Hour 3 – Most Must-Win Game of the Weekend, Pat Welter

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Speaker 3: We got a couple of them running anyways. Anyways, Who's your favorite right now in the NFC today? Buccaneers, Eagles, Lions? Other Right now, the Lion's running away with that one fifty seven percent of that vote. Eagles are down to four point seven.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, something's up, something's off. You saw that last night. We've seen that so far this season. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: See, doesn't feel like we kind of do this every mid season with the Eagles. Something's going on with Siria, Something's going on. I don't seem what's going on there with that. It seems every year this is a thing that happens until they, you know, get into the playoffs or something.

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Speaker 2: Well, but a couple of years ago we were talking about is he going to get fired? Yeah, nobody's saying is he going to get fired? But this could be the down year they had the following after they won the Super Bowl. But it just I don't know. There just feels like, what style are you going to play? You're gonna run the football, You're gonna pass?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 2: Is it gonna be kind of a hybrid? Nick Siriani? Is he two predictable? You know? Jalen Hurts. If you're gonna ask him to throw and win a game, can you Saquon Barkley didn't run last night in the second half?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Paul, No one's really talked about the Eagles defense this time. Last year, the Eagles had the seventh ranked offense in football. This year there's seventeenth. So you dropped ten spots. Last year at this time they had the number one defense in the NFL. Now it's twentieth.

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Speaker 2: That's a big drop. Yeah, Marvin, if you're.

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Speaker 6: Nick Sirianni, I don't think you can afford a down year, especially what this is probably the most talented roster in the NFL. And he almost got fired a couple of years ago when he fired the OC, the AC, the DC, everyone. So he can't afford a down year. He's lucky he won the Super Bowl last year, like, oh, you know what, this buys me a year? Yeah, so he can't afford.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if the Giants are any good, but they're leading the league in swag, that's for sure. With Jackson, Dart Cam Scattaboo not afraid to celebrate a little bit, and that was a big win last night and they were the better team. And Jackson Dart I like that he extends plays. I don't want him to be a tough guy, but you know, sometimes you get caught up. He's twenty two years of age, and you get caught up the emotion part of that. Scataboo's not afraid. The defense is pretty good, and maybe they can be a spoiler, and maybe that coaching staff can keep their jobs, keeping their jobs coaching staffs. We make the segue into the situation with Bill Belichick at North Carolina. Pat Welter has done a wonderful job. He's all over this story. He's a sports anchor WRLTV and Raleigh North Carolina. Pat, how would you sum up what's happened the last couple of days here with Bill Belichick and North Carolina foot ball?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Dan, it's an honor to be on with you guys today. Happy birthday to Todd Fritz. And it's been a whirlwind.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 7: I felt like we were ready to break this story as recently as Friday, Dan, before the Clemson game, and we made a decision to wait a couple more days, and I think that was instrumental in allowing our reporting to kind of start the avalanche of information that's come out. You know, I was able to speak to a lot of sources at the Clemson game, and that's when I really knew I had something. Dan was when there's sources I've had relationships with for years on this story, but when I was just walking around meeting people with direct knowledge of the program that I had no relationship with, and they were immediately volunteering information to me, things like from a parent, my son has no idea.

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Speaker 4: What's going on. It is a complete mess.

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Speaker 7: So that's what we reported, and we're seeing the fallout of it since, and we're seeing U and C make direct action after some of the things that have come out.

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Speaker 2: Okay, but where are we today with this story?

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Speaker 7: So yesterday, kind of the development was we're coming off the statement.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 4: We have this statement that comes.

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Speaker 7: Out late the night prior and it's very brief and it comes from Bubba Cunningham and it comes from Bill Belichick basically saying Belichick's committed to UNC football and UNC athletics is committed to him and this was on the heels and based on conversations I had yesterday with sources multiple levels UNC decision makers. They wanted to call them the noise, they wanted to call them what they referred to as rumors, and those rumors were related to two four seven Tar Hill Sports report about there being exit strategy conversations and other reports of Bill Belichick looking to triggering his own contract. Now, I spent basic all day on the phones trying to run this down, and I think it's clear. I think it's important to note that I was told by multiple levels of UNC decision makers and my colleague Brian Murphy that there were no exit strategy conversations, that there were no conversations of Bill triggering his own buyout. But I have to acknowledge right that that does not mean necessarily that that did not happen. Like I'm not in those rooms. These are what these people are telling me. They're all telling me the same thing, So there's an obligation I think to report it in fairness, but I think you also have to acknowledge there's a gap there. We can only know so much, and I respect Andrew Jones who had that report, So I think you have to just take the information and sort it out with what you know and what you want to believe.

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Speaker 2: Is Bill Belichick coaching North Carolina against Cal a week from Saturday.

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Speaker 4: I can't tell you. I can't tell you.

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Speaker 7: I just know that this is escalated day by day, and I would say hour by hour to be quite literally, Dan, minute by minute. I'll tell you this morning, I sent an email to UNC Athletics trying to get confirmation of a player to see if he was still with the program. An hour later, the player I asked about has a graphic ready to go on social media. This just broke from running back Caleb Hood. After much thought, prayer and discussion with my family, I've decided to retire from football. My journey at you and c has been special and I appreciate my time here. You can look on social media if you want to see that full statement. That is the player I asked about because of a tip that I got there. Ironic in a way, Dan, because this season, if you remember that first game versus TCU, there was that one moment where everyone all the hype, all the buzz, which was so real, right, this was incredible. Carolina drives down their first possession of the season, Caleb Hood scores the touchdown, the place goes bonkers. Skip Bayless had some tweet about it being amazing. I know, I was like, this guy's Nick Saban. I'm like, he's gonna do it. They're doing it, you know, And it has been downhill ever since. And it's fitting poetry that I think now Caleb Hood, after this week, is leaving the program, and obviously I'm going to look into more as to why, but I think just kind of that paints a picture for where we're at.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what role the media played in this, the national media in hyping this up. It's Belichick, it's North Carolina, it's the ACC, it's not the SEC or the Big Ten. Certainly can win more than Mac Brown does. When Mac would win six games, occasionally he'd win, you know, a few more, go to a bowl game there. But I locally, did you guys have the same expectations as maybe the national media had on Bill Belichick?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, we're We're all complicit in this in a way, right, And I really don't fault My point of my story was never to fault the people that decided to hire Bill Belichick. I think you could certainly make an argument they should have vetted this more right because they have access to that information that nobody else has during their hiring process. But yeah, I think we're all part of the hype. You know what, how could you not be? This is an incredible story. This is the story of my lifetime, the biggest thing I've ever covered.

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Speaker 4: And I grew up in New England. I'm from Londonderry, New Hampshire.

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Speaker 7: As a student at Emerson College, I got to go to the Super Bowl versus the Giants.

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Speaker 4: I asked Bill Belichick a.

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Speaker 7: Question at the super Bowl, and then for me to come to Carolina and then for him to end up here and I'm covering him breaking news about his hiring process after mac Brown was fired around Thanksgiving, which is really when this all started for me. It's been a trip, so I think, you know, I've tried to just kind of I tell people I'm trying to bring the same energy and the same passion and same discipline reporting that I did to the hiring process, that I did to the excitement into the fund and what I'm doing right now to I guess if you want to call it downfall. But there's no agenda here. I'm just trying to tell people what I know. I've been covering this team for four plus years. I know a lot of people, and people are very, very upset. And when you look at the results on the field, when you're going to be the highest paid employee in the state going to be one of the worst teams in all of college football.

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Speaker 4: That's not me saying that, Dan.

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Speaker 7: That is statistical fact, completely uncompetitive in Power four games, one hundred and twenty to thirty three is the scoring differential. People deserve to know what's going on and why, and I think are reporting I shed a light on that.

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Speaker 2: If I gave athletic department a do over and you keep Mac Brown, what would they do?

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Speaker 7: I think, Mack Broo, I think really it's diametric, right, the difference between Mac Brown and Bill Belichick. And in some ways that's what they were seeking, because you know, Mac Brown came here second stint in Chapel Hill, so respected national champion University of Texas has had some of the best seasons Carolina football has ever seen.

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Speaker 4: Means a lot to this state, means a lots of this community, and he.

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Speaker 7: Treated people as such, and he welcomed the media as such, but I think if you were going to criticize him, you look at the downfall of mac Brown was James Madison last year where they gave up seventy points inexplicable. Then they go on the road loose to Boston College and if I'm allowed to say, a kind of uninspired performance at a minimum, And that was the nail in the coffin for Mack Brown in his time here. And you know, it was honestly probably time to move on. They had tapped out, so what they wanted to do was take another step. Everybody knows like in the world of conference realignment, you have to be all in on football. You can't be just a basketball school. So everything for Carolina was well intentioned in bringing Bill Belichick in. It just has gone spectacularly wrong in ways that I don't know that anyone really could have foreseen.

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Speaker 2: Does Belichick have any media availability coming up aside from game days.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, It's been both convenient for him and maybe convenient for us reporting on this as well. That this came as a bye week and it was a bye week before Clemson as well, And I think that's allowed me to do a lot of work because like I've been working on this since the spring, Daann, like that's when the tip came in, and I'm just running this down until I thought I had it. He is of media availability on Monday. I'm gonna go that's going to be an interesting experience for me. I'm certainly gonna try to ask a question. You know, I've been coordinating with U and C, trying to work with them throughout this. When I have information, I'm not breaking it until I run it by them for a chance to respond, and we're working on that right now.

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Speaker 4: We have a story that we were ready to break yesterday.

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Speaker 7: And just to give you an example of how strange this is, Dan, I am at the point now where I can't even assume the people I am texting and calling are.

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Speaker 4: The people that they say to be. That's all I can say.

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Speaker 7: But at this point now, like I am questioning, like that's the level we are at, because inside the building in Carolina, they know there's a leak.

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Speaker 4: They are trying to find it.

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Speaker 7: And I am kind of ears and eyes wide open to really everything and anything at this point. But I can tell you that our reporting directly led to the suspension of assistant football coach Armand Hawkins, and our continued prying into that story led to the statement and the official confirmation from U and C on his suspension yesterday afternoon. And there's a key piece in their statement that they say he will remain on leave as the Department of Athletics further investigates other potential actions detrimental to the team university. Those are what we are looking into. So that's all I can share at this moment. But I think you have something.

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Speaker 4: There's more stories to come.

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Speaker 2: Okay, good luck with that, and trust your gut, trust your instincts. But man, you know, nail it down. Yeah, nail it down because they're this is serious stuff. But that's why we do this. When you get these opportunities, go for it.

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Speaker 7: Yes, sir, I appreciate that. And uh, this means a lot being on here with you. You're one of the reasons I do this, so I really appreciate the opportunity.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Pat, good luck. That's Pat Welter w r A l TV sports anchor Raleigh, North Carolina. Yeah, all of a sudden, you get a tip, then you get in, and then all of a sudden you're in and then you start to find out more and more, and that's when people start questioning your reporting. You know, you're your local. Why aren't you on our team? Why don't you support the team. There's a lot of things that go on when you do local reporting, especially at a university, whether it's at you know, high end basketball or high end football. Hey, we're all in this together. Why are you, you know, reporting negative stuff? But you got to hold true to what you're doing, and hopefully Pat has that opportunity. All right, when we come back, we'll look at some of the matchups here college football and the NFL. I was curious the new and maybe improved Bengals going to Green Bay. What was that point spread going to be? Yikes? We'll have that for you coming up next year on The Dan Patrick Show.

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Speaker 2: Coming up, we'll tell you the most must win game of the weekend. We do have a new segment, THEO tw the Opportunity of the Week Who has the best opportunity of the week, Not to be confused with the most must win game of the weekend. I'm looking at some of the point spreads here and I was curious about the Bengals against the Packers because Joe Flacco's already defeated the Packers and now going to Lambeau to try to do double duty. The Bengals are fourteen point underdogs, and I started to wonder about this. How bad has Jake Browning been that you're going to bring in a forty year old quarterback from a division rival. You're going to give him two days to prepare with his new team against Green Bay at Green Bay. That says an awful lot about Jake Browning the Broncos and the Jets in London. Broncos are favored by seven and a half. Patriots on the road against New Orleans. There's a lot of people that are climbing on the Panthers bandwagon against the Cowboys. Cowboys are favored by three. In Carolina, Chargers at the Dolphins. Boy, this is cross country tricky. Is that a one o'clock game? See if that's a one o'clock game? But Chargers minus four and a half against the Dolphins, Yeah, that's early, no, boy, but this feels like last call for the Dolphins. Gotta win this game. The Rams against the Ravens. The Browns are getting six in Pittsburgh. I thought it might be a little bit more than that. But Browns with Dylan Gabriel there. Seahawks and Jacks, See, I love this matchup. Seahawks are favored by one and a half in Jacksonville. Who would have thought that that would be circled on my calendar? The forty nine Ers are getting three in Tampa. I thought it would be a little more than that. And the lines are getting two and a half against the Chiefs. So those are the NFL games coming up this weekend. I want to explain THEOTW Paul, Yeah, Opportunity of the week.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's pretty complex.

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Speaker 5: Player, coach, team that has an opportunity to make a big jump this weekend, or a career defining moment, whatever it may be. I'll give you an example. Florida football just had a big win. They're at number five Texas A and M. Their coach, Billy Napier, has been on a perpetual hot seat. He can cool it off real fast this month with a win against A and.

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Speaker 2: M OTW, Florida is getting seven and a half. Yes, in that game, All right, Marvin, do you have an Opportunity of the Week nominee?

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Speaker 6: Indiana football on the road against Oregon. It's not a must win because they if they lose, they'll still be good. But this is their opportunity to really put themselves on a national level.

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Speaker 2: All right, Indiana getting seven at Oregon. Oregon number three in the country. I U is number seven. Todd. The opportunity of the week end.

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Speaker 10: I was going to go with Indiana, but I am going to go with the Jacksonville Jaguars to show that not only were they able to beat the Chiefs, that they can take care of the Seahawks back to back and they are a team to reckon with, not just inn AFC South, but to be considered as one of the top teams in the conference this year.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Jaguar, All right, then they would improve to five and one. Paully, your opportunity of the weekend?

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Speaker 4: I did mine.

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Speaker 2: That was my Oh I thought you gave me a first for instance. I'll stick an example. Yeah, Okay, Seaton, do you have an opportunity of the weekend game?

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Speaker 3: I think Texas has the opportunity to save their season this weekend. So I'm not calling it a must win, but I am saying it's an opportunity to write the ship and get back maybe into playoff discussions.

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Speaker 2: All right, Oklahoma is a one and a half point favored Texas. I would probably say USC the opportunity of the week make sure you win this game at home and then you go on the road. You've got Notre Dame the following week, and then you'll have Oregon a little bit later on. You got to win this game. If you want to be back in the top twenty five, Top twenty, top fifteen, you got to win this game. And Michigan is getting two and a half at USC. Now, let's play the most must win game of the weekend. That would be the mm W goot W Todd the most must win game of the weekend is I initially.

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Speaker 10: Wrote Penn State better beat Northwestern in Happy Valley, but I scratched that off and I'm going with I know the Rams are a good team, but it's last call for the one in four Ravens in Baltimore. You cannot fall down the well and be one and five. You better find a way to beat the Rams in Baltimore.

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Speaker 2: All right, Seating the most must win game of the weekend.

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Speaker 3: I have the Kansas City Chiefs. This is a most must win game against the Lions. Their season is slipping away and they need to write that ship starting with this weekend.

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Speaker 6: Marvin, the LA Chargers, you're on a two game losing street. They have to snap this to stay afloat in the AFC West.

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Speaker 5: Paulie, I'm going with LSU football and specifically Brian Kelly. They're hosting South Carolina this weekend, a feisty team. Then they have Vandy A and m Bama Arkansas. They finished with Oklahoma. It could go bad quickly.

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Speaker 2: South Carolina is getting eight and a half at number eleven lsu I would say the most must win game of the weekend would be the Buccaneers are at home against the forty nine ers, and the forty nine ers are only three point underdogs with a banged up roster, and you got a backup quarterback. You're going cross country Tampa Bay. You want to be in the big picture, you got to make sure you handle business here as the most must win game of the weekend, Yes, Paul.

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Speaker 5: How must winish is the Raiders game against the Titans. The Raiders at one and four.

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't and I don't have any sources there with the Raiders that could Pete Carroll not last the season. So I don't know, I don't know what you know. I mean, they shouldn't be this bad. They shouldn't be now. Gino Smith has not played well at all. Ashton Genty still figuring it out. Max Crosby is a wonderful player. Bowers like you have talent there. You shouldn't have one win here and be blown out in some of these games. I mean, at some point do they go, do we have Pete continue to be our head coach? I mean, he's a Hall of Fame coach, but I'm always like, if you can't play for Pete, He's always enthusiastic, energetic, and so it can't be that you know, they're not inspired here, but just feels like they should be a whole lot better.

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Speaker 6: Yes, Marvin is Pete Carroll coach coaching his way out of the Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 2: I have to ask Todd that, Yeah.

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Speaker 10: It's valid points and Raiders been yet playing some football.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you can have one bad year because that's all he's going to get is one bad year. But I don't think he's coaching his way out of the Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 10: Yes, yes to the gum was getting very stale for Peter. A couple of wins going.

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Speaker 5: Paul or he could be eligible for the Hall of Fame a year early at this pace.

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, I see what you're doing, all right. So the most must win game of the weekend James in Texas, Hi, James, what's on your mind today.

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Speaker 11: Hey, good morning, love the show five eleven to fifty awesome. I just wanted to call in on the October birthdays. My wife and I are both October birthdays. Mine was yesterdays. Today we'll both turn well, I turn absent, Joe old, she's still in her forties. And I just wanted to say that October birthdays there especial special group. We're heading out to Vegas this weekend celebrate it. And I was wondering if you and the Day Net could maybe what's your happy birthday?

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Speaker 2: And what's her name?

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Speaker 11: James Monica?

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Speaker 2: Monica? Okayn, happen, I'm birthday down today.

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Speaker 5: Let me get the cabinet.

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Speaker 3: Want to show It's a lot of birthdays, yeah, ten ten, same month, same day, a lot of birthdays today.

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Speaker 10: You know, it was just a month of October to celebrate.

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Speaker 2: Dave in San Antonio, Hi, Dave?

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Speaker 6: What up?

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Speaker 2: Gang?

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Speaker 12: Hey?

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Speaker 13: I just wanted to wish Fritzy a happy birthday. Usually I say suck it, but today is your day. But I wanted to see him Happy birthday the Black Edition, So just bear with me.

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Speaker 12: Guys. I want to say.

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Speaker 11: Happy birth they to you.

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Speaker 2: I want to say what happened today? What happened today?

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Speaker 5: That's fault for van born.

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Speaker 2: Dave in Texas. Hi Dave, what's on your mind?

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Speaker 12: Hello? Hi Dave, Hi Dan, I'm Dane from Texas.

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Speaker 2: Oh hi Dane Tyler. Miss misspelled your name.

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Speaker 12: Oh no, no, no problem.

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Speaker 13: Uh.

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Speaker 12: I wanted to add a suggestion for Dylan and Frincy, maybe they could get together on a cooking show, a video cooking show. But before I get into that, while I was on hold, my wife was cleaning upstairs and she listens to music and Pat you were interviewing Pat Welter, and she listened to the Eagles lieon eyes. You know, a rich old man, you don't have to worry, and that that I think that was a message from the universe. But anyway, I think Fritzy and Dylan could collaborate in the cooking show because I can't follow a recipe. I need to see how it's cooked. So if Dylan could teach Fritzy how to cook on video, I think it'd be a good show.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, thank you, Dan, And I'm not sure the eagles lion eyes? But did I miss something here? What happened? What happened to the show? It's like the entire radio universe is It's Fritzy Friday. Here Frank in Texas. Hi Frank, what's on your mind today?

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Speaker 14: Good morning, Daran, it's Franky by the way.

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Speaker 2: Hi Frankie, by the way.

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Speaker 14: My bad, It's all good. Five seven three quarter shot off Seaton at.

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Speaker 12: Yeah.

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Speaker 14: So I wanted to come in on the Eagles and a little thing about Derek Canner at the end if you have the time. Obviously not too happy about how the game went down last night, but completely understanding why when it went down the way it did. Short weeks injuries, and honestly, I got to tip my hat off to camp Scattabo and Jackson Dart dark looks a lot faster than I thought he was when he was escaped in the pocket, and Camp Scattabo is definitely looking like he's picking up where he left off in college. Hearing it from everybody in my fantasy league, everybody you know, the Eagles of Frogs, this and that I'm not ready to sign the alarm Clay yet. You could easily see that.

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Speaker 15: Jaylen Carter was definitely missed in the Giants game and the Cowboys game. You can see that, you know the impact that wasn't there when he wasn't there obviously, and this guy is gonna get paid.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah when he's playing. But they ran up the middle with a scataboo. And if you have Jalen Carter, that's not happening. AJ and Florida, Hi, AJ, what's on your mind today?

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Speaker 16: Hey Dan, Hey Dennis. They're going to try and make this as quick as possible, kind of a two parter to talking to the MLB playoffs. You got teams like the Blue Jays, the Brewers, they're really good at like situation situational hitting and avoiding the three true outcome that has like plagued baseball for like the last ten years. And absent of teams like the Dodgers, who you know, can afford and choose to pay to, you know, bring in a really good electric team, do you think that we'll see more teams returned to that form of situational hitting and hitting for average and OVP instead of that three true outcome, like the Brewers and the Blue Jays.

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Speaker 2: I've been saying it for a couple of years, but I said that about the running back and running game in the NFL that eventually a team would decide, Hey, we don't have that kind of quarterback, or we don't have those kind of wide receivers. How about we find ourselves a really good offensive line and we control the line of scrimmage and we run the football that way. When you come on the field, you have a certain amount of time. Now that it almost you're speeding up the opposition because they have to make something happen, because when you get the ball back, you're going to control the clock. I don't know if it's going to happen anytime soon, but I think some of these teams in these smaller markets trying to get big time stars. I still go back to if you have quality pitching and you have you know, timely hitting guys who understand how to put the ball in play and as you said, situational hitting. But I keep being told nobody cares about batting average anymore. And I, you know, I realize that you're going to be swinging for home runs and the number of home runs, it's just the number of at bats other than your home runs. What are you doing? Are you striking out? Are you even putting the ball in play? I still believe that if I put the ball in play, and I have base hits and I have a high batting average. I'm putting pressure on you. I would build a team for speed, defense, pitching, and you know, half of my games are going to be in my ballpark, and I build a team with my ballpark in mind. That feels like that's a home field advantage. But it feels like everybody is just hey, let's just throw hard and swing hard. Terry in South Carolina, Hi, Terry, what's on your mind?

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Speaker 14: Hey?

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Speaker 17: Dan, thanks taking my call. Terry six foot two twenty. I was calling to give you my OTW of the Week, and I believe it's the Dallas Cowboys because they really kind of need to win since the Eagles would go in the other direction. They can get themselves up there with them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, with the Eagles down in the Cowboy, but you can't lose this game, you know, as much as the Cowboys, and certainly maybe surprising people off fend, don't have CD Lamb back and you're going to Carolina. So they're favored by three, and it feels like a lot of people think Carolina is the team to take. Yes, Marv.

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Speaker 6: The Steelers are also on that opportunity of the week list to me, because they got to beat a bad Browns team right now, their first place in the AFC North.

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Speaker 4: They got to stay afloat.

00:30:24
Speaker 2: And aren't they only a six point favorite against the Cleveland team that's led by Dylan Gabriel in his second start. Yeah, Paulin, Yeah, that's right.

00:30:31
Speaker 5: And Steelers have Browns this week, Bengals next week. They can put some distance.

00:30:36
Speaker 2: All right, Well, take a break, last call for phone calls? What we learn? What's in store for Monday? And we're back after this.

00:30:42
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to listen live. Alrighty, last call for phone calls?

00:30:56
Speaker 2: What we learn? What's in store for Monday? How about? What will the headline be on Monday? You don't have to write the headline. What is going to be the story? What's the lead story on Monday? Todd?

00:31:11
Speaker 10: I think it'll be something Bill Belichick related. Even with all the NFL and the baseball stuff. Maybe something comes to a head in the next forty eight hours.

00:31:18
Speaker 2: All right, what will be the lead story on Monday?

00:31:21
Speaker 3: I think it's going to be the Chiefs dropping to two and four. I think I want to say, are they two and three right now? Something like that. Chiefs are losing though to the Lions. That's going to be the headline.

00:31:33
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Marvin.

00:31:36
Speaker 6: The Chiefs write the ship with a big win on Sunday night.

00:31:38
Speaker 2: Okay, ball of the balls, Paulie. What will be the lead story on Monday?

00:31:44
Speaker 5: I think it's going to be a combo of everyone's going to bail on the Chiefs after the loss on Sunday night. But then there should be a big Baker Mayfield swell as well simultaneously swell as.

00:31:56
Speaker 2: Well, Biker Baker is swell. That's my headline swell as well. I think it's going to be the Chiefs beating the Lions, and then people be back on the Chiefs bandwagon. Also, the Chargers situation is kind of interesting as well, though cross Country lost a couple and you should win the game, but as we often see with teams that you should win the game, the Eagles should have won the game last night. Of course they got blown out.

00:32:29
Speaker 5: Yeah, Pauling, But it's funny as the season develops, losses change like the Chargers loss to the Giants last week, that loss doesn't look as bad because the Giants just beat the Eagles. It's like college football, the quality losses. Okay, it looks better.

00:32:44
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, I'll go with you on that. I'll go with you. It's late in the show. I'm going to go with you on the Terrek Scoubel will go for the Tigers against Seattle. They've already beaten him once. He might be the best pitcher in the game. Can you beat him twice? But if we talk about big game for both of these franchise, but certainly Seattle, because there's been a lot of good will built up by Seattle this year. Good team, young team. You got the big dumper who might win the MVP Baseball in Seattle, back on a big stage, and you're going against a guy who has some filthy stuff, as they like to say in the business.

00:33:25
Speaker 5: Yes, Paul, you know what other segment we should do maybe is who dodged a bullet or who got the Hall Pass? Because as great as Showaho Tani is, I think he went one for eighteen in the NLDS with eight strikeouts, and when you win, it washes away.

00:33:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, we tend to forget those things. Now, if they had lost, then that would be an open season on him. It's like with Aaron Judge, you know last year in the World Series and when you get blown out, then all of a sudden, we're like, where were you? You know, you didn't do anything. And the Dodgers are, you know, far more talented to they can kind of cover up some of those plume issues. Yeah, Pauli and Aaron Judge.

00:34:04
Speaker 5: I have him going nine for sixteen with six ribbi's in this playoffs, but he's out.

00:34:11
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, they're eliminated. You can't blame him though. Jared and Saint Pete. Hey, Jared, what's on your mind?

00:34:21
Speaker 12: Foot one eight?

00:34:25
Speaker 18: Hey, I have I've got a question.

00:34:28
Speaker 12: I was wondering if you could give me some advice.

00:34:30
Speaker 18: All these talk on classic broadcasters and the voice each of them has a very unique voice.

00:34:36
Speaker 2: Now I have to go.

00:34:38
Speaker 18: I'm an author and I have to go sit in the studio for three days and they've asked me to read my audiobook. I have no idea how to take care of my voice.

00:34:47
Speaker 12: So I need some advice.

00:34:48
Speaker 18: Dan, What should I think about? What should I do to prep for this? And I'll hang up and listen, but say hey to my dad and thanks for the advice.

00:34:59
Speaker 2: Well, I would try to do it in smaller increments when I did audio for my book, and I think Marvin and I we kind of mapped out two hours each day that I was going to do it. But even then, it's a lot. It's a stress on your vocal cords. But I would do my best to not be talking a whole lot that week if you can prevent doing that. Tea with lemon was always good. Cough drops. Just to make sure that you're because your vocal cords are going to be worked over. You'll be sore doing it. It doesn't sound like it because you're going to be reading, but you want to read, and then you'll go, okay, let me try it again, and then let me try it again. You're going to do you know, three or four five takes maybe on one page or one paragraph. You got to make sure that you enunciate.

00:35:55
Speaker 5: Yeah, Pauline, I'm reading an article here that says some singers and on air people like yourselves use like a humidifier that goes right directly to your throat and keeps it soothed.

00:36:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you don't want to dry room. Very important. Gilbert in California, Hi Gilbert, what's on your mind?

00:36:14
Speaker 3: Not too much?

00:36:15
Speaker 19: I'm just thanks, thanks for my call first time.

00:36:20
Speaker 12: I'm five seven to twenty unfortunately.

00:36:24
Speaker 19: But I believe that's the Hopefully the Raiders.

00:36:26
Speaker 12: Will show us some more talent. Uh, you got a lot of injuries.

00:36:31
Speaker 11: I believe in Pete Carroll.

00:36:33
Speaker 12: Let's got a whole on them.

00:36:35
Speaker 2: You know, Gilbert, next time called in, turned down your radio, okay because you were competing with me and yourself. Jay and Delaware. Hey Jay, what's on your mind today?

00:36:47
Speaker 20: Hey Dan, Happy Friday. I was telling about the best opportunity game of the weekend for me. I feel like it's my Niners, especially after the Eagles lost last night. If we win this game, we're already first in our division in in this gig game could be very important later down in the season after we get healthy.

00:37:04
Speaker 12: So thanks Dan, John a great weekend.

00:37:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a big game. I'm surprised the Niners are only three point underdogs. I had, you know, when you start to look, I thought the Niners were going to be a playoff team, but you have all these injuries and Mac Jones has played really well. But I thought Christian McCaffrey was going to be the offensive player of the year and he's put up some pretty good numbers there. But going against Tampa Bay like this is a big game for Tampa Bay got to win this game. If the Niners happened to win it, I mean, it's huge, but I don't expect them to win it. Allen in New Jersey, Hi, Allen, what's on your mind?

00:37:43
Speaker 16: Hi?

00:37:43
Speaker 9: Dan?

00:37:43
Speaker 19: A great, great job to start really listening.

00:37:45
Speaker 6: Man.

00:37:45
Speaker 19: You guys do a great job. I seen the ONEm off in times, but this really really do a great job. But we're just gotta the I wish you'd just stopped doing the flip, right ty. I think the screener said the coach me because we know that's not going to end well as he keeps pan pssally on a giant on turf.

00:38:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, I h when I saw it, and I mean he is a very animated player, uh and Dart is very animated as well. But they're young, twenty two, twenty three years of age. I can sit here as an old man and go I don't know if I'd do that, but if I was twenty two and I'm scoring touchdowns then all right, And I had the ability to do those things and yeah, all right, yeah, Paul.

00:38:30
Speaker 5: Yeah, And the Giants are going to use Scatterbo. He's got a four year contract. He makes about one point one million dollars a year for the next four years. And he can't get out of that. He can't improve it in any way. It's like Isaiah Pacheco with the Chiefs.

00:38:42
Speaker 4: Use him up.

00:38:44
Speaker 2: All right, let's go around the room. What we learned on the program, Todd, And by the way, meet Friday. Dylan did a wonderful job that looked great. Uh, Todd, what did you learn today?

00:38:54
Speaker 10: Devin mccordy could sense the tension around the Eagles pregame last night. The Giant seemed a lot more loose.

00:38:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was on the call for Westwood One. He's down on the field and he said that the Giants players they actually thought, you know, they were gonna win. He said he felt like there was some kind of ground swell that they're they're ready for this moment. Seatan, what'd you learn?

00:39:14
Speaker 3: We had Dominican roast pork today?

00:39:16
Speaker 2: Yeah? Was it Dominican or Puerto Rican?

00:39:18
Speaker 4: Checking?

00:39:19
Speaker 2: Okay, Marvin everyone's birthday's in October, apparently, Paulie.

00:39:26
Speaker 5: For me, this is Todd's last birthday.

00:39:29
Speaker 2: Yes, it is, that we will acknowledge on the air, Todd, what did I learn?

00:39:35
Speaker 10: Jackson Dark keeps the Giants interesting and relevant, and it doesn't hurt already having beaten Justin Herbert and Jalen Hurts this season.

00:39:40
Speaker 2: Have a great weekend, everybody. We'll talk to you on Monday.