December 13, 2024 • 40 mins
College football insider Seth Wickersham stops by to talk about the state of UNC football after Bill Belichick became the new head coach. Former NFL coach and current Westwood One Commentator Ron Rivera drops by the show and reacts to De'vondre Campbell leaving in the middle of the 49ers game.
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we saw with the Rams and the Niners in a
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Niners had one of their players, Devondre Campbell, walk off
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in the Super Bowl. He played the first half, his
knee started to tighten, and he said to Kyle Shanahan
that he wasn't going to be able to play in
the second half.
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Coach reaches out to Devondre.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Campbell, sends him in and he says, I'm not going
And here is Kyle Shanahan after the game talking about
that situation.
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Happened with Defondra Campbell. He didn't play it, and he
went in a the locker room at some point.
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Yeah, he didn't said he didn't want to play today.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Played today.
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The coaching staff he didn't want to asked him why
didn't want to go in during the game or before
I was in the third quarter.
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Does that ever happened to you where a player said
they didn't want to play.
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In a game.
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No, he got demoted for this game. He was not
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No, he was going to go on.
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When Drake came out, He's not a rookie, nine year veteran.
He was pounding. He had been starting. Drake Greenlaw comes back,
you know, he blew out his achilles in the Super
Bowl and fighting to be able to come back to
help his team and then you have somebody who's healthy,
a healthy scratch and probably done with the forty nine ers.
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So we'll talk to coach Rivera. Dylan Gabriel, Oregon quarterback
Heisman finalists will join us coming up next hour. Seth Wickersham,
in a moment he is the ESPN senior writer, had
a deep dive on Bill Belichick and why he is
at North Carolina and not still waiting for a job
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The aforemention. Seth Wickersham of the mother Ship and he
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joins us now after a very very detailed column talking
about Bill Belichick and going to Carolina. If I would
have told you six months ago, Bill is going to
coach again, and it's going to be college.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
You would have said what.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
I would have said, I'm not coming on your show
because that's ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Yeah, good to see you. I think this is really interesting.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
And we've all been wondering, like, you know what, where
he would land, right because he made clear to everybody
that he was coaching. He was going to coach in
twenty fifteen or twenty twenty five, no matter what the
situation was, he was going to coach. Everyone assumed you
would be the NFL. And each week since the start
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of the NFL season, he and his former Patriots assistant
a cluster of them, all of whom are not working
right now, would get on zooms and go through every game,
every team, every situation, every roster move, contract scheme trend,
the type of like football deep dives that only they
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could do, and it was all about the NFL. The
subtext of it all was what teams are going to
have openings, what teams might consider Bill, and what teams
would Bill like to work for. And then about halfway
through the season, some of that shifted and college teams
added onto it. Where he wanted to dissect certain programs,
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study certain schools, and I think that when you look
at the frequency with which he visited colleges this season,
and then the fact that North Carolina really really wants him,
It's been a while since he's probably felt wanted to
coach football, I think that's why.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Then this makes makes it a good to fit.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
But man, it was I was definitely surprised by it.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Okay, is he running from the NFL or running too
North Carolina?
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Great question. I think a little bit of both.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
It's unclear whether he would have gotten a job this year.
They went through all the scenarios in terms of what
they thought he might be able to get. And remember
a lot of this is kind of a weird aside,
but a lot of the back channel communication that owners
might have with reps or camps with protect with prospective
coaches has really dried up because of the Brian Flores lawsuit,
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which is now in its second year. It's still ongoing
his discrimination lawsuit. So no owner really wants to get
caught telling.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
A coach that he's the guy.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
So let's look at some of the situations with the
Giants on paper that made you know that looked like
a natural fit, but Belichick actually, you know things, Brian
Daball should continue on as the coach there, and I
don't think he wants to take over for day ball.
The Jets are a non starter. The Cowboys, you just
don't know if Jerry Jones values coaches that much. The
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Jacksonville Jaguars could have been a fit, but wasn't a
perfect fit. And then you have college where I think that,
like Belichick, there was something about the challenge in doing
something new that was invigorating for him. I had no
idea about his sort of reverence for the University of
North Carolina, but I think that's why it all kind
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of kind of makes sense. And I think that, like
you know, he's been disenchanted and frustrated with like what
he perceives is the NFL becoming more political, more crowded
at the top, it's harder to run teams, and is
somewhat familiar with this thinking said, this is a big FU.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
To the NFL. Going to college.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Of course, the NFL gave him a big f you
you know about about a year ago when he they
had seven job openings and he didn't get any of them.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
But also I look at college now, and it's as
close as it's ever been to a pro model with
you know that the transfer portal is free agency.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Sure, there's there's less structure that clutter.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
You know, you don't have to wait for your draft
pick to try to get a quarterback. And I look
at a lot of positives here, but what do you
think is going to be the one hurdle that he
has to overcome to be a great college coach?
Speaker 6 (07:19):
I think schematically he's going to be very innovative, and
I think that's going to be really interesting to watch.
I mean, we see a lot of sort of performance
inflation on the college level with offensive statistics, and I
think that he will be a terrific answer to that.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
I think to answer your question, it's going to be recruiting.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
I mean, obviously you have the country and he college football.
I think, you know, it has become a little bit
of a culture personality type of thing. You see it
with Davos Sweeney, you see it. You saw it with Saban,
you see it with Deon Sanders certainly, and you know,
I think he certainly has that element. You know, I
do think that you know, how he negotiates with an
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eight year old you know who wants to come to
North Carolina is considering various options. That'll be interesting. Tom
Brady of all people, you know, I don't know if
you saw the clip, but on Fox.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
This past weekend he was asked, you know, how.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Do you think Bill will do? And you know, his
recruiting pitch was kind of like like, we don't even
really want to, but I guess if you want to come,
we'll see if you can play. I think there's a
lot of truth to that, and that will be interesting.
But I think that, like his ability to relate with
quote unquote today's athlete, I think is one of the
underappreciated aspects of his coaching ability. And I think that
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in two thousand and six he gave he was given
an award, like a Distinguished Lecturer award at Southern Connecticut,
and I went to see it and I thought it
was gonna I was kind of terrified because I thought
it would be like a two hour press conference, and
you know, it was packed with students. There was like
four hundred students, and he was just awesome and he
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was inspiring and he was engaged, and it wasn't the
sort of trite cliche is about how football prepares you
for the real world. He actually wanted to talk to
the kids about their transitions into the real world were regardless.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Of what their passions were.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
And I'll never forget, he said, one of the proudest
moments in his life is when he turned down a
job in finance to go work for the Baltimore Colts
out of Wesley and for twenty four dollars a week.
I think he's really going to look forward to shaping
those young minds and not all the ones who go
onto the NFL.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
How important was Don Shula's record.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
I think it was important to him, but it wasn't
the thing. It's not the thing that gets him out
of bed every morning. And I think that again, he
surveyed the landscape. He wasn't sure he was going to
get an NFL job, which is still kind of crazy.
I mean, let's be honest. You watch him on TV
and he's explaining these game management situations that coaches in
the NFL screw up so bad, and he's not coaching.
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I mean, there's something that just seems broken about that.
When he's tried to explain why Matt Eberfluss screwed up
the end of the game against Detroit. This is stuff
he knows how to do in his leap and it
doesn't reflect well in the league, but it's the way
it is. And I think that, like he needed to
make a decision. And I think that in his career,
whenever he's been at a career cross roads, he is
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completely unafraid to take control of that situation and take
matters of it into his own hands.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
And I think that's what he did here.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Would he have been interested in another coaching job another university.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
I think so.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I mean, I want if I get.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Word that Bill Belichick is open to coaching in college.
I was surprised. I didn't hear any other you know,
whatever they are now. Chancellor's President's going, hey Bill, what
about Boston College or wherever?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
But he didn't get any other offers. That was yeah,
that was it, Hey, it.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Was yeah, it is.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
It's It's both kind of how it's been since he
was let go by the Patriots, and it's still shocking,
but that's kind of the norm right now. And I
think that again, I think he really wanted to be
at a place wherever it was that he just felt
wanted and I think you could tell yesterday, you know,
that felt like one of the best days of his
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professional life.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
More likely, in three years, North Carolina is in the
playoffs or Bill Belichick is not coaching in college I
would go with the former.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
I would go with the former.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
I mean, I think he's going to be a terrific
schematic coach. Will he be able to bridge the gap
in the talent level that you see between like the
very top programs in college football and kind of the
mid tier ones.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
We'll see.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
But I mean, you know, nobody is better at taking
a collection of people. Nobody's been better over the past
twenty five years at taking a collection of talent and
turning it into a real team. And there's no reason
to think he can't do that at the college level
and actually have a lot of fun doing it.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I know you have a book coming out, and it's
what American King's a biography of the quarterback available now
for pre order that'll be coming out this next September.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Don't worry, I'll bug you. You'll know.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Okay, Okay, at what point do you start working on
your Belichick North Carolina book?
Speaker 6 (12:26):
Oh? Man, do we do we really have to go there.
I mean, are my bosses listening right now?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I got the title chapel bill, I mean.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
We I might I might pass that on to our friend,
right Thompson. I might just let him do it.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
I don't think Belichick would want right Thompson to go
in and do a deep dive on his personality, you
know how right.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
I'm not sure Thompson is.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
I'm not sure he wants to see either of us there.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah, great stuff. Really enjoyed the column. Thank you, Seth,
and we'll talk to you next year with this book.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Always always great to see you, man.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Seth Wickersham, ESPN Senior writer and new book coming out
next year called American Kings, a biography of the quarterback,
available for pre order. I was surprised at other universities
didn't reach out, and they kept it quiet. And then
all of a sudden, all interview with North Carolina. I
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thought he was doing the athletic director of favor I
really did, or a chancellor, president, board of trustees. Hey
my dad coached there. Hey all I'll fake interest in this.
And then all of a sudden it was his second interview.
I go, uh, you got a second interview, and I
said to Paulie, I said, we gotta change our approach this.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
I said, this is real now.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
And then I reached out to a source and he said, no,
Bill is one of five candidates. And he read off
some of the candidates. You had Armies coach Monkin. You
had Tommy Reese who was at Alabama then he's now
with the Cleveland Browns. There were I think two other
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coaches who Tulane's head coach was in there as well.
So my sour said, no, there's a real and I
go I said to Paulie, I said, hey, we gotta
we gotta approach like this is going to happen.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
Yes, what's crazy about the like, say, Tommy Reese, the
North Carolina job is very attainable for someone like Tommy
Rees very attainable.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
And then Bill Belichick swoops in. You're like, dude, really
got this.
Speaker 8 (14:33):
This was my gig.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
This was the one that I was gonna do.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Now you got to So Tommy Reese was at Notre
Dame and then he was at Alabama. So he was
with Brian Kelly, then Nick Saban, and he thought he
was going to get, you know, another job. Now he's
with the quarterbacks coach, I think with the Browns, and
he was, you know, maybe next in line to get
this job at North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
And it's like, who did I lose out to Belichick?
Speaker 9 (14:59):
Bill?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Hey, Steven Belichick?
Speaker 10 (15:01):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Bill?
Speaker 6 (15:02):
What?
Speaker 11 (15:03):
Well?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I guess technically both of them. Yeah, you're getting both.
You're getting both, yes, Bauli.
Speaker 8 (15:07):
It's like back in college when you're at a bar
and you're talking to a girl and you're doing some
good work and then all of a sudden comes the
six or four quarterback guy. Come on, just cut me
a break, man.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Or you go to the bathroom and then you come
back and somebody's chatting her up. You're like, excuse me,
squeeze me, never go to the bathroom.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
Yeah, that when you're flowing no fun intention.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Oh oh okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
When we come back update the poll results, we'll talk
to the former NFL coach Ron Rivera get his thoughts
not only on Bill Belichick, but also what happened in
the game that he was calling last night with Deveandre
Campbell walking off. What would he have done or what
would he do if he was his head coach. We'll
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He is Ron rivera former NFL head coach, won a
Super Bowl as a linebacker for the Bears, and was
on the call last night west Wood Won Radio. NFL
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analysts the Rams and the Niners coach. Great to have
you back on. How would you sum up what happened
to the Niners last night?
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Well, I think what's really happened to Niners is they're
losing the battle of attrition. You go back and look
at all the injuries that they've had to sustain, they
honestly are shell and who they were last season, they
really are. I mean what they've tried to do in
terms of, you know, win football games with a limited roster.
You know, credit to them for trying. Credit for the
coaches to have doing the best they could. But what
you've also saw is you've seen the Rams getting healthy
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at the right time. And I think that's one of
the really big keys for this football team is the
Rams are playing good, solid football, especially on the offensive side.
Defense is starting to come together. Got a good young
group of guys that are really contributing on the defensive side,
and the young coordinator's done some pretty neat things. As
far as Chris Shuler was concerned, last night, I thought
he matched Kyle pretty well.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
How dangerous are the Rams if they get into the playoffs?
Speaker 4 (17:08):
I think it would be very dangerous because I think
they're young enough to not know with just enough veteran
leadership that's been there before, especially with Matthew Stafford, I
think that's what makes them dangerous. Plus, I think Sean
McVay is the heck of a football coach.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Would you pay rock perty the going rate for a quarterback, Oh, I'd.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Be a little bit concerned with it. You know, he's
a solid quarterback. He does some really good things. He
really is, to me and my estimation, a game manager.
And by that, I mean he's a guy that as
long as he protects the ball, takes care of the football,
and takes what's there for him, he'll be very, very efficient.
And he does have the ability to make plays when
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you need him to. Okay, And that's one of the
things that I really like about him. I thought last
night he pressed a little bit. I thought he did.
I thought he tried to be too pinpoint accurate instead
of just cutting the ball loose. A couple of times
he underthrew a couple of balls that should have been
could have been caught for big, big plays, and it
you know, it's one of those things that when you
don't have all your tools, all your weapons, you feel
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like you've got to make all the plays.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
The Niners window closing or closed.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Oh, I think it's I really just think, you know,
the hard part for them is they've gone to three
straight NFC championships. There's been three very long years for them,
and I just think it's caught up to him a
little bit. I think as far as being retooled for
next season, and that really that's what they're looking at.
You got to be looking to start looking ahead, you
really do. You got to look at how are we
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going to get this corrected, how are we going to
rebuild this? You know, what's going to take to get
these guys back on the football field. For the most part,
when you look at the guys that they just didn't
have this year.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Available, when did you realize something was up with Devandre
Campbell When he was walking off the field.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
When he was walking off the field, I just trying
to figure out, okay, wait a minute, and it didn't
dawn on me that he hadn't played yet and he
had been there and I think he's our second leading
tackler for the year. And I think that was a
really tough foot pill to swallow, because you know, for
the most part, you know, you do the things you did,
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you have the year that you had, and they just
put Drey back in there. And I think that really
got to him a little bit.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
What would you do if you were coaching him in
the moment.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Well, in the moment, if I see him start walking up,
as as a coach, I'd have called him over. I've
talked to him before he left.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
But if he says he doesn't want to go in,
which I think Kyle said that he told him to
go in for Dre and then he says he didn't
want to play.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Well, then there's obviously an issue. I didn't hear that part,
but yeah, I'd have an issue like that right now.
I mean, to me, that's conduct detrimental. You're gonna have
to sit down and have a really long, long discussion
with him. Uh, it's you know, It's one of those
things that you got to understand in this game, the
way this game's played, you got to do it was
best for the team, and at that point they just
thought that that was was best for the team.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
But I wonder, is this a must cut situation if
you're the head coach, Like, do you have to send
a message? I mean, you're over almost.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
You suspend them?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Just suspend them, Okay.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Because again at the end of the day and kind
of looking at where they are, Yeah, you can send
a message by cutting them. You can all send a
mention by suspending them for the rest of the season.
But at the end of the day, you can still
get value for him. He's a good player, He's shown
that he's capable suspend them trading.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
He's Ron rivera former NFL head coach and was on
the call last night Westwood one Radio NFL analyst. If
I gave you the Lions or the field in the NFC,
who would you take.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
I'd still take the Lions, I really would. They're a big,
physical football team. I think if there's one if there
is one one potential weakness that I see the Rams
have right now, it is it is their run defense.
I think that's a little bit of a soft spot
for them. They're still learning, still grow. There's a bunch
of young guys, and that's what it is. I love
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the mentality right now that the Rams have. I mean,
it is solid, it's stout, it's built around Sean. But
you can't deny what Dan Campbell has done. And it's
kind of interesting that he went for it on fourth
down and did it send a message to everybody else.
I think that that's one of the big things that
you sit there and you look at it. When all
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they had to do was kick the field go and
then play defense. He went to kill it, to take
the knife and twist it. That's pretty much what he
did well.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
The thing I would be concerned about when you say
that they're vulnerable to the run is you have Saquon
Barkley with the Eagles, and you got Josh Jacobs with
Green Bay, and then chances are you're going to be
seeing one of those teams, both of those teams. If
I gave you the Kansas City Chiefs or the rest
of the field in the AFC OH I'm.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Still going with the Chiefs. I really am the reason
I am more than anything else is in spite of
everything they've gone through this year, they still find a
way to win for the most part. The other reason,
more so anything else, is home field advantage. As long
as it goes through Kansas City. I'm sticking with Kansas City. Now.
If Buffalo had stayed kept pace with them, and then
somehow Buffalo had ended up with home field advantage, I
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would go with Buffalo. I think home field advantage the
FC is going to be very, very huge.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
How do you if you were going to explain to
somebody who had never seen Patrick Mahomes play, how would
you describe that?
Speaker 4 (22:33):
You know, he's he's slippery, he has a little bit
of wiggle and he and he has the ability to
make something out enough. He really does. And I think
that when you watch him do these things, you say,
how do you do?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
What was?
Speaker 4 (22:48):
And it's always to me about he understands where things are,
where people are, and that I think is one of
his superpowers as a quarterback is that when you understand
and know where people are supposed to be, if you're
in trouble, you can always get to that point. And
I do think some of the things that and he
designs always has that out for him somewhere. It's somebody
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that's curling on the backside that's coming back to the quarterback. Okay,
when quarterbacks look into his right, that X receiver is
running a comeback, and as soon as Patrick gets in trouble,
he just keeps coming back to Patrick to present that target.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Do you coach somebody like that less?
Speaker 4 (23:27):
No, I think you coach somebody like that more In
terms of information. You don't tell him, hey, do this
or this, They say, hey, this, just always understand that
if you're in trouble, this is where this guy is.
If you're always in trouble, you can look for the checkdown,
you can look for your tight end. Those are the
things I think that you coach more of in terms
of hey, these are the things that you do if
this happens. These are things you do if that happens.
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And it's interesting to watch because with Patrick you see
that and you see him go through his progression, seeing
the things that certain things are happening, and then he
turns and goes away from everything else.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Sarah quarterback that he reminds you.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Of, Wow, you know, Tom Brady had a little bit
of that, but he just he did what he did.
Tom didn't have his mobility, but he had that ability
to get to where he needed to get and throw
the ball there. That that I mean, that that's I
think it's really terrific. Joe Montana is another guy that
was under pressure. He was just cool and calm. You know,
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he's Joe cool. He really was. I mean, you you
see these these these these iconic quarterbacks who just in
the playoffs seem to be the guy that you want
on your team in a two minute drill to give
you a chance to win.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah, there's something about it there, but there's things that
aren't teachable, not coaching, like they just have something I
don't I don't know what that is, but they all
the great ones seem to have whatever that DNA is.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
You know, it's funny. I mean, I've heard Tom Brady
talk and and and when you listen to him talkic
it's really it's all about winning. It's all about being prepared
to win. And that's what I think. It is about
their preparation as always put them in position to be successful.
And that's some of the things that you hear about
Patrick Mahomes is the way he prepares. You listen to
when people talked about how Joe montana usoul to be prepared,
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you know, listening and watching some of the things that
Troy Aikman did about always being prepared, you know, those
are the things that I think really separate him. Is
not just what they do in the football field, but
what they do before they get on the football field. Well,
those are people that I think are highly successful.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
What was your reaction to Bill Belichick going to North Carolina.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
You know, on one hand, I think it's brilliant. I
was on Good Morning Football the other day and that
had come up and had just come across the wire
that he was in negotiations, and I thought, man, that's brilliant.
And he goes, what do you talk about? I said, well,
think about this with the direction college football's head. And
I don't know if you saw this some report that
there's some billionaires are talking about buying into college football teams. Well,
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if that's what's going to happen, you're looking at the
creation of what potentially could be truly the minor leagues
to the NFL. You get enough of these billionaires that
want to come in, and let's say you get thirty
two of them, they buy thirty two teams. Now, all
of a sudden, what.
Speaker 12 (26:07):
Do you have?
Speaker 4 (26:07):
You have a mini NFL. You've got two conferences, You've
got four divisions in each one of those conferences. You
set it up just like that. There's your feeder program
to the NFL. And Bill Belichick's getting in on the
on the top floor, apparently I'm seeing on the bottom
floor working his way up. Apparently, in my opinion, he's
working with somebody else. Somebody else has talked to him
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about doing that potentially. And again I'm just I'm just guessing.
But I think it was brilliant. I really do. I
think it's a new challenge for him. I mean, he's
you know, he's conquered pretty much everything you can in
the NFL, except for the total wins record, but for
the most part, when you win as many Super Bowls
as you had, have the success you've had, why not
try something different? Why do not I do something a little
(26:50):
bit that isn't isn't expected?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Would you do it? You're ten years younger.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Personally. If the right situation came up, I probably would.
But I still have something to prove right now in
the NFL. So if the opportunity to go back and
do something in the NFL. I think I would do
that first.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Good to talk to you, coach, Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
All right, good talking Dan.
Speaker 12 (27:16):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
That's Ron rivera former NFL head coach now working for
Westwood one Radio as an NFL analyst. A couple of
phone calls in here Tom in South Carolina. Hi, Tom,
what's on your mind?
Speaker 13 (27:29):
Hello, mister Patrick five six one sixty. Been listening to
you for a very long time.
Speaker 9 (27:37):
And I'll just have a lot of respect for you
and h and the Danets, Seaton, Paulie, Marvin and Fritzy.
Speaker 14 (27:44):
I really do.
Speaker 9 (27:45):
I went to school a journalism school at the University
of South Carolina, so I and I've worked in radio
and some here in the stage, so I really appreciate
and respect what you guys do. I didn't really have
much to add when you were talking about Devondre Campbell
and stuff like that, but I just thought that was
just just really weak on his part and stuff like that.
Speaker 13 (28:08):
I can't speak on being an NFL player professional player,
but I'll say this. I played high school football, and
you know there were times that you know, I wasn't
a starter, but I wanted to quit and everything like that.
And because my parents and just my thought process, I
was like, I'm not going to do that to my teammates.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Yeah, but you can't. You can be upset, but you
can't quit. That's that's the problem.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Like if you want to be, you know, angry after
the game, quit after the game, but you can't quit
on your team. You might be quitting on your coach
after the game, angry at him, but you can't do
that to your teammates. And Drake Greenlaw worked all season
long recovering from a torn achilles in the Super Bowl
(28:54):
to get that moment. Now what I have started him.
I understand why you want to start him because you
want him to have that moment. I probably would have
had him come in as opposed to starting him, but
I'm not in the situation. I'm only saying from a
standpoint of I want to ease him into the game.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
I don't want him to get too hyped up.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
And he was, and then he said, you know what,
my knee is starting to tighten up. I want to
come out of the game, and that's where you're going
to put in Campbell. And Campbell said, I don't want
to go in so he was pouting he quit on
his team. David in Ohio, Hi David, what's on your mind?
Speaker 5 (29:33):
Hey Daan?
Speaker 13 (29:33):
Having met Friday nobody, I got to comments, Okay, you.
Speaker 10 (29:37):
Think North Carolina we'll start selling hoodies with the fleaves
cut off, like go would wear.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Sure, and I didn't.
Speaker 13 (29:45):
I didn't know if maybe his girlfriend want to be
head cheerleader.
Speaker 10 (29:48):
I don't know if he gets talked about that.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Oh yeah, it's made its rounds too. A little later
on the joke though, there, David. Yeah, so I would
definitely sell Belichick hoodies. Sure. I don't know how cold
it's going to get during football season selling those those hoodies.
A little warm down there to start out in.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
September probably October probably got a lot of one o'clock games,
don't they they're noon games. I don't although they're probably
going to get some primetime games now. Yeah, I'm guessing.
Mike in Atlanta, Hi Mike, thanks for holding.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
What do you have for me?
Speaker 12 (30:24):
Hey?
Speaker 10 (30:25):
Dan?
Speaker 11 (30:25):
I think you should sell some some Dennette hoodies. Yeah
Dennette anyway, happy neat Friday. But the reason I'm calling
my dad just passed away a couple of days ago,
(30:46):
and I live in Atlanta with my youngest brother, and
I've got poor siblings that.
Speaker 10 (30:53):
Live up in Minnesota. So it's funerals on Tuesday, and
so and myself, my three sons, and my brother his
two daughters are flying up on Monday, and we're thinking
about going to the Monday night football game. Is that
(31:14):
appropriate or not?
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Well? I guess you.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
I don't know the situation. I mean, I would take
a vote here the consensus. But you know, you might say, well,
what would Dad think? I think that's usually where you
can say, hey, you know Dad would want us to go.
We can kind of say Dad would want me to have,
you know, a party where we brought in a keg.
(31:39):
Really yeah, I think so?
Speaker 8 (31:41):
Yeah, Paul, Yeah, you go to the game, you talk
about Dad, you commune together and have some fun.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
And buy some Dead Dad's T shirts Dead Dad's Club
T shirts.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Yes, I don't know.
Speaker 12 (31:53):
I don't know what the relationship is among the family
members with their dad.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
But oh, you don't know.
Speaker 12 (31:57):
I'm going to say. I'm going to say, the night
before you're burying your dad, the thought of like, why
don't we go to the Bears Vikings games? If we're
going to be in town. I don't know. That doesn't
separate with me.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
I like it. He's dead, Hey, go to the game. Yes,
you're hanging out together.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
It's either that or you sit around and you're moping
and you're, you know, weeping in your beer. Well, if
you're a got tickets, you're a Vikings fan and you
want to go see the game, go see the game.
That to me seems like you do something together and
have fun, have some laughs, have some beers. Like you
(32:36):
don't have to go to my funeral when I die, Tom,
how do like talking about that? But let's say you
had an opportunity to sing with Hall and Oates, or
you could go to my funeral.
Speaker 12 (32:46):
Now was it the night before or two nights before?
What's the space of time?
Speaker 2 (32:49):
But you're going it would be I'm thinking of primetime funeral,
prime time. I mean that's what I'm thinking, like under
the lights. So you either can go to my funeral
or you go to Hall of Notes. You're gonna you
get to see one song with hallo Notes. What are
you gonna do?
Speaker 12 (33:04):
I think you're not gonna believe me, probably, but I'm
gonna go to your service.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
And I don't believe you. You're right, Yes, Marvin can
Todd sing Hall of Notes at your funeral?
Speaker 12 (33:13):
Oh, there you go, there's a compromise.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Yes, yes, Darius will sing a song and you can
sing a song.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Who else sing your kiss?
Speaker 12 (33:26):
Was was on my list? Or something like that?
Speaker 3 (33:28):
It's kind of creepy. I'm like, I don't. I don't
think you should be singing that to me. I say,
you I hand in my pocket.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Uh you know, And Polly points out I'll be the
luckiest guy because I'll be dead, so I don't.
Speaker 13 (33:45):
Have to do that.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I'm now I am going to ask if Will Ferrell
could sing dust in the Wind Sandler with the Honkus song?
Speaker 12 (33:59):
Could I be a hallbearer? If I pass off on
doing the dial Hall John Notes thing, I could be
a hallbearer.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
No, remember you get you hurt your elbow playing whiffle ball.
Speaker 12 (34:09):
That is true. The last thing you wanted me all
something to get tilted.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
All of a sudden.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
You know, I come spilling out of the casket hardly
a play still won't play?
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Yeah, you still won't play wiffle ball?
Speaker 12 (34:20):
Am I right? Shoulders bother? I'm being totally honest.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
All right, let me take a break when we come back,
the most must win game of the weekend, and who
had the best week in sports?
Speaker 1 (34:30):
After this, be sure to catch the live edition of
The Dan Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six
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Speaker 2 (34:40):
How about the most moust win game of the weekend.
We'll have that for you coming out. If I look
at the best games this weekend, so Army and Navy,
Army Navy standalone game, then you have the Heisman ceremony
coming up on Saturday. Army is favored by I think
six and a half Bill's and the Lions.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
These are the uh what two of the four best
Super Bowl odds Super Bowl preview question Mark Bucks at
the Chargers. Okay, I'm gonna bring this up, and then
I'm going to be accused of jinxing things justin. Herbert
(35:27):
goes into the game against Tampa Bay having thrown three
hundred and thirty five passes without an interception, fifth longest
in league history. Aaron Rodgers holds the record of four
h two back in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
How stead of a day.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Stand of a day, stead of a day?
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Stella a day. This is the Stele of.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
The Day, brought you by Penned America. Also, my Rockets
face the Thunder. These are two teams one and two
in the Western Conference. Yes, to is that for the Cup?
Speaker 12 (36:08):
A Cup related event?
Speaker 2 (36:09):
It is a Cup related So it's the Cup?
Speaker 5 (36:11):
It is that.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
See that's sarcasm. That's a little start.
Speaker 12 (36:15):
I gotta watch because it's the Cup.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
College basketball Number eight Gonzaga against number eighteen Yukon. You know,
Yukon is still undefeated in the United States, aren't they
like the mainland that continental United States?
Speaker 3 (36:29):
Yes, the first forty eight.
Speaker 12 (36:31):
Yes, that's all us.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
They will not go to Hawaii again.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Well d never never never, all right, So uh, Yukon,
that's your that's your weekend.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
That's your that's your big weekend.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Slide into the weekend, King Zawaiian get together with family
and friends. Slider Sunday. Who had the best week in sports? Todd,
I'm going to start with you.
Speaker 12 (36:56):
I don't think it's going to go particularly well, but
I'm gonna say Bill Belichick. Okay, you guys don't. Oh,
I'm the NFL. I'm gonna put on my light blue,
my powder blue. I'm going to the seat.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Who had the best week in sports?
Speaker 7 (37:05):
I don't think it's Bill Belichick. I think it's North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Oh, good call, Yeah, Marvin jan Soda.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Oh, hard to think somebody had a better week financially,
unless it's like, I know, Elon Musk or who else
is Larry Ellison?
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Some of these guys, Paulie best week in sports.
Speaker 8 (37:31):
A gentleman named John P.
Speaker 12 (37:32):
Pryor.
Speaker 8 (37:33):
Who is John P.
Speaker 12 (37:34):
Pryor?
Speaker 8 (37:35):
He's the head of the board of trustees at UNC
and the man given a lot of credit for getting
Bill down there.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Yeah, I'm gonna agree, agree with Seaton, North Carolina had
the best week in sports because we're talking about North
Carolina football. Well, when you start to look at all
of the programs at North Carolina, like women's soccer always good,
lacrosse always good, basketball, always good, baseball, good football not
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so much.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Now you got Belichick there, Yes.
Speaker 12 (38:06):
College football. As far as North Carolina, you only hear
about them during the NFL Draft. This guy's a top
five pick, are they? It was six and six.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
Yeah, you'd be like he played Carolina.
Speaker 14 (38:16):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Pat In Miami, Oh, No, pat In Mason, pat In Mason, Ohio.
Speaker 14 (38:25):
Yeah, can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Yes, I can.
Speaker 14 (38:26):
Pat six two two thirty. I just I just wanted
to say I think we were talking earlier about pro
and college coaches. You got a as a Buckeye fan.
I hate to say this, but you do have to
put horrorball in there.
Speaker 13 (38:42):
And then.
Speaker 14 (38:45):
Did I work at a brewery in downtown Mason, right
up the street from Saint Susannah, And I had the
pleasure of meeting your brother last week.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Oh, there's a few people nicer than my brother. He's uh,
he's one of the greats. Shout out to Mike. Yes,
he's a good man.
Speaker 14 (39:04):
Every two weeks on a Friday, and we always appreciate
his company. And I just thought that was really cool.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
All right, Well, thank you, Pat. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
They probably do their book club where they don't read
a book. They just go and drink. It's a great scam.
He's like, hey, yeah, we got this book club. I said, well,
what are you reading? He goes, oh, we're not reading.
He goes maybe a menu. Yes, who's your coolest brother,
Mike my oldest one? Well too quick on that answer,
Well coolest my oldest brother is my idol. My younger
(39:34):
brother is my coolest. I was going to say, yeah,
my brother Mike is He's rock solid. He's like Jimmy Stewart.
You know, he just good, good dude. Nobody says a
bad word about him.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
My trick hair, my ri Mari Adio, what's my trick air?
Speaker 6 (39:50):
There?
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Sae?
Speaker 12 (39:51):
What's an hour?
Speaker 2 (39:54):
Dylan Gabriel, Oregon quarterback, will join us, coming up next hour.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
More of your phone calls as well.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
It's a it's a Friday, and we are treated to
Friday fritzy today.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
You were in rare form.
Speaker 12 (40:08):
Pot roast coming up? Yeah, mashed potatoes.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
Are you doing your mic goalie impersonations?
Speaker 1 (40:13):
What was that?
Speaker 3 (40:13):
Weight Watchers?
Speaker 5 (40:15):
He was chocolate.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
Didn't have pot roast.
Speaker 12 (40:16):
And still lose weight. How's that possible?
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Potros Yes, we're having pot roast today on our meat Friday.
All right, two hours in the books, one more to
go on this Friday. We're back after this
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Come on in stay a while. Grills are all fired up.
So are we smoked Mississippi pot roast. I don't know
the difference between that pot roast and my grandma's pot roast,
but smoked Mississippi pot roast, garlic, mashed potatoes, roasted green
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Coming up, Ron rivera former NFL coach. He was on
(00:48):
the call Westwood one Radio last night. We'll recap what
we saw with the Rams and the Niners in a
must win situation for both of these teams, and the
Niners had one of their players, Devondre Campbell, walk off
the field refusing to go in after Drake Greenlaw, who
had spent the entire season rehabbing from a torn achilles
(01:10):
in the Super Bowl. He played the first half, his
knee started to tighten, and he said to Kyle Shanahan
that he wasn't going to be able to play in
the second half.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Coach reaches out to Devondre.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Campbell, sends him in and he says, I'm not going
And here is Kyle Shanahan after the game talking about
that situation.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Happened with Defondra Campbell. He didn't play it, and he
went in a the locker room at some point.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Yeah, he didn't said he didn't want to play today.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Played today.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
The coaching staff he didn't want to asked him why
didn't want to go in during the game or before
I was in the third quarter.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Does that ever happened to you where a player said
they didn't want to play.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
In a game.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
No, he got demoted for this game. He was not
going to play.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
No, he was going to go on.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
When Drake came out, He's not a rookie, nine year veteran.
He was pounding. He had been starting. Drake Greenlaw comes back,
you know, he blew out his achilles in the Super
Bowl and fighting to be able to come back to
help his team and then you have somebody who's healthy,
a healthy scratch and probably done with the forty nine ers.
(02:10):
So we'll talk to coach Rivera. Dylan Gabriel, Oregon quarterback
Heisman finalists will join us coming up next hour. Seth Wickersham,
in a moment he is the ESPN senior writer, had
a deep dive on Bill Belichick and why he is
at North Carolina and not still waiting for a job
in the NFL. This just in Tom Pelsero, NFL Network.
(02:30):
The Dolphins and Odell Beckham Junior have mutually agreed to
part ways. Beckham is still hoping for an opportunity elsewhere.
The team is granting his release. He'll be on waivers
until Monday.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
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Speaker 2 (02:44):
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Show email address Dpatdanpatrick dot com, Twitter handle at DP show.
Mets introduced Juan Soto the Army Navy game coming up
this weekend. You also have the Heisman ceremony as well.
The aforemention. Seth Wickersham of the mother Ship and he
(03:04):
joins us now after a very very detailed column talking
about Bill Belichick and going to Carolina. If I would
have told you six months ago, Bill is going to
coach again, and it's going to be college.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
You would have said what.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
I would have said, I'm not coming on your show
because that's ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Yeah, good to see you. I think this is really interesting.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
And we've all been wondering, like, you know what, where
he would land, right because he made clear to everybody
that he was coaching. He was going to coach in
twenty fifteen or twenty twenty five, no matter what the
situation was, he was going to coach. Everyone assumed you
would be the NFL. And each week since the start
(03:50):
of the NFL season, he and his former Patriots assistant
a cluster of them, all of whom are not working
right now, would get on zooms and go through every game,
every team, every situation, every roster move, contract scheme trend,
the type of like football deep dives that only they
(04:11):
could do, and it was all about the NFL. The
subtext of it all was what teams are going to
have openings, what teams might consider Bill, and what teams
would Bill like to work for. And then about halfway
through the season, some of that shifted and college teams
added onto it. Where he wanted to dissect certain programs,
(04:33):
study certain schools, and I think that when you look
at the frequency with which he visited colleges this season,
and then the fact that North Carolina really really wants him,
It's been a while since he's probably felt wanted to
coach football, I think that's why.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Then this makes makes it a good to fit.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
But man, it was I was definitely surprised by it.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Okay, is he running from the NFL or running too
North Carolina?
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Great question. I think a little bit of both.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
It's unclear whether he would have gotten a job this year.
They went through all the scenarios in terms of what
they thought he might be able to get. And remember
a lot of this is kind of a weird aside,
but a lot of the back channel communication that owners
might have with reps or camps with protect with prospective
coaches has really dried up because of the Brian Flores lawsuit,
(05:29):
which is now in its second year. It's still ongoing
his discrimination lawsuit. So no owner really wants to get
caught telling.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
A coach that he's the guy.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
So let's look at some of the situations with the
Giants on paper that made you know that looked like
a natural fit, but Belichick actually, you know things, Brian
Daball should continue on as the coach there, and I
don't think he wants to take over for day ball.
The Jets are a non starter. The Cowboys, you just
don't know if Jerry Jones values coaches that much. The
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Jacksonville Jaguars could have been a fit, but wasn't a
perfect fit. And then you have college where I think that,
like Belichick, there was something about the challenge in doing
something new that was invigorating for him. I had no
idea about his sort of reverence for the University of
North Carolina, but I think that's why it all kind
(06:24):
of kind of makes sense. And I think that, like
you know, he's been disenchanted and frustrated with like what
he perceives is the NFL becoming more political, more crowded
at the top, it's harder to run teams, and is
somewhat familiar with this thinking said, this is a big FU.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
To the NFL. Going to college.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Of course, the NFL gave him a big f you
you know about about a year ago when he they
had seven job openings and he didn't get any of them.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
But also I look at college now, and it's as
close as it's ever been to a pro model with
you know that the transfer portal is free agency.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Sure, there's there's less structure that clutter.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
You know, you don't have to wait for your draft
pick to try to get a quarterback. And I look
at a lot of positives here, but what do you
think is going to be the one hurdle that he
has to overcome to be a great college coach?
Speaker 6 (07:19):
I think schematically he's going to be very innovative, and
I think that's going to be really interesting to watch.
I mean, we see a lot of sort of performance
inflation on the college level with offensive statistics, and I
think that he will be a terrific answer to that.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
I think to answer your question, it's going to be recruiting.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
I mean, obviously you have the country and he college football.
I think, you know, it has become a little bit
of a culture personality type of thing. You see it
with Davos Sweeney, you see it. You saw it with Saban,
you see it with Deon Sanders certainly, and you know,
I think he certainly has that element. You know, I
do think that you know, how he negotiates with an
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eight year old you know who wants to come to
North Carolina is considering various options. That'll be interesting. Tom
Brady of all people, you know, I don't know if
you saw the clip, but on Fox.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
This past weekend he was asked, you know, how.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Do you think Bill will do? And you know, his
recruiting pitch was kind of like like, we don't even
really want to, but I guess if you want to come,
we'll see if you can play. I think there's a
lot of truth to that, and that will be interesting.
But I think that, like his ability to relate with
quote unquote today's athlete, I think is one of the
underappreciated aspects of his coaching ability. And I think that
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in two thousand and six he gave he was given
an award, like a Distinguished Lecturer award at Southern Connecticut,
and I went to see it and I thought it
was gonna I was kind of terrified because I thought
it would be like a two hour press conference, and
you know, it was packed with students. There was like
four hundred students, and he was just awesome and he
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was inspiring and he was engaged, and it wasn't the
sort of trite cliche is about how football prepares you
for the real world. He actually wanted to talk to
the kids about their transitions into the real world were regardless.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Of what their passions were.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
And I'll never forget, he said, one of the proudest
moments in his life is when he turned down a
job in finance to go work for the Baltimore Colts
out of Wesley and for twenty four dollars a week.
I think he's really going to look forward to shaping
those young minds and not all the ones who go
onto the NFL.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
How important was Don Shula's record.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
I think it was important to him, but it wasn't
the thing. It's not the thing that gets him out
of bed every morning. And I think that again, he
surveyed the landscape. He wasn't sure he was going to
get an NFL job, which is still kind of crazy.
I mean, let's be honest. You watch him on TV
and he's explaining these game management situations that coaches in
the NFL screw up so bad, and he's not coaching.
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I mean, there's something that just seems broken about that.
When he's tried to explain why Matt Eberfluss screwed up
the end of the game against Detroit. This is stuff
he knows how to do in his leap and it
doesn't reflect well in the league, but it's the way
it is. And I think that, like he needed to
make a decision. And I think that in his career,
whenever he's been at a career cross roads, he is
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completely unafraid to take control of that situation and take
matters of it into his own hands.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
And I think that's what he did here.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Would he have been interested in another coaching job another university.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
I think so.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I mean, I want if I get.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Word that Bill Belichick is open to coaching in college.
I was surprised. I didn't hear any other you know,
whatever they are now. Chancellor's President's going, hey Bill, what
about Boston College or wherever?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
But he didn't get any other offers. That was yeah,
that was it, Hey, it.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Was yeah, it is.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
It's It's both kind of how it's been since he
was let go by the Patriots, and it's still shocking,
but that's kind of the norm right now. And I
think that again, I think he really wanted to be
at a place wherever it was that he just felt
wanted and I think you could tell yesterday, you know,
that felt like one of the best days of his
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professional life.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
More likely, in three years, North Carolina is in the
playoffs or Bill Belichick is not coaching in college I
would go with the former.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
I would go with the former.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
I mean, I think he's going to be a terrific
schematic coach. Will he be able to bridge the gap
in the talent level that you see between like the
very top programs in college football and kind of the
mid tier ones.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
We'll see.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
But I mean, you know, nobody is better at taking
a collection of people. Nobody's been better over the past
twenty five years at taking a collection of talent and
turning it into a real team. And there's no reason
to think he can't do that at the college level
and actually have a lot of fun doing it.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I know you have a book coming out, and it's
what American King's a biography of the quarterback available now
for pre order that'll be coming out this next September.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Don't worry, I'll bug you. You'll know.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Okay, Okay, at what point do you start working on
your Belichick North Carolina book?
Speaker 6 (12:26):
Oh? Man, do we do we really have to go there.
I mean, are my bosses listening right now?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I got the title chapel bill, I mean.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
We I might I might pass that on to our friend,
right Thompson. I might just let him do it.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
I don't think Belichick would want right Thompson to go
in and do a deep dive on his personality, you
know how right.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
I'm not sure Thompson is.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
I'm not sure he wants to see either of us there.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah, great stuff. Really enjoyed the column. Thank you, Seth,
and we'll talk to you next year with this book.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Always always great to see you, man.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Seth Wickersham, ESPN Senior writer and new book coming out
next year called American Kings, a biography of the quarterback,
available for pre order. I was surprised at other universities
didn't reach out, and they kept it quiet. And then
all of a sudden, all interview with North Carolina. I
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thought he was doing the athletic director of favor I
really did, or a chancellor, president, board of trustees. Hey
my dad coached there. Hey all I'll fake interest in this.
And then all of a sudden it was his second interview.
I go, uh, you got a second interview, and I
said to Paulie, I said, we gotta change our approach this.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
I said, this is real now.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
And then I reached out to a source and he said, no,
Bill is one of five candidates. And he read off
some of the candidates. You had Armies coach Monkin. You
had Tommy Reese who was at Alabama then he's now
with the Cleveland Browns. There were I think two other
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coaches who Tulane's head coach was in there as well.
So my sour said, no, there's a real and I
go I said to Paulie, I said, hey, we gotta
we gotta approach like this is going to happen.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
Yes, what's crazy about the like, say, Tommy Reese, the
North Carolina job is very attainable for someone like Tommy
Rees very attainable.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
And then Bill Belichick swoops in. You're like, dude, really
got this.
Speaker 8 (14:33):
This was my gig.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
This was the one that I was gonna do.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Now you got to So Tommy Reese was at Notre
Dame and then he was at Alabama. So he was
with Brian Kelly, then Nick Saban, and he thought he
was going to get, you know, another job. Now he's
with the quarterbacks coach, I think with the Browns, and
he was, you know, maybe next in line to get
this job at North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
And it's like, who did I lose out to Belichick?
Speaker 9 (14:59):
Bill?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Hey, Steven Belichick?
Speaker 10 (15:01):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Bill?
Speaker 6 (15:02):
What?
Speaker 11 (15:03):
Well?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I guess technically both of them. Yeah, you're getting both.
You're getting both, yes, Bauli.
Speaker 8 (15:07):
It's like back in college when you're at a bar
and you're talking to a girl and you're doing some
good work and then all of a sudden comes the
six or four quarterback guy. Come on, just cut me
a break, man.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Or you go to the bathroom and then you come
back and somebody's chatting her up. You're like, excuse me,
squeeze me, never go to the bathroom.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
Yeah, that when you're flowing no fun intention.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Oh oh okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
When we come back update the poll results, we'll talk
to the former NFL coach Ron Rivera get his thoughts
not only on Bill Belichick, but also what happened in
the game that he was calling last night with Deveandre
Campbell walking off. What would he have done or what
would he do if he was his head coach. We'll
take a break. We're back after this. Fox Sports Radio
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He is Ron rivera former NFL head coach, won a
Super Bowl as a linebacker for the Bears, and was
on the call last night west Wood Won Radio. NFL
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analysts the Rams and the Niners coach. Great to have
you back on. How would you sum up what happened
to the Niners last night?
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Well, I think what's really happened to Niners is they're
losing the battle of attrition. You go back and look
at all the injuries that they've had to sustain, they
honestly are shell and who they were last season, they
really are. I mean what they've tried to do in
terms of, you know, win football games with a limited roster.
You know, credit to them for trying. Credit for the
coaches to have doing the best they could. But what
you've also saw is you've seen the Rams getting healthy
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at the right time. And I think that's one of
the really big keys for this football team is the
Rams are playing good, solid football, especially on the offensive side.
Defense is starting to come together. Got a good young
group of guys that are really contributing on the defensive side,
and the young coordinator's done some pretty neat things. As
far as Chris Shuler was concerned, last night, I thought
he matched Kyle pretty well.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
How dangerous are the Rams if they get into the playoffs?
Speaker 4 (17:08):
I think it would be very dangerous because I think
they're young enough to not know with just enough veteran
leadership that's been there before, especially with Matthew Stafford, I
think that's what makes them dangerous. Plus, I think Sean
McVay is the heck of a football coach.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Would you pay rock perty the going rate for a quarterback, Oh, I'd.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Be a little bit concerned with it. You know, he's
a solid quarterback. He does some really good things. He
really is, to me and my estimation, a game manager.
And by that, I mean he's a guy that as
long as he protects the ball, takes care of the football,
and takes what's there for him, he'll be very, very efficient.
And he does have the ability to make plays when
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you need him to. Okay, And that's one of the
things that I really like about him. I thought last
night he pressed a little bit. I thought he did.
I thought he tried to be too pinpoint accurate instead
of just cutting the ball loose. A couple of times
he underthrew a couple of balls that should have been
could have been caught for big, big plays, and it
you know, it's one of those things that when you
don't have all your tools, all your weapons, you feel
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like you've got to make all the plays.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
The Niners window closing or closed.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Oh, I think it's I really just think, you know,
the hard part for them is they've gone to three
straight NFC championships. There's been three very long years for them,
and I just think it's caught up to him a
little bit. I think as far as being retooled for
next season, and that really that's what they're looking at.
You got to be looking to start looking ahead, you
really do. You got to look at how are we
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going to get this corrected, how are we going to
rebuild this? You know, what's going to take to get
these guys back on the football field. For the most part,
when you look at the guys that they just didn't
have this year.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Available, when did you realize something was up with Devandre
Campbell When he was walking off the field.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
When he was walking off the field, I just trying
to figure out, okay, wait a minute, and it didn't
dawn on me that he hadn't played yet and he
had been there and I think he's our second leading
tackler for the year. And I think that was a
really tough foot pill to swallow, because you know, for
the most part, you know, you do the things you did,
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you have the year that you had, and they just
put Drey back in there. And I think that really
got to him a little bit.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
What would you do if you were coaching him in
the moment.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Well, in the moment, if I see him start walking up,
as as a coach, I'd have called him over. I've
talked to him before he left.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
But if he says he doesn't want to go in,
which I think Kyle said that he told him to
go in for Dre and then he says he didn't
want to play.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Well, then there's obviously an issue. I didn't hear that part,
but yeah, I'd have an issue like that right now.
I mean, to me, that's conduct detrimental. You're gonna have
to sit down and have a really long, long discussion
with him. Uh, it's you know, It's one of those
things that you got to understand in this game, the
way this game's played, you got to do it was
best for the team, and at that point they just
thought that that was was best for the team.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
But I wonder, is this a must cut situation if
you're the head coach, Like, do you have to send
a message? I mean, you're over almost.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
You suspend them?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Just suspend them, Okay.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Because again at the end of the day and kind
of looking at where they are, Yeah, you can send
a message by cutting them. You can all send a
mention by suspending them for the rest of the season.
But at the end of the day, you can still
get value for him. He's a good player, He's shown
that he's capable suspend them trading.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
He's Ron rivera former NFL head coach and was on
the call last night Westwood one Radio NFL analyst. If
I gave you the Lions or the field in the NFC,
who would you take.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
I'd still take the Lions, I really would. They're a big,
physical football team. I think if there's one if there
is one one potential weakness that I see the Rams
have right now, it is it is their run defense.
I think that's a little bit of a soft spot
for them. They're still learning, still grow. There's a bunch
of young guys, and that's what it is. I love
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the mentality right now that the Rams have. I mean,
it is solid, it's stout, it's built around Sean. But
you can't deny what Dan Campbell has done. And it's
kind of interesting that he went for it on fourth
down and did it send a message to everybody else.
I think that that's one of the big things that
you sit there and you look at it. When all
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they had to do was kick the field go and
then play defense. He went to kill it, to take
the knife and twist it. That's pretty much what he
did well.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
The thing I would be concerned about when you say
that they're vulnerable to the run is you have Saquon
Barkley with the Eagles, and you got Josh Jacobs with
Green Bay, and then chances are you're going to be
seeing one of those teams, both of those teams. If
I gave you the Kansas City Chiefs or the rest
of the field in the AFC OH I'm.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Still going with the Chiefs. I really am the reason
I am more than anything else is in spite of
everything they've gone through this year, they still find a
way to win for the most part. The other reason,
more so anything else, is home field advantage. As long
as it goes through Kansas City. I'm sticking with Kansas City. Now.
If Buffalo had stayed kept pace with them, and then
somehow Buffalo had ended up with home field advantage, I
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would go with Buffalo. I think home field advantage the
FC is going to be very, very huge.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
How do you if you were going to explain to
somebody who had never seen Patrick Mahomes play, how would
you describe that?
Speaker 4 (22:33):
You know, he's he's slippery, he has a little bit
of wiggle and he and he has the ability to
make something out enough. He really does. And I think
that when you watch him do these things, you say,
how do you do?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
What was?
Speaker 4 (22:48):
And it's always to me about he understands where things are,
where people are, and that I think is one of
his superpowers as a quarterback is that when you understand
and know where people are supposed to be, if you're
in trouble, you can always get to that point. And
I do think some of the things that and he
designs always has that out for him somewhere. It's somebody
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that's curling on the backside that's coming back to the quarterback. Okay,
when quarterbacks look into his right, that X receiver is
running a comeback, and as soon as Patrick gets in trouble,
he just keeps coming back to Patrick to present that target.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Do you coach somebody like that less?
Speaker 4 (23:27):
No, I think you coach somebody like that more In
terms of information. You don't tell him, hey, do this
or this, They say, hey, this, just always understand that
if you're in trouble, this is where this guy is.
If you're always in trouble, you can look for the checkdown,
you can look for your tight end. Those are the
things I think that you coach more of in terms
of hey, these are the things that you do if
this happens. These are things you do if that happens.
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And it's interesting to watch because with Patrick you see
that and you see him go through his progression, seeing
the things that certain things are happening, and then he
turns and goes away from everything else.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Sarah quarterback that he reminds you.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Of, Wow, you know, Tom Brady had a little bit
of that, but he just he did what he did.
Tom didn't have his mobility, but he had that ability
to get to where he needed to get and throw
the ball there. That that I mean, that that's I
think it's really terrific. Joe Montana is another guy that
was under pressure. He was just cool and calm. You know,
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he's Joe cool. He really was. I mean, you you
see these these these these iconic quarterbacks who just in
the playoffs seem to be the guy that you want
on your team in a two minute drill to give
you a chance to win.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah, there's something about it there, but there's things that
aren't teachable, not coaching, like they just have something I
don't I don't know what that is, but they all
the great ones seem to have whatever that DNA is.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
You know, it's funny. I mean, I've heard Tom Brady
talk and and and when you listen to him talkic
it's really it's all about winning. It's all about being prepared
to win. And that's what I think. It is about
their preparation as always put them in position to be successful.
And that's some of the things that you hear about
Patrick Mahomes is the way he prepares. You listen to
when people talked about how Joe montana usoul to be prepared,
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you know, listening and watching some of the things that
Troy Aikman did about always being prepared, you know, those
are the things that I think really separate him. Is
not just what they do in the football field, but
what they do before they get on the football field. Well,
those are people that I think are highly successful.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
What was your reaction to Bill Belichick going to North Carolina.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
You know, on one hand, I think it's brilliant. I
was on Good Morning Football the other day and that
had come up and had just come across the wire
that he was in negotiations, and I thought, man, that's brilliant.
And he goes, what do you talk about? I said, well,
think about this with the direction college football's head. And
I don't know if you saw this some report that
there's some billionaires are talking about buying into college football teams. Well,
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if that's what's going to happen, you're looking at the
creation of what potentially could be truly the minor leagues
to the NFL. You get enough of these billionaires that
want to come in, and let's say you get thirty
two of them, they buy thirty two teams. Now, all
of a sudden, what.
Speaker 12 (26:07):
Do you have?
Speaker 4 (26:07):
You have a mini NFL. You've got two conferences, You've
got four divisions in each one of those conferences. You
set it up just like that. There's your feeder program
to the NFL. And Bill Belichick's getting in on the
on the top floor, apparently I'm seeing on the bottom
floor working his way up. Apparently, in my opinion, he's
working with somebody else. Somebody else has talked to him
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about doing that potentially. And again I'm just I'm just guessing.
But I think it was brilliant. I really do. I
think it's a new challenge for him. I mean, he's
you know, he's conquered pretty much everything you can in
the NFL, except for the total wins record, but for
the most part, when you win as many Super Bowls
as you had, have the success you've had, why not
try something different? Why do not I do something a little
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bit that isn't isn't expected?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Would you do it? You're ten years younger.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Personally. If the right situation came up, I probably would.
But I still have something to prove right now in
the NFL. So if the opportunity to go back and
do something in the NFL. I think I would do
that first.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Good to talk to you, coach, Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
All right, good talking Dan.
Speaker 12 (27:16):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
That's Ron rivera former NFL head coach now working for
Westwood one Radio as an NFL analyst. A couple of
phone calls in here Tom in South Carolina. Hi, Tom,
what's on your mind?
Speaker 13 (27:29):
Hello, mister Patrick five six one sixty. Been listening to
you for a very long time.
Speaker 9 (27:37):
And I'll just have a lot of respect for you
and h and the Danets, Seaton, Paulie, Marvin and Fritzy.
Speaker 14 (27:44):
I really do.
Speaker 9 (27:45):
I went to school a journalism school at the University
of South Carolina, so I and I've worked in radio
and some here in the stage, so I really appreciate
and respect what you guys do. I didn't really have
much to add when you were talking about Devondre Campbell
and stuff like that, but I just thought that was
just just really weak on his part and stuff like that.
Speaker 13 (28:08):
I can't speak on being an NFL player professional player,
but I'll say this. I played high school football, and
you know there were times that you know, I wasn't
a starter, but I wanted to quit and everything like that.
And because my parents and just my thought process, I
was like, I'm not going to do that to my teammates.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Yeah, but you can't. You can be upset, but you
can't quit. That's that's the problem.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Like if you want to be, you know, angry after
the game, quit after the game, but you can't quit
on your team. You might be quitting on your coach
after the game, angry at him, but you can't do
that to your teammates. And Drake Greenlaw worked all season
long recovering from a torn achilles in the Super Bowl
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to get that moment. Now what I have started him.
I understand why you want to start him because you
want him to have that moment. I probably would have
had him come in as opposed to starting him, but
I'm not in the situation. I'm only saying from a
standpoint of I want to ease him into the game.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
I don't want him to get too hyped up.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
And he was, and then he said, you know what,
my knee is starting to tighten up. I want to
come out of the game, and that's where you're going
to put in Campbell. And Campbell said, I don't want
to go in so he was pouting he quit on
his team. David in Ohio, Hi David, what's on your mind?
Speaker 5 (29:33):
Hey Daan?
Speaker 13 (29:33):
Having met Friday nobody, I got to comments, Okay, you.
Speaker 10 (29:37):
Think North Carolina we'll start selling hoodies with the fleaves
cut off, like go would wear.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Sure, and I didn't.
Speaker 13 (29:45):
I didn't know if maybe his girlfriend want to be
head cheerleader.
Speaker 10 (29:48):
I don't know if he gets talked about that.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Oh yeah, it's made its rounds too. A little later
on the joke though, there, David. Yeah, so I would
definitely sell Belichick hoodies. Sure. I don't know how cold
it's going to get during football season selling those those hoodies.
A little warm down there to start out in.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
September probably October probably got a lot of one o'clock games,
don't they they're noon games. I don't although they're probably
going to get some primetime games now. Yeah, I'm guessing.
Mike in Atlanta, Hi Mike, thanks for holding.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
What do you have for me?
Speaker 12 (30:24):
Hey?
Speaker 10 (30:25):
Dan?
Speaker 11 (30:25):
I think you should sell some some Dennette hoodies. Yeah
Dennette anyway, happy neat Friday. But the reason I'm calling
my dad just passed away a couple of days ago,
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and I live in Atlanta with my youngest brother, and
I've got poor siblings that.
Speaker 10 (30:53):
Live up in Minnesota. So it's funerals on Tuesday, and
so and myself, my three sons, and my brother his
two daughters are flying up on Monday, and we're thinking
about going to the Monday night football game. Is that
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appropriate or not?
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Well? I guess you.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
I don't know the situation. I mean, I would take
a vote here the consensus. But you know, you might say, well,
what would Dad think? I think that's usually where you
can say, hey, you know Dad would want us to go.
We can kind of say Dad would want me to have,
you know, a party where we brought in a keg.
(31:39):
Really yeah, I think so?
Speaker 8 (31:41):
Yeah, Paul, Yeah, you go to the game, you talk
about Dad, you commune together and have some fun.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
And buy some Dead Dad's T shirts Dead Dad's Club
T shirts.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Yes, I don't know.
Speaker 12 (31:53):
I don't know what the relationship is among the family
members with their dad.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
But oh, you don't know.
Speaker 12 (31:57):
I'm going to say. I'm going to say, the night
before you're burying your dad, the thought of like, why
don't we go to the Bears Vikings games? If we're
going to be in town. I don't know. That doesn't
separate with me.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
I like it. He's dead, Hey, go to the game. Yes,
you're hanging out together.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
It's either that or you sit around and you're moping
and you're, you know, weeping in your beer. Well, if
you're a got tickets, you're a Vikings fan and you
want to go see the game, go see the game.
That to me seems like you do something together and
have fun, have some laughs, have some beers. Like you
(32:36):
don't have to go to my funeral when I die, Tom,
how do like talking about that? But let's say you
had an opportunity to sing with Hall and Oates, or
you could go to my funeral.
Speaker 12 (32:46):
Now was it the night before or two nights before?
What's the space of time?
Speaker 2 (32:49):
But you're going it would be I'm thinking of primetime funeral,
prime time. I mean that's what I'm thinking, like under
the lights. So you either can go to my funeral
or you go to Hall of Notes. You're gonna you
get to see one song with hallo Notes. What are
you gonna do?
Speaker 12 (33:04):
I think you're not gonna believe me, probably, but I'm
gonna go to your service.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
And I don't believe you. You're right, Yes, Marvin can
Todd sing Hall of Notes at your funeral?
Speaker 12 (33:13):
Oh, there you go, there's a compromise.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Yes, yes, Darius will sing a song and you can
sing a song.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Who else sing your kiss?
Speaker 12 (33:26):
Was was on my list? Or something like that?
Speaker 3 (33:28):
It's kind of creepy. I'm like, I don't. I don't
think you should be singing that to me. I say,
you I hand in my pocket.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Uh you know, And Polly points out I'll be the
luckiest guy because I'll be dead, so I don't.
Speaker 13 (33:45):
Have to do that.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I'm now I am going to ask if Will Ferrell
could sing dust in the Wind Sandler with the Honkus song?
Speaker 12 (33:59):
Could I be a hallbearer? If I pass off on
doing the dial Hall John Notes thing, I could be
a hallbearer.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
No, remember you get you hurt your elbow playing whiffle ball.
Speaker 12 (34:09):
That is true. The last thing you wanted me all
something to get tilted.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
All of a sudden.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
You know, I come spilling out of the casket hardly
a play still won't play?
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Yeah, you still won't play wiffle ball?
Speaker 12 (34:20):
Am I right? Shoulders bother? I'm being totally honest.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
All right, let me take a break when we come back,
the most must win game of the weekend, and who
had the best week in sports?
Speaker 1 (34:30):
After this, be sure to catch the live edition of
The Dan Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six
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Speaker 2 (34:40):
How about the most moust win game of the weekend.
We'll have that for you coming out. If I look
at the best games this weekend, so Army and Navy,
Army Navy standalone game, then you have the Heisman ceremony
coming up on Saturday. Army is favored by I think
six and a half Bill's and the Lions.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
These are the uh what two of the four best
Super Bowl odds Super Bowl preview question Mark Bucks at
the Chargers. Okay, I'm gonna bring this up, and then
I'm going to be accused of jinxing things justin. Herbert
(35:27):
goes into the game against Tampa Bay having thrown three
hundred and thirty five passes without an interception, fifth longest
in league history. Aaron Rodgers holds the record of four
h two back in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
How stead of a day.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Stand of a day, stead of a day?
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Stella a day. This is the Stele of.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
The Day, brought you by Penned America. Also, my Rockets
face the Thunder. These are two teams one and two
in the Western Conference. Yes, to is that for the Cup?
Speaker 12 (36:08):
A Cup related event?
Speaker 2 (36:09):
It is a Cup related So it's the Cup?
Speaker 5 (36:11):
It is that.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
See that's sarcasm. That's a little start.
Speaker 12 (36:15):
I gotta watch because it's the Cup.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
College basketball Number eight Gonzaga against number eighteen Yukon. You know,
Yukon is still undefeated in the United States, aren't they
like the mainland that continental United States?
Speaker 3 (36:29):
Yes, the first forty eight.
Speaker 12 (36:31):
Yes, that's all us.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
They will not go to Hawaii again.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Well d never never never, all right, So uh, Yukon,
that's your that's your weekend.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
That's your that's your big weekend.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Slide into the weekend, King Zawaiian get together with family
and friends. Slider Sunday. Who had the best week in sports? Todd,
I'm going to start with you.
Speaker 12 (36:56):
I don't think it's going to go particularly well, but
I'm gonna say Bill Belichick. Okay, you guys don't. Oh,
I'm the NFL. I'm gonna put on my light blue,
my powder blue. I'm going to the seat.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Who had the best week in sports?
Speaker 7 (37:05):
I don't think it's Bill Belichick. I think it's North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Oh, good call, Yeah, Marvin jan Soda.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Oh, hard to think somebody had a better week financially,
unless it's like, I know, Elon Musk or who else
is Larry Ellison?
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Some of these guys, Paulie best week in sports.
Speaker 8 (37:31):
A gentleman named John P.
Speaker 12 (37:32):
Pryor.
Speaker 8 (37:33):
Who is John P.
Speaker 12 (37:34):
Pryor?
Speaker 8 (37:35):
He's the head of the board of trustees at UNC
and the man given a lot of credit for getting
Bill down there.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Yeah, I'm gonna agree, agree with Seaton, North Carolina had
the best week in sports because we're talking about North
Carolina football. Well, when you start to look at all
of the programs at North Carolina, like women's soccer always good,
lacrosse always good, basketball, always good, baseball, good football not
(38:01):
so much.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Now you got Belichick there, Yes.
Speaker 12 (38:06):
College football. As far as North Carolina, you only hear
about them during the NFL Draft. This guy's a top
five pick, are they? It was six and six.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
Yeah, you'd be like he played Carolina.
Speaker 14 (38:16):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Pat In Miami, Oh, No, pat In Mason, pat In Mason, Ohio.
Speaker 14 (38:25):
Yeah, can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Yes, I can.
Speaker 14 (38:26):
Pat six two two thirty. I just I just wanted
to say I think we were talking earlier about pro
and college coaches. You got a as a Buckeye fan.
I hate to say this, but you do have to
put horrorball in there.
Speaker 13 (38:42):
And then.
Speaker 14 (38:45):
Did I work at a brewery in downtown Mason, right
up the street from Saint Susannah, And I had the
pleasure of meeting your brother last week.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Oh, there's a few people nicer than my brother. He's uh,
he's one of the greats. Shout out to Mike. Yes,
he's a good man.
Speaker 14 (39:04):
Every two weeks on a Friday, and we always appreciate
his company. And I just thought that was really cool.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
All right, Well, thank you, Pat. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
They probably do their book club where they don't read
a book. They just go and drink. It's a great scam.
He's like, hey, yeah, we got this book club. I said, well,
what are you reading? He goes, oh, we're not reading.
He goes maybe a menu. Yes, who's your coolest brother,
Mike my oldest one? Well too quick on that answer,
Well coolest my oldest brother is my idol. My younger
(39:34):
brother is my coolest. I was going to say, yeah,
my brother Mike is He's rock solid. He's like Jimmy Stewart.
You know, he just good, good dude. Nobody says a
bad word about him.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
My trick hair, my ri Mari Adio, what's my trick air?
Speaker 6 (39:50):
There?
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Sae?
Speaker 12 (39:51):
What's an hour?
Speaker 2 (39:54):
Dylan Gabriel, Oregon quarterback, will join us, coming up next hour.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
More of your phone calls as well.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
It's a it's a Friday, and we are treated to
Friday fritzy today.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
You were in rare form.
Speaker 12 (40:08):
Pot roast coming up? Yeah, mashed potatoes.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
Are you doing your mic goalie impersonations?
Speaker 1 (40:13):
What was that?
Speaker 3 (40:13):
Weight Watchers?
Speaker 5 (40:15):
He was chocolate.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
Didn't have pot roast.
Speaker 12 (40:16):
And still lose weight. How's that possible?
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Potros Yes, we're having pot roast today on our meat Friday.
All right, two hours in the books, one more to
go on this Friday. We're back after this
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