November 14, 2024 • 46 mins
Dan explains why he wouldn't pay Juan Soto the amount he's expected to make in free agency. NFL insider Ross Tucker discusses whether or not Eagles HC Nick Sirianni was ever on the hot seat. And NBA legend Shaquille O'Neal shares why he's so hard on 76ers C Joel Embiid.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
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what's the poll question for the first hour. That's the year.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Twenty twenty five, not twenty to twenty five calendars available.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Correct, twenty twenty five is the calendar year? Yes, yes, yes,
there are more than twenty to twenty five calendars available, yes, yes, yes, right.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Do you want Paul's pole question or the multitude of
thods Todds?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, let me start with PAULI because he seemed like
he was in a good mood today. Yes, maybe that
will be reflected in his poll question. Yes, yes, Paul.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Before the poll, I was just looking at the lebron James.
He turns forty on December thirtieth, Oka, like you, you
were just saying, like he's going to have he's going
to create all the forty records the next months, like
they're going to be his and his forever. And then
the other guy who's really relevant Cooper Flag. He turns
eighteen eighteen on December nineteenth.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah, all right, he'll be in the NBA next year
as an eighteen year old.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
December twenty first, two thousand and six is when Cooper
Flag was born, two thousand and six. On that night,
Lebron was in his like third year, fourth year in
the league, and had twenty six points.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Then, y, yeah, Lebron will face him. Lebron will be forty,
Cooper Flag will be eighteen, and Bronni will probably still
be in the G League only playing home games.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yes, Seaton, Yeah, we're about to hit an era two
where let's see if Cooper Flag was born in two
thousand and six, right, we started doing the show and
you're attic in two thousand and seven, so we're going
to we're reaching an era where modern professional athletes entire
lifespan has been lived during this version of The Dan
(01:59):
Patrick Show.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Okay, all right, I feel old.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Yeah, same.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
What are some of Todd's whole questions? Oh well, no,
we didn't get to Paulie.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Oh yeah, that's right, Paul the most sure thing future,
the future you would bet most on. All right, Victor
wimban Yama at a Monster Knight, Jayden Daniels, Okay, he's
doing well. We have room for two others. Travis Hunter
could be on there. That's a bit of a risky one.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Schu Door Sanders.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Okay, if he wanted to put nepotism.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Any other youngsters that you want to put in there?
Speaker 6 (02:45):
Right?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
That is the question, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah, it feels like we need a baseball youngster, but
they don't really exist.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Kidding?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
One Soto.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Yeah, I'll tell you what. I'll bet on his bank
account's future. That's for damn sure.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I don't want him. I don't want him.
Speaker 7 (03:04):
What.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
No, I don't want your Anti Soto. I am Anti Soto. No, No,
not interested. It's it's so much money, over so many years.
I just I have no interest in that.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
None.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
You know, I got Otani. Otani's special. He's unique. There's
no one like him. One Soto. The talented player bounced
around a couple of teams, already gonna be bouncing around again.
And you're gonna pay him six hundred million dollars. If
I'm paying that kind of money, I want you to
be a gate attraction. I want you to be a
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box office star. One Soto is not a box office star.
He's just a really good baseball player. I mean, Mike
Trout as great as he is, not a box office star.
You just go that guy knows how to play.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
All right.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Like, if I'm spending that kind of money, you got
to be great.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
So five years ago you were cool with Bryce Harper
because he puts people on the.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Sta Yes, he is a box he's he would be
a box office kind of ballplayer. Absolutely, you would show up.
People show up to see him. Aaron Judge, they show
up to see him. Otani, they show up to see him.
But I don't know if there's anybody else in that category.
And I'm not spending six hundred million dollars on him.
(04:25):
Like what market am I tapping into? I got Japan
with Otani and we saw that in the ratings, like
they're watching fifteen million people a night when they were
in the playoffs. But Juan Soto, he's an average fielder.
He's a wonderful hitter, but what does he have, Like
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are you saying, man, he whoses with charisma or whatever
it might be. No, I don't want one Soto talented player,
but that kind of money, I got to get a
little bit more.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Yes, Marvin, about a discount of only three hundred million dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Oh, it's not gonna happen because Scott Morris is his agent.
Speaker 8 (05:04):
Oh, I'd say it was gonna happen. But if it
was three hundredllion dollars, would you take him over?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
How many years?
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Tayll?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Of course I would. That's thirty million a year, so
what's sixty?
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Come on, what's another thirty?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Don't hire the Barbinezer agent. Thirty million. Yeah, that's the
difference between thirty million and sixty.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Wan Soda just turned twenty six years old for all
Star games in a row.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yeah, I don't. I don't care. I don't want that,
not for that kind of money. I gotta get something
off the field as well. Yes, Mark, but.
Speaker 8 (05:36):
There's only three guys that are really box office in
Major League Baseball anyway, So you're gonna have to overpay
for him. You're gonna have to overpay for all these
guys except for Judge.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You have a Judge is worth that. Otani's worth that,
Like they give me more. Judges must see TV. Otanis
must see TV. When's the last time you said, hey,
let me know when Ota or let me know, when
Soda up to the plate, it doesn't happen. You're not
showing up to see him. Boy, he hit a ball,
you know, clear out a Yankee stadium. He's a really
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good player. But there has to be some fiscal responsibility
when you're just saying, hey, here you go.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
I'm sure they have their accountants and they can say
this is why this is going to work. I mean,
even the money the Dodgers spent on Otani, I mean,
I got it. It's still seven hundred million dollars and
all takes is an injury or two and then what
do you have and then you're paying off somebody. I mean,
(06:37):
I don't get it. But I mean Soto is going
to get that money because Scott Morris is going to
make sure he gets that money. You're going to go
to the highest bidder. Red Sox are going to be involved, Yankees, Mets,
maybe the Giants, San Francisco Giants get involved in this. Hey,
who knows, they'll be There'll be enough. There'll be enough
teams to make this interesting. That's all Scott Morris wants.
(07:00):
I need somebody to bid against somebody. That's it. Yes, Yeah, poem.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
It is funny that star power and production doesn't always match.
Like Ellie de la Cruz of the Reds has a
truckload of star power and he's fun to watch these
exciting he's like a wild man out there. But his
numbers are good. He's got good numbers. Not Ronald Acunya
numbers or Jan Soda numbers, but Ellie de la Cruz.
When I see on Sports Center or whatever, Oh he's
up or here's a highlight, I tune in. I picked
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my head up a little bit.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Well, first of all, you got a short stop who's
doing this and he's maybe the fastest guy in bad
Like there's entertainment to him. Now, do I want to
spend six hundred and seven hundred million on Ellie de
la Cruz. No, I don't. But you know, this is
why teams get into these situations. The Browns were stupid
and they go, we gotta have Deshaun Watson. We're gonna
give him whatever we want. Now, look at what he's
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done to the franchise. You know the Giants with Daniel Jones,
lads give him the money. Like you know Jaguars do
they have a franchise quarterback they gave him the money here.
You know, just you get drunk. Sometimes you're like, we
got to be really smart, we got to be really smart.
And then all of a sudden they were like, let's
be stupid. And then you start spending this money, and
(08:09):
then you say to your team, we can't do anything.
We're financially strapped. Let's be stupid. Yeah, let's stupid. You
do that on a daily basis, right, Todd? Now we
make a living. Yes, how stupid we could be for
three hours? Okay, what other poll questions do we have?
Speaker 6 (08:31):
Stupid?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Let's see, we could dive into the t O dubs.
Oh okay, those are always enlightening. Od this is one
of Todd's. Do you like big men shooting threes? Heck yeah,
it's kind of freakishly awesome.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Or hate it? Stay down low and grab rebounds, dude,
I like when they make threes. I don't like when
they shoot threes. Kind of feel like it's unfair. Well,
you're not go a block when by Nyama's shot on
the perimeter. Uh, Karl Anthony Towns, he had a I
think he had forty six last night.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I reinvented the game.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yes he did. I think this the first time in
NBA history that you've had three players on the same
night score forty six or more. So you had Jannis
and you had Victor, and then you had Karl Anthony
in the towns.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Yes, yes, see, big men shooting threes is kind of
like a bear. It's unfair that a bear is that strong,
that fast, and can climb. That's unfair. There's no reason
to be all three of those things. You could be
that fast, you could be that strong, but don't climb.
Come on, this is stupid. You ever see how fast
they climb a tree is crazy. That's what Victor wembin
(09:43):
Yama being a good three point shooter is.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
We're gonna call him the bear bear, the Victor the
bear when bear Yama? Okay, got it, Todd, Yes, Paul.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
He's up to eight and a half threes attempted per game.
He took five and a half last year. His three
point percentages up from thirty two to thirty five percent.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
He's twenty one years old. But see, that's the scary part.
And I always said, if Yannis learned how to hit
a mid range jumper, no one would be able to
stop him. He could average forty a night if he
wanted to, Well, he doesn't have a good shot, but
wehm ban Yama. If you say, all right, pick your
poison perimeter or inside, then that's dangerous. And he's really young.
(10:26):
He's got a handle. He can be inside outside, he
can play defense inside and outside. He can play defense
inside and outside while not even moving. He can be
in the paint and still guard you on the perimeter.
Scary what the future is for him? I would definitely
I would invest in that stock of all the younger
players that you're talking about. Victor Wembnyama. He's just learning
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how to play the game. And if you get a
consistent point guard with him, scary, scary how great he's
going to be. And he's had three consecutive re good
games here where he's getting thirty and twelve and then
you know, you have fifty points in twenty six minutes
of work. I mean, if you're looking at points per minute,
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that's up. There is there an efficiency rating? What is yeah?
The efficiency rate? Let me check the metrics here.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
The efficiency rating.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
On this it's got to be off the charts. Is
that how somebody in analytics speaks? Well, I don't know
it feels like we always say, you know, that's what,
let me check the metrics here. I would probably be
more like, well, let me check the efficiency rating on this,
and then we'll see that sounds actually one of the
top performers this year in efficiency rating. And then you
have to push your glasses back.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Victor Wimbanama's inficiency rating?
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
It's all the Jains, the best in the league.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
That's pretty perfect, right there.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
We're such no at all, We're perfect. Let's be stupid,
all right, let me take a break.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
It's just more fun when you make fun of everything.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
It's just more fun. Well, when you make fun of yourself,
then you can make fun of everything. Yeah we are.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
We're just making fun of our industry.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
So you gotta laugh at yourself first. I got to
beat you to the punch, although we did.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
We have spent most of the week torching dentists too,
and we only.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Spent a couple of minutes yesterday on that. I know,
there's they're still fallout from that. My friend who's a dentist,
who has the sausage fingers, Yeah, all of a sudden
I see him. He goes, uh, hey, sausage fingers.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
I said, yeah, yeah, Are you trying to drop weight
in his fingers?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
No, No, he's he's he's a big guy, former football player.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
You're gonna fill cabinties.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
You don't have whoa easy there, Todd, I.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Didn't realize the.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Easy they're to. What are we doing here? Come on,
let's be stupid. Let me take a break here. I
think we just got started here. I'm not sure. Let's
regroup here coming. Oh Shaquille o'neils making a big man.
De Patrick, shut that up. He'll join us later on
Our Good Buddy Ross Tucker will stop by.
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Commanders and the Eagles. When's the last time you remember
the Washington football team being good and likable?
Speaker 6 (13:42):
I think they were good and likable the RG three
rookie year. Okay, you know, they basically brought a lot
of the college concepts that RG three had done at
Baylor to the NFL. It's a big reason, I think
Dan why he was so successful that year, why they
were so success is because defensive coordinators in the NFL
(14:03):
hadn't seen a lot of the RPOs. They hadn't seen
the zone read stuff, and so RG three took the
league by storm. The city was fired up. I hadn't
seen at the time, at least Redskin fans like that
in a long long time. And then he gets hurt
in the playoff game and it was just over. It
was very fleeting. This, obviously, with Jayden Daniels, feels a
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lot more sustainable.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
I like your Eagles a lot. I like them a
lot more than I probably want to. But Jalen Hurts
has played well. They don't rely on the pass. They
it feels like they're a Saquon Barkley led offense here,
And I don't want fools gold here Where I'm buying
into it. It is am I seeing what I'm supposed
(14:51):
to see with the Eagles. Are you seeing the same
thing that they might be the second best team in
the NFC?
Speaker 6 (14:57):
Well, I think they are the second best team in
the NFC. They're very, very good and here's how I
look at it, Dan, They're going against the seven to
three Commanders team tonight, and I went through it. There
aren't many guys for the Commanders that would start for
the Eagles. There just aren't. I mean, you look at
it roster top to bottom. They've had the best defense
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in the NFL over the last five weeks, basically since
the buye since they put Cooper de gene in at nickelback,
the defense have been lights out. Now they haven't faced
a murderer's row of offenses, but they still went to
Cincinnati and beat the Bengals by twenty and they held
Joe Burrow, who's been as good as any quarterback in
the league this year, to seventeen points. And then think
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about this offensively, without any question. They have a top
five wide receiver duo and maybe the best in the
NFL without any question. They have a top five running back,
maybe the best in the NFL. They have a top
five offensive line, maybe the best in the NFL. I
think they have a top five tight end and got
her Hurts certainly since dubuy has played like a top
(16:02):
five quarterback. So if you got the best defense for
the last five weeks, your top five at worst at
almost every offensive position. I mean, they are really really good.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Now.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
Their schedule gets tougher. They got tonight, they'll play the Ravens.
You know they're gonna be tested more coming up. But Dan,
they've averaged that They've had almost one thousand more yards
than their last five opponents. They're out gaining people by
almost two hundred yards a game. I don't care who
you're playing. You don't see that in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Is the coach off the hot seat, Nick Sirianni or
was he on the hot seat?
Speaker 6 (16:40):
He was definitely on the hot seat in the court
of public opinion and among the fans. I do not
think he was on the hot seat with your organization.
I just can't see them doing that. I think that
worst case scenario for him, they would have let the
whole season play out. If it was a bad year,
then I wouldn't have been surprised if they moved on.
(17:00):
It's not a bad year. It doesn't look like it's
going to be a bad year. I think I saw
where he's second among active NFL head coaches and career
winning percentage. He's ninth all time all time, and I know,
it's not like the biggest sample size, but it's three
and a half years now, right, I mean, that's a
decent sample size to have the ninth best winning percentage
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of all time. What's funny, Dan, it's twofold, right. Everything
I just told you about the roster, and they probably
do have the best roster top to bottom in the NFL.
That doesn't mean they'll win it. They had the best
roster two years ago in twenty twenty two, and they
still lost the Super Bowl to the Chiefs. But because
of that roster, and then because of some of the
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ways that Sirianni has carried himself and he's apologized for
by the way, especially talking to the Eagles fans, a
lot of people just they don't give him the credit
when they win because the roster's so good, and if
anything goes wrong at all, it's all the blame. They
talk all that. What does he even do? He doesn't
even call offensive plays anymore. But what is Dan Campbell
(18:06):
doing Detroit? I mean, what does you know what a
lot of these coaches do. So for whatever reason, a
lot of fans don't like him. They blame him for
the collapse last year. They feel like they don't like
the way he conducted himself earlier in the year. However,
with every passing win he's his approval rating is going
(18:27):
up by like five points. Stand every week with all
these wins.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Are the Chiefs board on offense?
Speaker 6 (18:37):
I don't think so. When you watch them, though, It's
just remarkable how they keep winning these games because this
is as bad as Mahomes has played in a while.
They're not very good on the offensive side of the
ball right now. I mean, Hopkins has helped a little bit.
Their crutch is still just throwing the ball to Kelsey,
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who's not quite what he was earlier in his career,
but he's still reliable. I will say this, it's unbelievable
how many third downs they convert. They don't have many
many explosive plays, They're not putting a lot of points
on the board, but they have an incredible ability. In
my lifetime, I can't remember another situation where it's a
(19:22):
critical third down, And I wish I did Chiefs games
on TV because all I would say every third down is, uh, yeah, Jim,
I'd like to predict a Mahomes throw to Travis Kelcey
for a first down here because it's like.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Un Canada, you would do your you would do your
Tony Romo.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Yeah, you'd be right like you'd be right like the time.
If on third downs you just predicted Mahomes to Kelsey first.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Down, probably sound like this if you had, if you
were going to play the role of Tony Romo with
Jim Nance, I don't don't you what are you gonna do?
Speaker 6 (20:00):
You know what's funny about this is why your show's
so great, Dan. I thought you might go to PAULI
to do to do his Ross Tucker interpretation and do
that one. Or I thought it might be a fritzy
that that seatan that that came out of nowhere would
have been third in my rankings of who was going
(20:22):
to do the impression.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Well, we've done Tony Romo's impersonation to Jim Nance on
the show, because Seaton will come in sometimes and that's
how he does. I don't know, Jim, throw it to Kelsey.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
They can run it, they can pass it. Would you
do here, Jim?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Or I could say, how would Ross Tucker do it?
Speaker 4 (20:42):
I had a six meat platter last night, Casey a
hot bit of barbecue.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
No guy, I get it to Kelsey Kelsey here, then
the flat and then if you were working with Kevin Harlan,
it would probably sound something like this.
Speaker 9 (20:55):
The single set back is Hilaire back to path Mahomes,
It's got Travis Kelsey for another first down, and the
Chiefs are on the move once again with under two
minutes ago.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
All I just learned in the last minute is we
gotta get Marv to get some impressions. I mean, Marvin's
got to do some impressions.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Marv, do you do any impressions?
Speaker 5 (21:16):
No, I just do a bad Klay Thompson.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Oh yeah, he does Klay Thompson. But I don't know
if there's a real call for Clay Thomas.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
There isn't, no not in this instance.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
No, Okay, so give gives no, it's.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Just Lebron Gus Phillis has some game.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Would you rather have Jalen Hurt's future or Jayden daniels future.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
That's a good question. You're just talking about career, not
contract or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Career.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Okay, Well, so I think there's more upside for Jade Daniels.
He's It's funny because I really thought last year Dan
that c J. Stroud had the best rookie season for
a quarterback I could remember, especially when you consider the
Texan didn't have great receivers there O line like what
he did last year I thought was better than what
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Andrew Luck did, and now Daniels is topping it. I
mean their offensive lines average at best. They have Terry McLaurin.
I think the upside for Jaden Daniels as a player
is higher than Jalen Hurts. I think Jayden Daniels is
a better pure pocket passer. However, Hurts has the advantage
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of being with a much better, more established organization. You know,
that's a big part of it. You're seeing that with
Kayleb Williams a little bit in Chicago. Like, let's put
it this way, dan If Hurts was on the Commanders
and Daniels was on the Eagles, it would be Daniels
in a landslide. I think Daniels has higher upside to
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be a better player than Hurts. But it's still Washington, right.
I know they have a new owner, I know things
are looking promising, but it's half a season where we
have the new owner doing positive things and good for
the organization. I'm not ready to if it's a future
we're talking about. I'm not ready to go all in
really on any player with that franchise. I played for
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him twice. You can see the helmets I'm pointing to.
I know what that organization is like, and hopefully they're
kind of removing the stink from the previous owner. But
I gotta go with I gotta go with the nest
and the environment that Hurts has around him.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Ross Tucker CBS Sports Westwood One analyst. He'll be on
the call tonight the Eagles and the Commanders. Check out
the Ross Tucker Football podcast. Also, he has the Raiders
and the Dolphins on Sunday on CBS. You know, you
start to look at some of these games. You got
the Ravens and the Steelers. That's it's always great no
matter what the records are. The Bengals at the Chargers
(23:55):
is sneaky great. Yeah, out of those two games, which
matchup do you like better?
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Well? So, Bengals Chargers. That's a huge game for both
those teams. That's I can't That's a beautiful Sunday night game.
But Ravens Steelers for a long time has been my
favorite rivalry in the NFL. And it's funny Dan, I
know you talked about gambling sometimes, but on the even
(24:22):
Money betting podcast, I saw earlier this week where the
Ravens were laying three and a half. I thought it
was a joke. Dan, These teams have played five hundred times.
It's come down to a field goal or less every
single time. It's thirteen to ten every game. Maybe now
it's like seventeen, sixteen, twenty seventeen. I love this rivalry
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because it's always competitive, always hard hitting, always fun take.
It always comes down to a fieldal I'm taking the
Ravens to win the game, but I'm loving the Steelers
plus the three and a half. Love it.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Okay, the news that Aaron Rodgers is thinking about coming
back next season means what?
Speaker 10 (25:08):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (25:08):
I think it's fun to just speculate on which team
will be desperate enough to give that a shot, because
I don't think it'll be the Jets.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Oh, Okay, I don't.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
I don't think they're gonna now here's the other thing, Dan.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I don't really.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
I would be sort of surprised, and I have no
evidence on this, right, I'd be sort of surprised that
Aaron Rodgers starts every game the rest of the year
for the Jets, and I'd be very impressed if he does.
I guess I just have a tough time picturing him
playing out the string in these meaningless games in December.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
I wouldn't be I can't see him on the sidelines.
I can't what's that, I can't see him on the sidelines.
I just there is no way, as ego is gonna
be like, you know, I'm gonna hold a clipboard here.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
No, what I think it is, dan is. I think
there would be some type of injury because he gets
hurt a lot, right, he gets banged up a lot.
At some point there might come a time. I wouldn't
be surprised if at some point there comes a time
where there's an injury that they decide, you know what,
(26:21):
let's let this thing heal not play the last three
or four games. I might be wrong, and I hope
I am. And I'll be thoroughly impressed if he sucks
it up and plays all of these meaningless games in December.
I'll have a lot of respect for Aaron if he
does that.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Yeah, I didn't factor in if he would play someplace else.
And you said if somebody's dests, like if I'm the Jets.
I don't want him to come back because it impedes
me getting a really good coach because there's no coach
that wants to come in. And you got Aaron for one,
like a gap year, like it just you don't want
to want who.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
Came to mine right away? Dan, And you will see
the draft goes and I'm sure they want to draft
Shador Sanders, but the other teams probably do as well,
the Raiders. The Raiders because Antonio Peers obviously this year
is not going well. If he gets his second year,
it's like win or else. Brady's a part owner now.
(27:19):
I think Brady probably feels like, hey, I could do
it in my early forties, Aaron can do it in
his early forties. And Mark Davis he just let Tom
Brady get like a fifty percent discount on five percent equity.
Like Mark Davis likes, he likes stars, he likes big name.
I mean, who gives someone He basically handed Brady millions
(27:44):
of dollars to be a very minor owner on the team.
I think I could see the Raiders doing it this offseason.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
You played for the Cowboys. Did the Sun ever bother
you when you played for the Cowboys.
Speaker 10 (27:58):
No.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
You know what, though, when I play, I play the
old what do they call it, Texas Stadium where it
was like the hole was just where the field was,
you know, in other words, like the fans were protected,
but it was right over the field was the opening.
The crazy thing about that is growing up outside of
Philly and watching the Cowboys my whole life on TV.
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Texas Stadium always looked so awesome on TV. I'll never
forget the first time I went there as a rookie.
Down was like, this place is kind of a dump.
I had no idea. I had no idea. It's amazing
how sometimes on TV things can look a lot.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
But do you think that's a home field advantage to
have blinding sunlight?
Speaker 6 (28:44):
Definitely not, and it certainly wasn't for Ceedee Lamb when
he should have had a touchdown.
Speaker 10 (28:49):
In the game.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
And if it is a home field advantage, then Mike
McCarthy didn't take advantage of it by calculating here's what
I know. Okay, because he's been asked about a lot
this week. Kellen Moore is the Eagles offensive coordinator. Kellen
Moore played for the Cowboys for a while was a
coach there for a while, including me and the coordinator.
He said, it's something you have to take into account.
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He said, it's a factor. So I guess it is
a home field advantage if the home team realizes that
and takes advantage of it and the away team doesn't.
Evidently Kellen Moore, now on the away team, was more
aware of it than Mike McCarthy and the Cowboys on
the home team.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Crazy crazy, have fun tonight.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
I will can't wait. It's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
And then you got the Raiders and the Dolphins Sunday
on CBS. So man, look at you, busy, proud of you.
Speaker 6 (29:46):
Thank you man. I appreciate that. Me and Iron Eagle tonight.
Does anybody have an Iron Eagle impression? I'll listen when
I hang out.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Let me see Todd. Do you have an iron Eagle?
Speaker 5 (29:54):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Now, yeah, we.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Got to get an eye eagle impression. He's amazing.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Well, we'll work on it. We'll work on Thank you.
Speaker 10 (30:02):
Ross.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
That's Ross Tucker. Rossington Tucker is Football podcast and he'll
be on the call tonight west Wood One, the Commanders
and the Eagles.
Speaker 7 (30:11):
Iron Eagles be sure to catch the live edition of
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Speaker 2 (30:23):
He is a four time NBA cham, three time NBA
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Are you still a Cowboy fan? Of course, Lion, even
all through all of this stuff, through all of.
Speaker 10 (31:00):
This stuff, I'm still a Cowboys fan.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
I have faith faith in this season.
Speaker 10 (31:06):
Well, you know what, So how many games I got left?
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Seven?
Speaker 10 (31:12):
All right? So we went all seven? We got a
chance for the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Yeah, but you don't have dag, but we'll be fine.
Speaker 10 (31:20):
So, yes, I still have faith. We're gonna win seven
in a row. We're gonna make the playoffs, and we're
gonna surprise some people.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Can you tell the story of when you spend a
million dollars in thirty minutes. Can you tell my audience
that story?
Speaker 10 (31:35):
So I received the maion dollars from a car deal
and I always wanted a black on black Mercedes Benz.
So I got the check and I look at the check. Well,
actually I didn't even look at the check. I just
took it to the bank, signed the papers like I
didn't even know that the check said six fifty dollars.
(31:55):
But we'll get back there. So I go straight to
the dealership. I haven't on the negotiating skills. It's like,
how much is this? Bence deal was like one hundred
and fifty thousands, So in my mind one minue minus
one fifty, I'm still rich. I still got eight hundred
that was left. So I get this bench and I
go home. I'm showing off to my dad and my
dad was like, man, I wish I had one of these,
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and I was like, you know what, come on? So
we jumped and I get the same exact bed. So
now eight fifty minus one fifty. Man, I got what
one hundred thousand left? Right, I'm rich. So we come
back and then my mom she says the same thing.
So we get out of the little bit it's one
hundred thousands. So now I got six hundred thousand left.
(32:36):
So now after I take care that, now I got
to go get the jewelry and the rings. I buy
about twenty draft suits. I read this high rise apartment
on San Antonio for a year. I don't even know
why I did it for a year. I wasn't under
saying that, but this is like seventy thousand a month.
I just paid it all the front. And then a
(32:57):
couple of days later, the bank mind You called me
and he pulled me in and he said, mister Odell,
I don't want you to be like all these athletes
when we get money and they go broke. And I
was like yeah. So he showed me the bank statements.
Time I saw Fika, and it just made me go
back to the story because you know how there's some
(33:18):
bores stories out there of agents they steal money, and
accounts steal money. But Fika had took so much money,
and I looked at the bank and I was like,
who the hell is fighting. He's like, mister, you need
to educate yourself. And after that, I was like, you
know what I need to I need to slow down.
But that's the true story.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
What's the smallest car you've ever owned?
Speaker 10 (33:38):
The smallest car owned. I had to buy two Ferraris.
One was wrecked, one was salvage. I had to buy
a brand new one. I cut the brand and one
and have took a piece together and made a Ferrari
to be out there online.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
That's when you got too much money, when you buying
two Ferraris and you're you're cutting them in a half shack.
Speaker 10 (34:02):
Yeah, you know, no. I think I think people understand
what made me a really good basketball player is I
tried to I tried to imagine myself as little. So
when Magic Johnson came on the scene at six ' nine,
I would already six nine sixteen. I even say to myself, well,
I had Magic can be a guard. I could be
a guard. So I used to always do things that
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the little guys did.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
But if you were twenty years of age right.
Speaker 10 (34:26):
Now, Oh, I had this conversation the other day, I
would I would train my butt off, train my butt off,
because the motivation is really having I would train my
butt off and I would be sitting and be watching
all the great players. I would love to have a
little bit of Steph Curry in my game. I would
love to have a little bit of Luca in my game.
(34:48):
And I would love to have a little bit Shock
in my game. And then the target is Luca's new contract.
What I mean by that, Luca will probably be making
eighty ninety million leves. So now if I can beat
that good, I could probably get sixty seventy. If I'm
half as good as Luca, I get forty. If I'm
half as good as that, I get twenties. But you
know that would be my goal right now, like because
(35:10):
you know Luca's probably gonna be But I said make
it eighty two one hundred million dollars. I was nineteen
twenty years old right now. That exactly what I'd be thinking,
and I was still everybody's moves all the James Harden
step back to when Vignanda Baja, I will steal everything.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
What if we took away the three point line? Who
would be the best team in the NBA if we took.
Speaker 10 (35:31):
Away everyone line? That's a good question. I'm not sure, man,
you you just gave me a brain fight right now.
I can't I can't even imagine the team that you drees.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
I would love to see the NBA take away the
three for a week and just see how teams play,
because it's I mean, you've talked about it like Steph
is so good that everybody wants to be Steph. But
nobody can be sticky and the basketball is not good
right now, and I don't know how to fix it.
Speaker 10 (36:06):
I know how to fix it bringing back some creativity
to the game. You know the reason why podcasts are
are successful. Everybody has a different podcast. You see what
I'm saying, Like your show is different from somebody else's show,
different from Steve and a different from our show. That's
why we're all successful. If you look at the NBA,
(36:26):
every team is running the same play. Every team switches
one through five. Every team is running a dribble handoff.
Back in our day, you had plays you have to
I saw. I don't understand why coaches don't look at
their strengths. They say, Okay, this is the type of
offense we go on. It's a copycat lead. But you
have to have the personnelity to be able to shoot
(36:46):
fifty theories. I saw it the other day. I actually
got to save to my home Portland went four for
forty two from the three. If I was a fan,
I would now want to watch that. So my point is,
if you're going to shoot nine percent or whatever it is,
why not what you even shoot threes? Like, you're definitely
not gonna win, And like, as an owner, I'm trying
to win. I don't want to pay guys thirty forty
(37:08):
million dollars and we don't have a chance to win.
So until they bring some creativity back in the game, this, uh,
this thing we know is the NBA, the viewership is
going to continue to decline.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Why does the Joe Ellenbach situation bother you so much?
Speaker 10 (37:24):
Because he has so much potential and I love all
the big man As you can see from shooting over threes,
the big man is you know, starting to slide away
and enter into their atmosphere. But you got Victor Wimmen
out of seventy five shooting threes. I'm not saying don't
shoot the three, but that shouldn't be. That shouldn't be
the majority of your game, majority of the beginnings. Tribute
(37:46):
to dominate, get your teammates open, and then when defenses
start panicking it and you know you can't really get
a lot of room inside, then step out to open
and back up. So I just see a lot of
you know, potential in it, and hopefully he gets upset
with what I'm saying, and you know, he turns it up.
But we as fans know what we see. We can
(38:09):
look in the eye of a person and sees if
they want it. And something's going on with him. I
don't know if he's hurt, if he's injured, but he
didn't look like he wants to be it. When I
look at Joker. When I look at Joker and how
he plays, and this is why he's the best big
man in the league.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Shuck, he's playing the best of his career. I mean
that's saying a lot.
Speaker 10 (38:33):
The Joker is bawling nothing but respect Van. I don't
know if he got mad at me last year, but
when Miran said that, I think Shay deserves the MVP.
But I actually hope he is mad because I love
the way he's playing, Like he shoots the three and
on it, but he mixes it up and you know,
he plays in the way that you know when he
(38:53):
starts scoring and doing all that stuff, they start doubling
and then he get Jamal Murray, my guy Russell Westbrook
is starting to pick it up, playing very well. I
really liked how I didn't was playing.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
How would you have guarded you in your prime? You can't,
But you couldn't have guarded you.
Speaker 10 (39:12):
No, you can't, you really can't. And so the only
time I was slow down when they initiated that new defense.
And you have to double on the triple team. But
like when when i'm because one of them, always get
to my spot and if that jump hook is gone,
I'm gonna get going. And then if you try to
use your strength, that's when I went to my tai
(39:33):
chi and did a little you Like a lot of
guys try to use strength, but when they initiated their strength,
I will release my strength and just and just roll off.
And that's how I was able to always get to
my spot.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
Was there a shorter guy, smaller guy who gave you?
Speaker 10 (39:51):
Yeah? Oakley uh freaking uh okally uh a horn Bonner
Mason Barkley at times like because they because they can
get in your back and if you hit in the back,
it would help you unrelease that core. Because like when
(40:13):
I when I get to the post, I tightened up
it into the corps. But they were hitching your back
and you have to go like that. And you know
they was always able to move me.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
But did they hurt you when there was hack a shack?
Speaker 10 (40:24):
I didn't. It didn't hurt no, because I, uh I
was always a football player. The reason why my Dallas
Cowboys lay because when I was growing up, I used
to tell people that add two tall Jones was my
uncle and frank O Harris was my umle. So I
uh I liked I liked the initiating pain, and I
(40:46):
like to see them pink.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
Wait, so you would boy people and say ed too
told Jones unrelated to him and related to Franco. Yes,
but why why Franco?
Speaker 10 (40:58):
Because my father's last name was Harris. So yeah, like
your dad's last name is Harrison's that same thing, same thing.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
What's the coolest thing in your office?
Speaker 10 (41:10):
In my office, all my Emmy's, well not Miami's, all
Ermie's emmys. I think we got like eight of nine
of them.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
Is that a ball behind you.
Speaker 10 (41:21):
You see? No, I can't turn my head all the chairman.
Oh yeah, that was uh yeah, Amy's up there. And
I got a championship, championship trophies and MVP trophies.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
There's a basketball right over your left shoulder, isn't there.
Oh it's a helmet.
Speaker 10 (41:41):
Yeah, it's a helmet.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
What's the helmet from.
Speaker 10 (41:45):
H old you Man, Redbox.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
There's no way that helmet fits. That helmet if you
put it on, ain't coming off. Maybe you could buy
the Cowboys one day.
Speaker 10 (42:03):
No, I'm not that rich.
Speaker 2 (42:05):
Oh, well you're getting there, I think I am. Are
you a billionaire?
Speaker 10 (42:12):
No, I don't know. I never checked.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
I would check with Fika.
Speaker 10 (42:18):
The little kid asked me the other day how does
it to be rich? And I asked you. My definition
of riches being able to buy my mother whatever she wants.
My favorite person in the world, and I always see
flashbacks of our life. The other day I was in
a Walmart foot in the promo and I saw a
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lady with a tall kid and three little girls. Now
I'm following a lady and that's a lady shopping. She's
getting stuff with the little babies right, and big guys
just being a protector whatever. So I go over. I said,
how much is spending? She said, well, all I got.
I was like, here's five thousand, give what you want.
But my point is my mother is on a favorite person.
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I've seen this women sacrifice so much. My mom, I'm
sure with a lot of people's moms. You used to
have used to have to wear the same pants Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday and just switch up the shirts. So when
I was becoming successful, I always wanted to make sure
she had whatever she wanted. Like my parents did get
their own house until I got drafted, and I always
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want to ensure that they would keep that forever. So
that's why I've always paid attention when I come to
the finance and all that stuff. But I don't really
check on what I got or what I have as
long as my mother doesn't have to feel like she
felt when when we were young. That's my definition of
being rich.
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Speaker 10 (43:58):
You didn't say it right, see, I had to remember
as and I was supposed to say, well.
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Speaker 2 (44:27):
Do you do you gamble like Charles?
Speaker 10 (44:31):
No? I do not gamble like Charles.
Speaker 2 (44:35):
When's the last time you placed a big bet?
Speaker 10 (44:38):
I'm not sure I have to. Oh, I'm placing one
this weekend.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
Oh what do you got?
Speaker 10 (44:44):
Oh? Mike Tyson baby all the way?
Speaker 2 (44:48):
Yeah, I don't know, Shank, what I don't know? Oh,
here's a thirty year difference between these two.
Speaker 10 (44:58):
Got my hand. I got my hand on the decline
e Jack. But if he wasn't one of my good friends,
I would have been hit that button. Are you kidding me?
I don't care about that.
Speaker 2 (45:07):
Oh no, I'm rooting for Mike.
Speaker 11 (45:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (45:10):
But yeah, but when I said my sill the winner,
you didn't have a lot of confidence. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (45:16):
How much you're going to bet on it?
Speaker 10 (45:18):
A lot?
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Well, what's a lot?
Speaker 10 (45:22):
One million?
Speaker 2 (45:29):
Great to talk to you? Are you going to go
to the super Bowl in Louisiana.
Speaker 10 (45:34):
Yes, I will be there. One house will be there.
And you definitely got party, the tickets to the party.
It's the number one super Bowl party for the last
ten years. You were invited, bring who you want to bring.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
I was going to bring Taylor Swift. But okay, wait,
you don't think I can bring Taylor Swift.
Speaker 10 (45:56):
Hey, I'm not in that.
Speaker 6 (46:02):
I don't.
Speaker 10 (46:04):
I don't want no problem with the Kelsey Boys.
Speaker 2 (46:09):
Great to talk to you again, Thanks for joining us.
As always, all right,
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
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Speaker 3 (00:21):
Twenty twenty five, not twenty to twenty five calendars available.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Correct, twenty twenty five is the calendar year? Yes, yes, yes,
there are more than twenty to twenty five calendars available, yes, yes, yes, right.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Do you want Paul's pole question or the multitude of
thods Todds?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, let me start with PAULI because he seemed like
he was in a good mood today. Yes, maybe that
will be reflected in his poll question. Yes, yes, Paul.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Before the poll, I was just looking at the lebron James.
He turns forty on December thirtieth, Oka, like you, you
were just saying, like he's going to have he's going
to create all the forty records the next months, like
they're going to be his and his forever. And then
the other guy who's really relevant Cooper Flag. He turns
eighteen eighteen on December nineteenth.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah, all right, he'll be in the NBA next year
as an eighteen year old.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
December twenty first, two thousand and six is when Cooper
Flag was born, two thousand and six. On that night,
Lebron was in his like third year, fourth year in
the league, and had twenty six points.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Then, y, yeah, Lebron will face him. Lebron will be forty,
Cooper Flag will be eighteen, and Bronni will probably still
be in the G League only playing home games.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yes, Seaton, Yeah, we're about to hit an era two
where let's see if Cooper Flag was born in two
thousand and six, right, we started doing the show and
you're attic in two thousand and seven, so we're going
to we're reaching an era where modern professional athletes entire
lifespan has been lived during this version of The Dan
(01:59):
Patrick Show.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Okay, all right, I feel old.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Yeah, same.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
What are some of Todd's whole questions? Oh well, no,
we didn't get to Paulie.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Oh yeah, that's right, Paul the most sure thing future,
the future you would bet most on. All right, Victor
wimban Yama at a Monster Knight, Jayden Daniels, Okay, he's
doing well. We have room for two others. Travis Hunter
could be on there. That's a bit of a risky one.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Schu Door Sanders.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Okay, if he wanted to put nepotism.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Any other youngsters that you want to put in there?
Speaker 6 (02:45):
Right?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
That is the question, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah, it feels like we need a baseball youngster, but
they don't really exist.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Kidding?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
One Soto.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Yeah, I'll tell you what. I'll bet on his bank
account's future. That's for damn sure.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I don't want him. I don't want him.
Speaker 7 (03:04):
What.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
No, I don't want your Anti Soto. I am Anti Soto. No, No,
not interested. It's it's so much money, over so many years.
I just I have no interest in that.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
None.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
You know, I got Otani. Otani's special. He's unique. There's
no one like him. One Soto. The talented player bounced
around a couple of teams, already gonna be bouncing around again.
And you're gonna pay him six hundred million dollars. If
I'm paying that kind of money, I want you to
be a gate attraction. I want you to be a
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box office star. One Soto is not a box office star.
He's just a really good baseball player. I mean, Mike
Trout as great as he is, not a box office star.
You just go that guy knows how to play.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
All right.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Like, if I'm spending that kind of money, you got
to be great.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
So five years ago you were cool with Bryce Harper
because he puts people on the.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Sta Yes, he is a box he's he would be
a box office kind of ballplayer. Absolutely, you would show up.
People show up to see him. Aaron Judge, they show
up to see him. Otani, they show up to see him.
But I don't know if there's anybody else in that category.
And I'm not spending six hundred million dollars on him.
(04:25):
Like what market am I tapping into? I got Japan
with Otani and we saw that in the ratings, like
they're watching fifteen million people a night when they were
in the playoffs. But Juan Soto, he's an average fielder.
He's a wonderful hitter, but what does he have, Like
(04:48):
are you saying, man, he whoses with charisma or whatever
it might be. No, I don't want one Soto talented player,
but that kind of money, I got to get a
little bit more.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Yes, Marvin, about a discount of only three hundred million dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Oh, it's not gonna happen because Scott Morris is his agent.
Speaker 8 (05:04):
Oh, I'd say it was gonna happen. But if it
was three hundredllion dollars, would you take him over?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
How many years?
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Tayll?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Of course I would. That's thirty million a year, so
what's sixty?
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Come on, what's another thirty?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Don't hire the Barbinezer agent. Thirty million. Yeah, that's the
difference between thirty million and sixty.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Wan Soda just turned twenty six years old for all
Star games in a row.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yeah, I don't. I don't care. I don't want that,
not for that kind of money. I gotta get something
off the field as well. Yes, Mark, but.
Speaker 8 (05:36):
There's only three guys that are really box office in
Major League Baseball anyway, So you're gonna have to overpay
for him. You're gonna have to overpay for all these
guys except for Judge.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You have a Judge is worth that. Otani's worth that,
Like they give me more. Judges must see TV. Otanis
must see TV. When's the last time you said, hey,
let me know when Ota or let me know, when
Soda up to the plate, it doesn't happen. You're not
showing up to see him. Boy, he hit a ball,
you know, clear out a Yankee stadium. He's a really
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good player. But there has to be some fiscal responsibility
when you're just saying, hey, here you go.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
I'm sure they have their accountants and they can say
this is why this is going to work. I mean,
even the money the Dodgers spent on Otani, I mean,
I got it. It's still seven hundred million dollars and
all takes is an injury or two and then what
do you have and then you're paying off somebody. I mean,
(06:37):
I don't get it. But I mean Soto is going
to get that money because Scott Morris is going to
make sure he gets that money. You're going to go
to the highest bidder. Red Sox are going to be involved, Yankees, Mets,
maybe the Giants, San Francisco Giants get involved in this. Hey,
who knows, they'll be There'll be enough. There'll be enough
teams to make this interesting. That's all Scott Morris wants.
(07:00):
I need somebody to bid against somebody. That's it. Yes, Yeah, poem.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
It is funny that star power and production doesn't always match.
Like Ellie de la Cruz of the Reds has a
truckload of star power and he's fun to watch these
exciting he's like a wild man out there. But his
numbers are good. He's got good numbers. Not Ronald Acunya
numbers or Jan Soda numbers, but Ellie de la Cruz.
When I see on Sports Center or whatever, Oh he's
up or here's a highlight, I tune in. I picked
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my head up a little bit.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Well, first of all, you got a short stop who's
doing this and he's maybe the fastest guy in bad
Like there's entertainment to him. Now, do I want to
spend six hundred and seven hundred million on Ellie de
la Cruz. No, I don't. But you know, this is
why teams get into these situations. The Browns were stupid
and they go, we gotta have Deshaun Watson. We're gonna
give him whatever we want. Now, look at what he's
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done to the franchise. You know the Giants with Daniel Jones,
lads give him the money. Like you know Jaguars do
they have a franchise quarterback they gave him the money here.
You know, just you get drunk. Sometimes you're like, we
got to be really smart, we got to be really smart.
And then all of a sudden they were like, let's
be stupid. And then you start spending this money, and
(08:09):
then you say to your team, we can't do anything.
We're financially strapped. Let's be stupid. Yeah, let's stupid. You
do that on a daily basis, right, Todd? Now we
make a living. Yes, how stupid we could be for
three hours? Okay, what other poll questions do we have?
Speaker 6 (08:31):
Stupid?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Let's see, we could dive into the t O dubs.
Oh okay, those are always enlightening. Od this is one
of Todd's. Do you like big men shooting threes? Heck yeah,
it's kind of freakishly awesome.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Or hate it? Stay down low and grab rebounds, dude,
I like when they make threes. I don't like when
they shoot threes. Kind of feel like it's unfair. Well,
you're not go a block when by Nyama's shot on
the perimeter. Uh, Karl Anthony Towns, he had a I
think he had forty six last night.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I reinvented the game.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yes he did. I think this the first time in
NBA history that you've had three players on the same
night score forty six or more. So you had Jannis
and you had Victor, and then you had Karl Anthony
in the towns.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Yes, yes, see, big men shooting threes is kind of
like a bear. It's unfair that a bear is that strong,
that fast, and can climb. That's unfair. There's no reason
to be all three of those things. You could be
that fast, you could be that strong, but don't climb.
Come on, this is stupid. You ever see how fast
they climb a tree is crazy. That's what Victor wembin
(09:43):
Yama being a good three point shooter is.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
We're gonna call him the bear bear, the Victor the
bear when bear Yama? Okay, got it, Todd, Yes, Paul.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
He's up to eight and a half threes attempted per game.
He took five and a half last year. His three
point percentages up from thirty two to thirty five percent.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
He's twenty one years old. But see, that's the scary part.
And I always said, if Yannis learned how to hit
a mid range jumper, no one would be able to
stop him. He could average forty a night if he
wanted to, Well, he doesn't have a good shot, but
wehm ban Yama. If you say, all right, pick your
poison perimeter or inside, then that's dangerous. And he's really young.
(10:26):
He's got a handle. He can be inside outside, he
can play defense inside and outside. He can play defense
inside and outside while not even moving. He can be
in the paint and still guard you on the perimeter.
Scary what the future is for him? I would definitely
I would invest in that stock of all the younger
players that you're talking about. Victor Wembnyama. He's just learning
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how to play the game. And if you get a
consistent point guard with him, scary, scary how great he's
going to be. And he's had three consecutive re good
games here where he's getting thirty and twelve and then
you know, you have fifty points in twenty six minutes
of work. I mean, if you're looking at points per minute,
(11:10):
that's up. There is there an efficiency rating? What is yeah?
The efficiency rate? Let me check the metrics here.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
The efficiency rating.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
On this it's got to be off the charts. Is
that how somebody in analytics speaks? Well, I don't know
it feels like we always say, you know, that's what,
let me check the metrics here. I would probably be
more like, well, let me check the efficiency rating on this,
and then we'll see that sounds actually one of the
top performers this year in efficiency rating. And then you
have to push your glasses back.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Victor Wimbanama's inficiency rating?
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
It's all the Jains, the best in the league.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
That's pretty perfect, right there.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
We're such no at all, We're perfect. Let's be stupid,
all right, let me take a break.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
It's just more fun when you make fun of everything.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
It's just more fun. Well, when you make fun of yourself,
then you can make fun of everything. Yeah we are.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
We're just making fun of our industry.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
So you gotta laugh at yourself first. I got to
beat you to the punch, although we did.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
We have spent most of the week torching dentists too,
and we only.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Spent a couple of minutes yesterday on that. I know,
there's they're still fallout from that. My friend who's a dentist,
who has the sausage fingers, Yeah, all of a sudden
I see him. He goes, uh, hey, sausage fingers.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
I said, yeah, yeah, Are you trying to drop weight
in his fingers?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
No, No, he's he's he's a big guy, former football player.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
You're gonna fill cabinties.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
You don't have whoa easy there, Todd, I.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Didn't realize the.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Easy they're to. What are we doing here? Come on,
let's be stupid. Let me take a break here. I
think we just got started here. I'm not sure. Let's
regroup here coming. Oh Shaquille o'neils making a big man.
De Patrick, shut that up. He'll join us later on
Our Good Buddy Ross Tucker will stop by.
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Speaker 2 (13:24):
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Commanders and the Eagles. When's the last time you remember
the Washington football team being good and likable?
Speaker 6 (13:42):
I think they were good and likable the RG three
rookie year. Okay, you know, they basically brought a lot
of the college concepts that RG three had done at
Baylor to the NFL. It's a big reason, I think
Dan why he was so successful that year, why they
were so success is because defensive coordinators in the NFL
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hadn't seen a lot of the RPOs. They hadn't seen
the zone read stuff, and so RG three took the
league by storm. The city was fired up. I hadn't
seen at the time, at least Redskin fans like that
in a long long time. And then he gets hurt
in the playoff game and it was just over. It
was very fleeting. This, obviously, with Jayden Daniels, feels a
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lot more sustainable.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
I like your Eagles a lot. I like them a
lot more than I probably want to. But Jalen Hurts
has played well. They don't rely on the pass. They
it feels like they're a Saquon Barkley led offense here,
And I don't want fools gold here Where I'm buying
into it. It is am I seeing what I'm supposed
(14:51):
to see with the Eagles. Are you seeing the same
thing that they might be the second best team in
the NFC?
Speaker 6 (14:57):
Well, I think they are the second best team in
the NFC. They're very, very good and here's how I
look at it, Dan, They're going against the seven to
three Commanders team tonight, and I went through it. There
aren't many guys for the Commanders that would start for
the Eagles. There just aren't. I mean, you look at
it roster top to bottom. They've had the best defense
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in the NFL over the last five weeks, basically since
the buye since they put Cooper de gene in at nickelback,
the defense have been lights out. Now they haven't faced
a murderer's row of offenses, but they still went to
Cincinnati and beat the Bengals by twenty and they held
Joe Burrow, who's been as good as any quarterback in
the league this year, to seventeen points. And then think
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about this offensively, without any question. They have a top
five wide receiver duo and maybe the best in the
NFL without any question. They have a top five running back,
maybe the best in the NFL. They have a top
five offensive line, maybe the best in the NFL. I
think they have a top five tight end and got
her Hurts certainly since dubuy has played like a top
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five quarterback. So if you got the best defense for
the last five weeks, your top five at worst at
almost every offensive position. I mean, they are really really good.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Now.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
Their schedule gets tougher. They got tonight, they'll play the Ravens.
You know they're gonna be tested more coming up. But Dan,
they've averaged that They've had almost one thousand more yards
than their last five opponents. They're out gaining people by
almost two hundred yards a game. I don't care who
you're playing. You don't see that in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Is the coach off the hot seat, Nick Sirianni or
was he on the hot seat?
Speaker 6 (16:40):
He was definitely on the hot seat in the court
of public opinion and among the fans. I do not
think he was on the hot seat with your organization.
I just can't see them doing that. I think that
worst case scenario for him, they would have let the
whole season play out. If it was a bad year,
then I wouldn't have been surprised if they moved on.
(17:00):
It's not a bad year. It doesn't look like it's
going to be a bad year. I think I saw
where he's second among active NFL head coaches and career
winning percentage. He's ninth all time all time, and I know,
it's not like the biggest sample size, but it's three
and a half years now, right, I mean, that's a
decent sample size to have the ninth best winning percentage
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of all time. What's funny, Dan, it's twofold, right. Everything
I just told you about the roster, and they probably
do have the best roster top to bottom in the NFL.
That doesn't mean they'll win it. They had the best
roster two years ago in twenty twenty two, and they
still lost the Super Bowl to the Chiefs. But because
of that roster, and then because of some of the
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ways that Sirianni has carried himself and he's apologized for
by the way, especially talking to the Eagles fans, a
lot of people just they don't give him the credit
when they win because the roster's so good, and if
anything goes wrong at all, it's all the blame. They
talk all that. What does he even do? He doesn't
even call offensive plays anymore. But what is Dan Campbell
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doing Detroit? I mean, what does you know what a
lot of these coaches do. So for whatever reason, a
lot of fans don't like him. They blame him for
the collapse last year. They feel like they don't like
the way he conducted himself earlier in the year. However,
with every passing win he's his approval rating is going
(18:27):
up by like five points. Stand every week with all
these wins.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Are the Chiefs board on offense?
Speaker 6 (18:37):
I don't think so. When you watch them, though, It's
just remarkable how they keep winning these games because this
is as bad as Mahomes has played in a while.
They're not very good on the offensive side of the
ball right now. I mean, Hopkins has helped a little bit.
Their crutch is still just throwing the ball to Kelsey,
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who's not quite what he was earlier in his career,
but he's still reliable. I will say this, it's unbelievable
how many third downs they convert. They don't have many
many explosive plays, They're not putting a lot of points
on the board, but they have an incredible ability. In
my lifetime, I can't remember another situation where it's a
(19:22):
critical third down, And I wish I did Chiefs games
on TV because all I would say every third down is, uh, yeah, Jim,
I'd like to predict a Mahomes throw to Travis Kelcey
for a first down here because it's like.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Un Canada, you would do your you would do your
Tony Romo.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Yeah, you'd be right like you'd be right like the time.
If on third downs you just predicted Mahomes to Kelsey first.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Down, probably sound like this if you had, if you
were going to play the role of Tony Romo with
Jim Nance, I don't don't you what are you gonna do?
Speaker 6 (20:00):
You know what's funny about this is why your show's
so great, Dan. I thought you might go to PAULI
to do to do his Ross Tucker interpretation and do
that one. Or I thought it might be a fritzy
that that seatan that that came out of nowhere would
have been third in my rankings of who was going
(20:22):
to do the impression.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Well, we've done Tony Romo's impersonation to Jim Nance on
the show, because Seaton will come in sometimes and that's
how he does. I don't know, Jim, throw it to Kelsey.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
They can run it, they can pass it. Would you
do here, Jim?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Or I could say, how would Ross Tucker do it?
Speaker 4 (20:42):
I had a six meat platter last night, Casey a
hot bit of barbecue.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
No guy, I get it to Kelsey Kelsey here, then
the flat and then if you were working with Kevin Harlan,
it would probably sound something like this.
Speaker 9 (20:55):
The single set back is Hilaire back to path Mahomes,
It's got Travis Kelsey for another first down, and the
Chiefs are on the move once again with under two
minutes ago.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
All I just learned in the last minute is we
gotta get Marv to get some impressions. I mean, Marvin's
got to do some impressions.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Marv, do you do any impressions?
Speaker 5 (21:16):
No, I just do a bad Klay Thompson.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Oh yeah, he does Klay Thompson. But I don't know
if there's a real call for Clay Thomas.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
There isn't, no not in this instance.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
No, Okay, so give gives no, it's.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Just Lebron Gus Phillis has some game.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Would you rather have Jalen Hurt's future or Jayden daniels future.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
That's a good question. You're just talking about career, not
contract or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Career.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Okay, Well, so I think there's more upside for Jade Daniels.
He's It's funny because I really thought last year Dan
that c J. Stroud had the best rookie season for
a quarterback I could remember, especially when you consider the
Texan didn't have great receivers there O line like what
he did last year I thought was better than what
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Andrew Luck did, and now Daniels is topping it. I
mean their offensive lines average at best. They have Terry McLaurin.
I think the upside for Jaden Daniels as a player
is higher than Jalen Hurts. I think Jayden Daniels is
a better pure pocket passer. However, Hurts has the advantage
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of being with a much better, more established organization. You know,
that's a big part of it. You're seeing that with
Kayleb Williams a little bit in Chicago. Like, let's put
it this way, dan If Hurts was on the Commanders
and Daniels was on the Eagles, it would be Daniels
in a landslide. I think Daniels has higher upside to
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be a better player than Hurts. But it's still Washington, right.
I know they have a new owner, I know things
are looking promising, but it's half a season where we
have the new owner doing positive things and good for
the organization. I'm not ready to if it's a future
we're talking about. I'm not ready to go all in
really on any player with that franchise. I played for
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him twice. You can see the helmets I'm pointing to.
I know what that organization is like, and hopefully they're
kind of removing the stink from the previous owner. But
I gotta go with I gotta go with the nest
and the environment that Hurts has around him.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Ross Tucker CBS Sports Westwood One analyst. He'll be on
the call tonight the Eagles and the Commanders. Check out
the Ross Tucker Football podcast. Also, he has the Raiders
and the Dolphins on Sunday on CBS. You know, you
start to look at some of these games. You got
the Ravens and the Steelers. That's it's always great no
matter what the records are. The Bengals at the Chargers
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is sneaky great. Yeah, out of those two games, which
matchup do you like better?
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Well? So, Bengals Chargers. That's a huge game for both
those teams. That's I can't That's a beautiful Sunday night game.
But Ravens Steelers for a long time has been my
favorite rivalry in the NFL. And it's funny Dan, I
know you talked about gambling sometimes, but on the even
(24:22):
Money betting podcast, I saw earlier this week where the
Ravens were laying three and a half. I thought it
was a joke. Dan, These teams have played five hundred times.
It's come down to a field goal or less every
single time. It's thirteen to ten every game. Maybe now
it's like seventeen, sixteen, twenty seventeen. I love this rivalry
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because it's always competitive, always hard hitting, always fun take.
It always comes down to a fieldal I'm taking the
Ravens to win the game, but I'm loving the Steelers
plus the three and a half. Love it.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Okay, the news that Aaron Rodgers is thinking about coming
back next season means what?
Speaker 10 (25:08):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (25:08):
I think it's fun to just speculate on which team
will be desperate enough to give that a shot, because
I don't think it'll be the Jets.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Oh, Okay, I don't.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
I don't think they're gonna now here's the other thing, Dan.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I don't really.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
I would be sort of surprised, and I have no
evidence on this, right, I'd be sort of surprised that
Aaron Rodgers starts every game the rest of the year
for the Jets, and I'd be very impressed if he does.
I guess I just have a tough time picturing him
playing out the string in these meaningless games in December.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
I wouldn't be I can't see him on the sidelines.
I can't what's that, I can't see him on the sidelines.
I just there is no way, as ego is gonna
be like, you know, I'm gonna hold a clipboard here.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
No, what I think it is, dan is. I think
there would be some type of injury because he gets
hurt a lot, right, he gets banged up a lot.
At some point there might come a time. I wouldn't
be surprised if at some point there comes a time
where there's an injury that they decide, you know what,
(26:21):
let's let this thing heal not play the last three
or four games. I might be wrong, and I hope
I am. And I'll be thoroughly impressed if he sucks
it up and plays all of these meaningless games in December.
I'll have a lot of respect for Aaron if he
does that.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Yeah, I didn't factor in if he would play someplace else.
And you said if somebody's dests, like if I'm the Jets.
I don't want him to come back because it impedes
me getting a really good coach because there's no coach
that wants to come in. And you got Aaron for one,
like a gap year, like it just you don't want
to want who.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
Came to mine right away? Dan, And you will see
the draft goes and I'm sure they want to draft
Shador Sanders, but the other teams probably do as well,
the Raiders. The Raiders because Antonio Peers obviously this year
is not going well. If he gets his second year,
it's like win or else. Brady's a part owner now.
(27:19):
I think Brady probably feels like, hey, I could do
it in my early forties, Aaron can do it in
his early forties. And Mark Davis he just let Tom
Brady get like a fifty percent discount on five percent equity.
Like Mark Davis likes, he likes stars, he likes big name.
I mean, who gives someone He basically handed Brady millions
(27:44):
of dollars to be a very minor owner on the team.
I think I could see the Raiders doing it this offseason.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
You played for the Cowboys. Did the Sun ever bother
you when you played for the Cowboys.
Speaker 10 (27:58):
No.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
You know what, though, when I play, I play the
old what do they call it, Texas Stadium where it
was like the hole was just where the field was,
you know, in other words, like the fans were protected,
but it was right over the field was the opening.
The crazy thing about that is growing up outside of
Philly and watching the Cowboys my whole life on TV.
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Texas Stadium always looked so awesome on TV. I'll never
forget the first time I went there as a rookie.
Down was like, this place is kind of a dump.
I had no idea. I had no idea. It's amazing
how sometimes on TV things can look a lot.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
But do you think that's a home field advantage to
have blinding sunlight?
Speaker 6 (28:44):
Definitely not, and it certainly wasn't for Ceedee Lamb when
he should have had a touchdown.
Speaker 10 (28:49):
In the game.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
And if it is a home field advantage, then Mike
McCarthy didn't take advantage of it by calculating here's what
I know. Okay, because he's been asked about a lot
this week. Kellen Moore is the Eagles offensive coordinator. Kellen
Moore played for the Cowboys for a while was a
coach there for a while, including me and the coordinator.
He said, it's something you have to take into account.
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He said, it's a factor. So I guess it is
a home field advantage if the home team realizes that
and takes advantage of it and the away team doesn't.
Evidently Kellen Moore, now on the away team, was more
aware of it than Mike McCarthy and the Cowboys on
the home team.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Crazy crazy, have fun tonight.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
I will can't wait. It's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
And then you got the Raiders and the Dolphins Sunday
on CBS. So man, look at you, busy, proud of you.
Speaker 6 (29:46):
Thank you man. I appreciate that. Me and Iron Eagle tonight.
Does anybody have an Iron Eagle impression? I'll listen when
I hang out.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Let me see Todd. Do you have an iron Eagle?
Speaker 5 (29:54):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Now, yeah, we.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Got to get an eye eagle impression. He's amazing.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Well, we'll work on it. We'll work on Thank you.
Speaker 10 (30:02):
Ross.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
That's Ross Tucker. Rossington Tucker is Football podcast and he'll
be on the call tonight west Wood One, the Commanders
and the Eagles.
Speaker 7 (30:11):
Iron Eagles be sure to catch the live edition of
The Dan Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six
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Speaker 2 (30:23):
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Are you still a Cowboy fan? Of course, Lion, even
all through all of this stuff, through all of.
Speaker 10 (31:00):
This stuff, I'm still a Cowboys fan.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
I have faith faith in this season.
Speaker 10 (31:06):
Well, you know what, So how many games I got left?
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Seven?
Speaker 10 (31:12):
All right? So we went all seven? We got a
chance for the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Yeah, but you don't have dag, but we'll be fine.
Speaker 10 (31:20):
So, yes, I still have faith. We're gonna win seven
in a row. We're gonna make the playoffs, and we're
gonna surprise some people.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Can you tell the story of when you spend a
million dollars in thirty minutes. Can you tell my audience
that story?
Speaker 10 (31:35):
So I received the maion dollars from a car deal
and I always wanted a black on black Mercedes Benz.
So I got the check and I look at the check. Well,
actually I didn't even look at the check. I just
took it to the bank, signed the papers like I
didn't even know that the check said six fifty dollars.
(31:55):
But we'll get back there. So I go straight to
the dealership. I haven't on the negotiating skills. It's like,
how much is this? Bence deal was like one hundred
and fifty thousands, So in my mind one minue minus
one fifty, I'm still rich. I still got eight hundred
that was left. So I get this bench and I
go home. I'm showing off to my dad and my
dad was like, man, I wish I had one of these,
(32:15):
and I was like, you know what, come on? So
we jumped and I get the same exact bed. So
now eight fifty minus one fifty. Man, I got what
one hundred thousand left? Right, I'm rich. So we come
back and then my mom she says the same thing.
So we get out of the little bit it's one
hundred thousands. So now I got six hundred thousand left.
(32:36):
So now after I take care that, now I got
to go get the jewelry and the rings. I buy
about twenty draft suits. I read this high rise apartment
on San Antonio for a year. I don't even know
why I did it for a year. I wasn't under
saying that, but this is like seventy thousand a month.
I just paid it all the front. And then a
(32:57):
couple of days later, the bank mind You called me
and he pulled me in and he said, mister Odell,
I don't want you to be like all these athletes
when we get money and they go broke. And I
was like yeah. So he showed me the bank statements.
Time I saw Fika, and it just made me go
back to the story because you know how there's some
(33:18):
bores stories out there of agents they steal money, and
accounts steal money. But Fika had took so much money,
and I looked at the bank and I was like,
who the hell is fighting. He's like, mister, you need
to educate yourself. And after that, I was like, you
know what I need to I need to slow down.
But that's the true story.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
What's the smallest car you've ever owned?
Speaker 10 (33:38):
The smallest car owned. I had to buy two Ferraris.
One was wrecked, one was salvage. I had to buy
a brand new one. I cut the brand and one
and have took a piece together and made a Ferrari
to be out there online.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
That's when you got too much money, when you buying
two Ferraris and you're you're cutting them in a half shack.
Speaker 10 (34:02):
Yeah, you know, no. I think I think people understand
what made me a really good basketball player is I
tried to I tried to imagine myself as little. So
when Magic Johnson came on the scene at six ' nine,
I would already six nine sixteen. I even say to myself, well,
I had Magic can be a guard. I could be
a guard. So I used to always do things that
(34:23):
the little guys did.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
But if you were twenty years of age right.
Speaker 10 (34:26):
Now, Oh, I had this conversation the other day, I
would I would train my butt off, train my butt off,
because the motivation is really having I would train my
butt off and I would be sitting and be watching
all the great players. I would love to have a
little bit of Steph Curry in my game. I would
love to have a little bit of Luca in my game.
(34:48):
And I would love to have a little bit Shock
in my game. And then the target is Luca's new contract.
What I mean by that, Luca will probably be making
eighty ninety million leves. So now if I can beat
that good, I could probably get sixty seventy. If I'm
half as good as Luca, I get forty. If I'm
half as good as that, I get twenties. But you
know that would be my goal right now, like because
(35:10):
you know Luca's probably gonna be But I said make
it eighty two one hundred million dollars. I was nineteen
twenty years old right now. That exactly what I'd be thinking,
and I was still everybody's moves all the James Harden
step back to when Vignanda Baja, I will steal everything.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
What if we took away the three point line? Who
would be the best team in the NBA if we took.
Speaker 10 (35:31):
Away everyone line? That's a good question. I'm not sure, man,
you you just gave me a brain fight right now.
I can't I can't even imagine the team that you drees.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
I would love to see the NBA take away the
three for a week and just see how teams play,
because it's I mean, you've talked about it like Steph
is so good that everybody wants to be Steph. But
nobody can be sticky and the basketball is not good
right now, and I don't know how to fix it.
Speaker 10 (36:06):
I know how to fix it bringing back some creativity
to the game. You know the reason why podcasts are
are successful. Everybody has a different podcast. You see what
I'm saying, Like your show is different from somebody else's show,
different from Steve and a different from our show. That's
why we're all successful. If you look at the NBA,
(36:26):
every team is running the same play. Every team switches
one through five. Every team is running a dribble handoff.
Back in our day, you had plays you have to
I saw. I don't understand why coaches don't look at
their strengths. They say, Okay, this is the type of
offense we go on. It's a copycat lead. But you
have to have the personnelity to be able to shoot
(36:46):
fifty theories. I saw it the other day. I actually
got to save to my home Portland went four for
forty two from the three. If I was a fan,
I would now want to watch that. So my point is,
if you're going to shoot nine percent or whatever it is,
why not what you even shoot threes? Like, you're definitely
not gonna win, And like, as an owner, I'm trying
to win. I don't want to pay guys thirty forty
(37:08):
million dollars and we don't have a chance to win.
So until they bring some creativity back in the game, this, uh,
this thing we know is the NBA, the viewership is
going to continue to decline.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Why does the Joe Ellenbach situation bother you so much?
Speaker 10 (37:24):
Because he has so much potential and I love all
the big man As you can see from shooting over threes,
the big man is you know, starting to slide away
and enter into their atmosphere. But you got Victor Wimmen
out of seventy five shooting threes. I'm not saying don't
shoot the three, but that shouldn't be. That shouldn't be
the majority of your game, majority of the beginnings. Tribute
(37:46):
to dominate, get your teammates open, and then when defenses
start panicking it and you know you can't really get
a lot of room inside, then step out to open
and back up. So I just see a lot of
you know, potential in it, and hopefully he gets upset
with what I'm saying, and you know, he turns it up.
But we as fans know what we see. We can
(38:09):
look in the eye of a person and sees if
they want it. And something's going on with him. I
don't know if he's hurt, if he's injured, but he
didn't look like he wants to be it. When I
look at Joker. When I look at Joker and how
he plays, and this is why he's the best big
man in the league.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Shuck, he's playing the best of his career. I mean
that's saying a lot.
Speaker 10 (38:33):
The Joker is bawling nothing but respect Van. I don't
know if he got mad at me last year, but
when Miran said that, I think Shay deserves the MVP.
But I actually hope he is mad because I love
the way he's playing, Like he shoots the three and
on it, but he mixes it up and you know,
he plays in the way that you know when he
(38:53):
starts scoring and doing all that stuff, they start doubling
and then he get Jamal Murray, my guy Russell Westbrook
is starting to pick it up, playing very well. I
really liked how I didn't was playing.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
How would you have guarded you in your prime? You can't,
But you couldn't have guarded you.
Speaker 10 (39:12):
No, you can't, you really can't. And so the only
time I was slow down when they initiated that new defense.
And you have to double on the triple team. But
like when when i'm because one of them, always get
to my spot and if that jump hook is gone,
I'm gonna get going. And then if you try to
use your strength, that's when I went to my tai
(39:33):
chi and did a little you Like a lot of
guys try to use strength, but when they initiated their strength,
I will release my strength and just and just roll off.
And that's how I was able to always get to
my spot.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
Was there a shorter guy, smaller guy who gave you?
Speaker 10 (39:51):
Yeah? Oakley uh freaking uh okally uh a horn Bonner
Mason Barkley at times like because they because they can
get in your back and if you hit in the back,
it would help you unrelease that core. Because like when
(40:13):
I when I get to the post, I tightened up
it into the corps. But they were hitching your back
and you have to go like that. And you know
they was always able to move me.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
But did they hurt you when there was hack a shack?
Speaker 10 (40:24):
I didn't. It didn't hurt no, because I, uh I
was always a football player. The reason why my Dallas
Cowboys lay because when I was growing up, I used
to tell people that add two tall Jones was my
uncle and frank O Harris was my umle. So I
uh I liked I liked the initiating pain, and I
(40:46):
like to see them pink.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
Wait, so you would boy people and say ed too
told Jones unrelated to him and related to Franco. Yes,
but why why Franco?
Speaker 10 (40:58):
Because my father's last name was Harris. So yeah, like
your dad's last name is Harrison's that same thing, same thing.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
What's the coolest thing in your office?
Speaker 10 (41:10):
In my office, all my Emmy's, well not Miami's, all
Ermie's emmys. I think we got like eight of nine
of them.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
Is that a ball behind you.
Speaker 10 (41:21):
You see? No, I can't turn my head all the chairman.
Oh yeah, that was uh yeah, Amy's up there. And
I got a championship, championship trophies and MVP trophies.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
There's a basketball right over your left shoulder, isn't there.
Oh it's a helmet.
Speaker 10 (41:41):
Yeah, it's a helmet.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
What's the helmet from.
Speaker 10 (41:45):
H old you Man, Redbox.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
There's no way that helmet fits. That helmet if you
put it on, ain't coming off. Maybe you could buy
the Cowboys one day.
Speaker 10 (42:03):
No, I'm not that rich.
Speaker 2 (42:05):
Oh, well you're getting there, I think I am. Are
you a billionaire?
Speaker 10 (42:12):
No, I don't know. I never checked.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
I would check with Fika.
Speaker 10 (42:18):
The little kid asked me the other day how does
it to be rich? And I asked you. My definition
of riches being able to buy my mother whatever she wants.
My favorite person in the world, and I always see
flashbacks of our life. The other day I was in
a Walmart foot in the promo and I saw a
(42:40):
lady with a tall kid and three little girls. Now
I'm following a lady and that's a lady shopping. She's
getting stuff with the little babies right, and big guys
just being a protector whatever. So I go over. I said,
how much is spending? She said, well, all I got.
I was like, here's five thousand, give what you want.
But my point is my mother is on a favorite person.
(43:01):
I've seen this women sacrifice so much. My mom, I'm
sure with a lot of people's moms. You used to
have used to have to wear the same pants Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday and just switch up the shirts. So when
I was becoming successful, I always wanted to make sure
she had whatever she wanted. Like my parents did get
their own house until I got drafted, and I always
(43:21):
want to ensure that they would keep that forever. So
that's why I've always paid attention when I come to
the finance and all that stuff. But I don't really
check on what I got or what I have as
long as my mother doesn't have to feel like she
felt when when we were young. That's my definition of
being rich.
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Speaker 10 (43:58):
You didn't say it right, see, I had to remember
as and I was supposed to say, well.
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Speaker 2 (44:27):
Do you do you gamble like Charles?
Speaker 10 (44:31):
No? I do not gamble like Charles.
Speaker 2 (44:35):
When's the last time you placed a big bet?
Speaker 10 (44:38):
I'm not sure I have to. Oh, I'm placing one
this weekend.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
Oh what do you got?
Speaker 10 (44:44):
Oh? Mike Tyson baby all the way?
Speaker 2 (44:48):
Yeah, I don't know, Shank, what I don't know? Oh,
here's a thirty year difference between these two.
Speaker 10 (44:58):
Got my hand. I got my hand on the decline
e Jack. But if he wasn't one of my good friends,
I would have been hit that button. Are you kidding me?
I don't care about that.
Speaker 2 (45:07):
Oh no, I'm rooting for Mike.
Speaker 11 (45:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (45:10):
But yeah, but when I said my sill the winner,
you didn't have a lot of confidence. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (45:16):
How much you're going to bet on it?
Speaker 10 (45:18):
A lot?
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Well, what's a lot?
Speaker 10 (45:22):
One million?
Speaker 2 (45:29):
Great to talk to you? Are you going to go
to the super Bowl in Louisiana.
Speaker 10 (45:34):
Yes, I will be there. One house will be there.
And you definitely got party, the tickets to the party.
It's the number one super Bowl party for the last
ten years. You were invited, bring who you want to bring.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
I was going to bring Taylor Swift. But okay, wait,
you don't think I can bring Taylor Swift.
Speaker 10 (45:56):
Hey, I'm not in that.
Speaker 6 (46:02):
I don't.
Speaker 10 (46:04):
I don't want no problem with the Kelsey Boys.
Speaker 2 (46:09):
Great to talk to you again, Thanks for joining us.
As always, all right,
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