Hour 1 – Cowboys Effectively Eliminated, LeBron Double-Digit Streak Ends

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Speaker 2: Eight seven to seven three DP Show Email addressdpat Danpatrick dot com, Twitter handle the DP Show. Come up with a pole question, play the day, stat of the Day. All of that forthcoming stat of the Day has always brought you by Benini America, the official trading cards of the program. First Hour brought to you by Mako. Most cars on the road could use a little TLC and Mako they bring your car back to life with affordable paint joms like colision repairs. Get a free estimate today, Uh oh, better get Mako Tailgate Moonshine. The only plays to get the autograph calendars We've added a few more stocking stuffers in there. But if you go to Danpatrick dot com click on Tailgate you can place an order. Has to be in by December eighth, so you get it in time for the holidays. We'll talk to our good buddy Ross Tucker. He was on the radio call last night as the Lions with a big win over the Cowboys, and they're both still fascinating stories. When you think about where the Cowboys are and maybe they play spoiler, I think their chances of making the playoffs are now reduced to seven percent according to the NFL. The Lions playoff probability increased to fifty four percent. But let's handicap the Cowboys now because they have to win out and even if they went out, that's probably not going to be enough. They got the Vikings, they got the Chargers Commanders, and they got the Giants. They can win all of those games, especially if you're hosting the Chargers at the Giants the Vikings. So it's not exactly Murderer's row here, but you got to win out and even ten wins probably not going to be enough. And you wonder if that tie that they had is going to come back to haunt them, not Grant and they could have lost that game. But if you win that game, now, all of a sudden, your probability goes up a little bit more than seven percent. But we were praising that defense. Defense stopped the run, but it didn't stop the pass as Jared Goff threw for over three hundred yards. Aman Ross Saint Brown playing was big. I thought they were going to sit him and then give him ten days to rest, but he came back and that was one of those emotional boosts having him out there. Jamiir Gibbs once again only does his score touchdowns and that's a big, big win for the Lions in a very competitive and NFC North eight seven to seven three DP Show email address Dpadanpatrick dot com, Twitter handle at DP show. Good morning if you're watching on Peacock Seaton will do the honors of the poll question from the first hour of the program. What are you thinking?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Paul sent in a bunch of them here. We can start with a pretty easy one. Who do you pick to win the NFC today? Okay, I keep shifting.

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Speaker 2: A little bit. Yeah, I don't know if there's I don't think there's a great team in the NFL, but there's a lot of traffic with the NFC because I can look at Seattle in the Rams and the Niners. There's no better division than that. The Chiefs are still dangerous Chargers, I'm just not sure about certainly with the injury with Justin Herbert. And then you got Denver, which is a great defensive team, but you know you're gonna have to outscore somebody once you get to the postseason. But yeah, you're trying to handicap this. I just don't know if there's a great team right now. I mean I still have the Lions and the Chiefs, and both of those may not make the playoffs. Yes, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 5: When you look at the NFC West, it's interesting because there's a lot of good records there, but not a lot of teams that scare you.

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Speaker 2: You know, I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I mean, the Rams are great, but I don't know that the forty nine Ers make me nervous. I don't really know that the Seahawks make me nervous either.

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Speaker 2: The Seahawks would make me nervous if you're playing in Seattle. The Rams would make me nervous no matter where they go. I do think they're a really good team. Trying to think of anybody else. Are you sold on the Bears? Are you sold on the Packers? Are you sold on the Lions? Yes, Pauling.

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Speaker 6: It does feel like the Seahawks are playing great, but the Sam Darnald I.

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Speaker 3: Believe in them, feel from last year.

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Speaker 6: And it's not fair because you know him, first team all Sam Darnald, but nationally he's playing great. They're playing great, but it's like, well, he's great in the regular season, what will he be in January? And that kind of just overlaps their whole team.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the Bills, I don't think they're great. I think they can play really well. Buccaneers, Seahawks, Jags, Colts. I don't think anybody believes in either one of those two teams. There's some bad games coming up this weekend, some bad matchups because you got but you know, the Colts and Jags is interesting, but then you got Dolphins, Jets, Titans, Browns, Commanders, Vikings, Bengals at the Bills will be interesting. Let's see what else Rams, Cardinals, Bears, Packers is good and Texans and the Chiefs that's good as well. Something interesting happened yesterday. Now, I thought the Lions were going to win, but the line was three, so the Cowboys were getting three and I thought okay, And then it went up to three and a half and I thought, okay, what changed here? And I don't know if that's you know, I'm on Ross Saint Brown coming back, or when somebody got word of that, but all of a sudden it went up to three and a half. And if if you're a gambler or a reform gambler, then you're always looking for those kind of last minute changes in the point spread. But Dallas had their opportunities, but that defense was not what we thought they were going to be. Once again, you can stop the run, but if you have some kind of pass rush, you know, then you can at least mitigate the damage that the offense is going to do passing wise, and Jared Goff throws for three hundred yards. If he's thrown for three hundred yards, you're going to lose. But the offense is there. We know that. It's just the defense has to be. You have to be more than adequate now, and it cost them last night, because if they win last night, you may eliminate the Lions, and you're going to increase your chances of still staying in the playoff picture. What other poll questions do we have, Seaton.

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Speaker 5: Let's see, would you rather your team have the best wide receiver in the league or the best kicker?

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Speaker 2: Okay, PAULI wrote this because you have the cowboy situation and you have the Brandon Aubrey who pretty much I'm guessing anything inside seventy is in his range. I mean it's he's a restricted free agent. He's making a million dollars. I think he's going to be up there in the Harrison Butker salary neighborhood of around five million dollars. As far as Cede Lamb or George Pickens, well, i'd rather have a great kicker. I don't want. I don't want George Pickens. Now Ceedee Lamb. I would take Ceedee Lamb. George Pickens. I need to see another year. I do. And you know, he's great, He's been great. But he had a couple of moments there last night that made me just a little bit nervous, just a little nervous there. I probably franchise him. I don't know if I want to be giving him thirty million dollars a year, but I would take I mean Brandon Aubrey. There's nobody like him in the NFL. There are receivers like George Pickens in the NFL. Brandon Aubrey to me is you know that's money from seventy yards in and plus you get these new kickoffs. Now, if you get the ball through the thirty five, you get two first downs. Aubrey's in field goal range. Yes, Paulie.

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Speaker 6: Brandon Aubrey's becoming automatic from plus sixty plus. There have been fifteen field goals from sixty three or more in NFL history, the entire history of league. He's got three of them, and the one he had last night had another five yards behind it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: And he's had that happen a couple times too, actually, where he's put one through and they're like, dang man, that was a long ass field goal and it had another five yards to go easy, Yeah, Pauli.

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Speaker 6: In the past forty years before like Brandon Aubery joined the league, kickers were six for eighty two from sixty plus. He's six for nine from sixty plus in his career.

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Speaker 3: That's silly.

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Speaker 2: The Cowboys are allowing just under thirty points per game, so they're on pace still. You know how bad they were at the beginning of the year. They're going to probably get to where the Cowboys were the first year they came into the league nineteen sixty when they allowed just over or just under thirty one points per game.

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Speaker 5: Wood cow stand of a day, Stanna day, Statuta day, Stantata day.

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Speaker 3: This is the stant of the day.

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Speaker 2: Launch you by Panini America. And the Lions have been really good at blowing people out since the start of last season. They have fourteen wins by double digits. That's the most in the NFL. All right, we'll get to phone calls. Tyler sitting by, take your calls there. We got college football coming up this weekend. Penn State might be zeroing in on their head coach, Matt Campbell at Iowa State. Maybe this was the plan all along. Maybe this is what they were talking about. And I mentioned this yesterday that they have an interim head coach, and I was told last night they told the interim head coach, hey, you're free to move around, move about the cabin. Penn State has now apparently authorized Terry Smith to interview for other jobs, so he's going to be in the mix for some of the backfill openings, and that means Michigan Penn State does not have a head coach. If he's going to be looking at another job, and maybe it's Matt Campbell, it certainly sounds like they have put all their efforts and money into bringing him. Enticing now he's been up for other jobs, big jobs in college football and also the NFL. He's an Ohio guy. He's a massline Ohio guy, big football powerhouse up there towards Cleveland, and maybe just Penn State will find their head coach.

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Speaker 7: Yes, Ton, nothing makes you feel more loved and wanted then, you know, feel free to look at the other opportunities.

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Speaker 3: That's good with us.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and this guy's probably Terry Smith going, Hey, I'm the head coach at Penn State. Not so fast, you know, not so fast. You're free to talk to anybody you want to. Uhuh, we actually encourage you.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: That leads me to believe that Penn State is going to zero win and get Matt Campbell, because I if not, I would not be telling the interim head coach. Okay, feel free go flirt with whoever you want to all right, let's see Kevin in Austin. Hi, Kevin, lead us off. What's on your mind?

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Speaker 8: Hey, DP, I've got three things for you. One, I want to say thanks for the calendar. I just got it in the mail, signed by all five of you guys, some really horrifying months with Chrissy. Can't hang that in the office. Then I want to go over my Cowboys just real quick. You know, you see what a number one receiver looks like with monros Saint Brown on one leg versus what George Merton Hanks picking with the ski mask last night and his effort. And then lastly, we are coming up on a week out from Honka, and I want to know if Todd is ready with the sports names?

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Speaker 7: Oh, Todd Monica sports names. Yeah, I think we did that a while back. We can revisit that, say, if we can come up with some new ones.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's when I came up with Hanikah Sorenstain. Yeah that was an excellent Yeah. I thought that was a walk off. Yeah, I was a one and Donner there. Thanks for the phone call, Kevin.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Paul drado Bly the former defensive back.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, dre BLI This in from Tom Pelaso from NFL Network. The defensive back Brian Branch. The Lions feared to have suffered an achilles injury last night, and Branch will have further tests this morning. But that's according to Tom Pellicera. Nothing confirmed there, but feared to have suffered an achilles injury. Buddha in San Francisco, Good morning, Buddha, what's on your mind?

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Speaker 9: No, no, buddy, every day the Super Bowl Boys, let's go, Dan looking shark there from the main Cave and Dan, if I'm Jerry Jones, I'm paying Brandon Aubrey right now, let's go, like, don't mess around. I mean, I'm sure, I'm sure he'll mess it up somehow and sign Harrison Bucker for some reason. But when I actually root for the Cowboys, then that's when they lose. And so as my boy and Gus in La says, when the Cowboys lose, America wins. And then I wanted to call in and just say, I am so tired of everyone crying. Everyone's crying already about their teams not making the college football playoffs. I mean, it's like it's it's terrible. It's like everybody's already like saying like they're getting jobs or outed, and it's just like the whole notion of everyone not making their fan base, is not making the college go out playoffs.

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Speaker 4: It's killing me.

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Speaker 2: Smalls man, Thank you Buddha. There is an Oh woe is me? A couple of Notre Dame friends and they're like, give me some positive news here. And I said, I think it's going to be tough sledding here, but I mean they may squeak in, but it's this isn't a foregone conclusion. You got college football games coming up tonight, certainly Saturday. We'll look at the weekend and some of the big matchups and the most must win game of the weekend as well more phone calls coming up. We'll talk to Ross Tucker. Ross was on the radio call in Detroit with the Cowboys and the Lions. We'll talk to him a little bit later on. We're back after this Friday edition. Dan and the Dan That's Dan Patrick Show.

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Speaker 2: I was mesmerized by you, Marvin. I'm just sitting here staring at you, and I thought, oh, that's right. I got a job to do. Still driving that trusty old ride, keep it looking sharp with Mako from Denz Dings Faded Paint. I got you covered. Get a free estimate today? Uh oh, better get Mako more of your phone calls. We'll decide on our poll question college football tonight and coming up this weekend. Also, we'll play the most must win game of the weekend. Chris, is this christ and Syracuse joining us? I don't have a city. Where is this Christ and Syracuse? Yes it is Dan?

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Speaker 11: Thank okay, thanks, thanks Dan.

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Speaker 12: Hey.

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Speaker 11: I want to comment on the Cowboys and the Lakers. I think after last night, Jerry Jones isn't going to be able to control himself. He's thinking next year. At his age, it's his year, and he's going to go for it. And I know it's a lot of cap money to have tied up a wide receiver, but I bet you he obviously signs Aubrey and he'll sign George Pickens and that will give him a top offense in the league for sure. In their D it didn't look like it last night, but their D isn't bad. And you have two first round picks, and if you spend that on the defensive side of the ball, maybe the second and third round pick. He gets some manageable rookie contracts in there, and you got Turpin return game sand kicks offs is good. And like you guys said, weapon wise, Ban Broad and Brandon Aubrey, there's nobody like him. And yeah, it should be the most talented Cowboy team since Stacks rookie year. And the Lakers beat the Raptors last night in dramatic fashion. And Lebron James is incredible. Double digit point streak I think it was twelve ninety seven came.

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Speaker 12: To an end.

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Speaker 11: And yeah, with injuries this year coupled with father time, Yeah, Lebron seems to be really slow and down and yeah, and the Great Debate. I'll always take Michael Jordan, but if you factor in longevity, there's never been a player like Lebron James. And I think it'd be pretty cool if you went out with a ring this year, because I got a feeling this maybe his last.

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Speaker 2: Thank you Christ and Syracuse. Yeah, Lebron ninety seven games where he scored in double digits. He's getting a lot of credit because three seconds to go he had a chance. He had the ball in his hands and he drove and kicked out to Rory Mura. Easy for me to say, that's ruey Hadji Mura. Is that right? That is correct? Okay, thank you. He kicked it out for him. He hit the three and they ended up winning the game.

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Speaker 6: Yes, poet, I'm kind of glad the streak ended because I didn't know he had that streak. It's not like public knowledge. And I saw that last Time'm like, oh my god, that's nuts. Not to have one game where you just not just off night, but like Hammy in the second half, cramp up, leave, that's really nutty.

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Speaker 2: Well, the previous game he had to go right down to the wire, staying in a game, getting blown out to try to get to ten points. Yes, Marvin, the.

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Speaker 13: Last time he scored under ten points, Mike Tomlin wasn't the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Speaker 2: Nice. I don't know if the iPhone had been invented. I think Cooper Flag was only two weeks old. Yeah, it's been a long time there, and uh yeah, we're going to look at Lebron the totality of his career and it'll be hard to argue that that's not the best player of all time. And I still go back and I don't want to get into the argument. I just want to point this out again. If I'm an owner of a team and I get Mike and I'm going to get him for let's say thirteen years, or I'm going to get Lebron for twenty one to twenty two years. As a businessman, I'm going to take twenty one twenty two years at a really high level. And I think he was second team All NBA last year. Now has he fallen off? Yes, I don't know how healthy he is, but has not looked good some of the shots that he's taken that you would think that he would make or getting to the hoop. He just doesn't look very comfortable out there. And plus I think he's trying to find himself with this offense. When you're watching that game, you're watching and you're going, Okay, Austin Reeves is going to get his shots. Luke's not there. I think birth of his second child. But so you know, Lebron's trying to figure out how does he fit in with his team? And I think that's what's going to be fascinating to watch because they were a good team when Lebron wasn't playing, and now that he's back, his job that I think is to blend in and not say I'm back. Everything goes through me.

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Speaker 13: Yes, Mark, But don't you think Lebron would announce his last season before the season started so he can get the farewell tour a La Kobe, Kareem Abdul Jabbarg Michael Jordan.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I would think that he would, but he might not know or didn't plan on this being his last year. You might find out during the season. Damn, I don't want to go. I don't know if I could play another game or another season I should say, But yes, I don't think he went into this season feeling like this is my last one, because he's probably thinking I get a full year with Luca, and I like our chances here. Yeah, Paul, I was just looking at.

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Speaker 6: The standings and quietly these thunder are twenty one and one. They're winning their games by fifteen and a half points. They've got sixty games left. They would have to go what forty forty eight wins out of the next sixty games to set the all time record.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I don't want the all time record if I'm okay, See.

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Speaker 3: They may not.

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Speaker 6: They may stumble into it by the math of it. Twenty one and.

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Speaker 2: One, Yeah, but I don't. I would not set that as the goal. The goal is to win another title, not to have the best regular season record if you happen to get that, Okay, but I've seen that when you know Golden State, you put all your efforts into it and then all of a sudden. Now granted it took a heroic effort for you know, Cleveland to beat them, but the regular season, as Greg Popovich has pointed out many many times in previous seasons, doesn't mean anything. Just get to the postseason and win a title, yes, Mark, But.

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Speaker 13: If you could kill two birds of one stone and win seventy four games, you would do it, right.

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Speaker 2: I just I don't want to tax my team. I want to win championships. That's it's all I care about. I don't care. You know how many wins were going to happen, yes, Mark.

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Speaker 13: But they're mop in the competition, so it's not like they're winning a bunch of games by one point. The other Jalen Williams is getting a bunch of run because they're beating these teams by fifteen twenty points every night.

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Speaker 2: I know, I know, yeah, Pauling.

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Speaker 6: I went back to the fifteen sixteen season to look at the Warriors. They started twenty four and oh. The twenty fourth win was at Boston, double overtime, and then the next night, in a back to back where they had to go to Milwaukee, they lost by ten points and they were twenty four and one. That was their first loss.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I remember, you know when the Lakers won thirty three in a row and you put so much effort into that. That was like nineteen seventy two. But you know, you have to win every game, and just I think it taxes these teams trying to do that, and you know, go back to Golden State. They got caught up. They were going to pass the bulls. They were going to win. Seventy three didn't win the title that year. And really that's when everybody says, oh, how many did they win? All they won?

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Speaker 9: That?

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Speaker 2: Did they win the title? That's all I care about.

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Speaker 13: Yes, Marvin, it's all good because Oklahoma City, they're all under twenty five years old anyway, so they're young leads. They have eighteen draft picks coming up, all in the lottery. They're good for the next five years.

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Speaker 2: Paul in Center City, Paul, where is Center City?

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Speaker 14: Center City is north of the Twin Cities, about forty minutes. It's called Center City because they're in between Chicago Lakes and the border of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Taylor's Falls and Saint Croix Falls. All right, So hey, first time sometime uh six one twenty five. I keep seeing these field goals being made so easily, and Aubrey looks like he's just meanting chip shots. And I know you guys have talked about this him and anyone suggested bringing the hashes back to what they used to be. Why they ever brought them together I never liked. And you bring them out and get rid of the CA ball, I think it's going to add at least another dimension of strategy and harder.

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Speaker 2: Well, college they have those hash marks out so wide, and these are college kickers. The pros they made it easier. This is what we were talking about earlier this morning. What if you raised the crossbar three feet Therefore, these sixty yard field goals, now that affects them. But you know, once again we're getting back to penalizing somebody for being great. We are trying to penalize the Eagles for being great with the tush push. I just don't know if you want to get into the practice of that, because it's like, hey, they're really good. Nobody's doing that. When somebody's throwing fifty touchdown passes. They don't say, you know what, we should let the defense get away with something here. Nobody does that. We just don't want games where it's a tush push or it's going to be a field goal. You know, the NFL's in the entertainment business. Uh okay, here comes another field goal. Although he is incredible with what he's do but now it feels like, well, we don't want games to be decided this way, but they've been decided this way. Super Bowls have been decided this way. It just he's really good at what he does and we don't like that.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Pauling, I think it's though affecting the end of games with the touchback.

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Speaker 3: Now going to the thirty five.

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Speaker 6: If you're Dallas or a team with a high end kicker, you need twenty five maybe thirty yards for a field goal.

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Speaker 3: That's not even in question.

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Speaker 6: The NFL doesn't like when things go awry like this, like the ten years ago with the extra point, you raise up the crossbar three feet. Now you've made fifty plus a lot harder and a lot less easy wins at the end for a field goal kicker.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I just don't like penalizing somebody who's great at what they do. I mean, did we say, man, Steph Curry's ruining the NBA. We need to move the three point shot back even further. I mean it, Brandon Aubrey has mastered this and should be given credit for that. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I kind of feel like we have talked about how the three pointer is ruining the game and it needs to be addressed.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but what do you do. Are you gonna move it back and then you're gonna get even worse. You're gonna get worse basketball because they're still gonna shoot the three. But I I can't penalize Steph Curry because he does He does this better than anybody in history. It's like, oh, who wants to see three pointers?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Paul, And they really can't change the three point line any further back than it is. If you look at the corners that corner spot, there's no room. You got like three feet or your heels are out of bounds.

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Speaker 2: Right, Well, you would have to extend it towards the center core, right, you wouldn't. You can't do it on the on the sock exactly.

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Speaker 6: But that would make this shot almost oblong, where it's two feet shorter from the sides than it would be from the top of the key.

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Speaker 5: And it actually makes it better for Steph and people like him, where most people can't hit it, except for like Steph Dame and like three other dudes who regularly shoot.

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Speaker 2: Them from that far anyway. Yeah, yeah, paulin we did talk about it.

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Speaker 6: I think it was just yesterday's sports history when they uh, lowered the pitchure mount raised the pitcher mount.

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Speaker 3: They raised it right, or they lowered.

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Speaker 6: They lowered it to help the offense, and that was a penalty for the pitchers. It would be kind of similar if they did that for the kickers.

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Speaker 2: Well, everything is supposed to be for the offense, because the leading hitter in nineteen sixty eight was three oh one, so you only had one guy batting three hundred in the American League. It was Kari Yustremsky three oh one won the batting title. But then they dropped it from fifteen the mound fifteen inches down to ten inches and then all of a sudden, offense flourished after that. Mike and Wisconsin. Hi, Mike, what's on your mind today? A bree Hey Mike.

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Speaker 8: Well, Mike, I've been meaning the call.

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Speaker 2: For a while, but lines are busy.

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Speaker 9: I'm a garbage man out here in Wisconsin, and I got nineteen investigation already, h already.

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Speaker 8: Did all the research.

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Speaker 12: If you go to September seventeenth.

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Speaker 8: Last hour, last segment, Seaton agreed to take Penn State to beat Oregon first Bright.

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Speaker 2: Tan oh, okay, I'm gonna have to get the itam on that, Seaton, do you owe us a spray tan? According to Mike and Wisconsin, it's possible. It's possible.

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Speaker 5: I don't remember that, but I'm not denying that it happened.

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Speaker 2: We do have a lot of these bets, but they they are I don't know. Mario I think writes them down. He's supposed to or he has before. So Mike will check on that and if so, Seaton will get that spray tan before the Oregon Penn State Penn State. Yeah, why would you have taken Penn State against a good team?

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Speaker 5: Gotta admit I really have no idea. I mean, it sounds like something I would think was smart sports wise, but yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. Let's Nathan in Kansas. Hi, Nathan, what's on your mind?

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Speaker 12: Hey?

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Speaker 4: DP, first time caller. I love the show six five to sixty. Hey, I was going to run a college football playoff format for you guys and get your opinion first. It would take some oversight, which I think we all agree needs to happen, but essentially, have ten team conferences where everybody plays everybody in their conference.

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Speaker 15: So there's no more of the who would have, could have, should have debates, and then you double the conference championship game, take the first top two teams in that conference, and double it as the College Football Playoff first round and have six or seven, you know, ten team conferences.

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Speaker 8: What do you guys think?

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Speaker 2: Too much math for me on a Friday, Nathan gotta be honest with you.

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Speaker 6: Yes, Paul Dan, the IT team is scrambling to find out what the bet from September with Seaton Oregon Penn State was legit. I did look bad and going into that weekend, Penn State was the number three ranked team in the country in Oregon was number six, and it was a double overtime victory by Oregon.

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Speaker 3: Man, that a different world back then.

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Speaker 5: You know, I probably could have too. They have a tight end that I like a lot, Luke Reynolds. It's very possible that I would have been like, oh yeah, I'll go with Penn State just for that guy.

00:30:20
Speaker 2: It's possible I could use a little a little color.

00:30:23
Speaker 3: That touch up.

00:30:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, heading into the holidays. Yeah, oh yeah, Sorr. Yeah, I just got back from vacation.

00:30:28
Speaker 3: Yeah, I sell you a Maco.

00:30:29
Speaker 2: To get that. Uh. Sam in Los Angeles?

00:30:33
Speaker 14: Hi, Sam, Hi, good morning, Thanks for taking my call the first time long time five seven, one sixty.

00:30:43
Speaker 16: Yeah, and the animals of crappers Crappersburg State Football. The ones were rumblings and movements in the operations. They head of Operations Police Klino scoped up video that he caught wind of. It showed how to opony's opponents shape their practices using a six person crew. This was turned over to the governing body and that brought about stiff penalties. The sanctioned the opponents and scholarship fund. This incident was termed crossis Gate.

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Speaker 2: All right, thank you, Sam Grappensburg State thirty on that for sure. Yeah, I'm not quite sure. I'm wasn't able to follow. Once again, I'm a little drugged up today. It's a Friday. So maybe Paul can decipher that you're not a little drugged up because it's a Friday.

00:31:35
Speaker 5: You're a little druged up because you're not feeling well and it happens to be Friday.

00:31:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, right, that's what I think.

00:31:40
Speaker 3: It's medication Friday.

00:31:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, like, yes, we.

00:31:43
Speaker 5: All get drugged up on Fridays.

00:31:45
Speaker 2: No, no, not anymore. Okay, yes, Todd, I don't think.

00:31:48
Speaker 7: Any of us are drugged up right now, But I don't think any of us followed a lot of the just transpired.

00:31:52
Speaker 2: There a thank you, Tod. All right, how about we take a break here, We'll get some more phone calls coming up ross Tucker, our good buddy. Next down, we're back after this with our play of the day.

00:32:03
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00:32:15
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00:32:18
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00:32:29
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00:32:40
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00:32:44
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00:33:12
Speaker 5: Yeah, put up there. Would you rather your team have the best wide receiver or the best kicker? Seventy one percent have wide receiver.

00:33:17
Speaker 2: Okay, Well if you said I can have Justin Jefferson or Brandon Aubrey. What if you posed it that way, or you said you can have CD Lamb, you could have Brandon Aubrey. Would that change people's opinion that everybody's all in on a wide receiver? But these games? How many one score games have we had this season? I think we're at an all time high. It comes down to one score. And if you got that guy who can tie a game or win a game and you know, anything inside seventy yards, I mean, that's an incredible weapon to have. David in Ohio, Hi David, what's on your mind today?

00:34:00
Speaker 18: Good morning, Dan, Happy to meet Friday.

00:34:01
Speaker 8: I got some.

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00:34:32
Speaker 2: Thank you all right, thank you, David Little Cowboys roast There Todd in North Carolina, Hi, Todd, what's on your mind today today?

00:34:42
Speaker 19: Guys? I was just with all this talk about field goal kicking and the explosion of the passing attack in the last several decades, what do you think the game would be like if they moved the field goal post back to where the cross bar was even with the goal line.

00:34:59
Speaker 2: So move it back ten yards, move it.

00:35:02
Speaker 19: Forward so that the cross bars even with the goal line, and the post is right in the middle of the end zone.

00:35:06
Speaker 2: Like it used to be. Oh no, no, because you had guys who got hurt running into the post there.

00:35:15
Speaker 6: Yes, when I was a kid, I used to nerd out on those NFL films and I see, like.

00:35:20
Speaker 3: The old Chiefs players or Eagles players.

00:35:22
Speaker 6: And the goal post was right in the middle of the end zone. It was like a natural pick. And I love that it was there for years, for decades. And someone goes you know what, this might be a hazard. And they had some meeting and someone probably called someone soft.

00:35:35
Speaker 2: It's like you're going, uh wow, that you got to navigate around that thing.

00:35:41
Speaker 5: Because it was somebody's decision at some point, like much to Paul's thought, like wait, why don't we get rid of it? Somebody was like, where should we put this thing off to the side. No, no, no, put it right in the middle of the end zone, right in the middle. Make them run around it.

00:35:53
Speaker 2: It'll be proud.

00:35:54
Speaker 3: We'll put a pad on it. We got to put a pad on it.

00:35:57
Speaker 2: I'm always amazed though. You go back and watch old school baseball and they would have like a brick wall in the outfield, you know, no padding whatsoever. And I kept thinking, why not have some padding there? No, No, that takes away from the aesthetics of baseball. It's like Nascar. You know, they weren't going to have any padding. Oh, we don't need padding. And then all of a sudden they go, you know, maybe it's okay to have padding. You see these big helmets now, the protective helmets, Like that's eventually coming and we'll be fine with it, you know, because we will. I think we initially object we go, oh my god, this looks terrible, and then after that they're going to modify and make them look a little more aesthetically pleasing, and then we'll be like, all right, and then we'll move on to something else that we can complain about. Yeah. Home.

00:36:46
Speaker 6: I went back and looked at the history of the NFL, and up until the mid sixties, the goalpost used to have two bases in the end zone, so there's two places for you to get picked or hit. And then some guy goes, you know what, We're gonna cut it down to one and really protect these players.

00:36:59
Speaker 2: In the mid sixth Anthony in Phoenix, Hi, Anthony, what's on your mind?

00:37:05
Speaker 17: Hey Dan? Dan, it's uh just uh I'm uh waiting in at six to one and a kurvy two hundred pounds.

00:37:20
Speaker 12: A couple of items Forria one. I got a I got a honic a sports name. Maybe help out Todd's inventory there, m h manny Chevitz, Machado. Why not?

00:37:32
Speaker 2: All right?

00:37:34
Speaker 8: Yeah?

00:37:36
Speaker 12: And then uh, I had a question for you, Dan about my uh my beloved Arizona Cardinals. Is it just time for them to move on from Tyler Murray?

00:37:45
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I believe so I think they're in the process of doing that. Certainly feels that way. Jamison in Colorado A Jamison.

00:37:58
Speaker 8: Hey Dan six foot and not drug good. Okay, Hey, Hey, I was thinking about something yesterday regarding a name for the penn stage job. I'm surprised I have not heard more and I'm wondering maybe if you know something, maybe I'm not thinking about out here. But the current defensive coordinator for the Bengals is Al Golden. He played at Penn State, was the defense coordinator nor dame coach at Temple right there in Pennsylvania. There's something I'm just I'm just surprised we're not hearing that anymore.

00:38:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, somebody brought that up to me yesterday after the show, brought up his name. But yeah, it didn't get any traction or hasn't gotten any traction. Feels like it's, uh, you know, Matt Campbell's job if he wants it, and how enticing are they going to make it? Plus you're going in you're already behind everybody else in the Big ten as far as recruiting goes, Yes, Marvin.

00:38:51
Speaker 13: When Penn State fired James Franklin, who who did they think they were going to get to replace him.

00:38:58
Speaker 2: I don't know if they thought about that. I think it's we got to fire him and then we'll worry about that later because we're Penn State and there's going to be a bunch of people waiting in line for this job. And then all of a sudden they realized it's not as coveted as they thought it was going to be, because you can't get to this point. Now, what do we fifty four fifty five days since James Franklin was fired and you're begging Matt Campbell to leave Iowa State. That's not the way it was scripted.

00:39:27
Speaker 6: Yeah, Paul, it totally feels like after losing to UCLA and Northwestern back to back, the national fervor was out of hand, and I'll bet you the boosters or whoever the collective said we got to do this now because let's say the next three weeks you beat Iowa and maybe you score a win against Ohio State, then that window to fire the coach that they've been talking about is over.

00:39:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, because if the narrative is he doesn't win the big game, and then he wins the big game, and then what is your reasoning your rationale after that. But look, if they can get Campbell, that's a great comeback story for the athletic director and the chancellor and the president at Penn State. That'll be their best comeback win of the season, is coming back from not having a coach to getting a coach like that. And I think he's in his mid forties. He's an Ohio guy. I'm sure he grew up with the Big Ten and done a great job at Iowa State as well, and had opportunities elsewhere. You know, they talked about him at USC, They've talked about him at Notre Dame years ago, NFL jobs as well. He was up for that, and I got the feeling he might be sort of the Kirk Farrens of Iowa State where he was just going to stay. And he might be. He might stay there, but he's going to get a nice contract extension like everybody else. You know the number of coaches who benefited from James Franklin being fired. One hour in the books on this meet Friday, two to go, Ross Tucker will stop by. He was on the call for the Lions Cowboys last night. Back after this