May 16, 2024 • 52 mins
On today's Dan Patrick Show, ESPN's Dan Orlovsky stops by to discuss which teams benefited the most from the NFL's recent schedule release. Atlanta Falcons Quarterback Kirk Cousins joins us to discuss the team's recent addition of Michael Penix Jr as well as his status regarding his Achilles rehab.
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the Mothership will stop by and Kirk Cousins, the Falcons
quarterback will join us as well. By the way, Falcons
have one of the easier schedules. Now this is just
based on win totals from the previous years, but the
Falcons once again have one of the easiest schedules. They're
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in one of the worst divisions, and that should cheer
up Kirk Cousins as he joins us a little bit
later on. Also, the Chargers have an easy schedule. I
guess if you look at they got the Raiders and
the Broncos, they play them twice in their division, but
they do face the AFC North. But then they also
have games against the Titans and Patriots and Cardinals. So
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it's always it's interesting that we do it and when
we talk about the strength of schedule, but the team
from last year is not going to be the team
that you're facing this year. The Steelers Steelers have a
rough goal of it because the Steelers in the AFC North,
which will be the toughest division, or at least going
into the season. The Steelers do not play an AFC
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North opponent until November seventeenth, in a Week eleven matchup
with the Ravens. Six of the Steelers' final eight games
are within the AFC North. They have an away game
against the Eagles that's Week fifteen, and then they have
a home game with the Chiefs in week seventeen.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
So you're looking at the AFC North, which is probably
the most competitive division top to bottom, and you throw
in we get out of the division and we got
the Eagles and the Chiefs. Wh Yes, Pauling.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Thinking I saw a lot of coverage this morning that
this is bad for the Steelers. Could this be good
for the Steelers that they play games that are less
consequential for them to win their division early, get their
new quarterback working, get their backup quarterback working, and the
back half of the season they're ready to play division games.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Well, Mike Tomlin might be spinning that message to his team.
I mean, you still have to play the opponents. It's
you know, you would like to have a game where
maybe it's not in doubt in the late and the
fourth quarter that you're able to have an easier win.
Although players will tell you they're no easy wins in
the NFL. But I mean every week you got to
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you know, reload and then all we get out of
the AFC North, we got the Chiefs and the Eagles.
By the way, there's one team with no primetime games.
We'll have that for you coming up. One team no
not ready for primetime. All right, see what's the poll
question today?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
You know what?
Speaker 5 (03:55):
I love actually looking at the schedule too, there's a
lot of like grudge matches scheduled. You have Week one
Rams at Lions.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
That's always tasting. Yeah, yeah, I love that. Jared Goff,
Matthew Stafford, heck yeah right.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Week four Broncos at Jets the old Nathaniel Hackett Bowl,
which is great. Sean Payton, a lot of hard feelings there.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
I love seeing that.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
But you know the report is the Jets tried to
hire somebody to take over for what Nathaniel Hackett was
supposed to.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Do, right, right, but then they kind of spoke poorly
of the job that he did well. He did he did,
he did. It was all true. But you don't say
that about my coaching this year.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
If Aaron Rodgers isn't there, Nathaniel Hackett's not there, just
you know when they're they're quietly trying to have a
palace coup to get rid of you and kind of
keep you in your job.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
But it's almost like it's not really your job, but
you do have a title there. Week five, you got
bills at Texans.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
That's fun. Stefan Diggs, hmm, it's always tasty.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I love playing your.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Old team first year out.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I love that this was brought up yesterday, I believe,
or maybe the day before. Would the NFL look at
Taylor Swift's concert tour and do they schedule the game accordingly?
And I said, well, it's she'll be in Canada during
the NFL season. I said, look for a game in Toronto.
Or when she's in Toronto, looked for a game in Buffalo.
(05:26):
So the Kansas City Chiefs in Buffalo. Does that sync
up with Tata being in concert in Toronto the same
time the Kansas City Chiefs go to Buffalo? Or Am
I just fabricating something here just to get the Swifties
you know talking, yes, time.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
So that's how.
Speaker 8 (05:46):
Huge Taylor Swift has become, that they're going to manipulate
the NFL schedules to the comfort of Taylor.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I don't know, but if Kansas City plays Buffalo in
Toronto or in Buffalo and she's in Toronto, yes, Paulie.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Of course I have her tours STCO has all on
my screen at all times. I wish would have gone
to me first. And November fourteenth through November twenty third,
Taylor Swift is playing a series of concerts in Toronto.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Okay. Do the Kansas City Chiefs play Buffalo in Buffalo?
Speaker 7 (06:11):
Checking?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
And then all of a sudden, conspiracy theory manipulating the schedule, Tyler,
so Taylor can go watch the Kansas City Chiefs. Does
anybody have the Kansas City Chiefs schedule up?
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Kansas City Chiefs have a lot of good games this year.
They have a lot of fun game.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Yes, Todd.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
I see Chiefs at Bill's November seventeen.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Hello, Hello, that's not an accident.
Speaker 9 (06:40):
That's not an accident tour that's going to.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Be a song.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Are they still together November seven? Yes, yes, I think
there are two.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I think they're going to get married.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
I think they might too.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah, I think does anybody want the under that they
don't get married? Once again, keep in mind wedding face. Yes,
I like it. How serious are you willing to take
a wedding cake to the face that Taylor Swift and
(07:15):
Travis Kelsey don't get married?
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Todd?
Speaker 8 (07:17):
I will ask this question, what if they decide to
be partners like Oprah Stedman, does that.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
Count as marriage?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
No? I need it to be.
Speaker 7 (07:24):
Going down the aisle and exchanging value.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
I need an engagement.
Speaker 7 (07:27):
I'm going to say they're not going to be all right,
I'll take.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
The wedding cake to the face. All right, Now you
don't get to eat it.
Speaker 7 (07:33):
Oh, I'll still do Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
So wedding cake to the face? All right?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Celtics close out the Cavaliers and Donovan Mitchell. I told
you I had a source who said that the injury
was more serious than originally thought and they wasn't going
to play the rest of the series. And it proved
true that Donovan Mitchell wasn't able to plague. And now
the question is, with one year left on his deal,
is he going to want to go elsewhere? Because he
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can say to the Cavaliers. Hey, I got one year left.
I'm not going to sign a contract extension. Do you
want to trade me? Or do you want to roll
the dice on me playing out my career here next year?
He doesn't have to be the bad guy. He can
leave it up to the Cabs to go all right,
he's not going to re sign here or he wants
to play the last year they if they were going
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to sign him to an extension, they would have already
done that, it feels like. But Darius Garland is another
player who could be on the move. But Donovan Mitchell
is a top ten player. I think most people would agree.
I think you're reminded sometimes when you watch him because
he plays in Cleveland, and then you go, well, he
is really good and as valuable to his team as
some of these other stars are to their team. Now
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you're going to have packages that are put together. Brian
Windhorst on The mother Ship talked about this, that they're
teams that are ready to already offer a package deal
to the Cavaliers, And yes, the Lakers are one of
those teams, but.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
They're not the only one.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Miami Heat that would be the place that I would
keep an eye on as well, but Miami's going to
do something in the offseason. The question is how big
The Brooklyn Nets reportedly would be a team interested in
Donovan Mitchell. Well, there's a lot of teams that would
be interested in him. The question is what's he going
to cost you? And can the Lakers give up their
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three potential first round draft picks and something else, maybe
Austin Reeves and then you could get Donovan Mitchell. And
I haven't seen a trade proposal, at least a package
for Donovan Mitchell. I just know that Wendy was talking
about their teams that are going to be ready to
go if Cleveland's open for business with Donovan Mitchell. The
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Mavericks win at the Thunder, they go up three games
to two. Luca had a wonderful night with a triple double.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
By the way.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
With the Celtics, I mean, it's a Celtic performance that
we come to expect. You just have a lot of
players doing a lot of things and we still go yep,
But can they win the title? It doesn't matter. I mean,
as long as everybody's healthy, then I want to see
what the Celtics do when they get to the NBA
Finals Eastern Conference Finals, if they played the Knicks, Jason
(10:08):
Tatum had twenty five and they had a comfortable win
over the Cavaliers.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Cavaliers were out man.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Although I do love, you know, Jared Allen, It's an
All Star, Evan Mobley has a lot of potential there.
But I just don't know. They were my team a
year ago. Oklahoma City was my team this year. They
were my team the previous year of taking that next jump,
which they did, and OKC has done it this year.
But you know, you're still watching this team. It's a
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pretty easy route to get to the Eastern Conference Finals,
at least so far for this team, because it's littered
with teams that had injuries to their star players. Tatum
had ten rebounds nine assists in addition to his twenty
five points. Now here is something for you. This player
is the thirteenth player in NBA history with at least
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six teen thousand points, at least ten thousand rebounds, at
least four thousand assists. So if I combine the regular
season in the postseason, that's the numbers for this player.
He's the thirteenth player. Eleven of the other twelve are
already in the Hall of Fame and the other players
(11:20):
Lebron James, Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
Not the future Hall of Famer Al Horford.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Al Horford.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Al Horford, Oh, bloop bloom. Al Horford is going to
go to the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 9 (11:35):
And see other players in the hall.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
No, because did he win two titles at Florida? This
is the basketball Hall of Fame. Al Horford is going
to be a Hall of Famer?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Is I mean?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
These numbers in the NBA and the fact that he
won two titles when he was in college. You factor
that in. He went to five All Star Games. Al
Horford is going to be a Hall of Famer. Congratulations Al,
how about a round of clause Hey, in his career
is not over yet?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Yes, Paul.
Speaker 9 (12:12):
Is he the Frank Gore of the NBA?
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Consistently nice seasons and all you sudden you put them
together like that. Dude's got thirteen thousand yards m never
the best at his position in the sport, never first team. Yeah,
I mean Al Horford. When you think Hall of Fame,
you don't think of his name.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
No you don't, you don't.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
But you need somebody to do the dirty work. Now,
Al's a pretty good defender as well. You know, glue Guy,
Glue Guy. He's going to be a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
He is. I'm I'm going to have him in the
express lane.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
He's going right to the Hall of Fame. He's not
in the Hall of very Good. I think I think
he now he's not going to be first ballot, but
I think.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Al Horford's going into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
They're far more lenient with basketball Hall of Fame, and
that's fine, But yeah, Al Horford. He had a big
night last night. Al Horford. He had ten rebounds.
Speaker 9 (13:08):
What did he gets?
Speaker 10 (13:08):
You?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Twelve at eight uh and an assist?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Al Horford had twenty two, fifteen and five. Paully, how
about that? What was that the entire series? No, that
was last night.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Oklahoma Thunder, come on, let's go.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
You gotta help Shay gilgis Alexander You you have to
help him because they need that second way. It's like
Anthony Edwards, these are two really good players, but they
need some help. You need the second weapon there, and
that's that's the problem with OKAC. They don't have that
second weapon. But Nuggets at the Timberwolves coming up tonight.
(13:50):
The Nuggets are a slight underdog in that game. But
with OKC, this is a game where and I know
this doesn't sound fair to Shay gilgis out Lexander, he
needs to be Brunson like, hey you got thirty, you
got to get forty. Like that's what this game calls for,
That's what these moments call for. Hey you got your
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that's what you average. You averaged thirty. You gotta get forty.
You have to win that game. And Luca played well,
and Luca even played some defense.
Speaker 11 (14:25):
Layoff Lively Night that's blocked by Holdred, take it out
of there by Jodes, Alexander right, the left, lost the handle,
got it back, looked up with the block side spectacularly.
So what a play by Dods. It's Jones now Follo
by Williams with fifty point one seconds to go.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Mavericks Radio Network, with Luca playing some defense there this
is where and it once again, it doesn't sound fair
to ask this, but I'm asking this. You gotta do
more than that, Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
You gotta, you know, put up as many points is possible,
because you don't know if Karl, Anthony Towns or anybody
else is going to fill in the gray area there.
And you know that the Nuggets are gonna have a
couple of players like Aaron Gordon has been awesome in
this series. So you got you know, the Joker and
Jamal Murray, you know Michael Porter Junior, the third can
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go off as well. You must have that second score tonight.
And okay, see you have to have another score. But
sometimes you got to just take matters into your own hands.
And Jalen Jay Brunson has done that just about every
stop so far during the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
And you have to do that. Go sometimes above and
be on all right, see what's poll question today?
Speaker 5 (15:46):
If the NBA MVP was decided today, Okay, do dot
dot dot dot dot. You still have Nikola Jokic, shake
Gildas Alexander.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Uh, where does Aalen Brunson and Luka Doncic fall in
that list? Now?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Brunson is second's second, yes to whom Joker? Yeah, Joker
is still the best player in the world. And uh,
even though Brunson, Brunson's had to do more for his
team than Joker has had to do for his team.
But that's just because Denver is a better starting five,
which would imply value yes, yes, I.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Have a hard time having Brunson over Joker the way
I did anybody over Michael Jordan because it feels like
Jordan was going to win a title and I still
feel that way with Denver at least getting to the
NBA Finals.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Do you do the like?
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Well, if we switched teams, which team would still be good?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Thing?
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Because you put the joker on the Knicks, I wonder
if they're still.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Well.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
I'm not saying that they wouldn't be great, but.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
They would be different. They would be different. It's true,
they would be different. Well, let me take a break.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
We'll settle on poll question the only team not ready
for primetime. We'll look at some of the games the
schedule that came out last night. Dan Orlofsky will join us,
and also Kirk Cousins will stop by as well.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
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Speaker 2 (17:56):
Three weeks ago today, we're thinking about the Falcons. Oh,
could they add another weapon, another receiver. Maybe they get
an edge rusher.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
They already had their quarterback, they got their running back,
they got a good tight end, a good wide receiver.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Defense could use some help. They plan a bad division,
and Kirk Cousin's coming off surgery but going home where
his wife is from. Everything was looking good and then
all of a sudden, with the eighth pick in the
NFL Draft, the Falcons take Michael Pennix Junior. The schedule
came out last night. The Falcons do have one of
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the easiest schedules this upcoming season. So we make way
for the Falcons quarterback Kirk Cousins, who joins us on
the program.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Oh look at that got the guns out there.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Well, I haven't got under a bench president a very
long time. I got sophomore in college. My max was
I did two twenty five sixteen times, okay, And I
realized that it started to become a concern. The more
you lift as a quarterback, the more the NFL coaches
may think you're too stiff. So then they kind of
backed away from it.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Describe the emotions the last three plus weeks.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
I mean, I'm excited. There's been a lot of change.
I think that's the biggest thing right now for me.
Is as one old teammate said to me, when you
go to a new team, nothing is on autopilot. Nothing's
on cruise control. There's days where I miss lunch because
I don't know where the cafeteria is or I don't
know when lunch ends. And so everything is new, even
(19:36):
like figuring out what room can I use to watch film,
and you know, how do the lifts work. Everybody's new.
Everything's new, and so there's a lot of unknown and
you're starting to settle in but a lot of change,
and that's part of what you sign up for. I
did it going from Washington, Minnesota and now again coming
to Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Okay, but three weeks ago, how are your spirits?
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Well, I mean my spirits have kind of always been
understanding that competition is a part of this job, this league.
I go back to my story, and you know my
story quite a bit, damn. But in high school, I
commit to Michigan State, and a few weeks later, Mark
D'Antonio calls me to tell me that Nick Foles is
going to be offered a scholarship as well. And I
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then looked up what Nick Foles had done in high school,
and I thought he lived the movie Friday Night Lights.
I mean, he played in state championship games, He played
in front of you know, ten thousand plus sea crowds.
Like this is not my high school experience. So I'm
in trouble. But you learned that, Hey, we go to work,
we practice, we get better, we improved, we played a
long game, and you know, Nick and I were both
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able to have long college careers and pro careers. Then
I go to Washington and it was a similar dynamic
where you realize there's a quarterback in the same draft
class as me. Here in this quarterback room. What does
that mean for our career and you realize that, you know,
both of us were able to have productive careers in
the sense that we both played a lot of football.
And then again, now when you see us take a quarterback,
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you say, hey, you know, this is more the norm
than the exception, and I would expect both of us
to go on to have, you know, great careers up ahead.
You just don't know how. That's the thing. You don't
know how it's going to play out. I didn't know
how Nick Foles and I were both going to have
long pro careers. I didn't know how Griff and I
were going to end up playing. But it all works out,
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and I think this will be no different.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I take me back to Minnesota. Did they tell you
they were going to draft a quarterback?
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Well, they let me know, like pretty right before the pick.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
But outside of that, no, But if you had stayed there,
were they still going to go after JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Oh, I'm sorry, sorry you were saying Minnesota Hawkins. Yeah,
I'm trying to remember the conversations. You know, so much
of it was through my age. No, it was very gray,
it was very you know, we don't know what we're
going to do. And speaking with Kevin O'Connell, who was always,
you know, very communicative with me, it was, you know,
we're not we're not sure, he said, if we bring
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you back, we'd love to use the draft picks on defense.
But you understand there nobody really knows in March what
they're going to do in late April.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
But if you had known, if I gave you a
do over, you know Minnesota is going to take JJ
McCarthy and you know Atlanta's going to take Michael Pennix.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
Yeah. No, I just don't think it's helpful to deal
on hypotheticals. I mean, you can do that with any
scenario at any point in your career if this then was,
and you can go down a lot of trails. But
I'm excited to be here in Atlanta, be the quarterback
of the Falcons. I think we've got a great opportunity
to win a lot of games here and have a
lot to look forward to up ahead.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
So you're watching the draft and then you get a
heads up, but thirty seconds before the pick.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
Uh yeah, maybe maybe a minute and a half. You know,
it wasn't much.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Okay, Are you at home with the wife and kids?
Speaker 6 (23:07):
I was. I was at a draft function at the
at the stadium and I was driving back up to
my house.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Yeah yeah, So then you call your wife and you say, what.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Basically what the team told me that, Hey, they're gonna
be drafting a quarterback, And you know, I think again,
I'm just like, I'm kind of rehashing with you. I
remind my wife, Hey, this is this is a big
part of my story, going back to when I committed
to Michigan State, going back to when I was drafted
to Washington, and it's always had a way of working
(23:43):
itself out, and so let's draw on past experience to
trust that the future, you know, can be the same.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
We're talking to Kirk Cousins, the Falcons quarterback. Yeah, if
the season started today, your role would be what with
the team?
Speaker 6 (24:05):
I believe I'm a starting quarterback, but health wise, oh yeah, no,
I'm good to go. I've told people for a while
that if the Super Bowl were today, I'm playing, And
that goes back probably I think when I first got here,
I was working out and we got maybe a week
or two into my rehab and I did some drills
(24:27):
where I said, Hey, if the Super Bowl were today,
I'm playing and they seem to agree. So you know,
once that tendon gets stabilized and healed and the tissue connects,
you really just are trying to work through telling your
body that you're good now because the brain still wants
to guard and protect and it takes some time. But
I feel really good and there's more to go get,
(24:48):
but I can operate. I've been out practicing now, and
I think that's a great sign.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
It feels like this was a death sentence a decade ago,
and now all of a sudden, the Achilles surgery is
something that okay, Aaron Rodgers like, has that surgery changed
further surgeries for anybody who has an Achilles injury.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
I think maybe the ACL two has been similar where
where when Gail Sayers did it, it was a death
sentence to his career. But guys do it now and
they come back stronger. Adrian Peterson does it and you
know the next year runs for two thousand yards and
his offensive Player of the year. So you know, I
remember when my agent, after I did the injury, we
were talking and he said, look, this used to be
a twelve month injury. Now it's a nine month injury.
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Some guys are coming back in seven to five months,
so he said. And plus he said, you're a pocket
passing quarterback. So this just is not This is not
the issue that it might be made out to be
in the media. It just won't be that and his reality.
And I think it's a credit to you know, the
medical advances and the rehab teams and what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Well, I don't think you can run less than you
normally do, right.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
Yeah, I have never been a like scrambling quarterback, so
it shouldn't really change the way I play, even if
I were to not heal fully, which I expect to.
But no, I expect to be the same player, if
not maybe a little more athletic because of how aggressive
I'm going in the rehab with calf raises and jumping
and leg presses and squats and things where maybe I
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wouldn't normally be doing that. So I should have an
even better lower half than I've always played with. And
speaking of achilles injuries from the past, I when I
first did it, I went and looked up people like
notable people who have torn their achilles, and obviously recently
it was Aaron Rodgers, it was Megan Rapino, But I
realized there were some names going way back, like obviously
Dan Marino, like Judy Dench, the actress and dancers he
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tore achilles, Brad Pitt, Russell Crowe, George Clooney all tore
their achilles. Al Gore tore's achilles. So I realized, like,
there's a lot of people who accomplished great things post Achilles, Terra.
So I feel like I'm in good company.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Did you reach out to George Clooney or Brad Pitt
or Judy Dench?
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Well, I reached out to Rogers, and I know he's
you know, Rogers has a little big platform than me, right,
So I said, hey, Aarin, I said, you know, maybe
during super Bowl Week or something, we have like an
Achilles tear summit in Vegas where we get all the
heavy hitters together who have torn their achilles, and I
think with your contacts out there in California, we can
make something happen. So he seemed to agree, but we
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just never really made it happen.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
That'd be great if you've got all these actors that
came there, Rogers, host of the seminar, get the doctor in.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
There be there's still time there's no time. We could
have an Achilles tear summit and get all the all
the heavy hitters in one room. I think you could
make for a lot of great conversation.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
How important was it to bring your family back home
for your your wife?
Speaker 6 (27:41):
Yeah, my wife is somebody who if I told her, hey,
I'm retiring tomorrow, she'd say, no problem. If I told
her I'm playing ten more years, she'd say no problem.
If I said we're playing in Japan, she'd say, great,
the boys can go learn Japanese. So she's kind of
up for whatever, up for the adventures. She loved Minnesota,
but the fact that we're coming to Atlanta for her family,
her parents, her siblings, they're huge sports fans, lifelong Atlanta
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sports fans. You know. I think for them it's hard
to even believe that they have a family member now
who's playing for the Falcons, So that that's fun.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
What'd you do with all your vikings gear?
Speaker 6 (28:15):
What a great question. We do have a lot of it,
and we're putting it in boxes and then mailing it
back up to like our next door neighbor, you know,
other teammates. Because we have clothes for our kids and
things where they're you know, teammates kids can use. So
we're trying to recycle, if you will, the best we can,
because we do have a lot of purple and gold
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around and I've had a lot of friends and family
text me saying, man, the only challenge is now we
got to buy new jerseys, new hats, new sweatshirts, so
it can get expensive changing teams for your support support cast.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
How many players do you know on the team if
they don't have their jerseys on or they're not standing
by their lockers.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
Yeah, another great question. You know, we have ninety guys
in the locker room, so it's not like a basketball
team where learned twelve to fifteen names. You're good. So
I know the offense, and that's partly because that's the
group I'm with at the lifts and at the meetings.
It's the defense where it's harder for me because we
just brought in a whole new cast of rookies now
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and I don't have as many shared times with the defense.
So I'm trying to learn names, but I still got
a ways to go. And even the coaching staff, I
feel like support staff and coaching staffs have almost doubled
since my rookie year in this league. So there's a
lot of support staff, which is great to have the help,
but it's a lot of names to learn.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
But are you one of those guys that, hey, Bud,
like you like yeah, Like what do you say when
you don't know who somebody is? But you don't want
to be like man, nothing even say a low to me,
like you gotta go hey.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
Yeah, No. Now, I think there's a lot of that, Dan,
you get it. I mean I'm walking across the field
to day to go to my next meeting and crossing
the defense and it's hey, Bud, Hey, how you doing guy?
You know, so you have to do it, you do. Plus,
if I said to everybody, hey, what's your name? What's
your name? What's your name? There's a good chance I
forget it, you know, by the time I get through
the next lift. So it's just a process. And I
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haven't yet gone home and like really tried to like
study names with flash cards, but it may be something
I have to do if it drags on.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
How about name tags?
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Hello, my name is Name tags are a game changer
And at College Michigan State, Mark D'Antonio, it was mandatory
at training camp, no matter who you were, you had
to wear a tape name on your helmet or on
your shirt if you were a coach. So even coach
Stantonio had a deal coach Stantonio, nobody was immune. So
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that would really help new guys certainly if we can
just all have name tags.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Before I let you go.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
You've you're a good businessman or somebody do you know
as a good businessman because you you and Darrell Revas
have had two unbelievably financial, great financial careers making really
good decisions.
Speaker 6 (30:54):
No, yeah, I appreciate the kind words that It really
goes back to my agent, Mike McCartney. I just kind
of did what he told me over the last twelve years.
I remember when Joe Flacco was playing in the Super
Bowl my rookie year. I didn't know anything about contracts
or how the league works, and my agent in New
Orleans the week of the game explained to me Joe's
situation now he was going to be a free agent,
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that the franchise tag is something that a team would use,
that it's probably in Joe's best interest to be tagged,
play on that tag twice and then go to the market.
And me explained this whole path, not knowing that in
four years, three years from that moment, we would be
living out that path. And so my agent explained to me.
Then when it came our turn, he said, unless we
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can do a fully guaranteed contract over three years, we
will just play on the franchise tag. And so that
was what was offered. That was what was explained. The
team chose not to do that. We played on the
two franchise tags, then went to the market, and then
we did a three year, fully guaranteed contract. So I
pretty much just did what Mike McCartney told me. His
wisdom proved to be true, and I've just kind of
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followed hit him every step of the way. And uh,
we'll see where it goes from here, he joked. When
we signed with the Falcons. As he was leaving the building,
he said to the to the staff, he said, we'll
see you guys in three years with the exception. I
thought was a good line. So, uh, we'll see. If
you know where it goes from.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Here, Well, you're you're able to go out and buy
another minivan, and really that's that's your quality of life,
isn't it. That is that your big splurge that you
get a minivan for the family.
Speaker 6 (32:25):
You know, I've kind of been known as a guy
who's pretty cheap, and I will say that I do
have a bit of a like everything I spend on
has to have like usefulness, has to have utility. So
if a conversion ban can have utility for my family,
I'm gonna get a nice conversion van.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (32:43):
But yeah, like when people say, oh, are you gonna
get some chains? Are you gonna get an awesome sports car,
it's like, well, the utility is not really there, so
it's hard for me to get excited about it. But yeah,
I mean, I I don't want the narrative to be
that I don't spend money, because, believe me, I've flown
in a private jet before.
Speaker 13 (32:59):
You know.
Speaker 6 (32:59):
I I've done some nice things. I bought a golf
course in my hometown. So you know, when there's utility
or I see a reason to do it, I'll write
the check just like anybody else. But I also can
get pretty cheap if I don't see the utility in it.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Great to talk to you, Good luck again with the rehab,
and hopefully we'll check in with you when you start
the season.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (33:20):
Yeah, great catching up always good to see. It takes
me back even to my college days and we had
our first interviews. And happy birthday to you and excited
for every many more up ahead.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Thank you, bun Kirk d Cousins. I got the over
under according to DraftKings for the Falcons. Now they have
one of the easier schedules, Todd, I'll start with you.
The Falcons over under this year nine and a half,
Blue Blue Blue, Well done, nailed, well done. All right,
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there's a couple of surprises in here. How about the
Bengals over under. So this just came out after this
schedule release last night. So now we have an idea.
We know who you're playing, now, we know when you're
playing them, and you know when your bye week is
and how many conference games you have. What's it like
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at the end of the season, Todd, Bengals over under.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Ten and a half. Did you look at this?
Speaker 7 (34:18):
I did not. I figured they got to be just
maybe one better than what Atlanta's is.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Well, they're ten and a half, Blue blueiled it.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Yeah, congratulations, Cowboys at ten and a half, Ravens eleven
and a half, Chiefs eleven and a half nine ers
eleven and a half.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
How about let me see Jets.
Speaker 7 (34:39):
Todd, I'm gonna say nine and a half.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Oh, come, no, he's got on.
Speaker 9 (34:45):
Fire, literally on fire.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
No, he's not literally on fire. It's nine and a
half burns.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Okay, Now, let me see if you can get your
team the Broncos over under as of this morning.
Speaker 7 (35:02):
The Denver Bronco's over under a six and a half. Uh,
I had such a run going? Is it less than.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
That five and a half? Too optimistic?
Speaker 5 (35:13):
I'll tie your optimism, got you, buddy?
Speaker 7 (35:15):
Sir Keney gets a seven and ten comfortably?
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Yeah? Yeah, I got the Eagles at ten and a half.
Let me see. Who is gonna be really bad? Uh?
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Patriots are four and a half, four and a half. Yeah,
four and a half wins this year? Wow, it's gonna
be rough rough sledding up there this year. Who else
is the Giants? The hard Knocks? There are six and
a half now the Giants hard knocks is not in season.
Hard knocks even in the training camp. This is off
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season with the Giants. We'll talk about that strategy coming up.
More phone calls as well. Dan or Lobski will join
us in the final hour the program back after.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
This, be sure to catch the live edition of The
Dan Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six am
Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio wap Hey.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
It's the final hour on this Thursday, Dan and the
Dan Nets Dan Patrick Show. We'll talk to Dan Orlovsky
of the Motherships. Schedule released last night. Man to the
Pittsburgh Steelers. Got some tough sledding there. They probably have
the toughest schedule on paper, and they're in the best
division in the league. So you face the NFC East,
the AFC West, and then you have the AFC North
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as well. But there's a stretch going to be pretty tough.
Speaker 6 (36:37):
Now.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
They don't play a in division opponent until Sunday, November seventeenth,
so that's week eleven. That's the first time they face
somebody in their division with the Ravens. Their final eight games,
six of their final eight games are going to be
played in the ANFC North. They have an away game
against the Eagles and then a Christmas Day matchup at
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home with the Kansas City Chiefs. Those are the only
non divisional games during that stretch. Everything else is against
the AFC North. Now I'm looking at the over unders
for the AFC North. The Bengals ten and a half wins,
the Browns eight and a half wins, and I have
the Steelers at eight and a half wins as well.
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Now the Ravens are eleven and a half, so it
might be top heavy. Maybe the Browns Steelers aren't going
to be that good or they're going to be hovering
around five hundred. I would think with Deshaun Watson back,
that's a team that made the playoffs with Joe Flacco.
The Steelers have upgraded with Russell Wilson over Kenny Pickett,
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and they were on the cusp of making the playoffs.
You know, they're always going to have a winning record,
but you can have every one of those teams via
playoff team. I mean, it feels like the Ravens feel
like the class of that division. But the Bengals getting
Joe Burrow back, they'll be a playoff team probably as well.
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Eight seven seven to three DP show email address Dpadanpatrick
dot com Twitter handled a DP show. Celtics said goodbye
to the Cavaliers. The Cavaliers going to say goodbye to
Donovan Mitchell. There's a lot of chatter out there, there's
no solid information, and that is Donovan Mitchell last year
of his contract next season. If they were going to
sign him to an extension, they would have done that.
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Now the question is what is he going to cost you?
If you want to give a trade proposal to the Cavaliers,
where does he want to go and what can you
offer the Cavaliers in return. I think Darius Garland might
be the guy who is He's gettable. You know, he's
a point guard average twenty points. You know, he got
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overshadowed by Mitchell, but he's a good player and he
might be a guy that you know, some of these
teams san Antonio needs a point guard, Lakers could use
a point guard, you know, a couple of teams that
might be something. I don't know if you have anybody
in the draft who's going to come in and be
able to play right away. There are a lot of
projects in the first round of the draft. You also
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had Mavericks win at the thunder. Luca did what great
players do, stepped up, gave a triple double. Now you're
up three games to two. You got the Nuggets and
the timber Wolves. Tonight, the Nuggets are a two point underdog.
PGA Championship is underway as well. Pull question for the
final hour, what are you gonna have their seaton.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
We put up there.
Speaker 5 (39:27):
We had who you got this weekend with the PGA
Championship Scotty Scheffler of the field. Do you want to guess?
Speaker 2 (39:34):
I'm gonna guess people are taking the field because they
still don't believe in Scotty Scheffler.
Speaker 5 (39:38):
Sixty eight percent of the audience have the field.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Okay, okay, Scheffler is the favorite, then it's Rory and
then it's a big leap after that. De Xander Schoffley
and Brooks Koepka and then John rock I Liken Scheffler
to h Nikola Jokic, They're just really good, not really exciting,
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just really good. And I don't know if they truly
love what they do. They're just really good at what
they do.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Like they're not consumed like Kobe was consumed, Tiger was consumed.
I think we like that. We like the guy that
it means everything to you. Scotty Scheffler's like, uh, yeah,
you know, it's nice. I'd like doing it. Winning. Winning's fun. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Jokers like what parade? Yeah, let me go back home.
How long do I gotta stay here and dominate? I
gotta go back and feed my horses. But Scotti Scheffler
versus the field and get used to it? Does It
doesn't feel like anybody's going to be up there knocking
on his door. With the players on the Live Tour,
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even the players on the PGA Tour. You know, we're
waiting for Rory, and Rory's played well in his last
two outings, but now going through a divorce, he's had
to deal with the whole PGA Tour, Live Tour being
involved in that. Maybe some friction with him and Tiger
with their roles, you know, in that potential merger. But
he's the second favorite here. You know, you're waiting for
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Speeth to come back. Does he come back? Justin Thomas
Jason Day, John rum Brooks. You know, it's like you
got a lot of guys that you go, oh, yeah, okay,
they used to be good competing for these championships. Xander
Schoffley always knocking on the door. By the way, he's
leading the tournament right now that time we'll keeping on that.
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How's Tiger doing? Is he still over Park plus one
at the turn.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
Okay, that's all right. I mean I don't know what
the cut's going to be there.
Speaker 6 (41:41):
That.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
It's not like they pick a course that's not challenging.
I mean it's the PGA Championship, But I don't know
what the cut line will be with that. If Tiger
would make the cut, that would be a victory for
him just to be able to play four rounds.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
Yeah, Paul.
Speaker 4 (41:59):
If you look at the leaderboards, you see all the names,
and they always put the country or the flag next
to the person. I know who Xander Schoffley is. I've
watched him much. Every time I see the American flag
next to Xander Schafflin'm like, no.
Speaker 9 (42:10):
That's a mistake.
Speaker 4 (42:10):
He's clearly Dutch, yeah, or he's clearly from another country.
Speaker 9 (42:13):
It's just it's one of those names that feels like
it's European.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
We talked about the schedule release. The Panthers are the
only NFL team that doesn't have a primetime game. Now,
I would argue with that because the Panthers do have
a standalone game Week ten. They'll be in Germany. That
game starts at nine thirty am Eastern. That technically is
that primetime in Germany. It's not here. But do the Panthers?
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Are they a primetime game in Germany?
Speaker 3 (42:46):
Yes, Pauline.
Speaker 9 (42:47):
Unfortunately that would be three thirty pm, oh Germany time.
Speaker 3 (42:51):
They don't even make primetime in Yermany.
Speaker 6 (42:54):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
Ton.
Speaker 7 (42:55):
You could argue they shouldn't have any afternoon games either.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
I mean what happened today.
Speaker 8 (43:03):
They obviously have to play their schedule out, but they
proved to be a tea where we wouldn't miss them
if they weren't playing Sunday afternoon either.
Speaker 3 (43:09):
Eight seven seven three DP show email undress DP at
Dan Patrick dot com, Twitter handle at DP show. You know,
the hardcore fan cared.
Speaker 2 (43:19):
About this, this schedule because you can kind of map
out your season, what games you're gonna go to, you're
gonna go on the road, when's the bye week, you're
gonna buy tickets? You know, that's when you all of
a sudden go, hey, my team is playing in a
warm weather climate in December. Yeah, let's go, Yes, Tom,
I did that.
Speaker 7 (43:37):
Week three, the Broncos are at Tampa.
Speaker 8 (43:39):
I was considering maybe going down to Florida week three,
and then week four they're at the Jets right here
in New Jersey. So that was my main reason for
checking out what was going on last night. Okay, I
could totally relate to that, I guess is what I'm saying,
thank you to mapping out the schedule.
Speaker 7 (43:53):
Where am I going to go?
Speaker 13 (43:54):
Where?
Speaker 7 (43:54):
Where's there a nice one place to see a.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
Game's nothing wrong with that. I we just gonna go
see your go to the Jets. Maybe just go there
then you don't have to fly down to taip You've.
Speaker 5 (44:04):
Been to a Jets game recently? Yeah, yeah, wearing the
opposing colors.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
Do not do that. Not wear your Broncos colors in there,
that idea?
Speaker 8 (44:15):
No, actually no, it's strange that you say that, because
a few years back I went to a Bronco Jet
game and it was pouring rain. I thought the game
was a one o'clock game. It turned out it was
a four o'clock game. So I'm sitting in the parking
lot for.
Speaker 3 (44:25):
Several hours.
Speaker 7 (44:27):
Wearing my Bronco stuff, as was my son.
Speaker 8 (44:29):
And there was people barbecuing and all their Jets regalia,
and they saw me.
Speaker 7 (44:33):
Look. I guess we looked totally depressed.
Speaker 8 (44:35):
And they're knocked on our window and they offered us
some food, which I thought was pretty.
Speaker 7 (44:39):
Amazing for Jet fans knowing that we're wearing orange and blue.
Speaker 9 (44:41):
Off of your food like you were, like you were homeless.
Speaker 8 (44:44):
Yeah, were sitting there and it's like ten af to
twelve for a four o'clock game, and like gate or
whatever in a parking lot pouring.
Speaker 3 (44:50):
Rain, and you're not a tailgater.
Speaker 7 (44:51):
I'm not a big tailgate.
Speaker 8 (44:52):
It's just me and my son and it's four hours
before kickoff and where they're parking lot.
Speaker 9 (44:56):
How do you make that mistake?
Speaker 7 (44:57):
It's terrible?
Speaker 4 (45:00):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (45:00):
Add in Chicago? Hi, Ed, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 7 (45:04):
Hey?
Speaker 14 (45:04):
Dan, I really appreciate you calling me back. Are we
ready to talk to Miami Dolphins? Is Central time?
Speaker 3 (45:10):
Let me see? Uh?
Speaker 2 (45:11):
We we talked about this earlier in the week that
we were going to spend the final hour on Thursday.
Are you guys ready to talk Dolphins backfield the entire round? Uh?
Speaker 3 (45:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Okay, all right, break it down. So okay, did you
did you want to offer anything?
Speaker 6 (45:24):
Ed?
Speaker 14 (45:26):
Yeah, well, real quick, Crappensburg State, if you were to
become the head coach for the basketball team, are they
only going to shoots?
Speaker 6 (45:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (45:32):
Anyway, Marvin said that, Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 14 (45:36):
I think Mostard has the He's the guy with the
most experience. Even though as Shane came on very strongly
last year on the on the depth chart, currently Mostard
is still number one. I think they got to get
a more more plays out of the backfield circle routes,
out of the backfield screens, that type of thing. Uh
a Shane again, home run threat. Guy can do a
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lot of things third down back, I think going into
the season, and then you have j Right and Jeff
Wilson Jr. Who I don't really think are going to
make an impact.
Speaker 3 (46:03):
Thank you, Ed.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
You know what I was going to spend the entire hour.
I don't need to. Ed just summed it up.
Speaker 4 (46:09):
Yes, Paul, don't sleep on Jalen Wright, the fourth round
pick of the Dolphins out of Tennessee. He's a good
running back. He led the Tennessee with a thousand yards
rushing seven point four yards of carry.
Speaker 9 (46:21):
Nice pick up.
Speaker 5 (46:21):
Jeff Wilson Jr.
Speaker 3 (46:22):
By the way, North Texas Larry and Austin Hi. Larry
wents on your mind today.
Speaker 6 (46:28):
Hey, Dan.
Speaker 13 (46:28):
Your discussion earlier today about parties and birthday parties reminded
me of a documentary Turner Classic Movies did on Dean Martin.
He wasn't a big fan of party as well well
know now, but his wife would have parties all the time,
and he would brief the gas and then disappear upstairs
to watch TV, and according to the documentary, on more
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than one occasion he would call police.
Speaker 3 (46:53):
Report a loud party. Thank you, Larry.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
I'm not at that point, you know, because when I
want to go to bed, I want to go to bed.
And my wife, you know, one year we had a
Christmas party and the basement is packed, music is thumping,
it is crazy, and I try to sneak upstairs and
my wife goes, where are you going? I go bed,
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and she goes, no, You're not go back down there
until everybody leaves. Three hours later they finally left.
Speaker 3 (47:32):
I had a great time. Yes, Mark, are you having
a big retirement party?
Speaker 7 (47:37):
No Christmas Eve slash retirement party?
Speaker 2 (47:40):
Go No, No, We'll have a Christmas party and that'll
be it. But uh man, that'll be everybody outside.
Speaker 3 (47:49):
We'll have a barbecue. That's it. And no matter what
the weather is, we're doing. My wife goes, you know
what I'm thinking? How about for the Christmas party? Now?
Speaker 2 (47:59):
She's already planning the Christmas party. So Chad from Tragger
comes up. We cook. It's great. We you know, get
a Keg Miller Lite. You know, we'll have our moonshine there.
Food's awesome. She goes, you know what I'm thinking, how
about ax throwing? They go, okay, for.
Speaker 7 (48:18):
The kids instead of the pinata.
Speaker 2 (48:20):
Well, we have the pinata, we have the grown up pinata,
and then we have the kids pinat. But she wants
to bring out some ax throwing experts. And you have
a van or some kind of vehicle and then you
go into it and you get to throw axes. And
I'm like, okay, I guess, like who's going to be
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there watching to see who goes in? Like, I can't
have a seven year old going I want to throw
an axe, Paulie.
Speaker 4 (48:49):
Yeah, there's a couple of companies. There's a Extreme Entertainment.
It's a mobile ax throwing company. There a lot of
plays on words, extra extra, you better ask somebody. Yeah,
so yeah, there's mobile axe throwing. You can have them
come to your house, sign a whole lot of waivers
and threw a great.
Speaker 8 (49:08):
Yes do invited guests have to stand there with like
this balloons to your left and right, and the act
professional astra hits all the balloons instead of hitting you
in the head with the axe.
Speaker 7 (49:16):
That would probably ruin the party. If there was an.
Speaker 2 (49:17):
Accident there, it would be an axe there you go,
serious act.
Speaker 4 (49:23):
If you watch online, there's those axe throwing bars around
America and they're pretty well regulated. Those like little stalls
and you can't hit the person next to you. But
what happens is you get a couple of pops in
you and a guy gets a little too close.
Speaker 9 (49:36):
It's the kickback.
Speaker 4 (49:38):
The axe does not make contact and stick and it
goes back and nails someone in the fore.
Speaker 3 (49:41):
I was thinking skeet shooting. I mean, how about that?
Why not poll can a little ball? Uh? Jenna in Indiana?
Hi Jenna, what's on your mind? To a Yes?
Speaker 8 (49:54):
Hi?
Speaker 13 (49:55):
Five?
Speaker 15 (49:55):
Five? First time, first time, long time? I'm and happy
birthday to you Dan.
Speaker 3 (50:01):
Well, thank you, Jenna.
Speaker 15 (50:02):
I I am calling today to brag, I guess, as
well as give the shout out to my husband Ryan.
His worst nightmare came true on Sunday. I got a
hold in one on Mother's Day and he has never
gotten one, and he was always afraid I was going
to get one before him. I started golfing just about
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eight years ago, and he's been golfing all his life.
He's fifty years old. He's been so sweet about it,
but I know deep down he is really pissed off.
Speaker 3 (50:34):
Well, congratulations Jenna on your first hole in one and
you ruin somebody else's day in the process. Congratulations, Thank you. Okay,
that's Jenna.
Speaker 5 (50:46):
Just be happy for someone else.
Speaker 3 (50:47):
Yeah, Todd, he's.
Speaker 7 (50:48):
Been so supportive.
Speaker 8 (50:49):
I think I'd go on national radio and TV and
rub it in dow tell the Dan Patrick Show what
I did.
Speaker 5 (50:54):
Yeah, stupid Ryan and such a baby Ryan. Yeah, be
happy for Jenna.
Speaker 3 (50:59):
Man, you're so lucky. Paul in it. There is a
lot of luck. Paul in Illinois. Hi, Paul, what's on
your mind? Hey?
Speaker 10 (51:08):
Dan? Uh? First, I gave a shout out to fellow
Paul and SIU alum polypaps. I got a question for Paulie.
I'd like to know what bars he used to frequent
when he was in Carbondale, and I got it figured
out why Doug Gottlieb took that job at UW Green Bay.
He finally wanted to crack a top ten list.
Speaker 7 (51:32):
Oh, because here's high as the tenth coach hired. There
is that the top ten list?
Speaker 3 (51:36):
Oh? Oh it is.
Speaker 7 (51:37):
I think here's the tenth all time higher by the
but that school.
Speaker 3 (51:40):
Wow, that's okay.
Speaker 7 (51:43):
I think that's what he meant.
Speaker 3 (51:44):
Okay, all right, well, thank you, Paul.
Speaker 2 (51:48):
All right, let me take a break, dan Orlovsky for
the Mothership's going to Joyce. You know, I think the
whole Dolphins we should have gone with the Dolphins backfield.
I should have just done the final hour on the
Dolphins backfield.
Speaker 5 (51:59):
You can ask and we could break down the Dolphins
backfield with him exclusively. If you were a quarterback and
you had the Dolphins backfield, what would you want to see?
Speaker 2 (52:08):
I need some rounts out of the backfield, you know.
I got to be able to have somebody who can
pick up the blind side blitz.
Speaker 7 (52:13):
Yes, what bars did Paul go to in Carbondale. I'm
just we're all waiting here.
Speaker 4 (52:17):
No, nobody's really waiting for that. I can't let all
of them equal opportunity, everyone, all of them.
Speaker 3 (52:22):
Yeah,
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continue collection now at Paniniamerica dot net. Dan Orlovski from
the Mothership will stop by and Kirk Cousins, the Falcons
quarterback will join us as well. By the way, Falcons
have one of the easier schedules. Now this is just
based on win totals from the previous years, but the
Falcons once again have one of the easiest schedules. They're
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in one of the worst divisions, and that should cheer
up Kirk Cousins as he joins us a little bit
later on. Also, the Chargers have an easy schedule. I
guess if you look at they got the Raiders and
the Broncos, they play them twice in their division, but
they do face the AFC North. But then they also
have games against the Titans and Patriots and Cardinals. So
(02:02):
it's always it's interesting that we do it and when
we talk about the strength of schedule, but the team
from last year is not going to be the team
that you're facing this year. The Steelers Steelers have a
rough goal of it because the Steelers in the AFC North,
which will be the toughest division, or at least going
into the season. The Steelers do not play an AFC
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North opponent until November seventeenth, in a Week eleven matchup
with the Ravens. Six of the Steelers' final eight games
are within the AFC North. They have an away game
against the Eagles that's Week fifteen, and then they have
a home game with the Chiefs in week seventeen.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
So you're looking at the AFC North, which is probably
the most competitive division top to bottom, and you throw
in we get out of the division and we got
the Eagles and the Chiefs. Wh Yes, Pauling.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Thinking I saw a lot of coverage this morning that
this is bad for the Steelers. Could this be good
for the Steelers that they play games that are less
consequential for them to win their division early, get their
new quarterback working, get their backup quarterback working, and the
back half of the season they're ready to play division games.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Well, Mike Tomlin might be spinning that message to his team.
I mean, you still have to play the opponents. It's
you know, you would like to have a game where
maybe it's not in doubt in the late and the
fourth quarter that you're able to have an easier win.
Although players will tell you they're no easy wins in
the NFL. But I mean every week you got to
(03:36):
you know, reload and then all we get out of
the AFC North, we got the Chiefs and the Eagles.
By the way, there's one team with no primetime games.
We'll have that for you coming up. One team no
not ready for primetime. All right, see what's the poll
question today?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
You know what?
Speaker 5 (03:55):
I love actually looking at the schedule too, there's a
lot of like grudge matches scheduled. You have Week one
Rams at Lions.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
That's always tasting. Yeah, yeah, I love that. Jared Goff,
Matthew Stafford, heck yeah right.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Week four Broncos at Jets the old Nathaniel Hackett Bowl,
which is great. Sean Payton, a lot of hard feelings there.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
I love seeing that.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
But you know the report is the Jets tried to
hire somebody to take over for what Nathaniel Hackett was
supposed to.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Do, right, right, but then they kind of spoke poorly
of the job that he did well. He did he did,
he did. It was all true. But you don't say
that about my coaching this year.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
If Aaron Rodgers isn't there, Nathaniel Hackett's not there, just
you know when they're they're quietly trying to have a
palace coup to get rid of you and kind of
keep you in your job.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
But it's almost like it's not really your job, but
you do have a title there. Week five, you got
bills at Texans.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
That's fun. Stefan Diggs, hmm, it's always tasty.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I love playing your.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Old team first year out.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I love that this was brought up yesterday, I believe,
or maybe the day before. Would the NFL look at
Taylor Swift's concert tour and do they schedule the game accordingly?
And I said, well, it's she'll be in Canada during
the NFL season. I said, look for a game in Toronto.
Or when she's in Toronto, looked for a game in Buffalo.
(05:26):
So the Kansas City Chiefs in Buffalo. Does that sync
up with Tata being in concert in Toronto the same
time the Kansas City Chiefs go to Buffalo? Or Am
I just fabricating something here just to get the Swifties
you know talking, yes, time.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
So that's how.
Speaker 8 (05:46):
Huge Taylor Swift has become, that they're going to manipulate
the NFL schedules to the comfort of Taylor.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I don't know, but if Kansas City plays Buffalo in
Toronto or in Buffalo and she's in Toronto, yes, Paulie.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Of course I have her tours STCO has all on
my screen at all times. I wish would have gone
to me first. And November fourteenth through November twenty third,
Taylor Swift is playing a series of concerts in Toronto.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Okay. Do the Kansas City Chiefs play Buffalo in Buffalo?
Speaker 7 (06:11):
Checking?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
And then all of a sudden, conspiracy theory manipulating the schedule, Tyler,
so Taylor can go watch the Kansas City Chiefs. Does
anybody have the Kansas City Chiefs schedule up?
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Kansas City Chiefs have a lot of good games this year.
They have a lot of fun game.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Yes, Todd.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
I see Chiefs at Bill's November seventeen.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Hello, Hello, that's not an accident.
Speaker 9 (06:40):
That's not an accident tour that's going to.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Be a song.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Are they still together November seven? Yes, yes, I think
there are two.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I think they're going to get married.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
I think they might too.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah, I think does anybody want the under that they
don't get married? Once again, keep in mind wedding face. Yes,
I like it. How serious are you willing to take
a wedding cake to the face that Taylor Swift and
(07:15):
Travis Kelsey don't get married?
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Todd?
Speaker 8 (07:17):
I will ask this question, what if they decide to
be partners like Oprah Stedman, does that.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
Count as marriage?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
No? I need it to be.
Speaker 7 (07:24):
Going down the aisle and exchanging value.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
I need an engagement.
Speaker 7 (07:27):
I'm going to say they're not going to be all right,
I'll take.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
The wedding cake to the face. All right, Now you
don't get to eat it.
Speaker 7 (07:33):
Oh, I'll still do Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
So wedding cake to the face? All right?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Celtics close out the Cavaliers and Donovan Mitchell. I told
you I had a source who said that the injury
was more serious than originally thought and they wasn't going
to play the rest of the series. And it proved
true that Donovan Mitchell wasn't able to plague. And now
the question is, with one year left on his deal,
is he going to want to go elsewhere? Because he
(07:58):
can say to the Cavaliers. Hey, I got one year left.
I'm not going to sign a contract extension. Do you
want to trade me? Or do you want to roll
the dice on me playing out my career here next year?
He doesn't have to be the bad guy. He can
leave it up to the Cabs to go all right,
he's not going to re sign here or he wants
to play the last year they if they were going
(08:20):
to sign him to an extension, they would have already
done that, it feels like. But Darius Garland is another
player who could be on the move. But Donovan Mitchell
is a top ten player. I think most people would agree.
I think you're reminded sometimes when you watch him because
he plays in Cleveland, and then you go, well, he
is really good and as valuable to his team as
some of these other stars are to their team. Now
(08:43):
you're going to have packages that are put together. Brian
Windhorst on The mother Ship talked about this, that they're
teams that are ready to already offer a package deal
to the Cavaliers, And yes, the Lakers are one of
those teams, but.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
They're not the only one.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Miami Heat that would be the place that I would
keep an eye on as well, but Miami's going to
do something in the offseason. The question is how big
The Brooklyn Nets reportedly would be a team interested in
Donovan Mitchell. Well, there's a lot of teams that would
be interested in him. The question is what's he going
to cost you? And can the Lakers give up their
(09:19):
three potential first round draft picks and something else, maybe
Austin Reeves and then you could get Donovan Mitchell. And
I haven't seen a trade proposal, at least a package
for Donovan Mitchell. I just know that Wendy was talking
about their teams that are going to be ready to
go if Cleveland's open for business with Donovan Mitchell. The
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Mavericks win at the Thunder, they go up three games
to two. Luca had a wonderful night with a triple double.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
By the way.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
With the Celtics, I mean, it's a Celtic performance that
we come to expect. You just have a lot of
players doing a lot of things and we still go yep,
But can they win the title? It doesn't matter. I mean,
as long as everybody's healthy, then I want to see
what the Celtics do when they get to the NBA
Finals Eastern Conference Finals, if they played the Knicks, Jason
(10:08):
Tatum had twenty five and they had a comfortable win
over the Cavaliers.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Cavaliers were out man.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Although I do love, you know, Jared Allen, It's an
All Star, Evan Mobley has a lot of potential there.
But I just don't know. They were my team a
year ago. Oklahoma City was my team this year. They
were my team the previous year of taking that next jump,
which they did, and OKC has done it this year.
But you know, you're still watching this team. It's a
(10:37):
pretty easy route to get to the Eastern Conference Finals,
at least so far for this team, because it's littered
with teams that had injuries to their star players. Tatum
had ten rebounds nine assists in addition to his twenty
five points. Now here is something for you. This player
is the thirteenth player in NBA history with at least
(10:59):
six teen thousand points, at least ten thousand rebounds, at
least four thousand assists. So if I combine the regular
season in the postseason, that's the numbers for this player.
He's the thirteenth player. Eleven of the other twelve are
already in the Hall of Fame and the other players
(11:20):
Lebron James, Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
Not the future Hall of Famer Al Horford.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Al Horford.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Al Horford, Oh, bloop bloom. Al Horford is going to
go to the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 9 (11:35):
And see other players in the hall.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
No, because did he win two titles at Florida? This
is the basketball Hall of Fame. Al Horford is going
to be a Hall of Famer?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Is I mean?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
These numbers in the NBA and the fact that he
won two titles when he was in college. You factor
that in. He went to five All Star Games. Al
Horford is going to be a Hall of Famer. Congratulations Al,
how about a round of clause Hey, in his career
is not over yet?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Yes, Paul.
Speaker 9 (12:12):
Is he the Frank Gore of the NBA?
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Consistently nice seasons and all you sudden you put them
together like that. Dude's got thirteen thousand yards m never
the best at his position in the sport, never first team. Yeah,
I mean Al Horford. When you think Hall of Fame,
you don't think of his name.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
No you don't, you don't.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
But you need somebody to do the dirty work. Now,
Al's a pretty good defender as well. You know, glue Guy,
Glue Guy. He's going to be a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
He is. I'm I'm going to have him in the
express lane.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
He's going right to the Hall of Fame. He's not
in the Hall of very Good. I think I think
he now he's not going to be first ballot, but
I think.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Al Horford's going into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
They're far more lenient with basketball Hall of Fame, and
that's fine, But yeah, Al Horford. He had a big
night last night. Al Horford. He had ten rebounds.
Speaker 9 (13:08):
What did he gets?
Speaker 10 (13:08):
You?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Twelve at eight uh and an assist?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Al Horford had twenty two, fifteen and five. Paully, how
about that? What was that the entire series? No, that
was last night.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Oklahoma Thunder, come on, let's go.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
You gotta help Shay gilgis Alexander You you have to
help him because they need that second way. It's like
Anthony Edwards, these are two really good players, but they
need some help. You need the second weapon there, and
that's that's the problem with OKAC. They don't have that
second weapon. But Nuggets at the Timberwolves coming up tonight.
(13:50):
The Nuggets are a slight underdog in that game. But
with OKC, this is a game where and I know
this doesn't sound fair to Shay gilgis out Lexander, he
needs to be Brunson like, hey you got thirty, you
got to get forty. Like that's what this game calls for,
That's what these moments call for. Hey you got your
(14:11):
that's what you average. You averaged thirty. You gotta get forty.
You have to win that game. And Luca played well,
and Luca even played some defense.
Speaker 11 (14:25):
Layoff Lively Night that's blocked by Holdred, take it out
of there by Jodes, Alexander right, the left, lost the handle,
got it back, looked up with the block side spectacularly.
So what a play by Dods. It's Jones now Follo
by Williams with fifty point one seconds to go.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Mavericks Radio Network, with Luca playing some defense there this
is where and it once again, it doesn't sound fair
to ask this, but I'm asking this. You gotta do
more than that, Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
You gotta, you know, put up as many points is possible,
because you don't know if Karl, Anthony Towns or anybody
else is going to fill in the gray area there.
And you know that the Nuggets are gonna have a
couple of players like Aaron Gordon has been awesome in
this series. So you got you know, the Joker and
Jamal Murray, you know Michael Porter Junior, the third can
(15:20):
go off as well. You must have that second score tonight.
And okay, see you have to have another score. But
sometimes you got to just take matters into your own hands.
And Jalen Jay Brunson has done that just about every
stop so far during the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
And you have to do that. Go sometimes above and
be on all right, see what's poll question today?
Speaker 5 (15:46):
If the NBA MVP was decided today, Okay, do dot
dot dot dot dot. You still have Nikola Jokic, shake
Gildas Alexander.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Uh, where does Aalen Brunson and Luka Doncic fall in
that list? Now?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Brunson is second's second, yes to whom Joker? Yeah, Joker
is still the best player in the world. And uh,
even though Brunson, Brunson's had to do more for his
team than Joker has had to do for his team.
But that's just because Denver is a better starting five,
which would imply value yes, yes, I.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Have a hard time having Brunson over Joker the way
I did anybody over Michael Jordan because it feels like
Jordan was going to win a title and I still
feel that way with Denver at least getting to the
NBA Finals.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Do you do the like?
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Well, if we switched teams, which team would still be good?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Thing?
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Because you put the joker on the Knicks, I wonder
if they're still.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Well.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
I'm not saying that they wouldn't be great, but.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
They would be different. They would be different. It's true,
they would be different. Well, let me take a break.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
We'll settle on poll question the only team not ready
for primetime. We'll look at some of the games the
schedule that came out last night. Dan Orlofsky will join us,
and also Kirk Cousins will stop by as well.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Take a break back after this.
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Speaker 2 (17:56):
Three weeks ago today, we're thinking about the Falcons. Oh,
could they add another weapon, another receiver. Maybe they get
an edge rusher.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
They already had their quarterback, they got their running back,
they got a good tight end, a good wide receiver.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Defense could use some help. They plan a bad division,
and Kirk Cousin's coming off surgery but going home where
his wife is from. Everything was looking good and then
all of a sudden, with the eighth pick in the
NFL Draft, the Falcons take Michael Pennix Junior. The schedule
came out last night. The Falcons do have one of
(18:35):
the easiest schedules this upcoming season. So we make way
for the Falcons quarterback Kirk Cousins, who joins us on
the program.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Oh look at that got the guns out there.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Well, I haven't got under a bench president a very
long time. I got sophomore in college. My max was
I did two twenty five sixteen times, okay, And I
realized that it started to become a concern. The more
you lift as a quarterback, the more the NFL coaches
may think you're too stiff. So then they kind of
backed away from it.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Describe the emotions the last three plus weeks.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
I mean, I'm excited. There's been a lot of change.
I think that's the biggest thing right now for me.
Is as one old teammate said to me, when you
go to a new team, nothing is on autopilot. Nothing's
on cruise control. There's days where I miss lunch because
I don't know where the cafeteria is or I don't
know when lunch ends. And so everything is new, even
(19:36):
like figuring out what room can I use to watch film,
and you know, how do the lifts work. Everybody's new.
Everything's new, and so there's a lot of unknown and
you're starting to settle in but a lot of change,
and that's part of what you sign up for. I
did it going from Washington, Minnesota and now again coming
to Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Okay, but three weeks ago, how are your spirits?
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Well, I mean my spirits have kind of always been
understanding that competition is a part of this job, this league.
I go back to my story, and you know my
story quite a bit, damn. But in high school, I
commit to Michigan State, and a few weeks later, Mark
D'Antonio calls me to tell me that Nick Foles is
going to be offered a scholarship as well. And I
(20:23):
then looked up what Nick Foles had done in high school,
and I thought he lived the movie Friday Night Lights.
I mean, he played in state championship games, He played
in front of you know, ten thousand plus sea crowds.
Like this is not my high school experience. So I'm
in trouble. But you learned that, Hey, we go to work,
we practice, we get better, we improved, we played a
long game, and you know, Nick and I were both
(20:47):
able to have long college careers and pro careers. Then
I go to Washington and it was a similar dynamic
where you realize there's a quarterback in the same draft
class as me. Here in this quarterback room. What does
that mean for our career and you realize that, you know,
both of us were able to have productive careers in
the sense that we both played a lot of football.
And then again, now when you see us take a quarterback,
(21:12):
you say, hey, you know, this is more the norm
than the exception, and I would expect both of us
to go on to have, you know, great careers up ahead.
You just don't know how. That's the thing. You don't
know how it's going to play out. I didn't know
how Nick Foles and I were both going to have
long pro careers. I didn't know how Griff and I
were going to end up playing. But it all works out,
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and I think this will be no different.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I take me back to Minnesota. Did they tell you
they were going to draft a quarterback?
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Well, they let me know, like pretty right before the pick.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
But outside of that, no, But if you had stayed there,
were they still going to go after JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Oh, I'm sorry, sorry you were saying Minnesota Hawkins. Yeah,
I'm trying to remember the conversations. You know, so much
of it was through my age. No, it was very gray,
it was very you know, we don't know what we're
going to do. And speaking with Kevin O'Connell, who was always,
you know, very communicative with me, it was, you know,
we're not we're not sure, he said, if we bring
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you back, we'd love to use the draft picks on defense.
But you understand there nobody really knows in March what
they're going to do in late April.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
But if you had known, if I gave you a
do over, you know Minnesota is going to take JJ
McCarthy and you know Atlanta's going to take Michael Pennix.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
Yeah. No, I just don't think it's helpful to deal
on hypotheticals. I mean, you can do that with any
scenario at any point in your career if this then was,
and you can go down a lot of trails. But
I'm excited to be here in Atlanta, be the quarterback
of the Falcons. I think we've got a great opportunity
to win a lot of games here and have a
lot to look forward to up ahead.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
So you're watching the draft and then you get a
heads up, but thirty seconds before the pick.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
Uh yeah, maybe maybe a minute and a half. You know,
it wasn't much.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Okay, Are you at home with the wife and kids?
Speaker 6 (23:07):
I was. I was at a draft function at the
at the stadium and I was driving back up to
my house.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Yeah yeah, So then you call your wife and you say, what.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Basically what the team told me that, Hey, they're gonna
be drafting a quarterback, And you know, I think again,
I'm just like, I'm kind of rehashing with you. I
remind my wife, Hey, this is this is a big
part of my story, going back to when I committed
to Michigan State, going back to when I was drafted
to Washington, and it's always had a way of working
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itself out, and so let's draw on past experience to
trust that the future, you know, can be the same.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
We're talking to Kirk Cousins, the Falcons quarterback. Yeah, if
the season started today, your role would be what with
the team?
Speaker 6 (24:05):
I believe I'm a starting quarterback, but health wise, oh yeah, no,
I'm good to go. I've told people for a while
that if the Super Bowl were today, I'm playing, And
that goes back probably I think when I first got here,
I was working out and we got maybe a week
or two into my rehab and I did some drills
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where I said, Hey, if the Super Bowl were today,
I'm playing and they seem to agree. So you know,
once that tendon gets stabilized and healed and the tissue connects,
you really just are trying to work through telling your
body that you're good now because the brain still wants
to guard and protect and it takes some time. But
I feel really good and there's more to go get,
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but I can operate. I've been out practicing now, and
I think that's a great sign.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
It feels like this was a death sentence a decade ago,
and now all of a sudden, the Achilles surgery is
something that okay, Aaron Rodgers like, has that surgery changed
further surgeries for anybody who has an Achilles injury.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
I think maybe the ACL two has been similar where
where when Gail Sayers did it, it was a death
sentence to his career. But guys do it now and
they come back stronger. Adrian Peterson does it and you
know the next year runs for two thousand yards and
his offensive Player of the year. So you know, I
remember when my agent, after I did the injury, we
were talking and he said, look, this used to be
a twelve month injury. Now it's a nine month injury.
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Some guys are coming back in seven to five months,
so he said. And plus he said, you're a pocket
passing quarterback. So this just is not This is not
the issue that it might be made out to be
in the media. It just won't be that and his reality.
And I think it's a credit to you know, the
medical advances and the rehab teams and what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Well, I don't think you can run less than you
normally do, right.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
Yeah, I have never been a like scrambling quarterback, so
it shouldn't really change the way I play, even if
I were to not heal fully, which I expect to.
But no, I expect to be the same player, if
not maybe a little more athletic because of how aggressive
I'm going in the rehab with calf raises and jumping
and leg presses and squats and things where maybe I
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wouldn't normally be doing that. So I should have an
even better lower half than I've always played with. And
speaking of achilles injuries from the past, I when I
first did it, I went and looked up people like
notable people who have torn their achilles, and obviously recently
it was Aaron Rodgers, it was Megan Rapino, But I
realized there were some names going way back, like obviously
Dan Marino, like Judy Dench, the actress and dancers he
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tore achilles, Brad Pitt, Russell Crowe, George Clooney all tore
their achilles. Al Gore tore's achilles. So I realized, like,
there's a lot of people who accomplished great things post Achilles, Terra.
So I feel like I'm in good company.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Did you reach out to George Clooney or Brad Pitt
or Judy Dench?
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Well, I reached out to Rogers, and I know he's
you know, Rogers has a little big platform than me, right,
So I said, hey, Aarin, I said, you know, maybe
during super Bowl Week or something, we have like an
Achilles tear summit in Vegas where we get all the
heavy hitters together who have torn their achilles, and I
think with your contacts out there in California, we can
make something happen. So he seemed to agree, but we
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just never really made it happen.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
That'd be great if you've got all these actors that
came there, Rogers, host of the seminar, get the doctor in.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
There be there's still time there's no time. We could
have an Achilles tear summit and get all the all
the heavy hitters in one room. I think you could
make for a lot of great conversation.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
How important was it to bring your family back home
for your your wife?
Speaker 6 (27:41):
Yeah, my wife is somebody who if I told her, hey,
I'm retiring tomorrow, she'd say, no problem. If I told
her I'm playing ten more years, she'd say no problem.
If I said we're playing in Japan, she'd say, great,
the boys can go learn Japanese. So she's kind of
up for whatever, up for the adventures. She loved Minnesota,
but the fact that we're coming to Atlanta for her family,
her parents, her siblings, they're huge sports fans, lifelong Atlanta
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sports fans. You know. I think for them it's hard
to even believe that they have a family member now
who's playing for the Falcons, So that that's fun.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
What'd you do with all your vikings gear?
Speaker 6 (28:15):
What a great question. We do have a lot of it,
and we're putting it in boxes and then mailing it
back up to like our next door neighbor, you know,
other teammates. Because we have clothes for our kids and
things where they're you know, teammates kids can use. So
we're trying to recycle, if you will, the best we can,
because we do have a lot of purple and gold
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around and I've had a lot of friends and family
text me saying, man, the only challenge is now we
got to buy new jerseys, new hats, new sweatshirts, so
it can get expensive changing teams for your support support cast.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
How many players do you know on the team if
they don't have their jerseys on or they're not standing
by their lockers.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
Yeah, another great question. You know, we have ninety guys
in the locker room, so it's not like a basketball
team where learned twelve to fifteen names. You're good. So
I know the offense, and that's partly because that's the
group I'm with at the lifts and at the meetings.
It's the defense where it's harder for me because we
just brought in a whole new cast of rookies now
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and I don't have as many shared times with the defense.
So I'm trying to learn names, but I still got
a ways to go. And even the coaching staff, I
feel like support staff and coaching staffs have almost doubled
since my rookie year in this league. So there's a
lot of support staff, which is great to have the help,
but it's a lot of names to learn.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
But are you one of those guys that, hey, Bud,
like you like yeah, Like what do you say when
you don't know who somebody is? But you don't want
to be like man, nothing even say a low to me,
like you gotta go hey.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
Yeah, No. Now, I think there's a lot of that, Dan,
you get it. I mean I'm walking across the field
to day to go to my next meeting and crossing
the defense and it's hey, Bud, Hey, how you doing guy?
You know, so you have to do it, you do. Plus,
if I said to everybody, hey, what's your name? What's
your name? What's your name? There's a good chance I
forget it, you know, by the time I get through
the next lift. So it's just a process. And I
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haven't yet gone home and like really tried to like
study names with flash cards, but it may be something
I have to do if it drags on.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
How about name tags?
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Hello, my name is Name tags are a game changer
And at College Michigan State, Mark D'Antonio, it was mandatory
at training camp, no matter who you were, you had
to wear a tape name on your helmet or on
your shirt if you were a coach. So even coach
Stantonio had a deal coach Stantonio, nobody was immune. So
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that would really help new guys certainly if we can
just all have name tags.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Before I let you go.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
You've you're a good businessman or somebody do you know
as a good businessman because you you and Darrell Revas
have had two unbelievably financial, great financial careers making really
good decisions.
Speaker 6 (30:54):
No, yeah, I appreciate the kind words that It really
goes back to my agent, Mike McCartney. I just kind
of did what he told me over the last twelve years.
I remember when Joe Flacco was playing in the Super
Bowl my rookie year. I didn't know anything about contracts
or how the league works, and my agent in New
Orleans the week of the game explained to me Joe's
situation now he was going to be a free agent,
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that the franchise tag is something that a team would use,
that it's probably in Joe's best interest to be tagged,
play on that tag twice and then go to the market.
And me explained this whole path, not knowing that in
four years, three years from that moment, we would be
living out that path. And so my agent explained to me.
Then when it came our turn, he said, unless we
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can do a fully guaranteed contract over three years, we
will just play on the franchise tag. And so that
was what was offered. That was what was explained. The
team chose not to do that. We played on the
two franchise tags, then went to the market, and then
we did a three year, fully guaranteed contract. So I
pretty much just did what Mike McCartney told me. His
wisdom proved to be true, and I've just kind of
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followed hit him every step of the way. And uh,
we'll see where it goes from here, he joked. When
we signed with the Falcons. As he was leaving the building,
he said to the to the staff, he said, we'll
see you guys in three years with the exception. I
thought was a good line. So, uh, we'll see. If
you know where it goes from.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Here, Well, you're you're able to go out and buy
another minivan, and really that's that's your quality of life,
isn't it. That is that your big splurge that you
get a minivan for the family.
Speaker 6 (32:25):
You know, I've kind of been known as a guy
who's pretty cheap, and I will say that I do
have a bit of a like everything I spend on
has to have like usefulness, has to have utility. So
if a conversion ban can have utility for my family,
I'm gonna get a nice conversion van.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (32:43):
But yeah, like when people say, oh, are you gonna
get some chains? Are you gonna get an awesome sports car,
it's like, well, the utility is not really there, so
it's hard for me to get excited about it. But yeah,
I mean, I I don't want the narrative to be
that I don't spend money, because, believe me, I've flown
in a private jet before.
Speaker 13 (32:59):
You know.
Speaker 6 (32:59):
I I've done some nice things. I bought a golf
course in my hometown. So you know, when there's utility
or I see a reason to do it, I'll write
the check just like anybody else. But I also can
get pretty cheap if I don't see the utility in it.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Great to talk to you, Good luck again with the rehab,
and hopefully we'll check in with you when you start
the season.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (33:20):
Yeah, great catching up always good to see. It takes
me back even to my college days and we had
our first interviews. And happy birthday to you and excited
for every many more up ahead.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Thank you, bun Kirk d Cousins. I got the over
under according to DraftKings for the Falcons. Now they have
one of the easier schedules, Todd, I'll start with you.
The Falcons over under this year nine and a half,
Blue Blue Blue, Well done, nailed, well done. All right,
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there's a couple of surprises in here. How about the
Bengals over under. So this just came out after this
schedule release last night. So now we have an idea.
We know who you're playing, now, we know when you're
playing them, and you know when your bye week is
and how many conference games you have. What's it like
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at the end of the season, Todd, Bengals over under.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Ten and a half. Did you look at this?
Speaker 7 (34:18):
I did not. I figured they got to be just
maybe one better than what Atlanta's is.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Well, they're ten and a half, Blue blueiled it.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Yeah, congratulations, Cowboys at ten and a half, Ravens eleven
and a half, Chiefs eleven and a half nine ers
eleven and a half.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
How about let me see Jets.
Speaker 7 (34:39):
Todd, I'm gonna say nine and a half.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Oh, come, no, he's got on.
Speaker 9 (34:45):
Fire, literally on fire.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
No, he's not literally on fire. It's nine and a
half burns.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Okay, Now, let me see if you can get your
team the Broncos over under as of this morning.
Speaker 7 (35:02):
The Denver Bronco's over under a six and a half. Uh,
I had such a run going? Is it less than.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
That five and a half? Too optimistic?
Speaker 5 (35:13):
I'll tie your optimism, got you, buddy?
Speaker 7 (35:15):
Sir Keney gets a seven and ten comfortably?
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Yeah? Yeah, I got the Eagles at ten and a half.
Let me see. Who is gonna be really bad? Uh?
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Patriots are four and a half, four and a half. Yeah,
four and a half wins this year? Wow, it's gonna
be rough rough sledding up there this year. Who else
is the Giants? The hard Knocks? There are six and
a half now the Giants hard knocks is not in season.
Hard knocks even in the training camp. This is off
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season with the Giants. We'll talk about that strategy coming up.
More phone calls as well. Dan or Lobski will join
us in the final hour the program back after.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
This, be sure to catch the live edition of The
Dan Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six am
Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio wap Hey.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
It's the final hour on this Thursday, Dan and the
Dan Nets Dan Patrick Show. We'll talk to Dan Orlovsky
of the Motherships. Schedule released last night. Man to the
Pittsburgh Steelers. Got some tough sledding there. They probably have
the toughest schedule on paper, and they're in the best
division in the league. So you face the NFC East,
the AFC West, and then you have the AFC North
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as well. But there's a stretch going to be pretty tough.
Speaker 6 (36:37):
Now.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
They don't play a in division opponent until Sunday, November seventeenth,
so that's week eleven. That's the first time they face
somebody in their division with the Ravens. Their final eight games,
six of their final eight games are going to be
played in the ANFC North. They have an away game
against the Eagles and then a Christmas Day matchup at
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home with the Kansas City Chiefs. Those are the only
non divisional games during that stretch. Everything else is against
the AFC North. Now I'm looking at the over unders
for the AFC North. The Bengals ten and a half wins,
the Browns eight and a half wins, and I have
the Steelers at eight and a half wins as well.
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Now the Ravens are eleven and a half, so it
might be top heavy. Maybe the Browns Steelers aren't going
to be that good or they're going to be hovering
around five hundred. I would think with Deshaun Watson back,
that's a team that made the playoffs with Joe Flacco.
The Steelers have upgraded with Russell Wilson over Kenny Pickett,
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and they were on the cusp of making the playoffs.
You know, they're always going to have a winning record,
but you can have every one of those teams via
playoff team. I mean, it feels like the Ravens feel
like the class of that division. But the Bengals getting
Joe Burrow back, they'll be a playoff team probably as well.
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Eight seven seven to three DP show email address Dpadanpatrick
dot com Twitter handled a DP show. Celtics said goodbye
to the Cavaliers. The Cavaliers going to say goodbye to
Donovan Mitchell. There's a lot of chatter out there, there's
no solid information, and that is Donovan Mitchell last year
of his contract next season. If they were going to
sign him to an extension, they would have done that.
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Now the question is what is he going to cost you?
If you want to give a trade proposal to the Cavaliers,
where does he want to go and what can you
offer the Cavaliers in return. I think Darius Garland might
be the guy who is He's gettable. You know, he's
a point guard average twenty points. You know, he got
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overshadowed by Mitchell, but he's a good player and he
might be a guy that you know, some of these
teams san Antonio needs a point guard, Lakers could use
a point guard, you know, a couple of teams that
might be something. I don't know if you have anybody
in the draft who's going to come in and be
able to play right away. There are a lot of
projects in the first round of the draft. You also
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had Mavericks win at the thunder. Luca did what great
players do, stepped up, gave a triple double. Now you're
up three games to two. You got the Nuggets and
the timber Wolves. Tonight, the Nuggets are a two point underdog.
PGA Championship is underway as well. Pull question for the
final hour, what are you gonna have their seaton.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
We put up there.
Speaker 5 (39:27):
We had who you got this weekend with the PGA
Championship Scotty Scheffler of the field. Do you want to guess?
Speaker 2 (39:34):
I'm gonna guess people are taking the field because they
still don't believe in Scotty Scheffler.
Speaker 5 (39:38):
Sixty eight percent of the audience have the field.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Okay, okay, Scheffler is the favorite, then it's Rory and
then it's a big leap after that. De Xander Schoffley
and Brooks Koepka and then John rock I Liken Scheffler
to h Nikola Jokic, They're just really good, not really exciting,
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just really good. And I don't know if they truly
love what they do. They're just really good at what
they do.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Like they're not consumed like Kobe was consumed, Tiger was consumed.
I think we like that. We like the guy that
it means everything to you. Scotty Scheffler's like, uh, yeah,
you know, it's nice. I'd like doing it. Winning. Winning's fun. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Jokers like what parade? Yeah, let me go back home.
How long do I gotta stay here and dominate? I
gotta go back and feed my horses. But Scotti Scheffler
versus the field and get used to it? Does It
doesn't feel like anybody's going to be up there knocking
on his door. With the players on the Live Tour,
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even the players on the PGA Tour. You know, we're
waiting for Rory, and Rory's played well in his last
two outings, but now going through a divorce, he's had
to deal with the whole PGA Tour, Live Tour being
involved in that. Maybe some friction with him and Tiger
with their roles, you know, in that potential merger. But
he's the second favorite here. You know, you're waiting for
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Speeth to come back. Does he come back? Justin Thomas
Jason Day, John rum Brooks. You know, it's like you
got a lot of guys that you go, oh, yeah, okay,
they used to be good competing for these championships. Xander
Schoffley always knocking on the door. By the way, he's
leading the tournament right now that time we'll keeping on that.
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How's Tiger doing? Is he still over Park plus one
at the turn.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
Okay, that's all right. I mean I don't know what
the cut's going to be there.
Speaker 6 (41:41):
That.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
It's not like they pick a course that's not challenging.
I mean it's the PGA Championship, But I don't know
what the cut line will be with that. If Tiger
would make the cut, that would be a victory for
him just to be able to play four rounds.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
Yeah, Paul.
Speaker 4 (41:59):
If you look at the leaderboards, you see all the names,
and they always put the country or the flag next
to the person. I know who Xander Schoffley is. I've
watched him much. Every time I see the American flag
next to Xander Schafflin'm like, no.
Speaker 9 (42:10):
That's a mistake.
Speaker 4 (42:10):
He's clearly Dutch, yeah, or he's clearly from another country.
Speaker 9 (42:13):
It's just it's one of those names that feels like
it's European.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
We talked about the schedule release. The Panthers are the
only NFL team that doesn't have a primetime game. Now,
I would argue with that because the Panthers do have
a standalone game Week ten. They'll be in Germany. That
game starts at nine thirty am Eastern. That technically is
that primetime in Germany. It's not here. But do the Panthers?
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Are they a primetime game in Germany?
Speaker 3 (42:46):
Yes, Pauline.
Speaker 9 (42:47):
Unfortunately that would be three thirty pm, oh Germany time.
Speaker 3 (42:51):
They don't even make primetime in Yermany.
Speaker 6 (42:54):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
Ton.
Speaker 7 (42:55):
You could argue they shouldn't have any afternoon games either.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
I mean what happened today.
Speaker 8 (43:03):
They obviously have to play their schedule out, but they
proved to be a tea where we wouldn't miss them
if they weren't playing Sunday afternoon either.
Speaker 3 (43:09):
Eight seven seven three DP show email undress DP at
Dan Patrick dot com, Twitter handle at DP show. You know,
the hardcore fan cared.
Speaker 2 (43:19):
About this, this schedule because you can kind of map
out your season, what games you're gonna go to, you're
gonna go on the road, when's the bye week, you're
gonna buy tickets? You know, that's when you all of
a sudden go, hey, my team is playing in a
warm weather climate in December. Yeah, let's go, Yes, Tom,
I did that.
Speaker 7 (43:37):
Week three, the Broncos are at Tampa.
Speaker 8 (43:39):
I was considering maybe going down to Florida week three,
and then week four they're at the Jets right here
in New Jersey. So that was my main reason for
checking out what was going on last night. Okay, I
could totally relate to that, I guess is what I'm saying,
thank you to mapping out the schedule.
Speaker 7 (43:53):
Where am I going to go?
Speaker 13 (43:54):
Where?
Speaker 7 (43:54):
Where's there a nice one place to see a.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
Game's nothing wrong with that. I we just gonna go
see your go to the Jets. Maybe just go there
then you don't have to fly down to taip You've.
Speaker 5 (44:04):
Been to a Jets game recently? Yeah, yeah, wearing the
opposing colors.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
Do not do that. Not wear your Broncos colors in there,
that idea?
Speaker 8 (44:15):
No, actually no, it's strange that you say that, because
a few years back I went to a Bronco Jet
game and it was pouring rain. I thought the game
was a one o'clock game. It turned out it was
a four o'clock game. So I'm sitting in the parking
lot for.
Speaker 3 (44:25):
Several hours.
Speaker 7 (44:27):
Wearing my Bronco stuff, as was my son.
Speaker 8 (44:29):
And there was people barbecuing and all their Jets regalia,
and they saw me.
Speaker 7 (44:33):
Look. I guess we looked totally depressed.
Speaker 8 (44:35):
And they're knocked on our window and they offered us
some food, which I thought was pretty.
Speaker 7 (44:39):
Amazing for Jet fans knowing that we're wearing orange and blue.
Speaker 9 (44:41):
Off of your food like you were, like you were homeless.
Speaker 8 (44:44):
Yeah, were sitting there and it's like ten af to
twelve for a four o'clock game, and like gate or
whatever in a parking lot pouring.
Speaker 3 (44:50):
Rain, and you're not a tailgater.
Speaker 7 (44:51):
I'm not a big tailgate.
Speaker 8 (44:52):
It's just me and my son and it's four hours
before kickoff and where they're parking lot.
Speaker 9 (44:56):
How do you make that mistake?
Speaker 7 (44:57):
It's terrible?
Speaker 4 (45:00):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (45:00):
Add in Chicago? Hi, Ed, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 7 (45:04):
Hey?
Speaker 14 (45:04):
Dan, I really appreciate you calling me back. Are we
ready to talk to Miami Dolphins? Is Central time?
Speaker 3 (45:10):
Let me see? Uh?
Speaker 2 (45:11):
We we talked about this earlier in the week that
we were going to spend the final hour on Thursday.
Are you guys ready to talk Dolphins backfield the entire round? Uh?
Speaker 3 (45:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Okay, all right, break it down. So okay, did you
did you want to offer anything?
Speaker 6 (45:24):
Ed?
Speaker 14 (45:26):
Yeah, well, real quick, Crappensburg State, if you were to
become the head coach for the basketball team, are they
only going to shoots?
Speaker 6 (45:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (45:32):
Anyway, Marvin said that, Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 14 (45:36):
I think Mostard has the He's the guy with the
most experience. Even though as Shane came on very strongly
last year on the on the depth chart, currently Mostard
is still number one. I think they got to get
a more more plays out of the backfield circle routes,
out of the backfield screens, that type of thing. Uh
a Shane again, home run threat. Guy can do a
(45:56):
lot of things third down back, I think going into
the season, and then you have j Right and Jeff
Wilson Jr. Who I don't really think are going to
make an impact.
Speaker 3 (46:03):
Thank you, Ed.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
You know what I was going to spend the entire hour.
I don't need to. Ed just summed it up.
Speaker 4 (46:09):
Yes, Paul, don't sleep on Jalen Wright, the fourth round
pick of the Dolphins out of Tennessee. He's a good
running back. He led the Tennessee with a thousand yards
rushing seven point four yards of carry.
Speaker 9 (46:21):
Nice pick up.
Speaker 5 (46:21):
Jeff Wilson Jr.
Speaker 3 (46:22):
By the way, North Texas Larry and Austin Hi. Larry
wents on your mind today.
Speaker 6 (46:28):
Hey, Dan.
Speaker 13 (46:28):
Your discussion earlier today about parties and birthday parties reminded
me of a documentary Turner Classic Movies did on Dean Martin.
He wasn't a big fan of party as well well
know now, but his wife would have parties all the time,
and he would brief the gas and then disappear upstairs
to watch TV, and according to the documentary, on more
(46:51):
than one occasion he would call police.
Speaker 3 (46:53):
Report a loud party. Thank you, Larry.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
I'm not at that point, you know, because when I
want to go to bed, I want to go to bed.
And my wife, you know, one year we had a
Christmas party and the basement is packed, music is thumping,
it is crazy, and I try to sneak upstairs and
my wife goes, where are you going? I go bed,
(47:20):
and she goes, no, You're not go back down there
until everybody leaves. Three hours later they finally left.
Speaker 3 (47:32):
I had a great time. Yes, Mark, are you having
a big retirement party?
Speaker 7 (47:37):
No Christmas Eve slash retirement party?
Speaker 2 (47:40):
Go No, No, We'll have a Christmas party and that'll
be it. But uh man, that'll be everybody outside.
Speaker 3 (47:49):
We'll have a barbecue. That's it. And no matter what
the weather is, we're doing. My wife goes, you know
what I'm thinking? How about for the Christmas party? Now?
Speaker 2 (47:59):
She's already planning the Christmas party. So Chad from Tragger
comes up. We cook. It's great. We you know, get
a Keg Miller Lite. You know, we'll have our moonshine there.
Food's awesome. She goes, you know what I'm thinking, how
about ax throwing? They go, okay, for.
Speaker 7 (48:18):
The kids instead of the pinata.
Speaker 2 (48:20):
Well, we have the pinata, we have the grown up pinata,
and then we have the kids pinat. But she wants
to bring out some ax throwing experts. And you have
a van or some kind of vehicle and then you
go into it and you get to throw axes. And
I'm like, okay, I guess, like who's going to be
(48:43):
there watching to see who goes in? Like, I can't
have a seven year old going I want to throw
an axe, Paulie.
Speaker 4 (48:49):
Yeah, there's a couple of companies. There's a Extreme Entertainment.
It's a mobile ax throwing company. There a lot of
plays on words, extra extra, you better ask somebody. Yeah,
so yeah, there's mobile axe throwing. You can have them
come to your house, sign a whole lot of waivers
and threw a great.
Speaker 8 (49:08):
Yes do invited guests have to stand there with like
this balloons to your left and right, and the act
professional astra hits all the balloons instead of hitting you
in the head with the axe.
Speaker 7 (49:16):
That would probably ruin the party. If there was an.
Speaker 2 (49:17):
Accident there, it would be an axe there you go,
serious act.
Speaker 4 (49:23):
If you watch online, there's those axe throwing bars around
America and they're pretty well regulated. Those like little stalls
and you can't hit the person next to you. But
what happens is you get a couple of pops in
you and a guy gets a little too close.
Speaker 9 (49:36):
It's the kickback.
Speaker 4 (49:38):
The axe does not make contact and stick and it
goes back and nails someone in the fore.
Speaker 3 (49:41):
I was thinking skeet shooting. I mean, how about that?
Why not poll can a little ball? Uh? Jenna in Indiana?
Hi Jenna, what's on your mind? To a Yes?
Speaker 8 (49:54):
Hi?
Speaker 13 (49:55):
Five?
Speaker 15 (49:55):
Five? First time, first time, long time? I'm and happy
birthday to you Dan.
Speaker 3 (50:01):
Well, thank you, Jenna.
Speaker 15 (50:02):
I I am calling today to brag, I guess, as
well as give the shout out to my husband Ryan.
His worst nightmare came true on Sunday. I got a
hold in one on Mother's Day and he has never
gotten one, and he was always afraid I was going
to get one before him. I started golfing just about
(50:24):
eight years ago, and he's been golfing all his life.
He's fifty years old. He's been so sweet about it,
but I know deep down he is really pissed off.
Speaker 3 (50:34):
Well, congratulations Jenna on your first hole in one and
you ruin somebody else's day in the process. Congratulations, Thank you. Okay,
that's Jenna.
Speaker 5 (50:46):
Just be happy for someone else.
Speaker 3 (50:47):
Yeah, Todd, he's.
Speaker 7 (50:48):
Been so supportive.
Speaker 8 (50:49):
I think I'd go on national radio and TV and
rub it in dow tell the Dan Patrick Show what
I did.
Speaker 5 (50:54):
Yeah, stupid Ryan and such a baby Ryan. Yeah, be
happy for Jenna.
Speaker 3 (50:59):
Man, you're so lucky. Paul in it. There is a
lot of luck. Paul in Illinois. Hi, Paul, what's on
your mind? Hey?
Speaker 10 (51:08):
Dan? Uh? First, I gave a shout out to fellow
Paul and SIU alum polypaps. I got a question for Paulie.
I'd like to know what bars he used to frequent
when he was in Carbondale, and I got it figured
out why Doug Gottlieb took that job at UW Green Bay.
He finally wanted to crack a top ten list.
Speaker 7 (51:32):
Oh, because here's high as the tenth coach hired. There
is that the top ten list?
Speaker 3 (51:36):
Oh? Oh it is.
Speaker 7 (51:37):
I think here's the tenth all time higher by the
but that school.
Speaker 3 (51:40):
Wow, that's okay.
Speaker 7 (51:43):
I think that's what he meant.
Speaker 3 (51:44):
Okay, all right, well, thank you, Paul.
Speaker 2 (51:48):
All right, let me take a break, dan Orlovsky for
the Mothership's going to Joyce. You know, I think the
whole Dolphins we should have gone with the Dolphins backfield.
I should have just done the final hour on the
Dolphins backfield.
Speaker 5 (51:59):
You can ask and we could break down the Dolphins
backfield with him exclusively. If you were a quarterback and
you had the Dolphins backfield, what would you want to see?
Speaker 2 (52:08):
I need some rounts out of the backfield, you know.
I got to be able to have somebody who can
pick up the blind side blitz.
Speaker 7 (52:13):
Yes, what bars did Paul go to in Carbondale. I'm
just we're all waiting here.
Speaker 4 (52:17):
No, nobody's really waiting for that. I can't let all
of them equal opportunity, everyone, all of them.
Speaker 3 (52:22):
Yeah,
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