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March 19, 2025 40 mins

Dan thinks the Pittsburgh Steelers need to have some pride and move on from Aaron Rodgers already. And he reminds us that just because North Carolina won their play-in game it doesn’t prove they deserved to make the tournament.

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The Minnesota Vikings are not pursuing Aaron Rodgers. It's official.

(00:49):
There are two reports the Vikings are not pursuing Aaron Rodgers.
I don't know if the Steelers still are. I don't
know if the Giants are. I don't know if pursuing
the Giants. Is he pursuing the Steelers. We tried to
kick the tires on this Viking situation, and I wondered.
I was skeptical, but I thought, okay, if the Vikings

(01:12):
are interested in him and JJ McCarthy's not ready to play, okay,
then I would take it. I would take a chance
on Aaron Rodgers for one year. JJ McCarthy is your future.
You trade it up to get him at number ten
in the draft last year. But I just didn't know.
It felt like maybe Rogers was interested. I just didn't
know if it was reciprocated, and maybe internally the Vikings

(01:36):
were saying, hey, what about this? What do you think?
Maybe you talk to JJ McCarthy, maybe you get an
update on his recovery time, and then you finally come
to the realization we're good now. I do think they
made a mistake in letting Daniel Jones go, because I'd
like to have a little bit of experience there as

(01:59):
a backup. Sam Darnold was going to cost you more.
I got that, But Daniel Jones, I think you could
have kept him there and he would have been maybe
okay as a backup. But you're getting somebody who is
going to be basically a rookie and playing, but coming
off knee surgery, and there's going to be an adjustment period.

(02:21):
This is a team that was a playoff team, had
aspirations of going to the super Bowl. But now if
you're Aaron Rodgers, does Aaron Rodgers want to stay in
New York? If you wanted to go to the Steelers,
you probably would have gone to the Steelers. I don't
know if that's a great fit. It's just because it's

(02:42):
you know, if he goes into Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh is the star.
He went to the Jets and they're like, what do
you want? Do whatever you want? You want to change
the Colors. I don't care. They were desperate. The Steelers
aren't desperate. But it feels like you go in there,
that's Mike Tomlin you're dealing with, You're dealing with, TJ. Watt,

(03:04):
Minka Fitzpatrick. Cam Hayward had something to say he's the
Steeler defensive lineman on the Not Just Football podcast on
what would your recruiting pitch be to Aaron Rodgers to
join the Steelers.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
I ain't doing that darkness darkness treat retreat. I don't
mean any of that crap, like either you want to
be a Pittsburgh Steeler or you don't. That's that's simple.
That's the pitch. If you want me to recruit that's
the recruiting pitch. You know, Pittsburgh Steelers. If you want
to be part of it, so be it. If you don't,
no skin on my back exactly.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
That's what I've been saying. You're the Pittsburgh Steelers. Don't
lower yourself. Oh Aaron, could you please come here? Move on?
You should have kept justin Fields. At least that gave
you a bridge quarterback for the next two years. Maybe
he develops into something. Now, what do you have Mason Rudolph? Okay,

(04:00):
are you gonna bring Russ back? If it's true that
Russ and Arthur Smith, the offensive coordinator, didn't get along
at the end of the season, or maybe you didn't
see eye to eye. But you're the Steelers, now, I
get it. The Giants, they are gonna have to beg
to get Aaron Rodgers, the Giants who would have thought
one of the blue bloods. And you're waiting to find out,

(04:20):
would Aaron Rodgers please come and play for our team?
It feels like the Giants are taking Shadoor Sanders. I
don't have any information on that other than it feels
like Shadoor has thought all along that's where he was going. Now,
can you bring in somebody. Do you bring in Aaron
Rodgers and let Shador Sanders sit a year? Maybe? But

(04:44):
the once proud New York Football Giants they're waiting for
Aaron Rodgers. And if you're the Steelers, move on, move on.
You might not have somebody as good as Aaron Rodgers,
or the ceiling might not be as high, but move
on the Steelers. You don't do this, please, And then

(05:05):
Russell Wilson, I still think Kirk Cousins plays a role
in this somewhere, at some point, somehow. Now the Falcons,
you know, they have him, they're paying him, they want
him to be their backup. And it feels like every
team needs a you know, a good backup. If you're
going to be a playoff team, you've got to have
a good backup. Chances are your quarterback's going to get

(05:25):
dinged up a little bit at some point somewhere down
the line. Michael Pennix Junior, the third has been banged
up in his career, early in his career when he
was in Indiana. So the quarterback in carousel, I don't
know if it's stopped or stalled, but it doesn't seem
like it's going at the same speed that we thought
it was going to. I thought Aaron Rodgers would make

(05:47):
a decision by last Friday. But he's Aaron Rodgers. Maybe
he waits. Maybe you wait until after the draft. And
this is what I wondered with some of these teams.
You're to get a quarterback, you might get a quarterback.
If you don't get your quarterback, then things change a
little bit. Then all of a sudden, maybe there's more
people interested in Russell Wilson. Maybe there's more people interested

(06:11):
in Kirk Cousins. Maybe he becomes more valuable in it
as a trade possibility. There's always the chance that Aaron
Rodgers just says I'm done and this came out. I'd
love to give maybe it was dying in Racini. I'd
love to give the credit to the person. But it
felt like there is that option on the table, and

(06:34):
that seems obvious at his age, what he went through
with the Jets. But then we always come back to
the phone, Well you don't want to go out this way.
How do you think Aaron Rodgers is going to go out?
Probably not on a high note unless he goes to
the Vikings. You can't all be John Elway. And if
you're going to go to the Giants, how do you

(06:55):
think you're going to go out? This isn't Travis Kelsey
who played in the suit. Hey, I want to come back,
Okay Aaron Rodgers does he want to play? I don't know.
Does he know? But if on the Steelers, I make
you an offer and you don't want to come, we're
the Steelers, then I say, all right, we move on.

(07:19):
Were the Vikings ever really interested in him? Was he
more interested in them? Now? There are reports that he
loves New York wants to stay in the New York
area if he's going to play, Whether that's true or not,
but he would go from you know, one locker room
to the other locker room in the same building, from
the Jets to the Giants. But that's the updated news

(07:40):
with Aaron Rodgers holding us all hostage. Not much longer though,
right eight seven seven three DP show email address DP
at danpatrick dot com Twitter handle a TP show. Watched
basketball last night and I was curious just how good
North Carolina was going to be. And this doesn't This

(08:04):
doesn't prove really anything. I know. This is where Tarhill
fans will say, oh, are you going to apologize today.
No for what I didn't think you deserve to be
in the tournament. It's not the end of the world.
It's okay. If you're really honest about your team, you
probably would say you didn't deserve to be in the tournament.

(08:24):
But you take it. Okay, Fine, you beat San Diego State, great,
maybe you make a run. We've seen teams in the
first four end up in the final four and you
know they they're on a mission. Here Alabama State at
the buzzer gets by Saint Francis Pennsylvania. Not a great
couple of days for West Virginia basketball. West Virginia doesn't

(08:49):
get in the tournament, thought they deserve to get in
over North Carolina, and then, to make matters worse, they
lost their basketball coach. He went to Indiana, Darien Devrie.
I don't know if he would have gone to Indiana
had West Virginia made the tournament. After they get bounced,
you you eventually go to Indiana. I'm not sure. But

(09:11):
Mike Woodson, who got Indiana to the doorstep of making
the tournament, got fired. Darien Devrees, who was kind of
the I think the guy after the guy to clean
up Bob Huggins mess at West Virginia, but he goes
from West Virginia. I don't know if the governor holds
a press conference and has anything to say today about
losing their basketball coach. Yeah, your alma manor Yeah.

Speaker 4 (09:36):
I think the big part was Bob Huggins. This is
kind of the after I think Darren Derees he was,
like you said, kind of the guy after the guy.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yeah, you know, yeah, And now going to Indiana. Steve
Alford never got a shot. Now Steve's at Nevada, And
I thought that that was one of those that was
always going to be inevitable, and then all of us
sudden it wasn't.

Speaker 5 (10:01):
Yes, Marvin, looking back on history, don't you think that's
a bad idea? You saw Patrick Ewing at Georgetown and
Chris Malling at Saint John's at Penny It's going okay
for Penny Hardaway at Memphis. But isn't it tough to
be the greatest player in the hit not one of
the greatest players in the history of a program going
back to be the head coach.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
Like Clyde Drexler at Houston. You can't hire somebody without
the thought that you may have to fire them and
with you know, Chris Mallin at Saint John's, Patrick Ewing
at George Like, these are your all timers, and of
course it has to be awkward when you come back.
You know, there's there's a Hall of Fame ceremony alumni

(10:39):
weekend and yeah, you're introducing Chris Mallin or Patrick Ewing
and everybody's thinking the same thing. The school fired them, yes, Martin.

Speaker 5 (10:49):
And it's hard because those two are easily the greatest
players in the history of that program, so everyone's looking
for them. Steve Alford, I'm not sure if he's the
great I don't know much about Indiana BASKETAB. I don't
know who the greatest player is that ever went there.
But it's got to be difficult if you come back
after getting fired.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
But this was a guy who played for Bob Knight.
He's a local, he's an Indiana kid. You won a
national title with him. I just and I think Dan Dakis,
who played at Indiana radio hostel join us tomorrow and
I can ask him more about this. But it just
felt like Steve Alford wasn't considered for that job. You know,

(11:27):
he had UCLA at Iowa Nevada, but Indiana now has
West Virginia's head coach. All right, see what's poll question today?

Speaker 4 (11:38):
I was gonna go with most sure thing in the tournament.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Okay, Well, by the way, a sure thing. The Dodgers won.
They just beat the Cubs and get a load of
Roki Sasaki. If you get a chance to watch him pitch.
His first three pitches hundi, hundi, hundi, and then his
next pitch was ninety nine. Then he had a splitter

(12:02):
at eighty two. Sh he. It feels like he either
strikes you out or walks you. But you want to
talk about some electric stuff. They may not need Otani
to pitch this year. Imagine if you're in the Nation
League West and you're like, damn, we're already two games
behind the Dodgers because nobody else has played except for

(12:24):
the Dodgers in the Cubs, but they ended up winning
Otani homward in the game. This is just business as usual.
But Sisaki has I'm trying to think, who reminds me
of Yeah, polling nuke lalush.

Speaker 6 (12:40):
Well, a little nuke us three innings, one hit, one
in run, five walks in three k Yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
But as far as Man. He's got some stuff, but
they ended up beating the Cubs, you know, and you
get sometimes you'll get that Japanese player who might be
twenty six or twenty seven each row. I think was
twenty six twenty seven when he came over. Susaki's twenty three.
But that's that pipeline. They spent the money, They outspent

(13:09):
everybody for him, and they you know, their pitching staff
was decimated last year with injuries. And I mean, you
have Clayton Kershaw's a luxury. He could be he could
be your pitching coach at thirty five million dollars a year.
May not need him that much. But I don't think
the offense is going to be as good. But they're
still going to be the overwhelming favorite to win the

(13:31):
World Series. In fact, according to DraftKings, the Dodgers are
plus two to ninety the second favorite. The Braves are
plus seven fifty, the Yankees plus eight to fifty. Then
it's the Phillies, and then the Mets at plus twelve hundred.

Speaker 6 (13:45):
Yes, Paul, the bases where there's two men on for
Otani and they intentionally walked Otani. Not a good reaction
from the local crowd.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
No, no, all right, seatan I interrupted you. You know what,
Let me take a break. We'll come back. We'll run
down all the poll question options, and your phone calls
always welcome. So you have basketball coming up tonight. If
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Speaker 2 (15:22):
Yes, Dylan, I.

Speaker 9 (15:24):
Was just gonna say, we should have all met on
UNC last night. We could be on vacation right now.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
Dan, Why would we be on vacation if we bet
North Carolina last.

Speaker 10 (15:33):
Night because that was the clearest script of what was
going to happen.

Speaker 9 (15:37):
Ever, everyone and their mother's talking about how they don't
deserve it, and then they go out and win by thirty.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
So we would have made so much money that we.

Speaker 10 (15:44):
Would have eight to ten billion dollars and.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
Then I still would show up for work today eight
billion dollars. Yeah, yeah, I would.

Speaker 10 (15:54):
What about on Monday.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yeah. Really, yeah, I like going to work.

Speaker 10 (15:59):
We can do the show from like Turks and Caicos
or something.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
No, I don't need that. I mean, would I do it?
Maybe for a week or so, maybe in February. Yeah maybe,
but no.

Speaker 10 (16:14):
Then you get used to the island life.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
N I can't get used to the island life. Really, yeah, can't.
I try. It's just I don't sit at the beach.
I'm not a guy who reads a book. I gotta
be doing a couple of things something. But uh, and
then leave it to me and our family. We go
on vacation. We get on one of those banana boats,

(16:37):
you know Lebron and d Wade and Carmelo Anthony banana boat.
Next the last day we're done with vacation, the guy
who is you know, he's got a motor boat and he's,
you know, taking the banana boat all around and hitting waves.

Speaker 6 (16:54):
Captain Banana.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
He's trying to get you to fall off the banana boat.
And then you know he does well. My sister's boyfriend
elbow goes right into my daughter's collarbone, so she breaks
her collarbone. And we're in another country, and that's not

(17:16):
a pretty sight. When you have to go to a
hospital and you're like, we're not having surgery here, could
you give her some pain meds? But I mean that's like,
let's do something. How about a banana boat sounds great?
Next thing, I know, my daughter's got a broken collarbone,
got a flyer back home the next day. We could

(17:40):
have just stayed, stayed at home, played board games or something.

Speaker 6 (17:44):
We've all been together a long time. I can't remember you.
You're not an island sit at the beach guy.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
In anyway, I gotta be moving, got to do something.

Speaker 6 (17:53):
What's your ideal vacation like like art galleries and stuff
like that.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
No, I.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
Just movement. You got to be like what's there to see?
Like when I went to Wine Country, it was great.
You're moving. It's constant. I can't just sit there, sit
there in the sun, and then all of a sudden
the sun reminds you you missed a spot and you're like, godly,
that's that hurts. And then reading the book and all
I can't do it. I'm a terrible person to go

(18:23):
on vacation with because I start to relax usually the
next to last day, and I'm like all right, you know,
and everybody else is like, you've been miserable the whole time.
I go, no, no, not really, not really. By the way,
march madness is built on chaos, right, the first four
games we usually dismiss because well, it's the first four.
Nobody cares. We may focus on the eight nine matchup

(18:46):
that's always competitive. Maybe you go Cinderella Story. By the way,
for some reason, every time I look at my bracket
and I see liberty, I always go liberty bibberty, Like
I always think of that commercial with the guy who's
by the statue liberty, liberty, beberty. Can't pronounce it, Marvin,
you've seen Puzzled. Have you seen that commercial? It's on

(19:08):
like fifteen twenty times. It feels like an hour.

Speaker 5 (19:12):
Is that the same commercial words liberty, liberty, liberty, Yeah, okay,
then yes, I have.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
As opposed to what other liberty commercial it's not for
the university.

Speaker 5 (19:22):
I've seen those. I've seen tons of those.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
Liberty, beberty. Fairleigh Dickinson stunned Purdue in twenty twenty three.
That's the second number sixteen seed to tomp will number
one at large. First four teams have done pretty well.
VCU in twenty eleven went from the first four to
the final four. Ucla did it twenty twenty one, taking
down Number one Michigan along the way Number ten Colorado

(19:46):
last season kept the trend to line, beating Boise State
and then number seven Florida. I don't know if one
of these teams Xavier, Texas, Alabama State goes any further
than what they did. You know, Alabama State last night.
You've got Xavier and Texas. I don't know if Mount

(20:06):
Saint Mary's or American is going to advance, but it
feels like there's always going to be one or two
of those teams. And when you're filling out your brackets,
like I've moved from the twelve to five to the
thirteen to four, I just think teams have gotten better,
more balanced, and you know you're going to take a
shot here they'll be at probably a double digit seed

(20:27):
who goes to the Elite eight, maybe the final four.
Feels like it's that way every year. Jim Beyheim, mister
Sunshine will join us coming up a little bit later on.
He filled out a bracket. I think he won the
bracket challenge last year. Behein was pretty good a couple
of phone calls in here. Let's go to Curtis in Illinois,

(20:48):
High Curtis, what's on your mind?

Speaker 3 (20:51):
More?

Speaker 11 (20:51):
In DP, I was wondering if maybe you thought Aaron
Rodgers finally came to the realization that he's not the
end all be all and as opposed to just paying
for anybody that'll take him, he wants to play for
like a Kevin O'Connell, an offensive guru under that Shanahantree,
and maybe he's just going to hold out for maybe
somebody to get injured so he could have that opportunity

(21:12):
of the team where.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
He can be coached a little.

Speaker 12 (21:15):
In an offensive system that seems to work in today's
the NFL.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
I think going to Minnesota and having that coach to
coach you, if Aaron would let that happen with those
weapons Jordan Addison and Justin Jefferson, I mean that to
me would have been an ideal situation. You get to
go back to the NFC North that you know quite well,
but you know at some point you have to just
say we as an organization are moving on. You can

(21:46):
be intrigued by Aaron Rodgers. I would have brought Aaron
Rodgers in just to pick his brain. That's why I
don't know why more teams don't interview more coaches, because
they bring in all of this information. They tell you
exactly what, but they think of your team. And if
Aaron Rodgers came in, I'd love to hear what he
would have to say. Now, if you do bring him in,

(22:07):
then all of a sudden, that's when it starts to
you know, explode, Oh he's in, and then you know
you got to talk JJ McCarthy down off the lead. No, no,
you're still you know, teams are still from what I
was told inquiring about trading for JJ McCarthy, which if
I'm Minnesota, no, no, you got your guy. You traded
up to get your guy, You got a great, great

(22:29):
coach for quarterbacks, and now you have that rookie contract.
But Aaron Rodgers, if you wanted the Steelers, you know,
he would have made that decision. It feels like it's
the Giants or retirement or a Giant retirement. But I
don't know if there's anything else for him. I do

(22:49):
know that this story will linger if he retires and
you don't fill out papers. You know, JJ Watt told
us a couple of weeks ago. He didn't fill out
any papers that that will always be there. Let's say
just throw this out. Matthew Stafford gets hurt. There was

(23:10):
talk that maybe Aaron Rodgers would go there. If Matthew
Stafford went to the Giants, got a playoff team, got
two really good wide receivers. Oh, you happen to have
DeVante Adams there. Aaron Rodgers will always be the Hey,
what about Aaron Rodgers. That is a storyline that will
persist in the offseason and then the regular season. Somebody

(23:33):
gets hurt. That's why I think Kirk Cousins is really
valuable for Atlanta. If a quarterback on a playoff caliber
team gets hurt, I mean, who's Cleveland's quarterback? Can he
pick it? Russell? Like, what's Russell Wilson gonna do? Is
he going back to Pittsburgh? I don't know if they

(23:54):
want him. If they wanted him, they would have said,
we're keeping you the Browns. Does he want the Brownes?
The Giants? I think you would go to the Giants.
I think playing in New York that whole thing, and
maybe you bring him in and you know, once again,
I think they're gonna go after Shadoor Sanders. Somebody's going

(24:15):
to take Jackson dart At of Old miss maybe somewhere
in the first fifteen picks. That will change things up
for some teams. And then all of a sudden, we
didn't get our guy, or we did get our guy.
We're not interested in Russell Wilson or the Giants bring
him in because they want to have him there for
one year, because they're going to bring in Shador Sanders.

Speaker 6 (24:35):
Yes, Pauline, I went to Cleveland Browns dot com. You
can go to every team's website and see their depth chart.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
I told you not to go to those not safe
for work websites.

Speaker 6 (24:44):
There, big red flag. My computer's locking up. Yeah, why
are you looking at this? They don't have a depth
chart up on their website. It says check back in
twenty twenty five. It's twenty twenty five. There's no depth chart.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
But I think they have Jamis went well, they don't
even have James Winston.

Speaker 6 (25:00):
Now, Pickett is under contract, Watson is under contract.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
Okay, dang thikes. See, most of the time, as NFL fans,
we think there's a chance for our team every year. Now,
even if you're a bad team, you go, you know,
schedule draft picks. I don't know. It's rare when you
go into a season and you go, we have absolutely

(25:25):
no hope? How many? How many no hopers are out there?
Like I have more hope for Carolina than I do Cleveland,
the Titans, I mean, unless cam Ward proves to be
Jaden Daniels, probably no hope there any other no like

(25:48):
Arizona has the potential. The Giants probably a no hoper.
The Jets are they a no hoper?

Speaker 4 (25:57):
They always have hope?

Speaker 2 (25:59):
Delusional hope, yes, Martin.

Speaker 5 (26:02):
Jaguars no hope. Nah, they on Earth, on Earth.

Speaker 2 (26:10):
Now, I think they do. I think they have hope. Yeah,
that division decent off season. Yeah, I'm okay with Jacksonville.

Speaker 6 (26:22):
Yeah yeah, Paul, like the New England Patriots, there were
four and ten. But Drake May had a very sneaky
nice season. Not Jane Daniels sish. That feels hopeful but
not in near future.

Speaker 3 (26:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
But you might say, all right, can we be better
than the Jets? Yes? Can we better be better than
the Dolphins? Yes, We're not as good as the Bills.
Can we get nine wins? Can we be a wild
card team? Yes?

Speaker 5 (26:48):
Mark, So we guys are saying, no hope. Do you
guys mean a playoff team, like a potential Yeah? Okay,
so I'm gonna stick with the Jaguars.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
So you don't have any hope for the Jags not
on this planet? Okay, all right.

Speaker 4 (27:02):
They seem a long way from hope. They feel like
they're just on the downside of that last bit of
hope they had that clearly isn't working out.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
I think that they set their gps to hope and
then all of a sudden they got.

Speaker 4 (27:16):
Sidetracked recalculating yes, recalculated yes.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
Wait where you take Surrey? Where are you taking me?
You are not going to the playoffs?

Speaker 1 (27:27):
Wait?

Speaker 2 (27:28):
Oh we it was straight ahead there. Now I'm taking lefts.
And by the way, how many times you had asked
for directions and they take you you know what, you know,
the quickest way to go someplace, And all of a
sudden they have you going like three or four different
turns than you would normally, And I go, I don't
know if I can trust you. I think she's deceiving me,

(27:52):
she's lying to me, And I always go, how did
you get these directions? Maybe she's giggling at me. Would
it'd be great, though, if I would love to be
a Surrey voice, you know, like car directions where you
could actually say to somebody, you know, hey, that's terrible music. Hey,

(28:13):
keep your eye on the road. She doesn't like you
crack a window. Please let's do that. No, because then
you have to do all of those lines that you know,
you have to record everything, and then they piece it
all together all right. Uh. Josh in Indianapolis, Hey, Josh,

(28:36):
what's on your mind today?

Speaker 13 (28:39):
What up? DP?

Speaker 12 (28:40):
Hey Josh, second time long time five nine, two twelve. Hey,
So I'm calling because I'm heading out to Vegas for
opening weekend March Madness, and Uh, I just wanted to
hear what Dylan's got rolling? Uh for the weekend?

Speaker 2 (28:59):
Dylan, what do you have rolling for the weekend?

Speaker 13 (29:02):
Well?

Speaker 9 (29:02):
Then, traditionally I bet every game Thursday and Friday, just
for the numbers game. I like, I have one big upset,
which is actually a team that's been a hot topic
on this show, Arizona. I'm finally gonna smarten up, and
I'm taking them to lose in the first round. Akron
is plus seven to fifty money line.

Speaker 10 (29:24):
Okay, I've been bedden by them. Too many times.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
Oh, I have too many times. Like I say, I
call them the Chargers of college basketball, or the Chargers
or Arizona Basketball of the NFL. Where you go, I'm
all in and then all of a sudden and the
Wildcats have been shocked again.

Speaker 4 (29:42):
I fall for that every.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
Year and like, Nope, not anymore.

Speaker 10 (29:46):
They're like, you know who the best four seed is
in the tournament?

Speaker 9 (29:48):
Arizona bounce in the first round by Yale.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
Wait, Arizona's playing Yale.

Speaker 10 (29:54):
No, they're playing Akron.

Speaker 9 (29:55):
But okay, I think a year or two ago they
did lose in the first round to Yale.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
Okay. Yeah. There's certain teams where I've been burned that
if they win, I'll be like, hey, good, good for you,
round of Paul, toast to you. But for the most part,
they're just certain teams where you go, Nope, not going
to do it. You're not going to make me do it, yes, Marvin.

Speaker 5 (30:18):
And on the opposite end, Michigan State. No matter what
seed they are, Oh Tom, is it on March they
could be the eleventh seed. Oh man, they got to
the final four again.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
John Swoltz would always win our bracket challenge because he
would always have his alma mater, Michigan State, or he
was going to go to Michigan State, decided to play
for the Braves. But he always has Michigan State in
the final four or the championship game. And for somehow,
some way, some reason, Tom Izzo always has his team

(30:46):
ready to go for a guy that you probably can't
name more than five players, marquee players who have played
for him. I mean, you go back to matteen, Cleeves,
you know. I mean he's had players, you know, Draymond Valentine,
There's been some good players, but he doesn't have one.
And Donners. He's one of those guys that is just

(31:10):
a basketball treasure. He knows how to coach. And there
are coaches who know how to coach early, in the
middle of the season, late in the season, and then
the postseason. Very few can do it at all four
of those times, and Tom is always one of those guys.
I haven't filled out my bracket yet. I hate it,

(31:31):
but it's just like when I took the SAT and
I didn't give any thought to it, I did better
than when I actually gave it thought. I just go
b see hey, b d see didn't matter didn't care.
Did better when I did that? All right, We'll take
a break. Phone calls coming up, settle on our poll question.
We'll talk to RG three about the Vikings no longer

(31:52):
interested in Aaron Rodgers. Jim Beheim will join a little
bit later on as well. But our Play of the
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(32:58):
Uh oh, better make up. Watched a lot of the
Alabama State game and Saint Francis. I think they had
nineteen losses going into that game. Does that sound about it?
They had a losing record, but you have that baseball
pass and then it's like defensive backs knock the ball down,

(33:21):
knock it down, had a ricochet and then put in
with seven tenths of a second there. I want to
make sure I got that stat right with Saint Francis.
Do we have? They're the nineteenth team to enter the
tournament with the losing record. Those teams are oh for
nineteen all time? They were sixteen and eighteen, so not nineteen?

(33:42):
Well maybe are they nineteen losses with last night checking? Okay,
all right, how about the poll results there? Seton?

Speaker 4 (33:51):
Yeah, we got up there right now? More of a
sure thing in the tournament. Your options are Duke, Florida, Auburn,
and Houston. Okay, right now, Florida running away with that
one at about forty six percent of the vote, followed
by Duke. Auburn is in last there, and I've seen
Auburn in a couple of different places referred to as
possibly the greatest team of all time.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
Yeah. I'm not going to subscribe to that.

Speaker 4 (34:16):
Possibly the greatest team of all time.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
Yeah yeah, Florida is going to leave its mark here.
At least that's what the analysts say. I mean, Seth
Greenberg said Florida is Noah's Ark. They have two of everything,
which is a great line. I don't know, it's just
it's always weird when you have a team that's really,
really good dominating. I just want to see when you

(34:39):
don't have your a game, when you have to win ugly,
when you have to win a close game now, because
for the most part, you're going to have some blowouts,
but you're going to have one of those games. Feels
like just about any team that wins the title, there's
always one of those games where you have to get
by somehow, and sometimes it's not the guy that you

(35:00):
would expect to help you. Move on, Tim and Ohio,
Hi Tim, what's on your mind?

Speaker 13 (35:06):
Good morning, Dan? Good morning, Hey Saturday, I got Saturday here.

Speaker 10 (35:12):
Okay.

Speaker 13 (35:14):
The nineteen the n Tournament started one day before the
nastals Ta turnlet. It was hell at bastesb Garden sixteen
for picked up play and the winner of the tournament
temple out over the Colorado Buffalo's.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
All right, steat of your day today, Boss?

Speaker 3 (35:36):
Stat of the day?

Speaker 2 (35:37):
Stat of the day?

Speaker 3 (35:40):
Here comes that? What stat of the day.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
I was watching a little n I T last night
with Saint Bonaventure. Uh, it's not that exciting at my house.
I'm just saying, you know, sometimes it can get crazy.
But hey, I'm gonna flip back and forth with an
NIT game. Maybe I'll see Woje there at Saint Bonaventure's game, yes, Seaton.

Speaker 4 (36:09):
Yeah, you know, last night was one of those nights
because I found myself here like just flipping around. I
watched hockey for a while last night. That was a
lot of fun. You know what they do in hockey
two that had ever realized. So I apologize hockey fans
for your head's all about to explode. But if you
do like a coaches challenge on a play. I was
watching Islanders Penguins I think it was, and there was

(36:32):
like a goalie interference question on a goal and the
coach challenged it because he thought that there was a
coach's challenge he thought there was interference, and then they
found that there was no interference, they got docked for
delay a game, and then the other team ended up
getting a power play. Oh so there was like consequences
for if you're gonna challenge this and waste our time,

(36:53):
we're gonna take a guy off ice for I forget
how two minutes or whatever it was, I forget. But
you like, there's way more skin in the game about
like I just throw it and see what happens. Like, No,
if you do it now, you immediately not only does
the goal stand, but when you come back, you're in
a past. Yeah, the other you're short on ice.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
You imagine if you did that in basketball, where if
somehow you're wrong, then the other team gets to shoot
a technical.

Speaker 4 (37:18):
Right, yeah exactly, Like all right, well you messed that
up this other team, I'm gonna get to shoot.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
Yeah it's kind of awesome. Yeah, you're wasting our time,
you interrupted the flow of the game. You guys get
to shoot a technical foul. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (37:29):
The more the more you pay attention, hockey is a
fantastic game. It's a great sport.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
But how many sports do we say the following man
come playoff?

Speaker 11 (37:39):
Time.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
Now football, you will say we love the regular season,
doesn't matter. Baseball, man, postseason's great. Basketball man, postseasons great. Hockey, definitely,
postseason is great. It's just not a great philosophy to
have that everything is about your postseason. College basketball is great,

(38:05):
you know, the postseason is great. Regular season is not. Yeah.
I mean that's why people have a hard time filling
out their brackets because they're going, I don't know, I
didn't watch Yeah, I think I watched the Maley Invitational,
but that was, you know, back in October. But you
have you know, like baseball, you get excited at the beginning.
There might be moments during the season, a no hitter,

(38:29):
somebody hits you know, four home runs, all Star game.
But it feels like the NBA starts after Christmas. Baseball
we sort of get after the All Star Game, maybe
July ish, where people get a little more ramped up
with it.

Speaker 5 (38:47):
Yes, Marvin, Yeah, hockey is one of those sports where
I know, great goalkeeping, like man Tim Thomas when he's
with the Bruins, Dominie Hashik with the Buffalo Sabers. Yeah,
and was that Mike Richter. Richter, I can't name anybody else,
because they were like, man, it's about goalkeeping. It's like
pitching in the playoffs in Major League Baseball. Man, great pitching.

Speaker 2 (39:07):
Yes, and that's what hockey is. And then they I
had never heard the expression, oh he was standing on
his head out there the goal he was, And I go, no,
he wouldn't. I know it's an expression here. Yes.

Speaker 6 (39:20):
Do you think with youth hockey it's the kid? Do
people aspire to be a goaltender or is the kid
out there who can't skate too well has to kind
of try out in goal early in.

Speaker 4 (39:31):
His career aka the first baseman.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
No, no, I don't think it's like this stereotypical heavy
kid is going to be the catcher in the movie.

Speaker 6 (39:41):
That's what I was asking.

Speaker 9 (39:42):
Usually hockey boys are actually a lot of times the
best skater on the team.

Speaker 2 (39:45):
The best skater. Yeah, well they're probably the best athletes,
or at least I think a lot of them. Maybe
it didn't used to be that way, but I mean,
just what they do, it's and to do it on skates,
it's pretty You got things flying at you one hundred
miles an hour. I wouldn't sign up to be a goalie,

(40:06):
but there are people who have that mindset of this
is what they love. You're in the action all the time, yes, yes, Dyli.

Speaker 9 (40:13):
It is pretty insane that, in like modern society, at
one point hockey boys had nothing on their head or.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
Face or face yeah yeah, and then all of a sudden,
you're soft. If who was at Jacques plant was he
the first to have a goalie? You imagine these hockey
guys got stitches all over the place they see him.
You're soft. You got to wear a mask.
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