September 4, 2026 • 41 mins
Week 1 of the college football season is underway, and all eyes are on Clemson vs. LSU in the season’s first powerhouse matchup. Football analyst Dan Orlovsky defends his belief that Matthew Stafford is a top 5 quarterback of all time and breaks down some storylines and interesting NFL teams as the season looms large.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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We did it. We made it to a Friday. It's
hour one. It's a meat Friday. Dylan will run down
the menu. The gang's here. Fritzy, yes, four consecutive shows
after getting four stitches in his finger. Congratulations. And once again,
another round of applause.
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Emotional.
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For heroic. Heroic. One day for each stitch. Come back.
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Poll question for today. Now, let's do the menu first here. Dylan,
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what are we whipping up on this Meat Friday?
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Well, Dan, it's Labor Day, college football real opening weekend,
so I figure we'll do a little kind of tailgate barbecue.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
So we got deluxe cheeseburgers.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
What's that mean?
Speaker 5 (01:41):
So that's literally just with lettuce and tomato, I think, right?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Todd talked about on the Toddcast how he takes the
lettuce and tomato off the burger and makes a free
side salad with it.
Speaker 6 (01:51):
But the burger deluxe, at least at the diners I
went to in Brooklyn, that comes with french fries and
onion rings.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
So are we getting that too today?
Speaker 6 (01:56):
When you get the deluxe beef burger.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Platter, it comes with french fries and onion rings. Because
you continue, Dylan.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Yeah, we don't have either of those. But we do
have chili dogs as well.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Mm-hmm. Smoked brats. Mm-hmm.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Potato salad.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
And corn on the cob.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Who has it better than we do?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Nobody.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It is the game of the year so far. UMass
over Rutgers last night, 37-21. Rutgers was a 29.5-point favorite.
UMass on a 16-game losing streak. UMass gets $ 1. 55 million
to play Rutgers, one of the largest losses by paycheck
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in college football history. Auburn, $ 1. 85 million paid to New
Mexico State. And that was the birth of Diego Pavia.
Texas A & M, $ 1. 5 million paid to App State.
They lost. Two massive college football brands, and they had
the money. And they decided it was a good idea.
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Somebody did that. Rutgers is going to shell out $ 1. 5 million.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Plus!
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Plus!
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Plus! They had a fireworks display that they were going to.
I guess it was win or lose. The fireworks were
going to go off at Rutgers. And that's probably a
couple of hundred thousand dollars that they were going to
have a fireworks display in a loss. This wasn't close. UMass,
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the Minutemen. They lasted a little bit longer than Fritzie does.
It was a couple of hours there.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Again, I tell you something in confidence is what you did.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
But UMass, a big winner here. And look, when you
see that a program is going to pay another program,
and I understand $ 1. 5 million, that can help the entire
athletic department at UMass. It's not just about football. That'll
help basketball. It'll help the other secondary sports as well.
(03:59):
But when you pay that money, you expect to win.
You don't expect it to be a close game. If
it's a close game, OK, but you're paying for a
sacrificial lamb. Rutgers, a 29 and a half point favorite. Now,
the game of the weekend is still LSU and Clemson and.
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We saw that LSU, they found a judge in Baton Rouge,
of course, who is going to side with them and
allowed an injunction. The players who played in the NFL,
at least during the preseason, they get to play for
LSU this weekend or at least get to suit up
against Clemson. I said that this would come down to
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the SEC against LSU. That's what this is all about.
No other programs, LSU and the SEC together. And the
SEC is not done with this. They're still going to
go after LSU to prevent this from happening. And maybe
these two players play this weekend. But for such a
big game, this feels like it's whoever loses will be
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the storyline. Imagine if Lane Kiffin, through all of this,
and there's a lot of this, loses this game at home,
his debut on Saturday night. You've brought in these two players.
The conference is coming after you. An article in Vanity
Fair talking about how you were kind of creepy towards
sorority girls at Alabama. There's a lot. You leave Ole Miss,
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middle of the playoffs, to go to LSU. There's a
lot riding on this. You are a 10-point favorite. As
for Dabo Sweeney, Clemson has 14 losses in the last
three seasons. And this will be, if he loses to LSU,
more of the, has Dabo evolved enough to change with
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the times? Now, keep in mind, Clemson last year at
this time was ranked fourth in the country. They were
a popular national title pick by a lot of experts here.
If Clemson loses, they're expected to. How much they lose by,
then this might be a referendum on Dabo Sweeney. Now,
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everybody keeps telling me he's safe. everything he's done there.
That's great. It's great until we've seen coaches get relieved
of their duties or fired after winning a championship. Gene
Chizik at Auburn. Thank you, Gene. See ya. This happens.
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Happens in the NBA. Major League Baseball. Hey, you know,
you've Won a World Series here, but that's a couple
of years ago here. Joe Maddon was fired. A hundred years.
Over a hundred years you're waiting for a World Series title. Yeah,
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but I don't know. What have you done for us
lately here? It happens. Now, maybe Clemson is loyal to Dabo,
and it doesn't matter. He's on scholarship no matter what happens.
But if you win seven games.
I think, you know, we start to circle the wagons
a little bit. That's where the alumni go. Can we
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move on? What's it cost to move on? Whenever you
see this, whenever you see somebody sign a contract, I
always go, what's the buyout? With all of them, because
it feels like Jimbo Fisher. Although I saw where Jimbo
Fisher says he wants to come back and coach. If
he comes back and coaches for free, that'd be great.
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But He's still getting paid an awful lot of money.
But I always want to know, what's that buyout? Because
eventually we're going to get to, what is that buyout
for these coaches? I don't care who it is. What's
the buyout? It's really rare when you can go, you
know what? I'm done with this. It's usually you stay,
and then all of a sudden they go, man, we
(07:56):
got some nice parting gifts for you. Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Now, going forward, say if Clemson decides to fire Dabo Sweeney.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
The next coach, they shouldn't have national championship expectations any longer.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
No. Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
But they don't have national title expectations. I'm just saying
just overall. Yeah, I don't think you're bringing somebody in
and go, I mean, look at Alabama. Now, maybe you're thinking, hey,
we got national title aspirations here. That quickly settled. Now
you're just a really good program or a formidable team.
(08:34):
It's not like we look at Alabama and go, hey,
they're the team to beat. It's been a little while
for that. Yeah, Mark.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
So going forward, if Dabo keeps winning 9 to 10 games,
he's all right. But 7 is unacceptable, correct?
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
And you can't lose to Syracuse at home. Like there's
certain losses where you go, that's going to count as 2.
And that counted as maybe 3, where you're going, oh,
my God. Yeah, Paulie.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
It does feel like a pivot year at Alabama. Kalen
DeBoer was 9-4, filling in for Saban that year, taking
over for Saban. 5-3 in the conference. Last year, 11-4, much,
much better. It didn't feel like a national title team,
but it felt in the mix.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
And that's what you want. You want to be in
the conversation. But what's going to happen is when we
go to 2014 playoff, now all of a sudden, a
team that might have three losses, maybe four, they're going
to get into the playoffs. Therefore, that kind of smooths over,
disguises that maybe you're not great, but you're good enough
to get into the playoffs here. Whereas before, it was
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two teams, then it was four teams, now we go
to 12. You go to 24, you don't have to
be a great team to make the playoffs. You're going
to have to be a great team to win the
national title. But There are certain programs where we go, OK,
we just sort of accept that this is who they
are now, as opposed to when Saban was there. or
(10:00):
even Dabo. But, you know, back in the day, they
were in the conversation and that's changed dramatically. Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Yeah, I didn't think in my adult life I would
see Alabama enter the season as the 13th ranked team.
It just seemed like they were going to be a
top five team in perpetuity.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Well, that's Saban. I mean, we all grew up with
Saban and you understand that Saban was always going to
have a formidable team. I go back when he met
with the boosters, I think in Birmingham, and he said, basically, hey,
these schools are spending money and we need to keep
up with Texas A & M. And that opened my
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eyes like, oh, OK, Saban saw the future. And that
future is we're not getting everybody that we need. And
we talked to RG3 earlier in the week and he said,
you know, the SEC, they were going to pay you
under the table. Well, you don't have to do that now,
but do they have that money to be able to
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keep up with some of these other programs? Dylan, with
your Clemson t-shirt on today.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
I'm rocking the colors, Dan.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Um, Orange is not flattering. It's fattening, actually. It is.
Orange is fattening.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
I don't know if there's data to back that up,
but in my own mind, I have some orange shirts
and I always look at them and I'm like, this
doesn't look great.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
What were you going to say?
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Well, it's totally changed where it's like there is a
long period of time where If you were a top recruit,
you went to Alabama just based on pedigree. You're like,
I'm going here probably three, four years, going to win
a title. And now it's truly just the highest bidder.
And it's hard to, you can't just be like, do
you want to come probably win a title or do
you want to make $ 6 million?
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Yeah, the loyalty is the bottom line and that's making money.
Like this is a business for everybody now. The players
couldn't make it a business before, but now they can. Therefore,
when somebody says, why are you going there? Well, because
they paid me the most. Oh, okay. It's not, do
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I have the best chance to win a national championship?
It feels like it's how much and then how good
are we going to be? Am I going to play
right away? And that'll be commensurate to how much you're
going to pay me. You're going to bring in a
$ 5 million quarterback. He's going to play right away. Yes, Marv.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
In my lifetime, Alabama with Saban was kind of like
Miami in the late 90s and early 2000s where the
backup's could have won a national championship for that team
because of all the studs that they had backing up.
Frank Gore didn't play on the 0-1 team. Wilson McGahee,
these guys were riding the bench. This is how deep
they were. And the same thing, I always go back
to Alvin Kamara was like the fifth string running back
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at Alabama.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
But this is what's happening with college football. Because of
the amount of money that you can spend, these players
are bouncing around. You don't have depth. Ohio State and
Michigan and Oklahoma and Nebraska are They just gathered all
the talent because they were going to keep it away
from you. Imagine Oklahoma State having Thurman Thomas, but they
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also had Barry Sanders. That wouldn't happen now. You would
get one or the other, maybe, but that's what's happened
with college football. It's about depth and how much depth
do you have. And most of these schools, they spent
their money on their starting roster. All righty, 877-3DP-SHOW, email address,
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dp at danpatrick.com, Twitter handle at dpshow. Deion Sanders with
a win against Georgia Tech, and they were the better team,
but they blocked a field goal. That was one of
those games I kept waiting, like, what do you got
here for me? Is anybody any good here? And you
had a good drive there at the end of the game.
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Georgia Tech, I kept waiting for Georgia Tech to be good,
and it never happened. But for Deion, that's a big win.
Big win on the road. And I mentioned this a
couple of days ago. Everybody wanted to be part of
Colorado football. You had all the pregame shows. You had
all the celebrities, the former players. This is when Deion
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needs you. Not back then. Now he needs you to
support the program. But that was a big win last night.
A surprising win. Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
And I was also super disappointed because they were playing
in Atlanta last night. There's plenty of celebrities that were
down in Atlanta that went to Colorado two or three
years ago when Shador and Travis Hunter and they were rolling.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Yeah, where is Usher and everybody else? Where are the Migos? Yeah,
where's Beyonce or whoever else maybe would have shown up there?
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Stafford wins another Super Bowl, he'll be a top five
(15:20):
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Speaker 6 (16:08):
Our guest coming up says Matthew Stafford might be a
top five quarterback.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Of all time.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
He might be the king of wishful thinking.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
And you got your UConn basket. Was that your Rip
Hamilton shirt?
Speaker 9 (16:19):
It is.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Oh, it's all love. Come on, Motor City champs. Motor
City Bowl champs. Legendary UConn, Connecticut quarterback. UConn, Connecticut. UConn quarterback.
Dan Orlovsky also works part-time for ESPN as well or
doing something like that.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
How you doing? I, uh, about 30 seconds ago, I
was great. And then Mars took a shot. Um, you
called it Yukon, Connecticut, our time. So I'm a little
bit in flux right now. No, I'm great.
Speaker 10 (16:48):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I'm good. I'm good. Okay.
Speaker 10 (16:50):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
You did surprise me when you said, I know you
love Stafford and you being a former line quarterback and teammate.
But give me the rationale that if he wins another
Super Bowl, you're going to put him in your top five,
which is, you know, it's your opinion. But I just
I'm curious the rationale that you came to that he
would be top five all time.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Well, a couple things. One, I said top five to
top seven conversation. So I just think he gets into that, hey,
is he in your conversation? You know, Dan, the foreshadowing
of if they win the Rams, another one this year.
And to do that, his stats would probably be something
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similar to what they've been over the course of the
past couple years. That would give him two Super Bowl championships.
I don't know how many quarterbacks have won two Super
Bowls in their career, I would imagine five. 10, 15.
I don't know what that number is. That would give
him two Superbowl championships. It would give him an MVP.
He would be top 10 all time in wins. And
he would be top six all time in passing yards
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and passing touchdowns. I think if you just took that
player and got rid of the, you know, the, the Detroit,
and I guess you can't, but like, oh my gosh,
he was on the lions and they stunk. If you
just took that accomplished resume, that player would have to
be in that conversation along with other quarterbacks. And so
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I'm not telling everybody he's a lock, but I do
think it would get him into that at least conversation
seat at the table type of thing.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Okay, but we're looking at Brady, Mahomes, Montana to start, correct?
Speaker 8 (18:26):
Yeah, sure.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Elway?
Speaker 10 (18:29):
Yeah. Peyton?
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Yeah. Yeah. But this would also lend to my point
is I hate the fives. Give me your top five.
Give me your top 10 because inevitably you're leaving out,
like we're not going to put Drew Brees in there.
We're not going to put Marino in there. I'm sure
there's Dan Fouts and Eli's and Filler's, Favre, Rogers. And so,
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you know, when I, when I have the comment of
like top five, top seven conversation, you know, it's not
as a literal thing. It's more of like that conversation,
but yo, this guy's one of the great quarterbacks of
all time type of thing. So yeah. Because if you say,
give me your top five, you're leaving somebody out there
that absolutely warrants being in your top five. That's where
these lists sometimes become very subjective and a little disrespectful.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yeah, I hate the list, but it drives our business.
I get it. But if I said Matthew Stafford, two
Super Bowls and an MVP, Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
I would have told you two years ago, Rodgers. I
would have said that. I mean, I grew up playing
in the division with them, at least being on the
sideline watching them. I'd be like, yo, this dude's freaking unbelievable.
One of the great throwers in football. But I think
if Matthew goes and gets another one, he's probably going
to be 15, 20 wins shy of him. I think
he's going to be right there with yards and touchdowns.
(19:55):
And so another Super Bowl trophy. And also, I go
back to this is part of the Eli conversation because
when Eli comes up for the Hall of Fame and
everyone goes, no, he's not a Hall of Famer because
touchdown interception ratio or record, I go, you have to
equate the way they accomplished the top of the mountain climb,
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the journey that Eli went through to get those two
rings is different than the journey that another quarterback that
was a good player, like, you know, a Brad Johnson,
you know? And so Matthew, if you watch that, remember
that Superbowl run, it was clutch, clutch. It's one of
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the clutch Superbowl runs of all time. If he goes
on another clutch Super Bowl run and he knocks off,
this is such a hypothetical thinking, but if you beat
Josh Allen in the Super Bowl and Josh throws for
400 yards and you beat Mahomes and Burrow on the way,
I think that has to provide context to the conversation.
So he's probably not going to be in people's argument, but....
Speaker 2 (20:59):
If Mahomes ends his career with this many Super Bowls,
will it be a disappointment?
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Oh, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, because
the rocket ship that was when he took off, you know,
and the attachment to a head coach that you know,
is in the conversation for one of the great head
coaches of all time, an offensive wizard. He had an
attachment to a tight end that is in the conversation
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for one of the greatest of all times, the wide
receiver that he was with Tyree kill in his generations.
One of the best players of his generation at that position,
defensive tackle, one of the best players at his position.
And so, and then organization that has a reputation for
being a high end organization. So I think if he
ends that, You know, you're always questioning how it gets
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to that point. But if it ends with the same
amount of Super Bowls now or in the future that
it does now, I do think. Because I think you're
expecting to win two more or so. Three more.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Andy Reid going to stay around to have the all-time
record for wins?
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I would think so. I would hope so. I don't
know how shy he is. I know it's not that
much of a journey he's got left, but I would
hope so. And, you know, he's always said, I've got
this quarterback, I've got this quarterback. So as long as
Patrick's healthy and playing like Patrick, it's going to come
quicker than it would for others. And I would I
would hope that he's there and Patrick's his quarterback to
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go and get that done.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
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Give me the most confusing team. The one that you're
just not quite sure how good, how bad, what they are,
who they are.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I'd probably tell you the Washington Commanders. I'd go back
to the 24 season. That was unbelievable. Jaden Daniels is
Offensive Rookie of the Year, and we've got this superstar quarterback.
These fourth quarter comebacks, they go to the NFC Championship game.
Dan Quinn, his energy, the positivity, it's awesome. And the
(23:13):
off the field stuff, it was this washing of such
negative and just this infusion of Fun. And then they
didn't do much that off season. They got very old
on defense going into the 25 season. And it was
a little bit of some of the result and the, the,
I don't want to say the, the luck that they had,
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but just the catching all the breaks at the end
of those games, jotted what you really were as a team,
the fourth down conversions, all that. Then you go to
last year, And you don't play as well as you should.
Your defense is old. Your quarterback gets hurt. The offensive
coordinator leaves. And so now, one, you're going into this
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third and pivotal season. You got a brand new offensive coordinator,
David Blau, super young. I'm hoping he's amazing. I don't
know a ton about him. I know he's got a
pass with Arizona. So there's a little bit of, you know,
you know, Ben Johnson element to him because of Detroit.
And there's a, a pet singing element because Arizona. So
what's the offense actually going to be? You lose your
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left tackle who you just made the highest paid left
tackle in football and all your fans are like, we'll
be okay. Those two things can't happen at the same time.
It's the third most expensive defense in the NFL. Third,
if you asked NFL people, who's the third most expensive
defense in the NFL, no one would say Washington. So
it's in an unbelievably expensive defense, but a little bit
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unproven because there's so many, I think there's six or
seven new starters on that unit. And so it could
go really good if they gel and those high end
paid players play at such a high level and the
free agent signings and the draft picks play at such
a high level, or it could be a season of
question of, of, okay, where's this organization headed? And, you know,
(25:01):
a second year of maybe some up and down from
Jamie Daniels. I'm bullish on them, but I'm just not
all in to see how it plays out.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
More pressure on Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson this year?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
I always put them in their own category because of
the history and the success, but I tell you, Josh Allen,
I'm of the belief. I think the roster is better
than the public perception. I'll go back to last year
when Josh Allen have enough to go win it. Absolutely.
He does. If top five offensive line, top five running back,
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a great play caller. A head coach that in part
got that job probably because of your relationship. I think
the pass catching group from tight end and wide receiver
is plenty good. Plenty good. Two really good tight ends.
Three good tight ends. Two really good pass catchers. They're
four or five deep at the wide receiver position. All
have different roles. DJ Moore, obviously that addition. I think
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the defensive line is young and athletic. They've got young
and athletic speedsters on the back end that they have
to play well. And I think Jim Leonard's a stud.
So not to knock anything in Baltimore, Lamar's amazing. Jesse Minter,
we think, is going to be great, but probably more
pressure on Josh.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
More likely to get back to the Super Bowl, the
Patriots or Seahawks?
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Hmm. I think the Patriots are probably going to be
a better team this year. Maybe not have as good
or better record. We all know the schedule was historically
easy last year. That will not be the case this year.
Offensive lines should be significantly improved. I think they're impossible
to match up against man-to-man for most teams. Quarterback is
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an absolute... He's going to play for the next 10
years as a top five quarterback in the NFL. The
defense is fantastic. Dan, I went and watched or rewatched
the Super Bowl yesterday to start to get ready for
next Wednesday's game. And one of my takeaways was, holy smokes,
that New England defense was good. I mean, obviously Seattle's
was great as well. But that was going against a
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very good offensive unit in Seattle. And that New England
defense was fantastic. And so I just think that they're
going to be a really good team this year that
maybe doesn't have, I don't know what they were, 14-3
last year. Seattle, still very good. I'm of the belief
calling plays in the NFL is an unbelievably difficult job.
And Brian Fleury, who's stepping in for Clint Kubiak, has
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never called plays before in the NFL. Never called plays.
We've seen that happen four times with the defending Super
Bowl champion over the last, I think, 10 to 12 years.
All four times, the offense has dropped at least 15
points in that ranking of one through 32, 15 slots.
So that's a tall task and big shoes to fill.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
I'm looking at the odds and the Rams' overwhelming favorites,
but I went back and looked at the last 20
teams who had odds similar or better to win the
Super Bowl. All 20 did not win the Super Bowl
that year.
Speaker 10 (28:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
How did the Rams not win?
Speaker 3 (28:14):
I think there's two things. Health, we all know that, right?
There's only so many teams that you say, if they're healthy,
are they good enough? There are teams that just aren't
good enough. If they're healthy, are they good enough? The Rams,
if they're healthy, are good enough to the schedule is brutal.
And the travel schedule is brutal, just like it was
last year, you know? And so how they manage that,
(28:38):
I think it's a little bit, I think this, this,
season i have said if they're healthy no one plays
them within single digits in a meaningful game so do
i think that there's a hiccup here in week 10
or 11 or 12 where they might just become tired
and bored thursday night football i don't know what it
is yeah maybe um but if they're healthy i just
don't see how anyone can handle this offensive line the
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quarterback and play caller together the different personnel groupings they
can play and this defense is so talented so um
Do I expect them to maybe try to peak at
the right time?
Speaker 2 (29:13):
I do.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
I think it's going to be a little bit like
an elite golfer as they get later into their career,
trying to peak in those four majors. A little bit
like the NBA, where you might manage some guys throughout
the season. But I truly don't believe that if they're healthy,
anyone is good enough to beat them if they're healthy.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Did you ever get run over on the sidelines?
Speaker 3 (29:40):
I don't think so. I was usually behind the play, though.
I was often probably five or ten yards behind the
play trying to see things that I could share information-wise.
I was very rarely on the defensive side, kind of
where the ball was going. So I don't think so,
but I got a bad memory.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
But you normally stand by the coach.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Different situations, different moments. I've been a part of teams
when the coach would call the play into me. And
then I would walkie talkie to play into the quarterback.
So I wouldn't want to stand next to the coach
that close, probably 10 yards away. I've been in places
where the offensive coordinators in the booth, um, So standing
near the coach wasn't necessarily a constant thing, unless situational,
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your two-minute drive and you're trying to signal stuff in
or whatnot.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Did you ever change the play that the coach or
offensive coordinator gave you?
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. Really?
Speaker 9 (30:39):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
I mean, Dan, you've got to remember where I was
at times.
Speaker 10 (30:43):
So, yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
I mean, and, you know, there are times when, I
would have the play call come in and I just
know this play call stinks and have some form of
communication with the starting quarterback to be like, Oh, you
didn't get it. You know, now you got to call
your own play. So those were always prior planned things,
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you know, that that's, that's trying to get everybody to
you know, if a play call comes in, I think
a lot of times as the quarterback, you can just,
you just know if this is a good, now sometimes
you think it's a bad play call and it hits,
you know? So, Um, but I, I definitely had moments
when play call came in and either did not give
a play call and the quarterback that started with new
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would know what that meant or change the play call.
I I've shared, I think I've shared this story with you.
I was at a place where the quarterback was a
really good player, but non-confrontational. And I don't know the
why behind the non-confrontational. And we had this first time
play caller, really good football coach, but again, play calling
is hard. And he would constantly call plays, uh, For
the quarterback that he had come from his previous and
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the quarterback that we had as our starter didn't like
the plays out of certain formations. Hey, I like this play,
but I want it out of this formation, especially in
crucial moments. And, you know, he would just continue to
call that play. And finally, I'd go to the coach
and be like, you have to stop calling these plays
out of these formations. He wants them out of this.
And that never changed. And so I would just start
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changing the play to the one that the quarterback preferred
more than the one the coach called.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Was it Matt Schaub?
Speaker 3 (32:20):
It was not Schaub. When I was with Schaub, that
was with Kubiak. Kubiak, I mean, he can call plays
as a corpse. I mean, he was sensational. No coach
I've ever been around had a feel calling plays to
get quarterbacks in rhythm like him. So it was not Schaub,
you know.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Josh Freeman.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Not Freebird, no. But Freebird, Josh was such a talented kid,
but sometimes Josh would be all over the place.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Mike Glennon seems not.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
No, Mikey G. No, not Mikey G, because we had
a shrunk playbook for Mike because he was a rookie then.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
Good player, though.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Good player. Previous to that stop.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Great to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Thank you, boss. You as well. Thanks.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Dan Orlovsky, UConn, Connecticut quarterback. I wanted to give him
the opportunity. It's easy to pile on when he's going
to bring up top five Matthew Stafford. I'm like, okay.
He loves Matthew Stafford. There are a lot of young
quarterbacks in the NFL who idolize Matthew Stafford. Matthew Stafford
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with his second ring and an MVP, those yards. Okay.
And once again, it's somebody's opinion. I give my opinion.
You don't have to like it. You can criticize it,
but it's still my opinion.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
It's okay.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
That's the fun part of it. Having an opinion, now
backing it up. Play of the day. Up next.
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Oh, my God.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
The play of the day.
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Speaker 10 (34:12):
Swings, line, drive.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Left center field.
Speaker 9 (34:15):
That's going to split the outfielders. Go to the wall.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Edmund comes around to score. Here comes Betts around third.
He'll get to the plate. Dodgers win. Dodgers win. Dodgers win.
That's courtesy of AM570 LA Sports, the Dodgers radio network.
Dodgers have eight walk-off wins this season, tied for fifth
most in Major League Baseball. That's your play of the day.
(34:41):
Can you give me early poll results there, Dylan? And
we'll get to some phone calls as well.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
We actually haven't settled on one yet, Dan.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Would you like to settle on one, please? Yeah, okay.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
If you're a recruit right now, would you be more
inclined to pick a school if guaranteed a title in
your tenure there or just the highest bidder? Because obviously,
like Mendoza made a lot of money off of that.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Title win, I think. And the Heisman.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Yeah, but that's rare. Let me take somebody like that
out of the equation here. Let's say you're just a
defensive back or you're an offensive lineman. How much are
you capitalizing? I think everybody, no, I shouldn't say everybody.
I think a majority of these kids look at the money.
You're looking at opportunity. Who's the head coach? What's the style?
(35:37):
What conference are you playing in? National TV? I understand
all of those things. I don't know how important the
bottom line is of winning. Let's say you win a
conference championship. How important is that to how much money
am I making? And can I go someplace else to
make more money What is my NFL future? I think
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we get caught up in the rah-rah, we won a championship,
a conference championship. I don't know if they are. The
loyalty is different to what we grew up, what I
grew up with. These guys look back fondly and you
have the group and they all get together and you
have a reunion and I think that's wonderful. I don't know.
Like these players, I might be there for one year.
(36:20):
And then I can actually have a couple of reunions.
Like Bo Nix could go back and go, I'm going
to the Auburn reunion. I'm going to the Oregon reunion. Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
Do you think the title has kind of been cheapened
a little bit? And look, I'm not going to throw
any slight towards Indiana. But you could argue that we
should start counting titles regularly. historically in the last, you know,
since NIL started, like there's, if all that stuff doesn't change,
that never happens.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
I don't know how important it is. So I can't
sit here and say one way or another, but it
certainly feels like the, the amount of money you can
make and the opportunity to be able to play and
then maybe use that to go and get even more
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Speaker 10 (37:37):
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Speaker 3 (37:56):
All right.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Thank you, Drew. Sounds like a stat of the day, Marvin.
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Speaker 10 (38:20):
Thank you for taking my call, brother.
Speaker 9 (38:22):
Happy Friday.
Speaker 10 (38:23):
DT, DNS, salute the commanders, man. Big time, all the time,
every time. Man, Orlowski was great, man. So I hate
to push back on him, man, because the Redskins talk,
or the commanders talk, I definitely agree with everything that
he said, man. But Matt Stafford is no way top five, man.
Speaker 9 (38:40):
No way. You got Montana, Brady, Elway. Mahomes, and I'm
taking Terry Bradshaw, man. Some of the greatest plays in
sterile history were passes, man. Stallworth down the sideline, Lynn
Swan down the sideline, the Immaculate Recession. Someone had to
throw that ball, and he threw an amazing deep ball, man.
And one last thing, I totally forgot what it was.
So y'all have a great weekend, gentlemen.
Speaker 10 (39:01):
Salute the commanders.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
Thank you, James. Always in a good mood. In fairness
to Orlovsky, he said, if Matthew Stafford wins another Super Bowl,
he would be in the five to seven category. So seven,
I'm going to give him a little bit of leeway there.
Do I think Matthew Stafford would be a top five quarterback? No,
(39:23):
I don't. But, you know, if we're looking at numbers,
you've got an MVP, you have two Super Bowls and
you've got an MVP. Now you go into a different
category there. But it's his opinion. It's okay. People get
apoplectic with this sometimes. I'm going, it's okay. It's all right.
(39:43):
I can't believe that you don't like the Grateful Dead.
It's okay.
Speaker 6 (39:46):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
Yeah, I unsurprisingly have gotten crushed for some of those
opinions of mine.
Speaker 5 (39:54):
You know which one I didn't get crushed for? A
lot of people backed me up on the U2 thing.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
I said U2 was at one time the biggest rock
band in the world, and you said they were not,
and they were. You said the biggest. They were the
biggest rock and roll band in the world at one point.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
But our initial thing was, are they good or not?
And I said, they are great. Well, a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
Agreed with me that they're not.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
That's okay.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
That's okay.
Speaker 5 (40:22):
Everything else, people got really mad at me about.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
I would go see U2 again. I saw them when
they had the heart. You could be inside the heart,
and then Bono and Edge, they walked around the stage,
so there were two stages. Edge also.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Incredibly overrated guitar player.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (40:45):
Yeah, I'm going in.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Yes, Paul.
Speaker 7 (40:47):
According to Rolling Stone magazine, U2 is the fourth highest
grossing rock band on tour of all time.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Marvin is in the confessional wearing his Rip Hamilton UConn jersey.
We will dive into the mess that is North Carolina football. Boy,
good thing they won their opener. One hour in the books.
Two more to go in this meet Friday. Back after this.
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
We did it. We made it to a Friday. It's
hour one. It's a meat Friday. Dylan will run down
the menu. The gang's here. Fritzy, yes, four consecutive shows
after getting four stitches in his finger. Congratulations. And once again,
another round of applause.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Emotional.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
For heroic. Heroic. One day for each stitch. Come back.
Thank you, Tom. Dylan in the back row. Marvin, Paula,
yours truly. The backroom guys as well. We'll get to
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Poll question for today. Now, let's do the menu first here. Dylan,
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what are we whipping up on this Meat Friday?
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Well, Dan, it's Labor Day, college football real opening weekend,
so I figure we'll do a little kind of tailgate barbecue.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
So we got deluxe cheeseburgers.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
What's that mean?
Speaker 5 (01:41):
So that's literally just with lettuce and tomato, I think, right?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Todd talked about on the Toddcast how he takes the
lettuce and tomato off the burger and makes a free
side salad with it.
Speaker 6 (01:51):
But the burger deluxe, at least at the diners I
went to in Brooklyn, that comes with french fries and
onion rings.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
So are we getting that too today?
Speaker 6 (01:56):
When you get the deluxe beef burger.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Platter, it comes with french fries and onion rings. Because
you continue, Dylan.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Yeah, we don't have either of those. But we do
have chili dogs as well.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Mm-hmm. Smoked brats. Mm-hmm.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Potato salad.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
And corn on the cob.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Who has it better than we do?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Nobody.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It is the game of the year so far. UMass
over Rutgers last night, 37-21. Rutgers was a 29.5-point favorite.
UMass on a 16-game losing streak. UMass gets $ 1. 55 million
to play Rutgers, one of the largest losses by paycheck
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in college football history. Auburn, $ 1. 85 million paid to New
Mexico State. And that was the birth of Diego Pavia.
Texas A & M, $ 1. 5 million paid to App State.
They lost. Two massive college football brands, and they had
the money. And they decided it was a good idea.
(03:00):
Somebody did that. Rutgers is going to shell out $ 1. 5 million.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Plus!
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Plus!
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Plus! They had a fireworks display that they were going to.
I guess it was win or lose. The fireworks were
going to go off at Rutgers. And that's probably a
couple of hundred thousand dollars that they were going to
have a fireworks display in a loss. This wasn't close. UMass,
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the Minutemen. They lasted a little bit longer than Fritzie does.
It was a couple of hours there.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Again, I tell you something in confidence is what you did.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
But UMass, a big winner here. And look, when you
see that a program is going to pay another program,
and I understand $ 1. 5 million, that can help the entire
athletic department at UMass. It's not just about football. That'll
help basketball. It'll help the other secondary sports as well.
(03:59):
But when you pay that money, you expect to win.
You don't expect it to be a close game. If
it's a close game, OK, but you're paying for a
sacrificial lamb. Rutgers, a 29 and a half point favorite. Now,
the game of the weekend is still LSU and Clemson and.
(04:20):
We saw that LSU, they found a judge in Baton Rouge,
of course, who is going to side with them and
allowed an injunction. The players who played in the NFL,
at least during the preseason, they get to play for
LSU this weekend or at least get to suit up
against Clemson. I said that this would come down to
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the SEC against LSU. That's what this is all about.
No other programs, LSU and the SEC together. And the
SEC is not done with this. They're still going to
go after LSU to prevent this from happening. And maybe
these two players play this weekend. But for such a
big game, this feels like it's whoever loses will be
(05:04):
the storyline. Imagine if Lane Kiffin, through all of this,
and there's a lot of this, loses this game at home,
his debut on Saturday night. You've brought in these two players.
The conference is coming after you. An article in Vanity
Fair talking about how you were kind of creepy towards
sorority girls at Alabama. There's a lot. You leave Ole Miss,
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middle of the playoffs, to go to LSU. There's a
lot riding on this. You are a 10-point favorite. As
for Dabo Sweeney, Clemson has 14 losses in the last
three seasons. And this will be, if he loses to LSU,
more of the, has Dabo evolved enough to change with
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the times? Now, keep in mind, Clemson last year at
this time was ranked fourth in the country. They were
a popular national title pick by a lot of experts here.
If Clemson loses, they're expected to. How much they lose by,
then this might be a referendum on Dabo Sweeney. Now,
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everybody keeps telling me he's safe. everything he's done there.
That's great. It's great until we've seen coaches get relieved
of their duties or fired after winning a championship. Gene
Chizik at Auburn. Thank you, Gene. See ya. This happens.
(06:30):
Happens in the NBA. Major League Baseball. Hey, you know,
you've Won a World Series here, but that's a couple
of years ago here. Joe Maddon was fired. A hundred years.
Over a hundred years you're waiting for a World Series title. Yeah,
(06:51):
but I don't know. What have you done for us
lately here? It happens. Now, maybe Clemson is loyal to Dabo,
and it doesn't matter. He's on scholarship no matter what happens.
But if you win seven games.
I think, you know, we start to circle the wagons
a little bit. That's where the alumni go. Can we
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move on? What's it cost to move on? Whenever you
see this, whenever you see somebody sign a contract, I
always go, what's the buyout? With all of them, because
it feels like Jimbo Fisher. Although I saw where Jimbo
Fisher says he wants to come back and coach. If
he comes back and coaches for free, that'd be great.
(07:34):
But He's still getting paid an awful lot of money.
But I always want to know, what's that buyout? Because
eventually we're going to get to, what is that buyout
for these coaches? I don't care who it is. What's
the buyout? It's really rare when you can go, you
know what? I'm done with this. It's usually you stay,
and then all of a sudden they go, man, we
(07:56):
got some nice parting gifts for you. Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Now, going forward, say if Clemson decides to fire Dabo Sweeney.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
The next coach, they shouldn't have national championship expectations any longer.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
No. Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
But they don't have national title expectations. I'm just saying
just overall. Yeah, I don't think you're bringing somebody in
and go, I mean, look at Alabama. Now, maybe you're thinking, hey,
we got national title aspirations here. That quickly settled. Now
you're just a really good program or a formidable team.
(08:34):
It's not like we look at Alabama and go, hey,
they're the team to beat. It's been a little while
for that. Yeah, Mark.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
So going forward, if Dabo keeps winning 9 to 10 games,
he's all right. But 7 is unacceptable, correct?
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
And you can't lose to Syracuse at home. Like there's
certain losses where you go, that's going to count as 2.
And that counted as maybe 3, where you're going, oh,
my God. Yeah, Paulie.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
It does feel like a pivot year at Alabama. Kalen
DeBoer was 9-4, filling in for Saban that year, taking
over for Saban. 5-3 in the conference. Last year, 11-4, much,
much better. It didn't feel like a national title team,
but it felt in the mix.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
And that's what you want. You want to be in
the conversation. But what's going to happen is when we
go to 2014 playoff, now all of a sudden, a
team that might have three losses, maybe four, they're going
to get into the playoffs. Therefore, that kind of smooths over,
disguises that maybe you're not great, but you're good enough
to get into the playoffs here. Whereas before, it was
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two teams, then it was four teams, now we go
to 12. You go to 24, you don't have to
be a great team to make the playoffs. You're going
to have to be a great team to win the
national title. But There are certain programs where we go, OK,
we just sort of accept that this is who they
are now, as opposed to when Saban was there. or
(10:00):
even Dabo. But, you know, back in the day, they
were in the conversation and that's changed dramatically. Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Yeah, I didn't think in my adult life I would
see Alabama enter the season as the 13th ranked team.
It just seemed like they were going to be a
top five team in perpetuity.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Well, that's Saban. I mean, we all grew up with
Saban and you understand that Saban was always going to
have a formidable team. I go back when he met
with the boosters, I think in Birmingham, and he said, basically, hey,
these schools are spending money and we need to keep
up with Texas A & M. And that opened my
(10:42):
eyes like, oh, OK, Saban saw the future. And that
future is we're not getting everybody that we need. And
we talked to RG3 earlier in the week and he said,
you know, the SEC, they were going to pay you
under the table. Well, you don't have to do that now,
but do they have that money to be able to
(11:02):
keep up with some of these other programs? Dylan, with
your Clemson t-shirt on today.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
I'm rocking the colors, Dan.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Um, Orange is not flattering. It's fattening, actually. It is.
Orange is fattening.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
I don't know if there's data to back that up,
but in my own mind, I have some orange shirts
and I always look at them and I'm like, this
doesn't look great.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
What were you going to say?
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Well, it's totally changed where it's like there is a
long period of time where If you were a top recruit,
you went to Alabama just based on pedigree. You're like,
I'm going here probably three, four years, going to win
a title. And now it's truly just the highest bidder.
And it's hard to, you can't just be like, do
you want to come probably win a title or do
you want to make $ 6 million?
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Yeah, the loyalty is the bottom line and that's making money.
Like this is a business for everybody now. The players
couldn't make it a business before, but now they can. Therefore,
when somebody says, why are you going there? Well, because
they paid me the most. Oh, okay. It's not, do
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I have the best chance to win a national championship?
It feels like it's how much and then how good
are we going to be? Am I going to play
right away? And that'll be commensurate to how much you're
going to pay me. You're going to bring in a
$ 5 million quarterback. He's going to play right away. Yes, Marv.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
In my lifetime, Alabama with Saban was kind of like
Miami in the late 90s and early 2000s where the
backup's could have won a national championship for that team
because of all the studs that they had backing up.
Frank Gore didn't play on the 0-1 team. Wilson McGahee,
these guys were riding the bench. This is how deep
they were. And the same thing, I always go back
to Alvin Kamara was like the fifth string running back
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at Alabama.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
But this is what's happening with college football. Because of
the amount of money that you can spend, these players
are bouncing around. You don't have depth. Ohio State and
Michigan and Oklahoma and Nebraska are They just gathered all
the talent because they were going to keep it away
from you. Imagine Oklahoma State having Thurman Thomas, but they
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also had Barry Sanders. That wouldn't happen now. You would
get one or the other, maybe, but that's what's happened
with college football. It's about depth and how much depth
do you have. And most of these schools, they spent
their money on their starting roster. All righty, 877-3DP-SHOW, email address,
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dp at danpatrick.com, Twitter handle at dpshow. Deion Sanders with
a win against Georgia Tech, and they were the better team,
but they blocked a field goal. That was one of
those games I kept waiting, like, what do you got
here for me? Is anybody any good here? And you
had a good drive there at the end of the game.
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Georgia Tech, I kept waiting for Georgia Tech to be good,
and it never happened. But for Deion, that's a big win.
Big win on the road. And I mentioned this a
couple of days ago. Everybody wanted to be part of
Colorado football. You had all the pregame shows. You had
all the celebrities, the former players. This is when Deion
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needs you. Not back then. Now he needs you to
support the program. But that was a big win last night.
A surprising win. Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
And I was also super disappointed because they were playing
in Atlanta last night. There's plenty of celebrities that were
down in Atlanta that went to Colorado two or three
years ago when Shador and Travis Hunter and they were rolling.
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But coming up next, Dan Orlovsky. Dan Orlovsky made a
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Stafford wins another Super Bowl, he'll be a top five
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Speaker 6 (16:08):
Our guest coming up says Matthew Stafford might be a
top five quarterback.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Of all time.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
He might be the king of wishful thinking.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
And you got your UConn basket. Was that your Rip
Hamilton shirt?
Speaker 9 (16:19):
It is.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Oh, it's all love. Come on, Motor City champs. Motor
City Bowl champs. Legendary UConn, Connecticut quarterback. UConn, Connecticut. UConn quarterback.
Dan Orlovsky also works part-time for ESPN as well or
doing something like that.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
How you doing? I, uh, about 30 seconds ago, I
was great. And then Mars took a shot. Um, you
called it Yukon, Connecticut, our time. So I'm a little
bit in flux right now. No, I'm great.
Speaker 10 (16:48):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I'm good. I'm good. Okay.
Speaker 10 (16:50):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
You did surprise me when you said, I know you
love Stafford and you being a former line quarterback and teammate.
But give me the rationale that if he wins another
Super Bowl, you're going to put him in your top five,
which is, you know, it's your opinion. But I just
I'm curious the rationale that you came to that he
would be top five all time.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Well, a couple things. One, I said top five to
top seven conversation. So I just think he gets into that, hey,
is he in your conversation? You know, Dan, the foreshadowing
of if they win the Rams, another one this year.
And to do that, his stats would probably be something
(17:32):
similar to what they've been over the course of the
past couple years. That would give him two Super Bowl championships.
I don't know how many quarterbacks have won two Super
Bowls in their career, I would imagine five. 10, 15.
I don't know what that number is. That would give
him two Superbowl championships. It would give him an MVP.
He would be top 10 all time in wins. And
he would be top six all time in passing yards
(17:53):
and passing touchdowns. I think if you just took that
player and got rid of the, you know, the, the Detroit,
and I guess you can't, but like, oh my gosh,
he was on the lions and they stunk. If you
just took that accomplished resume, that player would have to
be in that conversation along with other quarterbacks. And so
(18:15):
I'm not telling everybody he's a lock, but I do
think it would get him into that at least conversation
seat at the table type of thing.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Okay, but we're looking at Brady, Mahomes, Montana to start, correct?
Speaker 8 (18:26):
Yeah, sure.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Elway?
Speaker 10 (18:29):
Yeah. Peyton?
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Yeah. Yeah. But this would also lend to my point
is I hate the fives. Give me your top five.
Give me your top 10 because inevitably you're leaving out,
like we're not going to put Drew Brees in there.
We're not going to put Marino in there. I'm sure
there's Dan Fouts and Eli's and Filler's, Favre, Rogers. And so,
(18:56):
you know, when I, when I have the comment of
like top five, top seven conversation, you know, it's not
as a literal thing. It's more of like that conversation,
but yo, this guy's one of the great quarterbacks of
all time type of thing. So yeah. Because if you say,
give me your top five, you're leaving somebody out there
that absolutely warrants being in your top five. That's where
these lists sometimes become very subjective and a little disrespectful.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yeah, I hate the list, but it drives our business.
I get it. But if I said Matthew Stafford, two
Super Bowls and an MVP, Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
I would have told you two years ago, Rodgers. I
would have said that. I mean, I grew up playing
in the division with them, at least being on the
sideline watching them. I'd be like, yo, this dude's freaking unbelievable.
One of the great throwers in football. But I think
if Matthew goes and gets another one, he's probably going
to be 15, 20 wins shy of him. I think
he's going to be right there with yards and touchdowns.
(19:55):
And so another Super Bowl trophy. And also, I go
back to this is part of the Eli conversation because
when Eli comes up for the Hall of Fame and
everyone goes, no, he's not a Hall of Famer because
touchdown interception ratio or record, I go, you have to
equate the way they accomplished the top of the mountain climb,
(20:16):
the journey that Eli went through to get those two
rings is different than the journey that another quarterback that
was a good player, like, you know, a Brad Johnson,
you know? And so Matthew, if you watch that, remember
that Superbowl run, it was clutch, clutch. It's one of
(20:36):
the clutch Superbowl runs of all time. If he goes
on another clutch Super Bowl run and he knocks off,
this is such a hypothetical thinking, but if you beat
Josh Allen in the Super Bowl and Josh throws for
400 yards and you beat Mahomes and Burrow on the way,
I think that has to provide context to the conversation.
So he's probably not going to be in people's argument, but....
Speaker 2 (20:59):
If Mahomes ends his career with this many Super Bowls,
will it be a disappointment?
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Oh, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, because
the rocket ship that was when he took off, you know,
and the attachment to a head coach that you know,
is in the conversation for one of the great head
coaches of all time, an offensive wizard. He had an
attachment to a tight end that is in the conversation
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for one of the greatest of all times, the wide
receiver that he was with Tyree kill in his generations.
One of the best players of his generation at that position,
defensive tackle, one of the best players at his position.
And so, and then organization that has a reputation for
being a high end organization. So I think if he
ends that, You know, you're always questioning how it gets
(21:50):
to that point. But if it ends with the same
amount of Super Bowls now or in the future that
it does now, I do think. Because I think you're
expecting to win two more or so. Three more.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Andy Reid going to stay around to have the all-time
record for wins?
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I would think so. I would hope so. I don't
know how shy he is. I know it's not that
much of a journey he's got left, but I would
hope so. And, you know, he's always said, I've got
this quarterback, I've got this quarterback. So as long as
Patrick's healthy and playing like Patrick, it's going to come
quicker than it would for others. And I would I
would hope that he's there and Patrick's his quarterback to
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go and get that done.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Talking to Dan Orlovsky, the UConn legend quarterback. You can
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Give me the most confusing team. The one that you're
just not quite sure how good, how bad, what they are,
who they are.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I'd probably tell you the Washington Commanders. I'd go back
to the 24 season. That was unbelievable. Jaden Daniels is
Offensive Rookie of the Year, and we've got this superstar quarterback.
These fourth quarter comebacks, they go to the NFC Championship game.
Dan Quinn, his energy, the positivity, it's awesome. And the
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off the field stuff, it was this washing of such
negative and just this infusion of Fun. And then they
didn't do much that off season. They got very old
on defense going into the 25 season. And it was
a little bit of some of the result and the, the,
I don't want to say the, the luck that they had,
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but just the catching all the breaks at the end
of those games, jotted what you really were as a team,
the fourth down conversions, all that. Then you go to
last year, And you don't play as well as you should.
Your defense is old. Your quarterback gets hurt. The offensive
coordinator leaves. And so now, one, you're going into this
(23:56):
third and pivotal season. You got a brand new offensive coordinator,
David Blau, super young. I'm hoping he's amazing. I don't
know a ton about him. I know he's got a
pass with Arizona. So there's a little bit of, you know,
you know, Ben Johnson element to him because of Detroit.
And there's a, a pet singing element because Arizona. So
what's the offense actually going to be? You lose your
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left tackle who you just made the highest paid left
tackle in football and all your fans are like, we'll
be okay. Those two things can't happen at the same time.
It's the third most expensive defense in the NFL. Third,
if you asked NFL people, who's the third most expensive
defense in the NFL, no one would say Washington. So
it's in an unbelievably expensive defense, but a little bit
(24:39):
unproven because there's so many, I think there's six or
seven new starters on that unit. And so it could
go really good if they gel and those high end
paid players play at such a high level and the
free agent signings and the draft picks play at such
a high level, or it could be a season of
question of, of, okay, where's this organization headed? And, you know,
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a second year of maybe some up and down from
Jamie Daniels. I'm bullish on them, but I'm just not
all in to see how it plays out.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
More pressure on Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson this year?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
I always put them in their own category because of
the history and the success, but I tell you, Josh Allen,
I'm of the belief. I think the roster is better
than the public perception. I'll go back to last year
when Josh Allen have enough to go win it. Absolutely.
He does. If top five offensive line, top five running back,
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a great play caller. A head coach that in part
got that job probably because of your relationship. I think
the pass catching group from tight end and wide receiver
is plenty good. Plenty good. Two really good tight ends.
Three good tight ends. Two really good pass catchers. They're
four or five deep at the wide receiver position. All
have different roles. DJ Moore, obviously that addition. I think
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the defensive line is young and athletic. They've got young
and athletic speedsters on the back end that they have
to play well. And I think Jim Leonard's a stud.
So not to knock anything in Baltimore, Lamar's amazing. Jesse Minter,
we think, is going to be great, but probably more
pressure on Josh.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
More likely to get back to the Super Bowl, the
Patriots or Seahawks?
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Hmm. I think the Patriots are probably going to be
a better team this year. Maybe not have as good
or better record. We all know the schedule was historically
easy last year. That will not be the case this year.
Offensive lines should be significantly improved. I think they're impossible
to match up against man-to-man for most teams. Quarterback is
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an absolute... He's going to play for the next 10
years as a top five quarterback in the NFL. The
defense is fantastic. Dan, I went and watched or rewatched
the Super Bowl yesterday to start to get ready for
next Wednesday's game. And one of my takeaways was, holy smokes,
that New England defense was good. I mean, obviously Seattle's
was great as well. But that was going against a
(27:11):
very good offensive unit in Seattle. And that New England
defense was fantastic. And so I just think that they're
going to be a really good team this year that
maybe doesn't have, I don't know what they were, 14-3
last year. Seattle, still very good. I'm of the belief
calling plays in the NFL is an unbelievably difficult job.
And Brian Fleury, who's stepping in for Clint Kubiak, has
(27:34):
never called plays before in the NFL. Never called plays.
We've seen that happen four times with the defending Super
Bowl champion over the last, I think, 10 to 12 years.
All four times, the offense has dropped at least 15
points in that ranking of one through 32, 15 slots.
So that's a tall task and big shoes to fill.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
I'm looking at the odds and the Rams' overwhelming favorites,
but I went back and looked at the last 20
teams who had odds similar or better to win the
Super Bowl. All 20 did not win the Super Bowl
that year.
Speaker 10 (28:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
How did the Rams not win?
Speaker 3 (28:14):
I think there's two things. Health, we all know that, right?
There's only so many teams that you say, if they're healthy,
are they good enough? There are teams that just aren't
good enough. If they're healthy, are they good enough? The Rams,
if they're healthy, are good enough to the schedule is brutal.
And the travel schedule is brutal, just like it was
last year, you know? And so how they manage that,
(28:38):
I think it's a little bit, I think this, this,
season i have said if they're healthy no one plays
them within single digits in a meaningful game so do
i think that there's a hiccup here in week 10
or 11 or 12 where they might just become tired
and bored thursday night football i don't know what it
is yeah maybe um but if they're healthy i just
don't see how anyone can handle this offensive line the
(29:01):
quarterback and play caller together the different personnel groupings they
can play and this defense is so talented so um
Do I expect them to maybe try to peak at
the right time?
Speaker 2 (29:13):
I do.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
I think it's going to be a little bit like
an elite golfer as they get later into their career,
trying to peak in those four majors. A little bit
like the NBA, where you might manage some guys throughout
the season. But I truly don't believe that if they're healthy,
anyone is good enough to beat them if they're healthy.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Did you ever get run over on the sidelines?
Speaker 3 (29:40):
I don't think so. I was usually behind the play, though.
I was often probably five or ten yards behind the
play trying to see things that I could share information-wise.
I was very rarely on the defensive side, kind of
where the ball was going. So I don't think so,
but I got a bad memory.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
But you normally stand by the coach.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Different situations, different moments. I've been a part of teams
when the coach would call the play into me. And
then I would walkie talkie to play into the quarterback.
So I wouldn't want to stand next to the coach
that close, probably 10 yards away. I've been in places
where the offensive coordinators in the booth, um, So standing
near the coach wasn't necessarily a constant thing, unless situational,
(30:27):
your two-minute drive and you're trying to signal stuff in
or whatnot.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Did you ever change the play that the coach or
offensive coordinator gave you?
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. Really?
Speaker 9 (30:39):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
I mean, Dan, you've got to remember where I was
at times.
Speaker 10 (30:43):
So, yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
I mean, and, you know, there are times when, I
would have the play call come in and I just
know this play call stinks and have some form of
communication with the starting quarterback to be like, Oh, you
didn't get it. You know, now you got to call
your own play. So those were always prior planned things,
(31:05):
you know, that that's, that's trying to get everybody to
you know, if a play call comes in, I think
a lot of times as the quarterback, you can just,
you just know if this is a good, now sometimes
you think it's a bad play call and it hits,
you know? So, Um, but I, I definitely had moments
when play call came in and either did not give
a play call and the quarterback that started with new
(31:27):
would know what that meant or change the play call.
I I've shared, I think I've shared this story with you.
I was at a place where the quarterback was a
really good player, but non-confrontational. And I don't know the
why behind the non-confrontational. And we had this first time
play caller, really good football coach, but again, play calling
is hard. And he would constantly call plays, uh, For
the quarterback that he had come from his previous and
(31:50):
the quarterback that we had as our starter didn't like
the plays out of certain formations. Hey, I like this play,
but I want it out of this formation, especially in
crucial moments. And, you know, he would just continue to
call that play. And finally, I'd go to the coach
and be like, you have to stop calling these plays
out of these formations. He wants them out of this.
And that never changed. And so I would just start
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changing the play to the one that the quarterback preferred
more than the one the coach called.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Was it Matt Schaub?
Speaker 3 (32:20):
It was not Schaub. When I was with Schaub, that
was with Kubiak. Kubiak, I mean, he can call plays
as a corpse. I mean, he was sensational. No coach
I've ever been around had a feel calling plays to
get quarterbacks in rhythm like him. So it was not Schaub,
you know.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Josh Freeman.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Not Freebird, no. But Freebird, Josh was such a talented kid,
but sometimes Josh would be all over the place.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Mike Glennon seems not.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
No, Mikey G. No, not Mikey G, because we had
a shrunk playbook for Mike because he was a rookie then.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
Good player, though.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Good player. Previous to that stop.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Great to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Thank you, boss. You as well. Thanks.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Dan Orlovsky, UConn, Connecticut quarterback. I wanted to give him
the opportunity. It's easy to pile on when he's going
to bring up top five Matthew Stafford. I'm like, okay.
He loves Matthew Stafford. There are a lot of young
quarterbacks in the NFL who idolize Matthew Stafford. Matthew Stafford
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with his second ring and an MVP, those yards. Okay.
And once again, it's somebody's opinion. I give my opinion.
You don't have to like it. You can criticize it,
but it's still my opinion.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
It's okay.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
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Can you give me early poll results there, Dylan? And
we'll get to some phone calls as well.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
We actually haven't settled on one yet, Dan.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Would you like to settle on one, please? Yeah, okay.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
If you're a recruit right now, would you be more
inclined to pick a school if guaranteed a title in
your tenure there or just the highest bidder? Because obviously,
like Mendoza made a lot of money off of that.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Title win, I think. And the Heisman.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Yeah, but that's rare. Let me take somebody like that
out of the equation here. Let's say you're just a
defensive back or you're an offensive lineman. How much are
you capitalizing? I think everybody, no, I shouldn't say everybody.
I think a majority of these kids look at the money.
You're looking at opportunity. Who's the head coach? What's the style?
(35:37):
What conference are you playing in? National TV? I understand
all of those things. I don't know how important the
bottom line is of winning. Let's say you win a
conference championship. How important is that to how much money
am I making? And can I go someplace else to
make more money What is my NFL future? I think
(35:58):
we get caught up in the rah-rah, we won a championship,
a conference championship. I don't know if they are. The
loyalty is different to what we grew up, what I
grew up with. These guys look back fondly and you
have the group and they all get together and you
have a reunion and I think that's wonderful. I don't know.
Like these players, I might be there for one year.
(36:20):
And then I can actually have a couple of reunions.
Like Bo Nix could go back and go, I'm going
to the Auburn reunion. I'm going to the Oregon reunion. Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
Do you think the title has kind of been cheapened
a little bit? And look, I'm not going to throw
any slight towards Indiana. But you could argue that we
should start counting titles regularly. historically in the last, you know,
since NIL started, like there's, if all that stuff doesn't change,
that never happens.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
I don't know how important it is. So I can't
sit here and say one way or another, but it
certainly feels like the, the amount of money you can
make and the opportunity to be able to play and
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All right.
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Speaker 10 (38:20):
Thank you for taking my call, brother.
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Happy Friday.
Speaker 10 (38:23):
DT, DNS, salute the commanders, man. Big time, all the time,
every time. Man, Orlowski was great, man. So I hate
to push back on him, man, because the Redskins talk,
or the commanders talk, I definitely agree with everything that
he said, man. But Matt Stafford is no way top five, man.
Speaker 9 (38:40):
No way. You got Montana, Brady, Elway. Mahomes, and I'm
taking Terry Bradshaw, man. Some of the greatest plays in
sterile history were passes, man. Stallworth down the sideline, Lynn
Swan down the sideline, the Immaculate Recession. Someone had to
throw that ball, and he threw an amazing deep ball, man.
And one last thing, I totally forgot what it was.
So y'all have a great weekend, gentlemen.
Speaker 10 (39:01):
Salute the commanders.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
Thank you, James. Always in a good mood. In fairness
to Orlovsky, he said, if Matthew Stafford wins another Super Bowl,
he would be in the five to seven category. So seven,
I'm going to give him a little bit of leeway there.
Do I think Matthew Stafford would be a top five quarterback? No,
(39:23):
I don't. But, you know, if we're looking at numbers,
you've got an MVP, you have two Super Bowls and
you've got an MVP. Now you go into a different
category there. But it's his opinion. It's okay. People get
apoplectic with this sometimes. I'm going, it's okay. It's all right.
(39:43):
I can't believe that you don't like the Grateful Dead.
It's okay.
Speaker 6 (39:46):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
Yeah, I unsurprisingly have gotten crushed for some of those
opinions of mine.
Speaker 5 (39:54):
You know which one I didn't get crushed for? A
lot of people backed me up on the U2 thing.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
I said U2 was at one time the biggest rock
band in the world, and you said they were not,
and they were. You said the biggest. They were the
biggest rock and roll band in the world at one point.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
But our initial thing was, are they good or not?
And I said, they are great. Well, a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
Agreed with me that they're not.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
That's okay.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
That's okay.
Speaker 5 (40:22):
Everything else, people got really mad at me about.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
I would go see U2 again. I saw them when
they had the heart. You could be inside the heart,
and then Bono and Edge, they walked around the stage,
so there were two stages. Edge also.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Incredibly overrated guitar player.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (40:45):
Yeah, I'm going in.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Yes, Paul.
Speaker 7 (40:47):
According to Rolling Stone magazine, U2 is the fourth highest
grossing rock band on tour of all time.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Marvin is in the confessional wearing his Rip Hamilton UConn jersey.
We will dive into the mess that is North Carolina football. Boy,
good thing they won their opener. One hour in the books.
Two more to go in this meet Friday. Back after this.
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