August 31, 2026 • 40 mins
Dan and the Danettes discuss the relatively empty stadium that greeted the USC Trojans football team in their opening game of the season. And college football insider Joel Klatt drops by and reacts to the opening salvo from college football over the weekend.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to The Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio. Hour two on this Monday. We're not fully assembled.
Fritzie is going through life-threatening surgery on the tip of
his finger. At least, if you talk to Todd, he
would lead you to believe that this is a very
serious surgery. I think it's a procedure, but Todd is
(00:24):
not here today. We do wish him well. Every time
I see this picture, if you're watching on Peacock, Todd
has got his shower cap on and he's got his little,
what's the outfit that you wear?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
The smock. Smock.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Gown.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Gown. Yeah, the gown. Anybody ever put on a gown
the other way?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
At the hospital. I think that's frowned upon. I have
a friend, an anesthesiologist, and he said, he goes, we
never knew if the guy was like having fun with us,
but he came out of the dressing room and he
had it tied in the front and he was just
walking around. And one of the nurses just about passed
(01:12):
out saying, no, no, no, no. You just turn it around,
turn it around. Oh, so they don't know if he
was joking or not. But, you know, That seems like
something that Jackass would do, you know, that those guys
would do something like that.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Steve-O.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yes, Dylan?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Well, actually, it makes more sense if you think about
like a bathrobe.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
You tie it around the open parts in the front.
Maybe I got confused.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah, somebody's got to tie it for you, right? It's
kind of a weird thing. Stat of the Day brought
to you by Panini America, the official trading cards of
this program. Labor Day weekend on NBC and Peacock. You
got baseball. You got Braves-Phillies. Let's see. Braves-Phillies and the Twins.
(01:57):
And then Cardinals-Giants. Wait a minute. Hold on. So back-to-back
days of baseball action. Sunday, Braves-Phillies and Twins. Are we
missing a team here, Marvin?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I think we might.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
The Twins are... Is it like an inter-squad game? Twins
at White Sox. Twins at the White Sox. Then it's
the Cardinals and the Giants. Labor Day weekend on NBC.
And Peacock. 877-3DP-SHOW. Email address dp at danpatrick.com. Twitter handle
(02:30):
at dpshow. Good morning, if you're watching on Peacock. Thank
you for downloading the app. Joel Klatt, lead college football
analyst for Fox. He will join us coming up in
a little bit. Big win by Bill Belichick. Perhaps you
heard about it. How many other games this year do
you think Audiences will watch the entire North Carolina game.
(02:50):
This was a standalone against TCU in Dublin, great atmosphere,
and they hold on to win 15-10. I'm guessing the
Notre Dame game, maybe, but I don't know how many
North Carolina games you'll actually watch the entire game. Yes, Paul?
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Carolina's got the week off after the big win in Dublin.
Then they're at East Tennessee State, Dan. Then at Clemson,
September 19th, then They host Notre Dame October 3rd.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah, that'll be a big one for them. You know,
you got Clemson. We'll get a better sense of just
how good they are with Clemson. But Clemson has LSU
coming up, so we're going to get a pretty good
test right away with that. USC beat San Jose State 42-26. Now,
they said 51,000 were there at the Coliseum. Boy, it
(03:46):
looked empty. Now, granted, it's over, what is it, 94,000?
But they said that part of the reason why that
they didn't have a big crowd was it was too hot,
94 degrees.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Three in the afternoon. Twelve locally, by the way. Season
opener in 2009 against San Jose State. The temperature was
90 degrees at kickoff, 1230 local. Attended by 84,000 there.
So they somehow brought out 30,000 more with the temperature
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four degrees cooler. You know, this might be a crowd,
you know, Los Angeles saying, we need to see a
little bit more. You know, you should rough up San
Jose State. But they're freshman class. Ideal.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Great.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And this feels like one of those, okay, you need
a special season from Lincoln Riley with this team. But
51,000 against San Jose State. They didn't even cover, did they, Dylan?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
They did not. They were 38.5, 39.5 point favorites.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Well, didn't it start out like 28 to nothing? And
then you're going, okay. And then I think they started
putting in second team, third teams. And then 42-26. I'm
all for playing the backups, but right out of the
gate in a season that feels like you need to
have a statement season, I think you got to, you know,
(05:27):
let's just go and win this, you know, 42-7. You're
up 28-0 at halftime. You got to, you know, that
looks like it was a competitive game. It wasn't, but 42-26,
not good. Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yeah, I feel like the modern USC team has always
been stacked with talent, particularly skill position players, and they
just haven't been able to put it together at all recently.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
They had.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Multiple receivers taken in the first and beginning of the
second round last year.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
It's there.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
It just isn't working. Thank you, Dylan.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
They need to show they can play defense. Yes, correct.
I don't want to give up 26 to San Jose State.
The problem has been the defense hasn't been good. That's
where you want to have, okay, 28 to nothing is
the final. I'm okay with that. 42-26, okay. What are
we doing here?
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Let's go.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
In the past eight years, USC has had one season
where they won 10 or more games.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
For them, that's like a drought. that's an eternity.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
For them.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
Alrighty.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Stat of the day brought to you by Panini America,
the official trading cards of the program. Uh, Dylan, poll
question results from hour one. And what are we doing
in hour two?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Well, Polly sent this one over off of the, uh,
there in Donald news. Who's the happiest today? Sean McVay,
Miles Garrett, or Mrs.
Speaker 8 (06:57):
Donald.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Well, I don't think she wants him out of the house,
but I'd think that she had to give her blessing
on this. Um, Yeah, I think she's happy if he's happy,
if he really wants to come back. Here is Aaron
Donald talking about the role that his wife played in
his decision.
Speaker 9 (07:19):
Having them hard conversations, figuring things out, what I wanted
to do, if I was to do it, how would
we do it?
Speaker 2 (07:24):
And my wife was on board.
Speaker 9 (07:27):
She said, if you want to do this, she's with
me 100%, and there was days when I was like,
I don't know. She was like, Aaron, you want to
do this. Don't make no decisions faster than what you
need to make a decision. Take your time, man. You know,
she played a huge part of, you know, me figuring
this out through this because it really wasn't an easy decision.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
It took a lot of, you.
Speaker 9 (07:44):
Know, hard work, a lot of long conversations with a
lot of different people, but felt good enough to, you know,
make the decision to come back and do this.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah, I don't know if money was the big obstacle here.
He got $ 20 million chance to make $ 30 million. Now
he's worth $ 40 million if he's healthy, you know, ready
to go, ready for a full season. I don't know
how much he plays in the first month of the season.
I wouldn't be pushing him and Sean McVay. Sean McVay
(08:13):
is going to have to probably protect Aaron Donald from
Aaron Donald, and that would be wise. I wouldn't have him.
If he wants to get suited up in Australia, great,
but you're not playing. In fact, I wouldn't even let
him get suited up because he might be like, Coach,
let me go in for just a couple plays. Be like, nope,
I don't want you here now. I want you here
(08:34):
in February. Uh, pull question for our two Dylan.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Well, uh, off that same topic, Dan, if you're Aaron Donald,
what's the bigger draw to come back next season or
just if you're anyone 20 to $ 30 million or a
chance at another Superbowl?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Well, I think they're intertwined that you get paid with
your goal being the Superbowl at the end of the year.
I don't think he's cut, you know, he didn't come
back for 5 million. He wanted to be paid for,
and the opportunity to have incentives and win a Super Bowl,
another Super Bowl. And I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
It's weird.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
You know, if it's a quarterback, then we'd go, oh,
another Super Bowl. That moves him up the list here.
I don't know if that matters with any other position
where you go, man, he's got this many defensive players
of the year awards, two Super Bowls, eight-time first-team All-Pro award.
I mean, does that put him in the Reggie White,
(09:36):
Lawrence Taylor? Is he going to be on a short
list here of greatest defensive players of all time? Another
Super Bowl, another All-Pro season? Yeah, then he's going to
be in that conversation. Now, I thought, and I still
think Reggie White's the greatest defensive player I ever saw.
(09:56):
Lawrence Taylor, for a window of about five to seven years, five,
six years, oh my goodness, and being at field level
to watch him, their home games when I would go
when I was working in New York. That was a treat.
I mean, not for the opposition, but I was watching
(10:16):
somebody It's like when I watch Usain Bolt at the
London Olympics in person. It's a whole different experience. Because
when you watch on TV, they keep them in the frame.
They keep them focused. It's like, oh, okay, he's running fast.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
No.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
No.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
When he makes the turn and he's running the 200
in London, and I just remember saying to my wife,
he's going to win. And she goes, what? wait, the
race is over? I go, no. I mean, it was
that quick. Went by, boom. And I go, oh my God,
it's over. But if this was, I was watching it
(10:56):
on TV, you'd go, oh, okay. Man, he looks like
he's running really fast. Fast is when you see it
in person. Lawrence Taylor getting off the line of scrimmage
and you go, oh my God. Like he's in the
backfield so quick. Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
Do you feel that Lawrence Taylor, it's going to be
hard to replace Lawrence Taylor in many people's eyes as
the greatest ever because of the accolades plus his influence
on basically creating a position. And also your favorite thing,
people always have a Lawrence Taylor story about playing against him.
So I think it almost makes him a mythical figure,
which it's hard to, you know, Trump that.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
And I think that having that impact at that position,
and then all of a sudden you had those who
now teams were going out to get somebody to block him.
Or Joe Gibbs devising something for the then Redskins to
have two people on Lawrence Taylor. So you had Joe Jacoby,
who was, I think he's a Hall of Fame tackle.
(11:59):
If he isn't, he should be. But they would have
a tight end, and they would have Joe Jacoby. And
they were on Lawrence Taylor duty. Mean Joe Green was
also one of those. That was different. Mean Joe Green
and Reggie White were two players where I just went, wow.
(12:19):
Is Joe Jacoby in the Hall of Fame, Paul? Dan,
he is not.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Playing for those teams?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Not in the Hall of Fame. Yeah. Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
So another guy you got to get in. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Yeah. Trying to think anybody else on that list, defensive players.
I mean, J.J. Watt is there, certainly. But you're getting
that five- to seven-year window. Reggie White, didn't he win
Defensive Player of the Year like 10 years apart, Paul?
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Reggie White's silly, if you want to look at his stats.
He was first-team All-Pro at 24 and at age 37.
That doesn't even make sense. I had to double-check it. He,
after his rookie year, he finished second in Rookie of
the Year, he was first or second-team All-Pro for 15
consecutive seasons.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
He didn't have one off-year.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
And look, I know everybody's going to inundate me with
other defensive players. I'm talking about me, my experience of
watching these players in person. When Philadelphia played the Giants,
I got to see that Philadelphia front four. The Steelers,
I only saw them as a fan one time in
person against the Cincinnati Bengals. And I still maintain that
(13:34):
Steeler defense is the best defense I ever saw. Linebackers,
defensive backs, then you had, you know, a great front four. Um,
and I know the, you know, purple people eaters, fearsome,
foursome there. There've been a lot of great defenses. I'm,
I'm only telling you from my experience of what I
saw in person.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Yes, Mark.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
I just found this out.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Lawrence Hill one league MVP.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (13:58):
What?
Speaker 6 (13:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (14:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
And I'll bet every quarterback voted for him. It's like,
let's not get him angry or angrier. Yeah, Paulie.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Sometimes I think Bruce Smith, the defensive end of Buffalo,
gets a little bit of short change because there was
so much talent in Buffalo and he was in the
Reggie White era. I have him 10-time All-Pro.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Yikes. They didn't win the Super Bowl. And for some reason,
it just had this, like the Minnesota Vikings, that they
just had this label of, Somehow that was detrimental to
your career. And I kept thinking, they got to the
Super Bowl four consecutive years. And it almost felt like, yeah,
but they lost all four years. They got there. It's
(14:44):
like LeBron James. Yeah, they got to the finals. How
many times did he lose? He got there. Tom Brady,
almost half of his career, he's in the Super Bowl. Yes, Marv.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
With guys like Lawrence Taylor, Reggie White, and Aaron Donald,
they all have something that Bruce Smith doesn't.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
A memorable moment in a Super Bowl.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
Where Reggie White, he could have won game MVP for
how dominant he was against the Patriots.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yeah. Aaron Donald basically winning the Super Bowl against the Bengals. Yeah,
with getting to Joe Burrow there at the end. If
Joe Burrow, if they don't get to Joe Burrow, the
Bengals win the Super Bowl. Because I think the all-22
camera shows, Jamar Chase is– He's wide open.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yeah, Paul.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
That's a sack off by Aaron Donald in the Super Bowl.
There's a couple people open.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
The Bengals win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
They do.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Yeah, Paul.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
It was a fourth and two, so let's say Joe
Burrow doesn't get rushed. They had 45 seconds and a
timeout to get a field goal to send it to overtime.
So there's multiple ways they could have tied that up.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
But I think Jamar Chase is wide open to score
a touchdown. The defensive back falls down. If Aaron Donald
doesn't make that sack, the Bengals probably win the Super Bowl.
All right. We'll talk to Joel Klatt. We'll look at
this past weekend's matchups with North Carolina, of course, the
(16:10):
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Speaker 1 (17:04):
College football ramps up a little bit more than week zero.
Joel Klatt teams up with Gus Johnson, Jenny Taft on
Fox Sports. Big noon Saturday, starting this Saturday, Indiana hosting
North Texas. And then following Saturday, it'll be Oklahoma and Michigan.
Good to see you again, Joel. Help us not overreact
(17:26):
to North Carolina winning against TCU.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Well, I think a small bit of overreaction may be appropriate,
only because of how well they played on the defensive
side and the way that they adjusted in that game
after the first three series. TCU scores 10 points, and
then from that point on, I thought that the defense
for UNC played excellent. They didn't allow explosive plays. They
(17:54):
largely shut down the run game. And if they can
just do that, they'll be more competitive than they were
a year ago. You know, yes, this might not be
Kurt Cignetti at Indiana the first year going, you know,
10-2 or 11-1 and getting into the college football playoff.
But this is going to be a more competitive team. Remember,
this exact same game a year ago was a blowout.
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TCU hammered North Carolina. And so that growth, I think,
provides a fair bit of optimism that this team under
Bill Belichick is going to be more competitive from the
4-8 version that we saw a year ago. I think
that they still struggled offensively. The lack of run game
is concerning, to say the least. But if they can
(18:38):
continue to play that way defensively, they'll at least be
in games. And I think with with a guy that's
instilling the type of situational football and you would think
the discipline, they could possibly win some of those games
and maybe they can be a bowl team. They only
had three penalties, Dan. And so those things are I'm
optimistic about. And if there's something to overreact about, it's like, OK,
(19:00):
this team's probably going to be in a lot of
one possession games during the course of the year.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
More pressure this year. I know it's going to sound
strange here, but Lane Kiffin or Dabo Sweeney.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Man, you know, Dan Dabo, doesn't Dabo just have enough
in the tank, right? I mean, he's won national championships
at Clemson. Meanwhile, Lane Kiffin. Lane Kiffin makes one of
the more selfish moves in the history of college football.
And I'm not blaming him for it, but it was.
(19:35):
Let's just call it what it was. Leaving Ole Miss
in the middle of their playoff run. And now he's
at the center of this eligibility controversy, which is a mess.
And they spent upwards of $ 45 million. on the roster,
all that money to get him. And you look at
the expectations at LSU, and I personally think that it's
(19:58):
not about at LSU, like, oh, we just want to
be competitive. No, no, you've got to go compete for
SEC titles. You've got to go to the playoff. You've
got to win games in the playoff. I don't know
if that's the expectation of Clemson fans right now. I
think that they would love that, certainly. But if they
look around and they really look at their roster and
they look at what happened a year ago, I don't
(20:19):
know if that level of expectation is there for the Tigers.
So more pressure, I would say, is on Lane. Now,
not necessarily for his job right away because it's an
exorbitant fee to try to get away from him. But
just in the sense of expectation and pressure, I think
Lane is under more of it Then Dabo Sweeney, who
at this point is he's kind of a legend in
(20:41):
the seat. You know, it's going to be his decision,
whatever happens.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
What about Lincoln Riley on that pressure seat?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Yeah, I think there's a lot of pressure on Lincoln
Riley in particular because he has brought that on himself
in a lot of ways by stating how good this
team is. and stating this is my best team. So
he's ramped up those expectations, which he's confident. I think
you could see that on Saturday. That was a very
different USC team than we saw even a couple of
(21:11):
years ago. You know, they had a really good team
with Caleb Williams. We all know that. But it was
largely because of the brilliance of Caleb Williams running around
creating big plays. It was a splashy USC offense that
relied on big plays. They could run a little bit
and they did not play very good defense. This was
a lot different than that, at least for the first
three quarters. They were methodical, long drives throughout the entirety
(21:35):
of that first half, great two-minute series. They didn't rely
on big plays. In fact, their longest play was 33 yards.
Only two of their plays went over 20. So it
was sustained line of scrimmage dominance, which is different than
what we've seen for USC in the last few years.
And then their defense in the first three quarters was excellent.
That game was not a 42-26 game. They thoroughly dominated.
(21:58):
It's 35-3. And that's, I think, more sustainable, in particular
with a Big Ten schedule. They don't have a lot
of tests early until Oregon comes to town, and we'll
see what happens then. But I was optimistic for USC
based on what happened on Saturday in the Coliseum, even
if there wasn't a lot of people in the stands.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Okay. Is that a big deal?
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Dan, you've spent enough time out here in California, right?
Speaker 6 (22:25):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I hate doing this. I'm from Colorado. I'm a college
football guy. I like to see the stadiums full. I
love the fan bases that show up no matter what.
No matter what the weather is, what time of year
it is, no matter the opponent, and they show up.
And there are a lot of fan bases like that.
It doesn't matter who Ohio State plays. There's 105,000. Michigan,
(22:48):
same deal. You could say the same for a lot
of the teams down in the SEC who have tremendous support.
USC is just not that way because L.A. is not
that way. I don't think it's indicative of the wider
support that they get. I live in Orange County, south
of Los Angeles, and I can tell you everybody is
talking about USC. I think it's over 90 degrees. And
(23:11):
in L.A., when it's over 90 degrees, it might as
well be 150. No one does anything. You should see
when it rains out here. Dan, it's like a blizzard
in the East Coast. No one drives when it rains.
So you can call us on the West Coast fair weather,
and that might be accurate. But I wasn't concerned necessarily
with the lack of fans in the stands in a
(23:31):
week zero game when it's, you know, in the Coliseum,
it had to feel like it was 105 degrees.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Talking to Joel Klatt, Fox Sports lead football analyst. He
has the game coming up this weekend, Indiana hosting North Texas.
When do we get a scheduling czar in college football?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Gosh, I hope soon. I really hope soon. I do know,
having conversations with the people that are in the room
for the playoff expansion, right? The conversation about the playoff structure.
A part of that playoff expansion will be a scheduling
agreement with the SEC and the Big Ten. So that's
(24:13):
what everyone's driving to because they know that the expansion
12 and specifically the structure and the criteria or lack
thereof that the committee uses to put teams into the
college football playoff There is no incentive to play a
difficult game. Ask Texas from a year ago. They get
beat by Ohio State in the first week of the season,
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and that essentially keeps them out of the college football
playoff as a nine and three regular season team. So
no incentive to play a big game. So you have
to do one of two things. You either have to
mandate those games and schedule the games for the teams,
or you have to change the criteria the way that
you select the college football playoff teams. If they do
(24:54):
expand to 24, I think that there's going to be
some appetite of the coaches that say to themselves, okay, well,
we can suffer that loss. We're willing to play that game.
But more than that, there will be a scheduling agreement
between those two conferences and probably the other two Power
Four conferences as well, where they're playing nine conference games
and at least at a minimum, a tenth or that
(25:16):
extra game against the Power Four team and some of
them multiple Power Four opponents. And I do think that
that scheduling agreement will be As you suggest, kind of bizarre.
It'll go on an annual basis based on where you
finished the year ago. So we'll have the best teams
playing each other. It won't just be, hey, you know,
Rutgers is playing Georgia. OK, that's a Big Ten SEC matchup,
(25:36):
but it's not the matchup we necessarily want to see.
No disrespect to Rutgers, even though I'm sure they'll take it.
It would be. Pod A, Pod B, Pod C, based
on where you finish, then those matchups would basically form
the spring prior to the season. And so I'm anticipating that,
and I'm excited for that, and that's one of the
(25:57):
reasons why I've been a proponent of the expansion of
the playoff.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
I'm looking at the latest DraftKings odds. They've got Ohio
State and Notre Dame co-favorites to win the national title.
But they're going to take different routes to get there
because Ohio State's got a tough schedule. Notre Dame does not.
So why do you think that they would be co-favorites?
Feels like Notre Dame has a pretty easy path to
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get certainly to the playoffs and be able to host
a playoff game or so.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I mean, absolutely. I mean, the two paths, Notre Dame
might as well be on a freshly paved four lane
highway with no traffic. They've got like an escort in
front of them with this schedule, you know, they will
be in the college football playoff. Um, I think that
this is a nod to the consistency that Ohio State
has brought over the course of decades. They win 10
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games rolling out of bed. Now, this schedule is the
most difficult schedule they will have ever faced. They've got
to go on the road to Texas, which is one
of the more talented teams in the country. They've got
to go on the road to Iowa, on the road
to Indiana. They have to host Oregon. They've got the
Michigan game, obviously. They've got to go to USC. USC
was undefeated in the Coliseum a year ago. So it's
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an incredibly difficult schedule. I think that there is a
nod to Ohio State because all of us believe that
they will navigate that and get themselves into the playoff.
What did they prove two years ago? It doesn't matter
if they have a bye. They can host a game,
be the eighth seed, and go on and win the
national championship. And they've also got what I believe is
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a more– playoff-ready roster this year. I know that sounds crazy,
maybe not defensively, but their offensive line is more experienced
and should be better. Their failure last year really was
short yardage. They probably beat Indiana if they can execute
on a fourth and one. And that lack of short
yardage quality really affected them a year ago, and I
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think that should be different this year. But it's a
tip of the cap to Ohio State, which has become– largely,
along with Georgia, the most consistent program in college football.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
I've had a couple of different former quarterbacks, Brady Quinn
most recently, and I said, I'm going to make you
the GM of the Arizona Cardinals. You're going to have
the first pick in the draft next year. Who are
you taking? Oh, man. And he said C.J. Carr.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
I think I would say C.J.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Carr as well.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
We'll see how the season plays out. I think right
now I would have a really tough decision between Dante
Moore and C.J. Carr. I think CJ Carr is the
prototypical NFL quarterback. And I think that's where things can
get lost in translation is at the NFL level, you
still have to own the game from the pocket. And
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I know some guys are doing it a little bit differently.
And yes, it helps. And is it great when you
can do all the extra things? Yes. But the prerequisite,
the Algebra 1 prerequisite, of of quarterback play is owning
the game and controlling the game from the pocket in
particular and big moments two minute third down and he
looks like he can do that now Dante Moore is
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an excellent player we'll see how Arch plays this year
I thought he was excellent at the end of the
year last year but I think my decision right now
if you force me to pick right now it would
be CJ Carr a little side note right now my
middle son Sam who's 12 years old He was when
he was six and began flag football. They just named him.
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It was like one of these NFL leagues, you know,
and so he was the Cardinals. He's become a massive
Cardinals fan, Dan. I can't like I can't understand. And
I keep telling him, I'm like, hey, man, you know,
like I'm from. Denver we can root for the Broncos
they were right there in the AFC he's like no
I'm a Cardinals fan I'm taking him to the Cardinals
Chargers opener this year and he is dying for a
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quarterback he's like dad tell me they're gonna get a
quarterback so he's gonna love this clip right here just
dreaming of a guy like CJ Carr.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
I had a source tell me that Notre Dame was
so in on C.J. Carr that they were told if
they backed off Dante Moore that C.J. Carr would commit
to Notre Dame. And Notre Dame backed off Dante Moore,
so they waited for C.J.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Carr.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
Well.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
I think they made a good decision. Isn't it interesting,
by the way? Well, I mean, Dante's a great player.
It's not like one has flamed out and the other
is succeeding. I think both of them could have or
would have succeeded, in particular, last year with the way
that they ran the football. But isn't it interesting? And,
you know, for about a decade, Notre Dame was really
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good under Brian Kelly. Really good. You know, 10 wins.
And all of us started to believe this narrative that
there was some sort of ceiling on Notre Dame. Like, yeah,
you know, they're good, but you can't really win it there.
I think it's amazing what Marcus Freeman has done to
level up Notre Dame back to the point where they
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are recruiting in the top five in college football. They
are a destination. And maybe this is a product of
the current structure of our sport and the dollars that
they have and the support that they have through NIL
and even the transfer portal. But just the tip of
the cap to Marcus Freeman, I think he's done an
incredible job. I hope he stays in college football longer.
I don't I doubt he's going to stay in college
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football for a long period of time because I think
the NFL is going to come calling. They came calling
a year ago and he stayed. But man, he's done
an incredible job.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
If I gave Brian Kelly a do-over... Does.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
He not use the fake accent? So it's one of
two decisions, Dan. Does he not go to LSU and
just stays there at Notre Dame? Or does he go
and not use the fake accent? Because the fake accent
at the basketball game was really like, I mean, was
it not the clearest sign?
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Like, this is not going to work.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
You know, I don't know if this is, man, the
fake accent was a rough look. And then he did
the dance with the recruit. And it's like, oh, it was,
you know, every Gen Z-er was, what do they say, cringe?
They're probably going to cringe that I use the word cringe.
But man, that did not work out.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Tell Gus we said hello. And thanks for joining us.
I appreciate your time, Dan.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Have a good day, bud.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
That's Joel Klatt. He'll be with Gus and Jenny Taft.
They have big noon kickoff on Saturday. It'll be Indiana
hosting North Texas. We'll take a break. We'll give you
our best and worst of the weekend and your phone
calls right after this. Fox Sports Radio has the best
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(32:48):
to listen live. Gus in L.A. Gus, thanks for holding.
What do you have for me today?
Speaker 6 (32:54):
Good morning, Mr.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Patrick.
Speaker 6 (32:56):
Hope you and the boys had a great weekend. Well,
as you know, we'll get the best out of the
way and a little worried of the weekend. Then we'll
get into the worst.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
That's the weekend.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
My Dodgers went into at three, looking like they may
have turned a little bit of a corner.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Trouble in the weekend.
Speaker 6 (33:12):
It seems like nobody's afraid of Shohei Ohtani anymore, and
they're coming right at him. They're pitching right at him,
and he's striking out at a record pace. But we'll
see what happens there. Worst of the weekend, Mr. Joel
Clark kind of touched upon it.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
You did as well.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
Look, I had an opportunity to go to the game
this Saturday, being Trojan and everything like that. But I'm like, look,
my arm's all wrapped up. I don't want there to
be chances where I'm going to be bumping into 80,000 people,
So I'm going to pass on it, and I'll go
to a game down the season. And I turn on
the TV, and I see that crowd there. I do
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not know why, but it did piss me off. It
is not– I understand that Joe Platt lives here, but
it's not that. I'm with the SC Trojans, you know,
the message boards and everything. They've been barking at this
all season. Oh, we're better than, you know, than Ohio State.
We got better fan bases than Oregon. We're the SEC.
We're this, we're that.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Really?
Speaker 6 (34:08):
If– That temperature existed in Tuscaloosa, Columbus, the big house,
Death Valley. If it existed in Gainesville, they would have
sold it out. NC Faithful needs to do better and
show up better. You boys have a great week.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Thank you, Gus. Ben in South Carolina. Hi, Ben.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
Good morning, Dan.
Speaker 10 (34:29):
You mentioned one of my favorite players, Reggie White, the
Minister of Defense. I really miss him on my Green
Bay Packers. But on a slightly lesser level, I also
miss the Minister of Humor, Todd Fritz, today. So, of course,
I had to write him a lyric.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Here goes.
Speaker 10 (34:47):
Get in cups, but you're still our hero. Get back
in the mix so we can cheer-o. If the jokes.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
Linger, show them the finger.
Speaker 10 (34:56):
Without you, this is just week zero. We're pulling for you, Fritzie,
but not your fingers.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Thank you, Ben. We haven't heard from Fritzie after his
life-threatening surgery. He had a little bump on his finger,
and it was middle finger as well. So he'd always
be telling me about this. He'd go, look right here. Look,
I said, just put it down on the table. It
looks like you're flipping me off. He goes, no, no,
(35:23):
I'm not. I just look. There's a bump here. I said, OK,
do you need to take off the entire day for that?
And he goes, yes, it's surgery. I go, OK, good luck.
Thoughts and prayers. Thoughts and prayers. By the way, in
a little more than an hour, an hour and 11 minutes,
(35:43):
it'll be the debut of Not So Fast. with Paul
Pabst and Andrew McLovin Perloff Jr. III.
Speaker 5 (35:52):
About that.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
This is it. This is the debut of Not So Fast.
Anything that you would like to prepare the audience for,
you can watch it on Peacock right after our show ends.
I'm going to walk down the hall and hand the
microphone to those guys, and they have an hour-long show
called Not So Fast.
Speaker 5 (36:13):
I got a bunch of good lucks, break a leg,
big day.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Excited.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
Those are the four big things this morning from different
people around the building.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
What can the audience expect when they tune in to
Not So Fast?
Speaker 5 (36:25):
Jovial banter, some snark, Perloff making you upset. He has
some takes that are bothersome.
Speaker 6 (36:33):
Bothersome.
Speaker 7 (36:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Annoying, I think, when he was on our show. But
maybe it's just bothersome for you. We're going to have fun.
So that'll be in an hour and 10 minutes. Not
so fast on Peacock. Tripp in Vegas.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Hi, Tripp.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
What do you have for me?
Speaker 4 (36:50):
Hey, good morning, DT. Always good to speak with y'all.
Best of the weekend. I know y'all already hit on it,
but gotta be Scotty Scheffler. Shot the lowest round of
the day on Sunday. Maybe we're seeing the Scheffler era.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Because he's just dominating.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
And then the worst of the weekend.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
I have a question for y'all. When did men's college
football pants become shorter than men's college basketball shorts?
Speaker 6 (37:16):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
And there's no pads in those pants. I remember I
couldn't put enough pads in my pants.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Whoa.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Yeah, that was always amazing to me, too, because I
was like, if you ever took a helmet to the
quad or something, that Charlie.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Horse, that sucks.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Thank you. Thank you, Dylan. You're welcome. Rhonda in Texas. Hi, Rhonda.
Speaker 8 (37:45):
Hey, Dan. Good morning to you and the Danettes. Fritzie,
we miss you. Marvin, we'd like to know where we
can find a golf shirt like yours. And then, Dan,
something interesting we found on the Internet. We Googled famous
people with the initials DP and playback.fmwebsitelist. the top 40
(38:11):
famous people with the initials DP. It goes all the
way back to the birth year, 1647. And we invite
you to check it out because you're on the list.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Well, thank you, Rhonda. Want to be known for DP.
Thank you. Uh, Dylan, best and worst of the weekend.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
All right, Tan, my best, uh, Our guy, Justin Rose,
jarred one on the hardest hole of the course yesterday.
The par three is like 208 yards. Dunked it for
a hole in one. That was pretty awesome. And then
my worst, Novak Djokovic. Upset in five sets by Mariano Navone.
His first ever first round exit at the U.S.
Speaker 5 (38:59):
Open.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
That's tough. Marvin.
Speaker 7 (39:02):
I got two best DP. First best, South Carolina State.
Molly whopping Savannah State.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
87 to nothing.
Speaker 7 (39:09):
Shannon Sharp is not walking through that door. And my
other best, high school football. We watched this on Friday night.
Chicago's Mount Carmel.
Speaker 10 (39:18):
Carmel.
Speaker 7 (39:18):
Thank you. High school pulled off an incredible 30-point comeback,
stunning St. Joe's Regional out of New Jersey, 48-44.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Yeah, I watched high school football. Was it DeSoto? DeSoto.
played as well? Yes, Marv.
Speaker 6 (39:32):
Terrible.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
They did not shake hands.
Speaker 8 (39:34):
I know.
Speaker 7 (39:34):
And I'm happy they got smacked.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Yeah, they got roughed up. Paul, best and worst. Couple bests.
Speaker 5 (39:40):
The North Dakota State Bison in the big show, FBS,
33-7 over the Gamecocks.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Welcome to the show, Bison.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
And how about this game the other night? Bill and
Mary down 10 with 57 seconds to go beat Villanova 35-32.
How does that happen?
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Howie Long's not walking through that door with Villanova. Or
who was the other guy? Danny Abramowitz.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Wide receiver?
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Played for the Saints. I think he went to Villanova. Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
Brian Westbrook.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Oh, no, he might have gone to Xavier. Brian Westbrook.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Danny Abramowitz. Maybe he went to Xavier when Xavier had
a football program. Does that sound right? I could be
making things up. Who's in the confessional? Paul is. So
he can talk a little bit more about Not So Fast.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
Yes, Paul.
Speaker 5 (40:29):
Danny Abramowitz, Catholic Central High School in your area, Dan,
and Xavier University.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
That's when Xavier had a football program. Final hour on
the way. More of your phone calls as well. Paulie
will be in the confessional. Big Day Ray comes in
and sits in Pauly's seat for the final hour of
the program. Two hours in the books. One more to go. Dylan, Marv, Pauly,
yours truly in the BRGs. We're back after this.
You are listening to The Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio. Hour two on this Monday. We're not fully assembled.
Fritzie is going through life-threatening surgery on the tip of
his finger. At least, if you talk to Todd, he
would lead you to believe that this is a very
serious surgery. I think it's a procedure, but Todd is
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not here today. We do wish him well. Every time
I see this picture, if you're watching on Peacock, Todd
has got his shower cap on and he's got his little,
what's the outfit that you wear?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
The smock. Smock.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Gown.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Gown. Yeah, the gown. Anybody ever put on a gown
the other way?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
At the hospital. I think that's frowned upon. I have
a friend, an anesthesiologist, and he said, he goes, we
never knew if the guy was like having fun with us,
but he came out of the dressing room and he
had it tied in the front and he was just
walking around. And one of the nurses just about passed
(01:12):
out saying, no, no, no, no. You just turn it around,
turn it around. Oh, so they don't know if he
was joking or not. But, you know, That seems like
something that Jackass would do, you know, that those guys
would do something like that.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Steve-O.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yes, Dylan?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Well, actually, it makes more sense if you think about
like a bathrobe.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
You tie it around the open parts in the front.
Maybe I got confused.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah, somebody's got to tie it for you, right? It's
kind of a weird thing. Stat of the Day brought
to you by Panini America, the official trading cards of
this program. Labor Day weekend on NBC and Peacock. You
got baseball. You got Braves-Phillies. Let's see. Braves-Phillies and the Twins.
(01:57):
And then Cardinals-Giants. Wait a minute. Hold on. So back-to-back
days of baseball action. Sunday, Braves-Phillies and Twins. Are we
missing a team here, Marvin?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I think we might.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
The Twins are... Is it like an inter-squad game? Twins
at White Sox. Twins at the White Sox. Then it's
the Cardinals and the Giants. Labor Day weekend on NBC.
And Peacock. 877-3DP-SHOW. Email address dp at danpatrick.com. Twitter handle
(02:30):
at dpshow. Good morning, if you're watching on Peacock. Thank
you for downloading the app. Joel Klatt, lead college football
analyst for Fox. He will join us coming up in
a little bit. Big win by Bill Belichick. Perhaps you
heard about it. How many other games this year do
you think Audiences will watch the entire North Carolina game.
(02:50):
This was a standalone against TCU in Dublin, great atmosphere,
and they hold on to win 15-10. I'm guessing the
Notre Dame game, maybe, but I don't know how many
North Carolina games you'll actually watch the entire game. Yes, Paul?
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Carolina's got the week off after the big win in Dublin.
Then they're at East Tennessee State, Dan. Then at Clemson,
September 19th, then They host Notre Dame October 3rd.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah, that'll be a big one for them. You know,
you got Clemson. We'll get a better sense of just
how good they are with Clemson. But Clemson has LSU
coming up, so we're going to get a pretty good
test right away with that. USC beat San Jose State 42-26. Now,
they said 51,000 were there at the Coliseum. Boy, it
(03:46):
looked empty. Now, granted, it's over, what is it, 94,000?
But they said that part of the reason why that
they didn't have a big crowd was it was too hot,
94 degrees.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Three in the afternoon. Twelve locally, by the way. Season
opener in 2009 against San Jose State. The temperature was
90 degrees at kickoff, 1230 local. Attended by 84,000 there.
So they somehow brought out 30,000 more with the temperature
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four degrees cooler. You know, this might be a crowd,
you know, Los Angeles saying, we need to see a
little bit more. You know, you should rough up San
Jose State. But they're freshman class. Ideal.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Great.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And this feels like one of those, okay, you need
a special season from Lincoln Riley with this team. But
51,000 against San Jose State. They didn't even cover, did they, Dylan?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
They did not. They were 38.5, 39.5 point favorites.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Well, didn't it start out like 28 to nothing? And
then you're going, okay. And then I think they started
putting in second team, third teams. And then 42-26. I'm
all for playing the backups, but right out of the
gate in a season that feels like you need to
have a statement season, I think you got to, you know,
(05:27):
let's just go and win this, you know, 42-7. You're
up 28-0 at halftime. You got to, you know, that
looks like it was a competitive game. It wasn't, but 42-26,
not good. Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yeah, I feel like the modern USC team has always
been stacked with talent, particularly skill position players, and they
just haven't been able to put it together at all recently.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
They had.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Multiple receivers taken in the first and beginning of the
second round last year.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
It's there.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
It just isn't working. Thank you, Dylan.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
They need to show they can play defense. Yes, correct.
I don't want to give up 26 to San Jose State.
The problem has been the defense hasn't been good. That's
where you want to have, okay, 28 to nothing is
the final. I'm okay with that. 42-26, okay. What are
we doing here?
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Let's go.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
In the past eight years, USC has had one season
where they won 10 or more games.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
For them, that's like a drought. that's an eternity.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
For them.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
Alrighty.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Stat of the day brought to you by Panini America,
the official trading cards of the program. Uh, Dylan, poll
question results from hour one. And what are we doing
in hour two?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Well, Polly sent this one over off of the, uh,
there in Donald news. Who's the happiest today? Sean McVay,
Miles Garrett, or Mrs.
Speaker 8 (06:57):
Donald.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Well, I don't think she wants him out of the house,
but I'd think that she had to give her blessing
on this. Um, Yeah, I think she's happy if he's happy,
if he really wants to come back. Here is Aaron
Donald talking about the role that his wife played in
his decision.
Speaker 9 (07:19):
Having them hard conversations, figuring things out, what I wanted
to do, if I was to do it, how would
we do it?
Speaker 2 (07:24):
And my wife was on board.
Speaker 9 (07:27):
She said, if you want to do this, she's with
me 100%, and there was days when I was like,
I don't know. She was like, Aaron, you want to
do this. Don't make no decisions faster than what you
need to make a decision. Take your time, man. You know,
she played a huge part of, you know, me figuring
this out through this because it really wasn't an easy decision.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
It took a lot of, you.
Speaker 9 (07:44):
Know, hard work, a lot of long conversations with a
lot of different people, but felt good enough to, you know,
make the decision to come back and do this.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah, I don't know if money was the big obstacle here.
He got $ 20 million chance to make $ 30 million. Now
he's worth $ 40 million if he's healthy, you know, ready
to go, ready for a full season. I don't know
how much he plays in the first month of the season.
I wouldn't be pushing him and Sean McVay. Sean McVay
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is going to have to probably protect Aaron Donald from
Aaron Donald, and that would be wise. I wouldn't have him.
If he wants to get suited up in Australia, great,
but you're not playing. In fact, I wouldn't even let
him get suited up because he might be like, Coach,
let me go in for just a couple plays. Be like, nope,
I don't want you here now. I want you here
(08:34):
in February. Uh, pull question for our two Dylan.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Well, uh, off that same topic, Dan, if you're Aaron Donald,
what's the bigger draw to come back next season or
just if you're anyone 20 to $ 30 million or a
chance at another Superbowl?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Well, I think they're intertwined that you get paid with
your goal being the Superbowl at the end of the year.
I don't think he's cut, you know, he didn't come
back for 5 million. He wanted to be paid for,
and the opportunity to have incentives and win a Super Bowl,
another Super Bowl. And I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
It's weird.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
You know, if it's a quarterback, then we'd go, oh,
another Super Bowl. That moves him up the list here.
I don't know if that matters with any other position
where you go, man, he's got this many defensive players
of the year awards, two Super Bowls, eight-time first-team All-Pro award.
I mean, does that put him in the Reggie White,
(09:36):
Lawrence Taylor? Is he going to be on a short
list here of greatest defensive players of all time? Another
Super Bowl, another All-Pro season? Yeah, then he's going to
be in that conversation. Now, I thought, and I still
think Reggie White's the greatest defensive player I ever saw.
(09:56):
Lawrence Taylor, for a window of about five to seven years, five,
six years, oh my goodness, and being at field level
to watch him, their home games when I would go
when I was working in New York. That was a treat.
I mean, not for the opposition, but I was watching
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somebody It's like when I watch Usain Bolt at the
London Olympics in person. It's a whole different experience. Because
when you watch on TV, they keep them in the frame.
They keep them focused. It's like, oh, okay, he's running fast.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
No.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
No.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
When he makes the turn and he's running the 200
in London, and I just remember saying to my wife,
he's going to win. And she goes, what? wait, the
race is over? I go, no. I mean, it was
that quick. Went by, boom. And I go, oh my God,
it's over. But if this was, I was watching it
(10:56):
on TV, you'd go, oh, okay. Man, he looks like
he's running really fast. Fast is when you see it
in person. Lawrence Taylor getting off the line of scrimmage
and you go, oh my God. Like he's in the
backfield so quick. Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
Do you feel that Lawrence Taylor, it's going to be
hard to replace Lawrence Taylor in many people's eyes as
the greatest ever because of the accolades plus his influence
on basically creating a position. And also your favorite thing,
people always have a Lawrence Taylor story about playing against him.
So I think it almost makes him a mythical figure,
which it's hard to, you know, Trump that.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
And I think that having that impact at that position,
and then all of a sudden you had those who
now teams were going out to get somebody to block him.
Or Joe Gibbs devising something for the then Redskins to
have two people on Lawrence Taylor. So you had Joe Jacoby,
who was, I think he's a Hall of Fame tackle.
(11:59):
If he isn't, he should be. But they would have
a tight end, and they would have Joe Jacoby. And
they were on Lawrence Taylor duty. Mean Joe Green was
also one of those. That was different. Mean Joe Green
and Reggie White were two players where I just went, wow.
(12:19):
Is Joe Jacoby in the Hall of Fame, Paul? Dan,
he is not.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Playing for those teams?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Not in the Hall of Fame. Yeah. Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
So another guy you got to get in. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Yeah. Trying to think anybody else on that list, defensive players.
I mean, J.J. Watt is there, certainly. But you're getting
that five- to seven-year window. Reggie White, didn't he win
Defensive Player of the Year like 10 years apart, Paul?
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Reggie White's silly, if you want to look at his stats.
He was first-team All-Pro at 24 and at age 37.
That doesn't even make sense. I had to double-check it. He,
after his rookie year, he finished second in Rookie of
the Year, he was first or second-team All-Pro for 15
consecutive seasons.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
He didn't have one off-year.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
And look, I know everybody's going to inundate me with
other defensive players. I'm talking about me, my experience of
watching these players in person. When Philadelphia played the Giants,
I got to see that Philadelphia front four. The Steelers,
I only saw them as a fan one time in
person against the Cincinnati Bengals. And I still maintain that
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Steeler defense is the best defense I ever saw. Linebackers,
defensive backs, then you had, you know, a great front four. Um,
and I know the, you know, purple people eaters, fearsome,
foursome there. There've been a lot of great defenses. I'm,
I'm only telling you from my experience of what I
saw in person.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Yes, Mark.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
I just found this out.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Lawrence Hill one league MVP.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (13:58):
What?
Speaker 6 (13:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (14:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
And I'll bet every quarterback voted for him. It's like,
let's not get him angry or angrier. Yeah, Paulie.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Sometimes I think Bruce Smith, the defensive end of Buffalo,
gets a little bit of short change because there was
so much talent in Buffalo and he was in the
Reggie White era. I have him 10-time All-Pro.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Yikes. They didn't win the Super Bowl. And for some reason,
it just had this, like the Minnesota Vikings, that they
just had this label of, Somehow that was detrimental to
your career. And I kept thinking, they got to the
Super Bowl four consecutive years. And it almost felt like, yeah,
but they lost all four years. They got there. It's
(14:44):
like LeBron James. Yeah, they got to the finals. How
many times did he lose? He got there. Tom Brady,
almost half of his career, he's in the Super Bowl. Yes, Marv.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
With guys like Lawrence Taylor, Reggie White, and Aaron Donald,
they all have something that Bruce Smith doesn't.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
A memorable moment in a Super Bowl.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
Where Reggie White, he could have won game MVP for
how dominant he was against the Patriots.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yeah. Aaron Donald basically winning the Super Bowl against the Bengals. Yeah,
with getting to Joe Burrow there at the end. If
Joe Burrow, if they don't get to Joe Burrow, the
Bengals win the Super Bowl. Because I think the all-22
camera shows, Jamar Chase is– He's wide open.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yeah, Paul.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
That's a sack off by Aaron Donald in the Super Bowl.
There's a couple people open.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
The Bengals win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
They do.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Yeah, Paul.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
It was a fourth and two, so let's say Joe
Burrow doesn't get rushed. They had 45 seconds and a
timeout to get a field goal to send it to overtime.
So there's multiple ways they could have tied that up.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
But I think Jamar Chase is wide open to score
a touchdown. The defensive back falls down. If Aaron Donald
doesn't make that sack, the Bengals probably win the Super Bowl.
All right. We'll talk to Joel Klatt. We'll look at
this past weekend's matchups with North Carolina, of course, the
(16:10):
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the matchups coming up this weekend. After week zero. More
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Speaker 1 (17:04):
College football ramps up a little bit more than week zero.
Joel Klatt teams up with Gus Johnson, Jenny Taft on
Fox Sports. Big noon Saturday, starting this Saturday, Indiana hosting
North Texas. And then following Saturday, it'll be Oklahoma and Michigan.
Good to see you again, Joel. Help us not overreact
(17:26):
to North Carolina winning against TCU.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Well, I think a small bit of overreaction may be appropriate,
only because of how well they played on the defensive
side and the way that they adjusted in that game
after the first three series. TCU scores 10 points, and
then from that point on, I thought that the defense
for UNC played excellent. They didn't allow explosive plays. They
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largely shut down the run game. And if they can
just do that, they'll be more competitive than they were
a year ago. You know, yes, this might not be
Kurt Cignetti at Indiana the first year going, you know,
10-2 or 11-1 and getting into the college football playoff.
But this is going to be a more competitive team. Remember,
this exact same game a year ago was a blowout.
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TCU hammered North Carolina. And so that growth, I think,
provides a fair bit of optimism that this team under
Bill Belichick is going to be more competitive from the
4-8 version that we saw a year ago. I think
that they still struggled offensively. The lack of run game
is concerning, to say the least. But if they can
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continue to play that way defensively, they'll at least be
in games. And I think with with a guy that's
instilling the type of situational football and you would think
the discipline, they could possibly win some of those games
and maybe they can be a bowl team. They only
had three penalties, Dan. And so those things are I'm
optimistic about. And if there's something to overreact about, it's like, OK,
(19:00):
this team's probably going to be in a lot of
one possession games during the course of the year.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
More pressure this year. I know it's going to sound
strange here, but Lane Kiffin or Dabo Sweeney.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Man, you know, Dan Dabo, doesn't Dabo just have enough
in the tank, right? I mean, he's won national championships
at Clemson. Meanwhile, Lane Kiffin. Lane Kiffin makes one of
the more selfish moves in the history of college football.
And I'm not blaming him for it, but it was.
(19:35):
Let's just call it what it was. Leaving Ole Miss
in the middle of their playoff run. And now he's
at the center of this eligibility controversy, which is a mess.
And they spent upwards of $ 45 million. on the roster,
all that money to get him. And you look at
the expectations at LSU, and I personally think that it's
(19:58):
not about at LSU, like, oh, we just want to
be competitive. No, no, you've got to go compete for
SEC titles. You've got to go to the playoff. You've
got to win games in the playoff. I don't know
if that's the expectation of Clemson fans right now. I
think that they would love that, certainly. But if they
look around and they really look at their roster and
they look at what happened a year ago, I don't
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know if that level of expectation is there for the Tigers.
So more pressure, I would say, is on Lane. Now,
not necessarily for his job right away because it's an
exorbitant fee to try to get away from him. But
just in the sense of expectation and pressure, I think
Lane is under more of it Then Dabo Sweeney, who
at this point is he's kind of a legend in
(20:41):
the seat. You know, it's going to be his decision,
whatever happens.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
What about Lincoln Riley on that pressure seat?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Yeah, I think there's a lot of pressure on Lincoln
Riley in particular because he has brought that on himself
in a lot of ways by stating how good this
team is. and stating this is my best team. So
he's ramped up those expectations, which he's confident. I think
you could see that on Saturday. That was a very
different USC team than we saw even a couple of
(21:11):
years ago. You know, they had a really good team
with Caleb Williams. We all know that. But it was
largely because of the brilliance of Caleb Williams running around
creating big plays. It was a splashy USC offense that
relied on big plays. They could run a little bit
and they did not play very good defense. This was
a lot different than that, at least for the first
three quarters. They were methodical, long drives throughout the entirety
(21:35):
of that first half, great two-minute series. They didn't rely
on big plays. In fact, their longest play was 33 yards.
Only two of their plays went over 20. So it
was sustained line of scrimmage dominance, which is different than
what we've seen for USC in the last few years.
And then their defense in the first three quarters was excellent.
That game was not a 42-26 game. They thoroughly dominated.
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It's 35-3. And that's, I think, more sustainable, in particular
with a Big Ten schedule. They don't have a lot
of tests early until Oregon comes to town, and we'll
see what happens then. But I was optimistic for USC
based on what happened on Saturday in the Coliseum, even
if there wasn't a lot of people in the stands.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Okay. Is that a big deal?
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Dan, you've spent enough time out here in California, right?
Speaker 6 (22:25):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I hate doing this. I'm from Colorado. I'm a college
football guy. I like to see the stadiums full. I
love the fan bases that show up no matter what.
No matter what the weather is, what time of year
it is, no matter the opponent, and they show up.
And there are a lot of fan bases like that.
It doesn't matter who Ohio State plays. There's 105,000. Michigan,
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same deal. You could say the same for a lot
of the teams down in the SEC who have tremendous support.
USC is just not that way because L.A. is not
that way. I don't think it's indicative of the wider
support that they get. I live in Orange County, south
of Los Angeles, and I can tell you everybody is
talking about USC. I think it's over 90 degrees. And
(23:11):
in L.A., when it's over 90 degrees, it might as
well be 150. No one does anything. You should see
when it rains out here. Dan, it's like a blizzard
in the East Coast. No one drives when it rains.
So you can call us on the West Coast fair weather,
and that might be accurate. But I wasn't concerned necessarily
with the lack of fans in the stands in a
(23:31):
week zero game when it's, you know, in the Coliseum,
it had to feel like it was 105 degrees.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Talking to Joel Klatt, Fox Sports lead football analyst. He
has the game coming up this weekend, Indiana hosting North Texas.
When do we get a scheduling czar in college football?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Gosh, I hope soon. I really hope soon. I do know,
having conversations with the people that are in the room
for the playoff expansion, right? The conversation about the playoff structure.
A part of that playoff expansion will be a scheduling
agreement with the SEC and the Big Ten. So that's
(24:13):
what everyone's driving to because they know that the expansion
12 and specifically the structure and the criteria or lack
thereof that the committee uses to put teams into the
college football playoff There is no incentive to play a
difficult game. Ask Texas from a year ago. They get
beat by Ohio State in the first week of the season,
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and that essentially keeps them out of the college football
playoff as a nine and three regular season team. So
no incentive to play a big game. So you have
to do one of two things. You either have to
mandate those games and schedule the games for the teams,
or you have to change the criteria the way that
you select the college football playoff teams. If they do
(24:54):
expand to 24, I think that there's going to be
some appetite of the coaches that say to themselves, okay, well,
we can suffer that loss. We're willing to play that game.
But more than that, there will be a scheduling agreement
between those two conferences and probably the other two Power
Four conferences as well, where they're playing nine conference games
and at least at a minimum, a tenth or that
(25:16):
extra game against the Power Four team and some of
them multiple Power Four opponents. And I do think that
that scheduling agreement will be As you suggest, kind of bizarre.
It'll go on an annual basis based on where you
finished the year ago. So we'll have the best teams
playing each other. It won't just be, hey, you know,
Rutgers is playing Georgia. OK, that's a Big Ten SEC matchup,
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but it's not the matchup we necessarily want to see.
No disrespect to Rutgers, even though I'm sure they'll take it.
It would be. Pod A, Pod B, Pod C, based
on where you finish, then those matchups would basically form
the spring prior to the season. And so I'm anticipating that,
and I'm excited for that, and that's one of the
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reasons why I've been a proponent of the expansion of
the playoff.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
I'm looking at the latest DraftKings odds. They've got Ohio
State and Notre Dame co-favorites to win the national title.
But they're going to take different routes to get there
because Ohio State's got a tough schedule. Notre Dame does not.
So why do you think that they would be co-favorites?
Feels like Notre Dame has a pretty easy path to
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get certainly to the playoffs and be able to host
a playoff game or so.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I mean, absolutely. I mean, the two paths, Notre Dame
might as well be on a freshly paved four lane
highway with no traffic. They've got like an escort in
front of them with this schedule, you know, they will
be in the college football playoff. Um, I think that
this is a nod to the consistency that Ohio State
has brought over the course of decades. They win 10
(26:50):
games rolling out of bed. Now, this schedule is the
most difficult schedule they will have ever faced. They've got
to go on the road to Texas, which is one
of the more talented teams in the country. They've got
to go on the road to Iowa, on the road
to Indiana. They have to host Oregon. They've got the
Michigan game, obviously. They've got to go to USC. USC
was undefeated in the Coliseum a year ago. So it's
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an incredibly difficult schedule. I think that there is a
nod to Ohio State because all of us believe that
they will navigate that and get themselves into the playoff.
What did they prove two years ago? It doesn't matter
if they have a bye. They can host a game,
be the eighth seed, and go on and win the
national championship. And they've also got what I believe is
(27:34):
a more– playoff-ready roster this year. I know that sounds crazy,
maybe not defensively, but their offensive line is more experienced
and should be better. Their failure last year really was
short yardage. They probably beat Indiana if they can execute
on a fourth and one. And that lack of short
yardage quality really affected them a year ago, and I
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think that should be different this year. But it's a
tip of the cap to Ohio State, which has become– largely,
along with Georgia, the most consistent program in college football.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
I've had a couple of different former quarterbacks, Brady Quinn
most recently, and I said, I'm going to make you
the GM of the Arizona Cardinals. You're going to have
the first pick in the draft next year. Who are
you taking? Oh, man. And he said C.J. Carr.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
I think I would say C.J.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Carr as well.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
We'll see how the season plays out. I think right
now I would have a really tough decision between Dante
Moore and C.J. Carr. I think CJ Carr is the
prototypical NFL quarterback. And I think that's where things can
get lost in translation is at the NFL level, you
still have to own the game from the pocket. And
(28:46):
I know some guys are doing it a little bit differently.
And yes, it helps. And is it great when you
can do all the extra things? Yes. But the prerequisite,
the Algebra 1 prerequisite, of of quarterback play is owning
the game and controlling the game from the pocket in
particular and big moments two minute third down and he
looks like he can do that now Dante Moore is
(29:08):
an excellent player we'll see how Arch plays this year
I thought he was excellent at the end of the
year last year but I think my decision right now
if you force me to pick right now it would
be CJ Carr a little side note right now my
middle son Sam who's 12 years old He was when
he was six and began flag football. They just named him.
(29:28):
It was like one of these NFL leagues, you know,
and so he was the Cardinals. He's become a massive
Cardinals fan, Dan. I can't like I can't understand. And
I keep telling him, I'm like, hey, man, you know,
like I'm from. Denver we can root for the Broncos
they were right there in the AFC he's like no
I'm a Cardinals fan I'm taking him to the Cardinals
Chargers opener this year and he is dying for a
(29:49):
quarterback he's like dad tell me they're gonna get a
quarterback so he's gonna love this clip right here just
dreaming of a guy like CJ Carr.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
I had a source tell me that Notre Dame was
so in on C.J. Carr that they were told if
they backed off Dante Moore that C.J. Carr would commit
to Notre Dame. And Notre Dame backed off Dante Moore,
so they waited for C.J.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Carr.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
Well.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
I think they made a good decision. Isn't it interesting,
by the way? Well, I mean, Dante's a great player.
It's not like one has flamed out and the other
is succeeding. I think both of them could have or
would have succeeded, in particular, last year with the way
that they ran the football. But isn't it interesting? And,
you know, for about a decade, Notre Dame was really
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good under Brian Kelly. Really good. You know, 10 wins.
And all of us started to believe this narrative that
there was some sort of ceiling on Notre Dame. Like, yeah,
you know, they're good, but you can't really win it there.
I think it's amazing what Marcus Freeman has done to
level up Notre Dame back to the point where they
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are recruiting in the top five in college football. They
are a destination. And maybe this is a product of
the current structure of our sport and the dollars that
they have and the support that they have through NIL
and even the transfer portal. But just the tip of
the cap to Marcus Freeman, I think he's done an
incredible job. I hope he stays in college football longer.
I don't I doubt he's going to stay in college
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football for a long period of time because I think
the NFL is going to come calling. They came calling
a year ago and he stayed. But man, he's done
an incredible job.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
If I gave Brian Kelly a do-over... Does.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
He not use the fake accent? So it's one of
two decisions, Dan. Does he not go to LSU and
just stays there at Notre Dame? Or does he go
and not use the fake accent? Because the fake accent
at the basketball game was really like, I mean, was
it not the clearest sign?
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Like, this is not going to work.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
You know, I don't know if this is, man, the
fake accent was a rough look. And then he did
the dance with the recruit. And it's like, oh, it was,
you know, every Gen Z-er was, what do they say, cringe?
They're probably going to cringe that I use the word cringe.
But man, that did not work out.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Tell Gus we said hello. And thanks for joining us.
I appreciate your time, Dan.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Have a good day, bud.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
That's Joel Klatt. He'll be with Gus and Jenny Taft.
They have big noon kickoff on Saturday. It'll be Indiana
hosting North Texas. We'll take a break. We'll give you
our best and worst of the weekend and your phone
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(32:48):
to listen live. Gus in L.A. Gus, thanks for holding.
What do you have for me today?
Speaker 6 (32:54):
Good morning, Mr.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Patrick.
Speaker 6 (32:56):
Hope you and the boys had a great weekend. Well,
as you know, we'll get the best out of the
way and a little worried of the weekend. Then we'll
get into the worst.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
That's the weekend.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
My Dodgers went into at three, looking like they may
have turned a little bit of a corner.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Trouble in the weekend.
Speaker 6 (33:12):
It seems like nobody's afraid of Shohei Ohtani anymore, and
they're coming right at him. They're pitching right at him,
and he's striking out at a record pace. But we'll
see what happens there. Worst of the weekend, Mr. Joel
Clark kind of touched upon it.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
You did as well.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
Look, I had an opportunity to go to the game
this Saturday, being Trojan and everything like that. But I'm like, look,
my arm's all wrapped up. I don't want there to
be chances where I'm going to be bumping into 80,000 people,
So I'm going to pass on it, and I'll go
to a game down the season. And I turn on
the TV, and I see that crowd there. I do
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not know why, but it did piss me off. It
is not– I understand that Joe Platt lives here, but
it's not that. I'm with the SC Trojans, you know,
the message boards and everything. They've been barking at this
all season. Oh, we're better than, you know, than Ohio State.
We got better fan bases than Oregon. We're the SEC.
We're this, we're that.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Really?
Speaker 6 (34:08):
If– That temperature existed in Tuscaloosa, Columbus, the big house,
Death Valley. If it existed in Gainesville, they would have
sold it out. NC Faithful needs to do better and
show up better. You boys have a great week.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Thank you, Gus. Ben in South Carolina. Hi, Ben.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
Good morning, Dan.
Speaker 10 (34:29):
You mentioned one of my favorite players, Reggie White, the
Minister of Defense. I really miss him on my Green
Bay Packers. But on a slightly lesser level, I also
miss the Minister of Humor, Todd Fritz, today. So, of course,
I had to write him a lyric.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Here goes.
Speaker 10 (34:47):
Get in cups, but you're still our hero. Get back
in the mix so we can cheer-o. If the jokes.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
Linger, show them the finger.
Speaker 10 (34:56):
Without you, this is just week zero. We're pulling for you, Fritzie,
but not your fingers.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Thank you, Ben. We haven't heard from Fritzie after his
life-threatening surgery. He had a little bump on his finger,
and it was middle finger as well. So he'd always
be telling me about this. He'd go, look right here. Look,
I said, just put it down on the table. It
looks like you're flipping me off. He goes, no, no,
(35:23):
I'm not. I just look. There's a bump here. I said, OK,
do you need to take off the entire day for that?
And he goes, yes, it's surgery. I go, OK, good luck.
Thoughts and prayers. Thoughts and prayers. By the way, in
a little more than an hour, an hour and 11 minutes,
(35:43):
it'll be the debut of Not So Fast. with Paul
Pabst and Andrew McLovin Perloff Jr. III.
Speaker 5 (35:52):
About that.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
This is it. This is the debut of Not So Fast.
Anything that you would like to prepare the audience for,
you can watch it on Peacock right after our show ends.
I'm going to walk down the hall and hand the
microphone to those guys, and they have an hour-long show
called Not So Fast.
Speaker 5 (36:13):
I got a bunch of good lucks, break a leg,
big day.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Excited.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
Those are the four big things this morning from different
people around the building.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
What can the audience expect when they tune in to
Not So Fast?
Speaker 5 (36:25):
Jovial banter, some snark, Perloff making you upset. He has
some takes that are bothersome.
Speaker 6 (36:33):
Bothersome.
Speaker 7 (36:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Annoying, I think, when he was on our show. But
maybe it's just bothersome for you. We're going to have fun.
So that'll be in an hour and 10 minutes. Not
so fast on Peacock. Tripp in Vegas.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Hi, Tripp.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
What do you have for me?
Speaker 4 (36:50):
Hey, good morning, DT. Always good to speak with y'all.
Best of the weekend. I know y'all already hit on it,
but gotta be Scotty Scheffler. Shot the lowest round of
the day on Sunday. Maybe we're seeing the Scheffler era.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Because he's just dominating.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
And then the worst of the weekend.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
I have a question for y'all. When did men's college
football pants become shorter than men's college basketball shorts?
Speaker 6 (37:16):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
And there's no pads in those pants. I remember I
couldn't put enough pads in my pants.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Whoa.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Yeah, that was always amazing to me, too, because I
was like, if you ever took a helmet to the
quad or something, that Charlie.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Horse, that sucks.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Thank you. Thank you, Dylan. You're welcome. Rhonda in Texas. Hi, Rhonda.
Speaker 8 (37:45):
Hey, Dan. Good morning to you and the Danettes. Fritzie,
we miss you. Marvin, we'd like to know where we
can find a golf shirt like yours. And then, Dan,
something interesting we found on the Internet. We Googled famous
people with the initials DP and playback.fmwebsitelist. the top 40
(38:11):
famous people with the initials DP. It goes all the
way back to the birth year, 1647. And we invite
you to check it out because you're on the list.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Well, thank you, Rhonda. Want to be known for DP.
Thank you. Uh, Dylan, best and worst of the weekend.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
All right, Tan, my best, uh, Our guy, Justin Rose,
jarred one on the hardest hole of the course yesterday.
The par three is like 208 yards. Dunked it for
a hole in one. That was pretty awesome. And then
my worst, Novak Djokovic. Upset in five sets by Mariano Navone.
His first ever first round exit at the U.S.
Speaker 5 (38:59):
Open.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
That's tough. Marvin.
Speaker 7 (39:02):
I got two best DP. First best, South Carolina State.
Molly whopping Savannah State.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
87 to nothing.
Speaker 7 (39:09):
Shannon Sharp is not walking through that door. And my
other best, high school football. We watched this on Friday night.
Chicago's Mount Carmel.
Speaker 10 (39:18):
Carmel.
Speaker 7 (39:18):
Thank you. High school pulled off an incredible 30-point comeback,
stunning St. Joe's Regional out of New Jersey, 48-44.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Yeah, I watched high school football. Was it DeSoto? DeSoto.
played as well? Yes, Marv.
Speaker 6 (39:32):
Terrible.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
They did not shake hands.
Speaker 8 (39:34):
I know.
Speaker 7 (39:34):
And I'm happy they got smacked.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Yeah, they got roughed up. Paul, best and worst. Couple bests.
Speaker 5 (39:40):
The North Dakota State Bison in the big show, FBS,
33-7 over the Gamecocks.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Welcome to the show, Bison.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
And how about this game the other night? Bill and
Mary down 10 with 57 seconds to go beat Villanova 35-32.
How does that happen?
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Howie Long's not walking through that door with Villanova. Or
who was the other guy? Danny Abramowitz.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Wide receiver?
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Played for the Saints. I think he went to Villanova. Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
Brian Westbrook.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Oh, no, he might have gone to Xavier. Brian Westbrook.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Danny Abramowitz. Maybe he went to Xavier when Xavier had
a football program. Does that sound right? I could be
making things up. Who's in the confessional? Paul is. So
he can talk a little bit more about Not So Fast.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
Yes, Paul.
Speaker 5 (40:29):
Danny Abramowitz, Catholic Central High School in your area, Dan,
and Xavier University.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
That's when Xavier had a football program. Final hour on
the way. More of your phone calls as well. Paulie
will be in the confessional. Big Day Ray comes in
and sits in Pauly's seat for the final hour of
the program. Two hours in the books. One more to go. Dylan, Marv, Pauly,
yours truly in the BRGs. We're back after this.
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Dan Patrick
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