Paulie (3:48)

That's right. You shouldn't have to explain.

Dan Patrick (3:50)

Yeah, so Kyle Tucker is. His average salary, I guess is $60 million. The only player that is making more is Shohei Otani, his teammate. I also saw the salaries that are guaranteed for this upcoming season. This is total amount of guaranteed money on the books per Major League Baseball team, the Dodgers. Now this is guaranteed money. $2 billion. 2 billion 2.1. San Diego is 1.2. Toronto 1.2. The Mets 1.1. Philadelphia. Come on, Phillies, they're not even a billion. They're at $865 million. You know, it makes it. The Dodgers make the Mets and the Yankees feel like a mom and pop shop. Like, man, they're scraping stuff together. It's incredible what they're doing. And that wasn't that long ago where we looked at the Yankees and we go, they're ruining baseball here. Dodgers at $2 billion on the books. Now you got deferred money that's included in there because most of Shohei Ohtani's contract is deferred. Paulie, would you let America know about Kyle Tucker?

Paulie (5:08)

He's been a very good player. Four time All Star the last four years. A couple years ago he was fifth in the MVP hitting.284, 29 homers, 112 RBI for Houston. Then he joined the Cubs last year, had a pretty good season. Banged up at the end. Considered a classic hitter.

Dan Patrick (5:25)

Oh, the classic.

Paulie (5:26)

Beautiful swing there.

Dan Patrick (5:27)

Yeah, Lovely. Classic hitter, 28 years old. All right. Four year deal. Yeah. All right.

Matt Norlander (5:32)

Okay.

Paulie (5:33)

If you're the Dodgers, did you need this going forward to com to win or do you just do it to make sure others can't challenge you? I guess it's a semantics.

Dan Patrick (5:45)

Well, the Blue Jays were in the World series and they wanted Kyle Tucker. But then I don't know what's going on with Bo Bichette here, but I mean I thought maybe if there was a big, big ticket item as far as a pitcher went that I could see the Dodgers doing that. But they picked up Edwin Diaz, you know, they got him from the Mets. You know, when you go shopping, you don't worry about the price tag. Or when you go to a restaurant and you don't order it by looking at what the price is and work your way back. That's the Dodgers, they order from the left side of the menu. They don't worry about what that price tag is or if they go to a store, they don't ask. Or you go to a car dealership, you just say. Do you got that in Dodger blue please? Yes. You know, this is kind of weird about it too. If you think about like a lot of people played little league baseball and right field is where the worst player on the team went. Yeah, right. Right field is always where the worst player was. Yeah. And that dude is just got paid just gobs of money. There's something about your youth brain that won't let you reconcile. Why are you paying that much for a right right fielder? They're always the worst player. But there aren't many left handed batters when you're growing up. Therefore you don't worry about somebody hitting it to right field. But you get to the major leagues, your best arm was usually in right field. Some of the best arms in baseball history were right fielders. Stat of the day brought to you by Panini America. Ever heard of Aaron Judge? He gets more money than he. Yeah, I know, it's a joke. Okay. The official trading cards of the Dan Patrick show the first hour brought to you by Tirerack.com for over 40 years they've been helping us find the right tires for how and what and where we drive ship fast and free. Backed by free road hazard protection with convenient installation options like mobile tire installation. Tirek.com the way tire Buying. Should be. I went to dinner last night and I was sitting at the bar by myself. Behind me are three guys probably in their 20s, and I overhear the conversation of. They're talking up. They're breaking down Kevin Nagandi, his sports center anchor, and they're talking about the pluses and minuses of Kevin Nagandi. Now they know I'm in at the bar. You know, one of the guys came over and said hello, but I can hear them. And the conversation is sportscenter anchors. As if I'm going to turn around and get involved in the conversation. So just want to let Kevin Nagandi, who's a fan of the show, let you know you were part of a conversation last night on sportscenter anchors. Yeah. Seaton, how'd he do? I think he did pretty well. He did? Oh, yeah, Yeah, I think so. You know, I think I heard the expression he's a really good presenter. And I go, okay, all right. Yeah.

Paulie (8:36)

Paul, first team, all nice guy. Kind of that Rhys Davis, clean broadcast. Nice guy on and off the court.

Dan Patrick (8:43)

Randall Scott. Oh, Randall. Randall K. Scott.

Paulie (8:46)

One of my favorites.

Dan Patrick (8:48)

David Lloyd. David Lloyd up there on the all nice team.

Paulie (8:52)

Legend.

Dan Patrick (8:52)

Yeah. David Lloyd hadn't aged. Hadn't aged a day.

Paulie (8:56)

Reese Davis looks about the same age.

Dan Patrick (8:57)

Yeah. He's letting a little gray hair creep in. You know, he's got that distinguished look. Yeah. By the way, it's a meat Friday. It's chicken and sausage, gumbo, seafood gumbo, cornbread. Who has it better than we do? Nobody. All right, got our play of the day. Need a poll question, Seaton, what are we going to go with? At least in the first hour of this award nominated program, for at least the first hour of the show, we are going to go with which game is most likely to be a blowout. Broncos, Bills, Patriots, Texans, Seahawks, 49ers, Bears, Rams. Well, okay, let me. Let me give you this betting stat here from draftkings. You can bet on which team will score the most points this weekend. Which team will score the most? The rams are the favorites. Then it's the Seahawks. The Bears, Broncos and Bills are tied, which is interesting since they're facing one another. Then you have the Patriots, Texans and the niners. The niners are the worst odds to score the most points. Here. Comes that. What? Stat of the day. Stat of the day brought to you by panini America. The bills are getting one and a half. The niners, it's now seven. It was seven and a half. Sam Darnold has an oblique issue. So much so that Drew Locke took some snaps, and that's a big deal. Like, you can hear if, you know, a quarterback might be banged up a little bit, but took all the snaps. Drew Locke taking some snaps. Drew Locke is the backup quarterback to Sam Darnold. The Texans are getting three against the Patriots and the Rams favored by three and a half against the Bears. We do make a big deal about the cold weather, and I can speak from firsthand knowledge. The Cincinnati Bengals against the San Diego Chargers with Dan Fouts. And they came into Cincinnati. It's the coldest NFL game on record. And some of the linemen for the Bengals came out. They didn't have any sleeves on. And I'm thinking, you guys crazy. And then the Chargers came out. The Chargers had. If they could have played in parkas, they would have. But they came on the field, and you could almost, to a man, see them go, can we get through three hours of this? And then go home like that? We're not gonna. We're not gonna do well here. Now, nobody wants to play in the cold conditions, but I always find it interesting when you get one or two guys who come out as if to say, it's not that cold. I don't have a shirt on. Tennessee tried to do that against Ohio State, and the Ohio State players probably went, the cold is in your head, not ours. We know it's cold. You're trying to prove that it's not cold. It is cold, but somebody will be out there and they'll be warming up and they'll have their shirt off, and you're probably going to have players who go, the cold is in your head. You know, Chicago's got to play in it. I remember talking to a former Minnesota Viking when they had the outdoor stadium, and Bud Grant famously didn't want heaters on the sidelines, because if they had heaters, then the other team got heaters. He didn't want. He wanted his teams tough, and they were tough. But the players said, we didn't like playing in the cold, but we had to act like we liked playing in the cold. And a lot of these guys who are in, like Caleb Williams, where's he from? Did he grow up in cold weather? I guess D.C. kind of coldish. Or you get guys who played in California who now play in the Midwest, or you went to college, you know, now you're playing cold weather or vice versa. You know, we always talk about Florida. When the Florida teams come up, then we go. They're soft now. They might be because history has Shown that they don't do well in the cold weather. Or you get teams from the north who go down to South Florida, and all of a sudden, you know, you go, dolphins shouldn't win. But here it is December, and it's really hot. They end up winning. The, you know, the Patriots, it felt like, would always lose in South Florida be like, oh, man, that humidity, it is sweltering. And guys will say, they'll tell you that I'd rather play in the cold than the hot because I can add layers in the cold. There's only so much you can take off in the. You know, when it's sticky, when it's hot, when it's humid. But somebody is going to be out there, shirt off, they're gonna go, okay. But it's going to be cold. It'll be windy. It'll be Chicago weather.

Paulie (14:06)

Yeah, Paul, I saw a couple guys on NFL Network yesterday saying, you know, Puka Nakua and Devonte Adams playing with Matt Stafford, it's tougher for them in the cold to catch his footballs because he throws a hard football. Then the other guy made the complete opposite. Case said, well, Puka's got the best hands in the sport, so if anyone can catch those balls in the cold, it's him. So that gives the Rams an advantage. It was like a direct opposite conversation.

Dan Patrick (14:27)

And then I heard an analyst say, well, you know, Stafford played in Detroit all those years. And I go, he played inside. He. He was inside. You know, well, there are other games in the division. Okay. Played one game in Green Bay and one game in Chicago, depending on when it landed on the schedule. So he played, you know, Minnesota's inside, so it's not like. I mean, I know Matt had to leave his house to walk to his car. Maybe the car's in the garage, so he didn't even have to do that. And then he parked underneath the stadium, you know, have to face the cold weather. You know, he played in Detroit. No, he lived in Detroit. He wasn't playing in the elements in Detroit. So the weather will be an issue. I don't know what it's going to be in New England for the Patriots and the Texans. I don't. I don't think it's going to be anything that's alarming. That's going to be. Oh, my gosh, the Texans. How are they going to survive in New England? What do we got? Temperatures in the 30s, Paulie?

Paulie (15:27)

Yeah. 35 at kickoff with the Patriots, Bears at home, 17 at kickoff, Seahawks 49 and Broncos 41 degrees at kickoff.

Dan Patrick (15:36)

Mommy. And here's another thing that when the Rams almost beat the Eagles last year, it was in the snow in Philadelphia. I think if you check the temperature, it was in the mid-30s. So it wasn't it was snow, but it wasn't that bitter cold. And you know that football gets really slick when you're in the cold. And if you got somebody, you know, players would talk about Elway. And Elway threw the hardest football of anybody. And you know those guys, it's almost like you had to catch it out of self defense because this thing is going to hurt. Elway would leave marks on you. But the cold weather coming up this weekend, Denver don't have to worry about that. Got to worry about other things like defense, their defensive line. That's what I would be worried about. All righty. Seaton, did you come up with a poll question? Yeah, we were talking which NFL game this weekend is going to be a blowout. Oh, okay. That's what we're going to do this first hour. All right. I'll save my pick. We'll take a break here. When we come back, the college basketball gambling scandal that broke yesterday while we were on the show and I got some information before this went public talking about players who were involved, some players who were still playing right now involved in this. And we talk about these smaller schools. I've said it before, if I am going to fix a game, I'm going to talk to somebody who knows somebody at a smaller school who may get 10, 15, 20,000 in nil. Maybe they don't get any nil, but those are the players you target and that's what happened in this situation. We'll take a break. More on that coming up. Your phone calls as well. This is THE DAN PATRICK show. Be sure to catch the live edition of the Dan Patrick show, weekdays at 9am Eastern, 6am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. Fox Sports Radio is taking over YouTube and you can be a part of it. Pay attention. Just go to YouTube and search Fox Sports Radio. Hit that subscribe button and smash that notification bell on and catch all the videos from your favorite shows. Two pros and a cup of Joe. Dan Patrick, Colin Cowherd, Doug Gottlieb Covino and Rich the Odd Couple with Rob Parker and Kelvin Washington, the Jason Smith show with Mike Harmon and the Ben Max Fox sports radio on YouTube. Subscribe. Hit that thumbs up icon and comment away. The new year brings new health goals and wealth goals. Protecting your identity is an important step. Your info is in endless places that could expose you to identity theft leading to lost funds. LifeLock monitors millions of data points per second. If your identity is stolen, Lifelock's restoration specialist will fix it, guaranteed or your money back. Resolve to make identity, health and wealth part of your New year's goals with LifeLock. Save up to 40% your first year. Visit LifeLock.com sports terms apply. Everyone deserves to be connected. That's why T Mobile and US Cellular are joining forces. Switch to T Mobile and save up to 20% versus Verizon by getting built in benefits they leave out. Check the math@t mobile.com switch and now T mobile is in US cellular stores. Savings versus Comparable Verizon plans plus the cost of optional benefits, plan features and taxes and fees vary. Savings with three plus lines include third line free via monthly bill credits. Credit stop if you cancel any lines. Qualifying credit required. New Year new goals and in this economy, a better money plan is more necessary than ever. I am Matt and I'm Joel. We are from the how to Money Pod and every week we help you to spend smarter, save more and make sense of what's going on out there. If you want 2026 to be the year you finally feel in control of your money, we're here to give you the tools and advice to help you make it happen. Listen to how to Money on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

Nav Green (19:33)

This show contains information subject to but not limited to personal takes, rumors, not so accurate stats, and plenty more. What's up man? This your boy Nav Green from the Broken Play podcast. Look, it's the end of the season. The playoffs are here. But guess what? It ain't the end of your season. You can always tune in with Broken Play Podcast with Nav Green on the Black Effect Podcast Network. Another team who ain't going to the playoff? The Chiefs. What's a ref? It's time to rebuild. Who your MVP right now then Drake.

Dan Patrick (20:02)

May up there, Josh Allen up there still.

Nav Green (20:06)

Oh my boy Matthew Stafford.

Dan Patrick (20:08)

Where did Bo Nicks at? He ain't too far behind. He did all this stuff talking. What Matthew Stafford is doing statistically, bro is crazy.

Nav Green (20:15)

Bro, you know I ain't no Josh Allen fan, but Matthew Stafford got better weapon. Caleb Williams.

Dan Patrick (20:21)

Hey, he should be in that conversation. And what conversation?

Nav Green (20:23)

He should be in it. Listen to Broken Play with Nav Green from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast or whatever. You get your podcast.

Dan Patrick (20:33)

We will tell you the game that could get out of hand this weekend. We'll have that for you. That's our first hour poll question. College basketball front and center, not in a good way. Yesterday, 17 former college basketball players listed as defendants in an indictment. Fifteen of the players participated in the 2023, 24 or 202425 seasons and a few have actually played this season. And you start to look at the numbers being thrown around of the amount of money bet on some of these games. Betting amounts $458,000 for North Carolina A and T to lose against Towson. 424,000 on Kent State to cover the first half spread against Buffalo. 275,000 for Southern Miss to not cover a first half spread against South Alabama $256,000 for Robert Morris to flop in the first half of a game against Northern Kentucky. Now there's a couple things to think about here. These are smaller schools. You're going to get nil, but not as much as you think. A lot of these schools still they do pay nil. But also you're going to do this with a first half cover. It's easy, easier to pull something off like this of not playing well in the first half and then you play hard in the second half. You've already covered the bet, you're going to get paid. But the fact that you had this amount of money, I'm surprised that these games weren't flagged. Our good buddy Matt Norlander, CBS Sports has been covering this. These are big numbers, Matt. How did somebody not notice this when they were actually happening?

Matt Norlander (22:17)

Well, this has been investigated for more than a year. I actually expected the story. I was told that the feds wanted to try and get the story out before Christmas, but they had the processes. We finally got this let out of the bag in a public forum on Thursday. And if you notice the games that are affected and you can go to cbs sports.com@the bottom that story. I've got every game that was affected. It start the whole thing starts in 2022 with Antonio Blakeney, a former five star prospect, played at LSU, had a cup of coffee with the Bulls and now he's playing in China averaging more than 30 points a game. And then a couple of central bad actors there got involved with him to throw some games. They purportedly allegedly got away with that for a little while and then they thought let's head back to the states and see if we can get some low level college players who aren't making huge nil deals to Toss some first half lines or affect some game outcomes. And the list of those Games, it begins February 17th of 2024. And then the most recent one in this specific case is January 11, 2025. So I think, Dan, to your question, I think that they, they had a line on this. The NCAA has also a number of the players that were, that were charged in this. They've already been found out, named and banned from the NCAA for life. But it's the, it's the grand scope of this.

Paulie (23:29)

Now.

Matt Norlander (23:30)

It's 29. In the, in the scheme of things, it's a very, very low number among all Division 1 games that are played. And we're talking New Orleans versus Lamar, Robert Morris, Northern Kentucky, Fordham, Duquesne. But there are, I know the shirt Polly's got on right now. There are a few DePaul, former DePaul players that were caught up in this. That's the only power conference program that's affiliated with this. But still, 29 is 29, way too many. This is a huge, huge deal. It's a huge story. And for anyone that sees the story and thinks, all right, I never watched Tulane play East Carolina. Like, what do I care about a comp and state, South Carolina State game. Remember, Major League Baseball had this issue with its pitchers. We saw what happened with the huge case, John Tay Porter, the separate case, Terry Rogier, Chauncey Billups with the illegal gambling ring. So this is pervasive throughout sports. This one right here, though, as it pertains to all of the games affected. Dan, this really stands to be the most widespread game fixing scandal in the history of college sports.

Dan Patrick (24:24)

And yeah, they caught this or this was brought to light. But you wonder the number of games that have not been flagged and people got away with this but once are they betting? You know, are these bets legal? Like, are they, are they offshore account? Because If I see 424, 458, NC A&T to losing its thousand.

Matt Norlander (24:46)

Yeah. So I am not someone who is logging onto the phone and logging bets. That's just not what I do. But my understanding, obviously, is that if you have an individual game with an individual better that is going to bet that amount. And almost every single legal online sports pick, they're going to flag that immediately and take it off the board. What they were trying to do here was a network, literally a criminal conspiracy to log these bets. Hope they didn't get flagged. They obviously did. There's not just the sports books that did this, there's third party watchdogs that work with the sportsbooks, that work with the NCAA that were tracking this. My understanding also is that, you know, this was a criminal investigation. They don't want to tip it off too early. They want to get all the evidence they can get so that they can bring charges against 26 people that came down, many of them former players in general. But yes, this was all done or mostly done in person at sportsbooks online, at a variety of different sportsbooks. And this is just what we have here. There are still talking to some sources both this week and back in the fall. There are still believed to be some other former players that could still be up for some real trouble here. But this was the big story out of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and now we wait to see how it advances. And if all that the 26 charged wind up going to prison. The potential prison times vary by person. But every. You mentioned this before. Four players in college basketball, or I should say were in college basketball played within the past week. Simeon Cottle at Kennesaw State. I know most of your audience isn't going to know who that is. He was, he's one of the best mid major players in America. So there is a little bit of a shock value there that you even had guys who had allegedly participated in this in the previous seasons still playing as recently as earlier this week. Obviously all of those players now have been suspended.

Dan Patrick (26:31)

Has he been arrested?

Matt Norlander (26:33)

He has been charged. There has not been a release that he has specifically been arrested. There have been some arrests made. But the charges come down, the indictment has come down, is not specifically been revealed. If, if Cottle and some of the other current players have been arrested and.

Dan Patrick (26:46)

We'Re done with prop bets in college, correct?

Matt Norlander (26:49)

You would hope so. I'm so glad you brought that up Dan, because there, that is the other part of this. So Charlie Baker has been pushing to end prop bets.

Dan Patrick (26:57)

He's the president of the ncaa.

Matt Norlander (26:58)

President of the ncaa. I've heard you talk about this on your show as well. He wants to get rid of it. Not just so that players can't be tempted to affect their own prop bet lines and be induced to do game manipulation. As you well know, also college basketball players, college football players, they are the subject of severe, severe online harassment out in public in their DMs and eliminating Prop bets at the collegiate level, which needs to be done by Congress. You know, the NCAA is waiting on Congress to basically fix all of its issues timeline and that very much remains to be seen. But that is the hope and that is the goal. But as you well know, even if we do get to that point in 26, in 27 and 28, and prop bets are no longer a thing in the legal gambling laps that are out there, it still isn't going to prevent the idea of someone you know getting compromised and someone going to someone to say, hey, because these players were paid 10,000, 20,000, sometimes $30,000 just to say, hey, make sure that your team doesn't cover that first half 11 and a half point spread so that prop bets can't solve. But it's kind of six and one half dozen in the other, Dan. The fact that gambling and all these ads and all these apps out there, it's just everywhere. So the fact that it is, it makes the watchdogging and the flagging of it easier to catch. But you can also make the argument that it makes it that much more likely that it is, since it is so pervasive in the culture that it is that much easier to find a player or two, or in this case dozens to participate in a scheme like this because it's becoming more and more just an accepted part of the culture. And it's why that Supreme Court case that got basically flipped seven, eight years ago was such a massive one as it pertains to our industry.

Dan Patrick (28:39)

Thanks for joining us on short notice, Matt. Have a great weekend.

Matt Norlander (28:42)

Appreciate you, Dan.

Dan Patrick (28:43)

Thank you. Matt Norlander, CBS Senior Writer, Analyst, Podcast Host yeah, you go after the small guy and as I've said numerous times, nobody's going to notice this game. Hey, we're North Carolina A& T. Nobody knows who we are. It's the amount of money that was bet on the game, like right there. Something's up. I can't imagine that amount of money on all of North Carolina A&T's games. $458,000. And if you're going to fix a game, you fix it in the first half. Hey, you got off to a slow start, didn't play well. Next thing you know, hey, we're down 15. Second half. Now let's play. You get paid anywhere from 10 to $30,000 and these players are getting nil. Now, it's not a lot, but they're getting paid nil. It might be $10,000 or 20, 30, 40, upwards $100,000 maybe at some of these smaller schools, but they are getting paid. But this is where you think nobody is going to notice it. Yes, Todd. And what happens when a player gets involved once and they realize either they.

Nav Green (30:00)

Made a terrible mistake or they just.

Dan Patrick (30:01)

Don'T want to participate anymore. Who are these characters that they're dealing with where they can't just be one and done, where they're going to be expected to continue doing that for them? Well, this. You go back to the Boston College scandal back in the 70s. Once you fix one, you're in, they got you, and what are you going to do? Call the cops? You're going to call the ncaa? Once you're in, you're in. And, you know, these are kids. Once again, they. They don't think they're going to get caught. Nobody's going to notice this. But you start getting text messages, and then, you know, then you text somebody else. Now you're bringing in more and more. Somebody tells somebody. Then you have somebody who's going to say to their buddy, hey, you. You want to get in on this? All right, and give me a piece of it, too, but go with the first half cover, all right? And then that guy tells somebody. And then that guy tells somebody. Nobody keeps a secret. Yeah, Paul.

Paulie (31:02)

And you know why this might be easier to hide or keep under the rug these days is because if a kid from Kennesaw State all of a sudden has five grand on him, he could just say, yeah, it's my nil money.

Dan Patrick (31:11)

He.

Paulie (31:12)

It can be explained away, and it's from the betters, it's from the gamblers. The nil kind of covers your bases.

Dan Patrick (31:17)

Kennesaw State's Simeon Cottle, he is the Conference USA player of the year, preseason conference player of the year, averaging 20 a game. He's involved in this. There's a player at Delaware State. There's a player at Eastern Michigan. There's a player at Texas Southern. They were playing as of a couple of nights ago. It's not going away. The Watchdogs, you know, you have to rely on them to make sure that these things are flagged. And normally they are. Whenever you see a line that is, you know, all of a sudden it goes from like three to nine or nine to three, and you go, what's up with this inside information? You know, Then they take it off the board. Yeah, Marv. It's like when somebody has four figures on John Tay Porter over under rebounds.

Nav Green (32:10)

John Tay Porter even know he was an NBA player.

Dan Patrick (32:13)

But that's where somebody tells somebody, and then they tell somebody, and then they'll. They'll say this, hey, don't tell anybody, but get in on John Tay Porter under five rebounds. Well, it doesn't take. You don't have to Be a. A sleuth to go. Something's up here. It's staring you right in the face. All righty. The game that could get out of hand this weekend. According to DraftKings, the Rams are the one favored to score the most points in their game. Therefore, I would say the Rams against the Chicago Bears. Now, I was going to go Seattle against the Niners. I. I mean, I'm still amazed what San Francisco is doing, but at some point, the better team is probably going to win. But the Rams against Chicago. But then you have Chicago. I mean, this feels like it's going to be one of those, hey, first team who gets to 35 points is going to win the game. Because the Bears had the third best odds to score the most points this weekend. Broncos and the Bills are both tied. Damn, that feels like the Broncos. They can either lose this by one or win this by 14. But then I feel the same way about the Bears. They either pull off the upset or they lose by two touchdowns. Patriots against the Texans is tricky. That one, that one feels like it's going to be close. Just because I don't know how good that Patriots offense will be against that Texans defense. And the Texans offense against the Patriots defense. Let's see a couple of phone calls in here. David in Ohio. Hi, David. What's on your mind?

Caller (34:01)

Hey, Dan. Happy meat Friday. Nobody. I've got some NFL divisional rhyme time here for you. Real quick. First one is. Sorry, hold on, let me pull it up. I'm sorry, Dan. First one is Patriots qb, not real.

Dan Patrick (34:24)

Drake fake.

Caller (34:27)

Drake fake. Yes. Next one is for Paulie, Bears running back and Cousins.

Paulie (34:36)

What was the second hit?

Caller (34:38)

Bears running back and present. Like a present you receive.

Paulie (34:42)

Swift gift.

Caller (34:44)

Swift gift. Yes. All right, next one is for Marv Niners QB and time. Niners qb time.

Dan Patrick (34:54)

Brock clock.

Caller (34:56)

Brock clock. And this one's for the room. Last one, Jim Nance. Partner. Pipe of sandwich.

Dan Patrick (35:02)

I don't know. Yes, Todd. Tony Baloney.

Caller (35:08)

Tony Baloney.

Dan Patrick (35:11)

Rhyme time. Todd, do you want to maybe.

Nav Green (35:16)

That was fun.

Dan Patrick (35:16)

Give me some rhyme time later in the show, okay? All right. Just wanna. I'm opening it up for you. I love when you do that. Okay. If you would like to chemo in Virginia Beach. Hi, Chemo.

Caller (35:30)

Danny. Danny, you stole my best of the weekend. That sweet, sweet flannel Snuggie.

Dan Patrick (35:38)

Thank you.

Caller (35:38)

You got main in the membrane. All right. Anyway, let's go to this weekend. All the day Nets have standalone games with their prospective teams, right?

Dan Patrick (35:51)

Yep.

Caller (35:51)

The poll question today should be which day in that makes it through the weekend or my choices? E. None of the above. But then, anyway, statistically now you're talking.

Dan Patrick (36:07)

About their team making it through the weekend, not Danettes actually making it through the weekend.

Caller (36:12)

Well, they're prospect. Yeah. Their respective teams. Yeah, that's my point. And it still breaks down to front row, back row.

Dan Patrick (36:23)

Well, I got Bears and Niners up front. I got Patriots and Broncos in the back. Thank you for the phone call, Chemo. Now, how does he want us to phrase this? Which Danette's team has the worst chance of making it through the weekend or the best chance through the weekend? We'll figure that out. Buddha in San Francisco. Hi, Buddha.

Caller (36:49)

Nobody. Happy meat Friday, boys. Every day is a Super bowl, especially for us Niner fans. Tomorrow, Seattle Dan. And you know, all I gotta say, it's gonna be. We're gonna be big time dogs tomorrow. But we're looking down. We're looking to take down some birds on this short week, but hopefully we can make some ghost appear for a little sandarnold to worry about. But that's not gonna be easy. But let's go, Marvin and Dan. I gotta tell you, I was working the floor last night and I felt my phone buzzing and buzzing and I looked down and saw several texts and one of which was from my man Gus in la. So I clicked on it, saw a couple links of the reveal, the Kyle Tucker trade, and then I started to overhear several tables hating on the Dodgers and talking and complaining about the trade. And then I just proceeded to giggle my ass off for the rest of the night. Andrew Friedman, man, turning into the modern day Jerry west. Straight doing work, man.

Dan Patrick (37:48)

Well, all you had to do is just give the biggest paycheck there. I don't think it was wheeling and dealing like Jerry west did. It's like, do we want Kyle Tucker? Sure. How much is it going to cost? Well, I think the Mets are going to give him 50 million. We'll give him 60 million. I. I want to order my entree if I can. Christopher Mad Dog Russo will have some thoughts on this coming up at the top of the hour. John Harbaugh, still not signed by the Giants. I'll tell you why I think it's. Well, what might be holding this up? We'll take a break. Play of the day next. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows@foxsportsradio.com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to listen live. Oh, my God. Of the day. This is the play of the day. Check this out. Wagner five straight for the Magic Jackson.

Paulie (38:55)

Lost the handle ball, deflected off the rim and ended up right in Paulo's hands.

Dan Patrick (38:59)

Now A.B. running the floor.

Matt Norlander (39:00)

And he threw it down on four Grizzlies.

Dan Patrick (39:03)

Anthony Black in international incident. It's 109, 107. Holy smokes. Oh. That's the first regular season game in Germany. Franz Wagner and his brother Mo Wagner, they combined for 25 points, but Anthony Black with the dunk over four players for the Memphis Grizzlies. Hey, and congratulations. This is the third time this season Memphis has blown a lead of 20 or more points. Yay. That's your play of the day. Play of the day. Brought to you by Dude Wipes. Because wetter is better available at Amazon and major retailers nationwide. Dude wipes. Best clean, pants down. Update the poll results if you can. Seaton Christopher Mad Dog Russo in about 15 minutes from now. The game this weekend that is most likely to be a blowout. Okay? Bills, Broncos, patriots, Texans, Seahawks, 49ers, Bears, Rams. Right now, Seahawks, 49ers has a slight edge over Bears, Rams. Okay. All right, sue in Montana. Hi, Sue. What's on your mind?

Caller (40:16)

Oh, my gosh. First time caller. Well, first time getting through caller. Long time caller. Long time listener. 58190. I don't know if women usually do that, but I felt like I had to. It's the first step for recovery, right? And Ravens fan, big time Ravens fan, sad about John harbor leaving. But first, you got to wish him luck. I feel great about where he landed and if we can just find the right fit for us. I think a restart, a refresh is good for any team, and I'm looking forward to the future for both him and for the race.

Dan Patrick (40:51)

All right, well, thank you, Sue. Yeah. John Harbaugh and the Giants, I think they've agreed to a contract. They haven't signed the contract. And keep this in mind. This was told to me yesterday. John Harbaugh hasn't really negotiated a contract in 19 years. Now he's got contract extensions. This is different. Now in today's NFL, what you can ask for, it's not just money. If you want a country club membership, if you want use of a private jet, this is different. And John Harbaugh and his agent, probably not used to asking for these perks. Do you get a suite at the stadium? So it might be sort of ancillary things that he's asking for or they're negotiating. Also, I talked to somebody Yesterday about Mike Tomlin, somebody with a TV network. And I said, can you see a scenario where Mike Tomlins brought into NBC and you use him through the Super Bowl? And the TV exec said, I don't know if it's a given Mike Tomlin is going to be in TV this next season. I said, okay. Feels like it's foregone conclusion. He's friends with Jay Glazer. Maybe Fox, maybe NBC brings him in. Tony Dungey is there or cbs. You got Bill Cower there. I don't know their relationship, but you know, two former Steeler coaches. But I was told, not a foregone conclusion, that Mike is going to want to do TV next year. I don't even know if Mike Tomlin has an agent. So really, I don't even know how you get in touch with him. Now I'm being serious, but I don't know if I think Mike. I think Mike wanted to step down from the Steelers, but I don't know if he's stepping down saying, because I want to do this. I think he just stepped down from the Steelers and maybe he's going to take a little time to figure out what he wants to do. And does he want to do tv? Let's see. Ron in Illinois. Hi, Ron. What's on your mind today? Hello.

Caller (43:03)

So my name is Ron 58250. So how come not more people are talking about this? 40 years in the making. Bears, Patriots, Super Bowl 60.

Dan Patrick (43:19)

Well, if they do play, I, I don't want to see what was, you know, what that matchup was like 40 years ago. That wasn't pretty at all. Was that Tony Eason? Was he the quarterback for the Patriotson of Illinois? Yeah. Yes. Marvin, was the AFC that. Sorry, I was looking back at the.

Nav Green (43:37)

80S Super Bowls and it was just shellac like Molly Waps.

Dan Patrick (43:41)

Yeah. Year after year. Yeah. Yeah.

Matt Norlander (43:44)

So the AFC was just no good.

Dan Patrick (43:47)

Well, the nf, you could look at the other way. NFC was really good. Maybe a different style of football. I mean, Washington, what Washington did to Denver, I mean, they didn't have the ball that, that often. They were down, I think, 10 to nothing. And then, you know, Doug Williams just went crazy. You know, Buffalo, when they played Dallas, they just, they got, they got in and then they were in trouble and then it just becomes this avalanche. But then you had them go toe to toe with the Giants, you know, with Scott Norwood. So you've, you've had competitive games. But there for a while we're like, man, what the AFC has got to put up a fight here. And then you have the Buffalo Bills, you know, with the, the close game but also the blowout games as well which unfairly mars those players. Now I'm glad that the hall of Fame is open their eyes to they got to four consecutive Super Bowls. Now that'll never happen again. Like we make a big deal when somebody goes back to back at a Super Bowl. Yeah, it should be going back to back. Absolutely. They did four in a row.

Paulie (44:58)

Yeah, Paul, I went Back to that AFC title game of 85 is damn. Reno versus Tony Eason. Eason only threw for 71 yards but he had three touchdowns. They were all five yard passes basically. They ran for like two hundred and fifty. And Marino just had an off day. 20 of 48. Two touchdowns, two picks.

Dan Patrick (45:15)

Dang over, right? No, buddy. All right, one hour in the books on this meet Friday. More phone calls coming up. Christopher Mad Dog Russo, he'll join us. He'll be on fire with Kyle Tucker joining the Dodgers. And if you're watching on Peacock, it's worth tuning in just to see what Mad Dog's hair looks like. It'll be a mess. Chris Sims will join us as well as we get ready for this football weekend. One hour in the books. Fritzi Seaton, Marv, Paula, yours truly. Hour two right around the corner. This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed human.