Hour 3 – Curt Cignetti Isn’t Going Anywhere, Tony Dungy

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

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Speaker 2: Final hour in this Wednesday Dan and The Dan Ants Dan Patrick Show. Tony Dungee will stop by in about twenty minutes from nounced Out of the Day, brought to you by Patini America, the official trading cards of The Dan Patrick Show. Eight seven seven to three DP Show operator Tyler sitting by will change up the poll question for the final hour of the program. We were just talking before I came back on the air, and we were talking about the story we had yesterday, and it's not a story. It was Mike Tannenbaum, former general manager for a couple of teams in the NFL, works for the Mothership, and he brought up the package deal. What about if you're the Raiders, do you reach out to Kirk Signetti and say, how about a package deal with you and Fernando Mendoza with the Raiders? And I thought, boy, that seems wild. But then Seaton just said to me, you know what's wild the fact that we're saying you'd rather stay it in Indiana then go to the NFL. Now, this is historically because if I would have said to you two years ago, Kurt Signetti is going to get a chance to go to the Raiders to coach his quarterback or stay at Indiana. You would probably say what everybody would say, Well, of course he's going to take that better job right now. Yeah, I would say Indiana is a better job than the Raiders. It's better paying, and you got your quarterback. You're going to be playing perhaps for a national championship and the windfall that comes with that. You're going to be the highest paid coach in college football the Raiders. That's at least a three or four year rebuild. Yeah, Ston, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I think might be helping Kurt Signetti too is that he actually looks like a basketball coach, but as a football coach out of basketball school.

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Speaker 2: So I think people are a little.

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Speaker 3: Confused, like, now that guy's got to be a basketball coach right now football he looks just like a basketball yes, boy.

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Speaker 4: And the other thing, if you look back at it, most successful college coaches do try the pro Pete Carroll, Jim Harbaugh, Nick Saban, Steve Spurrier, Chip Kelly, Bill O'Brien, Matt Ruhl, Dennis Ericson, Jimmy Johnson.

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Speaker 5: I can't find one that stayed like kirk Ference.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if he was in play for the NFL, but that's the only name that pops in my head.

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Speaker 2: His name came up, but that was years and years ago, but he was staying at Iowa and has been at Iowa. I don't know if Joe Paterno entertained the NFL. He probably did, but I don't know if it was Washington maybe, but it felt like there might have been a moment where he considered leaving Penn State. But you're right, the modern day coach is moving and it feels like the opportunity to go, you know, I feel like Notre Dame will lose its coach. It feels eventually if he takes an NFL job, it feels like that's inevitable.

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Speaker 6: Now.

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Speaker 2: Is Lane Kiffen, when he's done at LSU, want to go back into the NFL. I wouldn't put it past him, but I'm trying to think of these other coach. James Franklin is at Virginia Tech. He's not going into the NFL, but it feels like Marcus Freeman will get that opportunity. There were feelers this was back in I think late November, early December it felt like that the Giants were kicking the tires. Feels like that he would get that opportunity. Lincoln Riley, I don't know if he's going to end up in the NFL. I remember talking to him when he was at Oklahoma, talking to him about the Dallas Cowboy job, and I think there was interest there. He obviously stayed at Oklahoma then went to USC. I don't know if he's any closer to the NFL. It feels like he's closer to another job in college. But you know, you start to look at these marquee coaches and you say, who's like Dan Lanning. Does he want to coach in the NFL? He could get an opportunity if he wanted to. So you start to look at these programs and you say, who's going to coach? Who wants to make that leap? And if you get that opportunity, do you want to leave? College football is far more complicated than it's ever been, but the money is equal, if not better, than the NFL in a lot of these situations. The fact that the head coach in Indiana football is going to be the highest paid coach in America is remarkable. He's two weeks away from surpassing Kirby Smart as the highest paid coach in college football. That's wild, yes, Polly.

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Speaker 4: A little breaking college football news?

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Speaker 2: Oh no, you.

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Speaker 5: Want to quiz?

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Speaker 4: Sure Blank has informd Blank of his intention to turn pro. According to ESPN, quarterback Dante Moore ty Simpson of Alabama is going pro.

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Speaker 2: No, yes, oh no, yeah, yes, uh.

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Speaker 7: Strike while the iron's hot thirty eight three loss.

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Speaker 2: Let's yea and he got a cracked rib, got maybe benched? Oh boy, perfect timing, Gonna take a pay cut? Yeah, but uh okay, yes, yes, Mark.

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Speaker 8: I thought we would never see anything like this again, especially with nil, because you can transfer somewhere else. If you're not a top five NFL pick, why would you leave and for go eligibility in college football and go to the pros When you're not a surefire first round pick?

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Speaker 2: Why not go to Miami and take over for Carson Beck? You know, like I don't. I don't get that. He did show signs. I thought he at times looked really smooth, really good, and man, it feels like he could use another year.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Paul, However, somebody has to be the third quarterback taken this year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you have the former quarterback at Alabama who said he probably thinks he's a fifth to sixth or seventh round pick. So I'm going by somebody who played the position at Alabama went into the NFL, and McCarran says he needs to come now. He might be saying for selfish reasons, Hey, come back to Alabama, his alma mater. But man, oh man.

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Speaker 4: But when teams are star for quarterbacks, the top three teams need quarterbacks.

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Speaker 5: Not that he's going to go three.

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Speaker 4: Ty Simpson may say, Hey, if I could be the twenty second pick of the draft, like you said, I go to a better teams first first round pick.

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Speaker 2: I don't see him as a first round pick. I just don't.

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Speaker 8: Yeah more not the same applesent oranges. Possibly, but this might be a Shadore Sanders type situation because everybody thought he was the first round pick going into the draft, and then we're sitting there going round three, round four, round five.

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Speaker 7: Where's ty Simpson gonna go?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Feels well. I think people they misread shaudor Sanders' abilities. And because of the name. Once again, if I take away the name, mel Kiper is not throwing a fit he's just not This had a lot to do with the name. If I take that away and I say, judge that guy right now, judge that season with the Cleveland Browns, and if you're truly honest, you'd say that guy did not have a good year and it's probably not a starting quarterback. If you're honest, you would say that. People aren't honest because they know that that story. They want to keep it alive. It's really really important. And if Shaudor was Tommy Smith, no one would care. They'd be like, what are the brown Of course I'm going to move on from those quarterbacks, but nobody's willing to say that. You know, there's a lot of people who are in Dion's camp and you know they want to have the carry the flag, carry the torch for but Shador has to eventually show that he can play at a consistent level and be a threat and be really good for that team weekend and week out. Not pockets where you go, man, look at that pass. Okay, oh he led that comeback. Yes, that's the position. But you know he fell to the fifth round, but he fell because of variety of reasons. But he stayed in the news because of his name. This is story getting a lot of attention. Washington quarterback Desmond Williams Junior, on Tuesday said that he was entering the transfer portal. This is just days after agreeing to a contract to stay with the Huskies for the twenty six season. He says, I have to do what's best for me and my future. He signed a contract, with sources telling ESPN's Pete Thammil the deal was near the top of the market. Now the market is over five million dollars. Sources told Thamil that Washington is prepared to pursue all legal avenues to enforce the sign contract. In addition, the situation has drawn the attention of the Big Ten, the conference very vocal in Xavier Lucas's controversial transfer from Wisconsin to Miami last year, supporting the Badgers and trying to enforce the defensive backs contract. Man Williams is a sophomore, completed just under seventy percent of his passes twenty five touchdowns eight interceptions, also rushed for six hundred yards and six touchdowns. I don't know how enforceable these contracts are. I don't know what the language is, But do you want somebody who doesn't want to stay, We're going to make you stay and be our quarterback. Yes, Todd, Yeah, I was going to say the same exact thing.

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Speaker 9: On the surface, it looks terrible to bad look for this player to say and sign something that I'm going to stay. But if he's changed his mind, even though you may have a legal leg to stand on as a school, who wants someone that's got one foot out the door?

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Speaker 7: Isn't all in on your program?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Pulley, a guy I know it on three Sports email me and said, what the possibility is here is you sign a contract of what your next year is going to be at that school, but it doesn't really start until the portal closes. That's what he speculates could be going on here, But he also said it's a case by case basis.

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Speaker 2: The loophole is could be.

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Speaker 4: That the portals still open and he may have signed a contract with a school about what he's going to do next at that school, but since the portal is still open, does he have wiggle room to redeclare before the contract starts.

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Speaker 2: When does the portal close?

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Speaker 7: All right?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: The idea of people getting upset that the players are Wait a minute. They're getting paid millions, millions of dollars and now they can break their contracts early that this is ridiculous enough.

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Speaker 10: Ever happens enough in college football? I mean, what's next? Yeah, never happened with coaches. Yeah, it happens with the broadcast rights. It happens with the coaches, It happens with your what conference you're in, it happens.

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Speaker 3: It's constantly huge contracts for millions of dollars that then we just break whenever we want.

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Speaker 2: Well, go back to when I told America that they were going to move up the playoffs and people were like, you don't know what you're talking about. Stay in your lane. They got contracts, I said, they're going to break the contract. Well, first of all, they have contracts. Yeah, they can't do that. Yeah. Yeah, never heard from those people that say, oh, you know what, you were right with your sore.

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Speaker 3: So on the next time you heard from them, they were breaking that same story three months later.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, So we're breaking contracts at the highest of levels in college athletics. The players are doing it. That's enough. I'm done with this.

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Speaker 4: Gud As paulin Dan the Portal Potty January tewond to January sixteenth is a portal. Oh okay, so it ends January sixteenth, unless you're in the college football playoffs. Then there's another portal Jinuary twentieth through twenty fourth. That's the portal for teams in the National Title Game.

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Speaker 5: The Little Porter.

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Speaker 2: Potty brought to you by Dude Wipes. Oh, we say good morning. If you're watching on Peacock. By the way, people are trying to figure out what color of top that I have on today. I came in, of course, Pauli being the fashion police. He's like, what color is that? And uh, Marvin, I think you gave burnt orange that this has a Texas longhorned hue to it is the longhorn? Where's that Texas helmet? Is it over by the morning meeting?

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Speaker 5: That's noticeably deeper?

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Speaker 2: I think, noticely deep? Is it over there? Marvin?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm going to check right now. Yeah, we going to check.

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, or a cameraman, get our best people on it.

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Speaker 5: Some people said Caliente would be the color.

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Speaker 2: Calleyente, Frank Caliente spicy, Yeah, okay, mmm, Cianna Miller, Okay, now we're talking. Yeah, can we bring the helmet over and I'm gonna put it up against my top. Is this a top? I think I just said I had a top on Clouds. Here we go, full service cameraman. He's bringing over. Give it to Todd, bring it in.

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Speaker 5: Well it's pretty close.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is great for radio. By the way, all right, so I got the Texas Longhorns. No, I don't think so. I guess clothes. If you were in the stands at a gay you would fit right in. That is I would be a long horn fan. You would be a long horn fa.

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Speaker 3: No one would confuse what team you're rooting for.

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Speaker 2: But uh, I don't know what do you corduroy? Okay with it?

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Speaker 4: No kind of to find a college football team. It's not the Oklahoma rat. It's it's different than that's more orangey.

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Speaker 8: Yes, yes, Marvin, Yeah, I meant to compliment you by saying you look nice, but I.

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Speaker 7: Said where you going?

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Speaker 2: I know you did.

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Speaker 7: Yes.

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Speaker 8: In my family, it's very much when somebody looks nice, somebody comes down where you're going.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, sorry, you look nice. I like that from Facebook?

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Speaker 2: Yes it is, yes, it is, man, I'm dangerous on Facebook. Yes, Todd, we all know I'm no fashion plate. But I'm thinking quarter wrong?

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Speaker 9: Does that mean I thought that was kind of funny that color is quarter wrong as opposed to court to roy?

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Speaker 5: Oh, I got it now and I feel.

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Speaker 7: That Are you insulted? Upset it?

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Speaker 9: It's just not funny, it's not clever, just feeling bad?

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Speaker 2: Correct? Yeah? They quarter wrong?

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Speaker 3: I used to hate where in Corduroy is in school because he walked down the hall and is I don't know why those kinds of things as a kid up everyone get there and me walking down the hall, what's a big deal?

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Speaker 9: Yes to the place that sold g I may have told the story by humor me. That's in the neighborhood. There was a slim side and there was husky, and then the girls from their class you know that are also shopping there with their parents. And you're either the slim section or husky is what they called it.

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Speaker 11: How terrible?

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Speaker 2: Was there a next level? Thank goodness metal?

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Speaker 9: But I was certainly on the husky side with a little drape. While you're trying to change right, you can see right through you there.

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Speaker 2: So you were the Yukon husky. I was, yeah, I gotta go husky. You were the Yukon, get.

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Speaker 9: My Husky Alessio's and my Jordash and my oh.

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Speaker 2: Man, I haven't worn jeans in years. Years, yeah, years. I remember remember Billy Bush.

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Speaker 5: The announcer, the yeah, the host, Yeah.

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Speaker 6: He uh.

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Speaker 2: He accused me of having dad jeans on, and I was like, oh, all right, so I had dad jeans on and then I don't know if I wore jeans after that. So Billy Bush is, well, let Billy Bush tell you what to do. Billy Bush, he was, yeah, he was kind of Boston me around a little bit. I don't know. I don't think America needs to see that.

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Speaker 3: Okay, next bet loser has to wear dad jeans.

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Speaker 2: Paulie still owes us a pie to the face for the arch Manning is going to breeze his way.

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Speaker 5: I don't even know what the bet was. I said. I just guarant I said.

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Speaker 2: I guaranteed he'd be the Heisman Trophy winner.

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Speaker 5: I don't know what I put up though.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you can't just say I'm going to bet a week's pay or something, because that's meaningless because you're not giving a week's pay.

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Speaker 3: We do have meaningless bets like that all the time, though.

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Speaker 2: No no, because Hall of Fame. Bet no, because that's when I have to call you on it, because I said, that's not good radio. If you say, man, I'm I'm going to guarantee this. Okay, what are you guaranteeing? You know what? I'm going to get the back room guys to check.

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Speaker 5: I'm sticking by my prediction though.

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Speaker 2: That he's winning the Heisman. Could be a recount. Did he have better numbers than Fernando Mendoza? All right, well, we'll talk to Tony Dungee. He'll join us next here in The Dan Patrick Show.

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Speaker 2: We were just talking about the Washington quarterback, uh, Deamon Williams Junior. I might have called him Desmond Demand Williams Junior. And he signed a contract to stay at Washington, very very good quarterback, and then decided that he was going to be in the transfer portal. I just heard from a source that it's really impractical to get him to go back to Washington. This is what college football is trying to do. They want to establish an enforceable clawback provision. They want to recover portion of the money received to date or maybe punish the school that is going to take him in the transfer portal. But that is an update on that situation where he signed a contract in the then went into the transfer portal, and it looks like he is long gone from the University of Washington. Tony Dungee Hall of Famer. He'll be there working Sunday night. Chargers Patriots AFC Wildcard game for NBC and Peacock kickoff at eight eastern ton. Good to talk to you again. I saw where the John Harball situation really bothered you. Why, Well, we were.

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Speaker 6: At the game, Dan covering the game Pittsburgh and Baltimore and leading up to it, all we're hearing is whichever coach loses the game is in trouble. And I'm thinking, here's the guy who's been there nineteen years. A now, the guy's been there eighteen years. They've been to Super Bowls, they've been in the playoffs. Why are you in trouble? Well, I interviewed Mike Tomlin Saturday. I'm in Art Rooney's office and I sit for thirty minutes with Art Rooney and I come to the conclusion Mike Tomlin is not in trouble. I just I'd sense it from talking to Art Well. Baltimore loses the game, their kicker misses the kick, Otherwise they'd be hosting a home playoff game. And John Harbor gets fired. And you look at the stats and what they've done, winning twelve games, thirteen games in the last three years going to the playoffs. I just don't understand it. I get it, it's happened. It happened to me. We won, We went to the playoffs three times, and I got fired. That's life. But I don't know what these owners are thinking. Sometimes hopefully they get a better coach than John Harbaugh. I'm not sure they would.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's just it. It feels like the fans won't change. But then who are you bringing in who's better than Mike Tomlin or better than John Harball. But do you sometimes need a change just for change sake because it's been the same thing eighteen years, nineteen years.

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Speaker 6: I don't believe in that. I think if you're an owner, and maybe that's what happened, maybe Steve Saudi says, I look at this, it's not going in the direction I want, and I've got a change, and that's his prerogative. That's good. But hopefully you're not changing as a reaction to the fans or our fan base is upset or our locker room's upset because we lost this game. Hopefully it is a well thought out of decision, and sometimes it works out great. The Bucks fired me, they went to the super Bowl the next year. I went to the Super Bowl in India and Appolis, So sometimes it works out.

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Speaker 2: Well, why were you fired?

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Speaker 6: I was fired because they didn't think. They didn't like our offensive style, and they didn't think I was a guy who could make it to the next level. When I got there, we'd have thirteen straight losing seasons. We win, we go to the playoffs four years out of six, where you know, two minutes from a super Bowl. But they didn't think I could take it to the next level. And that's fine. That's their prerogative, John Gruden, and that's what I will say this about Baltimore. If you're Steve Bashatta, you better get a guy who's ready to take this roster that's set up to win and win now. Don't train and coach for five years from now and all of that. You better get somebody who can do it for you right now.

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Speaker 2: What's the right fit for John Harbaugh? You know we were.

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Speaker 6: Talking about that on our NBC podcast. I look at Atlanta right now, and you've got a couple of quarterbacks there. You've got, I think the best running back in football. You drafted some young defensive players that at that defense up. It's not a great division, and you won. You beat all the people in your division the last couple of weeks. You came on in December. I think that that could be a very very attractive spot.

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Speaker 2: Could you pass on the Giants if you're John Harbaugh?

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Speaker 6: I don't know about John. I would pass on the Giants because I don't want that New York drama. I can do a lot of things to coach a lot of other places. Besides have to have those press conferences. I've seen Aaron Glenn, I've seen Brian Dabole and those Monday press conferences in New York. I don't know if I would want that.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So Atlanta you like a lot, Yes, what other position.

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Speaker 6: There's a couple of teams there. You know, you have to look at the Giants. You got a young quarterback there who looks like the quarterback of the future. The Titans look like they've drafted their quarterback in the future. It's not a great division either. I would be worried about, you know, what's really going on in the front office in Nashville, and are they going to give me a chance to succeed. You had a pretty good coach in Mike Vrabel and you let him go. I think he's a pretty good coach, so that that might worry me a little bit. But you know any place. When I went to Tampa, they told me not to go to Tampa. It's a death noel for coaches.

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Speaker 7: Don't go.

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Speaker 6: So you just got to get comfortable with the organization there with the people that are going to be your bosses and make it work.

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Speaker 2: And the Brown situation would make me nervous that you've kept your GM. I don't trust the owner, you don't have a quarterback.

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Speaker 6: That's that's a pretty dicey threesome there. Yeah.

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Speaker 13: You.

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Speaker 6: And although we're getting that way with a lot of these franchises, then you look at the Raiders. I saw a thing that they're paying all these coaches seventy eighty million dollars. They've had different coach every year. What's the game plan? When are you going to say this is my guy and I'm going to stick with him. That's it was so refreshing to be an art Runy's office. And I told him about how his grandfather impacted me and Chuck Nole, and you know he's sitting there and they've had three coaches in sixty years, and you know, this is how we do it. We pick a guy, we support him, we stand but behind them, and it just doesn't seem like we're getting that.

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Speaker 2: I brought this up many times that if I was taking a job, I want to know how involved my owner is going to be, because they built their money to buy this team, but they didn't build it by being a football guy. And sometimes you come into those situations and look, I know Jerry Jones played college football at a high leveled Arkansas, but most of these owners didn't play. They're not football guys. And being able to delegate is really important, and I think it's hard for these billionaires to do that.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, And the other thing is you have to have a sense of what the owner is looking for. I can remember talking to Dan Rooney and he told me, you know his blueprint. We're in Pittsburgh, it's cold weather, it's blue collar. So I want a defensive coach. That's how we're going to build it. I want a young guy because I don't want to do this every four or five years. And I want a teacher and a communicator because that's how I learned. So that was his blueprint. Give me a young, good, communicating defensive coach. So nineteen sixty nine he hires Chuck Noble as a thirty year old, something that nobody had ever heard of. And then twenty three years later he hires Bill Kawer, and then sixteen years after that he hires Mike Tomlin. All he knew what he was looking for. I talked to owners now and then some They asked me, well, who's good out there? What are you looking for?

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 6: Just tell me who's good. No, that's not it. What do you want? And I remember my conversation with Jim Mercy. Hey, we've got a young offense. It's in place. I want you to come here, get our defense going. I also like the way you connect with the fans and the fan base. We haven't been here that long. We need to connect with Indianapolis. That's what I'm looking for. In fifteen minutes, he had sold me on what we're going to do because I believe what he wanted that I could deliver that for him. It's more than just money. It's more than opportunity. It's more than Hey, you're a good play caller.

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Speaker 2: What are you want talking to Tony Dungee Hall of Famer? And you can watch Chargers Patriots in Foxboro Sunday night on NBC and Peacock they get their festivity started. Football Night America seven thirty Eastern. Which quarterback's under the most pressure this weekend?

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Speaker 6: Wow, Josh Allen for one, I think you can look at it and say, Kansas City is not in This is your year to go to the playoffs. You're gonna be on the road, but we expect big things. You've been Superman in the past. We need Superman again. Justin Herbert in our game. He's played great, He's played lights out. They don't have a very good offensive line in front of him. You're gonna have to go on the road and try to win a game. Those two guys in the AFC for sure. On the NFC side of it, Matthew Stafford, you went to Carolina a month ago. We thought you had the best team in football. You turn the ball over three times. If you don't turn the ball over, everybody expects you to win this game. Go into your playoff mode and produce.

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Speaker 2: Feels like Sam Donald's going to be under pressure when when the Seahawks play, because we keep waiting. Yeah, we're waiting to see is this a different Sam Donald. I think Trevor Lawrence being at home playing at a high level and we've bought into Trevor Lawrence and the Jags, feels like there's a lot of pressure there as well. What about most pressure for a coach in the playoffs?

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Speaker 6: Oh, I think right now. Mike Tomlin for sure, I mean, and not from his ownership, but from his fan base. Oh, we're tired of this nine.

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Speaker 2: But can you imagine if they lose, they're they're underdogs at home, Tony, Yes.

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Speaker 6: And if they lose, it'll be Ah, it's the same narrative. We're not very good. Forget about last week, forget about this last month. You lost another playoff game. And I know his players don't want that. They want to win for him. I sense that the other most of these other teams, you've got new coaches, new faces. Everybody's just excited and ramped up. Uh maybe Matt Lafleoor. You've been in the playoffs a few times and you've you've had some upsets earlier on. But now where are we. Let's let's get this thing going.

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Speaker 2: Great to talk to you, Happy new year. Great to see you again.

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Speaker 6: Thank you, buddy. I always good to talk to you.

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Speaker 2: Tony Dungee, Hall of Famer. And you can see the Patriots hosting the Chargers. That'll be Sunday night, Football night in America. Lamont in Virginia, Lamont, thanks for holding what's on your on? Got a bad connection there, is it? Our system here that we're having these phone calls that kind of are spotty.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Paul, and then some of our regulars like Chris just perfect sounds great.

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Speaker 2: Let's try Steven Burbank. Hi, Steve, how you doing?

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Speaker 14: Longtime listeners? Second time caller six to one and pick a ball one ninety eight. I have a reliable source who has John Harbaugh going to the Chargers as the decordinator on a brotherly discount.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Steve. Well if they lose jesse Minter, I don't know if John wants to be the D the DC to his brother now, maybe he could advise him in the playoffs. Yeah, then jesse Minter sound like a country artist, ladies and gentlemen, jesse Minter.

00:29:30
Speaker 3: And he's performing at whatever American Music Awards and jesse Minter totally.

00:29:38
Speaker 2: Corey in Kansas City, Hi, Corey, what's on your mind today?

00:29:42
Speaker 15: Hey, good morning mister Patrick, Marvin Seaton, Wu Tang Forever guys, second port side. Hey, you guys are just talking about college contracts and I know you guys also discussed the who has had the best week in sports? I want to say, Jess, who's had the best year start to sports? And that would be our guy, Lane Kiffen with his contracting. That money he's raking in with what old missus doing it?

00:30:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, as long as they win, he wins. I guess he's still loaning his coaches there. Everything's good for Lane Kiffin, Mark and Myrtle Beach. Hi, Mark, what's on your mind?

00:30:17
Speaker 11: Hey, good morning, Dan, Dan. It's I'm a first time long time about nine two fifteen. Ooh, thanks manh Dan. I just wanted to let the guys know you also that I think the shirt that you're wearing today is great. It looks very comfortable and it's one of the shirts that you would put on or just wear around your place up in Maine, you know, during the weekend relaxing. And I gave it a name fall.

00:30:52
Speaker 2: Leaf, fall Leaf, fall Leaf, foliage, call it foliage.

00:30:59
Speaker 8: Yes, Marvin kind of dressed like a Texas booster. Okay, but you got the colors on. Okay, Hey, don't do horns down. I'm gonna come over there.

00:31:09
Speaker 2: Yes, Todd, I'm just listening along. Thank you. Awesome. Yeah, Todd's never at a loss for words. Until he's at a loss for words, I.

00:31:21
Speaker 9: Tend to lean into the microphone and it tricks you.

00:31:24
Speaker 2: I did not even burning through a word count today. He's been on fire. I didn't have my hands up.

00:31:28
Speaker 9: But I guess I leaned in such a way where you thought I was going to say something.

00:31:31
Speaker 2: Yes, but I didn't know if you were trying to stay awake, keep your head up or something. I wasn't sure. Blake in Nebraska, Hi, Blake, what's on your mind today? Five eight?

00:31:47
Speaker 11: I'm just thinking, if Malas Fuller loses this playoff game, do you think that firem or would cap for him?

00:31:54
Speaker 2: Uh? I don't know. I mean, it feels like a really bold move for the Packers organization, and I think he's got a contract extension that's been kind of looming. I don't. I mean, they you have the injury to Michael Parsons. It felt like they were going to be more threatening, and they're underdogs now in Chicago. It's not to say they can't win this thing. Of course they can. But yeah, I don't know of all of these coaches, like who is not not as safe as you would think they are. You know, I think Sean McDermott's name comes up because everybody's going to say the same thing. This was your year, this was the you know, you had your chance there. Now, I don't think Buffalo is better than Jacksonville or Denver right now. I mean they do have the best player, but that you're on the road. They're going to be on the road for the next couple of weeks if they win, and that'll be tough sledding. Yeah, Paula.

00:33:05
Speaker 4: Someone has to be responsible for Josh Allen not appearing in a Super Bowl.

00:33:09
Speaker 5: That's it. Yeah, And this is the opening of all openings.

00:33:13
Speaker 2: Take a break, Last call for phone calls? What we learn? What's in store tomorrow? After this?

00:33:17
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00:33:31
Speaker 2: What we learn? What's in store tomorrow? Jesse Palmer stops by. Ryan Fitzpatrick will do the same tomorrow. I have early Super Bowl MVP odds. Just got these from DraftKings Early Super Bowl MVP odds. Sam Darnold is your favorite, followed by Matthew Stafford and then Bo Nix, Josh Allen, Drake May, Jalen Hurts, Trevor Lawrence, C. J. Stroud, Jackson Smith, Jigba. Those are your early early Super Bowl MVP odds. So Donald and Matthew Stafford are very close plus six hundred plus six fifty. Then it drops down to plus eleven hundred for bo Nicks, Josh Allen and Drake May plus twelve hundred, and then Jalen Hurts plus fifteen hundred. Wow, if I would say, would have said to you back in August, I got the MVP odds for the Super Bowl? Really? Yeah? Sam Darnold as the best odds to be the Super Bowl MVP? Yes, Todd?

00:34:43
Speaker 9: Where's Aaron Rodgers on that list? Is even make the cut? How foy down does that thing go?

00:34:48
Speaker 2: I didn't make the list, so he's not in the top ten. On that the points spreads the Rams, it was nine and a half, then went to ten. Now it's ten and a half. The Packers they were plus ay mate, is this right now? That the Packers are the Packers now favorites going into Chicago?

00:35:15
Speaker 4: I have in a couple different places the Packers giving one and a half to the Bears.

00:35:19
Speaker 2: Because yesterday they were getting one and a half. Yes, dang make up your mind. The Bills are one and a half point favorites in Jacksonville, the Niners getting four and a half in Philly. Patriots are favored by three and a half over the Chargers, and the Texans are three point favorites in Pittsburgh. Randal and Oregon. Hi, Randall, what's on your mind?

00:35:46
Speaker 6: Hey boy?

00:35:46
Speaker 11: Hey, first time, long time, one seventy six two.

00:35:54
Speaker 14: So I got a prediction here. Let's say that s Philly loses first round, Pittsburgh re los this first round. Palman's out. Does Toman go to Philadelphia? I mean he doesn't have a long drive?

00:36:09
Speaker 12: Does that some mute?

00:36:10
Speaker 14: Does that really new?

00:36:11
Speaker 2: I can't go that far. I mean I was kind of joking that maybe Baltimore and Pittsburgh could exchange coaches and John Harball could end up in Pittsburgh and Mike Tomlin and Baltimore tongue in cheek here. But if it feels like if Tomlin, if there's a mutual parting there in Pittsburgh, and it certainly sounded you know that if there's anything that happens, it would be a mutual parting. But the Steelers aren't prepared to let Mike Tomlin go. According to Tony Dungee, I see him taking time off to do some TV. I think that would be the next step. Uh lamont in Virginia. Let's try it again.

00:36:52
Speaker 13: Hey fellas, how are you today?

00:36:54
Speaker 2: Great?

00:36:56
Speaker 13: All right? So I am a Reban, true and blue, and lend me your ears, gentlemen.

00:37:04
Speaker 7: For just a second. Okay, because I have.

00:37:07
Speaker 13: A name that will go ahead and bring the Baltimore name back to Providence. We all know, all the Ravens fans know that when it came to being a raven it was all about defense. It's not about offense. Harborough did a great job offensively. He went ahead and managed our team great.

00:37:30
Speaker 2: Do you want me to guess who? I think you're gonna say?

00:37:34
Speaker 13: Say you?

00:37:34
Speaker 2: All right, so you're gonna bring you want a defensive minded presence. And this is a surprise, right, this would be a surprise.

00:37:42
Speaker 13: Next, this is going to be a surprise. And I assure you you guys are not gonna get it.

00:37:48
Speaker 2: Okay, let's hear it all right? Is his smile too white? No? Rex Ryan?

00:38:03
Speaker 11: Yes?

00:38:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, have you ever seen him smile?

00:38:06
Speaker 13: I listened, listen, listen, I call it you grin.

00:38:10
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, well, he's got a grin. You know when you see somebody with their brights on. He's got his rights on all the time, even during the day. If they had a bright off between him and South Palantonio, man, that might be a push. But uh, all right, Lamon Rex Ryan the coach. I'm sure Rex thinks he could do it. I don't think that would happen, but all right, he had had great pipes there, Lamont Eric and in Atlanta? Hey, Eric, what's on your mind today?

00:38:43
Speaker 16: Okay, Dan, so lifelong Vikings fan here tortured. Uh, just got a question. So we're on the street down here. As Kirk Cousins restretched his contract to take less money, are we going to see Kirk Cousins back in Minnesota.

00:39:00
Speaker 2: I think he's still your best option, but it feels like restructuring it allows him to go play someplace else, or maybe you keep him for one more year. I didn't think he was bad. I mean, that's not what you want to say about your quarterback. But would they go five and three with him? They won these games at the end of the year. I just think he's still your best option there. I don't know if he ends up back with the Vikings, but it feels like there are more possibilities in play for Kirk d Cousins. All right, PAULI this day in sports history.

00:39:37
Speaker 4: You did the Tanya Herding Nancy Carigan from yesterday. Tanya Harding on this day in ninety four won the US Figure Skating Championship, and here's one. In nineteen twenty seven, the Harlem Globetrotters played their first game, but they don't like to guess where that first game was.

00:39:54
Speaker 2: Do we know this? Yes?

00:39:55
Speaker 4: I know it, but I was surprised it wasn't Harlem they were. We're never in Harlem. The Harlem Globe Trotters are from the South side of Chicago and they tagged the name years a couple of years later and had no connection to Harlem.

00:40:09
Speaker 2: But they so they played in Illinois.

00:40:11
Speaker 4: The first game was in Southern Illinois and Hinckley, Illinois and a little gym oh.

00:40:17
Speaker 2: Was that Abe Sapperstein.

00:40:19
Speaker 4: He took over the team a couple of years later and gave them the name the They were the Globetrotters. He gave the name the Harlem Globetrotter with no connection on it.

00:40:27
Speaker 2: M Okay let's see go around the room. What we learned on the program? Todd, I'll start with you. What did you learn today?

00:40:35
Speaker 9: Dan Orlowski thinks the world of Sean McDermott. That being said, he believes he's coaching for his job against the Jags seton.

00:40:40
Speaker 2: What did you learn today?

00:40:42
Speaker 3: Arch Banning, no doubt number one overall pick this year.

00:40:45
Speaker 2: I know Arlovsky, didn't you know? There was no kind of read between the lines. It's like he'd be the number one overall pick. Marvin, Did you learn anything today?

00:40:55
Speaker 7: Yes? Don Shula was the head coach of the Colts.

00:40:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, before the Dolphins. Do you think there are people under the age of thirty who don't realize Andy Reid coach in Philadelphia? Paulie? What did you learn today? Portal is Murky Toddwoo did I learn?

00:41:10
Speaker 9: Tony Dungee thinks that Lanta would be a very attractive landing spot for John Hardwot Tony wouldn't want the media drama coming with New York and the Giant.

00:41:16
Speaker 2: Our pleasure to serp you for Fritzy seat and mar of Paully, yours truly and the brgs. We'll talk to you tomorrow. I have a great day.