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

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Speaker 2: Jerome Vettis bus stops here Foundation Initiative LA say hello, chill the bus on the door, bussy. Have you traveled through Intercourse Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 3: I can't say that I have.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I was in Lancaster last weekend and then uh my son said, have you been to Intercourse? And I said that's inappropriate. He goes he I mean, I have four kids, but still it's kind of personal. Uh, but yeah, I was told about Intercourse Pennsyl, pennsylvaniayah there, okay, all right, it's good to see you. I was wondering if you would stay to Saint Louis Ram. Okay, what kind of career do you think you would have had?

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Speaker 3: That's a great one. I don't think it's it's good. Uh for sure.

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Speaker 4: I think I wasn't built for the type of offense that they wanted to have.

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Speaker 3: Uh So it would have been, you.

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Speaker 4: Know, a square trying to stick it into that round hole just wouldn't it wouldn't work.

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Speaker 3: I just I was, I was.

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Speaker 4: I was built for Pittsburgh, and so in Saint Louis, it was just a struggle to find my way. It was just difficult now with the old regime. Chuck Knox, when he was there, he was ground Chuck. You know, it fit perfect and and it was great. But when they changed over everything.

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Speaker 2: You looked faster in the Rams uniform than you did the Steelers uniform. I say, you looked, you looked more powerful, but you looked a little slower.

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Speaker 4: But but that's okay. It it was the offense. The offense was designed to be a pounding offense. It wasn't designed for me to, you know, run forty fifty yeards.

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Speaker 5: I met.

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Speaker 3: I did some of that. You just didn't see it. You missed those games.

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Speaker 2: Were you allowed to ask for the ball in the huddle?

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Speaker 3: No, they don't give me the ball. Oh I didn't have to ask.

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Speaker 5: Okay.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know if there'd be like a goal line thing.

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Speaker 4: No, no, no, it was what you had to understand was was Bill Cower. He wanted to run the football and play great defense. And he wasn't about throwing the football all over the place. So I didn't have to really worry about getting the football. I knew I was going to get it twenty thirty times if I was upright and I was still breathing. I was getting the ball, so I didn't have I didn't have to worry about Hey man, I need the ball more. Now later in my career, when they started throwing a little bit more, I started kind of looking around, like, hey, guys.

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Speaker 3: What are we doing? Third and one? And there was I'll never forget it.

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Speaker 4: I was pissed one time there was a third and one and we were playing I think Jacksonville or somebody. They didn't give me the ball and then they fumbled. The quarterback fumbled the ball and I was so mad because you should have gave me the ball. I would have gotten the first down and we would have kept going. They tried to do something cute, turned the football over and we lost the game, and I was I was irate in the locker room.

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Speaker 2: How would you have felt if you were more Shawn Lynch At the one yard line in the Super Bowl, you just ran for five high, Tower has a great tackle. You almost score. The Super Bowl can be in your hands and you get in the huddle and you hear Russell Wilson call that play.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that one, that one would have hurt.

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Speaker 4: That have hurt because at that point you're like, this is the biggest moment.

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Speaker 3: What are we doing?

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Speaker 2: You couldn't have said anything.

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Speaker 3: I couldn't have You couldn't have said.

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Speaker 4: Anything because it was so fast, right, you're going they get you get the call. I mean, you want to look out of the huddle, like, but if you.

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Speaker 1: Do, you're telling the.

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Speaker 2: Marshawn Lynch could have said I'm gonna get it and I'm coming right there.

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Speaker 3: But still you hit a call.

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Speaker 4: You're like, right, And so because he you know, that was that was awful. Right from a running back perspective, it was awful. And the thing is, you prepare for situations like that. You will make a call that really dictates, Hey, we're going to try to get two plays out of this, So that means we're going to run, but we're gonna run, and that means we gotta get back to the huddle, get back to the line of scrimmage, and we're gonna run a second play.

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Speaker 3: So you have those moments. You're prepared for that.

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Speaker 4: Uh so all you have to do is make that call and you go right into that sequence. And and for them not to do something like that, it was it was disappointing. And then to see the next to see the play happened. Then everybody melts and you're like, oh my god, you just can't believe it. And that's the moment you want to go choke.

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Speaker 2: Coordinator. Yes, yeah, Darryl Bevell, Jerome Betti's Hall of Famer joining us on the program. Here we are again kicking the can down the road with the quarterbacking situation. Yeah, what do you think is going to happen?

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Speaker 3: I think they're gonna they're going to uh.

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Speaker 4: I think Aaron Rodgers it's going to come back and they'll have a fairly successful season like eight. I'm hoping for more than that. I think the plan is for more than that.

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Speaker 3: You hope.

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Speaker 2: I would hope it would be. You know what, we just want to be nine to eight this year.

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Speaker 3: No, I believe you know.

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Speaker 4: The logic is Aaron Rodgers gives them the best chance for success, right, and have an opportunity to get to the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: So once you get to the playoffs, anything can happen.

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Speaker 4: Right round exit saying well it's been that way for a while unfortunately, Right, that's and you hope that you go you go deeper in and you have an opportunity to play for a championship.

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Speaker 3: That that's the plan.

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Speaker 4: I think though, if it does not come to fruition, then you have to put together a package and have a plan that you're going to say, you know what, We're going to have to give up some assets, right, And it's stiller. Historically have not been willing to trade, make these big trades. They've done it in the past, but not not in a big way to go and get a player. They've gonna they're gonna have to package maybe two first round picks or something like that and go and get a quarterback in the draft so that they can they can rebuild.

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Speaker 3: You now, you know they this is not the year. Obviously, I heard you talking about that Pittsburgh doesn't rebuild. That's right.

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Speaker 2: But should Pittsburgh rebuild.

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Speaker 3: Here's the problem.

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Speaker 4: We don't believe in tanking, right, that's not that's not in the vocabulary in this in this town.

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Speaker 3: So because that's not the case, you've got to do.

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Speaker 4: Other things right, and that means you're gonna have to mortgage the future to a degree in the sense that maybe it's two first round picks to go and get in position to get one of the quarterbacks in next year's draft. But you cannot keep doing what we're doing in.

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Speaker 3: The sense that not addressing that position.

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Speaker 4: You need a ten to fifteen year starter in that position in order for your organization to really flourish.

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Speaker 2: When's the last time a fan wanted to tackle you?

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Speaker 4: Well, it's funny. I have some friends. One of my friends pickle or just funny. We were just on the golf course and he kind of ran at me and I told him, I said, you don't want me to have a flashback. You don't want me to have a flashback. But yeah, it was so funny. You know, it shocked you. He went along and I'm like, I just that shoulder. It can happen real quick, go to sleep.

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Speaker 2: Did you knock out players?

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Speaker 3: I did? I did? I did?

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Speaker 1: I didn't.

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Speaker 3: You know, you don't realize it until afterwards. And guys tell.

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Speaker 4: You, man, you know you knocked our guy out, Da da da, And you know we we we stuck him off the field, We dragged him off the field.

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Speaker 3: You didn't know.

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Speaker 4: The thing is, they didn't want me to know that I was punishing their guys like that, you know, so they're you know, I turned my back there dragging them picking them up doing all the things they have to do to make sure they don't because once I get going and I start dancing and bouncing there like, we don't want them to dance. So they made sure that guys would hide it, you know, and then they go over there and fall out a little bit.

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Speaker 2: But could you imagine like Derrick Henry having that size but that speed. Yeah, I mean that's not fair.

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Speaker 4: It's not it's not And the game is changing because now they're going to a faster, smaller player, right, and then the defensive tackles are smaller guys, right, and the linebackers are smaller guys. So all of a sudden, now you got this big two hundred and fifty pound running back and he's got ahead of steam.

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Speaker 3: Who's going to stop him? Right?

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Speaker 4: And it is it's unfair to a degree because somebody's gonna get hurt.

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Speaker 1: Yes, bussy.

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Speaker 6: Whenever we have Brian Urlocker on Dan, we'll go, I gotta ask you about this play?

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Speaker 1: He goes, is it the Brady play or is.

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Speaker 7: It the Jerome Bettis play?

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Speaker 5: Which one are you gonna ask me about?

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Speaker 4: I hate that for him that that you know, it's a play that he's gotta you know, remember unfortunately.

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Speaker 2: At the goal line.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was. It was a play and it was it was we call it the play.

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Speaker 8: Oh you do?

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Speaker 2: He doesn't.

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Speaker 9: He didn't.

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Speaker 4: So the funny part about that play is they've got a picture, right, and I signed this picture with me running them over and he won't sign it, right and like, but it's the most popular picture you can imagine, right, So everybody's getting me to sign it and everybody wants him decide it.

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Speaker 3: He won't sign.

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Speaker 4: I think he's he's he's going to cave pretty soon to start signing.

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Speaker 2: But is it bo Jackson when he's at the goal line with Brian Bosworth?

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Speaker 3: Is it that bad?

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Speaker 4: Unfortunately it is because he you know, you like this, you know. And the funny part about that is we I went in the locker room after that game and we traded shoes.

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Speaker 3: So he has the shoes, the cleats then.

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Speaker 1: On his chest.

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Speaker 4: He can match him up. I'm just joking. I'm just joking. I'm just joking.

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Speaker 2: Inside the draft community. On the clock. So you've got a party, uh, you want to get details on that.

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Speaker 4: It's a it's an event that that we're doing and really showcasing the players because a lot of times, you know, obviously we get a bad rap about what's going on. So we've got a couple uh man in the year, Uh, Cam Hayward is coming, Thomas Davis, he'll he'll be there, uh, And.

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Speaker 3: We'll have a couple of local guys that have.

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Speaker 4: Done tremendous work in the community and really want to showcase, you know, what it's all about. And and we're gonna have some young guys, some high school players, uh, some of the top high school players and in the state, and and some potential uh draft picks there.

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Speaker 3: In the building.

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Speaker 4: And we just want to show uh, the meaning of service, what it is to be of service in your community community, and what's what that actually looks like and how the benefits happen. And so this is all gonna gonna benefit the Boys and Girls Club of Western Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 3: So that's that's what this is all about.

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Speaker 4: We want to try to take a little bit of time, uh to be of service and to show what that actually looks like.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we were on a celebrity family feud and I was playing for the Boys and Girls Club of Milford, Connecticut and ended up and they're all watching as you're winning twenty five thousand dollars for them. So we my wife and I've been active with Boys and Girls Club for a long long time. So it's great to see you as always. Thanks for sharing, and Jerome bettis everybody. We'll take a break play of the Day up next Dan Patrick Show.

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Speaker 2: Brian Winhorst for the Mothership ESPN Senior NBA writer in attendance for the Lakers game last night as they beat the Houston Rockets. Let me, let me ask you that question. Would the Rockets be a better team if they didn't make that Kevin Durant deal.

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Speaker 7: No, I like the value of that trade.

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Speaker 10: I think what has the derailment of the Rockets season began right before the year started, when Fred van Vliet towards ACL and they were, you know, any you know, you lose your franchise point guard who happens to be a guy who is also a leader before the season and you're you know, in your kneecaps. But not only that, they didn't really have a backup, Like they were probably in the worst position in the league to lose their starting point guard, and they lost him like in a spot where they couldn't really replace him because of where they're I won't bore you with the details of the cap position, but it was really unfortunate. But the decision to go through the entire higher season and not address it because eventually they had the ability to make a trade to try to do something about it, that is what's biting them. The reason the Rockets are underachieving is because they cannot get into anything resembling organized offense. Part of that is, you know, I think I may dooka hasn't done a great job. He's a brilliant defensive coach, but he's not been a.

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Speaker 7: Great offensive coach this year.

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Speaker 10: But part of it is their franchise point guard got hurt in a terrible time.

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Speaker 2: You know, with the injuries to the Lakers. In watching Lebron, it almost brings it back to people remembering just how incredible this is that what he's doing without the two best players on the team. I don't know if that every time I watch him, Duran or Steph, I feel like I'm being treated to something special. And you know, the Olympics, you know they're going to be gone one day and we'll look back and go it was incredible, and you'll try to explain it to people. But Lebron's still out there playing at a pretty high level. Your thoughts when you watch him, and how many more years do you think? If he has one or two more?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, So when the discourse comes to Lebron's career, so many people want to, you know, pull it right to him versus Jordan. I go all over the country, all over the planet, this is what they want to ask, and I get it, I totally get it, But really, what Lebron's career is the richness of his career is the sub stories of each of these eras in each of these seasons, you know, the concept of getting to h straight finals, he's preposterous, But I won't focus on that. There were so many things that happened in these individual years, and the story of this individual season is very interesting in the Lebron landscape because when he first came back then with that sciatica thing, he looked terrible by you know, just being fair like, and I'm not saying that there was a shocking but like, for the first time, he looked old. And I remember watching when he first came back whatever was late November December, and saying.

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Speaker 7: Oh, this, this might be it.

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Speaker 10: In fact, I had a meeting with my bosses and I go, you know, we may need to start our content planning for him retiring because he looks for the first time like an old man who can't compete. And he looked like that because he couldn't really work out all summer. He had no training camp, and as the season went along, he got himself into better condition, and by the time the spring came when they really needed them, he was in great shape. Whatever he does in between these games to keep his back healthy and get himself into actual fate.

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Speaker 7: Physical condition has been great.

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Speaker 10: Secondly, midway through this year, he took a step backwards or sideways, whatever you want to say, so that it could work better with Austin Reeves and Luka Doncic. So he took like even if he was feeling one hundred percent and was, you know, feel like a thirty year old, he significantly adjusted the way he played the game. And then in this last you know, moment of the season, he shifts and has to go back to being normal Lebron again, and like a lot of people on the Lakers are doing, have their sleeves rolled up and are doing work here that are making this thing put together. But the story of Lebron's season is really remarkable to watch. And he has tax you know, he has traits about him that are sometimes annoying, but when you look at the actual thing that he's doing.

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Speaker 7: This is why I say.

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Speaker 10: When you look at the actual accomplishment and take it for its value, it's pretty darn remarkable. Not just that he's forty one, just that he's doing just what he's done this year, which has been unlike any season he's tast had before.

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Speaker 2: Talking to Brian Wynn Horst of The Mothership NBA writer senior NBA writer, the difference in an NBA concussion protocol in the NFL concussion protocol is what.

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Speaker 10: So basically, it can it can be shorter. You can start there's cer things you have to accomplish that take twenty four hours, but you can start that after twenty four hours. So in theory you can come.

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Speaker 7: Back within forty eight hours.

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Speaker 10: But within that there's two steps, step one and then step two. So the fact that you know every NBA first round series has one spot where there's.

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Speaker 7: Two days in between games just.

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Speaker 10: Because they have to elongate it up, just because there's eight series, it takes they all take like they're all budgeted for up to.

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Speaker 7: Fifteen days or so.

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Speaker 10: This happens to be a good fortune moment for the Spurs because they do have the extra day. They didn't have an extra day between one and two. The extra day comes between two and three. So in theory he could come back on Friday. Okay, that's the legal Eese Having said that, damn, this was a brutal, brutal full he was knocked out flat cold, and I have no idea. I don't know what his history is going to be. I don't know how severe this concussion is. The Spurs said last night that he did not have a jaw injury. If that is true, that is incredible. I or the fact that he didn't bite through his tongue with that hit. He was not bleeding from the mouth, so that was fortunate. But I know that, and I know that you know I work at ESPN, and you understand this. Like on my phone right now, is many producers for the shows I'm doing today who.

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Speaker 7: Are gonna want to know.

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Speaker 10: And they're not being you know, insensitive, They're just doing their job, but they're gonna want to know, is Victor are gonna play on Friday?

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Speaker 7: Do we know right now whether the Victor's gonna play on Friday?

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Speaker 10: If you're gonna play on Friday, there's nobody on the planet right now who knows, because you just don't know what concussion symptoms.

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Speaker 7: So it is.

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Speaker 10: But not only that, the Spurs had two other players that got injured right after that. Harrison Barnes hurt his shoulder and had to leave the game, and Dylan Harper hurt his thumb. Now, maybe they're gonna be okay, but this was you know, every I always say into every playoff run, a little rain must fall. I don't care who you are, I don't care if you're you know, the the nine ninety eight Bulls, there was a moment of adversity or two. Okay, but this hit these guys hard right away. So now we have an adverse situation and I will see how the Spurs manage it.

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Speaker 2: You got a better handle on the future of Steve Kerr, Billy Donovan.

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Speaker 10: Well, Steve Kerr I think probably has a good feel of what he's gonna do. Billy Donovan probably is waiting to see what options are there. Billy Donovan will coach somewhere again. I would bet on the NBA, but he could be in college. The college cycle has ended, but I would think that it could be. And we're gonna there's more NBA jobs that are gonna You're gonna open in the next few weeks. The Steve Kerr situation, I think there's a nuance of people need to understand, and I know the Warriors fans probably understand this. There's not a contract sitting on the table.

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Speaker 7: For Steve Kerr.

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Speaker 10: It's not like they've said Steve just resign. Like I'm not saying they wouldn't resign him, but he makes seventeen million dollars and I'm not sure when they pay.

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Speaker 7: Them that contract.

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Speaker 10: The Warriors were, you know, competing to win the West. That's not the case anymore.

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Speaker 7: This now.

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Speaker 10: Look if they go trade for Giannis in the next three months and we'll have a different conversation. This isn't this team's not going to win the West next year. If they're not going to compete to win the West next year, I don't even know what Jami brother is going to be able to give them. I'm not sure they're in the mood to pay their coach seventeen million any coach. I don't care if Red Auerbach and his prime comes back, I don't I think so.

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Speaker 7: I think the money is an issue.

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Speaker 10: Secondly, my colleagues at ESPN, Anthony Slater Ramona Shelburne did.

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Speaker 7: A piece this week.

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Speaker 10: Well they said that the Warriors leadership would like Steve Kerr to potentially change his staff and make strategy changes. Now, Steve Kerr is a Hall of Fame coach and you know, again the fields are all there. He's hugging players. This is not part of the decision will be sentimental. But if just think about you, Dan, think about you, if you were at ESPN, you know, maybe.

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Speaker 7: You can relate to this.

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Speaker 10: If they said to you, hey, you're having a Hall of Fame career, thank.

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Speaker 7: You so much, we love you.

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Speaker 10: Think of all these awesome sports centers you did, Man, it was great. Let's go watch the highlights. We'd like you to take a pay cut, and we'd like you to completely change the way you do your job. Okay, sign it and we'll see you at the press conference. It's not as simple as whether Steve Kerr has the burning fire or desire to coach. There's other things that are going on that might push Steve Kerr out, and I think that's where it's headed more likely than him staying Brian.

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Speaker 2: That's what ESPN did to me. I mean, it's kind of I kind of knew that. It kind of hurts here. That's good reporting by you. I'm not a betting man, but I keep looking at the Vegas situation. I saw the artist renderings of the Diamond Arena. I'm assuming I'm gonna put one in one together. And the Vegas Diamonds would be playing in the Diamond Arena.

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Speaker 10: That's an interesting concept. I haven't heard that this is at least the third arena.

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Speaker 7: Plan that I'm aware of.

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Speaker 10: I'm not on top of this story every second of every day, and usually, as you know, they have several arenas, including arena where the Golden Knights play. People have been trying to build arenas for to prepare for the NBA team for years. There's multiple plans. This This isn't like the official plan.

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Speaker 7: Uh, it's just a plan.

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Speaker 10: So there's a whole other arena that's multiple years in the making South and the south part of the strip that people thought was going to happen. That it's actually built, being developed by the same people who redid the arena in Seattle is interesting as it is. So that's a that's that arena. You know, when you what they say about renderings, that arena may never see the light of you may never hear about it again. But uh, but I promise you that when the Vegas team comes to to and the NBA team comes back in Vegas, there will be some arena that is being built for them, and they will probably play in the interim at the T Mobile Arena.

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Speaker 7: Whence a while it gets built.

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Speaker 11: Thanks for joining us. As always, we appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Brian.

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Speaker 7: Thanks Dan, have a great week.

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Speaker 2: It's Brian Winhors.

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Speaker 2: Let me get to Fernando Mendoza once again. We take the interview on Monday. We wanted to play it, you know here once we got to Pittsburgh and he joined us on behalf of Pfizer the Every Breakthrough Matters campaign. Every step makes a difference, starting with your cancer screening and the first question I asked Fernando Mendoza if I would have told him last year he was gonna win the Heisman, what would he have said?

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Speaker 8: I would have said, what are you on? Because that would have been out of the realm of reality. However, at the same time, focused around the present moment, you know, going in the future, there were some projections. I said, Hey, this kid has some raw ability and maybe could project to this. However, you know, in reality, at that point a year ago, I just made the move from cal to Indiana, and I was getting my buck kicked by the Indiana defense in spring ball, and my amazing Brian Haynes defense has proved to be the best defense in the nation. So I would have been a little skeptical, but it's been a great blessing, and those tough experiences have forged me into the player and character amps that.

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Speaker 2: Okay, but you had to have doubts about yourself that you leave Cal, you go to Indiana and all of a sudden you're getting your lunch handed to you. Did you have any second thoughts about going to Indiana?

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Speaker 8: Yes, yes, I did have second thoughts for going to Indiana, especially when leaving California having lived in Miami, been leaving California great weather cities, I mean in that city, so states, and then moving to Bloomington, Indiana, which is awesome, but zero degree and seven inches of snow is not. You know, it's not ideal, especially for someone who comes from a warmer weather states. But I believe those experiences have also primed me for the NFL, to them playing cold weather performances and cold weather games.

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Speaker 3: But there was.

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Speaker 8: Definitely a lot of you know, weariness, and maybe some are not some regressed, but maybe some double takes at first. However, God's playing pride and true and been very blessed for this year.

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Speaker 2: You grew up a Dolphins fan.

00:27:55
Speaker 8: I grew up. I did, but I really didn't because although I liked then now it's okay, that was a huge Miami Hurricanes fan. But my dad did his medical residency in Boston and so I only lived there for two years. But when I was seven years old, I watched I think it was like six years old, actually, I watched Newingland Patriots play the Giants, and although they lost, a fellow namored with the New England Patriots, so that was my team growing up.

00:28:23
Speaker 2: Have you met Tom Brady?

00:28:26
Speaker 3: I have.

00:28:26
Speaker 8: I've met him in the official thirty visit at.

00:28:30
Speaker 2: The Raiders, And how did that go?

00:28:33
Speaker 1: It was fantastic.

00:28:34
Speaker 8: It was fantastic. He gave me the message that he's going to push me and he's not going to be all lovey dovey, and that if the Raiders draft me, he is going to be, you know, a mentor and wants to pour into whatever quarterback the Raiders have, whether it's me, whether they draft somebody else or you know, or like the Raiders. They also signed Kirk Cousins.

00:28:54
Speaker 11: What was your reaction when they brought in Kirk Cousins.

00:28:58
Speaker 8: Well, if I'm lucky enough to go to the Raiders, I think it'd be a great opportunity to be able to learn from someone who's had so much success throughout the years and who I think has a very similar playing style as me. I'd been able to watch his film. There was two years ago where I watched all his Minnesota Vikings pass tape, every single pass where there was incomplete completion throughout the entire season, which is a lot because the NFL has a lot of games. But to be able to even learn from that.

00:29:26
Speaker 2: Wait, wait, wait, wait, So you went back and looked at all of his throats.

00:29:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is actually funny enough.

00:29:33
Speaker 8: This was maybe some foreshadowing, but this was This was a year ago when I was back in the California and there were a couple of comparisons on, Hey, you play a little bit like Kirk Cousins, Sam Darnold, just from our NFL guys, and so at that point I was like, Okay, let me watch these guys and see what they do. See they do good, and see what they do you know they need improvement on. And so in this aspect, I it was for my free time, and I love watching a ball So after I was down my process, I'd watch thirty minutes or an hour of Kirk Cousins or Sam Donald. In this past year, it was Matthew Stafford. Not saying I play like Matthew Stafford, but it's something great to learn from, and those experiences have helped made a lot. It has to get adjusted to the college games and to see how quarterbacks process the defense.

00:30:21
Speaker 2: We're talking to Fernando Mendoza and he's joining us on behalf of Pfizer Every Breakthrough Matters campaign. All Right, Peyton Manning's probably the best pitch man. So let me hear your pitch for Pfizer here.

00:30:36
Speaker 8: I'll let Peyton Manning hold the rain on that and hold the throne on that. He is for sure the goat of pitches. However, I believe that the partnerships that are most viable and most significant to me are the ones that have tangible application. I've been very vocal, and I've had first hand experience with health in my life and my family's, and that's why I believe it's very important to broadcast out visorfarall dot com slash screens because fifty percent of Americans are behind on their cancer screens. And to take that step into your health, it's something I believe that I've been put on this platform to them push and to then help other families and individuals with to help up front.

00:31:23
Speaker 11: What did you say from the National title game?

00:31:27
Speaker 2: Excuse me?

00:31:27
Speaker 5: What did I?

00:31:28
Speaker 9: Yeah?

00:31:28
Speaker 2: Like uniform? Did you get the football?

00:31:31
Speaker 3: I save?

00:31:32
Speaker 2: Okay?

00:31:33
Speaker 1: I love Bluminton.

00:31:34
Speaker 8: I love my guy Mitch in the EQ room, and he was lucky enough to give me a game ball after because all those balls were gone.

00:31:41
Speaker 11: Yeah, but my younger brother Alberto.

00:31:44
Speaker 8: He took we took one ball home from the stadium, and I have my helmet.

00:31:49
Speaker 3: I don't know where my.

00:31:50
Speaker 1: Shoulder pads are.

00:31:51
Speaker 8: I think we might have my shoulder pads, but definitely helmet, jersey and towel and cleats.

00:31:56
Speaker 1: The cleats are at home.

00:31:59
Speaker 8: I almost use this clear to work out the other day, but I was like, you know, let me, I'll use some of the cleats.

00:32:05
Speaker 2: You know, I enjoyed the cleats were take me, take me into the huddle on that game winning touchdown. And but were there any other options other than you creating something?

00:32:20
Speaker 8: Yes, there were, And the huddle is a very special place. It's like football heaven for me, and believe for a lot of other quarterbacks. It's fourth down in the National Championship. You have ten other players. We've worked all this way through the entire season creating his brothers looking at you, seeing what's the play call? How how much does he believe in this play call by the way he says it, and does and does he have any other messaging?

00:32:46
Speaker 5: And so at that.

00:32:47
Speaker 8: Point I was able to deliver the play call with complete confidence. Our guys, not just me, but all of our guys were able to come together and give each other a little pump up saying this will do. We make big plays, big time games. And it was a play that depending on manner zone. The defense was a little bit discombobulated because they didn't believe we'd go for in fourths and five. I believe every analytic expert could tell you we should have keep the field goal there. However, when the game came down to the wire, I need to trust the big boys up front, the Hoggies, and they delivered us to victory with a great with great blocking whether it's pass or run protection, and they had you know, and they had a great run game there, I mean a great run game protection there, and it worked and enabled me to get the first down and then go ahead for the store.

00:33:34
Speaker 2: What's the plan for Thursday?

00:33:37
Speaker 8: The plan for Thursday to stay home in Miami, Florida. I believe it's very important to have everyone who's poured apart and poured into me and been a part of that village to be there and experience this new opportunity. This is not an end, this is a beginning, and there's gonna be a lot It's a great new opportunity that there's gonna be a lot of hurdles, and I look forward to rest and confiding in my support system whenever those hurdles occur. My mom and my dad wanted to do it in Miami because we need to hop on the plane the next day whatever team drafts me. And it's been a lot of travel this year. And although Pittsburgh is going to be a great event, I can't wait to be a great league partner, I believe, especially with my mom, she really wanted to do it at home, and it's going to be most applicable and easiest for our family.

00:34:28
Speaker 2: How old are you fifty? I mean, you don't sound like your age here. What would you have done if you didn't play football?

00:34:35
Speaker 8: If I didn't do football, I'd be grinding the streaks of New York doing finance. But luckily God has blessed me so I don't need to work twenty four hour days.

00:34:44
Speaker 2: Oh no, you're gonna be working twenty four hour days.

00:34:47
Speaker 1: But it's not work for me.

00:34:48
Speaker 2: It's fun.

00:34:50
Speaker 8: It's fun for me. It's fun and it's it's great. Whether it's ever i'm eating, I'm usually watching YouTube video of somebody breaking down NFL football. Every single Sunday, I'm watching football of actually just do love football.

00:35:02
Speaker 2: Give me that address again for Pfizer.

00:35:04
Speaker 8: It's Pfizerfurall dot com slash screens.

00:35:08
Speaker 2: All right, great to meet you. Congratulations on a wonderful season and the Raiders will be lucky to have you.

00:35:16
Speaker 8: Great to meet you. I love your Nevada sticker there in the front or patch. Excuse me, Yeah, I been fanaby for a long time. My dad loves listening to here. So thank you so much again for having me on. God bless hope we have a future interaction.

00:35:27
Speaker 2: Thank you, Bun.

00:35:28
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00:35:43
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00:35:44
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00:35:45
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00:35:50
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00:35:52
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00:36:10
Speaker 2: Let's bring out Frank Kelly Endo. He was performing last night here in Pittsburgh The Pittsburgh Improv Cleveland tomorrow already sold out. You can catch him at the Funnybone in Cincinnati Friday, Columbus Funnybone on Saturday as well as Sunday. Go to Frank on stage dot com for tickets. As we make way for Frank kellyam, dude.

00:36:38
Speaker 11: All right, wow, we're talking.

00:36:44
Speaker 13: We're talking.

00:36:45
Speaker 6: Pit was taking it okay, So yeah, I'll tell you what I started. You give us all these great things when we come here. Yeah shows, Yeah, fuck root and open stuff up. So I was like, I'll tell you what, man, that's a pretty tremendous thing.

00:37:00
Speaker 9: Some of this stuff down. Take look right here.

00:37:02
Speaker 6: We got some rectext sauces and stuff like that.

00:37:04
Speaker 9: Who you can't go anywhere with that? Man? Oh what dude? What Spider two white banana man?

00:37:13
Speaker 2: You got? Uh? You got product placement there. I appreciate that.

00:37:17
Speaker 6: It's pretty good.

00:37:17
Speaker 9: Open up this.

00:37:18
Speaker 6: You think there's gonna be Roy Hobbs's Batman, She's gonna be even better. Take a look at this, cause you Massine grew and just had this stuff. I'll tell you what, man, We're gonna be flipping some burgers. Man, then we're gonna be flipping some cars.

00:37:30
Speaker 2: Well, I got talking to that.

00:37:31
Speaker 6: You got it's called this microphone here, I was talking to the wrong microphone.

00:37:35
Speaker 9: I forgot how many of there were.

00:37:36
Speaker 2: All right, all right, are you gonna take that? In the overhead? Ben going to Cleveland?

00:37:40
Speaker 6: Uh yeah, yeah, well uh Jade, who you know? It gives us all this we get sent to us.

00:37:46
Speaker 5: Oh you do.

00:37:47
Speaker 6: But I'm gonna take this as well. So yes, I'm that kind of person. All right, Sorry, I forgot about microphones on those.

00:37:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great to see you. And we didn't know you were in town. Yeah, And then we found out somebody had said are you gonna have Frank Kelly one?

00:38:01
Speaker 9: What I had said, I.

00:38:02
Speaker 6: Was just going to stop by because you guys are fun to hang out with right off the air, and I had sent something to Marvin and I said, hey, where I knew you guys were gonna because they've been listening to this show. And I was like, when do you get there and stuff like that, and I was like, maybe I'll pop in on the way to Cleveland. I didn't even know if i'd have time. I didn't even know if I was going to be here today. And i'd heard on the show you said you were going to be in on Wednesday, so I was like, okay, And then then I got a text from Fritzy yesterday that didn't feel like he really.

00:38:30
Speaker 9: Wanted me here.

00:38:32
Speaker 5: He didn't.

00:38:32
Speaker 9: And no, I'm hearing more and more of that.

00:38:35
Speaker 6: Everybody has said that as I came in, which I kind of understand, because my Fritzy impression is not that good. It's honestly, I understand where it's at. No, it's I don't have the voice I have some of them.

00:38:45
Speaker 9: You're doing it right now, Fritzy. You know, he doesn't even know he's doing. He's got this stick with his lips.

00:38:50
Speaker 6: It's like he just finished eating a cob of corn and he's like that kind of thing.

00:38:55
Speaker 9: So I uh, but I understand. I understand where he's coming from.

00:38:58
Speaker 7: Frank, if the imitation wasn't good, it wouldn't bother.

00:39:00
Speaker 9: FITZI, oh, you think so.

00:39:02
Speaker 13: If it wasn't spot on with the mannerisms, it wouldn't bother.

00:39:05
Speaker 3: That's fair because I'm not sensitive so it's actually.

00:39:06
Speaker 6: The largest Yeah, but I don't want the booker of the show, one of my favorite shows in the world, to not like having me on.

00:39:14
Speaker 9: That's a big deal to me.

00:39:15
Speaker 6: Like if if, like when I would do Leno back in the day, if like the booker didn't like me because.

00:39:21
Speaker 9: I did an impression, that would be a bad thing. Lenos, I was like.

00:39:23
Speaker 6: A you gonna do me on the show, and come on, do me so, But yeah, I don't want I don't. I know Todd kind of thrives on that awkwardness, not on purpose, but he does. But it's I Todd's what You're so much fun Todd, especially, like I've said this before, when you're trying when you're being serious, when you're trying to be funny, it's not good.

00:39:48
Speaker 9: But when you're trying to when.

00:39:50
Speaker 6: You're serious, if you just be serious all the time, I think you'd be the funniest guy in the world.

00:39:55
Speaker 3: I appreciate that I need to be more serious.

00:39:57
Speaker 2: If mel Kiper suddenly wouldn't show up tomorrow.

00:40:01
Speaker 6: I actually I brought I started doing Kuiper and wasn't even try to. That's why my hair is like this is true, and.

00:40:06
Speaker 11: You were doing super hair, trying to do it.

00:40:09
Speaker 6: I was trying to do it, and then my buddy Willie, who's with me, is opening for me.

00:40:12
Speaker 9: He's like, you need a blow dryer.

00:40:13
Speaker 6: I'm like, well, it's a little late for that, but I had the glasses all ready to go. Even print had to print out the stuff. Fernanda Mendoz out of Indiana, quarterback. He this is his actual he writes like he talks. Twenty twenty five snaps over sixteen games, seventy two percent completion rate, three thousand, five hundred and thirty five passing yards, forty one TV passes, six I.

00:40:33
Speaker 13: In t seven ruching touchdowns.

00:40:36
Speaker 6: Mendoza transferred to Indiana after playing two seasons at Cal. We're talking pitts Berg and a game game took up part of the season for the jump. He cut down on sacks lot twenty five at the last season forty one in twenty twenty four.

00:40:49
Speaker 13: Mendoza got the ball out quicker. That's what we're talking about. Fernando Mendoz.

00:40:53
Speaker 6: Last Fernando I remembers Fernando Venezuela did a tremendous job left handed pitcher out there in Los Angeles camp for the Mendoza line the two hundred batting average, and that was where Bob.

00:41:03
Speaker 9: Bucker lived his entire life. So yeah, so if that's if that's a.

00:41:10
Speaker 5: But people don't know.

00:41:12
Speaker 9: But people don't know about Melics. He's the sweetest guy in the world, like he on TV.

00:41:17
Speaker 6: I always say in my even in my act, I say he's a cross between Sam the American Eagle and Count Chawkila, right, Sam the American Eagle from the Muppets and couch Chalk and you see him and then all those years with Todd McSherry was just cutting him off Po Po Po and on the Mothership. I got twenty five Todds out one time, and you.

00:41:36
Speaker 9: Know how hard that is.

00:41:37
Speaker 6: Po Po Po Pop. Come around, Todd, there's a different Todd. Don't worry not talking about you right now. At the end of the day, it's not all about you.

00:41:47
Speaker 2: Uh.

00:41:47
Speaker 9: But uh.

00:41:48
Speaker 6: He came to a show one time. I was in Baltimore, and I was in Baltimore and he's in the back of the room, told me he was coming to the show. I get to the mel kiper where I'm going to talk about him, and from the back he just yells out the audience like, why is that guy heckling? I'm like, that's the actual Melkiper junior. So he's the sweetest guy.

00:42:07
Speaker 9: And he talks.

00:42:08
Speaker 6: Everything he talks about is like when I first did the impression of him on TV, he's like, he calls me up.

00:42:13
Speaker 9: I think he's gonna be upset. He's like the entire Kuyper family joying what you did.

00:42:17
Speaker 1: Frank, everybody Las Vegas.

00:42:18
Speaker 6: I've never been there before Blue Man Group, and they actually blue people. You ever see Avatar tremendously large people At the end of the day, I want to be an Avatar person.

00:42:27
Speaker 9: So he's really great. I thought he'd be great.

00:42:30
Speaker 6: I was like when he gets off on little tangents, he sounded like an English teacher to me.

00:42:34
Speaker 9: I think that would be the toughest.

00:42:36
Speaker 6: I before e, except after seeing was sound of his as a neighbor and way I.

00:42:41
Speaker 13: Ever trying to figure out the difference between there and there and there.

00:42:43
Speaker 6: I'm not sure if it's a hominem or a homograph, but the thh e r E is got hearing it that's here nor there than th h e i r's possession and then thhg y apostrophe r e. That's a it's a contraction, Frank, work on contractions.

00:42:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, but not everybody appreciates your imitations.

00:43:05
Speaker 11: You've you've talked about Madden, But did John Madden.

00:43:07
Speaker 2: Eventually warm up?

00:43:08
Speaker 9: They finally kind of liked me?

00:43:10
Speaker 6: But why Why did he like me? Because I'd made his grandkids laugh? There was that and they enjoyed it. So that was I even like, as I believe it was, his son wanted me to do something at John's.

00:43:24
Speaker 9: Seventy fifth birthday party.

00:43:26
Speaker 6: And then I heard from somebody, and then all of a sudden, I didn't hear from them anymore, so they must have gone.

00:43:30
Speaker 9: Him's like, I don't you know, I don't think that's the way to go.

00:43:32
Speaker 6: There's maybe we could get that lady who rides on the utericycle and puts the cups on her head.

00:43:39
Speaker 5: I mean, what's the name lady? I mean? If I mean, I mean, that's the thing. If you don't have anything boom, you get red Panda.

00:43:49
Speaker 6: So you would Red Pan. She got hurt a while ago, She's gonna gone the comeback? Man, how many plates?

00:43:54
Speaker 13: How many cups.

00:43:55
Speaker 9: Do you think she can hit?

00:43:56
Speaker 13: Hit on that top of that head man.

00:43:59
Speaker 2: UH, and Gruden's okay with you.

00:44:01
Speaker 9: Yeah, he's he has fun with it.

00:44:02
Speaker 6: I mean, he's I've become for I just put something up when I went to talk. I talked to the Raiders a couple of times when he was coaching there before the UH before a game, I gave a pregame type of speech. It was really just really making fun of John Gruden and he I just did something. I'll tell you I'm going I'll tell you what, man.

00:44:22
Speaker 9: People didn't know what a hammy is like.

00:44:23
Speaker 6: Now they see it because he's opening up boxes on the internet and stuff like that. But he is, He's a goofy guy and he totally has fun with it. And Uh, it's it's he gets it and some people don't get it. But when you get it, you have more fun. It's like I once called him and said, am I like keep your enemy if keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer.

00:44:42
Speaker 9: Is that what it is? He's like, no, man, we love you. Man, your the best.

00:44:45
Speaker 11: But Chris Berman was okay, Well, everybody we talked about this.

00:44:49
Speaker 6: Everybody does a Chris Berman at ESPN. They just don't do it out loud in front of him, right, everybody's walking around like you.

00:44:58
Speaker 9: Don't even have to have words. That's Chris Berman is a chicken.

00:45:02
Speaker 6: Mcmart say what you will, but nobody flies the coop like he's chicken.

00:45:08
Speaker 11: So, uh, are you working on a Dylan in person?

00:45:11
Speaker 5: Yeah?

00:45:11
Speaker 6: Actually he sounds exactly like my A V guy used to sound.

00:45:15
Speaker 2: All right, Dylan, let's hear it.

00:45:17
Speaker 11: Give just a little bit of my sweet sweet voice.

00:45:20
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, you got that.

00:45:23
Speaker 6: And it's it's in there, right, It's almost like I just got some French fried potatoes.

00:45:26
Speaker 9: But there's something in there.

00:45:28
Speaker 6: Uh, it's there. You're back in the back of the throat. So I don't have it yet.

00:45:33
Speaker 9: I do have. I believe it's Buddha. I've worked on my.

00:45:37
Speaker 1: From San Francisco.

00:45:38
Speaker 5: Yeah, good morning, mister Patrick. Who does it?

00:45:43
Speaker 9: Nobody else does a Buddha?

00:45:45
Speaker 2: Right, No, no, no, buddy, h Do you tweak your act for the city you're in.

00:45:55
Speaker 9: A little bit?

00:45:55
Speaker 5: Yeah?

00:45:56
Speaker 6: I mean this week has got a little bit more of the draft and football stuff.

00:45:59
Speaker 2: Did you do some Terry Bradshaw.

00:46:01
Speaker 9: I always do some Terry Bradshaw. It says that doesn't even have to make sense. That's the part of it that's really good man talk back to when he's doing highlights. You have no idea.

00:46:08
Speaker 6: He has no idea that the guy that ah, I missed it. Usually they have somebody who can read or knows the names of players. Now you know that my grandpap had told me long time ago, back in the fourteen hundreds we were out and I'll just try to figure it out.

00:46:25
Speaker 9: Frank, that was always he's so great. But he will say.

00:46:28
Speaker 6: Things like, uh, like, I probably shouldn't even have brought that up and brought myself in. But he'll be walking through a funding.

00:46:35
Speaker 13: That's the lady of the night right there.

00:46:36
Speaker 5: Frank.

00:46:39
Speaker 6: He's not using those terms all he's but he is something else.

00:46:44
Speaker 9: He's he's one of those people that he's just not afraid to be himself. That's the and I think that really works, especially in this day and age.

00:46:51
Speaker 6: The more you are you and you you bring that out, that authenticity. That's what Barkley has. That's what people who are like that, they are not afraid to be themselves and they're unapologetic about it.

00:47:03
Speaker 5: Right.

00:47:03
Speaker 9: They go out and enjoy.

00:47:06
Speaker 6: Just doing what they do. The fact that Charles has he couldn't care less. He doesn't even like the NBA, A lot of them. I have no idea who's even playing right now? Guys, these guys, what about the Orlando Magic. I don't watch them?

00:47:20
Speaker 5: Why not? Because they suck.

00:47:21
Speaker 9: Man, Nobody says they suck.

00:47:23
Speaker 1: Nobody said I've heard him on here.

00:47:25
Speaker 5: They suck.

00:47:25
Speaker 6: Nobody in broadcasting, So they suck except for Charles.

00:47:28
Speaker 9: And then they were like, hey.

00:47:29
Speaker 6: You you don't like, you don't like, you know, you don't really pay attention to basketball.

00:47:34
Speaker 9: Do you want to do college basketball too?

00:47:36
Speaker 5: For Marx mad absolutely pay the triple man we're in.

00:47:39
Speaker 6: And they do because he's such a great, such a great fun person to listen to and watch.

00:47:44
Speaker 2: But you need to have those over the top personality. Yeah, that makes your job so much easier.

00:47:49
Speaker 1: Well, did you hear.

00:47:50
Speaker 9: When he and Dick ight Tal did that play?

00:47:53
Speaker 6: Did the like it was an unbelievable for like ten twenty minutes, and then it became like me doing Bill Walton with Bill the way You're like, how can they go off on a tangent anymore? Because Vital's just going.

00:48:05
Speaker 5: Oh, it's equitable, It's amazing.

00:48:06
Speaker 9: And then Charles, who hasn't researched any of the game.

00:48:09
Speaker 5: You know, the transfer portal and nil are ruining the game of basketball. These kids need to be paid.

00:48:15
Speaker 9: But and then they go to something else.

00:48:16
Speaker 5: It's a real dipeer.

00:48:17
Speaker 6: Then he's like, yeah, but the transfer portal, the guy with the red head band just passed the ball.

00:48:23
Speaker 9: You don't even know his name.

00:48:24
Speaker 5: I don't even know we're watching the game anymore.

00:48:26
Speaker 9: Man, So that I mean, that's but that's sports.

00:48:30
Speaker 6: I found this a lot of times people in sports have more fun not talking about sports.

00:48:36
Speaker 9: Like it.

00:48:36
Speaker 6: When I even have any football show I've ever been at, They're like, how can we get to a story that's not just about the game. And I've even heard you guys talking about that recently. It's like, well, that's but that's where the world is going. I think the entertainment. It's almost like this show is you know, you're a sports show, but that's that's the through line, and then the story of you guys and everything in the relationships is what makes it great. So I think that's mean you guys were ahead of the game. I remember being at the Super Bowl years and years ago after you'd left the Mothership and and you were just in that cardboard box or whatever you're doing.

00:49:08
Speaker 9: I opened it up. Man, there he was Dan Patrick. Man.

00:49:12
Speaker 6: He's not even in Bristol anymore, He's in a suburb of Bristol.

00:49:16
Speaker 9: And I was I was like, I don't get it. This is a what a what a terrible idea? And look at what you've done.

00:49:22
Speaker 6: It's like unbelievable and fantastic and all you schmucks that have been along the way.

00:49:26
Speaker 2: No, but I think the important part it's like when somebody goes all Bull Durham sports movie and I go, no, it's not, it's about really he's we label them sports movies, but they're not. They're about relationships for the most part. And that's what this is. It's it is sports, but it's so much it's everything that kind of revolves around sports.

00:49:47
Speaker 6: And I think that's what I think that's what's been lost a lot of time when the people who thought sports just go hardcore sports.

00:49:53
Speaker 9: Hardcore sports just give stats and stuff. You can get that anywhere now.

00:49:56
Speaker 6: But it's about who's who's telling you about the sports, and what fun are they having while they're doing it, and who are they trying to keep off the show?

00:50:04
Speaker 2: Nobody is doing talking Wow, it's just a job. Nobody's doing talking baseball on any other show today, talking Pittsburgh. Nobody's doing that.

00:50:13
Speaker 9: A bad rap here.

00:50:15
Speaker 2: You do not want Do you know that I did.

00:50:18
Speaker 6: I will defend him one hundred percent because I didn't really push it in the first place.

00:50:22
Speaker 5: I didn't.

00:50:23
Speaker 9: I knew you guys were going to be here.

00:50:24
Speaker 6: But then I said, hey, I understand if you don't want me because I was just on recently.

00:50:29
Speaker 9: I don't.

00:50:29
Speaker 2: But you reached out to Marvin.

00:50:31
Speaker 6: Yeah, but that was just I was just gonna stop by, say because Marvin I hang out. Yeah, okay, but if I was gonna get if I wanted to get on the show, I would definitely not go to Todd anymore.

00:50:40
Speaker 2: Todd God did not want Todd did not want you, guy, Dylan.

00:50:45
Speaker 9: Can I have your number on the way out?

00:50:47
Speaker 5: Two? Three?

00:50:48
Speaker 6: Uh?

00:50:49
Speaker 2: Frank already sold out in Cleveland and h then you'll be Cincinnati Friday, Columbus on Saturday and Sunday.

00:50:56
Speaker 1: Yep.

00:50:56
Speaker 11: Go to Frank on stage dot com for tickets.

00:50:58
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's it.

00:50:59
Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you for stopping.

00:51:01
Speaker 13: Incredible job by you, better job by me.

00:51:03
Speaker 2: Oh you're doing Jim Rome incredible?

00:51:05
Speaker 6: How great is that dude is trying to go to commercial and Calliato keeps talking.

00:51:11
Speaker 5: Nothing new,