August 31, 2026 • 41 mins
Dan was not surprised to hear Aaron Donald is officially returning to the Rams and he talks about how they can best make use of their aging future Hall of Fame pass rusher. He debates how relevant North Carolina’s win over TCU is for Bill Belichick. And he talks to former NFL QB Chris Simms about all things pigskin related.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Ready to go.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Well, not fully assembled. Fritzie having major surgery, at least
according to Todd, on his finger. So he's out today.
Of course, he has updated us on the surgery. I
guess he's going under. There's anesthesia. So this is surgery
for Todd. If you're watching on Peacock, there is the
picture of Todd moments ago as he is getting ready
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play of the day, stat of the day, all of
that forthcoming. I don't think it's a surprise, but maybe
there's an element of shock that yes, Aaron Donald is
coming back. I think we were kind of waiting to
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see what kind of money the Rams could free up.
This is what I don't understand. And Chris Sims from
Pro Football Talk will join us in about 20 minutes.
How did the Rams just have $ 20 million laying around?
Did they go through the seat cushions there at SoFi?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I'll be damned.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
We got $ 20 million here for Aaron Donald. The incentives
to make $ 30 million. How do you have that money
just kind of hanging around there in a 401k mutual fund?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Something.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
But he's going to get $ 20 million. And I was curious,
and we're still trying to find this out. The Rams
are prohibitive favorites. They are plus 500 to win the
Super Bowl, followed by the Bills and Ravens at plus 1,000.
Probably the Chiefs a few years ago, maybe similar favorites
going into a season. But the Rams, overwhelming favorites. Their
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over-under is 11.5. Now, they play in a tough division, obviously,
with San Francisco and Seattle. But I think most people
would probably go for the over there with the Rams,
which would have me go for the under. but the
odds to win the Super Bowl plus 500, winning the
NFC plus 290, to win the division minus 105. Aaron Donald,
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defensive player of the year odds plus 5,000, has a
better chance to win the comeback player of the year
at plus 750. Here is Aaron Donald on why he's
coming back.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Being here, being a part of this team, potentially doing
something special, you know, that's what it's about. You know,
I think The Super Bowl being back at SoFi kind
of psyched you too, but it's a long process to
even get to that point. You can't jump past the
process and the grind that you got to go through
to get to that. Obviously, that's the end goal you
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want to do, but I'm just present, and I'm glad
to be here, and I'm just going to work, get
myself where I need to be, earn my position wherever
that is and whatever my role is, and just do
it at a high level.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
How would you like to be the guy who is
in his position right now and Aaron Donald has to
earn his position? I'm looking at this Rams defensive line.
So Aaron Donald, Miles Garrett had 23 sacks last season.
Kobe Turner had seven sacks. Byron Young had 12 sacks
last season. Brandon Fisk had 11 and a half sacks
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in two years at defensive tackle. There's no excuse in
not getting to the quarterback there with the Rams. Here
is the Rams head coach, Sean McVay.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Good to be able to get Aaron back into the mix.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
He and I, obviously, you guys know how close we are,
and there's been a lot of dialogue that we've had,
and excited to be able to just take it a
day at a time. I'm not going to talk about
any sort of plans. It's going to be a day
at a time for us. What does that mean for Australia?
The first step was, all right, if you're coming back,
let's do that. Let's get you out on the practice field.
Let's get you acclimated to your teammates, to your coaches.
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And then we'll see what that ramp up period looks like,
whether or not he's available or whether or not we
think it's best to be able to play him in Australia.
And I think the best way to do it is
take it one day at a time. But we're obviously
excited to be able to have him back.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yeah. And I go back to what Daniel Jeremiah said
last week. He said, I can't see Aaron Donald playing.
If he comes back, he's not going to be playing
in Australia. I don't need him in September. I need
him in December, January, February. I need home field advantage.
That's at SoFi. Super Bowl would be played there. I
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don't know how many snaps. I'd have him on a
snap count. Let him go in there situational. If he
only wants to play home games, or you only want
him to play home games, whatever it is to make
sure that the bottom line, the end goal is win
the Super Bowl. Here are some other favorites that were better,
bigger favorites. Now, Kansas City in 2024 was plus 500. 2021,
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Kansas City was plus 450. 2020, Kansas City plus 450.
New England in 2019, plus 400. New England 2017, plus 275.
I'm looking at New England in 07, was plus 250.
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So they're prohibitive favorites, but out of that grouping, I mean,
nobody has been a better, bigger favorite than New England
was at plus 250. That was 07. The Packers in
97 plus 250. Green Bay in 1998 plus 250. And
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San Francisco in 1996 plus 250. Stat of the Day.
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Speaker 4 (06:41):
Yes, Paul. How do you think.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
The Seattle Seahawks feel about the signing and the coverage
they've gotten or not gotten this month.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Well, they can't do anything about the signing and the coverage.
If I'm Seattle, I'm like, fine, I don't care. Let
the Rams be up there. Kansas City be up there.
The Eagles up there. Patriots, Cowboys. Well, Seattle won and
Seattle was the best team in the NFL last year
from start to finish, both sides of the ball. Seattle's
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probably saying.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
All right, that's okay.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
If you can be an underdog as defending Super Bowl champs,
they are.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Yes, Dylan?
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Yeah, if you're in their division, you actually want everyone
to just talk about how great the Rams are, how
they're going to win the Super Bowl, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Are the Rams a team you root against, though? Like
Kansas City, the Patriots, certain teams you've rooted against.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Cowboys you've rooted against.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Maybe the Eagles. I mean, I don't find them polarizing.
But it feels like, are the Rams villains?
Speaker 4 (07:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
They're just a smart organization. They do it right. You know,
you make the trade to get Matthew Stafford. You give
up Goff. You're giving up first-round picks. And it worked.
Now Aaron Donald's been retired for a couple of years.
You swing a trade for Miles Garrett. Because you got
Miles Garrett, in my opinion, you opened Aaron Donald's eyes to,
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I don't have to be the focal point. Maybe I'm
not the one getting double teamed. Hey, this might be
fun to go against one guy instead of two or three.
They've done a great job. Now, you've got to navigate
the Puka Nakua situation. And you've got a great coach.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
You've got, I mean.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Defense, you're winning games because of defense this year. And
you got a Hall of Fame quarterback, very good running back,
wide receivers. But, you know, once again, 2-2 Atwell doesn't
excite me too much, but that might be insurance if
Pukunukuwa gets suspended.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Yes, Paulie.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
I think the Rams are root forable, if that's a phrase. Like,
I want to see Miles Garrett playing relevant football games
at some point in his career. He's played in three
postseason games, ironically, like Mike Trout played in three postseason games.
First ballot guys, but I want to see him play
in January.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
But I don't know if the football world goes, you know,
I'd like to see him play in the playoffs. I
don't think that we're that generous, charitable, that we're like,
you know, like Mike Trout.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Okay, I get it.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
You know, three games in your entire career, first ballot
Hall of Famer, and then we're like, all right, it'd
be nice if he got a chance to play in
a meaningful playoff series. But I never once said– now,
I did say, boy, it'd be nice if he got
out of Cleveland and be able to play in meaningful games.
Because if you're in Cleveland, it's like, okay, you'll see highlights.
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Now you're watching entire games, and that'll be the difference.
People will watch Miles Garrett for an entire game. Speaking
of which, because it was week zero, everybody is going
gaga over Carolina's win against TCU. Now, granted, TCU, that's
a few years ago they were in the national title game.
So they went 9-4, 9-4, 5-7, I think, the last
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three years.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
It's in Dublin.
Speaker 8 (10:16):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
You won the game, but.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
It's a standalone game, and you might have watched the
entire game. And you're going, oh, situational football, Belichick mastermind.
He's going to draw them off.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
I'm yelling, don't jump, don't jump. They jumped.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
If I know it, how do you go to the
line of scrimmage if you're TCU? And you've been told
probably 50 times in the huddle, don't jump, don't jump,
don't jump.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
And then you have the defensive tackle, Joe. That's it.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
But did I think Bill Belichick coached a masterful game? No,
but it's better than a loss. So that's all. There's
no style points here. They're not going to be a
10-win team. They still look shaky on offense. They did
play really good defense. But you're playing TCU in Dublin.
(11:17):
Slow down just a little bit. I hate to be
a buzzkill, but I'm being a buzzkill. It was a
nice win, considering who they are, what they've been, and
what happened last year.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Yes, Paul.
Speaker 7 (11:33):
I just got this from Fritzie, actually about an hour ago.
Will Bill Belichick be doubling his win total? Doubling his
win total.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Thank you. Thank you, Paul. I didn't need the second.
That's a Todd. Thank you. Yes, Marvin. I'm with you.
Speaker 9 (11:51):
I don't want to overreact, but also the sign of
a bad team is you celebrating when you get a
team to jump offsides. The way they were jumping up
and down when TCU jumped offsides for them to seal
the victory, I was like, ugh, this might be five
wins at best for this team.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I'm going to give Todd a bloop on that, considering
he's probably getting ready for major surgery, but he's thinking.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
About the audience. Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Yeah, you would think that Todd might be a little
loopy from whatever drugs they put him on to knock
him out. That still just sounds like business as usual.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yeah, but they don't give you any drugs until they
knock you down.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Well, maybe he's already done. It is just a finger.
I mean, it can't take that long.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
No, but they put him under.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yeah, but he might be awake now after being under.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
No, I don't think the surgery's over yet. No, I
don't think so. But that picture of him in his
hospital bed, and he's... He's got the shower cap on
as well. He was texting me over the weekend.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Oh, my God. I said, don't you have a wife? Like,
leave me alone.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
It's not major surgery. Because he wanted to know if
I'd had surgery. I said, Todd, I'm a game of operation.
I've had more surgeries than the entire room combined.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
He goes, I know. But when you go under, like,
they make sure you're out, right? I go, yes. They're
not going to operate on you.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
If you're still awake, unless you ask, I was asked
with one of my knee surgeries, do you want to watch?
They were going to numb me from the waist down.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
And I said, no.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
And this doctor couldn't believe that I didn't want to
watch the surgery of them. It was micro fracture surgery.
So they were taking like a drill going into my knee,
into the bone. And I go, no. He goes, well,
I'll make a tape of it for you. Oh, Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Yeah, I would watch maybe someone else get knee surgery.
I don't want to watch it be done on me.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
No, I don't want to watch somebody else.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Well, I'm not clamoring for that, but I'm saying I
would be more inclined if they're like, hey, do you
want to see us do it on this guy? Then
do you want to watch your own knee?
Speaker 4 (14:05):
No. Me?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
None.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
No, don't need to. But these doctors are like fascinated
with this.
Speaker 10 (14:12):
Hey.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
What if I just numbed you? You got to watch.
I go, no.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
And he goes, we have a nice screen right here.
I could put it right here. And I go, no, no.
Watching childbirth is enough. And that's not even on me.
All right. We'll have a poll question today. First hour, Dylan.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
We'll come back.
Speaker 11 (14:35):
Okay.
Speaker 12 (14:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
We'll come back with Chris Sims, pro football talk. How
did the Rams have $ 20 million?
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Just kind of.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Set off to the side unless they knew that Aaron
Donald was coming back. All right, we'll take a break.
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if he overreacted to North Carolina with that crushing win
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(15:57):
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Speaker 4 (16:01):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Help me understand how the Rams had $ 20 million just
kind of hanging around there waiting for Aaron Donald.
Speaker 12 (16:09):
Yeah, well, I think they had to finagle a few things, right?
But they had money left over regardless. I think that
going into yesterday, what was it? Maybe $ 15, $ 16 million
below the salary cap there?
Speaker 4 (16:24):
So that was the big question all along.
Speaker 12 (16:26):
Was Aaron Donald going to come back and go, nope,
just give me the $ 30 million that I'm supposed to
get and we'll go from there? That's where I was
always like, I'm interested to see how this contract thing
goes down.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
But obviously they got it right.
Speaker 12 (16:38):
They got some very easy, if you're on the 53-man roster,
he gets big bonuses each week that way. And then
added on top of that, the bonuses, right, if they
get to the playoffs and the Super Bowl, which is
all very realistic, to where he could possibly make $ 30 million.
It's not the most far-fetched incentive one-year contract I've ever seen,
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that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
How would you use him? I would take it slow
at first.
Speaker 12 (17:07):
One thing I learned in my days working for New
England in the short term I was there is that
we would have weeks, right? And you remember this, like
Gronkowski had like the, I don't know, some metal thing
in his wrist or whatever, right? In one of his
bionic injury moments. And I remember he came back and
I was like, oh gosh, he practiced this week.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
He's going to play. And Oh, he's not going to play.
All right. Next week.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
All right.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Practice all week. Look pretty good. I guess he's going to. Oh, no,
he's not going to play.
Speaker 12 (17:36):
Bill was great at making sure the guys are ready
and in game shape, not just throwing them out there
because he's available again. And hopefully they take the same approach.
I'm surprised it took him this long to get into
training camp because I would have thought he'd want to
get into some of the combative situations and just feel
and get his body into football shape that way. I
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think first game, you know.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
15, 25 snaps on big passing downs. That's what I
would envision. But who knows?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
He is such a freak of nature. Maybe he's capable
of more. If I send him to Australia, I send
him on a vacation. He's not playing. I just say,
you know, him and the family, you want to go
over and root on the team and have some fun there.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
But I don't I hear you. I don't want him playing. No, no.
Speaker 12 (18:22):
The problem is, is I don't think you're going to
be able to stop him from playing if he thinks
he feels good and.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Is ready to go this week. But but yeah, you
got to be careful.
Speaker 12 (18:31):
You know, I know he feels great and everything's trending
in the right direction. But as he said in his
press conference yesterday, I still haven't done 11 on 11 football. And,
you know, you can run the ladder and go around
the loops and lift all the weights you want. But
that first time you got to take a pulling guard
on Dan, you know, and hit him and then put
your body in some awkward wrestling position and then try
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to get him off. That's the next piece of the
puzzle he's got to get in shape for, feel how
he responds the next day and go from there. And yeah, that's,
you know, I'm kind of with you. If it's not ready, ready, ready,
don't even risk it. But if he does play, I
don't think it'll be a ton of just be some situations.
Speaker 8 (19:08):
Right.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
As a quarterback, you go to the line of scrimmage,
you more concerned with Aaron Donald or Miles Garrett?
Speaker 12 (19:13):
Well, right now, Miles Garrett. I think that's the other
thing that's so crazy about this. I think if it
was really just about anybody else in the history of football,
I'd go, wait, defensive tackle, 35 years old, hasn't played
in two years. I've never seen this before. I got
to believe it to see it, to really think it's
going to be top notch. There's a little of that thought,
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but because it's Aaron Donald and we know he stayed
in shape and he's a psycho about his body anyways
and all that, if there's one guy that can kind
of do this, it would be him. But I can
tell you just from texting with my friends in the
NFL and everybody, I think everybody's a little like... can
he really do this is he really going to be
that good and if he is that good can he
stay healthy with taking two years off and and that's
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going to be something everybody's going to be watching.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
For it was cut down day yesterday uh were you
cut in your career.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 12 (20:05):
I was cut two different times, really. Once I lost
my spleen, and then I had that year where I
had a year to get healthy, but the Bucs cut me,
tried to trade me to the very last second, then
they cut me, and then I got cut in Denver
by Josh McDaniels as well, and Tennessee in my last
year of my career. So yeah, I've been cut many times. Okay,
but how do you get cut? What's the process? Okay, well,
(20:30):
it could be... So Tampa... Tampa, I knew they didn't
want to keep me and all that, and they were
moving on. And Mark Dominick, the old GM there, I
remember him calling me and being like, hey, Lake, we
got a few teams that have been calling about you.
So we're going to kind of see. We might be
able to trade you, but if we don't trade you,
we'll call you back and we'll probably have to release
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you at the end of the day.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
So that was that one. Denver, I had no idea.
Speaker 12 (20:55):
I was in the locker room that day, and I
saw the guy that was going around getting people that
were cut. It was the first day back of the offseason.
And I knew there might be trouble with my price tag,
my age, and all that. And all of a sudden,
I turned around, and that damn bastard that goes around
and cuts people, he was at my locker. And I
was like, oh, man, really? I was like, damn, and
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that one hurt. That definitely did. So that's kind of
how it goes down. It's not something you really want
to see or feel or deal with. You can't fight back,
can you? No, you can't fight back. And you know,
the worst part about it, too, was with Josh McDaniel.
I was there in Denver. You know, he, of course,
such a great offensive mind. And I wanted some of
my play sheets and things that I had in the playbook.
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And damn, they acted like it was NASA and the
CIA there.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Nope, nope, nope. You're not giving this.
Speaker 11 (21:42):
No.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
And I was like, come on. I was like, what?
Can I just go talk to Josh? I just want
to keep this and this. I might coach one day.
Speaker 12 (21:48):
And, you know, they were like, no, no, you'll have
to deal with that some other time. Get the hell
out of the building.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Yeah. He's Chris Sims, Pro Football Talk live co-host that
precedes this show on Peacock. Help me understand the J.J. McCarthy, like, hey,
let's celebrate you made the 53-man roster. Boy, that's a big,
big fall from a guy a couple of years ago
you're taking, and he's going to be your franchise quarterback.
Speaker 8 (22:12):
Right.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
No, things aren't looking good.
Speaker 12 (22:15):
That second preseason game was alarming to a degree because
all the things that we wondered whether he fixed or
polished up and got better at playing the position.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Can he throw the ball with touch? Can he throw
with anticipation?
Speaker 12 (22:30):
Can he stay healthy, banged up his ankle in that
game a little bit? And we saw that game where
we saw bad decisions, late throws, wide open guys where,
I don't know, we threw it so hard that the
guy couldn't even catch it or it wasn't even in
their stratosphere because he threw it so hard he lost
control of it. So, yeah, they keep him because quarterbacks
(22:51):
are such a big asset, as we know. But, yeah,
it does feel like, is he really the backup? Is
Carson Wentz the backup? Are they both kind of the backup?
We'll see where it goes, but he certainly hasn't done
anything wrong. to make us feel like, gosh, he's the
future of Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Everybody gets caught up in arm strength. And I find
it overrated because of the number of passes that are
probably 15 yards or less. Now, you've got to throw
in the numbers. I know all of that. But I
want to know, do you have touch? And can you
put it where you need to put it? I would
start there because Will Levis is out of a job.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
J.J.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
McCarthy's holding on, and everybody talks about, boy, they got
arm strength there. Joe Milton might have the strongest arm
in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
I want to know if you can play the position.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
I hear you.
Speaker 12 (23:38):
That's number one. That's important. But I will say again,
when you go through your great quarterbacks of the history
of the sport or the ones right now, really other
than Drew Brees and maybe Joe Montana, the arms are exceptional.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
And I know what you're saying.
Speaker 12 (23:54):
Playing the position is the number one thing where you
want it to really meet up is go, wait, can
the guy throw his fastball and make power throws and
still control the football? Josh Allen, when he came out,
we go, damn, he could throw it through a brick wall,
but I'm not sure he'll hit the brick wall sometimes.
And then he refined it and fixed mechanics, and you
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saw that, and then he started to go, wow, he
can throw lasers and put it anywhere he wants. And
that's the special ones. But you're right. I'm with you.
I mean, if you give me one or the other,
I want the guy that can play first. But your
special ones, they do have those type of arms that–
I think sometimes not even myself and the general public
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gives credit to those maybe four or five throws a
game that Mahomes or Allen or Lamar make because their
arm is so powerful. And those can be difference-making type
throws or plays in the football game.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
How do you think the Seattle Seahawks feel today? a
little bit like the forgotten team. Like, oh gosh, yeah, hey,
the Rams are going to win the Super Bowl. Did
you hear that, guys? We're in it this year. I'm
sure they're a little chippy about it.
Speaker 12 (25:03):
Probably kind of liking the fact that they're looked at
as the underdogs right now. But hey, this is a
real rivalry. I mean, we know that division's crazy. And
I mean, no disrespect to New England, whose phenomenal team
last year and all that, but I don't think you
would disagree. I mean, last year, it felt like the
Rams were the second best team in the NFL. It
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felt like if they went to the Super Bowl, they
would have beat the Patriots as well. They had the
Seahawks on the ropes in the first half of that
NFC championship game. So, you know, they're a chippy group
up there. They're damn good, and we shouldn't.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Forget about them. That's for sure.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
What is the number one question you have going into
this season? Oh, the number one question I have going
into this season. All right, so.
Speaker 12 (25:49):
That's a good one, and I haven't had anybody pose
that to me. I think here's my number one question.
How good is the Kansas City Chiefs going to be?
I think that's a real, like, I don't think, guys,
I have to at the end of this week, I'm
going to pick teams that go to the playoffs and
do my playoff bracket. I don't think I'm willing to
pick the Kansas City Chiefs to go to the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
I don't.
Speaker 12 (26:09):
I mean, I'm certainly going to pick them third in
the AFC West as I sit here right now. So
that to me, you know, it's not that it's a
big question. It just feels so weird and odd and
rare because it's one of the greatest quarterbacks we've ever seen.
They've been at the top of the mountain for so long.
And I do think they're kind of rebuilding their team
on the fly here after an underwhelming year last year.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
And I just.
Speaker 12 (26:33):
I'm just not sure about them this year, and I
don't see it on paper to go, ooh, yeah, I
think there's something here.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
They might make a real run at this thing.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I saw reports that Patrick Mahomes is going to run less.
I don't know how you do that mentally when you
go back to pass and there's the rush. And I
just don't know if you go, oh, that's right. I'm
not allowed to run. Like when you get back there,
it's progressions. I'll go there, there, there. OK, now I
have to take off. Lamar Jackson said that he didn't
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run as much as he normally does. He was banged up.
But I don't know how you do that in the
moment as quick as the game is that you go, nope,
not going to run.
Speaker 12 (27:15):
That's going to be something he has to adjust to.
I think you'll see some plays that are ugly in
week one because his mind's going to go, wait, I'm
going to get out of here and get out of trouble.
But his body's going to go, wait, wait, you're not
that fast and you can't move that well right now.
And you might see plays where he kind of gets
out of the pocket and all of a sudden he's like,
oh gosh, I can't get away from this guy. I
just got to throw it away or throw it at
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the feet of somebody. I wouldn't be surprised if you
saw a whole lot of plays like that at first.
But I do think it will start to click, and
he'll start to realize, wait, I can't always do it
with my playmaking, extending the play. I'm going to just
have to know, hey, where's my hot route? Where's my
quick throw if somebody gets through the line of scrimmage?
He's going to have to think like most of us
normal quarterbacks used to have to think. where we couldn't
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just go oh wait oh yeah this guy isn't open
i'll just sit back here and move around and make
some time and and buy some time before i throw
some laser so he's gonna have to be a normal
guy that way but as you know and as we
all know he's a gym rat he's a junkie and
i think he will adjust pretty quickly.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Why will this could this will this be the buffalo
bills year Oh, well, you're talking to the wrong guy, okay?
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Because I don't think it will be their year.
Speaker 12 (28:26):
To me, the Buffalo Bills have been overrated for quite
some time. I do not think they should have fired
Sean McDermott. That would be the first thing. And anybody
that knows me or listens to me, I always say it.
I mean, they're in the window. And you and I
have had this conversation. Very John Elway-ish conversation. Where I go, wait,
the team, you know, they're good, but we're going to
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put them in the Super Bowl window? Why is that? Oh,
because the quarterback is the best player in the NFL
right now. And I just look at it, hey, I
like DJ Moore. Are they going to get a new
coach energy bump with a guy that was already there
and part of the regime as is? I don't know
about that.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
And I still come away, and as compared to most
of the top teams in football, I go, if we
walk down the street in New York City, Dan, and
I ask Johnny on 52nd and 5th and go, hey,
who's the best player on the Bills defense? I think
you'd get a lot of, hold on, they got that
Ed Oliver guy.
Speaker 12 (29:24):
And so that, to me, says a lot right there.
And yeah, I don't look at them as a Super
Bowl team, Dan. You're Team Ravens, right?
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Yeah, I'm Team Ravens.
Speaker 12 (29:35):
I like them. Yeah, I definitely do. There's potential there
for sure. But yeah, I do like them.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Is that your Super Bowl pick?
Speaker 12 (29:42):
Oh, no, it's not my Super Bowl pick. And I
don't know what I'm going to do yet. I mean,
are you falling.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
In love with the Chargers? I listen, I think the chargers,
I will say this.
Speaker 12 (29:54):
No, I'm not going to do it, but I do
think that there, if it's really about that offensive line
and if they can just stay healthy, I do think
I would put them maybe on the short list at
the bottom of that short list of teams that I
think are in the Superbowl window.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
I do that. It's hard not to like the Rams.
The NFC is so wide open.
Speaker 12 (30:13):
Philadelphia, of course, still has the talent to do that
and be in the Super Bowl. Detroit, I still think,
could come out of nowhere here. Not like they're coming
out of nowhere and be in that game. Have me
back next week, and I'll tell you who I think
is going to go to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
I'm not sure yet. Are you buying into the Cowboys?
Speaker 12 (30:32):
I think the Cowboys are a playoff caliber team. There's
no question about the offense, so that's not even a thing.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Well, wait a minute. Playoff team and playoff caliber are different.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Yeah. No, I think they're a playoff team. You're right.
I'll just say that. I think they are.
Speaker 12 (30:46):
And I think they've done enough on that defensive side
of the ball and then having a new D coordinator
down there from Philadelphia and a different scheme that, yes,
I look at them to be a playoff team. The
Giants in their division, they are what you said, playoff teams.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Caliber.
Speaker 12 (31:02):
I'm not sure I'm going to put him in the playoffs,
but I do look at it and go, ooh, I
wouldn't be shocked if we're here in mid-December going, hey,
if the Giants win their last two.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
They're going to go to the playoffs. I would not
be shocked by that. Great to talk to you. We'll
have you on next week to get your Super Bowl pick.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Hey, I like that.
Speaker 8 (31:19):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Hey, one thing. Make sure you tell those jerks I
said hi, especially that fritzy jerk, all right?
Speaker 2 (31:24):
He's out having major surgery today.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Oh, my gosh. Well, I would feel bad if it
weren't for him, but I hope he's okay, all right?
Speaker 12 (31:32):
Well, you did lose his spleen. Yeah, yeah, so I
know about major surgery. But you don't need it, do you? No,
obviously not. I'm sitting here talking to you. So I
made it. But yeah, he's not getting his spleen removed.
I mean, I was texting with him last night. He
didn't tell me he was going to get major surgery.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Well, he had finger surgery or having finger surgery.
Speaker 10 (31:54):
What?
Speaker 2 (31:54):
All right.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
So let's reclassify what we just said. Did you say
major surgery? He thinks it's.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Major surgery because they put him under.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Oh, my gosh.
Speaker 12 (32:07):
Have me back next week when he's here so we
can really discuss this. You almost died on a football field. Yes,
I almost died on a football field. The fact that
I didn't make the NFL top 10 gutsiest performances over
some of those people that made that list, I want
to go, how.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Did that not happen?
Speaker 2 (32:23):
They took out part of your gut.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Exactly.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Did you win Comeback Player of the Year? I didn't
win Jack Diddley crap. Not even Tampa Bay wanted to
give me anything because they were so scared to be
legally liable. They didn't even want to act like I
came back from anything there either.
Speaker 12 (32:40):
You lost it. Do you have another spleen? No, I
don't have another spleen. My spleen is in the trash
somewhere in Tampa, Florida.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
It's gone. Thank you, Chris.
Speaker 8 (32:49):
See you, man.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
That's Chris Sims. Yeah, he nearly died. It ruptured his spleen.
He's bleeding out.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Yeah, I remember back in the high school days when
kids would get mono, and you weren't able to play
because I guess it would enlarge your spleen was one
of the side effects, so they were worried about people
rupturing their spleen with mono.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
His podcast is Unbuttoned, and he, of course, co-host on
Pro Football Talk Live, co-host with... Mike Florio. Take a break.
Your phone calls next. Joel Klatt on that big win
by North Carolina. And we'll look ahead to Lane Kiffin
and LSU against Clemson. There's some better matchups here after
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week zero. I'm okay. I got my fix.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
It was fun.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Got to see my North Dakota State bison against Jacksonville State.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
I don't gamble.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I thought that that was one of those where they're
just saying, here you go.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
You want money?
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Give the seven points to Jacksonville State. North Dakota State
at home? I'd have been all over that. Dylan, I'm
sure you lost that bet.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
I didn't bet that game, but I should have, Dan,
because I lost all the three that I did take.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
We'll take a break.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
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Speaker 7 (34:20):
Oh, my God.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
The play of the day. This is the play. Check
this out. Three hits, two home runs, three RBIs. And
the pitch.
Speaker 13 (34:34):
A swing and a drive. Left center field. It's a
hit trick. His third home run of the day. And
the Cubs have broken it wide open and lead 13-5.
Pete Crow Armstrong building a strong case to be the
National League Most Valuable Player.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Javi Baez with the home run. Oh, my bad.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Pete Crow Armstrong with the home run. That's right. He
was traded for Javi Baez. Who got the better end
of that trade? That's 14 home runs in the month
of August for Pete Crow Armstrong, who will be the
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Chris in Syracuse leads us off.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Hi, Chris.
Speaker 8 (35:41):
Hey, thanks, Dan. Hey, I got a couple bests and
a worst and a shout-out. Best, nice to see Bill
Belichick almost entertaining and informative in this post-game press conference,
even talking about his buddy Bon Jovi. And a best
to Jay Lund, Daniels, who was acquired by Tampa for,
I believe, $ 25, 000 and now looks like he's the backup
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quarterback for Baker Mayfield. He's one snap away from starting
at Tampa. And if he were to ever start... against
Washington's Jay Dundaniels. I'm sure that would be a lot
of fun for TV and radio announcers. And like you
were saying, Saturday at Wrigley Field, in the batting cage
before the game, Chicago Cup legend Sammy Sosa tells Pete
Crow Armstrong that he wants three home runs from him.
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And sure enough, PCA is his first three-home-run game of
his career. He may run away with MVP. I am
by no means the worst. I am by no means
a Lincoln fan at all. But to say he should
be banned from coaching college football is a joke. And
as I heard someone say, banned for what? Manipulating the
system that college football has in place better than anyone else. Wait, wait.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
Who said he should be banned?
Speaker 8 (36:47):
Yeah, I heard it yesterday or last night. Yeah, I
don't know if it was their saying at the SEC,
she should ban him from coaching college football. Yeah, I
know it's out there somewhere. I don't have two sources,
but I definitely heard it.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
No, Lane is good for college football.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Thank you, Chris. He didn't make up these rules.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Now, you can say, you know, does he have any
morality when it comes to what you should and shouldn't do?
Speaker 4 (37:11):
That's open to interpretation. But I don't.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
I think Lane's good for college football. If he wants
to bring players back that he had at Ole Miss
and they went to the pros and you're allowed to
do it.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
This goes back to what I said.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
When all of this happened, I said this is going
to come down to the SEC fighting LSU. And that's
what this is about. Because we were going to have
Greg Sankey on the SEC commissioner. And his office said
he's involved in a couple of lawsuits.
Speaker 7 (37:40):
Actual lawsuits.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Actual lawsuits. The SEC is going after LSU to say,
you can't do this.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
I don't think coaching college football or basketball has necessarily
always been considered like the bastion of ethics from.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
Like, you know.
Speaker 12 (37:57):
No.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
It used to be that we looked up to that coach.
Like you, you know, you were like, oh, wow, he's
molding men. And then you find out behind the scenes.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
No.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
It is.
Don't look too close. You're not going to like what
you see. I guarantee it.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 9 (38:20):
That's like even going back to UCLA with John Wooden.
Who was my man, Sam Gilbert? There was always a
guy back in the background.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
Buddha in San Francisco. Hi, Buddha. What up, DP?
Speaker 10 (38:34):
Happy Monday, boys. Stay strong, Fritzy. Man, that pick of
Fritzy in the hospital bed is something, DP. But best
of the weekend, DP. Scotty Scheffler Jr., the third, not
only winning the FedEx Cup, but he also eclipses Tiger Woods.
Perhaps you have heard of him in PGA career earnings
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and also joins him as the only golfer to win
five straight Player.
Speaker 8 (38:59):
Of the Year awards.
Speaker 10 (39:01):
Mm-hmm. And worst of the weekend, Dan, honestly, hearing that
Dylan was the only person in the room who has
watched The Matrix, what?
Speaker 4 (39:10):
And Con Air is legit, DP.
Speaker 10 (39:12):
You need to watch that movie. Shout out to Marvin.
And real quick, Dan, I have three fascinating NFL stats
to finish. For his entire career, Tom Brady had a
better chance to getting the Super Bowl, 47.6%, than Steph
Curry has of making a three-pointer at 42%. Larry Fitzgerald
has 17 seasons played 42 tackles 29 drops and every
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NFC team has played in the NFC championship game since
2010 except for the Cowboys who haven't played in it
since 1995 shout out David.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
In Ohio alright thank you Buddha Who to drop in
some information. I know it sounds really impressive that Scotty
Scheffler surpassed Tiger on the all-time money list. If I
prorated Tiger's wins and the amount of money that's available now,
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then this isn't a conversation. What Tiger was winning when
he was winning is different because PGA Tour didn't have
to spice things up with their purses. impressive what Scottie's done.
It's weird that he had a bad year in people's minds,
but there are so many things that wins tied for first,
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top fives first, top tens first, top 25s first, scoring first,
money first, strokes gained first, greens and regulation first, birdies
around first, final round scoring first, major championships scored a
par first. This was a down year for Scottie Scheffler.
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Every golfer on tour would take this down year by
Scotty Scheffler. One hour in the books on this Monday.
More phone calls. Best and worst of the weekend. We'll
give you hours. Dylan going in the confessional. USC coming
up with excuses why maybe not everybody wanted to go
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watch USC play against San Jose State.
Speaker 4 (41:14):
Joel Klatt from Fox coming up.
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hope you had a great weekend, everybody.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Ready to go.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Well, not fully assembled. Fritzie having major surgery, at least
according to Todd, on his finger. So he's out today.
Of course, he has updated us on the surgery. I
guess he's going under. There's anesthesia. So this is surgery
for Todd. If you're watching on Peacock, there is the
picture of Todd moments ago as he is getting ready
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Sorry to do that to you so early in the
morning to put Todd's picture up there. But Dylan in
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play of the day, stat of the day, all of
that forthcoming. I don't think it's a surprise, but maybe
there's an element of shock that yes, Aaron Donald is
coming back. I think we were kind of waiting to
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see what kind of money the Rams could free up.
This is what I don't understand. And Chris Sims from
Pro Football Talk will join us in about 20 minutes.
How did the Rams just have $ 20 million laying around?
Did they go through the seat cushions there at SoFi?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I'll be damned.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
We got $ 20 million here for Aaron Donald. The incentives
to make $ 30 million. How do you have that money
just kind of hanging around there in a 401k mutual fund?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Something.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
But he's going to get $ 20 million. And I was curious,
and we're still trying to find this out. The Rams
are prohibitive favorites. They are plus 500 to win the
Super Bowl, followed by the Bills and Ravens at plus 1,000.
Probably the Chiefs a few years ago, maybe similar favorites
going into a season. But the Rams, overwhelming favorites. Their
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over-under is 11.5. Now, they play in a tough division, obviously,
with San Francisco and Seattle. But I think most people
would probably go for the over there with the Rams,
which would have me go for the under. but the
odds to win the Super Bowl plus 500, winning the
NFC plus 290, to win the division minus 105. Aaron Donald,
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defensive player of the year odds plus 5,000, has a
better chance to win the comeback player of the year
at plus 750. Here is Aaron Donald on why he's
coming back.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Being here, being a part of this team, potentially doing
something special, you know, that's what it's about. You know,
I think The Super Bowl being back at SoFi kind
of psyched you too, but it's a long process to
even get to that point. You can't jump past the
process and the grind that you got to go through
to get to that. Obviously, that's the end goal you
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want to do, but I'm just present, and I'm glad
to be here, and I'm just going to work, get
myself where I need to be, earn my position wherever
that is and whatever my role is, and just do
it at a high level.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
How would you like to be the guy who is
in his position right now and Aaron Donald has to
earn his position? I'm looking at this Rams defensive line.
So Aaron Donald, Miles Garrett had 23 sacks last season.
Kobe Turner had seven sacks. Byron Young had 12 sacks
last season. Brandon Fisk had 11 and a half sacks
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in two years at defensive tackle. There's no excuse in
not getting to the quarterback there with the Rams. Here
is the Rams head coach, Sean McVay.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Good to be able to get Aaron back into the mix.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
He and I, obviously, you guys know how close we are,
and there's been a lot of dialogue that we've had,
and excited to be able to just take it a
day at a time. I'm not going to talk about
any sort of plans. It's going to be a day
at a time for us. What does that mean for Australia?
The first step was, all right, if you're coming back,
let's do that. Let's get you out on the practice field.
Let's get you acclimated to your teammates, to your coaches.
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And then we'll see what that ramp up period looks like,
whether or not he's available or whether or not we
think it's best to be able to play him in Australia.
And I think the best way to do it is
take it one day at a time. But we're obviously
excited to be able to have him back.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yeah. And I go back to what Daniel Jeremiah said
last week. He said, I can't see Aaron Donald playing.
If he comes back, he's not going to be playing
in Australia. I don't need him in September. I need
him in December, January, February. I need home field advantage.
That's at SoFi. Super Bowl would be played there. I
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don't know how many snaps. I'd have him on a
snap count. Let him go in there situational. If he
only wants to play home games, or you only want
him to play home games, whatever it is to make
sure that the bottom line, the end goal is win
the Super Bowl. Here are some other favorites that were better,
bigger favorites. Now, Kansas City in 2024 was plus 500. 2021,
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Kansas City was plus 450. 2020, Kansas City plus 450.
New England in 2019, plus 400. New England 2017, plus 275.
I'm looking at New England in 07, was plus 250.
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So they're prohibitive favorites, but out of that grouping, I mean,
nobody has been a better, bigger favorite than New England
was at plus 250. That was 07. The Packers in
97 plus 250. Green Bay in 1998 plus 250. And
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San Francisco in 1996 plus 250. Stat of the Day.
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Speaker 4 (06:41):
Yes, Paul. How do you think.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
The Seattle Seahawks feel about the signing and the coverage
they've gotten or not gotten this month.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Well, they can't do anything about the signing and the coverage.
If I'm Seattle, I'm like, fine, I don't care. Let
the Rams be up there. Kansas City be up there.
The Eagles up there. Patriots, Cowboys. Well, Seattle won and
Seattle was the best team in the NFL last year
from start to finish, both sides of the ball. Seattle's
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probably saying.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
All right, that's okay.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
If you can be an underdog as defending Super Bowl champs,
they are.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Yes, Dylan?
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Yeah, if you're in their division, you actually want everyone
to just talk about how great the Rams are, how
they're going to win the Super Bowl, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Are the Rams a team you root against, though? Like
Kansas City, the Patriots, certain teams you've rooted against.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Cowboys you've rooted against.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Maybe the Eagles. I mean, I don't find them polarizing.
But it feels like, are the Rams villains?
Speaker 4 (07:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
They're just a smart organization. They do it right. You know,
you make the trade to get Matthew Stafford. You give
up Goff. You're giving up first-round picks. And it worked.
Now Aaron Donald's been retired for a couple of years.
You swing a trade for Miles Garrett. Because you got
Miles Garrett, in my opinion, you opened Aaron Donald's eyes to,
(08:19):
I don't have to be the focal point. Maybe I'm
not the one getting double teamed. Hey, this might be
fun to go against one guy instead of two or three.
They've done a great job. Now, you've got to navigate
the Puka Nakua situation. And you've got a great coach.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
You've got, I mean.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Defense, you're winning games because of defense this year. And
you got a Hall of Fame quarterback, very good running back,
wide receivers. But, you know, once again, 2-2 Atwell doesn't
excite me too much, but that might be insurance if
Pukunukuwa gets suspended.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Yes, Paulie.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
I think the Rams are root forable, if that's a phrase. Like,
I want to see Miles Garrett playing relevant football games
at some point in his career. He's played in three
postseason games, ironically, like Mike Trout played in three postseason games.
First ballot guys, but I want to see him play
in January.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
But I don't know if the football world goes, you know,
I'd like to see him play in the playoffs. I
don't think that we're that generous, charitable, that we're like,
you know, like Mike Trout.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Okay, I get it.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
You know, three games in your entire career, first ballot
Hall of Famer, and then we're like, all right, it'd
be nice if he got a chance to play in
a meaningful playoff series. But I never once said– now,
I did say, boy, it'd be nice if he got
out of Cleveland and be able to play in meaningful games.
Because if you're in Cleveland, it's like, okay, you'll see highlights.
(09:53):
Now you're watching entire games, and that'll be the difference.
People will watch Miles Garrett for an entire game. Speaking
of which, because it was week zero, everybody is going
gaga over Carolina's win against TCU. Now, granted, TCU, that's
a few years ago they were in the national title game.
So they went 9-4, 9-4, 5-7, I think, the last
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three years.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
It's in Dublin.
Speaker 8 (10:16):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
You won the game, but.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
It's a standalone game, and you might have watched the
entire game. And you're going, oh, situational football, Belichick mastermind.
He's going to draw them off.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
I'm yelling, don't jump, don't jump. They jumped.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
If I know it, how do you go to the
line of scrimmage if you're TCU? And you've been told
probably 50 times in the huddle, don't jump, don't jump,
don't jump.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
And then you have the defensive tackle, Joe. That's it.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
But did I think Bill Belichick coached a masterful game? No,
but it's better than a loss. So that's all. There's
no style points here. They're not going to be a
10-win team. They still look shaky on offense. They did
play really good defense. But you're playing TCU in Dublin.
(11:17):
Slow down just a little bit. I hate to be
a buzzkill, but I'm being a buzzkill. It was a
nice win, considering who they are, what they've been, and
what happened last year.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Yes, Paul.
Speaker 7 (11:33):
I just got this from Fritzie, actually about an hour ago.
Will Bill Belichick be doubling his win total? Doubling his
win total.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Thank you. Thank you, Paul. I didn't need the second.
That's a Todd. Thank you. Yes, Marvin. I'm with you.
Speaker 9 (11:51):
I don't want to overreact, but also the sign of
a bad team is you celebrating when you get a
team to jump offsides. The way they were jumping up
and down when TCU jumped offsides for them to seal
the victory, I was like, ugh, this might be five
wins at best for this team.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I'm going to give Todd a bloop on that, considering
he's probably getting ready for major surgery, but he's thinking.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
About the audience. Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Yeah, you would think that Todd might be a little
loopy from whatever drugs they put him on to knock
him out. That still just sounds like business as usual.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yeah, but they don't give you any drugs until they
knock you down.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Well, maybe he's already done. It is just a finger.
I mean, it can't take that long.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
No, but they put him under.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yeah, but he might be awake now after being under.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
No, I don't think the surgery's over yet. No, I
don't think so. But that picture of him in his
hospital bed, and he's... He's got the shower cap on
as well. He was texting me over the weekend.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Oh, my God. I said, don't you have a wife? Like,
leave me alone.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
It's not major surgery. Because he wanted to know if
I'd had surgery. I said, Todd, I'm a game of operation.
I've had more surgeries than the entire room combined.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
He goes, I know. But when you go under, like,
they make sure you're out, right? I go, yes. They're
not going to operate on you.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
If you're still awake, unless you ask, I was asked
with one of my knee surgeries, do you want to watch?
They were going to numb me from the waist down.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
And I said, no.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
And this doctor couldn't believe that I didn't want to
watch the surgery of them. It was micro fracture surgery.
So they were taking like a drill going into my knee,
into the bone. And I go, no. He goes, well,
I'll make a tape of it for you. Oh, Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Yeah, I would watch maybe someone else get knee surgery.
I don't want to watch it be done on me.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
No, I don't want to watch somebody else.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Well, I'm not clamoring for that, but I'm saying I
would be more inclined if they're like, hey, do you
want to see us do it on this guy? Then
do you want to watch your own knee?
Speaker 4 (14:05):
No. Me?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
None.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
No, don't need to. But these doctors are like fascinated
with this.
Speaker 10 (14:12):
Hey.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
What if I just numbed you? You got to watch.
I go, no.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
And he goes, we have a nice screen right here.
I could put it right here. And I go, no, no.
Watching childbirth is enough. And that's not even on me.
All right. We'll have a poll question today. First hour, Dylan.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
We'll come back.
Speaker 11 (14:35):
Okay.
Speaker 12 (14:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
We'll come back with Chris Sims, pro football talk. How
did the Rams have $ 20 million?
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Just kind of.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Set off to the side unless they knew that Aaron
Donald was coming back. All right, we'll take a break.
Just getting started on this Monday. Glad you're with us.
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Speaker 2 (15:36):
First hour of the program, Joel Klatt on loan from
Fox Sports will join us coming up next hour. See
if he overreacted to North Carolina with that crushing win
against TCU over in Dublin. A statement win for Bill Belichick.
Chris Sims, Pro Football Talk Live co-host. His podcast is
(15:57):
entitled Unbuttoned, NBC Sports College Football Analyst.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Help me understand how the Rams had $ 20 million just
kind of hanging around there waiting for Aaron Donald.
Speaker 12 (16:09):
Yeah, well, I think they had to finagle a few things, right?
But they had money left over regardless. I think that
going into yesterday, what was it? Maybe $ 15, $ 16 million
below the salary cap there?
Speaker 4 (16:24):
So that was the big question all along.
Speaker 12 (16:26):
Was Aaron Donald going to come back and go, nope,
just give me the $ 30 million that I'm supposed to
get and we'll go from there? That's where I was
always like, I'm interested to see how this contract thing
goes down.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
But obviously they got it right.
Speaker 12 (16:38):
They got some very easy, if you're on the 53-man roster,
he gets big bonuses each week that way. And then
added on top of that, the bonuses, right, if they
get to the playoffs and the Super Bowl, which is
all very realistic, to where he could possibly make $ 30 million.
It's not the most far-fetched incentive one-year contract I've ever seen,
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that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
How would you use him? I would take it slow
at first.
Speaker 12 (17:07):
One thing I learned in my days working for New
England in the short term I was there is that
we would have weeks, right? And you remember this, like
Gronkowski had like the, I don't know, some metal thing
in his wrist or whatever, right? In one of his
bionic injury moments. And I remember he came back and
I was like, oh gosh, he practiced this week.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
He's going to play. And Oh, he's not going to play.
All right. Next week.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
All right.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Practice all week. Look pretty good. I guess he's going to. Oh, no,
he's not going to play.
Speaker 12 (17:36):
Bill was great at making sure the guys are ready
and in game shape, not just throwing them out there
because he's available again. And hopefully they take the same approach.
I'm surprised it took him this long to get into
training camp because I would have thought he'd want to
get into some of the combative situations and just feel
and get his body into football shape that way. I
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think first game, you know.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
15, 25 snaps on big passing downs. That's what I
would envision. But who knows?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
He is such a freak of nature. Maybe he's capable
of more. If I send him to Australia, I send
him on a vacation. He's not playing. I just say,
you know, him and the family, you want to go
over and root on the team and have some fun there.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
But I don't I hear you. I don't want him playing. No, no.
Speaker 12 (18:22):
The problem is, is I don't think you're going to
be able to stop him from playing if he thinks
he feels good and.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Is ready to go this week. But but yeah, you
got to be careful.
Speaker 12 (18:31):
You know, I know he feels great and everything's trending
in the right direction. But as he said in his
press conference yesterday, I still haven't done 11 on 11 football. And,
you know, you can run the ladder and go around
the loops and lift all the weights you want. But
that first time you got to take a pulling guard
on Dan, you know, and hit him and then put
your body in some awkward wrestling position and then try
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to get him off. That's the next piece of the
puzzle he's got to get in shape for, feel how
he responds the next day and go from there. And yeah, that's,
you know, I'm kind of with you. If it's not ready, ready, ready,
don't even risk it. But if he does play, I
don't think it'll be a ton of just be some situations.
Speaker 8 (19:08):
Right.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
As a quarterback, you go to the line of scrimmage,
you more concerned with Aaron Donald or Miles Garrett?
Speaker 12 (19:13):
Well, right now, Miles Garrett. I think that's the other
thing that's so crazy about this. I think if it
was really just about anybody else in the history of football,
I'd go, wait, defensive tackle, 35 years old, hasn't played
in two years. I've never seen this before. I got
to believe it to see it, to really think it's
going to be top notch. There's a little of that thought,
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but because it's Aaron Donald and we know he stayed
in shape and he's a psycho about his body anyways
and all that, if there's one guy that can kind
of do this, it would be him. But I can
tell you just from texting with my friends in the
NFL and everybody, I think everybody's a little like... can
he really do this is he really going to be
that good and if he is that good can he
stay healthy with taking two years off and and that's
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going to be something everybody's going to be watching.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
For it was cut down day yesterday uh were you
cut in your career.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 12 (20:05):
I was cut two different times, really. Once I lost
my spleen, and then I had that year where I
had a year to get healthy, but the Bucs cut me,
tried to trade me to the very last second, then
they cut me, and then I got cut in Denver
by Josh McDaniels as well, and Tennessee in my last
year of my career. So yeah, I've been cut many times. Okay,
but how do you get cut? What's the process? Okay, well,
(20:30):
it could be... So Tampa... Tampa, I knew they didn't
want to keep me and all that, and they were
moving on. And Mark Dominick, the old GM there, I
remember him calling me and being like, hey, Lake, we
got a few teams that have been calling about you.
So we're going to kind of see. We might be
able to trade you, but if we don't trade you,
we'll call you back and we'll probably have to release
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you at the end of the day.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
So that was that one. Denver, I had no idea.
Speaker 12 (20:55):
I was in the locker room that day, and I
saw the guy that was going around getting people that
were cut. It was the first day back of the offseason.
And I knew there might be trouble with my price tag,
my age, and all that. And all of a sudden,
I turned around, and that damn bastard that goes around
and cuts people, he was at my locker. And I
was like, oh, man, really? I was like, damn, and
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that one hurt. That definitely did. So that's kind of
how it goes down. It's not something you really want
to see or feel or deal with. You can't fight back,
can you? No, you can't fight back. And you know,
the worst part about it, too, was with Josh McDaniel.
I was there in Denver. You know, he, of course,
such a great offensive mind. And I wanted some of
my play sheets and things that I had in the playbook.
(21:37):
And damn, they acted like it was NASA and the
CIA there.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Nope, nope, nope. You're not giving this.
Speaker 11 (21:42):
No.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
And I was like, come on. I was like, what?
Can I just go talk to Josh? I just want
to keep this and this. I might coach one day.
Speaker 12 (21:48):
And, you know, they were like, no, no, you'll have
to deal with that some other time. Get the hell
out of the building.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Yeah. He's Chris Sims, Pro Football Talk live co-host that
precedes this show on Peacock. Help me understand the J.J. McCarthy, like, hey,
let's celebrate you made the 53-man roster. Boy, that's a big,
big fall from a guy a couple of years ago
you're taking, and he's going to be your franchise quarterback.
Speaker 8 (22:12):
Right.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
No, things aren't looking good.
Speaker 12 (22:15):
That second preseason game was alarming to a degree because
all the things that we wondered whether he fixed or
polished up and got better at playing the position.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Can he throw the ball with touch? Can he throw
with anticipation?
Speaker 12 (22:30):
Can he stay healthy, banged up his ankle in that
game a little bit? And we saw that game where
we saw bad decisions, late throws, wide open guys where,
I don't know, we threw it so hard that the
guy couldn't even catch it or it wasn't even in
their stratosphere because he threw it so hard he lost
control of it. So, yeah, they keep him because quarterbacks
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are such a big asset, as we know. But, yeah,
it does feel like, is he really the backup? Is
Carson Wentz the backup? Are they both kind of the backup?
We'll see where it goes, but he certainly hasn't done
anything wrong. to make us feel like, gosh, he's the
future of Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Everybody gets caught up in arm strength. And I find
it overrated because of the number of passes that are
probably 15 yards or less. Now, you've got to throw
in the numbers. I know all of that. But I
want to know, do you have touch? And can you
put it where you need to put it? I would
start there because Will Levis is out of a job.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
J.J.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
McCarthy's holding on, and everybody talks about, boy, they got
arm strength there. Joe Milton might have the strongest arm
in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
I want to know if you can play the position.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
I hear you.
Speaker 12 (23:38):
That's number one. That's important. But I will say again,
when you go through your great quarterbacks of the history
of the sport or the ones right now, really other
than Drew Brees and maybe Joe Montana, the arms are exceptional.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
And I know what you're saying.
Speaker 12 (23:54):
Playing the position is the number one thing where you
want it to really meet up is go, wait, can
the guy throw his fastball and make power throws and
still control the football? Josh Allen, when he came out,
we go, damn, he could throw it through a brick wall,
but I'm not sure he'll hit the brick wall sometimes.
And then he refined it and fixed mechanics, and you
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saw that, and then he started to go, wow, he
can throw lasers and put it anywhere he wants. And
that's the special ones. But you're right. I'm with you.
I mean, if you give me one or the other,
I want the guy that can play first. But your
special ones, they do have those type of arms that–
I think sometimes not even myself and the general public
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gives credit to those maybe four or five throws a
game that Mahomes or Allen or Lamar make because their
arm is so powerful. And those can be difference-making type
throws or plays in the football game.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
How do you think the Seattle Seahawks feel today? a
little bit like the forgotten team. Like, oh gosh, yeah, hey,
the Rams are going to win the Super Bowl. Did
you hear that, guys? We're in it this year. I'm
sure they're a little chippy about it.
Speaker 12 (25:03):
Probably kind of liking the fact that they're looked at
as the underdogs right now. But hey, this is a
real rivalry. I mean, we know that division's crazy. And
I mean, no disrespect to New England, whose phenomenal team
last year and all that, but I don't think you
would disagree. I mean, last year, it felt like the
Rams were the second best team in the NFL. It
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felt like if they went to the Super Bowl, they
would have beat the Patriots as well. They had the
Seahawks on the ropes in the first half of that
NFC championship game. So, you know, they're a chippy group
up there. They're damn good, and we shouldn't.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Forget about them. That's for sure.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
What is the number one question you have going into
this season? Oh, the number one question I have going
into this season. All right, so.
Speaker 12 (25:49):
That's a good one, and I haven't had anybody pose
that to me. I think here's my number one question.
How good is the Kansas City Chiefs going to be?
I think that's a real, like, I don't think, guys,
I have to at the end of this week, I'm
going to pick teams that go to the playoffs and
do my playoff bracket. I don't think I'm willing to
pick the Kansas City Chiefs to go to the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
I don't.
Speaker 12 (26:09):
I mean, I'm certainly going to pick them third in
the AFC West as I sit here right now. So
that to me, you know, it's not that it's a
big question. It just feels so weird and odd and
rare because it's one of the greatest quarterbacks we've ever seen.
They've been at the top of the mountain for so long.
And I do think they're kind of rebuilding their team
on the fly here after an underwhelming year last year.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
And I just.
Speaker 12 (26:33):
I'm just not sure about them this year, and I
don't see it on paper to go, ooh, yeah, I
think there's something here.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
They might make a real run at this thing.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I saw reports that Patrick Mahomes is going to run less.
I don't know how you do that mentally when you
go back to pass and there's the rush. And I
just don't know if you go, oh, that's right. I'm
not allowed to run. Like when you get back there,
it's progressions. I'll go there, there, there. OK, now I
have to take off. Lamar Jackson said that he didn't
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run as much as he normally does. He was banged up.
But I don't know how you do that in the
moment as quick as the game is that you go, nope,
not going to run.
Speaker 12 (27:15):
That's going to be something he has to adjust to.
I think you'll see some plays that are ugly in
week one because his mind's going to go, wait, I'm
going to get out of here and get out of trouble.
But his body's going to go, wait, wait, you're not
that fast and you can't move that well right now.
And you might see plays where he kind of gets
out of the pocket and all of a sudden he's like,
oh gosh, I can't get away from this guy. I
just got to throw it away or throw it at
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the feet of somebody. I wouldn't be surprised if you
saw a whole lot of plays like that at first.
But I do think it will start to click, and
he'll start to realize, wait, I can't always do it
with my playmaking, extending the play. I'm going to just
have to know, hey, where's my hot route? Where's my
quick throw if somebody gets through the line of scrimmage?
He's going to have to think like most of us
normal quarterbacks used to have to think. where we couldn't
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just go oh wait oh yeah this guy isn't open
i'll just sit back here and move around and make
some time and and buy some time before i throw
some laser so he's gonna have to be a normal
guy that way but as you know and as we
all know he's a gym rat he's a junkie and
i think he will adjust pretty quickly.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Why will this could this will this be the buffalo
bills year Oh, well, you're talking to the wrong guy, okay?
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Because I don't think it will be their year.
Speaker 12 (28:26):
To me, the Buffalo Bills have been overrated for quite
some time. I do not think they should have fired
Sean McDermott. That would be the first thing. And anybody
that knows me or listens to me, I always say it.
I mean, they're in the window. And you and I
have had this conversation. Very John Elway-ish conversation. Where I go, wait,
the team, you know, they're good, but we're going to
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put them in the Super Bowl window? Why is that? Oh,
because the quarterback is the best player in the NFL
right now. And I just look at it, hey, I
like DJ Moore. Are they going to get a new
coach energy bump with a guy that was already there
and part of the regime as is? I don't know
about that.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
And I still come away, and as compared to most
of the top teams in football, I go, if we
walk down the street in New York City, Dan, and
I ask Johnny on 52nd and 5th and go, hey,
who's the best player on the Bills defense? I think
you'd get a lot of, hold on, they got that
Ed Oliver guy.
Speaker 12 (29:24):
And so that, to me, says a lot right there.
And yeah, I don't look at them as a Super
Bowl team, Dan. You're Team Ravens, right?
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Yeah, I'm Team Ravens.
Speaker 12 (29:35):
I like them. Yeah, I definitely do. There's potential there
for sure. But yeah, I do like them.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Is that your Super Bowl pick?
Speaker 12 (29:42):
Oh, no, it's not my Super Bowl pick. And I
don't know what I'm going to do yet. I mean,
are you falling.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
In love with the Chargers? I listen, I think the chargers,
I will say this.
Speaker 12 (29:54):
No, I'm not going to do it, but I do
think that there, if it's really about that offensive line
and if they can just stay healthy, I do think
I would put them maybe on the short list at
the bottom of that short list of teams that I
think are in the Superbowl window.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
I do that. It's hard not to like the Rams.
The NFC is so wide open.
Speaker 12 (30:13):
Philadelphia, of course, still has the talent to do that
and be in the Super Bowl. Detroit, I still think,
could come out of nowhere here. Not like they're coming
out of nowhere and be in that game. Have me
back next week, and I'll tell you who I think
is going to go to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
I'm not sure yet. Are you buying into the Cowboys?
Speaker 12 (30:32):
I think the Cowboys are a playoff caliber team. There's
no question about the offense, so that's not even a thing.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Well, wait a minute. Playoff team and playoff caliber are different.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Yeah. No, I think they're a playoff team. You're right.
I'll just say that. I think they are.
Speaker 12 (30:46):
And I think they've done enough on that defensive side
of the ball and then having a new D coordinator
down there from Philadelphia and a different scheme that, yes,
I look at them to be a playoff team. The
Giants in their division, they are what you said, playoff teams.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Caliber.
Speaker 12 (31:02):
I'm not sure I'm going to put him in the playoffs,
but I do look at it and go, ooh, I
wouldn't be shocked if we're here in mid-December going, hey,
if the Giants win their last two.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
They're going to go to the playoffs. I would not
be shocked by that. Great to talk to you. We'll
have you on next week to get your Super Bowl pick.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Hey, I like that.
Speaker 8 (31:19):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Hey, one thing. Make sure you tell those jerks I
said hi, especially that fritzy jerk, all right?
Speaker 2 (31:24):
He's out having major surgery today.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Oh, my gosh. Well, I would feel bad if it
weren't for him, but I hope he's okay, all right?
Speaker 12 (31:32):
Well, you did lose his spleen. Yeah, yeah, so I
know about major surgery. But you don't need it, do you? No,
obviously not. I'm sitting here talking to you. So I
made it. But yeah, he's not getting his spleen removed.
I mean, I was texting with him last night. He
didn't tell me he was going to get major surgery.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Well, he had finger surgery or having finger surgery.
Speaker 10 (31:54):
What?
Speaker 2 (31:54):
All right.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
So let's reclassify what we just said. Did you say
major surgery? He thinks it's.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Major surgery because they put him under.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Oh, my gosh.
Speaker 12 (32:07):
Have me back next week when he's here so we
can really discuss this. You almost died on a football field. Yes,
I almost died on a football field. The fact that
I didn't make the NFL top 10 gutsiest performances over
some of those people that made that list, I want
to go, how.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Did that not happen?
Speaker 2 (32:23):
They took out part of your gut.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Exactly.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Did you win Comeback Player of the Year? I didn't
win Jack Diddley crap. Not even Tampa Bay wanted to
give me anything because they were so scared to be
legally liable. They didn't even want to act like I
came back from anything there either.
Speaker 12 (32:40):
You lost it. Do you have another spleen? No, I
don't have another spleen. My spleen is in the trash
somewhere in Tampa, Florida.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
It's gone. Thank you, Chris.
Speaker 8 (32:49):
See you, man.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
That's Chris Sims. Yeah, he nearly died. It ruptured his spleen.
He's bleeding out.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Yeah, I remember back in the high school days when
kids would get mono, and you weren't able to play
because I guess it would enlarge your spleen was one
of the side effects, so they were worried about people
rupturing their spleen with mono.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
His podcast is Unbuttoned, and he, of course, co-host on
Pro Football Talk Live, co-host with... Mike Florio. Take a break.
Your phone calls next. Joel Klatt on that big win
by North Carolina. And we'll look ahead to Lane Kiffin
and LSU against Clemson. There's some better matchups here after
(33:37):
week zero. I'm okay. I got my fix.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
It was fun.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Got to see my North Dakota State bison against Jacksonville State.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
I don't gamble.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I thought that that was one of those where they're
just saying, here you go.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
You want money?
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Give the seven points to Jacksonville State. North Dakota State
at home? I'd have been all over that. Dylan, I'm
sure you lost that bet.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
I didn't bet that game, but I should have, Dan,
because I lost all the three that I did take.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
We'll take a break.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
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Speaker 7 (34:20):
Oh, my God.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
The play of the day. This is the play. Check
this out. Three hits, two home runs, three RBIs. And
the pitch.
Speaker 13 (34:34):
A swing and a drive. Left center field. It's a
hit trick. His third home run of the day. And
the Cubs have broken it wide open and lead 13-5.
Pete Crow Armstrong building a strong case to be the
National League Most Valuable Player.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Javi Baez with the home run. Oh, my bad.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Pete Crow Armstrong with the home run. That's right. He
was traded for Javi Baez. Who got the better end
of that trade? That's 14 home runs in the month
of August for Pete Crow Armstrong, who will be the
National League MVP. That's your Play of the Day. Play
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Chris in Syracuse leads us off.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Hi, Chris.
Speaker 8 (35:41):
Hey, thanks, Dan. Hey, I got a couple bests and
a worst and a shout-out. Best, nice to see Bill
Belichick almost entertaining and informative in this post-game press conference,
even talking about his buddy Bon Jovi. And a best
to Jay Lund, Daniels, who was acquired by Tampa for,
I believe, $ 25, 000 and now looks like he's the backup
(36:01):
quarterback for Baker Mayfield. He's one snap away from starting
at Tampa. And if he were to ever start... against
Washington's Jay Dundaniels. I'm sure that would be a lot
of fun for TV and radio announcers. And like you
were saying, Saturday at Wrigley Field, in the batting cage
before the game, Chicago Cup legend Sammy Sosa tells Pete
Crow Armstrong that he wants three home runs from him.
(36:23):
And sure enough, PCA is his first three-home-run game of
his career. He may run away with MVP. I am
by no means the worst. I am by no means
a Lincoln fan at all. But to say he should
be banned from coaching college football is a joke. And
as I heard someone say, banned for what? Manipulating the
system that college football has in place better than anyone else. Wait, wait.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
Who said he should be banned?
Speaker 8 (36:47):
Yeah, I heard it yesterday or last night. Yeah, I
don't know if it was their saying at the SEC,
she should ban him from coaching college football. Yeah, I
know it's out there somewhere. I don't have two sources,
but I definitely heard it.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
No, Lane is good for college football.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Thank you, Chris. He didn't make up these rules.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Now, you can say, you know, does he have any
morality when it comes to what you should and shouldn't do?
Speaker 4 (37:11):
That's open to interpretation. But I don't.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
I think Lane's good for college football. If he wants
to bring players back that he had at Ole Miss
and they went to the pros and you're allowed to
do it.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
This goes back to what I said.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
When all of this happened, I said this is going
to come down to the SEC fighting LSU. And that's
what this is about. Because we were going to have
Greg Sankey on the SEC commissioner. And his office said
he's involved in a couple of lawsuits.
Speaker 7 (37:40):
Actual lawsuits.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Actual lawsuits. The SEC is going after LSU to say,
you can't do this.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
I don't think coaching college football or basketball has necessarily
always been considered like the bastion of ethics from.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
Like, you know.
Speaker 12 (37:57):
No.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
It used to be that we looked up to that coach.
Like you, you know, you were like, oh, wow, he's
molding men. And then you find out behind the scenes.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
No.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
It is.
Don't look too close. You're not going to like what
you see. I guarantee it.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 9 (38:20):
That's like even going back to UCLA with John Wooden.
Who was my man, Sam Gilbert? There was always a
guy back in the background.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
Buddha in San Francisco. Hi, Buddha. What up, DP?
Speaker 10 (38:34):
Happy Monday, boys. Stay strong, Fritzy. Man, that pick of
Fritzy in the hospital bed is something, DP. But best
of the weekend, DP. Scotty Scheffler Jr., the third, not
only winning the FedEx Cup, but he also eclipses Tiger Woods.
Perhaps you have heard of him in PGA career earnings
(38:55):
and also joins him as the only golfer to win
five straight Player.
Speaker 8 (38:59):
Of the Year awards.
Speaker 10 (39:01):
Mm-hmm. And worst of the weekend, Dan, honestly, hearing that
Dylan was the only person in the room who has
watched The Matrix, what?
Speaker 4 (39:10):
And Con Air is legit, DP.
Speaker 10 (39:12):
You need to watch that movie. Shout out to Marvin.
And real quick, Dan, I have three fascinating NFL stats
to finish. For his entire career, Tom Brady had a
better chance to getting the Super Bowl, 47.6%, than Steph
Curry has of making a three-pointer at 42%. Larry Fitzgerald
has 17 seasons played 42 tackles 29 drops and every
(39:38):
NFC team has played in the NFC championship game since
2010 except for the Cowboys who haven't played in it
since 1995 shout out David.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
In Ohio alright thank you Buddha Who to drop in
some information. I know it sounds really impressive that Scotty
Scheffler surpassed Tiger on the all-time money list. If I
prorated Tiger's wins and the amount of money that's available now,
(40:07):
then this isn't a conversation. What Tiger was winning when
he was winning is different because PGA Tour didn't have
to spice things up with their purses. impressive what Scottie's done.
It's weird that he had a bad year in people's minds,
but there are so many things that wins tied for first,
(40:28):
top fives first, top tens first, top 25s first, scoring first,
money first, strokes gained first, greens and regulation first, birdies
around first, final round scoring first, major championships scored a
par first. This was a down year for Scottie Scheffler.
(40:51):
Every golfer on tour would take this down year by
Scotty Scheffler. One hour in the books on this Monday.
More phone calls. Best and worst of the weekend. We'll
give you hours. Dylan going in the confessional. USC coming
up with excuses why maybe not everybody wanted to go
(41:11):
watch USC play against San Jose State.
Speaker 4 (41:14):
Joel Klatt from Fox coming up.
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