December 19, 2025 • 40 mins
Former NFL quarterback and commentator Ryan Leaf joins Dan and talks about Matthew Stafford’s play under Sean McVay, the year that’s been for Bears quarterback Caleb Williams, football weather and how he hates both rain and domed stadiums. The Danettes discuss the most must-win games of the weekend, but the fire alarm goes off.
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to Ryan Leaf, who joins us in studio Final Hour.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
What are we going with? Yeah, we got up there
right now.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
If your life depended on a catch, who are you taking?
Pukin Nakua is just crushing basically the field here justin
Jefferson and second Jamar Chase and Jackson Smith and Jigba
are in last place. And then if you were Lane Kiffin,
do you want to see Tulane beat Ole Miss?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Sixty three percent of the audience.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Say no, Well, he's got those bonuses, so he wants
to see them win. You get what one hundred and
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hundred thousand, and then seven fifty and then a million.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
He wants to see Old Miss win.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Ryan Lee, former NFL quarterback, He'll be calling the Packers
Bears Saturday, Bronco's Chiefs on Christmas Night, and the FCS
National Title game, all in Westwood One joins us in studio.
Good to see you again. Level of belief in Sam Darnold,
let me start there.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
I have a lot of belief in Sam Darnold. Those
two interceptions last night, you know, I think would have
fooled any quarterback in that situation. They ran man coverage
look and then this was just film oriented and what
they saw and fell under and zoned for that touchdown,
well should have been a touchdown a pick six. And
then the other one. He had just had so much
pressure in his face he had to let it go
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and the defender dropped right into the spot. Both those
of those situational plays that you really can't put a
lot on him. It wasn't like a bad throat, It
wasn't a bad decision. It was just better coaching on
the other side to prepare for it. And so I
thought the comeback was amazing. I thought it was really
smart him to throw the pass backwards on the two
point conversion against the guy's helmet. I thought that was
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really smart. I just love what he's done. He's reinvented himself.
He's continued to work with Jordan Palmer in the off
seasons and it has just gotten himself to a place
where he can be that guy. And this team is
good enough, especially defensively, where they can make an impact.
For whatever it was against the ra in both those games,
it looked like neither one of those games were an
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opportunity for them to win it, and yet they won
one of them.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Explain to me, I want to give the credit to
Matthew Stafford, but Sean mcvay's role with Matthew Stafford, like,
how do you share the MVP or you know, not
that Sean is asking for that, but you know we're
trying to figure out, you know, Liam Cohen with Trevor Lawrence,
you know, you got to have that whisper there to
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help you, whether it's Ben Johnson with Caleb Williams, but
Sean McVay with you know, Matthew Stafford is.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
What well, I think a lot of what that goes
into is the scheme. So what he has been able
to do for Matthew is he's been able to clear
his vision, like when he looks out at a defense,
especially with this defense now and now these days where
they place so much emphasis on trying to distract you
or trying to convince you it's a different coverage.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
He's cleared it up for him and how does that work?
All right?
Speaker 6 (03:59):
So for him in particular, what he's done is he's
he's with the motion. He's allowed Pat Matthew Stafford to
understand what it's going to look like post snap, and
a lot of times that's difficult to do. And when
coaches are trying to teach teams that motion, a lot
they're telling them to prepare for what the formation is
going to look like. When it's all said and done.
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Same thing on the defense. I talk to a lot
of defensive coordinators this year around when you're setting up
these defenses, because you're lining up in something pre snap
and getting to something post up, and we have to
be right on what we think the formation is going
to be.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
So there's a lot of guessing.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Going on, but there's informed guessing on on Sean McVay side.
And it's allowed Matthew Stafford just to feel really comfortable
when he drops back. I don't think for one second
does he feel like he does not know what's going
on on the other side of the football.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Explain pukin Nakua to me, Oh, in what way? He's
not fast? I mean like, I'm just trying to figure
out how you can dominate like that.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Well, he catches the ball better than anybody. He uses
his hands. That's a big part of it. We didn't
see this at BYU. We saw it at Washington. I
saw it at Washington and I thought this guy was
going to be a game wrecker there and he just
got homesick and wanted to go home. Okay, and he
got hurt quite a bit while he was there. And
it's the reason why he fell so far in the draft.
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But I always knew that he had the capability. Was
a five star kid that went there, and he was big,
he was physical, he could catch the football. He was
fast enough. And in this league you have to have
you have to have a burner, somebody on the outside
that can can take the top off. But you got
to have somebody who, like I was listening to Lewis
Riddick talk to you a little bit earlier about his ability.
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If you don't put somebody in his face to the
line of scrimmage and this guy can get three or
four steps into a break, I mean you you you
don't have a chance. But also him being open is
much different than anybody else being open. If you saw
a corner route in the last couple of weeks where
the defender has been right there, but the ball placement's
been so good, and if it's anywhere near his catch ready,
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he's catching it, plain and simple. The biggest thing too,
if you notice he doesn't go down after to catch
the ball. I mean he stays up even when he's
hit for whatever reason. His balance keeps him up and
he's been able to get a couple more yards always
falling forward. I mean, he was so impactful last night
for that football team and I can't believe the statistics
were what they were and ultimately seeing the Seahawks win.
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But is there a similarity with Cooper cup Well? I
think that's where he learned it from I do. I
mean that early on in his career, Cooper was there
showing him how it's done. I always talk to young players,
especially when I'm at the Senior Bowl, and I talked
to him about when you entered the NFL locker room,
go find the guy that's been doing this eight to
ten years, ask him how he did it, and then
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follow his advice verbatim. And I feel like Poka just
kind of came in, put his nose right between Cooper's
butt crack, and followed him around for two years, right,
And that's the way. Those are the things that you
wish you would have known and understood. I wish I
would have done that with Junior Sei and Rodney Harrison
and just sat there watch them be professionals figure it out.
Because I love watching someone like Sam Darnold have success.
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I love seeing someone like Pook and the cool because
they figured it out. They got there and they said,
all I gotta do is play football. That's all I
got to do. I don't have to worry about anything else.
I don't have to be a big man on campus anymore.
I just got to play football. And these are the
guys that did it, and I want to follow in
their footsteps.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Talking to Ryan Leith, the former NFL quarterback, he'll be
working for west Wood One. It'll be the Packers Bears Saturday,
Broncos Chiefs on Christmas Night in the FCS National Title
Game January fifth, all in west Wood One, Packers without
Micah Parsons. What do the Bears do to take advantage
of that? Okay, so this is something that I've been
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looking at all week long in terms of what I
think it may do is to make confuse the Bears
and Caleb a little bit more early in the game.
Because with Michaeh Parsons, they have not brought blitzes. They've
rushed four guys. So if you go look at the blitz.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
Tape this week to prepare, if Caleb Williams has got
his blitz cut up, it may not have many plays
on it because they just haven't been bringing a lot
of pressure because they've been able to get it with
Michael Parsons and if he gets double team, the three
other guys have been doing the work. So I think
early on, as long as they don't make any mistakes
like turning it over and use that time on the
sideline to see where they're bringing McDuffie or they're bringing
kway Walker or even you know, Evan Williams from.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
The back end.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
If he's able to go those types of pressures on
the tablet's going to be a huge thing to see
where they're coming comes. They have to find a way
to get pressure on him somehow, and they're not going
to be able to do it without the most pressurized
defensive edge rusher this year in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Who's the better quarterback in this game?
Speaker 6 (08:39):
I think Jordan Love just simply because he's got more experienced.
He doesn't make the big mistake necessarily as much as
Caleb does. But I will say this, Caleb Williams for
me is a bit of a throwback, and in that
he's not doing what everybody else does in this year,
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in this NFL where the ball is thrown within minus
two and a half and plus two and a half
of the line of scrimmage. That's why completion percentages are
so high, and he's around fifty eight percent because he
goes down the field at an average of around seven
to ten yards per attempt down. That's old school percentages
for a twenty years ago, when Drew Bledsoe and I
were playing and things like that, we were attempting the
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ball to throw the ball down the field a lot more,
and that means our completion percentages were much lower. Now
they're up in the seventies, low seventies, and if you're not,
you're looked at as what's wrong with you type of mentality.
And so Caleb Williams for me, is a bit of
a throwback, a bit of a guy that is going
to take some more chances down the field. And it
should be interesting and fascinating over the next three weeks
because it's not like they play you know, you know,
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teams they should walk through. They have the Packers, they
had go out to play the forty nine ers on
the road, and then they have the Lions to finish
the season. So this Chicago Bears team as good as
they've been, I think anybody who's watched them and understands them.
They could look and say this team could be ten
and seven when it's all said and done through these
three games are really important. Is Ben Johnson the guy
that gets them through the adversity of the things like that?
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Is Michael Parsons that big of a miss that the
that the Bears are the better team and win the
division and stuff. So these three weeks are going to
tell you a lot about who the Chicago Bears are,
what Caleb Williams is capable of doing, and how much
Ben Johnson places at his feet to work.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
All of a sudden, you make the decision to bench
deactivate to a tongue of violin, I mean that feels
like we were moving on. I mean that felt like
an announcement, a declaration. What do you make of now,
all of a sudden, Tua can't play for Mike.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
It's interesting because they felt so attached at the hip
that there had to have been something maybe sent down
from higher above that was like, hey, if you want
to keep a job, you have to start to distance
yourself from because we're going to move on and do something.
Because they were really attached to one another, and they
rode through the process, what they ran the anticipation in
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the running game, the past game with all of that.
I don't know how you do it, but clearly Russell
Wilson and the decision in Denver to walk away from
that much dead cap money and still be this good
that quick makes the family in Miami believe that they
could do the same thing if they hit the right quarterback,
they get the right plan in place. You know, it
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hasn't worked for them. They haven't been really anything since
Dan Marino played, so.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
It's yeah, but they saw something to give him that contract?
Is it now?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
They realized he can't throw out to the numbers he doesn't.
You know, if you don't have Tyreek killed, I throw
at seven and you take it seventy.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I mean they have a good running game. I don't know.
It just it feels the timing feels strange.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
It does feel strange. It almost feels like this is
one of those impulsive decisions made by a billionaire somewhere
that that isn't right.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Right.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
It's the micromanagement of things that isn't there. The reason
that they don't have a general manager in place at
the time. Would you rather have Kyler Murray or Tua
I don't know they've They've seemed pretty similar to me. Well,
one's got a one is a crazy athlete. One is
a crazy athlete. His ability to work with this feet
has allowed him to be better the anticipation of twa
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tongue of my law. Over the years i've watched him,
he's been one of the most accurate anticipatory quarterbacks I've
ever seen, and in this league that's incredibly important.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
But to your.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
Point, it anytime you see a left handed quarterback, it
seems labored. It just looks labored. And I don't know
why that's the case. Maybe it's the fundamentals are a
little different, but it looks like it's a labored throw.
So in your point, when he's thrown to the numbers,
it looks like it's labored.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
It looks like.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
It's not getting there in time, when in reality it
does have the pace on it it needs. It does
get there when it needs to. He's just made some
bad and poor decisions, in particular in that Pittsburgh game,
and he's got to where the badge of not being
able to play well in cold weather, and that's half
of their season. When you talk about who they play
in their division on the road.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Explain that cold weather thing.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
I don't get it. I mean, I grew up in Montana,
so that's a different thing.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
I love that. Are you good in hot weather? Did
you have problems in hot weather?
Speaker 6 (13:09):
I mean I had problems in really humid weather when
I played for the Buccaneers. Just the amount of sweat
that was your body was producing, and then the sweat
from the from your center and we were under center
a lot. I made my center in Tampa changes pants
every quarter I did. It was a swamp, and so
it was important to try to have as dry as hands.
Speaker 8 (13:29):
As you can.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
But when you're playing in cold weather, for me, I
was always so hot. My body was warm, and that
ball was so cold and it almost stuck like velcro,
and I could whip that thing around. It was a
lot of fun. I wish we would play more snow
games in college and in the NFL. Some of my
best games in the NFL were at altitude against Denver
in those in that cold weather. In high school, we
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played four out of our you know, ten twelve games
in snow games you know, in Montana, so I was
used to it. I think that's just something you got
to get through. But when you practice every single day
in Miami and then all of a sudden, out of nowhere,
you're just asked to go up and play in this
No matter what you do. You can show up the
day before and take your shirt off while you warm up,
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that's not going to acclimate you to what's what it's
really like every single day.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
But if you said to the Buffalo Bills, or the
Green Bay Packers or the Chicago Bears, do you want
to play your home games in a dome? And you
don't have to attach your name to it. We're just
going to take a vote. And how do you think
that they would vote.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
Well, it probably depends on where they come from. Like
if I had a vote, I would vote. I don't
want to play in the dome. Like the only thing
I hated worse than anything is playing in rain Like
Seattle would have been a difficult place to play all
the time. But coach found a fix for that. In college,
we called it ruin Ryan's self esteem day. He brought
a bucket of water out and he made me dump
the ball in before I threw every time, and I
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hated it and it was just it was it was
ruined Ryan's self esteem day. But guess what the day
we played the Apple Cup against Washington to go to
the Rose Bowl, and when it rained the entire game
and I didn't even notice it, and I threw for
three hundred and eighty seven yards and we won the
football game. So like, you can do the things you
need to to prefer for it. I like the elements.
I like being a part of what football is. Somebody
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said football weather isn't twenty degrees and snow, and football
weather is sixty four degrees in a sunny day in
the South, And I'm like, both are good football days.
That's football weather. It doesn't matter whatever the weather is.
It's football weather in my opinion, because.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I'd like to play indoors. But if our identity, So
you go to Green Bay, you're told this is your identity.
It's not your identity before you get there. You go
to Buffalo, this is your identity, Chicago, this is your identity.
You got to embrace that. You're like, it's mind over matter,
yep with these guys. And then all of a sudden,
you see when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers would go north
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or the Dolphins would go north in December and be
like the Chargers go to Cincinnati years ago with Dan
Foutz and it's like, we don't want to be here.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
Yeah, it's you get used to practicing in that weather
where you're in short sleeves and shorts all the time,
you know, and then all of a sudden you have
to bundle up. My producer told me, he said, the Bears,
you know, broadcast booth at Soldier Field is out. It's
it's open air. And I said, and when you mean
open air, you know, so they have a heater in it.
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But hey, Prepa, like it's going to be thirty degrees
for four and a half hours while you're staying.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I got thirty five degrees at kickoff. Last last week
was seven degrees. Last week was much different. Looking forward
to this one probably won't have the same heaters that
Tom Brady and Kevin Burkers having there.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
He ran into Brady what a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Yeah, we called the Thanksgiving game together and we hadn't
seen each other for for a long long time, and
it was nice. It was nice to catch up with him.
There's one thing I've always wanted to talk to him
about is how he's raised his kids because he's done
it as the goat, as the famous person, and I
always thought he's done a tremendous job of raising his kids.
And I kind of come from the opposite spectrum where
I'm famous but for a lot of bad things. And
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so how do you how do you do that? And
how do you raise kids that way? And I was
that's the question I asked him, and he gave me
a really thoughtful answer, and so we talked for a bit.
You know, two Rose Bowl quarterbacks from nineteen ninety eight
chatting it up and calling in a field football games together.
I mean, that's that's amazing what happened in between and
where we're at now.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Is he looking younger?
Speaker 9 (17:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
I kind of look pretty understanding, But.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
No, it's not you, which just about Brady we Yes,
fifty year olds look much younger than they did before.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Okay, yeah, and he does. He takes good really and
he could still play.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
I suspect if if you're talking about Philip Rivers going
out there, he could throw it a lot better than
Philip Rivers. I can throw it better than Philip Rivers.
I mean that looked bad at TI.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
It did. Yeah, it did. It was amazing.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Like I liked his story. But I'm your arm is
stronger than Yes, I could have thrown better than that would.
I have understood the protections and the defense as well
as he would. I have taken many more hits than
he probably did.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Yeah, that's a different story.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
I get the competitive nature of Tom, you know, being
away from the game as long as you have, I
don't care how mobile you've kept yourself. It's it's a
it's a real different animal. He's not mobile anyway, right.
He works inside a eight by twelve inch spot in
the pocket, and he was the best to ever do it.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Thanks for something by that's good to be travels. Thank
you very much. Best to the family.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Yeah, they say hi, all right, Ryan Leaf. He'll be
on the call tomorrow night. You've got a standalone game,
I know with Westwood One.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
I've been telling you what it's been to have the
national radio call.
Speaker 7 (18:38):
I like it.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
You don't have to wear a suit. No one knows
what the heck you're talking about all the time. You
could be talking about whatever you want if you're talking
some football, you know, Kurt Warner told me that story.
When you when you do radio you know, you tell
your story of the game. Yeah, and those that are listening,
hopefully they understand what it is. And that was the
best advice I ever got.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Ryan will be on the call Packers Bears, that'll be Saturday,
Broncos Chiefs on Christmas Night, and the FCS National Championship
Game maybe with Montana State gokat January fifth. We'll take
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The Packers are getting one and a half at the Bears.
In case you're wondering, um, let's see if there's anything
else that's really interesting important games. Packers were favored in
this game. The Niners are favored by five and a
half against the Colts. Steelers getting seven at the Lions,
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of the weekend. I don't know why I'm slowing down
with that, adding more emphasis there, Todd the most must
win games, and thank you Todd.
Speaker 11 (21:36):
Baker Mayfield and the once five and one Tampa Bay
Buccaneers needs to prove it for real and that someone
wants to win the NFC South, perhaps them seven and
seven Bucks at seven and seven Panthers.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
This is a playoff game here Bucks are three point favorites.
Once again, NFC South crazy. This is where do the
Panthers win a game after losing a game they should
have won.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
The most must win game of the weekend, Seaton, this
is this might as.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
Well be the playoffs already for the Detroit Lions, must win,
must win.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
Marvin See, you can get out of my head because
I have the Detroit Lions. Same thing. Every single game
leading up is now a must win.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Yep. I agree, Paulie.
Speaker 12 (22:19):
Nobody's talking about this game and they shouldn't.
Speaker 13 (22:21):
Eagles versus Commanders, five o'clock Eastern on Fox tomorrow. The
Commanders have zero to play for, the Eagles are favored
by seven, and then nine to five.
Speaker 12 (22:29):
Eagles must win.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah, I'm gonna say the lines as well, because I
think they're capable, still capable of winning the Super Bowl,
but you can't afford to lose. Now, Steelers getting seven
in Detroit, that's the most must win game of the weekend.
Bill in Maine, Hey, Bill, thanks for holding what's on
your mind?
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can hear chink, chink, chink, and they're driving the rod
home down my leg and I was like, oh, that's pleasant.
You guys need a bigger hammer. And I don't think
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Speaker 14 (23:23):
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Yeah, and you wake up during surgery there, well, thank
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Speaker 3 (23:45):
Hey Mark? And you find you Mark? There you go?
All right? Hey Mark?
Speaker 9 (23:52):
Okay? Hi five ten two twenty Dan. I just got
down with my back at knee me replacement here three
weeks ago. And so may I ask when I didn't
catch you in the first part is when did you
When did you have your knee replaced?
Speaker 3 (24:08):
I think of four years ago.
Speaker 9 (24:11):
Oh okay, okay, So nothing I can say, but I'll
tell you one thing. I was going to say, fire
went out there too. If not the first three or
four weeks, it's the dangerous part. My first one I
had last May, and five weeks in. Man, I'm doing
great and starting to do things. One week left of
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pet happened to live on a farm and uh, you know,
you're starting to do a few things. And I stepped
wrong and I fell and I tore my squad tendon.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Oh, thank you, Mark.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
The worst thing for me was first of all three
weeks pain after your knee replacement. And then I went
to soul cycle and I did a spin class because
I knew I had to break through the scar tissue.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Oh bad, idea.
Speaker 12 (25:07):
Did it hurt more during or after?
Speaker 15 (25:09):
Oh? During?
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Oh yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:12):
And there I'm surrounded by a bunch of women and
looking at me like is he crying? Because this is emotional,
you know, Soul Cycle is a spiritual thing as well.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
And I'm like, my eyes are watering because.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
You start to paddle a little bit and then all
of a sudden you go, all right, gotta go, and
then all of a sudden scar tissue. And then you
had women saying, you know, they're talking about how emotional
it was, and I go, no, I had replacement, and
ee surger, I had to break through the scar tissue.
And they were like they were like disappointed that it
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wasn't emotional. Isn't it spiritual to go to soul Cycle?
Only when I went, when Mike Greenberg was there, then
it was spiritual. Andrew in Washington, Good morning, Andrew, what's
on your.
Speaker 16 (26:01):
Oh good morning, Dan Denne's thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Yeah, I've had two surgeries on my left knee.
Speaker 16 (26:06):
Now I'm in a five to eight year window before
they replace it. Just waiting for the last bit of
cartilage out of there. But hey, real quick, I think
Seattle is being downplayed. I think the improvements that Sam
Darnold has shown since last year playing against that Rams defense,
he's improved.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
He's starting to see what their scheme is against him.
Because with four interceptions in the first game, barely losing it,
two interceptions in this game and they win it. They
it's about a wash with six interceptions. Seahawks I think
are a better team than the Rams. But Dan, good
luck tomorrow night as your Christmas.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Party with the holes Jay and Milburgh game showing up.
Speaker 16 (26:40):
And also I have a stat of the day for you,
real quick. So last night, Luca.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Had a forty five point triple double with only one turnover.
That's only happened one other time in NBA history. Isaiah
Thomas did it back in nineteen eighty three with forty
six points, ten rebounds, eleven assists and.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Only one turnover.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Thanks guys, Stand of the Day, Stand.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
A day, stand of a day, Stand of a day.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
This is the Stand of the Day, brought you by
Panini America, the official trading cards of the program. Luca
had forty five, fourteen and eleven. The forty five points
uh oh, fire alarm going off?
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Is that the chili?
Speaker 12 (27:28):
I have alarm chili?
Speaker 3 (27:32):
That's awesome. Dylan, the big german is here.
Speaker 12 (27:38):
Left that out a little bit doing that.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Dylan is no man.
Speaker 12 (27:45):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Oh is that outside? Yeah? That's outside. How we built
a fire?
Speaker 5 (27:52):
They got got a piece of salmon.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Maybe Dylan is definitely not going to be the most
valuable battle.
Speaker 15 (28:00):
No.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
No, he just lost it. He lost it. He lost it.
All I know is the big german is here. I
feel good, yes, Todd.
Speaker 11 (28:10):
Yeah, I'm always safer around the big German. He does
like ambulance stuff and fire. He puts up fires. He
does a lot of stuff outside of our little world here.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Yeah, well there he just a matter of seconds.
Speaker 7 (28:20):
He just rectified that put it.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
I hear doors slamming and his fire department, fire departments
next door.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Yeah, Pully, so the fire.
Speaker 13 (28:31):
Alarms going off, Dylan was outside, man in the grill,
so he couldn't hear any of it.
Speaker 12 (28:36):
You just flipping burgers?
Speaker 7 (28:38):
Yes, Mark, is Dylan the Atlanta Falcons up twenty eight
to three. He had this in the bag now.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
I sent Seaton a picture of a Patriot fan who
but did he had number twenty five on his Patriot
jersey or was it twenty eight?
Speaker 9 (28:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (28:57):
No, he had twenty five and then name. They put
a custom name on the back of the jersey.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Down we were down twenty five? Did it say that?
Speaker 5 (29:06):
Uh No, it said ATL was up and the letters
spell out ATL was up and then the number twenty five.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
This is this jersey that he's wearing to the game.
So good, Never forget, never forget.
Speaker 10 (29:20):
So good.
Speaker 8 (29:22):
Dang.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I mentioned Joker went twenty three to thirteen and eleven.
He now has the most assist by a center in
NBA history. Now he reached it in seven hundred and
seventy one games, fewer than half the number that Kareem
did it when he played in fifteen hundred and sixty
to set the all time record.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
But this is different, you know, this is this is
a modern day.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
That's why I don't like designations as center, forwards, point guard,
shooting guard. He's a point center. He's just a basketball player.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
And I think when you have to watch him though,
because you can watch highlights and you'll go, okay, all right,
nice bounce pass, all right, hit a three like you
there's certain things where you watch but if you watch
the My favorite is he'll get a rebound and an
outlet boom, and you know he'll throw a strike to somebody.
(30:23):
It's small things that he does and you're probably you're
not going to make the Sports Center Top ten plays,
but he is consistent and that's one of those where
you go, Okay, he's going to get his numbers. Normally
you say that about somebody with their points they're scoring,
you're going to get his numbers. You just don't want
him to get the other numbers because the assists that'll
(30:46):
kill you. And he's going to get rebounds. He'll get
a couple of steals a game. But you know when
you're when you're getting ten eleven twelve thirteen assists to
go along with twenty seven twenty eighteen nine points. And
he's shooting at a really high percentage as well.
Speaker 7 (31:04):
Yes, mar and he has the quality like Lebron to
make guys who are just okay look way better. Bruce
Brown after he won the championship with the Nuggets two
years forty nine million dollars, have you heard from Bruce Brown?
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Me?
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Neither.
Speaker 9 (31:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
I feel bad for Michael Porter Junior this third though.
Why because he's in Brooklyn, and he's putting up good numbers.
But he's in Brooklyn. Think if a tree falls in Brooklyn,
does anybody notice, Yes, Mark.
Speaker 7 (31:34):
Nope, not a person. Yeah, they have no fan base.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
And then he's got the whole brother thing and the
gambling thing.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
And he was playing on a team that was maybe gonna,
you know, play for a championship or certainly be in
the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
And now you're playing for Brooklyn. Now he's playing for Pride. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
Smart.
Speaker 7 (31:54):
But he gets his shots up though.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Yes he does, and sometimes that's more important, you know,
for him.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
He's got his ring, he's got his money.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Yeah, you don't need Yeah, all right, let's take a break,
Let's go out and check out. Maybe hopefully there's no
damage to whatever was on fire. There's it's just a
small little rush for everything's smoked now, so actually works
out pretty good.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
All right, We're gonna go outside.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
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Speaker 3 (33:01):
Alrighty, let's see a couple of things.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
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watching college football. Is this the Myrtle Beach Bowl?
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (33:24):
And a tradition of excellence for decades. The Myrtle Beach
Bowl started an hour ago. It's no spoilers, but Western
Michigan's up twenty seven zero over Kanessas State at the quarter.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
So they they're up twenty seven to nothing in the
first quarter.
Speaker 12 (33:37):
Yeah, but it's there early. They're a second half team
kind of sauce.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Mm okay, you know that. How about this day in
sports History?
Speaker 13 (33:44):
Eighteen eighty seven Jake kil Rain and Jim Smith bought
a bare knuckle championship fight, which lasted one hundred and
six rounds three hours. The fighters ruled a draw and
call due to darkness.
Speaker 12 (33:57):
True story.
Speaker 13 (33:58):
Wayne Gretzky got to one thousand points. He was only
twenty three years old. It was game number four, twenty four.
The record was seven twenty hot Start eighty eight The
Good Old Days. NSA plays the Oklahoma Sooners football program
on probation for violations. You were great back then, both
the NCAA and the Sooners. Nineteen ninety. Bo Jackson became
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the first athlete chosen for All Star Games in.
Speaker 12 (34:21):
Two sports.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Nineteen eighty Raging Bowl.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Robert de Niro, He was Jake Lamata that was released
on this date in nineteen eighty. I remember meeting Jake
Lamada and his wife Vicki, and Vicky was gorgeous.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Jake was not. Jake was He was not.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
He had charisma or something, you know something. And I
don't know if this is true or not, but I
saw this recently and it was the De Niro Taxi
Driver You're talking to me that movie that he reportedly
(35:07):
got that from Bruce Springsteen. Seeing a Bruce Springsteen show.
Why maybe google this. Maybe I'm just making it up.
Speaker 10 (35:16):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
But but the you're talking to me? His famous line,
uh that he got it from Bruce Springsteen for some reason.
I don't know if it's true or not.
Speaker 12 (35:27):
Make Bruce Springsteen say that? Was that during a song?
Speaker 11 (35:30):
Was there a concert?
Speaker 3 (35:31):
If you google it, Todd, then maybe it'll tell you. Yes, Paul.
Speaker 13 (35:35):
A new book about acting Robert de Niro claims the
line from taxi driver, you're talking to me was inspired
by a Bruce Springsteen show that de Niro saw.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Hello and heard him saying it on stage. That's what
you do, that's what you do. The show's over always learning.
Speaker 12 (35:52):
So is he talking to a band member? They of
someone in the crowd.
Speaker 6 (35:55):
I'm just curious.
Speaker 12 (35:56):
I there's some more information on it.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Once again, you can google it. You can google it.
Maybe you're talking to me. You're talking to me, all right,
talking to you? I was talking at you, all right?
Come on now hello now, yes, Marvin MVD right there,
no l v oh bring it home up.
Speaker 15 (36:23):
Have knows it?
Speaker 3 (36:24):
But a dreful man.
Speaker 7 (36:28):
I'm done.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
He's an American icon t whatever, New Jersey icon. Whatever.
Speaker 7 (36:36):
Why don't I like him so much shot, he's old?
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Why is he running around the stage for five hours?
Nobody cares that that is a great impression of that
woman who was out of Big Deans in Santa Monica.
Speaker 12 (36:50):
Put the handkerchief back in your jeans. Nobody cares.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
We're never going to get Springsteen on this show. You
know that, because you know what I'll do. I'll say, Todd,
you do a Bruce Springsteen impersonation.
Speaker 12 (37:04):
Let me hear it.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
We're not gonna get bob Byllan on the show either. Yeah, man, Well,
why don't you get Timothy's shallow May on to talk
about Marty Supreme? Is ping pong movie Marty Supreme a
real movie?
Speaker 5 (37:23):
From what I'm told, Yes, at some point it feels
like it's just like Timothy shallow May doing a press
tour about it and filming a documentary about a fake
movie that's never gonna come out.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
It could be because when I first saw it, I thought, oh, okay,
that's like a Funnier die type video where he's Marty Supreme,
this incredible ping pong guy.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
Somehow Kylie Jenner will be there on his arm like
the jackets.
Speaker 5 (37:50):
You gotta get the jacket, Oh man, Look, he's that
Rocky got a Marty Supreme jacket.
Speaker 15 (37:55):
This is so sick.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
Gwyneth Paltrow's just like, look, he's doing all these interviews
all over the place talk about the movie.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
I'm like, what, is it a real movie?
Speaker 15 (38:02):
Though?
Speaker 3 (38:02):
I heard a reviewer say best movie of the year.
I heard that yesterday best movie of the year, Yes.
Speaker 13 (38:10):
Paul, best Ping Pong related movie here or movie Marty
Supreme twenty twenty five film over released on Christmas Day.
Speaker 12 (38:18):
It's by one of the Safti brothers who we know.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Then you know it's good.
Speaker 13 (38:21):
Oh yeah, it's going to make the intenseness of Ping
Pong really come to life. It got ninety six on
Rotten Tomatoes.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
I'm told it could be best movie of the year.
Paul in Chicago, Hi, Paul, what's on your mind?
Speaker 8 (38:36):
Day?
Speaker 9 (38:36):
Dan?
Speaker 15 (38:37):
I was listening to your Jim Harbaugh interview the other
day and I loved it. I was It made me think,
like I was curious how much you guys strategize pre
show on, like how you're going to tackle these specific interviews,
knowing you're going to have to ask the tough questions
about Sharon Moore. And then I noticed you like ended
with some lighter questions to not end the interview on
(38:57):
the Charon.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
Moore note, it was just like a great interview.
Speaker 15 (39:00):
Just curious what kind of strategizing with like Paulie and
the crew there is pre show with these specific interviews.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Well, we come up with the concepts, the topics, and
then I wanted to be open ended questions. You know
that one wasn't where I said when's you know? I said,
when's the last time you talked to him? Assuming that
he would give me that, and I was surprised that
he did go a little more than I thought. But
(39:29):
we do talk about it, but you can't start with
that and I think we were talking about I don't know,
football fields or knee braces or something. But you have
to have a beginning, middle, and end, and you can
ask great questions. But if the person you're asking the
(39:49):
questions too doesn't want to answer them, then it doesn't
become a good interview. Jim answered the questions, or at
least the best that I could hope for. In fact,
he gave me more than I thought. But there is
a strategy that goes into some of these interviews. When
you know you're gonna ask sensitive topics? Todd, did you
learn anything today?
Speaker 11 (40:08):
I did. The best advice Ryan Leaf ever received about
calling games on the radio came from Kurt Warner.
Speaker 12 (40:12):
Just tell your story of the game.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
Seatan, What did you learn today? Ryan Leif spent the
day with Tom Brady one Marvin Jack Lamata not gorgeous.
Nobody's wife Vicky was Paul.
Speaker 12 (40:22):
We'd pick poop, We'd pick Pooka to save our lives.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Todd, what did I learn?
Speaker 11 (40:27):
We all wonder why we embrace him in crave upsets
during March Madness, but not when it comes to the
college football players.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
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A close bet. The Raiders who in the Broncos, who
would have a better season. Thanks for joining us, have
a great weekend. We'll talk to you on Monday.
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
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just went out and inspected the beef and bison, chili
wagu smash burgers, cheese dogs as well.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Who lives it better than we do?
Speaker 4 (00:19):
No?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Why?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
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great meal for and it's cold and damp, rainy, and
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to Ryan Leaf, who joins us in studio Final Hour.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
What are we going with? Yeah, we got up there
right now.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
If your life depended on a catch, who are you taking?
Pukin Nakua is just crushing basically the field here justin
Jefferson and second Jamar Chase and Jackson Smith and Jigba
are in last place. And then if you were Lane Kiffin,
do you want to see Tulane beat Ole Miss?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Sixty three percent of the audience.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Say no, Well, he's got those bonuses, so he wants
to see them win. You get what one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars, and then it goes up to five
hundred thousand, and then seven fifty and then a million.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
He wants to see Old Miss win.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Ryan Lee, former NFL quarterback, He'll be calling the Packers
Bears Saturday, Bronco's Chiefs on Christmas Night, and the FCS
National Title game, all in Westwood One joins us in studio.
Good to see you again. Level of belief in Sam Darnold,
let me start there.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
I have a lot of belief in Sam Darnold. Those
two interceptions last night, you know, I think would have
fooled any quarterback in that situation. They ran man coverage
look and then this was just film oriented and what
they saw and fell under and zoned for that touchdown,
well should have been a touchdown a pick six. And
then the other one. He had just had so much
pressure in his face he had to let it go
(02:21):
and the defender dropped right into the spot. Both those
of those situational plays that you really can't put a
lot on him. It wasn't like a bad throat, It
wasn't a bad decision. It was just better coaching on
the other side to prepare for it. And so I
thought the comeback was amazing. I thought it was really
smart him to throw the pass backwards on the two
point conversion against the guy's helmet. I thought that was
(02:43):
really smart. I just love what he's done. He's reinvented himself.
He's continued to work with Jordan Palmer in the off
seasons and it has just gotten himself to a place
where he can be that guy. And this team is
good enough, especially defensively, where they can make an impact.
For whatever it was against the ra in both those games,
it looked like neither one of those games were an
(03:03):
opportunity for them to win it, and yet they won
one of them.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Explain to me, I want to give the credit to
Matthew Stafford, but Sean mcvay's role with Matthew Stafford, like,
how do you share the MVP or you know, not
that Sean is asking for that, but you know we're
trying to figure out, you know, Liam Cohen with Trevor Lawrence,
you know, you got to have that whisper there to
(03:28):
help you, whether it's Ben Johnson with Caleb Williams, but
Sean McVay with you know, Matthew Stafford is.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
What well, I think a lot of what that goes
into is the scheme. So what he has been able
to do for Matthew is he's been able to clear
his vision, like when he looks out at a defense,
especially with this defense now and now these days where
they place so much emphasis on trying to distract you
or trying to convince you it's a different coverage.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
He's cleared it up for him and how does that work?
All right?
Speaker 6 (03:59):
So for him in particular, what he's done is he's
he's with the motion. He's allowed Pat Matthew Stafford to
understand what it's going to look like post snap, and
a lot of times that's difficult to do. And when
coaches are trying to teach teams that motion, a lot
they're telling them to prepare for what the formation is
going to look like. When it's all said and done.
(04:19):
Same thing on the defense. I talk to a lot
of defensive coordinators this year around when you're setting up
these defenses, because you're lining up in something pre snap
and getting to something post up, and we have to
be right on what we think the formation is going
to be.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
So there's a lot of guessing.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Going on, but there's informed guessing on on Sean McVay side.
And it's allowed Matthew Stafford just to feel really comfortable
when he drops back. I don't think for one second
does he feel like he does not know what's going
on on the other side of the football.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Explain pukin Nakua to me, Oh, in what way? He's
not fast? I mean like, I'm just trying to figure
out how you can dominate like that.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Well, he catches the ball better than anybody. He uses
his hands. That's a big part of it. We didn't
see this at BYU. We saw it at Washington. I
saw it at Washington and I thought this guy was
going to be a game wrecker there and he just
got homesick and wanted to go home. Okay, and he
got hurt quite a bit while he was there. And
it's the reason why he fell so far in the draft.
(05:18):
But I always knew that he had the capability. Was
a five star kid that went there, and he was big,
he was physical, he could catch the football. He was
fast enough. And in this league you have to have
you have to have a burner, somebody on the outside
that can can take the top off. But you got
to have somebody who, like I was listening to Lewis
Riddick talk to you a little bit earlier about his ability.
(05:38):
If you don't put somebody in his face to the
line of scrimmage and this guy can get three or
four steps into a break, I mean you you you
don't have a chance. But also him being open is
much different than anybody else being open. If you saw
a corner route in the last couple of weeks where
the defender has been right there, but the ball placement's
been so good, and if it's anywhere near his catch ready,
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he's catching it, plain and simple. The biggest thing too,
if you notice he doesn't go down after to catch
the ball. I mean he stays up even when he's
hit for whatever reason. His balance keeps him up and
he's been able to get a couple more yards always
falling forward. I mean, he was so impactful last night
for that football team and I can't believe the statistics
were what they were and ultimately seeing the Seahawks win.
(06:22):
But is there a similarity with Cooper cup Well? I
think that's where he learned it from I do. I
mean that early on in his career, Cooper was there
showing him how it's done. I always talk to young players,
especially when I'm at the Senior Bowl, and I talked
to him about when you entered the NFL locker room,
go find the guy that's been doing this eight to
ten years, ask him how he did it, and then
(06:43):
follow his advice verbatim. And I feel like Poka just
kind of came in, put his nose right between Cooper's
butt crack, and followed him around for two years, right,
And that's the way. Those are the things that you
wish you would have known and understood. I wish I
would have done that with Junior Sei and Rodney Harrison
and just sat there watch them be professionals figure it out.
Because I love watching someone like Sam Darnold have success.
(07:05):
I love seeing someone like Pook and the cool because
they figured it out. They got there and they said,
all I gotta do is play football. That's all I
got to do. I don't have to worry about anything else.
I don't have to be a big man on campus anymore.
I just got to play football. And these are the
guys that did it, and I want to follow in
their footsteps.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Talking to Ryan Leith, the former NFL quarterback, he'll be
working for west Wood One. It'll be the Packers Bears Saturday,
Broncos Chiefs on Christmas Night in the FCS National Title
Game January fifth, all in west Wood One, Packers without
Micah Parsons. What do the Bears do to take advantage
of that? Okay, so this is something that I've been
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looking at all week long in terms of what I
think it may do is to make confuse the Bears
and Caleb a little bit more early in the game.
Because with Michaeh Parsons, they have not brought blitzes. They've
rushed four guys. So if you go look at the blitz.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
Tape this week to prepare, if Caleb Williams has got
his blitz cut up, it may not have many plays
on it because they just haven't been bringing a lot
of pressure because they've been able to get it with
Michael Parsons and if he gets double team, the three
other guys have been doing the work. So I think
early on, as long as they don't make any mistakes
like turning it over and use that time on the
sideline to see where they're bringing McDuffie or they're bringing
kway Walker or even you know, Evan Williams from.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
The back end.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
If he's able to go those types of pressures on
the tablet's going to be a huge thing to see
where they're coming comes. They have to find a way
to get pressure on him somehow, and they're not going
to be able to do it without the most pressurized
defensive edge rusher this year in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Who's the better quarterback in this game?
Speaker 6 (08:39):
I think Jordan Love just simply because he's got more experienced.
He doesn't make the big mistake necessarily as much as
Caleb does. But I will say this, Caleb Williams for
me is a bit of a throwback, and in that
he's not doing what everybody else does in this year,
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in this NFL where the ball is thrown within minus
two and a half and plus two and a half
of the line of scrimmage. That's why completion percentages are
so high, and he's around fifty eight percent because he
goes down the field at an average of around seven
to ten yards per attempt down. That's old school percentages
for a twenty years ago, when Drew Bledsoe and I
were playing and things like that, we were attempting the
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ball to throw the ball down the field a lot more,
and that means our completion percentages were much lower. Now
they're up in the seventies, low seventies, and if you're not,
you're looked at as what's wrong with you type of mentality.
And so Caleb Williams for me, is a bit of
a throwback, a bit of a guy that is going
to take some more chances down the field. And it
should be interesting and fascinating over the next three weeks
because it's not like they play you know, you know,
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teams they should walk through. They have the Packers, they
had go out to play the forty nine ers on
the road, and then they have the Lions to finish
the season. So this Chicago Bears team as good as
they've been, I think anybody who's watched them and understands them.
They could look and say this team could be ten
and seven when it's all said and done through these
three games are really important. Is Ben Johnson the guy
that gets them through the adversity of the things like that?
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Is Michael Parsons that big of a miss that the
that the Bears are the better team and win the
division and stuff. So these three weeks are going to
tell you a lot about who the Chicago Bears are,
what Caleb Williams is capable of doing, and how much
Ben Johnson places at his feet to work.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
All of a sudden, you make the decision to bench
deactivate to a tongue of violin, I mean that feels
like we were moving on. I mean that felt like
an announcement, a declaration. What do you make of now,
all of a sudden, Tua can't play for Mike.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
It's interesting because they felt so attached at the hip
that there had to have been something maybe sent down
from higher above that was like, hey, if you want
to keep a job, you have to start to distance
yourself from because we're going to move on and do something.
Because they were really attached to one another, and they
rode through the process, what they ran the anticipation in
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the running game, the past game with all of that.
I don't know how you do it, but clearly Russell
Wilson and the decision in Denver to walk away from
that much dead cap money and still be this good
that quick makes the family in Miami believe that they
could do the same thing if they hit the right quarterback,
they get the right plan in place. You know, it
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hasn't worked for them. They haven't been really anything since
Dan Marino played, so.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
It's yeah, but they saw something to give him that contract?
Is it now?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
They realized he can't throw out to the numbers he doesn't.
You know, if you don't have Tyreek killed, I throw
at seven and you take it seventy.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I mean they have a good running game. I don't know.
It just it feels the timing feels strange.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
It does feel strange. It almost feels like this is
one of those impulsive decisions made by a billionaire somewhere
that that isn't right.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Right.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
It's the micromanagement of things that isn't there. The reason
that they don't have a general manager in place at
the time. Would you rather have Kyler Murray or Tua
I don't know they've They've seemed pretty similar to me. Well,
one's got a one is a crazy athlete. One is
a crazy athlete. His ability to work with this feet
has allowed him to be better the anticipation of twa
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tongue of my law. Over the years i've watched him,
he's been one of the most accurate anticipatory quarterbacks I've
ever seen, and in this league that's incredibly important.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
But to your.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
Point, it anytime you see a left handed quarterback, it
seems labored. It just looks labored. And I don't know
why that's the case. Maybe it's the fundamentals are a
little different, but it looks like it's a labored throw.
So in your point, when he's thrown to the numbers,
it looks like it's labored.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
It looks like.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
It's not getting there in time, when in reality it
does have the pace on it it needs. It does
get there when it needs to. He's just made some
bad and poor decisions, in particular in that Pittsburgh game,
and he's got to where the badge of not being
able to play well in cold weather, and that's half
of their season. When you talk about who they play
in their division on the road.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Explain that cold weather thing.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
I don't get it. I mean, I grew up in Montana,
so that's a different thing.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
I love that. Are you good in hot weather? Did
you have problems in hot weather?
Speaker 6 (13:09):
I mean I had problems in really humid weather when
I played for the Buccaneers. Just the amount of sweat
that was your body was producing, and then the sweat
from the from your center and we were under center
a lot. I made my center in Tampa changes pants
every quarter I did. It was a swamp, and so
it was important to try to have as dry as hands.
Speaker 8 (13:29):
As you can.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
But when you're playing in cold weather, for me, I
was always so hot. My body was warm, and that
ball was so cold and it almost stuck like velcro,
and I could whip that thing around. It was a
lot of fun. I wish we would play more snow
games in college and in the NFL. Some of my
best games in the NFL were at altitude against Denver
in those in that cold weather. In high school, we
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played four out of our you know, ten twelve games
in snow games you know, in Montana, so I was
used to it. I think that's just something you got
to get through. But when you practice every single day
in Miami and then all of a sudden, out of nowhere,
you're just asked to go up and play in this
No matter what you do. You can show up the
day before and take your shirt off while you warm up,
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that's not going to acclimate you to what's what it's
really like every single day.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
But if you said to the Buffalo Bills, or the
Green Bay Packers or the Chicago Bears, do you want
to play your home games in a dome? And you
don't have to attach your name to it. We're just
going to take a vote. And how do you think
that they would vote.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
Well, it probably depends on where they come from. Like
if I had a vote, I would vote. I don't
want to play in the dome. Like the only thing
I hated worse than anything is playing in rain Like
Seattle would have been a difficult place to play all
the time. But coach found a fix for that. In college,
we called it ruin Ryan's self esteem day. He brought
a bucket of water out and he made me dump
the ball in before I threw every time, and I
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hated it and it was just it was it was
ruined Ryan's self esteem day. But guess what the day
we played the Apple Cup against Washington to go to
the Rose Bowl, and when it rained the entire game
and I didn't even notice it, and I threw for
three hundred and eighty seven yards and we won the
football game. So like, you can do the things you
need to to prefer for it. I like the elements.
I like being a part of what football is. Somebody
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said football weather isn't twenty degrees and snow, and football
weather is sixty four degrees in a sunny day in
the South, And I'm like, both are good football days.
That's football weather. It doesn't matter whatever the weather is.
It's football weather in my opinion, because.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I'd like to play indoors. But if our identity, So
you go to Green Bay, you're told this is your identity.
It's not your identity before you get there. You go
to Buffalo, this is your identity, Chicago, this is your identity.
You got to embrace that. You're like, it's mind over matter,
yep with these guys. And then all of a sudden,
you see when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers would go north
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or the Dolphins would go north in December and be
like the Chargers go to Cincinnati years ago with Dan
Foutz and it's like, we don't want to be here.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
Yeah, it's you get used to practicing in that weather
where you're in short sleeves and shorts all the time,
you know, and then all of a sudden you have
to bundle up. My producer told me, he said, the Bears,
you know, broadcast booth at Soldier Field is out. It's
it's open air. And I said, and when you mean
open air, you know, so they have a heater in it.
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But hey, Prepa, like it's going to be thirty degrees
for four and a half hours while you're staying.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I got thirty five degrees at kickoff. Last last week
was seven degrees. Last week was much different. Looking forward
to this one probably won't have the same heaters that
Tom Brady and Kevin Burkers having there.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
He ran into Brady what a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Yeah, we called the Thanksgiving game together and we hadn't
seen each other for for a long long time, and
it was nice. It was nice to catch up with him.
There's one thing I've always wanted to talk to him
about is how he's raised his kids because he's done
it as the goat, as the famous person, and I
always thought he's done a tremendous job of raising his kids.
And I kind of come from the opposite spectrum where
I'm famous but for a lot of bad things. And
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so how do you how do you do that? And
how do you raise kids that way? And I was
that's the question I asked him, and he gave me
a really thoughtful answer, and so we talked for a bit.
You know, two Rose Bowl quarterbacks from nineteen ninety eight
chatting it up and calling in a field football games together.
I mean, that's that's amazing what happened in between and
where we're at now.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Is he looking younger?
Speaker 9 (17:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
I kind of look pretty understanding, But.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
No, it's not you, which just about Brady we Yes,
fifty year olds look much younger than they did before.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Okay, yeah, and he does. He takes good really and
he could still play.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
I suspect if if you're talking about Philip Rivers going
out there, he could throw it a lot better than
Philip Rivers. I can throw it better than Philip Rivers.
I mean that looked bad at TI.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
It did. Yeah, it did. It was amazing.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Like I liked his story. But I'm your arm is
stronger than Yes, I could have thrown better than that would.
I have understood the protections and the defense as well
as he would. I have taken many more hits than
he probably did.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Yeah, that's a different story.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
I get the competitive nature of Tom, you know, being
away from the game as long as you have, I
don't care how mobile you've kept yourself. It's it's a
it's a real different animal. He's not mobile anyway, right.
He works inside a eight by twelve inch spot in
the pocket, and he was the best to ever do it.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Thanks for something by that's good to be travels. Thank
you very much. Best to the family.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Yeah, they say hi, all right, Ryan Leaf. He'll be
on the call tomorrow night. You've got a standalone game,
I know with Westwood One.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
I've been telling you what it's been to have the
national radio call.
Speaker 7 (18:38):
I like it.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
You don't have to wear a suit. No one knows
what the heck you're talking about all the time. You
could be talking about whatever you want if you're talking
some football, you know, Kurt Warner told me that story.
When you when you do radio you know, you tell
your story of the game. Yeah, and those that are listening,
hopefully they understand what it is. And that was the
best advice I ever got.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Ryan will be on the call Packers Bears, that'll be Saturday,
Broncos Chiefs on Christmas Night, and the FCS National Championship
Game maybe with Montana State gokat January fifth. We'll take
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Uh what if you get neither or neither?
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I would be said, you want to It makes me
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Speaker 2 (20:41):
The Packers are getting one and a half at the Bears.
In case you're wondering, um, let's see if there's anything
else that's really interesting important games. Packers were favored in
this game. The Niners are favored by five and a
half against the Colts. Steelers getting seven at the Lions,
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Patriots getting three at the Ravens, Jags getting three at
the Broncos. In case you missed it yesterday, It's available
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entertaining when they lose. All right, most must win game
(21:27):
of the weekend. I don't know why I'm slowing down
with that, adding more emphasis there, Todd the most must
win games, and thank you Todd.
Speaker 11 (21:36):
Baker Mayfield and the once five and one Tampa Bay
Buccaneers needs to prove it for real and that someone
wants to win the NFC South, perhaps them seven and
seven Bucks at seven and seven Panthers.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
This is a playoff game here Bucks are three point favorites.
Once again, NFC South crazy. This is where do the
Panthers win a game after losing a game they should
have won.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
The most must win game of the weekend, Seaton, this
is this might as.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
Well be the playoffs already for the Detroit Lions, must win,
must win.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
Marvin See, you can get out of my head because
I have the Detroit Lions. Same thing. Every single game
leading up is now a must win.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Yep. I agree, Paulie.
Speaker 12 (22:19):
Nobody's talking about this game and they shouldn't.
Speaker 13 (22:21):
Eagles versus Commanders, five o'clock Eastern on Fox tomorrow. The
Commanders have zero to play for, the Eagles are favored
by seven, and then nine to five.
Speaker 12 (22:29):
Eagles must win.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah, I'm gonna say the lines as well, because I
think they're capable, still capable of winning the Super Bowl,
but you can't afford to lose. Now, Steelers getting seven
in Detroit, that's the most must win game of the weekend.
Bill in Maine, Hey, Bill, thanks for holding what's on
your mind?
Speaker 8 (22:51):
Dan Marnings, good morning. So there there. I am going
in for TIBBA reconstruction surgery and during this surgery I
can hear chink, chink, chink, and they're driving the rod
home down my leg and I was like, oh, that's pleasant.
You guys need a bigger hammer. And I don't think
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they were impressed. And then but the best part of
it was when I woke up from surgery, I got
no cast, and after having broken the leg in the past.
Speaker 14 (23:23):
Twice, I'm like, where's the cast. They go, oh, you'll
be fine, You've got that lob newscoos Now that'll hold
it together. And I was not terribly thrilled.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yeah, and you wake up during surgery there, well, thank
you Bill, Mark, and Iowa, Hi Mark, what's on your mind?
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Hey Mark? And you find you Mark? There you go?
All right? Hey Mark?
Speaker 9 (23:52):
Okay? Hi five ten two twenty Dan. I just got
down with my back at knee me replacement here three
weeks ago. And so may I ask when I didn't
catch you in the first part is when did you
When did you have your knee replaced?
Speaker 3 (24:08):
I think of four years ago.
Speaker 9 (24:11):
Oh okay, okay, So nothing I can say, but I'll
tell you one thing. I was going to say, fire
went out there too. If not the first three or
four weeks, it's the dangerous part. My first one I
had last May, and five weeks in. Man, I'm doing
great and starting to do things. One week left of
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pet happened to live on a farm and uh, you know,
you're starting to do a few things. And I stepped
wrong and I fell and I tore my squad tendon.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Oh, thank you, Mark.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
The worst thing for me was first of all three
weeks pain after your knee replacement. And then I went
to soul cycle and I did a spin class because
I knew I had to break through the scar tissue.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Oh bad, idea.
Speaker 12 (25:07):
Did it hurt more during or after?
Speaker 15 (25:09):
Oh? During?
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Oh yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:12):
And there I'm surrounded by a bunch of women and
looking at me like is he crying? Because this is emotional,
you know, Soul Cycle is a spiritual thing as well.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
And I'm like, my eyes are watering because.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
You start to paddle a little bit and then all
of a sudden you go, all right, gotta go, and
then all of a sudden scar tissue. And then you
had women saying, you know, they're talking about how emotional
it was, and I go, no, I had replacement, and
ee surger, I had to break through the scar tissue.
And they were like they were like disappointed that it
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wasn't emotional. Isn't it spiritual to go to soul Cycle?
Only when I went, when Mike Greenberg was there, then
it was spiritual. Andrew in Washington, Good morning, Andrew, what's
on your.
Speaker 16 (26:01):
Oh good morning, Dan Denne's thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Yeah, I've had two surgeries on my left knee.
Speaker 16 (26:06):
Now I'm in a five to eight year window before
they replace it. Just waiting for the last bit of
cartilage out of there. But hey, real quick, I think
Seattle is being downplayed. I think the improvements that Sam
Darnold has shown since last year playing against that Rams defense,
he's improved.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
He's starting to see what their scheme is against him.
Because with four interceptions in the first game, barely losing it,
two interceptions in this game and they win it. They
it's about a wash with six interceptions. Seahawks I think
are a better team than the Rams. But Dan, good
luck tomorrow night as your Christmas.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Party with the holes Jay and Milburgh game showing up.
Speaker 16 (26:40):
And also I have a stat of the day for you,
real quick. So last night, Luca.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Had a forty five point triple double with only one turnover.
That's only happened one other time in NBA history. Isaiah
Thomas did it back in nineteen eighty three with forty
six points, ten rebounds, eleven assists and.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Only one turnover.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Thanks guys, Stand of the Day, Stand.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
A day, stand of a day, Stand of a day.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
This is the Stand of the Day, brought you by
Panini America, the official trading cards of the program. Luca
had forty five, fourteen and eleven. The forty five points
uh oh, fire alarm going off?
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Is that the chili?
Speaker 12 (27:28):
I have alarm chili?
Speaker 3 (27:32):
That's awesome. Dylan, the big german is here.
Speaker 12 (27:38):
Left that out a little bit doing that.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Dylan is no man.
Speaker 12 (27:45):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Oh is that outside? Yeah? That's outside. How we built
a fire?
Speaker 5 (27:52):
They got got a piece of salmon.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Maybe Dylan is definitely not going to be the most
valuable battle.
Speaker 15 (28:00):
No.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
No, he just lost it. He lost it. He lost it.
All I know is the big german is here. I
feel good, yes, Todd.
Speaker 11 (28:10):
Yeah, I'm always safer around the big German. He does
like ambulance stuff and fire. He puts up fires. He
does a lot of stuff outside of our little world here.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Yeah, well there he just a matter of seconds.
Speaker 7 (28:20):
He just rectified that put it.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
I hear doors slamming and his fire department, fire departments
next door.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Yeah, Pully, so the fire.
Speaker 13 (28:31):
Alarms going off, Dylan was outside, man in the grill,
so he couldn't hear any of it.
Speaker 12 (28:36):
You just flipping burgers?
Speaker 7 (28:38):
Yes, Mark, is Dylan the Atlanta Falcons up twenty eight
to three. He had this in the bag now.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
I sent Seaton a picture of a Patriot fan who
but did he had number twenty five on his Patriot
jersey or was it twenty eight?
Speaker 9 (28:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (28:57):
No, he had twenty five and then name. They put
a custom name on the back of the jersey.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Down we were down twenty five? Did it say that?
Speaker 5 (29:06):
Uh No, it said ATL was up and the letters
spell out ATL was up and then the number twenty five.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
This is this jersey that he's wearing to the game.
So good, Never forget, never forget.
Speaker 10 (29:20):
So good.
Speaker 8 (29:22):
Dang.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I mentioned Joker went twenty three to thirteen and eleven.
He now has the most assist by a center in
NBA history. Now he reached it in seven hundred and
seventy one games, fewer than half the number that Kareem
did it when he played in fifteen hundred and sixty
to set the all time record.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
But this is different, you know, this is this is
a modern day.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
That's why I don't like designations as center, forwards, point guard,
shooting guard. He's a point center. He's just a basketball player.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
And I think when you have to watch him though,
because you can watch highlights and you'll go, okay, all right,
nice bounce pass, all right, hit a three like you
there's certain things where you watch but if you watch
the My favorite is he'll get a rebound and an
outlet boom, and you know he'll throw a strike to somebody.
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It's small things that he does and you're probably you're
not going to make the Sports Center Top ten plays,
but he is consistent and that's one of those where
you go, Okay, he's going to get his numbers. Normally
you say that about somebody with their points they're scoring,
you're going to get his numbers. You just don't want
him to get the other numbers because the assists that'll
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kill you. And he's going to get rebounds. He'll get
a couple of steals a game. But you know when
you're when you're getting ten eleven twelve thirteen assists to
go along with twenty seven twenty eighteen nine points. And
he's shooting at a really high percentage as well.
Speaker 7 (31:04):
Yes, mar and he has the quality like Lebron to
make guys who are just okay look way better. Bruce
Brown after he won the championship with the Nuggets two
years forty nine million dollars, have you heard from Bruce Brown?
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Me?
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Neither.
Speaker 9 (31:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
I feel bad for Michael Porter Junior this third though.
Why because he's in Brooklyn, and he's putting up good numbers.
But he's in Brooklyn. Think if a tree falls in Brooklyn,
does anybody notice, Yes, Mark.
Speaker 7 (31:34):
Nope, not a person. Yeah, they have no fan base.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
And then he's got the whole brother thing and the
gambling thing.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
And he was playing on a team that was maybe gonna,
you know, play for a championship or certainly be in
the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
And now you're playing for Brooklyn. Now he's playing for Pride. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
Smart.
Speaker 7 (31:54):
But he gets his shots up though.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Yes he does, and sometimes that's more important, you know,
for him.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
He's got his ring, he's got his money.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Yeah, you don't need Yeah, all right, let's take a break,
Let's go out and check out. Maybe hopefully there's no
damage to whatever was on fire. There's it's just a
small little rush for everything's smoked now, so actually works
out pretty good.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
All right, We're gonna go outside.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
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Speaker 3 (33:01):
Alrighty, let's see a couple of things.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
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watching college football. Is this the Myrtle Beach Bowl?
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (33:24):
And a tradition of excellence for decades. The Myrtle Beach
Bowl started an hour ago. It's no spoilers, but Western
Michigan's up twenty seven zero over Kanessas State at the quarter.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
So they they're up twenty seven to nothing in the
first quarter.
Speaker 12 (33:37):
Yeah, but it's there early. They're a second half team
kind of sauce.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Mm okay, you know that. How about this day in
sports History?
Speaker 13 (33:44):
Eighteen eighty seven Jake kil Rain and Jim Smith bought
a bare knuckle championship fight, which lasted one hundred and
six rounds three hours. The fighters ruled a draw and
call due to darkness.
Speaker 12 (33:57):
True story.
Speaker 13 (33:58):
Wayne Gretzky got to one thousand points. He was only
twenty three years old. It was game number four, twenty four.
The record was seven twenty hot Start eighty eight The
Good Old Days. NSA plays the Oklahoma Sooners football program
on probation for violations. You were great back then, both
the NCAA and the Sooners. Nineteen ninety. Bo Jackson became
(34:19):
the first athlete chosen for All Star Games in.
Speaker 12 (34:21):
Two sports.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Nineteen eighty Raging Bowl.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Robert de Niro, He was Jake Lamata that was released
on this date in nineteen eighty. I remember meeting Jake
Lamada and his wife Vicki, and Vicky was gorgeous.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Jake was not. Jake was He was not.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
He had charisma or something, you know something. And I
don't know if this is true or not, but I
saw this recently and it was the De Niro Taxi
Driver You're talking to me that movie that he reportedly
(35:07):
got that from Bruce Springsteen. Seeing a Bruce Springsteen show.
Why maybe google this. Maybe I'm just making it up.
Speaker 10 (35:16):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
But but the you're talking to me? His famous line,
uh that he got it from Bruce Springsteen for some reason.
I don't know if it's true or not.
Speaker 12 (35:27):
Make Bruce Springsteen say that? Was that during a song?
Speaker 11 (35:30):
Was there a concert?
Speaker 3 (35:31):
If you google it, Todd, then maybe it'll tell you. Yes, Paul.
Speaker 13 (35:35):
A new book about acting Robert de Niro claims the
line from taxi driver, you're talking to me was inspired
by a Bruce Springsteen show that de Niro saw.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Hello and heard him saying it on stage. That's what
you do, that's what you do. The show's over always learning.
Speaker 12 (35:52):
So is he talking to a band member? They of
someone in the crowd.
Speaker 6 (35:55):
I'm just curious.
Speaker 12 (35:56):
I there's some more information on it.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Once again, you can google it. You can google it.
Maybe you're talking to me. You're talking to me, all right,
talking to you? I was talking at you, all right?
Come on now hello now, yes, Marvin MVD right there,
no l v oh bring it home up.
Speaker 15 (36:23):
Have knows it?
Speaker 3 (36:24):
But a dreful man.
Speaker 7 (36:28):
I'm done.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
He's an American icon t whatever, New Jersey icon. Whatever.
Speaker 7 (36:36):
Why don't I like him so much shot, he's old?
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Why is he running around the stage for five hours?
Nobody cares that that is a great impression of that
woman who was out of Big Deans in Santa Monica.
Speaker 12 (36:50):
Put the handkerchief back in your jeans. Nobody cares.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
We're never going to get Springsteen on this show. You
know that, because you know what I'll do. I'll say, Todd,
you do a Bruce Springsteen impersonation.
Speaker 12 (37:04):
Let me hear it.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
We're not gonna get bob Byllan on the show either. Yeah, man, Well,
why don't you get Timothy's shallow May on to talk
about Marty Supreme? Is ping pong movie Marty Supreme a
real movie?
Speaker 5 (37:23):
From what I'm told, Yes, at some point it feels
like it's just like Timothy shallow May doing a press
tour about it and filming a documentary about a fake
movie that's never gonna come out.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
It could be because when I first saw it, I thought, oh, okay,
that's like a Funnier die type video where he's Marty Supreme,
this incredible ping pong guy.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
Somehow Kylie Jenner will be there on his arm like
the jackets.
Speaker 5 (37:50):
You gotta get the jacket, Oh man, Look, he's that
Rocky got a Marty Supreme jacket.
Speaker 15 (37:55):
This is so sick.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
Gwyneth Paltrow's just like, look, he's doing all these interviews
all over the place talk about the movie.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
I'm like, what, is it a real movie?
Speaker 15 (38:02):
Though?
Speaker 3 (38:02):
I heard a reviewer say best movie of the year.
I heard that yesterday best movie of the year, Yes.
Speaker 13 (38:10):
Paul, best Ping Pong related movie here or movie Marty
Supreme twenty twenty five film over released on Christmas Day.
Speaker 12 (38:18):
It's by one of the Safti brothers who we know.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Then you know it's good.
Speaker 13 (38:21):
Oh yeah, it's going to make the intenseness of Ping
Pong really come to life. It got ninety six on
Rotten Tomatoes.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
I'm told it could be best movie of the year.
Paul in Chicago, Hi, Paul, what's on your mind?
Speaker 8 (38:36):
Day?
Speaker 9 (38:36):
Dan?
Speaker 15 (38:37):
I was listening to your Jim Harbaugh interview the other
day and I loved it. I was It made me think,
like I was curious how much you guys strategize pre
show on, like how you're going to tackle these specific interviews,
knowing you're going to have to ask the tough questions
about Sharon Moore. And then I noticed you like ended
with some lighter questions to not end the interview on
(38:57):
the Charon.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
Moore note, it was just like a great interview.
Speaker 15 (39:00):
Just curious what kind of strategizing with like Paulie and
the crew there is pre show with these specific interviews.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Well, we come up with the concepts, the topics, and
then I wanted to be open ended questions. You know
that one wasn't where I said when's you know? I said,
when's the last time you talked to him? Assuming that
he would give me that, and I was surprised that
he did go a little more than I thought. But
(39:29):
we do talk about it, but you can't start with
that and I think we were talking about I don't know,
football fields or knee braces or something. But you have
to have a beginning, middle, and end, and you can
ask great questions. But if the person you're asking the
(39:49):
questions too doesn't want to answer them, then it doesn't
become a good interview. Jim answered the questions, or at
least the best that I could hope for. In fact,
he gave me more than I thought. But there is
a strategy that goes into some of these interviews. When
you know you're gonna ask sensitive topics? Todd, did you
learn anything today?
Speaker 11 (40:08):
I did. The best advice Ryan Leaf ever received about
calling games on the radio came from Kurt Warner.
Speaker 12 (40:12):
Just tell your story of the game.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
Seatan, What did you learn today? Ryan Leif spent the
day with Tom Brady one Marvin Jack Lamata not gorgeous.
Nobody's wife Vicky was Paul.
Speaker 12 (40:22):
We'd pick poop, We'd pick Pooka to save our lives.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Todd, what did I learn?
Speaker 11 (40:27):
We all wonder why we embrace him in crave upsets
during March Madness, but not when it comes to the
college football players.
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Oh better get makeup. If you're watching on Peacock, Todd
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A close bet. The Raiders who in the Broncos, who
would have a better season. Thanks for joining us, have
a great weekend. We'll talk to you on Monday.
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