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Visit sonos.comdan to wrap up your holiday season. That's sonos.comdan. you are listening to the Dan Patrick show on Fox Sports Radio. Hope you had a great weekend. Everybody. Gangs all here ready to go. Our full lineup, the Minister of humor, Fritzie Seaton, Marv Paulie, yours truly. The Backroom guys as well as we do every Monday. Best and worst of the weekend. What you saw that you liked, you didn't like. Operator Tyler sitting by 877 3DP show play of the Day Poll questions Stat of the Day all of that forthcoming. Our Stat of the Day is always brought to you by Panini America. The official trading cards of the Dan Patrick Show. First hour brought to you by Rapid Radios. Instant push to talk Walkie talkies offering national LTE coverage. Clear connection, touch of a button. Great communication device for kids. Go to rapidradios.com up to 60% off and free shipping. In no particular order, the Chiefs continue to do it as only the Chiefs can. They're now 12 and one as they squeak by the Chargers, the Rams and the Bills. Best game of the weekend. Certainly back and forth and no turnovers. It was just fun. That was just sort of backyard football. Whoever has the ball last was going to win. The Vikings with Sam Darnold still look impressive. Eagles survive. Steelers look good. Buccaneers still alive. The Niners still alive. Bengals at the Cowboys. Cowboys are getting five and a half in Dallas, which is kind of surprising. All right, we'll talk about the college football playoffs. The bookmakers don't think these are going to be competitive games. This according to DraftKings this morning, Indiana against Notre Dame at Notre Dame. Indiana is getting seven and a half. SMU is getting nine at Penn State, Clemson getting 11 at Texas and then Tennessee getting seven and a half against Ohio State. By the way, odds to win the national title. We have co favorites to win the national title. Oregon and Texas are your co favorites this morning, followed by Georgia, Ohio State and then Penn State. If I would have said to you in September, hey, Arizona State's going to be in, Clemson's going to be in. SMU is going to be in. Boise State's going to be in. Indiana is going to be in. You'd go, wait, basketball? No, football. Because Clemson got roughed up early. Remember that? Georgia roughed him up and then we moved on from Clemson. Well, all you have to do is win your conference. I mean, I don't know if Clemson's any good, but they won their conference, so they're in. SMU survived, and I say survived, so they could get in because they scored 17 points in the fourth quarter. If they do not score those 17, if they score seven, I don't think they're in the playoffs. And I will sit corrected. I didn't think the committee was going to leave Alabama out. And, and I'm not alone in that, but it was an interesting conversation they had to have with Alabama. Didn't get in. Why didn't they get in? They talk about strength of schedule. Well, when you get embarrassed, you got embarrassed Against Vandy, you got embarrassed against Oklahoma, just win. That's what this is all about. Arizona State, I think was picked for last in the Big 12. They're good team. They roughed up Iowa State. Boise State gets a buy. Indiana in at Notre Dame. But we're going to be talking about this and I think we had to go through this process for one year now. I think they're going to tweak what. What you have to do where the seedings are. First round by. This is where you just say, okay, let's see how this plays out. Let's see where some of the, you know, sensitive points are that we can correct. And I still maintain, if you're going to do 12 teams, you win your conference, you get in. But that doesn't mean that you get a first round by. Boise State shouldn't get a first round by. Arizona State shouldn't get a first round by. I think it should be when your conference. Now we start to seed this. That's what happens with the basketball tournament. You're not guaranteed a number one seed because you win the ACC or the sec. And I think that's what they need to do is Boise State. I'm glad they're in. Arizona State, I'm glad they're in. But then after that, I think you got to be fair to strength of schedule. And that's where I think that if you go with rankings, then I think you get a truer sense of how good teams are. What they did during the course of a year and if you had two losses, maybe three, what was your strength of schedule? This is what I worry about. And you already have athletic directors talking about this. Well, we're going to really look at, you know, out of conference scheduling because there is. There's no reason to do something out of conference and run the risk of losing. If you lose more than two games, you're not getting in or it's really going to be difficult. Clemson didn't play anybody. Clemson won the acc. That's all you have to do. Arizona State just win your conference. Boise State win your conference, you're in. But then after that, I think you need to have reseeding or seating. I can't be giving these schools at first round by. I don't think that's fair to the other conferences and the strength of schedule that they may have. You know, it's going to be tweaked, it's not perfect. And maybe eventually we get to the. What are we doing? Why don't we just make This a pro model, and there's going to be a certain number of schools that are going to play and there'll be schools maybe get relegated. Whatever you want to do with it. We're heading that way. It's almost like when we had one versus two, and then we said, how about two more teams? Is that a lot? And then all of a sudden, you know, we had co national champs a long, long time ago. I mean, co national champ. Do you imagine if we had co national champs now? Hey, Georgia Tech and Colorado or co national champs, huh? But we had that. There's so much more attached to this, so many more people, so much more money attached to this. And that's why I think they'll get around to tweaking this a little bit more. And next year you'll probably have something along the lines of what I've been talking about. I have somebody who is close to the committee and they've told me that. This, of course, is a topic of conversation whether it gets enacted next year, because I was told, Hey, 14, maybe next year, but probably going to be the following season where you'll have 14 schools instead of 12. Let's see how this plays out. It looks fun. It sounds fun. Would I have liked Alabama and South Bend? Yes, I would have. That would have been great. Tennessee, I love that against Ohio State. I mean, there's matchups where you go, all right, like Clemson's in, you know, and you get Texas, but they're scoring. It almost feels like Oregon would been better off losing the Big Ten title game. Like, I didn't think that they treated Oregon fairly there. And Penn State. They look pretty good. They look pretty good. That's the first time where I go, okay, competitive neutral field. And maybe they will be a tough out, but I think the first round by bothers people probably more than anything else involved in this because you're looking at Boise State and Arizona State and you're going, really? Yeah, but that's the system this year. All right. 877-3-DP Show Email Address DP dan patrick.com Twitter Handle the DP Show Good morning. If you're watching on Peacock. Thank you for downloading the app and our radio affiliates around the country as well. Poll question. Seaton, what are you thinking about today? Well, we'll probably start with who had the best weekend, who had the worst weekend. It's one of our favorites on Monday. Okay. You want to start positive? Yeah. Okay. Okay. How about Puka Nakua? Damn, he had a great weekend. Yeah, he did. He Just, he's different. Like, they're receivers that are fast, they're ones that are quick. He just is tough to bring down. That catch he had on the sideline was unbelievable. Yeah, it's almost. When you watch and you're going and, you know, Cooper cup has been unbelievable. But Puka Nakua, that's the guy. He's the guy. And you watch him and you go, he's not fast. He's just physical. And all of a sudden, you know, you're pulling in 12 catches, all of a sudden, you know, I mean, Buffalo was back and forth with this, and they realized, hey, do we have any defense here? Because that's what the Rams have. Offense. They have a whole lot of offense. But I loved what I saw with Josh Allen. I mean, when you throw for three and you run for three, that's never been done before, and no sacks. Here is Sean McVeigh, the Rams coach, talking about the greatness of Josh Allen. That's an excellent team. I mean, do you see Josh Allen is a. Is an alien. Some of the stuff that he can do and the things that he can create, we knew he was capable of that. He's shown that. It's why he is, you know, as well respected and regarded in this league as he is. It's all deserved and earned, but our guys found a way to just make enough plays to be able to come out on top. Yeah, they did. It was fun. That was back and forth. Really enjoyed that. All right, so you have Puka Nakua. Who else? And you know what else to a Puka? He. He's been hurt a lot this year, but he's clearly the real deal or like a real dealer, you know, in that they don't. The whole. Well, you get a little bit of tape on this guy, you figure out how to. Nobody's figured that out yet. It's true, you know. Yeah. How about. You know who had a pretty good weekend, believe it or not? What about Aaron Rodgers? Okay, I'm listening. He actually. He did a couple of things that you were like, hey, there we go. You mean the things he's supposed to do? Well, yes. He threw for 300 yards. Okay. And they lost. They did. They did lose. But it's a close game. This is why you have Aaron Rodgers close games. You can't blame this one on him. That feels like a win. You can't blame this one on Aaron Rodgers. Is he. Is he blaming everybody else? Like, you can't. You can't blame me. Yeah, I hope so. You know, who had a good weekend. And he lost. And he lost the previous week. And he lost the previous week. Bryce Young. Oh, yeah, right. Seaton was saying Carolina, you got to feel pretty good about that. Bryce Young looks comfortable. They almost knock off the Chiefs. They almost knocked off the Eagles, and it felt like they had a chance. And that's a win in my book, especially where they've been. Dave Canales, you're the head coach there. You're like, hey, it started out abysmal. It started out worse than we could have possibly imagined. But it's turned around. You're competitive. You have a good weekend. A competitive weekend against a clear super bowl contender. Yeah, that works. Yeah. And then. And then you did it against the Chiefs where you had a chance. Yeah. Yes. Paulie. I'll throw in Brock Purdy. 20 of 25. 3:25, Two touchdowns, almost a perfect quarterback rating. They smoked the Bears. He's looking at a contract in this off season. I know they're. I thought maybe you do that Baker Mayfield kind of contract. And the insiders, Ian Rapoport was saying, no, no boat. That. They're looking at a full boat for Brock Purdy. How about Sam Darnold? Sam Darnold, five touchdown passes. All he does is win. I like how the Vikings, everybody's going. Vikings are geniuses. They got Sam Darnold. Are they really brilliant? Hey, they. You're not getting credit for Sam Darnold. You're not. You drafted J.J. mcCarthy. Kirk D. Cousins got rid of him and Sam Darnold was going to be a backup. Now, he's played well, but I don't know if I can go. Man. That organization, they're two steps ahead of everybody else. I don't think you were planning on this, but Sam Darnold, he's. He's been great at times. He's been great. And Kirk D. Cousins has not. He is not. And you know, I do like Kirk D. Cousins, but this isn't personal when I say they should bench him. I would like to See Michael Penix Jr III Get a chance, go in there. He can't be worse. It's. It'd be almost impossible to be worse. And I would put him in there and maybe you see something and let's say he struggles, okay? At least he got a taste this year to get ready for next year. Yes, Paulie. A month ago, Kirk Cousins had just finished winning five of six games. His last two games were on national tv to end October, they beat Tampa and beat Dallas. He had four touchdowns. And then three touchdowns. The next week, no picks. In the last four weeks, he's thrown eight interceptions and no touchdowns. He undid it in a month. The Falcons are the first team in NFL history to have a four game span where they didn't have a passing touchdown. They threw over at least eight interceptions while allowing at least eight passing touchdowns and getting zero interceptions. Woo. Ow. Stat of the day Start of the day, Start of the day, Start of the day. This is the start out on the day brought to you by Panini America. By the way, congratulations to the Jets. They're officially eliminated and they have broken a tie with the Buffalo Sabers for the longest active playoff drought across all four major sports leagues. I'm watching. I'm going. And a friend of mine is a Dolphin fan. He goes, we can't lose to the Jets. I said, you're not. He goes, how can you say that? I said, you're not going to lose to the Jets. I've seen this movie. I know how this plays out. I know. All right, we'll take a break. We'll settle on a poll question. Phone calls always welcome, especially on Monday. Best and worst of the weekend. We're back after this. In the Dan Patrick Show, Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. 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And then all of a sudden I'm watching the price tag and it continues to go up. And then all of a sudden it's like, how many years? Like 15 years. 15 years for 765 million. If I said you can have Shohei Ohtani right now or you can have Juan Soto, is it even a debate? Now, Soto is 26. I think he's four years younger than Ohtani. And I know I sound like the old school guy. I would think for that amount of money you got somebody that you were going to go out of your way, you're going to want to watch them, you're going to want to go see them. Now, if I'm a Mets fan, I don't care. Although you are going to pick up some of the tab here with Steve Cohen. He's not taking on all of this. I'm going to guess ticket prices, concessions, everything is going to go up a little bit. But if you're a Mets fan, you're like, yeah, we'll take him now. Need some pitching. But you got Juan Soto, and he's a guy that you can plug in 40 home runs, 120 RBIs. And you know he'll play decent defense, but you're not bringing him in for that. I mean, he's really one dimensional. He's just a great hitter. But with Ohtani, I get the unicorn. I get somebody who's going to be pitching next year, also hitting. We saw what he did when he went 50, 50. And I get an entire market. I get worldwide with him, certainly with the Japanese market. And I think they were averaging 15 million people watching the World Series. Like, I get that. I get somebody. And by all accounts seems likable, presentable. And you're playing with the Dodgers, you're in Los Angeles. But Juan Soto, no. When's the last time you went G.C. soto? Last night. And I don't know if that matters, but it does to me. If my owner is paying that kind of money, what are we getting? And I don't know what you're getting, other than he's been on what, three teams now? Four. This will be his fourth team. But he's got a 15 year deal for $765 million. And it's not deferred. He didn't do the Ohtani bargain stuff. Not Scott Boris. We'd like our money now, please. Okay. Yes, Paul. Can you make the case, though, that Steve Cohen, the Mets owner, is the perfect owner to have. He doesn't care about the finances. It appears he's spending his own money almost, maybe too much. Two years ago, remember, he had that big lineup and it didn't work out, but he tried, but he said he wasn't going to do that again. And then it felt like they went back to just being a regular baseball team. And then they played well this year, and then all of a sudden, it's like, we played really well. Let's go back and start spending again. Billionaires don't have patience. And I'm sure he's like, well, I usually buy my way out of things. All right, here's a big ticket item, and you got him. Juan Soto, 15 years. I may not be alive when this contract's over. Whole question. Possible poll question, which ends first, me or Juan Soto? Mets career. We'll revisit that. I don't think he'll spend his entire career with the Mets. Just saying. I've been around a long time. No, no, that's a lot. That's an eternity. That's 15 years. What could go wrong? And then you have to go, well, how many. How many World Series do they have to win? Well, they have to win one. Just one. You win one, Mets fans will be like, all right, you know what? We can ride that one for a little while. And you take him away from the Yankees. I understand that part of the process as well. But you're still going against the Dodgers in the National League. And the Dodgers won't stop. They will continue to spend. Yes. Pauling, you can almost make the case that even if Ohtani, let's say hypothetically, he doesn't pitch again or doesn't pitch a lot, his hitting is so. It's improving as he gets to 29, 30, 54 homers, 310, and all the steals, like, just as a hitter. He's a better hitter than Soto. Yeah. I mean, he's the unicorn. There's no one like him. That's why whatever they were going to pay, he was probably going to be worth it. And in that market, and they just won the World Series. Now he gets to pitch, even if he doesn't pitch well, or maybe he doesn't pitch after this year. Maybe they decide to just make him a hitter. I'd rather have him as a Hitter than I would Juan Soto as a hitter. And Ohtani also gives you 50 stolen bases. He's going to hit, you know, 45 home runs. But the Mets made the big splash. I don't think anybody's surprised here. I know that the Red Sox were involved. The Red Sox have some real good prospects. They're just not ready to win. Now, I thought that maybe the Giants or the Blue Jays would get involved in this. And a lot of times what happens with Scott Boris is, you know, you're trying to drum up interest, and then sometimes you'll mention a team even though that team's probably not going to be in it. Dodgers. I don't know how competitive their offer was, but as I said, when this happened, he'd go to the highest bidder. That's exactly what happened. Alrighty, Some phone calls here. And let's do our one poll question. Who had the best weekend. Any other names we want to put in? Because right now. Bryce Young, Sam Darnold. Yes. Paulie Davos Sweeney of Clemson. Considering how the season started. Sure. He was irrelevant in September. Oh, I know. And he collected receipts. He was like, everybody wrote us all. Yeah, we did. We did. When you played somebody really good, we wrote you off. We did. You got through the acc and you beat a good SMU team. So, you know, you can take the victory lap. You can do your Mick Jagger, you know, peacock or whatever that strut is that he has. Yes, yes. Should I not put Juan Soto on that list? I think he had a good weekend. I think he did. I mean. Yeah. He just basically became a billionaire. Yeah. Yeah. Well, after taxes, though. I mean, New York's expensive. Yeah. What does Scott Morris. Does he get, like, 5%? I don't know if it's 5. It might be 3 these days. Yeah. Maybe like a Realtor. Well, it might be. It gets to a certain level, like, you get 5%, then it goes 4%, 3%. Maybe there's escalating clauses there for him. Yes. Don, I don't care how rich an owner is in baseball. How do you justify that amount? It's not like the quarterback of a football team. It's not like a Michael Jordan where you're one of five players that can. One person can possibly carry a team to a championship. So how do. How do you add that up? Not to mention what it's going to cost for what you were saying, Food and parking, souvenirs. He doesn't care. He doesn't care. He wants to be a hero. He's probably never Picked up a baseball bat in his life. Probably didn't get picked for a little League. You know, he gets his chance to be a star. Like, he's a billionaire. There's a lot of billionaires. A lot of them. But when you own a team, it's different. Then people listen to what you have to say. Oh, he's the owner of the Mets. Oh, he's the owner of the Jaguars, by the way. Here comes. God. That was the Titans, Jags. That was tough. I would rather have just watched nothing than watch that. I would rather have just sat quietly and not watched. But I did watch because I was fascinated with just how bad it was. Yes, Marvin, can you believe that used to be the Thursday night game? Eight times a year, Titans, Jaguars, 16, 11 score. And. And who knew that they played like five times a year. It'd be like, guys, you got to play again. Wait, we just played them. I'm sorry, you got to play again. But if you go back, it was 24 years ago. Alex Rodriguez signed for 250 million with the Rangers. Also Scott Boris, by the way. Yes, Indeed. Shohei Otani. 700 million now 765. Wow. But it's not like salaries are escalating because in football, the quarterback. It's escalating. Wide receivers escalating like they're. They all continue to go up. This is. This is just an aberration. It's like, okay, you had Ohtani and he had Juan Soda. Who is the next player where you go, did you hear what he signed for? Like, Paul Skeens is not going to sign for $500 million. Certainly not with the Pirates. Yes. How many football players can you add up into this one contract for Juan Soto? So what can I get for Juan Soto in the NFL? Yeah. Oh, okay. I'm pretty sure you can get the top five wide receivers in the NFL. Still wouldn't add up to that one contract. Okay, that's crazy. Do you take Mahomes, even though he cost that? That's 500 million of the 765. Or do I go, no, we're going to take, you know, bargain basement here in certain categories here. You could get Justin Jefferson. You get T.J. watt, you get Saquon Barkley, easy. Who else? Travis Kelsey. Then I get Taylor Swift and this. But. Or you could get a guy who's going to bat four times a day. Yeah. Yes. And I can choose not to pitch to him. Somebody just pitches and walks around. Yeah, yeah. Like, I just go, hey, we're not throwing to you. Today. Okay. Yes. Bart, seven out of those 10 times, he's going to strike out. Yeah, that's true. $765 million and be a Hall of Famer. Yeah. Yes. All right, Couple of phone. Couple of phone calls in here. John in Kentucky leads us off best and worst of the weekend. John, Dan and Danette, good morning. I just wanted to share one my best of the weekend. Okay. My son plays high school football here in Kentucky for this tiny private school called Thayer where the Thayer Spartans. And our head coach is Chad Pennington. That Chad Pennington. And Chad restarted our program seven years ago from scratch. And Dan, we capped off a perfect 150 season this weekend by winning the Class 1A state title in Kentucky. Congratulations. Congratulations. I'm looking it up right now that Sayer High School in Kentucky didn't even have a football program from 77 to 2017. Then Chad Pennington showed up. Yes, Marvin, the real question is high school. They play 15 games in high school football now. Yeah. Wow, That's a lot, huh? Griffin in Cincinnati. Hi, Griff. Welcome back. Hey, Dan, I was hoping to get some career advice from you today, actually. Oh, I have a couple of. I have a couple of job offers to get into TV reporting. Now, my background is in radio, but some of these markets are going to give me a chance to do a little reporting. But for the sake of saving some time and since you don't know me personally, I just wanted to ask you what's some good advice that you would give your students at Full Sail about accepting their first jobs in the market and potentially weighing a couple of offers about making the right decision? Dan? Well, get on the air and if you're covering a professional team or college team, just make sure you're getting into situation that you enjoy going to work. I get to go to work. I don't have to go to work. That's the ultimate goal. Certainly in that business. You get to go to work and what are you doing when you go? And is there an ability to move up if you're reporting? Do you get a chance to be on tv? Can you do weekends? Can you, like, how much air time are you going to get? And do you like the place you're going to work for? I was fortunate in the beginning stages of ESPN. I loved going to work certainly the first 15 years. I was very lucky. Find a place you respect the people there. There's an ability to move up the ladder a little bit there. And if you can stay locally and you don't have to go a lot of my students have to go to really small markets around the country to start out. But if you're able to stay there, have fun and you like who you're working for, those are things that I would check the box on. Well, that would be great. Yeah, I'm definitely going to have to move around to either Michigan and become a youper or I'm on the way to West Virginia right now to interview them and they may ask me some questions to get into some stuff. So two different situations. How about working for a larger company where it is easier to move up or for a family owned company where they only own one station. I think it's going to come down to your gut feeling though, Griffin, and thanks for the phone call and good luck with that. Yeah, you just, you're going to get into situations where once you get in you're going to go, okay, I like this. I don't like that. You may not like the city, you may not like the teams you're covering or a coworker. I mean there's a lot of drama that goes along with this. It's not just getting a job but find the place that wants you there and that you feel like I can stay here for a little while. Will in North Carolina. Hi Will. What's on your mind? Dan I got Best of the Weekend is a shout out to my group thread the locker room going 70 on spread picks on conference championship Saturday. And then I did want to possibly biggest head scratching moment in college football this year. Wanted to hear your opinion on it. Charles Huff winning the Sunbelt going 10 and three, being a member of the Nick Saban coaching tree and then deciding to accept a job offer at Southern Miss, one of the, you know, lowliest programs in the country and one of the poorest athletic departments. Just want to hear you speculate a little bit on why he might have made that decision. I don't know enough about it, Will. I don't. I'd love to be able to wax poetic on Southern Miss football and why somebody would want to go there, but I don't know. Barry in Santa Fe. Oh look who. Look who picked up the phone to call and talk about his meth. Say Barry. Good morning fellas. And good morning Jack. Ro and what a beautiful day it is. The Met, Taiwan Soto and everybody else is whining and crying and it's all of a sudden fiscally responsible and doesn't want to pay the money. And the especially dopey Yankee fans who actually thought he would stay for the pinstripe pride and Yankee tradition. Congratulations, Barry. Thanks. Thanks for. Thanks for calling. And now go get a title, the Fiscal Responsibility. Like, I'm so past that. I'm just thinking, does it make sense for your team to get one guy at that price? Or could I get four or five guys that are really good? Or good instead? Because the last I looked, you're probably going to need some pitching. Probably going to need a little bit of pitching. DeSoto pitch. Can we check and see? We're checking. They're probably saying Ohtani pitches for 700 million. Is there any chance that you could pitch Any chance every fifth day? All right, we'll take a break. 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They are the fifth set of teammates in the super bowl era to have at least 130 receiving yards and at least two touchdowns. So they got a good defense. And as long as Sam is not throwing interceptions, you have those receivers. And Justin Jefferson makes it look easy. He does. First player in NFL history with 7,000 receiving yards in the first five seasons. He's 26 years of age. So you do have a good team playing in a really tough division. And I think we begrudgingly give them credit. I probably do. I keep waiting. Like, I like Sam Darnold from his USC days. He was always very good, you know, to the show and coming on, but, you know, he disappeared. Got kind of kicked to the curb. Backup quarterback, got his chance. Now here's the situation. J.J. mcCarthy will be back next year. We assume he'll be healthy. Does he get a chance to start? Do you bring Sam Darnold back? He's a free agent, a true free agent. What is Sam Darnold going to cost you? Because you do need an insurance policy of knowing if JJ McCarthy can play. They took him too high in the draft to not play him. But can I say to Sam Darnold, how about a two year deal? Kind of like what the packers did with Jordan Love? Because he's going to probably say, I want to test the open market and I don't know what that market is because what is SAM27? I mean, that's amazing. Been around a long time. He's 27 and should be coming into the prime of his career. Can he have a Baker May. Is he having a Baker Mayfield kind of resurgence? Would he take a Baker Mayfield type deal? Because you still have that Rookie deal with J.J. mcCarthy, but you want to spread that money around to make sure that you're keeping players. Yeah. It almost feels like for another team to sign Sam Darnold, it's like, okay, now do it again and then we'll sign you. Vikings, I totally understand if they kept him, but for anybody else, if he's looking to go outside of that in a big deal, man, it feels like, all right, that was good. That was good. Let's see you do it again and then we'll give you big money. Yeah, I Just don't know what kind of contract you're going to give him that he would go because they already drafted the guy that they want to start. I don't think you can go. On second thought, we want Sam Darnold to be our starter. I mean you can. You definitely can. Yeah. Yeah. I mean Jordan Love sat for a while, but I mean that's a ready to win now team. I don't know. I'd have to say to Sam, how badly do you want to stay? But. And I don't know that. Do you feel like handing the quarterback roll over to J.J. mcCarthy is like, now we're ready to win? No, probably not. That's kicking that down another two or three years. Yes. That you don't have that kind of time. Yeah, I'm pulling. It feels like the Vikings went from a bad quarterback situation to start the season to a great one to an awkward one. Because if you make the playoffs with Sam Darnold, the pressure from the fan base to keep him. They have no loyalty to J.J. mcCarthy. I think the pressure of ticket like you said, BAKER Mayfield got three years for 100 million, 50 million guaranteed. That could be a win for the Vikings. Weirdly, Gus in LA. Hi Gus. What's on your mind today? Good morning, Mr. Patrick. Hope you and the boys had a great weekend. Hey, congratulations to my newly found cousin Juan Soto on that contract. Nothing like giving a career 280 batter. 765 million. That's great news for the Mets fans. I'm proud of you guys. Best of the weekend. I got my little football prayers answered. Selfishly, the Steelers win and the Eagles win. Reason why I'm rooting for the Eagles is because I'm taking a little trip out east this week and I was able to get my hands on a few tickets to the Steelers Eagles game. And I'm going to be in the House of Lincoln Financial on Sunday. And I mean, what better way I'm. I'm selfishly going to think that that's going to be the game of the weekend as compared to the Bills and the Lions. So it's going to be my first time at Lincoln Financial. Hopefully Eagles fans do not rip me limp from limb as I walk in with my terrible towel. So that's it. Wait, wait, what are you wearing? What am I wearing? When you, when you go to the game, like, you know, I gotta wear a jersey. I'm wearing my Troy Polymalu home black jersey. No, no, I guess I wouldn't do it. So what am I supposed to Wear there. I just. Just a winter jacket, a hat. Yeah. Like we used to do. Yeah. I'm just saying. Just saying. You're a big guy. I would say now, Steeler fans, they travel. 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