The Best of The Week on The Dan Patrick Show

Dan Patrick chats with an incredible lineup of current stars and legends, including:

Former NFL TE Rob Gronkowski
Chargers QB Justin Herbert
MLB Hall of Fame SP CC Sabathia
Former NFL QB Philip Rivers

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Rob Gronkowski, four time Super Bowl champ and contributor to
Fox NFL Sunday, is the ambassador for the Team Mobile
Friday Night five g Lights and it's a competition high
school football nationwide celebration of hometown pride. Team Mobile is
all involved. Gronk will talk to us about that. Good

(00:26):
to see you, Rob. What is the What was the
goal of veterans when you went to training camp.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Oh, the goal of veterans is to show the younger
players the way, you know, be the leader out there
out on the football field and get that chemistry going
within you know, the team, within the organization and go
out there and show everyone how it's done out on
the football field and try to find ways to get better,

(00:54):
because you can make big jumps from your rookie year
to your second year, but when you're a vet, you
got to find those little tiny details that can you know,
make your game just a little bit better. Compared to
when a rookie is going into a second year, you
see big improvement, but you just got to find those
ways to stay in the league and be better so

(01:15):
you can stick.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Around Okay, but tell me what you didn't know your
rookie year.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Ah, the playbook, I can tell you that that was
number one. Also, understanding defenses. You know, you can go
over defenses and meetings and understand what cloud coverage is,
what cover two coverages, But to truly understand a defense,
you got to get repetitions out.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
On the football field.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
You got to be able to go against that type
of speed, because it's different from when you're in college.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
When you get to the NFL.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Man, it's like everything's going so fast, and I remember
that my first time I stepped down on the football field,
I was like, how am I going to deal with this?
Everything's just racing in my mind. These linebackers are so fast.
Usually I'm so much faster than everyone else. So it's
about getting the repetition and the reps and going out
there and having the game slow down for you, and
getting the feel of the defenders out on the football field.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
To me, the defender you had to keep your eye out.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
For, oh, like I'm on my team or the opposition,
just you know, going against another team. Okay, I mean
I always had a battle with myself. That's what I
always said. If I was on point and I was
feeling my game.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
I felt like I could go against anyone else at
any other time and dominate, you know. But if I
wasn't on point, if I wasn't feeling myself, if I
wasn't I would say activated, you know, and going full go.
And I was feeling slow, I felt like I could
get covered by any single person in the league. There
was one time in training camp, I think it was
my eighth year, when going into training camp with the

(02:48):
New England Patriots, and I was getting covered by undrafted
free agents just because I wasn't feeling myself.

Speaker 4 (02:55):
My body wasn't cooperating with me.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
So the NFL is a lot more, you know, a
battle against yourself on a daily basis. It's hard to
beat up every single day, you know, especially with the
beating that you can take.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
You want to be activit.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
You want the muscles firing, and when they're not, I
feel like anyone can cover you at any given time,
but just opponents wise, I would say. In the run
blocking game, though, Terrell Suggs was an absolute monster, absolute beast.
And it's not because he was just so strong, you know,
and and scary looking. It's because he brought it every

(03:32):
single play and he had that burst off the ball.

Speaker 4 (03:34):
And same with von Miller.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
That dude was impossible to get your hands on because
he was just so quick and that burst was just
so lethal that you know he had the advantage there.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
What is Travis Kelsey battling this year?

Speaker 3 (03:48):
Uh, Travis Kelsey? What is he battling this year? I
would say he wants to win football games, that's for sure.
He wants to win another championship before he retires. So
he wants to get back to the Super Bowl, which
is a tough task to do.

Speaker 4 (04:03):
They've already done it three.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
Years in a row. Are they going to do it
four years in a row? They have a chance for sure.
I would also say that he wants to go out there.
I mean, I don't know, you know him personally like
that that and I can't really speak for him, but
after watching, you know, last year in the Super Bowl,
I feel like he wants to go out there and
prove to everyone that he still has a lot left

(04:26):
in the tank and he can go out there and
compete at a high level, which I truly believe he will,
or else he want to have came back to play
football again this year.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
But at that position, how much of it is just
understanding body position. He's not gonna be running by guys
the way he once did, So now it comes down
to football IQ of how smart I can be. And
I don't know how much that plays or played for
you when you played that position later in your career.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Well, that's kind of going back to your first question,
Dan is when you were talking about what what is
a veteran do going into a training camp, Well, it's
finding the little niches to stay around even though your
skills aren't up the power compared to when you.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
Were twenty three twenty four years old.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
And that happened to me my last couple of years,
especially down in Tampa. It was just knowing the niche
of the game, knowing the defenses, knowing where to be
in zone coverage. Yeah, I wasn't running by anyone in
my stats weren't particularly like they were when I was younger.
But guess what I was still contributing because I was
blocking guys and also I was finding the space in
the zone and making the plays When my number was

(05:30):
called Travis Kelcey, Yeah, he probably won't be making moves
like he was back, you know, four or five years ago.

Speaker 4 (05:37):
But the guy knows the game of football.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
He's such a smart football player, and he has that
connection in chemistry with Patrick Mahomes as well, and that's
what keeps him going. Every once in a while, I'm
sure he's going to feel himself and have that boost
to get to get by someone and run by someone.
But overall, I would say his smarts of the game
of football is what keeps them around and what keeps
them at eighty plus by just finding the hole and

(06:01):
sitting down and just catching it and going up the
field for a first down.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Rob Grinkowski four time Super Bowl champ joining us. What
Super Bowl ring would you wear to the Hall of
Fame when you're inducted.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
Yeah, I would definitely wear my first Super Bowl ring
to the Hall of Fame when we beat the Seattle
Seahawks and Super Bowl forty nine, it was hands down
one of the best Super Bowl.

Speaker 4 (06:22):
Games to be played.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
We were down, we came back, the Seattle Seahawks came
back when we got up on them, and then the
final drive, obviously with the Malcolm Butler interception to seal
the deal.

Speaker 4 (06:32):
I contributed. I had a touchdown going into the first half.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
In the two minute drill, a Mindola had a touchdown,
Julian had a touchdown, our boy Shane Veren out of
the backfield had like ten catches.

Speaker 4 (06:45):
So it was an overall great team win.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
And on top of it, it was one of the
best Super bowls out there and it got me into
the super Bowl club.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
But how surprised were you to be on the sidelines
watching Seattle throw that as opposed to give it to
Marshawn Lynch.

Speaker 3 (07:02):
Well, you got to give credit to Dante high Tower,
who has the biggest casts in the NFL.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
When he was playing that.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
They ran a similar They ran a play where they
handed it off the beast mode right before that, and
Dante high Tower made the tackle one on one on
beast modes, which is very very rare. But Dante high
Tower is such a beast as well that he was
able to bring him down, so that maybe kind of
switch up the play call for that final play that
they had because he already got tackled on the two

(07:30):
yard line from Dante high Tower, I mean to throw
the ball as well. We were just prepared. Coach Belichick
showed Malcolm Butler that play plenty of times within the
weeks following up to the Super Bowl.

Speaker 4 (07:43):
So we were just a better prepared team.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
And that's when coach Balichick's coaching comes into credit, is
because he had Malcolm Butler prepared for that play, and
that's why Malcolm Butler made that spectacular move to have
that interception.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
Wait, Dante high Tower has the biggest caves in.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
Yes, he has monster calves.

Speaker 5 (08:05):
Monster.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Were you jealous of his calves?

Speaker 4 (08:09):
Julian sure was, He talked about them.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Did you ever think that we would see this many
pictures of Brady with his shirt off in retirement?

Speaker 4 (08:18):
No, I would have never thought that. He was always
a little bit nervous to even take his shirt off
in the locker room.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
He had more of a dad bot when he was playing.
But like, I feel like he got like trimmed up
a little bit. He kind of has a six pack.
All that baby fat and playing fat that he had
is totally off him.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
And he's looking good. He's worked.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
I think he changed up his workout resume too, like
Reger May and he's like lifting I think more weights
now so he looks better so he can show it off.

Speaker 5 (08:48):
Man.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
He looking he's looking good right now for sixty years old.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
He's not seventy, but he's on a yacht every every week.
It feels like I.

Speaker 5 (08:57):
Mean he deserves it.

Speaker 4 (08:58):
I mean, he put in twenty five plus years in
the NFL.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
You know he deserves to be on a yacht every
single day.

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(09:43):
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Speaker 2 (10:26):
You know, you brought up Dante Hi Tower with that
stomp on Beast Mode, but then High Tower has the
sack on Matt Ryan in the Super Bowl as well.

Speaker 5 (10:34):
Right, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
He We called Dante High Tower Playoff Dante Playoffs or
it it was something like that Playoff Dante, because he
showed up every single time the playoffs came. If he
was in the training room, you know, in the regular
season a little bit, it didn't matter. We knew that
we could count on Dante High Tower, and he came
through in Atlanta versus the Atlanta Falcons in that Super Bowl.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
Unfortunately, I had been playing that one.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
I was having a great year and then I went
up to see him and Earl Thomas, the absolute missile of.

Speaker 4 (11:05):
A guy that he is.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
He hit me when I was going up to see
him full speed and punctured my lung and broke my
back basically in half. So I was out for that
Super Bowl, and then obviously he came through in the
Super Bowl forty nine as well when he stopped be smoke.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
I know you got your podcast with Julian Edelman.

Speaker 5 (11:23):
I was.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
I still can hear Cam Chancellor hit Edelman when he
made the catch, you know, going over the middle, and
then he ended up running like what's seven yards after that.
It's one of the hardest hits that I've heard grunk
and Edelman said he wasn't concussed. I still think he

(11:46):
had a concussion.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
Put it this way, That just shows you know what
type of player Julian Adelman is.

Speaker 4 (11:54):
It just shows his toughness as well.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
He got absolutely cremated across the middle by one of
the hardest hitting safeties and not just hardest hitting safeties,
one of the biggest safeties and athletic safeties they'll play
the game of football. And he got right up to
keep on running. That just shows how trained and how
programmed that he is and how bad that he wants
to win. You know, the game of you know, win

(12:18):
the games. When he's playing the game of football, especially
with the Super Bowl on the line, I think he
got can cuss as well. But Julian Adelman is an
absolute fighter and an absolute dog and that's why he
has three Super Bowl rings as well.

Speaker 4 (12:30):
Well.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
He ended up having that catch against Atlanta, the ricochet
that was. I mean, so we're talking about you know,
Brady and Belichick get all the credit, and you know
they should get most of it, but you're talking about
other players who make these small Malcolm Butler like these
small little things, you you know, Ammondola, Like, that's what
sometimes I think gets lost with great teams is having

(12:54):
the other people that fill in kind of you know
the gray area there.

Speaker 3 (12:59):
Yeah, definitely, And you know, but we've all gotten plenty
of credit and we're all not looking for more credit
because we receive plenty of credit as well. Julian Edelman
receives plenty of credit, Amondola. Every time we see each other,
we reminisce about our championships and about playing together.

Speaker 4 (13:17):
But I just want to go back to that catch
as well.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
With Julian Edelman with the Atlanta Falcons, and and also
you saw him get leveled by Cam Chancellor.

Speaker 4 (13:26):
Basically, it can cause and keep going. That just shows
the determination that Julian Edelman has.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
You see other guys in playoffs, they don't come through
with that little with that catch that they need to
to keep that drive going in.

Speaker 4 (13:41):
The fourth quarter.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
I'm not going to bring up any situations, but it
happened a couple times last year in the playoffs. But
a guy who wants to win, who wants it so
bad and he just digging for it and doesn't want to.

Speaker 4 (13:55):
Go lose, go back to that locker room losing. That's
a guy like Julian Adam.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
And when you're determined like that, you're gonna make those
plays and you're gonna make.

Speaker 4 (14:04):
That catch to keep the drive going.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
And it's because Julian Edalman wanted it more than anyone else.

Speaker 4 (14:10):
So thank you Julian for coming through in those situations.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
How many North Carolina football games are you gonna go
to this year?

Speaker 3 (14:16):
It's gonna be tough because I'm obviously doing the Fox
pre game show this year, so I'll be definitely tuning
in no doubt about that.

Speaker 4 (14:24):
I'm gonna wish Coach Blichick well.

Speaker 3 (14:25):
I want to see him win because it's just kind
of like the Dion Sanders effect a little bit, just
brings full you know, college football to the table and
makes it that much more interesting.

Speaker 4 (14:35):
And coach Ballichick also has that effect.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
So if he's winning, it's gonna bring that North Carolina
vibe to a whole other level and you're gonna want
to tune in, and you're gonna want to follow, and
it's gonna be.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
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Friday Night five g Lights dot com. Gronk, great to
talk to you again. Good luck with this.

Speaker 4 (14:58):
All right, Dan always pleasure man.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
Thank you, Rob Gronkowski.

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Speaker 2 (16:15):
Hour from now. Philip Rivers, former Chargers quarterback the current
Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert in his sixth se you're in
your sixth year.

Speaker 8 (16:26):
Wow, gone by fast.

Speaker 4 (16:28):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
Take me back to your junior year. You had really
good numbers at Oregon. How close were you to coming
out after your junior year?

Speaker 5 (16:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (16:38):
Really not that close. You know, just the way the
season ended. I wanted to come back and make sure
that we ended on the right foot. And I still
feel like I had so much to improve and get
better at and you know, I think that was something
that we accomplished my senior year.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
And then you played what thirteen or fourteen more games,
and scouts like to have around twenty five to thirty
starts to be able to assess, so I think you
had to forty forty five starts in your careers. That
sound about Ryan.

Speaker 8 (17:04):
Yeah, that sounds about right.

Speaker 9 (17:05):
I missed six games my sophomore year with a broken clavicle,
so I feel like that was, you know, good film
to put back on on tape.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
How's the relationship with coach Harbaugh.

Speaker 8 (17:16):
It's awesome. You know, he's he's an incredible coach. Everyone
loves to play for him.

Speaker 9 (17:19):
We just want to make him proud, and you know,
he's a competitor and I think that's the best thing
about him is he just wants to win.

Speaker 8 (17:24):
However, you know, we go about it. That's his main focus.

Speaker 9 (17:27):
He's a little goofy though at times. Right, Yeah, And
I think that's a good thing, you know. I think,
you know, to have a personality as a coach is great.
He walks into team meeting rooms and you know, it's
it's not always just football, it's you know, it's it's
more than that.

Speaker 8 (17:41):
And I think the guys respect that.

Speaker 9 (17:43):
They appreciate that, and it makes it easier to you know,
relate to him.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
How would you assess his throwing motion, his arm?

Speaker 8 (17:51):
I actually haven't seen him throw a lot recently.

Speaker 9 (17:53):
I think he's been catching more passes and you know,
I think his arms have kind of taken a toll
and but he.

Speaker 8 (18:02):
Can still throw if you need to.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
Okay, you're being polite here, You're you're choosing your words
carefully there.

Speaker 8 (18:07):
I respect that man.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
Does he go into the weight room with you guys?

Speaker 9 (18:12):
Yeah, he's in there all the time. He's lifting, he's uh,
he's getting in the cold tubs. He does everything the
player does. It's awesome.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
Wait, he gets in the cold tub with you. He
does well, not not like with me specifically, but oh,
there's only room for one in the cold tub.

Speaker 8 (18:27):
No, it could fit, you know, fifteen fifteen guys.

Speaker 9 (18:29):
So after practice he's in there recovering and doing everything
he can to you know, maximizes his recovery.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
But his brother said that Jim gets in the the
ice tub in his khakis. Is that right he has before?

Speaker 9 (18:43):
Yes, I think it's maybe a you know, a time
constraint if he's.

Speaker 5 (18:48):
Low on time.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
Oh, okay, you just maximize the recovery. Okay, so you're
not playing tonight. Are you going to have an ear
piece in headset on?

Speaker 8 (18:57):
I think so.

Speaker 9 (18:57):
I think that would be the plan, just to be
able to hear the play and you know, talk about
whatever whatever I need to any input.

Speaker 8 (19:05):
No, probably not, I think.

Speaker 9 (19:07):
More so, you know, when we're playing a game, Greg
Roman and I will meet and we'll.

Speaker 8 (19:12):
Talk about, you know, the plays that I do like,
what I what I don't like.

Speaker 9 (19:15):
And I think that's a meeting that happens with the
quarterbacks the day before, a couple of days before, just
to talk through.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
It, help me understand the offensive philosophy because statistically they
weren't great numbers, big numbers, but your quarterback rating was
I think your highest and Jim loves to run the football.
So what how would you describe the offense the that
the Chargers will have this year.

Speaker 9 (19:38):
Yeah, I think for us to be successful, we have
to be able to do everything.

Speaker 5 (19:42):
You know.

Speaker 9 (19:42):
I think it starts with our run game, you know,
the offensive line that we've put together and being able
to run the ball behind those guys. But then at
the same time, you know, that's what's going to open
up our play action game. And I think we had
a really good play action game last year, but something
continued we can continue to improve on. And then when
we're running the ball a well, I think we're going
to pass the ball well too. And and you know,

(20:03):
being able to scramble extend plays on my feet, you know,
I think that's something I wasn't really able to do
much of last year, but it is still a huge
part of my game and something that we need to
do this year.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
Yeah, we were talking about this yesterday that I go
back to I think the Rose Bowl where you had
your legs were on display. You had you know, great
performance there. That You're around the same size as Josh Allen,
aren't you.

Speaker 8 (20:26):
Yeah, I think I think might be a little lighter.
He's probably a little.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
Bit stronger, But can you run like he runs? Would
would coach Harball, let you have that kind of weapon.

Speaker 4 (20:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (20:38):
I think one of the things that I really respect
about his game is how many times they run quarterback
power and you know he's running between the tackles and
he's able to take those hits and you know, deliver
a few of them. And you see how many touchdowns
he scores in the red zone, and just the way
he affects the game too. I think that's something that
we really expect and if we could emulate that and
and kind of work that into my game, I think
that'd be really helpful for us.

Speaker 2 (20:59):
He's just an Herbert Chargers quarterback. Sixth season, sixth overall
pick in the twenty twenty draft by the Chargers. He
was the Offensive Rookie of the Year, made the Pro
Bowl in twenty twenty one.

Speaker 5 (21:11):
Give me the.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
Quarterback or quarterbacks? Like, do you sample from quarterbacks and
say maybe I could use that. I could put that
into you know, my repertoire.

Speaker 8 (21:22):
Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 9 (21:23):
You know, especially coming out of college, that was one
of those things where you watch a lot of film
on the on the NFL guys and at the time
we were watching Tom Brady, just how you know he
did everything footwork wise, was you know the best. We
watched a lot of Matt Ryan with his you know,
play action fakes. You know, I think that was something
that we always talked about, how quickly he snapped his
head around, was able to get his eyes downfield. And

(21:46):
then Drew Brees his footwork too, and just the way
he went through his progressions and played the quarterback position.
I think those three guys were you know, really important
for me watching.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
Okay, explain footwork with Tom Brady, What exactly is that
and is it teachable?

Speaker 5 (22:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (22:02):
I think, uh, you know, the easiest way to describe
it would be just to time everything up with the route.
You know, a short route is going to have quicker footwork,
and you know a longer route play.

Speaker 8 (22:11):
Action is is going to time it up.

Speaker 9 (22:13):
And one of the things that I always try to
avoid is is standing still in the pocket and just
you know, bouncing around because you have a tough time
seeing when you're you know, you're going up and down,
and you know, as long as you're in rhythm and
your your feet are aligned with how deep the receiver
is going to get you know, I think it makes
it easier on the throw and definitely easier, you know,
stepping up in the pocket as well.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
Okay, but what's that clock like in your head when
you go back to pass. At what point do you go,
uh oh, Like, I now, I got to start. I
got to have my head on a swivel.

Speaker 8 (22:46):
Yep. As soon as you get to the top of
your drop where you're where you're dropping back, and you.

Speaker 9 (22:50):
Know, it's it's either a quick setup where you're hoping
the ends go around you and the tackle is push
them up field, or you're finding a lane to run through.
But it's it's quick, and you know that's just how
how fast those guys are on defense. And you gotta
protect the ball, you gotta avoid sacks, and you know
that's something that you.

Speaker 8 (23:06):
Know, coach Harpaugh talks about all the time. So we're
gonna get better at that this year.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
What was your welcome to the NFL hit?

Speaker 9 (23:15):
I would say I was rolling out one year, tried
to make this play where I could spin in the
pocket and just kind of run around, and then I
got hit by Max Crogby and I didn't even see him.
And that was when I was like, yeah, these these
guys are much faster than I am. I got to
be able to step up throw it away. Taking the
sack is not the worst thing, but you know, running

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into that thing that.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
Was well, and you know, Peyton Manning and Tom Brady,
two of the greatest ever, had no problem just kind
of going into the fetal position instead of you know,
you left to live to call another play. And that's
hard for you because in college and high school you
could get away with this stuff. In the NFL you can't.
How tough is that to go just take a sack

(23:59):
or just throw it away.

Speaker 9 (24:00):
Yeah, that's uh, that's the tough part because, like you said,
high school and college, you'd be able to make some
of those plays and you know, you'd get reward for
for making a crazy play like that. And then you
come to the NFL and you know everyone on defenses
is faster than you, and uh, you know, sometimes it's
okay to you know, wave the white flag, go down
and live for another play where you know, a sack
is is not as bad as a fumble and a

(24:23):
throwaway is not as bad. So it's just kind of
living through that list and making sure that you're you're
protecting the ball and putting the.

Speaker 8 (24:28):
Team in a good position to win.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
Who's your rival?

Speaker 8 (24:33):
Shoot, I would say We've We've got a lot of rivals.

Speaker 9 (24:35):
I definitely would say the Chiefs, Raiders and the Broncuse
I think the AFC West is is so competitive, and
you know, we've we've definitely, you know, had our fair
share of competitions with those guys. Chiefs have gotten us
the past few years.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
But do you hate the like do you do you
hate one of them a little more than the other ones?

Speaker 9 (24:56):
I would just say that the it's been a little
offside of the past couple of years, and that's just
something that we you know, we've got a great opportunity
to play them twice this year, and you know, we
know how good they are and how much success they've
had in the league over the past several years. So
it's always a good opportunity for us to go play
and be the team that we want to be.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
What advice would you give a rookie quarterback. Let's say
cam Ward calls you up and said, give me some
advice on what it's like.

Speaker 9 (25:23):
Yeah, I would say to sacrifice now so you can
enjoy everything later. Just to go through everything and you know,
watch an extra hour of film, you know, do an
extra hour of recovery, make sure you're taking care of
your body. And you know there's always going to be
times to you know, go hang out with your friends
and do all these extracurricular activities.

Speaker 8 (25:40):
But right now, you're a quarterback.

Speaker 9 (25:41):
You know, a team, has a franchise, has put their
trust in you to leave this entire organization and to
make sure that you're doing everything you can for your teammates,
the coaching staff, the community, because it's really important. And
at the end of the day, if you're doing that,
you're you're in good steps.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
Wait did you give me an organ organization? Did you
give me a Canadian organization?

Speaker 8 (26:03):
Organization?

Speaker 2 (26:04):
Yeah, it sounded like, you know, maybe maybe that's Canadian
you were, you know, proximity there, but organization. You gave
me an organization, which is what they do in Canada.
So don't want you to think too long and hard
about that. Maybe if you know any Canadian roots in your.

Speaker 5 (26:20):
Family, I don't.

Speaker 8 (26:22):
I don't think so, not that I'm aware of.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
Okay, I just want to make sure he gave me
a little organization. Hey, great to see you again, and uh,
we'll be uh, well, you're not going to be doing
anything tonight, so I was going to say, we'll be watching,
but you're going to be watching too.

Speaker 9 (26:36):
I'm gonna be sporting the team. I'm gonna be out there,
you know, offering help whatever I can.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
So thanks for joining us.

Speaker 8 (26:44):
Yep, you bet, thank you.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
That's justin Herbert.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
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Speaker 2 (26:58):
Final hour in this Thursday, we'll talk to the former
Charger Philip Rivers finally got around to announcing his retirement.

Speaker 10 (27:05):
C C.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
Sabathia, freshly minted Hall of Famer, will join us momentarily.
The last women's major of the season, and it's the
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phone number eight seven seven three DP show. We'll get
to more phone calls coming up. Update the poll results
as well. He is a CC Sabbathia hall of Famer. Now,
how does that feel? Do he called a Hall of Famer?

Speaker 11 (27:40):
Feels good? It feels good. I mean it's real now,
you know what I mean. I gave the speech and
had a chance to get up there and see all
the guys, So it feels good.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
Your wife doesn't call you hall of Famer?

Speaker 5 (27:55):
Does she? Nobody in this house?

Speaker 2 (28:00):
How nervous? How nervous were you? Compare that to pitching
in a World Series when you give your Hall of
Fame speech.

Speaker 11 (28:09):
I was pretty nervous. I mean, you know, knowing you
know from the time that you get elected that you
know you have six months to kind of give this
speech and talk about you know, your life and his
life achievement and who you want to thank, and you know,
all these different people. So that that gave me a
lot of anxiety. But I feel like the way I

(28:29):
delivered my speech and not trying to think a bunch
of people and just tell stories about you know who
you know, helped me get to this point. I think
that you know, helped me out a lot. But I'll
tell you a quick story about the World Series. You know,
I would get nervous when I walked out before games
or whatever, and you know that postseason and on nine,
I wasn't getting the butterflies. I was just feeling good.

(28:52):
You know, I was feeling confident. I was feeling like
I was going to pitch well. And you know, I
went out for the same thing in Philly. I went
out for game one. It was a Yankee stadium, and
everything is fine, like I feel great, great October night.
And you know my routine was after we threw the
ball down a second base, I would go walk to
a ride and get the ball from him with my

(29:12):
bare hand. And I walked walked over to him. He
tossed me the ball, and uh, he was like, let's go.

Speaker 5 (29:18):
I looked at him. I was like, let's go.

Speaker 11 (29:19):
And I looked down at the ball and it said,
oh nine fall classic on it.

Speaker 5 (29:24):
And I immediately broke. I hadn't been nervous the whole time.
I would down and realize that.

Speaker 4 (29:33):
I was like, I kind.

Speaker 11 (29:38):
Of like got back into it, but yeah, I mean
I broke out of a full sweat. Oh my god,
Like this is game one of the World Series.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
When you're at the Hall of Fame, do you meet
anybody who brings back bad memories.

Speaker 11 (29:52):
Oh no, not bad memories. You know, just like I'm
a I'm a huge baseball fan, so just you know,
they had a garden party on Friday night that Jane
Forbes Clark hosted, and everywhere I looked around the room,
I'm seeing my favorite player, Like I grew up playing
you know, Nintendo RBI Baseball, and it's Rod Carew in there.

(30:15):
It's you know what I mean, This s your Eddie Murray,
is King Griffy Junior, is Sandy Kofax, Randy Johnson. I mean,
it's it's everybody's favorite player in the room. And on
Friday night, I'm not gonna lie. I got like a
little imposter syndrome. I'm like, should I I'll be in
this room, you know what I'm saying, Like this is
like the elite of the elite, and to be part

(30:35):
of that that uh that crew now feels good.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
But but there's nothing like I gave up a home
run to that guy. I hope he doesn't bring it up.

Speaker 11 (30:43):
No, I mean, and that's that's the perfect time to
bring it up, right Like yeah, I mean, yeah, I
gave up a couple of homers of each ye row,
you know, we always tell the story is you know,
it's fun now to be able to tell those stories
in that room because you know you're all on the
same team.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
A couple of home runs to each row, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (31:02):
Yeah, a couple of home wrens. But first time.

Speaker 11 (31:05):
So I started throwing. Two thousand and six, me and
Carl Willis were trying to figure out an outpitch, and
you know, I was throwing like this big, loopy kind
of slurf curveball thing, and we went down to the
bullpen in in Oakland.

Speaker 5 (31:20):
And he was like, I'm a teacher how to throw
a cutter.

Speaker 11 (31:22):
So we came out of that bullpen session with like
this eighty mile hour eighty three mini hour slider, and me,
in my mind, I'm thinking, all this thing is disgusting,
Like I'm taking this right into the game, taking it
to the game.

Speaker 5 (31:33):
Get to him.

Speaker 11 (31:34):
Each row hit it off the windows first half back
like you know, it's ichy, you know what I mean,
Like this, I've seen this thing move like it's nasty.
So he comes up again.

Speaker 5 (31:43):
First pitch. I threw it to him first pitch of
that bad He hits it out again. But it ended
up becoming like my outpitch.

Speaker 11 (31:49):
You know what I'm saying, Like, that's the pitch that
you know, kind of took my career to the next level.
And you know, Iachi loved it the first time he saw.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
Well, no, it was his outpitch. He hit it out
of the ballpark. Who picked out the Jordans that you
wore during your speech, It.

Speaker 11 (32:08):
Was They were actually especially made from Jordan. They were
kind of I made a bunch of shoes my my
last year in twenty nineteen during Player's weekend, and they
were combined them like a high school shoe that had
some Milwaukee stuff in there, some Cleveland stuff in there.
The cool part about it is I played for three

(32:28):
teams that have Navy in it, so like, you know,
the the left shoe was navy and gold and that
represented my Yankee you know, Milwaukee and Cleveland Cleveland days,
and then the right one was red, which was represented
my high school. So you know, I'm just forever thankful
for the Jordan family. The way they treat us after
retirement is special, and you know, I wouldn't want wanted

(32:51):
any other way to go on in the Hall of
Fame wearing a pair of Jordan's and a pair of
threes up up on that stage.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
Okay, but what was it like the first time? You know,
I think you were the first baseball player part of
the Jordan brand, or does that sound about it?

Speaker 11 (33:03):
I was the third, so it was Derek was the first,
and then it was Andrew Jones and then me.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
And what was it like first time you met Michael? Oh?

Speaker 5 (33:12):
It was incredible.

Speaker 11 (33:14):
You know, he's, uh, you gotta be confident when you
were around right. He's, like I said talked about earlier,
is everybody's favorite player. He's he's the alpha of all alpha.
So you gotta, you know, you gotta be confident when
you're around him. But I enjoy him spending time with him.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
He's CC Sabbathia, the newly inducted member of the Baseball
Hall of Fame. You know, you did all these things
with the Yankees, but it feels like people still bring
up what happened like the last two months when you're
with Milwaukee where they were like, uh, three days rest CC,
go out there and get him and you had an
incredible You knew that you were you were leaving Milwaukee,

(33:53):
They knew you were leaving, but they worked your ass
off and you know, I'd still look back on that.
I mean, that's an amazing run. What were your thoughts
when they kept sending you out and it felt like
on three days.

Speaker 11 (34:06):
Rest, Well, it wasn't It wasn't so much them. They were,
you know, they were kind of freaking out, just along
with everybody else, my agent, you know, everybody except for
kind of me and my wife, Like I told her,
you know how I felt. And the biggest thing was,
you know, I had got traded from Cleveland, and you
know I had been in that organization from the time

(34:26):
I was seventeen and that summer I was, you know,
twenty eight years old. I had been there for you know,
ten and a half years. And you know when I
walked into the clubhouse in Milwaukee, you know, I was
scared to death. I didn't know what was going to happen.
I had never been in another organization. And I walk
in and my best friend Dave Risky is there. I
played with him in Cleveland. And then Mike Cameron is there,
and Billy Hall is there, and Prince Fielder is there,

(34:49):
and you know, these are still some of my closest
friends to this day. All those guys I just named
were in Cooperstown, you know what I'm saying. So I
just didn't want that season to end. And I felt great,
and I felt like I was gonna go out and
win those games. And it was more and so about
me going in there and telling them I pitching on
three days rest than it was them, you know, asking

(35:10):
me or.

Speaker 5 (35:12):
Wanting me to do it. It was more and me.

Speaker 11 (35:14):
So one thing is is, you know, during that time,
I never in my career felt like I was gonna
you know, knew that I was gonna win games. And
during that time, I felt like, you know, if you
give me the ball, I can go out and complete
a game to win the game. So I wanted to
get that that franchise in that in that city into
the playoffs. And I think it was more about me,

(35:35):
you know, telling them that what I was doing more
so than than them, you know, kind of kind of
asking or demanding.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
The car breaking down en route to Cooperstown, that's what
a three and a half hour drive. That took eight
hours or so to get there.

Speaker 11 (35:50):
Yeah, three and a half hour drive normally, and for
some reason, you know, normally when we go on the
road trip, me and my wife, we drive all over
Mark Vineyard, Hampton's whatever. If we're on a road trip,
she drives so slow that I'm usually like, I'll meet
her at the house, and I'm near by, you know,
an hour before. For some reason, on that day, I
was riding behind her, and you know, we were just

(36:13):
you know, kind of making our way up there, and
we had the kids with us, and we pull up
on the side of the road on seventeen to get
on the on ramp and she stops. She's got let
a let a bunch of cars go by, and so
I call her. I'm like, what's going on? And she
was like, my cars just stopped. And I'm like what.
And I can tell them her voice that she was
really irritated and you know, on the verge of kind

(36:36):
of you know, not breaking down, but kind of crashing out.
And my kids and I can't take anything seriously, So
we all get out of the car. Kids start making tiktoks.
I'm taking pictures on the side of the road. She's
very serious in the back, calling the calling the tow truck.
But like people start noticing, noticing it on the side
of the road. They're howking, We're laughing it. It made

(36:57):
for a good time. And you know, I feel like
we know every time that we're all together, my wife
and I and the four kids and we're traveling, we're
gonna something's gonna happen. So you know, we're used to
it and we always make the best out of it.
But thanks for a good story.

Speaker 2 (37:12):
Who gave you the Oakland Raider helmet behind you?

Speaker 11 (37:17):
This is a This is actually a phone. My cousin
Dimitris Davis was mister Irrelevant. I think it was in
nineteen ninety and he got all these different gifts from
you know, from every team you get a gift, and
this was the phone from the from the Raiders.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
So that was on the draft, that was on their table.

Speaker 11 (37:38):
It must have been on the draft. Yeah, this must
have been on the draft table. So you know, you
get he was mister Irrelevant. You get a bunch of
different trophies and stuff. And this is the one thing
that I kept and I got this Marcus Allen's Super
Bowl Super Bowl helmet right here. That always keep up
and you see my Raiders clocket just went down. But
I always have to have something.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
It seems like you're a football guy more than a
baseball guy.

Speaker 5 (38:05):
I'm just a fan of everything.

Speaker 11 (38:07):
I'm a huge, huge, huge sports fan, but the Raiders
are I'm die hard Raiders, like I don't waiver at all.
If you you watch me with my basketball, I'm usually
picking the best team just because I'm always in a
bad mood after football season, so I got to pick
them with basketball season. If the Warriors aren't in it,

(38:29):
I'm always going for a winner. But yeah, I mean,
I'm just a huge Raiders fan, and I don't think
that'll ever ever lead me.

Speaker 2 (38:37):
Okay, what do you think is gonna happen this year?

Speaker 11 (38:40):
Hopefully, if, if, if, if we can stay healthy, I
mean the defense is really good. You know, I love
Brock Bauers. I would love to see what Gino Smith
is gonna do for us. But I think if we
can stay healthy, we'll be okay. I mean, obviously we're
in in that division with with Mahomes and you know
the Chiefs, and I think Justin Herbert is great. I

(39:02):
even think both Nicks and the Broncos are going to
be good. So it's gonna be a tough division. But
we'll see what happens.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
If you could have Gino Smith as your quarterback or
Tom Brady comes out of retirement.

Speaker 11 (39:15):
Oh, I would want Tom Brady to come out of
retirement to run the organization. I need somebody young, young,
with fresh legs. I mean, I'm fine with, you know,
being quarterback as long as he can stay healthy. But
I want time to like really be hands on and
be running like the football.

Speaker 8 (39:32):
Ops.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
Yeah, probably gonna happen sooner than later.

Speaker 5 (39:36):
I would love that. I would love that.

Speaker 2 (39:37):
Congrats you're always a great guest. We appreciate it. Congrats
on the great career, and thanks for joining us.

Speaker 5 (39:44):
Appreciate it, Thank you, thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 (39:46):
That's CC Sabathia just got inducted into the Baseball Hall
of Fame. There's nothing better that I want to hear
than when somebody says, got a quick story to tell you.
When he tells me about the World Series, he looks
at the baseball and it says the two thousand and
nine World Series and it's printed on the baseball. And

(40:07):
the fact that it hit him that he's now pitching
in the World Series, that's what you want. I'd love
when I get stories from these guys. Philip Rivers, you
better be telling stories. Fritzy, he's ready, Oh he is, Okay,
all right, we'll take a break. Then Philip Rivers will
join us. And I know we're backed up with phone calls.
We'll try to sneak those in as well. We're back

(40:27):
after this Dan Patrick show.

Speaker 1 (40:29):
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listen live. He's Philip Rivers.

Speaker 2 (40:42):
He played in the NFL for seventeen seasons and now
a high school coach. Look at there, you look good.
You look like you're ready to play. Wait sight, Dan,
could you play right now?

Speaker 10 (40:55):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (40:55):
Yeah, I'm a little heavier than I was, but I
can get through a game now. I made need a
wheelchair the next morning. But uh oh yeah I can still.
I can still, I can still play a little bit.

Speaker 2 (41:06):
Okay, did you need to announce like did you retire twice?

Speaker 10 (41:11):
No? Here? Well yeh, I don't know. Maybe. Yeah.

Speaker 12 (41:16):
The reason there was a little bit of a wait
is I honestly wasn't. There were a couple of November
Decembers there and uh twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two,
where I was getting I was staying ready.

Speaker 10 (41:27):
I was I was. I threw on shoulder pads a few.

Speaker 12 (41:29):
Times in the helmet and was throwing in the yard
and uh and and working just in case.

Speaker 10 (41:34):
Uh And there were a few things that kind of
got close.

Speaker 2 (41:37):
Uh.

Speaker 12 (41:37):
But then the last two years it's pretty much I've known,
I've been done it really just timed. I wanted to
retire a Charger and do it, do it right with
the Chargers over sixteen years, Gates coming up with the
Hall of Fame, one of my favorite all time teammates
and lockermate side by side for uh sixteen years, I was,
I was doing some stuff, some video stuff for him,

(41:58):
and I was like, hey, guys, when are we gonna
do this? I want to retire Chargers. Who we do
something on video? And it it just all worked out.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
What team or teams called you.

Speaker 10 (42:08):
I knew you were going there.

Speaker 12 (42:09):
I guess I'd teed you up for that one that
you can say it now, No, I know it doesn't matter. Yeah, well,
I think you know, it was the year that the
forty nine Ers had the injuries at quarterback, you know,
and uh before early on, before perty really got going,
you know, it was, uh, there's still probably six weeks
left in the year and it was Uh, so there
was a little interaction I've had there with with John Lynch.

(42:29):
Uh certainly kept in contact with the Colts that first
year year or so out. Uh, when the Saints had
the injuries, Uh, you know, I think they called Drew
and I both. I remember being on a phone call
with Drew and it was over Christmas, and uh, it
was like the first Christmas I've been all, you know,
been off and not playing and uh, and I was like,
I can't believe I'm being considering this, but uh, Drew

(42:50):
and I ended up talking about, Hey, were you serious,
and he was asking me if I was serious, and
I was like, it sounds good, you know, it sounds
good in theory, but then it's like, man, I felt
like the later the season went, I was going to
become a guest quarterback, and to me, that just was
what ultimately, ultimately the teams didn't want me to. It
didn't get that far to where it was in my control.

(43:12):
But I didn't want to be a guest quarterback, you know,
you wanted to at least have some camaraderie and some
sense of man, I've been in this on.

Speaker 10 (43:19):
This journey with you guys, at least for half a season.

Speaker 12 (43:21):
But when he got to the playoffs, it's like, man,
you're gonna go and play one game and you're either
the hero to help him win or you came in
and cost him a playoff game. So it just didn't
make a whole lot of sense.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
Yeah, you could have been a Joe Flacco.

Speaker 10 (43:36):
Yeah yeah, which, shoot, I thought it was awesome. I was.

Speaker 12 (43:39):
I loved watching Joe and pull up for Joe when
he was in that situation.

Speaker 2 (43:43):
But take me back to when you came out of college.
I remember the knock on you was your arm, your
arm angle or how you like how you threw like
it felt like that was one of those you just
didn't throw it the way quarterbacks the other quarterbacks through
the ball.

Speaker 11 (43:59):
That.

Speaker 10 (44:01):
Yeah, yeah, no it is.

Speaker 12 (44:02):
I think he gradually got less and less awkward, you know,
as uh, even as my career went. There is a
uniqueness to it, and I shoot, I appreciate that now,
you know. I hear you hear people say, oh, man,
that's how Philip Rivers threw the ball, So I guess
uniqueness to it. That's uh ended up being kind of
one of my trademarks. But growing up as the son

(44:23):
of a coach. I was the ball boy and water
boy when my dad was coaching high school ball. Five six,
seven years old, and I was throwing a regulations size football.
So that's the only way I could throw it, you know,
you kind of laid it in your hand and and
uh and and pushed it. And so then as I
grew up, you know, as I got bigger and stronger
in my hand could reach, there was still an element
of that, you know, muscle memory motion that just became

(44:45):
my own.

Speaker 10 (44:46):
And and so that's where it was.

Speaker 12 (44:48):
I remember Norm Chow, you know, we had we had
one of the great offensive coaches of all time in
college football at NC State my freshman year. And the
first day he watched me practice, he he asked me
if I was hurt your.

Speaker 10 (45:00):
Shoulder is your shoulder? Is your shoulder bothering you? And
I said, no, my shoulders fine, and uh.

Speaker 12 (45:07):
He set the tape off to Mike Homern and said,
now you need to take a look at this, and
and and and Coach Chow ended up telling me Homer
and said, if he's not getting balls, bout it down.

Speaker 10 (45:16):
And he's accurate, he said, heck with it. Leave it alone.
And so we did.

Speaker 2 (45:19):
You did. How is the position changed? Like, what's the
most important part of playing the position?

Speaker 12 (45:29):
I still think and I am I'm biased, I guess
a little bit. I best say if you asked most
pocket passers like myself, they may say this may not.
I still think you got to be able to stand
in the pocket and make quick decisions, and be accurate
with the football and and and and throw it from
the pocket on third and eight and crucial situations on
a two minute drive, all those things that that is

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still going to be a necessity of playing the position.
To me, I think it's a bonus. It's a bonus
if you can do the other stuff like many of
these guys nowadays, you know, the Josh Allens and Lamar
Jackson's and Bo Nicks has the ability to run, you know,
as you know, had an unbelievable rookie year. Obviously Mahomes
and I'm leaving guys out unintentionally.

Speaker 10 (46:11):
But if you can't do those things, it helps you.

Speaker 12 (46:14):
But you still got to be able to stand in
there and they could throw and take a hit right
under the chin. Because if you can't do that, if
all you can do is just kind of run around
and you're a fifty percent passer.

Speaker 10 (46:23):
I don't think you can last.

Speaker 2 (46:25):
He's Philip Rivers, NFL quarterback for seventeen seasons. Fan base
that probably disliked you the most was which fan base?

Speaker 3 (46:35):
Uh?

Speaker 10 (46:35):
Probably the Denver.

Speaker 2 (46:37):
Okay, let me can I bring in Fritzie is a
Denver Bronco fan and all my guests, so Fritzie would
always complain that you complained too much, that you wind
too much when you play. This is coming from a
Bronco fin Would you say that's fair assessment of you?
You were critical Philip Rivers winding? Yes, and I hope
Philip agrees and I got hip against the guy.

Speaker 3 (46:59):
But they a huge Bronc Then, since I'm like seven
years old, I did see like there was a lot
of complaining to the officials, a lot of trash talking.

Speaker 2 (47:05):
Even though he didn't Curtsey. He was always kind, I
guess with his trash talk, but that seemed like a
lot of whining was going on.

Speaker 12 (47:11):
Okay, Phil, Yeah, I can see it. I can see
it coming across as as whiny. It was more a
fire and passion and drive to want to win the
stinking game and for the calls to be right and
for the you know, all those things to go. So, yes,
it would it be classified as whining in some cases.

Speaker 10 (47:30):
I'm sure.

Speaker 12 (47:30):
I'm sure it would. I'm not proud of every every moment,
believe me. There's some many that I look at and
I go, man, I lost my mind?

Speaker 10 (47:37):
What was I doing?

Speaker 12 (47:38):
But there's a lot of it that I laugh at,
And then there's a lot of it that I go, man,
I hope people realize how much I love playing. I
love playing just like I was as a kid in
the backyard, and I got to do it as a
you know, forty year old all the way through my thirties,
two hundred and fifty times, and that was It was
truly just how you would be in the backyard, you know,
playing with your buddies or brothers and arguing and carrying

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on and talking smack and all those things.

Speaker 2 (48:00):
But you did it in a polite way, Like how
do you talk trash in a polite way?

Speaker 10 (48:05):
Yeah? I don't know if it's necessarily polite. I think
sometimes maybe that's what made it sting a little worse.

Speaker 11 (48:11):
It wasn't.

Speaker 10 (48:12):
It wasn't the four letter words.

Speaker 2 (48:14):
Oh wait, wait, how would you talk trash to me
if I'm a defensive player. I just sacked you and
I got something to say to you.

Speaker 10 (48:22):
Oh, I don't know.

Speaker 12 (48:24):
I mean I was gonna say, Dan, I could better
do it with you in your role there. I'd be like, Dan, really,
you're gonna start off the interview at saying I retired twice.

Speaker 10 (48:31):
I mean, come on, I am talking for five years.

Speaker 5 (48:33):
You know.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
Hey, when you stop whining, I've never.

Speaker 10 (48:36):
Retired twice, Dan, ask something else? How long are you
going to do this?

Speaker 12 (48:41):
Dan?

Speaker 2 (48:42):
How are the kids? What are there ten kids?

Speaker 5 (48:44):
Now?

Speaker 12 (48:46):
Yeah, there's uh, there's ten. And I got a little grandson.
I got a little grandson. My oldest two daughters are married,
and my oldest daughter and her husband have a little
little boy that's almost a year old. So that's a blast.
And then she's the other children are growing up fast.
So I have three that are out of the house
or high school or beyond this year, and then still

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seven at home. Three boys, seven girls and three boys.
But they're growing up fast.

Speaker 5 (49:11):
Man.

Speaker 12 (49:11):
My oldest son will be the quarterback again this year
at the high school. He's a junior and he's gonna
have a chance. He's gonna have a chance to play
at the next level, which is exciting. I was gonna
say two, back to the throwing motion thing. I threw
that way because I think I had a ball, you know,
a big ball when I was little.

Speaker 10 (49:28):
He throws that way a little bit.

Speaker 12 (49:29):
I don't know if it's just from watching me or
if it's just in our DNA, but he's a little
more over the top. But when people watch him throw,
they go, man, he throws it like you, and I go, well,
he did watch me play for his whole life growing up.

Speaker 2 (49:41):
Why didn't you teach him how to throw like Brady?

Speaker 10 (49:44):
Brady's a little too over the top, you know, it's
a little too over the top.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
What about Aaron Rodgers?

Speaker 12 (49:49):
I like Aaron Rodgers' motion and he flicks it. He
can throw it every different way. My homes kind of
can throw at every different arm angle. I was kidding
about Brady being drove over the top, but I think
the different arm angles is huge. It's key, you know,
it's key to be able to do that because you're
throwing it people think, you know, to me, the height
thing is not as big of a deal, you know.
Drew Brees, one of the best ever six you know,

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six foot or so. But is It's not as much
a height deal. It's ability to throw arm angles. None
of us are throwing over sixty six linemen, you know,
none of us are. So you got to be able
to throw around and change uh different arm angles as
the pocket you know collapses on here changes uh.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
Philip is the head coach at Saint Michael Catholic High
School in Fair Hope, Alabama. How would you assess the
Chargers this upcoming season with Jim Harbaugh?

Speaker 12 (50:38):
I'm interested to see them. You know, they made some
made some additions in the off season. You know, they
got a lot of good young offensive linemen. Obviously Derwin
James still kind of the captain over there on that
defensive side, and Justin Herbert is, you know, a heck
of a player, a heck of a player. They they nailed,
they nailed that pick. It was the the timing of

(50:59):
me to move on and then to get one. They
got a good one. They got a good one. So
uh excited to see them this year. Certainly, I still
pull for the Chargers. I pull for the Colts one
year there, but then also one of my closest coach
friends Shane Stiken as the head coach there, and then
I pulled for the Eagles, Sirianni being there coach I Rianni.

Speaker 10 (51:19):
I was with him a long time with the Chargers
as well. So you find.

Speaker 12 (51:22):
Yourself pulling for either coaches you were with or teammates
you know that are either at the at the at
the team you were on, or either there's somewhere else
you know, you pull for them on Sundays and we
still watch. We still watch watch all day. We go
to maths on Sunday morning and h we have games
on every TV.

Speaker 2 (51:38):
We can find your longest career run, last career.

Speaker 12 (51:43):
Run, I probably I don't know. I know, y'all got
the stats and there, fritzee, what is eleven yards?

Speaker 2 (51:48):
You know it's eighteen.

Speaker 10 (51:50):
Eighteen eighteen yard run.

Speaker 12 (51:53):
My favorite run was against the Ravens in the playoff
Divisional round playoff game. A third down and I kind
of out out of there and UH got a big
first down and UH was able to kind of do
the first down sign. You know that you see all
the watouts and backs get to do. I felt I
felt like a really I felt like a real athlete.
I felt like a real athlete. My teammates Ken Allen.

(52:14):
He was miked up on that play and you can
hear him saying.

Speaker 10 (52:17):
Do it, do it?

Speaker 11 (52:18):
Do it.

Speaker 12 (52:18):
He was like he was like proud of me, Like
I was actually gonna do a little something.

Speaker 2 (52:23):
Like a parent watching their kid take their first step.

Speaker 5 (52:26):
Ye.

Speaker 2 (52:26):
Yeah, But was there somebody slower than you in the
NFL at quarterback?

Speaker 10 (52:33):
I believe I could outrun Peyton and Brady.

Speaker 2 (52:36):
Okay, yeah, but that still makes you slow though it.

Speaker 12 (52:40):
Does it definitely definitely wasn't fast Roethlisberger. Ben could run
a little better than me, maybe as we got you know,
as he got later in his career, maybe, but no,
Ben could run.

Speaker 10 (52:52):
See Ben.

Speaker 12 (52:53):
Ben was one of those, uh you know, the throwback
quarterbacks that could run, you know, and he wasn't gonna
run for seventy but he had a he had an
ability to es capability in the pocket that was that
was unique. I think that certainly helped his game and
why you had a lot of success.

Speaker 2 (53:07):
If Michael Vick and you ran a forty yard dash.

Speaker 12 (53:12):
That may be one of the fastest men I've ever
seen on a football field. We were at the Falcons
in two thousand and five. I believe it was four
or five. I wasn't playing. Drew was the starter. I
was backing up, and he scrambled left down our sideline
and scored and scored with it and ran through the tunnel,
and I just remember going, that's that's just not fair.

Speaker 10 (53:34):
That's not fair that he can run like that and thrown.

Speaker 2 (53:37):
Yeah, let me know. If you retire again, we'll have
you back on. But if not, good luck with the
upcoming high school season.

Speaker 12 (53:45):
I appreciate it, Dan, And hey, hey, Fritz, you said
I probably did complain and whine, But what made you
so mad as we were beating their tail a lot
of times?

Speaker 3 (53:52):
That's man, that's part of the reason why I was
upset with you.

Speaker 2 (53:55):
Beat the Broncos too much.

Speaker 10 (53:57):
Very much dog right there?

Speaker 2 (53:58):
Yeah, Todd, that's smap, Tom, very impressive. Thank you, Thank you, Philip,