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

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Speaker 2: He's John Harball, the Giants head coach who has it better than we do.

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Speaker 3: No, I know.

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Speaker 1: The answer to that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, how often did your dad ask you that question?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 5: I don't know. It's like about every day right now. I know that. But we got it young, We didn't. We didn't understand it till later. You know. It's one of those things that your parents tell you that you kind of don't get. You kind of make fun of. What is that everybody's got better than us? Dad? It's cold, we're complaining whenever we complain though, that's what we heard.

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Speaker 2: You take this job. Let me let me stay with Baltimore for a moment. How do you not take it personally when the franchise doesn't want you anymore?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? I don't. Well, you do take it personally, really, I mean I can't say that you don't. Everything is personal. I mean life is personal. You know. We you pour your heart into what you do every single day. It's meaningful and it matters. And and I know that everybody that we were with there, who we love in Baltimore all those years, would say the same thing about what they did or about us and everything like that. So yeah, you do take it personal in a sense, because it's a very personal thing. But but I wasn't offended by it. It didn't it didn't make me mad, didn't make me bitter. It just was disappointing. But by the same time, it's like, you know what, there's a plan for life. There's a purpose in life. And I believe in I believe in our almighty Creator, and I believe that there's a reason that things happen. And when when when when that when? When the Lord above says, go, it's time to go. And that's how I look at it. And he said, go to New York and here where we are so very excited about that this We're right where we are supposed to be at this particular point in time. It's exactly the place we're supposed to be. And that's what I'm excited about.

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Speaker 2: Mike Rabel put a lot of pressure on coaches taking over teams. He turns the team around and goes to the Super Bowl. Uh can it be? I mean, I know I was wondering about that. You know, you don't get to ease into this job, John, No.

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Speaker 5: No, it's Okay, hey, welcome the challenge. If it's the National Football League, you know, but not for long. Uh, it's time, you got, It's time to produce day one. And our players expect that, our coaches expect that. We expect to come out of the gates. We're gonna come out of the We're gonna come out of the corner swinging. I mean, that's what we're gonna do. I remember the Hearns Hagler fight.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, when Herds surprised everybody and just went all in against Hagler.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, three round. I think it was a t k O maybe by I think Hagler won it. Maybe if I remember I was. I loved Hagler. I loved Tagler. Marvin if he's out there, I love him. But Tommy Hearns is my guy, the you know, the MotorCity hit man, Tommy Hearns man. I love Tommy Hearns. Uh. He came out swinging, so that's what we plan on doing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but he got knocked out, So you don't want to come out swinging like that.

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Speaker 5: We'll come out swinging. We'll be throwing, you know, wherever happens happens.

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Speaker 2: But the chips flying U tougher division, AFC North or NFC East.

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Speaker 5: Uh, the AFC North has been the tougher division, you know over the last eighteen years. I would say that. I mean I was in it. I know it was tougher going forward now in the early in the early two thousands, it was then it was the NFC East. I was in it. Then. You know where it's at. It's wherever you're at.

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Speaker 3: That's the toughest divisions.

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Speaker 5: Wherever you live. And we'll be living in the NFC East and it's a tough division. I mean, you got the Eagles who have been doing what they do for the last number of years. It's like Michigan Ohio State. Back in the day when Bo Shimmicker took over with my dad, you had to beat Ohio State if you're going to be great at Michigan, and that's what they did the very first year. And then the Cowboys, the Cowboys, the Commanders. It's just great rivalries, incredible stadiums, huge fan bases, nothing more. That's you. There's no more exciting division than the NFC East and the New York Football Giants. You know, we're in it too. So we planned to make a statement. We planned to be there. We planned to show up for every single game, Dan, right on time.

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Speaker 2: What was it about the Giants job that attracted you the most?

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Speaker 5: I think probably, if I was being honest about it, the players. The players are really important in football. You've got to have players, great players as a players game. It always has been a player's game. It always will be a player's game. Great coaches have taught me that over the years.

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Speaker 2: So, but having that franchise quarterback, how important was that? If you're you're surveying the situation here of all the openings, how important was it that you had Jackson Dark?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, start with the quarterback. I mean, the players started with the quarterback. You build a team around the quarterback. That I looked at that, Like the first thing I did was look at all the quarterbacks. And there are some good quarterbacks on these teams, But Jackson was the guy that really excited me when I saw them now even more so being around them every day we were in here, we were in here last night, he was hanging out, he's working out. I think he worked out at nine o'clock. So, uh, I saw him around the building and talk some ball with him.

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Speaker 2: So is great what's the best piece of coaching advice your dad gave you.

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Speaker 5: Uh, the best piece of a coaching advice our dad gave us. He said, you know what he said.

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Speaker 6: He said, you.

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Speaker 5: Gotta work really hard. You gotta work harder than everybody else. He goes, because I know you two guys, and you're really not that smart. You're probably not gonna smart anybody, so you got to outwork people. That's a direct quote. That's exactly what he said.

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Speaker 2: He said, you and Jim were not smart, so you got out work Who's smarter between you two.

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Speaker 5: Jim's the smartest guy. I know. Jim's the smartest. He's the smartest coach in the league. Total credit to Jim for smart uh, street smart, emotional smarts, knows how to knows how to make you, knows how to make a statement, make people feel a certain way. Funny dude, Yeah, you know him.

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Speaker 3: What do you do better than him?

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Speaker 5: I do that. I beat him in golf the last time we played, but that was like ten years ago. We refuse to play each other. We refuse I mean golf, we's got time for it. But what do I do better than Jim? I look younger than Jim right now. Can we all agree on that. Neither one of us are that young. But I look younger than him.

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Speaker 3: Okay, how much?

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Speaker 5: What's the age?

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Speaker 3: What's the age difference?

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Speaker 5: I'm fifteen months older, okay.

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Speaker 3: And I'm sure you're reminding of that.

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Speaker 5: See, you would have never guessed that, right, Pat, you would have never guessed.

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Speaker 3: No. No, just don't color your hair. Okay, No, you can see. No, I'm just saying, just don't do that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you look you are. You are very You look very distinguished. You're a gentleman. You know, you look very wise, new but distinguished.

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Speaker 2: That's the gray hair. That when you have gray hair, you're you're wise, You're distinguished.

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Speaker 3: I think it comes along with that.

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Speaker 5: I like the lumberjack shirt you're wearing. Too nice and it's cozy, it's by fireplace in the background. Who's got a bear than you?

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Speaker 3: Dam nobody, nobody.

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Speaker 5: For a living talking about crotch? Game stop ever? I want that job.

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Speaker 3: When did you reach out to Mike McDonald.

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Speaker 5: Reached out to him after the game. Right after the game. I started texting him right away. I haven't able to get him on the phone yet, but I will. I will. Jay either they're busy. They've got parades to do, they got chows to do.

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Speaker 3: The wait, wait, he hasn't gotten back to you yet.

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Speaker 5: He hadn't, He didn't. Wow, you know, he's been busy. He's been busy, but he's he's texted back. He texted back right away.

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Speaker 2: Do you did you realize that he like he was capable of doing this at a young age and calling the defensive plays in the Super Bowl as a head coach.

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Speaker 5: Well, I mean I hired him as a defensive coordinator in the defensive play call. So that was that's always the plan. You know, you want you want, I want my defensive coordinator calling defenses in the Super Bowl. That's definitely the goal. And uh, there were I never had any doubt about Mike. Others did, I didn't, and Mike didn't, you know. And Mike is uh, Mike is confident, smart, just a good person, hard worker. He's the guy. He's a hard worker and he's smart. He's got he's got two for two going there. So uh and look look what happened. I mean, I'm just so couldn't be more proud of him. And also Jay Harbaugh, our nephews, a special teams coordinator. They've won games on special teams, multiple games because of special teams and because of what Jay's done. So those guys, I mean, there's other guys. Leslie Frasier's on that staff left for Leslie is such a great leader. He's helping Mike. So yeah, that's an amazing job they've done.

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Speaker 2: The kicker and the punter, I mean, what a what a weapon for Seattle. When you talk about a total team effort to win a Super Bowl, they had it.

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Speaker 3: They had it.

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Speaker 5: Unbelievable trade for the returner who's also a receiver at in this mid season there and the shapeople are like scratching her head about that trade and look at he made a difference for him.

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Speaker 2: When's the last time you talked to your quarterback and your former quarterback?

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Speaker 3: Uh in Baltimore.

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Speaker 5: You know what, we've texted a number of times. We haven't talked on the phone, you know, just having a chance to do that. But I haven't talked really anybody on the phone. I had like over twenty five hundred texts, which is crazy. So I'm down under three, I'm down under four hundred. I haven't cracked getting back to people. But it's been been amazing, but no, we texted great love for Lamar. Really everybody there a great love for him.

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Speaker 2: When you were first let go, I had somebody say right away that it'll be between the Giants and the Falcons for you, that those were the two jobs that you'd be interested in.

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Speaker 3: Was that fair accurate?

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Speaker 5: I was interested in both those jobs, but not just those two. There was there were there were I talked to everybody, and you really realized, Dan, when you talk to people in this circle stand which you know I don't necessarily recommend, but but it was really incredible to talk to the people at every organization, the owners, the GMS, team presidents, all that they are. There's so many great people in this league. You go to the owners meeting, you've been there and you get into that group that that football is a huge, you know, stage, but it's a small circle. And you get in that group and you and you realize that, you know, we all have the same things. We're all fighting the same fights, We're all fight in the same battles, we all have the same concerns. We're just trying to do our best. Families, the kids are running around and you and you feel that kind of sense of I don't know, just a shared understanding for what you do. And then you talk to them about their job and you realize how important it is to them what they're trying to accomplish, and you you try to visualize yourself in that job with them. And really, I could visualize myself in every one of those jobs, with every one of the groups I talked to. You really can do that because there's so many good people, and every job in this league is amazing.

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Speaker 3: You do with your Ravens gear.

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Speaker 5: I kept a little. I kept a couple of things, some of the nicer stuff. Yeah, I kept a couple, a couple of uh uh quarter zips. Uh kept a couple of championship hats.

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Speaker 3: What are you gonna do with them?

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Speaker 5: Well, uh, someday, you know they I got a good, a good hoodie that I really liked. I kept that, an insulated hand pocket. I don't know, I mean really good stuff. All the other stuff I tossed, I mean I didn't toss. I gave it the friends and good Will. Good Will made it killing good guy. We stopped accepting our stuff at one point. We're not not raven stuff. But they took all the raven stuff, but some of the other stuff, they're like, we'vet it, we have enough, we don't want any more.

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Speaker 3: Uh. Congrats, good luck man.

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Speaker 6: Thanks.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's let's see if you can pull off of Mike Rabel there with the g men.

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Speaker 5: I appreciate that, Dan, great c is always you're the best. You're awesome. We did it. We did a show member in Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: We did a show what you did great with that super Bowl coverage because you know, you go in there and you're like, just tell me what to do and I'll answer the questions when you asked. But we were outside there for a little while in Minnesota and we spent you know, we spent some quality time together there.

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Speaker 5: We did we we we we we had that we didn' huddle close together to.

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Speaker 3: Nary warm, but.

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Speaker 5: We could have cold.

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Speaker 3: Yes.

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Speaker 5: But you were a great teacher. You were a great teacher, a great leader. You were great at what you do. I'm just an honored to be on the show with you, man. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, buddy, who has it better than we do? No, thank you, coach. That's John Harbal.

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Speaker 3: Let's bring in Mike Tarico.

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Speaker 2: You'll find him on Well Everything with NBC Sunday Night football play by play host in the Olympics. We got scandals over there, Mike, what's your favorite scandals? What's your favorite scales?

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Speaker 8: Are you gonna go.

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Speaker 6: Ski jumping on me? I?

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Speaker 2: I just wonder how you, you know, being the you know, the decorated broadcaster hosting the Olympics, how do.

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Speaker 8: You do that?

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Speaker 4: You know?

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Speaker 3: They you you you toe the line with this, Mike.

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Speaker 8: I think the ski jumping thing is one of the funnier stories. I think I think that we all go to great lengths to cover a story.

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Speaker 6: Like that, Dan, and we'll I see. It's just everything you say.

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Speaker 8: About that story is problematic in some way, shape or form.

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Speaker 6: Uh, it's isn't it funny? Like?

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Speaker 8: Seriously that that that that isn't only in the Olympics funny story?

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Speaker 6: Sorry about that? It's off the charts? Good? So yeah, that's one that that's what.

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Speaker 2: But do you have an expert, Mike, do you have an expert on to talk about crotch Gate?

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Speaker 6: We we are, we're searching.

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Speaker 8: It's a very deep research pool, if you know, and we will continue to get our get our best person on it. It's Uh, it's so funny because now after that story, right, and it makes sense, Like it makes sense in all regards. As you watch anybody who's sailed right or or put a kite up in the air, you kind of see that. How you know, you want to get the right amount of air to a certain place to keep that in the air longer.

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Speaker 1: See anything you say.

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Speaker 2: Is wrong, right, So like how you're breaking this down scientistic, You're like Belichick after the flat Gate.

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Speaker 6: P. S. I and all this stuff, you know.

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Speaker 8: So that's so so anyway, so we'll we'll find we have not yet covered that story in prime time. However, I'm sure there will be a moment that that comes up, and if the situation arises, will deal with it as sneak.

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Speaker 2: What's your second favorite scandal going on right now? Controversy? Was that or the judging from the ice dancing?

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Speaker 8: I know you were bothered by the Spanish placement and the French judge and all that, you know, So.

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Speaker 6: It's funny, Dad.

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Speaker 8: So as you know, we've got an amazing research team that's part of the Olympic unit, and we have they're younger than we are. We're older. We watched the Olympics, going back to Jim McKay and all that.

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Speaker 6: So I was talking about it last night as we were going through.

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Speaker 8: Yes, the French judge and the placement of the Spanish judge in the ice dancing. Do you remember the old days when it would have the country and the scores would come up the German judge, the Russian judge, and you know, the whole term of the Russian judge giving a bad score was kind of the lingo for some time. And now we've gotten away from that, right because you have this artistic score and the grade of execution and Johnny we are at Tara Lepinsky explained it all the time and I'm still trying to get my arms around understanding it properly.

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Speaker 6: But it's still there. And that was a big drama in the judging.

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Speaker 8: The high and the low score got thrown out because there was natural bias in there, and with ice dancing, everybody says there's gonna be bias from countries. It's political. We understand that going in. I'm like, what do you mean you understand that going in? And then the two top teams, the US team that finished the runner up, Chalk and Baits. They train with the same coaches as the French team and they train in the same place. So can you imagine the Seahawks and the Patriots training in the same place, coached by the same people, and then meeting in the Super Bowl. It's like hard to get your arms around that. So that's that's the other favorite controversy so far from me.

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Speaker 2: Now, help me understand the quad god and helium mountin. But Debbie Thomas did this flip many many many years ago and then they outlawed that.

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Speaker 6: Correct the backflip you're talking about.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, that was Now it's back in so Ilium.

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Speaker 6: Mallinin has that.

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Speaker 8: Did it in his short program, will likely include it in his long program tonight, in addition to the four revolutions in the air and Scott Hamilton, who's working with me so he'll be on the set with me when that's on live this afternoon. As Scott was showing me just how Ilias starts his rotations in his jumps right from the beginning. It used to be got up in the air and then started rotating, and he starts the rotation beforehand. So it just pushing the physical limits of what people can do, which is a great thing about sports.

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Speaker 6: All the time.

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Speaker 8: Did we ever think we'd see somebody like Wemby who's that tall and has that full courtability doing things in the open floor like he does. No, But now we do, right, And so Elia has done the same thing, and now others feel like they can do it. So it's a cool thing to see and watch. And he's pretty special. I hope he crushes it tonight because we've seen him in the World Championships last year in Boston, We've seen him on the Grand Prix circuit. If he goes out and crushes it at the Olympics in the long program like, people will talk about what he does forever, which is so cool.

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Speaker 2: Talking to Mike Tarico, you're also going to be doing the NBA when you come back home, I'm curious about the tanking story that you know. The commissioner came and I wonder the timing of this, Mike. You have the All Star weekend and you have the media looking for somebody to, you know, something to talk about, and we've talked about tanking the last couple of days here in the States. Now, all of a sudden, he levies a five hundred thousand dollars fine and a one hundred thousand dollars. Fine, do you think that's just a coincidence.

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Speaker 8: Well, I don't think it's all star timing. I think it's what Utah has been doing right. And this has felt a little bit like whack a mole along the way. When something comes up, you have to respond to it. And you know, Utah had a brilliant idea. If you will, hey, we're playing market in a certain number of minutes on a minute's restriction, but they would not have the key minutes and at the minutes you need your best players to close a game, right.

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Speaker 6: So this is an issue and a problem that they'll have to.

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Speaker 8: Find a way long term to be comfortable with and not incentivized losing. And they've tried it with percentages. I'm surprised to end percentages in the draft. I'm surprised we haven't seen it in the NFL. I really am where we don't see more of a lottery system for the draft as opposed to, hey, we'll start a bad quarterback, We'll go two and fifteen and try to get better quicker, because in the NFL it can happen with a couple of draft picks and a good draft class. And the right quarterback and be in position for that. But you know, the one thing about the NBA is they do not let, especially Adam does not let a lot of moss grow before taking action. Like they get in there and they attack a problem, and if it's a problem and there needs to be a solution, they'll go there. And I think that's why the find was so heavy and so penal against the Jazz for what they've been doing.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know what.

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Speaker 2: And we've had calls all morning long about tanking and what are alternative how do we stop this?

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Speaker 3: I don't have any ideas.

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Speaker 2: I mean I have ideas, I just don't know, like, how do you kind of stop this, circumvent this, prevent this.

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Speaker 6: I'll never forget talking to somebody with the NCAA and this is in the nineties and they said, you know every rule that's in the book, all the infractions, I can go back and tell you, yeah, SMU.

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Speaker 8: Did this back then or this school that did this back then, and that's why this rule is in place. I think everybody, when looking for a competitive edge, finds a workaround at some point, so it's not fool proof. So whatever the next system is somebody will find a way to mess with it. You know, do you just totally abolish the concept of worst record gets to the top pick. Do you go back to some sort of complete lottery system for the draft. There's a variety of different things that sound crazy. You don't want to get away from the principle of if you're not good, you should get the first chance to get better, because that cyclical nature of sports helps. Otherwise, you don't want although it's successful, I don't think you want what the Premier League is, where you have a.

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Speaker 6: Half dozen clubs.

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Speaker 8: We're going to be up here and then the others are mostly going to rotate and the bottom fuel will come in and out from the Premier League in the championship. And that works for English soccer, it does not work for our sports in the States. You like the fact that Utah can be bad and get a couple of draft picks and now you can be great.

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Speaker 2: How quickly after the trophy ceremony at the Super Bowl, where you on a plane to Italy a.

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Speaker 8: Couple of hours we did the Olympic primetime show from the field for an hour and change, went back to the hotel, got a shower, grabbed our stuff and got on the plane and then landed I think four hours before the maybe four and a half hours before the primetime show aired on Monday night, and got right to work on that, got here shower, got to the broadcast center and dove in. It was a bit of a whirlwind, but I'll say it's it's been fun. I thought that on Tuesday or Wednesday would hit like a house of bricks.

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Speaker 6: But you know the energy of the Olympics.

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Speaker 8: You get going in a routine with next day it's a new event and something big is happening, and it kind of carries you through. So this is day seven of the Olympics. I think it's day seven and I'm still feeling pretty good.

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Speaker 3: When do you hit the wall? Normally at the Olympics.

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Speaker 6: The rookie wall, you mean, the hit the Olympic wall.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, So like tomorrow is where the dog days set in, where you're doing the same thing for the eighth or ninth, tenth day row and then the hard day is usually the Thursday before it ends, because you go, oh my god, how am I going to pack all the stuff that I have? There's no way I'm going to be ready to leave in three or four days and get all this stuff back. I haven't hit a wall doing these doing Olympics the last five You taught.

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Speaker 6: Me early on.

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Speaker 8: Take it one segment at a time and don't worry about a three four hour show or however long you're going to be on. And that's still the best. That's the best idea. I want to know what's ahead and plan. But I've got to worry about, you know, jo honest Clabo in this segment, and not because because if I'm worried about Frederica Brignonti in the next segment, I'm going to screw up your honest Clabo in this segment.

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Speaker 6: So it is.

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Speaker 8: It was a sage and good advice that I that I still hold to this day. So thank you, Thank you, Danimal.

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Speaker 2: Do you have somebody who is there, like you'll go through all the names and you have somebody who is there who's able to help you pronounce these names?

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Speaker 8: Well, we need's a variety of people over the years on this show. Specifically, shout out Jake Abraham Charlotte Edmonds. They are the two researchers who are working on our primetime show and they are God sends they're they're hey, no, it's it's.

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Speaker 6: Claud Bo, not claud Bo. You know that.

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Speaker 8: They especially the people who work for the Olympic Research Unit, and they traveled to the Biathlon World Championships and all of those things, and they come back with the right answer.

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Speaker 6: It's why and Dan you know this, but maybe people watching haven't heard this.

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Speaker 8: There are a lot of sports executives for the last twenty five years.

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Speaker 6: I'm talking to the top people in the industry who.

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Speaker 8: Are alums of the Olympic Research Group, including Molly Solomon who's the executive producer of our Olympics right now, and Sam Flood was the executive producer at NBC Sports. But they were Olympic researchers and moved their way up and the detail and the foresight you need, Like yesterday, random, we're looking at the metal count. Hey, guys, Norway's Norway's the most goals, Like didn't they have it last Olympics? Hang on, yeah, they had at last Olympics and the Olympics before they tied the one before. So they're going for four in a row, like in fifteen seconds. Like these are stupid questions from somebody and they just know how to do it. And Jake and Charlotte are my saviors on the show right now, so they're making me look as good as I can at this point.

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Speaker 2: All right, Bud, uh, congrats on the super Bowl and uh seamlessly doing the hosting the Olympics, and uh we'll look forward to crotch Gate coming up at some point.

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Speaker 6: Appreciate I do I get to come on next week too. This is two weeks in a row.

00:26:14
Speaker 3: Uh, Todd, Oh no, I'm on vacation.

00:26:19
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, I just I just want to know when Reggie Miller's status happens, because I'm like.

00:26:25
Speaker 6: Reg, you're on Dan show again on every week. I know, but that's good. I thought, it's fine. I know my place, and.

00:26:33
Speaker 3: You've got enough air time. All right, work for a.

00:26:36
Speaker 6: Time, and it feels like working for air time. Just your friendship.

00:26:39
Speaker 3: Why don't you share a little bit?

00:26:40
Speaker 2: Okay, you gobble up airtime, you gobble up camera time. Thank you, Mike, have no ego on then I will right after this.

00:26:50
Speaker 6: See I knew that was a tease.

00:26:52
Speaker 3: I see, I see what you.

00:26:53
Speaker 2: Do that professional Mike Jurico over there covering the Winter Olympics.

00:26:59
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00:27:11
Speaker 2: I don't know what you accomplished before you turn thirty, but Noah will be the youngest ever to call an NBA All Star Game at the age of twenty nine. What's the best piece of advice you've been given going into the All Star Game?

00:27:24
Speaker 4: Well, first of all, Dan, I was excited to join you guys until I saw the guest list for today, and then I felt like a stand up comic going to an open mic night and you don't know who you're going to follow, and you have to follow Chris Rock and Bill Burr. So here I am ready to go. Best piece of advice is, honestly, it's just been to be myself and really do everything that we normally do. Have fun, and if you have fun, the audience generally tends to follow and celebrate the game. That's what we're here to do, and so you kind of accomplish all those things and you can leave happy.

00:28:00
Speaker 3: How does your age work against you? How does it work for you in a situation like this?

00:28:05
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess against me. It's just the inexperience. I haven't done this before, and so it's anything that you do new, you're going in a little bit blind. But I would say how it worked for me. You know, I've always been in old soul. The first article written about me when I got the La Clippers job was the headline was He's twenty two going on fifty two, and it was highly accurate. And so for me, I think I've been a historian of the game. I've watched every one of these weekends since I was pretty much born. I was the guy that needed to park myself on the couch from the beginning of the Rising Stars all the way through the game on Sunday. So I just think that I want to make sure that I'm doing the due diligence for all of those people who have been watching for decades. But at the same time, I do at least have a sense of what's happening with the younger generation. And so the hope is I can bridge the gap between those who are twenty two and those who are seventy two that are tuning in. That is kind of the goal in any of this. And you know, we know that we should have especially considering the Olympics are going to be on. We should have a lot of non basketball fans early, and so our hope is we can entertain them and inform them enough that they want to stay.

00:29:19
Speaker 3: Your thoughts on the format.

00:29:22
Speaker 4: I'm excited for it. I think that, Look, the Olympic aspect is great. We chatted during the Summer Olympics in twenty twenty four and I got a front row seat to see just how different that type of competition is when you do have the pride of representing a country in the United States case and the world in the world's case. And I think that you're going to get a full forty eight minutes of basketball on Sunday. To me, that was always the concern. It's one thing if and we saw this a little bit last year, and the NBA did a great job of rectifying some of those issues where it felt like, actually the the games were getting competitive, but then it was so choppy because they were so short that you never got a full rhythm of basketball. This will be a full rhythm of a full quarter, and then you move on it's another full quarter, and then you move on another full quarter, and then you have your championship, so it's a full four quarters of basketball. So from that perspective, I think it can work. And the hope is these guys have a little bit of juice, especially towards the end of that quarter. I think that's the other idea from the NBA in previous All Star Games. You feel like you have your full forty eight minute game, twelve minute quarters. There's no jurisdiction with the first, second, third, and then maybe by the end of the fourth they start playing. The hope is, because it's one quarter, the point differential is going to matter by the end of each quarter, and they'll final three to four minutes, You're going to start to see some of that competitive joy and spirit come to the forefront. So that's what I expect. We'll see if it all comes together that way, But I'm excited for it.

00:30:56
Speaker 2: I'm talking to Noah Ego. He'll be calling the All Star weekend festivities with Reggie Carmelo, Vince Carter, Tracy McGrady, Jamal Crawford. We've taken phone calls all morning long. Everybody has their solution to tanking.

00:31:12
Speaker 4: You got one, you see, I really don't think there is one, because I've gone through every combination and permutation you could think, and all the ones I've heard some really creative. The ones that I like. There's one that I know has at least had some preliminary discussion, accordingto reports, about potentially having some kind of tournament or play to get the number one pick. So now there's an incentive for the teams. The problem is, what's the incentive for the players that are on those teams that are on expiring contract. Why do they care? That's the same idea of that's what everybody always says with the NFL res all, well, if you're bad, just lose every game. Well, why would the players care to lose every game? That's not good for them in their personal brands. And the same type of deal of okay, well, where they're not going to have any competitive pride, saying up until a certain point and then that's gonna switch doesn't make sense to me. I've heard the well, cut it off at March first, and now the rest of the year doesn't matter in terms of your losses, so go be competitive. But what does that do necessarily? What if there's a team that's eleventh in the lottery odds and March first, and now they turn it on late, they make the play in tournament, they make the playoffs, and they get the number one pick. Well, that doesn't solve now the competitive balance in the NBA. So I don't know if there's a definitive answer other than the fact of what the egregious tanking and what we saw the Utah Jazz get fined half a million dollars for. I think that's where you just have to find punishments for that to make sure that those do not happen. The blatant directly in your face, sitting entire guys for entire fourth quarters. And it's more than just Utah that's done it. They're just the ones that have gotten the harshest punishment so far this year. It's a load of draft class. I think every time there's a load of draft class, you see more and more teams recognize it. And especially once these guys start playing at the level that they have in the college ranks, they're going to start going all in to try to secure their services. But at the same time, I'm not really sure that there's a direct answer to say, well, hey, you can't do that. You're gonna tell coaches, well, don't don't put the You can't put those guys in right now. That's a coaching decision. That's all they're going to argue. So, no, I don't have I don't have an answer. The answer is to try to sit back and hopefully enjoy what you can.

00:33:26
Speaker 3: Are you calling the celebrity game as well?

00:33:29
Speaker 5: I am not.

00:33:30
Speaker 4: I wish it's still an ESPN property. I wish that we could have somehow grabbed that one. I'm a big fan of watching the celebrities embarrass themselves.

00:33:40
Speaker 2: All I know is Jason Williams is going to be out there, yes, and somebody's gonna get hit in the head with one of his passes, and he's going to put somebody. He'll he'll put him on a swivel. He'll he'll embarrass some people out there. I don't know who else. Who else is Jeremy Lynn, He's playing as well well.

00:34:01
Speaker 4: No, Dan. The big one that I think everyone's curious about is Sham's charantoh yeah, which I here's what I thought should happened. Every NBA executive should have recognized that this guy was doing something that he can't have his phone out while he's on the court and all thirty teams should make some kind of deal. I know the trade deadline's gown, but just do something crazy so that he cannot report on it. I just want to see what would happen. It feels like NBA armor get in that. Also, I realized I saw online that apparently you can put a wager on Shams tarani as over under a three and a half points, which is disrespectful to Shams. Have you seen his jump shot? He's got to get at least four.

00:34:43
Speaker 3: Is he Does he have any game?

00:34:45
Speaker 4: He's got something. He's got some level of skill.

00:34:49
Speaker 3: Not very tall, is he?

00:34:51
Speaker 6: No?

00:34:51
Speaker 4: But as a short king myself, at least I sympathized with the fact that he's put up jumpers, he's gotten in the gym, and he's put some work in.

00:34:58
Speaker 3: Could you take Shams in a shooting contest.

00:35:02
Speaker 4: I'ven't picked up a ball in years, so probably not.

00:35:05
Speaker 6: Maybe twenty nine.

00:35:06
Speaker 3: It's not like you're fifty.

00:35:08
Speaker 4: Sure, sure, give me, give me like a month and then we can talk. If you give me a month to get some shots up, feel like I can get a rhythm back. Then, Yes, I think I shot I shot forty percent my senior year of high school from three. I think it was two for five or four for ten, so I think I.

00:35:24
Speaker 2: Good have fun this weekend. Noah appreciate it. Man, that's no Eagle. He'll be on the call for the All Star festivities.