Hour 2 – Ryan Fitzpatrick, Dolphins Fire Mike McDaniel

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

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Speaker 2: Two on this Thursday, Dan and the Dan Ed's Dan Patrick Show. College football coming up tonight, it'll be Miami and Old Miss Miami favored by three and a half.

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Speaker 3: It's the Fiesta Bowl.

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Speaker 2: And then you'll have Oregon in Indiana rematch that will be on Friday night. We'll talk some NFL. We'll get ready for the weekend. Ryan Fitzpatrick, former quarterback now working for NFL on prime. Jesse Palmer ESPN college football analysts will stop by as well. I'm not even sure if we settled on a poll question in the first hour of the program. I maybe didn't do my responsibilities by asking Seaton, but I'm sure he put up a poll question or two.

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Speaker 3: It's okay.

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Speaker 4: We actually thrice dan oh, a poll question thrice wow. Today already we have up there. Which team got better yesterday? The Atlanta Hawks or the Washington Wizards either, well one of them had to have, right, The Atlanta Hawks slightly got better.

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Speaker 3: I have about fifty three percent.

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Speaker 4: After the Blockbuster deal, after the Blockbuster trade that took place. Yeah, the Atlanta Hawks slightly better yesterday. I don't know if that's additioned by subtraction in the minds of this audience or not. Yes, it is no offense too, Yes it is CJ. McCollum, et cetera. Yeah. We also have up there a bracket to get predictions in for the AFC and NFC playoff right now. In the NFC, the Rams have about thirty percent of that vote, and then there's a three way tie between the Bears, Eagles, and Seahawks at fifteen percent. And then in the AFC, Bills have thirty three percent of that vote, followed by the Patriots of twenty five. They're both kind of running away with the AFC.

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Speaker 2: Okay age seven seven to three DP show Operator Tyler's sitting by doing nothing but taking your phone calls and keeping an eye on my dog. Winning stat of the day, brought to you by Panini America, the official trading cards of the Dan Patrick Show. You know, you start to look at these games this weekend in the NFL, and now I think we look at them differently, at least for a couple of teams, because when I talked to Dan Orlofsky yesterday, I said, is Sean McDermott coaching for his job this weekend, and he said, I hate to answer this question, but if I'm going to be honest, I would say, yes, they're favored by one and a half at Jacksonville. But now you have to factor in that you have John Harball out there. So this is changing a lot for a couple of teams, a couple of teams that are in the playoffs, and certainly a couple of teams that have held on to their current coaches, like the Miami Dolphins. Are they going to keep their current head coach? If John Harball would be interested the Pittsburgh situation, I don't see that with John Harball. If Mike decides that he's going to go into TV, which I think that there is still a very good chance that that could happen with Mike Tomlin, that he's not going to take another coaching job, but he would get into TV and almost you know, there was a trend there for a long time where coaches would come into the Mothership and they'd be there for a year or two and then they would go back out into the coaching pool, and maybe that's what Mike Tomlin. And he's still relatively young, and maybe you can sit watch and then figure out the place that's ideal for you. It's like when John Gruden came out of the booth and I thought, gosh, you know what, you better be right. You be it's a lot of money the Raiders paid you, but you better be right because you don't get that job back. And he's not going to get that job back. I don't know if he's going to get another head coaching job. But you go in, you got the money, and you couldn't do much with that organization. Yeah, obviously got in trouble with the league, but when you take those jobs, you know, if you're giving up a TV job, chances are you won't get the TV job back. And those TV jobs you can stay there for ten fifteen years. Look at Bill Kawer, Jimmy Johnson, Tony Duneen. You know, I know that probably feelers for Tony to coach the Detroit Lions before Dan Campbell. And you know, these franchises are doing the right thing, like let's just ask, let's just ask if this person would be interested, and you know they've got good TV jobs, and you would think with Bill Cower's makeup, that man, I got to have something competitive and that's the one thing that you just can't get. You can't replicate that. The only thing you can do that comes close to that as a former player coach is to do a game, because when you do a game, now you're at least involved in the setting. When you do studio, it's very sterile, and sometimes trying to get guys to be animated, to be excited, that's difficult to do in that kind of setting. Out of the game, like JJ Watt is better doing a game because that kind of fits his personality. You want that, you know, Brady needs to be involved.

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Speaker 3: He needs to be.

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Speaker 2: At a game dissecting, you know, kind of sorting everything out here. I'm going to prepare for two teams here. When you're in the studio, hey, you got thirty seconds to talk about bo Nix.

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Speaker 3: Okay?

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Speaker 2: And then you start talking, they go, you know, we're gonna cut it short fifteen seconds and then you go okay, and then you throw out something.

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Speaker 3: You don't even know what you said.

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Speaker 2: You got somebody talking in to your ear and you're like, there's no other setting like that.

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Speaker 3: I gets.

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Speaker 2: I can tell you what being a studio analyst is like. And somebody speaking into your ear. Like as a host, there'd be times when I'm talking and I have somebody in my ear telling me, hey, throw it to Mike Florio, He's got breaking news. So I'm listening to Tony Dungee tell me something, or I'm talking to Tony's setting him up, and I've got somebody saying, hey Florio's got breaking news. We do it here. You know, I could be talking Paula Goes, I got breaking news. I guess who just got fired here? Oh, Charles Barkley is going to be able to join us in ten minutes. That's what happens. Charles Barkley got fired, well kind of with TNT left and new ESPN would do this. But trying to tell somebody what that's like, because look, I've grown up with headphones on for forty years, or you have you know, what is called an IFB that's in your ear, so you don't see this on TV, but it's there.

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Speaker 3: And then there's talking to you.

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Speaker 2: But these you know, former players, these former coaches, it is foreign. It is still difficult after all these years that when somebody's talking to you and you're speaking and you're trying to make sense and it's really challenging.

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Speaker 3: But to be in the studio, it is.

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Speaker 2: You go in there, you have a pre game, you might have you know, breakfast, and then you have a pre you know, rundown, and then all of a sudden you.

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Speaker 3: Go out there. You're all fired up. You know, you got an hour show or whatever.

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Speaker 2: Rich Eisen has a you know, three or four hour show, and then all of a sudden, and then all of a sudden, you just watch games, might have something to eat, and then halftime gear up, and then all of a sudden and then you just sit and watch, and then you got to gear up the very end, and then that's it.

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Speaker 3: Then you're done. Yes, Tod, how.

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Speaker 5: Long did it take you to not get distracted or lose your train of thought? Or or the tendency will be to stop talking at that mother while someone's in your ear. They had to take a while to hone that skill. Not from day one, certain.

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Speaker 2: No, still happens. It just it's it's a natural instinct. If somebody starts to say something to you, you stop. You know, Marvel will give me time cues when I'm doing commercial reads, and it'll be like, you'll give me thirty and then you'll give me ten and you know, inevitably sometimes you just kind of stop. Yes, Tom, what happens if for whatever reason, you.

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Speaker 5: Didn't hear what was whispered in your ear and they're telling you something important and I know over time you get used to it, but you were in the middle of saying something, so you're hearing yourself talk and think about what you're gonna say next. How do you let a producer or the co anchor know that I don't I don't know what kind of cue they just get me or what they just said for me to say.

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Speaker 2: I just usually do a little bit of a hand signal, Oh like I need that again? Yeah, like yeah, but you don't want it to be like you know, theatrical No, No, you just do a little you know, give it to me again.

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Speaker 3: Here, yeah, PAULI we do that here.

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Speaker 6: If I set into your ear Charles Barkley next hour, not this hour, and you didn't hear me, you would give me a little headshake, like shaking off the catcher, just a little. And I know I gotta say that again.

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Speaker 2: We say good morning if you're watching on Peacock and Actual a streaming partner say good morning to our radio affiliates as well. Are you rooting for Let's say you don't have you you're not a fanable miss or Miami? Who are you rooting for tonight? But to me, it's obvious I'm rooting for Old Miss because that kind of creates the mess continues. The conversation continues. The Lane Kiffin situation, Miami's been here before. This is foreign as great as Indiana's story is, old miss story is pretty damn good, Like, oh my god, they're in the final four.

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Speaker 3: This is old Miss.

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Speaker 2: Now, Indiana Trump's everybody because of their previous one hundred years football. They were the losing his team in college football history. But Old Miss, this is a great story. The Lane Kiffin scenario, yes, Mark, But.

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Speaker 7: For new generation Miami seems like a Cinderella story. Now, if you're under thirty five, you don't remember the eighties and nineties, even the early oughts when they were just dominating college football. So you're like, oh, look at this Miami. What's Michael Irving doing out there? And they have no idea of what Miami he used to be. So is it just the lane Kiffin factor that's making you root for Old Miss?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I was impressed with Miami. I've been really impressed with that defense. So I don't know if that's enough to go. Boy, I hope, you know, let's bring back to you. And then I got Michael Irvin on the sidelines acting silly, and there's Ray Lewis there, there's Ed Reed there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Paulie and Ole Miss.

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Speaker 6: Feels like a great program, but they also feel like an SEC school that's always on the cusp. Remember a bunch of years ago, Lawan Treadwell got tackled right before the end zone they were going, and it feels like they've been close before and it'd be refreshing to see them get there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, that's when it wasn't nil they were just paying players.

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Speaker 2: It felt like, allegedly, allegedly, that's how you got to come Dechaine.

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Speaker 3: Those guys, that's where you go. Wait a minute, that guy's going there blips too. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: The thing I like about tonight's game, if you look at it just without Lane Kiffin, is it's sort of like two underdogs got further than they were supposed to. Both of them got there with huge upsets. Miami's wrote to get there. It was crazy what they beat Texas A and m into Ohio State. Right, So I mean those are two big wins for an ACC school that usually doesn't get a ton of respect.

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Speaker 3: I love that idea.

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Speaker 2: And you're right when you look at Miami now because we thought, well they shouldn't get in, Notre Dame should get in, right, But Miami is proving that they did belong. Alabama didn't prove it belonged old miss losing Lane Kiffin or are they going to drop down?

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Speaker 3: And thankfully they didn't. And that's a great story.

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Speaker 2: Let's see Adam and Phoenix. Good morning, Adam. What's on your mind today?

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Speaker 8: Hey man?

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Speaker 9: First time, long time two twenty five five nine. So you already said by Tom Win if he does end up either separating or getting fire from the Steers as he.

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Speaker 10: Probably wanted to TV for a year. But if you're the Jets that I'm a long time suffering Jets fat like thirty years now, you have an opportunity to fire Aaron Glenn and get either Harball or Tomlin. We've seen that a good coach can turn things around. Is this something that you would want that they should consider? Or do you stick with Glenn?

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Speaker 3: I would stick with Aaron Glenn.

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Speaker 2: I can't imagine Mike Tomlin or John Harball would want to coach the Jets. The Jets is a situation where you get somebody who knows they may not get an opportunity with other, you know, teams that Hey, I got to take this job. John Harball and Mike Timlin don't have to take that job. Lucas in Texas, Hey, Luke Heyny, Good morning, Corny.

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Speaker 11: I love the inside baseball you'll talk about with the production value gives me a little more sympathy for that. CBS News a nightly news anchor that had that flow up on his first night, that that's rough to see. But you guys talking about nil makes me think. I feel like this is a thing that will come up a few years down the road. I think they've got to sort out super conferences and the NCAA or whatnot. But with all this money going to players and the transfer rules not really carrying any kind of credit requirement of classes completed and whatnot, we fully divorced the idea of student and athlete. They are athletes. I feel like you're going to have a player like a Diego Pavia who knows that their best environment is probably in college. I wonder if we're going to see a lawsuit to try to classify these football players as employees of the university and get away with for your eliibility altogether. I mean, do you is that something that you could see happening in the future.

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Speaker 3: I can't.

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Speaker 2: I can't sit here and honestly say, oh, I don't see that possibly happening. You know, Diego Pavia spends ten years at Vanderbilt. Like, I have no idea anymore. Here's something that never comes up, and it came up a lot when I was growing up. It came up a lot when I was in college. Players act actually got academically ineligible.

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Speaker 3: Like, they didn't.

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Speaker 2: They didn't qualify, they didn't do the amount of work, they didn't get a greade point.

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Speaker 3: I mean, come on, I had PROP forty eight.

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Speaker 2: No, I haven't heard one guy, you know, academically ineligible. Wait, when's the last time you heard somebody? Hey, why isn't he playing academics? You don't hear that anymore. It used to be, man, you gotta go to class, you gotta get a two point zero. Now I haven't heard anybody, And you know, with all the transfer portals and semester starting and ending and bold. See you know all of this stuff. I had a hard time going to class different reasons. Yeah, yeah, Pauline, Okay, this is a.

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Speaker 6: Very obvious, baby dumb question. But I heard Carson Beck talk about the football schedule at Miami and he says at seven am seven pm, if you're a fifth or sixth year player in college football and you already have your degree, do you currently have to attend a class at the university to play for a university?

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Speaker 3: I thought Matt Liiner did that with ballroom dancing, but.

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Speaker 6: That was a good generation to go. Like, let's say, like Carson Beck is twenty three years old and he would have multiple degrees if he went to school full time, if not a master's, does he have to go to a full time schedule? Is twelve hours four classes?

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Speaker 2: My college football source will probably be texting me here momentarily. We'll look into it. Yeah, yeah, don't. I don't know how important academics are anymore, Yes, DoD I'm thinking.

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Speaker 5: If there was anything A wouldn't have to be a full schedule, and B it could be one of those remote things where from your dorm you click a button and you'd have to physically be in the lecture hall and you can just kind of do it from you wherever you want to be.

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Speaker 2: Man, if we would have had zoom back when I was in school, that would have been awesome. And Man, your senior year and you go, Man, I got an eight o'clock journalism class, and I'm gonna it's gonna be awesome.

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Speaker 3: And it wasn't awesome.

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Speaker 2: You know, not because of the teacher and the class, but because I'm like, do I really need? Like that's a class you do need to go to if you want to do this for a living. All the other ones, you know, the challenge of modern day marriage, you know, do I need to go to that where a priest is telling me about marriage?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 2: And I didn't go either, But it seemed like a really good class. You know, I'm gonna learn about marriage from a priest, might meet some girls in there.

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Speaker 12: All right.

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Speaker 2: Ton's been sending me pictures of Katie Perry this morning and no context attached to it, and then he find finally sends me an article that Katy Perry went to Old Miss and she was on college game Day back in twenty fourteen.

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Speaker 3: Granted it was over.

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Speaker 5: A decade ago, but I thought, you know, I always like to look at celebrity fans of you know, teams that are in the final four, what have you, and that just kind of came up as and she did that whole you know, suck it back road.

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Speaker 3: Thing that we have a little connection with.

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Speaker 2: Katy Perry over the years if you want to reach out to her people. Should Old win and she comes on the show tomorrow, I'd be fine.

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Speaker 3: Sounds good, okay.

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Speaker 2: Ryan Fitzpatrick, you can find him on NFL Prime Video the Thursday Night Football Analyst and Prime Video will present its second NFL Wild Card game Saturday. It'll be the Bears and the Packers that'll be at Soldier Field. They start their coverage at seven thirty Eastern only on Prime. Looks like he's got some product in his hair. Probably worked on his beard beard as well. Which one do you spend more time on your hair or your beard beard?

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Speaker 14: Quite a bit of time on the beard this morning. Actually trimmed the edges of my mustache for you.

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Speaker 12: Let's tell you know, I like you nice.

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Speaker 2: I did wonder about this where we put labels on players, and I wonder about you going to Harvard if that was there any positive that you went to Harvard or or what negatives when you were going into the NFL.

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Speaker 14: I think the initial negative was a funny one, which was do you actually like football or do you have other interests?

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Speaker 12: Are you going to become a doctor or something?

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Speaker 14: And that that was something I had to kind of overcome and could overcome that one pretty early, just in terms of passion and how much I enjoyed playing the game. And then I think, you know, I accepted that label because it was always, oh, he's smart. You can pick up a playbook and we bring this guy in. I'll pick up the playbook quickly. And when I got to Tennessee, which was year nine for me, Daal Loggins was the offenseiveporter, Mike Munchek was the head coach, wasn't really into it or feeling it, and wasn't picking up the playbook very quick. So dal Loggins challenged me and said, dude, I thought you were smart. I can't believe you're having a hard time with this. And that night I sat down and learned the whole playbook and came back the next day and was ready to go.

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Speaker 2: Okay, But is there a correlation between going to an IVY League school and being football smart?

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Speaker 10: No?

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Speaker 12: I don't think so.

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Speaker 14: I mean, there's they're certainly not, but I always try to convince people that there was a correlation.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Let's look at the Bears in the Packers, and I'm wondering who has the most pressure on them going into this game?

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Speaker 3: If I go, Matt Lafleoor.

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Speaker 2: Ben Johnson is, you know, not facing the same pressure that I'm sure Lafloor is, But how would you kind of level out the pressure on either of these teams and coaches and quarterbacks.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, I think Laflor's got a lot more pressure on him. Ben Johnson masterful job this year, what he's done with this team, completely changing around in a year, what he's done with Caleb Williams. I think it's been great, and really just the mentality of who they are. Especially offensively, they have an identity. They're physical, they're going to run it straight down your throat, They're going to do the play action stuff. But Lafloor, I mean, they've lost four in a row and this is a big moment for him.

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Speaker 12: You know, Jordan Love hasn't played for two and a half weeks.

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Speaker 14: They just rested everybody in Week eighteen, so all their stars are going to be fresh. Josh Jacobs hopefully will be as fresh as he's been since that New York game where he got injured. But Lafour's got the most pressure on him coming in and trying.

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Speaker 12: To win this game, and I think Jordan Love as well.

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Speaker 14: You think about last year and that game versus the Eagles in the playoffs. He's got a lot to prove and he's had a great season, so I'm hoping he comes out and has a good game.

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Speaker 2: Is it crazy to say is Matt Lafleur on a hot seat there in Green Bank?

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Speaker 12: I think that's crazy to say.

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Speaker 14: I think if you look at the organization and you know them making rash decisions, I don't think that's who they are. So I think it ratchets up even more for next year if they don't win this game and they have a poor showing on offense.

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Speaker 12: But I don't think he's on the hot seat though.

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Speaker 2: I talked to Dan Orlovsky yesterday and he said he felt like Sean McDermott might be coaching for his job this week.

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Speaker 14: That would also be shocking to me if that was the case. I think if anything there, you know, maybe they well they might lose Joe Brady, that coordinator, But if they don't win this game, maybe they try to freshen that up and look somewhere else. But that game is going to be really interesting because the Bills, at least as of yesterday, were still favored in that game on the road going to Jacksonville, but Jacksonville win an eight in a row. Just kind of putting on their tape the last few days and watching them.

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Speaker 12: It's been Liam Cohen and Trevor Lawrence.

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Speaker 14: It's been great to watch Trevor Lawrence is really these last eight or nine games.

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Speaker 3: But what's different Ryan, So, I think, first of.

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Speaker 12: All, it's just the confidence.

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Speaker 14: But they had you know, they played Seattle and the Rams and only scored twelve points and seven points right before their bye week, they went into the Buy. I don't know what they did, but they came out guns of blazing. I think the addition of Jacobe Meyer's help. But Parker Washington has been awesome on that offense. They've got a ton of talent. But Trevor is playing with a ton of confidence back there, and even last week and the week before watching the games, watching him get pressured, his ability to see it, to get the ball out and throw it accurately.

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Speaker 12: He's done a great job through the year of getting better and better at that.

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Speaker 14: So confidence is such a huge thing for quarterbacks, especially quarterbacks that have been up and down, and Trevor's playing at a really.

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Speaker 2: High level right now, so you can learn that that's a learned skill that you can see it, throw it, you can see it before it happens, you know.

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Speaker 14: I think part of it for him is being more comfortable in the offense. I think it's also having a coach that demands more of you. And that's a huge thing with Trevor this year is Liam Cohen and the demands that he has put on him. But yes, you can, certainly that's something you can learn throughout a season and get better and better at. And I think Liam Cohen we got to give him some flowers because you look at Baker last year compared to this year and his numbers. There's no crazy coincidence there that Liam Cohen was his coach last year and has really done wonders with Trevor Lawrence this year.

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Speaker 2: We heard that maybe John Harball lost the locker room. Ian Rappaport reported that Adam Schefter came back and said that that wasn't the case in Baltimore. But how does a coach lose the locker room?

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Speaker 12: I love the Schefter versus round Up.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, the reports, the inside the reports.

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Speaker 12: How does a coach lose the locker room?

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Speaker 14: I think part of it, and I don't know anything about that situation, so not speaking on that, just.

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Speaker 12: Speaking in general.

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Speaker 14: Part of it is, and I've seen over the years, if you don't demand the same thing, the same commitment to excellence out of your great players that you do out.

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Speaker 12: Of the young rookies.

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Speaker 14: It's easy for a coach to come in and yell at these young guys and demand a lot out of the young guys. But when you don't do that with the best players on your team and the stars, and you kind of let them get away with things, I think that's the first way where you can start to lose the locker room and guys can start questioning your consistency.

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Speaker 12: As a leader.

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Speaker 2: The elevation progression of Drake May it's kind of remarkable when you consider he's probably going to finish second in MVP. Now we have seen those quarterbacks who make that jump in the second year, But how do you assess how he's doing that? When they do have a running game, it doesn't feel like they have a lot of stars at the wide receiver tight end positions.

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Speaker 14: I think when quarterback, we talk about all the time infrastructure. So Mike Vrabele gets there and what does he do. He gets him a number one receiver and Stefon Diggs. He goes and gets a great play caller so would argue the best play call in the last twenty years in the NFL, and Josh McDaniels. And then he also bolsters the offensive line. You know, he gets Will Campbell, he gets Morgan Moses, he brings in brad Bury at center.

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Speaker 12: So it's like all these things.

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Speaker 14: The protection got better, the star player he could throw too when it's one on one got much better, and the offense around him.

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Speaker 12: And the thing I love about that system, I was in that system.

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Speaker 14: With Bill O'Brien in my tenth year in the NFL, and if you draw a line in my career, what it was before year ten and after year ten and after. I learned more in that tenth year than I've ever learned in my career about football, the way they teach it, the demands they put on a quarterback. So it's really nice to see the ascension of Drake May this year. And the scary part is they're going to demand so much of them. It's just going to get better and better and better.

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Speaker 2: Okay, but what are you getting in year ten that you didn't get in the previous nine years.

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Speaker 14: For me, it was just the way that I looked at the game all of a sudden, and you know, a lot of these offenses now are going away from demanding everything out of the quarterback the mic points, knowing every little intricacy about the run game, why we're doing things on specific plays, what defenses are doing, and why what are they trying to attack you with?

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Speaker 12: How are they trying to combat you.

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Speaker 14: It was just a completely different way for me to look at football and you know, and knowing that every single thing that we did had a purpose. It was really cool for me to be able to take that then and use it for the rest of my career.

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Speaker 2: That give you a better understanding of Tom Brady's greatness of how that.

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Speaker 14: Absolutely I mean full complete control the whole time, but just the demands that it put on him early in his career and the greatness that we all got to sit back and witness. He was in complete command the whole time and really amazing when you get to kind of see the way that it's made behind closed doors.

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Speaker 3: Did you feel like he was better than you? Who's that Brady?

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Speaker 12: Yes?

00:28:01
Speaker 2: Yes, I mean No, I'm not talking about the end result. I'm talking about when he got on the field. You got on the field, did you get did you have to come to that conclusion He's just better than me?

00:28:13
Speaker 12: Yeah?

00:28:14
Speaker 14: Absolutely, But it was every game was, you know, on a consistent, long term basis, he was always going to be better than me. I just had to be better than him, you know, in that moment for that specific day. And I think we played fourteen times and I was better than him three of fourteen times. Percentages not great, but there was three of them.

00:28:38
Speaker 2: Okay, And I didn't go to Harvard, so I'm not good at the numbers. PAULI, that's probably not good percentage.

00:28:44
Speaker 6: You're asking me.

00:28:45
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's right. Yeah.

00:28:47
Speaker 2: In fact, there's nobody over here that I can add, well, Todd went to NYU that that's not a good percent Yeah, but that's not an IVY League school.

00:28:55
Speaker 12: Though. Hey, I'm still I'm still okay with it. Though I realized those three victories.

00:29:02
Speaker 3: Uh have fun?

00:29:03
Speaker 6: Yeah, what Paul, Ryan won twenty one point four percent of the time.

00:29:06
Speaker 3: Okay, All right, well there you go one fifth.

00:29:10
Speaker 2: Okay, but how mad was Brady in those three losses?

00:29:14
Speaker 3: To you?

00:29:14
Speaker 2: When you guys, you know, quarterbacks always say hey, great gang, great gang, great game.

00:29:19
Speaker 12: Yeah, you know, you know, it didn't it didn't go very well. He wasn't very happy.

00:29:23
Speaker 2: He never liked losing, so he never said, hey, you know, that's awesome, congrat I'm happy for you.

00:29:28
Speaker 3: Ryan.

00:29:31
Speaker 14: No, I don't think it ever went that way because the last one was the last one when it was when I was in Miami and it was his last regular season game at Foxborough.

00:29:39
Speaker 12: So it was not very happy about that one.

00:29:42
Speaker 3: Wow.

00:29:43
Speaker 2: Well, well you're gonna be a you know, trivial pursuit question.

00:29:47
Speaker 14: Maybe I got a lot of them, though, DN I got, you know, you through the most interceptions in this game. You know, the only NFL quarterback to throw six touchdowns and no picks in the game. And no touchdowns and six picks. I'll hang on to that one forever.

00:30:01
Speaker 2: You know, what about a round of applause six and oh oh and six.

00:30:10
Speaker 3: I like it. I like it.

00:30:11
Speaker 12: It takes a special player.

00:30:13
Speaker 2: Yes, it does have fun. Uh Saturday night, thanks for joining us.

00:30:18
Speaker 12: Yep, thank you very much.

00:30:19
Speaker 2: We're looking forward to That's Ryan Fitzpatrick Prime Video. They will have the game on Saturday night Bears Packers. That'll be a soldier field to kick off, seven thirty Eastern only on Prime. I forgot all about that. Six touchdowns, no interceptions, no touchdowns, six interceptions.

00:30:39
Speaker 3: Somebody is scoring on you.

00:30:41
Speaker 4: That's an awesome trivia like personal like stat to have.

00:30:45
Speaker 3: Oh that's good stuff.

00:30:48
Speaker 11: Uh.

00:30:48
Speaker 3: David in Phoenix, Hi, David, what's on your mind today?

00:30:52
Speaker 8: Hey? Hi, Dan, I got a question for you and the boys. Not to change the subject up too much, but I am the three time reigning Golden Reeth Award winner. In my neighborhood. It's otherwise known as the Griswold. With my three peat, can I call myself a dynasty?

00:31:11
Speaker 3: Yes?

00:31:14
Speaker 8: Yeah, I appreciate that.

00:31:16
Speaker 2: Congratulations David. About a round of applause for David.

00:31:20
Speaker 3: Another big yeah. Yeah.

00:31:23
Speaker 2: Jeff in South Carolina, Hi, Jeff, what's on your mind today?

00:31:27
Speaker 15: And first time longtime five eleven won seventy five. Earlier in the week, you had Mike Tannenbaum on, and I noticed he kept referred to as a baseball player, and you said you needed to look up your Wikipedia page. Well I did, and at the very first paragraph, very last sentence, in the early last section, it said. The Cincinnati Reds wanted to sign him as a pitcher and have him play for the Rookie League team and Billians Montana.

00:31:55
Speaker 3: He opted out.

00:31:56
Speaker 15: Now, is that just something that you would see young ham in common or is that true?

00:32:01
Speaker 2: I went to a Reds tryout camp, but I ended up playing in a they had a semi pro league in Cincinnati that I did that after college, but not going to Billings, Montana. But you know, I'm glad Mike Tannebon read my bio. That's the first thing I said. And I went to a guy I went to college with at the University of Dayton. He sent me an email right after Tanemom said it because he pitched for the baseball team. He goes, what baseball team did you play for? And I had to tell him. After we went to commercial break, I said, Tony, I got to check my Wikipedia page. The older I get, the better I was, Oh, what have we got?

00:32:42
Speaker 3: Big news? We'll get right to it.

00:32:45
Speaker 6: According to Adam Schefter of ESPN, the Dolphins have fired head coach Mike McDaniel.

00:32:51
Speaker 3: Well made it to Thursday.

00:32:54
Speaker 6: Dolphins owner Stephen Ross met with Mike McDaniel this week to discuss the season. After that meeting and reflection, Ross decided to move on.

00:33:03
Speaker 3: You know, let's take a break and then we'll react to this.

00:33:06
Speaker 12: Damn he made it.

00:33:08
Speaker 2: That's why I said yesterday he had to be watching his phone after the Harball news.

00:33:14
Speaker 3: All right, we'll take a break back after this.

00:33:16
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00:33:28
Speaker 2: Just got word that the Dolphins have fired Mike McDaniel. And let's go back to when John Harball was fired. Harball's agent said that he had already been contacted by more NFL teams than there were current openings, six openings, seven teams reaching out, So let's take out the Ravens. There were a couple of teams and maybe a playoff team from what I'm told, that might have at least put a bug in the ear of the agent of John Harball if something were to happen, whether that's true or not, or could happen. So I guess if you're looking at the Miami Dolphins and you got Mike McDaniel. And I even said this when this was all taking place. There are coaches walking around with their cell phones hoping that a text or a phone call from up above doesn't happen. And Mike McDaniel was one of those coaches. Because now I don't know if John Harball is interested or Kevin Stefanski's interested, but you're firing him on a Thursday. What do you know now that you didn't know on Monday other than John Harbaugh is now available.

00:34:42
Speaker 3: Yeah. My guess is I see it going like this. We waited.

00:34:46
Speaker 4: Now we're going to stick to you right now like we believe you, We believe in it. Let's have a meeting. So what are you thinking for next season? While we start with two?

00:34:51
Speaker 3: Over keeping him? Okay? And you're fired?

00:34:57
Speaker 4: All right, Thank you, Mike, and luck to you in the future.

00:35:01
Speaker 3: But we're going to part ways. Thank you.

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00:35:16
Speaker 6: Mike McDaniel took over the Dolphins In twenty twenty two, nine and eight got to the wildcard, got to the playoff appearance. Then there were eleven and six another wild card. But they were the number one offense in football last year, the eighteenth ranked offensive football. This year the twenty sixth ranked offensive football.

00:35:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, it just feels like that he survived. We thought, Okay, if you make it to Wednesday, chances are you're going to be safe.

00:35:45
Speaker 3: Man. Yes, Hun, at least they got.

00:35:47
Speaker 5: It in this week. Is there's no black next Monday, you got to get it within the sixth day.

00:35:51
Speaker 3: It's really ridiculously well.

00:35:52
Speaker 2: There might be who knows, whatever happens this weekend. And look, I'm gonna go back to what Dan Orlovsky said, Man, he's connected. And I said, you know, is Sean McDermott coaching for his job? And he said, I hate to answer this, but if I'm going to be honest, I would say yes.

00:36:09
Speaker 3: I don't know if that's true or not.

00:36:10
Speaker 2: It feels like Sean McDermott's been coaching for his job for the last couple of years. But they're favored in Jacksonville against the team that's hotter than anybody right now. But Mike McDaniel out in Miami. Is that a good job, because that's you know, you got to look at it and you got to be honest and you go, okay. Is the Raider's job a good job? No, Atlanta a good job. We keep trying to convince ourselves that it's a good job.

00:36:43
Speaker 3: I do. I keep going, golly, they got to be better. Is Tennessee a good job?

00:36:52
Speaker 2: That one feels like if as long as I have patience from up above, give me three years. I got my quarter I like my quarterback. He's competitive, he wants to be great. I got cap room. If you give me three years, maybe I can bring this team back to where they were with Mike brabl Is. Cleveland a good job, I would say, No, you don't have a quarterback. You got front office. You got an owner who medals great fan base, but your best asset. You should have traded. The Giants appear to be that. That to me is a good job. I think I think they they should be better than what they are. And I don't want to take a job because historically it's a better job than it used to be. Like Baltimore is a great job because that's ownership, front office, and uh, they got a roster and you know I got my quarterback.

00:37:56
Speaker 3: Great football town. Yes, Tom, And with all.

00:38:00
Speaker 5: Parody in recent years, you can't necessarily take or not take a job because you're worried about the competitiveness of the division. Like if you're the joblins, oh, I got to chase after? How am I gonna get past the Bills and Patriots? If you're gonna be given good three four years and one year. As we know, some teams make the playss and they don't make the playoffs the next year. I wonder how much they factored that and how tough the division is that you're going to take a coaching job.

00:38:19
Speaker 2: The one thing that I thought of when we got this news is what role did Troy Aikman play in this? He's a consultant to help them find their next general manager. I believe, Well, now he can help them find their next head coach while having another job.

00:38:44
Speaker 6: By the way, that seems to be the new path these days. Matt Ryan wants to stay at CBS.

00:38:48
Speaker 3: He's not. They're not gonna They're not gonna allow that.

00:38:50
Speaker 6: How can they not?

00:38:52
Speaker 3: You mean at the NFL or CBS. CBS isn't going to do it. Yeah, Matt.

00:38:58
Speaker 2: No, Matt Ryan, if you want to be the president of the Falcons, then be the president of the I mean no, no, be silly. You want to be hands on and you want to have that job. You're not traveling back and forth from New York to Atlanta, you know, commit to the job. If I'm CBS, losing Matt Ryan is not like losing Bill Kauer. Now he did a really good job there. But I would say, do your job, don't try to do both jobs. Troy's not doing this during the season. I mean, Tom Brady is I've had a problem with that. But Troy, he's going to be a consultant and this is going to be until they find their coach and general manager. Then he's going to go back to being a broadcaster. But Matt Ryan, I know that he talked about that, but I think that they decided that, Hey, I got to be all in on this.

00:39:50
Speaker 3: Yes, Marv.

00:39:51
Speaker 7: Going back to the Dolphins real fast, Are they in the same category as like the Raiders and the Jets and the Browns as far as just inept franchises, because they we got a longer playoff win route than a couple of those franchises. They're up there about twenty four to twenty five years with no playoff wins.

00:40:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, they thought they found their quarterback. They made the mistake of extending him not making him prove it. You got the Tyreek Hill situation, like who knows. They gave Way a couple of pieces prior to the trade deadline. I love their running back Waddle. Is he a number one? I don't know.

00:40:31
Speaker 3: I don't know what you have there. That's part of the problem.

00:40:35
Speaker 15: Now.

00:40:36
Speaker 2: At least if you see building blocks and you go, okay, we got that position. Our line is pretty good. Hey, we got our quarterback. We got a number one wide receiver.

00:40:44
Speaker 3: Okay.

00:40:44
Speaker 2: Those are things that you ought that everybody has to have good offensive line. We got our quarterback, and I got a number one wide receiver, okay, and then you can start to build. But these teams that we're talking about, a lot of these teams don't have that infrastructure. So Mike McDaniel's out and the Dolphins are in the market for a head coach. Jesse Palmer, on loan from the Mothership, will join us. He'll preview tonight's game. We'll talk to him about a few things Your phone calls are also welcome. Find a hour in this Thursday straight Ahead