January 16, 2026 • 40 mins
Dan questions the narrative that the Dodgers are ruining baseball. And Chris “Mad Dog” Russo joins Dan and reacts to the Dodgers getting Kyle Tucker and what needs to happen to bring competitiveness back to baseball, plus he weighs in on impending hire of John Harbaugh by the New York Giants.
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Speaker 3 (00:49):
Our one we had up there, which game is most
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Speaker 2 (00:52):
Right now?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Seahawks forty nine ers, followed by Bears Rams. Last place
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Speaker 2 (01:07):
Okay, all right, and we'll have the most must win
game of the weekend that'll be coming up, and who
had the best weekend sports? He's Christopher mad Dog Russo
you can listen to him on Serious XM Channel eighty two.
You also see him usually on Wednesdays on First Take
with Steven A. Smith. Let me start with the Dodgers Dog.
(01:28):
Good morning, Dan, good morning, Good morning Dog. Dodgers decide
they need another big ticket item here Kyle Tucker going
there to the Dodgers. Your reaction is, well.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
It's terrible for baseball. I'll start there. I mean, how
many guys you're going to have them signed? Diaz? And
I'm not saying for the Dodgers's it makes some sense.
They probably needed an outfielder. They had some issues as
a closer last year, so there comes to Daz. But
this is this is ridiculous. Their payroll last year with
insurance was over five hundred million, and now they add
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two guys in one's making what eighty million or seventy
million and Diaz and he's making sixty million and an
average salary in Ducker. I mean, the Dodgers theoretically aren't
doing anything wrong. They're playing by the rules, but the
rules have to change. I mean, this is getting to
be a joke. I mean and I this is going
to in a lot of ways. You can make an
argument this helps Manford with the lockout discussions and the
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contract with the CBA for next year, which obviously concludes
I think on December first, it's it's right after the season,
and this is now going to be a major sticking
point these owners. Now, how am I supposed to compete
when the Dodgers And again the Dodgers don't do anything wrong,
but the rules stick. And you know they gave Otany
all that money, but it's all deferred. So he's making
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basically ten million dollars a year, so they can defer it,
which gives them the best player in baseball at an
incredibly low price, which means they can do anything they want.
And everybody else did the same exact thing. Play in
LA winning team, great organization, good Weather have a chance
to be in the World Series every year. Who wouldn't
defer all the money? The problem is it doesn't work
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as far as the basis of the sport is concerned.
Because half these teams can't compete. Why would anybody think
they can win the NL West next year with the Dodgers,
And who cares what the Dodgers do between April first
and October first. You know, once the postseason starts, at
the team to beat. Last year, they had a bad
year for them. They won ninety something games, were they
won ninety five games, and they still won the World Series.
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So it makes the regular season obsolete for LA because
they're gonna make the playoffs. Then they have the best players.
So once they get into the playoffs, despite the impredictability
of baseball postseason, they got a hell of a chance
to win. You can't tell me it's good for the
sport that the Dodgers, who have won two championships, been
in the playoffs, won fifteen sixteen years in a row
in the last five years, gave Feenland twenty five million
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to Yamamoto, gave Sasaki two hundred million dollars, gave Otani
a fortune, and now they give Tucker a fortune and
Diaz a fortune. That's not good for the sport, and
the overall riding theme of its LA bad for baseball.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
If you include deferred payments, the guaranteed salary for the
Dodgers this upcoming season is two point one billion dollars.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Wow, that's amazing. Good job, Dan, I don't even know that.
I mean, how are the Pirates supposed to compete with that?
I mean, how are the Knales and the Guardians and
the Reds and the White Sox. I mean, how are
they supposed to compete with that?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Baseball Once then well you got Tampa Bay.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
How they solved the problem, How they solved the problems
gonna be hard.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Tampa Bay seventy million, yeah, Miami seventy six million, the
White Sox one hundred and two, Saint Louis one o two,
Washington won twenty, Cleveland one thirty one, Minnesota one hundred
and fifty four million. So these include deferred payments, guaranteed salaries.
But I don't know how you could get everybody on
the same page with this. Chris Players Association's gonna fight it.
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They want these contracts. I mean, I don't know if
these owners, I don't know what you can do.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
I agree with you. I remember, let's also say this,
the guy who runs the Players Association of Scott Boris.
It's not Tony Clark, it's not Bruce Weber. Weber might negotiate.
It's it's Boris. They don't doing anything without Boris's approval.
And Boris is an unbelievable good agent who last time
I had this major fight, everybody on the executive board
were Boris clients. I think they had five or six
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and they're all Boris got. You got Matt Shirz, who
on the phone called Boris to see if he agrees
with what they're doing in March. The whole thing is that, listen, baseball.
This is what hill kills baseball. It's great in the
postseason because you never know, the best team doesn't always win,
But as far as the regular season is concerned, it's
gotten to a situation where it becomes obsolete because you know,
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certain teams are just going to be in the postseason
barring its catastrophe. One of those teams now you know
the Yankees, and you know teams like that, and one
of those teams definitely now is LA And it's bad
for the sport. You know, a lot of fans are
gonna be annoyed, and I don't know what you do
to solve it. You're right, you know, Manford's done a
great job because he's been a Commission that has not
lost a regular season game since he was involved in
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negotiating these contracts in the mid nineties, So he has
that on his legacy. So you know he's not gonna
want to lose games next year. But he's also in
a situation where he's got to do something. So we
shall see.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Yeah, because with the NFL you can go from worse
to first. We've seen those success stories.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
I do that in foot we can't do that here.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah, in the NBA, we've seen success stories.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
They had a would pick look at the Spurs.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Different champion what the last five or six years. So
you go into a season you give the NFL gives
you hope, Absolutely it gives you. Carolina Panthers fans at
the beginning of the year, you're probably thinking, Okay, we're
in a bad division. Can can we win this division?
And the answer is yes. You look at the Bears.
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You know where they were where they are. I mean
you could have the rise and the fall Detroit up
then down. So to say to these teams, you're gonna
have an opportunity to at least compete for a playoff berth,
I mean, that's what you want as a fan you
want hope. Now there's certain franchises where you go, no,
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we expect to be in in the NBA. You want hope,
you want to go, Hey, I believe in the team,
and I'll continue to go out and support it. You know,
if you're a Pittsburgh Pirate fan, you go out one day,
you go to see your pitcher. That's probably it. It's
a great ballpark, but you know how many times are
you going to see those games? But if you're playing
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in big games, now, all of a sudden, you're buying it.
You know, the Reds make the playoffs. Now you're going
out to watch a season, not just a couple of games.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Watch the Dodgers get schoobl too.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I brought that up this morning. I go, that's who
I thought that they were going to be getting somehow, Someway.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
And he's going to leave and you know this arbitration
issue with him. Yeah, it's a major problem. I mean,
last year the Bears going to make the playoffs. This
year they're in a divisional round. You made a good
point of our Carolina. They won the division and they
get a home playoff game. You know, Denver last year
barely made the playoffs. Now the under the one seed.
Seattle last year didn't make the playoffs. Now to the
one seed, you have so many advantages from that standpoint.
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Was it normally six in and six out in the NFL,
six teams every year, and you know that they you know,
have a short schedule. Now you need the quarterback. Without
the quarterback, you're not gonna win. But you have ways
to get the quarterback. You can draft one. You can
be bad at the right time. You know, Perty was
the last pick in the draft they found in right,
I mean, you can get the Qbam Josh Allen wasn't
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the first pick. You can get Nicks wasn't the first pick.
You can get the quarterback by Little Lucky somehow, a
free agent, a trade well you know Donald, I mean
he was a trade Seattle they won. You can get
the quarterback. In the NBA. You got to get the
great player. You know Wen Byama, you know David Robinson, Duncan.
You got to get that great player, the transformational player.
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There are ways to do it, but you got to
get that player. But it doesn't have anything to do
with money. I mean, you know, it might have something
to do with the market, but Sacramento was good for
a long time. The Spurs won some championships, so the
small market can win. And in baseball, it's really about
three or four teams and that's the and that's the unfortunately,
thinking about baseball, it's got a great playoff system. The
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playoff system last three weeks. It's done. It's not a
slugout four month process where they play best of sevens
where you know who's gonna win beforehand like the NBA
might have. You know, it's the games are unpredictable because
there's no guarantee the best team's gonna win. So that
makes it fun too. You know, the Great Baseball Game,
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as you know, Dan, you're a great baseball fan, Game
seven Toronto and Dodgers. How great a game was that?
You know, it gives you incredible trauma. But the problem
is is baseball has become over the long period of
time too much dominated by the big market teams. And
I don't know how you solve that problem. I really don't.
Without a strike, Without a.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Strike, he's Christopher mad Dog Russo, host of mad Dog
Unleashed on Serious XM Channel eedy two and also you'll
see him on First Take what's holding up John Harbaugh
and the Giants.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Hasn't officially signed it yet. Yeah, I don't know. I
don't have the answer for you on that. Maybe the
money for the assistant coaches. This is a move the
Giants had to make. This is gonna happen. I mean,
you know, I don't think it's gonna fall apart. Harbor
and Mara, I guess really had a great sit down.
They had a great dinner a couple of nights ago.
And the Giants need him. I mean, you know they've
gone the assistant route, whether it's you know, Dable Judge,
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you know Ben McAdoo. It just it's been a disaster.
They have to bring an established coach. Harball is a
good coach. I mean, he's not a great coach yet
got a chance to be, you know, hall of fame.
I wouldn't say Harball is a Hall of Fame coach
by my standards, I wouldn't say he's a Hall of
Fame coach.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Is Tomlin?
Speaker 4 (10:49):
You know he's gonna be in the Hall of Fame.
They're gonna make it. But by you and I standards,
do I consider Tomlin right this second a Hall of
Fame coach. I don't now that's me. Now, he's gonna
make it because they vote, you know, they vote six
candidates a year, and you know they Coriel made it.
He never won a championship, Cowers, anyone won Super Bowl.
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So he's he's gonna get in. But obviously Marve Levey's
made it. He's got one hundred and forty three wins
and four Super Bowl losses. You know, George Allen's in.
He never want to think so they're gonna make it.
But do I consider Tom and her Harbor myself, as
a football fan a great all time coach.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
No, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
When I think of the great all time coaches, I'm
thinking Paul Brown, Belichick, Lombardi, Gibbs, Welsh, A Walsh, Parcels.
You know, I'm thinking along those lines of you know,
that establishment group, Shue Litt, Landry, those kind of guys.
And I don't think that myself, that Tom and her
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Harbor are on that level myself. But I'm a small
room guy. You're a small room guy. A lot of
people put all these coaches in. I mean, Bill Coward
to me is not a Hall of Fame coach, very
good coach. So I consider him a Hall of Fame coach.
Two Super Bowls, he's one and one Hall of Fame where, Wow,
he's a great coach. I don't consider him that, but
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he's in the Hall of Fame. So they put a
lot of guys in who I wouldn't put in, and
Toman and Harbor are sort of on a very good
category right now, and Harbor and Toman will have a
chance to get to that next level. I mean, you
think Dungee's a great coach, very good? Is he great
in your eyes? Then is Tony Dungee a Hall of
Fame coach?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Well, he was also a great defensive coordinator as well.
That Tampa team that he had that Gruden came in one,
you know, Tony Tony was helped in building that.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Yeah, I think he's an interesting case. Do you think
you think George Allen's Hall of Fame coach?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
No, he's in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
I know you think Pete Carroll's going to make the
Hall of Fame?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yes you do? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Yeah, wow, I'm not sure, especially now.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
It is the Pro Football Hall of Fame, so they're
not factoring in USC.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I don't forget us, but I'm guessing.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
See.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I think the thing is is you're trying to compare
today's coaches with yesteryear, and that's it's hard to do
that and come up with a Hall of Fame coach.
Because these guys were established, they didn't have to worry,
you know, about all these other things that today's coach
has to deal with getting to two Super Bowls? Like
Sean Payton. Is Sean Payton a Hall of Fame coach?
Speaker 4 (13:33):
He's been in one Super Bowl?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Not yet, he's probably going in. Is Mike McCarthy hall
of Fame coach? No, he's got the same resume as
Sean Payton.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Yeah, I don't put Peyton in.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
No.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Okay again, I'm a small room guy. I want greatness.
I don't do. I think Sean Payton's a great coach.
He's very good. Great Parcels is a great coach. Is
a great coach. Three super Bowls, three different quarterbacks, Phil Walsh,
that's a great football coach.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Brown.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Those are the sort of guys who.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Has more pressure, either player or team. The most pressure
this weekend in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Not San Francisco, Seattle, Buffalo so banged up. And I
heard your thought with Josh Allen. He's great anyway, I
probably you know, it's weird. I might say Stafford with
the Rams. You can't say there's any pressure on Houston.
You can't say there's any pressure on the Patriots. The
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Bears are a young team. You can't use them San Francisco.
Somehow we're in this spot Seattle. You know, maybe Sam Donald,
maybe Donald because he needs to go out there and
you know, sort of undue last year when he didn't
play very well in the postseason. I don't look at
Denver young quarterback Alan. I think he's accomplished plenty anyway.
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I know people bring Alan up because there's normal homes
and Burrow and Jackson. I still think Aland's got plenty
of time to win a Super Bowl. I think this
is an important You know, the Rams had a great
year and then they kind of stalled. They were not
great last weekend. I think there's some pressure on End
and I think there's a lot. I think there's some
pressure on Sam Donald. You know, and in a weird way,
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you brought up an interesting question because I don't know
if there's a clear cut well, he's got to win,
you know, I don't know if they You know, if
Lemore was in this spot, i'd say three and five
in the postseason, maybe i'd put him in that category.
I don't know if I have anybody right now in
the last eight in that category where they look that
they have to win. I don't know if I have
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that right now.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Good to chat with you. Good at best, Glad you're
feeling better.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Thank you, Pat.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
You had a rough week. See hickups, kickups, never get them,
never get them.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Wait, you had the hiccups.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Which led to some issues and I was in bad
shake for about fifteen hours. If I had a missed
first take after a division around, you know it was.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Have a good weekend. You're too big, thank you. That's
Christopher mad Dog Russo had hiccups and they led to
something else. All right, Well, take a break. We'll update
the poll results more of your phone calls as well.
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Speaker 2 (16:59):
Talking some baseball with Christopher mad Dog Russo and he
worked for MLB Network. He had a show on for
probably a decade, High Heat. And you know, we look
at the Dodgers. Dodgers didn't do anything wrong. In fact,
they're doing everything right. They're reinvesting, they spend the money.
Did they find a loophole? Did they get Otani to
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take deferred money? Yes, But keep in mind they're two
outs away from losing the World Series last year. We
make it seem like, oh my god, foregone conclusion. They're
going to win the World Series. They're two outs away
from losing the World Series. If the Dodgers lost the
World Series and they signed Kyle Tucker, how would people react?
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Would they be reacting the way they're reacting now and
that's this is the end of the world as we
know it. They'd be like, yeah, well they lost the
World Series. They went out and spent money. Twenty of
thirty Major League Baseball teams reinvest less than half of
their revenue into player salaries. So that is a bigger
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problem to me. Twenty out of thirty reinvest less than
fifty percent of the revenue into player salaries. Stat of
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trading cards of the Dan Patrick Show. That is somebody
running a successful business. That's all it is. Now. Can
they catch lightning in a bottle? Maybe make the playoffs? Yes,
But for the most part baseball is top heavy and
I don't think it's going to change because the Players
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Association will fight this. They're not going to say, oh,
let's bring down salaries. Now. The owners, if they get
together and say, how do we fix this? How does
the commissioner help in fixing this? I don't know if
you can. The Dodgers are going to continue to spend,
they reinvest, and you look at the revenue that they're making.
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You know, when I looked at what Otani was going
to make I remember saying he could get six hundred
million dollars, and we had a couple of baseball amazon
there say no, there's no way. I said, yes, he's
probably getting six hundred million dollars. Now all of a sudden,
we don't even blink. If somebody gets five hundred million,
you're like, okay, it's going right. But Otani was global.
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That's the difference. Soto is not global. Kyle Tucker's not global.
I mean, there's only a couple of players that move
the needle, Aaron Judge global, but there's very few of them.
And the Dodgers got the most unique athlete in sports,
and he plays, you know, around the world. People who
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aren't even interested are that interested in baseball? Not even
Dodger fans tuned into watch him play in the World Series.
They watched him. They wanted to see him hit, they
wanted to see him pitch. The fascination is similar to
Tiger Woods. You might not have been a golf fan,
but you were going to tune in to try to
understand what is the hype all about. You may not
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understand golf, but you understood watching somebody do something that
we had never seen before.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
Yes, mar and I go back to the term I
created wife famous, where my wife has no idea about
major League Baseball at all besides maybe Derek Jeter in
nineteen ninety six. But she knows the name Shoel Tani
and she knows that he pitches Andie hits.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
She was like, do people normally do that?
Speaker 6 (20:43):
That's what she asked me during the World Series when
he had that unbelievable game where he hit three home
runs he struck out ten. Yes, like do people don't
normally do this? I was like, one person might do this,
but they might not do both.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Yeah, I gotta look at Pittsburgh and you know, Pittsburgh
has to look at this and go Paul Skemes his
going to be here for how long? Two years? And
it's unfortunate that you know, La de la Cruz, wonderful
player with the Reds. Is he going to be there? No,
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it's just supply and demand. How much can we pay you?
And that team's going to pay you more. You know,
Toronto's spending a lot of money and once again they
were two outs away from winning the World Series. So
baseball it's not going to be fixed. But they're in
a seven game series. Say if baseball was a one
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game playoff in each series, that's when you would get
the anybody can win this if it was March Madness,
like instead of seven games. Over seven games, the best
team usually wins. But we went to seven games with
the Dodgers and the Blue Jays.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
Yes, Marvin, but like March Madness, you want to see
Cinderella's only up to a certain point. Like I want
to see the Dodgers and the Yankees no offense. I'm
really not trying to see the Royals in the Diamondbacks
go at it in the Fall Classic and most people aren't.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Yeah, but if I go back to that Kansas City
Royal team with Brett Saberhagen and George Brett, we did
want to see them. They were great. I mean, those
are They had Hall of famers on that team. That
was a great team. Now they couldn't keep that team
together now. But there are times when I love Cinderella
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stories only if Cinderella wins. Like I hate when Cinderella
goes and they kind of disrupt everything and then all
of a sudden, you go, all right, Lobb City only
got to a certain point here or Northern Iowa like
all of these, you know, teams that come out of
George Mason, come out of nowhere in March madness. Butler,
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I want to see you take it all the way.
But you're right, and I say this, every March madness,
what happens. We want to see surprises, We want madness
until we want to get the real champion here. We
want we want the blue bloods to play for a
national championship here. You know, you can't have these little
schools get in here. They're going to ruin everything.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
Yes, Marvin, but when you were talking about the Royals,
that was the eighties where you had big time stars
that you could name. But in twenty fifteen when the
Royals won, I couldn't name anybody off of that team.
So maybe that's a different generation where you had talents.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
The baseball meant more back then. That's all. It's just
everybody's kind of looking for, you know, the scraps that
the NFL leaves behind. Everybody's kind of navigating of how
do we get where's our piece here? How do we
do this? You know, college football expanding, March madness expanding.
Everybody's kind of saying, all right, what do we do
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with our product that we can still have an impact here.
College football playoffs ratings were pretty good with a lot
of the bowl games. I don't know about, you know,
the previous two games, certainly the Indiana blowout. There. Ratings
will probably be good for the national title game. And
keep in mind, Indiana was a Cinderella story three years ago,
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two years ago, and here they are now. We expect
them to win the championship. But you know, sports is
ever evolving. Sports that were really popular and then all
of a sudden, you know, boxing and horse racing. Man,
those are the great sports. Nobody cares now it didn't
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you know, you got your window and then you know,
we move on. But I think with baseball, I hope
that they're able, and I think this commissioner has done
a good job. But I don't know if you can
solve this by saying, let's put a salary cap on this.
I want to make sure these other teams, franchisees, owners
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spend the money they don't spend the Dodgers spend. They
should be rewarded for spending. There should be a minimum
that you have to pay. Some of these owners just
say that's all profit. Man. I'm not sharing it. Brian
in Knoxville, Hey Brian, what's on your mind?
Speaker 5 (25:18):
First time caller, longtime listener five ten, two fifty in
reference to this In reference to the the deferments, why
can't there be a cap on these defirmers keep this
more competitive? I'm not sure I agree with your take
on it. If they take in five hundred million dollars
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that they should spend three hundred and fifty of it.
I mean, like you said, they're businessman, and I'll hang
up and listen.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Well, you know, it depends on what product you want
on the field, that's all.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
It's your team, your stadium, your fan base. If you
don't care, I mean, then why the fans care. There's
certain franchises that care, and they have the money to spend.
I want the teams that don't spend money to maybe
(26:12):
spend money to have a better product on the field
or sell the team. P in Florida, Ip, what's on
your mind? Hey, P Man, I don't know what happened
(26:33):
to Pee? What's the uh? Our fly is open? Let's
go pee? That was Austin p when they had Fly Williams. Yeah,
leading scorer in the country, our fly is open. Let's
go pee great rally and crime uh seatan, would you
update the poll results from the first thirty minutes of
(26:57):
this second hour?
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Sure will, And you know this is actually interesting. We
have up there first hour, we did the game most
likely to be a blowout, the game that was most
likely was Seahawks forty nine ers, the game that was
least likely was Broncos Bills, and then we put up
there if you could only watch one this weekend. Bears
(27:19):
and Rams is in the lead with that, and so
Broncos Bills is also tied with that.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Okay, So I.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Think it's interesting that Bears and Rams is sort of
going back and forth as the game that's most likely
to be a blowout, and people are also most interested
in watching that one game, and then on the flip side,
the one least likely to be a blowout, people are
most interested to watch that game.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
You know, it's tricky when you get to this point
where you go, I know who the Patriots are or
I know who CJ. Stroud is in the Texans Patriots.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Texans has been in last place in both of those polls.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Yeah, that's the one. I don't gamble anymore. But I
it feels like too many people love the Texans to
pull off the surprise, and that that's where it gets
kind of tricky because you're like, it's like people really
fell in love with the defense. Yes they did this
past week. It's like they just noticed the Texans had
(28:18):
the best defense in football, Like, damn, oh, that's right,
Will Anderson, Danielle Hunter. Yeah, they they've been doing this
for a while. That front four. Yeah, I know a
lot of Front four talk this week. That's where you're like,
they've been doing this. It's just nobody's watching. Nobody's talking
about the Texans. Nobody watches the Tech No, they don't,
(28:41):
they don't.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Only the only time you watch the Texans is usually
that Saturday twelve twelve o'clock game, the first game of
the playoffs, and it's always that's the Texans time slot.
And you know what they would have been in that
time slot had they not played on Monday night, they
probably would have been a Saturday game, first game right
out of the box for the playoffs. Yeah, Paul, the.
Speaker 8 (29:03):
Texans gave up two hundred and ninety five points this season.
Only one other team in the NFL gave up under
three hundred points this season. Who wants to guess one
other Denver NFC team is the hint? Who wants a shot.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Marvin the Rams?
Speaker 8 (29:25):
Nope, Rams gave up three forty six Todd Atlanta, Lanta,
they gave up four eleven. You get they gave up
four hundred one points. I respect it, But Tampa, Tampa
gave up four hundred and eleven points. Seeing you clean
it up?
Speaker 2 (29:45):
How about the Eagles? No, the.
Speaker 8 (29:49):
Eagles did well three twenty five. Your Seattle Seahawks gave
up two hundred and ninety two points.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Yeah, we should have gotten that one. We should have
got the boom. The stat of the Day brought to
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(30:17):
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When we come back, who had the best week in sports?
We'll talk some football Chris Sims in the final hour,
and we will give you the most must win game
(30:38):
of the weekend. All of that forthcoming.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
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Speaker 2 (30:52):
Who had the best week in sports, tod I'll start
with you.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
I am going off the board with the Clippers, and
we make fun of often as many four straight wins,
including the Pistons last Saturday in Detroit. They're going for
five straight at the Raptors tonight.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Uh, let's see see no' connor.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
I'm gonna say to Houston Texans defense, they're certainly on
everybody's radar. Absolutely dominant performance against the Steelers. They essentially
got Mike Tomlin fired, well, step down, but out of
a job. They may have retired Aaron Rodgers, and they're
going into New England looking like a force. That's a
hell of a week, Marvin, best week in sports.
Speaker 6 (31:31):
The Patriots defense they had success against Justin Herbert Millon
Williams is looking like Aaron Donald two point zero. Good
week for them.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
HM the immovable object against the irresistible force there with
these two defenses, apparently, Paul.
Speaker 7 (31:45):
I will go.
Speaker 8 (31:46):
Niners quarterback Brock purty little national reminder that he's got
some playing ability and he's kind of back. He's one
of those guys you question after the big contract. Looks
like it's full steam ahead once he has a healthy team.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
And I was talking to Chris Russo about which team
or player has the most pressure. I think Sam Donald
probably has the most pressure because everybody is waiting for him.
Is he going to be the Sam Donald we know?
Or is this going to be the new and improved
Sam Darnald. And you have the number one seed, you
have home field advantage, you have a ticket to the
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super Bowl. All you have to do is take care
of business at home and try to play as close
to mistake free football as you can. But you have
Josh Allen. I don't look at this and say, boy,
the window is wide open. Yes, these other quarterbacks aren't playing,
but I don't think this is a great Buffalo team.
And you've got to win three games on the road,
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and then if you do, you get to go to
the Super Bowl. Josh Allen doesn't need to prove to
me about winning in the playoffs. He performs in the playoffs,
and as RG three said yesterday, wins aren't a quarterback statistic.
Now I disagree. I think it is it should be,
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but you know he's saying, hey, you can do everything possible.
That doesn't mean you're going to win the game. I
understand that, and he's put his team in position to win.
Lamar Jackson has not, and that's what we're waiting for
with him, Sam Darnold were waiting to see. Is he
going to be a big time player?
Speaker 6 (33:21):
Yes, Mark Well, I disagree with rg TH from this standpoint.
When we talk about quarterbacks, we talk about what you
did in the playoffs. It doesn't matter. Oh, man, he
played great, but your team lost. This is a results
based business, you know, and you have to show up
and at least get your team to a win in
order to be considered a great playoff quarterback because people
aren't going to look into the stats like that, like, man,
he played great against the Chiefs and a loss.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Well, I think they might do that for Josh Allen
because his postseason stats are pretty amazing, so they might
give him, Like I don't know Dan Marino's postseason stats.
I don't know. I don't know Joe Montana's postseason stats.
Know that he won super Bowls. You know Roger Staubach
(34:05):
won a Super Bowl and I think he threw for
one hundred nineteen yards and was named the MVP. Okay,
Bart Starr didn't have great postseason numbers. He's a Hall
of Famer. Bob Greasy like, I don't know what his
postseason numbers are. All we know is did you win
a Super Bowl? That's it. But hey, your QBR was
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one twenty eight. I couldn't care less about that. I
just want to know. We've seen Sam Darnold in a
couple of playoff games and because of him, his teams
didn't advance. Now we want to see what he does
home field advantage in a game that they're favored by
a touchdown. But I'm trying to think of anybody else
under a lot of pressure. It feels like Sean McDermott is.
(34:51):
It just feels like that, whether whether he is or not.
RG three said yesterday, if Buffalo doesn't win that game,
he thinks Sean McDermott is gone. And Shan's been there
I think nine years. I mean, that's an eternity now
in the coaching circles, like Andy Reid, what do you
he's a no one's going to be putting up numbers
(35:11):
like that. At least it doesn't feel like that. And
you know, here's another side topic here with the Green
Bay Packers and Matt Lafleur, and that deal's not done yet,
and that is kind of weird. You go, Okay, what's
holding this up. Matt Lafleur wasn't one of the higher
paid coaches in the NFL, and he probably wants to
(35:33):
be compensated, you know, far more than five million dollars
a year. But you can't go in there after a
bad loss. If if he wanted to negotiate a halftime
of the Bears Packers game, that would have been a
great time where you just walk in. I'm keeping an
eye on some of these situations here, you know, is
there another opening that could emerge. I talked to somebody
(35:57):
yesterday who said Mike Tomlin's not coaching any time soon.
So Mike Tomlin is not He's let I believe everybody. No,
he's not coaching, not anytime soon, and no guarantee that
he's going to go into TV either. But the Matt
lafloor with the Packers, you know, you don't want a
lane duck coach where it's the last year. All of
a sudden, you lose to the Lions and the Bears,
(36:17):
and then you go to a press conference and then
they say, you know, are you coaching for your job?
Like then it becomes a distraction. They're either going to
keep him or they're going to move on. But I
thought John Harbaugh for some reason, I thought that was
in play. And then somebody said to me yesterday about
Matt lafloor with if Green Bay doesn't want him, Pittsburgh
(36:40):
would love him, or Atlanta would love him, or Tennessee
in previous stops would love him. So this isn't done yet.
This whole coaching cares and we can't even get Harball
under contract yet. It just feels like there are a
lot of moving parts here. And is there a team
in the playoffs who could move move on from their coach?
(37:02):
Uh Lucas and Texas, Hi Luke, welcome back, Hey End,
Good morning, Good morning. Two quick NFL things.
Speaker 7 (37:10):
You guys were talking earlier about the Preachia Bowl with
the Bengals and Chargers. I still think the craziest stat
I've ever heard is that the Chargers, in consecutive games
in Miami and then in Cincinnati faced a difference in
air temperature kind of feels like temperature of at least
one hundred and thirty five degree. Yeah, it's insane when
you think about it. But this weekend, you know, you've
(37:30):
been asking lately of the guys, not really what is
going to the headline going to be, but what is
the story or conversation going to be. My theory the
Bear secondary and defense overall is a little bit shaky.
We know that Matt Stafford loves to zero in on
one receiver in a game. I think the discussion is
going to be he has either since in the Bonsey
(37:51):
Adams somebody of the Hall of Fame, or in Puka
Nukua he is well on his way only three years
in to a Hall of Fame career. I think that's
the discussion that's going to become out after this weekend's games.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Thanks guys, all right, thank you, Luke, have a good weekend.
Who had the worst week in sports? Marvin? I'll start
with you.
Speaker 6 (38:09):
I'm gonna go with the LA Lakers. They had man,
They're won in four in their last five games, and
the whole Rich Paul hypothetical. Austin Reeves situation did not
help well.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
I think Max Kellerman, who's the co host with Lebron's agent,
came out and said, if the Lakers really want to win,
they'll trade Luka Doncic because he doesn't play defense. Okay,
I don't know who you're getting for Luka Doncic. Like,
if we're gonna do these, you know, silly local radio show,
(38:41):
I'm we're gonna trade if you know Luis Soho for
Mickey Mantle. You know you're like, I'll hang up and listen.
The Hornets beat the Lakers one thirty five to one seventeen.
Horne's got some scores, but you're giving up a hundred
in thirty five points.
Speaker 6 (39:01):
Yes, mart LaMelo Ball looked like he was at Chino
Hills last night. I know, like he's one of those
like you said, he puts up. Never question his talent,
but his ability to be the best player on a
winning team.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
No is my thing. Yeah, I don't. I don't want him.
I mean I like watching him. You know, first time
I saw him he was a freshman in high school,
and I said he's the best out of the Ball brothers.
Speaker 7 (39:25):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
But no, I think he's more of a hey, look
at me kind of guy, not a look at us
kind of guy. So yeah, but he was he was dancing,
he was dribbling, he was shooting.
Speaker 5 (39:39):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Chris in California. Hi, Chris, Hi.
Speaker 9 (39:44):
Dann thanks for my call. Yeah, a longtime listener, third
time caller, five nine one thirty five. Okay, thank you
so much for at the top of the hour pointing
out that the Dodgers are not ruining baseball because there
are plenty of owners who are not making the investments
that they should be making in their team. And Marvin,
(40:06):
I'm a huge forty nine Ers fan, so I hope
that after the game we are celebrating. And Paulie, please
your bears need to kick out the Rams. Thanks so much, guys,
have a great weekend.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
Well, thank you, Chris.
Speaker 8 (40:18):
I'll make some calls.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Coming up top of the hour. We'll go over the
other candidates who might have had the worst week in sports.
Marvin gave us your worst week in sports. We'll get
to Paulie Fritzy Seaton as well. Also, Chris Sim's on
loan from Football Night in America will join us and
the most must win game of the weekend, and Todd
does Rhyme Time, NFL playoff rhyme Time.
Speaker 7 (40:43):
It's a mix, the mixed bag.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
Some of them are NFL related, all right. Two hours
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Question for hour two.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Our one we had up there, which game is most
likely to be a blowout?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Right now?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Seahawks forty nine ers, followed by Bears Rams. Last place
in that's the least likely to be a blowout would
be Broncos Bills. Okay, this hour we're putting up if
you could only watch one this weekend of those same games.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Okay, all right, and we'll have the most must win
game of the weekend that'll be coming up, and who
had the best weekend sports? He's Christopher mad Dog Russo
you can listen to him on Serious XM Channel eighty two.
You also see him usually on Wednesdays on First Take
with Steven A. Smith. Let me start with the Dodgers Dog.
(01:28):
Good morning, Dan, good morning, Good morning Dog. Dodgers decide
they need another big ticket item here Kyle Tucker going
there to the Dodgers. Your reaction is, well.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
It's terrible for baseball. I'll start there. I mean, how
many guys you're going to have them signed? Diaz? And
I'm not saying for the Dodgers's it makes some sense.
They probably needed an outfielder. They had some issues as
a closer last year, so there comes to Daz. But
this is this is ridiculous. Their payroll last year with
insurance was over five hundred million, and now they add
(02:01):
two guys in one's making what eighty million or seventy
million and Diaz and he's making sixty million and an
average salary in Ducker. I mean, the Dodgers theoretically aren't
doing anything wrong. They're playing by the rules, but the
rules have to change. I mean, this is getting to
be a joke. I mean and I this is going
to in a lot of ways. You can make an
argument this helps Manford with the lockout discussions and the
(02:24):
contract with the CBA for next year, which obviously concludes
I think on December first, it's it's right after the season,
and this is now going to be a major sticking
point these owners. Now, how am I supposed to compete
when the Dodgers And again the Dodgers don't do anything wrong,
but the rules stick. And you know they gave Otany
all that money, but it's all deferred. So he's making
(02:44):
basically ten million dollars a year, so they can defer it,
which gives them the best player in baseball at an
incredibly low price, which means they can do anything they want.
And everybody else did the same exact thing. Play in
LA winning team, great organization, good Weather have a chance
to be in the World Series every year. Who wouldn't
defer all the money? The problem is it doesn't work
(03:05):
as far as the basis of the sport is concerned.
Because half these teams can't compete. Why would anybody think
they can win the NL West next year with the Dodgers,
And who cares what the Dodgers do between April first
and October first. You know, once the postseason starts, at
the team to beat. Last year, they had a bad
year for them. They won ninety something games, were they
won ninety five games, and they still won the World Series.
(03:26):
So it makes the regular season obsolete for LA because
they're gonna make the playoffs. Then they have the best players.
So once they get into the playoffs, despite the impredictability
of baseball postseason, they got a hell of a chance
to win. You can't tell me it's good for the
sport that the Dodgers, who have won two championships, been
in the playoffs, won fifteen sixteen years in a row
in the last five years, gave Feenland twenty five million
(03:47):
to Yamamoto, gave Sasaki two hundred million dollars, gave Otani
a fortune, and now they give Tucker a fortune and
Diaz a fortune. That's not good for the sport, and
the overall riding theme of its LA bad for baseball.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
If you include deferred payments, the guaranteed salary for the
Dodgers this upcoming season is two point one billion dollars.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Wow, that's amazing. Good job, Dan, I don't even know that.
I mean, how are the Pirates supposed to compete with that?
I mean, how are the Knales and the Guardians and
the Reds and the White Sox. I mean, how are
they supposed to compete with that?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Baseball Once then well you got Tampa Bay.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
How they solved the problem, How they solved the problems
gonna be hard.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Tampa Bay seventy million, yeah, Miami seventy six million, the
White Sox one hundred and two, Saint Louis one o two,
Washington won twenty, Cleveland one thirty one, Minnesota one hundred
and fifty four million. So these include deferred payments, guaranteed salaries.
But I don't know how you could get everybody on
the same page with this. Chris Players Association's gonna fight it.
(04:52):
They want these contracts. I mean, I don't know if
these owners, I don't know what you can do.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
I agree with you. I remember, let's also say this,
the guy who runs the Players Association of Scott Boris.
It's not Tony Clark, it's not Bruce Weber. Weber might negotiate.
It's it's Boris. They don't doing anything without Boris's approval.
And Boris is an unbelievable good agent who last time
I had this major fight, everybody on the executive board
were Boris clients. I think they had five or six
(05:21):
and they're all Boris got. You got Matt Shirz, who
on the phone called Boris to see if he agrees
with what they're doing in March. The whole thing is that, listen, baseball.
This is what hill kills baseball. It's great in the
postseason because you never know, the best team doesn't always win,
But as far as the regular season is concerned, it's
gotten to a situation where it becomes obsolete because you know,
(05:43):
certain teams are just going to be in the postseason
barring its catastrophe. One of those teams now you know
the Yankees, and you know teams like that, and one
of those teams definitely now is LA And it's bad
for the sport. You know, a lot of fans are
gonna be annoyed, and I don't know what you do
to solve it. You're right, you know, Manford's done a
great job because he's been a Commission that has not
lost a regular season game since he was involved in
(06:05):
negotiating these contracts in the mid nineties, So he has
that on his legacy. So you know he's not gonna
want to lose games next year. But he's also in
a situation where he's got to do something. So we
shall see.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Yeah, because with the NFL you can go from worse
to first. We've seen those success stories.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
I do that in foot we can't do that here.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah, in the NBA, we've seen success stories.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
They had a would pick look at the Spurs.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Different champion what the last five or six years. So
you go into a season you give the NFL gives
you hope, Absolutely it gives you. Carolina Panthers fans at
the beginning of the year, you're probably thinking, Okay, we're
in a bad division. Can can we win this division?
And the answer is yes. You look at the Bears.
(06:50):
You know where they were where they are. I mean
you could have the rise and the fall Detroit up
then down. So to say to these teams, you're gonna
have an opportunity to at least compete for a playoff berth,
I mean, that's what you want as a fan you
want hope. Now there's certain franchises where you go, no,
(07:10):
we expect to be in in the NBA. You want hope,
you want to go, Hey, I believe in the team,
and I'll continue to go out and support it. You know,
if you're a Pittsburgh Pirate fan, you go out one day,
you go to see your pitcher. That's probably it. It's
a great ballpark, but you know how many times are
you going to see those games? But if you're playing
(07:31):
in big games, now, all of a sudden, you're buying it.
You know, the Reds make the playoffs. Now you're going
out to watch a season, not just a couple of games.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Watch the Dodgers get schoobl too.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I brought that up this morning. I go, that's who
I thought that they were going to be getting somehow, Someway.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
And he's going to leave and you know this arbitration
issue with him. Yeah, it's a major problem. I mean,
last year the Bears going to make the playoffs. This
year they're in a divisional round. You made a good
point of our Carolina. They won the division and they
get a home playoff game. You know, Denver last year
barely made the playoffs. Now the under the one seed.
Seattle last year didn't make the playoffs. Now to the
one seed, you have so many advantages from that standpoint.
(08:11):
Was it normally six in and six out in the NFL,
six teams every year, and you know that they you know,
have a short schedule. Now you need the quarterback. Without
the quarterback, you're not gonna win. But you have ways
to get the quarterback. You can draft one. You can
be bad at the right time. You know, Perty was
the last pick in the draft they found in right,
I mean, you can get the Qbam Josh Allen wasn't
(08:32):
the first pick. You can get Nicks wasn't the first pick.
You can get the quarterback by Little Lucky somehow, a
free agent, a trade well you know Donald, I mean
he was a trade Seattle they won. You can get
the quarterback. In the NBA. You got to get the
great player. You know Wen Byama, you know David Robinson, Duncan.
You got to get that great player, the transformational player.
(08:54):
There are ways to do it, but you got to
get that player. But it doesn't have anything to do
with money. I mean, you know, it might have something
to do with the market, but Sacramento was good for
a long time. The Spurs won some championships, so the
small market can win. And in baseball, it's really about
three or four teams and that's the and that's the unfortunately,
thinking about baseball, it's got a great playoff system. The
(09:16):
playoff system last three weeks. It's done. It's not a
slugout four month process where they play best of sevens
where you know who's gonna win beforehand like the NBA
might have. You know, it's the games are unpredictable because
there's no guarantee the best team's gonna win. So that
makes it fun too. You know, the Great Baseball Game,
(09:36):
as you know, Dan, you're a great baseball fan, Game
seven Toronto and Dodgers. How great a game was that?
You know, it gives you incredible trauma. But the problem
is is baseball has become over the long period of
time too much dominated by the big market teams. And
I don't know how you solve that problem. I really don't.
Without a strike, Without a.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Strike, he's Christopher mad Dog Russo, host of mad Dog
Unleashed on Serious XM Channel eedy two and also you'll
see him on First Take what's holding up John Harbaugh
and the Giants.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Hasn't officially signed it yet. Yeah, I don't know. I
don't have the answer for you on that. Maybe the
money for the assistant coaches. This is a move the
Giants had to make. This is gonna happen. I mean,
you know, I don't think it's gonna fall apart. Harbor
and Mara, I guess really had a great sit down.
They had a great dinner a couple of nights ago.
And the Giants need him. I mean, you know they've
gone the assistant route, whether it's you know, Dable Judge,
(10:30):
you know Ben McAdoo. It just it's been a disaster.
They have to bring an established coach. Harball is a
good coach. I mean, he's not a great coach yet
got a chance to be, you know, hall of fame.
I wouldn't say Harball is a Hall of Fame coach
by my standards, I wouldn't say he's a Hall of
Fame coach.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Is Tomlin?
Speaker 4 (10:49):
You know he's gonna be in the Hall of Fame.
They're gonna make it. But by you and I standards,
do I consider Tomlin right this second a Hall of
Fame coach. I don't now that's me. Now, he's gonna
make it because they vote, you know, they vote six
candidates a year, and you know they Coriel made it.
He never won a championship, Cowers, anyone won Super Bowl.
(11:12):
So he's he's gonna get in. But obviously Marve Levey's
made it. He's got one hundred and forty three wins
and four Super Bowl losses. You know, George Allen's in.
He never want to think so they're gonna make it.
But do I consider Tom and her Harbor myself, as
a football fan a great all time coach.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
No, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
When I think of the great all time coaches, I'm
thinking Paul Brown, Belichick, Lombardi, Gibbs, Welsh, A Walsh, Parcels.
You know, I'm thinking along those lines of you know,
that establishment group, Shue Litt, Landry, those kind of guys.
And I don't think that myself, that Tom and her
(11:53):
Harbor are on that level myself. But I'm a small
room guy. You're a small room guy. A lot of
people put all these coaches in. I mean, Bill Coward
to me is not a Hall of Fame coach, very
good coach. So I consider him a Hall of Fame coach.
Two Super Bowls, he's one and one Hall of Fame where, Wow,
he's a great coach. I don't consider him that, but
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he's in the Hall of Fame. So they put a
lot of guys in who I wouldn't put in, and
Toman and Harbor are sort of on a very good
category right now, and Harbor and Toman will have a
chance to get to that next level. I mean, you
think Dungee's a great coach, very good? Is he great
in your eyes? Then is Tony Dungee a Hall of
Fame coach?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Well, he was also a great defensive coordinator as well.
That Tampa team that he had that Gruden came in one,
you know, Tony Tony was helped in building that.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Yeah, I think he's an interesting case. Do you think
you think George Allen's Hall of Fame coach?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
No, he's in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
I know you think Pete Carroll's going to make the
Hall of Fame?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yes you do? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Yeah, wow, I'm not sure, especially now.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
It is the Pro Football Hall of Fame, so they're
not factoring in USC.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I don't forget us, but I'm guessing.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
See.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I think the thing is is you're trying to compare
today's coaches with yesteryear, and that's it's hard to do
that and come up with a Hall of Fame coach.
Because these guys were established, they didn't have to worry,
you know, about all these other things that today's coach
has to deal with getting to two Super Bowls? Like
Sean Payton. Is Sean Payton a Hall of Fame coach?
Speaker 4 (13:33):
He's been in one Super Bowl?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Not yet, he's probably going in. Is Mike McCarthy hall
of Fame coach? No, he's got the same resume as
Sean Payton.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Yeah, I don't put Peyton in.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
No.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Okay again, I'm a small room guy. I want greatness.
I don't do. I think Sean Payton's a great coach.
He's very good. Great Parcels is a great coach. Is
a great coach. Three super Bowls, three different quarterbacks, Phil Walsh,
that's a great football coach.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Brown.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Those are the sort of guys who.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Has more pressure, either player or team. The most pressure
this weekend in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Not San Francisco, Seattle, Buffalo so banged up. And I
heard your thought with Josh Allen. He's great anyway, I
probably you know, it's weird. I might say Stafford with
the Rams. You can't say there's any pressure on Houston.
You can't say there's any pressure on the Patriots. The
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Bears are a young team. You can't use them San Francisco.
Somehow we're in this spot Seattle. You know, maybe Sam Donald,
maybe Donald because he needs to go out there and
you know, sort of undue last year when he didn't
play very well in the postseason. I don't look at
Denver young quarterback Alan. I think he's accomplished plenty anyway.
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I know people bring Alan up because there's normal homes
and Burrow and Jackson. I still think Aland's got plenty
of time to win a Super Bowl. I think this
is an important You know, the Rams had a great
year and then they kind of stalled. They were not
great last weekend. I think there's some pressure on End
and I think there's a lot. I think there's some
pressure on Sam Donald. You know, and in a weird way,
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you brought up an interesting question because I don't know
if there's a clear cut well, he's got to win,
you know, I don't know if they You know, if
Lemore was in this spot, i'd say three and five
in the postseason, maybe i'd put him in that category.
I don't know if I have anybody right now in
the last eight in that category where they look that
they have to win. I don't know if I have
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that right now.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Good to chat with you. Good at best, Glad you're
feeling better.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Thank you, Pat.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
You had a rough week. See hickups, kickups, never get them,
never get them.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Wait, you had the hiccups.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Which led to some issues and I was in bad
shake for about fifteen hours. If I had a missed
first take after a division around, you know it was.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Have a good weekend. You're too big, thank you. That's
Christopher mad Dog Russo had hiccups and they led to
something else. All right, Well, take a break. We'll update
the poll results more of your phone calls as well.
Take a break back after this Dan Patrick Show.
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Speaker 2 (16:59):
Talking some baseball with Christopher mad Dog Russo and he
worked for MLB Network. He had a show on for
probably a decade, High Heat. And you know, we look
at the Dodgers. Dodgers didn't do anything wrong. In fact,
they're doing everything right. They're reinvesting, they spend the money.
Did they find a loophole? Did they get Otani to
(17:20):
take deferred money? Yes, But keep in mind they're two
outs away from losing the World Series last year. We
make it seem like, oh my god, foregone conclusion. They're
going to win the World Series. They're two outs away
from losing the World Series. If the Dodgers lost the
World Series and they signed Kyle Tucker, how would people react?
(17:44):
Would they be reacting the way they're reacting now and
that's this is the end of the world as we
know it. They'd be like, yeah, well they lost the
World Series. They went out and spent money. Twenty of
thirty Major League Baseball teams reinvest less than half of
their revenue into player salaries. So that is a bigger
(18:05):
problem to me. Twenty out of thirty reinvest less than
fifty percent of the revenue into player salaries. Stat of
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trading cards of the Dan Patrick Show. That is somebody
running a successful business. That's all it is. Now. Can
they catch lightning in a bottle? Maybe make the playoffs? Yes,
But for the most part baseball is top heavy and
I don't think it's going to change because the Players
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Association will fight this. They're not going to say, oh,
let's bring down salaries. Now. The owners, if they get
together and say, how do we fix this? How does
the commissioner help in fixing this? I don't know if
you can. The Dodgers are going to continue to spend,
they reinvest, and you look at the revenue that they're making.
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You know, when I looked at what Otani was going
to make I remember saying he could get six hundred
million dollars, and we had a couple of baseball amazon
there say no, there's no way. I said, yes, he's
probably getting six hundred million dollars. Now all of a sudden,
we don't even blink. If somebody gets five hundred million,
you're like, okay, it's going right. But Otani was global.
(19:35):
That's the difference. Soto is not global. Kyle Tucker's not global.
I mean, there's only a couple of players that move
the needle, Aaron Judge global, but there's very few of them.
And the Dodgers got the most unique athlete in sports,
and he plays, you know, around the world. People who
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aren't even interested are that interested in baseball? Not even
Dodger fans tuned into watch him play in the World Series.
They watched him. They wanted to see him hit, they
wanted to see him pitch. The fascination is similar to
Tiger Woods. You might not have been a golf fan,
but you were going to tune in to try to
understand what is the hype all about. You may not
(20:20):
understand golf, but you understood watching somebody do something that
we had never seen before.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
Yes, mar and I go back to the term I
created wife famous, where my wife has no idea about
major League Baseball at all besides maybe Derek Jeter in
nineteen ninety six. But she knows the name Shoel Tani
and she knows that he pitches Andie hits.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
She was like, do people normally do that?
Speaker 6 (20:43):
That's what she asked me during the World Series when
he had that unbelievable game where he hit three home
runs he struck out ten. Yes, like do people don't
normally do this? I was like, one person might do this,
but they might not do both.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Yeah, I gotta look at Pittsburgh and you know, Pittsburgh
has to look at this and go Paul Skemes his
going to be here for how long? Two years? And
it's unfortunate that you know, La de la Cruz, wonderful
player with the Reds. Is he going to be there? No,
(21:15):
it's just supply and demand. How much can we pay you?
And that team's going to pay you more. You know,
Toronto's spending a lot of money and once again they
were two outs away from winning the World Series. So
baseball it's not going to be fixed. But they're in
a seven game series. Say if baseball was a one
(21:38):
game playoff in each series, that's when you would get
the anybody can win this if it was March Madness,
like instead of seven games. Over seven games, the best
team usually wins. But we went to seven games with
the Dodgers and the Blue Jays.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
Yes, Marvin, but like March Madness, you want to see
Cinderella's only up to a certain point. Like I want
to see the Dodgers and the Yankees no offense. I'm
really not trying to see the Royals in the Diamondbacks
go at it in the Fall Classic and most people aren't.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Yeah, but if I go back to that Kansas City
Royal team with Brett Saberhagen and George Brett, we did
want to see them. They were great. I mean, those
are They had Hall of famers on that team. That
was a great team. Now they couldn't keep that team
together now. But there are times when I love Cinderella
(22:30):
stories only if Cinderella wins. Like I hate when Cinderella
goes and they kind of disrupt everything and then all
of a sudden, you go, all right, Lobb City only
got to a certain point here or Northern Iowa like
all of these, you know, teams that come out of
George Mason, come out of nowhere in March madness. Butler,
(22:54):
I want to see you take it all the way.
But you're right, and I say this, every March madness,
what happens. We want to see surprises, We want madness
until we want to get the real champion here. We
want we want the blue bloods to play for a
national championship here. You know, you can't have these little
schools get in here. They're going to ruin everything.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
Yes, Marvin, but when you were talking about the Royals,
that was the eighties where you had big time stars
that you could name. But in twenty fifteen when the
Royals won, I couldn't name anybody off of that team.
So maybe that's a different generation where you had talents.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
The baseball meant more back then. That's all. It's just
everybody's kind of looking for, you know, the scraps that
the NFL leaves behind. Everybody's kind of navigating of how
do we get where's our piece here? How do we
do this? You know, college football expanding, March madness expanding.
Everybody's kind of saying, all right, what do we do
(23:52):
with our product that we can still have an impact here.
College football playoffs ratings were pretty good with a lot
of the bowl games. I don't know about, you know,
the previous two games, certainly the Indiana blowout. There. Ratings
will probably be good for the national title game. And
keep in mind, Indiana was a Cinderella story three years ago,
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two years ago, and here they are now. We expect
them to win the championship. But you know, sports is
ever evolving. Sports that were really popular and then all
of a sudden, you know, boxing and horse racing. Man,
those are the great sports. Nobody cares now it didn't
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you know, you got your window and then you know,
we move on. But I think with baseball, I hope
that they're able, and I think this commissioner has done
a good job. But I don't know if you can
solve this by saying, let's put a salary cap on this.
I want to make sure these other teams, franchisees, owners
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spend the money they don't spend the Dodgers spend. They
should be rewarded for spending. There should be a minimum
that you have to pay. Some of these owners just
say that's all profit. Man. I'm not sharing it. Brian
in Knoxville, Hey Brian, what's on your mind?
Speaker 5 (25:18):
First time caller, longtime listener five ten, two fifty in
reference to this In reference to the the deferments, why
can't there be a cap on these defirmers keep this
more competitive? I'm not sure I agree with your take
on it. If they take in five hundred million dollars
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that they should spend three hundred and fifty of it.
I mean, like you said, they're businessman, and I'll hang
up and listen.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Well, you know, it depends on what product you want
on the field, that's all.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
It's your team, your stadium, your fan base. If you
don't care, I mean, then why the fans care. There's
certain franchises that care, and they have the money to spend.
I want the teams that don't spend money to maybe
(26:12):
spend money to have a better product on the field
or sell the team. P in Florida, Ip, what's on
your mind? Hey, P Man, I don't know what happened
(26:33):
to Pee? What's the uh? Our fly is open? Let's
go pee? That was Austin p when they had Fly Williams. Yeah,
leading scorer in the country, our fly is open. Let's
go pee great rally and crime uh seatan, would you
update the poll results from the first thirty minutes of
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this second hour?
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Sure will, And you know this is actually interesting. We
have up there first hour, we did the game most
likely to be a blowout, the game that was most
likely was Seahawks forty nine ers, the game that was
least likely was Broncos Bills, and then we put up
there if you could only watch one this weekend. Bears
(27:19):
and Rams is in the lead with that, and so
Broncos Bills is also tied with that.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Okay, So I.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Think it's interesting that Bears and Rams is sort of
going back and forth as the game that's most likely
to be a blowout, and people are also most interested
in watching that one game, and then on the flip side,
the one least likely to be a blowout, people are
most interested to watch that game.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
You know, it's tricky when you get to this point
where you go, I know who the Patriots are or
I know who CJ. Stroud is in the Texans Patriots.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Texans has been in last place in both of those polls.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Yeah, that's the one. I don't gamble anymore. But I
it feels like too many people love the Texans to
pull off the surprise, and that that's where it gets
kind of tricky because you're like, it's like people really
fell in love with the defense. Yes they did this
past week. It's like they just noticed the Texans had
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the best defense in football, Like, damn, oh, that's right,
Will Anderson, Danielle Hunter. Yeah, they they've been doing this
for a while. That front four. Yeah, I know a
lot of Front four talk this week. That's where you're like,
they've been doing this. It's just nobody's watching. Nobody's talking
about the Texans. Nobody watches the Tech No, they don't,
(28:41):
they don't.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Only the only time you watch the Texans is usually
that Saturday twelve twelve o'clock game, the first game of
the playoffs, and it's always that's the Texans time slot.
And you know what they would have been in that
time slot had they not played on Monday night, they
probably would have been a Saturday game, first game right
out of the box for the playoffs. Yeah, Paul, the.
Speaker 8 (29:03):
Texans gave up two hundred and ninety five points this season.
Only one other team in the NFL gave up under
three hundred points this season. Who wants to guess one
other Denver NFC team is the hint? Who wants a shot.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Marvin the Rams?
Speaker 8 (29:25):
Nope, Rams gave up three forty six Todd Atlanta, Lanta,
they gave up four eleven. You get they gave up
four hundred one points. I respect it, But Tampa, Tampa
gave up four hundred and eleven points. Seeing you clean
it up?
Speaker 2 (29:45):
How about the Eagles? No, the.
Speaker 8 (29:49):
Eagles did well three twenty five. Your Seattle Seahawks gave
up two hundred and ninety two points.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Yeah, we should have gotten that one. We should have
got the boom. The stat of the Day brought to
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When we come back, who had the best week in sports?
We'll talk some football Chris Sims in the final hour,
and we will give you the most must win game
(30:38):
of the weekend. All of that forthcoming.
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Speaker 2 (30:52):
Who had the best week in sports, tod I'll start
with you.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
I am going off the board with the Clippers, and
we make fun of often as many four straight wins,
including the Pistons last Saturday in Detroit. They're going for
five straight at the Raptors tonight.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Uh, let's see see no' connor.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
I'm gonna say to Houston Texans defense, they're certainly on
everybody's radar. Absolutely dominant performance against the Steelers. They essentially
got Mike Tomlin fired, well, step down, but out of
a job. They may have retired Aaron Rodgers, and they're
going into New England looking like a force. That's a
hell of a week, Marvin, best week in sports.
Speaker 6 (31:31):
The Patriots defense they had success against Justin Herbert Millon
Williams is looking like Aaron Donald two point zero. Good
week for them.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
HM the immovable object against the irresistible force there with
these two defenses, apparently, Paul.
Speaker 7 (31:45):
I will go.
Speaker 8 (31:46):
Niners quarterback Brock purty little national reminder that he's got
some playing ability and he's kind of back. He's one
of those guys you question after the big contract. Looks
like it's full steam ahead once he has a healthy team.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
And I was talking to Chris Russo about which team
or player has the most pressure. I think Sam Donald
probably has the most pressure because everybody is waiting for him.
Is he going to be the Sam Donald we know?
Or is this going to be the new and improved
Sam Darnald. And you have the number one seed, you
have home field advantage, you have a ticket to the
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super Bowl. All you have to do is take care
of business at home and try to play as close
to mistake free football as you can. But you have
Josh Allen. I don't look at this and say, boy,
the window is wide open. Yes, these other quarterbacks aren't playing,
but I don't think this is a great Buffalo team.
And you've got to win three games on the road,
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and then if you do, you get to go to
the Super Bowl. Josh Allen doesn't need to prove to
me about winning in the playoffs. He performs in the playoffs,
and as RG three said yesterday, wins aren't a quarterback statistic.
Now I disagree. I think it is it should be,
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but you know he's saying, hey, you can do everything possible.
That doesn't mean you're going to win the game. I
understand that, and he's put his team in position to win.
Lamar Jackson has not, and that's what we're waiting for
with him, Sam Darnold were waiting to see. Is he
going to be a big time player?
Speaker 6 (33:21):
Yes, Mark Well, I disagree with rg TH from this standpoint.
When we talk about quarterbacks, we talk about what you
did in the playoffs. It doesn't matter. Oh, man, he
played great, but your team lost. This is a results
based business, you know, and you have to show up
and at least get your team to a win in
order to be considered a great playoff quarterback because people
aren't going to look into the stats like that, like, man,
he played great against the Chiefs and a loss.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Well, I think they might do that for Josh Allen
because his postseason stats are pretty amazing, so they might
give him, Like I don't know Dan Marino's postseason stats.
I don't know. I don't know Joe Montana's postseason stats.
Know that he won super Bowls. You know Roger Staubach
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won a Super Bowl and I think he threw for
one hundred nineteen yards and was named the MVP. Okay,
Bart Starr didn't have great postseason numbers. He's a Hall
of Famer. Bob Greasy like, I don't know what his
postseason numbers are. All we know is did you win
a Super Bowl? That's it. But hey, your QBR was
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one twenty eight. I couldn't care less about that. I
just want to know. We've seen Sam Darnold in a
couple of playoff games and because of him, his teams
didn't advance. Now we want to see what he does
home field advantage in a game that they're favored by
a touchdown. But I'm trying to think of anybody else
under a lot of pressure. It feels like Sean McDermott is.
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It just feels like that, whether whether he is or not.
RG three said yesterday, if Buffalo doesn't win that game,
he thinks Sean McDermott is gone. And Shan's been there
I think nine years. I mean, that's an eternity now
in the coaching circles, like Andy Reid, what do you
he's a no one's going to be putting up numbers
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like that. At least it doesn't feel like that. And
you know, here's another side topic here with the Green
Bay Packers and Matt Lafleur, and that deal's not done yet,
and that is kind of weird. You go, Okay, what's
holding this up. Matt Lafleur wasn't one of the higher
paid coaches in the NFL, and he probably wants to
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be compensated, you know, far more than five million dollars
a year. But you can't go in there after a
bad loss. If if he wanted to negotiate a halftime
of the Bears Packers game, that would have been a
great time where you just walk in. I'm keeping an
eye on some of these situations here, you know, is
there another opening that could emerge. I talked to somebody
(35:57):
yesterday who said Mike Tomlin's not coaching any time soon.
So Mike Tomlin is not He's let I believe everybody. No,
he's not coaching, not anytime soon, and no guarantee that
he's going to go into TV either. But the Matt
lafloor with the Packers, you know, you don't want a
lane duck coach where it's the last year. All of
a sudden, you lose to the Lions and the Bears,
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and then you go to a press conference and then
they say, you know, are you coaching for your job?
Like then it becomes a distraction. They're either going to
keep him or they're going to move on. But I
thought John Harbaugh for some reason, I thought that was
in play. And then somebody said to me yesterday about
Matt lafloor with if Green Bay doesn't want him, Pittsburgh
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would love him, or Atlanta would love him, or Tennessee
in previous stops would love him. So this isn't done yet.
This whole coaching cares and we can't even get Harball
under contract yet. It just feels like there are a
lot of moving parts here. And is there a team
in the playoffs who could move move on from their coach?
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Uh Lucas and Texas, Hi Luke, welcome back, Hey End,
Good morning, Good morning. Two quick NFL things.
Speaker 7 (37:10):
You guys were talking earlier about the Preachia Bowl with
the Bengals and Chargers. I still think the craziest stat
I've ever heard is that the Chargers, in consecutive games
in Miami and then in Cincinnati faced a difference in
air temperature kind of feels like temperature of at least
one hundred and thirty five degree. Yeah, it's insane when
you think about it. But this weekend, you know, you've
(37:30):
been asking lately of the guys, not really what is
going to the headline going to be, but what is
the story or conversation going to be. My theory the
Bear secondary and defense overall is a little bit shaky.
We know that Matt Stafford loves to zero in on
one receiver in a game. I think the discussion is
going to be he has either since in the Bonsey
(37:51):
Adams somebody of the Hall of Fame, or in Puka
Nukua he is well on his way only three years
in to a Hall of Fame career. I think that's
the discussion that's going to become out after this weekend's games.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Thanks guys, all right, thank you, Luke, have a good weekend.
Who had the worst week in sports? Marvin? I'll start
with you.
Speaker 6 (38:09):
I'm gonna go with the LA Lakers. They had man,
They're won in four in their last five games, and
the whole Rich Paul hypothetical. Austin Reeves situation did not
help well.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
I think Max Kellerman, who's the co host with Lebron's agent,
came out and said, if the Lakers really want to win,
they'll trade Luka Doncic because he doesn't play defense. Okay,
I don't know who you're getting for Luka Doncic. Like,
if we're gonna do these, you know, silly local radio show,
(38:41):
I'm we're gonna trade if you know Luis Soho for
Mickey Mantle. You know you're like, I'll hang up and listen.
The Hornets beat the Lakers one thirty five to one seventeen.
Horne's got some scores, but you're giving up a hundred
in thirty five points.
Speaker 6 (39:01):
Yes, mart LaMelo Ball looked like he was at Chino
Hills last night. I know, like he's one of those
like you said, he puts up. Never question his talent,
but his ability to be the best player on a
winning team.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
No is my thing. Yeah, I don't. I don't want him.
I mean I like watching him. You know, first time
I saw him he was a freshman in high school,
and I said he's the best out of the Ball brothers.
Speaker 7 (39:25):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
But no, I think he's more of a hey, look
at me kind of guy, not a look at us
kind of guy. So yeah, but he was he was dancing,
he was dribbling, he was shooting.
Speaker 5 (39:39):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Chris in California. Hi, Chris, Hi.
Speaker 9 (39:44):
Dann thanks for my call. Yeah, a longtime listener, third
time caller, five nine one thirty five. Okay, thank you
so much for at the top of the hour pointing
out that the Dodgers are not ruining baseball because there
are plenty of owners who are not making the investments
that they should be making in their team. And Marvin,
(40:06):
I'm a huge forty nine Ers fan, so I hope
that after the game we are celebrating. And Paulie, please
your bears need to kick out the Rams. Thanks so much, guys,
have a great weekend.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
Well, thank you, Chris.
Speaker 8 (40:18):
I'll make some calls.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Coming up top of the hour. We'll go over the
other candidates who might have had the worst week in sports.
Marvin gave us your worst week in sports. We'll get
to Paulie Fritzy Seaton as well. Also, Chris Sim's on
loan from Football Night in America will join us and
the most must win game of the weekend, and Todd
does Rhyme Time, NFL playoff rhyme Time.
Speaker 7 (40:43):
It's a mix, the mixed bag.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
Some of them are NFL related, all right. Two hours
in the books on this meat Friday. One more to
go with Fritzy Seaton, Mark Paulie, Yours Truly and the
backroom guys.
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Dan Patrick
Patrick "Seton" O'Connor
Paul Pabst
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