July 28, 2025 • 41 mins
Dan Patrick continues to dive into the NFL "Hope-O-Meter" and examines some of the hopes of more teams around the NFL. 4x Super Bowl Champ Rob Gronkowski breaks down some of the most iconic Patriots moments of his career and shares why he believes his Super Bowl XLIX ring means the most. Plus, Dan gives his thoughts on Happy Gilmore 2 after the film's release over the weekend!
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Speaker 4 (01:08):
Up there now two different hopometers, AFC and NFC. The
rules to get in where the AFC team below five
hundred last year with the most hope heading into this season,
we're trademarking hopometer, just letting everybody know that and pending, yes,
if Big Cat or Levittard or anybody else tries to
steal it, it's ours.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, yea.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Your options for the AFC Dolphins, Jets, Patriots, Browns, Colts, Jaguars, Titans, Raiders.
Early results right now have the Dolphins in first place
with the most hope, followed closely by the Jets and
the Patriots. The Jets early results, early results, I think
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because they fell so far, maybe they have more to
go up.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I don't really know, so like if they double their
win total and like, hey, that's.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Very good, look at us, very good. But how many
teams don't have hope? When you think about the NFL,
most of them have hope because all you're thinking is, hey,
you know what, I'm looking at the schedule, and if
we get past that team and we can win that,
and you know, maybe we could squeeze into the playoffs.
Because you're looking at nine wins like that's going to
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get you into the playoffs, or at least you're at
least going to be on the doorstep. How many teams
can you sit here and say universally they have no hope,
like Arizona has hope? Right, I mean, and this might
be the make or break here for Kyler Murray, but
you do have Marvin Harrison junior. And it feels like
(02:51):
like a couple of years ago, I think they won
nine games, like weren't they eight and one out of
the gate and eight wins last year? So you're kind
of in that window there of making the playoffs. Carolina,
you're it felt like second half of the season gave
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you hope for this season. Cleveland probably don't have hope.
Probably not the Giants.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Hope. Ish you got Russell.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Wilson junior, the third you got a pretty good defense.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Is there another team that you just go no, no, yeah,
PAULI The Saints.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
Mmm, I don't want to be mean.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
They don't feel hopeful this year. Your Browns they feel
hopeful for next year's draft.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Maybe okay, but I look at the Saints. They do
still have some decent players.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
Right when your voice goes up and you talk about
a team, yeah, you know they got a chance.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
That means there reliant.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
They do have some talent there.
Speaker 8 (04:10):
Yes, Marvin, I'm sorry, I feel bad I was pickling
this team to Tennessee Titans. And when you mean hope,
are you talking about possibly making the playoffs?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Well, I think if you have a new quarterback, you
have hope until proven otherwise, and you got the number
one pick in the draft, you expect cam Ward to
be good at some point this season. I would I
would say they have hope. I don't know if like
their hope might be let's let's improve. We have chances.
(04:44):
Let's improve and get some momentum here like they But
there's only a couple of teams that feels like where
you go, they don't they don't have a chance. But
this is what the NFL wants. This is this is
how they built it. They want to give everybody a chance,
or you feel you have a chance, and that's what
a salary cap does. You have that chance. Hey, all
(05:05):
we got to do is win our home games. And
if we win those two games there and you know,
now we got a chance. And it feels like every
year it's like three or four teams fall down, three
or four teams jump up. But that's how the NFL's
designed this, yes, Paul.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
Yeah, the parody of the NFL gives everyone a chance.
It feels like the NBA is the direct opposite, where
maybe at the start of the season, are there are
there ten teams that are in contention? Is that too many?
It feels like there's more that don't have a chance
than have a chance.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Okay, how many teams have a chance in the NFL
to go to the Super Bowl? How many teams in
baseball have a chance to go to the World Series?
And how many teams do you think have a chance
to go to the NBA Finals? Because if I look
at the NFL six or seven teams, maybe maybe maybe
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it's a little bit more than that. Baseball, it's probably.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Six. Now this is to go to the World Series.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
If I said to win the World Series, then that
would change this dramatically. How many teams have a chance
to win the World Series in baseball?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Two?
Speaker 9 (06:18):
Two?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Maybe three two three? NBA?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
How many teams have a chance? Now we've seen that
there's been a different champion every single year the last
what six years, seven years? There's a little more hope
out there football. How many teams? Okay, so we've thrown out.
Maybe there's eight to ten. Baseball is only a couple
(06:44):
Basketball maybe six to eight. Now this is to win
the title. Nobody would have had Indiana in there to
start this season, and due to injuries, you had teams
that fell out that will be back in, you know,
teams that we've come to expect to be there, hees Polling.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
It does feel in the NFL that if you make
the playoffs, there's a chance there's some teams that squeak
in and you don't believe in them, but then you
have those wild card teams like Eli Mannings. But the NBA,
if you're a if you're a nine seed or an
eight seed, you feel like a nice story but not
an actual threat to because of the title game.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
All right, best and worst to the weekend. Once you
saw that you liked you didn't like. Gronk will join
us here in a little bit. Jeff and Tampa. Hi, Jeff,
what's on your mind?
Speaker 10 (07:29):
Today's going with VP ye from our rest of the week.
Speaker 11 (07:34):
We want to sinn a spotlight on the playoff pound
Chicago Cubs.
Speaker 12 (07:39):
And they're twenty three year old MVP candidate Pete Crow Armstrong.
Speaker 10 (07:43):
So he's not getting enough love.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
I mean man because.
Speaker 13 (07:46):
He's twenty three, our first big prospects since the Chris
Bryan era.
Speaker 14 (07:50):
He's gonna on pace for.
Speaker 10 (07:51):
Forty forty and the gold Gloves.
Speaker 11 (07:54):
And not to mention GP, the man is a Native
American Indian with red hair and circles.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
You can't you know?
Speaker 10 (08:00):
He shouted all conventions, breaks all molds.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
All right, thank you, Jeff Pete crow Armstrong getting a
shout out today. It's I think second in the MVP
race odds right now. Kirk in Illinois, Hi Kirk, what's
on your mind today?
Speaker 10 (08:16):
Hey?
Speaker 9 (08:17):
Dpie?
Speaker 11 (08:18):
Hey, I was just wanted to throw my hat in
that love Happy Gilmore too, and you had the best
part in it.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Well, I don't know about that, but thank you. I
did have some good lines there that were written for me.
But reaction has been good. And you know I'm biased
because of Sandler and getting an opportunity to be in
the movie.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I think it's fun.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
That's a it's not Happy Gilmore, but I think it's
a nice sequel to it. It's a nice compliment to that.
Adam in Arizona, Hi, Adam, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 9 (08:52):
Hey? I got a couple of things, sorry.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Man.
Speaker 9 (08:55):
First of all, very good part in the movie man,
great great second hole Pometer Vikings Hope, JJ McCarthy huh right.
But what I really wanted to call about was best
and worst of the weekend too, best English women Lottie
(09:16):
Woade and the english woman winning the Euros.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Thank you, okay, all right, yeah Lottie that was her
first tournament. She was great amateur, I think at Florida
State and they were in Scotland and she ended up winning.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Fritzy.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Fritzy just sent me a note that Jeff and Tampa
said that Pete crow Armstrong, a Native American Indian.
Speaker 15 (09:42):
Hadn't heard that is that It's well redundant to me,
it's interesting.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I think it would be just Native American probably.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
I think you can stop right there.
Speaker 15 (09:49):
That's with the sensitivity on.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
The third oneeh, James in Virginia.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Then we'll take a break. Hey James, what's on your mind?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (10:00):
High five five hah five half? That was my favorite line, man.
I love I love that moment on the bike man.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
I love that.
Speaker 10 (10:09):
I don't know how long it took you to shoot that,
but hoigh five and hip I's all around because Karen
mccorn is back in Washington, manson all this is good,
Washington is right. It roll year or two with Jamon
Daniels amazing on a seven game winning streak, a game
and a half of Fa Phillies and also man Pipy
(10:29):
hoigh By, y'all, I have a great day job.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Thank you James, Thank you James. James.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
James has always had hope for the Commanders and paid
off this past year.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
See, I shot another scene.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
So I'm at the anchor desk and then they had
me working out and I was I went to this
health club and then I had to shoot this scene
over there, and uh, probably three hours there, probably four
hours at the anchor chair where you're just you know,
they're throwing out things for you to do, and then
(11:03):
you never know what's gonna end up in the movie.
But uh there's a funny, little, funny little scene.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Yes, Mormon.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
Anytime my wife sees you in any of these movies,
especially like That's My Boy and Last Night with Happy
Gilmore too, she goes, Marvin, you work for this guy.
Speaker 15 (11:16):
I said, I know, no, you work with me, but
you signed you but you work with me. We work together.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Yes, we do.
Speaker 15 (11:24):
So, Hey, what do you do? I work with Dan Patrick?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Yes you do?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Okay, Yes, all right, we'll take a break. Rob grin
Kowski will join us coming up next.
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More phone calls coming up, as we always do every Monday.
Best and worst of the weekend. What you saw that
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talk to us about that. Good to see you, Rob.
What is the what was the goal of veterans when
you went to training camp?
Speaker 17 (13:40):
Oh, the goal of veterans is to show the younger
players the way, you know, be the leader out there
out on the football field and get that chemistry going
within you know, the team, within the organization and go
out there and show everyone how it's done out on
the football field and try to find ways to get better,
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because you can make big jumps from your rookie year
to your second year.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
But when you're a vet, you got to find.
Speaker 17 (14:07):
Those little tiny details that can you know, make your
game just a little bit better. Compared to when a
rookie is going into a second year, you see big improvement,
but you just got to find those ways to stay
in the league and be better so you can stick around.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Okay, but tell me what you didn't know your rookie year.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
Ah, the playbook, I can tell you that that was
number one.
Speaker 17 (14:32):
Also, understanding defenses, you know you can go over defenses
and meetings and understand what cloud coverage is, what cover
two coverages. But to truly understand a defense, you got
to get repetitions out on the football field. You got
to be able to go against that type of speed,
because it's different from when you're in college. When you
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get to the NFL. Man, it's like everything's going so fast,
And I remember that my first time I stepped down
on the football field, I was like, how am I
going to deal with this? Everything's just racing in my mind.
These linebackers are so fast. Usually I'm so much faster
than everyone else. So it's about getting the repetitions and
the reps and going out there and having the game
slow down for you and getting the feel of the
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defenders out on the football field.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
To me, the defender, you had to keep your eye
out for ooh, like I'm on my team or the opposition.
Speaker 17 (15:26):
Just you know, going against another team. Okay, I mean
I always had a battle with myself. That's what I
always said. If I was on point and I was
feeling my game, I felt like I could go against
anyone else at any other time and dominate, you know.
But if I wasn't on point if I wasn't feeling myself.
If I wasn't, I would say activated, you know, and
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going full go. And I was feeling slow, I felt
like I could get covered by any single person in
the league. There was one time in training camp, I
think it was my eighth year, going into training camp
with the New England Patriots, and I was getting covered
by undrafted free agents just because I wasn't feeling myself.
My body wasn't cooperating with me. So the NFL is
a lot more, you know, a battle against yourself on
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a daily basis. It's hard to beat up every single day,
you know, especially with the beating that you can take.
You want to be active, you want the muscles firing,
and when they're not, I feel like anyone can cover
you at any given time, but just opponents wise, I
would say. In the run blocking game, though, Terrell Suggs
was an absolute monster, absolute beast. And it's not because
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he was just so strong, you know, and scary looking.
It's because he brought it every single play and he
had that burst off the ball. And same with von Miller.
That dude was impossible to get your hands on because he.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Was just so quick. And that burst was just so
lethal that you know he had the advantage there.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
What is Travis Kelsey battling this year?
Speaker 17 (16:56):
Uh, Travis Kelce, What is he battling this year? I
would say he wants to win football games, that's for sure.
He wants to win another championship before he retires. So
he wants to get back to the Super Bowl, which
is a tough task to do. They've already done it
three years in a row. Are they going to do
it four years in a row? They have a chance
for sure. I would also say that he wants to
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go out there. I mean, I don't know, I don't know,
you know him personally like that that and I can't
really speak for him, but after watching, you know, last
year in the Super Bowl, I feel like he wants
to go out there and prove to everyone that he
still has a lot left in the tank and he
can go out there and compete at a high level,
which I truly believe he will, or else he want
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to have came back to play football again this year.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
But at that position, how much of it is just
understanding body position. He's not gonna be running by guys
the way he once did, so now it comes down
to football iq of how smart I can be, and
I don't know how much that plays or for you
when you played that position later in your career.
Speaker 17 (18:04):
Well, that's kind of going back to your first question,
dan Is, when you were talking about what does a
veteran do going into a training camp, Well, it's finding
the little niches to stay around even though your skills
aren't up the power compared to when you were twenty
three twenty four years old. And that happened to me
my last couple of years, especially down in Tampa. It
was just knowing the niche of the game, knowing the defenses,
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knowing where to be in zone coverage. Yeah, I wasn't
running by anyone in my stats weren't particularly like they
were when I was younger. But guess what I was
still contributing because I was blocking guys and also I
was finding the space in the zone and making the
plays when my number was called. Travis Kelce, Yeah, he
probably won't be making moves like he was back, you know,
four or five years ago, but the guy knows the
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game of football. He's such a smart football player and
he has that connection in chemistry with Patrick Mahomes as well,
and that's what keeps him going. Every once in a while,
I'm sure he's going to feel himself and have that
boost to get to get by someone and run by someone.
But overall, I would say his smarts of the game
of football is what keeps them around and what keeps
them at eighty plus catches by just finding the hole
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and sitting down and just catching it and going up
the field for a first down.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Rob grin Kowski, four time Super Bowl champ, joining us.
What Super Bowl ring would you wear to the Hall
of Fame when you're inducted.
Speaker 17 (19:21):
Yeah, I would definitely wear my first Super Bowl ring
to the Hall of Fame when we beat the Seattle
Seahawks and Super Bowl forty nine, it was hands down
one of the best Super Bowl games to be played.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
We were down, we came back, the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 17 (19:34):
Came back when we got up on them, and then
the final drive, obviously with the Malcolm Butler interception to
seal the deal. I contributed. I had a touchdown going
into the first half in the two minute drill. A
Mondola had a touchdown, Julian had a touchdown. Our boy
Shane Veren out of the backfield had like ten catches,
so it was an overall great team win, and on
(19:56):
top of it, it was one of the best Super
Bowls out there and it got me into the super
Bowl club.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
But how surprised were you to be on the sidelines
watching Seattle throw that pass as opposed to give it
to Marshawn Lynch.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
Well, you got to.
Speaker 17 (20:11):
Give credit to Dante high Tower, who has the biggest
casts in the NFL. When he was playing that they
ran a similar They ran a play where they handed
it off the beast mode right before that, and Dante
high Tower made the tackle one on one on beast.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
Mode, which is very very rare.
Speaker 17 (20:27):
But Dante high Tower is such a beast as well
that he was able to bring him down, so that
maybe kind of switched up the play call for that
final play that they had because he already got tackled
on the two yard line from Dante high Tower.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
I mean to throw the ball as well. We were
just prepared.
Speaker 17 (20:45):
Coach Belichick showed Malcolm Butler that play plenty of times
within the weeks following up to the Super Bowl, So
we were just a better prepared team. And that's when
Coach Balichick's coaching comes into credit is because he had
Malcolm Butler prepared for that play, and that's why Malcolm
Butler made that spectacular move to have that interception.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Wait, Dante Hi Tower has the biggest calves.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
He has monster calves. Monster.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Were you jealous of his calves?
Speaker 6 (21:17):
Julian sure was? He talked abottom e.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Did you ever think that we would see this many
pictures of Brady with his shirt off in retirement?
Speaker 6 (21:26):
No, I would have never thought that. He was always
a little bit nervous to even take his shirt off
in the locker room.
Speaker 17 (21:32):
He had more of a dad bot when he was playing.
But like, I feel like he got like trimmed up
a little bit. He kind of has a six pack.
All that baby fat and playing fat that he had
is totally off him.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
And he's looking good. He's worked.
Speaker 17 (21:48):
I think he changed up his workout resume too, like
Reger May and he's like lifting I think more weights
now so he looks better so he can show it off.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
Man. He looking he's looking good right now for sixty
years old.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
He's not sixty, but he's on a yacht every week.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
It feels like, I.
Speaker 17 (22:06):
Mean, he deserves it. I mean, he put in twenty
five plus years in the NFL. You know he deserves
to be on a yacht every single day.
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Speaker 2 (23:34):
You know, you brought up Dante Hi Tower with that
stomp on Beast Mode, but then High Tower has the
sack on Matt Ryan in the Super Bowl as well, right, yeah.
Speaker 17 (23:43):
He We called Dante High Tower Playoff Dante Playoffs or
it it was something like that Playoff Dante because he
showed up every single time the playoffs came.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
If he was in the training room, you know, in
the regular season a little bit, it didn't matter.
Speaker 17 (23:58):
We knew that we could count on Dante High Tower,
and he came through in Atlanta versus the Atlanta Falcons
in that Super Bowl.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Unfortunately, I'd been playing that one.
Speaker 17 (24:07):
I was having a great year and then I went
up to see him and Earl Thomas, the absolute missile
of a guy that he is, he hit me when
I was going up to see him full speed and
punctured my lung and broke my back basically in half.
So I was out for that Super Bowl, and then
obviously he came through in the Super Bowl forty nine
as well when he.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
Stopped be smoke.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
I know you got your podcast with Julian Edelman.
Speaker 12 (24:31):
I was.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
I still can hear Cam Chancellor hit Edelman when he
made the catch, you know, going over the middle, and
then he ended up running like what's seven yards after that.
It's one of the hardest hits that I've heard grunk
and Edelman said he wasn't concussed.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
I still think he had a concussion.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
Put it this way.
Speaker 17 (24:57):
That just shows you know what type of player Julian adolmanez.
Speaker 6 (25:02):
It just shows his toughness as well. He got absolutely
cremated across the middle.
Speaker 17 (25:07):
By one of the hardest hitting safeties and not just
hardest any safety, is one of the biggest safeties and
athletic safeties they'll play the game of football, and he
got right up to keep on running. That just shows
how trained and how programmed that he is and how
bad that he wants to win, you know, the game
of you know, win the games. When he's playing the
game of football, especially with the Super Bowl on the line,
(25:30):
I think he got can cuss as well, but Julian
Edelman is an absolute fighter and an absolute dog, and
that's why he has three Super Bowl rings as well.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
Well.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
He ended up having that catch against Atlanta, the ricochet
that was. I mean, so we're talking about you know,
Brady and Belichick get all the credit, and you know
they should get most of it, but you're talking about
other players who make these small Malcolm Butler like these
small little things you you know, Ammondola, Like, that's what
sometimes I think gets law with great teams is having
(26:03):
the other people that fill in kind of you know
the gray area there.
Speaker 17 (26:07):
Yeah, definitely, and you know, but we've all gotten plenty
of credit and we're all not looking for more credit
because we receive plenty of credit as well. Julian Edelman
receives plenty of credit, Amondola. Every time we see each other,
we reminisce about our championships and about playing together. But
I just want to go back to that catch as
(26:28):
well with Julian Edelman with the Atlanta Falcons, and and
also you saw him get leveled by Cam Chancellor.
Speaker 6 (26:34):
Basically it can cause and keep going. That just shows
the determination that Julian Edelman has.
Speaker 17 (26:41):
You see other guys in playoffs, they don't come through
with that little with that catch that they need to
to keep that drive going in the fourth quarter. I'm
not going to bring up any situations, but it happened
a couple times last year in the playoffs. But a
guy who wants to win, who wants it so bad
and he's just digging for it and doesn't want to
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go lose and go back to that locker room losing.
That's a guy like Julian Edelman. And when you're determined
like that, you're gonna make those plays and you're gonna
make that catch to keep the drive going. And it's
because Julian Edelman wanted it more than anyone else. So
thank you Julian for coming through in those situations.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
How many North Carolina football games are you going to
go to this year?
Speaker 17 (27:24):
It's gonna be tough because I'm obviously doing the Fox
pre game show this year, so I'll be definitely tuning
in no doubt about that.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
I'm gonna wish coach Belichick well, I want.
Speaker 17 (27:34):
To see him win because it's just kind of like
the Deon Sanders effect a little bit, just brings full,
you know, college football to the table and makes it
that much more interesting.
Speaker 6 (27:43):
And coach Blichick also has that effect.
Speaker 17 (27:45):
So if he's winning, it's gonna bring that North Carolina
vibe to a whole other level and you're gonna want
to tune in, and you're gonna want to follow, and
it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Once again to learn more about the contest your local
high school. Friday Night Lights Friday Night, five G Lights,
Friday Night, five G Lights dot com.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Gronk, great to talk to you again.
Speaker 6 (28:05):
Good luck with this, all right, Dan always pleasure man.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Thank you, Rob Gronkowski. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
I go back to like these small things where you
just go that guy did this. You know that Edelman
catch against Atlanta is one of the greatest catches in
Super Bowl history. I mean it's just like it's you
don't even when you watch it, and then you watch
it again, you go, I don't know how he did that.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
I don't know how it was possible. I got it.
I got it. Yeah, I don't tell you I got it.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
I know.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
It's a great moment.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I know, but you get those. He's talking about Veren
getting ten catches. Nobody talks about a lot of these guys,
certainly New England running backs and the value that you
had of them catching passes because that was their running
game for a lot of these Super Bowl years.
Speaker 15 (28:52):
Yes, Marvin also a guy like James White and the
Atlanta super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Should have been the MVP. Should have been the MVP
in my opinion. Yeah, little thing. Stat of the day
brought to you by Panini America, the official trading cards
of the program. Willard in Illinois, Hi, Willard, what's on
your mind today?
Speaker 9 (29:09):
A day?
Speaker 18 (29:10):
First time, long time, six, one, two, twelve, Wondering what
you think about the h buzz in Hollywood after the
wonderful success of Happy Gyomore two with the comparison of
you and Sandler being compared to Redford and Newman.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Huh, well, I'm not surprised, thank you, will Yeah, it's
Tommy Newman and Skip Redford Charles Redford. Yeah, not the
you know, the Newman in Redford you're thinking of?
Speaker 10 (29:40):
Uh?
Speaker 13 (29:41):
Dave in Arkansas, they call me Pittsburgh Day, the official
ambassador of the seven times, yes, seven time super Bowl
Championship winning Pittsburgh Theaters. That tells you where I'm thinking
this team's going. O.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Yeah, wait, are you okay that you know Terry Bradshaw
took some shots at Aaron Rodgers before he got there. Aaron,
you know, took the high road and just said, hey,
Terry doesn't know me. Maybe he needs to sit down
and get to know me.
Speaker 13 (30:15):
I can live with it, you know, it's not that's
the men are their own they're reach their.
Speaker 19 (30:20):
Own animal all of all.
Speaker 10 (30:22):
Let them go in that.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Okay.
Speaker 13 (30:23):
So I got a best and the worse for you, Okay,
best charity count charity tournament this weekend. Hit a hole
in one and worst of the worst of the weekend.
I hit it on the wrong hole.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Yeah, So explain Dave that you were lined up to
hit it to one hole and you ended up hitting
it to another green.
Speaker 13 (30:52):
No, no, no, you miss your you're missing my point.
I hit it on number thirteen, which was that was fine.
I got a hold in one number thirteen. Had I
hit it on number sixteen?
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Oh, then you get up to sixteen. Oh that's not
as good of a story, Dave. Congrats on your hole
in one. But I thought you had a hole in
one on another green that you weren't even aiming for.
But all right, you got it on thirteen, you get
it on sixteen. Then you know you get cash prizes there.
(31:24):
Rich in the Athens Hi, Rich, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 9 (31:28):
DP?
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Great and talk with you guys.
Speaker 11 (31:31):
I was just telling your producer, like Garfield, I don't
like Mondays, but you got to have Rob Gronkowski on
the show a lot more.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
That guy got me fired up.
Speaker 11 (31:43):
He was a great interview and if you had him
on every Monday, I'm tuning in guarantee that guy's is incredible,
great interviewing.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
All right, Well, see what we can do. I mean
I can only take them when they're available, try to
lock them in. We don't pay anybody, so if they
show up.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Great.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Love to have Gronk on. He's always been good. And
as soon as he says his first couple of words
like he's just Gronk, he just that's who he is.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Yeah, PAULI.
Speaker 7 (32:14):
Sometimes we were talking about it while you're during the interview,
which was so much fun. He doesn't even seem like
a real person. He seems like a character you'd create
for a TV show about football, But that's him.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Going in the Hall of Fame, you know, when you're
in the short discussion of greatest tight end of all time,
you know, is Travis Kelcey going to be recognized as
greatest tight end of all time? Does Tony Gonzalez get
shorted because he didn't have postseason success? Like Tony Gonzalez's
numbers are bonkers, they're Jerry Riceian, but he didn't have
(32:53):
postseason success. Kelsey had it, Gronk had it. That sometimes
is the difference. He can look at regular season numbers,
but postseason numbers will overshadow those regular season numbers for
some players.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
YSPA.
Speaker 7 (33:07):
Gronk has six hundred and twenty one receptions in his
career in eleven years, which is well below some of
those guys you talked about. Because of injury, he played
only four completely healthy seasons. However, if you change the
semantics and say when they played, who was the best
tight end of all time?
Speaker 6 (33:23):
Gronk's probably winning that one.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Like at their peak, Yeah, because even in Tampa, all
they cared that Gronk was healthy for the postseason. It
didn't matter the regular season. It was just be healthy
for the postseason. I'm going to go to you a
couple of times and you're going to get touchdowns, and
that's all Brady cared about. Because Gronk couldn't stay healthy
(33:46):
with the way he played, couldn't stay healthy, and he
had these defensive backs that were going in low. I mean,
he had some really serious injuries and he came in
with a bad back, and I think that's why he
went in the second round because he had a back
issue at Arizona. But Kelsey have a thousand catches, Paulie,
(34:09):
can we check on that? But Tony Gonzalez is gosh,
he just did it every single season, yes, Marv.
Speaker 8 (34:18):
And I feel bad for Tony Gozalees because he was
the Kansas City tight end both before Mahomes and it
was like, oh, born too early.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
But he put up those numbers before Mahomes got there,
with Berdie Croyle, Brody Croyle, Elvis Gerbach.
Speaker 15 (34:36):
Trent Green had to run for a little bit with him.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
He did, Yeah, do you have Kelsey's catches, Paulie.
Speaker 7 (34:43):
Yeah, we're getting them up right now.
Speaker 14 (34:44):
He has.
Speaker 7 (34:46):
One thousand and four career catches.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Oh so just went over one thousand.
Speaker 7 (34:50):
Oh yeah, and he had ninety seven last year his
first season in the league. He didn't play a game. Yeah,
and then since then, one thousand and four catches.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
And wasn't he a quarterback in college at the University
of Cincinnati.
Speaker 7 (35:06):
I think part of his recruitment he was like somewhat
positionless his first year.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Yeah, but I think he came in as a quarterback
and then they put him as a tight end. But
you know, I go back to Ditka. Mike Ditka was
the first tight end that was different getting down the field.
It wasn't just blocking that. John Mackie was another one
that could catch a pass and take at the distance.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Then it sort of changed.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
I think Kellen Winslow the second where it became a
weapon where you're not a blocker, You're just a bigger
version of a wide receiver.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Jimmy Graham was that way.
Speaker 18 (35:42):
For me.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
I didn't view him as a tight end. It felt
like he was just a larger wide receiver. But the
position has evolved and it feels like you got to
have at least one tight end, and some of these
teams subscribed to having two of them. All right, well,
take a break, more phone calls, but up next we
will give you our best and worst of the Weekend.
Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation.
(36:03):
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All righty, we'll give you our best and worst of
the weekend, and we get a couple of phone calls
Dom and wyoming.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
Hi, Dom, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 14 (36:22):
Hey?
Speaker 10 (36:22):
Dan?
Speaker 3 (36:23):
How's it going?
Speaker 9 (36:23):
Six?
Speaker 10 (36:28):
Hey?
Speaker 14 (36:28):
I know we had a Garfield on earlier asking for
grouse every Monday, and then you said, make it sound
like it's prey unrealistic. So I was wondering how we
can have Dereck Henry on every week because he asked
to come on every week, and I think we can
get him on, make top job, make Todds's job a
lot easier.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Well, look, we're just kind of at the mercy of
these athletes and their schedules, and I have to be
respectful to that.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
You know, we're on from nine am.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
To noon Eastern and a lot of these players will
have practice, they'll have, you know, and requirements. But if
we can get them on, and ninety nine percent of
the guests we have on or live, you know, the
interviews are live. I like doing a live interview, but
if we can great love to have Gronkong, Derrick Henry on,
(37:14):
Chris in La Hi, Chris, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 19 (37:18):
Good morning, Dan. You know, I just wanted to comment.
I agree with you regarding Tony Gonzalez. I've always felt
that postseason accolades, super Bowls, whatever you want to have,
should not be a prerequisite to get into the Hall
of Fame. It can be used added on to assist
you to get in, but it shouldn't be required for
you to have because to me, it should be who
(37:41):
was the best player at that position, and Tony Gonzalez
clearly was one of the best tight ends. And you know,
especially in football and baseball, where it's a team sport,
you can be great and still not get a championship.
Speaker 10 (37:58):
You know.
Speaker 19 (37:59):
I just think if you're one of the best at
your position and the story of football's best players cannot
be told without you being there, I think I think.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
You should be in so well.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
I think the one position that I would disagree with
is quarterback. We ask our quarterbacks to win championships. It's
unfair to ask them, but that is the bottom line,
and that elevates somebody, and you know that will bring
somebody down a pig. How many Super Bowls? How many
did you play in? How many did you win. You know,
(38:34):
I think it's a plus for Lebron to have played
in as many NBA finals. It's really remarkable. But that's
viewed as a negative by the Jordan's sick of fans.
Mike never lost, Yeah, but what did he do in
those other years he didn't get to the finals. At
least Lebron got to the finals. Brady, you lost super Bowls.
(38:56):
You got to the super Bowl. Mahomes, you've lost super Bowls.
You got to the super Bowl. That's the only way
you can win it is to get there. And I
think sometimes we lose sight of that. Todd Best and
worst of the weekend.
Speaker 12 (39:09):
We mentioned that a few times already, but worth mentioning again.
Best twenty two year old first base when the big
Amish I didn't know he was called that. Nick Kurtz
of Bay's four home runs Friday night in a fifteen
three victory at Houston, and he went six or six
with six runs scored eight RBI. Worst of the weekend.
Two Rockies relievers gave up nine runs in the seventh
inning and an eighteen nothing lost Saturday night in Baltimore,
Colorado fell to twenty seven and seventy seven on the
(39:31):
year heading at the Sunday. They did lose again yesterday
five to one.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Yeah, Kurt's the big Amish. He's from Lancaster. I don't
know if it's Lancaster or Lancaster, but it is Pennsylvania,
which is Amish country, so they call him the big Amish.
Speaker 4 (39:45):
Seatan my best of the weekend, and I've talked about
this kid a little bit before as one of my best.
If there's a kid named Cavin Sullivan. He's fifteen years old.
He played for the Philadelphia Union Academy. He was bought
I think about a year ago by Manchester City, which
was a really really big deal. He get a bunch
of money. There's a lot of hype around this kittle.
(40:06):
He made his debut for Manchester City this weekend for
their under twenty one team and scored in the first
fifteen minutes. It's pretty awesome for a case just fifteen.
He's young, and Pep Guardiola and Manchester City rate him
is probably the best kid at his age.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
In the world.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
A lot of hype, a lot of pressure for that kid,
but so far, all the right people are interested and
he's doing all the right things. Pretty exciting for him.
My other best was Happy Gilmore too. Eminem was awesome.
It was kind of like each scene revealed a new
cameo and all of the sudden you're like, oh my god,
look at this dude. Just really really well done. Very
(40:45):
good movie, Marvin. Best and worst of the week.
Speaker 8 (40:48):
First best Nicola Jokic more emotional after his horse winning
a race and winning the NBA title. Actually more emotion
after winning a bronze medal than winning an NBA titles.
And my other best Luca Dantes on the cover of
Men's Health looking slim and trim.
Speaker 6 (41:06):
MVP.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
Yes, that's my choice. Luca will be the MVP this year. Absolutely.
All right, we'll get to Pauli's best and worst of
the weekend. More phone calls coming up and perhaps a
new poll question. The Billy Joel documentary. If you're not
watching Happy Gilmore two Billy Joel documentary. It's two parts,
(41:27):
it's about five hours total. It's really well done. It's
a very deep dive into a guy who's had a
couple of different careers. Final hour in this Monday, right
after this
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio Our two on this Monday.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Great to be back bands together again. The Minister of Humor,
Fritzie Seat and Marv Pauli, Yours truly, Rob Gronkowski will
join us in about twenty minutes from now. Your phone
call is always welcome, especially on a Monday. Best and
worst of the weekend. Interesting poll question. I don't know
if the results will be interesting, but the question in
the first hour interesting. We'll have that for you coming up.
(00:30):
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my football team. This is about his future as a
head coach at Colorado.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
All right.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Stat of the Day has always brought you by Panadium Area,
the official trading cards for the Dan Patrick Show. Seat
and poll question and results. If you can, yeah, we have.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Up there now two different hopometers, AFC and NFC. The
rules to get in where the AFC team below five
hundred last year with the most hope heading into this season,
we're trademarking hopometer, just letting everybody know that and pending, yes,
if Big Cat or Levittard or anybody else tries to
steal it, it's ours.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, yea.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Your options for the AFC Dolphins, Jets, Patriots, Browns, Colts, Jaguars, Titans, Raiders.
Early results right now have the Dolphins in first place
with the most hope, followed closely by the Jets and
the Patriots. The Jets early results, early results, I think
(01:55):
because they fell so far, maybe they have more to
go up.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I don't really know, so like if they double their
win total and like, hey, that's.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Very good, look at us, very good. But how many
teams don't have hope? When you think about the NFL,
most of them have hope because all you're thinking is, hey,
you know what, I'm looking at the schedule, and if
we get past that team and we can win that,
and you know, maybe we could squeeze into the playoffs.
Because you're looking at nine wins like that's going to
(02:30):
get you into the playoffs, or at least you're at
least going to be on the doorstep. How many teams
can you sit here and say universally they have no hope,
like Arizona has hope? Right, I mean, and this might
be the make or break here for Kyler Murray, but
you do have Marvin Harrison junior. And it feels like
(02:51):
like a couple of years ago, I think they won
nine games, like weren't they eight and one out of
the gate and eight wins last year? So you're kind
of in that window there of making the playoffs. Carolina,
you're it felt like second half of the season gave
(03:13):
you hope for this season. Cleveland probably don't have hope.
Probably not the Giants.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Hope. Ish you got Russell.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Wilson junior, the third you got a pretty good defense.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Is there another team that you just go no, no, yeah,
PAULI The Saints.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
Mmm, I don't want to be mean.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
They don't feel hopeful this year. Your Browns they feel
hopeful for next year's draft.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Maybe okay, but I look at the Saints. They do
still have some decent players.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
Right when your voice goes up and you talk about
a team, yeah, you know they got a chance.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
That means there reliant.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
They do have some talent there.
Speaker 8 (04:10):
Yes, Marvin, I'm sorry, I feel bad I was pickling
this team to Tennessee Titans. And when you mean hope,
are you talking about possibly making the playoffs?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Well, I think if you have a new quarterback, you
have hope until proven otherwise, and you got the number
one pick in the draft, you expect cam Ward to
be good at some point this season. I would I
would say they have hope. I don't know if like
their hope might be let's let's improve. We have chances.
(04:44):
Let's improve and get some momentum here like they But
there's only a couple of teams that feels like where
you go, they don't they don't have a chance. But
this is what the NFL wants. This is this is
how they built it. They want to give everybody a chance,
or you feel you have a chance, and that's what
a salary cap does. You have that chance. Hey, all
(05:05):
we got to do is win our home games. And
if we win those two games there and you know,
now we got a chance. And it feels like every
year it's like three or four teams fall down, three
or four teams jump up. But that's how the NFL's
designed this, yes, Paul.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
Yeah, the parody of the NFL gives everyone a chance.
It feels like the NBA is the direct opposite, where
maybe at the start of the season, are there are
there ten teams that are in contention? Is that too many?
It feels like there's more that don't have a chance
than have a chance.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Okay, how many teams have a chance in the NFL
to go to the Super Bowl? How many teams in
baseball have a chance to go to the World Series?
And how many teams do you think have a chance
to go to the NBA Finals? Because if I look
at the NFL six or seven teams, maybe maybe maybe
(06:00):
it's a little bit more than that. Baseball, it's probably.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Six. Now this is to go to the World Series.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
If I said to win the World Series, then that
would change this dramatically. How many teams have a chance
to win the World Series in baseball?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Two?
Speaker 9 (06:18):
Two?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Maybe three two three? NBA?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
How many teams have a chance? Now we've seen that
there's been a different champion every single year the last
what six years, seven years? There's a little more hope
out there football. How many teams? Okay, so we've thrown out.
Maybe there's eight to ten. Baseball is only a couple
(06:44):
Basketball maybe six to eight. Now this is to win
the title. Nobody would have had Indiana in there to
start this season, and due to injuries, you had teams
that fell out that will be back in, you know,
teams that we've come to expect to be there, hees Polling.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
It does feel in the NFL that if you make
the playoffs, there's a chance there's some teams that squeak
in and you don't believe in them, but then you
have those wild card teams like Eli Mannings. But the NBA,
if you're a if you're a nine seed or an
eight seed, you feel like a nice story but not
an actual threat to because of the title game.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
All right, best and worst to the weekend. Once you
saw that you liked you didn't like. Gronk will join
us here in a little bit. Jeff and Tampa. Hi, Jeff,
what's on your mind?
Speaker 10 (07:29):
Today's going with VP ye from our rest of the week.
Speaker 11 (07:34):
We want to sinn a spotlight on the playoff pound
Chicago Cubs.
Speaker 12 (07:39):
And they're twenty three year old MVP candidate Pete Crow Armstrong.
Speaker 10 (07:43):
So he's not getting enough love.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
I mean man because.
Speaker 13 (07:46):
He's twenty three, our first big prospects since the Chris
Bryan era.
Speaker 14 (07:50):
He's gonna on pace for.
Speaker 10 (07:51):
Forty forty and the gold Gloves.
Speaker 11 (07:54):
And not to mention GP, the man is a Native
American Indian with red hair and circles.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
You can't you know?
Speaker 10 (08:00):
He shouted all conventions, breaks all molds.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
All right, thank you, Jeff Pete crow Armstrong getting a
shout out today. It's I think second in the MVP
race odds right now. Kirk in Illinois, Hi Kirk, what's
on your mind today?
Speaker 10 (08:16):
Hey?
Speaker 9 (08:17):
Dpie?
Speaker 11 (08:18):
Hey, I was just wanted to throw my hat in
that love Happy Gilmore too, and you had the best
part in it.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Well, I don't know about that, but thank you. I
did have some good lines there that were written for me.
But reaction has been good. And you know I'm biased
because of Sandler and getting an opportunity to be in
the movie.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I think it's fun.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
That's a it's not Happy Gilmore, but I think it's
a nice sequel to it. It's a nice compliment to that.
Adam in Arizona, Hi, Adam, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 9 (08:52):
Hey? I got a couple of things, sorry.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Man.
Speaker 9 (08:55):
First of all, very good part in the movie man,
great great second hole Pometer Vikings Hope, JJ McCarthy huh right.
But what I really wanted to call about was best
and worst of the weekend too, best English women Lottie
(09:16):
Woade and the english woman winning the Euros.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Thank you, okay, all right, yeah Lottie that was her
first tournament. She was great amateur, I think at Florida
State and they were in Scotland and she ended up winning.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Fritzy.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Fritzy just sent me a note that Jeff and Tampa
said that Pete crow Armstrong, a Native American Indian.
Speaker 15 (09:42):
Hadn't heard that is that It's well redundant to me,
it's interesting.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I think it would be just Native American probably.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
I think you can stop right there.
Speaker 15 (09:49):
That's with the sensitivity on.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
The third oneeh, James in Virginia.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Then we'll take a break. Hey James, what's on your mind?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (10:00):
High five five hah five half? That was my favorite line, man.
I love I love that moment on the bike man.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
I love that.
Speaker 10 (10:09):
I don't know how long it took you to shoot that,
but hoigh five and hip I's all around because Karen
mccorn is back in Washington, manson all this is good,
Washington is right. It roll year or two with Jamon
Daniels amazing on a seven game winning streak, a game
and a half of Fa Phillies and also man Pipy
(10:29):
hoigh By, y'all, I have a great day job.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Thank you James, Thank you James. James.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
James has always had hope for the Commanders and paid
off this past year.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
See, I shot another scene.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
So I'm at the anchor desk and then they had
me working out and I was I went to this
health club and then I had to shoot this scene
over there, and uh, probably three hours there, probably four
hours at the anchor chair where you're just you know,
they're throwing out things for you to do, and then
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you never know what's gonna end up in the movie.
But uh there's a funny, little, funny little scene.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Yes, Mormon.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
Anytime my wife sees you in any of these movies,
especially like That's My Boy and Last Night with Happy
Gilmore too, she goes, Marvin, you work for this guy.
Speaker 15 (11:16):
I said, I know, no, you work with me, but
you signed you but you work with me. We work together.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Yes, we do.
Speaker 15 (11:24):
So, Hey, what do you do? I work with Dan Patrick?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Yes you do?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Okay, Yes, all right, we'll take a break. Rob grin
Kowski will join us coming up next.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan
Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six am Pacific
on Fox Sports Radio in the iHeartRadio wapp.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Hey, We're Cavino and Rich Fox Sports Radio every day
five to seven pm Eastern.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
We never have enough time to get to everything we
want to get to and.
Speaker 16 (11:51):
That's why we have a brand new podcast called over Promised.
You see, we're having so much fun in our two
hour show. We never get to everything, honestly, because this
guy is over promising things we never have time for.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Yeah, you blubber lit lame and me.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Well, you know what it's called over promise. You should
be good at it because you've been over promising women
for years. Well, it's a Covino and Rich after show,
and we want you to be a part of it.
We're gonna be talking sports, of course, but we're also
going to talk life and relationships. And if Rich and
I are arguing about something or we didn't have enough time,
it will continue on our after show.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Called over Promised.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
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sure you check out over Promised and also Uncensored by
the way, so maybe we'll go at it even a
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Speaker 16 (12:33):
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on YouTube, but definitely join us. Listen over Promised with
Cavino and Rich on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or
wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
More phone calls coming up, as we always do every Monday.
Best and worst of the weekend. What you saw that
you liked you didn't like? Big shout out to Fountain
Blue Hotel in Las Vegas. They took care of Dylan,
the graphics guy, Shay and Irving as they went out
there to cash their winnings because they had Saquon Barkley
being named the Offensive Player of the Year and they
ended up winning twenty two hundred dollars on that ticket
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and they came home with money as well. But Fountain
Blue took care of those guys. Rob Gronkowski, four time
Super Bowl champ and contributor to Fox NFL Sunday, is
the ambassador for the Team Mobile Friday night, five g
lights and it's a competition high school football nationwide celebration
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of hometown pride. Team Mobile is all involved. Gronk will
talk to us about that. Good to see you, Rob.
What is the what was the goal of veterans when
you went to training camp?
Speaker 17 (13:40):
Oh, the goal of veterans is to show the younger
players the way, you know, be the leader out there
out on the football field and get that chemistry going
within you know, the team, within the organization and go
out there and show everyone how it's done out on
the football field and try to find ways to get better,
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because you can make big jumps from your rookie year
to your second year.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
But when you're a vet, you got to find.
Speaker 17 (14:07):
Those little tiny details that can you know, make your
game just a little bit better. Compared to when a
rookie is going into a second year, you see big improvement,
but you just got to find those ways to stay
in the league and be better so you can stick around.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Okay, but tell me what you didn't know your rookie year.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
Ah, the playbook, I can tell you that that was
number one.
Speaker 17 (14:32):
Also, understanding defenses, you know you can go over defenses
and meetings and understand what cloud coverage is, what cover
two coverages. But to truly understand a defense, you got
to get repetitions out on the football field. You got
to be able to go against that type of speed,
because it's different from when you're in college. When you
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get to the NFL. Man, it's like everything's going so fast,
And I remember that my first time I stepped down
on the football field, I was like, how am I
going to deal with this? Everything's just racing in my mind.
These linebackers are so fast. Usually I'm so much faster
than everyone else. So it's about getting the repetitions and
the reps and going out there and having the game
slow down for you and getting the feel of the
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defenders out on the football field.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
To me, the defender, you had to keep your eye
out for ooh, like I'm on my team or the opposition.
Speaker 17 (15:26):
Just you know, going against another team. Okay, I mean
I always had a battle with myself. That's what I
always said. If I was on point and I was
feeling my game, I felt like I could go against
anyone else at any other time and dominate, you know.
But if I wasn't on point if I wasn't feeling myself.
If I wasn't, I would say activated, you know, and
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going full go. And I was feeling slow, I felt
like I could get covered by any single person in
the league. There was one time in training camp, I
think it was my eighth year, going into training camp
with the New England Patriots, and I was getting covered
by undrafted free agents just because I wasn't feeling myself.
My body wasn't cooperating with me. So the NFL is
a lot more, you know, a battle against yourself on
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a daily basis. It's hard to beat up every single day,
you know, especially with the beating that you can take.
You want to be active, you want the muscles firing,
and when they're not, I feel like anyone can cover
you at any given time, but just opponents wise, I
would say. In the run blocking game, though, Terrell Suggs
was an absolute monster, absolute beast. And it's not because
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he was just so strong, you know, and scary looking.
It's because he brought it every single play and he
had that burst off the ball. And same with von Miller.
That dude was impossible to get your hands on because he.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Was just so quick. And that burst was just so
lethal that you know he had the advantage there.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
What is Travis Kelsey battling this year?
Speaker 17 (16:56):
Uh, Travis Kelce, What is he battling this year? I
would say he wants to win football games, that's for sure.
He wants to win another championship before he retires. So
he wants to get back to the Super Bowl, which
is a tough task to do. They've already done it
three years in a row. Are they going to do
it four years in a row? They have a chance
for sure. I would also say that he wants to
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go out there. I mean, I don't know, I don't know,
you know him personally like that that and I can't
really speak for him, but after watching, you know, last
year in the Super Bowl, I feel like he wants
to go out there and prove to everyone that he
still has a lot left in the tank and he
can go out there and compete at a high level,
which I truly believe he will, or else he want
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to have came back to play football again this year.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
But at that position, how much of it is just
understanding body position. He's not gonna be running by guys
the way he once did, so now it comes down
to football iq of how smart I can be, and
I don't know how much that plays or for you
when you played that position later in your career.
Speaker 17 (18:04):
Well, that's kind of going back to your first question,
dan Is, when you were talking about what does a
veteran do going into a training camp, Well, it's finding
the little niches to stay around even though your skills
aren't up the power compared to when you were twenty
three twenty four years old. And that happened to me
my last couple of years, especially down in Tampa. It
was just knowing the niche of the game, knowing the defenses,
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knowing where to be in zone coverage. Yeah, I wasn't
running by anyone in my stats weren't particularly like they
were when I was younger. But guess what I was
still contributing because I was blocking guys and also I
was finding the space in the zone and making the
plays when my number was called. Travis Kelce, Yeah, he
probably won't be making moves like he was back, you know,
four or five years ago, but the guy knows the
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game of football. He's such a smart football player and
he has that connection in chemistry with Patrick Mahomes as well,
and that's what keeps him going. Every once in a while,
I'm sure he's going to feel himself and have that
boost to get to get by someone and run by someone.
But overall, I would say his smarts of the game
of football is what keeps them around and what keeps
them at eighty plus catches by just finding the hole
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and sitting down and just catching it and going up
the field for a first down.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Rob grin Kowski, four time Super Bowl champ, joining us.
What Super Bowl ring would you wear to the Hall
of Fame when you're inducted.
Speaker 17 (19:21):
Yeah, I would definitely wear my first Super Bowl ring
to the Hall of Fame when we beat the Seattle
Seahawks and Super Bowl forty nine, it was hands down
one of the best Super Bowl games to be played.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
We were down, we came back, the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 17 (19:34):
Came back when we got up on them, and then
the final drive, obviously with the Malcolm Butler interception to
seal the deal. I contributed. I had a touchdown going
into the first half in the two minute drill. A
Mondola had a touchdown, Julian had a touchdown. Our boy
Shane Veren out of the backfield had like ten catches,
so it was an overall great team win, and on
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top of it, it was one of the best Super
Bowls out there and it got me into the super
Bowl club.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
But how surprised were you to be on the sidelines
watching Seattle throw that pass as opposed to give it
to Marshawn Lynch.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
Well, you got to.
Speaker 17 (20:11):
Give credit to Dante high Tower, who has the biggest
casts in the NFL. When he was playing that they
ran a similar They ran a play where they handed
it off the beast mode right before that, and Dante
high Tower made the tackle one on one on beast.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
Mode, which is very very rare.
Speaker 17 (20:27):
But Dante high Tower is such a beast as well
that he was able to bring him down, so that
maybe kind of switched up the play call for that
final play that they had because he already got tackled
on the two yard line from Dante high Tower.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
I mean to throw the ball as well. We were
just prepared.
Speaker 17 (20:45):
Coach Belichick showed Malcolm Butler that play plenty of times
within the weeks following up to the Super Bowl, So
we were just a better prepared team. And that's when
Coach Balichick's coaching comes into credit is because he had
Malcolm Butler prepared for that play, and that's why Malcolm
Butler made that spectacular move to have that interception.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Wait, Dante Hi Tower has the biggest calves.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
He has monster calves. Monster.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Were you jealous of his calves?
Speaker 6 (21:17):
Julian sure was? He talked abottom e.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Did you ever think that we would see this many
pictures of Brady with his shirt off in retirement?
Speaker 6 (21:26):
No, I would have never thought that. He was always
a little bit nervous to even take his shirt off
in the locker room.
Speaker 17 (21:32):
He had more of a dad bot when he was playing.
But like, I feel like he got like trimmed up
a little bit. He kind of has a six pack.
All that baby fat and playing fat that he had
is totally off him.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
And he's looking good. He's worked.
Speaker 17 (21:48):
I think he changed up his workout resume too, like
Reger May and he's like lifting I think more weights
now so he looks better so he can show it off.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
Man. He looking he's looking good right now for sixty
years old.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
He's not sixty, but he's on a yacht every week.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
It feels like, I.
Speaker 17 (22:06):
Mean, he deserves it. I mean, he put in twenty
five plus years in the NFL. You know he deserves
to be on a yacht every single day.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
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T mobile is doing is that if you're a small
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Speaker 2 (23:34):
You know, you brought up Dante Hi Tower with that
stomp on Beast Mode, but then High Tower has the
sack on Matt Ryan in the Super Bowl as well, right, yeah.
Speaker 17 (23:43):
He We called Dante High Tower Playoff Dante Playoffs or
it it was something like that Playoff Dante because he
showed up every single time the playoffs came.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
If he was in the training room, you know, in
the regular season a little bit, it didn't matter.
Speaker 17 (23:58):
We knew that we could count on Dante High Tower,
and he came through in Atlanta versus the Atlanta Falcons
in that Super Bowl.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Unfortunately, I'd been playing that one.
Speaker 17 (24:07):
I was having a great year and then I went
up to see him and Earl Thomas, the absolute missile
of a guy that he is, he hit me when
I was going up to see him full speed and
punctured my lung and broke my back basically in half.
So I was out for that Super Bowl, and then
obviously he came through in the Super Bowl forty nine
as well when he.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
Stopped be smoke.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
I know you got your podcast with Julian Edelman.
Speaker 12 (24:31):
I was.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
I still can hear Cam Chancellor hit Edelman when he
made the catch, you know, going over the middle, and
then he ended up running like what's seven yards after that.
It's one of the hardest hits that I've heard grunk
and Edelman said he wasn't concussed.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
I still think he had a concussion.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
Put it this way.
Speaker 17 (24:57):
That just shows you know what type of player Julian adolmanez.
Speaker 6 (25:02):
It just shows his toughness as well. He got absolutely
cremated across the middle.
Speaker 17 (25:07):
By one of the hardest hitting safeties and not just
hardest any safety, is one of the biggest safeties and
athletic safeties they'll play the game of football, and he
got right up to keep on running. That just shows
how trained and how programmed that he is and how
bad that he wants to win, you know, the game
of you know, win the games. When he's playing the
game of football, especially with the Super Bowl on the line,
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I think he got can cuss as well, but Julian
Edelman is an absolute fighter and an absolute dog, and
that's why he has three Super Bowl rings as well.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
Well.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
He ended up having that catch against Atlanta, the ricochet
that was. I mean, so we're talking about you know,
Brady and Belichick get all the credit, and you know
they should get most of it, but you're talking about
other players who make these small Malcolm Butler like these
small little things you you know, Ammondola, Like, that's what
sometimes I think gets law with great teams is having
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the other people that fill in kind of you know
the gray area there.
Speaker 17 (26:07):
Yeah, definitely, and you know, but we've all gotten plenty
of credit and we're all not looking for more credit
because we receive plenty of credit as well. Julian Edelman
receives plenty of credit, Amondola. Every time we see each other,
we reminisce about our championships and about playing together. But
I just want to go back to that catch as
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well with Julian Edelman with the Atlanta Falcons, and and
also you saw him get leveled by Cam Chancellor.
Speaker 6 (26:34):
Basically it can cause and keep going. That just shows
the determination that Julian Edelman has.
Speaker 17 (26:41):
You see other guys in playoffs, they don't come through
with that little with that catch that they need to
to keep that drive going in the fourth quarter. I'm
not going to bring up any situations, but it happened
a couple times last year in the playoffs. But a
guy who wants to win, who wants it so bad
and he's just digging for it and doesn't want to
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go lose and go back to that locker room losing.
That's a guy like Julian Edelman. And when you're determined
like that, you're gonna make those plays and you're gonna
make that catch to keep the drive going. And it's
because Julian Edelman wanted it more than anyone else. So
thank you Julian for coming through in those situations.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
How many North Carolina football games are you going to
go to this year?
Speaker 17 (27:24):
It's gonna be tough because I'm obviously doing the Fox
pre game show this year, so I'll be definitely tuning
in no doubt about that.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
I'm gonna wish coach Belichick well, I want.
Speaker 17 (27:34):
To see him win because it's just kind of like
the Deon Sanders effect a little bit, just brings full,
you know, college football to the table and makes it
that much more interesting.
Speaker 6 (27:43):
And coach Blichick also has that effect.
Speaker 17 (27:45):
So if he's winning, it's gonna bring that North Carolina
vibe to a whole other level and you're gonna want
to tune in, and you're gonna want to follow, and
it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
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Speaker 3 (28:03):
Gronk, great to talk to you again.
Speaker 6 (28:05):
Good luck with this, all right, Dan always pleasure man.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Thank you, Rob Gronkowski. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
I go back to like these small things where you
just go that guy did this. You know that Edelman
catch against Atlanta is one of the greatest catches in
Super Bowl history. I mean it's just like it's you
don't even when you watch it, and then you watch
it again, you go, I don't know how he did that.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
I don't know how it was possible. I got it.
I got it. Yeah, I don't tell you I got it.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
I know.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
It's a great moment.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I know, but you get those. He's talking about Veren
getting ten catches. Nobody talks about a lot of these guys,
certainly New England running backs and the value that you
had of them catching passes because that was their running
game for a lot of these Super Bowl years.
Speaker 15 (28:52):
Yes, Marvin also a guy like James White and the
Atlanta super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Should have been the MVP. Should have been the MVP
in my opinion. Yeah, little thing. Stat of the day
brought to you by Panini America, the official trading cards
of the program. Willard in Illinois, Hi, Willard, what's on
your mind today?
Speaker 9 (29:09):
A day?
Speaker 18 (29:10):
First time, long time, six, one, two, twelve, Wondering what
you think about the h buzz in Hollywood after the
wonderful success of Happy Gyomore two with the comparison of
you and Sandler being compared to Redford and Newman.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Huh, well, I'm not surprised, thank you, will Yeah, it's
Tommy Newman and Skip Redford Charles Redford. Yeah, not the
you know, the Newman in Redford you're thinking of?
Speaker 10 (29:40):
Uh?
Speaker 13 (29:41):
Dave in Arkansas, they call me Pittsburgh Day, the official
ambassador of the seven times, yes, seven time super Bowl
Championship winning Pittsburgh Theaters. That tells you where I'm thinking
this team's going. O.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Yeah, wait, are you okay that you know Terry Bradshaw
took some shots at Aaron Rodgers before he got there. Aaron,
you know, took the high road and just said, hey,
Terry doesn't know me. Maybe he needs to sit down
and get to know me.
Speaker 13 (30:15):
I can live with it, you know, it's not that's
the men are their own they're reach their.
Speaker 19 (30:20):
Own animal all of all.
Speaker 10 (30:22):
Let them go in that.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Okay.
Speaker 13 (30:23):
So I got a best and the worse for you, Okay,
best charity count charity tournament this weekend. Hit a hole
in one and worst of the worst of the weekend.
I hit it on the wrong hole.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Yeah, So explain Dave that you were lined up to
hit it to one hole and you ended up hitting
it to another green.
Speaker 13 (30:52):
No, no, no, you miss your you're missing my point.
I hit it on number thirteen, which was that was fine.
I got a hold in one number thirteen. Had I
hit it on number sixteen?
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Oh, then you get up to sixteen. Oh that's not
as good of a story, Dave. Congrats on your hole
in one. But I thought you had a hole in
one on another green that you weren't even aiming for.
But all right, you got it on thirteen, you get
it on sixteen. Then you know you get cash prizes there.
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Rich in the Athens Hi, Rich, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 9 (31:28):
DP?
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Great and talk with you guys.
Speaker 11 (31:31):
I was just telling your producer, like Garfield, I don't
like Mondays, but you got to have Rob Gronkowski on
the show a lot more.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
That guy got me fired up.
Speaker 11 (31:43):
He was a great interview and if you had him
on every Monday, I'm tuning in guarantee that guy's is incredible,
great interviewing.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
All right, Well, see what we can do. I mean
I can only take them when they're available, try to
lock them in. We don't pay anybody, so if they
show up.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Great.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Love to have Gronk on. He's always been good. And
as soon as he says his first couple of words
like he's just Gronk, he just that's who he is.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Yeah, PAULI.
Speaker 7 (32:14):
Sometimes we were talking about it while you're during the interview,
which was so much fun. He doesn't even seem like
a real person. He seems like a character you'd create
for a TV show about football, But that's him.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Going in the Hall of Fame, you know, when you're
in the short discussion of greatest tight end of all time,
you know, is Travis Kelcey going to be recognized as
greatest tight end of all time? Does Tony Gonzalez get
shorted because he didn't have postseason success? Like Tony Gonzalez's
numbers are bonkers, they're Jerry Riceian, but he didn't have
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postseason success. Kelsey had it, Gronk had it. That sometimes
is the difference. He can look at regular season numbers,
but postseason numbers will overshadow those regular season numbers for
some players.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
YSPA.
Speaker 7 (33:07):
Gronk has six hundred and twenty one receptions in his
career in eleven years, which is well below some of
those guys you talked about. Because of injury, he played
only four completely healthy seasons. However, if you change the
semantics and say when they played, who was the best
tight end of all time?
Speaker 6 (33:23):
Gronk's probably winning that one.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Like at their peak, Yeah, because even in Tampa, all
they cared that Gronk was healthy for the postseason. It
didn't matter the regular season. It was just be healthy
for the postseason. I'm going to go to you a
couple of times and you're going to get touchdowns, and
that's all Brady cared about. Because Gronk couldn't stay healthy
(33:46):
with the way he played, couldn't stay healthy, and he
had these defensive backs that were going in low. I mean,
he had some really serious injuries and he came in
with a bad back, and I think that's why he
went in the second round because he had a back
issue at Arizona. But Kelsey have a thousand catches, Paulie,
(34:09):
can we check on that? But Tony Gonzalez is gosh,
he just did it every single season, yes, Marv.
Speaker 8 (34:18):
And I feel bad for Tony Gozalees because he was
the Kansas City tight end both before Mahomes and it
was like, oh, born too early.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
But he put up those numbers before Mahomes got there,
with Berdie Croyle, Brody Croyle, Elvis Gerbach.
Speaker 15 (34:36):
Trent Green had to run for a little bit with him.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
He did, Yeah, do you have Kelsey's catches, Paulie.
Speaker 7 (34:43):
Yeah, we're getting them up right now.
Speaker 14 (34:44):
He has.
Speaker 7 (34:46):
One thousand and four career catches.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Oh so just went over one thousand.
Speaker 7 (34:50):
Oh yeah, and he had ninety seven last year his
first season in the league. He didn't play a game. Yeah,
and then since then, one thousand and four catches.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
And wasn't he a quarterback in college at the University
of Cincinnati.
Speaker 7 (35:06):
I think part of his recruitment he was like somewhat
positionless his first year.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Yeah, but I think he came in as a quarterback
and then they put him as a tight end. But
you know, I go back to Ditka. Mike Ditka was
the first tight end that was different getting down the field.
It wasn't just blocking that. John Mackie was another one
that could catch a pass and take at the distance.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Then it sort of changed.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
I think Kellen Winslow the second where it became a
weapon where you're not a blocker, You're just a bigger
version of a wide receiver.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Jimmy Graham was that way.
Speaker 18 (35:42):
For me.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
I didn't view him as a tight end. It felt
like he was just a larger wide receiver. But the
position has evolved and it feels like you got to
have at least one tight end, and some of these
teams subscribed to having two of them. All right, well,
take a break, more phone calls, but up next we
will give you our best and worst of the Weekend.
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All righty, we'll give you our best and worst of
the weekend, and we get a couple of phone calls
Dom and wyoming.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
Hi, Dom, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 14 (36:22):
Hey?
Speaker 10 (36:22):
Dan?
Speaker 3 (36:23):
How's it going?
Speaker 9 (36:23):
Six?
Speaker 10 (36:28):
Hey?
Speaker 14 (36:28):
I know we had a Garfield on earlier asking for
grouse every Monday, and then you said, make it sound
like it's prey unrealistic. So I was wondering how we
can have Dereck Henry on every week because he asked
to come on every week, and I think we can
get him on, make top job, make Todds's job a
lot easier.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Well, look, we're just kind of at the mercy of
these athletes and their schedules, and I have to be
respectful to that.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
You know, we're on from nine am.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
To noon Eastern and a lot of these players will
have practice, they'll have, you know, and requirements. But if
we can get them on, and ninety nine percent of
the guests we have on or live, you know, the
interviews are live. I like doing a live interview, but
if we can great love to have Gronkong, Derrick Henry on,
(37:14):
Chris in La Hi, Chris, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 19 (37:18):
Good morning, Dan. You know, I just wanted to comment.
I agree with you regarding Tony Gonzalez. I've always felt
that postseason accolades, super Bowls, whatever you want to have,
should not be a prerequisite to get into the Hall
of Fame. It can be used added on to assist
you to get in, but it shouldn't be required for
you to have because to me, it should be who
(37:41):
was the best player at that position, and Tony Gonzalez
clearly was one of the best tight ends. And you know,
especially in football and baseball, where it's a team sport,
you can be great and still not get a championship.
Speaker 10 (37:58):
You know.
Speaker 19 (37:59):
I just think if you're one of the best at
your position and the story of football's best players cannot
be told without you being there, I think I think.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
You should be in so well.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
I think the one position that I would disagree with
is quarterback. We ask our quarterbacks to win championships. It's
unfair to ask them, but that is the bottom line,
and that elevates somebody, and you know that will bring
somebody down a pig. How many Super Bowls? How many
did you play in? How many did you win. You know,
(38:34):
I think it's a plus for Lebron to have played
in as many NBA finals. It's really remarkable. But that's
viewed as a negative by the Jordan's sick of fans.
Mike never lost, Yeah, but what did he do in
those other years he didn't get to the finals. At
least Lebron got to the finals. Brady, you lost super Bowls.
(38:56):
You got to the super Bowl. Mahomes, you've lost super Bowls.
You got to the super Bowl. That's the only way
you can win it is to get there. And I
think sometimes we lose sight of that. Todd Best and
worst of the weekend.
Speaker 12 (39:09):
We mentioned that a few times already, but worth mentioning again.
Best twenty two year old first base when the big
Amish I didn't know he was called that. Nick Kurtz
of Bay's four home runs Friday night in a fifteen
three victory at Houston, and he went six or six
with six runs scored eight RBI. Worst of the weekend.
Two Rockies relievers gave up nine runs in the seventh
inning and an eighteen nothing lost Saturday night in Baltimore,
Colorado fell to twenty seven and seventy seven on the
(39:31):
year heading at the Sunday. They did lose again yesterday
five to one.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Yeah, Kurt's the big Amish. He's from Lancaster. I don't
know if it's Lancaster or Lancaster, but it is Pennsylvania,
which is Amish country, so they call him the big Amish.
Speaker 4 (39:45):
Seatan my best of the weekend, and I've talked about
this kid a little bit before as one of my best.
If there's a kid named Cavin Sullivan. He's fifteen years old.
He played for the Philadelphia Union Academy. He was bought
I think about a year ago by Manchester City, which
was a really really big deal. He get a bunch
of money. There's a lot of hype around this kittle.
(40:06):
He made his debut for Manchester City this weekend for
their under twenty one team and scored in the first
fifteen minutes. It's pretty awesome for a case just fifteen.
He's young, and Pep Guardiola and Manchester City rate him
is probably the best kid at his age.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
In the world.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
A lot of hype, a lot of pressure for that kid,
but so far, all the right people are interested and
he's doing all the right things. Pretty exciting for him.
My other best was Happy Gilmore too. Eminem was awesome.
It was kind of like each scene revealed a new
cameo and all of the sudden you're like, oh my god,
look at this dude. Just really really well done. Very
(40:45):
good movie, Marvin. Best and worst of the week.
Speaker 8 (40:48):
First best Nicola Jokic more emotional after his horse winning
a race and winning the NBA title. Actually more emotion
after winning a bronze medal than winning an NBA titles.
And my other best Luca Dantes on the cover of
Men's Health looking slim and trim.
Speaker 6 (41:06):
MVP.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
Yes, that's my choice. Luca will be the MVP this year. Absolutely.
All right, we'll get to Pauli's best and worst of
the weekend. More phone calls coming up and perhaps a
new poll question. The Billy Joel documentary. If you're not
watching Happy Gilmore two Billy Joel documentary. It's two parts,
(41:27):
it's about five hours total. It's really well done. It's
a very deep dive into a guy who's had a
couple of different careers. Final hour in this Monday, right
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