December 18, 2024 • 41 mins
Dan wonders about Brock Purdy and whether the San Francisco 49ers will pay him a new contract. Hall of Famer and TNT NBA analyst Charles Barkley stops by to discuss the problems with the league right now, challenges Dan to a free throw contest, and says he's not going to be working more than two days a week at his new job with the mothership.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
On this Wednesday, Dan and The Dance Dan Patrick Show.
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considerable amount of time talking about the Falcons decision to
(01:19):
bench Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I agree with it. I didn't think they would do it.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I thought they should have done it prior to last
week when they beat the Raiders fifteen to nine. So
even after a win, they bench him their game out
of first place with three games to go, and I
like that. Michael Pennix gets a home start for his
first start as they face the Giants. Poll question seating
from hour one and what are we going to go
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with an hour two?
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Let's see, right now, we got most awkward quarterback situation Falcons, Browns, Vikings,
forty nine ers. Our audience has it in it exactly
that order. I don't really feel like the Falcon situation
is all that awkward necessarily, certainly not compared to the Browns.
Vikings have a real decision to make, and the forty
nine ers they got another massive decision to make.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, yeah, you're gonna spend that money.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
The Vikings is a good awkward? Is the Niners a
good awkward?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Like?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Do you pay your quarterback? Do you want to pay
your quarterback? Do you have another option? With your quarterback.
You probably don't.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I haven't heard anything from Rock Perty's representatives that there's
going to be a team friendly deal. It'd be the
same thing with Sam Darnold. If you said I get
to play with those receivers in Minnesota or I'm gonna
try to go to the Raiders. Let's say, well, I
would take less to stay in Minnesota to be successful,
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to play in meaningful games. You've already played, you know,
when you played with the Jets and you saw how
that went. You're not a we can put the game
plan on your back kind of quarterback. But can he
run an offense? He's done extremely well. But I have
those two receivers and they're locked up. I like my
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chances going. And I got that coach who's going to
be the coach.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Of the year. I like that situation a lot.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Yes, Marv, if you're the forty nine ers, do you
think do you think to yourself, Hey, if we did
this with Rock Party, we can do it again.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
We can get another guy.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
For the past five or six years, this is the
only team that's been a contender without a like legit
franchise quarterback where they're legit have all the faith in
they had Jimmy g then they draft Trey Lance after
they get to the Super Bowl, then they get Brock Party.
That falls in their lat.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Well, can you bring Sam Donald back to San Francisco,
Let's say half priced Sam Darnald full price Rock Party.
If I'm really on Kyle Shanahan to develop these quarterbacks
and you've already had him in the system, would you
bring Sam Donald in for half the price of Rock Purty.
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And here's the thing, Sam Donald is two years older
than Rock Purty.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
I believe.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Maybe three. You're not even in his prime yet. And
I'd strongly consider that. It's just it's a lot of money.
If everything goes right. Rock Purty is a wonderful quarterback
for you. But everything didn't go right this year and
you're not going to make the playoffs. What are you
going to do with Deebo? I mean, you've got all
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these big contracts here, somebody's paying the price, and then
Rock Purty would pay the price on offense if you're
not able to keep everybody, how long does George Kittle
have Deebo gets banged up? I know they overspent for
Brandon Ayuk, Christian McCaffrey. I mean, this might be with
him the rest of his career.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
This injury.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Now they've shown that they've got running backs who can
come in by committee. But man, I'd have to strongly
consider if I can get Sam Darnold for four years
at four years at one p fifty Rock Purty four years,
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five years, two hundred and fifty million dollars. I mean
that's the going rate, and fifty is a bargain. It
feels like, you know, does he want Dak Prescott money? Man,
this is where sometimes you can get into a situation
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where it's more money, but it's not the right move
for you. I had an opportunity to leave ESPN at
one point, and it was for more money, but it
wasn't the right situation, and I really I debated it,
but then I kept coming back to those four letters
are so powerful, and it's still the place to go.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
If you're you know, doing Sports center.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
But the other place I would make more money and
work less, and I had to move, and I decided
it just doesn't it didn't make sense.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yes, Pauline, the.
Speaker 7 (06:20):
Going rate for the second contract for a quarterback who
is destined to be a star is the Joe Burrow
contract five years two seventy five. Yeah, I just heard
the phrase from behind me. I don't know who said it.
You guys are crazy, and that's sure.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
The topic, well, sounds like a classic toddline if I
could be seating and his affection for brock Purty.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Maybe possibly.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
However, if you remove brock Purdy from it and you
just keep it on the Sam Donald thing, I'm very
happy that Sam's having a good year. You already had
Sam Donald in that building with the exact same players
on a much cheaper salary, and you chose to not
play him. You chose to let him go, You chose
to You chose brock Purty over him. Why why in
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the world would you be like, ah, yeah, let's get
him back again and pay him way more than we
even want to try.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
If I thought rock Purty was already there and playing
for you, and then you brought Sam Donald in right
as a backup, right, well, you weren't going to play
Sam like you were already playing brock Purty, and he'd
played at a high level, so you're not. You're not
bringing him in to compete for the job. You brought
him in to be a backup.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Right, However, you had you had the exact same scenario
that you're laying out. You had Sam Donald in the
building and you were watching him play every single day
in your system with your players.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Oh, I'm not saying you still chose brock Purty over him.
Is he better than brock Purty or is it more
cost efficient? So there'd be a difference in I'm gonna
maybe I save one hundred million dollars with Sam Donald.
Is that a better business decision than to give brock
Purty that money? So that's what you know. Do I
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think Brock Purty is better than Sam Darnold?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Yeah? Do I think he's a hundred million dollars better?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
No?
Speaker 6 (08:10):
I do not.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
And we've seen these rosters. They get decimated unless you
have brilliant people like the Kansas City Chiefs have and
they can plug and play, and they've already paid their quarterback,
and he's a bargain.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I just think it's a whole lot of money for
somebody that I don't know if I can tell Brock
Purdy to go out there and win a game for me,
I don't know if you can say that. And granted
there's only a couple of quarterbacks that you can say
that about. If I say Joe Burrows stand alone, I
think everybody's going to go, hell yeah, Josh Allen stand alone,
Hell yeah, Mahomes stand alone.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Heck ya, Justin Herbert maybe maybe Dak maybe.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
So there's only a couple of those guys that you,
you know, Jalen Hurts, maybe maybe you got five guys
that you go stand alone starting my team. That guy
he'll somehow, you know, make us better. A lot of
the other guys are just complimentary. Lamar Jackson, Yes, I
can count on him. I'm sure I'm leaving somebody else out.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
Yes, Pony Sam Darnold last year was the backup for
the forty nine ers. He made four point five million.
They tried to keep him, according to reports out there,
and they offered him upwards of seven and a half
million for a one year backup deal, and I sort
of offered him ten.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah, it's an interesting decision what San Francisco is going
to do. But it sounds like I think I.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
And Rappaport had a report and Ian Apple report, and it.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Was they were going to give him the full vote.
I think that's what they're going to do in San Francisco.
Maybe saw this in Seattle and then they were never
the same. What else is on the poll.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Their seaton other than those two?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Yeah, I think that's what we're going with. Okay, I'm
trying to work up one about getting benched after a win,
which is just.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
But it didn't feel like a win, that's the problem.
But it was it technically is a victory, Like the
Chiefs have had an entire season. Now that didn't feel
like a win, but it was.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Yeah, but they've had other wins that were wins in
there were super Bowls.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
There some phone calls.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
You plug to say, you can win in the NFL
and still lose.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yes, Well, Trent Dilford called back the verse. Yeah yeah,
let me see Aiden in Utah. Hi, Aidan, what's on
your mind today?
Speaker 8 (10:54):
Up?
Speaker 9 (10:55):
I actually haven't watched a single game, but they've got
a winning record, so we'll count that.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Fritzy.
Speaker 10 (11:00):
We are going to the playoffs.
Speaker 11 (11:02):
But if you want to keep referring to us as them, you.
Speaker 10 (11:06):
Can stay behind.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Okay, I want you to have some damn fad, Fritzy.
Speaker 8 (11:11):
I am very curious to see how Tomorrow night plays out. Wow,
I'm gonna say the Broncos will beat the Chargers and
we will get that tenth win and we will be
in the playoffs. But we do in the playoffs, we'll see.
But I am fully on board on bow Knicks and
the Broncos being in the postseason.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Go Broncos, No, Kah, there you go.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
D huge game too.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeah, it sounded really really comfortable. Confident James in Virginia.
Hi James, what's on your mind?
Speaker 10 (11:36):
Oh, thank you for taking my call. Brother, Happy Wednesday,
DP dannit to loot the Commanders, Man, I'll give you
a team that Kirk Cousins will be on next year,
the Stampon Cisco forty nine Ers reuniting with Kyle Sanahan. Man,
I love that. And speaking of the Atlanta Falcons, how
big was that tinke with Michael Pennants Junior. If he
was coming out this year, he would be the number
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one tick over Shador Sanders.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
Definite.
Speaker 10 (12:00):
We believe that. So I'm really excited to see what
he does. And I'm the older you monarch through and through,
but I can't help but to be happy for Noffolk
State University. Man, behold the Green and Gold Man. Michael
Vig this is a hot bet of talent. In the
seven five to seven, three state champions came from the
seven five to seven. This year, Oster Smith, Moore and
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Phoebus Phoeves went four in a row. So I'm a
little nervous man because though you might lose out on
some players. But man, I'm so happy for him. And yes,
it's not Norfolk, it's Nonfolk.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I hope you Nofolk, it's not. It's like Louisville. It's
not Louisville. It's Louisville and it's New Orleans. Yes, Marvin James,
if you're still there, I got a question. Did you
go to an HBCU or at least a HBC HBC.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
So he went to Old Dominion. He didn't go to
a historically college. Here.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
You no HBCU homecoming I didn't finish. Oh, oh no,
you don't know. I know HBC your homecomings way more
important to going to HBCU.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Okay, James, I've never.
Speaker 10 (13:04):
I've never been to the homecoming. But I will say
one thing. Novel State has one of the best bands
in the country, man, no doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Thank you, James Nofolk.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
The football games are that is fascinating halftime is game.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Time, Tom and Charlotte. Then we'll take a break. Hey Tom,
Hey Dan.
Speaker 9 (13:28):
Just figuring out that one of the best ways to
listen to the show is on the on the weight line.
Quite frankly, you feel like you're part of it. But
I wanted to just jump real quick back to your
NBA comments, and I feel like baseball has the same problem.
And I called back in June about this. You know,
Father's Day, you couldn't find a baseball game on TV. Yeah,
I feel like the NBA has the same problem. You
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can't find it when you're watching TV. On Tuesday, you're
watching FBI on CBS, you see a commercial about what
game's coming on for the NFL this weekend. You don't
watch TMT except for maybe this time of year because
they got Christmas vacation marathons. You're not seeing the NBA
promote their games. You don't know who's coming to town.
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You don't know what game is the big game this week.
And the same thing happens to baseball. And to your point,
yesterday you were saying, oh, they're fighting the behemoth NFL,
They're fighting the college football behemoth. Two and between the
two of them. They have sucked all the money from
all the networks.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Dry Well, Amazons spent a lot of money. There are
a lot of TV partners who spent a lot of money,
So NBC, Amazon, They've spent a lot of money. Charles
Barkley will join is coming up next here on the
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Speaker 3 (16:01):
How you feeling?
Speaker 6 (16:03):
I'm great, brother, happy, Hanukah, Merry Christmas, all that good stuff.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Did you make any money in Vegas?
Speaker 6 (16:10):
I want a little bit. I had a great trip.
I didn't lose money, but I want a little bit,
so it was good.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
What is your game?
Speaker 6 (16:18):
I played blackjack?
Speaker 3 (16:20):
How much per hand?
Speaker 6 (16:25):
Twenty five thousand? Okay?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
And how many hands do you have in front of you?
Speaker 6 (16:30):
I play one hand unless I want to break up
the deck, and I play two. Okay.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
You don't get like, could you just do one hundred
dollars and be happy?
Speaker 10 (16:43):
Hell?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
No?
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Hell? No, No, I could not be happy. I'd be unhappy.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Okay, So we've been talking about the NBA. The commissioners
talk about the NBA. Seems like he's okay, ratings are
declining a little bit. You got the NBA Cup. I
don't know what that did for the interest of the game.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
We start to look at this and I'm wondering, does
the NBA have to do something like Major League Baseball's
doing things where they got the bases bigger where I
mean that commissioner is trying to do different things.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Should Adam Silver be looking at that same model.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
I think we have to do something. You know, Dan,
last time I was on your show, you asked me
a great course, and you said, is it load management
or just two many threes? And I said, it's really
a combination of both. And you know, anytime old guys
like I said something, we're hating on the young guys.
But I watched the Warriors. I was in the sportsbook
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all day Sunday. I get me and the guys got
up and watched football all day. In one of the games,
I watched the Warriors play the worst played the Mavericks.
It's one of the worst games I've seen. They just
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I think it was one forty one thirty. They just
went up and down the court and shot threes like
and I was like, man, this is awful to watch
if you're just gonna have a three point shooting contest
every night. So I think we got to figure out
something because the most important thing of the game is
the fans. Yeah, and if they're not watching, you can't
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keep your head in the sand. You got to say,
what are we doing wrong? And like I say, it's
frustrated for me because all it is now the three
point shooting contests and a free throw contest, and I
don't like it. And you know, like I say, they
can get mad, but I don't want to go see
a three point shooting contest every night. That ain't no fun.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
What if we capped the number of threes that you
can take? Each team gets twenty five attempts, you know.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
I mean, I'm open for any suggestion. I mean, but
like I say, we don't have to do something. I mean,
ratings are down, down, down, And that's like I said
that fans are the most important aspects of the game.
We need the fans to be successful. You know, it's
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like it's like the All Star Game with throwing just
stuff at the wall. We got a new model this.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Year, and what do you think of that model?
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Well, I want to do anything to help the game, Dan.
I saw Kevin Durant rip the new format. Dan, I
don't know what you do, because what we've done in
the last X amount of years is not working. It's
not fun. So I've always suggested we do the United
States against the World. I think that would be fantastic.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
I do.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
I think it'd be fantastic. I don't know how this
thing gonna turn out this year. But listen, let's be
honest with what we're doing. What we've done the last
few years is not working. Playing and simple.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
And it used to be that we kind of christened
the NBA season at Christmas, that's when the season started.
Just the fact that that seemed to be the logic
is flawed. Like you don't really get excited about a
game in October November, it's like, wait till Christmas Day. Well, now,
the NFL just came in and said, hey, we're going
to take over Christmas from you, NBA, and that's difficult.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
That's tough for them. Because it felt like they owned
that day.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
I've you know, the best ratings we've ever had. What
a year we got. It went on strike Dan and
started on Christmas. I think we need to consider seriously
consider of starting at Christmas because you get caught, Chaussen,
you're wasting your time going up against the NFL and
college They own the weekends now. But if I think
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if we started at Christmas, we'd have all the calendar.
There's no other sports I mean that we'd have to
compete with. If we started at Christmas, college football would
be over, pro football is winding down. We'd have the
entire calendar late December, January, February, March, April, May, June.
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To ourself, I think it's something we need to really
consider playing and simple because listen, NFL's King Kong and
you know in their greedy pigs. You know, first of all,
I think what they're doing now is going to come
back to bottom in ass because to make the kandisdate,
the Chief Chiefs played three games in like ten days.
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That's just stupid. I mean, you got Patrick and Travis
and Chris Jones, you got those guys. Like to make
those guys play three games in ten days, just because
it's popular and you sold it to different networks. That's,
first of all, is not safe. It's kind of the
same way. In my opinion, I'm really excited about this
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college football playoff, but I think it's very dangerous. You
can't play as eighteen year old nineteen year old kids
to play twelve thirteen regular season games then play four
more games in the playoffs. I mean, because ninety nine
percent of those kids gonna have CTE or gonna hurt
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their bodies and they're never going to the NFL. They've
got to shorten this season because, like I said, the
teams that win this playoffs gonna play four more games
than it used to be two if you won a championship.
But now if you're gonna play four extra games the goal,
especially if you're in a comference like the Big Ten
or the SEC where you play so many tough games.
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I'm really concerned about those kids' bodies and brains.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Yeah, but I don't know if college football really cares.
They're now kind of paid.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
No then d D nobody cares.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
They're making so much they're adding an eighteenth game in
the NFL. Everybody signs the money.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Yes, and that's what these players are gonna get in college.
There's gonna be revenue sharing. They'll get more money with this,
and they'll sign up for this. And you said, hey,
the NBA should start on Christmas Day, Well, you have
these playoff games. Now this weekend college football starts their playoffs.
They're gonna what they would wipe away the NBA on
Christmas Day because these games now matter, and you're gonna
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have your bowl season going into January. Then the NFL
has playoffs. The NBA will get left behind if.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
But it'll be a short, little lead behind. And first
of all, listen, let's let's kill these other balls. Let's
stop these come on, man, like, if you're gonna have
the playoffs, you don't need other.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Bowls now, Yes, Charles, this is because ESPN needs programming.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
That's all this is.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
I understand that. Why don't they show NBA games on
those days? Listen, man, and listen. I'm against I'm fundamentally
against guys bowing out of bowl games. But if your
bowl game means absolutely nothing, there's no reason for you
to play in a meaningless bowl game. If you don't
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make the playoffs, why would you play in a bowl game.
Doesn't makes zero sense to me. Whatsoever?
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Are you betting on the bowl games this weekend?
Speaker 6 (24:25):
Yeah? Probably, of course.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Who do you like any upsets here?
Speaker 6 (24:31):
What name a game?
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Tennessee, Ohio State, oh I love Ohio State, Notre Dame, Indiana.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Hey, but them idiots? I had them plus nineteen and
a half. Man, I was I was throwing stuff at
my TV. I was like, because you knew what was
really scary about that game. You knew in the first
half they're not gonna win by three touchdowns. And I
was so pissed. So I'm a better on State one
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more time? Who else?
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Notre Dame Indiana.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
I love Notre Dame. I know coach Sinnetti has had
a great season, but I want to meet Marcus Freeman.
I've never met him, and Notre Dame's on my bucket list.
Notre Dame, Ohio State, and Michigan. There are three stadiums
that on my bucket list. But I want to meet
Marcus Freeman. But I know the Dame's gonna win that game.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
SMU, Penn State.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
They're not gonna win. A Happy Valley Dan, please stop
they coach. Lastly, I got a chance to meet him
one time. I'm a big fan of him. In the
year he's had, him and coach Dillingham have been fantastic
at ASU. They've done a fantastic job this year. But
SMU is not gonna win a Happy Valley.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Clemson Texas, now that is a really good game.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
I'm probably gonna go with Texas because they're playing at home.
But listen, whether you hate it or not, they got
some They got some good playoff games. So the committee,
you know, I don't think anybody had a gripe. I
don't think anybody had a real gripe this year. I
know Alabama think they had a gripe. Uh they did not. Uh.
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South Carolina probably had a better grape. They're probably the
hottest team in the country right now. Uh. But no,
I mean these you know, they got some serious big schools.
I mean when you get Notre Dame, Tennessee, Ohio State, Texas,
when you get all these big schools, I mean obviously Georgia, Oregon,
it's fantastic. So if you like college football, which I
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love football in general, you got great powerhouses.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Talking to Charles Barky, Hall of Famer Turner Sports Inside
the NBA analyst. Is your contract pushed over to ESPN's
from Turner?
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Is that official?
Speaker 6 (26:53):
I haven't decided yet.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
How about we decide now.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
I'm listening to NBC and Amazon. I want to know
everything that's on the table for me before I sign in.
I mean, I love those guys at the ESPN, and
if we end up there, you know, I'm gonna do
the best I possibly can. But I want to know
first of all, they haven't even given us any type
(27:22):
of schedule whatsoever. But I be doing myself for disservice,
not to meet with NBC, which I have, and meet
with Amazon, which I have, And the number one thing
I've told everybody, can y'all please give me a damn schedule?
I mean, because nobody knows anything. Dan, I mean, like
at least the TNT, I always knew day this is
(27:44):
our schedule, neither not one of the three networks. And
like I say, I love ESPN, I got nothing to get.
But I wouldn't know how much I'm gonna be working,
or you're.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Gonna be working a lot more than you think you're
gonna be working. I think, well, no, you think I
used to work there. I used to work there. I
know what they do well, and.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
I know what y'all's do. Y'alls is not gonna be.
They're not gonna work talls like no, damn dog no
so so so seriously. Uh, like I said, I got
a number of love and respect for ESPN. Uh Well,
like I said, but I'm taking my time with NBC
and Amazon. I I wanted in writing, Yes, how much
do y'all think I'm going to work? Because TNT is
(28:30):
a perfect place to work?
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Are you gonna work two nights a week?
Speaker 6 (28:35):
We don't even know anything?
Speaker 3 (28:36):
No, but what do you? You can tell them what you
want to do well.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
I want to know what they're expecting. Are we gonna
have the same schedule? Are we gonna have to do
a BC, ESPN and tn T because tn T I
think they have they originally wanted to keep doing something.
So I'm not gonna be doing both and then add
and I'm not gonna be doing ABC, ESPN and tn T.
(29:05):
That's not gonna happen. I'm just like I say, if
we go to ESPN, I got a number of love
and respect for those guys, but I'm not gonna do ABC,
ESPN and t N T. So I took my time
meeting with the other two networks. Amen, And I don't
want to hear y'all talk to me. I want to know.
I want it in writing. I wanted in writing. How
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much were it going to work?
Speaker 2 (29:28):
What was this silly free throw shooting contest that Kenny
shoots left handed and steven A Smith gets to shoot right?
Speaker 6 (29:36):
What do you do well, Kenny, who wrote a check
his ass couldn't cash and he tried to cover it
by in case stephen A beat him shooting left handed
and he lost. And that's it. But you know stephen
A does. He does a good job up at the Mothership.
And uh, we got Like I said, Man, I wish
(29:59):
somebody would give me some clarity.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Dan, Wait, go back to the free throw shooting.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
If Kenny shot straight up against steven A, Kenny was
an eighty three percent free throw shooter.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
Yeah, that was thirty years ago.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
You don't think Ken, You never come on. I can
go out make eight out of ten right now?
Speaker 6 (30:18):
You can?
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Hell?
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Yes, bet what do you charity?
Speaker 6 (30:23):
Charity?
Speaker 3 (30:23):
What do you want to bet?
Speaker 6 (30:24):
I bet your charity? You set it up. I'll come somewhere.
I'll donate twenty five thousand dollars to your favorite charity.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
You don't think I can make that eight out of
ten free throws?
Speaker 6 (30:36):
No? I don't. Oh my god, I just said twenty
five thousand dollars to your favorite charity. Right You'll be
gagging out there. You'll be like talking like a dog.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
I know I'm a better free throw shooter than you are. Dan,
you shot seventy three percent for your career. That's embarrassing.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
Yeah, that's not good.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
No.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
Yeah, you act like you're thirty five years old. You old.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
It's fifteen feet.
Speaker 6 (31:07):
Dan, you're old.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
I know sixty eight.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
You're seventy years old.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Do you know Bird Bird could still make nine out
of ten free throws right now?
Speaker 3 (31:20):
And Bird is old.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
I'll bet him he can't make it again, lad Bird?
I love lad Bird. He can't make nine out of
ten right now? This ain't this ain't to eight.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Is a nighte Oh my god. It's just riding a bike.
That's all it is. That's riding a bike. Okay, go
back to the TV thing. Were you going to say
something like getting some headlines here I scheduled. Did I
interrupt you?
Speaker 6 (31:50):
No? Okay? Then then I want to.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Wag the dog. You wag the dog. You got to
two nights that you'll work.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
That's him.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
You have the dog. I mean load management. You you
can be the Kawhi Leonard of TV analyst and you
do load management.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
What I'm gonna do what was best for the I've
always did what's the best for the network. And if
you go back and look at my history, when TNT
you you are, thank you for the camera. But think
about this, Dan. I anything TNT has asked me to do,
They're like, hey, what you do college basketball? I'm like,
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what a hept team. I'm like, sure, I'll do it.
Didn't get any money for it. They said, hey, Chuck,
what you had earned to do a podcast? I'm like,
what a Hepta team, Let's do a podcast. I ain't
a fan of money. They said, hey, what you start
doing these matches. I'm like, what a hefty team. Sure,
let's do it. I've never asked them for an extra
dime for doing extra stuff, but if they traded, well
(32:58):
we got traded to another networ work. I want to
know exactly what's going on, because, like I say, I'm
not gonna be doing five shows. I'm not gonna be
working four days a week on in a network, either
at NBC or Amazon. That's not gonna happen. I'm gonna
sit in my fat black ass at home if it
(33:20):
comes down, if they start telling, if they like I say, Dan,
we work one day a week. I love our job,
I love the people I work for. I'm not gonna
go working one day a week to four days a week.
That's not gonna happen. Now when I go to two,
I probably could go to two. But if people think
that I'm gonna work three or four days a week,
they're freaking nuts.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Why you're gonna have to do college game Day? There'll
be a basketball show, there's gonna be a radio show.
You're gonna have to be on Greenies Radio.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Like hey Dad, first take, First Take, You'll have to
be on first take.
Speaker 6 (33:54):
Let me tell you something. When you FaceTime me, then
it'll be from Arizona. It won't be from anywhere else.
If people think I'm gonna work on all this stuff,
that's not gonna happen. Dan, you have my word on that,
I'm not gonna be working all the time. Every time
we do this a going forward, every time you face
(34:15):
tied me, I'm gonna be at my backyard in Arizona,
on my on my pud and green at the tennis court.
I'm not gonna be working all the time, Dan, That's
not gonna happen. Man to man, Dad, you know, I
got a lot of love and respect for you. The
notion that I'm gonna work all the time, that's not
just it's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Oh no, No, I'm just telling you, and I'm telling you. Okay,
I'm telling you.
Speaker 6 (34:37):
You can tell me and I first of all, you
are correct, and I'm telling you that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Okay, all right, I hope that it doesn't happen. So
you have Hey listen, why are you yelling at me?
Speaker 6 (34:53):
Obama? Hey, hey listen, Barack Obama. We don't have to
keep hope alive. I am not gonna be working all
the time.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Dan, Okay, all right, on why you're yelling. I'm on
your side.
Speaker 6 (35:06):
But because you think that they gonna just hey, we're
gonna work you all time. No you're not. No, you're not.
That's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Okay, all right, Okay.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
I said the same thing to uh Jason Kelcey. I said,
just protect yourself because there's so many different programs platforms
that they have to have people on, and that's that's
the only thing I would say quality alike, Hey.
Speaker 6 (35:31):
Listen, and I you know, first of all, I love
Jason Kelsey. He is so such a wonderful dude. And uh,
I got to and I got to get back to
him because he's doing a talk show now.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
Oh yeah, yeah, you have Friday Night.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
So I think they got like, you know, he's gonna
be a late night Jimmy Fallon type guy.
Speaker 6 (35:49):
Well, because I I he asked me to be on
the show, I got to get back to him because
I'm gonna try to make it work because I got
a lot of love and respect for him.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
I think you should go out there and you're Philadelphia
seventy six ers uniform that you had when you play.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
You talk about skin tight back in the that was hot.
I would look so bad. You talk about skin tight
in the eighties, it ski skin tight tight.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Now I could actually see Larry's birds through his uniform.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
They would be so bad right now there.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
John Stockton, how about John Stockton with the short shorts?
Speaker 6 (36:28):
Oh yeah, they they'd be really short shorts. If I
drop to put on shorts of.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Good to talk to you.
Speaker 6 (36:35):
Thanks again, all right, brother Mary Christies, Merry Christmas and
happy honkua to everybody. Bless y'all.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
All right, that's Charles Barkley. Take a break back after this.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan
Patrick Show week days at nine am Eastern six am
Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio WAP.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
The beauty of Charles Barkley is he doesn't have to care.
He can say what he wants and and he's wagging
the dog in this situation. But that would be weird though,
if Kenny and Shaq went to ESPN and Charles went
to Amazon or went to NBC. Can you go as
(37:14):
a package group? I mean, obviously that's what you want.
I mean, you got to get Shack and Charles together,
if Ernie's gonna do it as well, and then you
know you put in Kenny as well. You know, it
just sort of levels things out with them. You know,
you got two big personalities. Kenny kind of brings them
(37:35):
back to reality and Ernie lands the planes. But with Shaq,
got to have him as well, and you throw Charles
in there, and I look, my relationship with ESPN has
been great the last ten twelve years. Prior to that,
not necessarily the last three years I was there, not necessarily,
(37:59):
and a lot of that, you know, like it could
be my own doing as well. But I tell there's
a lot of former athletes who I've spoken to, and
by a lot, I would say fifteen, and they want
to know about working for ESPN. Now, you could have
Marquee guys. It could be Steve Young, it could be Shack,
it could be Charles Barkley, it could be you know,
(38:20):
there's a variety of guys that I've spoken to about
if you go there, just understand, if you go there now,
Charles won't be on campus. And if you're on campus,
that's when you're on the morning show. You're on Get Up,
you're on First Take, you're doing afternoons, you're you know
a variety of things around the horn or part of
(38:41):
the interruption. You'll be a guest if you like that,
if you like that, if you like the airtime. It's
a great place and they create stars there. But these
guys who are already stars, they're not going to want
to work that much. And Charles saying, look, I work
one night a week. I'll work two nights, but you
(39:02):
got to be careful. It's called the car wash for
a reason. You go in there and they're like, hey,
can you be here? Can you be here? Can you
be here? They're trying to fill up programming. I mean,
that's why you have all these bowl games. It's ESPN.
It's so important for programming this time of the year.
I understand it. I mean, you get games every single night.
(39:23):
You're college football. You want to make sure that you
have as many bowl games as punk. You don't care
if somebody doesn't know that game or those teams, or
care about UNLV and COW.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
They just want you to watch three hours of programming.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
In that programming they can advertise the other things they
got coming up, the other shows that they have, the
other football games.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
That's all it is. They just keep feeding the monster.
Speaker 9 (39:47):
There.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
Eric in Virginia, Hi, Eric, what's on your mind? Hey?
Speaker 11 (39:54):
Good morning, Dan, How are you great?
Speaker 3 (39:56):
What's on your mind?
Speaker 11 (39:57):
Actually? I was thinking about the college football playoff. I'm
a huge Oregon fan, which.
Speaker 6 (40:04):
We kind of got.
Speaker 11 (40:06):
Messed up with Ohio State didn't sy but I will
pass that. I was actually wondering if you guys were
doing a like pick them or something like that, where
you guys were.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
Picking the Oh, we'll do a bracket.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Yeah, well we'll pick you know, a bracket challenge kind
of like what we did with the mc douaa. But
thanks for the phone call. By the way. Coming up,
we'll play in or out. We'll have some topics and
we'll find out if we're in or out. It's that simple, Todd.
You're either in or you're out.
Speaker 8 (40:41):
No need to say anything other than in or out.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Well, you've still managed to say more than just do better. Yeah,
that's okay. Stat of the Day brought to you by
Panini America, the official trading cards of the program. See
would you update the poll results from hour two if
you could please?
Speaker 8 (40:57):
Heck?
Speaker 4 (40:57):
Yeah, well okay, poll results I got right now. The
Falcon's decision to bench Kirk Cousins is smart or desperate.
That's at fifty one percent smart, forty nine percent say
it's desperate.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
How about that? Okay.
Speaker 4 (41:10):
We also have the most awkward quarterback situation in the NFL.
In order, it's Falcons Brown's Vikings forty nine ers.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
I don't think i'd agree with that.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
Todd had a poll question, now that it's over, how
concerned are you about experiencing NBA Cup withdrawal.
Speaker 6 (41:30):
That's a question that needed to be asked.
Speaker 8 (41:35):
People get all shaky and nervous and they need a
lot of coffee after not having the cup.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
I'm going to give you a bloop bloop for that one.
That's very funny. That's good.
You are listening to The Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio Hour two.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
On this Wednesday, Dan and The Dance Dan Patrick Show.
Hall of Famer Charles Barkley will join us. Coming up
a little bit, we'll play in or Out. You're either
in or you're out. Hall of Famer Steve Young will
join us in the final hour. The Boker Ratone Bowl
and the Art of Sport LA Bowl brought to you
by Gronk. Those games coming up tonight in case you're
(00:28):
wondering Western Kentucky against James Madison cal versus UNLV.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Those are your Bowl games.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Later on today you have college basketball as well, including
Xavier against Connecticut. Speaking of which you can catch Big
East Basketball. It'll be the Yukon Huskies and they'll be
back in action facing Butler on the road. That'll be
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Sdpatdanpatrick dot Com Twitter handle. The TP Show spent a
considerable amount of time talking about the Falcons decision to
(01:19):
bench Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I agree with it. I didn't think they would do it.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I thought they should have done it prior to last
week when they beat the Raiders fifteen to nine. So
even after a win, they bench him their game out
of first place with three games to go, and I
like that. Michael Pennix gets a home start for his
first start as they face the Giants. Poll question seating
from hour one and what are we going to go
(01:44):
with an hour two?
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Let's see, right now, we got most awkward quarterback situation Falcons, Browns, Vikings,
forty nine ers. Our audience has it in it exactly
that order. I don't really feel like the Falcon situation
is all that awkward necessarily, certainly not compared to the Browns.
Vikings have a real decision to make, and the forty
nine ers they got another massive decision to make.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, yeah, you're gonna spend that money.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
The Vikings is a good awkward? Is the Niners a
good awkward?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Like?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Do you pay your quarterback? Do you want to pay
your quarterback? Do you have another option? With your quarterback.
You probably don't.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I haven't heard anything from Rock Perty's representatives that there's
going to be a team friendly deal. It'd be the
same thing with Sam Darnold. If you said I get
to play with those receivers in Minnesota or I'm gonna
try to go to the Raiders. Let's say, well, I
would take less to stay in Minnesota to be successful,
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to play in meaningful games. You've already played, you know,
when you played with the Jets and you saw how
that went. You're not a we can put the game
plan on your back kind of quarterback. But can he
run an offense? He's done extremely well. But I have
those two receivers and they're locked up. I like my
(03:15):
chances going. And I got that coach who's going to
be the coach.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Of the year. I like that situation a lot.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Yes, Marv, if you're the forty nine ers, do you
think do you think to yourself, Hey, if we did
this with Rock Party, we can do it again.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
We can get another guy.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
For the past five or six years, this is the
only team that's been a contender without a like legit
franchise quarterback where they're legit have all the faith in
they had Jimmy g then they draft Trey Lance after
they get to the Super Bowl, then they get Brock Party.
That falls in their lat.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Well, can you bring Sam Donald back to San Francisco,
Let's say half priced Sam Darnald full price Rock Party.
If I'm really on Kyle Shanahan to develop these quarterbacks
and you've already had him in the system, would you
bring Sam Donald in for half the price of Rock Purty.
(04:12):
And here's the thing, Sam Donald is two years older
than Rock Purty.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
I believe.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Maybe three. You're not even in his prime yet. And
I'd strongly consider that. It's just it's a lot of money.
If everything goes right. Rock Purty is a wonderful quarterback
for you. But everything didn't go right this year and
you're not going to make the playoffs. What are you
going to do with Deebo? I mean, you've got all
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these big contracts here, somebody's paying the price, and then
Rock Purty would pay the price on offense if you're
not able to keep everybody, how long does George Kittle
have Deebo gets banged up? I know they overspent for
Brandon Ayuk, Christian McCaffrey. I mean, this might be with
him the rest of his career.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
This injury.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Now they've shown that they've got running backs who can
come in by committee. But man, I'd have to strongly
consider if I can get Sam Darnold for four years
at four years at one p fifty Rock Purty four years,
(05:27):
five years, two hundred and fifty million dollars. I mean
that's the going rate, and fifty is a bargain. It
feels like, you know, does he want Dak Prescott money? Man,
this is where sometimes you can get into a situation
(05:48):
where it's more money, but it's not the right move
for you. I had an opportunity to leave ESPN at
one point, and it was for more money, but it
wasn't the right situation, and I really I debated it,
but then I kept coming back to those four letters
are so powerful, and it's still the place to go.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
If you're you know, doing Sports center.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
But the other place I would make more money and
work less, and I had to move, and I decided
it just doesn't it didn't make sense.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yes, Pauline, the.
Speaker 7 (06:20):
Going rate for the second contract for a quarterback who
is destined to be a star is the Joe Burrow
contract five years two seventy five. Yeah, I just heard
the phrase from behind me. I don't know who said it.
You guys are crazy, and that's sure.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
The topic, well, sounds like a classic toddline if I
could be seating and his affection for brock Purty.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Maybe possibly.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
However, if you remove brock Purdy from it and you
just keep it on the Sam Donald thing, I'm very
happy that Sam's having a good year. You already had
Sam Donald in that building with the exact same players
on a much cheaper salary, and you chose to not
play him. You chose to let him go, You chose
to You chose brock Purty over him. Why why in
(07:07):
the world would you be like, ah, yeah, let's get
him back again and pay him way more than we
even want to try.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
If I thought rock Purty was already there and playing
for you, and then you brought Sam Donald in right
as a backup, right, well, you weren't going to play
Sam like you were already playing brock Purty, and he'd
played at a high level, so you're not. You're not
bringing him in to compete for the job. You brought
him in to be a backup.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Right, However, you had you had the exact same scenario
that you're laying out. You had Sam Donald in the
building and you were watching him play every single day
in your system with your players.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Oh, I'm not saying you still chose brock Purty over him.
Is he better than brock Purty or is it more
cost efficient? So there'd be a difference in I'm gonna
maybe I save one hundred million dollars with Sam Donald.
Is that a better business decision than to give brock
Purty that money? So that's what you know. Do I
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think Brock Purty is better than Sam Darnold?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Yeah? Do I think he's a hundred million dollars better?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
No?
Speaker 6 (08:10):
I do not.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
And we've seen these rosters. They get decimated unless you
have brilliant people like the Kansas City Chiefs have and
they can plug and play, and they've already paid their quarterback,
and he's a bargain.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I just think it's a whole lot of money for
somebody that I don't know if I can tell Brock
Purdy to go out there and win a game for me,
I don't know if you can say that. And granted
there's only a couple of quarterbacks that you can say
that about. If I say Joe Burrows stand alone, I
think everybody's going to go, hell yeah, Josh Allen stand alone,
Hell yeah, Mahomes stand alone.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Heck ya, Justin Herbert maybe maybe Dak maybe.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
So there's only a couple of those guys that you,
you know, Jalen Hurts, maybe maybe you got five guys
that you go stand alone starting my team. That guy
he'll somehow, you know, make us better. A lot of
the other guys are just complimentary. Lamar Jackson, Yes, I
can count on him. I'm sure I'm leaving somebody else out.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
Yes, Pony Sam Darnold last year was the backup for
the forty nine ers. He made four point five million.
They tried to keep him, according to reports out there,
and they offered him upwards of seven and a half
million for a one year backup deal, and I sort
of offered him ten.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah, it's an interesting decision what San Francisco is going
to do. But it sounds like I think I.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
And Rappaport had a report and Ian Apple report, and it.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Was they were going to give him the full vote.
I think that's what they're going to do in San Francisco.
Maybe saw this in Seattle and then they were never
the same. What else is on the poll.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Their seaton other than those two?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Yeah, I think that's what we're going with. Okay, I'm
trying to work up one about getting benched after a win,
which is just.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
But it didn't feel like a win, that's the problem.
But it was it technically is a victory, Like the
Chiefs have had an entire season. Now that didn't feel
like a win, but it was.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Yeah, but they've had other wins that were wins in
there were super Bowls.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
There some phone calls.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
You plug to say, you can win in the NFL
and still lose.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yes, Well, Trent Dilford called back the verse. Yeah yeah,
let me see Aiden in Utah. Hi, Aidan, what's on
your mind today?
Speaker 8 (10:54):
Up?
Speaker 9 (10:55):
I actually haven't watched a single game, but they've got
a winning record, so we'll count that.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Fritzy.
Speaker 10 (11:00):
We are going to the playoffs.
Speaker 11 (11:02):
But if you want to keep referring to us as them, you.
Speaker 10 (11:06):
Can stay behind.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Okay, I want you to have some damn fad, Fritzy.
Speaker 8 (11:11):
I am very curious to see how Tomorrow night plays out. Wow,
I'm gonna say the Broncos will beat the Chargers and
we will get that tenth win and we will be
in the playoffs. But we do in the playoffs, we'll see.
But I am fully on board on bow Knicks and
the Broncos being in the postseason.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Go Broncos, No, Kah, there you go.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
D huge game too.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeah, it sounded really really comfortable. Confident James in Virginia.
Hi James, what's on your mind?
Speaker 10 (11:36):
Oh, thank you for taking my call. Brother, Happy Wednesday,
DP dannit to loot the Commanders, Man, I'll give you
a team that Kirk Cousins will be on next year,
the Stampon Cisco forty nine Ers reuniting with Kyle Sanahan. Man,
I love that. And speaking of the Atlanta Falcons, how
big was that tinke with Michael Pennants Junior. If he
was coming out this year, he would be the number
(11:57):
one tick over Shador Sanders.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
Definite.
Speaker 10 (12:00):
We believe that. So I'm really excited to see what
he does. And I'm the older you monarch through and through,
but I can't help but to be happy for Noffolk
State University. Man, behold the Green and Gold Man. Michael
Vig this is a hot bet of talent. In the
seven five to seven, three state champions came from the
seven five to seven. This year, Oster Smith, Moore and
(12:21):
Phoebus Phoeves went four in a row. So I'm a
little nervous man because though you might lose out on
some players. But man, I'm so happy for him. And yes,
it's not Norfolk, it's Nonfolk.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I hope you Nofolk, it's not. It's like Louisville. It's
not Louisville. It's Louisville and it's New Orleans. Yes, Marvin James,
if you're still there, I got a question. Did you
go to an HBCU or at least a HBC HBC.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
So he went to Old Dominion. He didn't go to
a historically college. Here.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
You no HBCU homecoming I didn't finish. Oh, oh no,
you don't know. I know HBC your homecomings way more
important to going to HBCU.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Okay, James, I've never.
Speaker 10 (13:04):
I've never been to the homecoming. But I will say
one thing. Novel State has one of the best bands
in the country, man, no doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Thank you, James Nofolk.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
The football games are that is fascinating halftime is game.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Time, Tom and Charlotte. Then we'll take a break. Hey Tom,
Hey Dan.
Speaker 9 (13:28):
Just figuring out that one of the best ways to
listen to the show is on the on the weight line.
Quite frankly, you feel like you're part of it. But
I wanted to just jump real quick back to your
NBA comments, and I feel like baseball has the same problem.
And I called back in June about this. You know,
Father's Day, you couldn't find a baseball game on TV. Yeah,
I feel like the NBA has the same problem. You
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can't find it when you're watching TV. On Tuesday, you're
watching FBI on CBS, you see a commercial about what
game's coming on for the NFL this weekend. You don't
watch TMT except for maybe this time of year because
they got Christmas vacation marathons. You're not seeing the NBA
promote their games. You don't know who's coming to town.
(14:12):
You don't know what game is the big game this week.
And the same thing happens to baseball. And to your point,
yesterday you were saying, oh, they're fighting the behemoth NFL,
They're fighting the college football behemoth. Two and between the
two of them. They have sucked all the money from
all the networks.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Dry Well, Amazons spent a lot of money. There are
a lot of TV partners who spent a lot of money,
So NBC, Amazon, They've spent a lot of money. Charles
Barkley will join is coming up next here on the
Dan Patrick Show.
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Speaker 3 (16:01):
How you feeling?
Speaker 6 (16:03):
I'm great, brother, happy, Hanukah, Merry Christmas, all that good stuff.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Did you make any money in Vegas?
Speaker 6 (16:10):
I want a little bit. I had a great trip.
I didn't lose money, but I want a little bit,
so it was good.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
What is your game?
Speaker 6 (16:18):
I played blackjack?
Speaker 3 (16:20):
How much per hand?
Speaker 6 (16:25):
Twenty five thousand? Okay?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
And how many hands do you have in front of you?
Speaker 6 (16:30):
I play one hand unless I want to break up
the deck, and I play two. Okay.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
You don't get like, could you just do one hundred
dollars and be happy?
Speaker 10 (16:43):
Hell?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
No?
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Hell? No, No, I could not be happy. I'd be unhappy.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Okay, So we've been talking about the NBA. The commissioners
talk about the NBA. Seems like he's okay, ratings are
declining a little bit. You got the NBA Cup. I
don't know what that did for the interest of the game.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
We start to look at this and I'm wondering, does
the NBA have to do something like Major League Baseball's
doing things where they got the bases bigger where I
mean that commissioner is trying to do different things.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Should Adam Silver be looking at that same model.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
I think we have to do something. You know, Dan,
last time I was on your show, you asked me
a great course, and you said, is it load management
or just two many threes? And I said, it's really
a combination of both. And you know, anytime old guys
like I said something, we're hating on the young guys.
But I watched the Warriors. I was in the sportsbook
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all day Sunday. I get me and the guys got
up and watched football all day. In one of the games,
I watched the Warriors play the worst played the Mavericks.
It's one of the worst games I've seen. They just
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I think it was one forty one thirty. They just
went up and down the court and shot threes like
and I was like, man, this is awful to watch
if you're just gonna have a three point shooting contest
every night. So I think we got to figure out
something because the most important thing of the game is
the fans. Yeah, and if they're not watching, you can't
(18:31):
keep your head in the sand. You got to say,
what are we doing wrong? And like I say, it's
frustrated for me because all it is now the three
point shooting contests and a free throw contest, and I
don't like it. And you know, like I say, they
can get mad, but I don't want to go see
a three point shooting contest every night. That ain't no fun.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
What if we capped the number of threes that you
can take? Each team gets twenty five attempts, you know.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
I mean, I'm open for any suggestion. I mean, but
like I say, we don't have to do something. I mean,
ratings are down, down, down, And that's like I said
that fans are the most important aspects of the game.
We need the fans to be successful. You know, it's
(19:22):
like it's like the All Star Game with throwing just
stuff at the wall. We got a new model this.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Year, and what do you think of that model?
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Well, I want to do anything to help the game, Dan.
I saw Kevin Durant rip the new format. Dan, I
don't know what you do, because what we've done in
the last X amount of years is not working. It's
not fun. So I've always suggested we do the United
States against the World. I think that would be fantastic.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
I do.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
I think it'd be fantastic. I don't know how this
thing gonna turn out this year. But listen, let's be
honest with what we're doing. What we've done the last
few years is not working. Playing and simple.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
And it used to be that we kind of christened
the NBA season at Christmas, that's when the season started.
Just the fact that that seemed to be the logic
is flawed. Like you don't really get excited about a
game in October November, it's like, wait till Christmas Day. Well, now,
the NFL just came in and said, hey, we're going
to take over Christmas from you, NBA, and that's difficult.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
That's tough for them. Because it felt like they owned
that day.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
I've you know, the best ratings we've ever had. What
a year we got. It went on strike Dan and
started on Christmas. I think we need to consider seriously
consider of starting at Christmas because you get caught, Chaussen,
you're wasting your time going up against the NFL and
college They own the weekends now. But if I think
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if we started at Christmas, we'd have all the calendar.
There's no other sports I mean that we'd have to
compete with. If we started at Christmas, college football would
be over, pro football is winding down. We'd have the
entire calendar late December, January, February, March, April, May, June.
(21:25):
To ourself, I think it's something we need to really
consider playing and simple because listen, NFL's King Kong and
you know in their greedy pigs. You know, first of all,
I think what they're doing now is going to come
back to bottom in ass because to make the kandisdate,
the Chief Chiefs played three games in like ten days.
(21:47):
That's just stupid. I mean, you got Patrick and Travis
and Chris Jones, you got those guys. Like to make
those guys play three games in ten days, just because
it's popular and you sold it to different networks. That's,
first of all, is not safe. It's kind of the
same way. In my opinion, I'm really excited about this
(22:08):
college football playoff, but I think it's very dangerous. You
can't play as eighteen year old nineteen year old kids
to play twelve thirteen regular season games then play four
more games in the playoffs. I mean, because ninety nine
percent of those kids gonna have CTE or gonna hurt
(22:28):
their bodies and they're never going to the NFL. They've
got to shorten this season because, like I said, the
teams that win this playoffs gonna play four more games
than it used to be two if you won a championship.
But now if you're gonna play four extra games the goal,
especially if you're in a comference like the Big Ten
or the SEC where you play so many tough games.
(22:50):
I'm really concerned about those kids' bodies and brains.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Yeah, but I don't know if college football really cares.
They're now kind of paid.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
No then d D nobody cares.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
They're making so much they're adding an eighteenth game in
the NFL. Everybody signs the money.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Yes, and that's what these players are gonna get in college.
There's gonna be revenue sharing. They'll get more money with this,
and they'll sign up for this. And you said, hey,
the NBA should start on Christmas Day, Well, you have
these playoff games. Now this weekend college football starts their playoffs.
They're gonna what they would wipe away the NBA on
Christmas Day because these games now matter, and you're gonna
(23:28):
have your bowl season going into January. Then the NFL
has playoffs. The NBA will get left behind if.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
But it'll be a short, little lead behind. And first
of all, listen, let's let's kill these other balls. Let's
stop these come on, man, like, if you're gonna have
the playoffs, you don't need other.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Bowls now, Yes, Charles, this is because ESPN needs programming.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
That's all this is.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
I understand that. Why don't they show NBA games on
those days? Listen, man, and listen. I'm against I'm fundamentally
against guys bowing out of bowl games. But if your
bowl game means absolutely nothing, there's no reason for you
to play in a meaningless bowl game. If you don't
(24:14):
make the playoffs, why would you play in a bowl game.
Doesn't makes zero sense to me. Whatsoever?
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Are you betting on the bowl games this weekend?
Speaker 6 (24:25):
Yeah? Probably, of course.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Who do you like any upsets here?
Speaker 6 (24:31):
What name a game?
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Tennessee, Ohio State, oh I love Ohio State, Notre Dame, Indiana.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Hey, but them idiots? I had them plus nineteen and
a half. Man, I was I was throwing stuff at
my TV. I was like, because you knew what was
really scary about that game. You knew in the first
half they're not gonna win by three touchdowns. And I
was so pissed. So I'm a better on State one
(25:00):
more time? Who else?
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Notre Dame Indiana.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
I love Notre Dame. I know coach Sinnetti has had
a great season, but I want to meet Marcus Freeman.
I've never met him, and Notre Dame's on my bucket list.
Notre Dame, Ohio State, and Michigan. There are three stadiums
that on my bucket list. But I want to meet
Marcus Freeman. But I know the Dame's gonna win that game.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
SMU, Penn State.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
They're not gonna win. A Happy Valley Dan, please stop
they coach. Lastly, I got a chance to meet him
one time. I'm a big fan of him. In the
year he's had, him and coach Dillingham have been fantastic
at ASU. They've done a fantastic job this year. But
SMU is not gonna win a Happy Valley.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Clemson Texas, now that is a really good game.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
I'm probably gonna go with Texas because they're playing at home.
But listen, whether you hate it or not, they got
some They got some good playoff games. So the committee,
you know, I don't think anybody had a gripe. I
don't think anybody had a real gripe this year. I
know Alabama think they had a gripe. Uh they did not. Uh.
(26:12):
South Carolina probably had a better grape. They're probably the
hottest team in the country right now. Uh. But no,
I mean these you know, they got some serious big schools.
I mean when you get Notre Dame, Tennessee, Ohio State, Texas,
when you get all these big schools, I mean obviously Georgia, Oregon,
it's fantastic. So if you like college football, which I
(26:35):
love football in general, you got great powerhouses.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Talking to Charles Barky, Hall of Famer Turner Sports Inside
the NBA analyst. Is your contract pushed over to ESPN's
from Turner?
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Is that official?
Speaker 6 (26:53):
I haven't decided yet.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
How about we decide now.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
I'm listening to NBC and Amazon. I want to know
everything that's on the table for me before I sign in.
I mean, I love those guys at the ESPN, and
if we end up there, you know, I'm gonna do
the best I possibly can. But I want to know
first of all, they haven't even given us any type
(27:22):
of schedule whatsoever. But I be doing myself for disservice,
not to meet with NBC, which I have, and meet
with Amazon, which I have, And the number one thing
I've told everybody, can y'all please give me a damn schedule?
I mean, because nobody knows anything. Dan, I mean, like
at least the TNT, I always knew day this is
(27:44):
our schedule, neither not one of the three networks. And
like I say, I love ESPN, I got nothing to get.
But I wouldn't know how much I'm gonna be working,
or you're.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Gonna be working a lot more than you think you're
gonna be working. I think, well, no, you think I
used to work there. I used to work there. I
know what they do well, and.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
I know what y'all's do. Y'alls is not gonna be.
They're not gonna work talls like no, damn dog no
so so so seriously. Uh, like I said, I got
a number of love and respect for ESPN. Uh Well,
like I said, but I'm taking my time with NBC
and Amazon. I I wanted in writing, Yes, how much
do y'all think I'm going to work? Because TNT is
(28:30):
a perfect place to work?
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Are you gonna work two nights a week?
Speaker 6 (28:35):
We don't even know anything?
Speaker 3 (28:36):
No, but what do you? You can tell them what you
want to do well.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
I want to know what they're expecting. Are we gonna
have the same schedule? Are we gonna have to do
a BC, ESPN and tn T because tn T I
think they have they originally wanted to keep doing something.
So I'm not gonna be doing both and then add
and I'm not gonna be doing ABC, ESPN and tn T.
(29:05):
That's not gonna happen. I'm just like I say, if
we go to ESPN, I got a number of love
and respect for those guys, but I'm not gonna do ABC,
ESPN and t N T. So I took my time
meeting with the other two networks. Amen, And I don't
want to hear y'all talk to me. I want to know.
I want it in writing. I wanted in writing. How
(29:27):
much were it going to work?
Speaker 2 (29:28):
What was this silly free throw shooting contest that Kenny
shoots left handed and steven A Smith gets to shoot right?
Speaker 6 (29:36):
What do you do well, Kenny, who wrote a check
his ass couldn't cash and he tried to cover it
by in case stephen A beat him shooting left handed
and he lost. And that's it. But you know stephen
A does. He does a good job up at the Mothership.
And uh, we got Like I said, Man, I wish
(29:59):
somebody would give me some clarity.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Dan, Wait, go back to the free throw shooting.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
If Kenny shot straight up against steven A, Kenny was
an eighty three percent free throw shooter.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
Yeah, that was thirty years ago.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
You don't think Ken, You never come on. I can
go out make eight out of ten right now?
Speaker 6 (30:18):
You can?
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Hell?
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Yes, bet what do you charity?
Speaker 6 (30:23):
Charity?
Speaker 3 (30:23):
What do you want to bet?
Speaker 6 (30:24):
I bet your charity? You set it up. I'll come somewhere.
I'll donate twenty five thousand dollars to your favorite charity.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
You don't think I can make that eight out of
ten free throws?
Speaker 6 (30:36):
No? I don't. Oh my god, I just said twenty
five thousand dollars to your favorite charity. Right You'll be
gagging out there. You'll be like talking like a dog.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
I know I'm a better free throw shooter than you are. Dan,
you shot seventy three percent for your career. That's embarrassing.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
Yeah, that's not good.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
No.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
Yeah, you act like you're thirty five years old. You old.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
It's fifteen feet.
Speaker 6 (31:07):
Dan, you're old.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
I know sixty eight.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
You're seventy years old.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Do you know Bird Bird could still make nine out
of ten free throws right now?
Speaker 3 (31:20):
And Bird is old.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
I'll bet him he can't make it again, lad Bird?
I love lad Bird. He can't make nine out of
ten right now? This ain't this ain't to eight.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Is a nighte Oh my god. It's just riding a bike.
That's all it is. That's riding a bike. Okay, go
back to the TV thing. Were you going to say
something like getting some headlines here I scheduled. Did I
interrupt you?
Speaker 6 (31:50):
No? Okay? Then then I want to.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Wag the dog. You wag the dog. You got to
two nights that you'll work.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
That's him.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
You have the dog. I mean load management. You you
can be the Kawhi Leonard of TV analyst and you
do load management.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
What I'm gonna do what was best for the I've
always did what's the best for the network. And if
you go back and look at my history, when TNT
you you are, thank you for the camera. But think
about this, Dan. I anything TNT has asked me to do,
They're like, hey, what you do college basketball? I'm like,
(32:34):
what a hept team. I'm like, sure, I'll do it.
Didn't get any money for it. They said, hey, Chuck,
what you had earned to do a podcast? I'm like,
what a Hepta team, Let's do a podcast. I ain't
a fan of money. They said, hey, what you start
doing these matches. I'm like, what a hefty team. Sure,
let's do it. I've never asked them for an extra
dime for doing extra stuff, but if they traded, well
(32:58):
we got traded to another networ work. I want to
know exactly what's going on, because, like I say, I'm
not gonna be doing five shows. I'm not gonna be
working four days a week on in a network, either
at NBC or Amazon. That's not gonna happen. I'm gonna
sit in my fat black ass at home if it
(33:20):
comes down, if they start telling, if they like I say, Dan,
we work one day a week. I love our job,
I love the people I work for. I'm not gonna
go working one day a week to four days a week.
That's not gonna happen. Now when I go to two,
I probably could go to two. But if people think
that I'm gonna work three or four days a week,
they're freaking nuts.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Why you're gonna have to do college game Day? There'll
be a basketball show, there's gonna be a radio show.
You're gonna have to be on Greenies Radio.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Like hey Dad, first take, First Take, You'll have to
be on first take.
Speaker 6 (33:54):
Let me tell you something. When you FaceTime me, then
it'll be from Arizona. It won't be from anywhere else.
If people think I'm gonna work on all this stuff,
that's not gonna happen. Dan, you have my word on that,
I'm not gonna be working all the time. Every time
we do this a going forward, every time you face
(34:15):
tied me, I'm gonna be at my backyard in Arizona,
on my on my pud and green at the tennis court.
I'm not gonna be working all the time, Dan, That's
not gonna happen. Man to man, Dad, you know, I
got a lot of love and respect for you. The
notion that I'm gonna work all the time, that's not
just it's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Oh no, No, I'm just telling you, and I'm telling you. Okay,
I'm telling you.
Speaker 6 (34:37):
You can tell me and I first of all, you
are correct, and I'm telling you that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Okay, all right, I hope that it doesn't happen. So
you have Hey listen, why are you yelling at me?
Speaker 6 (34:53):
Obama? Hey, hey listen, Barack Obama. We don't have to
keep hope alive. I am not gonna be working all
the time.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Dan, Okay, all right, on why you're yelling. I'm on
your side.
Speaker 6 (35:06):
But because you think that they gonna just hey, we're
gonna work you all time. No you're not. No, you're not.
That's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Okay, all right, Okay.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
I said the same thing to uh Jason Kelcey. I said,
just protect yourself because there's so many different programs platforms
that they have to have people on, and that's that's
the only thing I would say quality alike, Hey.
Speaker 6 (35:31):
Listen, and I you know, first of all, I love
Jason Kelsey. He is so such a wonderful dude. And uh,
I got to and I got to get back to
him because he's doing a talk show now.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
Oh yeah, yeah, you have Friday Night.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
So I think they got like, you know, he's gonna
be a late night Jimmy Fallon type guy.
Speaker 6 (35:49):
Well, because I I he asked me to be on
the show, I got to get back to him because
I'm gonna try to make it work because I got
a lot of love and respect for him.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
I think you should go out there and you're Philadelphia
seventy six ers uniform that you had when you play.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
You talk about skin tight back in the that was hot.
I would look so bad. You talk about skin tight
in the eighties, it ski skin tight tight.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Now I could actually see Larry's birds through his uniform.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
They would be so bad right now there.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
John Stockton, how about John Stockton with the short shorts?
Speaker 6 (36:28):
Oh yeah, they they'd be really short shorts. If I
drop to put on shorts of.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Good to talk to you.
Speaker 6 (36:35):
Thanks again, all right, brother Mary Christies, Merry Christmas and
happy honkua to everybody. Bless y'all.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
All right, that's Charles Barkley. Take a break back after this.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan
Patrick Show week days at nine am Eastern six am
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Speaker 2 (36:53):
The beauty of Charles Barkley is he doesn't have to care.
He can say what he wants and and he's wagging
the dog in this situation. But that would be weird though,
if Kenny and Shaq went to ESPN and Charles went
to Amazon or went to NBC. Can you go as
(37:14):
a package group? I mean, obviously that's what you want.
I mean, you got to get Shack and Charles together,
if Ernie's gonna do it as well, and then you
know you put in Kenny as well. You know, it
just sort of levels things out with them. You know,
you got two big personalities. Kenny kind of brings them
(37:35):
back to reality and Ernie lands the planes. But with Shaq,
got to have him as well, and you throw Charles
in there, and I look, my relationship with ESPN has
been great the last ten twelve years. Prior to that,
not necessarily the last three years I was there, not necessarily,
(37:59):
and a lot of that, you know, like it could
be my own doing as well. But I tell there's
a lot of former athletes who I've spoken to, and
by a lot, I would say fifteen, and they want
to know about working for ESPN. Now, you could have
Marquee guys. It could be Steve Young, it could be Shack,
it could be Charles Barkley, it could be you know,
(38:20):
there's a variety of guys that I've spoken to about
if you go there, just understand, if you go there now,
Charles won't be on campus. And if you're on campus,
that's when you're on the morning show. You're on Get Up,
you're on First Take, you're doing afternoons, you're you know
a variety of things around the horn or part of
(38:41):
the interruption. You'll be a guest if you like that,
if you like that, if you like the airtime. It's
a great place and they create stars there. But these
guys who are already stars, they're not going to want
to work that much. And Charles saying, look, I work
one night a week. I'll work two nights, but you
(39:02):
got to be careful. It's called the car wash for
a reason. You go in there and they're like, hey,
can you be here? Can you be here? Can you
be here? They're trying to fill up programming. I mean,
that's why you have all these bowl games. It's ESPN.
It's so important for programming this time of the year.
I understand it. I mean, you get games every single night.
(39:23):
You're college football. You want to make sure that you
have as many bowl games as punk. You don't care
if somebody doesn't know that game or those teams, or
care about UNLV and COW.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
They just want you to watch three hours of programming.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
In that programming they can advertise the other things they
got coming up, the other shows that they have, the
other football games.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
That's all it is. They just keep feeding the monster.
Speaker 9 (39:47):
There.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
Eric in Virginia, Hi, Eric, what's on your mind? Hey?
Speaker 11 (39:54):
Good morning, Dan, How are you great?
Speaker 3 (39:56):
What's on your mind?
Speaker 11 (39:57):
Actually? I was thinking about the college football playoff. I'm
a huge Oregon fan, which.
Speaker 6 (40:04):
We kind of got.
Speaker 11 (40:06):
Messed up with Ohio State didn't sy but I will
pass that. I was actually wondering if you guys were
doing a like pick them or something like that, where
you guys were.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
Picking the Oh, we'll do a bracket.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Yeah, well we'll pick you know, a bracket challenge kind
of like what we did with the mc douaa. But
thanks for the phone call. By the way. Coming up,
we'll play in or out. We'll have some topics and
we'll find out if we're in or out. It's that simple, Todd.
You're either in or you're out.
Speaker 8 (40:41):
No need to say anything other than in or out.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Well, you've still managed to say more than just do better. Yeah,
that's okay. Stat of the Day brought to you by
Panini America, the official trading cards of the program. See
would you update the poll results from hour two if
you could please?
Speaker 8 (40:57):
Heck?
Speaker 4 (40:57):
Yeah, well okay, poll results I got right now. The
Falcon's decision to bench Kirk Cousins is smart or desperate.
That's at fifty one percent smart, forty nine percent say
it's desperate.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
How about that? Okay.
Speaker 4 (41:10):
We also have the most awkward quarterback situation in the NFL.
In order, it's Falcons Brown's Vikings forty nine ers.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
I don't think i'd agree with that.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
Todd had a poll question, now that it's over, how
concerned are you about experiencing NBA Cup withdrawal.
Speaker 6 (41:30):
That's a question that needed to be asked.
Speaker 8 (41:35):
People get all shaky and nervous and they need a
lot of coffee after not having the cup.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
I'm going to give you a bloop bloop for that one.
That's very funny. That's good.
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