August 6, 2024 • 41 mins
On today's Dan Patrick Show, Miami Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel joins us to discuss the NFL's decision to continue to allow the "Cheat Motion." Jarrett Payton recaps Steve McMichael’s HOF induction ceremony. And host of Peacock’s Gold Zone, Scott Hanson stops by to share some of his favorite moments from the Paris Olympics.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
He's the head coach of the Miami Dolphins and of
course a star receiver with Yale. Although I am looking
at the stats and I can't find any stats from
you when you're a wide receiver at Yale. I got
a great picture here, Mike. I mean you're jacked here.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Yeah, well you didn't. You didn't look up the blocking statistics.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Hmmm, now, special teams, tackles, maybe.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Friendships made.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I'm gonna have to take your word on that. Yeah,
if you were looking at the player comp like wide
receiver who best resembles your wide receiving skills when you
were at Yale, somebody in the NFL who plays the
way you played?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Well, Uh, it's interesting you asked that. No one's ever
asked me that, and and I know exactly the answer.
The antithesis of every receiver that is in a receiving
core of mind. So like I utilized all of the known,
like I I was a I would body catch and
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and get no yak and a lot of the things
that I was incapable of doing. You know that that
drove my my scouting. Uh Uh, as the as I
became a professional coach, so quite literally, Uh, if they're
on our team, they don't share commonalities with how I play,
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because that's I knew what I didn't want, which was great.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Who was your idol growing up?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Well? Uh, I thought it was fortuitous that that my
mom named me Michael, because Michael Jordan was the end all,
be all and and will continue to be. If I
ever meet him, I'll probably uh need a trust fall catcher.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Wait here in Miami, Mike's and Mike's in Florida haven't
met Jordan.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I'm not that big a deal. Honestly, most most people
you know in public approached me with I T questions.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
You ever have to show your ID to get in
the building, any building?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
You know? So in my mind, I do I think
you know, I I don't really really do. I don't
really put thought or give justice to uh, like you know,
being a head coach. How much I'm on TV and
then like Hard Knocks, there's uh so people do recognize me.
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I'm just always surprised by it continually.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Uh, if you weren't coaching, what would you be doing?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Well? I knew from a very young age that I
needed to be passionate about something I dabbled for. I
wanted to be a coach my entire really childhood, with
exception to I think it was sixth grade. I had
about eight months where I was like, I'm going to
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be an architect. Architect, you know, I think, I I
it would have to be something that I was passionate about,
and so I was always going to go into football.
I made sure that I wasn't just single minded, uh
you know. And I was fortunate enough to go to
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Yale University and I tried a summer internship in business,
and then ultimately it came down I wanted to be
really good at something, and in business I couldn't. I'm
I'm too empathetic, so like I could see myself like,
n you know, I don't need that much percentage. And
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that's I think there's a threshold on how good you
can be in business, So I don't. I really don't know.
Maybe a hand.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Model, Okay, let me see the hands. Yeah, obviously didn't
get in a lot of use at Yale. So yeah,
they're they're looking pretty hot there.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I mean that that that that was hurtful. No, they
they did. I was I was really I took. I
took a lot of reps. You know, I just uh,
I was a selfless player and made sure that I
did all the non point of attack routes in games.
Not a big deal.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
He's the Yale legend who led the team in friendships.
Mike McDaniel joining us the program. I'd explain this cheat
motion and what happened yesterday and why are we calling
it cheat motion?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Well, I think that's a phrase quinn by uh my
longtime work associate Kyle Shanan. We have we have another
phrase for it, but that's for another time. But you know,
I think the one thing I've always enjoyed with football
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is is, like you know, along the process when I
was the grunt worker on the staff and trying to
find value with it within a football team. Uh, it
always made sense to me that that your your problem
solving issues and that leads to advent or uh you know,
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so being alongside you know, the Shanahans for my entire
career and being you know, in different opportunities whereas a
coach of a position within the offense and you know,
just problem solved or problems solutions or solutions to problems.
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So like with fast guys. Uh you know, one of
the one of the tools defenses uses reroute. So you know,
I think last offseason watching uh motion out of the backfield,
and you know, I think it was actually this week
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last year where we were in a joint practice and
we tried it out for the first time to problem
solve some of the reroute things we're anticipating.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
And Tyree, this is the Tyreek kill rule.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Well, you know, actually the first person to do it
was alec Ingold. Yeah, so we did it with alec
Ingold and then and then it was like, wow, that
was cool. I bet Tyreek could do that really fast.
You know, That's kind of how it went. But you know,
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I think when we first got here in two thousand
and twenty two, you know, Tyreek, we did you know,
timing motions where you know, it was from the other
side of the other side of the ball, but you'd
go across the formation and we would start doing the
some of the routes, the deep fifteen to twenty yard
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routes that we'd been doing systematically since I got into
the NFL in two thousand and five. So you know
that that was new then. When you have certain types
of football players that are are willing to try new
things and fail at it first and not get down,
and you know you're able to kind of pressed the
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envelope and and solve some some problems through a little creativity.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I'm looking at the resume, So Broncos, Texans, California, Redwood, Sacramento, Mountain, Lions, Redskins, Redskins, Browns, Falcons, Niners, Niners, Dolphins.
It's quite a resume.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Yeah, I'm the oldest young guy, you know.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
But you're working with all of these guys. So you
had Sean McVay, you had Kyle, and you had Matt Lafleur.
Which person did you learn the most from from those three?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Absolutely Kyle Shanahan. He was like he set the table
for all of us. He hired all of us in
Washington by way of his father, and he he kind
of trained us in the way that he was he
was trained and was very uh you know it was
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cool like at the time, Uh, some some of his
buddies at the Washington Post didn't think it was that
cool that they called us the fun bunch, but it
was you know, that kind of set a foundation and
during during that time, you know, in twenty twelve, we
drafted Robert Griffin third, and we had never done zone reads.
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So we were all together, you know, challenging the threshold
of our own knowledge. We didn't like outsource any experts.
We kind of had the problem solve and uh, you
know with with with Kyle and then his father, you know,
being the ultimate bosses. So you know, I think it
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was our formative foundation that I think you can see
still today of how how we kind of go about
our business.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Is it possible that Tyreek Hill can be overpicked?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I mean see, fortunately, fortunately, my job specifically is to
maximize players' skills, which ultimately maximize their market value. And
then I just dust my hands off and leave it
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to Chris Career the GM.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Okay, could he be underpaid? Well, I think yeah, not anymore.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
You know.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I mean I don't really have a good answer for
any one of those, so I could pretend to answer
it or just outardly say I'm gonna dodge whatever you're saying.
I'm so done with talking about money. Yeah, like totally cow.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
What are the expectation levels like for this team this year?
I mean, everybody wants to win to Super Bowl, but
can you have tiers of expectations thereof we want to
get here, we want to get here, we hope to
get here.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Yeah, no, I think you you know, first, you know,
I set set goals early and uh and uh, you know,
as we get together as a team on this year
it was April fifteenth, taxa and uh, you know, the
first one is to established and maintain a daily standard.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
You know.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I think, uh, one thing that we try to do
here that that has gained momentum every year, and uh,
guys really taken to is is that you have you
have to. It's about doing the things that day. It's
about being present and and really attacking that day and
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then stacking that and that anything worthwhile is you're you're
you're honing your skills. And you know, I mean you
can go down the line of anyone that was ever
great and talk about deliberate practice and et cetera, et cetera.
So it's doing that. Then you know, then you win
the division to get a home playoff game, you win
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the conference, and you win the Super Bowl. One thing
that that I think of expressed that I think the
players understand is like a lot of times people put
ceilings on their ultimate results or whatever, simply by being
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afraid to be bold. You know, we we we know
that everyone says that, can you go about your daily
daily life to be all in with that type of
mindset to do something like that and in that process
you get the most out of yourself. And if it's
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short of what your goals were, be strong enough to
learn from that and press forward. But don't out of
fear or hesitation or you know, play it safe by
not being all in. So, you know, I think all
is on the table for for our expectations inside the building.
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But what's what what I'm comfortable with that is because
people's entire focus is like, all right, well you're producing
today if you even want to sniff those yeah, provide
action with those words today.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Final thirty second shift. The current NFL coaches ran the
forty yard dash? Where would you end up?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
So if you could, if you could bracket the people
in my in my age group, right, and you know,
pending there's an off season surgery, I know, Matt Lafleur
like tear you know, Pops's achilles or tears as pack
every year or something, I'd probably in the age bracket.
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I'd probably finish last of that of the younger guys.
But yeah, I mean I when I say that I'm
an extreme person, like I work and then I'm a
dad and I literally so I do. I don't. I'm
saving working out till when everyone's saying to me, you
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should work out, And I think I'm getting pretty close,
but I haven't got there yet.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
But you can take Andy Reid.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Yeah, yes, and and like now don't I mean I am,
I'm youthful, an exert, exuberant, so you know I will,
I will be able to hold my own but specifically
with people that are older than me.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Yeah, you're sneaking athletic is what you are?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Yes, very very sneaky.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Nakuh great to finally have you on. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Okay, Well, in the words that I gave our owner
Steve Ross in my initial owner the interview, like what
took you so long?
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Oh no, we reached out, I mean what for two years?
We reached down.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
We were favorite show sports Center, Mike Aready three in
my favorite show of Sports Center.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I mean we were told maybe in the off season
he'll talk to you.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Well, you need to get down to the bottom of Uh,
I have an email correspondence. Oh Okay, you know what,
I need to walk that back. It's burning holes through
my face right.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Now, just saying you were always invited. Okay, well I
go to Yale games.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Yeah, yes, you're the you're the guy that Yes, that's
so cool. Quite honestly, it's it's very odd. But like
I've known you so much longer than you you've known me.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Ridiculous, that is true.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Yeah, you were like providing not enough Bronco highlights for
me for years.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, I was. I was the Tom Brady of Sports Center.
I got to do whatever I wanted to do, so
I chose not to do Bronco highlights because nobody cared
about them.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Yeah, that's a that's like a little soft flex there,
because I mean, if you get to be the Tom
Brady of something, you know, but I've always admired your
I'll say it. I'll say it, illustrious career. Okay, it's
a pleasure to be here.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Thank you, open invite. Don't be a stranger.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Yeah I won't, because where there's stranger, there's danger.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
That good luck.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
All right, very much.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
We're all counting on you, all.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Right, I'll i'll if you need me, I'll be sweating
here in about ten minutes.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Okay, thank you coach?
Speaker 7 (16:58):
All right.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
That is Mike McDaniel, former hand model and led Yale
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Speaker 4 (18:01):
Good to see you again, Bud. How you doing?
Speaker 7 (18:03):
What's going on?
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Sir?
Speaker 7 (18:04):
How you doing?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
How's morale in Chicago? If I said Bears fans you
should feel this way. How do you think they would feel?
Speaker 5 (18:14):
I think super excited about what's to come. I think maybe.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Don't use the word super, let's just say excited because
super sounds like Super Bowl excited here.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Well, I mean, if you talk to some fans, though, Dan,
that's they're just hoping for something that is going to
I don't know, just out of the box a little bit.
I think that we're excited because offensively, Dan, we were
in a place right now where we haven't never been before,
with a quarterback that has the potential to to have
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those special abilities that are similar to me. I'm just
saying this to me of Patrick mahomes ask of watching
some of the clips and watching some of the practices, right,
he's got that feel. And then and offensively, you have
weapons on the outside as well that you can you
can throw to, and DJ Moore and Keenan Allen and
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DeAndre Swift in the backfield. So there's a lot of
optimism for what the future could look like. My issue
is I feel like we've been here before, and I
think that's the hardest part for Bears fans is that
we've had the quarterback before. That we think is the
guy and we get over our skis and I think
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we got to taper it back a little bit and
understand that Caleb Williams is still a.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Rook that's no fun, Jered, I know fun. They won't
go that.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
But we have to change it up, Dan, we have to.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
We have to here in Chicago taper back expectations just
a little bit. We can be excited, but let's let
this young man grow and can we? And I think
what Ryan Poles has done is he's built a roster.
He's changed this roster around. These are his guys now,
and we're at a place where I feel like we
actually have some stability and some foundation to build on.
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Probably my biggest issue and biggest concern is the offensive line.
Can they find a way to be able to stay
healthy there to give Caleb Williams the opportunity to.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
Throw the football.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
We've seen what the other side looks like and when
Justin Fields was here running for his life, and that's
just not going to do it and cut it for
a future. If you're we're talking about a division that
has gotten a lot stronger.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Well, let's handicap the division. Lions number one yes, Where
do the Bears rank with the Packers?
Speaker 7 (20:37):
I mean, that's what that's the unknown.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
If you're looking at you know, Jordan Love and what
he did this past season, I think you got to
give the edge to to that team up in Wisconsin.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
You have to.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
But still I think we're we're on the cusp. But defensively,
that's what I love. I love the fact that defensively,
this Bear's defense has the has the ability to pick
up where they left off this past season, and with
a lot of young guys, especially on the back end
of that defense, the swagger is there.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
That's what I love.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
I love the swagger being there because when you think
about Chicago Bears football, you think about defense, tough nose,
hard nose, run after you hit you hard.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
That's what I'm hoping for.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
So I think they're probably third if I had, if
I had to say in my opinion, and then Minnesota
being last.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Where were you on Justin Fields a year ago?
Speaker 5 (21:34):
I'm still the biggest Justin Fields fan I will always be.
I always felt in my heart that he had something special.
I don't believe in just In my opinion that the
Bears did right by him by making sure the pieces
were around him, developing him like he probably should have been.
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And when I look at other quarterbacks in the NFL,
for these young ones, it's about who's coaching you as well.
And and for for Justin, some of this was his fault.
Some of it was, you know, the organization maybe giving
him the right pieces or teaching him the way that
he needs to. But he said it Dan in that
one interview last season where he was like, dude, I
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just got a lot going on, Like it's too much
going on in my head. How do you find a
way with a player that is telling you that, how
do you slow down the game for him to make
the game easier? And I just don't think they were
able to do that. And hence the reason why he's
gone now and and with the with the Steelers, and
I'm hoping that this is his opportunity like that he
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gets he gets out of Chicago, he clears his head,
and he gets an opportunity to become that player that
he hoped that he was going to be here.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Yeah, I'm with you on Justin Fields. I would buy
the stock.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
I just think you have to have consistency in the
coaching offensive coach head coach, and if I put Justin
Fields on that roster this year with the Chicago Bears,
we would probably be seeing something a whole lot different
than what we saw in the preceding years.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
Yeah, I think so. I think it was just it's
a lot of pressure.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
I think that's the reason why I say taper it
back just a little bit, because we know it's going
to be even more on Caleb Williams, the first overall
pick for an organization and a city that is just
starving for a franchise quarterback, like starving there. They're salivating
at the mouth like they're about to eat deep dish
pizza here in Chicago, Dan, that's how That's how excited
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fans are right now.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
He's Jared Payton, radio host in Chicago and a co
host of WGN radio's The Beat, and of course son
of Hall of Famer Walder Peyton. You were at the
Hall of Fame ceremony coming up this past weekend. Uh,
pretty emotional for a variety of reasons. I'm sure. But
how did you process everything being in Canton again?
Speaker 7 (23:53):
Dan?
Speaker 5 (23:53):
It was it was a I've been having a hard
time explaining what the week was like in Canton because
the hotel I was staying at there was just a
bunch of goats with gold jackets down the lobby, grazing
talking to one another, and it's just like you got
to take your phone out and just take videos. But
thirty one years ago, I was there as a twelve
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year old and my sister was eight, and I was
inducting my father into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
And we go back. This is actually my third time back.
I went back when Erlaker went in to cover it
for WGNTV, and then I go back this time with
my kids. My son's twelve and my daughter's eight. So yeah,
it's just my mom was there for the first time
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since you know, ninety three, And I mean the reason
why I was there was emotional. Steve Mongo McMichael has
become like a father to me over the years, and
the fact that I got a chance, you know, his
battle with als, that he came to me and said, listen,
I want you to do this for me speaks volumes
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to our friendship and also to just the person that
he he is. And I was honored, and I know
that there's just not a lot of people dan that
have done this twice. I think Papa Bear Pallace did
it twice. I think I know Al Davis did it twice.
To be in that rarefied air of doing two induction
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speeches is pretty cool, and also being the first son
to induct his father, so there's a lot of history
there for me. But the cool part was seeing Mango
get in and then also being around all the other
goats and hearing them talk to me about my dad,
and then also hearing like Tony Dungee and Tony Boselli
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talking to my son saying, you know what your grandpa was.
I was out on the field to watch him, and
then Tony Bisselli. I said, man, I just want to
I wish he was here, and Tony goes, no, we
wish he was here, Like you don't understand. We wish
that he was around so we could sit and just
watch him and talk to him. And it showed me
the respect level that my dad had in the NFL
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and also amongst the rates.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
And you were with Devin Hester in Miami, weren't you
part of your college career?
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Yeah, I was with Devin and I was also roommates
with Andre Johnson. Andre and I came in the same
year in ninety nine. So it was this, This is
how I know I'm getting old. It's not only about
getting Steve into the Hall of Fame, but my old
teammates are now going into the Hall of Fame. And
so to see those guys with their gold jackets and
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know that I was a part of their journey.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
Man it there was all the fields in Canton over
the week. It was pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Did you know.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Andre Johnson was like, it feels like those who were
playing with him and against him, said it was different.
It was like a grown man against you know, high schoolers.
Speaker 7 (26:47):
Yeah, we were actually there.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
We were talking about that as the rain was falling
down at the Hall and we were sitting underneath the
hall and they didn't know what was going on, how
they if they were going to get the ceremony off,
and what they were going to do. We were all
just talking to and I told Patrick Willis, I said,
when I saw the VHS tape that they sent to
the House of all the Commits that year that was
coming out with me, that a lot of guys were
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on there, Clinton port Is, Philip U.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
Cannon. But when you turned on.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
The film and you saw Andre Johnson. It was it
was something different. The ball would leave out of screen
and then all you would see is this big, huge
dude run underneath it and catch like a ninety yard bomb.
And I was like, I knew from the moment that
he stepped onto the football field that he was different.
And you could just tell by his built too when
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he walked into a room. He was just different.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
What's the coolest thing behind you?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (27:39):
Probably this.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
My dad's the replica of the Lombardi Trophy.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
It's probably the coolest thing other than that.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
Up behind me is also my first touchdown that I
scored with the Titans against the Texans, So I keep
that one close to me as well. And then the
one one hundred also my dad, the one hundred, the
NFL one hundred. That the thing that they had kind
of little sculpture that they had that's up there as well.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
So we'll check in with you during the season.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
I'm sure there's going to be headlines coming out of Chicago,
hopefully some good ones there.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Jared, it's always great to talk to you.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
Always great to talk to you, Dan Jared Payton.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
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Speaker 2 (28:31):
Scott Hansen, co host of NBC Peacock's Gold Zone Olympic coverage.
He is mister red Zone as well. I don't know
if there's other colors coming his way, and you can
watch the gold Zone right here on Peacock every day
at too Eastern throughout the Paris Olympics. Any other colors
we should be aware of, Scott.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
I'm hoping to pay off with some green zone after
all this attention. I like that.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
I like that.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
You see you, Dan, good to see you, Good to
see you.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Give me the difference if there is a difference in
sort of the cadence of what you're doing with the
NFL Red Zone to the Gold Zone with the Olympics.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
Yeah, there's a number of similarities and a multitude of differences. Actually,
it's ultimately a whip around show for the Olympics. Just
like red Zone will get you to the action that
is the hottest going on anywhere in the NFL, We'll
get you to the action that's hottest in Paris or
Tahiti if surfing is going on at the time. So
The concept is still the same. The cadence, the execution
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of it, as you well know, is completely different for
a number of reasons. One, in the NFL, we've got
a forty second play clock with which to work, right,
So I've got Aaron Rodgers taking a snap. I know
I can get to Kirk Cousins in another stadium and
then come back to it. Half of the Olympic sports
are untimed, so you don't have a clock with which
(29:48):
to work, let alone a shot clock or something that
you know that the action will be happening, you know,
a minute later, thirty seconds later. On top of that,
you've got road races that can last four hours long.
You've got cycling sprint races that the entire gold medal
match is forty five seconds. And then of course the
fastest man fastest woman in the world take nine seconds
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ten seconds. So the execution is a whole lot different.
And another respect when I cut to a Cowboys game
on red zone, I'm not saying let's go to the
Cowboys game. This is a football team that plays in Dallas, Texas.
That there are eleven men over here. There are eleven
men over here. The field is one hundred yards long.
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The scoring goes by six and then one or two.
After I go to fencing, I better explain. Okay, three
nine to three minute rounds scoring to forty five. Here's
how you score. So it's like it's like reinventing broadcasting
for an American audience. Every time we go to a
different sport.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Give me the sport though that has you be fuddled?
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Oh, which ones? Don't? I'll tell you what. I can't
believe that skeet shooting, which seems simp enough, skeat shooting
does not have instant replay. We had a women's skeet
shooting gold medal head to head match, right pull and
two Clay Moor's boom boom, the powder pops and stuff.
(31:15):
The Great Briton shooter absolutely hit the target. A piece
of the orange flew off, it didn't burst into powder,
and all three judges missed it. The way they judged
that sport is they have a judge standing right behind
the one shooter, and if that person misses it, like
the home play umpire, did he check his swing? They
looked down first base line. They've got the same thing
(31:36):
in shooting. All three of them missed it. The TV
replay was absolutely clear, and the woman lost her chance
for a gold medal because of that. That fuddled me.
In modern world, we can't get it right sometimes.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Skeet shooting, scandal, question mark scandal.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
You guys should be talking about it for the rest of.
Speaker 7 (31:54):
The week here on the show.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Dan And you know names are also tricky as well,
oh man, because you know, normally you focus on Team USA,
but if Team USA is involved in competition with Team
Serbia or azer By Johnny, you know, you gotta knows
a little bit about not a lot.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
You need to know a little bit about a lot.
Speaker 6 (32:20):
You well know that the research department here at NBC
Sports is world class. The attachment and the email that
we all received for the pronunciation guide for the Olympics
was one hundred and forty five pages of names and phonetics.
(32:41):
You want to play a little game with you and
the dan Ets, Okay, if you don't mind, Okay, I've
got so. I'm going on my shift here for Gold Zone,
we do three hour shifts. I'm going on my at
two o'clock Eastern. I have a men's welterweight boxing match
which features and someone write this down and if one
of the dants can pronounce this correctly, I will personally
(33:02):
run over there and give you one hundred dollars. And
it was Bekastanian welterweight boxer. First name A s A
d k h u j A that's the first name,
second name or last name m u y d I
(33:29):
n k h you j A e V. You're one
of the world's greatest sportscasters, Dan. If you can tackle that,
this is history right here on the Dan Patrick Show.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
Anybody want to take a stab at this, Todd.
Speaker 7 (33:51):
Sagka, John My Dinkojev.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
You got I think you got the the the number
of syllables right, but nobody, the the emphastist was not
on the right salables on that one. Uh you want
to try to end or no, no, no, this is
this is where I say, and let's bring in the
analyst who we'll be doing the boxing here. I'm going
to say the fighter from Uzbekistan. That's what I'm gonna say,
(34:17):
But it is a Sadhujah Moidy who Jiev.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
But see, okay, having done this before, there's nobody from
that country who's going to call you on this when
you screw it up.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
Just sound confident. Okay, I'm gonna got you.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
I'm going to lean into it. I'm going to lean
into it. And yeah, his mom's not watching Zone.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Yeah, they're not calling up you know the network, the
you know, the hotline and going he miss miss Brint.
I had a moment on Sports Center one time where
I had a story about Shaquille O'Neil. The graphics person
put up O'Neill as and spelled it like Paul ne
Oh okay, Well the problem was Shaq's dad, Sarge, was watching.
(35:06):
Oh boy, calls my voicemail and airs me out. You know,
my son, How do you not know how to spell
his I don't even know what he's talking about.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
It's over my shoulder.
Speaker 6 (35:17):
You read it, and yeah you didn't you didn't write it?
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
So it's like people think we put up the graphics there,
the you know, the fonts and all of those things.
But yeah, you got to be careful with that. But
I think you're safe with you know Who's Bekistan?
Speaker 6 (35:31):
Yeah yeah, No, it's fun look at and you know
what if the great thing about gold Zone is that
if the fighter whose names we ken or cannot pronounce,
does something out of this world. We can bring it
to you that the crew at Gold Zone is remarkable
because this hasn't really they've had Gold Zone in the'll
past two Olympics, NBC Sports has, but it wasn't quite
(35:53):
done in the red zone style. This is they brought
me on to kind of bring that red zone flair
to it. We're we're we're driving the car as we're
assembling it, as the cliche goes, and we'll say we've
got something. There's thirty nine different sports at more than
forty different venues in Paris. We've got eyes on all
(36:13):
of it, and if you trust us with your remote control,
we'll get you to where you need to go. And
there can be some of those moments. Did you happen
to catch Mondo de Plantis? Oh yeah in the pole
vault yesterday? I mean that was absolute goosebumps moments. I
don't care if you've never watched a track meet in
your life, just thrilling, thrilling theater.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
I love when you yell out we have a medal.
Speaker 6 (36:36):
Oh yeah, metal medal alert.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
Yeah, we have a metal alert. Yes.
Speaker 6 (36:40):
You know how that came about When NBC Sports was
recruiting me. Let's say to sign up to host this.
I had a meeting with some of the executives in Burbank.
I live in Los Angeles, and we're just discussing things
and one of the producers, Amy Rosenfeld, who was at
ESPN for years and years. Amy and I were just
(37:01):
talking kind of geeking about out about how can we
really bring the Olympics. I said, you know what you
guys ought to do. So many times you cut to
the track or the swimming pool and it's a heat,
it's a quarter final, it's a semi final, and it's like, okay,
there's not really drunk. You need to let the people know, hey,
stop the presses. There's a gold medal, Like did it end?
Did it in? The pick is in at the NFL Draft?
(37:22):
And I literally did this during this lunch and the
lights went on and they said, why haven't we been
doing that? Like you're covering all these events when it's
a gold medal, there needs to be a visual and
audio representation of hey, this is the part you need
to pay attention to. So we kind of put the
little graphic like the pick is in at the NFL
draft for the gold medal.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
Alert favorite moment so far has been one.
Speaker 6 (37:43):
Ooh, there is a sense of good ones. I mean the
Mondo de plant Is setting a world record when he
didn't even need to attempt. It was pretty good. I'm
an American. I love when the USA takes gold. However,
my second favorite moment in any given games usually has
something to do with the home country, the host country
and France the judo heavyweight. I don't know if you
(38:07):
guys talked about this or you happen to see this. Okay,
France a judo heavyweight. He was the co lighter of
the Cauldron. So that's how well he's thought of. Right,
you only put your best, your most famous athletes, most
popular athletes to like the cauldron as the host country,
Teddy Renaier heavyweight judo athlete, and he won his heavyweight
(38:28):
match with thirty seconds left to go, flip the guy over.
It's called the epay, I believe is what they refer
to it as, in front of the home crowd. And
then he came back two days later for the team event,
and I got to describe this to you. If I
have thirty seconds, they do a team event. If they're tied,
they the overtime. In team judo is a random draw
(38:53):
for two competitors from the same weight class from you know,
the gold and silver medalist finalists go to head. But
the way they determine the random draw is the price
is Right wheel. You know the wheel that they spin
on prices right for the showcase showdown. Sure, they literally
have one of these at the Olympics for judo. They
spin it and it's going and it's kilograms kilograms kilograms
(39:19):
going by on the thing and it stops at ninety kg,
which is the heavyweight and o. It was a WWE moment.
The crowd realizes our champion straight out of a freaking
Marvel movie. Our champion is going against your champion and
the heavyweight division for the gold medal, and Reneer won
it in front of the I'm getting I'm calling it.
(39:40):
I'm getting goosebumps right now. That may be my favorite
moment from the Games. So spectacular.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
If I put you and Andrews Siciliano in that studio
and locked the studio and only one comes out?
Speaker 4 (39:50):
Who comes out?
Speaker 6 (39:52):
Now, see, you gotta do this. They put us on
air together. They put us on air together, on camera together,
which we've hardly ever been maybe in a talkback. When
he was working for NFL Media, we would do something,
you know, via satellite, put us on, and the internet
did what the Internet does with that. Andrew and I
are buddies. There is no rivalry.
Speaker 4 (40:13):
I just ask you a question, Scott. I'm a journalist.
Speaker 6 (40:16):
Okay, yes you are.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
You're a lot taller, larger than Andrew. But he's very scrappy.
He's been an underdog all of his life. Who comes
out traveler, who comes out of the octagon.
Speaker 6 (40:28):
I mean we're both Syracuse men too, by the ways.
Now see there goes that ancient ESPN.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Because if Costas and I getting the octagon, I'm coming
out alive.
Speaker 4 (40:41):
Oh yeah, okay, oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 6 (40:44):
Costas would have a team of lawyers waiting for you.
Speaker 4 (40:46):
It's okay, that's okay, all right. So you against Cecili,
Oh my.
Speaker 6 (40:51):
Gosh, you're gonna make me. I had to think of
a good Quippi SoundBite that dodges this question. How can I?
I mean, because look at truth be told, we are
in two different weight classes.
Speaker 7 (41:02):
So yeah, that's it.
Speaker 6 (41:04):
I hope it never I hope it never comes to that. Dan,
I hope it never comes to that. I'm just glad
that that people will still be watching NFL Red Zone
on the on the NFL, and that Gold Zone, Andrew
and I can share the airwaves gladly brothers in gold
Andrew Siciliano and myself.
Speaker 4 (41:21):
Hoping to be draped.
Speaker 6 (41:22):
You almost got me. I almost said something. I almost
said something.
Speaker 4 (41:26):
I thought you were in the content business.
Speaker 6 (41:28):
What are you doing well, I'm a guest on this
in this environment, not not not the host. I'll leave
it there.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
Great to talk to you, FU, Great see it Dan.
That's Scott Hansen. He is a co host of the
Gold Zone.
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
He's the head coach of the Miami Dolphins and of
course a star receiver with Yale. Although I am looking
at the stats and I can't find any stats from
you when you're a wide receiver at Yale. I got
a great picture here, Mike. I mean you're jacked here.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Yeah, well you didn't. You didn't look up the blocking statistics.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Hmmm, now, special teams, tackles, maybe.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Friendships made.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I'm gonna have to take your word on that. Yeah,
if you were looking at the player comp like wide
receiver who best resembles your wide receiving skills when you
were at Yale, somebody in the NFL who plays the
way you played?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Well, Uh, it's interesting you asked that. No one's ever
asked me that, and and I know exactly the answer.
The antithesis of every receiver that is in a receiving
core of mind. So like I utilized all of the known,
like I I was a I would body catch and
(01:13):
and get no yak and a lot of the things
that I was incapable of doing. You know that that
drove my my scouting. Uh Uh, as the as I
became a professional coach, so quite literally, Uh, if they're
on our team, they don't share commonalities with how I play,
(01:39):
because that's I knew what I didn't want, which was great.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Who was your idol growing up?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Well? Uh, I thought it was fortuitous that that my
mom named me Michael, because Michael Jordan was the end all,
be all and and will continue to be. If I
ever meet him, I'll probably uh need a trust fall catcher.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Wait here in Miami, Mike's and Mike's in Florida haven't
met Jordan.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I'm not that big a deal. Honestly, most most people
you know in public approached me with I T questions.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
You ever have to show your ID to get in
the building, any building?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
You know? So in my mind, I do I think
you know, I I don't really really do. I don't
really put thought or give justice to uh, like you know,
being a head coach. How much I'm on TV and
then like Hard Knocks, there's uh so people do recognize me.
(02:58):
I'm just always surprised by it continually.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Uh, if you weren't coaching, what would you be doing?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Well? I knew from a very young age that I
needed to be passionate about something I dabbled for. I
wanted to be a coach my entire really childhood, with
exception to I think it was sixth grade. I had
about eight months where I was like, I'm going to
(03:27):
be an architect. Architect, you know, I think, I I
it would have to be something that I was passionate about,
and so I was always going to go into football.
I made sure that I wasn't just single minded, uh
you know. And I was fortunate enough to go to
(03:50):
Yale University and I tried a summer internship in business,
and then ultimately it came down I wanted to be
really good at something, and in business I couldn't. I'm
I'm too empathetic, so like I could see myself like,
n you know, I don't need that much percentage. And
(04:13):
that's I think there's a threshold on how good you
can be in business, So I don't. I really don't know.
Maybe a hand.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Model, Okay, let me see the hands. Yeah, obviously didn't
get in a lot of use at Yale. So yeah,
they're they're looking pretty hot there.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I mean that that that that was hurtful. No, they
they did. I was I was really I took. I
took a lot of reps. You know, I just uh,
I was a selfless player and made sure that I
did all the non point of attack routes in games.
Not a big deal.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
He's the Yale legend who led the team in friendships.
Mike McDaniel joining us the program. I'd explain this cheat
motion and what happened yesterday and why are we calling
it cheat motion?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Well, I think that's a phrase quinn by uh my
longtime work associate Kyle Shanan. We have we have another
phrase for it, but that's for another time. But you know,
I think the one thing I've always enjoyed with football
(05:32):
is is, like you know, along the process when I
was the grunt worker on the staff and trying to
find value with it within a football team. Uh, it
always made sense to me that that your your problem
solving issues and that leads to advent or uh you know,
(05:53):
so being alongside you know, the Shanahans for my entire
career and being you know, in different opportunities whereas a
coach of a position within the offense and you know,
just problem solved or problems solutions or solutions to problems.
(06:16):
So like with fast guys. Uh you know, one of
the one of the tools defenses uses reroute. So you know,
I think last offseason watching uh motion out of the backfield,
and you know, I think it was actually this week
(06:38):
last year where we were in a joint practice and
we tried it out for the first time to problem
solve some of the reroute things we're anticipating.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
And Tyree, this is the Tyreek kill rule.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Well, you know, actually the first person to do it
was alec Ingold. Yeah, so we did it with alec
Ingold and then and then it was like, wow, that
was cool. I bet Tyreek could do that really fast.
You know, That's kind of how it went. But you know,
(07:16):
I think when we first got here in two thousand
and twenty two, you know, Tyreek, we did you know,
timing motions where you know, it was from the other
side of the other side of the ball, but you'd
go across the formation and we would start doing the
some of the routes, the deep fifteen to twenty yard
(07:37):
routes that we'd been doing systematically since I got into
the NFL in two thousand and five. So you know
that that was new then. When you have certain types
of football players that are are willing to try new
things and fail at it first and not get down,
and you know you're able to kind of pressed the
(08:00):
envelope and and solve some some problems through a little creativity.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I'm looking at the resume, So Broncos, Texans, California, Redwood, Sacramento, Mountain, Lions, Redskins, Redskins, Browns, Falcons, Niners, Niners, Dolphins.
It's quite a resume.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Yeah, I'm the oldest young guy, you know.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
But you're working with all of these guys. So you
had Sean McVay, you had Kyle, and you had Matt Lafleur.
Which person did you learn the most from from those three?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Absolutely Kyle Shanahan. He was like he set the table
for all of us. He hired all of us in
Washington by way of his father, and he he kind
of trained us in the way that he was he
was trained and was very uh you know it was
(08:57):
cool like at the time, Uh, some some of his
buddies at the Washington Post didn't think it was that
cool that they called us the fun bunch, but it
was you know, that kind of set a foundation and
during during that time, you know, in twenty twelve, we
drafted Robert Griffin third, and we had never done zone reads.
(09:21):
So we were all together, you know, challenging the threshold
of our own knowledge. We didn't like outsource any experts.
We kind of had the problem solve and uh, you
know with with with Kyle and then his father, you know,
being the ultimate bosses. So you know, I think it
(09:42):
was our formative foundation that I think you can see
still today of how how we kind of go about
our business.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Is it possible that Tyreek Hill can be overpicked?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I mean see, fortunately, fortunately, my job specifically is to
maximize players' skills, which ultimately maximize their market value. And
then I just dust my hands off and leave it
(10:18):
to Chris Career the GM.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Okay, could he be underpaid? Well, I think yeah, not anymore.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
You know.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I mean I don't really have a good answer for
any one of those, so I could pretend to answer
it or just outardly say I'm gonna dodge whatever you're saying.
I'm so done with talking about money. Yeah, like totally cow.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
What are the expectation levels like for this team this year?
I mean, everybody wants to win to Super Bowl, but
can you have tiers of expectations thereof we want to
get here, we want to get here, we hope to
get here.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Yeah, no, I think you you know, first, you know,
I set set goals early and uh and uh, you know,
as we get together as a team on this year
it was April fifteenth, taxa and uh, you know, the
first one is to established and maintain a daily standard.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
You know.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I think, uh, one thing that we try to do
here that that has gained momentum every year, and uh,
guys really taken to is is that you have you
have to. It's about doing the things that day. It's
about being present and and really attacking that day and
(11:43):
then stacking that and that anything worthwhile is you're you're
you're honing your skills. And you know, I mean you
can go down the line of anyone that was ever
great and talk about deliberate practice and et cetera, et cetera.
So it's doing that. Then you know, then you win
the division to get a home playoff game, you win
(12:03):
the conference, and you win the Super Bowl. One thing
that that I think of expressed that I think the
players understand is like a lot of times people put
ceilings on their ultimate results or whatever, simply by being
(12:24):
afraid to be bold. You know, we we we know
that everyone says that, can you go about your daily
daily life to be all in with that type of
mindset to do something like that and in that process
you get the most out of yourself. And if it's
(12:47):
short of what your goals were, be strong enough to
learn from that and press forward. But don't out of
fear or hesitation or you know, play it safe by
not being all in. So, you know, I think all
is on the table for for our expectations inside the building.
(13:07):
But what's what what I'm comfortable with that is because
people's entire focus is like, all right, well you're producing
today if you even want to sniff those yeah, provide
action with those words today.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Final thirty second shift. The current NFL coaches ran the
forty yard dash? Where would you end up?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
So if you could, if you could bracket the people
in my in my age group, right, and you know,
pending there's an off season surgery, I know, Matt Lafleur
like tear you know, Pops's achilles or tears as pack
every year or something, I'd probably in the age bracket.
(13:55):
I'd probably finish last of that of the younger guys.
But yeah, I mean I when I say that I'm
an extreme person, like I work and then I'm a
dad and I literally so I do. I don't. I'm
saving working out till when everyone's saying to me, you
(14:17):
should work out, And I think I'm getting pretty close,
but I haven't got there yet.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
But you can take Andy Reid.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Yeah, yes, and and like now don't I mean I am,
I'm youthful, an exert, exuberant, so you know I will,
I will be able to hold my own but specifically
with people that are older than me.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Yeah, you're sneaking athletic is what you are?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Yes, very very sneaky.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Nakuh great to finally have you on. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Okay, Well, in the words that I gave our owner
Steve Ross in my initial owner the interview, like what
took you so long?
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Oh no, we reached out, I mean what for two years?
We reached down.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
We were favorite show sports Center, Mike Aready three in
my favorite show of Sports Center.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I mean we were told maybe in the off season
he'll talk to you.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Well, you need to get down to the bottom of Uh,
I have an email correspondence. Oh Okay, you know what,
I need to walk that back. It's burning holes through
my face right.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Now, just saying you were always invited. Okay, well I
go to Yale games.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Yeah, yes, you're the you're the guy that Yes, that's
so cool. Quite honestly, it's it's very odd. But like
I've known you so much longer than you you've known me.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Ridiculous, that is true.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Yeah, you were like providing not enough Bronco highlights for
me for years.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, I was. I was the Tom Brady of Sports Center.
I got to do whatever I wanted to do, so
I chose not to do Bronco highlights because nobody cared
about them.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Yeah, that's a that's like a little soft flex there,
because I mean, if you get to be the Tom
Brady of something, you know, but I've always admired your
I'll say it. I'll say it, illustrious career. Okay, it's
a pleasure to be here.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Thank you, open invite. Don't be a stranger.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Yeah I won't, because where there's stranger, there's danger.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
That good luck.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
All right, very much.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
We're all counting on you, all.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Right, I'll i'll if you need me, I'll be sweating
here in about ten minutes.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Okay, thank you coach?
Speaker 7 (16:58):
All right.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
That is Mike McDaniel, former hand model and led Yale
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Speaker 2 (17:47):
He is a radio host, businessman, he's a motivational speaker.
He's Jared Payton, former NFL and CFL running back, Played
It to You and a co host of WGN Radio's
The Beat program, son of the Walter Payton.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Good to see you again, Bud. How you doing?
Speaker 7 (18:03):
What's going on?
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Sir?
Speaker 7 (18:04):
How you doing?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
How's morale in Chicago? If I said Bears fans you
should feel this way. How do you think they would feel?
Speaker 5 (18:14):
I think super excited about what's to come. I think maybe.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Don't use the word super, let's just say excited because
super sounds like Super Bowl excited here.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Well, I mean, if you talk to some fans, though, Dan,
that's they're just hoping for something that is going to
I don't know, just out of the box a little bit.
I think that we're excited because offensively, Dan, we were
in a place right now where we haven't never been before,
with a quarterback that has the potential to to have
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those special abilities that are similar to me. I'm just
saying this to me of Patrick mahomes ask of watching
some of the clips and watching some of the practices, right,
he's got that feel. And then and offensively, you have
weapons on the outside as well that you can you
can throw to, and DJ Moore and Keenan Allen and
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DeAndre Swift in the backfield. So there's a lot of
optimism for what the future could look like. My issue
is I feel like we've been here before, and I
think that's the hardest part for Bears fans is that
we've had the quarterback before. That we think is the
guy and we get over our skis and I think
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we got to taper it back a little bit and
understand that Caleb Williams is still a.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Rook that's no fun, Jered, I know fun. They won't
go that.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
But we have to change it up, Dan, we have to.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
We have to here in Chicago taper back expectations just
a little bit. We can be excited, but let's let
this young man grow and can we? And I think
what Ryan Poles has done is he's built a roster.
He's changed this roster around. These are his guys now,
and we're at a place where I feel like we
actually have some stability and some foundation to build on.
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Probably my biggest issue and biggest concern is the offensive line.
Can they find a way to be able to stay
healthy there to give Caleb Williams the opportunity to.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
Throw the football.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
We've seen what the other side looks like and when
Justin Fields was here running for his life, and that's
just not going to do it and cut it for
a future. If you're we're talking about a division that
has gotten a lot stronger.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Well, let's handicap the division. Lions number one yes, Where
do the Bears rank with the Packers?
Speaker 7 (20:37):
I mean, that's what that's the unknown.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
If you're looking at you know, Jordan Love and what
he did this past season, I think you got to
give the edge to to that team up in Wisconsin.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
You have to.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
But still I think we're we're on the cusp. But defensively,
that's what I love. I love the fact that defensively,
this Bear's defense has the has the ability to pick
up where they left off this past season, and with
a lot of young guys, especially on the back end
of that defense, the swagger is there.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
That's what I love.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
I love the swagger being there because when you think
about Chicago Bears football, you think about defense, tough nose,
hard nose, run after you hit you hard.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
That's what I'm hoping for.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
So I think they're probably third if I had, if
I had to say in my opinion, and then Minnesota
being last.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Where were you on Justin Fields a year ago?
Speaker 5 (21:34):
I'm still the biggest Justin Fields fan I will always be.
I always felt in my heart that he had something special.
I don't believe in just In my opinion that the
Bears did right by him by making sure the pieces
were around him, developing him like he probably should have been.
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And when I look at other quarterbacks in the NFL,
for these young ones, it's about who's coaching you as well.
And and for for Justin, some of this was his fault.
Some of it was, you know, the organization maybe giving
him the right pieces or teaching him the way that
he needs to. But he said it Dan in that
one interview last season where he was like, dude, I
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just got a lot going on, Like it's too much
going on in my head. How do you find a
way with a player that is telling you that, how
do you slow down the game for him to make
the game easier? And I just don't think they were
able to do that. And hence the reason why he's
gone now and and with the with the Steelers, and
I'm hoping that this is his opportunity like that he
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gets he gets out of Chicago, he clears his head,
and he gets an opportunity to become that player that
he hoped that he was going to be here.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Yeah, I'm with you on Justin Fields. I would buy
the stock.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
I just think you have to have consistency in the
coaching offensive coach head coach, and if I put Justin
Fields on that roster this year with the Chicago Bears,
we would probably be seeing something a whole lot different
than what we saw in the preceding years.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
Yeah, I think so. I think it was just it's
a lot of pressure.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
I think that's the reason why I say taper it
back just a little bit, because we know it's going
to be even more on Caleb Williams, the first overall
pick for an organization and a city that is just
starving for a franchise quarterback, like starving there. They're salivating
at the mouth like they're about to eat deep dish
pizza here in Chicago, Dan, that's how That's how excited
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fans are right now.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
He's Jared Payton, radio host in Chicago and a co
host of WGN radio's The Beat, and of course son
of Hall of Famer Walder Peyton. You were at the
Hall of Fame ceremony coming up this past weekend. Uh,
pretty emotional for a variety of reasons. I'm sure. But
how did you process everything being in Canton again?
Speaker 7 (23:53):
Dan?
Speaker 5 (23:53):
It was it was a I've been having a hard
time explaining what the week was like in Canton because
the hotel I was staying at there was just a
bunch of goats with gold jackets down the lobby, grazing
talking to one another, and it's just like you got
to take your phone out and just take videos. But
thirty one years ago, I was there as a twelve
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year old and my sister was eight, and I was
inducting my father into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
And we go back. This is actually my third time back.
I went back when Erlaker went in to cover it
for WGNTV, and then I go back this time with
my kids. My son's twelve and my daughter's eight. So yeah,
it's just my mom was there for the first time
(24:35):
since you know, ninety three, And I mean the reason
why I was there was emotional. Steve Mongo McMichael has
become like a father to me over the years, and
the fact that I got a chance, you know, his
battle with als, that he came to me and said, listen,
I want you to do this for me speaks volumes
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to our friendship and also to just the person that
he he is. And I was honored, and I know
that there's just not a lot of people dan that
have done this twice. I think Papa Bear Pallace did
it twice. I think I know Al Davis did it twice.
To be in that rarefied air of doing two induction
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speeches is pretty cool, and also being the first son
to induct his father, so there's a lot of history
there for me. But the cool part was seeing Mango
get in and then also being around all the other
goats and hearing them talk to me about my dad,
and then also hearing like Tony Dungee and Tony Boselli
(25:37):
talking to my son saying, you know what your grandpa was.
I was out on the field to watch him, and
then Tony Bisselli. I said, man, I just want to
I wish he was here, and Tony goes, no, we
wish he was here, Like you don't understand. We wish
that he was around so we could sit and just
watch him and talk to him. And it showed me
the respect level that my dad had in the NFL
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and also amongst the rates.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
And you were with Devin Hester in Miami, weren't you
part of your college career?
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Yeah, I was with Devin and I was also roommates
with Andre Johnson. Andre and I came in the same
year in ninety nine. So it was this, This is
how I know I'm getting old. It's not only about
getting Steve into the Hall of Fame, but my old
teammates are now going into the Hall of Fame. And
so to see those guys with their gold jackets and
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know that I was a part of their journey.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
Man it there was all the fields in Canton over
the week. It was pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Did you know.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Andre Johnson was like, it feels like those who were
playing with him and against him, said it was different.
It was like a grown man against you know, high schoolers.
Speaker 7 (26:47):
Yeah, we were actually there.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
We were talking about that as the rain was falling
down at the Hall and we were sitting underneath the
hall and they didn't know what was going on, how
they if they were going to get the ceremony off,
and what they were going to do. We were all
just talking to and I told Patrick Willis, I said,
when I saw the VHS tape that they sent to
the House of all the Commits that year that was
coming out with me, that a lot of guys were
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on there, Clinton port Is, Philip U.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
Cannon. But when you turned on.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
The film and you saw Andre Johnson. It was it
was something different. The ball would leave out of screen
and then all you would see is this big, huge
dude run underneath it and catch like a ninety yard bomb.
And I was like, I knew from the moment that
he stepped onto the football field that he was different.
And you could just tell by his built too when
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he walked into a room. He was just different.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
What's the coolest thing behind you?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (27:39):
Probably this.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
My dad's the replica of the Lombardi Trophy.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
It's probably the coolest thing other than that.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
Up behind me is also my first touchdown that I
scored with the Titans against the Texans, So I keep
that one close to me as well. And then the
one one hundred also my dad, the one hundred, the
NFL one hundred. That the thing that they had kind
of little sculpture that they had that's up there as well.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
So we'll check in with you during the season.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
I'm sure there's going to be headlines coming out of Chicago,
hopefully some good ones there.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Jared, it's always great to talk to you.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
Always great to talk to you, Dan Jared Payton.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
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.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Scott Hansen, co host of NBC Peacock's Gold Zone Olympic coverage.
He is mister red Zone as well. I don't know
if there's other colors coming his way, and you can
watch the gold Zone right here on Peacock every day
at too Eastern throughout the Paris Olympics. Any other colors
we should be aware of, Scott.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
I'm hoping to pay off with some green zone after
all this attention. I like that.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
I like that.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
You see you, Dan, good to see you, Good to
see you.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Give me the difference if there is a difference in
sort of the cadence of what you're doing with the
NFL Red Zone to the Gold Zone with the Olympics.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
Yeah, there's a number of similarities and a multitude of differences. Actually,
it's ultimately a whip around show for the Olympics. Just
like red Zone will get you to the action that
is the hottest going on anywhere in the NFL, We'll
get you to the action that's hottest in Paris or
Tahiti if surfing is going on at the time. So
The concept is still the same. The cadence, the execution
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of it, as you well know, is completely different for
a number of reasons. One, in the NFL, we've got
a forty second play clock with which to work, right,
So I've got Aaron Rodgers taking a snap. I know
I can get to Kirk Cousins in another stadium and
then come back to it. Half of the Olympic sports
are untimed, so you don't have a clock with which
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to work, let alone a shot clock or something that
you know that the action will be happening, you know,
a minute later, thirty seconds later. On top of that,
you've got road races that can last four hours long.
You've got cycling sprint races that the entire gold medal
match is forty five seconds. And then of course the
fastest man fastest woman in the world take nine seconds
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ten seconds. So the execution is a whole lot different.
And another respect when I cut to a Cowboys game
on red zone, I'm not saying let's go to the
Cowboys game. This is a football team that plays in Dallas, Texas.
That there are eleven men over here. There are eleven
men over here. The field is one hundred yards long.
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The scoring goes by six and then one or two.
After I go to fencing, I better explain. Okay, three
nine to three minute rounds scoring to forty five. Here's
how you score. So it's like it's like reinventing broadcasting
for an American audience. Every time we go to a
different sport.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Give me the sport though that has you be fuddled?
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Oh, which ones? Don't? I'll tell you what. I can't
believe that skeet shooting, which seems simp enough, skeat shooting
does not have instant replay. We had a women's skeet
shooting gold medal head to head match, right pull and
two Clay Moor's boom boom, the powder pops and stuff.
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The Great Briton shooter absolutely hit the target. A piece
of the orange flew off, it didn't burst into powder,
and all three judges missed it. The way they judged
that sport is they have a judge standing right behind
the one shooter, and if that person misses it, like
the home play umpire, did he check his swing? They
looked down first base line. They've got the same thing
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in shooting. All three of them missed it. The TV
replay was absolutely clear, and the woman lost her chance
for a gold medal because of that. That fuddled me.
In modern world, we can't get it right sometimes.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Skeet shooting, scandal, question mark scandal.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
You guys should be talking about it for the rest of.
Speaker 7 (31:54):
The week here on the show.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Dan And you know names are also tricky as well,
oh man, because you know, normally you focus on Team USA,
but if Team USA is involved in competition with Team
Serbia or azer By Johnny, you know, you gotta knows
a little bit about not a lot.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
You need to know a little bit about a lot.
Speaker 6 (32:20):
You well know that the research department here at NBC
Sports is world class. The attachment and the email that
we all received for the pronunciation guide for the Olympics
was one hundred and forty five pages of names and phonetics.
(32:41):
You want to play a little game with you and
the dan Ets, Okay, if you don't mind, Okay, I've
got so. I'm going on my shift here for Gold Zone,
we do three hour shifts. I'm going on my at
two o'clock Eastern. I have a men's welterweight boxing match
which features and someone write this down and if one
of the dants can pronounce this correctly, I will personally
(33:02):
run over there and give you one hundred dollars. And
it was Bekastanian welterweight boxer. First name A s A
d k h u j A that's the first name,
second name or last name m u y d I
(33:29):
n k h you j A e V. You're one
of the world's greatest sportscasters, Dan. If you can tackle that,
this is history right here on the Dan Patrick Show.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
Anybody want to take a stab at this, Todd.
Speaker 7 (33:51):
Sagka, John My Dinkojev.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
You got I think you got the the the number
of syllables right, but nobody, the the emphastist was not
on the right salables on that one. Uh you want
to try to end or no, no, no, this is
this is where I say, and let's bring in the
analyst who we'll be doing the boxing here. I'm going
to say the fighter from Uzbekistan. That's what I'm gonna say,
(34:17):
But it is a Sadhujah Moidy who Jiev.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
But see, okay, having done this before, there's nobody from
that country who's going to call you on this when
you screw it up.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
Just sound confident. Okay, I'm gonna got you.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
I'm going to lean into it. I'm going to lean
into it. And yeah, his mom's not watching Zone.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Yeah, they're not calling up you know the network, the
you know, the hotline and going he miss miss Brint.
I had a moment on Sports Center one time where
I had a story about Shaquille O'Neil. The graphics person
put up O'Neill as and spelled it like Paul ne
Oh okay, Well the problem was Shaq's dad, Sarge, was watching.
(35:06):
Oh boy, calls my voicemail and airs me out. You know,
my son, How do you not know how to spell
his I don't even know what he's talking about.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
It's over my shoulder.
Speaker 6 (35:17):
You read it, and yeah you didn't you didn't write it?
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
So it's like people think we put up the graphics there,
the you know, the fonts and all of those things.
But yeah, you got to be careful with that. But
I think you're safe with you know Who's Bekistan?
Speaker 6 (35:31):
Yeah yeah, No, it's fun look at and you know
what if the great thing about gold Zone is that
if the fighter whose names we ken or cannot pronounce,
does something out of this world. We can bring it
to you that the crew at Gold Zone is remarkable
because this hasn't really they've had Gold Zone in the'll
past two Olympics, NBC Sports has, but it wasn't quite
(35:53):
done in the red zone style. This is they brought
me on to kind of bring that red zone flair
to it. We're we're we're driving the car as we're
assembling it, as the cliche goes, and we'll say we've
got something. There's thirty nine different sports at more than
forty different venues in Paris. We've got eyes on all
(36:13):
of it, and if you trust us with your remote control,
we'll get you to where you need to go. And
there can be some of those moments. Did you happen
to catch Mondo de Plantis? Oh yeah in the pole
vault yesterday? I mean that was absolute goosebumps moments. I
don't care if you've never watched a track meet in
your life, just thrilling, thrilling theater.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
I love when you yell out we have a medal.
Speaker 6 (36:36):
Oh yeah, metal medal alert.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
Yeah, we have a metal alert. Yes.
Speaker 6 (36:40):
You know how that came about When NBC Sports was
recruiting me. Let's say to sign up to host this.
I had a meeting with some of the executives in Burbank.
I live in Los Angeles, and we're just discussing things
and one of the producers, Amy Rosenfeld, who was at
ESPN for years and years. Amy and I were just
(37:01):
talking kind of geeking about out about how can we
really bring the Olympics. I said, you know what you
guys ought to do. So many times you cut to
the track or the swimming pool and it's a heat,
it's a quarter final, it's a semi final, and it's like, okay,
there's not really drunk. You need to let the people know, hey,
stop the presses. There's a gold medal, Like did it end?
Did it in? The pick is in at the NFL Draft?
(37:22):
And I literally did this during this lunch and the
lights went on and they said, why haven't we been
doing that? Like you're covering all these events when it's
a gold medal, there needs to be a visual and
audio representation of hey, this is the part you need
to pay attention to. So we kind of put the
little graphic like the pick is in at the NFL
draft for the gold medal.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
Alert favorite moment so far has been one.
Speaker 6 (37:43):
Ooh, there is a sense of good ones. I mean the
Mondo de plant Is setting a world record when he
didn't even need to attempt. It was pretty good. I'm
an American. I love when the USA takes gold. However,
my second favorite moment in any given games usually has
something to do with the home country, the host country
and France the judo heavyweight. I don't know if you
(38:07):
guys talked about this or you happen to see this. Okay,
France a judo heavyweight. He was the co lighter of
the Cauldron. So that's how well he's thought of. Right,
you only put your best, your most famous athletes, most
popular athletes to like the cauldron as the host country,
Teddy Renaier heavyweight judo athlete, and he won his heavyweight
(38:28):
match with thirty seconds left to go, flip the guy over.
It's called the epay, I believe is what they refer
to it as, in front of the home crowd. And
then he came back two days later for the team event,
and I got to describe this to you. If I
have thirty seconds, they do a team event. If they're tied,
they the overtime. In team judo is a random draw
(38:53):
for two competitors from the same weight class from you know,
the gold and silver medalist finalists go to head. But
the way they determine the random draw is the price
is Right wheel. You know the wheel that they spin
on prices right for the showcase showdown. Sure, they literally
have one of these at the Olympics for judo. They
spin it and it's going and it's kilograms kilograms kilograms
(39:19):
going by on the thing and it stops at ninety kg,
which is the heavyweight and o. It was a WWE moment.
The crowd realizes our champion straight out of a freaking
Marvel movie. Our champion is going against your champion and
the heavyweight division for the gold medal, and Reneer won
it in front of the I'm getting I'm calling it.
(39:40):
I'm getting goosebumps right now. That may be my favorite
moment from the Games. So spectacular.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
If I put you and Andrews Siciliano in that studio
and locked the studio and only one comes out?
Speaker 4 (39:50):
Who comes out?
Speaker 6 (39:52):
Now, see, you gotta do this. They put us on
air together. They put us on air together, on camera together,
which we've hardly ever been maybe in a talkback. When
he was working for NFL Media, we would do something,
you know, via satellite, put us on, and the internet
did what the Internet does with that. Andrew and I
are buddies. There is no rivalry.
Speaker 4 (40:13):
I just ask you a question, Scott. I'm a journalist.
Speaker 6 (40:16):
Okay, yes you are.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
You're a lot taller, larger than Andrew. But he's very scrappy.
He's been an underdog all of his life. Who comes
out traveler, who comes out of the octagon.
Speaker 6 (40:28):
I mean we're both Syracuse men too, by the ways.
Now see there goes that ancient ESPN.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Because if Costas and I getting the octagon, I'm coming
out alive.
Speaker 4 (40:41):
Oh yeah, okay, oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 6 (40:44):
Costas would have a team of lawyers waiting for you.
Speaker 4 (40:46):
It's okay, that's okay, all right. So you against Cecili,
Oh my.
Speaker 6 (40:51):
Gosh, you're gonna make me. I had to think of
a good Quippi SoundBite that dodges this question. How can I?
I mean, because look at truth be told, we are
in two different weight classes.
Speaker 7 (41:02):
So yeah, that's it.
Speaker 6 (41:04):
I hope it never I hope it never comes to that. Dan,
I hope it never comes to that. I'm just glad
that that people will still be watching NFL Red Zone
on the on the NFL, and that Gold Zone, Andrew
and I can share the airwaves gladly brothers in gold
Andrew Siciliano and myself.
Speaker 4 (41:21):
Hoping to be draped.
Speaker 6 (41:22):
You almost got me. I almost said something. I almost
said something.
Speaker 4 (41:26):
I thought you were in the content business.
Speaker 6 (41:28):
What are you doing well, I'm a guest on this
in this environment, not not not the host. I'll leave
it there.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
Great to talk to you, FU, Great see it Dan.
That's Scott Hansen. He is a co host of the
Gold Zone.
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