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September 5, 2022 42 mins

Doug Gottlieb and TJ Houshmandzadeh filling in for Dan. Doug and TJ talk about the issues with the Cowboys offense heading into the season.  Former NFL Quarterback and standout at Oklahoma State Brandon Weeden joins the guys to give his thoughts on the Cowboys, Tom Brady, and some of the top headlines coming off of the college football weekend. With Tom Brady coming off of a camp when he missed 11 days to tend to a personal matter, Doug and TJ talk about what should be expected from Brady and the Bucs this season.   Doug and TJ preview the Patriots' season as Bill Belichick is long-winded during an answer to a reporter's question. 
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(00:22):
Welcome in Stan Patrick Show, Fox Sports Radio with Ta
Hushmans On. I'm Doug Gottlieb. Happy Labor Day to you.
We have a weekend of college football in our back pocket,
more ball to be played, and of course we are
just three nights away. Right. This is like back when, um,

(00:45):
and this is something that the kids won't be able
to say these days. Right when you used to stop
and ask for directions, Right when you stopped after directions
like oh you go four lights up and you take
it right. Nobody asked to ask for directions because again
in your phone anymore? Right? But four lights up? Then
then then and then you'd pull away. You're like, wait,
should do I count the first light? Do I do it? So?

(01:06):
When I say okay, says four three nights away? Right?
Said Tonight's Monday Night Tuesday night, Wednesday night and then
Thursday night. Is that Am I right by saying three
nights way? Or is it four nights away? Which? Which?
Which is the tach? It's three and three nights? Okay,
I did get it. I just want to make sure
that I wasn't I was counting the right number of
nights so as we get ready for that. You heard,

(01:29):
you heard the update from Brian Finlay that they're gonna
sign Jason Peters to give them some some stability on
the offensive line. Um Dak Prescott, of course, the Cowboy,
the Cowboys quarterback. He had this to say about Tyler Smith,
who's gonna start for Tyron Smith said, expects him to
be ready to play TJ like. Look, they're taking on

(01:52):
a Tampa team that has their own offensive line issues,
but defense affront doesn't appear to be an issue yet
outside of CD Lamb, you don't really have healthy top
end wide receivers. Were the Cowboys gonna look like when
they when they take the field against the Buccaneers this weekend?
If you act Dak Prescott, they don't look great, look
like a million dollars. I don't believe the Cowboys they

(02:17):
when when you lose the amount of players that they've lost,
and then the guys you're counting on to be pillars
of your team get injured. Tyrant Smith, Michael Gallup isn't
ready to go from last year's injury. This is all
gonna fall on Dak Prescott's shoulder, Ceedee Lamb in that

(02:38):
run game. Then that run game hasn't been that run
game in years, and so what will they be? There'll
be a team that offensively will have to be perfect
and hope and pray that their defense uh is dominant.
That defense is gonna have to be dominant, and they

(02:59):
have the players at every level to be a really
good defense. Can train Viton Diggs? Can he get that
many interceptions again this year? That it's hard, It's it's
hard to year after year continue to get a ton
of interceptions. Can he do that again? Can Michael Parsons

(03:19):
accumulate as many sacks as he did? Can de Marcus
Lawrence stay healthy this year? There's just so many variables
when you talk about the Cowboys. Yes, they just signed
Jackson Peters, Well, is he going to be a veteran leader?
You would assume by week three he'll be in there starting.
He's forty years old. You gotta get your legs up
under you. But how is his body going to react?

(03:41):
Not going through training camp? No, Aus, Yeah, you've been training,
but playing football is different than training. And so the
Eagles should be better. The Washington Commanders defensively are always
going to present a problem. Brian Dable with the Giants,
they should be better. I'm just not sure that I
expect the Cowboys to be what Dak Prescott in the

(04:04):
Cowboys fans expect them to be. Can you believe that
it's been since the mid nineties that they've had back
to back ten win seasons, Like that's kind of remarkable.
Could it be as just a lot of parody in
that division or they just can't put back to back
good seasons together? You tell you tell me, I don't

(04:25):
think it's I don't think it's the parody in the
division because during that time, there have been plenty of
drafts for the rest of that division and literally since
nineteen ninety six. That was the last time they had
back to back ten win seasons, and that was they
had was I think six in a row. Obviously that's
when they had they had Troy at quarterback, So it

(04:46):
fell apart. That was Barry Switzer had the last kind
of then he had a six and ten year, then
Chan Gailey one ten with Troy and then they went
through some lean years. But it's been since nineteen ninety
six they've had back to back ten win seasons. That
to me is just crazy, considering one how much discussed
the Cowboys are and discussed as like every years like

(05:06):
this is gonna be could this be the year for
the Cowboys? Well they have I do feel like this
is not a year where people outside of Dallas think
this is going to be their year, but they do
see thee Lamb's a star, Michael Parsons a star. You know,
you do have some other good pieces and the division
isn't seen as being great. I mean, I think the
Eagles have probably a little bit a better roster, just

(05:29):
there's not the belief at Jalen Hurtson in comparison to
Dak Prescott. So but it's it's really remarkable their inability
to put the back to back, you know, big seasons together. Likeson.
I like the Eagles to win this division just off
of overall roster construction and offensively defensively complimentary football. They

(05:53):
can win it offensively or they can win it defensively,
and the Cowboys can as well. But when you take
Cede Lamb away, where do they go? Where do they
go with the ball? And so now this is where
Dak Prescott he's gonna earned his money. He's gonna earn
that contract by I'm I'm gonna make this guy a name. Yeah,

(06:17):
and who who? Who will be that guy? We don't know,
but if the Cowboys play well, it will be because
Dak Prescott are bringing people to our attention that we
had no idea who they were. And so that's what
you pay these quarterbacks amount of money that they receive

(06:38):
for those moments. So you can say, hey, I'm gonna
make this guy household name. And so it's a lot
of pressure on Dak Prescott. You get the contract. And
now when they take Cite Lamb ware third and seven,
they're gonna double cdee Lamb. Tony Pollard in the slot?
Do you like Tony? The idea of Tony Tony Pollard
in the slot personally like a receiver in a slot,

(07:01):
because that's what they're used to doing. That they're used to.
Now I like Tony Pollard in a slot if he's
going against a linebacker, not if he's going against an
nickel corner. That if you're saying you're moving him to receiver,
which they say they want to try to do. No,
I mean a nickel corner is gonna be able to
cover Tony Pollard. I prefer receiver that's been doing it

(07:22):
and knows how to get open and understands there's the
nuances of route running, and so I prefer receiver over
Tony Pollard in the slot me personally, Now, what kind
of personnel grouping will that defense put out there? Sure
when Tony Pollard isn't slot, So if they go two backs,
what kind of personnel do they they classify that as

(07:43):
And maybe it's a strong safety or a linebacker, then yeah,
I like that. I like that for the Cowboys, but
not not if it's a nickel corner. No, All right, Tael,
We'll get back to some cowboys talking a second. Brandon
Weedon will be our guests. He's a former former Dallas
Cowboys starting quarterback. But I do have this not so
breaking news. We were talking about um roller coasters and

(08:04):
rides and falls from skydiving. We also tucked a little
bit of bungee jumping. Jason Stewart producing this year production.
I've forgotten that you you're a bungee jumper guy, right,
Like that's the m Yes I am, I am of
You know, there's a place over here in La called
the Bridge to Nowhere. It's an old abandoned bridge and

(08:27):
a bungee company took took over it so you could
bungee down into this uh Tortos River gorge. It looks
it's like a little gorge, like a mini gorge. Yeah,
so we got video and everything I have. I have
a million questions. How many times have you done it? Yeah?
I've done in a total of three times over two trips.
Because you know when they goat when you go there,

(08:47):
they're like, you could pay for one, but you'll want
to go twice. So the first time I went there,
I'm like, you're right, I want to do this again. Um,
and every right after like you got done. You did
it like immediately where you're nervous, that first one where
you well yeah, yeah, let's let's get to the first one.
So so do you have to like walk upstairs, you're
standing down looking over you are do you have any

(09:08):
issues with heights to begin with. Okay, let's see. Um,
first of all, you walk to the bridge. There's no
walking upstairs, right, You walk to the bridge, and you
never actually get down into the gorge, so you stay
up on the bridge. Um, nerves don't aren't a factor
for me. I've I've done some skydiving too. Um, I like,
I like the heights. That's not that's I mean, it

(09:30):
was the best adrenaline rush that I could possibly ever receive.
Because you always feel like you're gonna die. You could die,
because there's always that chance, but just the feeling of
free falling at you know, at that speed, it's, uh,
it's something that's undescribable. Um and amazing, amazing, he said, amazing,

(09:53):
it really is. DJ I'm sure, I'm sure it is.
It's one of those that looks that looks exhilarating. I'm
gonna pass right, that looks like zierating, I'm gonna pass.
I mean, you have to be a certain type of
individual to enjoy that initial free fall and like, man,
this bungee better, bungee better, bungee, don't snap or give

(10:19):
way or yeah, that that part of it is just
for me, it's kind of it's a little fearful there,
look a little a little there. That's that's a that's
a no, thank you. I look, so there's a j Doug.
You just said last segment that you would actually consider skydiving. No,
I didn't. You You said I would have to have

(10:41):
two parachutes. So that when no, I didn't, I this
discussion never came up. Said one shoot. I wouldn't. I
couldn't have one shoot. So that's the first the first
time you go, you go on something, somebody goes on
your back anyway, and they have their shooting. You have
your shoot. I have no. I just I've always I
this is my sister went skydiving. I think on her
eighteenth birthday. I remember she told me she's she's I

(11:01):
was like, how was it? She's like why, I threw up,
But it was it was great. Like No, I just
I'm sure it'd be incredible. I look, there's a bridge
where I live, and my my son like one day,
like he he went with his buddies in the summer.
He's like, Dad, we jumped off the bridge. Like yeah,
it's like a like a childhood early teenage you know. Uh,

(11:26):
from like eleven to like thirteen, fourteen, some sixteen year
old kids to jump off this bridge. So he's telling
me about it, and and I was like, well, let's
let's take me there. I want to see it because
I thought it was like a like a five foot
ten foot bridge whatever. It was a decent height. So
he's jumping off of it, and I'm you know, you
gotta check for boats. I don't want to land on
the boat. That'd be a bad thing. So he's like,

(11:47):
call me soft. Him and his buddy Coltener called me soft.
So finally I get up there and I did not
jump out this bridge that a couple of twelve year
olds were The thirteen year olds were jumping off this bridge,
but I did it. But that was like, that's like
the limit. That's I don't know. I watch your video, Jason,
and I think that looks fun. How close are those

(12:08):
sides of the kind of gorge because it feels like
if you jump in the wrong direction, you're gonna hit
a little rock. Well, no, actually, the tricky part is,
and they do a little training session before they do it.
You're supposed to jump out so that the bungee when
it kicks back doesn't kick you under the bridge, so
you smash your head right, so you have to jump
out so that there's an angle to go under the

(12:29):
ball man. So you could possibly bungee snap and get
knocked out. Yeah, now there's now there's two possible there's
two possible ways in which you can you can die. Yeah,
once you get to the second way, you could die.
I'm good. I was good before, now I'm really now
I'm good. I'm definitely set. The first person I said, hey,
I'm gonna make this bungee that's strong enough for people

(12:51):
to jump off. And yes, the first person to do
like wow, was what was bungee was? Originally It's were
originally designed though for like for repelling, right Jay like right,
So I guess I guess somebody who's repelling at some
point was like, hey, we can actually do this where
you could jump off of things. You just think of
the trial and error it took, like I think it

(13:13):
was too long, too much, Like, but think about this, guys, um,
California has a lot of restrictions and insurance and liability laws, right,
so you're strapped around your waist on this one. Nothing's
going to happen to you if you go to like
South Africa, we just said if you don't, you just said,

(13:35):
if you don't jump out, you could yea. Yeah, there
are a couple of things at your head in the bridge.
I'm just saying that I want to go to a
place where there's no liability, like a South Africa or
something where you could go by the ankles and you
can go like twice as far you could, you could
dive twice as far. Because there's you want to do
something that we just said. We just talked about a
tower in India. This you want that, you want, you

(13:57):
want deeper, you want longer. Yeah, it's a drug for
you basically pretty much. Just pump that sucker into my brain.
I need some sort of adrenaline, even if it kills me.
Bring it. Okay, Well, now we understand how you value
your your life. That's that's Jason Stewart, adventurer extraordinarire and
the producer of the Doug Gotlib Show normally on Fox

(14:18):
Sports Radio T Jasmin's on. I'm Doug Golib. All right,
coming up next, we'll get back to football. What are
our expectations of the Cowboys of the Dallas The Dallas
Cowboys and what don't we make it? Tom Brady taking
eleven days away and now continue to discussion about stuff
off the field. How's he going to play by the
way those two teams play each other this weekend. We'll

(14:39):
talk about that next in The Dan Patrick Show. Be
sure to catch the live edition of The Dan Patrick
Show week days at nine am Eastern six am Pacific
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morning to you, have you labor to day. I hope

(15:01):
you're doing well with tj oshpans Oudam, Doug Gottlieb. This
is Dan Patrick Show, Fox Sports Radio. All right, so
here's what we've had so far. We've had a bunch
of college football games. We got some discussion over that,
and we're three nights away from the NFL kicking off.
So times are good. Times are really good. I had

(15:24):
that crazy game last night to think about LSU missing
at having an extra point blocked after a crazy, crazy
series of events that led to them scoring what would
have been a tying or potentially go ahead touchdown and
Florida State getting to win. We got all the rest
of college football. We can cover all of it. Brandon
Wheedon's our guest, of course, former star at Oklahoma State,

(15:46):
first run draft pick of the Browns, started for the Browns,
started for the Cowboys, started for the Houston Texans. He
joins us in the Dan Patrick's show on Fox Sports Radio.
I want to work backwards of the college football be
in a second, but let's start with the Cowboys. Jason
Peters is going to sign with the Cowboys. They've got
Tyler Smith, but they're a bit of a bit of
a mass unit of the offensive line and at the

(16:06):
wide receiving corps outside of Cdee Lamb. What do you
think the likelihood of success is based upon kind of
the roster and the issues they're having, especially upfront. Yeah,
I mean, I think if you go back to the
days that you know, the Cowboys were more successful, especially
on the offensive side of the ball. Is you know,
when DeMarco was there and the year I was our
two hyd and fourteen, We're we're really good upfront, I mean,

(16:28):
our offensive and I argue with the best in the league.
You know, Tyran Smith, I mean probably at the time
was one of the best left tackles in the league.
And Travis Frederick and Zach Martinman, we had some we
have some dudes, and it allowed us to do a
lot of different things. And it started with running the football.
And right now it's it's kind of a patchwork deal.
I mean, adding a guy like Jason Peters will be
will be huge for that for that front. Um, the

(16:51):
only Tyler Smiths can be a good player. But he's
a rookie, right, I mean him the left tackle in
the division that's got pretty good front. On the other side,
it's it's that's a big task. So um yeah, I
mean they're just then at the at the important positions, um,
you know, and I think they need to go out
and find some depth. It's just it's gonna be tough.
You know, it's gonna be tough on Dak. I'm going
to get creative and and find ways to get the

(17:12):
ball out on time and and run the ball creatively.
But man, it's you know, I had to see if
one there. You know, Tyren Smith. There was a stat
a couple of years back, you know, the games that
he played versus the games he had not played, and
the Cowboys record was was quite a bit worse when
he's not in there. So losing Tyrn Smith is a
is a big blow. He's a He's a big time
of talent that come left tackle there for the Cowboys.

(17:36):
Brandon being a former quarterback going into this season. Everyone
only weapon he has right now is dak I mean,
is a ceedee lamb until Michael Gallup comes back. How
is a quarterback? Do you approach your skill guys that
are unproven? Do you? Hey, I'm going to be relying

(17:56):
on you. I need you to do X, Y and
Z or you just let it play out? Yeah? Yeah, man,
I think you gotta let it play out as as
well as you can. I mean, you know, obviously see
he's got to get his his targets. But um, you know,
as a quarterback, you just gotta you gotta let the coverage.
You gotta let the coverage dictate it, and you gotta
let your progression kind of tell you where to go
to football. Um, and that's a lot of that's gonna

(18:18):
be on Kevin Moore Is is finding out how teams
are playing these guys without until Michael Galott gets back. Um,
because you know, everybody knows where the ball is gonna go,
They're gonna try to find eighty eight and so uh
as a quarterback, it's it's challenging. You know. In college,
you know, it's a little different because I justin Blackman,
for example at Oklahoma State, and it's like, I mean,
come hell or high water, it didn't matter because the

(18:39):
starting eight, I don't care if it's covered too. I'll
try to force a you know, a whole shot in
there to him, or I'll try to force them maybe
a ball that I shouldn't shouldn't do, whereas in the
NFL it's just not that easy. So um, yeah, I
mean it's it's gonna be tough on deck. You know,
I'm I hate it for him because, um, they were
pretty promising at that position. Obviously Louise Edgric Wilson lose
some guys like that. I mean, there's it's it's gonna be.

(19:01):
It's gonna be a little more challenging for him until
they get gout back. But as a quarterback and then
you just gotta you can't. You can't try to force
things and aren't there man. Sometimes that's when you get
in trouble and you start turning the ball over and
things don't go the way why you need him to go.
So um, that's every patient um, and just trust those
other guys, man. I mean, you know they're in the

(19:21):
NFL and the NFL for a reason that good players
you know, trust him, get the ball in their hands,
get different confidence and hope that they can hope that
the thing you get better for here goes on. Can
you imagine a starting quarterback missing eleven days in the
middle of camp. Now, now that's different. But it's Tom
Brady and he's forty five years old and play a

(19:42):
lot of ball. So now I mean that's like like, like, guys,
I get that, okay, but but you guys can spoke
speak to speak to this. One of the things that
everybody says about Tom Brady is well, when he's around,
everybody rises their level, right, I mean he's around, like
he just brings up all right. Well, what about when
he's not around? What does that? You to tampare like
the worst time? I don't know, why is he back?

(20:03):
I don't know, Like that doesn't those those practices without him,
those that just has to be a very unique sort
of distraction, um for a guy who has never allowed
distractions to come into play ever. Yeah, I mean it's
this is a I've never seen it I mean, um,

(20:25):
it had to be a little bit awkward, you know
at those practices, I mean blaying Gabertson there and he's
he's the one taking on the first team red and
you look around and you know, maybe Tom Brady's over
there taking a drink of water. Normally now he's not
even in order to be seen. It's probably probably a
little awkward. Um, he's a guy that's got a presence.
It's probably like un like no one else, you know,
and so when he's not there, it probably just doesn't

(20:45):
feel right. So um, yeah, I agree with you, Doug.
I mean I think it's uh, you never you never
see these types of things, and especially when it's a
polarizing figure like like Tom Brady and in the presence
that he's he's had such a demand. In presence it's
Brandon Whitton doing this? Or would you do this? You're
the quarterback of the Bucks, Brandon Wheaton, or are you saying, hey, coach,

(21:07):
I need to leave for a week and a half. No,
I wouldn't have it. I wouldn't have enough to say that. No,
I don't have the gutside. There's there's no way I
have to fight through it and not be there. But
um no, I just think it's a quarterback. You know.
It's especially calling me. They go like me, I have
no pull, I can't do that, you know. Um So
now it had to have been awkward to uh not

(21:28):
having that for eleven days. I mean, you've been in
the locker room. We haven't even talked about this much, Doug,
but you you've been in the locker room Brandon. You know,
when he's not there, guys are talking and they're they're talking,
and because it's Brady when he comes back, they're not
talking anymore. Right, But let let this season start off
the wrong way. Let it start off the wrong way.

(21:49):
They're really gonna be talking. And it's unfortunate because I
love Brady, But you got to be in and I
get it. Everybody has problems. Everybody around you understand you're
playing football. How does Tom Brady walk back into that

(22:10):
locker room. Does he explain it? Does he just let
it be? Like? How do you walk back into that
locker room doing what you just did? I don't have
an answer for you. I mean, you know, yeah, I
mean every day that he's not there, I mean that's
you know, that's probably one of the first things that
conversation is going on, and guys are sending the lockers
and or you know, getting ready to go out to

(22:30):
walk throughs or whatever. It's like, it's weird, twelve's not here.
You know, what's twelve coming back? You know, And I'm
sure it's I'm sure it's the first top of conversation.
So you know, I don't know. I mean I would
I would love to think that, you know, most of
those guys, most of young guys, and most of the
free agents that that signed there because he's there, or
like man, I can care less as long as he's

(22:51):
as long as he's here week one, I'm good. Um,
but yeah, it's kind of an unprecedented deal. You don't
see it. Um, you know, if it is truly you know,
family issue. You know, we all have issues like that, right,
you know you got to go learn how to deal
with them and still put your work in. But I
was I was shocked. You know, I figured maybe two

(23:12):
three days, okay, but eleven days that's half a camp.
I mean, that's that's a lot of a lot of
time with guys that aren't there. I think that I
think that the cover up being worse than the crime
in many ways. Right, Whereas at first they were like,
well this is pre planned, They're like when's it gonna
be back? Well we don't know. Well then that's not
that's not really well planned. Maybe that's actually how I plan,

(23:33):
but that's not how most people plan for their starting quarterback,
especially you know, the most accomplished, greatest quarterback of all time. Like, like,
if you want to sell me that it was pre planned, okay,
it's not just the part of data departure. You have
to have a return date as well, and they did not.
So that one strikes me as as as as as
part of the what what what makes it up? Brandon

(23:55):
Weedon's our guest course, former first round pick the Cleveland Browns.
Start with the Browns for a couple of years, with
the Cowboys, with the Houston Texans, with t Jasmin's out
on Doug Gotlie This is the Dan Patrick Show on
Fox Sports Radio. Kind of quickly Brandon turned into college
Football Oklahoma. Dramatic change in coaching staff, right because Lincoln
Riley and his crew go out to USC left behind

(24:18):
is some of the a lot of the old heads
they brought back to Oklahoma. What do you think of
this Sooner unit now that we've seen them at least
once in the football field, well, I think at least
on the defensive side, they're going to be better. I
think they're gonna be tougher. I think Brent Nibles is
a really good football coach that kind of brings that
mentality to that side of the ball. They brought back
their strength conditioning coach, which Doug, you know, is important.

(24:42):
We've got a great one in Oklahoma State and he
kind of runs a show and they just paidim a
million dollars, So those guys are important. So they brought
Smitty back on the strength conditioning coach, and then uh,
you know, they've they've got you know, Brent Vinibles kind
of calling the shots there on defense. But and on
the other side of the ball, I think they're gonna
be just fine. I mean, I think Jeff Levy is
a great offensive mind that's probably gonna be a head
coach in the year or two. Um, but I think

(25:04):
they're gonna be better. Their danks, they're gonna be They're
gonna be tougher. Um. You know, I know they played
YouTube the other day, so kind of hard to gauge,
but look like a tackle better played a little bit
faster than the secondary, which is you know something I
said last year they weren't very good in the secondary
and they're little pretty soft back there, but a little
bit bit more physical. And um, I think it's gonna
be a little bit different looking Sooner team, but I

(25:26):
think they're gonna be uh. I think it's gonna be
pretty solid. You mentioned you mentioned tougher. It does sound
like you think that that Lincoln and his style are
putting together a staff. You know, does that dog hunt
in the in the Big ten? I know the Big
ten will be different than the Big twelve, different than
the SEC. Do you think the style of which that's
just he likes to play, but how he likes to coach,
that it will have kind of the defensive toughness it

(25:48):
takes to win big I think, I mean it's gonna
it starts more upfront. I mean, I think you know,
you look at the Big ten, you know, and I
think Big ten football. I think, you know, big first
round pick offensive lineman, you know, good edge rushers and
big three day nicks and those tackles. So I just think,
you know, I think size and I think you know
just running the football town on the football. Um, throw

(26:11):
all that out the window. How's he gonna like playing
in Michigan in November? It's freezing cold. Those guys are
gonna that's gonna be that's gonna be interesting. But um no,
I think you know, he's got to recruit a bit
different style of players, especially again up front, on both
sides of the ball. M kind of bringing up the
physicality because I mean, it's it's more smash mouth up
there in the big tune per se. And and he

(26:31):
likes to he likes to be almost the mess and
spreads you out. So that's an interesting transition. I'm kind
of manxious to see how it all plays out. Band
of great stuff. Man, have a happy Labor day. I'm
sure you're teeming it up somewhere. You're teeing it up somewhere.
Are you doing the lake thing today? Now? I think
I'm gonna go see it. I haven't really thought about
so this morning, but it's pretty nice here. There's no win,
so I'm thinking about seeing if I can sneak on somewhere.

(26:53):
All right, I don't think you know there's no sneaking
on it. Your size, so your stature in that state.
But I appreciate you trying to act like you can
sneak on it tours. Thanks, thanks join us, you got granted.
We're doing us year. Uh on the damn Pat Show.
Let's let's get to that that Brady thing. I mean, like, look,
it's it's really really interesting that, Um, you still have
people like the division's nine to get like the Saints

(27:15):
roster's pretty good. I don't know what to make of
Carolina because Carolina when they have Christian McCaffrey, Uh, they're
They're obviously a completely different football team. Even going back
to last year he gets hurt there three and oh
they never recovered. Now that wasn't It was against at
least two kind of bottom feeders in the league. But still, um,

(27:36):
I don't know. I look at Tampa and I think
there's all these little signs there that that should point
point to them having somewhat of a disappointing season, right
the Brady thing. Lose your starting center, you lose you know,
you have a you have a retirement from an offensive
lineman you weren't expecting. You lose another offensive lineman. You

(27:56):
have a change, you know in in in the head, coach.
I know most of the rest of the staff and
stayed the same. I don't know. There appears to be
signs there, But you look at the division, like, all right,
if I don't love them, who do I love? What
do you make of how we should feel going into
Tampa season? It's gonna be interesting. The Saints are gonna
be better, and the Saints defensively run a Saint system,

(28:19):
same defensive coach, and Dennis Allen will be there. They
gave the Bucks problems. If Jamis Winston can stay healthy,
the Saints are going to present problems for the Bucks.
And you spoke of it offensively upfront. For the Bucks,
what are they gonna do any quarterback? It's not just Brady.

(28:40):
If you get pressure on them, they're gonna start to
feel that pressure. They're gonna start to sense it. And
so it's going to be it's not gonna be as easy,
I believe as people perceive it to be. The Saints
are gonna present a problem Carolina. We don't know they
have a good roster. If Bakers healthy, Bakers played good

(29:01):
football in the National Football League, like he's been a
good quarterback at times, and so if he's healthy and
he's playing with the confidence that he played with when
he took the Cleveland Browns to the playoffs. That will
present a problem as well, because the Panthers also they
have you look at their roster, they have a good roster,
and so it's not gonna be easy for the Tampa

(29:25):
Bay Buccaneers. Now, the Bucks also have a good roster,
but where they're hurting is up front on that offensive line.
You can't be that way in that division, not what
what Carolina has on the defensive front, and not what
the Saints have on the defensive front. And so for
the Bucks, it's just gonna be can they block guys?

(29:49):
Can they get stops? They're gonna get stops because defensively
to Bows, he's gonna stop the run and force you
to be one dimensional and throw the ball. Can those others?
Can Baker do that? Can insistently? Can Jameis Winston can
do it consistently? Can Marcus mariot to do it consistently?
In Atlanta? You know, we didn't talk about those guys,
but the Falcons also they present matchup problems with Kyle

(30:12):
Pitts and Drake Lennon out there with that size and
that ability to just be big, big guys that can move.
And so for the Bucks, it's gonna be interesting because
if they don't get it done, they're gonna point to
the eleven days, They're gonna go back to the eleven
days and what if in the wyse and things of

(30:32):
that nature. Yeah, no, I think that that's the best
point that anybody's made on this TJ is if you remember,
I guess it was last year, right, wasn't last year
where Aaron Rodgers was laid showing up and did he
want to be trade? Did not want to be traded?
And what did he do this offseason? He wasn't an OTAs.
He's out hiking Machu Pichu. And what happened. First game

(30:54):
of the year. They go out there and they just
get hammered. They played New Orleans in Jacksonville. I remembering
Jay Steam, I remembering the games correctly, right, New Orleans
and Jacksonville and they got smashed. Now, he end up
having an MVP season and having a great year. But
for that that short period of time, I everyone said,
myself included was like, maybe maybe it should have spent

(31:17):
a little bit more in the summer in the film room,
and I don't know right, it's the message that you said,
here's the here's the way I would I would relate
it to somebody. In the early eighties, my dad was
an assistant coach with text Winner at Long Beach State
and text Winner if you remember that name. Um, it

(31:38):
was the architect of the triangle offense. He was a
great college coach before he put the triangle into the
Bulls and into the Lakers, part of Phil Jackson staff
when he all those championships, and um, when he's a
Long Bee State, my dad would. My dad told me
that that the offense, the drills, the implementation of how

(31:58):
they played, all this stuff was increasredible. But when they'd
started the defensive segment of practice, if they put the
defensive segment at the end of practice, he would leave practice. Leave.
I mean, I don't have anything to do with the defense,
anything like pay attention, nothing, nothing so and and like
there was nothing wrong. And on most most basketball staffs,

(32:21):
the coaches will breakdown. Sometimes some even have an offensive
and defensive coordinator, right, so it's not like the ka
the head coach is really implementing much of the defense,
but not being there or makes it not important. The
head coach ain't there, in ain't important. And guess what
they were great offensive teams, they weren't very good defensively,
and just that wasn't his thing. He wasn't into coaching
it like you guys, coach that. I'll just coach the

(32:43):
offensive side of the ball. And I do think that
that that leadership whatever, whoever your best player is, whoever
your coaches or how they lead, that that embodies who
your team is. And it's going to be interesting because
Brady obviously is seen as they workaholic, and the whole
m on him is nobody works harder on his body
and his brain and being ready and being prepared, and

(33:04):
then he's he's off the radar first. And that's how
you know it was important. That's how you know, because
of everything you just said about Brady, for him to
do that, it was important to him that he left Camp.
I guarantee that was the last resort. Buccaneers played the

(33:25):
Cowboys this Sunday. Are we going to overreact to whoever loses?
Like I told you, the Cowboys lose, we always crazy,
O people crazy, you'll react and if Tom Brady doesn't
play well, you know what I mean, of course, what
we're gonna say, you shouldn't take eleven days off a camp,

(33:45):
big boy, like you know, when you leave training camp
for eleven days, any player, especially Tom Brady, it's like
whoa whoa like it has to be something so important
nobody would do it, let alone Tom Brady. And so

(34:05):
that's how you know it was very important. You just
hope if you're a fan of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
and Tom Brady, that this isn't a storyline because they
don't play well. If they don't play well, they've just
not playing well, has nothing to do with eleven days.
But the eleven days will be the story. Of course
it will, of course it will all right. Coming up next,

(34:27):
Bill Belichick gave a downright long winded answer to a
pretty simple question. You'll hear it. We'll discuss it with
Tjshman's outam Doug Gottlieb. That's next in Dan Patrick Show.
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
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SR to listen live. Doug gotled Tjshmans out in for

(34:55):
Dan Dan as Dan Patrick Show, Fox Sports Radio, Little
Mighty Mighty Austones for you. Huh So, well, we'll get
back to the college football first week reaction over some
of these crazy games, especially how that LSU Florida State

(35:20):
game ended is nuttie, but TJ, I want to play
for you something. There are times in which Bill Belichick
can become loquacious. He finds, whether it's his mood, whether
it's a question, or sometimes who asks the question. He
was asked about his expectations of his team against Miami
and the opener. Here was his answer, that's the sixty

(35:41):
four thousand dollar question on everything opening days, Opening Day,
nobody's really shown much in preseason. The cards will be
on the table on Sunday, and like every opening game,
I'm sure we'll have to make some adjustments once we
see what they're doing, and vice versa. That's always the
way it is, So you you have to leave room
for a little bit of the unknown things they've been

(36:02):
working on if they haven't shown, or things specifically game
plan for you that I've had trouble with at some point.
They've had a lot of time to prepare for the
game several months, as have we. So there's a you know,
a big part of the unknown. Think all that'll clear
up in the first two to three weeks of the
season when teams settle into their style of play that

(36:24):
they want to bank on. But right now that's not
necessarily known. And leaguewide, the playing time for you know,
a lot of the key players on every team is low,
so it's hard to hard to tell how some of
their their players are going to be used. But we
know they're gonna guys are gonna feature So left see

(36:44):
how goes? How do you how do you go in
relatively blind into that first game? Number one? Why did
he say sixty four thousand dollars? So where does that
come in at? It's that sixty expression? An old expression?
Really yeah, I think yeah, I think it was an
old game show, must be real old. Okay, Yeah, Like
I'm like, why sixty four thousand? Well, you're going to

(37:05):
the first game and it's the unknown. I tell you this,
All thirty two teams think they're gonna win. I will
tell you that. Like never once that I go into
a season thinking, oh man, we suck, We're not gonna
be good. Every season, I'm like, we're gonna be pretty good.
This year, and that first game may or may not

(37:26):
show you just just because you win doesn't mean you
have a great season. Just because you lose doesn't mean
you're bad. And that and that's what's So that's what
makes football the best game in the world because it's
now it's seventeen games in each game is its own
individual game. That what you did last Sunday that works

(37:51):
so well, you probably won't do it. And if you do,
as we would say, you have a little window dressing,
We're gonna show you something to make you think we're
doing this. We're gonna do what we did last week
to see if you guys are prepared for this. And
so football is a game of adjustments, matchups. The coaches

(38:11):
and teams and players that do it best are the
ones that come out on top. But everybody's going into
this first week like we're gonna win. I guarantee the
Patriots believe that. I guarantee the Dolphins believe it. This Thursday,
the Rams and the Bills both believe that, no question, no, no, no,
no question. But but but the thing is, nobody walks
into a game thing and they're gonna lose. Um. But

(38:32):
the questions now now now you're getting middle of the season,
they walk into the game thinking they're gonna lose. If
you're getting your butt kicked all year, you're going into
the game like, oh, we're gonna lose another one. That's
a Factum. I don't know if the pay I mean,
I guess I do think the Patriots, that staff and
the way they think, they they figured it's like a

(38:54):
math problem. They they convinced themselves these first four games
are like extended preseason. Then once we get the book
on people, now we know how to beat them. That's
our that's kind of that's how we roll, that's how
we established kind of our style. There's okay, so there's
two different different questions for each of these different teams.
Let's start with the Patriots. Are you a believer in
the idea of guys that have played against a style

(39:15):
of offense can then implement that style of offense? Right,
that's what we're hearing, like Man Patrician, Joe Judge. They
love the you know, the the zone blocking schemes, zont
you know, you know, running the zone outside it's outside,
which is that's you talk to any offensive line coaching
that that's hard it's not easy. That is hard to teach.

(39:37):
It's easy. Oh, we want to learn that's it's hard.
That's why everybody can do it. It's hard. So are
you a buyer into guys that haven't traditionally taught it,
but that have played against it can in fact teach it.
Oh of course, but I'm not. I'm not a buyer
in a guy. And at Patricia, that was a defensive coaching.

(40:02):
When you were in Detroit. Your defense wasn't that good.
You couldn't teach what you did best. How are you
going to teach offense? And that's no disrespect what I'm saying.
You're the offense or the defense you coordinated in Detroit
wasn't very good. So now I expect you to coordinate
offense that's not your side of the ball, and it's

(40:23):
gonna be better than the defensive. I don't get it.
I don't get it. And that's what makes the football
game this Sunday interesting because now it's preseason. It's no
game planning. Now you gotta show your cards. Now you
got game plan. Now you gotta really show you know
what you're doing. Yeah, and so yeah, he can teach it,

(40:44):
but it's not easy. That's why everybody they don't run it. Yeah,
mcvaigh can do it. Yeah, the Shanahan's do it, but
they've been doing it their whole life, their entire life.
McVeigh comes up under Shanahan in those guys, and so
it's not as easy as they believe. They'll find out. Okay,
really quickly. Can Tua get the most out of Tyreek Hill? Man?

(41:08):
I actually like to a man. Tour was extremely accurate
in college. But Ta had dogs at Alabama, twas dogs
now in Miami, And so he's gonna throw the ball
accurately enough if you protect him. He did it in Alabama,
and so yeah, I believe the Dolphins are gonna have
a really good year. Yeah, that part's gonna be interesting though,

(41:30):
because they are just throws that it felt like only
Mahomes or Mahomes and a canful of guys could make.
It does feel like that's he's a He's like a
He's a weapon that everybody can use. He's not gonna
make those throws that Mahome makes and run around and
then still hit Tyreek Hill on the money. He's not
gonna do that. He doesn't have to do that. He
can do what toa can do. He did it in college.

(41:51):
He can do it in the league. He can do it,
just be a different way. It's more than one way
to skin a cat with t Jumans out him. Dog
got all right. Coming up next, we will see the Rams.
We will see the Bills. How much is there lingering
in the Bills and how their last season ended getting
ready for this season. We'll discuss next in the Dan
Patrick's Show.

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