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July 30, 2026 41 mins

As if there weren’t enough vectors to compare LeBron James and Michael Jordan, now a new documentary aims to create “The Last Dance” for LeBron and even follow him for the season with the 76ers. Dan asks former NFL player and current analyst Ross Tucker how he got invited to the Travis Kelce/Taylor Swift wedding. Tucker shares his highlights of the wedding including his wife hugging Tom Cruise, and he dishes on the Cleveland Browns quarterbacking situation.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to The Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio Our two.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
On this Thursday, Dan and the Dan AT's Dan Patrick
Show with Fritzy Dylan, Marv, Pauliers, Truly in the backroom, guys,
Ross Tucker, CBS analyst and also a guest at the
Travis Kelsey Taylor Swift wedding. He can't talk about the wedding,
but he says he has a funny story to tell.
Ross will join us in about twenty minutes from now. Also,

(00:27):
I've been mentioning first hour that he has a strong
feeling on who will be or should be the starting
quarterback for the Cleveland Browns eight seven, seven to three,
DP show email address dpat Danpatrick dot com, Twitter handle
at DP show. A few early training camp injuries. My
best news is no news from training camp. If I'm

(00:49):
a fan of a certain team, I did see we're
Taysom Hill and the Saints are parting ways. Now. I
don't is he retiring. I don't own his contract. I
don't know whose decision. But you start to think about
these kind of players. He's not a great player, but
he went from being a quarterback to a kind of

(01:10):
a multi talented player, what do you need me to do?
I'll do that. Became a team favorite. And when you
think about players like this, Darren Sprolls is a guy
who came to mind. Jeremy Lynn came to mind. How
about Birdman? Chris Anderson came to mind? Uh you, Donnas

(01:32):
Haslam came to mind, Danny Woodhead, Brian Scalabrini, JJ Burrea.
You have the fan favorite Kyle Uesedjeck who was uh
the running back Coon k u h N for the

(01:54):
Green Bay Packers, the fallback. Yeah, John Kuhon. There're not
saying boo, they're saying coo. Yeah, Pauline, So this is.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
The rationale is like a really good player for a
team for a long time. Who maybe he didn't become
a star nationally?

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
How about James White, the former Patriots running back. He
was on the team for eight years, never even came
close to a Pro Bowl, but he's a local legend.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
He should have been the Super Bowl MVP. Who else
would be in it? Matthew Della Vodova, Yeah, Deli, Marvin
what hell?

Speaker 4 (02:31):
Please?

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Hello?

Speaker 2 (02:32):
A Dova.

Speaker 5 (02:35):
Man?

Speaker 2 (02:35):
He got a lot of wait was he shutting down?
Steph Curry was that when Cleveland was playing against Golden State. Yeah,
I mean he was only averaging twenty eight. It's like, correct, hey,
Deli is on him. Who else would be in there?
You got any other ones? Dylan? You got somebody?

Speaker 6 (02:51):
They said, John Coon. I was thinking maybe Mike Alstott.

Speaker 7 (02:54):
No, no, no, he's too good. Well yeah, no, he's
a Hall of Famer. What about Bartolo when he was
on the Mats home?

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, that was he a fan favorite?

Speaker 6 (03:05):
Oh yeah, big.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Sexy come on, okay, all right, anybody else.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
Currently?

Speaker 2 (03:18):
No, it can be anytime.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
While just thinking our boy Peyton Pritchard for the Celtics.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
No, he's too good. Okay, he started out as that
fan favorite. All look at the little white guy. He's
really good. He's not deceptively good or deceptively he's really good.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
Well, all these guys are good.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
No, but he's not one of those cute little plays
like JJ Burrea. Oh I don't even know why JJ
Burra is on that list, or Dela dela Vedova. Like
Peyton Pritchard, I think could score twenty points. I think
he could average twenty a game. Oh, without question, No,
if they let him, you know, but there he's not
going to be the featured guy. He can score, he

(03:58):
can give you buckets there.

Speaker 6 (03:59):
Yes, did you say Scalabriny?

Speaker 5 (04:02):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (04:02):
I did? Okay, of course, two mentions for Brian Scalabrin, Yes, Paul.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
How about former Eagles defensive end Brandon Graham. He was
on the team for sixteen years, zero Pro Bowls, but
a local legend, borderline statue worthy with the strip.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Off in the Super Bowl? Yeah, of Tom Brady. Was
Fletcher Cox too good to be on this list?

Speaker 4 (04:23):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Good call? Uh? Edelman? Edelman? Or was he too good?

Speaker 6 (04:33):
I think he might be in the two good category?

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Okay? Well, you got people in this room who think
he should be Hall of Fame worthy ally two hands up? Yeah, yes, Marvin.

Speaker 4 (04:43):
So Derek Fisher of the Lakers will be in that
same category.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yeah, yeah. Give you a bloop on that one? Uh
eight seven to seven to three DP show operator Tyler
sitting by doing absolutely nothing except for taking your phone calls.
I have odds here there picture odds for the twenty
twenty seven Oscars. You didn't ask for it, neither did I,

(05:06):
but DraftKings sent it to me. The best picture odds
The Odyssey Big favorite followed by Dune Messiah, Digger Diggers
not even out yet. That's the Tom Cruise movie that's
supposed to be out in October. I believe wild Horse
nine Fjord.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
I didn't see the first eight Wild Horses.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Fjord f Jo or d Fjord Project, Hail Mary. I've
seen two of these. I haven't seen any of the
Dune ones with Timothy Chalomah, Digger looks Wild with Tom Cruise,
Fjord and Wildhorse nine. Not familiar with that, Yes, Dylan, I.

Speaker 7 (05:53):
Guess the question is do you think the Odyssey's gonna
continue this generational run? Like do you want to get
in early or is some movie's gonna come out that
maybe kind of trump the Odyssey, or do you think
they're running away with it.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
There's a lot of conversation about it, but then that's
going to die off, and then you're gonna get into
the fall and then the winter, and then it feels
like maybe maybe came out too soon, you know, maybe
you should have stayed in college for another year.

Speaker 5 (06:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (06:23):
Is there recency bias when it comes to the oscars?

Speaker 6 (06:26):
Like the closer you are to the.

Speaker 7 (06:27):
End of the calendar year, do you maybe get remembered
a little bit more.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
Maybe maybe I think there there might be voter fatigue,
movie fatigue, actor fatigue and where. But you've got to sell.
I mean they talk about sometimes selling the movie can
be as tough as actually doing the movie. Yes, yes, Dan,
you said your wife cries only at Wuthering Heights, right, Yes,

(06:54):
well you can get them at plus eight thousand. No, no,
not the original nine, but not that one with Jacobo.
And who was the Margot Robbie, Margot Robbie.

Speaker 6 (07:05):
She's not gonna cry at the remake.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
No, she watched it. She didn't cry. Really, Wow, they
watch that Weathering Heights Heathcliff. My wife's a mess. My
son's wedding, Yeah, my daughter's wedding coming up.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
Maybe yes, Marvin, I saw weather Heights with my wife
and she hated it, the new one, the new one.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (07:28):
I walked out. I said, oh, it's pretty good. She
was like, what did you see? Yes, She's like, this
is stupid.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
I hated it. Huh. Ladies love Jacob Elordie, Oh lordy,
hello Coolja and he's uh dating Kylie Jenner. I think
I thought was shallow. Oh no, oh, Ken Dendall Jenner.

Speaker 4 (07:48):
Come on now, don't get your Jenner Kardashians.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
He mixed up my bad, my bad. It's hard to
keep track of who's dating them, keeping up with the Kardashians. Yes,
uh yeah, Paul.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
That movie you mentioned, wild Horse nine. The director is
a dark comedy. Martin McDonough now. He directed in Bruges,
one of my top five all times.

Speaker 4 (08:09):
I knew you were gonna go.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
I like the actors in in Bruges. I just don't
I don't get the oh my god, in Bruges.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
Oh it's better every time. Wildhorse nine, John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell,
Steve Buscemi, Tom Waits, and Parker Posey.

Speaker 7 (08:24):
Wow, Tom wait, okay, yes, Dylan, two things for one.
I'm totally team Paul and Imbrues. That movie rules.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Tom five movie of all time, best.

Speaker 7 (08:35):
Movie of all time now, but it's a great movie.
So the longest odds for Best Picture is Avengers dooms Day.

Speaker 8 (08:43):
Now.

Speaker 6 (08:43):
How bad of a year.

Speaker 7 (08:44):
For movies would it have to be for one of
the Avengers to win Best Picture.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
I haven't seen any of them, so I don't know
how good they are. They lost me years ago.

Speaker 6 (08:52):
I don't even know how many there have been.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Now Todd wants to know if Fjord is about the
Norwegian auto industry.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
It's wondering. That's a good title for that type of.

Speaker 6 (09:04):
The Fjord focus.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
Fjord, Fjord. I'm being told everything everywhere, all at once.
Broke the trend of fall movies winning Best Picture. It
was released in March. Sinners also a major player last year,
released in April. They're generally exceptions to the rule that
could indicate a new trend.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
Yes, So unlike the Heisman, which you can't win in September,
you can win it early with the movies.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
You can lose the Heisman, yes, but you can't win
it in September. All right. Poll question for hour two.
We're gonna play the Aaron Donald game. No update on
Aaron Donald by the way, but well it's a two
part game, Dylan. What's the poll question for hour two?
We got some toddpoles. NFL training camp fights are awesome.

(09:57):
More please postering get back in the huddle or silly whatever. Dudes,
how do you feel.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
About those little freakuses that break out? How do you
feel about I'm gonna go with two postures and get
back in the huddle. Yes, Marvin, I really just think
it's pent up frustration, like god, no, no, no, no, no no.
The players when you get answer those training camp fights.
I think the happiest NFL players are is that first
preseason game or scrimmage when you were playing against somebody else.

(10:26):
We're tired of hitting one another.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah. Yeah, you get to hit somebody from another team. Yeah.
What's the poll question? Oh, you want to clean up
hour one?

Speaker 7 (10:40):
I would love to dan worst injury recovery wise Achilles tear,
acl taaror Tommy John Achilles tears. Still sitting there at
sixty six percent.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
Well, not many people get Achilles surgery. Not many people
tear their achilles. There's a lot of people who blow
out their knees, not a lot with Tommy John knee
surgery that's prevalent.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yeah, Paul, based off this poll, like, I think the
worst one may be Tommy John. From a sleeping standpoint,
you have to sleep a certain way. You've had shoulder surgery,
don't you have to wear like a sling while sleeping.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
I just didn't sleep those four months, Warrior. Yeah, I
just stayed up, you know, slept in my z kliner
uh all right, let's do the Aaron Donald game. So
it's two part. Yeah, there we got all right, got
some music? Oh we do.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
The question is, all right, does Aaron Donald join the Rams?
If so, when which day?

Speaker 2 (11:39):
Todd?

Speaker 8 (11:41):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (11:42):
On August twenty third.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
Dylan, now he's done, Marvin yes, August eleventh. I'm gonna
say yes August fifteenth.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
I will say yes tomorrow afternoon.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
Oh well, you got some information here? My people, my
sources none. Okay, So he's going to join the team
on a Friday.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
Right late on a Friday, then take the weekend off,
come back on Monday for the full deal. But the
signing picture of him in a tight RAMS T shirt
tomorrow late afternoon.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
I'm thinking August fifteenth. My daughter gets married that day.
He will overshadow my daughter's wedding.

Speaker 4 (12:27):
Yes, marm do we have to disqualify Todd? His sun
works for the Rams?

Speaker 6 (12:32):
Oo?

Speaker 4 (12:33):
Oh, I could do one of those what is that
bedding saying? Where you know the information you pretend you.

Speaker 6 (12:38):
Dollars makes him catch here?

Speaker 4 (12:39):
Done and think about that. So if that happens at
August twenty third, I will get no credit. You'll just
all accuse me.

Speaker 5 (12:44):
Off.

Speaker 4 (12:45):
There's some type of cheating.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
So late. When's the first weekend? First game that Thursday
or no Wednesday in Australia, right, yeah, they start out
in Australia, thank you Ton.

Speaker 4 (13:03):
August twenty third, I think is like the day or
right after I have Saints preseason game at the Rams.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
It's so far okay.

Speaker 6 (13:09):
Where in Australia is the game time?

Speaker 2 (13:10):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (13:12):
I got to keep that under my hat. Unle's supposed
to tell.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
Yeah, it's at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, which is also
a coffee shop.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
Criikey, yes, Marvin, I think.

Speaker 4 (13:25):
Their first preseason game is August fifteenth.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Uh okay. We have a guy who works here who's
from South Africa, but we have people who think he's
from Australia. So his nickname is crikey or creaky, it
doesn't matter. I mean he's got that accent and he
went to school in Arkansas. He played rugby in Arkansas,

(13:53):
and so the big German's brother Jay keeps calling him creaky.
He doesn't even know, you know, criikee. If it's you
know Aussie, he calls him a creaky Yes, Dylan.

Speaker 6 (14:06):
His his fiance was here yesterday. She was introduced to
me as missus creikey.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah, grikey. So we got new people here, we got
billy tips and so that is the like they have
mood lighting in the bullpen there. That's the new configuration there.
And of course you can see raised cubicle that he
is still complaining about, whining about right there in the middle,

(14:32):
but he has decorated it. I gave him a jersey.
I gave him a Jared Goff jersey. So he's he's
very happy that he's his cubicle looks nice.

Speaker 3 (14:43):
Yes, Pauline, I just checked Australia dot com Dan and
means a mild exclamation to express surprise, shock or amazement.
It's a substitute for the word like JC, like.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
Jesus holy yeah, Craig kee yes.

Speaker 7 (15:00):
Us to the nicknames in this building, it sounds like
the cast of like Cats or something. It's like this
is rum Tum Tuger and this is Grizabella or whatever.
I never saw cats, me neither. I just know the names,
the original original casts, original Cats.

Speaker 6 (15:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
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Tucker went to the Taylor Swift wedding. He can't talk
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Speaker 2 (16:45):
Ross Tucker invited to the wedding The wedding, CBS Sports
Westwood One, NFL college football analyst, host of the Ross
Tuncker Football podcast, and he'll be calling games for CBS
in Westwood One this upcoming NFL season. You want to
start football, you want to start wedding?

Speaker 5 (17:04):
Well, you had to. I don't think you usually have
music on coming back from break when I'm coming on,
So I think that was probably a good leading indicator
of where you want to start.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
All right, how do you get invited?

Speaker 5 (17:17):
Like it's so yeah, it's a great question. It's so
funny that people keep asking that. So I'm I guess
pretty close. I would say with both families.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
Not the reason how do you get the invitation?

Speaker 1 (17:30):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (17:30):
Oh, text message? Text?

Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 5 (17:34):
It was a text message, and I was highly skeptical,
so I screenshoted it and texted it to her dad
and said, I'm guessing. I said, this is a new one.
Pretty sure I should not click on this right? And
he said, click on it. You're invited. That that was
a good day. That was That was a really good day.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
And how did your wife react?

Speaker 5 (17:57):
She did not believe it for a while. We had
to kind of go through it, and then she was
very excited, and then she had a lot of anxiety
about what she was gonna wear and all of that.
It's it is, you know, I know it's public, Dan,
so you know you signed an NDA, so you can't
tell anybody. So you know, we knew since March, so

(18:19):
to keep that quiet. And then of course, because people know,
you know, my connection to both families, people were asking
you a lot and it's like, nah, we'll see or no,
can't talk about it. So, uh, it was it was awesome.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
But you're not allowed to talk about any details. Correct,
That's what it says. But yeah, I mean, if you do,
what's that? What happens if you do.

Speaker 5 (18:44):
Yeah, I don't know. The wedding's over, now what are
they gonna do?

Speaker 2 (18:48):
So?

Speaker 5 (18:48):
No, I you know, I have a lot of respect
for everybody involved. I mean I've known this, you know,
tailors from my hometown, so I've known her family for
over a year years.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
Year from her hometown.

Speaker 5 (19:03):
That's correct. Yeah, that's probably actually correct.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
At this point, is there a sign that says home
of Taylor Swift?

Speaker 5 (19:10):
No, but there probably should be. It's funny, Dan, like
ten years ago I went to a concert in Nashville
and I was talking with her mom before the concert
and I said, you know, I was probably the most
well known person from why Missing Pennsylvania from two thousand

(19:35):
and one to whatever it was two thousand when I
was in the NFL and starting or whatever. I said.
Then Taylor came along and Dan, she looked at me
in dead serious said, well, you know, Ross, just keep working.
He was like, no, nope, I am conceding. I think

(19:58):
I had taken l on that one I lost.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
Yeah, she was giving you a little confidence that you
might get up to Taylor Swift stardom. That It's very
nice of Taylor's mom.

Speaker 5 (20:09):
It was very nice. I will say I know you're
not allowed to talk about the details, but I know
it's public that these people attended. So I will tell
you one funny story. I mean, the whole night, by
the way, it was just like a movie and you
felt like you were on a movie set. I honestly
it was one of the best nights of my life.

(20:30):
But the funny part about it, Dan is because it
was like football guys and their wives, country music people, actors, actresses, whatever.
I think some of the people just kind of assumed
everyone there was like somebody so ill. You know, the

(20:52):
ceremony is about to start. So I'm sitting in the seat.
My wife had to use the bathroom. She's coming back,
you know, from the bathroom, and I look down down
the aisle and she's talking with Russell Wilson and Sierra
or Siara. I don't know how you say it. She
doesn't know them, and evidently, I guess Sierra said, hey,

(21:15):
how are you, and like hug Kara while I'm watching this,
and the next thing I see is this guy coming
up about to find a seat. He looks at Kara,
shakes her. My wife shakes her hand, hugs her, and
then she comes down the aisle. He turns around. It's
Tom Cruise.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
It's Tom Cruise. She comes back.

Speaker 5 (21:38):
I said, did you just hug Tom Cruise? She said yeah,
I'm like, why she goes, I don't know. I think
he thinks I'm somebody else and stuff like that, and like,
I'm obviously biased, but I think my wife's like, you know,
the most attractive woman ever, So I can see why
people like I can totally see Tom Cruise was thinking

(22:01):
my wife was like a country music star or something,
you know, and having no idea, Like Tom Cruise doesn't know.
He's probably like, and she's talking with Sierra or Ciara.
I still gotta find out which one it is. So
Tom Cruise probably just assumed that my wife, who runs
a propane business in central Pennsylvania, was like, was like

(22:21):
a star or something.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
Were you worried? Tom Cruise could have said, hey, what
are you doing after this?

Speaker 5 (22:28):
Definitely not because my wife likes big guys.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
Oh, so I was not worried about. Now are you
calling out Tom for being vertically challenged?

Speaker 5 (22:38):
No, I'm just saying Tom and I have very very
different physiques. Thank goodness. When my wife I d'd me
in college at three hundred and twelve pounds that she
liked that because most Let's be honest, most girls don't.
Like most girls in college, when they're blow drying their
hair or whatever, they're not saying to their friend, hopefully

(23:00):
I can reach I can meet the right three hundred
and fifteen pound guy.

Speaker 4 (23:03):
Tonight.

Speaker 5 (23:04):
Nobody says that, but thankfully my wife feels that way,
and I literally thank God every day for that.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
He's Ross Tucker, CBS Sports, Westwood One and the Ross
Tucker Football Podcast. Do you want to get in on
the Aaron Donald game?

Speaker 5 (23:23):
Well, I mean, he's gonna play at this point. It
would be a huge upset if he doesn't agree. I
think the question is when he comes back, you know,
and it's really obviously up to him. Does he want
to do some training camp? Does he want to just
come halfway through the season. I mean, I think we

(23:43):
all know what this is about. He's already a first
ballot Hall of Famer. This is about another chance at
a championship. So they really can just decide when it
is that he comes back. I'm really curious to see
just how productive he'll be. I mean, obviously he's still
be a good player, will he be clearly the best

(24:04):
two years off seems like a lot. I think the
value is it's not like he has to play fifty
some snaps. They really only need him for ten to
twenty snaps. Although that's an interesting question because I wonder
what he wants to do. I wonder if he's happy
with that or if that would feel weird for him.

(24:26):
It's kind of an It's a unique situation to take
a guy it's basically as good as they've ever been,
and then maybe you think it's in your best interest
to have him in a part time role so he's
fresh and ready to go in the playoffs. But does
he want to be in a part time role? Was
that awkward for him? You know, we haven't seen this

(24:47):
situation that often in football.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
I would let him play only home games if he
wanted to. I would just say, look, I got to
protect you against yourself because the competitor in you is
going to want to be out there. I want you
available in January and February. That's the goal.

Speaker 5 (25:06):
You know.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
I would treat him the way the Sixers are gonna
do Joe Ellenbiid, like we're gonna have you there, but
we want to make sure you're available for the playoffs.
I was reading some of the comments you had to
say about the Browns quarterbacking situation. Sounds like you've already
made up your mind. Camp just opened.

Speaker 5 (25:27):
Well, I haven't made up my mind, but I will
say I think there's a really good chance that both
the Shawn Watson and Shador Sanders start games this year.
So unless one of them clearly outperforms the other in
training camp and preseason to the point where it's so

(25:47):
obvious you have to go with that guy, it doesn't
really make sense to start with Shador and then go
to DeShawn, right. I mean, let's think of this logically.
DeShawn Watson's had a lot of opportunities, it's the last
year of his contract, he's got a new coach. Why
not I mean, you've already paid him this much money.

(26:08):
Why not put him out there week one, give them
a month maybe, and see if he still has something
or there's something there. But if and when you decide
that there isn't anything there, you really want to give
Shador Sanders as large of a sample size as possible
because you want to see the progression. You know, if

(26:29):
it's twelve games, if it's thirteen games, does he keep
getting better? Does he get better enough that you don't
feel like you need to be in the quarterback market
in the twenty twenty seven NFL Draft. That really, on
some level is what this season's about. I think the
Browns are pretty realistic when you think about some of

(26:50):
the trades they've made, the amount of young players they've
drafted the last two years. The Browns know they're not
going to the super Bowl. What this year is about
is continue to develop the young guys and figure out
the quarterback position, hopefully once and for all.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
Yeah, I think that they're a lot closer than people
give them credit for because it's the Cleveland Browns, but
they do have talent. You give up Miles Garrett. I
thought they should have traded him the year before, but
you know, they got a good, good player in return,
and they got some draft picks as well. They just
got to find that quarterback, and I just don't know
if they have that quarterback on their roster.

Speaker 5 (27:28):
I agree with everything you just said. I will say
I thought it was a phenomenal trade. Phenomenal for the
Browns because Jared Verse is a top ten edge rusher
in the NFL. He's on his rookie contract year three,
so you have him for two more years on the cheap.

(27:48):
They can extend him, and so he's not quite what
Miles Garrett is, but he's a lot younger and a
decent amount cheaper, especially for these next three years. Plus
you got the draft choices. They had a phenomenal draft
last year. If they nailed it again this year, I
really do believe that's the core of what will be

(28:10):
the next playoff team in Cleveland, provided either Shador shows
he's the guy or they get the right guy in
next year's draft.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
If you're Arizona, you're over under win total was three
and a half. The last time we've had a team
go into a season. You have to go back to
the expansion years nineteen ninety six. I believe where the
expansion teams coming in was at Jacksonville and Carolina. They're
over under was three wins. This is historical. If you're Arizona,

(28:44):
are you trying to win this year? Knowing if you
have the number one pick, there's a lot of quarterbacks
starting with arch Manning.

Speaker 5 (28:53):
Well, so where this is going to really get interesting
is later in the season. I mean you're gonna have
me on Dan hopefully and we'll have this conversation. Because
there are people out there that think if the season
goes as expected for teams like the Arizona Cardinals, the

(29:14):
Miami Dolphins, maybe the Cleveland Browns, you know, perhaps the
New York Jets, all teams that you know are not
expected to win a lot of games this year, none
of whom have long term solidified quarterbacks. It could be
interesting to see what they do from a personnel standpoint

(29:35):
the last few weeks of the season, if there really is,
you know, a contest, if you will, to see who
ends up getting the number one overall pick. I think
certainly in September, everyone does whatever they can to try
to win. You know, the Cardinals actually have a decent
amount of talent. I mean, if Marvin Harrison Junior can

(29:57):
figure it out, Michael Wilson was good last year. Trey
McBride I might be the best tight end the game.
They just drafted Jeremiah Love. Jacoby Brissett's a competent quarterback,
so they can win some games. It's more about, in
my mind, what you do later on in the year
when it's clear you're going to have one of those
top five picks. You know, there's a lot more value

(30:19):
in the first pick or the second than there is
in the third, fourth, or fifth.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
My daughter's getting married August fifteenth. I don't know if
you and your wife, if you're doing anything, if you
want to go to that wedding as well, No, you
don't have to sign an NDA.

Speaker 5 (30:34):
Well, first of all, I would love to hear your speech.
I would love that. I'll be doing the Eagles Ravens
preseason game. Okay, that's that's my first night, so I
keep it. But I love this. This is on air,
so I am invited, So you know what, I'll ask
my wife. Maybe I'll have to send my regrets, but

(30:54):
maybe my wife can just keep the famous person wedding
train going by doing a damn Patrick's daughter's.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
Wedding because Tom Cruise will be there, so you and
your wife and reunite.

Speaker 5 (31:06):
Is Sam They're going to be at that one too,
because he was really he did a really good job.
Your guy Sandler did a really good job.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
He hasn't said anything, but I think he's going to
be filming Grown Ups three, so he probably is going
to have to politely decline. I think Will Ferrell has
talked about doing a drive by and just acting like
he's in the neighborhood and just walking into the reception.

Speaker 5 (31:33):
Well, can you just start a list of all of
the super famous people that can't come because they're working.
One is Adam Sandler, too is Ross Tucker. We'll see
who else can't make it because we have to be
on TV and we're like a really big deal.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
Somebody else who was at the Taylor's Swift wedding will
be there. Rich Eisen with his wife will be yep.
So they get two big celebrity weddings in the same calendar.

Speaker 5 (32:02):
Year, back to back months.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
Yep. Thank you again. Always great to talk to you
and thanks for sharing.

Speaker 5 (32:09):
Of course. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
Dan. That's Ross Tucker, host of the Ross Tucker Football Podcast.
He'll be working games for CBS in Westwood One. A
couple of phone calls here, how about Carl and Seattle?
Hi Carl, what do you have for me today?

Speaker 8 (32:24):
Hey Dan?

Speaker 2 (32:24):
How you doing?

Speaker 5 (32:25):
It's good?

Speaker 2 (32:26):
Good Martin?

Speaker 8 (32:27):
Hey Dan, I have to agree with you with those
with the situation with the forty nine ers and calsh
adahand man me being a forty nine er fan up
here in Seattle, and I didn't get any of the news. Normally,
I'll get you know, alerts on my phone and about
the diners and whatever else. And it was a week
and a half, almost two weeks, and I got their
first call from you, the first information from you and

(32:48):
the Dan Patrick so and I'm like wow. And then
even now that I'm following up on him, I can't
really find out how much, how well he's doing or
how he's not doing and what's really going on. And
it's just kind of a little mysterious there. Yeah, NFL
doesn't he normally do that.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
And you know, the cover up, or at least feels
I cover up is worse than the crime, as they say,
or the delay. All the Niners had to do is say,
put out a press release. You want to have somebody
you know at a press conference. Don't take any questions.
Just give me the basic details. Your head coach was

(33:23):
in a car accident where he broke his nose, forty
stitches a concussion. Is he okay?

Speaker 5 (33:31):
He is?

Speaker 2 (33:32):
And he will give you updates. We're in training camp
and we waited eleven days for that, and people knew
what was happening. But this is really on the Niners.
If Schefty doesn't want to tell us, or Chris Simms
doesn't want to tell us, you know, that's on them
and their employers. Chris Simms is best friends with Kyle Shanahan,

(33:56):
so I'm not going to him for my new Chefty
breaks news. He gets paid whatever, nine million dollars a
year to break news. This is breaking news and should
have been covered like that. And the fact that we
waited and all of a sudden, as soon as the
Niners or Kyle Shanahan give the thumbs up, now you

(34:19):
can report this. Everybody had something one minute later, You
had a tweet, one minute later, you had a full
story two minutes later. I have a problem with that.
If Kyle Shanahan is my friend, I would tell him
tell the Niners to release a little bit of information here.

(34:41):
Now you can talk about your phone and had your phone,
you dropped your phone, and you were only going twenty
miles an hour. Okay. I don't even care about that.
I care that nobody got seriously injured. The woman in
the other car was not responsible for this, Okay. All
I care is the head coach of the forty nine
ers was in evolved in a serious car accident and

(35:02):
we're getting ready for training camp. That's it. They've made
it worse. I'm more curious because of the information that's
trickling out. This could have been a non story from
the standpoint of suspicion. If you just said he was
in a car accident, we'll have details for you. I

(35:24):
think you owe that to the public. He had an accident,
he's in the hospital, he's going to survive. These are
the injuries, preliminary injuries, and then that's it. But now,
all of a sudden, was he holding his phone, was
he talking on his phone? He dropped his phone? Was
he going twenty miles an hour? You know? He finally
came out and said, look, this was my fault, because

(35:46):
I think initial reports were they were blaming this woman.
So it just I don't know. It feels uneven, but
it could have been I think greatly reduced. If can
you just come out and say, our coach is in
the hospital, he had a car accident. We expect full recover,
take a break back after this.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
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Speaker 2 (36:18):
Lebron James and ESPN are closing in on an agreement
for a behind the scenes documentary series that will be
similar to Michael Jordan's The Last Dance. This according to
the Athletics Andrew Marshaw, the documentary is expected to use
footage from James' entire career, including some never before seen footage,

(36:41):
and it's expected Lebron will have a camera crew documenting
his time with the seventy six ers this season. Not
surprised at all. And see now we're going to look
at how we're going to star. Are comparing documentaries. Is

(37:04):
Lebron going to be out there with tequila and a
cigar and a laptop where you get to show him
some highlights there? Oh okay, I'm not surprised. I was
told that wherever he went the last year was going
to be probably made into a documentary. Now it turns

(37:26):
out that this is going to be full retrospective, look
back open the scrap book with everything he accomplished. Is
it going to be one part longer than Michael Jordan's
Last Dance? Oh? Man, okay, But the Mothership is going

(37:47):
to be in business with Lebron James. Yes, Poe.

Speaker 3 (37:50):
When I saw this post, like Marvin said, not surprising
at all, but it says it'll be similar to Jordan's
last dance. The difference is this was expected I think
for years most of but didn't know the footage of
Jordan in his last season The Bulls existed. Out of
Silver got it, it was locked up, couldn't get Jordan's approval,
so we were surprised that this was a possibility. This
is not a surprise.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
Well, I knew there was a film crew around Jordan
and the Bulls, but I didn't know that it was
going to be a documentary. Adam Silver was with that
crew and I brought this up. Michael Thompson's brother was
I think the cameraman, and so I would just see
this camera crew. I never saw any of their footage,

(38:32):
but they would follow. They had unprecedented access and they
were omnipresent. But I just was told it was NBA Entertainment,
and I was working with NBA Entertainment doing voiceover stuff,
but nobody ever said anything about This is for Michael
and he'll be able to decide if he ever wants

(38:54):
to show this and nobody said that to me. I
didn't even think that at the time. It was just
everybody wanted a piece of the bulls. Sure, why not
have a camera crew follow them? But I never knew
if any of that footage was going to see the
light of day. Chad and Salt Lake. Hey, Chad, and
what do you have for me today?

Speaker 11 (39:14):
Yeah, so I want to get in on this. Aaron
Aaron Donalds. I think he's coming back week eight, So
they'll if they're playing well, and they're and they're really,
really really in contention like your Ray things, he'll be back.
He'll come back here in the bye week and finish
out strong. Get all the rest of meed Toll come
in practice for a couple weeks. They'll play. And while
we're on the subject of invitations, you guys had a

(39:36):
lot of invitations the last little bit. I want to
invite you out here to Salt Lake with us. Various
Rutgers come into town on the seventeenth to do a concert.
It's a Thursday. Rettech has a killer grill set up
here in Salt Lake. When you meet Friday on Friday
and then Saturday, you guys come and hang out with us.
At the Utah State Utah football game. You and the

(39:56):
boys come on out in Salt Lake and let's hang together.

Speaker 2 (39:58):
Well, it's attractive. I do like Salt Lake City, had
two daughters that lived there for a while and they
love their football out there. It's kind of tough for
us to travel during football season though. Take the whole
show there. But thank you, Chad. I appreciate that. Sam
and Iowa. Sam, what do you have for me?

Speaker 3 (40:18):
Hey?

Speaker 12 (40:19):
Dan, thanks for going back, going back to your first hour.
He brought up the chief luxury pick. Taking Clyde Hilaire
always a painful for a Chiefs fan, knowing that they
could have took any running back available in that draft,
and of course the obvious one was Jonathan Taylor, but
also in that draft was DK Dobbins, DeAndre Swift, and

(40:41):
also later on they probably had a better career than
Hilaire was Cam Aker. So of the top five running
backs take and I think the Chiefs took the fifth.
Then running back.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
At the time though, we go, Yeah, the Chiefs did
it again like the Chiefs. They were like the AFC
version of the Eagles. Yeah, they just seemed to get
the right guy, take a chance, move up in the
draft and then Clyde Edwards Hilaire just didn't live up
to the hype. There the billing, there all right, two
hours in the books, one more to go on this Thursday.

(41:14):
Who's in the Oh, you're in the confessional. I am
all right, Marvin is going to be in there. More
of your phone calls as well, each seven to seven
to three DP show email address DP at Dan Patrick
dot com, Twitter handle a DP show, Todd's here, Marvin's here,
Dylan's here, Paula yours truly, and of course the back

(41:36):
room guys as well. Take a break. Final hour right
after this
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