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

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Speaker 2: Hope you had a great weekend. Everybody. Gang's all here, ready to go. The lovely and talented Fritzie and his Bronco gear after a big win. Congratulations Toddler, Go Broncos. That didn't sound enthusiasmical, Broncos. There you go.

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Speaker 3: Have We got the Jets next in London. We better win that one too.

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Speaker 2: Uh. Seaton's here, Marv, Paul yours truly in the backroom, guys, A lot of things to dissect today. Last night, if you went to bed, you're not alone, Patriot, well you might have been alone. Patriots over the Bills, Surprise, surprise. Drake May looks like he's ready for the spotlight. The Commanders quietly handled the Chargers. I watched a lot of that game, and I kept waiting for the Chargers to be that new and improved Chargers. Give credit to the Commanders and the Buccaneers. You know, don't turn the game off at final two minutes. You know, that's when the Bucks seemed to pull out all of these wins as they beat the Seahawks in a shootout.

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Speaker 4: Colts.

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Speaker 2: I still believe that the Colts are a playoff team. They rolled the Raiders. The Raiders may have a decision to make a quarterback. The Saints gotta win. About Spencer Rattler? Yay, beat the g Men, the Texans over the Ravens. We'll talk about that game and a little bit. And the Titans won. Yeah, well, no, that's Arizona lost. Titans didn't win. Arizona lost. Baseball Toronto up two to zero, when the Yankees, Tigers and Mariners tighter to game, the piece Brewers up one zero, when the Cubs Dodgers up one. Oh, in the Phillies tonight, you have the Dodgers at the Phillies, Cubs at the Brewers, and the Chiefs and the Jaguars. I got the Chiefs favored by three and a half. All right, Seaton Poll question for hour one is going to be.

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Speaker 5: Well, we got to populate this one because, as we usually start off on Mondays, who had the worst weekend? Oh, there's a lot of candidates here, Okay, I mean we could start with, well, Kyler Murray didn't have a great weekend, didn't have the worst weekend.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm not gonna blame him. I'm gonna be oh he did. After the game, he was kind of like stumbling around trying to figure out what exactly happened. I mean, the odds are incredible when you look at the possibility. Okay, I've got the numbers here. Let's see, Arizona gave up a twenty one to three lead and they lost. They've lost three games now, and they did it in such dramatic fashion that so they've lost three straight games on game winning field goals, the first team to do that since the merger in nineteen seventy. They go even further than that. Teams that had by twenty two points or more in the fourth quarter were one two hundred and seventy six to one over the last twenty five seasons to close out win. So some pretty impressive numbers there for Arizona as they stumbled, bumbled, fumbled their way to giving the Titans a win.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Paul, if you're not watching that game and you see the Democado the running back fumble, he's going into the end zone.

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Speaker 7: I think it was like a seventy yard run.

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Speaker 6: He's going to close out that, you know, put them in a lead that they can't come back up from, and he just lays the ball down to this is a guy who's a bounce around running back. He's kind of a backup who's having a nice year. He's got four career touchdowns, he doesn't have forty, and he just lays it down. I mean, what does a coach do in a situation like that in game and after the game?

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Speaker 2: Oh, after the game, I think gets a long talk and then you know, you start to figure out if you're gonna have playing time reduced. I mean, you do need him. He did have a seventy five yard run. He has the ability. But whatever happened to when Emmett Smith would score a touchdown, he'd take the football and take it over to the sidelines and give it to the trainer and he would write down, you know this touchdown came on this day, and that would be it. He would keep all of his footballs. I don't know what's going on now where you just get to the front door and it's like you're dropping off a newspaper and then you're gonna leave. But that was embarrassing. They also had an interception that turned into a touchdown with Tyler Lockett. I mean, you want to talk about a way to lose a game that is up there in NFL history. Congratulations you did at Arizona and the Titans got a victory. The Jets are winless. You know, I keep waiting for culture. We're big on culture. You know, we talk about culture and guys, you know, Aaron Glenn's gonna come over and he was with the Lions. He knows about culture. But after the loss to the Cowboys, he was asked this question.

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Speaker 4: Five straight games without a takeaway. That's historic, has never been done before.

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Speaker 7: That's true.

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Speaker 8: And well, I don't know if it's true or not, but I just know this that we haven't taken the ball away. And that's one thing you guys are going to hear me say. It's not giveaways, it's not turnovers. You have to take the ball away.

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Speaker 4: That's what you do.

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Speaker 8: As a defense. There has to be the mentality of defense that we have to go and get it because no one's going to give it to us. And we have to be intentional about that too. So we emphasize it, we attack it, we go through it. But man, you just have to show up. We got to keep doing it. We can't just sit back and say, Okay, we're.

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Speaker 3: Not getting them.

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Speaker 8: You know, we have to continue to try and emphasize it and hopefully at some point, Man, they're going to come in bunch for us.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Maybe I'm not expecting a big turnaround. Didn't expect it. Jets fans probably aren't expecting it either. But you do want to see positive signs. You want to go, okay, we can build on that. Whenever I see a bad team, I always want to know what are they building on the coach, the enthusiasm, the quarterback, the defense, whatever it is. I'm waiting to find out exactly what that is for the Jets.

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Speaker 9: Yes, Marvin, but if you're a Jets fan, you're over that because you know what, the Jets have guys everywhere. It's not like they have a bunch of minimum wage guys. They have really good players on every level. They shouldn't be zero to five.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but are they overrated because they play in New York? They're the Jets that you know, maybe the media focuses a little bit more on the New York teams because you're right, Sauce Gardner is supposed to be great or Quinnon Williams. I mean, they're supposed to have guys who are great Garrett Wilson, like they're supposed to be. I just I don't know if they are. There are times when you get glimpses where you go, man, that guy's good, and then they disappear. But you know, this is it's been a really interesting NFL season so far. Statistically, do you realize that there have been fourteen games where somebody has scored forty or more points. That's the most through the first five games of any season since nineteen sixty six.

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Speaker 2: The Day, brought to you by Panini America, the official trading cards for the Dan Patrick Show. I'm not sure what the number means, but you have offenses who are piling up some points, but then it feels like you got some teams that are kind of mailing it in that Ravens loss. I mean, even with Lamar Jackson, they're not winning that game, but forty four to ten, and then you start to look at the numbers that the Ravens have been giving up forty one, thirty eight, thirty seven, forty four. You're not beating anybody, by the way. North Carolina with Bill Belichick and their losses forty eight, thirty four and thirty eight. They're both giving up an average of forty points per game, the Ravens and North Carolina.

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Speaker 3: That's not gonna get it done.

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Speaker 2: Dan, Thank you, Todd, Thank you, Todd. All righty eight seven seven three DP show operator sitting by Tyler will take your phone calls. Any other poll question, Seaton, Why.

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Speaker 5: Don't we stick with this one for a minute. Who had the worst weekend you could look at? We're going to jump around from sports here, but James Franklin did not have a great weekend.

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Speaker 2: He did not.

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Speaker 3: He did not.

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Speaker 5: Penn State. That is a humiliating defeat.

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Speaker 2: No offense to new Heizel's Sun had a really good weekend. He's the new offensive coordinator at UCLA, and they might have stumbled upon something there with Jerry who called a really good game.

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Speaker 6: Yes, Paul, So, Penn State loses to Oregon in overtime last week. That's acceptable, that's a high end loss, as we say, But to be down twenty seven to seven at halftime UCLA with nobody in the building basically, you know, maybe twenty thousand out of seventy thousand seats, and they can't close it at the end. They can't finish at the end. The only way this is a good thing is if you're a Penn State fan who is not like your current head coach, a game like this can help you get a new head coach someday, someday soonish.

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Speaker 2: This is where I hope you enjoy that big ten schedule where you get to go all the way out to California to play a game. You know, you look at these teams where they're going cross country and it didn't used to be this way, but that's the way of now. I'm not saying that's why they lost, but you're going out to UCLA and all of a sudden you have a long flight back with a big loss.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Paul, and Penn State's got some toughies later this month. They are at Ohio State and host Indiana later this month.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Penn State, Texas, North Carolina, Ravens, Eagles, Cardinals, Chargers, Raiders. There's a lot of candidates to put on the poll question today, Seaton.

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Speaker 5: There are there are a lot of candidates, for sure. How about the New York Yankees.

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Speaker 2: Good grief giving up a lot of runs there with Toronto many many runs. Yeah. In fact, vlad Guerrero hit a grand slam and it sounded like this.

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Speaker 11: Righty's two to one swinging a deep drive let field.

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Speaker 3: That ball is soaring outa here blood land slam.

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Speaker 11: Pitch yourself all you want. You will not wake up from this dream. Right now, the Blue Jays leap nine nothing on a Vladimir Carrero Junior grand slam.

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Speaker 2: On the other side of this, this is how the Yankees called vlad Guerrero Junior the third's grand slam.

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Speaker 12: You on pitch he did deep drive, left field grand slam.

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Speaker 10: Well, they can't get Vladimir Berrero out and that one, as Weethas said, it's not optimal to have to pitch the flatty with the bases loaded.

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Speaker 2: That's the Yankees call, and I applaud Dave Simms's call. There's no it might be it could now if the Yankees had done that, then you're gonna dress it up a little bit. You're gonna be like it might be it could be. You know, that was just uh he did it and then silence. Yes, Marvin, I.

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Speaker 9: Had to shorten that clip because I counted there was silence for twenty one seconds.

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Speaker 2: Oh, they said nothing Grant like that. That's called laying out in the business. Let it breathe. Yes, Tom, can you be a homer?

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Speaker 3: I guess the other way, like Dave Simmons just did.

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Speaker 13: It's one thing to get all extra excited when something good happens, but to totally downplay.

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Speaker 3: It with something negative against your team. Habit was a grand slam.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, but you know, I know you want, I know, I understand that, and everyone's listening and you know you're they're all bummed. But that that just was really like, it's still an exciting moment in the game. I'm not saying be raw rah, but I think you can be a homer in the other direction when something negative happens, like Aaron Rative's grand slam.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no. If he's working for a network, I understand that, but he's not. I mean he's working for the Yankees.

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Speaker 13: I mean, I'm supposed to be really cheering or booing even if you're the home team call on.

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Speaker 2: I don't think he did either. Yeah. See that is madness to me.

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Speaker 5: I would hate listening to you that the person doing the home caller, like your team's call, is supposed to be right there with you. They should in my opinion anyway, Like I don't want to be like, hey, sucks for our team, but that was a hell of a shot. You got to give it to him. That was a hell of a cut. Good job by you, but not great for the hell No, dude, I don't want to hear that.

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Speaker 2: Todd when the Broncos lost to the Colts and you came in Paldie face. How would you like it if the Broncos play by play guy was like, oh, it's unbelievable that leverage call.

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Speaker 3: I would expect the announcer to be very bummed about it.

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Speaker 13: But I think there's got to be a little bit of a happy medium as opposed to total excitement of total.

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Speaker 2: You are the Homer of Homer's Marvin played again. Here's Dave Simms on the Yankees call with flag roil.

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Speaker 3: Do you want Pitt?

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Speaker 12: He did big drive left filf Grand Slam, So what.

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Speaker 4: Do you want him to do?

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Speaker 3: Tell a Grand Slam home run at a playoff game.

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Speaker 13: It's it's a big moment, I know what to get to your team.

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Speaker 3: It certainly shouldn't sound positive, but we're not.

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Speaker 2: Going to have a left lane situation with this.

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Speaker 3: I think there's a gray air. It's not that black and white to me. If you're you know, it's in the broadcast booth Grand Slam Blue Jays, and it's not looking good for the Yankees. I'm just jumping a little more upbeat, but.

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Speaker 2: Not the glad shocked. I'm shocked that you don't understand the hometown announcers job. I'm shocked. I am. I'm more shocked at this than you in the left lane the passing.

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Speaker 3: Wow, let's say something.

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Speaker 2: I I am I more shocked at this that you want you want him to be up a little bit action.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if up is the you're still calling the actor.

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Speaker 2: It's a Grand Slam of the playoff game, yes, Marvin.

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Speaker 9: But Dave Simms is a representative of the fans in a way. Do you think if you're a Yankee fan, oh man, it was a heck of a call. He feels just like everybody else feels, that's rooting for the Yankee.

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Speaker 3: Maybe I feel the play.

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Speaker 13: By play person supposed to call it as you see it, and the analyst is the one that goes like that sucks on a network.

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Speaker 6: Maybe, yes, PAULI I think Dave Simms' job is to call it objectively, but his tone has to match the broadcast that he's doing, which is the Yankee broadcast. So he didn't go, oh man, they jobbed us. He didn't do one of those where he slanted. He just gave the tone of the fan.

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Speaker 7: Oh it's Cardinals, right, it's got to be the Cardinals.

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Speaker 15: I mean, you have a chance to go U twenty eight to six on probably the worst team in the NFL at home and Dan, Look, this is one of my pet peeves and I'm sure it's one of yours too. How many times do we need to have something like this happen where they dropped the football before they reached the goal and like carry it in with two hands. We've already had a couple times this year carry it in with two hands, hand it to the ref like you're in grade school, and celebrate your team instead, it's just it's just air after air after air, And looked at last three games the Cardinals have lost by I combine five points and three walk off field goals, and I mean the cam Ward, the cam Mord interception turned touchdown to It was just a litany of errors, but there's no doubt in my mind it's got to be the Cardinals.

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Speaker 2: Yesterday, Eagles lose to the Broncos, and it feels like there's been some issues there. I touched on this three weeks ago. It felt like something was off. They were winning, but they were it was taking some you know, some spectacular plays and all of a sudden that offense isn't clicking like we thought it was going to. What are you seeing?

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Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean, look, the defenses are stacking the box against Jalen Hurts and they're they're definitely not letting Saquon Barkley get to two thousand yards like they did last year. And at times in the season when that has happened and defenses has dared throw Jalen Hurts to throw the football down the field, he hasn't been accurate at all. Now times they're yes, like yesterday's game, he's been extremely accurate and it's looked really really good.

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Speaker 7: That's sort of the issue here.

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Speaker 15: And look, they're they're four and one, right, and they've beaten three of the teams that I think are like top five in the NFL.

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Speaker 7: They've beaten the Chiefs, theyve beaten the Rams, and they've beaten the Bucks, Like those teams are really elite teams.

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Speaker 15: They've done it defensively, and they've done it in spurts of offensive prowess. They're not motioning as much as they were last year with Kellen Moore. I'm not sure. I'm still trying to get a beat on their offense. It just there's no consistency there. And they have ten of eleven starters back. They should be a lot better. And look, I've been one of the bigger critics on Jalen Hurts, and when he looks good, he looks good, and when he looks bad, it just isn't clicking. And he's a very streaky type player. I'm not gonna say this season reminds me of two years ago, I think when they started ten to zero then really faltered down the stretch. But there are some signs offensively to what it was like two years ago where they faltered down the stretch. But I just I think they still have the best team in the NFL. I still think they have the best roster.

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Speaker 7: In the NFL.

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Speaker 15: I would just go more so a signature win for Sean Payton more so than like damning loss to the Eagles.

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Speaker 2: You've got Drake May going into Buffalo and pulling out a win. And I know that you break down these quarterbacks, but I'm curious, is what we're seeing with Drake May real?

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Speaker 7: It's absolutely real.

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Speaker 15: And look, I've broken him down quite a bit last year, quite a bit this year. It was about halfway through him starting last year, once he actually got onto the field that he started playing really well. And then get with Josh McDaniels and and the offense.

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Speaker 7: Has looked really, really good.

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Speaker 15: Look, if you're not following him from a national standpoint, you are now because this is what Drake May has done every single game. But it's now on for the national audience and twenty five million people to see. So he's gonna start getting his flowers nationally. But it's looked this good. And he did some and this is sort of crazy to say, but he did some Josh Allen type stuff playing Josh Allen and he's not quite the runner that Josh Allen is. But when he escapes the pocket like I don't know if I've seen a better quarterback this year escaping pocket and making some stuff happen like he did. And so I just think the national audience is sort of waking up for it.

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Speaker 7: But he's been playing. He's been playing this good all season long.

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Speaker 2: The Chargers game, the Commanders were the better team. That wasn't a fluke. But I'm it feels like I'm always critical of the Chargers. But yeah, I'm sorry, I'm always critical of the Chargers.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean, look the jayde Daniels coming back, I think it really helped him. And that's a really good defense at home with the Chargers, And you know, the first two games of the year, man, I thought I was on the Chargers bandwagon.

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Speaker 7: I played for the charge.

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Speaker 15: I know, justin Herbert personally, and he's playing like an MVP through two games.

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Speaker 7: And then you sort of come back down to Earth.

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Speaker 15: You lose to the Giants and you lose to the Commanders back to back NFC East losses, and it just doesn't look good.

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Speaker 7: I still think their defense is really good.

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Speaker 15: But there's a play and a stretch that really sort of lost them the game, and it was justin Herbert.

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Speaker 7: He had a guy open.

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Speaker 15: Quentin Johnson in the end zone on a crossing route, missed it. He ends up throwing a Keenan Allen back gets like, you know, knocked away, and then the very next play it's an interception. And it just seems like that offensive line with multiple injuries, just cannot stand up. And they really want to be and it's crazy to say this, that they really want to be a throwing team with harball and if they can't hold up in the pocket and if they get from behind, that's really difficult for them to come from behind and win.

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Speaker 7: But I thought the.

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Speaker 15: Commanders, I mean, I didn't think the Commanders were going to go in there and win.

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Speaker 7: But you know, it is what it is any any given Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Chase Daniel ESPN, NFL and College football analyst. I know you've been very excited Dak Prescott, You've been very well, But you were talking about how great he's been playing. Yeah, and that granted it's against the Jets, but still, what are you seeing that it is and he doesn't even have CD Lamb in there, So what is it about Dak's performance that you've seen that you expect to continue.

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Speaker 7: I think bullish would be the word right.

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Speaker 15: And the one thing for me is I'm a technician when it comes to quarterback plays, so I don't really look.

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Speaker 4: At box scores.

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Speaker 15: I like to watch the film and I like to try and pick out certain plays or moments within the game that you are controlling the football. Game stats are misleading sometimes, Oh, let me throw the football down the field.

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Speaker 7: We can do this. The way Dak's.

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Speaker 15: Doing and playing right now, it's at an extremely high level. It's really at a level I've never seen him play because Brian Schottenheimer, who's calling plays and also the head coach, he puts.

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Speaker 7: A lot on him at the line of scrimmage.

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Speaker 15: So Dak is consistently and constantly changing plays to get into a new play that's working.

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Speaker 7: And I just haven't seen him do a lot this offense.

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Speaker 15: The way they're sequencing plays, meaning, hey, they're calling twenty one personnel, but that makes it look like eleven personnel. They're in twenty two personnel down the goal line, but they're throwing it. It just makes sense on what an NFL type offense looks. They're using motion at an extremely high rate. There's a lot of shifts. There's a lot of motions, and at every single turn, Dak Prescott's been in control. And look, he's missing his four starting offensive lineman, he's missing his number one receiver, and he's missing his number three receiver. Like, I don't think this Dallas team is a good team. Do I think they can make the playoffs and win ten games? Maybe the defense is improving, but it was against the Jets.

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Speaker 7: I give you that, But if you just really look more.

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Speaker 15: Than the stats and the box score, I just like the way he's playing the position of quarterback and he's.

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Speaker 7: Been doing it all year long.

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Speaker 2: The Baker Mayfield resurgence here from last year and this year. And I don't know, since you played the position, the importance of the quarterback in the final two minutes or the coach if you were going to say, I'm going to give a little bit more credibility to a coach or the quarterback. Because Baker and Tampa Bay again in the final drive, final two minutes, you're winning games. And that's not a coincidence. No, And he's only thrown one interception.

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Speaker 15: He's thrown ten touchdowns this year, thrown for a ton of yards. I think he's second or third in the NFL and passing yards, but it's got to be the quarterback in two minute drives because I've been with some really good quarterbacks and I've been with some not so good quarterbacks. The good quarterbacks and two minute drills they called their own place. Like I remember when I was with Breeze and two minute drills.

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Speaker 7: He's one of the.

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Speaker 15: Best of all time, and just watching him operate two minutes and Sean's like, go, Drew's like running out to the field for a two minute drive and Sewan's like, hey, you got it, meaning.

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Speaker 7: You're calling the whole series. Now. I'm not sure if Baker's doing it of that, but it's the coach has the easy job.

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Speaker 15: It's like, hey, one play, and there's a set amount of plays that you run in two minutes unless you're huddling on third down or red zone. So there's a menu of ten plays and Baker has just owned those and all four wins have come in two minute drives.

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Speaker 7: And I do think.

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Speaker 15: That that sort of callous as a team that gets a team sort of rolling in the right direction. And I just think in general, like you have to start talking Baker Mayfield for MVP. Just look at his stats, look at what he's done, look at what he's meant to this team, and they have not been fully healthy either. I just think it's been an extremely cool situation for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

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Speaker 2: And he has that personality that you know, it's almost like he invites that drama, like he wants it. That nothing seems to be too big for him. And yeah, I think that has to go. Like you can't go out there and go like, uh, I don't know, you know, good luck, guys. You need that guy who gets in the huddle takes charge, and that's certainly Baker. The Chiefs getting you know, Xavier Worthy back seem like that unlocked a lot of different things options for them. Is that the only thing with the Chiefs that you're seeing offensively that is changing them, making them a little more threatening.

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Speaker 15: Well, they got under center, they ran the football, they're in twelve personnel, they're in twenty one personnel, and that's something that they really haven't tried to do this year. And then I do think though the catalyst is Xavier Worthy. I do think what he's doing is opening up the field. And look, they haven't had a snap, and I know it's been talked about they haven't had a snap with she Rice Hollywood Brown and Xavier Worthy on the field at all.

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Speaker 7: And so my whole thing was like, Hey, if the Chiefs can just.

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Speaker 15: Get to three and three, if they can get to three and three through six games, because they have some tough games coming up, they're gonna be just fine. But I just have never really understood, like, hey, especially early this season, Hey, the Chiefs they suck.

00:26:38
Speaker 7: They're not that good, and there's been that.

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Speaker 15: I'm like, Okay, you still have the best quarterback in the entire world.

00:26:44
Speaker 4: You still have Travis Kelcey.

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Speaker 7: Who can do it.

00:26:46
Speaker 15: I think that offensive line has short up a little bit more. But Xavier Worthy, when you have a weapon like that, it's not Tyreek kill esque for the Chiefs, but it does open up the short pass game. It does open up the run game, because when you saw Xavier Worthy last week, the defense was in two I safeties and Dan, you know you're really smart, but if you're in two I safeties, there's one less guy in the box, You're gonna run the football. And look, I just don't want Patrick Mahomes to continue to be the leading rusher on the team, so someone else has to step up for that, but it definitely helps.

00:27:20
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be the guy who says, can you explain the twenty two personnel and the twenty one personnel and the twelve personnel and the eleven personnel?

00:27:29
Speaker 3: Yeah?

00:27:29
Speaker 15: Absolutely so, Dan, when we're saying twelve personnel, the first or any personnels, the first digit talks to the amount of running backs in the game, So twelve personnel want the one one running back. The second digit always talks to the amount of tight ends in your group. So twelve personnel is one back, two tight ends, and you need five skill players. Dan, So how many receivers is that two?

00:27:57
Speaker 2: Right?

00:27:58
Speaker 15: And then so if you go twenty two personnel, which is like it just means heavy personnel, it's two running backs, two tight ends, and only one receiver. There's also thirteen personnel, which I think the Chiefs do a good bit of one back, three tight ends, and I think you're sort of seeing a resurgence of these heavier personnels.

00:28:17
Speaker 7: Just talking about trends overall.

00:28:19
Speaker 15: In the National Football League, because so many teams play just nickel defense, so they have five defensive backs on the field at all times rather than four defensive linemen three linebackers.

00:28:30
Speaker 7: And so when teams are.

00:28:32
Speaker 15: Playing nickel personnel five dbs even to twenty two personnel, two backs, two tight ends, you're seeing teams run the football a lot more because teams are so sick and tired of guys just sitting back in two high safety looks and saying, hey.

00:28:46
Speaker 7: Try to throw the ball over ahead. They're just like, we can't do it.

00:28:50
Speaker 15: And that's why I think you're seeing a resurgence of the play action pass under center game as well. So these are the trends I'm seeing. I hope I explained it good enough.

00:28:58
Speaker 2: You did. And I've been saying for years that eventually you're going to have an offense that's gonna be all power. They're gonna go, they're gonna run it down your throat because everybody's playing that prevent defense and you got, you know, quicker guys, not beefier guys up front. And now you're seeing that with Saquon Barkley. I mean, you're seeing the resurgence in running the football there. So thank you for that explanation. I think, yeah, of course. Yeah. And when you do games on TV just make sure that you speak our language, not your language.

00:29:30
Speaker 15: Yes, you know, you guys are really smart, and so I just figured that the audience of the Dan Patrick Show knew that. But yeah, that's good advice on TV because I do try to. You know, the best advice I got so far was from Kirk Kirtre. He's like, hey, call game like your mother in law's watching. I was like, oh, okay, Like if you want to say cover two, that's great. Just explain what cover two means. And so that's been great advice. But you guys, come on, you know that.

00:29:57
Speaker 2: Well, no, we're not good because I could have gone through this entire segment and acted like I knew with the twelve person.

00:30:03
Speaker 7: I saw you laughing when I said that.

00:30:06
Speaker 15: But I'm glad like I have, Like that's sort of what I try to do on my YouTube page too.

00:30:10
Speaker 7: I try to like explain some stuff like that for the average football fan.

00:30:14
Speaker 2: Well, you know when we throw out a gap and all of that stuff, and you know.

00:30:18
Speaker 15: Just that's a little that's a little much the a gap that was the gap between the center and the guard.

00:30:22
Speaker 2: Just so you know, oh yeah, I know that. I was when I was running the quarterback sneak. I went a gap all the time, all the time. Have fun on Wednesday night, and remember just explaining you don't don't you don't have to talk wall to wall. Tick your spots, be your brilliant self and enlighten people on some things.

00:30:47
Speaker 15: I will, yeah, you know, I've actually I like to talk a little bit. But I felt like they're in the broadcast that if you let it breathe a little bit the the atmosphere and you don't have to fill every single spot you do those.

00:31:01
Speaker 2: Words, and so do not go wall to wall. Make sure that you don't talk too much because you're play by play guy still has to do his job. It's just you're punching. You're just hitting, hitting, hitting, You know that that's what you do. Hit and then get out hit.

00:31:18
Speaker 15: Who do you think the best analyst is in the NFL right now? Or who do you enjoy listening to?

00:31:29
Speaker 2: You know? I like Olson a want yea. Herbie has kind of opened my eyes and ears a little bit more because he I'm still amazed when the play happens. And then you come back and then you have to you have to, you know, basically decide this is what happened, you're gonna describe it. I'm like goll Lee, I never saw that, and I think that's what's amazing when you see you know, if Romo went at his peak or Collinsworth Herbie. I mean, there's a lot of good analysts, but the great ones. The great ones give you enthusiasm nuggets. They're smart, they're to the point, they get out and it makes it a crisper broadcast. So that's I'm gonna would be this one's yes, yes, I'll be more happy to critique you on it.

00:32:20
Speaker 7: Please, I need you know what.

00:32:21
Speaker 15: Here's the thing too, I know you guys gotta go, but old ex players at play, we like to be coached, and so much of the fact that, at least what I've heard from broadcast analysts, we don't get coached because it's so subjective, Like you can think something's awesome and then my boss thinks something stinks. But overall, I feel like there's a good feel for what a broadcast should look and feel like. And so I think that's the hard thing about being an analyst is like everyone likes something different, but I'm just gonna be true to myself at the end.

00:32:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think Aikman got to this point where he didn't give a bleep, like he's just gonna call the game, and I think that changed with Troy. He's just like, Hey, this is it. And I love that because I don't want you to be holding to anybody playing favorites. I just want you to call the game. But yeah, Wednesday night, all right. I didn't expect that I would be watching Middle Tennessee State and Missouri State, but now I am. Now I am Chase. There you go. I love it. Thanks man, Thank you, buddy.

00:33:20
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00:33:32
Speaker 2: Greg McElroy college football analyst for the Mothership and a host of Always College Football podcast from the ESPN and Omaha productions. By the Way, ABC Saturday Night Football Georgia visiting Auburn, and Greg will be on the call with Sean McDonough and Molly McGrath. The Deep sounds oldest rivalry. It's Georgia and Auburn. All right, where do you want to start a good game or a bad game? I'll let you pick.

00:34:03
Speaker 16: Well, it's in the eye of the beholder. Dan, I'll let you direct it where you want to go, because the ugliest games are sometimes the prettiest in my eyes, because I'm a football junkie and a bit of.

00:34:13
Speaker 4: A sick So I'll let you direct traffic, my friend.

00:34:16
Speaker 2: Right, should we be focusing on what UCLA did or what Penn State didn't do?

00:34:22
Speaker 4: A little of both.

00:34:23
Speaker 16: I hate to do the cop out answer there and straddled defense. But Ucla was great, and I think their quarterback. You run into a hot quarterback in college football with talent, you're going to have some challenges, which means you got to go out score them, and sometimes that happens. I thought your defense doesn't have their best stuff. But to me, this was not about effort. I looked at Penn State and a lot of people were saying, oh, well, they were flat. When I watched it, I was like, they weren't flat. They just weren't making plays. They were out schemed. They gave up multiple third and longs to run game. Quarterbacks scramble in particular, which killed them. The third and fifteen the third eleven both converted with the quarterback scrambled third and seven leads to a fifty two yard scramble that three just with the quarterbacks legs and one with the running backs legs.

00:35:02
Speaker 4: That was huge.

00:35:05
Speaker 16: The thing that was most troubling to me was a little bit how James Franklin handled the post game. If I'm gonna be completely honest, just some of the excuses travel issues. We lost guys last week, we lost guys during practice this week. Guys didn't have enough energy, And to me, that's gonna fall on deaf years considering the week before, Oregon travels three time zones and beat you in your house in a whiteout. So I guess I just don't understand why he took to the podium and went about it that way as opposed to just taking ownership and saying, hey, we got to be better.

00:35:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you on that. I don't want to hear these coaches complain about time zones. You know, Lincoln Riley going to Illinois, this is what you signed up for. This is the Big Ten. This is Big Ten football, and that means you're going coast to coast. This is what your athletic directors signed up for. So find a way to deal with it. I was hoping for a little more with Vandy and Alabama the game you did, you know, you look back on what happened last year, and I think we thought we would get a little more Diego Pabia magic there. Maybe Alabama is a really good team. How would you assess what you've seen so far?

00:36:12
Speaker 16: I think I think they are very good. I think both teams, by the way, are very good. And if not for the strip of Diego Pavia going in where it could have been fourteen to nothing and now Alabama's now playing from behind, very much changed the game. That was the biggest moment in the game was that strip in the red zone and the fumble recovery for the Tide. I think Alabama one thing in this game more than anything else Dan.

00:36:35
Speaker 4: They showed the ability to weather the storm.

00:36:37
Speaker 16: They showed the ability to absorb the punch, and that was not something they did very well last year under killing the Boar. They didn't do that very well against Florida State. They got punched early in this game and they responded, so that to me is progress. They also made some adjustments defensively that I thought were really really good, and that's not something they've done consistently. At times in the last couple of years, they adjusted their alignment they as to where the defensive backs and the linebackers were off the ball.

00:37:03
Speaker 4: That was helpful.

00:37:04
Speaker 16: So I really like Vanderbilt, by the way, like everyone looks at Vanderbilt to look at the name, to look at the historical significance, and they will dismiss them automatically, whereas we've seen with teams like Indiana, with team like Vanderbilt, where you can be very different in this new era with nil support, and they are really good.

00:37:22
Speaker 4: This was big for Bama to get this win.

00:37:24
Speaker 16: And it doesn't get much easier to go on the road to Missouri this week, and that's a team that runs for over three hundred nearly three hundred yards a game, so they'll have their handsful on the road this one and at eleven o'clock kick there in Columbia, Missouri, which would be tough against top fifteen opponents. So this is a very tough stretch for Alabama. This I think was proof that they have matured as a program, given how they performed against Vandy compared to how they performed last year. But it doesn't get any easier as the challenges still lie ahead.

00:37:50
Speaker 2: Heisman race is wide open.

00:37:55
Speaker 4: You got somebody, has there ever been one that's this wide open?

00:37:58
Speaker 16: By the way seven weeks?

00:38:01
Speaker 2: But I thought that coming in that it felt wide open, just because last year wasn't wide open, right, you know? I think arch people thought that, you know, this foregone conclusion, Texas to be good. He'll be good, They'll play for a national title and you win the Heisman in the process. Well, that hasn't gone as scripted. So who do you have?

00:38:24
Speaker 16: Well, right now, I think the biggest Heisman moment of the season could come this weekend, and that's between two guys that are among the front runners, with Fernando Mendoza in Indiana, who's playing lights out football to the first five games of the year, But this will be by far the biggest stage he's playing on. It'll be a nationally consumable audience. Yes, it's up against Red River rivalry at the same time, but for the most part, man, everyone's curious what he's gonna do now on the road against a really good Oregon football team and then Oregon's quarterback Dante More.

00:38:54
Speaker 4: Those two guys are going head to head.

00:38:56
Speaker 16: I feel like I'm watching the program and it's you know, Joe Caine against Wayman. I mean, it's all about the quarterbacks in this game for whatever reason.

00:39:03
Speaker 4: Right, you know you love that that drop for sure.

00:39:06
Speaker 16: But to me, it's kind of interesting that one those two I think are right there.

00:39:12
Speaker 4: I think ty Simpson is ascending, but big.

00:39:15
Speaker 16: Opportunities lie ahead for ty Simpson to kind of have that Heisman moment, whether it's against LSU, perhaps it's against Oklahoma when John Mattier, who's also in that mix, even though he's hurt right now, if they play there in mid November, that could be big. Of course, the SEC Championship game if they get there's big. And then I'll throw a little dark horse at you, Trinidad Shambliss Ole Miss. This kid is the real deal, man. I mean, I am a believer, I really am. I think he's that good. And he was a D two player last year at Farris State. No one really knew who he was. But I remember doing their game week two and Lane Kiff and Sean McDonough asked Lane, Hey, Lane, what else do we need to know about your team? And he goes, yeah, just so you know my backup quarterback. If he goes in the game, this guy's gonna cause a lot of problems. And sure enough he goes in these last few weeks and he's been unstoppable and against quality competition.

00:40:07
Speaker 4: To l us use no joke on defense.

00:40:10
Speaker 2: What's North Carolina going to have to do? Big picture? And I know it's early. You got to have patients. They brought in all of these transfers, which I said, to be fair to Belichick, give him a month and then maybe you're going to find out if this team is any good. But then when one of his guys on his staff, Mike Lombardi, said, we're going to focus on freshman next year, well that means you got to have even more patience. If you're going to be focusing on recruits next year, how long do you know if North Carolina is any good?

00:40:47
Speaker 16: Uh No, I don't think they're very good. I do think last week was not necessarily the best indicator of what's going on in the future because Clemson, while they've struggled in the first four weeks of the season, it.

00:40:58
Speaker 4: Was a kind of a get right opportunity.

00:41:00
Speaker 16: Like I just had a feeling that game was going to go that way, Like Clemson was due and North Carolina's got a whole host of issues. Now they've had some injuries, so you could point to that, But the big problem is that when you look at what Bill Belichick has done traditionally, and what he does well is takeaway teams top tendencies, and they haven't really done that very well, and part of that is a lack of talent and it's going to take some time. So I don't think he's in jeopardy of losing his job or anything like that. I think that's way too premature. I mean, he's four or five games into his tenure as a college coach. But I also think at some point you have to sow some progress because the recruits that you're recruiting are also being actively recruited by other teams. And if you can show the recruits, hey, there's some doubt with North Carolina, then they're going to be more open to listening to overtures from other programs, even though they're currently committed to the tar Heels. So I think as long as recruiting's good, they're in good shape. But how long will recruiting be good if things spin off?

00:41:58
Speaker 2: The rails ownership offers, did you get.

00:42:04
Speaker 16: I don't remember exactly, but probably like thirty thirty five.

00:42:09
Speaker 4: In that vicinity. All the smart schools.

00:42:12
Speaker 16: Dan that was all I had, all the smart schools like Alabama and some others, you know what I mean.

00:42:19
Speaker 2: Okay, did Shaban come to the house.

00:42:24
Speaker 16: Saban wasn't there. Actually he got there the following year. So I got recruited by Mike Shula, son of Don and current offensive coordinator of the South Carolina game cock.

00:42:34
Speaker 4: So that was who recruited me.

00:42:36
Speaker 16: And him and a guy named Bob Connolly came to the house and it made the offer and I committed pretty quickly. My parents didn't even know I was going there, but thought it was a good decision and ended up working out pretty good.

00:42:46
Speaker 2: If not Alabama, where would you have gone.

00:42:50
Speaker 4: It's kind of a tough call. I probably would have ended up at.

00:42:54
Speaker 16: Either North Carolina, but kind of my final groups were North Carolina, Old Man Alabama. I was committed to Texas Tech for a bit, probably wasn't going to end up there because they had taken another guy as well. And then late to the party were some teams that were coming in, like USC was really good at that point.

00:43:11
Speaker 4: They relate to the party.

00:43:12
Speaker 16: So a little different era back then where you get offered your senior year as opposed to like in seventh grade, so it's changed a lot.

00:43:20
Speaker 2: Did you back up Chase Daniel in high school?

00:43:23
Speaker 4: I did?

00:43:25
Speaker 2: Okay, we just we just had him on last hour. Oh nice, so he opened.

00:43:31
Speaker 4: You Carol Dragons.

00:43:33
Speaker 16: Sure have put the dragon helmet out here and see who would have had more stars on the on the side of the helmet like buckeye stickers. I think Chase probably had a few more than I did.

00:43:43
Speaker 2: Great to catch up with you, have fun with Georgia and Auburn coming up this weekend. Thank you always.

00:43:48
Speaker 4: Great to be with you, buddy, See soon.

00:43:50
Speaker 2: That's Greg McElroy.