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

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Speaker 2: We were talking about the rash of ACL injuries this year, led by Michaeh Parsons and Patrick Mahomes. Mahomes got hurt that was contact in the Chargers game, Michaeh Parsons non contact injury. And yesterday the NFL said that they announced they're going to have a study to look at turf and these are new rules or at least a new policy, a new approach to this. And people, I think were surprised at the number of torn acls so far this year. Thirty so far. Now, that seems like a lot, And the reason why it seems like a lot is because there's some big names in here. In twenty twenty four there were thirty eight torn acls, twenty twenty three, forty three, twenty twenty two point fifty one, twenty twenty one, fifty seven, twenty twenty forty two. You can go back to twenty thirteen there were sixty three torn acls. So it seems like we're trending down. But why can't we come up with universal fields that can prevent at least the non contact injury. So we bring in the head coach of the Chargers, Jim Harbaugh. Those numbers alarming to you, surprising to you. Anything we can do to improve those number of a c ls, Yeah, I mean that.

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Speaker 3: That discussion has been going on for a long time with the UH with the turf and they and they they're very scientific about it. Uh you know my understanding almost like you know, stint meters in UH in golf. But those numbers to me, I mean, it's it, Uh, it's like one a year, you know. That's it's kind of my my recollection from UH, you know, from coaching all these years and and UH and playing as well as about UH, one guy and the team will get an a c L. And there was a day where that, uh, that a c L would be career ending. You know, think back then. Yeah, you know Gail Sayers and UH and now UH you know it's UH advancements in UH in safety and medical UH, you know, UH are are really incredible and getting getting better all the time.

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Speaker 2: But when you were at Michigan, all of your linemen had to wear braces, knee braces.

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Speaker 4: Yes, that was that was.

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Speaker 2: And how preventative is that? I know, Jake Buds got hurt and Blake Krum you know, got hurt as well. Those are contact But did it Is it that helpful in preventing a c LS?

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Speaker 4: I thought so, I really did, Dan.

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Speaker 3: Uh, the the running backs, tight ends didn't didn't wear them, but we had the defensive linemen wearing uh knee braces in practice. Uh and that would Uh it doesn't prevent prevent like a but whatever injury it would have been, it makes it a lot less in in my experience, and uh and uh trainers in the medical experts.

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Speaker 2: What was different about the Chiefs this year as opposed to previous years.

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Speaker 4: Oh, there's there's it's just the most the most historic, incredible. Uh.

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Speaker 3: You know job that that team has done year in year out. Andy Reid, Uh, you know the best, he's the best.

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Speaker 4: Uh. Patrick Mahomes incredible competitor.

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Speaker 3: And UH that was I was talking to one of our our assistant coaches yesterday.

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Speaker 4: And if we can just do half, we could just.

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Speaker 3: Do half of what they they've been able to accomplish over the last seven years.

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Speaker 4: You know, we I do it. I know I would do a cartwheel.

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Speaker 2: But what what's the game plan of of Mahomes? He seems like he's running a lot more. He had been running a lot more than in previous years and had been their most dangerous runner. But as a defensive philosophy, what was it going into this game?

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Speaker 4: There?

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Speaker 3: There there's adversity in the offensive line. Uh, different combinations, different different you know, really good players out. But uh they uh guy stepped in and uh they were chiefs are still operating at a at.

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Speaker 4: A very high level. And I was, I mean, I was for the competitor that Patrick is.

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Speaker 3: I mean that was was just hope and praying that that he would have dodged a bullet, and uh, you know, unfortunately he didn't.

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Speaker 4: But uh, he's he's already, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, getting ready for surgery, and you just just know his mindset it's going to be it's gonna be surgery and then and then rehab.

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Speaker 4: He's just he just he's he just he just wants to.

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Speaker 3: Be doing And so that's uh, really we're trying to replicate that here and in Los Angeles, and uh.

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Speaker 2: What are you trying to force him out of the pocket, because he loves to go, right, But I you know, it's it's easier said than done that we don't want let him go outside the pocket.

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Speaker 4: Patrick Mahomes, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Oh, uh, you know you try to contain him, you really do that.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 3: The the discipline in the in the rush lanes you gotta have. It's got to be coordinated with with all five or four or six or seven rushers. Uh, you know, every single play, and he's still and he still finds ways to uh you know, to make the impossible possible. But uh, it's Tuesday. It's uh it's our feet are moving. We're up, and we're gonna keep it moving because uh we got Dallas this year this week, and uh, I really think they're the They're the best offense we've played in a while.

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Speaker 4: Uh, really good receivers, really good quarterback.

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Speaker 3: Uh, very good upfront, and uh running game that we're gonna try to figure out how to stop as well.

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Speaker 2: Talking about that, Jim Harbaugh, Chargers head coach, you coach any differently in December than you do in September?

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Speaker 4: That's a great question. You know they all count the same, you know they count the same, but uh, yeah, it's different. It's almost it's like the fourth quarter in.

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Speaker 3: A in a game, you know, and then you know, you get down to the to the end and.

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Speaker 4: It's you know then it's it's like.

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Speaker 3: Like the two minute drill, you know, in the in the in the playoffs, or you know, trying to get into the playoffs. But everybody, everybody is fighting for their lives. Everybody's fighting, you know, really for their their playoff destiny. And and that's and the and the and the teams that aren't don't have a chance to be in the playoffs, they're fighting at the at.

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Speaker 4: The highest level.

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Speaker 3: Uh, you know, for pride and for for for their team and for their for their their organizations. It's it's that competitive season. Tis the season for competition.

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Speaker 2: How much does it help playing the position as a head coach, helping Justin Herbert play the position.

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Speaker 3: I've been asked that a bunch of times, and I don't have a great answer for that, because he is just so much better at everything, uh every every part of the game.

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Speaker 2: Uh Is there anything you do better than or did better than Justin Herbert?

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Speaker 4: There's nothing.

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Speaker 3: There's nothing to nothing, And I don't want to demonstrate anything. I mean, it's just not gonna it's not gonna look right. Uh So I just uh, you know, really really focus on uh, you know, number one, protecting him and but it's just yeah, a tremendous blessing to have him, Derwin James, Justin, Herbert Khalil Mack. Uh the absolute best leaders I've ever been and playmakers leaders and playmakers.

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Speaker 4: Uh, but that that I've ever been associated with.

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Speaker 2: You said you were still processing the Sharone Moore situation. What are you processing? What are what? What is going through your head or trying to understand?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's uh really still and still don't have my head wrapped around it.

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Speaker 4: Dan, Uh, It's.

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Speaker 3: Yeah it Uh, it's a tragedy and just praying for all concerned. I love my alma mater, love Michigan, and but I love the Chargers too. And Uh, I'd been doing disservice if I wasn't putting all my focus on the on this game.

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Speaker 4: This is the most important game for us.

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Speaker 2: When's the last time you talked to Sharon Moore?

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Speaker 4: Uh? Have it early early December? Uh? But I I have texted.

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Speaker 2: Him nothing, nothing since he was arrested, Just texts. Oh you have Yeah? How are his spirit?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 3: I think I think there is it's a tragedy. What Uh the worst days of his life? And uh, you know, keep it together and and uh and take care of your family. That's you know, that's the message. And I getting spiritual guidance.

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Speaker 4: Uh. You know it's really critical.

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Speaker 2: Are you helping Michigan at all find their head coach?

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Speaker 4: No, I'm not all focuses on Uh the Dallas Cowboys.

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Speaker 2: Well, congrats on the win, and uh, good luck against Dallas and then you host Houston, then you're at Denver. Who's the best team you face? You talked about Dallas will be the best offense. Who's the best team?

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Speaker 4: So we played definitely uh that we played in a while, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, right the team that you know stands out, Uh, you know the ones that that uh.

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Speaker 4: That got the best of us.

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Speaker 3: But these last two games, chiefs uh Eagles, I mean football at uh, you know, at at the highest level. You know, that's been and I think it's I think it's I think it's made us keener and sharper and finer too to go through those two games.

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Speaker 4: And uh, and we expect the same challenge this week.

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Speaker 2: Do you want to play in the snow?

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Speaker 4: I prefer the.

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Speaker 3: Snow then uh, then thirty five or thirty three in rain? So uh, as soon as soon as the temperature goes below thirty. Uh, I know it's not gonna rain, and uh I prefer that.

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Speaker 2: Uh, but you look at the doll like the dolphins don't win games under forty degrees? Like what how does that imp Like? There are guys that aren't from Miami, but you know they don't win in cold weather? Why is that?

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Speaker 4: Uh? That's that that's Ah, that's something I can't. I can't.

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Speaker 3: I am kind of an expert at uh growing up in uh the Midwest and.

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Speaker 4: And Michigan, Ohio, chicage playing in Chicago.

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Speaker 3: Uh, you know, it's it's really a function of like my dad used to tell us when we were kids. He'd say, you you you, you know, get out of the house, Dan, it's cold out there. Get your feet moving and keep it moving. You'd walk out, and then then the click of the door would click behind you.

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Speaker 2: Uh wait they locked the door.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you hear the click.

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Speaker 3: Okay, we're our feet moving and keep it moving. But it's that's that's that's the secret. That's the answer. The the you become your body becomes like a human hot tub because your your your heart is pumping warm, hot blood, especially when you're young, and you know that goes from the the heart to the arteries too, to the capitillaries, to the to the tissue, and it's you know, the more muscle you got, that's the more UH. That's the more UH insulation that you have. High school anatomy tell it goes back back to the lungs and reaction to eights and it just keeps keeps falling like so you just you just keep moving. And then when you're not playing, you go to the go to the sidelinket by that that heater in that warm bench.

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Speaker 2: Who had it better than you did in cold weather?

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Speaker 4: I mean a lot of experience there, nobody.

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Speaker 2: Dan, There you go, there you go.

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Speaker 4: I know the answer to that one.

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Speaker 2: I was worried. I was worried about you there. Thanks for joining us. Good luck against Dallas. Appreciate it, coach, Thank you Dan. That's Jim Harbaugh second year's charge, your head, coach.

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Speaker 2: Oh, we've been celebrating all night long. The Knicks won the Cup. Todd's got his nixt gear on. The Knicks win the Cup and they beat the Spurs. No word on the parade in New York City, And when the banner will be raised? I do have a question, though, like an honest, legitimate question. Will the Knicks raise a cup banner? Did the other teams? Did the Lakers didn't? I think we had Barkley on and I and Barkley was saying they better not raise a banner, did they? Marvin?

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Speaker 6: Yes, I think they have a small banner, so the Knicks should do it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they haven't had any banners go up there in a long long time.

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Speaker 7: Yes, time, I think you raise a cup like at a staff dinner to celebrate with Jeff Bayn and that's the cup you raised, but not an actual thing hanging from the rafters.

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Speaker 2: I think the Nicks will probably raise a banner, but the Lakers did raise a banner. Huh yeah, Paul.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, confirmed twenty twenty three. Never forget Lakers embrace in season tournament with banner ceremony. It's not the biggest banner, but it's a very becoming okay becoming.

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Speaker 2: It's gorgeous.

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Speaker 8: It's like black and gold.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well purple the Emirates, Yeah yeah, but they did win.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 2: I know we've joked about the cup most of the morning, having fun with it. But this is what will be lost on people, I think, and that is focusing on the Spurs because they need to play in meaningful games. That's a very young roster and I think this is something that can help them later on this season. I don't think that they're a threat to win the NBA Finals, but get in the playoffs and play with some meaningful games. You know Von Castle who played well, Wemby's coming off the bench, they got Dylan Harper, like, they have some pieces there, but they're young and they need to play in meaningful games, and this is as close as they'll play in meaningful games.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 2: They did beat the Thunder the other night, and you know that caught people's attention. Here. Now all of a sudden, you look at them and they're not the one of these years, they're going to be a pretty good team. They might be ahead of schedule here. And that's what I was taking away from this game. You're playing for something. You're playing for a cup, but you're playing for money as well, for you know, the guys on your team that don't make a lot of money, and that can be impactful. The spotlight a little brighter there and maybe the Spurs pick up some much needed experience that can help them down the road. Pay.

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Speaker 8: So you're saying the three four years from now when they're in front of the Pooh this year, when Ben Yama is holding the NBA title and he's like, how did this all start? You know it was all went back to the up that lost.

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Speaker 2: The Knicks lit the fire. See once again, you're mocking this. You're doing a lot of mocking. Sure not the Spurs side of this. The Knicks, I am yeah. Go New York, Go, New York, Go right, Todd.

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Speaker 9: Go New York, O, New York.

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Speaker 2: Were the Knicks that we're doing it?

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Speaker 7: The Kicks whitting three pointers and you're putting up bricks.

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Speaker 8: Yes, Paul, yeah, I want to go back to the Knicks for a second. I was looking at the standings. They're eighteen and seven, but they've outscored their opponents by nine points a game. That's the best in the East this year. Detroit is young, the Raptors are good ish, the Celtics are injured. In the recent twenty years. This might be their best chance to make the finals. Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely yeah.

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Speaker 6: Yes, Marvin, they had nothing left after they won the Cup. They spent exhausted.

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Speaker 2: See, you guys are mocking. I'm trying to look at the positive here. I don't want the commissioner mad at me. It seems like he's upset with everybody but Amazon Prime carrying this. He had this to say last.

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Speaker 10: Night, as a fan, I think you do a great job educating you know, other fans about the game, because that, I would say has frustrated me in the past about some coverage when it's sort of reduced to one side wanted it more, this side played harder, and when you guys are explaining like why can't a guy get a shot off? Why is a particular defense working? And when you go and when you guys go out on the floor and demonstrate things I can say as a fan, I love that part of the coverage.

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Speaker 2: I think he's taking a shot at Charles Barkley. I don't like it because Charles said it was I think stupid. Maybe that was the word he used, Yes, eaton.

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Speaker 11: Well, Charles isn't necessarily wrong, except the only problem with it is there's nothing unique about the in season tournament.

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Speaker 2: Oh oh wait a minute, I got Charles called it embarrassing, not stupid.

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Speaker 11: Okay, yeah, well I don't know if it's embarrassing, but they the idea is correct. The infrastructure in order to accomplish the idea is incorrect. Okay, tweaks would you have with this? Well, this is basically taking like a page from soccer. Soccer has all of these in season to ornaments, right like in England they have the FA Cup that they have the Carabout Cup. Those are different. One of them it's every team within the pyramid plays against each other, so it's special. Another one it's only like the top four or five leagues they play against each other, so it's special.

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Speaker 2: This is an NBA.

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Speaker 11: Tournament of NBA teams playing other NBA teams in the NBA season. There's nothing unique about it whatsoever. If you had G League teams in there, and you had some D one teams or something and be like, whoa, this is special. This is really something. Now we got something. But we don't have that. In the United States, we have the US Open Cup. That's basically every soccer league in the country for the most part, all get together and play in this one cup.

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Speaker 2: The USL Cup is every USL.

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Speaker 11: League playing against each other, or most of the USL leagues playing against each other. There's not if it was just the MLS Cup and it was only MLS teams playing against each other. Then that would just be called the regular season. There's nothing about it. This is all just a regular season. You need to get something else, get put European teams in there or something. You need to make it different. Yeah, Paul, Yeah, I totally agree with Seeden. It feels like forced relevance. It's somewhat early in the season. If you didn't change the color of the courts, you would think it's a generally just a regular season game. Almost all the games also count in the regular seasons standings, so they're like double dipping at the final felt a bit special because we're told it was.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it felt like we're force fed, Like, what's wrong with you? Don't you understand you should be really hyping this up. We haven't been hyping it up. I don't even know if I mentioned who was in the finals yesterday.

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Speaker 11: Yes, it should mean something because, like you know, if there's a trophy at stake, then you should want to win it, so let's go win it. There's just nothing unique about it other than grouping together some games and then calling it a competition.

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Speaker 2: Chase Daniel from the Mothership he'll join us coming up at about ten minutes Robert Griffin Junior the third. A little later on, Reggie Miller stops by. Tony Gonzalez will join us as well. You have Davante Adams if he for Thursday, and it felt like this was going to be a game time decision. That's what Sean McVay said. The commanders have shut down Jade and Daniels, and they know what they have in Jayden Daniels, and you know he's getting banged up. I don't think anybody's surprised that with that build, was he going to get banged up? And the answer is yes. Meanwhile, Jackson Dart will continue to play for the Giants because they don't know what they have in Jackson Dart. And I don't know, and I want to talk to RG three and even Chase Daniel. I don't know if you can ask somebody to change. I never understood this philosophy with NFL teams. If you're really successful in college and you run the ball and you also pass, but you know one of your strengths is you run the ball. Because Lamar Jackson did that at Louisville and then wondered, well can he throw the football? He's got to learn how to play in the pocket. Well, yes, but I don't want him to stop running. Cam Newton, I don't want him to stop running. I want them to run smartly. And you're gonna ask Jackson Dart can you change? And you know these guys go by instinct that you know, they're just like a natural reaction time with something you can't go wait, wait what am I supposed to do? Now? You would think slider, get out of bounds. You should be able to think on your feet. And I don't know if Jackson Dart wants to change. I don't know if he can change because this is his whole mindset. This is an aggressive football player who plays a position where you normally don't have aggression. Josh Allen is as big as anybody on the football field. I don't worry about him, but he also slides. He also plays smarter than he used to. Mahomes, you know he's on the move, but I think because he has to be on the move, And then you wonder is he going to be using his legs able to use his legs when he comes back from this surgery. I don't want you know. Kyler Murray is who he is, but I don't want him to change his style. I want him to change his approach. But I can't say to Kyler Murray, don't use your legs or Josh Allen, don't use your legs. Lamar Jackson, don't use your legs. This is what made you great, this is why we took you with a you know, high draft pick. And with Jackson Dart, I don't know if you can say to him, we love the aggression, but let's live to you know, have another play because you can't be in concussion protocol. And what's he played ten games and I think five times they've had him in the blue tent. You know, that's a habit. That's the problem I have with Jackson Dart. You can play with aggression, you can, you know, you can have that energy there, but do not take on defensive players. You know, if it means the Super Bowls on the line and you're going to dive into the end zone John Elway doing the helicopter Okay, I mean even go back to Carson Wentz in that game against the Rams. Did he need to dive into the end zone and then get his knee blown out? No? So you're asking these guys, hey, I used to do that, or I did that in high school, I did that in college. Why can't I do it now? Because it's the NFL and with Jackson Dart, he's got three more games. You know, now is when you start to find out. You know, Cleveland's going to find out about Shador Sanders these next three games, going to find out is he a franchise quarterback? Because that'll be a pretty good sample size and they probably have already made up their mind of are they going to take a quarterback high in the draft, but maybe should Or Sanders can show them, hey, I can be a franchise quarterback, or some other team might look at that. So you got some players who are playing for things and it might not be playing for their team. It could be let me showcase my talent. I wouldn't be surprised if Cleveland goes all in on a quarterback and should Or Sanders is not going to be the Browns quarterback like that, that wouldn't surprise me at all. I think he's shown glimpses. Dylan Gabriel is not a franchise quarterback. You know, there's certain guys that they just come in and they get an opportunity. Maybe they get recycled and then maybe they prove in three years or four years they can play. But you got three games, like the Bengals are really interesting with Joe Burrow. I mean they're playing the Dolphins. I don't know which Joe Burrow and the Bengals will show up. I mean they got embarrassed against the Ravens. That's a no show and that would really concern me. You know another thing that I saw with the Cleveland Browns against the Bears, the number of guys who didn't play in that game for the Browns felt like it's cold. I don't want to play. And I talked to a former NFL executive yesterday and he laughed about it. He said, this feels like this is too cold, and I I don't know if I want to go out there. Ah man, I'm not feeling as healthy as possible. I said, well, they do play in Cleveland, and he said, well, there's Cleveland cold and then there's Chicago cold. And I thought, okay, so maybe you made a business decision of I don't want to go out there and play in this weather.

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Speaker 2: Of applause for Satan O'Connor. Yeah, Satan said the Chiefs weren't going to make the playoffs, and he was all in on the Seahawks beating the Rams last night. The Hawks fire. Yeah, the Seaton Hawks. So he avoids a pie to the face. I have a pie of the face coming up at the end of the show. Fritzy will administer the pie of my face.

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Speaker 7: And you said you wanted the thing on top of your head.

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Speaker 2: If I did not, because if I do, there will be blood.

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Speaker 4: They could affect the voting process.

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Speaker 2: That's that's true. By the way, there's already backstabbing the backroom guys. You know, Mario is already upset. He's the defending backroom guy winner last year. And now you got some backroom guys who were nominating other backroom guys. Then you got some I mean, now it's starting to get a little ugly here. And I said, great, that's contempt. Go ahead, make sure whatever you do, you do it on camera. Okay, but we will announce the most valuable backroom guy most valuable dan at least valuable Danet, and I have the one vote for the BRG. You the audience will vote at Danpatrick dot com on the most valuable and least valuable Danet.

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Speaker 7: Yes, John, Has anyone asked to speak with you privately in recent days a weeks to stake their case?

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Speaker 4: Yes? Yes? And were your receptive to that? I thought that was a week on their part to do that.

00:29:18
Speaker 2: I told that person during the commercial break that if they would like to talk to me, then do it privately. It's letting you know there's some things going on, things going ribes, gifts, no, nothing like that. Chat, just a chat. All right, here's the information I got. This is the UH college football playoff format that we will see. It looks like next year. This was done in the spring of twenty twenty four, is when they came up with this new format. Each of the big four conferences so Big ten, acc SEC, and Big twelve guaranteed birth for being their champion. The highest ranked team among remaining conferences is also involved. Notre Dame is guaranteed of birth if in the top twelve rankings. All the other slots six of those if you include Notre Dame as the top twelve teams at large berths for the field. That means if we use next year's structure, Notre Dame would be in and Duke would have been in because they won the ACC. James Madison would not be in. The Big Ten in SEC went to the Big twelve in ACC and said, hey, we're going to guarantee your champion gets into the playoffs. They got Notre Dame support by saying you're going to get in if you're part of the top twelve ranked teams. This is where it gets interesting. The Big ten in SEC went to the Mountain West Pack twelve, Sun Belt MAC, American Conference Conference USA and they laid out the new structure here the new format, and they said that the two conferences, Big ten and SEC will have ultimate control over the college football playoffs, and then gave the six conferences a short window to accept the deal. It was basically here, it is accepted, and then they did. Now if they hadn't, the SEC and Big Ten were apparently ready to have their own playoff structure and take all the proceeds, so it would just be the Big ten in the SEC. Right now, it's for either twelve or fourteen. There's nothing that says what if they go to sixteen or twenty four, but that will open up more discussion here. And my source wasn't sure if this structure would work for sixteen to twenty four or how that would work. But this is going to be the playoff format moving forward, and this you'll still have maybe a Cinderella story or two in there. But if you go to fourteen or sixteen, and Pete Bavaqua, Notre Dame Athletic director said we should be going to sixteen teams, maybe you're going to fourteen. I don't have the number, and my source didn't have the number, but the playoff format is designated for fourteen schools.

00:32:22
Speaker 4: Yes.

00:32:22
Speaker 8: So a couple of weeks ago, even on our show, it was talked about that it could go to twenty four teams. It almost feels like that people in college football leaked out or suggested twenty four. So when it goes to sixteen, everyone's like, oh, that's not so bad. Sixteen. It's the natural evolution, Like you're managing expectations. You threw out twenty four, which I mean lots of people throwing out twenty four teams. People are like no way, that's too much. Regular season will get hurt.

00:32:45
Speaker 2: Oh I don't want twenty four.

00:32:46
Speaker 8: And nobody does, which is why I think people in college football threw that out there so when it moves quickly to sixteen, it's not a big of a deal.

00:32:53
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't give college football much credit when it comes to this stuff because they'd screwed it up. Screwed up. You can't sit there and go, man, I see what they're this is what the NFL does. Now, if the NFL does that, I go, okay, I see what they're doing college football and be like I don't know, how about this? Or then how about this? And then I don't know, let's change this.

00:33:15
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:33:15
Speaker 2: Point.

00:33:16
Speaker 8: You know what's really bothering people, at least on social media this week is that different college football programs are announcing that they're resigning players.

00:33:24
Speaker 2: All the schools are doing it.

00:33:25
Speaker 8: I don't know who kind of evented it's now become the thing blank blank football has resigned Ted Smith or whatever. Everyone's doing it, and it's really turning people off.

00:33:34
Speaker 2: I'm fine with it, Like there's other things to be worried about, concerned about. Then we're going to make an announcement that our quarterback is staying. There's other bigger problems now you are resigning them. It's all business. You are resigning these kids. It's year to year. Uh. Kevin in Michigan. Kevin, And what's on your mind today?

00:34:00
Speaker 12: Hey Dan?

00:34:01
Speaker 2: Good morning six four. Dan.

00:34:06
Speaker 12: Just wanted to push back a little bit on your opinion from earlier saying you send to the term we don't want to see uh these underdogs, uh be these favorites to college football playoffs. But I kind of push back on that and say, it is relatively similar to basketball unless you're you pledge allegiance to those teams like Ohio State, Georgia, notre game if they were in it. Anyone outside of those folks who pledge allegiance. I feel like, for the most part, want to see those teams go down. And I think all the way back to Boise State and they're upset over Oklahoma.

00:34:48
Speaker 2: I know that was many.

00:34:50
Speaker 12: Moons ago, but just what an incredible game that was.

00:34:53
Speaker 2: I know, but we keep going back to that game. We don't bring up any other game. If you give me three or four more. Now, I'm glad James Madison and Too Lane are in they did what they were supposed to do. They shouldn't be punished. All I want to make sure is that they're not blowouts. That they get blown out and then people say the following, I told you so. That's the only thing that I don't want to happen. If they happen to shock the world, great, it's content I don't have. I'm not rooting for anybody, but you know, the line is twenty and a half. I mean, the odds are probably not great. It's going to be a great game, But Kevin, thank you. I'll take those comments under advisement. But if you have a surprise in March Madness, we expect that it's really rare. I mean, there's a real separation between the powerhouses and JMU and TWU Lane, a real separation talent wise and as a result financially, how they built these rosters and do they have a chance. They're on the field, you have a chance, but if you look at the point spreads, not likely that they're going to keep it close. And that's that's the only thing that I I hope that we can have competitive games. That's all because I just don't want it to I told you so. I told you so. Yep, you can tell me so, because you know Vegas is expecting blowouts here.

00:36:24
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:36:24
Speaker 2: Point.

00:36:24
Speaker 8: I would say though, that because of the NL NIL era, that these big heavyweight programs are a little more vulnerable than they were six or seven years ago. Like it wouldn't even be a game like Oregon squeaked by Iowa, which is a nice team. They had a couple other close ones. There's not a steamroller in college football anymore. Ohio State's pretty close, but even they lost.

00:36:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's this year. I mean Ohio State, although they lost to Michigan last year. Ohio State, Ohio State's gonna have probably five first round draft picks, five first round draft picks, maybe more, and with their marquee guys aren't even eligible for the draft, so there's a big separation. It is to Lane or James Madison going to have a first round pick. I don't think so, second round, third round, probably not. It's just a big, big drop off, and that's where college football needs to get to the point where everybody is on a level playing field. And you know you're going to get that because of NIL, your collectives, you know we're heading towards it. It's not stopping right now. Even with fourteen playoff teams, or even sixteen, it's going to go to twenty four. March Madness will end up at ninety six. One of these days in our lifetime, it'll go to ninety six schools. And the reason is they never pass on money. That's why when we had four teams, and I said immediately, like I was going to be thrilled if we got fourteen, the college football playoffs would be four schools, and I go, okay, that's progress. And then I said, once they realize the amount of money here, it's going to quickly double, if not triple. And that's what we're facing right now, and facing is the wrong word. That's the new world in college football because of the amount of money that's there for these conferences, Notre Dame individually, there's a lot of money at stake. More games, more money, March Madness, more games, more money. I've said it many times, follow the money. I don't care. The answer is money. Now, what's the question?

00:38:42
Speaker 7: Yes, Todd and the coach of the ninety seventh basketball team, so of course going to wonder why you got fired and be shocked that just because they didn't make the field of ninety six that they showed him the.

00:38:50
Speaker 2: Door, Thank you, Todd.

00:38:53
Speaker 6: Yes, Marvin, I think if you see one of those powerhouses, maybe say like Texas A and M get mollywopped in the college football playoff, there's gonna be some issues because they shell out so much money that they're gonna be like, what are we paying you all this money for. We're paying you to try to win a national title. You're not paying these guys or the collective twenty to thirty million dollars to lose in the first round or the college football playoffs. So you're gonna see more guys get fired in the middle of September, the middle of October because these you know, because boosters are showing out so much money.

00:39:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, but Miami is what a three and a half point underdog, four and a half point underdog against Texas A and M, so that wouldn't surprise anybody. I mean, I'm waiting if A and M wins by fourteen, and then you're gonna hear it. Well, see, they shouldn't have been in Notre Dame. Should have been in Yes, Mark, But.

00:39:38
Speaker 6: If you're a booster for Texas A, and m You don't want to hear that. You want to hear that we won. They don't want to hear that. Oh they were favors, so they should have won. No, no, no, we paid Mike Elko. We paid all these players twenty thirty million dollars as a collective Miami.

00:39:52
Speaker 2: When Miami paid their players, they all pay their I mean Carson Beck was the highest paid quarterback when he went to Miami. I think he went out and bought a Ferrari or Lamborghini. Like, I mean, they're all getting paid, but not the smaller schools.

00:40:08
Speaker 8: Yeah, Pully remember in college when like someone had a new accord and that was cool. Can you imagine rolling around in a Lambo? I mean, even its Miami, you're sticking.

00:40:15
Speaker 2: Out Josh and san Antonio. Hi, Josh, what's onny mind?

00:40:23
Speaker 9: Hey Dan? I'm an admitted college football junkie, and I blame myself because I'll watch however many games they put on. But one thing I will say about college football fans is that we're never happy. First it was the coaches in the ap defense, the debating who is going to be playing in the College Football Championship. Then we said no, that can't work. Let's go to a computer system, the BCS, and we said, no, that can't work. So we said, let's go to a.

00:40:48
Speaker 13: Four team playoff. And now it's twelve teams. And now it's this kind of contrived idea that you mentioned with the Big twelve or the Big ten and the SEC running it.

00:41:00
Speaker 9: I have no self control. I'm going to watch every game that they're gonna put on.

00:41:05
Speaker 13: But I really wish, I really value and what makes college football special is the regular season. Every game matters, and if any year this year for a fourteen playoffs, those four teams are a tier above everybody else.

00:41:19
Speaker 2: All right, Yeah, I worry about the regular season, but now all of a sudden, more teams have an opportunity to, if they play well during the regular season, get into the postseason. You know, it's a kind of a push pull taffee pull. It feels like like if you have more teams, then it's watered down and it doesn't mean the same. And I know, but it's the new age. It's money college basketball, college football, the amount of money, march madness. Why not have more madness college football. Let's have more teams, more money, more televised games feels like a win win, and I don't know if they're worried about us as much as they're worried about themselves the amount of money that Now, are you going to watch tonight? I mean this is standalone game Alabama and Oklahoma, No NFL. Maybe as we get closer to Christmas, you're staying inside you watch the game. No, I mean, these ratings aren't going to be good this first rip of games because the NFL, and even you've got a game on opposite the Bears in the Packers on Saturday night. You do have a standalone game on Saturday. I think that's noon Miami and Texas A and M. But you know they're not going to do well in the ratings. Yeah, Mark, stupid question.

00:42:45
Speaker 6: But do you think there's going to be less regular season games of college football if they expand the twenty four teams?

00:42:50
Speaker 2: I don't know how many. I don't know how many regular season games that you can have and then you have the postseason because you're going to say to these kids, are we going to treat them like professionals? Now? They're going to have an eighteen game schedule? Were they potential for an eighteen game schedule, and I wonder about that, well, I wonder how many games is too many? Right now? If you have twelve, you go into the playoffs. Now you win what three games, so that's fifteen games.

00:43:21
Speaker 8: Yeah, Paulie, you think we don't care about the health of NFL players, We really don't care about the health of college players.

00:43:27
Speaker 2: There's zero protection. That's why I said, why is it the NFL they want to protect them and they change the kickoff, but in college football they don't change the kickoff. It's like, ah, you got your bell, run, get back in there. Come on, Hey, you're getting paid nil money, yes, Tom?

00:43:41
Speaker 7: And what about the exams and the papers these student athletes have to do.

00:43:44
Speaker 2: You can't keep giving them more games. They'll never have any time to study. Are you being sarcast a little bit little