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Thank you. And we say good morning to our radio affiliates around the country. The minister of humor is here. Fritzi, you got Seaton, Marv, Paulie, yours truly. The back room guys as well. We'll get to phone calls. Operator Tyler sitting by 8773 DP show email address dpdanpatrick.com Twitter handle @DP Show Stat of the Day Brought to you by Panini America. The official trading cards of the Dan Patrick show. Instant classics, autograph cards, memorabilia cards, rare inserts, Starter. Continue your collection now. Paniniamerica.net by the way, I got my Adam Sandler Happy Gilmore 2 putter yesterday. Came in the mail and it's sort of a hybrid of a putter and a hockey stick. And it's over by Seaton's desk there, but very nice. They also sent me some Happy Gilmore 2 golf balls as well. I did ask Sandler about this. I said, hey, can you get me one of those putters? He goes, what putters? I said, the Happy Gilmore 2 putters. I said, callaway's putting these out. He goes, I don't know anything about it. I go, you're Happy Gilmore. And so next thing I know, I've got a happy Gilmore 2 putter that just showed up. Yes. Shaped like a hockey stick on the bottom. Yeah, it's great. Yeah, it's pretty sharp looking. It's great. But thank you to Callaway or Happy Gilmore or Sandler who sent that to me. All right, we have a play of the day poll, questions, stat of the day, all of that forthcoming. I don't really have a direction with my compass here today. I don't know if there's anything that's really right off the bat. You know, we're still trying to figure out. We're workshopping what is the lead story today. I'm trying to hold off on Micah Parsons and Jerry Jones, although it's getting a little more interesting. Jane Slater did a really good job NFL Network Cowboys reporter talking to Jerry Jones and we were learning about a handshake deal that he had with Micah Parsons. There's one problem with this and Mike Florio, a pro football Talk. He pointed this out a couple of days ago. Owners and players aren't supposed to negotiate contracts. You are supposed to go through an agent who is certified by the NFL Players Association. Well, Jerry's been doing this for a long, long time, and nobody called him on it. But now he's saying at a handshake agreement with Micah Parsons, and then all of a sudden, he doesn't have a handshake agreement. Here is Jane Slater talking to Jerry Jones about how he does business. So how would you describe a deal getting, so to speak, done and then walked away from? I bought the Dallas Cowboys with a handshake. Took about 30 seconds, and I gave the number, shook hands. The details we worked out later. As a matter of fact, one of the details involved a lot of money, and we had to flip a coin over that. But the fundamental. I'm buying and you're going to sell it to me for that range. That's done. And those are done with eye contact and handshake. So is there. Just so you understand why I. The way that I communicate with people that I negotiate with. So let's leave it at that. There is no question that in the case of a player contract, you have to have it in writing. All parties. Do we have a contract in writing yet? We're still talking about renegotiating it, so. So much for that. Okay, once again, you have to go through an agent. I don't know what happened, you know, 40 years ago when he bought the Cowboys. When. I don't know. Did you write it down on a napkin? I don't know. Here's our number, and there's your number. And that's not an official deal. Just so you know, a handshake agreement is not going to hold up. Maybe Micah Parsons said, and I've been in negotiations before where you get somebody who kind of gives you the vagaries. You know, it's kind of gray area. Like, yeah, you know, how about. Yeah, let me think about it. I'll get back to you. That doesn't mean now I can shake your hand when I leave. That doesn't mean I'm shaking your hand and agreeing to you. It's. Let me. Let me talk to people. I mean, that's why you have an agent. Jerry doesn't like dealing with agents. And then he didn't know Micah Parsons agent's name or acted like he didn't a couple of weeks ago. Okay. He does know who he is because he's negotiated a contract with him with another member of the Dallas Cowboys. But Jerry handshake agreement. And Micah Parsons is kind of reneging on that deal that you agreed to. I'd like to hear Micah Parsons portion of this, but you know, to Micah Parsons credit, he hasn't said much. He's just like, hey, I'm trying to get this done and we're not going to get this done. Now you can trade me. That's really all we've heard from him. I don't know what the deal is. I know where they're probably going to land and it's probably going to be $42 million a year. And is he going to be available week one? Jerry didn't think so. And he said, yeah, this is urgent. Okay, but James Slater asking him about doing his business and how he does this business. Jerry did talk about Micah's contract saga. When does it become urgent? I mean, clearly you want him on the field against Philadelphia. When it become urgent that we need to get something resolved one way or another, that he's on the field against Philadelphia again. Your definition of urgent is not necessarily. I don't get believe you gave a definition. Okay, so I stay urgent. Okay. Any confidence that he will be on the field against Philadelphia again? No, absolutely not. That has to. A big part of that is his decision. How would I know that? I'm just saying no, but I'm urgent. Okay. I'm not sure he understood the question. Do you think he's going to be there week one? And then he said no. I don't know if he thought, hey, is there any chance that he. He won't be there. And I thought that's where Jerry was answering no, but trying to sort this out. I still think a deal gets done. I don't think you're trading him. I haven't heard anybody say anything about anybody offering anything for Micah Parsons. Now if you have that, okay, now we can have a discussion. It's like Trey Hendrickson with the Bengals or Terry McLaurin. Now, I've seen websites where they'll go potential landing spots four. Well, Terry McLaurin, I've seen six teams but that would just because they need a wide receiver. I don't know if they've offered anything Micah Parsons, I haven't heard anything. Proposed trades. What if the Bears give two first round picks and a fourth round pick. There's no reporting attached to this. And the same with Trey Hendrickson. Has anybody made an offer to the Bengals? Because it doesn't sound like anybody has. Now if somebody does now, we can have a conversation that this is real. That he could possibly go. Yes, Eden, I love that. You know, we spend a lot of time talking about that. Jerry Jones is a brilliant businessman. He's brilliant. He's a genius. So great at business, obviously. He's very successful at business. Right. But he's a. He's a genius businessman like Jay. How about. How'd you get through the finer points of getting the Cowboys? We shook hands and flipped a coin. That's. Wow. I had no idea that that's what goes into being such a genius. We flipped a coin. I can do both of those. I can shake your hand and I can flip a coin. Really? That's how you did it? Don't think I could get the Cowboys with that strategy. Yes, Paulie, I somewhat respect what Jerry Jones is saying that, you know, a handshake deal can start a deal. And if that handshake deal, though, was last March, things have changed. Things have changed a lot with the defensive end position, that a handshake is no longer apartment With Parsons. Yeah, Parsons. No, I'm saying not with Parsons, but with all the other players who have signed. It changed the entire market. So that handshake deal does not hold up when it gives to the agent. Four months. But he should have signed him to the contract back in March. Exactly. If you do that now, you're binded. You're bound by that. Then. Then it's different. If I shake your hand and say, hey, you know what? We'll get back. Like, you shook hands and you agreed in principle to something. I got to get the paperwork done then, because I know I got these other defensive players who are going to be signing for more money right away. It's urgent. He said he's urgent. Why didn't you get the paperwork done? Yeah, see, well, this is why he doesn't like agents, because it's. It's possible. Micah Parsons was like, man, that's a good deal. Let's sign. And the agent said, what's the rush? Why don't we just let the season play out? What's the rush? A general manager wouldn't allow this to happen. A GM would have said, we'll drop the papers. We're. We're ready to go. We'll drop the papers. Yes. Right. Nobody likes middlemen, but, man, do they come in handy sometimes with things like this. But you're required to deal with the agent. You're required. So you can't say, hey, we're kind of loose when it comes to negotiating a contract. But if I decide that I'M going to cut you. Then, you know, do I have to live up to the contract that we signed or just a handshake agreement? Like, you can't pick and choose, but the NFL's allowed Jerry to do this for decades now. He's the most powerful man in the NFL. But a handshake agreement, I'd have to know more about this from Micah Parsons perspective. But you know that it's just the further along this goes, it just becomes like this abyss. You go in, and you're like, I don't know if I'll get out anytime soon. And that's why I always have trepidation when it comes to discussing this. Am I humored by Jerry Jones? Sometimes, yes, I am, but not in a good way. It just. He should speak less. He should have his son speak, maybe more. But, you know, when you give us these colloquial colloquialisms and, you know, a handshake, and that's the way we used to do it, and that's the good old days. And that's. That's not the good old days. Now, Michael Parsons has an agent deal with the agent. That's when you get something that's official. That's when you're going to get something on paper that's going to be something where you sign. That's when you have something that is binding. Yes, Todd, I can appreciate what Jerry's saying as far as eye contact and, you know, talking directly to one another, but why does it have to be instead of an agent being present? Why can't you have both things? We're going to talk, and we're going to look at each other. We're going to be in the same room. But I also want to have my attorney. I got to protect myself. My agent knows legal things and terms that I'm not familiar with. That's why he pays him part of his contract. Jerry loves to do this. Speaking to a former cowboy yesterday. He loves to be there and just talk to you. That's all. It's just you and me. We'll just talk. And he can convince you to maybe take something that you shouldn't take or less than you should take, or we. We're going to take. Now, the language that was given to me yesterday by former cowboys like Jerry will say, you know, we'll. We'll worry about that later. You can't do that, not with something like this. You're talking $200 million with Micah Parsons, Probably. It can't be. We'll take care of that a little later, whenever we need to. Don't worry about that. No, no, no. We got to worry about all those things. That's part of the problem with the Cowboys is attention to detail. Maybe that's why you haven't been back to the Super bowl in 30 years. Preseason football ramps up. Coming up tomorrow, Chidor Sanders gets the start for the Cleveland Browns. I think he's the only quarterback who's healthy right now. He gets the start. That'll be fun. ESPN is acquiring NFL Network. Also Red Zone. I go back eight years ago, the great writer Jim Miller, who wrote the ESPN book, reported that ESPN was trying to reestablish a positive relationship with the NFL. This is eight years ago. The network was gauging whether to abandon the NFL. They were having a hard time being a business partner, according to Jim Miller. Now they're all in. Everybody's all in on this. And I know, you know, the journalist in me talks about or would talk about or would point out the conflict of interest, but ESPN can't be any further in bed with the NFL when it comes to their coverage. Are they going to look the other way with whatever negative story that comes up? They've probably already done that. I mean, go back to when I was there on ESPN Radio and we were talking about Playmakers, which was a fictional show, and it was about the NFL. The NFL called up and talked to my boss and said, hey, take it off your network. And they did. I don't know if anybody's going to hold the NFL, their feet to the fire. I mean, I'd like, I, I hope that there's people. Mike Florio is one of the few people who will challenge the NFL. And everybody's in bed with the NFL. All networks have partnerships here. As far as a conflict of interest, I think that's long gone. I think there's certain things that you're just not going to cover. I don't know how deep the ESPN went in on the mess of the NFL Players Association. I know Florio did, a couple of people did, but I don't know if, you know, that's. We're in the content business. That's what Jimmy Potaro, who runs espn, they're in the content business. Outside the lines, Gone with Bob Lee, Jeremy Shap. I mean, you have a couple of Investigative reporters, like e60 is a monthly magazine type feature. I'm talking about day to day looking at stories, giving you both sides of the stories. And maybe you don't care about it. You know, maybe you know, being a dinosaur. I do, because the NFL should be held accountable for certain things. But the NFL is, I'm sure, does not want, hey, we own part of you 10%. Well, the NFL has probably owned a lot of ESPN for a long period of time. It's just not official, that's all. But, you know, good for, you know, the mothership, getting that partnership. They've, they've done a good job in establishing, I think they get three more games. They're, you know, they want to get a Super bowl red zone. You're going to get that with Scott Hansen. So I, you know, a lot of moving parts there. It's a big deal. And it's been in the works for it was on again, off again, now on again for years. They've talked about this because the owners were worried about NFL Network. And now, now it's ESPN's problem. But there's a lot of great people over there. They just gutted the place. That was the disappointing part of it. And a lot of, a lot of great football people, they streamlined it. So then they were going to sell it. And I said, well, ESPN's going to buy it now. ESPN and their reporters and I don't know how you cross pollinate, but that, that happened. And it's a big, big, big deal for certainly ESPN and NFL Network. All right, let's take a break. We'll settle on a poll question. Just getting started here. We're back after this. On the Dan Patrick Show, 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. Hey, this is Jason McIntyre. Join me morning on my podcast Straight fire with Jason McIntyre. This isn't your typical sports pod. Pushing the same tired narratives down your throat every day, Straight Fire gives you honest opinions on all the biggest sports headlines, accurate stats to help you win big at the sports book and all the best guests. Do yourself a favor and listen to Straight fire with Jason McEntire on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast. Time for a sofa upgrade. 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Settle on a poll question. Got our play of the day coming up. 8773-DP-SHoM email address dpdanpatrick.com Twitter handle @dpshow Let me see. Mike in Florida leads us off. Good morning, Mike. What's on your mind today? Yeah, hey, good morning, guys. 6 foot 209.6. Hey, thanks. So I just wanted to kind of look at this from the other side. I know this isn't going to be the popular opinion here, but in that conversation that Jerry Jones is actually having with Jane Slater, he talks about the handshake stuff and the coin flip stuff, but at the end, he also says, if you hear him, he says that there is a contract sign. Like, he says that the player agreements have to be written. And then he says, we had a written agreement, but so much for that. So let me ask you, what is the actual incentive of signing Micah Parsons early to pay him $45 million a year? I don't. I don't understand. You know, what the big deal is? Okay, let's say I signed Micah Parsons back in March. The number then was 34 million. So what is the number now? It's probably going to be at least $42 million, because Micah Parsons will ask for more money than T.J. watt and Miles Garret. That's where you sign somebody early. So Now I save $8 million, and then the next year I would have gotten him at 34. Maybe it goes up to 35. Well, maybe it's going to go from 42 to 43. So it's another 8 million and then another 8 million and then maybe another 8 million. So if I have the logic there of signing him early at 34, maybe I'm saving over $30 million over the lifetime of this contract here. That's why I would have signed him right away, knowing that T.J. watt was going to get paid, Max Crosby was going to get paid, Miles Garrett got paid. You know what the price is going to be? Yeah, Paulie, just to play devil's advocate here, because agents do surreptitious things, what if they had a handshake deal and a light paperwork deal in March, and then the agent said, don't sign it. Let it breathe. Let other guys get signed and let the market change, and we'll wait till August when there's pressure on them to sign you, and we're gonna get you that 6 million more per season. It's very possible. Jerry Jones and Parsons and his agent had a deal in place six months ago, and the agent said, no, no, let the market play out. Did some. Was something official? No, but, you know, I mean, like an agreement in place until it's inked means nothing. Yes, it's very possible. The agent saw the tea leaves of T.J. watt and said, we'll sign after. What if. If he's a. And he is a respected agent, you know what the market is. But signing early doesn't help your client, it helps the next client. Yes, but if. If you're Jerry Jones and we have a handshake agreement. No, let's let's sign the contract right now. The agent's doing what the agent's supposed to do, and let's look down the road. You don't. You don't want to sign something, and all of a sudden you go, I'm making $8 million less than T.J. watt. You know, those guys are coming up, and, you know Pittsburgh's going to sign them, and. And the Raiders are going to sign Max Crosby. You're next. Why wouldn't you just wait? Wait until they've signed, then you sign. Yeah, Seaton. All right. Jerry Jones said we have a contract in writing, yet we're still talking about renegotiating it, so so much for that. Is it. Is the rule once you write it down on paper, it has to be signed, or can you write it down on paper and then continue to negotiate? I mean, you can. I'm sorry that somebody typed it up, but that doesn't mean that you can't still be like, I don't want to. I want to tweak this. I had a contract at ESPN where they just had a blank space and then a blank space and blank space for how much you're getting paid vacation. And they, you know, so they just put in the numbers. The contract's the same. They just put in the numbers. I don't know if that's the case with Micah Parsons, where, hey, we got a contract. We may not have hard numbers in there, but we got a handshake agreement that this is the general vicinity of where we're going to land. Micah Parsons, agent did the right thing not signing. But, Jerry, if you had an handshake agreement, you don't let somebody out the door. It's the same thing when he was buying the Cowboys. Hey, you want to sell? Okay, handshake agreement. Let's get this done right now. If you've ever bought a car or a house or, you know, something with a big purchase, you, you know. Handshake agreement. Yeah, I'm gonna buy it. That doesn't mean anything. Hey, we gotta, you know, we're gonna sell this to you for a hundred thousand dollars. All right, all right. It doesn't mean anything. Hey, we want to sign you for this. Okay? Handshake agreement. All right? Doesn't mean anything. And Jerry's not supposed to be negotiating with Micah Parsons to begin with, all right? Spending way too much time this. I apologize. I, I, I do. I go out of my way to not talk the Cowboys. But when you start to hear what Jerry's logic is and Then there's certain things you have to comment on. Yes. Seaton. Well, I, you know, going out of your way to not talk about the Cowboys means not trying to squeeze them into every show. When there's legitimate stories happening and interesting things, you absolutely should talk about them. Yes. But if it's a slow day, I don't tell you, hey, let's discuss Dax legacy. I'm not going to do that to you. But when it's something that's real that does affect the rest of the NFL, you know, there's certain topics that, you know should be vetted. I do think we should talk about CD Lamborghini, but I know. And Joe Milton. I know. And the legacy of Trey Lance when he was a backup quarterback in down Lance era. Yeah. Yes. Yeah, that was something. The, the red zone situation is great. Scott Hansen, you know, I don't think anything changes. You just, you're, you're buying NFL Network. That's all. You won't see the Cowboys on there much. Yeah, their coverage is going to be the same. I read where somebody was looking at the deal with ESPN and NFL Network and the NFL. Maybe there's more global expansion due to ESPN with football. But I don't, I mean, you're dealing with a lot of money here, and I think it's a great deal for ESPN for the value of espn. And the NFL Networks, you know, continues to just gobble up it. You know, they're, they're pac, man. They're just gobbling up everything. They're, they're dominating. Taking over the sports world. Yes, that. Man, is there a lot of questions about that, though? At least I know for me. Yeah. That. Is there even a line anymore between a league, the newsroom and the marketplace in general? Is. Does that line even exist in this instance? There's all kinds of antitrust questions to be asked. There's. If you're a rival broadcaster of espn. I know my hand is raised right now. Be like, interesting. If you're Fox, are you going, hold on here? I mean, ethics and journalism is the easiest part of it. The rest of it is like, geez, man, Fox should have bought NFL Network. Then they could be best friends with the NFL. Yes, Paul, the big picture is all these networks have partnerships with all these different brands and leagues, and there's no upside to investigate them and bust them and take them down, for the lack of a better phrase, like a journalistic phrase. And so if there's a story, they lean against it until they have to cover it. When it becomes so big that you have to cover something and there's no way around it. But not initiating coverage, initiating investigations, that doesn't really happen anymore in the network milieu. Oh, yeah. Okay. I. And I don't know if you, the fans, even care. That's what they're banking on. Yeah, I. I don't know. I mean, I do, but it's just, you have to hold leagues, people accountable. I mean, I want to know what we're watching is real and we're investigating this and is there a problem there? And what's that mean? And I just don't think you can sort of turn a blind eye to it. I think you got to be fair. You got to be fair to what you're covering and give both sides to this investigative work there, like the concussion lawsuit, if that came up. Now, are they. Are the networks really going to do a deep dive on this? I. I don't think so. I, I would hope they would. I just don't. I mean, just from experience, they probably wouldn't. Yes, well, I've been right. It's. It's not a lot different than the SEC network isn't going to do a deep dive into corruption in the sec, and that's an ESPN property. Yeah. You know, there is no. Any. Any, like, anyone talking about how journalism is important right now is joking. And maybe, you know, the last journalist is Pablo Torre. He's on an island, but he's doing investigative work. I appreciate it. Granted, it's Belichick and his girlfriend, but he's still doing. He's still asking questions, and hopefully I'll continue to do so for the next two and a half years, where you just ask the questions that need to be asked. It's probably the reason why the commissioner of the NFL hasn't been on his show for over a decade. There's no upside for him to come on and answer questions. I mean, I'll still be fair to him and fair, you know, to the office, but there's certain things that, you know, you ask questions. Rob Manfred, Adam Silver, come on. It's not always easy questions, but I'll continue. We continue to ask. Yeah. Paulie. This reminds me of the NCAA offices over the past 25 years, where they rarely investigate anybody or initiate investigations, like a Yahoo investigation of Reggie Bush. And USC has to fall in their lap for them to enforce it. It's like, why would they be in the business of taking down USC or Alabama or any Notre Dame or anybody? That's not good for business. We did more Investigative work on Reggie Bush's Heisman. We found the Heisman. They couldn't find his Heisman. All of a sudden, I said to Paulie, find Reggie Bush's Heisman. It took him three days under a desk in an office in San Diego. Yeah. Yeah. James in Texas. Hi, James. What's on your mind today? Hey, brother. How you doing, man? Good. Hey, I just wanted to weigh in on this Micah Parsons agent thing that's going on right now. Yeah, his agent was fired by T. Higgins because of the negotiations going so poorly. And he's also responsible for the desean Watson contract, which is the worst contract ever done in, you know, NFL history. So is it possible that he's more to blame for this than. Well, wait a minute. Did he get the. The contract from the Cleveland Browns for Deshaun Watson? Oh, for sure, yeah. But that's one of the greatest contracts in NFL history, James. For Deshaun Watson, Sure. But that's who he represents. He represents his client. But does it also, like, almost enforce Jerry Jones's stance of maybe this guy. You still have to deal with his agent, James, whether you think he's, you know, incapable of doing a deal. You're supposed to. You're bound by dealing with agents in these situations. But I can't criticize the deal he got for Deshaun Watson. I mean, it's crazy. They got it all guaranteed. Blame the Browns. It's one of the best deals in sports history for the client. But thank you for the phone call. Yeah, I'm not blaming. I mean, do I like it for the NFL or the Browns or what it means? No, I don't. But Cleveland had to give him an offer that he couldn't refuse. Jerry needs to give Micah Parsons and his agent an offer he can't refuse. Bruce in Washington. Good morning, Bruce. What's on your mind today? Good morning, Dan. A. Last week, you read a short letter about. Be reading Todd for 40 minutes. Yes, I'm that guy. I'm that guy. I'm the one who wrote the letter. I just wanted to let you know, indeed, I am a fan. You questioned whether or not I was. The writer was a fan. Yes, I am a fan. I just want you to know that. All right. Well, thank you, Bruce. And he wrote a letter and said that he wasn't going to listen. And I berated Todd for 40 minutes. Is that right, Bruce? Is that kind of the context of the letter? I don't think. I don't think I said I wasn't going to listen. I Listen every day. I just think you're, you're a big proponent of content, which you should be. And I just think laying on Todd so thick is not good radio. That's, that's all, that's all I wanted you to know. All right. Well, thank you, Bruce. Todd. And that was a good signal. Usually that would have got disconnected or hung up on like a little while ago. We actually tried to the end. I did. I tried, I tried. I motioned to Marvin. Hang up. Hang up. There's a little wink between the two. Hey, Bruce, Bruce has an opinion and I'd respect that. I'll listen to it. 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And the agent who got that deal for him, Tom in North Carolina. Hi, Tom. What's on your mind today? Come on, a dp. I'm kind of switching gears from the Cowboys when I still want to talk about ESPN a little bit. Bringing in Bill Belichick, unc. He's right. He's having his. The beginning of the year press conference today at 12 o'. Clock. So I was thinking, I was looking at the schedule, looking at it. I'm wondering if you're thinking the same thing I am about. Is it going to be a circus like atmosphere? Kind of like Dion at Colorado. They open, Dion opened up against tcu. Bill Belichick open up against tcu. It's an ESPN standalone game. Monday night game and the next week, the next week's games on ESPN plus. And so. Oh, they're gonna, they're gonna show North Carolina because of Belichick. But Belichick doesn't have any charisma. Dion's got that. Dion has the look. Dion's prime. Dion's son is the quarterback. Travis Hunter is out there. I mean, you had tune in factor there. And, you know, Dion knew how to show up on the sidelines. His look, Bill doesn't care about that. I mean, we're going to tune in, you're going to see Belichick, a couple of cutaways, and he's going to be the same Bill Belichick that you've always, you know, we've seen for decades now. Nothing exciting about him. We're going to tune in and see if his team's any good. You tuned in to watch Dion on the sidelines to go along with Travis Hunter and Shador. You know, it was a package that you got. It was something we had not seen before. And the media and a lot of members of the media have covered Dion, been teammates with Dion, have relationships with Dion, and they came in in a show of support. But this was also a big ticket item. North Carolina, I don't know if they're any good. Do they have a player who could be a Heisman candidate or two? Well, that's what Dion had, a Colorado. But thanks for the phone call. Colton in Utah. Hi, Colton. What's on your mind today? Howdy. Dan Patrick in the Danette 5 11, 225. I just had a quick question about this Micah Parsons and, and desean Watts. And yeah, this, this agent is getting all these guys these great contracts, but how many contracts have fell through the cracks? Cracks maybe because of greed. And is it, you know, kind of the Same thing with the nil and college. I don't think this deal's falling apart because Michael Parsons wants to be the highest paid non quarterback in the NFL. I mean, I would be surprised if Jerry is surprised that Michael Parsons is going to want that kind of money. Jerry may. In fairness to Jerry and doing it the old fashioned, old school way, maybe they did agree to something in principle. I bet. I don't know that. I'm just trying to be fair to both sides. Maybe they did agree. We're gonna. We're gonna settle on this five year deal. Okay? Okay. But it's still not real. It's a conversation you're having and you're supposed to have it with the agent. And then the market changed. Yes, Eaton. And what I just always keep in the back of my head with things like this is we're talking about a league in which you have a signed contract that a team can just tear up because they don't like it anymore and they could just cut people. You just cut somebody whenever you want out. Well, sorry, you're not working out for us anymore. So this agreement that we had doesn't work. We're just going to cut you? That is. That to me, it stop with all the. All the handshake agreement stuff. But hey, what about men being men? This is. We look each other in the eye. Get out of here, dude. What are you talking about? The only thing that matters is the guaranteed money. That's it. You can talk about a contract and it's potentially worth this. I want to know. Guaranteed money. That's it. Because after that, you know, an owner can say, see you now. That last year, the. The last two years. See you don't care about it. Let's see. Michael in South Bend and Seaton. We got to come up with a poll question. Well, first hour is almost over, so maybe we'll wait till the second hour. Wow. For our first hour, man. Can we breeze through here? All right. Hey, Mike. Hey, Dan. I just want to follow up on Bruce from Washington. You know, with guys, we just say it how it is to each other. And that just means you're like. With girls, everything's fake. They all act fake to one another. But, you know, as guys, we just. We give each other crap. And that just means you're one of the guys. So, Fritzi, congrats. You're one of the guys. Also, I wanted a pie to the face. Bet Notre Dame in the regular season goes undefeated. I. I'm a. I'm a domer. I think they'll win the natty, but wanted to see if anyone else would take up on that bet of they go undefeated in the regular. I think. Anybody want a piece of Michael South Bend Notre Dame goes undefeated. Oh, I got two hands up, Paul. I'm a Notre Dame fan, but they always have a Marshall North Illinois slip up. Oh, okay. And then they go on a run. All right, Seaton. I love Notre Dame, but their schedule is, if I'm not mistaken, I think they have a pretty brutal schedule this year. I don't think that's going to happen. All right, so we got two. Two takers for Marvin. I'm in also. Oh, three, four. Let's do it. Let's all get in. Why not? Paulie and scene. Just convinced me. Bill in South Carolina. Hi, Bill. Hey, good morning, Dan and gentlemen. How you doing today? Good. Good. Look, I just wanted to try to add a little context to the Micah Parsons thing. There was some extensive. I'm. I guess I'm a little disappointed that between everybody there, you haven't done some research. But there was some extensive reporting in the Ringer on August 1st, and they referred to an X statement by Micah regarding this conversation with Jerry Jones back in the spring, and he said he did not understand. You know, I don't want to quote it, but it's easy to find. You can. You can look it up and give some context here. But he said it, you know, clearly was not a, quote, negotiation. And when Micah and his agents tried to follow up specifically with the Cowboys after that conversation, the Cowboys went radio silent. So, you know, they. Micah and his age and follow up and make whatever they talked about official if it was good enough. And just by, you know, quoting Jerry's. Well, we're only getting Jerry's side of this, though. All right, thank you, Bill. Maybe we get the other side of this. Maybe we don't. One hour in the books. Two more to go. This message is brought to you by Apple Card. Did you know Apple Card is designed to help you pay off your balance faster with smart payment suggestions? And because fees don't help you, Apple Card doesn't have any. So if your credit card is an Apple card, maybe it should be subject to credit approval. Apple Card issued by Goldman Sachs Bank USA Salt Lake City Branch. Variable APRs range from 18.24% to 28.49% based on creditworthiness rates as of July 1, 2025. 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