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You are listening to the Dan Patrick show on Fox Sports Radio. It's our one on this Tuesday. Dan and the Danettes, Dan Patrick show our starting lineup. The minister of humor, Fritzi Seaton. Marv Poly. Yours truly did receive a letter from, I guess a fan who said 40 minutes of berating Todd on a certain day and you wonder why you don't win a sports emmy. Well, if that's the case, then we're never going to win a sports Emmy, Todd. It's just not in the cards. Yeah, I know. I know. One of these days, though. One of these days it just. It all comes to an end, and then you're going to miss that. You're going to miss me talking to you. Berate. I don't think I'd berate you. No. But I'll be a lost soul wandering the street waiting for random people to start up with me. I said that. I don't know what the word is or the words are to describe our relationship. I like we poke. Yeah. We prod. We have fun. I call it love. It's playful. I call it a relationship. Yes, Seaton, the definition of berate is to scold or criticize someone angrily. Yeah, I don't. I'm not angry at you. No, you do it with a smile. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. But if I don't talk to you, then who does? Todd, That's A good point. I really have no friends. We all know that you have no friends. Stat of the Day brought to you by Panini America, the official trading cards of the Dan Patrick Show. Good morning. If you're watching on Peacock, if you would like to watch me berate Todd, you can download the app. And we say good morning to our radio affiliates around the country. IHeartRadio, Fox Sports Radio and the first hour brought to you by McGuire's, the new hybrid ceramic wash and wax. It's a bucket or foam cannon. It's great you have the extreme water beating technology. The next time you wash your car truck, think McGuire's reflect your passion. Play of the day, Pull questions Stat of the day. All of that forthcoming 8773 DP show operator Tyler sitting by. He'll take your phone calls. The press conference yesterday with Deion Sanders, it was not football related. And I'd given you a heads up that this was going to be a medical update. And there were wide ranging reports, speculation on Deion Sanders future as a head coach being able to actually walk the sidelines. And we know that he had a couple of toes amputated. There were a blood clot. That was a couple of years ago. But this was something different. This was bladder cancer. And those close to him, at least one person that I spoke to yesterday said that, that he, he was, he wasn't prime. He wasn't coach Prime. He was Dion and obviously very concerned about this. So it took on a whole different tone behind the scenes from what I was told yesterday of this is, this is about living, this is about quality of life. And I don't think we understood the severity. And he was being private with this, but he was also sharing this with some of his close friends because prime has confidence. Prime walks in the room and you know, he's there. This was different. And he was asked yesterday about this cancer and coming back from it, being able to coach. I always knew I was going to coach again. I never didn't realize I was going to coach again. I was always going to coach. It was never in my spirit, in my heart that God wouldn't allow me to coach again. That's never thought like that. Yeah, I was told that privately, though, he did wonder if he was going to be able to do that. Could he walk the sidelines? Would he be in a press box? So, you know, the mortality of this, one of the great athletes of our generation. And then all of a sudden you look at him, he's lost a couple of toes, had a blood Clot, bladder cancer, we're all mortal. I think it hit me really, really hard years ago and I mentioned this last week when I saw Earl Campbell and we were in Houston for the super bowl and he was in a wheelchair and it just, I don't know why it hit me so hard. And then I run into Jim McMahon in Tahoe and Jim talking about that maybe, you know, he was going to have to get his leg amputated, part of his leg amputated. We sort of live in this world. Sometimes we're in a vacuum and, and we don't look at what is life as, look at what is sporting life to us, who they are to us. When we see them on the field, it's when we see them off the field and you'll see some of these players and they're really beat up. And with Dion, first time I saw, you know, his feet, he took his shoes off and showed us and he had turf toe. And at that, you know, you don't think turf toe is going to slow down one of the greatest athletes of all time, but it did. And so you had to get these toes amputated and then you have the blood clot now with bladder cancer. But he's going to be there on the sidelines. And that was great news. It was a relief, I think, more than anything because privately I was told, you know, maybe it's 50, 50 if he's going to coach again. And he wants to be prime, he wants to be coach prime. He doesn't want to be out there, not able to be that person, that, that confident person on the sidelines. And I think maybe there was a little bit of trepidation with that or concern over that. The other story yesterday, man who Manhattan shooting suspect said to have had CTE, had a note that mentioned the NFL, goes into the headquarters in New York City. A 27 year old man, he killed four people, wounded a fifth. And this was at the home office of the NFL. This is on Park Avenue. 3 4, 5 Park Ave. So he takes the wrong elevator. He's wants to go up to the NFL offices, he takes the wrong elevator. But he apparently was blaming the NFL for his injury. Cte, you know, it's the brain disease that is linked to repeated hits to the head. He was a high school player, played in Canada, and he had a history of head trauma. But he casually walks in and I don't know if that's an AR or an ak, doesn't matter, but he's just walking in as if he's walking into work. The preliminary investigation, according to the mayor of New York City, is this man took the wrong elevator. He wanted to go to NFL headquarters. Instead, he went to Rudin Management, and that's where he started shooting people. 5th shooting victim taken to the hospital in critical condition, is out of surgery and right now in stable condition. But this man had some issues back in 2020, 22 and 2024 with law enforcement sources saying the two mental health crisis holds on his background. Where they normally keep you, I think for up to 72 hours because they're a danger to themselves. But scary moment, obviously, and four lives were lost yesterday. We haven't talked about CTE in a while after the lawsuit. It's still there. We've seen TUA and what's happened to him with a couple of concussions there. It's, it's quieted down, but it's almost because the NFL in that billion dollar lawsuit said, after this, you're kind of signing up and you know exactly what you're getting. It's sort of like when you see the, the warning on the side of cigarettes, like it's there. Surgeon general says you probably shouldn't do this, but we've gotten better helmets. I think that, you know, the, the medical approach is not to put your head in the sand or act like it doesn't exist. The guardian caps, which I think if we started out with that, nobody would have a problem with that. It just, we look at them and it doesn't feel like that's football for some reason. But I think if somebody comes along and is able to modify those to streamline a little bit and make them look more like a helmet, I don't think we'll have a problem with it. I mean, imagine the football players who put a face mask on. It's like, what are you doing that for? I don't know, maybe save my face. I don't know. You look pretty weird. Or Jacques Plant when he put on a goalie mask and they probably went, do you see what Jacques got on? He's got a mask. Like, after a while, it just becomes the norm. And, and hopefully if that cuts down on cte, because it is, it's just a terrible, terrible. I mean, it's debilitating for these poor people. You know, you start to look at what it does to you. You know, some of the symptoms. You know, you, you get mood swings, memory loss. You, I mean, it leads to other things as well. Seeing, you know, these great football players and they have to be fed, they have to be taken care of. You know, the wife who is all of a sudden taking care of, you know, this person, or you have to put them in a, you know, facility, assisted living. It's real. It's still there. Hopefully they continue with the progress, but, you know, it's still the. The risk will still be there. But this man who's 27 years of age, had suffered apparently some brain damage CTE and killed four people yesterday in New York City. All right, 877-3-DP show email address dpdanpatrick.com Twitter handle @DP Show. Well, check in with one of our good buddies. Daniel Jeremiah, former NFL scout, does a great job for NFL Network. He's been to a couple of camps, and we'll talk to him. There was a signing yesterday. Cortland Sutton got signed by the Broncos. And I found this interesting because I love Terry McLaurin. I think he's a wonderful player. I think he's, you know, kind of battled through all the chaos and nonsense with Washington. Five straight seasons of a thousand receiving yards, and he's been in the league for seven years. And he produces. He wants to get paid. He's 30 years of age, same age, I believe, as Cortland Sutton. Sutton got paid yesterday by the Broncos, and Cortland Sutton is not as good as Terry McLaurin. And I hope that the now he's got a hold in. He's showed up at camp, doesn't want to get fined, but that was one of those where Denver signed up. Cortland Sutton had no problem with that. But the commanders not with Terry McLaurin. And McLaurin was great before they got Jaden Daniels. He was almost the constant there. And I like when those players get taken care of. Hopefully Trey Hendrickson gets paid. He did everything he was supposed to do. And hopefully the Bengals will sign him. Not always the case. There's sometimes when players ask for more money or they have two years left on their deal and they get paid, and usually that comes back to haunt management there. Satan. What's poll question today? Well, we got two of them here, and I think we're gonna get them both after the break. Oh, okay. All right. After the break. Wow. This is after the break. Yeah. Worthy two and two. All right. All right. Todd, have you seen Happy Gilmore, too? I have not just said. I was thinking about maybe saving it for the weekend, actually, because I don't really have much of a life on the weekend. So the next time I'm in a really big movie, then maybe you'll watch. I may see it one of these weeknights, but I may save it for like. Like a Saturday kind of thing because I got a little dinner and then it could be a Saturday night showcase at my house. Okay. All right. You and Paulie holding out? Yeah. Paul, I do have an update. My daughter and I watched the first movie last night and she told me. How did you not show me this before? Now we're ready for part two. Yeah, but I wasn't in the original, which is a mistake on their end. It is, it is. But they. Sandler learned that. Yes, Sandler learned from his mistake, and then he put me in Happy Gilmore too. The update I got is they're looking at somewhere between 90 and 100 million streams on Happy Gilmore 2 the first week. That sounds like a good number. Yes, it is. That's a very good number. Yes. It doesn't mean anything to my bottom line because I do this. It's more of a charity that I do it. I do it for Sandler and his children, so they have a better life. Helping out a friend. Yes, that's what I do. I don't. I don't charge an exorbitant rate. It's just basically, I'm here to give. Yes, Todd, do you need to sit down with the Sandman for a future deal where you get a little back end off of a certain streaming number? It's too late for that. It's too late for that. Although Sandler did buy Rock and David Spade and Rob Schneider, their favorite car a couple of years ago. Well, it's a few years ago because of all their contributions to his movies. And I said to Sandler, you know, if I get to 20 movies, I kind of like to have a car. Well, I blew past 20 movies, no car. You know what? Paulie suggests that maybe Sandman would lease a car for me. Nice. 39 month. Yeah, 12, 000 miles. Yeah, it'd be nice, you know, nice payment plan. I'd be fine with that. Just, you know, just a gesture there, that's all. Just a nice little. Danny, I didn't buy your car. But maybe he's got to buy cars for his daughters. His two daughters, of course, but buy a horse for his wife, you know? Anywho. Okay, I. I shouldn't be turning it into a negative. I'm in one of the biggest movies this year of all time. Yes, Todd, you already have the pontoon boat, maybe like a souped up canoe. Is there something he can send to Maine for you as A backup deal to your pontoon boat if he doesn't want to go. Car. Why. Why are you joking? I'm not joking. It feels like you're joking about this. I think that would be a lovely gesture. Something for the water. See, this is why I berate you, because you make fun of me. You. Your words hurt. I'm just saying it doesn't have to be a car. He can, you know, he can get you a golf cart. You can get you some kind of little boat. Golf cart would be fine. Yes. I think this is what people mean when they say you're gaslighting someone. You're gaslighting Todd right now. Oh, I. Oh, but what was he doing to me? You're. Because you're saying to Todd things like, you know, Todd, your words hurt. They do hurt. That's. That's when you're. You're gaslighting Todd. Gaslighting. Yeah. Because your words hurt, Dan. Oh, okay. And now you're, like, throwing it back in Todd's face. I think this is what maybe one of the things people mean when they say 40 minutes of B rating. I think this would go under the B rate umbrella. You're turning the script a little bit there. But what. But what role did Todd play in this, though? So now you're blaming the victim. You're victim Blame. Yeah. Being here, being alive. I'm the victim here. Showing up every day, I'm the victim. You took it as me being, like, poking you or being sarcastic. I was being legitimately. Here's some other options. That Sandler might get you a nice president. Turned it into a thing. Just felt like negativity. Felt like you were gaslighting me. Oh, you're being gaslit. Yes. Yeah. Okay. As being the weak victim, I apologize if I offended you by offering vehicle suggestions. Thank you. I appreciate that. That's the way it should be. Okay. When we come back, the long awaited poll suggestions. Poll questions. Suggestions there. All right, we'll take a break. We're just getting started. Dan and the Dan Ants. Dan Patrick Show. Be sure to catch the live edition of the Dan Patrick show. Weekdays at 9am Eastern, 6am Pacific on fo Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. Hey, we're Covino and Rich, FOX Sports radio every day, 5 to 7pm Eastern. But here's the thing. We never have enough time to get to everything we want to get to. And that's why we have a brand new podcast called Over Promised. You see, we're having so much fun in our two hour show. We never get to everything honestly because this guy is over promising things we never have time for. Yeah, you blubber lips blaming me. Well, you know what? It's called Over Promise. 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