September 16, 2024 • 48 mins
On today's Dan Patrick Show, DP recaps a jam-packed weekend of Football and reminds us its still early in the NFL and there's no need to panic (yet). HOF QB Steve Young discusses young QB's and Tua's concussions, and Darius Rucker stops by to sing with Fritzy again.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hall of Famers Steve Young a little bit later on
and the great country music artist Darius Rucker will join
us as well. We have football coming up tonight. It's
the Falcons and the Eagles, and the Falcons are getting
five and a half. This was probably a month ago
when we talked about there are certain teams they're not
even interesting. I'm not saying they're not good, they're bad,
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but they're not interesting. Sometimes you can have a team
that is not very good, but they might have a
star player. They could be interesting for whatever reason. And
like the Giants aren't really relevant. They're not interesting. I
mean we watched because we probably watched to see what
Dan you know, Daniel Jones is going to do or
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not do. Carolina is not good. They're not even interesting.
I feel bad when I'm watching Bryce Young. I don't
know if he can play or not. I don't know
if he's going to get the chance anytime soon. But
there are a few teams and we threw the Saints
in there a month ago. We're like, I've kind of
seen this a set that was his hot take that
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Dennis Allen would be the first coach fired. You know,
we've seen Derek Carr, Alvin Kamara, okay, but not really interesting.
Great fan base, cool uniforms, but there's nothing there. Not interesting.
And then all of a sudden, you know, the Minnesota
Vikings with JJ McCarthy, we thought, all right, they're going
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to be interesting. Are they going to be good? They
do have Justin Jefferson. And then all of a sudden,
we're going, all right, you got Sam Darnold, you'll be
a bridge quarterback. Now all of a sudden, you're watching
the Vikings differently. Now all of a sudden, you're watching
the New Orleans Saints differently. Now I get it. First week,
Vikings beat the Giants, No one cares. Then they win
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yesterday against the Niners. No, I know, no, Christian McAffrey. Still,
I know you're going cross country earlier, time game, you know,
time zone game four. I get all those things. The
Vikings still got the win yesterday. And then the Saints
go on the road to Dallas. Because their first game
of the season, they dominated forty seven points against Carolina.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
That doesn't really count. Now you go to Dallas and you.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Put up forty four points on that defense, Okay, now
you have our attention. So I was curious about, you know,
the over unders for win totals the Saints. As of today,
the over under is ten and a half wins. How
about that same roster pretty much as you had last year,
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same coach, same quarterback, same Alvin Kamara, healthier. And then
I was curious about the Vikings over under eight and
a half. All right, so these are these perception wins.
You go on the road, that you go up against
the team that went to the Super Bowl and you
pick up a win. Now, all of a sudden, we're
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looking at the Vikings and Saints differently. And I know
it's only two weeks, but this is what we do.
You got people, Hey, Saints playoffs, it's two games. Let's
wait a little bit here. How about we wait for
four like the over under should be four games before
we make a declaration.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Is that fair?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
I know it's not hot take ish, but can we
wait four games? Tom Brady said, Hey, first four games
were always kind of the preseason for us. Granted, you
had the greatest coach and greatest quarterback, so you had
a little bit of an advantage there, Like the Bengals
Bengals are zero and two. Could have easily won that
game yesterday, and I thought that for the most part,
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they were the better team. But you know, give credit
they Kansas City finds a way to win, while most
teams find a way to lose.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I'm not ready to make a declaration on the Bengals
that they're not going to be good this year. Get
T Higgins back. They got to figure out this Jamar
Chase situation. But they do have talent. They have a
really good quarterback. But you're in a division that you're
not quite sure. Like Baltimore loses at home, now they
go to Dallas. The Raiders come in there and beat Baltimore.
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In Baltimore Pittsburgh. They can't score touchdowns, but they can
keep you from scoring touchdowns. They're two to zero, They've
scored one offensive touchdown. Mike Tomlin can still coach. And
you know, the Browns got to win a big win
beat Jacksonville. So now all of a sudden, you're going,
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all right, let me handicap this division. I have no
idea zero And I want to say to Sean McVay,
if you're not watching the show or listening to the show.
You should have, because what did I tell you, Sean,
The Cardinals are going to go to Marvin Harrison June,
You're the third many many many times to start the game.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
And what happened. They went to Marvin.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Harrison Junior the third many many times because they didn't
go to him in week one, and I thought, boy,
they are going to go to him right off the bat,
and they did.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Here's Kyler Murray on Marvin Harrison.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
True cold plays. I'm try just trying to go with
there and execute obviously, you know. I mean, I've played
for a long time. You want to get your you
want to get your guys and ball early, you know,
so they can feel like they're in the game, get
them going, get their juices flowing.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
It's fun. We did a great job, that's aday. Yeah,
they did.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I mean it's not really rocket science. It's that guy's
really good. We drafted him really high. We should probably
throw him the ball, ready break, that's it. And then
I tried to warn Sean McVay, Sean, they're going to
go to Marvin Harrison. And then now, granted they went
to him early, they didn't go to him often because
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after the first quarter basically the numbers he put up
in the first quarter. But that was enough. And now
the Rams you don't have your two best receivers. The
over under for the Rams is now as of today
this morning, DraftKings seven and a half wins. There were
some experts who thought they could win that division. Now,
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granted they can still win the division a late push
like they had last year, but you start to look
at these teams. You know, the Dolphins over under his
eight and a half now, same as the Packers. Now
the Packers, you know, some people thought that they could
go to the super Bowl this year. Malik Willis did
a good enough job yesterday. That's all you were asking.
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Granted you're facing the Colts, but you know you take
care of the football. The Texans over under after last
night's win eleven and a half. So this is the
reaction that we have. This is real time reaction of
are they going to be good? Are you going to
if these are stocks? Are you buying into these stocks?
Which of these stocks would you say yep, all in
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on that. If I said the Saints ten and a half,
I don't know if anybody in this room is going yep,
I'm gonna take the Saints, Marvin, Are you you look
like you're poised to say you are.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
With Drew Brees, Reggie Bush.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Now you're Thomas. No, No, they're not there anymore, not
there anymore.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
They're going ten and a half.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yeah you're going over No I'm still going Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Me too.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Texans. You would find people go yeah, I'll take them.
I'm still fading them. But they're a really good team.
They didn't play great. Put a lot of pressure on
Caleb Williams. Once again, it always comes back to with
these quarterbacks, do they have time to throw? I don't
care who you are. If you don't, you're not going
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to be good. Caleb Williams, they went after him. They
went after him. Bryce Young there, that's the season. That's
why it's going to be. They're just they're coming after
you if you can't block. And you know, we all thought, okay,
the Bears upgraded their offensive line.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Okay, but you're.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Going against a couple of pretty good edge rushers Danelle
Hunter will Anderson. By the way, Daneielle Hunter is maybe
the most underrated, really good player in the NFL. Because
of his first name. There's people like the guy Hunter
is pretty good, is it Danielle No, it's Daniel Hunter
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because he put up some big numbers when he was
in Minnesota. But you're watching last night and you're going, yeah,
he's still pretty good. But you got to give these
quarterbacks time. And if you don't, I don't, you could
be Tom Brady Mahomes. I mean even Mahomes was under
pressure quite a bit. Max Crosby, God, I love him.
He just never stops. You talk about hurries getting in
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the backfield, and it felt like he was. He was
on the first name basis with Lamar yesterday. They'd be like,
hey Max, Hey Lamar. Just about every play he was
getting in there and had an impact there.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Hurries, to me are the most important things. I know.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
We pay people because of sacks. If you hurry a quarterback,
it's the same thing. Aiden Hutchinson yesterday, first quarter against
Baker Mayfield Junior the third And I said this on Friday,
I wouldn't be surprised if Tampa Bay won that game,
and for no other reason than they probably shouldn't. But
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Tampa Bay was a better team. Now, Detroit had a
couple of bad you know, Jared Goff, a couple of
bad picks, but Tampa made him throw bad picks, and
Baker Mayfield doubt him at your peril because he just
that's a chip on his shoulder that is never leaving.
And it feels like every single game is a referendum
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on the Browns made a mistake and Tampa got a
great bargain there. And you saw that yesterday. But the
game coming up tonight. College football wise, Georgia escapes Kentucky,
arch Manning come on down. He looked awesome. Alabama rolled Wisconsin.
I thought South Carolina would win outright against LSU when
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they were up seventeen. See, there's certain things that are etiquette.
Don't text me during a game. Now nobody from the
dan Nets did. I'm saying my friends who were saying, hey,
I loaded up. I took him out right, I took
the money line. Awesome, and then all of a sudden
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they end up losing. LSU comes back from seventeen down.
Couple of a couple of bad call well, I'll say
a questionable roughing the passer call that took back a
pick six.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
South Carolina. They had it.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
They were a better team. But LSU comes back to
in that one Florida is already doing the math on
Billy Napier's buyout.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
It's mid September.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
You already have the toughest schedule in college football. They
did a commercial on the on the jumbo tron where
Billy Napier, I think did something for anti smoking. He's
the head coach in Florida. And as soon as he
came up, the fans started booing like they were pro cancer.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Their favorite smoking.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeah, they're in favor of smoking. We're pro nicotine. Man,
they're booing their coach. He's running off the field. Gosh,
that's a bad situation. Bad situation when all of a
sudden you go, okay, if they pay and let's say
you owe me twenty six million dollars, do you go
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to twenty six boosters and say can I get Can
I you up for a millionaire?
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I'm in for a million. Yeah you yeah, I'm in
for a million. What about you? Oh, I'm in for
two million. I want to make sure that he's gone, Like,
I don't know how that works where you go around
the room to go we got to raise twenty six
million dollars, like you know, Jimbo Fisher all in favor
of putting up five million. Oh got okay, all right, okay,
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I think they owe Billy Napier like twenty six like
they had it down to the penny. That's not a
good sign. Hey, here's a rough estimate. No, no, it's
twenty five million, yes, ton.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
And if you had to do a fundraiser that would
pipe be off campus, right, that would be a little
appropriate to.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Do it right there in the middlement. Join is tonight
for a fundraiser to buy out our heads?
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Cut tent right in the center in the grass.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Big dunk tank, spaghetti dinner, yeah, fish fry, yeah, yes, fish.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
It's actually worse.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
And you think Billy Napier's got a contract with Florida
through twenty twenty eight and they owe him fifty one
point eight million dollars if he's fired, about cause he
could get eighty five percent of that. But what they
do is these coaches give you a friendly buyout so
they can go out of their next thing.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
But yes, it is, yes, it is, uh seton. You
have a poll question today? Give me just one because
then we'll have a few more after the break, all right, Yeah,
we'll give you just one. Then we're going to start
with the most surprising two and oh team.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
Okay, your options are the Stallers Steelers. Steelers are surprising
two and oh, like you said, they only have one
touchdown through two games.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
That's crazy, not surprising. They're two and oh surprising of
how they're two and oh. Yeah, yeah, okay, all right, Vikings, Okay,
that's a good team. Yeah, Chargers, Yeah, look, Chargers, they're
running the football. They're running the football, okay, with an
enthusiasm unlike unknown. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:45):
The Saints at two and oh that surprised me. Mmm okay,
and your Seattle Seahawks that's a surprising too.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
And oh you know who we're going to hear from soon.
You guys writing Shay and Irving after the Cowboys Longs
pretty much set my watch to that that he should
be calling in and complaining about his Cowboys. All right,
we're just getting started, as we always do every Monday.
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Best and worst to the weekend. What you saw that
you liked you didn't like? Steve Young in an Hour
from Now, the Hall of Famer, and Darius Rucker, who
gave us a rendition of wagon Wheel with the College
Game Day, Nick Saban singing along, dancing that's his karaoke song.
So Darius, the Dolphins make him cry, and so does
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South Carolina because Darius did not have a good week
with the Dolphins in Tua and also South Carolina. But
he'll join us a little later on. We're taking a
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Speaker 1 (16:07):
We'll talk to Steve Young here in a moment. All right,
here's some stats for you.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Tell me if you take this career going into his
eleventh season, two hundred and forty seven career touchdowns, one
hundred and eight picks, four Pro Bowl selections.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
It's pretty good. If you said that's Derek Carr, you'd
be correct.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Quietly, some pretty good numbers there and had a great
day yesterday and roughing up the Cowboys on the road.
Stat of the Day has always brought to you by
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Three times Super Bowl Champ, Super Bowl MVP, Hall of
Famer Steve Young back on the program. What was it
like to play behind a bad offensive line?
Speaker 10 (16:54):
Life is too short?
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Dan?
Speaker 10 (16:57):
Like in football, like you need a lot of help
to be a great quarterback or even a good quarterback
or competent. You need help, and you need it from
the owner down, and especially in today's game. And if
you're behind a bad offensive line, you can't be yourself.
You can't show who you are. You can scrape it through.
I always said, no matter how bad it is, if
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you're if you're gonna be really good, you're gonna figure
out a way to send up a flare. You know,
you'll like, you'll send up some smoke signals that tells
people I can still play, I promise, I just I
can't show you right now, but I'm I you know,
and I'm and I watch for those smoke signals for people,
you know, guys that are on terrible teams like Daniel Joe,
I mean, like you watch guys like, no, they can't.
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They like Russell Wilson went to Denver. I'm like, wait,
where's the smoke signal? Tell me you know what you're doing,
tell me know you're what's going on. I was like, no,
I got nothing for you, bro, And so I just
I think behind a bad line it there's nothing good
that can not much good that can happen. But you
can let me know that you can. You're still You're
still competent, You're still you still can be good. You
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just got to need more help.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yeah, but I don't know what to make of Bryce Young.
It's not fair to him, but I don't know if
he can play.
Speaker 10 (18:08):
Yeah, it's the classic conundrum, right because you get into it,
you know, your high draft pick, you come out of
you know, all the success in college. You feel like
you're you should you should be really good, and you
don't get any help and now you don't know, and
then you then you lose your job and you bounce
around the league, and then some guys number get never
really get straightened up. And that's the that's the somewhat
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the curse of being the number one pick. But if
he was again, do you think he's sent you some
smoke signals, he's put up some flares that he can
get it right. I can take care of you. I'm
I'm going to say, I'm not sure that he has.
And that's what you have to wonder about.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
When did you learn that there was only so much
you could do on a play before you kind of
have to take the loss on that play, whether you know,
because in college you could improvise, extend to play. You
were more at the but you get to the pros
and eventually you have to learn how to go Nope,
not going to happen on this play.
Speaker 10 (19:08):
Well, again, the prototypes have changed, Dan, I was the
oddity back in the day. Now you know I would
be prototype now. And so the challenge that you just
asked is that is the question of every quarterback, justin
Fields last year when I talked to him, all the guys,
Patrick Mahomes, every week's got to figure out when do
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I you know, I'm superman? I can't, you know, I'll
call the play, I'll get the most out of it,
and then I got another play for you, and then
maybe another one at at the tail end when I
can throw it down the field. Eighty yards on the
you know, on the run. When do I When do
I quit? What does Josh Allen say? Okay, I know
they asked me to ask too much of me. I'm
superman every week. When when is too much? And that
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is that is the eighty you know, sixty million dollar
question now at quarterback and the guys that have figured
out and I think Patrick has done that. Patrick went
back to school in two thousand and you read it,
you know, said to him, Hey, Patrick, what you really
need to do is focus on the play that's called
in the huddle, get every inch of that and then
go do something else and then throw it away.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
And so that.
Speaker 10 (20:12):
Discipline that Patrick put into his game I think made
him the best in the in the league. And there's
others that had the capability of being the best in
the league that haven't figured out that discipline. And you
know that's and people say, why not so obvious? Well,
you know that's the that's the challenge of the toughest
job in sports is to try to figure out when
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and how that that that that story ends. It's easier
for guys like Peyton Manning, Dan Marino, you know, Tom
Brady that they don't have all the options, and so
they can be more disciplined much quickly, much more quickly.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
But so you rush for four thousand yards. How much
of that was by design when you were playing None,
none of it.
Speaker 10 (20:56):
But but but yet that was the that's where you
capitulation from defenses. That's where in today's game especially, you
have to You saw Caleb at the end of the
game yesterday. You saw cg at the end of the game.
It's like the NBA. You know, you play around, play
on three and a half quarters, and all of a sudden,
there's the finishers, the guys that can throw it all
over the field, big strong, you know, athletic guys, and
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then they have to get on the horse. They have
to go out and take those free yards. They're out
there and you're gonna If you're not gonna take them,
it's just going to be making it that much more hard.
That's what Patrick Mahomes didn't play well, but when he
made it from some key first down runs, some things
that really moved the chains made the difference. And those
that's out there. And if you can't do it, you
really can't drive.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
In today's game.
Speaker 10 (21:42):
But if you don't if you're not capable of getting
Like the game has changed so much that they're free
yards out there for quarterbacks. You got to go get
them like college used to be. And but yet you
have to be in college. Dan, there's there's runners who
can throw, and there's a lot of them the pros.
You got to be a thrower. You got to be
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a you know, sophisticated pass for the football who can run?
And that's the challenge of today's game is who could
Everyone can run. Most of the guys that are being
drafted today high they're all big, strong guys that can run.
But can you become a sophisticated passer of the Football.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Hall of Famer Steve Young, Joni is you didn't slide though.
Speaker 10 (22:21):
I always thought sliding was more dangerous and and and
the only thing with Josh Allen Bevans and Josh Allen,
he's too crazy. He's got to got to call him down.
He's gonna get hurt. I agree, there's some things he
does at the end, the last move of when the
journey is over. You know, Eric Emma Smith, he's a
famously saying you got to know when the journey's over.
And Josh he extends that little bit that puts himself
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at risk. I always felt the safest on the field
out of the pocket, on the run, make it my
own way. And then how to get down to the ground.
How to make sure that you get down there safely
sliding you get, you get less yards and you get pounded.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
In the face.
Speaker 10 (22:58):
Like I'm not doing that. Like you could always find
a safe way to the ground if you want to.
And I the most dangerous place in the field for
quarterback can stand in the pocket trying to deliver. Now,
that is the job. That's what I tried to.
Speaker 11 (23:11):
Prove the people dead for eighteen years that I'm not
a scrambler. I am an efficient, sophisticated pass in the football.
And because I could run around, they just could they
you know, they wouldn't capitulate.
Speaker 10 (23:24):
I don't know who they are, but they wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I'm going to preface this by saying, I know this
might be difficult for you to answer, but you did
go through concussions. Can you put yourself into his situation
at his age where you've had multiple concussions and now
you have to look at a bigger picture.
Speaker 10 (23:43):
I can't put myself Oddly, I can't put myself into
a spot because what I'm witnessing. And again, you know,
the brain is the last frontier of medical science. You
go to the world's greatest neurologist and ask them, how
you know, should I play? Sit on that play? They
can't look inside and all is that. It's kind of
all symptomatic. And how you feel what we witnessed, what
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is the reaction? How how devastating were the hits? I
always had what I would call grade one where I
felt a little busy. The next day, I woke up
and I wanted to sleep a little bit more than
I was fine. So I never had what what you
witnessed on the field the other day with Tua, where
you know you've got the fencers posed and you're definitely
knocked out, and it happens multiple times, and you know people,
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you know, people would come to me through the years, Hey, Steve,
you you've had concussions.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
What you know.
Speaker 10 (24:31):
I can't remember my wife's name, I can't remember where
I parked my car. I can't sleep now for three
weeks or now with five months, you know, I'm sitting
in the basement. I'm like, bro, I don't know what
to tell you I never that was never me, and
so I don't know how to help you. I can
tell you that if that happened to me where you're
in these dramatic situations on the field, where you had
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these obviously severe concussions, now that I've lived a long time,
I would scream in into the you know, I would
screen back, you know, be super careful.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
It doesn't mean.
Speaker 10 (25:07):
Look, the problem is you can go to all neurologists
and they'll say, well I would if I were you,
or it does seem like the best idea, and nobody's
gonna say go play because that's dangerous. And two is
now in a place where it's double dangerous because not
only is his health, but everyone on the street's going
to be I mean, you know, old women will walk
up to m and grab his cheek. Please don't play anymore,
(25:30):
Please don't do it. Please for you, you know all
we just can't watch it anymore. So there's that social
pressure as well, so as you try to make a
great decision that is going to be on them, and
especially a young age when you feel like you've got
your whole career in front of you, very very difficult.
But what you're witnessing seems to be pretty severe concussions.
And I'm you know, I'm not an expert, but even
the experts will say me that just seems they're loaded
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on on top of each other. That just it feels
super heavy and something he should be super careful about.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
What would were you more susceptible to concussions after having.
Speaker 10 (26:04):
Now there are I always believe that there were people,
like you know, injury prone people where their bodies just
can't hold up to the riggor It was nothing against them,
they just their bodies just kind of betrayed them. I
do feel that about heads injuries as well. It seemed
like some guys can just get bounced around and never
have any issues, and some guys just seem to be
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susceptible to them. So I think there is that genetic
part of it that's possible.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (26:30):
It's probably in the middle, I guess, but it does. Yeah,
but it's hard to say. The hits are the hits,
and and it's super dangerous, it's and and there is
a long life ahead of people, and and when you're
twenty five or trying to make decisions about your career,
and it's the thing you're best at. Dan, when you're
when you're world famous for a skill that you have
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that's part genetically given and part that you've you know,
kind of earned, and now you have to leave it
in the next you're not good at anything else, it's
not nobody wants to be there. Super difficult to make
that kind of a decision.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Well, there's all this money though, too, Steve, we're talking yeah, but.
Speaker 10 (27:09):
I mean again, yes, that and I'll never diminish it,
especially today. It's amazing, no question. But again, emotionally, where
do you live at the core of yourself? You want
to do things that you're you're great at, and if
you're great at something, you want to keep doing it
because the next day, again, if I was really honest
with myself, I'm not good at anything else. It's certainly
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not great at anything else, and so your life changes
so dramatically. I always said it was like falling off
a cliff. You're just a bag of broken bones at
the bottom when you do quit the thing that you're
great at, because the humility that comes with it is brutal,
and nobody people say why can't you quit? Why can't
you You know that's you know, give it up. It's
(27:53):
like you give up the thing that you're best at,
you know, forever.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
It's tough.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
It's tough, is real.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
The West Coast team going east coast to play that
one o'clock game. We saw the Niners against the Vikings, Like,
do you remember how real that was?
Speaker 1 (28:09):
When you played?
Speaker 10 (28:10):
It was always something. It was always hard to play
ten am your time when you went across the country.
I actually waited the Central Games worse because for whatever reason,
Noon felt you know, I know, still ten am my tie, Like,
I get it, Dad, I get the math.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
But somehow, somehow Noon hit me.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Wraw hit me in a different way.
Speaker 10 (28:35):
So you're playing. You got a noon kickoff in the
super Dome in front of eighty thousand crazy people screaming.
You can't hear anything. It's like it's noon.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
It's like it's too early for this.
Speaker 10 (28:46):
I need a couple more hours to get ready for this.
But there's there is something to it, and it's always
harder to go west to east.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
We know that our audience watching on Peacock wants to
know if you're in an suv or a minivan. Let's
let's guess not no hold on hold on, Todd, suv
or minivan for Steve. A minivan would be bad for
the brand, but we'll get to that in the moment time.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
I think he's running errands in a minivan.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Minivan all ain't seating. I think it's an suv, Ik Marvin.
Speaker 6 (29:18):
He's in a gmc gmc wow, PAULI, yeah, three row
suv Steve Young, no minivan.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Yeah, there's no minivan in your life. That's an suv.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
You just do not know me.
Speaker 11 (29:29):
Man.
Speaker 10 (29:29):
I roll in the sweetest Toyota swagger wagon you've ever seen.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
Bro.
Speaker 10 (29:33):
Come on, dang, it's a swagger wagon.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Man.
Speaker 10 (29:36):
You go to I go thumping buy people in the neighborhood.
This sweet eighteen cup holders. I got outlets, I can
I can outlet. I could people get in and out
of this car? I got five ways in and out.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
This is amazing this thing.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Wait, Paulie, would you check and see if it's officially
called the swagger wagon.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I'm on the Toyota website.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
I don't see that model.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Did you create the swagger wagon?
Speaker 10 (30:01):
If you don't, if you're gonna roll in the van,
you better make it swagger because that's that's.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
How I don't think it's thumping in there with you
driving your daughters have it thumping in there?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Maybe with the music.
Speaker 10 (30:14):
Well you know what, I've been thumping in there for years.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Don't even damn.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Yes, Paulie, I'm on the Toyota website.
Speaker 6 (30:20):
There's an article from twenty twenty one, the Toyda Sienna
driving the swagger Wagon in its twenty twenty one it
started it.
Speaker 10 (30:28):
I started it. Whoa I represent toilet, I started the
swagger Wagon. It's it's they do they say it? They're paully?
Do they tell the Steve Young started this.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Not officially, but I could feel it. It's about you. Yeah,
you just don't get enough credit in your life.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Innovation.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Yeah, I've been innovated a whole life. Negredit I threw it.
You were Michael Vick before Michael Vick.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
No, screw this.
Speaker 10 (30:51):
I'm sick of it. I'm sick of it. I get nothing.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Yeah, you got Montana's Shadow. I mean you got you
had everything there, Steve, And it's just not fair.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
It's not right.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Life has not been fair to you.
Speaker 10 (31:02):
Yes, it has been a rough run from the means,
from getting out of the mean streets of Greenwich Connecticut
all the way to today. It is tough.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Thoughts and prayers, man, thoughts and prayers. You could have
probably rushed for eight thousand yards in the NFL. It's
like if you're playing today.
Speaker 10 (31:21):
Yeah, today, today's get Look, we don't want to you
guys are sick of me telling you this. But when
they when they made all the changes for safety and
the defense so they couldn't launch anymore. You see it
yesterday when they're if you hit somebody hard, they throw
a flag, you cannot launch in any way. It opened
up all of the space in the field and made
pro football, college football. You used to have to go
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make space. That's why Derek Henry was famous for a
little while because in the old days in twenty seventeen,
sixteen fifteen, you had to go make space. Now that
space has made for you and now you just have
to go fill it up. And so all the innovative
minds like Sean McVay and Kyle Channan and Andy Reid
that his sixty seven years old is dominating because he
keeps reinventing himself and they're innovative. Every week they go
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fill the space they don't have. They don't line up
in the eye and pound you anymore. It's all getting
the ball out in space. And it's amazing to watch.
So and and you know Tom Brady at the end
of his career is he says, Tom, how's it compared
to the old age? He goes completely different, Like the
middle of the field is unpatrolled, the flats are always
open and no one can hit me. And so in
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that way, even for Tom, it was significantly different. Let
alone the prototypes of today that can go get all
those yards and kind of just dominate. I would look, Dan,
you've heard me say this. I'm not jealous, because that's
that's a weird word. But do I like watch the
game today and go, holy oh, this is my like
what this is what I would dream of and that
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everyone say you're the You're the man. This is exactly
what you know the NFL is all about, as you like,
I would have dreamed to have someone say that to
me back in nineteen ninety.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
Good to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Maybe go through your scrap book today I feel a
little bit better about yourself. Maybe just drive around.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
I'm over, I'm over.
Speaker 10 (33:05):
Look, let's be honest, I know the swagg wagon is
mine I got that as, but I don't get crafts. Okay,
I don't need credit. I don't need the credit. I
don't need to go feel better about. I feel totally
fine about, you know, innovation and bringing things into the
world and just watching them kind of thrive. And so
this is just another one. So I don't I'm I'm don't.
Don't think that I'm leaving you kind of dejected him down.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Okay, I'm out a round of applause for Steve. You
know what he was, Steve Jobs before Steve Jobs. That's
the innovator that Steve Young is.
Speaker 10 (33:40):
And I don't and I don't have to wear a
black turtlenacky. Yeah I got. I got a dumber number
of things in my repertory. And I can put it
on with on the parties this weekend with my wife.
She's like, man, you you can do it still.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
You can just see it in your mind.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
Catch it.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
I don't want to see in my mind, but it's there.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
It is. Yeah, it was something. I'm sure it was
in the swagger Wagon. Thank you, Steve, Steve Boys, that's
Steve Yah, always one of my favorites. All right, let
me take a break. We'll come back with the I'm
In or I'm Out Game. Also, I review Tom Brady
Week two and more of your phone calls after this.
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mbusa dot com for special offers. Darius Rucker, he was
busy this weekend. First of all, Dolphins not good. South
Carolina blows a seventeen point lead. But you got to
sing on College Game Day and Nick Saban singing along
with you.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
So overall, how was the past week or so awful?
Speaker 5 (35:10):
I lost both my quarterback.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
That is true.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
I love both my quarterback. We should have been the
LSU But you know, not going to complain about the officiating.
We lost the game. We should we had a seventeen
point lead. It was tough tough to take.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
We complained about the officiating because I don't know how
you call a penalty on knocking the quarterback over and
after he throws an interception, that one in the.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
Offensive path of the appearance were the two that I
just I don't know where those came from. It was
it was tough to take, man, tough to take. We
had that game one and.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Then your Dolphins tool man to get heard man, not
a concussion, you know, And it's and I thought we
were going to Super Bowl again this year.
Speaker 5 (35:53):
And I thought we were going to super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Okay, who do you think is going to have a
better year? The Dolphins are South Carolina?
Speaker 12 (36:02):
Oh goodness, Well, well if the if the game, win
six games with Madame.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Probably okay, So all you're saying is give us six wins.
You're good with South Carolina. You've won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
Give me something to do in January. That's all about,
give me something to do in January.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
How is the atmosphere?
Speaker 2 (36:26):
How does the atmosphere factor in on playing music with
that kind of crowd. It's it's different than playing I
guess a concert with hooting the Blowfish.
Speaker 12 (36:38):
Oh absolutely, I mean those kids, first of all, they're drunk,
They're all they're drunk early in the morning, and you knowever,
they have a good time.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
You know, that's that's my constituency. Man. You know, I'm
such a big games supporter. Everybody gives me gives me
so much love there, so it was actually pretty all
love it.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
But are you nervous?
Speaker 5 (36:55):
Of course, Well you're nervous about it.
Speaker 12 (36:57):
You don't know what it sounds like on TV, okay,
and we played some shows on TV that just sounded
like crap, you know, so you're nervous about that. But
you know there's two songs. You can go out there
and play those anytime, but Beer's and such and I'd
never played that on guitar before, so it's.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Kind of nervous about The sound was great on TV.
Speaker 12 (37:14):
That's what everybody said, which made me so happy. I mean,
I guess ESP has done it so much now they
got it down to the science. But everybody said it
sounded great, so that made me happy.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
And then you guys just celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of
you guys on Letterman and yeah, that was like a
couple of weeks ago, so it was like you were
Friday on Letterman and then world famous on Monday or something.
Speaker 5 (37:38):
People say it sound that simple?
Speaker 12 (37:40):
Was really that simple, Like that Thursday we couldn't get
a station outside of the Carolinas at our song, and
that Monday we were most added for the next four weeks.
And you know, then next thing you know, we're yeah,
we're number one. All of a sudden, the other let
them changed our lives.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Man, I was going to say, without that Letterman appearance,
what happened?
Speaker 5 (38:00):
We are?
Speaker 12 (38:00):
Nobody knows who we are, no doubt about it. Nobody.
We're not where we are right now. I probably don't
even know you.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Yeah, I wouldn't want to know you until you got famous.
Then I got all right, I'll meet with him. All right,
Well you know what I made you video made No,
it didn't. That's the reason you put me in there.
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I was already famous.
Speaker 5 (38:31):
Darius.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Darius has a new single with Jennifer Nettles. It's called
Never Been Over. And then you guys are winding down
the Hoody and the Blowfish Tour Charleston Festival. That's October
eleventh and twelfth, and right, but yep, okay, are you
playing both days in Charleston?
Speaker 5 (38:48):
No, well they're playing one, we're playing one.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
The Desky Trucks Band has had Loney okay, yeah, yeah,
and then you're done.
Speaker 12 (38:55):
Whody's Yeah, that's it. We're done for I don't know.
I don't know if we'll ever do this again, but
if we do, it'll be a long a lot of
long time from now.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
And no fights, no fights at all.
Speaker 5 (39:05):
Great tour. Really had a lot of fun.
Speaker 13 (39:07):
You know, play played some golf together, it hung out
a little bit, but uh, no fights.
Speaker 5 (39:12):
We all got along great. And the music, I mean,
the crowds were the crowds are incredible. It was it
was great.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
But I saw James Addiction in Massachusetts and they're they're
going toe to toe on the state. Did you guys
ever get close to fighting each other on stage?
Speaker 5 (39:29):
Never on stage?
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Never on somebody got backstage?
Speaker 12 (39:32):
Yeah, actually on Mark Sports one day we don't market,
I was yeah, but we've never What I saw that
was that was shocking. Yeah, I mean that being in
a band and playing a band and then you.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
Find out the reason the yells because because they were
too loud. Wow, you're playing rock and roll man, James
Addiction that your back and were too loud.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
So we've gotten a lot of mileage out of Fritzy
singing with you. You were kind enough to let him
sing two songs. And I kept telling Todd one song,
one song, do just one song, and he said, no,
I want to do two and Marvin, let's bring let's
refresh Darius's memory of how Fritzy sounded when he joined
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him in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Speaker 5 (40:22):
On the.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
Side, I still know you, okay, but you had to
feel great when Todd stopped singing, because you sounded even.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Better, not at all.
Speaker 5 (40:48):
I'll tell you.
Speaker 12 (40:49):
We were at southcheck and he started singing and the
band was shocked at how good he shounded. Like the
band will like, oh, did you expect me to go
there be really bad? And Fritz has got a really
good voice. It was shocking how good he was.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
So yeah, see, Darius, is this one of those situations
that you were referring to earlier where it sounds terrible
on TV, but in person it was awesome.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
I wasn't sure if that. I'm like, oh, we're witnessing
that right now. Yeah, it sounds bad on TV, but
there it was awesome.
Speaker 5 (41:20):
Yeah, it was awesome live, No, he was.
Speaker 4 (41:26):
It was very cool.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
Oay, so this might be the last time that you
guys can collaborate. So just like coooning the blowfish. This
might be it, but I'm gonna let you decide if
you want to do this.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
You don't have to do this. But Todd I said,
we're not doing hol and.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
Oates I said, maybe pick a billy Joel's song, and
uh I went with the matter of trust.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
Well, this, Darius, no matter of trust, I hope, so
I sent a note.
Speaker 4 (41:54):
To his wonderful pr person. I don't know if he
got it in time, but a few bars of a
matter of trust.
Speaker 5 (42:00):
You go ahead kick it. Because he's a young guy.
Speaker 12 (42:01):
They picked like a matter of trust, like us old
guys will be picking like she's always a woman or something.
Speaker 5 (42:06):
He's gonna pick metal trust God.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
You kick it, You kick it, Pritty one two or
one two three four.
Speaker 4 (42:14):
Some lover is just a liar a heart. The code
remains of what begne with their passion. It starts and
they may not who wanted to wan murdered?
Speaker 11 (42:26):
Will It's just a question of when I've lived long
enough to learn.
Speaker 5 (42:32):
The closer way.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
The more you Garrius isn't singing, he's just will let
let it when he's done.
Speaker 13 (42:41):
I believe it with like g Gill with a smile
with her eyes. You can ruin your face with her
casual line, and she always reels what you want you
to see. Yeah, she steals like a thief, but she's always.
Speaker 5 (42:54):
A woman to.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
Long.
Speaker 4 (43:01):
She's ahead of her time.
Speaker 5 (43:03):
Hit that high note pretty good, but.
Speaker 4 (43:07):
You never gives in.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
She just changes mind.
Speaker 4 (43:12):
Simo than the God.
Speaker 2 (43:15):
Is there a lot of times you'll hear band like
Robert Plant with Led Zeppelin. There were notes that he
could sing when he's twenty five, but you know, you
get to be forty five or fifty, like, is there
any anything that you It's hard to sing now, but
when you were twenty four, you're like, I'm killing this.
Speaker 12 (43:35):
The thing is I did on purpose when we recorded records,
I wouldn't do anything that was I thought later on
I wouldn't be able to do like even when I
was making a country, I'll never get it, and uh
my producer was like, man, just hit the high note.
Speaker 5 (43:46):
I was like, man, I'm not gonna hit the high though.
He was like, hey, i'll make you. It'll sound great,
and I was like no, He's like I was like why.
Speaker 12 (43:51):
It's like because in ten years I'm not gonna be
able to so I'm not even gonna try it. So No,
everything I did back then was right there, just because
I knew when I was older, I was govern keep
singing it.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
I've been singing the High Cost of Living. Ain't nothing
like the Cost of Living High? One of the great
songs it is.
Speaker 5 (44:08):
So what is that?
Speaker 1 (44:11):
Jamie Johnson?
Speaker 5 (44:12):
Is that Jami Johnson? Jamie john My god, yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
It is a The lyrics are awesome in there, unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (44:22):
I traded oh man, no, no, you were going to
do it.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
I traded it all for a ball in a four. Yes,
I had a job with a.
Speaker 5 (44:34):
Piece of land. My sweet woman was my best briend.
I trade it all cocain.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
But do you have those moments where you go, well,
that sounds like a country song, like something happens to
you or somebody to know, And you go, damn, that
sounds like a country song.
Speaker 5 (44:52):
Absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 12 (44:54):
You know, A guy told me the day that he
made up with a girl and he found out later
on a is a cousin.
Speaker 5 (45:00):
That young.
Speaker 1 (45:08):
Friends, lovers and cousins. There you go, there you go,
it writes itself.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
I always send Darius music titles song titles, and then
I go there, that's the hard part.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
Now go do the song, and then he goes do that.
I do, I do. I'm telling you, I got whiskey
in my smile.
Speaker 5 (45:28):
That's actually that you sent me that one. I think
I'm going to write that one.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
You should because I think, yeah, because if not, Chris
Stapleton's going to there, it's gonna be a hit. So
I'm giving you first DIBs on that because then I'll
give it to Chris Stapleton. All Right, once again, if
you want to see Hooty and the Blowfish, the tour
is coming to an end Charleston Festival. They'll be performing
(45:52):
on October twelfth. Great to see it, and thanks for
joining us as always.
Speaker 5 (45:57):
Always good to see you.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
That you know, I love you, Darius Rucord.
Speaker 5 (46:01):
So that's it.
Speaker 1 (46:02):
Final collaboration kinda.
Speaker 4 (46:05):
I'll take it. That was very cool. He was extremely
good sport allowing me to do.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
He's always a great sport to let you sing two songs,
even one.
Speaker 4 (46:13):
You both could have easily said no, this is no.
Speaker 1 (46:15):
I did say one.
Speaker 4 (46:16):
No, I mean it could have been zero. But the
fact that he let me even go out there at all,
and you orchestrated that to let me sing at Darius
Orcus concerts and sane.
Speaker 6 (46:24):
Yes, point you know, Billy Joel might be Fritzy's lane
as far as like the eighties style of.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
Singing and his like he's able to stay within a
certain range. There really good. Darryl Hall goes up. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's it.
Speaker 2 (46:39):
Daryl's got that philly sound and he goes up a
little too high and uh, you're you're not there, but
but solid Billy Joel.
Speaker 4 (46:49):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (46:50):
I'll take it a wonky song choice though, that's a
somewhat modern Billy Joel, if there is such a thing.
Speaker 1 (46:56):
Yeah, you're usually like glass houses.
Speaker 4 (46:58):
Yeah, I was thinking still rock and roll to me,
or you may be right, yes, is Darry's coming with
us on another field trip? Like Will Ferrell?
Speaker 1 (47:06):
Dude, Oh, I don't know. That'd be sick. Let's go
somewhere and have Darius come. That'd be rad. He's a
good time, he's fun to hang out.
Speaker 2 (47:14):
Well, I think the last thing let's to do is
go on a road trip after being on the road
here for last.
Speaker 4 (47:20):
We go down to South Carolina. Oh so it's a home.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
Game, Yeah, maybe Nashville. It kind of splits time between
South Carolina, Nashville. But I do send him song titles,
and I had one in my head for over a year.
I got whiskey in my smile.
Speaker 1 (47:37):
It's great.
Speaker 2 (47:37):
It's a great song title. And then whatever you do.
You know, got whiskey in my smile. You can see
it for a mile. It's going to be there for
a while. I got whiskey in my smile giving.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
Away the magic. Well, it's a good title. Oh oh wow,
you didn't like the course. Wow, well it's a good title.
Damn ouch. That one actually hurt.
Speaker 5 (48:04):
You know.
Speaker 2 (48:04):
I could never lay off the joke. If it's there,
you can't, I know, but it wasn't. I wasn't trying
to sing as much as I've just given you the lyric.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (48:15):
Yeah, that's not a good song title. Yeah, how about
we take a break, I smack somebody, We'll take a break.
Classico for phone calls. What we learn, what's in store
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hall of Famers Steve Young a little bit later on
and the great country music artist Darius Rucker will join
us as well. We have football coming up tonight. It's
the Falcons and the Eagles, and the Falcons are getting
five and a half. This was probably a month ago
when we talked about there are certain teams they're not
even interesting. I'm not saying they're not good, they're bad,
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but they're not interesting. Sometimes you can have a team
that is not very good, but they might have a
star player. They could be interesting for whatever reason. And
like the Giants aren't really relevant. They're not interesting. I
mean we watched because we probably watched to see what
Dan you know, Daniel Jones is going to do or
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not do. Carolina is not good. They're not even interesting.
I feel bad when I'm watching Bryce Young. I don't
know if he can play or not. I don't know
if he's going to get the chance anytime soon. But
there are a few teams and we threw the Saints
in there a month ago. We're like, I've kind of
seen this a set that was his hot take that
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Dennis Allen would be the first coach fired. You know,
we've seen Derek Carr, Alvin Kamara, okay, but not really interesting.
Great fan base, cool uniforms, but there's nothing there. Not interesting.
And then all of a sudden, you know, the Minnesota
Vikings with JJ McCarthy, we thought, all right, they're going
(01:31):
to be interesting. Are they going to be good? They
do have Justin Jefferson. And then all of a sudden,
we're going, all right, you got Sam Darnold, you'll be
a bridge quarterback. Now all of a sudden, you're watching
the Vikings differently. Now all of a sudden, you're watching
the New Orleans Saints differently. Now I get it. First week,
Vikings beat the Giants, No one cares. Then they win
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yesterday against the Niners. No, I know, no, Christian McAffrey. Still,
I know you're going cross country earlier, time game, you know,
time zone game four. I get all those things. The
Vikings still got the win yesterday. And then the Saints
go on the road to Dallas. Because their first game
of the season, they dominated forty seven points against Carolina.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
That doesn't really count. Now you go to Dallas and you.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Put up forty four points on that defense, Okay, now
you have our attention. So I was curious about, you know,
the over unders for win totals the Saints. As of today,
the over under is ten and a half wins. How
about that same roster pretty much as you had last year,
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same coach, same quarterback, same Alvin Kamara, healthier. And then
I was curious about the Vikings over under eight and
a half. All right, so these are these perception wins.
You go on the road, that you go up against
the team that went to the Super Bowl and you
pick up a win. Now, all of a sudden, we're
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looking at the Vikings and Saints differently. And I know
it's only two weeks, but this is what we do.
You got people, Hey, Saints playoffs, it's two games. Let's
wait a little bit here. How about we wait for
four like the over under should be four games before
we make a declaration.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Is that fair?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
I know it's not hot take ish, but can we
wait four games? Tom Brady said, Hey, first four games
were always kind of the preseason for us. Granted, you
had the greatest coach and greatest quarterback, so you had
a little bit of an advantage there, Like the Bengals
Bengals are zero and two. Could have easily won that
game yesterday, and I thought that for the most part,
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they were the better team. But you know, give credit
they Kansas City finds a way to win, while most
teams find a way to lose.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I'm not ready to make a declaration on the Bengals
that they're not going to be good this year. Get
T Higgins back. They got to figure out this Jamar
Chase situation. But they do have talent. They have a
really good quarterback. But you're in a division that you're
not quite sure. Like Baltimore loses at home, now they
go to Dallas. The Raiders come in there and beat Baltimore.
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In Baltimore Pittsburgh. They can't score touchdowns, but they can
keep you from scoring touchdowns. They're two to zero, They've
scored one offensive touchdown. Mike Tomlin can still coach. And
you know, the Browns got to win a big win
beat Jacksonville. So now all of a sudden, you're going,
(04:41):
all right, let me handicap this division. I have no
idea zero And I want to say to Sean McVay,
if you're not watching the show or listening to the show.
You should have, because what did I tell you, Sean,
The Cardinals are going to go to Marvin Harrison June,
You're the third many many many times to start the game.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
And what happened. They went to Marvin.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Harrison Junior the third many many times because they didn't
go to him in week one, and I thought, boy,
they are going to go to him right off the bat,
and they did.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Here's Kyler Murray on Marvin Harrison.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
True cold plays. I'm try just trying to go with
there and execute obviously, you know. I mean, I've played
for a long time. You want to get your you
want to get your guys and ball early, you know,
so they can feel like they're in the game, get
them going, get their juices flowing.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
It's fun. We did a great job, that's aday. Yeah,
they did.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I mean it's not really rocket science. It's that guy's
really good. We drafted him really high. We should probably
throw him the ball, ready break, that's it. And then
I tried to warn Sean McVay, Sean, they're going to
go to Marvin Harrison. And then now, granted they went
to him early, they didn't go to him often because
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after the first quarter basically the numbers he put up
in the first quarter. But that was enough. And now
the Rams you don't have your two best receivers. The
over under for the Rams is now as of today
this morning, DraftKings seven and a half wins. There were
some experts who thought they could win that division. Now,
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granted they can still win the division a late push
like they had last year, but you start to look
at these teams. You know, the Dolphins over under his
eight and a half now, same as the Packers. Now
the Packers, you know, some people thought that they could
go to the super Bowl this year. Malik Willis did
a good enough job yesterday. That's all you were asking.
(06:40):
Granted you're facing the Colts, but you know you take
care of the football. The Texans over under after last
night's win eleven and a half. So this is the
reaction that we have. This is real time reaction of
are they going to be good? Are you going to
if these are stocks? Are you buying into these stocks?
Which of these stocks would you say yep, all in
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on that. If I said the Saints ten and a half,
I don't know if anybody in this room is going yep,
I'm gonna take the Saints, Marvin, Are you you look
like you're poised to say you are.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
With Drew Brees, Reggie Bush.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Now you're Thomas. No, No, they're not there anymore, not
there anymore.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
They're going ten and a half.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yeah you're going over No I'm still going Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Me too.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Texans. You would find people go yeah, I'll take them.
I'm still fading them. But they're a really good team.
They didn't play great. Put a lot of pressure on
Caleb Williams. Once again, it always comes back to with
these quarterbacks, do they have time to throw? I don't
care who you are. If you don't, you're not going
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to be good. Caleb Williams, they went after him. They
went after him. Bryce Young there, that's the season. That's
why it's going to be. They're just they're coming after
you if you can't block. And you know, we all thought, okay,
the Bears upgraded their offensive line.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Okay, but you're.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Going against a couple of pretty good edge rushers Danelle
Hunter will Anderson. By the way, Daneielle Hunter is maybe
the most underrated, really good player in the NFL. Because
of his first name. There's people like the guy Hunter
is pretty good, is it Danielle No, it's Daniel Hunter
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because he put up some big numbers when he was
in Minnesota. But you're watching last night and you're going, yeah,
he's still pretty good. But you got to give these
quarterbacks time. And if you don't, I don't, you could
be Tom Brady Mahomes. I mean even Mahomes was under
pressure quite a bit. Max Crosby, God, I love him.
He just never stops. You talk about hurries getting in
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the backfield, and it felt like he was. He was
on the first name basis with Lamar yesterday. They'd be like,
hey Max, Hey Lamar. Just about every play he was
getting in there and had an impact there.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Hurries, to me are the most important things. I know.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
We pay people because of sacks. If you hurry a quarterback,
it's the same thing. Aiden Hutchinson yesterday, first quarter against
Baker Mayfield Junior the third And I said this on Friday,
I wouldn't be surprised if Tampa Bay won that game,
and for no other reason than they probably shouldn't. But
(09:33):
Tampa Bay was a better team. Now, Detroit had a
couple of bad you know, Jared Goff, a couple of
bad picks, but Tampa made him throw bad picks, and
Baker Mayfield doubt him at your peril because he just
that's a chip on his shoulder that is never leaving.
And it feels like every single game is a referendum
(09:56):
on the Browns made a mistake and Tampa got a
great bargain there. And you saw that yesterday. But the
game coming up tonight. College football wise, Georgia escapes Kentucky,
arch Manning come on down. He looked awesome. Alabama rolled Wisconsin.
I thought South Carolina would win outright against LSU when
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they were up seventeen. See, there's certain things that are etiquette.
Don't text me during a game. Now nobody from the
dan Nets did. I'm saying my friends who were saying, hey,
I loaded up. I took him out right, I took
the money line. Awesome, and then all of a sudden
(10:40):
they end up losing. LSU comes back from seventeen down.
Couple of a couple of bad call well, I'll say
a questionable roughing the passer call that took back a
pick six.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
South Carolina. They had it.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
They were a better team. But LSU comes back to
in that one Florida is already doing the math on
Billy Napier's buyout.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
It's mid September.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
You already have the toughest schedule in college football. They
did a commercial on the on the jumbo tron where
Billy Napier, I think did something for anti smoking. He's
the head coach in Florida. And as soon as he
came up, the fans started booing like they were pro cancer.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Their favorite smoking.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeah, they're in favor of smoking. We're pro nicotine. Man,
they're booing their coach. He's running off the field. Gosh,
that's a bad situation. Bad situation when all of a
sudden you go, okay, if they pay and let's say
you owe me twenty six million dollars, do you go
(11:48):
to twenty six boosters and say can I get Can
I you up for a millionaire?
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I'm in for a million. Yeah you yeah, I'm in
for a million. What about you? Oh, I'm in for
two million. I want to make sure that he's gone, Like,
I don't know how that works where you go around
the room to go we got to raise twenty six
million dollars, like you know, Jimbo Fisher all in favor
of putting up five million. Oh got okay, all right, okay,
(12:14):
I think they owe Billy Napier like twenty six like
they had it down to the penny. That's not a
good sign. Hey, here's a rough estimate. No, no, it's
twenty five million, yes, ton.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
And if you had to do a fundraiser that would
pipe be off campus, right, that would be a little
appropriate to.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Do it right there in the middlement. Join is tonight
for a fundraiser to buy out our heads?
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Cut tent right in the center in the grass.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Big dunk tank, spaghetti dinner, yeah, fish fry, yeah, yes, fish.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
It's actually worse.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
And you think Billy Napier's got a contract with Florida
through twenty twenty eight and they owe him fifty one
point eight million dollars if he's fired, about cause he
could get eighty five percent of that. But what they
do is these coaches give you a friendly buyout so
they can go out of their next thing.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
But yes, it is, yes, it is, uh seton. You
have a poll question today? Give me just one because
then we'll have a few more after the break, all right, Yeah,
we'll give you just one. Then we're going to start
with the most surprising two and oh team.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
Okay, your options are the Stallers Steelers. Steelers are surprising
two and oh, like you said, they only have one
touchdown through two games.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
That's crazy, not surprising. They're two and oh surprising of
how they're two and oh. Yeah, yeah, okay, all right, Vikings, Okay,
that's a good team. Yeah, Chargers, Yeah, look, Chargers, they're
running the football. They're running the football, okay, with an
enthusiasm unlike unknown. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:45):
The Saints at two and oh that surprised me. Mmm okay,
and your Seattle Seahawks that's a surprising too.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
And oh you know who we're going to hear from soon.
You guys writing Shay and Irving after the Cowboys Longs
pretty much set my watch to that that he should
be calling in and complaining about his Cowboys. All right,
we're just getting started, as we always do every Monday.
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Best and worst to the weekend. What you saw that
you liked you didn't like? Steve Young in an Hour
from Now, the Hall of Famer, and Darius Rucker, who
gave us a rendition of wagon Wheel with the College
Game Day, Nick Saban singing along, dancing that's his karaoke song.
So Darius, the Dolphins make him cry, and so does
(14:33):
South Carolina because Darius did not have a good week
with the Dolphins in Tua and also South Carolina. But
he'll join us a little later on. We're taking a
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Speaker 1 (16:07):
We'll talk to Steve Young here in a moment. All right,
here's some stats for you.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Tell me if you take this career going into his
eleventh season, two hundred and forty seven career touchdowns, one
hundred and eight picks, four Pro Bowl selections.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
It's pretty good. If you said that's Derek Carr, you'd
be correct.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Quietly, some pretty good numbers there and had a great
day yesterday and roughing up the Cowboys on the road.
Stat of the Day has always brought to you by
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Three times Super Bowl Champ, Super Bowl MVP, Hall of
Famer Steve Young back on the program. What was it
like to play behind a bad offensive line?
Speaker 10 (16:54):
Life is too short?
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Dan?
Speaker 10 (16:57):
Like in football, like you need a lot of help
to be a great quarterback or even a good quarterback
or competent. You need help, and you need it from
the owner down, and especially in today's game. And if
you're behind a bad offensive line, you can't be yourself.
You can't show who you are. You can scrape it through.
I always said, no matter how bad it is, if
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you're if you're gonna be really good, you're gonna figure
out a way to send up a flare. You know,
you'll like, you'll send up some smoke signals that tells
people I can still play, I promise, I just I
can't show you right now, but I'm I you know,
and I'm and I watch for those smoke signals for people,
you know, guys that are on terrible teams like Daniel Joe,
I mean, like you watch guys like, no, they can't.
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They like Russell Wilson went to Denver. I'm like, wait,
where's the smoke signal? Tell me you know what you're doing,
tell me know you're what's going on. I was like, no,
I got nothing for you, bro, And so I just
I think behind a bad line it there's nothing good
that can not much good that can happen. But you
can let me know that you can. You're still You're
still competent, You're still you still can be good. You
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just got to need more help.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yeah, but I don't know what to make of Bryce Young.
It's not fair to him, but I don't know if
he can play.
Speaker 10 (18:08):
Yeah, it's the classic conundrum, right because you get into it,
you know, your high draft pick, you come out of
you know, all the success in college. You feel like
you're you should you should be really good, and you
don't get any help and now you don't know, and
then you then you lose your job and you bounce
around the league, and then some guys number get never
really get straightened up. And that's the that's the somewhat
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the curse of being the number one pick. But if
he was again, do you think he's sent you some
smoke signals, he's put up some flares that he can
get it right. I can take care of you. I'm
I'm going to say, I'm not sure that he has.
And that's what you have to wonder about.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
When did you learn that there was only so much
you could do on a play before you kind of
have to take the loss on that play, whether you know,
because in college you could improvise, extend to play. You
were more at the but you get to the pros
and eventually you have to learn how to go Nope,
not going to happen on this play.
Speaker 10 (19:08):
Well, again, the prototypes have changed, Dan, I was the
oddity back in the day. Now you know I would
be prototype now. And so the challenge that you just
asked is that is the question of every quarterback, justin
Fields last year when I talked to him, all the guys,
Patrick Mahomes, every week's got to figure out when do
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I you know, I'm superman? I can't, you know, I'll
call the play, I'll get the most out of it,
and then I got another play for you, and then
maybe another one at at the tail end when I
can throw it down the field. Eighty yards on the
you know, on the run. When do I When do
I quit? What does Josh Allen say? Okay, I know
they asked me to ask too much of me. I'm
superman every week. When when is too much? And that
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is that is the eighty you know, sixty million dollar
question now at quarterback and the guys that have figured
out and I think Patrick has done that. Patrick went
back to school in two thousand and you read it,
you know, said to him, Hey, Patrick, what you really
need to do is focus on the play that's called
in the huddle, get every inch of that and then
go do something else and then throw it away.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
And so that.
Speaker 10 (20:12):
Discipline that Patrick put into his game I think made
him the best in the in the league. And there's
others that had the capability of being the best in
the league that haven't figured out that discipline. And you
know that's and people say, why not so obvious? Well,
you know that's the that's the challenge of the toughest
job in sports is to try to figure out when
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and how that that that that story ends. It's easier
for guys like Peyton Manning, Dan Marino, you know, Tom
Brady that they don't have all the options, and so
they can be more disciplined much quickly, much more quickly.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
But so you rush for four thousand yards. How much
of that was by design when you were playing None,
none of it.
Speaker 10 (20:56):
But but but yet that was the that's where you
capitulation from defenses. That's where in today's game especially, you
have to You saw Caleb at the end of the
game yesterday. You saw cg at the end of the game.
It's like the NBA. You know, you play around, play
on three and a half quarters, and all of a sudden,
there's the finishers, the guys that can throw it all
over the field, big strong, you know, athletic guys, and
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then they have to get on the horse. They have
to go out and take those free yards. They're out
there and you're gonna If you're not gonna take them,
it's just going to be making it that much more hard.
That's what Patrick Mahomes didn't play well, but when he
made it from some key first down runs, some things
that really moved the chains made the difference. And those
that's out there. And if you can't do it, you
really can't drive.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
In today's game.
Speaker 10 (21:42):
But if you don't if you're not capable of getting
Like the game has changed so much that they're free
yards out there for quarterbacks. You got to go get
them like college used to be. And but yet you
have to be in college. Dan, there's there's runners who
can throw, and there's a lot of them the pros.
You got to be a thrower. You got to be
(22:02):
a you know, sophisticated pass for the football who can run?
And that's the challenge of today's game is who could
Everyone can run. Most of the guys that are being
drafted today high they're all big, strong guys that can run.
But can you become a sophisticated passer of the Football.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Hall of Famer Steve Young, Joni is you didn't slide though.
Speaker 10 (22:21):
I always thought sliding was more dangerous and and and
the only thing with Josh Allen Bevans and Josh Allen,
he's too crazy. He's got to got to call him down.
He's gonna get hurt. I agree, there's some things he
does at the end, the last move of when the
journey is over. You know, Eric Emma Smith, he's a
famously saying you got to know when the journey's over.
And Josh he extends that little bit that puts himself
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at risk. I always felt the safest on the field
out of the pocket, on the run, make it my
own way. And then how to get down to the ground.
How to make sure that you get down there safely
sliding you get, you get less yards and you get pounded.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
In the face.
Speaker 10 (22:58):
Like I'm not doing that. Like you could always find
a safe way to the ground if you want to.
And I the most dangerous place in the field for
quarterback can stand in the pocket trying to deliver. Now,
that is the job. That's what I tried to.
Speaker 11 (23:11):
Prove the people dead for eighteen years that I'm not
a scrambler. I am an efficient, sophisticated pass in the football.
And because I could run around, they just could they
you know, they wouldn't capitulate.
Speaker 10 (23:24):
I don't know who they are, but they wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I'm going to preface this by saying, I know this
might be difficult for you to answer, but you did
go through concussions. Can you put yourself into his situation
at his age where you've had multiple concussions and now
you have to look at a bigger picture.
Speaker 10 (23:43):
I can't put myself Oddly, I can't put myself into
a spot because what I'm witnessing. And again, you know,
the brain is the last frontier of medical science. You
go to the world's greatest neurologist and ask them, how
you know, should I play? Sit on that play? They
can't look inside and all is that. It's kind of
all symptomatic. And how you feel what we witnessed, what
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is the reaction? How how devastating were the hits? I
always had what I would call grade one where I
felt a little busy. The next day, I woke up
and I wanted to sleep a little bit more than
I was fine. So I never had what what you
witnessed on the field the other day with Tua, where
you know you've got the fencers posed and you're definitely
knocked out, and it happens multiple times, and you know people,
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you know, people would come to me through the years, Hey, Steve,
you you've had concussions.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
What you know.
Speaker 10 (24:31):
I can't remember my wife's name, I can't remember where
I parked my car. I can't sleep now for three
weeks or now with five months, you know, I'm sitting
in the basement. I'm like, bro, I don't know what
to tell you I never that was never me, and
so I don't know how to help you. I can
tell you that if that happened to me where you're
in these dramatic situations on the field, where you had
(24:54):
these obviously severe concussions, now that I've lived a long time,
I would scream in into the you know, I would
screen back, you know, be super careful.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
It doesn't mean.
Speaker 10 (25:07):
Look, the problem is you can go to all neurologists
and they'll say, well I would if I were you,
or it does seem like the best idea, and nobody's
gonna say go play because that's dangerous. And two is
now in a place where it's double dangerous because not
only is his health, but everyone on the street's going
to be I mean, you know, old women will walk
up to m and grab his cheek. Please don't play anymore,
(25:30):
Please don't do it. Please for you, you know all
we just can't watch it anymore. So there's that social
pressure as well, so as you try to make a
great decision that is going to be on them, and
especially a young age when you feel like you've got
your whole career in front of you, very very difficult.
But what you're witnessing seems to be pretty severe concussions.
And I'm you know, I'm not an expert, but even
the experts will say me that just seems they're loaded
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on on top of each other. That just it feels
super heavy and something he should be super careful about.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
What would were you more susceptible to concussions after having.
Speaker 10 (26:04):
Now there are I always believe that there were people,
like you know, injury prone people where their bodies just
can't hold up to the riggor It was nothing against them,
they just their bodies just kind of betrayed them. I
do feel that about heads injuries as well. It seemed
like some guys can just get bounced around and never
have any issues, and some guys just seem to be
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susceptible to them. So I think there is that genetic
part of it that's possible.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (26:30):
It's probably in the middle, I guess, but it does. Yeah,
but it's hard to say. The hits are the hits,
and and it's super dangerous, it's and and there is
a long life ahead of people, and and when you're
twenty five or trying to make decisions about your career,
and it's the thing you're best at. Dan, when you're
when you're world famous for a skill that you have
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that's part genetically given and part that you've you know,
kind of earned, and now you have to leave it
in the next you're not good at anything else, it's
not nobody wants to be there. Super difficult to make
that kind of a decision.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Well, there's all this money though, too, Steve, we're talking yeah, but.
Speaker 10 (27:09):
I mean again, yes, that and I'll never diminish it,
especially today. It's amazing, no question. But again, emotionally, where
do you live at the core of yourself? You want
to do things that you're you're great at, and if
you're great at something, you want to keep doing it
because the next day, again, if I was really honest
with myself, I'm not good at anything else. It's certainly
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not great at anything else, and so your life changes
so dramatically. I always said it was like falling off
a cliff. You're just a bag of broken bones at
the bottom when you do quit the thing that you're
great at, because the humility that comes with it is brutal,
and nobody people say why can't you quit? Why can't
you You know that's you know, give it up. It's
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like you give up the thing that you're best at,
you know, forever.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
It's tough.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
It's tough, is real.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
The West Coast team going east coast to play that
one o'clock game. We saw the Niners against the Vikings, Like,
do you remember how real that was?
Speaker 1 (28:09):
When you played?
Speaker 10 (28:10):
It was always something. It was always hard to play
ten am your time when you went across the country.
I actually waited the Central Games worse because for whatever reason,
Noon felt you know, I know, still ten am my tie, Like,
I get it, Dad, I get the math.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
But somehow, somehow Noon hit me.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Wraw hit me in a different way.
Speaker 10 (28:35):
So you're playing. You got a noon kickoff in the
super Dome in front of eighty thousand crazy people screaming.
You can't hear anything. It's like it's noon.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
It's like it's too early for this.
Speaker 10 (28:46):
I need a couple more hours to get ready for this.
But there's there is something to it, and it's always
harder to go west to east.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
We know that our audience watching on Peacock wants to
know if you're in an suv or a minivan. Let's
let's guess not no hold on hold on, Todd, suv
or minivan for Steve. A minivan would be bad for
the brand, but we'll get to that in the moment time.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
I think he's running errands in a minivan.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Minivan all ain't seating. I think it's an suv, Ik Marvin.
Speaker 6 (29:18):
He's in a gmc gmc wow, PAULI, yeah, three row
suv Steve Young, no minivan.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Yeah, there's no minivan in your life. That's an suv.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
You just do not know me.
Speaker 11 (29:29):
Man.
Speaker 10 (29:29):
I roll in the sweetest Toyota swagger wagon you've ever seen.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
Bro.
Speaker 10 (29:33):
Come on, dang, it's a swagger wagon.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Man.
Speaker 10 (29:36):
You go to I go thumping buy people in the neighborhood.
This sweet eighteen cup holders. I got outlets, I can
I can outlet. I could people get in and out
of this car? I got five ways in and out.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
This is amazing this thing.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Wait, Paulie, would you check and see if it's officially
called the swagger wagon.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I'm on the Toyota website.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
I don't see that model.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Did you create the swagger wagon?
Speaker 10 (30:01):
If you don't, if you're gonna roll in the van,
you better make it swagger because that's that's.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
How I don't think it's thumping in there with you
driving your daughters have it thumping in there?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Maybe with the music.
Speaker 10 (30:14):
Well you know what, I've been thumping in there for years.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Don't even damn.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Yes, Paulie, I'm on the Toyota website.
Speaker 6 (30:20):
There's an article from twenty twenty one, the Toyda Sienna
driving the swagger Wagon in its twenty twenty one it
started it.
Speaker 10 (30:28):
I started it. Whoa I represent toilet, I started the
swagger Wagon. It's it's they do they say it? They're paully?
Do they tell the Steve Young started this.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Not officially, but I could feel it. It's about you. Yeah,
you just don't get enough credit in your life.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Innovation.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Yeah, I've been innovated a whole life. Negredit I threw it.
You were Michael Vick before Michael Vick.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
No, screw this.
Speaker 10 (30:51):
I'm sick of it. I'm sick of it. I get nothing.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Yeah, you got Montana's Shadow. I mean you got you
had everything there, Steve, And it's just not fair.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
It's not right.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Life has not been fair to you.
Speaker 10 (31:02):
Yes, it has been a rough run from the means,
from getting out of the mean streets of Greenwich Connecticut
all the way to today. It is tough.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Thoughts and prayers, man, thoughts and prayers. You could have
probably rushed for eight thousand yards in the NFL. It's
like if you're playing today.
Speaker 10 (31:21):
Yeah, today, today's get Look, we don't want to you
guys are sick of me telling you this. But when
they when they made all the changes for safety and
the defense so they couldn't launch anymore. You see it
yesterday when they're if you hit somebody hard, they throw
a flag, you cannot launch in any way. It opened
up all of the space in the field and made
pro football, college football. You used to have to go
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make space. That's why Derek Henry was famous for a
little while because in the old days in twenty seventeen,
sixteen fifteen, you had to go make space. Now that
space has made for you and now you just have
to go fill it up. And so all the innovative
minds like Sean McVay and Kyle Channan and Andy Reid
that his sixty seven years old is dominating because he
keeps reinventing himself and they're innovative. Every week they go
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fill the space they don't have. They don't line up
in the eye and pound you anymore. It's all getting
the ball out in space. And it's amazing to watch.
So and and you know Tom Brady at the end
of his career is he says, Tom, how's it compared
to the old age? He goes completely different, Like the
middle of the field is unpatrolled, the flats are always
open and no one can hit me. And so in
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that way, even for Tom, it was significantly different. Let
alone the prototypes of today that can go get all
those yards and kind of just dominate. I would look, Dan,
you've heard me say this. I'm not jealous, because that's
that's a weird word. But do I like watch the
game today and go, holy oh, this is my like
what this is what I would dream of and that
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everyone say you're the You're the man. This is exactly
what you know the NFL is all about, as you like,
I would have dreamed to have someone say that to
me back in nineteen ninety.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
Good to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Maybe go through your scrap book today I feel a
little bit better about yourself. Maybe just drive around.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
I'm over, I'm over.
Speaker 10 (33:05):
Look, let's be honest, I know the swagg wagon is
mine I got that as, but I don't get crafts. Okay,
I don't need credit. I don't need the credit. I
don't need to go feel better about. I feel totally
fine about, you know, innovation and bringing things into the
world and just watching them kind of thrive. And so
this is just another one. So I don't I'm I'm don't.
Don't think that I'm leaving you kind of dejected him down.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Okay, I'm out a round of applause for Steve. You
know what he was, Steve Jobs before Steve Jobs. That's
the innovator that Steve Young is.
Speaker 10 (33:40):
And I don't and I don't have to wear a
black turtlenacky. Yeah I got. I got a dumber number
of things in my repertory. And I can put it
on with on the parties this weekend with my wife.
She's like, man, you you can do it still.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
You can just see it in your mind.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
Catch it.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
I don't want to see in my mind, but it's there.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
It is. Yeah, it was something. I'm sure it was
in the swagger Wagon. Thank you, Steve, Steve Boys, that's
Steve Yah, always one of my favorites. All right, let
me take a break. We'll come back with the I'm
In or I'm Out Game. Also, I review Tom Brady
Week two and more of your phone calls after this.
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mbusa dot com for special offers. Darius Rucker, he was
busy this weekend. First of all, Dolphins not good. South
Carolina blows a seventeen point lead. But you got to
sing on College Game Day and Nick Saban singing along
with you.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
So overall, how was the past week or so awful?
Speaker 5 (35:10):
I lost both my quarterback.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
That is true.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
I love both my quarterback. We should have been the
LSU But you know, not going to complain about the officiating.
We lost the game. We should we had a seventeen
point lead. It was tough tough to take.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
We complained about the officiating because I don't know how
you call a penalty on knocking the quarterback over and
after he throws an interception, that one in the.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
Offensive path of the appearance were the two that I
just I don't know where those came from. It was
it was tough to take, man, tough to take. We
had that game one and.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Then your Dolphins tool man to get heard man, not
a concussion, you know, And it's and I thought we
were going to Super Bowl again this year.
Speaker 5 (35:53):
And I thought we were going to super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Okay, who do you think is going to have a
better year? The Dolphins are South Carolina?
Speaker 12 (36:02):
Oh goodness, Well, well if the if the game, win
six games with Madame.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Probably okay, So all you're saying is give us six wins.
You're good with South Carolina. You've won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
Give me something to do in January. That's all about,
give me something to do in January.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
How is the atmosphere?
Speaker 2 (36:26):
How does the atmosphere factor in on playing music with
that kind of crowd. It's it's different than playing I
guess a concert with hooting the Blowfish.
Speaker 12 (36:38):
Oh absolutely, I mean those kids, first of all, they're drunk,
They're all they're drunk early in the morning, and you knowever,
they have a good time.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
You know, that's that's my constituency. Man. You know, I'm
such a big games supporter. Everybody gives me gives me
so much love there, so it was actually pretty all
love it.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
But are you nervous?
Speaker 5 (36:55):
Of course, Well you're nervous about it.
Speaker 12 (36:57):
You don't know what it sounds like on TV, okay,
and we played some shows on TV that just sounded
like crap, you know, so you're nervous about that. But
you know there's two songs. You can go out there
and play those anytime, but Beer's and such and I'd
never played that on guitar before, so it's.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Kind of nervous about The sound was great on TV.
Speaker 12 (37:14):
That's what everybody said, which made me so happy. I mean,
I guess ESP has done it so much now they
got it down to the science. But everybody said it
sounded great, so that made me happy.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
And then you guys just celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of
you guys on Letterman and yeah, that was like a
couple of weeks ago, so it was like you were
Friday on Letterman and then world famous on Monday or something.
Speaker 5 (37:38):
People say it sound that simple?
Speaker 12 (37:40):
Was really that simple, Like that Thursday we couldn't get
a station outside of the Carolinas at our song, and
that Monday we were most added for the next four weeks.
And you know, then next thing you know, we're yeah,
we're number one. All of a sudden, the other let
them changed our lives.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Man, I was going to say, without that Letterman appearance,
what happened?
Speaker 5 (38:00):
We are?
Speaker 12 (38:00):
Nobody knows who we are, no doubt about it. Nobody.
We're not where we are right now. I probably don't
even know you.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Yeah, I wouldn't want to know you until you got famous.
Then I got all right, I'll meet with him. All right,
Well you know what I made you video made No,
it didn't. That's the reason you put me in there.
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I was already famous.
Speaker 5 (38:31):
Darius.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Darius has a new single with Jennifer Nettles. It's called
Never Been Over. And then you guys are winding down
the Hoody and the Blowfish Tour Charleston Festival. That's October
eleventh and twelfth, and right, but yep, okay, are you
playing both days in Charleston?
Speaker 5 (38:48):
No, well they're playing one, we're playing one.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
The Desky Trucks Band has had Loney okay, yeah, yeah,
and then you're done.
Speaker 12 (38:55):
Whody's Yeah, that's it. We're done for I don't know.
I don't know if we'll ever do this again, but
if we do, it'll be a long a lot of
long time from now.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
And no fights, no fights at all.
Speaker 5 (39:05):
Great tour. Really had a lot of fun.
Speaker 13 (39:07):
You know, play played some golf together, it hung out
a little bit, but uh, no fights.
Speaker 5 (39:12):
We all got along great. And the music, I mean,
the crowds were the crowds are incredible. It was it
was great.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
But I saw James Addiction in Massachusetts and they're they're
going toe to toe on the state. Did you guys
ever get close to fighting each other on stage?
Speaker 5 (39:29):
Never on stage?
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Never on somebody got backstage?
Speaker 12 (39:32):
Yeah, actually on Mark Sports one day we don't market,
I was yeah, but we've never What I saw that
was that was shocking. Yeah, I mean that being in
a band and playing a band and then you.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
Find out the reason the yells because because they were
too loud. Wow, you're playing rock and roll man, James
Addiction that your back and were too loud.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
So we've gotten a lot of mileage out of Fritzy
singing with you. You were kind enough to let him
sing two songs. And I kept telling Todd one song,
one song, do just one song, and he said, no,
I want to do two and Marvin, let's bring let's
refresh Darius's memory of how Fritzy sounded when he joined
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him in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Speaker 5 (40:22):
On the.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
Side, I still know you, okay, but you had to
feel great when Todd stopped singing, because you sounded even.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Better, not at all.
Speaker 5 (40:48):
I'll tell you.
Speaker 12 (40:49):
We were at southcheck and he started singing and the
band was shocked at how good he shounded. Like the
band will like, oh, did you expect me to go
there be really bad? And Fritz has got a really
good voice. It was shocking how good he was.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
So yeah, see, Darius, is this one of those situations
that you were referring to earlier where it sounds terrible
on TV, but in person it was awesome.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
I wasn't sure if that. I'm like, oh, we're witnessing
that right now. Yeah, it sounds bad on TV, but
there it was awesome.
Speaker 5 (41:20):
Yeah, it was awesome live, No, he was.
Speaker 4 (41:26):
It was very cool.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
Oay, so this might be the last time that you
guys can collaborate. So just like coooning the blowfish. This
might be it, but I'm gonna let you decide if
you want to do this.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
You don't have to do this. But Todd I said,
we're not doing hol and.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
Oates I said, maybe pick a billy Joel's song, and
uh I went with the matter of trust.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
Well, this, Darius, no matter of trust, I hope, so
I sent a note.
Speaker 4 (41:54):
To his wonderful pr person. I don't know if he
got it in time, but a few bars of a
matter of trust.
Speaker 5 (42:00):
You go ahead kick it. Because he's a young guy.
Speaker 12 (42:01):
They picked like a matter of trust, like us old
guys will be picking like she's always a woman or something.
Speaker 5 (42:06):
He's gonna pick metal trust God.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
You kick it, You kick it, Pritty one two or
one two three four.
Speaker 4 (42:14):
Some lover is just a liar a heart. The code
remains of what begne with their passion. It starts and
they may not who wanted to wan murdered?
Speaker 11 (42:26):
Will It's just a question of when I've lived long
enough to learn.
Speaker 5 (42:32):
The closer way.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
The more you Garrius isn't singing, he's just will let
let it when he's done.
Speaker 13 (42:41):
I believe it with like g Gill with a smile
with her eyes. You can ruin your face with her
casual line, and she always reels what you want you
to see. Yeah, she steals like a thief, but she's always.
Speaker 5 (42:54):
A woman to.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
Long.
Speaker 4 (43:01):
She's ahead of her time.
Speaker 5 (43:03):
Hit that high note pretty good, but.
Speaker 4 (43:07):
You never gives in.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
She just changes mind.
Speaker 4 (43:12):
Simo than the God.
Speaker 2 (43:15):
Is there a lot of times you'll hear band like
Robert Plant with Led Zeppelin. There were notes that he
could sing when he's twenty five, but you know, you
get to be forty five or fifty, like, is there
any anything that you It's hard to sing now, but
when you were twenty four, you're like, I'm killing this.
Speaker 12 (43:35):
The thing is I did on purpose when we recorded records,
I wouldn't do anything that was I thought later on
I wouldn't be able to do like even when I
was making a country, I'll never get it, and uh
my producer was like, man, just hit the high note.
Speaker 5 (43:46):
I was like, man, I'm not gonna hit the high though.
He was like, hey, i'll make you. It'll sound great,
and I was like no, He's like I was like why.
Speaker 12 (43:51):
It's like because in ten years I'm not gonna be
able to so I'm not even gonna try it. So No,
everything I did back then was right there, just because
I knew when I was older, I was govern keep
singing it.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
I've been singing the High Cost of Living. Ain't nothing
like the Cost of Living High? One of the great
songs it is.
Speaker 5 (44:08):
So what is that?
Speaker 1 (44:11):
Jamie Johnson?
Speaker 5 (44:12):
Is that Jami Johnson? Jamie john My god, yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
It is a The lyrics are awesome in there, unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (44:22):
I traded oh man, no, no, you were going to
do it.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
I traded it all for a ball in a four. Yes,
I had a job with a.
Speaker 5 (44:34):
Piece of land. My sweet woman was my best briend.
I trade it all cocain.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
But do you have those moments where you go, well,
that sounds like a country song, like something happens to
you or somebody to know, And you go, damn, that
sounds like a country song.
Speaker 5 (44:52):
Absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 12 (44:54):
You know, A guy told me the day that he
made up with a girl and he found out later
on a is a cousin.
Speaker 5 (45:00):
That young.
Speaker 1 (45:08):
Friends, lovers and cousins. There you go, there you go,
it writes itself.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
I always send Darius music titles song titles, and then
I go there, that's the hard part.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
Now go do the song, and then he goes do that.
I do, I do. I'm telling you, I got whiskey
in my smile.
Speaker 5 (45:28):
That's actually that you sent me that one. I think
I'm going to write that one.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
You should because I think, yeah, because if not, Chris
Stapleton's going to there, it's gonna be a hit. So
I'm giving you first DIBs on that because then I'll
give it to Chris Stapleton. All Right, once again, if
you want to see Hooty and the Blowfish, the tour
is coming to an end Charleston Festival. They'll be performing
(45:52):
on October twelfth. Great to see it, and thanks for
joining us as always.
Speaker 5 (45:57):
Always good to see you.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
That you know, I love you, Darius Rucord.
Speaker 5 (46:01):
So that's it.
Speaker 1 (46:02):
Final collaboration kinda.
Speaker 4 (46:05):
I'll take it. That was very cool. He was extremely
good sport allowing me to do.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
He's always a great sport to let you sing two songs,
even one.
Speaker 4 (46:13):
You both could have easily said no, this is no.
Speaker 1 (46:15):
I did say one.
Speaker 4 (46:16):
No, I mean it could have been zero. But the
fact that he let me even go out there at all,
and you orchestrated that to let me sing at Darius
Orcus concerts and sane.
Speaker 6 (46:24):
Yes, point you know, Billy Joel might be Fritzy's lane
as far as like the eighties style of.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
Singing and his like he's able to stay within a
certain range. There really good. Darryl Hall goes up. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's it.
Speaker 2 (46:39):
Daryl's got that philly sound and he goes up a
little too high and uh, you're you're not there, but
but solid Billy Joel.
Speaker 4 (46:49):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (46:50):
I'll take it a wonky song choice though, that's a
somewhat modern Billy Joel, if there is such a thing.
Speaker 1 (46:56):
Yeah, you're usually like glass houses.
Speaker 4 (46:58):
Yeah, I was thinking still rock and roll to me,
or you may be right, yes, is Darry's coming with
us on another field trip? Like Will Ferrell?
Speaker 1 (47:06):
Dude, Oh, I don't know. That'd be sick. Let's go
somewhere and have Darius come. That'd be rad. He's a
good time, he's fun to hang out.
Speaker 2 (47:14):
Well, I think the last thing let's to do is
go on a road trip after being on the road
here for last.
Speaker 4 (47:20):
We go down to South Carolina. Oh so it's a home.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
Game, Yeah, maybe Nashville. It kind of splits time between
South Carolina, Nashville. But I do send him song titles,
and I had one in my head for over a year.
I got whiskey in my smile.
Speaker 1 (47:37):
It's great.
Speaker 2 (47:37):
It's a great song title. And then whatever you do.
You know, got whiskey in my smile. You can see
it for a mile. It's going to be there for
a while. I got whiskey in my smile giving.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
Away the magic. Well, it's a good title. Oh oh wow,
you didn't like the course. Wow, well it's a good title.
Damn ouch. That one actually hurt.
Speaker 5 (48:04):
You know.
Speaker 2 (48:04):
I could never lay off the joke. If it's there,
you can't, I know, but it wasn't. I wasn't trying
to sing as much as I've just given you the lyric.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (48:15):
Yeah, that's not a good song title. Yeah, how about
we take a break, I smack somebody, We'll take a break.
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