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August 25, 2025 42 mins

Former NCAA D1 HC Rick Neuheisel drops by to weigh in on Week Zero of the college football season as games that count finally got underway over the weekend. And Dan thinks Cleveland Browns 3rd string QB Shedeur Sanders is getting the exact treatment you would expect from a 5th round draft pick.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Final Hour in this Monday best and worst of the weekend,
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(00:25):
New Mexico against number fourteen Michigan. Here comes Saturday Night.
This next weekend is all about college football. Well, you
start Thursday, there's going to be some games. Then you
got Saturday, Saturday afternoon, Saturday evening, you got Sunday as well,
you got Monday Night with North Carolina and Bill Belichick
making their debut. This is the one weekend it feels

(00:48):
like the NFL can't do anything about. And even if
Micah Parsons were to sign on Saturday, it's still be well,
that would be the lead story, but you would still
have all these games with college football. So college football
will own the weekend, but only this weekend coming up.
And then it turns it over to whether it wants
to or not. The NFL starting the following week with

(01:11):
the Eagles and Cowboys.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yes, Pauli and the reminder that Texas Ohio State game
is noon Eastern on Fox. That's going to come out
of nowhere.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Seedon's going to that game. I am, yeah, yeah, yeah,
gonna be our correspondent theres I think, yeah, sure, I
could be the correspondent. I could call in give the
pre game, you know, vibe on Friday. Do you think
you'll have the vieball ready? We're here live on location. Okay,

(01:41):
you know, I'll throw it out to you if you
want to go out and be a reporter there at
the shoe heck, yeah, okay, all right. We will be
going to the Notre Dame USC game later on in
the fall. And I think we're doing Formula one in Vegas.
I don't know much about Formula one, but it feels
like beautiful people show up, and why shouldn't we. I

(02:04):
don't know if we have Formula one clothes. I'm gonna say,
let's prepare for one late afternoon, early evening because we
have to go to bed early. Where we have Formula
one outfits? Yes, Marvin does that mean white slacks? I
don't know what it means. I'd ask Paulie he's in
the apparel department.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
If you watch that F one movie, people are just
very sleek.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
Sleek be the word.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
But don't you have to be thin to be sleek?

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Yeah? We got time to work on that.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Mmm, not that much time, yes, Todd.

Speaker 5 (02:35):
Yeah, I kid about it.

Speaker 6 (02:36):
If you don't have the body for it, how can
you buy sleek wear sleek clothes if you don't have
a sleek body type, that's got.

Speaker 5 (02:44):
To be kind of weird.

Speaker 6 (02:45):
Me for example, I don't know what it would be
a sleek item I can get away with. I'm probably
better if just wearing like an Lway jersey and Zubaz
path than to even try to.

Speaker 5 (02:53):
Dress like a F one fan. That'll be even worse.

Speaker 4 (02:55):
I think, Thank you, Tod.

Speaker 5 (02:57):
I just got to accept you know your situation.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Yes, thank you, paul Yes, anything else you'd like to
end Maybe dressed like.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
You're going to a summer wedding, but then maybe cooler
than that. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Okay, I might wear just a Formula one actually, like
a fire fire suit.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
That would be cool.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Just walk around and see if anybody yeah, recognizes me
or thinks I'm a driver, you know, because again see
your face in there, and they might not realize that,
you know they're But he's an older driver. He's always
got his turn signal on when he drives. See what
I did with that, Todd.

Speaker 5 (03:35):
That was very cute.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (03:36):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Alrighty U Seaton. What's the poll question for the final
hour of the program.

Speaker 7 (03:42):
Well, let me update you here on our extremely awkward
poll questions that we've had going. Do you keep the
numbers of people who've passed away on your phone? You
know that number is at seventy five percent say yes.
Is texting the number of someone who has died to
say hello a healthy thing to do? Percent are saying no,
that is not a thing to do.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
I think teach their own Yes, that's what I said.
Todd's the one who was trying to I don't know, Shane, Yes,
you were shame.

Speaker 5 (04:08):
I think for me, that's what prayers for. We all
talk to.

Speaker 6 (04:11):
You know, I talked to my dad who passed away
in nineteen ninety one all the time. I'm not going
to know that they have phones back that anyway where
I can text him anyway, I wouldn't have a number
for them on my phone. But I just think there's
ways to communicate that doesn't have to involve technology.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
But you do talk to your dad. How is that
different if I text my mom?

Speaker 5 (04:30):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (04:30):
To me, that's like a prayer thing, whether it's a
synagogue or church, or when you're on your knees by
your bed, or even you're sitting in your car, whatever
it is. To me, that's a little different than actually typing,
you know, text and sending it just you know. But
if that makes you feel better, that's great.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (04:45):
You don't need my permission.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Apparently I did for the first two hours of the
person a little while.

Speaker 5 (04:49):
But now now that I think about it, don't need
my permission.

Speaker 8 (04:52):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (04:53):
I need some time to think about it.

Speaker 5 (04:55):
But you should probably do what you want to do.
Regardless of my opinion, I think.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yes, yes, I'm still great. I'm still mourning over the
loss of my mind.

Speaker 5 (05:02):
I don't think one ever gets over these things ever.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Well, you thought I should get closure.

Speaker 5 (05:07):
It doesn't mean you get over to you forget the person.
But closure is.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
Different than the closure is exactly getting over it. It's verbatim,
getting over it.

Speaker 6 (05:15):
There's ways to move on without, you know, sending a
text on a cell phone. I guess that's the bay.
I'll leave it at that, which for most people in
the psychiatric community I think would agree with me as well.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
You just can't. You just can't just surrender. No, you can't.
You need closure with your comments.

Speaker 5 (05:33):
We need the last person are talking. I got all
kinds of issues.

Speaker 6 (05:36):
I've spoken with people, I've tried things to, you know,
balance you out a little bit.

Speaker 5 (05:39):
So I'm the last person to comment on it. But
i have an opinion, so I'm sharing.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Thank you, Tom.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yes, Paul, closure is a nice way of saying get
over it.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yes, for me, I love it.

Speaker 7 (05:48):
It's not so much the it's like the uh when
Todd takes his stances, the things he chooses to take
a stance on. But you know, I'm just sick of
people texting people that are dead, sick of that.

Speaker 6 (06:00):
Writing a five page thing on Facebook and you're reading
it and you think you're talking about like a grandparent
or a brother, or a sister or a wife, and
it turns out I was there a guinea.

Speaker 5 (06:07):
Pig that they get buried in the backyard.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
It's like, come on, Tod Todd, I don't knew that
on Facebook and this was about me, And then you
extrapolated and then said that, you know, it's weird that
if people do that.

Speaker 5 (06:21):
I don't know how I'm gonna go on, And then
we had a flush Charlie on the toilet.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
No, this was just about me giving my opinion. I
mentioned that I have numbers in my phone.

Speaker 5 (06:31):
What makes you feel.

Speaker 6 (06:33):
Good is what you should do, as long as it's
win within the rules of you know, legality in the.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Courts, unless it's a hamster guinea pig.

Speaker 6 (06:39):
Well, no, I'm just saying I've once read like this
long thing and I'm like, oh my god, what happened
to this person's mother or father?

Speaker 5 (06:44):
And I was like, and then I flushed ready down
the toilet.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
Pet owners won't be bothered by this at all time.
Don't worry about that. Yeah, I think.

Speaker 7 (06:52):
We should do a like a fake account or I
wish that Todd would post to his Facebook or something
this same type of in memoriam tribute to onion bagels
at Brugers. Oh, because that's definitely something worth getting super
upset about. Is you can't get a tune of sandwich
on an onion bagel from Boogers at the drive through.

Speaker 5 (07:10):
They didn't have an onion bagel or two.

Speaker 6 (07:12):
They got two strikes right there and I had to
let the six year old girl know I didn't appreciate.

Speaker 5 (07:15):
How do you not have the onion?

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Tommy Fleetwood shot at two hundred sixty eight. He won
the tour championship. Prior to Sunday, he had thirty top
five finishes without a victory, the most on the PGA
Tour in the last one hundred years. Shatur Today brought

(07:42):
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the program. Cal Rawley now has forty nine home runs.
That's an all time record for catchers, passing Salvador Perez,
who did so in twenty twenty one show Hey O
Tani hit a bomb and he was getting heckel by
a Padre fan. Then he went over and acknowledged the

(08:03):
heckler kind of had a little bit of fun at
his expense. Let's sneak in a couple of phone calls.
Rick new Heizel, we'll talk some college football with him
and a former college coach, get his thoughts on who's
going to win the SEC Who's going to win the
Big Ten. Bryce Underwood is the Michigan quarterback. He's a
freshman and he was going to go to LSU. He

(08:26):
was wrapped up. Then all of a sudden one of
the richest men in the world, Larry Ellison, a Michigan grad,
I think Dave Portnoy from Barstools Sports. Then all of
a sudden they became the collective and he's getting paid
a lot of money to go to Michigan. Here's the
question and the answer from Bryce Underwood, Michigan's new quarterback.

Speaker 8 (08:47):
Give me a few things that you're most excited to
get on the field and do this fall, honestly, just.

Speaker 9 (08:53):
To sect it where you know, they seen a lot
of freshman but I feel like nobodys saying a freshman
like me.

Speaker 5 (08:58):
So what are some of the goals as you have
for yourself?

Speaker 9 (09:01):
Honestly, do whatever it takes to get my team to
wherever they want to be, which is the national championship.
Of course, being Ohio State is one of the other
things as well, So higher I can prepare my team
like that, That's why I wanting to do winning.

Speaker 10 (09:11):
Games of course.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
All right, Well, he'd better be a great freshman because
you're getting paid. Uh think it's what four years? Twelve millions?
That sound about right?

Speaker 5 (09:21):
Yep?

Speaker 2 (09:21):
All right, yeah, seems like money well spent there because
he was going down las U. Yes, Marvin, what.

Speaker 4 (09:30):
Would make it worth it for the collective? Like? What
is Bryce underwould have to do?

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Be to Ohio State all four years or all three years?
Three out of four years would be nice.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
Any national titles?

Speaker 5 (09:44):
Sure?

Speaker 11 (09:45):
What so one national title? Three wins against Ohio State,
he's worth it?

Speaker 5 (09:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (09:51):
Probably? You know, if you get a four year starter,
I mean, that's that's rare. He's going to be around
for four years. Maybe he's we got bonuses in there,
you win playoff games, national championship. I don't know how
these contracts are kind of produced, but I would be
putting bonuses in there. Moe in Arizona, mo Best and

(10:12):
Worst of the weekend.

Speaker 12 (10:15):
Best of the Morning, Dan Dennett's the Best of the weekend.
Dodgers tying it up, getting back in the lead and
first place in the OL West. The bats are waking
up about timing matter. My worst is called last week.
But my daughter's boyfriend showing up and all that good stuff.

Speaker 4 (10:33):
Boy.

Speaker 13 (10:33):
He shows up again today last Saturday, and the kids
so nice. I don't know how he tells the whole
beaver cleaver thing. I just do not know how to
not like the guy. I need some help here.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
Well, you can like him, because I would rather that
I like the person who's going to be with my
daughter than not like him. And it comes down to
trust and does he respect her? Does he respect you?
It's hard and thank you for the phone call moment.
I remember when my daughters started dating. Like when they're younger,

(11:08):
you're thinking, hey, they're not going to be dating. In fact,
I didn't let my daughters date until they were sixteen.
I just like, we don't. We got to worry about school.
We got other things to worry about. And I said nope. Well,
my daughters were so mad at me, and now you know,
years later they laughed because they said, you actually helped

(11:28):
us because nobody wanted to date us, and we told
our friends that we couldn't date anybody, so it made
it seem like, you know, we're not allowed to by
our dad. So I actually gave them an excuse. But
it's tough when they come over and or they they're
going someplace, and and I wanted to I wanted to

(11:52):
do some background checking. And my wife goes, no, that's
just let's just trust trust Grace. I said, my daughter
brought home a guy whose name was squirrel, like a movie,
and he was a really nice kid, but his name
was squirrel. And I you know, you're just going okay

(12:19):
dating a guy named squirrel. Okay, yeah, it's not about me,
it's about her. I trust her. And then you're like,
oh my gosh, yes, Marmon.

Speaker 4 (12:28):
Was your wife ever protective of your son going out there?

Speaker 8 (12:31):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (12:31):
Okay, yes, yes, Italian mother with the son. Nobody's good
at home? My god, my daughters that hey, you're going
to take care of the daughters. Okay, yes, Tom, Is
it not.

Speaker 5 (12:41):
Okay for you to ask the gay son? I just
was curious why they call you squirrel? That would seem
more No.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
I found out that he just he was really good
at climbing. They called him squirrel.

Speaker 8 (12:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
Uh, Kareem in Colorado, Hey, Kareem.

Speaker 8 (12:56):
Hey, what's going on with guys?

Speaker 2 (12:58):
Hey?

Speaker 8 (12:58):
Hey listen, bed I I uh the question to day.
My mom Next week will be two years she passed away,
and I still keep her number on my phone. Dan,
I remember you had your mom on the show. I've
heard Marmon talk about his mom and when she called
in and the three of them, man, they would be
a riot. I for me, Uh, it's just an opportunity

(13:20):
for me to kind of remember her, and I just
enjoyed being able to look at my phone and see
that number. Todd is out of pocket today, man, you
guys got to do something with him. Man, he is
on one. I actually like Todd Todd, I like you, man,
but today you're out of pocket.

Speaker 14 (13:38):
Man.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Yeah, Marvin, would you translate out of pocket to tont.

Speaker 11 (13:43):
You're getting a little bit too reckless with your poll
question and your critique of what Dan does with this
decease small thing.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yes, thank you, Kaream.

Speaker 6 (13:51):
I would just like to reiterate that I have no
problem to saving them saving the number on their phone.

Speaker 5 (13:55):
Can texting and.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
Just stop.

Speaker 7 (14:00):
Okay, but if your dog dies, don't post anything about
on Facebook, because Todd's going to be scrolling.

Speaker 15 (14:05):
A dog.

Speaker 5 (14:06):
Is I specifically mentioned guinea pig and goldfish?

Speaker 6 (14:08):
I'm might say all animals, I'm saying goldfish.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
An that's a questionable. Yeah, I agree with that one.

Speaker 5 (14:16):
Actually, how a big cat.

Speaker 6 (14:18):
Yeah, but I'll write a five page thing and it
turns out it was a goldfish.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
So come on Bill in New Hampshire. Hi, Bill, what's
on your mind today?

Speaker 13 (14:28):
Hello?

Speaker 6 (14:29):
Dan?

Speaker 14 (14:29):
Best of the weekend. I'll go out on a limb
and say, Tommy Sweetwood winning the Sedex Cup. The only
thing that could have made it bester would be if
we saw him on the fifteenth t take out his
phone and take a call from Todd Fritz looking to
buck him, book him. And what makes that a little

(14:53):
less preposterous? That scenario is my worst of the weekend,
which was watching the Yankees versus the Sox last night
and ESPN putting an earpiece and a microphone on the
second basement and interviewing him each pitch right up till

(15:13):
the till the wind up. I thought that having a
second basement to start, having a man on second base
to start extra innings would be the most asinine thing
I ever saw a Major rid baseball. But now it's
got a rival.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
All right, Well, thank you, Bill. Yeah, people are kind
of split on this. Networks are trying to bring you
closer to the action. Now we're on the field with
somebody they're trying to top each other. And then you
know the NBA do they bring you in the huddle?
Like how close do you let us come in? And

(15:52):
you know, there's a lot of voyeurism that goes on
in sports, like we get to see things and maybe
you know, we didn't get to see this before, should
see this before. I really don't care about interviewing the
manager because if I'm a manager, I'm like Greg Popovich.
I'll do it, but I don't want to do it.
I don't want to tell you anything. But when you
have somebody in the field, I do like the All

(16:13):
Star Game when they make up somebody. When Clayton Kershaw
was miked up, Bryce Harper miked up. I thought that
was fun. That was great. I just got to be
respectful to the guy who's playing the game, and you
got to be in the game and you can't be
like worried about a question. When all of a sudden, okay,
wind up in the pitch, we stop talking. I think

(16:37):
that that's intrusive. I don't like that at all. Be like,
let me talk to Steph Curry as he goes to
the free throw line. I don't I mean, are we
headed that way. Can I talk to Mahomes when he
comes to the line of scrimmage. I just think you
got to be careful with these things. But we are
trying to get you closer. That's why when they have
these microphones on the field, it's just to get you closer.

(17:00):
When you hear the play, when you hear the audible,
when you like you're you're there, when you hear the collision,
that's what they're trying to do. All right, let me
take a break. Rick new Heiseel always love talking to
him and get his thoughts on college football this upcoming season.
More phone calls as well. We're back after this Dan
Patrick Show.

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Speaker 8 (18:31):
Dan, Janet's, everybody that'st to the weekend.

Speaker 15 (18:35):
Last Centry meets this weekend in.

Speaker 19 (18:37):
San Diego, cost Media year, So twenty kids fourteen came
home with Nettles Worst of the Weekend two and a
half hours each way on the Yellow Down.

Speaker 15 (18:47):
Sorry for the shaft of knights walking home today, came
to my run because my legs are shot.

Speaker 20 (18:53):
All right?

Speaker 2 (18:53):
Well, thank you, Mike. It's kind of worried. Sound like
he was on the freeway there. Bill in Virginia, Hi, Bill,
your mind?

Speaker 20 (19:01):
Hey, first time caller five nine. So I'm at work
and I get a phone call. My dad's name pops
up on my dad. He's been passed away for six
months to a year, and it was one of my
co workers that ended up getting his phone number transferred
to his phone that called me.

Speaker 8 (19:19):
So, now I don't know what to do.

Speaker 20 (19:20):
Do I change the name? Do I leave Dad's number
in there?

Speaker 8 (19:23):
How do I do this?

Speaker 2 (19:24):
Oh? I don't know. I think I get with your
friend and ask him if he could change the number. Well,
at least it's your friend. Could be worse. It could
be a total stranger as your dad's number. But thank
you Bill Auto and Los Angeles Hi Atto.

Speaker 15 (19:41):
Hey, how you guys doing. I had the best and
worse of the weekend. Sure, worse of the weekend my
my braves losing two out of three to the Mets,
further telling me that the season is over with and
the best yeah I know, and the best I live
in La now and I have the actual physical media
of ESPN's Spike Lee's Kobe doing Work. I'll watched that

(20:05):
last night and it was better than what I remember.
It was just really fascinating seeing Kobe doing work.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
As it says in the title, thank you Autto, I
think Kobe's birthday was Saturday. I believe so what he'd
have been forty seven? Marvin, That sound right correct. Just
saw the DraftKings odds that it's Ohio State and Texas
they are the favorites to win the national championship. As
we segue into Rick new heisl college football analyst for CBS,

(20:34):
former college football coach, and Rick, great to see you again.
You got Texas and Ohio State playing each other in
Week one. Normally you have those cupcakes that you ease
into the season. So how do you get your team
ready to go right away? For Ohio State and Texas? Well,
I don't think you have to even try.

Speaker 21 (20:53):
I think everybody understands the magnitude of the contest and
the stage that will be the city of Columbus and
the Shoe. This is going to be a monster game.
What's fascinating about this game is that You've got two
quarterbacks with relatively little experience, and I think the two coaches,
Sark and Ryan, will basically play a vera cat and

(21:17):
mouse game.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
I think this is a low scoring game.

Speaker 21 (21:19):
Try to make sure that your quarterback's comfortable, don't throw
them to the wolves too early. And I think it's
going to be a wonderful setting. Who's winning the Big
Ten this year? You know, I think Penn State, if
not now when right? They've got so many things coming back.
The two running backs are fantastic. They've got the most
experienced quarterback in the league. They've got you know, James

(21:44):
Franklin has proven he can recruit. They're wonderful defenders this
and they've got a schedule to beat the band right,
They've got three the pre seed. It's basically preseason football
for the first three games. I think it's Nevada, f
i U, and Villanova to start the season, then a bye,
then you get the white out game versus Oregon. So

(22:05):
everything sets up for Penn State this year.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
What about the SEC?

Speaker 21 (22:10):
You know I'm gonna go with LSU. I think Garrett
Nesmeyer is the real deal. We all remember both Joe
Burrow and Jade and Daniels. I think this guy is
going to have a heck of a game in Death Valley,
although with a small d I guess even that it's
not Baton Rouge. I think he and Klubnik are going
to put on a show, but I think ness Meyer

(22:31):
is going to come out on top.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
We have twelve teams now in a playoff, probably going
to fourteen or sixteen at some point, But then the
Big Ten leaks a proposal for twenty four to twenty
eight teams. Why did they leak that?

Speaker 21 (22:47):
To me, it was almost to get people to understand
sixteen is the right number. Sometimes if you have twelve
and people sitting there, maybe twelve is the right number,
and then you throw twenty four to twenty eight out
somewhere if compromises where we're going to be compromise now
goes to sixteen. As I like to say, the answers

(23:07):
money Now, what was the question? I think we're going
to sixteen. The fact that no team with a bye
last year one shows the lack of value of that
buy and I think sixteen will be a great number
for college football.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Talking to Rick new Heisl, CBS Sports college football analyst
and former college football coach, we're going to get to
a number where we're going to jeopardize the regular season?
Or have we gotten to a number where we're jeopardizing
the regular season?

Speaker 21 (23:40):
I understand the argument, but I just saw an analytic
piece of data where Case State and losing to Iowa
State over there in Dublin, now their playoff chances shrink
to thirteen percent. So remember, even at sixteen, the number
is much smaller than any other sports league out there
in terms of who gets to graduate to the playoffs.

(24:04):
We have one hundred and thirty seven teams in Division
one football. So the facts of the matter are the
regular season is still very, very exciting. These preseason games
are testament to that. And then you get to that
month in November with so many more teams are still
in the hunt, it just gets overwhelming. And if we

(24:24):
go to automatic qualifiers, which I think will be the answer,
again with the premise that the answers money, what was
the question. We get to automatic qualifiers, you can only
imagine the influx of more playoff games, much like the NBA,
where both the SEC and Big Ten will have play
in games.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
SEC going to nine games schedule, yeah, means means that
the coaches didn't get their way. I think Greg Sanki
did his best to try to listen to him and
see if it made sense. But when Oklahoma is selling
seats at a postgame press conference and Tennessee's selling advertising
that's going to appear on the field, you can see

(25:03):
the analytic directors are in need of money, and rather
than keep shaking down the boosters, they're going, let's go
to that ninth conference game. Our television partners will pay
more for it. It now creates an opportunity with the
Big Ten to create some non conference games that will
be paid for handsomely. It's a money play and it's
the right move. What did you think of the NCAA's

(25:26):
punishment with Michigan.

Speaker 21 (25:29):
Much ado about nothing. The guy who is most guilty
is still coaching in the NFL. Now, had they done
something to Jim Harbaugh and he had to sit a
little bit in the NFL, that would have been something.
But and remember that's exactly what they did with Jim
Tressel when he was got his hand in the cricket
jar with that tattoo gate thing. They made him sit

(25:51):
as he was working for the Colts at the time.
This is a big fine, twenty million bucks, maybe even
north of that. At day's end, it was worth it.
For those who said, Michigan versus the world, would you
have punished Tarbaugh? I would have, yeah, if the punishment
could have gone to sit him down, because that flew

(26:14):
in the face of what we're all about in terms
of fair play. And listen, I know I've always had
a bent against Harball, so I'm real kind of careful
about my personal bias about it. But at day's end,
if we really want to curtail this stuff, that's the
punishment should have followed the criminal.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
Notre Dame doesn't have to join a conference now ever,
because all they have to do is go ten and
two and they're going to be in the playoffs because
they're a brand.

Speaker 21 (26:43):
And can get whether it's home games or can get
the buye right. The seating thing changed. So Jack Swarbrick
goes down as a hero. Not only did he fight
for their independence, he also has got him in a
chance where they can be part of the field on
an annual basis and they can schedule around it. That
will be the interesting thing. Who will schedule Notre Dame

(27:06):
and can they freeze them out to force them into
a into a conference That remains to be seen.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
But you know they're playing USC but that's going away, right,
not playing Michigan. I mean, who's they're going to play
some acc you know, schedule teams, but that's right, Tennant
seems pretty reasonable every year for Notre Dame.

Speaker 21 (27:29):
I would agree, I would agree, And they've got a
nice recruiting machinery. This is this is a good thing
for Notre Dame. But there will be some clamoring back
and forth after a few years of this. This is
in its infancy. But after a few years if they
don't schedule up and it'll be interesting as to the
big ten in the SEC how much they'll schedule them.

(27:50):
You can see both of those conference involved with the
Notre Dame right now.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
I was watching a little bit of the Browns with
Shadoor Sanders and of course Calebilliams last year. It feels
like quarterbacks coming in from college are they have bad
habits right? Hold on the ball right. Sometimes they'll have
their hips parallel to the line of scrimmage. Then they
already take away one side of the field. They're only

(28:16):
going to be locked in on the right side. They
get the ball out too slow. They try to make plays.
You play the position, coach the position. What is it
that you're seeing with these younger quarterbacks?

Speaker 21 (28:29):
Those two guys in particular, are you know, have watched
the Patrick Mahomes extension. Right when Mahomes breaks the what
was called in the huddle and now becomes a freelancer.
He's been magnificent and the oohs and ohs that follow
those kind of plays have been a lot. Those two
guys also were given green lights by their coaches, Lincoln

(28:50):
Riley and Deon Sanders, and both said, you guys are
the quarterbacks, so they've been allowed to just play this
kind of backyard football Johnny Johnny football type of quarterback
the NFL because people don't the people get open the
same way they do in college, but they don't stay open.

Speaker 4 (29:07):
You have to let the ball go.

Speaker 21 (29:09):
You have to have anticipation, which means there has to
be a metronome in your footwork, and they don't possess it.

Speaker 13 (29:16):
Now.

Speaker 21 (29:16):
I saw Caleb Williams in that thirty eight I think
they beat the Bills thirty eight nothing that was as
good as I've ever seen him. In terms of throwing
on time and with rhythm. If once he gets there
and Ben Johnson's working on that, he can be a
great player. That will be the case with Schadeur as well.
The question is how many reps will Shador get now

(29:37):
that he's in a four quarterback kind of an azerie
there in Cleveland.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
I thought Dylan Gabriel looked good because he makes quick decisions.

Speaker 21 (29:45):
That's exactly who Dylan Gabriel is. He knows he has
to get it out of his hand, he knows what
the defense tells him his feet. His feet are almost
perfectly in place to throw with rhythm, and he throws accurately.
He's a bright guy and the good leader. That's why
he had more starts in college football than anybody previous.

Speaker 2 (30:05):
Andrew Luck is a GM, Like, what role is is that?
And he's in the booth during the game. Oh, he's
he's a junkie, Dan. I mean, I got a chance
to talk to him. He loves this being back in it.
As a matter of fact, it was precipitated by him
going to the president at Stanford and saying, hey, here's
my two cents on what the program needs. He says, well,

(30:28):
then why don't you run it? And it's basically he's
got the job.

Speaker 21 (30:33):
It'll be interesting to see if he can keep from
becoming the head coach if he because he's got such
a zest for it. He hired the guy, Frank Reich,
who was the officiant in his wedding, and you know,
so that this is a partnership and he's all over
the practice field. The guy's having a blast, but they're
going to have to average more than under four yards

(30:54):
a pass attempt if they're going to be a player.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
In the ACC. Great to catch up with you. We'll
talk to you always.

Speaker 4 (30:59):
A blast, my friend.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
Thank you, bun see yah, Rick Neuheisel, you know he
brings up something interesting about Andrew Luck. Now not reporting this,
I can only tell you that a college football source
just sent me a note and said, don't be surprised
if Andrew Luck is a head coach there at some point.
And his point that he's making is that he's all

(31:21):
in like he's so like he might need to have
the control of being a coach. But Frank Reich might
be that sort of band aid to Andrew Luck. Is
learning he's a general manager. But I think learning to
be a head coach, or maybe maybe he doesn't want

(31:42):
to do it. I'm only going by and now. Rick
Newheisel just said, hey, don't be surprised. And I had
somebody when they realized we were having Andrew luck on.
My source said hey, I wouldn't be surprised if he's
a coach there at some point. Oh, we have NFL news.
Let's let's play guests the NFL News. Marvin, I'll start

(32:05):
with you.

Speaker 4 (32:07):
Trey Henderson signed a deal with the Bengals, all right, Todd.

Speaker 5 (32:11):
Micah Parsons and Jerry worked things out.

Speaker 7 (32:13):
Seaton, Uh, it involves neither of those guys. But somebody
did something.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
Terry McLaurin. I signed with the commanders.

Speaker 3 (32:25):
The commanders and Terry McLaurin have signed a three year
extension worth ninety six million dollars. According to Ian.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
Rappaport, we nailed that, I and Neil Dan thank you.
See we did, didn't I say three for one hundred
million dollars? I think that was where I thought they
would land. So it's three for ninety seven.

Speaker 3 (32:46):
Three for ninety six. As the reporter, there no mention
of incentives.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
All right, good good, I'm happy for the commanders, and
happy for Jade Daniels, and happy for Terry McLaurin.

Speaker 5 (32:58):
Yes, Todd, we can now wash our hands to this
whole story.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
Okay, I see wash Washington. All right, thank you, Tom.
You're rallying, but I think you're running out of time. Yeah,
you're running out of time, all right, So Terry mclaurin's in.

Speaker 4 (33:13):
That's good.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
All right, welcome back. Last call for phone calls, what
we learn, what's in store tomorrow. We're gonna run down
the college football schedule for next weekend because there's a
lot going on the games Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, even Monday night.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
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(34:25):
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Speaker 2 (34:34):
Last call for phone calls, what we learn, what's in
store tomorrow this day in sports history. I was kind
of surprised and a tad embarrassed that the question was
asked to Kevin Stefanski, the Browns head coach, if that
the Browns were they sabotaging Shador Sanders. They actually ask

(34:56):
him a question about are the Browns trying to sabotage
shad Or Sanders. The Browns are treating Shadoor Sanders the
way fifth round draft picks are treated. You're lucky to
get reps. You might be with the first team. He
was fortunate everybody was injured his first game. Let him
just play and see if he can play. Like there

(35:18):
are so many cheerleaders in the media. Stop with this,
and there's also haters out there as well, But just
let the kid play. He's not ready right now. I
think he has I think he has the ability. His
pocket presence isn't very good, and he holds onto the

(35:39):
ball and you got your first read, take your first read.
You're not at Colorado, You're not at Jackson State. You
can't get away with these things. And even at Colorado
he couldn't get away with these things. A lot of
times when he was getting sacked and everybody talked about
how bad the offensive line is. Well, he played a
part in that. He's not good at the line of scrimmage.

(36:02):
Right now, Dylan Gabriel is better than Shaudoor Sanders right now,
But Dylan Gabriel gets the ball out. He he's up
there making a quick decision. But this now the like
offensive linemen weren't blocking for him on purpose. Somebody suggested, really,

(36:25):
I gets mind boggling. Where you're going. Okay, he's a
fifth round draft pick. Tell me another fifth round draft
pick that's getting the attention or the opportunity that he's
getting or that people want that person to get. It
doesn't happen. It hasn't happened. It's just shaudoor Sanders. That's
why they took Dylan Gabriel in the third round because

(36:47):
they thought that he was better than shaudor Sanders. But
this sabotaging him. Oh he's not getting reps. He's a
fifth round draft pick. He's being treated that way. I
don't think anybody was going, can you believe Tom Brady's
not get any reps in practice? No, he was being

(37:10):
treated like the one hundred and ninety ninth pick. I
hope he gets an opportunity. I hope that he can
one way or another. We're gonna find out, because this
playing quarterback is the great meritocracy.

Speaker 8 (37:25):
What did you do for me?

Speaker 2 (37:26):
Are you any good? It's not like the defense is
going to say, you know what, We're gonna let him
get some completions here We're going to help out the
kid a little bit here, but now we're sabotaging him.
Mike and Iowa. Hi Mike, what's on your mind today?

Speaker 19 (37:42):
Hey Dan, First time, long time best of the weekend
beer snake in Dublin. Check it out and work to
the weekend. Is that Iowa State actually won?

Speaker 2 (37:53):
Come on, thank you, Mike. Give me the college football
schedule next weekend, Paul, just some of the highlight.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
It's fantastic Texas, Ohio State, Syracuse, Tennessee. You got Marshall, Georgia, Bama,
Florida State, you have, Yeah, I got Later in the day,
you got LSU at Clemson. It's fantastic, real spicy. The
night game, Late game, I know you will like Northern
Arizona at Arizona State. Then on Sunday in the afternoon

(38:22):
Virginia Tech versus South Carolina, and the nightcap Notre Dame
versus Miami.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
And then you got Monday Night.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
Yes, Monday Night is North Carolina.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
Is Bill's girlfriend on the sidelines.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
I don't think she's visible to camera in the building.

Speaker 2 (38:42):
Will they treat her the way they did Andrew Luck
when he was up in the booth. Will they have
a Jordan camera. Yes, Martin, if she's there, yes, Okay,
on this day and sports history.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
I'm only going to give you one since you brought
up Andrew Luck six years ago. Yesterday the news was
broken that he was retiring from the NFL. Today, six
years ago was his press conference. Okay, that's wild, all right.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
On this date in nineteen eighty six, Mark McGuire hit
his first home run. Also nineteen eighty five, Dwight Gooden
beat the Podres to become the youngest pitcher to win
twenty games. He was just under twenty one years of age.
I got to experience that first hand, and in fact,
I would go on my days off to Shay Stadium

(39:33):
if I knew he was going to pitch, if it
was on the weekends. He pitched against Dennis Martinez, and
I remember going with Gary Miller, who I worked with
at ESPN and CNN, and we sat behind home play
and that was the thing watch. He only threw two
pitches fastball, brake and ball, but he was phenomenal.

Speaker 4 (39:53):
Yes, Marv, are the eighty six Mets in the same
categories at eighty five bears as far as they're super
celebrated and you ask how come he didn't win more?

Speaker 2 (40:01):
Yes, absolutely, that Mets team had a lot of talent,
a lot of characters, but bears winning one. I mean
they're kind of similar from the standpoint of a lot
of characters and still living off that one win, that
one championship. Ronda in Texas, Hi Ronda, Hi Dan, and

(40:25):
thank you.

Speaker 10 (40:26):
Sharing my best and the worst, it's actually the same.
The best was Tommy Fleetwood finally winning his first championship
after his one hundred and sixty fourth start, and the
worst was the nervous wait for it to finally happened,
with even the announcer saying, going into the final hole
with a three stroke leads should be enough for a win,

(40:46):
but maybe not.

Speaker 2 (40:48):
I know, I kept thinking it's three, Yeah, that's enough.
He's a professional golfer. Yeah, that was great. It was
great to see and also the real of his wife
because she has no control over this. He's at least
out there playing, and she's got to be the sounding board.
She's got to be somebody who, you know, comforts him

(41:10):
after all of these close losses, and sometimes you forget
about that the wherewith all the you know, the toll
that it takes on those who are watching you trying
to succeed final results of the poll question seat no counter.

Speaker 7 (41:27):
Yeah, man, this turned into a real doozy. Who saw
Monday going this way? I know I sure didn't. Do
you keep the numbers of people who have passed away
in your phone? Seventy four percent say yes, We're still
hovering at about eighty percent though that say, texting the
number of someone who has died to say hello, they
would say that is not a healthy thing. You not
to eat their own, Ah, to each their own, not

(41:48):
hurting anybody other than the person who might be receiving
that text because they have that person's old phone number.
That might be irritating.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
Yeah, I get that. Just say hey, love you, thinking
of you, and all of a sudden it's a guy.
It's like, who is this?

Speaker 8 (42:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (42:04):
I'm sorry?

Speaker 10 (42:04):
What?

Speaker 2 (42:05):
Just go around the room, Todd, what'd you learn today?

Speaker 5 (42:07):
It's pronounced have not Hawaii?

Speaker 2 (42:10):
Okay, Well, according to Paul, it's vite y and them
and them. But then don't you have to become one
of like you have to be one of them to
call it havete you?

Speaker 8 (42:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (42:22):
Okay, Satan, what'd you learn today?

Speaker 7 (42:25):
Hopefully Todd's Tuesday goes better than this, Monday can't go
any worse.

Speaker 4 (42:29):
H Marvin Todd was out of pocket today.

Speaker 2 (42:32):
Out of pocket, Paul, Would you learn Todd?

Speaker 3 (42:35):
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