Hour 1 – James Franklin Fired, Monday Morning NFL Recap

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Speaker 3: A little balmy, a little warm, almost high of sixty eight and partly cloudy.

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Speaker 4: That's not football weather. It might be football weather.

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Speaker 3: When we start our show No, which is fifty five degrees as football web.

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Speaker 2: But it can't be as cold as Las Vegas was when we were out there for the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 4: Weirdly cold.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's We're up at four thirty in the morning and all of a sudden you go outside and you're like, oh, I hope those heat lamps are on. But it's a great atmosphere. Been out there for a few football games. The atmosphere is wonderful. And USC coming to town off a big win agains Michigan. That was a big win. That might be Lincoln Riley's biggest win of his career at USC. Not a lot of coverage because us SEA not ranked in the top twenty five. They will be now the big news over the weekend as James Franklin got fired as the head coach at Penn State. And when you're the first team since nineteen seventy eight to lose consecutive games as a favor to twenty or more points, and you're already on a warm seat. They decided, I mean, forty nine million dollars to go away. I wish somebody would do that, like, I don't want you around so much. Here, take this money and go away. But James Franklin, he'll get a job. If you look at his overall record, you go, dang, that's impressive. It isn't until you start looking at the meaningful games. And as I said last week, and I heard from the Penn State alumni, why are you picking? Why are you piling on? I'm only pointing out something. If you want to be a big time program, you have to have high standards. Michigan wouldn't have settled for that. Ohio State, Georgia, Alabama, just to name a few. You don't lose those games. You don't lose that many games to top ten teams, and they did and it cost him. But we'll talk to Rick new Heiseel, the former coach who's been fired a couple times. He works for CBS. He was out in Eugene for the Oregon game against Indiana, and Indiana Indiana dominated that game. That was a wonderful performance and I thought, boy, can they hold up in that environment against an Oregon team that I thought was just going to be too fast. This is different for Indiana Indiana. I didn't think Indiana was a playoff team last year. I certainly do this year. They got a quarterback, two receivers, the defense is really good, and you know, they could be talking about a bigger picture here by the end of the year. But we'll talk to Rick new Heiseel, and I'm watching new Heiseel the CBS crew is on the field, and he gave an oh by the way that he didn't think Bill Belichick would be the head coach at North Carolina after this season. He'll talk about that. North Carolina had a bye week. Now they go out to cal and who knows what happens if they come back with a loss eight seven, seven to three DP show email address DP at Danpatrick dot Com Twitter handle that DP show. I'm gonna be honest with you as I always am. I forgot there was baseball last night. I forgot that the Blue Jays and the Mariners played last night. Game one of the Alcs, big Dumper hit a home run, and here is the call of the game winning. Do we have this Morvion?

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Speaker 5: Yep?

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Speaker 4: This is from Friday?

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, yep. Three two pits on the way sway I drive. They said, right.

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Speaker 6: Field, all right, Pulloco for the lock up single, and the Americas are gonna play for the America League Championship. The Mariners win the battle at Seattle at fifteen eights.

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Speaker 2: There it is win.

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Speaker 6: It's three to two.

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Speaker 2: So fifteen innings on Friday they get into the Alcs. They have to go to Toronto. I think they had travel problems, playing issues, delays, but then they pick up the win last night. You have baseball today tonight. You got Dodgers Brewers Game one, and you have Mariners Blue Jays Game two. I couldn't help but think when the Brewers won, and the first thing I thought of Vin Scully and Bob Buker. Don you imagine that showdown between those teams. But those broadcasters in the building first thing I thought of. But in memory of those great broadcasters, hopefully we get a great series. All right, Chiefs over the Lions. I guess everybody's back on the Chiefs banwagon. And they didn't have a penalty called last night on the Chiefs.

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Speaker 4: Kevenia.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Chargers over the Dolphins. It's more than just one loss the Dolphins. That is a bad situation and they could have won that game. It's where, Okay, you lost the game, you played pretty well. The Chargers did what you want them to do. They score. I just I was surprised at Miami with too a tongue of Iloa's comments after the game, because in a loss, I want to see what you do. I want to hear what you're talking about. You know, Aaron Glenn, the Jets head coach, wasn't really recognizing the elephant in the room talking about Justin Fields and how bad he played nine sacks minus ten yards passing. I'll give you that comment coming up in a moment. But here is too a tongue of Ioloa, who threw three interceptions, talking about his teammates.

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Speaker 7: I think it starts with the leadership in helping articulate that for the guys, and then what we're expecting out of the guys, right, we're expecting this, Are we getting that?

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Speaker 2: Are we not getting that?

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Speaker 7: We have guys showing up to player only meetings late, guys not showing up to play only meeting Like, there's a lot that goes into that. Do we have to make this mandatory? Do we not have to make this mandatory? So it's it's a lot of it's a lot of things of that nature that we got to get cleaned up. And it starts with the little things like that.

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Speaker 2: Okay, if you're a leader, then why don't you handle this in house? Why did it get to a press conference? You're the quarterback? Why did it get to a press conference? You don't have to tell us everything, tell us what we need to know or you think we need to know. Now, all of a sudden, I'm questioning your quarterback, and I'm questioning your coach and the front office here and the players. Congratulations, you gave us the trifecta there, But when you throw three interceptions, that's when you have to go with your hat in your hand and say, hey, this starts with me and I hope to get it together. I want all of us to meet and understand and air this out so how we can rectify this. We're one in five right now, and they are playing as if they want to get their coach fired, and they're talking as if they want to get their coach fired. Don't tell me. You don't have to. I mean, I'm in the content business. I love it. But if I'm a teammate or I'm a coach, shut up. Do what you need to do first, and then if you want to talk about other things, how about we talk as a group. But man, that felt like, man, this is leadership. Okay, maybe he is throwing himself under the bus, but it doesn't sound like that. You threw three picks. You were at home, you should have won the game. I don't think you should be calling people out. And hey, guys are showing up late to meetings. If you have player only meetings after six weeks, that says an awful lot about your team. Player only meeting after week two, that says an awful out not only about the players, but also so the coaches. All right, seatan what's the poll question today? Oh, by the way, here's Aaron Glenn, he's the head coach of the Jets and Justin Fields. Did he have a zero point zero zero quarterback rating?

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Speaker 4: You can't have a zero. You get like you can.

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Speaker 3: I think you get like fifty two points just for showing up like the SATs.

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Speaker 4: Oh you get like seven hundred.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, here's the question to Aaron Glenn, the Jets head coach on Justin Fields for next week, Justice numbers.

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Speaker 8: Knocking the steam. You know you don't need to be your quarterback next week?

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Speaker 2: Or come on, man, what kind of question is that?

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Speaker 7: Hey, your game, there's a number of guys that you know, I mean sometimes this league is like this and there are guys that have bad games.

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Speaker 4: That doesn't mean you just bench them. Come on, you know better than that.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's a fair question.

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Speaker 4: It is.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Aaron Glenn can act tough and talk about culture and whatever. You know what, that's fair quest. It's Justin Fields. He was sacked nine times and I watch a lot of the game and a lot of those are because of him. Because you hold onto the ball, or you don't get rid of it quick enough, or you try to make something happen with your legs. It feels like every week I talk about this, get the ball out or go down? Get the ball out or go down? First read right there go. Kurt Warner was talking about that one of the greatest quarterbacks at reading quickly getting the ball out. Kurt Warner's saying, you got a guy open right there go. It's well, he's kind of you know, maybe I can know it's right there. And this is the difference between that quarterback who comes out of college into the NFL and I got to do all of this in college in high school to the guy two or three years later who understands I need to get the ball out quickly, read it and react. And Justin Fields was running around and I didn't think the Jets offensive line was that bad. But he threw for forty five yards and he was sacked nine times, so you could see you could feel Aaron Glenn's a little frosty that. How dare you ask me if Justin Fields off that performance is going to be my quarterback next week? All right, Seaton pull question, what are you thinking about?

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Speaker 9: Well, we normally start with who had the worst weekend, but this one I want to start before we can populate who had the worst weekend. We have to figure out if this person actually had a bad weekend or not. James Franklin, did he have a bad weekend? Got fired, lost another one, but is likely going to get picked up pretty soon by a probably pretty good program, and got a massive check for getting fired. Is that a bad weekend?

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Speaker 2: It's an embarrassing weekend. It's like, you know, you have you're a really good guy, but you had one night that you you know, you messed up and you're like, all right, that feels bad, and you wake up the next day and you go all right, and then further along it doesn't feel as bad. I think the embarrassing part of that, and but boy that it'll make you feel a whole lot better with that forty nine million dollars. So I would. I would say it in the moment, had a bad night, bad weekend, lost his job. But bigger picture is you're going to get paid and he'll coach someplace else next year.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, he's going to get that, you know, forty nine million dollars, and then he's going to get hired at a place like Arkansas or something. Who's going to be like, holy crap, we got James Franklin. This is amazing, and he's going to be treated like a savior there. That's how he's going to land on his feet. For getting fired is crazy. I don't know that there is a more lucrative profession than being a failed college football coach.

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Speaker 4: No doubt me.

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Speaker 2: It's the best gig in the world. Yeah, and we'll talk to Rick Neuheisel about that. You know, did they do the right thing because this is mid season and this is where you don't want somebody to win their way back, and he could have won his way back and then now you have a real dilemma as well. Well, I mean, you can always fire him, but this is where this can't continue. But man, you have to ask the alumni in the boosters, Hey, we we have to pony up and pay this guy off. Somebody's got to write a check, yeah, Paul.

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Speaker 3: And this buyout for James Franklin goes back to twenty twenty one. In twenty twenty he was four and five. In twenty twenty one, he was seven and six and people were bailing on him. The current president gave him a ten year extension after a seven and six season, which is still being questioned. By people in Penn State. But the next three years eleven wins, ten wins, thirteen wins. Why a ten year deal after a seven and six season?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean even if he was, you know, had eleven wins, like ten years, it's an eternity, and yes, you may lose your coach, but you gotta be damn sure if you're going to give him a ten year deal. You have to be sure. And I was never sure in it because he didn't win big games. And if that's what you want to be and you want to prove that you belong with Ohio State, in Michigan and Oregon in the Big ten, now Indiana and the big like, you have to you know, hey, we don't put up with this.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 9: See, but I think that he I mean, he got a ten year deal because that's kind of the norm, isn't it. Like you could even go back to Charlie Weiss where he got a ten year deal and then people they just get ten year deals with a monstrous buyout at the end of it, knowing that no one's ever going to see the end of that contract.

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Speaker 2: The life of that contract is. I just don't understand ten years, even for baseball players, like we're giving them a fifteen year deal. Man, there's a lot that can go wrong in fifteen years, ten years with a coach five years, that's the max. Five years. Five years. Then you can establish your identity, you can get your players, we can find out how good you are. Then after that then we can discuss. But man, this is that's expensive divorce. Yeah, Pauline.

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Speaker 3: However, if you're Indiana University, you have to offer your coach Signetti a ten year contract now or someone else will in February.

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Speaker 2: But isn't five years enough.

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Speaker 3: It's like a game that's being played by the agents of college football and everyone's in on the joke. They all work together to get these monster extensions for each other because they know they'll get it elsewhere.

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Speaker 2: But I'm going to give you five, but I'm going to pay you accordingly. Signetti at Indiana is like the sixth highest paid coach in the Big ten. Right, I'm going to pay you in accordance to what you're doing and what you've done with this program. I'm going to give you five years. I don't need to give you ten. Are you here for the bigger picture? Because we're here for this at five years, and he might say or his agent go, hey, why not ten? This guy got ten and that guy got ten. No, college football is changing too rapidly, and you can be really good and then really bad. And I think that's where you have to be careful with falling in love with somebody.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, I mean you look Jimbo Fisher ten year contract, James Franklin obviously, Brian Kelly ten year deal, Kirby Smart ten year extension. They're all getting these ten year contracts to maximize whatever money they could get.

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Speaker 2: All right, your phone call says we always do every Monday, best and worst to the weekend? Up next next Rick Neuheisel, who talked about Bill Belichick over the weekend not coming back for another year in his opinion, and did Penn State do the right thing and firing James Franklin. We're back after this.

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Speaker 2: Ye football coming up tonight. You got the Bills and Falcons. That's a weird matchup, just hearing those two teams, Bills minus four and a half at Atlanta and the getting five and a half at the Commanders. The Bills have the best Super Bowl odds right now, followed by the Chiefs. Packers and the Lions. Didn't take long for the Chiefs all of a sudden to get back up into everybody's graces, and you saw that last night as they pick up the win against the Lions. A couple other things. You know, I'm still marveling over this non call there should have been a holding call with Justin Herbert and he hits Lad McConkey and it's a big gainer. They get the game winning field goal. Should have been a holding call, but they got the win. The Rams handled the Ravens and the Buccaneers over the forty nine ers. So Broncos, Colts, Patriots, Steelers, Panthers, Seahawks, Raiders, Packers all pick up the win. And I'm watching Drake May and I feel like I'm kind of watching Josh Allen's younger brother just to feel size wise makes plays athletic fun to watch. And New England's a good team and it starts with a really good coach. But they're a good team. They're a dangerous team. And you know, Drake May puts up good numbers there and they they will be on the cusp of making the playoffs. I really feel that because the Dolphins aren't good and the Jets aren't good, and maybe you can pick up a couple of wins there and sneak in, but you're watching like I watched the Steelers game and it was just okay. I mean, they're they're good, Like I would say it in a way where I go they're they're good. It's like saying to somebody, you know, you got a nice personality. Yeah, I mean they're not hot. They're not hot, but you got a nice sense of humor. You got a nice personality. That's the feeling. But at this stage of the season, I think we understand who these teams are. We understand who the chiefs and lines are. I still think the Rams are really good, that Chargers are up and down. The Buccaneers are legitimate. I don't know about the Niners because all the injuries and Fred Warner, one of my favorite players, he's done for the year. The Broncos, I mean, you got to win those games. It wasn't pretty, but you got to win those games, and they do. The Colts I think are a playoff team. Patriots I think a playoff team. Steelers Panthers have played pretty well. And there were a lot of people late on Saturday and Sunday who are saying, jump on the Panthers bandwagon. They were getting three and they ran all over the Cowboys, Seahawks in Jacksonville. Great win the Raiders, they beat the Titans. Packers did what you need to do. It wasn't impressive like they've gone from that opening night where they beat the Lions and you're like, yeah too, Okay, they might have a nice personality too, a nice smile. Speaking of the Cowboys losing against the pay through Shan Irving joining us on the program, I shay Fello Danny.

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Speaker 5: One hundred and eighty four points in six weeks, ninety in the last three this eber Flus character. Danny lost everywhere he's ever been. If he had any shame, he would turn himself into ice and self deport Thank god we traded mic Gonna stop the run Danny. Thank god because Ricky Dwdell ran for over one.

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Speaker 2: Hundred and eighty That's what I didn't understand. Aren't they supposed to be a better run defense than they were without Micah Parsons there.

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Speaker 5: Gave up two hundred yards on the ground, Dandy. You know, Dak has to play and he blinked at the end of the game. I'll give you that, But he has to play lights out, perfect, perfect football to even have a shot because the Cowboys are giving up thirty four No matter what, this is not a serious organization. Tank Tank Tank?

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Speaker 2: Can they be a playoff team?

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Speaker 5: You know what really makes me mad Is. Last week I was thinking to myself, well, you know, there's not a real jugger dog in the NFC, and uh, the Cowboys win a couple we might be able to sneak it. No, shake it off. It's poison. They can't do anything, Danny, this is unfixable.

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Speaker 2: You only got a couple of months left. Don't worry about it to rehab. No you're not, thank you, Shay. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: See made Rico Daldell look like, uh.

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Speaker 5: Gail serious?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, Adrian Peterson came out of I was like, dang, who's this dude?

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Speaker 2: Man, this guy's balling. I know I'm watching it. I'm going.

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Speaker 9: Rico Daldell, all right, let's go, kid.

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Speaker 2: This is the guy who used to be a cowboy. Let's go. Yeah. Dang. Oh did you see where I said? If if Jerry Jones accidentally didn't flip somebody off, then he'll appeal the fine. And what happened he didn't be able to find he was flipping somebody off. All right, A couple of phone calls in here. How about Chris and Syracuse? Hey, Chris, good morning, Hey thanks.

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Speaker 11: Dan, Hey, I got the best and worst in the comment and yeah, my comment is just even at a bye week, still a lot of Bill Balichick talking and whoever thought the words unorganized and undisciplined would be attached to a Bill Balichick run football program, And also a lot of talk to still about how is somehow his relationship with his girlfriend is affecting this coaching genius. And I was thinking, Dan, maybe it's like in The Godfather, remember after the Virgio Salutso meeting and the Don polt Santino aside and told him that his brain was going soft from all that comedy's playing with that young girl. And my best Friday night that fifteen five hour marathon in Seattle.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 11: Postseason baseball without ghost Runners is awesome. And my worst Denver Broncos defense able to get a fairis bueld Or nine sacks against the Wi n l Eess Jets.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Chris.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: The Jets had minus ten yards net yards, passing fewest in an NFL game since the Chargers in nineteen ninety eight, which was Ryan Leaf's third career start. Stat of the day. It brought to you by Panadi America, the official trading cards of the program. I was watching the Raiders and Titans, and I know you're probably saying, why I don't I love watching Max Crosby. I just he never ever stops. It's it be called a high motor. He had two sacks. He has ten tackles for losses already this season. So since two thousand, there have been two players to have at least ten tackles for losses in each of the first seven seasons. Uh. That's Jared Allen and Aaron Donald, one Hall of famer and a future Hall of Famer as well. Oh, stall of a day, Stall a day, Statuta day out to day.

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Speaker 10: This is the Stele of the day.

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Speaker 2: Fritzy is reminding me Rick new heiseelo's next hour. I was exciting, excited to talk to him about all this coaching stuff here. So Rick new Heisel will join us next hour.

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Speaker 4: He wants to build up the suspense.

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Speaker 2: Oh, we're promoted for okay, but James Frankly is still fired.

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Speaker 5: He is still fighting.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that is true. Gus in La Hi, Gus, what do you have for me?

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Speaker 8: Good morning, mister Patrick. Hope you and the boys had a great weekend. Oh man, it was a weekend a best all right. We start Friday night, that is what postseason baseball is all about out. I don't care what anybody says that it took too long. That game was awesome from beginning to end. Sad that you know that one team had to lose, but you got to lose. My bestest of the weekend. What's his name? Coach Sharon Moore? Am I saying it right? Or do I care to say it right? I don't care. He there's going to be one hundred thousand people in the coliseum. What do you think of that? He goes, they're only going to be there to watch us. Well, guess what, Coach More, you and every other Michigan fan that was there got to watch a fourth string walk on, non scholarship running back run for one hundred and fifty eight yards all over your team. How do you like me now?

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Speaker 5: Loved?

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Speaker 8: It was great to see USC be dominant against it. And then the final best of the weekend when Dallas loses, America wins. That was beautiful to see. It was the chef's kiss to the weekend. It's the best weekend all around. You boys, have a great week I'm going to watch tonight Game one in fear. Hopefully my Dodgers can get it done all.

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Speaker 2: Right, Thank you, Gus King. Miller rush for one fifty eight and a touchdown in USC's upset over Michigan. It didn't feel like an upset when I was watching it. I wasn't surprised that USC won the game. Maybe how they won the game, but I don't think this is a very good Michigan team. Even though they spend a lot of money on their quarterback. It just doesn't feel Michigan like to see USC run the ball. And this is about that physicality that everybody talks about. With the Big ten and you have the Pac twelve teams, can they be physical enough? Now you saw Indiana be more physical than Oregon, but USC was more physical against Michigan. And there's going to be names that are coming that'll come up. And this is what happens when one coach gets fired. Now your coach could be taking over for that coach, and then that coach could take over for that coach. So Penn State's going to get somebody. It could be Kurt Signetti at Indiana, Matt Rule at Nebraska, Mike Elko at Texas A and m Once again, these are just names that people are throwing out and there are attachments to them. You know, Matt Ruhle played there, live there in high school. Mike Elkoe grew up in Jersey. You know, that'd be a big score at Penn State with what he's done at A and m Signetti at Indiana. Joe Brady's the Bills offensive coordinator. He was the passing coordinator at LSU with Joe Burrow. There'll be a lot of names, and there'll be a lot of coaches who do the following. They'll be up for a job, or they'll be interested in a job, or they'll hear from somebody, and then all of a sudden they get a new deal. I'd be like Lane Kiffin be like yeah, Lane Kiffin will be on a list and then all of a sudden he'll be like, hey, Les Miles was up for the Arkansas job every couple of years because his friend was the athletic director. I believe I'd be like, yeah, Arkansas is looking at me, and then all of a sudden, it's like, Uh, why don't you go to Kansas?

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Speaker 12: You know?

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Speaker 2: Yes, Pauling.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, A guy like Mike Elko who you refer to, he came from Duke. He's in year two at A and M. He's six and oh, so he might get a bump anyway. But you start saying, well, I'm having a conversation with Penn State. It's we got to tack two more years on the back end.

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Speaker 2: Blah blah blah blah blah.

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Speaker 4: It's the dance of college football.

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Speaker 2: I know, I know, and I did wonder about this with James Franklin. If you're going to fire somebody of that magnitude at this point, I know you want to get a head start, but who are you getting. I don't think this is a case where you fire somebody and then you go, we know exactly who we're going to bring in. I mean, I hope it is that you know, but it's too early. Yeah, we're going to get a head start on it. You would have a head start on any other program. They're not going to be a marque program that's going to fire its coach. I can't imagine that, Like, is Michigan going to move on from Sharon Moore? But maybe another year like this and they might. But I'm guessing that you'll still be able to pick who you want at Penn State. And then does Franklin sit out or is he going to take another job? And then if he takes another job, you know, once again it's a domino effect. It's not just one coach got fired, it's somebody's going to get that job and then somebody has to replace them as well. Joe in Jersey, Hi Joe, what's on your mind today?

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Speaker 13: Hi Dan, thanks for taking my call. I would say the best of the weekend probably be the Steelers. I mean they're just winning. That's head saw. They always do things, but their offense it's the best it's look since Big.

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Speaker 14: Ben was there.

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Speaker 2: Okay, and for the worst Dolphins.

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Speaker 13: I mean, you had that game won and you blew it. That's a big coaching difference there, Harbor. They're always buttoned up, and with the Dolphins they don't have any discipline. That's the difference between winning a game and losing a game.

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Speaker 2: As coaching, Yeah, I always look at the last two minutes when you win a game, your quarterback and your coach and clock management being able to do the right thing. You know, it drives me crazy when you get out there and you got three minutes to go and you gotta go fifty yards kick a field goal in the first play, there's a false start. It's unimaginable that you get to the line of scrimmage. All I gotta do, I gotta remember, make sure that I don't jump. That's it, and then do my assignment. That's it. And then you'll see that and you'll go, oh my goodness, yes, Marta. Nothing irritates a coach more because you know the count. You know what's on too. Why did you jump like they don't know if they jump? Okay, but you know the count and the lions. When Arid Golf scores a touchdown last night, Once you score a touchdown and there's no flag on the play and you're lining up to you know, an extra point, and then you throw a flag. No no, no, no, no no, with some archaic rule that you guys screwed up. I'm sorry. You guys pay the price for this. You can't go on once you've scored and you're lining up for the next play. That's in the books, that's the way it should be, and the Lion should have gotten that touchdown. I know there is a rule. They didn't know. It took him four minutes to hey, wait a minute, are they allowed to do that? I don't know. Hey Tommy, come here, Hey Skippy come here, and then they throw a flag and I went no, no, yeah, Paul.

00:32:50
Speaker 3: It's almost like the Lions should have had the right to kick the extra point and move on. You know, like there's a certain time period where you've got to make the call whether it was an illegal play.

00:32:58
Speaker 4: You can't have someone look it up in the boot. Well, I looked up the rule.

00:33:02
Speaker 3: It's an obscure rule that references the t formation of like the thirties and forties, and Jared Goff violated by going under center, pulling out and going in motion, but he really didn't go under center, so they didn't really adjudicate it rightly.

00:33:18
Speaker 2: And then there was this stupid moment after the Chiefs Lions game, Brian branch And hit Juju smith Shuster. Okay, first of all, you're not hurting anybody by hitting him in the helmet, and you had all game to go after him. You had three hours to hit him, so you're going to be gone for a game, and it's just stupid. It's you know, immature that you're doing something like that. And if Juju Smith Shuster did block you from behind, Smith Schuster went up to shake his hand, so I don't know if he went. You know, I did something real egregious here. It was hey, and he puts his hand out. Now all of a sudden, you have this ermish at the end of the game.

00:34:01
Speaker 9: Yeah, I wasn't exactly surprised to find out that somebody punched Juju Smith Schuster in the face after the game. I mean, the dude, he seems to talk a lot, and he did block him in the back, stepped over him, looked at him, talked to him. I'm not surprised at all that Juju Smith Schuster was that guy.

00:34:24
Speaker 2: But you're on the field with him. He's on on offense, you're on defense. You can hit him, hit him in the game. After the game, everybody sees this, and he's going to be gone for a game. Look, they're guys who taunt. They're really good at taunting you. And you can't you can't fall for that.

00:34:45
Speaker 9: And he even at postgame, Juju Smith Schuster is like, I'm sure he'll learn from the mistake. Oh my god, Like god, I want to punch him in the face again.

00:34:55
Speaker 2: Oh you want to punch him?

00:34:57
Speaker 9: No, But like, if I'm that guy, you know I'm like, dang, dude, you know, yeah, did he reach his hand out to shake it?

00:35:03
Speaker 2: Yeah?

00:35:03
Speaker 9: Did he maybe say, Hey, how's your back feeling?

00:35:06
Speaker 2: Shut up? Shut up, dude. But when when football players fight, when they hit each other in the helmet, I'm like, that's stupid.

00:35:14
Speaker 9: I don't I don't think it has anything to do with actually trying to hurt somebody. It's just about smacking somebody in the face. Like sometime, if you're in a street fight and you punch somebody, you're trying to knock them out. But if you're trying to disrespect them, you smack them in the face. That's what that is.

00:35:28
Speaker 5: See.

00:35:29
Speaker 2: I would get right in his face and I would just whisper to it, and I would say, this ain't over. You want to play games, You continue to play games. I will never forget this, and I'm coming after you. Always keep your head on a swivel. Hey look at me, I'm coming at you, you little punk ass.

00:35:47
Speaker 4: Do you have enough time to get all that in?

00:35:48
Speaker 5: Yes?

00:35:49
Speaker 2: I think I do. A lot of stadium post came I might I might have to. Hey hold on, hey stay here, I'm not done yet. Hey, Hey, how does my breath Smill. That's right. Let's let's take a break.

00:36:01
Speaker 9: Hey, I'm coming after you.

00:36:04
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00:37:49
Speaker 9: Yeah, I sure, Ken. Did James Franklin have a bad weekend?

00:37:52
Speaker 2: Yes or no? Right now?

00:37:54
Speaker 9: Sixty four percent of the audience say no, excuse me?

00:37:57
Speaker 2: Said yes, he did have a bad weekend.

00:37:59
Speaker 8: OK.

00:38:00
Speaker 9: Yeah, I don't know if I just if I agree with that.

00:38:02
Speaker 2: You think that he had a good weekend.

00:38:05
Speaker 9: Well, I don't know if he had a good weekend, but it definitely wasn't bad. All right, Well it didn't work out of Penn State. I'm gonna go catch this big ass check and then go wait in line for the next one that someone's gonna throw at me. That's not the worst thing, Paul.

00:38:19
Speaker 4: I see what Seten is saying.

00:38:20
Speaker 3: He both got paid, but his future at Penn State was going this direction no matter what. Clearly might as well pull the band aid. He has a chance to get out of this reputation as not being a big game coach. Let's say he goes to Arkansas or blank or blank. He can make ten more good years and that this will be an afterthought.

00:38:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that doesn't mean he's gonna win big games. No, but maybe he went to Arkansas. You had a better chance to win big games at Penn State, and he did Arkansas.

00:38:47
Speaker 3: Yes, I just think that it was going to happen anyway. Let's pull the band aid.

00:38:52
Speaker 2: He just might be a good coach, not a great coach, but a good coach, and he did a great job at Penn State to have them relevant. I never ever gonna give somebody a ten year deal.

00:39:04
Speaker 5: Never.

00:39:06
Speaker 2: David in Ohio, Hi David, what's on your mind today?

00:39:10
Speaker 14: Hey Dan, thanks for taking my call. I got a two best of the weekend. First, we brought our baby home from the nick you so that's very exciting. Your show got us through it even summer Fritzy's rhymetime. Second best of the weekend, My Steelers won, Brownslues Bengals Louse Ravens Lou's is a clean sweep for Steelers fans.

00:39:31
Speaker 2: And I don't I'm like Shay, I don't.

00:39:33
Speaker 14: Need heaters and side codes to get me through my Sunday.

00:39:37
Speaker 2: Thank you, all right, David? Yeah, yeah, I watched some of the Steelers game, you know, Aaron Rodd. I love when Rogers rolls right and he always does that little kind of throw off at his back foot, you know, or heels, and he just kind of somehow flicks it in there. It was nice. Everything's going well, you know, not great, but then that's okay. All you got to do is be good in the AFC Nord. Just be good or don't be average, be just a little bit above and you're gonna be fine. Ravens are a mess, though. I can't pin all this on Lamar Jackson.

00:40:15
Speaker 4: Yes, Mormon, but then the Stills need to win a playoff game. That is true, because all of it is for not if they don't.

00:40:20
Speaker 2: That is true. Matt in South Bend, Hi, Matt, what's on your mind?

00:40:25
Speaker 12: Hey? Good morning, Dan and Dan Edge. Thanks for taking my call. All of South Bend is pumped up to have you guys here this week, and I just wanted to pay my debt on time. An as seat in what flavor pie I need to bring so you can give me the pie to the face. All right, seating, you got a particular pie that you're gonna smash, Matt.

00:40:47
Speaker 9: Let's see what's in season right now? Is this more of a pumpkin more of an apple situation?

00:40:53
Speaker 5: Apple?

00:40:54
Speaker 4: Blueberry's out?

00:40:55
Speaker 2: Blueberry?

00:40:55
Speaker 9: Right, that's more of a summer pie. If I'm not mistaken, Maybe we'll go pumpkin.

00:41:00
Speaker 2: Oh, I hate to do that to a pumpkin pie, like you pick. I mean you had the bet with Matt, so you want pumpkin.

00:41:07
Speaker 9: Yeah, sure, let's go pumpkin pie, all right, Matt, Matt, my pumpkin.

00:41:10
Speaker 2: Matt, Matt, Matt's your little pumpkin all right, So pumpkin pie. Matt and Seaton will smash in the.

00:41:17
Speaker 12: Face pumpkin pie. I'll bring two, one to eat and one get smashed.

00:41:21
Speaker 2: I like it. I like it, buddy.

00:41:23
Speaker 5: Yeah.

00:41:23
Speaker 2: We'll be in South ben on Thursday and Friday. Join us. We'll be right outside Legends there right on campus. One hour in the books, two more to go, Rick Neuheisel. They'll talk about James Franklin being fired and also Bill Belichick. He doesn't think we'll be around for season two. John Smoltz will join us get us ready for playoff baseball after this