthiest he's ever been.
So I'm going with the grain and saying the Steelers.
You hadn't heard. Nobody else had heard like kind of
a general malaise about the Steelers. I don't know, there
was nothing specific. Yeah, we got burned by the Steelers
last year? Were they eleven? And oh yeah, anytime you
get burned, your bail the next year. It's like the
Atlanta Falcons when they were up twenty eight three. People
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kind of hollow. They were a hollow eleven and oh
big time. And then everyone likes the Browns. Remember when
they struggled to beat that depleted Ravens team. It was
like on a Wednesday or yeah, and I went, oh
my god, this is this is not a good team.
Yes time they have the Bills, Seahawks, Packers, Chiefs, Chargers,
just to name a few with the Steels and not
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to mention obviously Ravens and Browns. Yes, Paul, Browns are
a great example of where the NFL media jumps on
and jumps off two years ago. Browns were hot last
year because they had to achieve the year before. Everyone
jumped off the Browns. Now everyone's back on because of
their defensive to help it on it, I was off
when everybody was on. I was on last year when
everybody was off. Now I got to decide where am
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I on the Cleveland Browns this year? Because there's gonna
be a team where I'm gonna latch onto them. There's
gonna be a hot team here. But I got a
while before I give you my Super Bowl picks. All right,
when we come back a Lebron theory? Who has this theory? PAULI,
I got it. Okay, it's not that hot. It's not
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lightly Yeah, but you told me to tease it. I
did that. Yeah, but you're supposed to say, oh my god,
coming on, just fake kid, Okay, got it, I know
this theory. This is okay, it enough, it's hot enough,
hot enough, all right, we have a hot enough take
on Lebron James. That's that's coming up after this. Thanks
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your podcasts. It was on this date back in nineteen
eighty three, Reggie Jackson became the first baseball player in
history to strike out two thousand times. You imagine Reggie
Jackson in two day's game where it's okay to strike out.
He had a lot of bombs, But if it's okay
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to strike out and nobody got their money's worth. Quite
like Reggie Jackson at the play because he was almost
like a corkscrew when he'd get done with his swing.
It was almost like he was like digging himself into
the ground there. But he struck out over two thousand times.
He'd be he'd be welcome. They'd be like, Oh, you
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don't have to worry about putting the ball in play.
Just swing as hard as you can. How's your launch angle?
All right, you're lebron theory. That's sort of hot. Paulie
not really, it's more of a I'm commending him for this.
You know, he got the ankle injury, the high ankle
injury in March. I think he missed about twenty games.
He came back in late April and tried a few
and then went back and rested some more, and he's
basically resting the rest of the regular season. I think
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the ankle injury was something for a while, but I
think it's more of a play like, look, I'm missing
all these games. I don't need games to get back
into things. The guys played like two hundred and sixty
playoff games his career thirteen hundred regular season games. I
believe he could have played the past couple of weeks,
but there's no upside to it. The only upside is
he re injures or wears himself down. He knows that
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all he has to do is be ready for May
and June. You don't want to be in that playing game, though.
I don't think he lacks the confidence in a playing game.
I would, yeah, one game, but I will look the
ankle injury. I'm sure stunk for a while. But my
guess is that he's one of those things that if
I can just you know, ride this out and get
to the playoffs. Like James Harden said last night, they
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were talking about how rusty were he was rusty what
I do for a living man? I'm I could play
basketball to drop of a dime. And I think Lebron
thinks the same thing. Is that rest is way more
important this juncture than tuneups or getting used to my team.
They're gonna get used to me when I dominate about
two weeks. Yeah, but the Nets can afford to have
these guys not play. The Lakers can't afford to have
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Lebron sit out because you're you're in a danger zone
with that play in game and you've added even more
stress to the playoffs that you don't even need to
add anymore. Here you're trying to defend your championship. And
I agree, I see what you're saying. Don't like it,
But I don't think he's not shakable with stress. He's
seen every They've been throwing stuff at him for fifteen years,
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and he always ends up in the finals. I think
he has the supreme confidence that, hey, well I'm not
worried about him. I'm worried about you know, Kyle Kuzma,
and you know Alex Caruso. Like now, all of a sudden,
we got to play another game in high stress, and
are we playing against Steph Curry and we got to win,
and then all of a sudden the playoffs start. So
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I and I do think that this is going to
be an issue. This ankle will be an issue throughout
the playoffs. It doesn't go away. Those those injuries don't
go away. Even James Harden with a hamstring. He might
be healthy, but you know, once you start taxing yourself
a little more and you have to play a little
bit more because the importance of a game. Those are
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two guys that I'm really curious about once the playoffs started,
I saw this that the Nets beat the Spurs last night.
Eight different Nets scored in double figures, becoming the That's
the second straight game Brooklyn has done that, the only
team in the league with three games in which eight
or more players scored at least ten points this season. Okay,
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day last of the day of the day comes that.
What stat of the day? Mo? And Arizona joins us. MO.
What's on your mind today? Martin Fellers? Yeah, I was
gonna say any Michael McDonald's songs the one, But how
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long did it take you guys figure out? I'm gonna say'na?
I still haven't figured it out. Mo. I'll check on
the Michael McDonald who was the thank You moo, the
former singer of the Doobie Brothers. He's on his own.
I don't know they're Michael McDonald lyrics that I'm not
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aware of here. Yeah, mcclo oh, he's the way a
fool believe. Yeah, I don't understand the word he's saying. Everett,
I do like him, though, by a fool believe. I
didn't need that. Yes, he has a very high pitched Michael.
Remember that scene in forty year Old Virgin where they
all work in the electronics store, and Paul Rudd goes,
if I have to listen to one more Michael McDonald,
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Yamo be there. I'm gonna yamo blow my head off.
It's just over and over they have on tape. We'll
get two more phone calls coming up. There's so many
funny scenes in that forty year Old Virgin. Like there,
there are some really great laugh out loud scenes. I
I'm looking for a fun movie. I don't have one
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right now. I'm looking for one. I've gone through all
these this is a robbery and you know I'm watching
City on a Hill. I'm looking for something. Mayor of
East Town, east Side or whatever that is with Kate
Winslet I need something fun? Got anything? Thanks? Thanks alone
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You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio. Welcome to the program. All Fired Up this Thursday,
Dan and the Danettes. Dan Patrick Show schedule came out
last night. You're running down the schedule week week by week,
win loss, loss win. Looking at the Buccaneers schedule looks
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easy or easy er. There are certain teams where you
go and that doesn't bode well for them. But you
start to look at some of these teams and you say,
all right, I could see maybe thirteen wins, but thirteen
and four because we have seventeen games coming up this season.
But watching some of the matchups here, some of the
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matchups we already knew. The question is when were you
going to be playing a certain team? And was going
to be on a Sunday night, was going to be
on a Thursday, It was going to be on a Monday.
But I think with the Buccaneers, they open up with
the Cowboys Falcon then they're at the Rams and Tom
Brady has not won a game in Los Angeles and
in two d and ninety nine games. This will be
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the first time he's played a football game in Los
Angeles against the Rams and hoping he gets a return
visit in the middle of February for the Super Bowl
that will be in Los Angeles eight seven seven three
d P Show email address Dpadan Patrick dot com, Twitter
handle at DPS show. There's only one person or a
set of people you can really trust in the NFL.
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Those are the folks who set the betting lines for
the games, and as of now, there are spreads for
every game in Week one except four Green Bay at
New Orleans suspiciously missing. That means Vegas doesn't know if
Aaron Rodgers will be on the Packers, which basically means
nobody knows if Aaron Rodgers will be on the Packers.
Maybe not even Aaron Rodgers right now. The sports books
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obviously don't want to set a betting line assuming Rodgers
is on the field, then have people jump in on
the Saints early. And I don't know what the line
would be if Jordan Love was starting for the Packers,
but it would be different than Rogers. And don't worry
if you're dying to get some money down, we'll know
before September twelfth if Rogers will be back in a
Packers uniform, and knowing Vegas, they'll figure it out before
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everybody else does because they have to. Yes, MC loving.
So I'm waiting for some scoop here. We haven't had
a good Aaron Rodgers rumor a week. I don't have
any scoopage. I don't have anything. Last time we talked
about it, we had Adam Schefter on and all I
wanted to know was was there breaking news? Was this
a breaking news story on the day of the draft?
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And we found out that it wasn't. It was an accumulation,
but it did still feel like there was breaking news
to this. It's been quiet, and I'm imagining as many
years as I've been in this business, when it gets
quiet as when things get done, and maybe some things
are getting done now that could be a separation of
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divorce between the too. But my thought all along as
Aaron Rodgers is still the Packers quarterback come week one
of this upcoming season, Yeah, club, would you be comfortable
signing him to a long term deal at this age?
I think he's thirty seven or something, So how long
does he want to play? Like he's already under contract?
Do I want to pay him five years? Does he
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want to play five years? He wants security? Now? Once again,
I'm quoting what others are reporting. He reportedly wants to
be able to have a guarantee that he's going to
be the starter and probably wants to have a say
in the roster. I think he basically wants to say,
Jordan Love is not going to play in Green Bay
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unless I get injured. Now, Brady did that in New
England with a power play, going to Robert Kraft reportedly
and said you got to get this guy out of here,
Jimmy Garoppolo, and they traded him to the Niners. I
don't know if that's what Aaron Rodgers is basically saying.
I want to cancel Jordan Love out. I want to
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be able to play here, just so you guys admit
you guys made a mistake. Don't bet against me. But
I don't know. Once again, this is what people are reporting.
Aaron hasn't said anything, the Packers haven't verified anything. It's
just somebody is telling somebody a couple of things here.
Whether it's coming from Rogers side of the equation, it's
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coming from the Packer's side, or maybe it's an outlier
another team that could be saying this, yeah, play, I
check some Vegas odds and one sports book did run
odds with and without Rogers. With Aaron Rodgers, they're the
overall overwhelming favorite to win their division. If somehow there
is another quarterback, and they used Jordan Love as an example,
the Vikings will be the favorite to win division. The
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Packers will be second based off Vegas odds. I don't
see Jordan Love being the quarterback now. I know they
brought in Blake Bordles, but he's a backup quarterback. Jordan
Love is the backup to the backup right now. The
NFL does have an out. There's a flex in the
schedule the last two primetime games with the Packers the
final two games the Bears in Week thirteen, Vikings in
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Week sixteen. Those are Sunday night games. They come after.
Flexing schedule will kick in. So if Rogers doesn't play
for the Packers, or if they're out of contention with
Jordan Love or somebody else, or somebody else at quarterback,
then they can flex out of that. On NBC just
some of the things to keep an eye on. I
do love Brady going to New England against Belichick, and
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I was wondering who has more at stake there. I
know it's one game, but it's back in Foxborough. How
do the Patriot fans react? Part of them will want
Tom to probably play well, but not too well. And
then you have Belichick who has loaded up that roster,
free agency, the draft, and I don't know how important
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it is to Bill because Bill will never let on
and Tom probably won't eat either. You know, Hey, it'll
be emotional, and I look forward to going back, being
able to give an official goodbye, you know, to that
fan base and the wonderful people there, and Belichick will
probably say, uh, basically, it's another game on the schedule.
It's a game we got to win, and all its
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good to be, you know, basically quality opponent. And I
look forward to seeing Tom, yeah, do one of those
things where he only refers to the player. Well, you know,
the player is certainly good over there, but you know,
fifty other man we have to worry about. Yes, Todd,
he'll never admit it, but I think he's secretly he
definitely wants to win that game. He's his star quarterback
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to past who get decades, leaves and immediately wins a
Super Bowl with another team, and he's coming into your house.
You've got to make sure you fight a way to
win that game, which still doesn't take away the fact
that Brady just won a super Bowl with the buccaneer.
Thank you. Yes, point, Britty's right, But there's no upside
for Belichick even if he won the game because Brady
walks in and walks out as defending super Bowl quarterback. Yeah,
and same with Brady. Brady could lose forty five to
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three and go, oh cool, I'll put my ring on
and head back to house. Can Tom play with his
ring on? Could he take it up? And that that's
why it'd be great if he came down out during
warmups he got that big super Bowl ring. Oh yeah,
you'd have all of them on. Oh I forgot to
take off all these super Bowl rings. Yeah, he's all
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tilted to one side because there's five on one another
too heavy. He's walking like Phil Jackson. Yes. Yes. Do
they approach each other at all pre game, like when
the coaches come by for a quick high or whatever?
Or is it all business? They don't talk it all
before during the after the game. Nothing. I don't know
if Bill is chatty enough that he would seek out Tom.
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It strikes me that Tom would play nice in New
England and that that he would not that he's currying favor,
But but I think he would. I think it's smart business.
If Tom goes out there and kind of acknowledges the
crowd and maybe even walks over, He'll he'll definitely walk
over to Robert Kraft. You know that's happening, and Robert
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Kraft's not going to be far from Bill Belichick. I'm
gonna guess it's kind of like the greeting you know,
you go to the White House, there's the greeting line
there or a wedding reception high you know, I'm so happy,
so proud of you. You know, he could do that,
go down the list, down the line. Yes, but if
it goes poorly for the Patriots after the games, he
running off. Is there any type of acknowledgement between the
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two of them, especially if they didn't see each other
talk to each other at all the entire time before
the game? Do you would give him any kind of
I doubt acknowledgement. I doubt. I mean think it went
through with that guy, yeah, but I don't think he
likes him. I mean Tom wanted to get away from him.
How do you not just a quick good damn why
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you do it? No before the game. Get it out
the way before the game. Even if you want, you
know the camera's gonna be on you. You acknowledge like
games over and you wait, that's what I would do.
But you know, Bruce, Harrian's and Belichick will probably meet
at midfield and do that real quick shake and then
they go, Yeah, mclovin. If you're the Patriots and you're wondering,
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when do you put in mac Jones? Don't you want
a veteran? Don't you want Cam Newton in that game?
Because if they lost and mac Jones looked bad, that
would be even doubly depressing. But how many weeks in
before they play each other afore? Yeah mac Jones didn't playing.
Oh that's not a dangerous spot yet for Cam. He's
going to get the first half of the God, I
hope not. I mean mac Jones is just getting there.
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You got all those free I think you have to
be fair to Cam. You brought in, You basically turned
your team over, and I think you owe it to
Cam to at least give him halfway through the season
and then kind of find out where you are. Because
Miami's good and you know that Buffalo is going to
be good. That's you got to start to handicap your
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season here of when do we play him? When is
too soon? And I think that would be what I
would guard against if if I'm Belichick, Yeah, mclem but
Cam didn't look right last year, he shoulder wise, like
you're gonna know if everything that's his one concern with
him right, that is well, I gotta I gotta be
fair to him. He had no preseason, no camp, and
then he goes to New England and I don't know
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how healthy he was, and then you have a depleted
roster there. I'd like to see what he does with,
you know, maybe a cabinet that's a little fuller than
it was last year. And I think now two years
off surgery, he should be back to normal. I don't
know if he's going to be back to normal, not
with the shoulder, Like shoulder does. Shoulders so tricky. It's
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still the trickiest. You can have hip replacement, you can
have knee replacement, but when it comes to getting your
shoulder or your back treated, they haven't mastered that. And
on first hand knowledge, with the shoulder, I still have
issues just raising my arm up in a normal fashion.
I mean, it doesn't affect my jumper, but it's still
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like there's pain in there. I wish Fritzie had shoulder
surgery so he couldn't raise his hand as Offen what
I don't understand. Where did that come from? Where did
that come from? Uh, let's see what else do we have?
So we got our pole question? Is this? Yeah? The
pole question is of all the teams that had just
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one primetime game, who deserved more at Actually, Pauli is
right on. The Jaguars are running away with us. People
can't understand why they only have one game the Bengals
or second. I think people want to see Joe Burrow.
I want to see Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase. I
don't know if there's anybody else that I want to see.
The Texans got zero votes, by the way, zero. Nobody
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wants to see the Texans. David Culley, the new head coach. No,
but poor David. Yes, nobody wants to see that team.
Talk about not being relevant. I mean they're relevant if
Deshaun Watson is able to play, but they're like talk
about a nondescript team. You know, DeAndre Hopkins two years ago.
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See you JJ Watt last year, see you Deshaun Watson.
Not on the football field. It's not like you go.
And I still want to tune in to see exactly
David Johnson, Yeah even a name. Yeah, I don't think
he's guaranteed to make it. I don't think he is either.
I don't think so. They got Philip Lindsay he's a
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little spicy. No he's not. But who are their receivers?
I decided Google, Oh, they have Randall Cobb, Brandon Cooks
and Kiki qt. Yeah, they should trade Randall Cob back
to the Packers for like a six round draft pick. Clearhouse.
The Lakers raised their twenty twenty banner. Lebron is still resting,
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James Harden came back for the Nets. The Knicks clinched
a playoffs spot. The Lakers seem all but destined for
the seventh seed. The only way they can avoid the
play in tournament is if they win both of their
remaining games on the road against the Pacers and the Pelicans,
and at least one of the Blazers in Mavericks lose
both of their games. That's what the Lakers at the
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Pelicans loss officially eliminates them from the playoff contention if
they lose tonight. San Antonio Spurs, who lost to the Nets,
are two games ahead of the Sacramento Kings, and that's
about it. The MAVs are also one win away from
finishing sixth. You know, they host the Raptors and then
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they visit the Timberwolves, two teams who have already been
eliminated from playoff contention. Blazers, MAVs, Lakers all one last night,
so they maintain the five, six and seven seeds in
the West with two games left in the regular season.
A couple of phone calls in here eight seven seven
three DP show Paul and Iowa leads this off. Hi, Paul,
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what do you have for me today? Hey? Dan? First off,
quick shout out to Laureston Skate Park and been des
Moines on the River downtown last week. Largest skate park
in America, hosting Olympic qualifyings later this month. But my
question for you is it's one of my favorite way
too early and overreaction days on the sports calendar after
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the NFL schedule comes out. Okay, which of these eight
teams do you think has the best chance of continuing
the worst to first tradition in the NFL divisions Niners, Falcons, Eagles,
Lions in the NFC and Jags, Jets, Bengals and Broncos
in the AFC. That's a good question, Paul. I'd say
the Niners. I'd have to remove the Niners. That's that's
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a really talented team. That's you know, it's just a
one year there with all the injuries. I can't see
the Falcons winning that division. Can't see the Jets winning
that division. Lions, yeahmi club. How about if you give
the Eagles to Shaun Watson? Well but I can't, Okay, Yeah,
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I mean and even then, I don't think that's a game.
Is the poll question? It's not? Hey, how about I
get Aaron Rodgers to uh the Bears? Anything to make
the poll question better. But you know that isn't the
NFC South the one that always flip flops four to one,
four to one? Do you really think it's gonna like
the Buccaneers are gonna fall on their faces? I think Atlanta,
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I mean, you look at it, No, I don't. But
I don't see why people are discounting Atlanta as a
you know, they have a veteran quarterback. I mean even
the Saints. Saints might be a little better than average,
but it feels like they're still going to be better
than Carolina. Better than the Falcons. Yeah, yeah, if Falcons
are kind of like a good bad team. They were
four and twelve last year, but they were only outscored
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by eighteen points on the season. They were really strong,
but like a Broncos were five and eleven. They were
outscored by one hundred and twenty three points. The Oh
my gosh, the Jaguars were outscored by one hundred and
eighty six points. Last year. The Jets were outscored by
over two hundred points. That's only happened three times. Jeff
and Detroit. Hi, Jeff, what's on your mind today? Hold
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me closer? Tony Dan's Wider Life on the Highway. Got
that one from chat Row. What up though, Dan? Listen
mclov my, goodness, one game too many. I mean you're
gonna take away Thanksgiving on us. Listen when we go
to the playoffs this year, I'm hauling say suck it,
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mcloving Wow, I hope don't I sound confident? Hey listen, Damn.
My question to you today though, is this with the
resurgence of so many quarterbacks and we have this longevity
thing going on where these old guys are just balling out.
You try to write somebody off and they make you
look like a fool. Will the next Super Bowl winning
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quarterback be older thirty three years or older or younger
than thirty three? So that's kind of like, uh, you
got your Aaron Rodgers, you got Tom Brady, I think
Matt Staff and Matt Ryan, Russell Wilson. I think Russell's
thirty two, so you might just be out. So the
young gys compared to the old dogs? Which one you got? All?
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Thank you, Jeff. Let's let's discuss yes, MC. First of all,
can people stop calling in with better pole questions? And
and if the Lions bake, I will drive to Detroit
if the Lions make the playoffs, So let Jeff throw
a pie of my face. I'm that confident. Okay, you
can mark that down DP show Bets, Twitter Feed. Yeah,
I like that. I like that. It's I'm writing it down. Yeah, Paully.
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How many people are a room for the Lions now
for that last day? Everybody everybody is That is a
good Bowl question, though, even Packer fans are rooting for them. Okay,
so if I did hold Russell Wilson Junior the third
thirty three to thirty two, or's he turning thirty three?
But if I if I gave you all the under
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thirty threes and all the over thirty threes of who
wins the Super Bowl this year? Russ turns thirty three
in November. Old guy, young guyon So starting the season
he would be with the younger guys? Is Russ an
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old guy? Feels like an older guy considering the younger
guys here? Yeah, see he's an aging guy. Okay, not
quite old, but he's aging all right. Yes, yeah, Russell's
like going to the club. He just wants to sit
on the couch and watch Netflix tonight. He's an old
guy like us. I don't know. I see some of
those dance videos with his wife. Yeah, notice he's not
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dancing a little bit, but you don't notice he's dancing
because you're watching her dance. He's kind of keeping the beat,
if you know what I mean, A little bit, a
little bit. Yeah see that's all right, I mean he's
in the video, yeah he is, you know, yeah, as
he is that's all you want to do. You just
want to make sure you make the video. Yep, yep, yeah, McLevin.
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I'm looking at the young team. They got Josh Allen
and Patrick Mahomes, Like they got some chances here, yea,
Lamar Jackson, Baker Mayfield Junior the third. Um. Okay, well
you're you're you're basically saying Ken Patrick Mahomes win a
super Bowl. It feels like like you're kind of loading
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up on him with the chance that Lamar Jackson or
Josh Allen would would win a Super Bowl as well.
Then you get the older guys Rogers, Brady, matt Ryan,
Matthew Stafford. All right, a couple of if I I
don't think Seattle's winning the Super Bowl. Russ though, if
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I put him in there, that's pretty good. It's a
pretty good question there. Yeah, it's San Francisco. Is uh,
it would either Trey l Answer, Jimmy g on the eye,
Jimmy Gey. Yeah, they get both of those guys. Yeah, well,
I'm just saying you get both of those guys. I
like Staffords. In addition, I forgot about that. Yeah he's
thirty five. Yeah, all right, we'll take a break we'll
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come back more phone and Mina Kimes on loan from
the mother Ship will join us in an hour. We'll
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Today we have against the Grain schedule release coming up.
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Also some in fighting with the Danetts with Meat Friday
egg We have a cameraman here, his name is Weeks,
and I mean he's our cameraman now, but he has
celebrated his birthday this week. And I said, you're able
to control the menu. I'm going to let you decide
what we have on Meat Friday. And I came in today.
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I asked Tyler, the moderator, I said, what are we
cooking on meat Friday? And he said week Sauce. Wanted
pork roast, I believe deviled eggs and broccoli with parmesan
on it. And there were a couple of groans on
the other side of the glass. Yes, port tenerline. There's
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nothing wrong on port tenerline. It's pretty good. It's made incorrectly.
It could be horrendously dry. Now deviled eggs unless there's
something I don't know I don't think there's any meat
in those. And then what was the other thing? Broccoli
with something parmesan parmesan and bacon parmisan and cheese Farmersan cheese.
It's not shred fast Friday. No. Like, I think this
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is kind of uninspiring, like a trigger will make anything
taste better, but it just feels like a like a
little bit of a letdown, you know. It's one of
those am I regretting giving weeks our cameraman full control,
total autonomy, like I treated him like he was Aaron Rodgers.
I said, go ahead, and you can pick whatever you want.
You take control. But you know there's some people who
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are okay with the choice. Here. Yes, broccoli trees and
fresh lemon, herbs and parmesan for a refreshing summerside dish.
That sounds lovely. Rope us hardwood smoke. I think it's
the deviled eggs that I have a problem with. See
that's what this is about. I it's my favorite food
in the world. This is a consensus on deviled eggs.
They're amazing. It's eggs, mayonnaise and and egg yolks. Who
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doesn't like at deviled eggs? Poll? Yeah, do you know
there are people out there like me who love deviled
eggs like you got, I've made them, I bring them
to a party, they go like like hot cakes. Maybe
we should have hotcakes instead. There's a reason it's not
the expression, isn't. Oh man, those go like deviled eggs.
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No rope, Oh man, we couldn't keep them. The houses
like having deviled eggs, and there it flying off the shelf.
But if you bring hotcakes, does somebody say, oh man,
these are gonna go like deviled eggs. It's the greatest
thing since deviled egg? Yeah? What if you put a
little little piece of bacon on the deviled egg? All right?
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But this is where we go back to Brussels sprouts,
where you guys have a problem with Brussels sprouts, so
oh you gotta always doctor them up. Okay, but you
don't like anything. This is a mayonnaise referendum too, like
that you don't like. Man, mayonnaise is worthless, God, mayonnaise
is worthless. You know there are people who feel differently
than you. Yeah, really, but no, the mayonnaise haters think
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that they're right. That's and you're They all are so
convinced that mayonnaise is bad. It's not it's just not good. Yes,
I like mayonnaise sparingly, just not watson ly. Mclovin throws
it around like the Jackson Pollock painting. He's right, but
but mayonnaise. It's as long as I don't know it's
in something that I'm okay with it. It's when you
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lead with the mayonnaise, and I have a problem with that.
That's all. It's we can all celebrate and have fun tomorrow,
you know, fake it for the camera. Yeah, set again. Um.
I don't like Devil Deggs. I don't love them and
I don't always want them, but I do like them.
You know the problem with the me Friday menu is
that there's nothing on the menu that may she go,
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oh man, that's awesome, where you can't wait for Friday.
Pork tenderline is a nice dish. It can be made well.
Usually it's a nice thing. It's pork tenderloine we're talking about.
It's not tofu. He's not trying to like. Pork tender
loine is a major It's pork. This is good. I know,
it's fine. I'm fine with that. I'm fine with the
broccoli this menu is locked. We have yes, Tyler has
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already begun preparations for tomorrow's meet Friday. Todd, you're not
saying a word I was cut up with for Bronton Burgers.
I like to kind of keep it simple when we
still trying to get fancy with sprinkling things on broccoli.
And you know, if you're gonna do pork to me,
then you should be doing like some kind of ribs
or something like that. You're the one who puts duck
sauce on your ribs. I do. I like the sweet
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and sour sauce. The duck sauce. I don't even know
what parts of the country don't even know what duck
saus is. Maybe a New York thing. Well, if you
go to a Chinese restaurant, a little packings, yeah, some orange, yes, yes, yeah.
For Fritzie a barbecue hotspot for ribs is who and palace.
It has to be a Roman numeral involved or else
I'm out. Yeah. If it's just you know, one or
by itself, then that's not good to know. It was
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so successful. A couple of phone calls and we'll get
to mc levin's Against the Grain schedule release and then
a Lebron James theory coming up. Nate, Oklahoma High Nate,
what's on your mind? Hey, Dan Um. You know, maybe
I'm in the minority here, but being a Titans fan,
it always scared me with the schedule release because I
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don't really want that many primetime games. You know, we
kind of fly under the radar do ourything in Nashville.
We win some games, we lose some games, but when
we lose, it's usually to the Jaguars on Thursday Night
and everyone talks about the next day. Now, granted we
Derrick Henry did have that ninety nine yard run on
a Thursday nine game, but it usually doesn't end well
and we have the Ram the Bills in the forty
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nine ers. It's not gonna go great. Thanks guys, all right, well,
thank you, Nate. Nate sounds depressed. Yeah, we're in May.
He's already sounds like they lost these games. Yeah, I'm
a clevin. Well. When you look up Thursday Night football
through the years, it's always the Titans in the jackets.
Feels like, feels like um Leslie and South Carolina Hi Leslie, Hi,
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Dan Hie. Hello, longtime listener, first time caller boy. I'm
coming into an angry room right now with mayonnaise and
weeks in pork tenderland. I hope I can lighten the
mood a little bit. I'm ready. Okay, Okay. When I
was growing up, now this is going to date myself, Dan,
But when I was growing up, I proudly announced to
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my family that I was in a Beach Boys song.
And they wondered why I said that, and I said
life would be ecstasye you and me and Leslie. Needless
to say, my older brother burst my bubble quite quickly.
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All right, well, thank you brought a smile to our faces. There.
We've all had those problems where we think we're hearing something.
What's the clash rock the cans bar, rock the cash bar?
Is that what that was? Yeah, Shale was at Clydesdale,
Sharif I'd have no idea, I always thought the word
Clydesdale was a rockcass. But yeah, see, I thought when
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I was a kid, I thought that Lionel Richie song
truly yeah, was about the character from Facts of Life.
Tutti t tut in. I had some people say, now
there's the song by the Bgs. More than a woman
and that that's the lyric. More than a woman, it's
also the title. And there are people saying that they
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thought it was bald headed woman. Then I'm going, how
do you get bald headed woman? Bad woman? This came
up because was it James Harden? We thought he said braggery?
But he played that in three two one. Are you
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surprised at how quickly it kind of came back to
you and you were back in the flow of things.
Not really that's like brag or anything, but I'm like,
yeah or anything. And then the question I thought he
was saying the Philippines, and then he said, in the
flow of things when you get back from the Philippines,
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like a virgin touched for the thirty first time. I
think it's like a virgin touched for the first time.
But with Madonna, you're never quite sure. Are you here?
We are now in containers instead of here we are
entertain us? Any other any other great ones in here?
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Sometimes when I listened to Queen, I don't know what
the words are, but the music is fantastic. There's a
lot of their songs though right I'm just singing along
with them, But I don't know if I'm even close. Yeah.
See somebody on Twitter sent in a good one. Um,
you know Janis Joplin, me and Bobby McGee. Yeah. Uh,
let's say, when's hill Whippers Turpin time? I was old
and that's not the that's not the lyrics, okay. Uh
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Jason in New York, Hey, Jason, Hey, bun uh five
seven one ding misquoted song lyric TLC waterfalls, don't go
Jason water fall when it's supposed to be don't go
chasing waterfall. Yep, I've seen that one too. Thank you,
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Thank you, Jason, Jason, Jason Waterfalls. Also, I had somebody say,
you know, Billy Joel the piano Man, sing us a
song for the Yellow Man, and it sing us a
song You're the piano Man? Any other ones? I just
going back to this one. This might be my favorite.
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There's a bathroom on the right. I can't get that
on my head. Now, that's bad moon Rya. There's a
bathroom on the rhyme his voice, it's hard to make
out the words sometimes. Yeah, all right, against the grain
schedule release annual tradition going back to at least two
thousand and sixteen. Alright, so here's what I'm gonna do.
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I'm gonna play GM and I'm gonna give advice to
these teams based on the schedule release. It's gonna be
hard hitting. Okay, Pauli's Chicago Bears. They open up at
the Rams on Sunday night football. Now, you know how
much I love Andy Dalton, He's not great at night football.
In fact, he's not even very good at it. I
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just don't watch Chicago to panic if this first game
against Aaron Donald the Rams goes bad, because the following
week Dalton plays the Bengals at home in Chicago, and
you know he's gonna get so up to is one
pm you could possibly get. You cannot panic on the
Andy Dalton experience after one time they play earlier. Yeah, well,
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there are nine thirty games, but the I think the
jack Oh no, the Falcons are all the nine thirty
AM games. Another situation, not depending The Cowboys schedule came
out and it opens up with at the Bucks and
at the Chargers. Obviously big ratings. I could just see,
you know how we are with the Cowboys, how we
overplay everything. Yeah, if that goes badly, you know ESPN
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is going to August say it's get rid of microcore.
It's gonna go berserk. But then they have the second
easiest schedule in the league. So I just fear that
there's going to be a rush to judgment on the Cowboys.
Like I mentioned earlier, if they lose this Week one game,
are we all gonna make a consensus out of that?
But I think there's a referendum every Monday after a
Cowboy game. Yeah, and especially in September, there's going to
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be that, oh my gosh, they're either better than we
thought or it's going to be another disastrous season. But
look at this start at Tampa Bay, at Los Angeles,
then they host the Eagles, they host the Panthers, they
host the Giants. So they could like start out oh
and two and still be just fine for the season. Yes, yeah,
and they should be, but it depends on how those
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players that they you know, they drafted, signed for free
agency on defense, Like that's the key. I mean, is
Dad going to be healthy? And I also think the
offensive line, which has been their strength, might be one
of their weaknesses right now. Yeah, pauland you go back
to last year. I was looking at the Week one
last year, the Saints beat the Buccaneers and Brady had
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two interceptions, and remember I think it was the head
coach said something like, well, well we'll talk to him,
we'll get it worked out. He made some bathros. That
was the entire week. He spent the entire week on
Tom Brady being slow start. No, oh my god, did
you hear what Bruce arians? He called out Tom Brady.
Bill Belichick never did that. Remember when Brady held up
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the wrong number of fingers against the Bear, it was
over then? Okay, one couple more advice Detroit Lions. My
advice is that you create a time machine and you
go back and you draft Justin Fields at number seven,
because what the heck are they doing for Jared Goff here?
How on earth are they going to win any of
these games? San Francisco, Bay, Baltimore, at Chicago, at Minnesota.
Their first win might be Bengals at home. This is
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a really hard spot for Jared Goff. He doesn't have
a lot of talent around him. I don't understand why
they didn't take a quarterback and just start over. Well
they did get a lineman to protect him, yeah, I know,
but they're so lack of talent there. I know, Dan
Campbell is awesome as a guest, but it just feels
like that is a pure rebuild. I don't quite understand
why they didn't take the quarterback. And lastly, my Pittsburgh Steelers.
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So I was, when did that happen? Don't you? I
actually made a bet that they're gonna make the playoffs.
I thought, yeah, the steel No, you said, if the
Lions make the playoffs, you'll drive, will drive to Detroit
and let Jeff from Detroit throw a pie in your fit.
So I had said, everybody is under playing the Steelers,
like nobody is talking about nobody thinks they're gonna be good.
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What wait, who is nobody? Honestly, I will show you
the random articles and tweets. There is no buzz on
the Steelers. But but who were the people who were
issuing said tweets? NFL writers? They do not like the Steelers.
I'll show you Vegas odds because everyone thinks the way
they ended last year, they assume they're going to be
bad again this year. Okay, well, they're also in a
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competitive division with the Ravens and the Browns. You're guaranteeing
the Steelers make the playoffs? I was, but then I
saw their schedule, and now I'm going against the grain.
I'm saying the Steelers, you're not you. You went against
your own grain. I double against the grain. I'm backing.
I'm going with the grain here. The Steelers schedule is impossible.
Oh my god, they play everybody. It is so hard.
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Man Ben's gonna have to be the healthiest he's ever been.
So I'm going with the grain and saying the Steelers.
You hadn't heard. Nobody else had heard like kind of
a general malaise about the Steelers. I don't know, there
was nothing specific. Yeah, we got burned by the Steelers
last year? Were they eleven? And oh yeah, anytime you
get burned, your bail the next year. It's like the
Atlanta Falcons when they were up twenty eight three. People
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kind of hollow. They were a hollow eleven and oh
big time. And then everyone likes the Browns. Remember when
they struggled to beat that depleted Ravens team. It was
like on a Wednesday or yeah, and I went, oh
my god, this is this is not a good team.
Yes time they have the Bills, Seahawks, Packers, Chiefs, Chargers,
just to name a few with the Steels and not
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to mention obviously Ravens and Browns. Yes, Paul, Browns are
a great example of where the NFL media jumps on
and jumps off two years ago. Browns were hot last
year because they had to achieve the year before. Everyone
jumped off the Browns. Now everyone's back on because of
their defensive to help it on it, I was off
when everybody was on. I was on last year when
everybody was off. Now I got to decide where am
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I on the Cleveland Browns this year? Because there's gonna
be a team where I'm gonna latch onto them. There's
gonna be a hot team here. But I got a
while before I give you my Super Bowl picks. All right,
when we come back a Lebron theory? Who has this theory? PAULI,
I got it. Okay, it's not that hot. It's not
(36:57):
lightly Yeah, but you told me to tease it. I
did that. Yeah, but you're supposed to say, oh my god,
coming on, just fake kid, Okay, got it, I know
this theory. This is okay, it enough, it's hot enough,
hot enough, all right, we have a hot enough take
on Lebron James. That's that's coming up after this. Thanks
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(37:19):
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your podcasts. It was on this date back in nineteen
eighty three, Reggie Jackson became the first baseball player in
history to strike out two thousand times. You imagine Reggie
Jackson in two day's game where it's okay to strike out.
He had a lot of bombs, But if it's okay
(38:23):
to strike out and nobody got their money's worth. Quite
like Reggie Jackson at the play because he was almost
like a corkscrew when he'd get done with his swing.
It was almost like he was like digging himself into
the ground there. But he struck out over two thousand times.
He'd be he'd be welcome. They'd be like, Oh, you
(38:44):
don't have to worry about putting the ball in play.
Just swing as hard as you can. How's your launch angle?
All right, you're lebron theory. That's sort of hot. Paulie
not really, it's more of a I'm commending him for this.
You know, he got the ankle injury, the high ankle
injury in March. I think he missed about twenty games.
He came back in late April and tried a few
and then went back and rested some more, and he's
basically resting the rest of the regular season. I think
(39:06):
the ankle injury was something for a while, but I
think it's more of a play like, look, I'm missing
all these games. I don't need games to get back
into things. The guys played like two hundred and sixty
playoff games his career thirteen hundred regular season games. I
believe he could have played the past couple of weeks,
but there's no upside to it. The only upside is
he re injures or wears himself down. He knows that
(39:26):
all he has to do is be ready for May
and June. You don't want to be in that playing game, though.
I don't think he lacks the confidence in a playing game.
I would, yeah, one game, but I will look the
ankle injury. I'm sure stunk for a while. But my
guess is that he's one of those things that if
I can just you know, ride this out and get
to the playoffs. Like James Harden said last night, they
(39:47):
were talking about how rusty were he was rusty what
I do for a living man? I'm I could play
basketball to drop of a dime. And I think Lebron
thinks the same thing. Is that rest is way more
important this juncture than tuneups or getting used to my team.
They're gonna get used to me when I dominate about
two weeks. Yeah, but the Nets can afford to have
these guys not play. The Lakers can't afford to have
(40:08):
Lebron sit out because you're you're in a danger zone
with that play in game and you've added even more
stress to the playoffs that you don't even need to
add anymore. Here you're trying to defend your championship. And
I agree, I see what you're saying. Don't like it,
But I don't think he's not shakable with stress. He's
seen every They've been throwing stuff at him for fifteen years,
(40:29):
and he always ends up in the finals. I think
he has the supreme confidence that, hey, well I'm not
worried about him. I'm worried about you know, Kyle Kuzma,
and you know Alex Caruso. Like now, all of a sudden,
we got to play another game in high stress, and
are we playing against Steph Curry and we got to win,
and then all of a sudden the playoffs start. So
(40:50):
I and I do think that this is going to
be an issue. This ankle will be an issue throughout
the playoffs. It doesn't go away. Those those injuries don't
go away. Even James Harden with a hamstring. He might
be healthy, but you know, once you start taxing yourself
a little more and you have to play a little
bit more because the importance of a game. Those are
(41:12):
two guys that I'm really curious about once the playoffs started,
I saw this that the Nets beat the Spurs last night.
Eight different Nets scored in double figures, becoming the That's
the second straight game Brooklyn has done that, the only
team in the league with three games in which eight
or more players scored at least ten points this season. Okay,
(41:37):
day last of the day of the day comes that.
What stat of the day? Mo? And Arizona joins us. MO.
What's on your mind today? Martin Fellers? Yeah, I was
gonna say any Michael McDonald's songs the one, But how
(41:59):
long did it take you guys figure out? I'm gonna say'na?
I still haven't figured it out. Mo. I'll check on
the Michael McDonald who was the thank You moo, the
former singer of the Doobie Brothers. He's on his own.
I don't know they're Michael McDonald lyrics that I'm not
(42:20):
aware of here. Yeah, mcclo oh, he's the way a
fool believe. Yeah, I don't understand the word he's saying. Everett,
I do like him, though, by a fool believe. I
didn't need that. Yes, he has a very high pitched Michael.
Remember that scene in forty year Old Virgin where they
all work in the electronics store, and Paul Rudd goes,
if I have to listen to one more Michael McDonald,
(42:41):
Yamo be there. I'm gonna yamo blow my head off.
It's just over and over they have on tape. We'll
get two more phone calls coming up. There's so many
funny scenes in that forty year Old Virgin. Like there,
there are some really great laugh out loud scenes. I
I'm looking for a fun movie. I don't have one
(43:03):
right now. I'm looking for one. I've gone through all
these this is a robbery and you know I'm watching
City on a Hill. I'm looking for something. Mayor of
East Town, east Side or whatever that is with Kate
Winslet I need something fun? Got anything? Thanks? Thanks alone
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