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Why not you try Odoo for free@odoo.com that's odoo.com youm are listening to the Dan Patrick show on Fox Sports Radio Hour 1 on this Thursday Dan and the Dan Dan Patrick Show. We got a lot to unpack here. Certainly what happened yesterday in Buffalo. News conference was going on while we were doing the show and then all of a sudden we start to hear things, read things and we thought, well, there's a whole lot more attached to this and we'll discuss that throughout the three hours on the program 877-3-DP show. That's our phone number operator Tyler sitting by. Good morning. If you're watching on Peacock or you're listening on our radio affiliates around the country, have a play of the day poll question, stat of the day, all of that forthcoming. Also, we will revisit Kobe's 81 point performance 20 years ago today against the Toronto Raptors and a couple of the Toronto Raptors involved in that game. We'll share their comments on Kobe and we'll bring back what Kobe told me a couple of years ago when I asked him to pick the last game that he played in when he scored 60 or the 81 point game. He'll give you his thoughts on what game was more important. All right, Seaton, you got a poll question to start out this Thursday morning. Well, I'm trying to craft one based off of the Buffalo press conference. I mean, do we keep it as simple as should owners speak, yes or no? I loved it. Once again, I'm not a Buffalo Bills fan. I certainly empathize with them of what happened. They lose again and in heartbreaking fashion. And the owner gets there with the GM and all of a sudden back and forth and it, it became good content is what it did. But owners should not get in front of the media. At least I wouldn't recommend it. But if you're not really a football guy, you know, you're a billionaire and you made your money elsewhere, you get in front of the media. And normally billionaires don't get in front of the media. They are probably wisely told not to do that because reporters can be pretty sharp hearing something, seeing something, saying something, and then all of a sudden you're going. And it felt like we had a little bit of that yesterday. I'm still surprised that the owner, Terry Pula, said that it was his decision to bring in a new coach based on the results of the game in Denver. It just feels like that's where you need to take a couple of days, maybe even a week. Let's just let it die down. Yes. Heartbreaking. You saw Josh Allen crying in the locker room and the owner said, hey, I'm kind of basing this off that, too. I'm reading the room, you know, did we hit the wall? Okay? But it just felt strange with that owner and his reasoning. Here is the Buffalo Bills owner, I did not fire a coach based on a bad officiating decision. If I can take you into that locker room, I felt like we hit the proverbial playoff wall year after year, 13 seconds, missed field goals, the catch I just sensed in that locker room, like, where do we go from here? Okay, but what does Sean McDermott have to do with that? Missed field goals, the catch. I just felt like he got all the blame. Josh Allen deserves the blame, at least in this game. Josh Allen plays like Josh Allen. We're not having this discussion. The owner did say he was asked about, would you what, what if won that game? And he said, well, I don't deal in hypotheticals, which is interesting, but you know, Josh Allen didn't play well. That's, that's why they lost. Not a catch, an interception. It was more than that. But am I going to put that at the feet of Shawn McDermot? That's where I think it's unfair if you don't think that he's a big time coach and he can't get you to the next level. Okay, but don't base it off one game that feels like you're reacting and you're not really letting this sit set in a little bit. Let, let's just gather here. Did Sean McDermott get a chance to fight for his job after that game? Did he get an audience with the owner to say, hey, we're really close. Who put the roster together? They had a lot of injuries. Everybody has injuries. I mean, it just felt like it was a blame game and they weren't really blaming the right people here. And then you got into this silly Keon Coleman conversation there. I mean, here is the question. It's not even about Keon Coleman, the wide receiver out of Florida State. Here's the question and the answer by Brandon being the gm. How do you answer the fact that you're not giving Josh a good enough wide receiver thus far? Yeah, I mean, Can I interrupt? I'll address the Keon situation. The coaching staff pushed to draft Keon. I'm not saying Brandon wouldn't have drafted him, but he wasn't his next choice. That was Brandon being a team player and taken advice of his coaching staff who felt strongly about the player. And he, he's taken, for some reason heat over it and not saying a word about it. But I'm here to tell you the true story. Okay? What are you doing? What are you doing? It's not like the guy's an ex player. Cam Coleman still on the roster and he was a team player. You're the gm. Do you want him or don't you? And if you don't want him, you don't go. I'm going to be a team player. This should be on you. And yes, Keon Coleman. What was he? Second round pick. Everybody loved Keon Coleman. Remember the interview that he had? Like, oh, they're falling in love with this guy and his personality. Now all of a sudden, are we going to name the coaches who wanted Keon Coleman because Brandon Bean didn't. I get just a weird. And then the owner says, can I interrupt? No, you can't. I mean, come on. Yeah, the problem, one of the problems with this, of the many is that in, in modern day teams all have media departments and media departments for the teams basically make mini documentaries out of every single draft pick that the team makes. And the Internet, about 2.5 seconds to pull up Brandon Bean's mini documentary on drafting Keon Coleman, including all of his, you know, day of being like, hey, look, if our guy is there tomorrow, we're getting Keon Coleman. Okay? What are we doing with the traffic? Unless somebody offers us something crazy, we're getting Keon Coleman. That's who we want. And it's Brandon Bean saying that, well, he was just being a team player. Like, man, all of a sudden this isn't a desirable job. I mean, it just like that. That would scare me. Now, if you haven't been a head coach, you get the opportunity to coach in that great city and with that quarterback. Okay, but if you said I could have Baltimore or Buffalo, I'm taking Baltimore. I trust Baltimore's front office ownership. But man, all of a sudden you're like, wait a minute here. Do I want to walk into that where the former GM who just got promoted, but he's still going to be the gm, has the year of the owner. If I'm the coach and you saw this with John Harbaugh, they already have their GM in place. Joe Shane, John Harbaugh let you know John Harbaugh is going to talk to the owner. Because if you have that gm, chances are the GM is spending a whole lot more time with the owner than you will be. And he'll have his ear. Yeah, Paulie, going back to that cut from the owner of the Bills. I saw that printed out yesterday when the Bills media was tweeting it out. It's way worse when you hear the audio. He's not misquoted, he's not loose. He directly says, we really didn't want this guy and the coaches push for it. Now Keon Coleman has to wear that going forward OTAs. If he doesn't start next year, Josh Allen has to answer for it. Okay? And what happens when Josh Allen surfaces? What's your first question? Did you want Sean McDermott fired? Did ownership ask you about Sean McDermott? Is Keon Coleman the reason? What do you think of Keon Coleman? Oh, good grief. I mean, thank you. Thank you. Terry, can I interrupt for a second? Yeah. Oh, crap. Oh, crap. How silly is that? Also, when he says, let me take you into the locker room. Okay. Like, oh, now when you say that, that's a trick. You know, sometimes that you'll get coaches, say, or GMs or owner, hey, let me take you in the locker room. And all of a sudden you're like, oh, let me sit up in my chair here. What are you. You're going to take us in the locker room? I want to know what happened in the lock. Like you're reading the locker room. Josh Allen's crying. Okay, I'm going to guess he probably cried in the other playoff losses in his career. I'm guessing. So what you see, guys who are emotional. I'm guessing that happens every year when Buffalo bows out. I get it was just really strange and reactionary in the moment. We lost. We're firing him. Now, look, for the last six weeks, I've said it felt like there was something there. That's why, you know, I asked prior to the game, is he coaching for his job? I didn't have any information other than a sense that there was something going on. And turns out there was. Yeah, Seaton. I mean, if you go back, though, I, I'm, I'm surprised that people are as surprised as they are at Sean McDermott getting fired. But there are plenty of lists going into the season, even starting at the end of last season, coaches that are on the hot seat. If It's a top five, top seven, whatever Sean McDermott is, is on a good portion of those. If they had lost that game at home, then I could see that you, you would consider firing Sean McDermott or if they lost by two touchdowns. I mean, it was a coin toss. Yeah, I feel like his, you know, you had said before, did he have the ability to, like, defend himself or try to get his job back? I feel like this season was that this was his chance to defend himself. First hour, brought to you by the great folks at Dude Wipes. Switch to life changing, extra large flushable Dude Wipes. Dude Wipes. Available at Amazon and major retailers nationwide. Dude Wipes Best clean, pants down. All right, so the poll question. Are you going to be just straightforward with this? I am, as a matter of fact. Dan, let Me ask you the poll question. Should owners speak at sports press conferences? Your options are, no, hell, no, absolutely not. Or sure, I love it. Now, I don't want my owner speaking. And most owners don't speak. When you think about it, mate, Jerry Jones doesn't help his team when he speaks. He doesn't help his coach when he speaks. He helps Jerry Jones when Jerry Jones speaks. Mark Cuban, I thought, helped the Mavericks. I thought that he became a great cheerleader. But how many other owners do you hear in all the sports? Like, think about it. How many owners get in front of a microphone because they're probably told not to? You know, Robert Kraft, you know, fancies himself as, you know, the spokesperson for the NFL. Arthur Blank has done a little bit of that. But, you know, for the most part, I don't want my owners speaking. Now, did I like it? Yeah, it was entertaining. I'm in the content business. I hope they have a press conference today. Yeah, Paulie, I'll go on the other side of this a little bit. I think owners should be required to do one press conference a year, and the local reporters get to ask them. 15 minutes, 20 minutes. But you're saying required? Yeah. Terry Pula was not required to be there. Exactly. And I can imagine the PR staff of the Bills wanting to manage him before it and not getting a chance to. No, this is. No, no. This is a guy who has all the answers. He's a billionaire. Who are you? It's my team. You know, once you've been there 13 years. Owns the Sabers. I get it. I get it. But, you know, there's a lot of people who tell you what you want to hear in the building, but this is different. These are the reporters who want to know we just fired Sean McDermott, who's probably one of the, what, top five coaches, you know, how about top 10 coaches in the NFL before he got fired? Probably. Genuinely probably. Generally considered top 10. Yes. I'm seeing a headline here from a Buffalo Bills like blog. Buffalo Rumblings. Terry Bagula's first time taking questions in more than five years reinforces why he doesn't do that much. Yes, yes. And Buffalo has such a great PR department. I can only imagine they're going to go, oh, God. Whoa. Where are you going, Mr. Pula? I'm going up to the podium. Let's sit in on this one. You want to stay in your press box? You want to. No, I'm the owner. Let me get out in front of this. Let me take this one. I got the answers I got it. Oh, my goodness. Oh, dear. Yeah, I didn't think we would be talking about that, you know, today I thought it would be just one of those exit. Now, granted that there was serious nature about attention attached to it, but when the owner shows up and I thought, okay, Brandon Bean's going to be able to swat away, you know, these questions, but when the owner gets there and he wants to tell you how smart he is, and he wants to promote his general manager, and this is all Sean McDermott and I read the locker room and I. Okay, so that next coach who comes in, are you going to let him ease in? What. What if you bow out in the first round of the playoffs? What if you don't make the playoffs? Does this turn off any coaching candidates? Because, man, you're only as good as the people above you. Success starts from above all of these places. I want to know, who's your owner? Who's your gm? How involved are they? How smart are they? What's their resume? And yesterday didn't give me a healthy dose of confidence if I'm moving forward with this, because now I know that GM who got promoted has the owner's ear. And if you're a coach going in there, it's two against one. And all of a sudden, hey, my GM didn't draft that wide receiver who is still on the roster. And it was. He was a team player. Yeah, Paulie, the gm, Brandon Bean is conditioned to this. He actually looked it up. He went to college for communications. Terry Pegula went to college for a degree in petroleum and natural gas engineering. Not a lot of public speaking there. No, no. Yes, Todd. And if you don't refer to things like play calling or clock management or something specific to the coach, it feels like that's a situation where if you're putting it on the coach, you better cite something or you got to give us something and just not say the locker room look like they just hit a wall. Well, he did. He said, I didn't fire him based on a bad officiating decision, but he said that we hit the playoff wall year after year. 13 seconds, missed, field goal, the catch. So I sensed that the locker room, like, where do we go from here and what do we have? And that was the basis for my decision. I don't know if anybody asked him, did you have conversation with Josh Allen? I mean, I. That. That would be one of those questions in the moment. I'd like to know, did you talk to Josh Allen? I'm going to keep that between us. Yes, I'm going to. I don't. Guys, look, I'm not going to take you inside the locker room and share all that. We'll talk to a Bill's writer coming up next. We'll also talk to Booger McFarland a little bit later on. And the 49ers have a lot of injuries and there is, well, maybe an excuse out there of why they've had all of these injuries over the years. And it has nothing to do with actually playing a football game. That's later on. We'll take a break. Back after this. 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That would have been the night before. So that would have been Tuesday evening. And the release was very generic. So we did not know whether Terry Pula was going to take questions. That's something he has not done since 2019. So in many ways this was kind of a monumental press conference in the sense of Terry Pula answering questions from the media. Okay, but when did you realize that this might go sideways? Well, if you know the history with Terry Pegula and press conferences, you know that, you know that the possibility Is there he. Public speaking is not his strong suit. I think there are a few different reasons that he does it very rarely. It was obviously the interrupting, the, the question about Keon Coleman that it seemed to kind of get away from, from Terry Pula. I think that was definitely the moment where he kind of stepped in it during the, during the press conference. I'm sure if he could do it again, he would have taken that moment back. But yeah, that was, that was certainly the moment where it was like, okay, this is getting a little hairy here. But he wasn't even asked about Keon Coleman. Yeah, no, he was not. No. The question was directed to Brandon Bean and it was about the wide receiver room in general and support for Josh Allen. It was a very fair question. It was a topic really throughout the season here in Buffalo. And for the owner to interject himself in that way, I think really created a mess for his general manager to try and clean up. But I'm trying to understand. He said that this was based on that game, the outcome in Denver. I don't know. Did he address Josh Allen's role in that game and how poor he performed? He did not. No. I mean he. The only mention of Josh Allen that he made was just how devastated he was in the locker room after the game. And if you, you know, watch Josh Allen's post game press conference, you could see it. I agree with Pula. It was easily the most emotional, most devastated that I have seen the quarterback during his time in Buffalo. And listen, they've had some heartbreaking playoff failures here with Josh Allen. But the difference in this one, I think in many ways, and Josh Allen alluded to it, is that the quarterback feels like he cost his team the game because he did turn the ball over as much as he did. We're accustomed to Josh Allen playing terrific football in the playoffs, even if it doesn't result in a Bills win. Unfortunately, in this game for the Bills against the Broncos, Josh Allen did not do that. I wondered, and I said this leading up to the game, if he was coaching for his job, turns out that he was coaching for his job, could he have kept his job without anything other than a Super bowl appearance? I am skeptical of that. I asked Terry Pula that question, that very question yesterday. Had they won and lost in the AFC Championship game or lost in the super bowl, would we still be sitting here today Talking about Sean McDyn, McDermott being fired? Pula said he didn't want to speculate it. Speculate on that. But a non answer in that Situation, to me, almost reads affirmative. I do think that he was coaching for his job, and anything short of a Super bowl this year was going to lead to a change. Anybody Talked to Coach McDermott? I have just through text. He was incredibly gracious, as you would imagine. I thought the. The statement that he put out was just pure class, which is kind of, if you've been around Sean and know Sean the way that I do was to be expected. You know, I think that what's really interesting here, Dan, is that I think a lot of people over the past few years and the playoff failures have sort of thought that, hey, maybe this is the route that the Bills need to go, that they need to change, you know, make a change, that Sean McDermott has taken them as far as that he can. But when that change was actually made, the reaction amongst many of the fans has been overwhelming sadness and sort of, you know, feeling. For a guy who wanted nothing more than to bring a Super bowl to Buffalo, I think the fans probably would. May have been, I'm not gonna say joyous. Joyous. But if you had John Harbaugh available, Mike Tomlin's not going to coach. But who's coming in and. And who is that person who takes you to the next level? Because if you're walking in, I'm expecting that that owner is expecting you to be the difference here. There is an immense amount of pressure on whoever takes this job. The expectation is winning super bowl and win it in your first year. I did some research on that. There have been seven coaches in league history who have reached the super bowl in their first season. Four of them have won it. Falling anything short of that is going to be deemed a failure and is going to be. The question is going to be asked, well, why'd you move on from Sean McDermott in the first place if this new guy can't even get us, you know, to the Super Bowl? So while the job obviously has its advantage, its advantages, right? Coaching Josh Allen, one of the best players on the planet, makes it. Makes it an attractive job. It's got a rabid fan base. It's moving into a new stadium next year. There are a lot of positives to this job, but the pressure that it comes with, I think, is unlike any job really in the NFL. The only maybe fair comparison is the Ravens opening. Do you think the Bills are going to regret this? It's a hard question to answer. If I had to answer today just because of that pressure and you know, what. What failure looks like for a new head coach I think they very well could. I do want to point out that it can work out. Right. We've seen changes like this have, have been made in the past and you know, maybe the best example is with Peyton Manning and the Broncos when John Elway replaced John Fox with Gary Kubiak the first season. They, they go on and they win it all. So it can work. But a lot of things have to, have to go right. You have to nail the head coaching hire and Brandon Bean has to do a better job building a roster around Josh Allen. I think that was when we talk about the fallout of McDermott being fired. A lot of people looking at this saying they fired the wrong guy because they don't think there was a championship caliber roster are built around Josh Allen and that falls to Brandon Beam. Yeah, I thought they overachieved this year. And yes, I know the window of opportunity was there with the other quarterbacks, marquee quarterbacks who didn't make it this far. I'm guess I don't know. Does Josh Allen do an exit interview? Is, is he going to be available for the media? Yeah, that was the first sign that maybe something was a little bit off. We did not hear from him on Sunday, the day after the season ended for locker cleanout. We always have in the past. We were told at that time Josh Allen wanted a couple of days to sort of process the season. Knowing the emotion that he had Saturday night. I think we all respected that and understood it. I spoke with someone very close to Josh Allen last night. He expressed confidence in Terry Pula and Brandon Bean moving forward. I do not expect that we will hear from Josh Allen in a press conference setting or in a public setting until the Bills hire a new head coach. What is your question for Josh Allen? What was your reaction to Sean McDermott being fired? Is the first question. Because without hearing from Josh Allen and with the way that Terry Pula answered the question about was your, your starting quarterback on board with this decision? Basically sidestepping the question. I think it does invite some, some cloudiness, some mystery in terms of how Alan really felt about it. I think the relationship with McDermott and Alan had really strengthened in recent years and it's. Listen, it's the only head coach he's ever known in the NFL. And so how is he taking this? I, I, like I said, I, I spoke with someone very close to him who did tell me that he's not ready to speak publicly. But he, he is confident in Pula and Bean moving forward. But I think we need to fully kind of explore that idea and that topic with him. You, you bring up a tell, though, when he doesn't do what he's done before. Yes, it's emotional. I'm guessing he's been really emotional with all of these playoff losses. But it's almost as if I'm not going to speak to you because I know what's coming. I know that my coach is going to get fired. I don't want to be talking to you on Sunday knowing he's getting fired Monday. I mean, you're not wrong in feeling that. I think there's certainly that sentiment is out there. And the evidence would suggest, I would say, though, Dan, that the reality was that this loss did hit harder. Just seeing how devastated he was in that locker room was unlike anything we've seen. And listen, We've lived through 13 seconds. We've lived through missed field goals. We've lived through, you know, fourth and one being stopped in the AFC Championship game in Kansas City where it looked like you should have had a first down. I mean, he has been through it in the postseason. Yeah, but there, there may be a part of Josh Allen, whether he knew Sean McDermott was getting fired or not. There may be a part of him that had that realization that we have gone as far as we can go together as a quarterback and head coach and it's not far enough. Jay, great stuff. Thanks for joining us. Appreciate you having me, Dan. Thank you. Jay Skirsky, he covers the Buffalo Bills for the Buffalo News. Yeah, the fact that Josh Allen didn't meet with the media when he normally does would have been a tip off for me. At least it would have raised the awareness of he. He might know something. I'm going to guess Josh Allen would have known at some point over the weekend that Sean McDermott wasn't coming back. Kevin in South Dakota. Hey, Kevin, what's on your mind today? Hey, Good morning, guys. Six foot, 220, first time, long time. Question for you, Dan, was I listened to you talk about Mike Tomlin here about a week or so ago on, you know, if you had to sign up as a Steelers fan for 10 years of just going to the playoffs but never going any farther, how is that any different from the Bills? Bills have gone farther. Pittsburgh hasn't won a playoff game in 10 years. They. They have a winning record. That's it. Do I want to sign up for a winning record or a team that can get to an AFC title game? I'll take the title game. That's a little better. But, and I. I don't exonerate Mike Tomlin. I. I don't think he did. I thought they overachieved this year, but in, you know, some of those other years, they underachieved. And I don't know. Sean McDermott. I can only go by the optics here and just say you're blaming him for one game. Now you're not. This isn't about one game. If they won the super bowl the previous year and now all of a sudden they lose that game, he's not getting fired. Or if you go to the AFC title game and. And you play. Really, I just. I don't think it's one game is the reason why you're firing him. It can't be. It's just a buildup of expectations, the importance of this football team in that city. And now all of a sudden, we don't have to worry about Patrick Mahomes. Well, it's not that easy. Just because Mahomes isn't there, the rest of the teams in the AFC don't go, hey, come on in. You go to the super bowl, it's your turn. I mean, you don't get a bye week. Is Sean McDermott a great coach? I think he's one of the 10 best coaches right now, or at least was in the NFL. But I think so many close opportunities and chances and failure and. Who are we firing? We didn't fire the gm. You're not firing the quarterback. You're going to fire the head coach. And you got nine years. And he'll get another job. But just if you look. And that felt dysfunctional yesterday. So it's not all on the coach, GM builder roster. I didn't think this team was a great team by any stretch. Here's Brandon Bean, the gm, on building this roster. We have an MVP quarterback who just completed his eighth season here, and we have got to help him get to the super bowl and bring a championship to Buffalo. I bear guilt, blame responsibility. There's no finger pointing. I understand there's things I could have done better, and we're always looking to get better and that. That'll never change. If we don't win the super bowl next season, and I'm up here explaining where we are and what we have to do, there will be more things that we will work to get better. All right, Take ownership of the roster. I didn't think it was a great roster. Yeah, Mark. If they don't win the Super Bowl, I don't think he's going to be up next to the owner next season? Well, it depends on who gets blamed. Zach and Knoxville. Hi, Zach. What's on your mind? Adp, thanks for taking my call. Based off of that press conference yesterday, if you were a first time head coach, would you take that job? Or do you think someone that has a little experience needs to step into that? Well, if you get the opportunity, you're taking that job. Like you got a new stadium, you got, you know, maybe the best quarterback in football. The expectation level is going to be really high. Unbelievable fan base. Like as the Bills go, that city goes and you know, you're walking in knowing that that guy before you had a pretty good resume and he got fired. And if you listen to the owner, he got fired for one game. Russell in Vegas, I. Russ, how's it going? Great. Big time, big time fan. I saw you guys in Vegas a couple times. I love you guys very much. As I was born in Buffalo, New York and as a Bills fan, I've seen a lot of coaches come and go. But they're gonna regret this. They're absolutely gonna regret this because they're supposed to open up a new stadium in September and they got, they have no head coach right now. Yeah, but they're gonna get. I now, I don't know about this. I don't know Terry Pula, but who are. You have to make this decision knowing who are we going to get. Like, you can't just go, I'm gonna. Not many guys, you know, like you're getting divorced and you don't already have a girlfriend. Like this feels like there's a divorce and I've already got a girlfriend here. I don't know who that is. But you're walking in and you might be competing now with Baltimore or Pittsburgh for that guy. And now John Harbaugh was not going to wait. But if John Harbaugh had not signed with the Giants, would John Harbaugh be taking that job? You gotta ask that question. But you're walking into what I think is an unbelievable environment. A new stadium and you got Josh Allen. It's just, I don't think that roster was great. I didn't, I said it before. I just, I didn't think that that was one of the better teams that he's had in, in recent years. But it was good enough to get to where they got and they should have won the game. And it's not based on one bad call in your opinion, because it was an interception. You may not like it, but don't blame it all on that. We'll take a break. More phone calls coming up. Play of the Day is next. 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Oh, my God. The play of the day. This is the play of the day. Check this out. James out front for the Hornets on the handoff to Knipple. Gives it right back to James. Shot blocked by Allen. Big Jared got up and rejected it. Here come the cabs to the other end. Tyson in the paint. Loud Allen pound now. Jared with the block running the floor. And the duck to finish it off, courtesy of the Cavs radio network. Kind of desperate for a play of the day there, Marvin, huh? A little bit. When you want the vibe of a drink that's smooth and warm. Kick especially on game day without the hangover. RK0 proof. World's first zero proof spirits. The patented warm molecule. Same feel, zero alcohol. All the cheers, none of the regrets. Try it. RK0 proof Dan in Wisconsin. Hi, Dan. What's on your mind today? Thanks. For taking my call. Dp, first time, long time, big fan, six foot to something. I just wanted to say it's important for owners to have multiple press conferences each season. I feel like at the end of the day, they're the ones in control. They're the ones who can open up their pockets, have the final say, and the ones who can sign off on those impact players. I just feel like fans want to hear those types of things. No. Oh, I do. Yes. If I'm a fan, I want to hear my owner. If I'm a member of the media. I love when ownership gets in front of us. I do. It's great. They're not trained to do this. They're trained. Whatever they say that somebody's going to react by saying, oh, yeah, right. Right, boss. Right, sir. You get in front of the media. It doesn't work that way. They're like, wait, wait, wait a minute. Did you fired him off one game? Wait, we weren't talking about Keon Coleman, right? Who drafted Keon Coleman? I mean, Jerry Jones can. Has been able to do it. Like he can somehow BS his way through it, and we kind of expect him to talk, but when you have somebody who hasn't spoken to the media since 2019, man, I'm like, let's go. And it's going to be a 54 minute press conference. Let's go. Jake in Buffalo. Hi, Jake. What's on your mind? 45 minutes talking about the Bills and confidence. It kind of feels like the early 2000s all over again. But I. I'm not surprised that they fired McDermott. It seemed like it was probably time given all the playoff losses, but it's just how it was done. We haven't seen or heard from terry since like 2020. He pops up out of nowhere, fires the coach that ended the 17 games with one sentence in a press release that says he did a quote unquote admiral job and then gets in front of the media yesterday and digs himself a hole. So a little scared. As a Bills fan, Terry's been really good at keeping the Sabres absolutely terrible for going on 15 years. So I think it's like super important now this coaching hire, and don't send us those down the path that the Sabers are on. All right, well, thank you, Jake. Yeah. Look at Shawn McDermott's predecessors in Buffalo, and then you look at what he was able to accomplish. Let's see. You have all those coaches before. Yeah, there's. There's just a ton. I can't go through Dick Duron, Malarkey, Gailey, etc. Etc. For from 2000 to 2016, they didn't make the postseason. Stat of the day brought to you by Panini America. The official trading cards of the program since Sean McDermott got to Buffalo. They missed the playoffs one time. Uh, let's see. Sebastian in Virginia. Hey, Sebastian. By the way, I'm looking at the audience for the Bills and Broncos. Just under 40 million with 51 million tuning in during overtime. The most watched Saturday broadcast on any network since the 1994 Winter Olympics and the most watched Saturday afternoon broadcast in history. What do you have for me, Sebastian? Hey, thanks for taking the call. Six Foot, a wintry 175 two part question for you. Should Baltimore hire Sean McDermott? And if you're Sean McDermott, do you want the Baltimore job? It's a great job, but I don't know, you know when you get fired and all of a sudden, you know, can you have your mind click on or a light switch on and go, all right, I got to get my act together now. Where do I want to coach? And maybe he doesn't want to coach right away. I don't know. I haven't seen anything. I haven't heard anything. But if you offered the Baltimore job and you could stay in the AFC, I mean, he's only 51 years of age. James in Nashville. Hi, James. Hey, DP, thanks for taking my call. 51020 0. I haven't heard much from Fritchie. Forgive me if he's not there. I'm listening on radio but curious. Would you rather the Baltimore job or the Buffalo job? If you're a candidate on the market for a head coaching position. Oh, okay. Todd, you want to answer that for James in Nashville? I'm such an expert. I just really need to know tod thoughts on which job he would take. I think I would take the Baltimore job. Okay. All right. Especially after seeing that how the owner handled things. I don't know how comfortable I am going there in the relationship between the owner and GM and try to get in the middle of all that. Okay, anybody taking the Buffalo job over the Baltimore job? Paulie, why the upside of winning there? It's like taking over the Red Sox in 2000. The upside of delivering for the Bills fans is all timer. Okay. Everybody else, look at the Baltimore job is better. Yes. Man, this is hard. They're both great jobs to me. I think there's something really awesome about Buffalo. I agree. Sports town. It's hard for me to say no to that job, which is no slight to the Ravens gig, which is incredible. But they've had success. Buffalo is waiting. Yeah, waiting. That's a great place. One hour in the books, two more to go. Booger McFarland from the mothership will join us. We're back after this in the Dan Patrick Show. This is an ad for the active cash credit card from Wells Fargo. 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