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You'll see the tire decision Decision guide full lineup of Yokohama Tire special offers free road hazard protection Mobile tire installation tire rack.com the way tire buying should be 10 days until the Super bowl it's seven years ago today, the Kansas City Chiefs decided to trade Alex Smith to Washington. So we're at the Super Bowl. We had gotten word that Alex Smith was probably going to be traded. He was with us on the show and we couldn't get anything out of him. But he knew that he didn't. He didn't really know where he was going. He knew that he was going to be traded from Kansas City. And then we get done with our show in Minneapolis. Two hours later, Alex Smith is traded to Washington for a defensive back and a third round pick. He had gone 9 and 6 as a starter in Kansas City in 2017. In the previous four seasons, he had won 11 games three times. And his stats when he was traded From Kansas City 2017, he threw for 4,000 yards. He had 26 touchdowns, five interceptions. Those are good numbers. But they knew what they had with Patrick Mahomes. They traded up to get Mahomes and Alex Smith was dead man walking. This happened with San Francisco with Colin Kaepernick Jim Harbaugh made that move, but Andy Reid made a move. The Kansas City Chiefs made a move that changed NFL history and pave the way for AFC title games, Super Bowls and maybe what will turn out to be the greatest quarterback in history. That was seven years ago today. And I remember talking to Paulie, I go, how do I get that information out of him? Because he's smart enough to know that I'm going to ask him about it. Does he really know? What's he. You don't want to ruin the deal. And he was going to get a lot of money. I think he got a four year extension, around 90, some million, 71 million guaranteed. He was going to do well. Now we know that he got injured with Washington, but he had a good career. He had good numbers with San Francisco, good numbers with Kansas City. And then his career cut short with the injury in Washington. But seven years ago, taking a chance and taking a chance eight years ago. When you think about what they did in the draft and the fact that the New Orleans Saints and Sean Payton said this, they were taking Patrick Mahomes. How would NFL history look if the Saints had taken him? What would that have meant for Drew Brees and Breeze? Getting older. Sean Payton sees what he sees in Patrick Mahomes. I got my heir apparent right here. Well, Alex Smith wasn't old, but he saw Andy Reed, saw something that maybe others didn't. Sean Payton did. Now, there are a lot of coaches. It's like with Russell Wilson. Yeah, we were going to take him. Well, you could have the first round or the second round. Even in the third round, you could have taken him. Everybody after the fact, but Sean Payton said, hey, we wanted him. Kansas City was going to go get him. And it was during that week, an NFL scout source of mine said, you should get Patrick Mahomes on. He's moving up the draft board. And I said to Fritzi, hey, see if we can get Mahomes now. We couldn't, but, you know, I was given a heads up that he was moving up. Didn't know where, but he was moving up. And then he lands in Kansas City and you're like, why would they go get him? Alex Smith's a good quarterback. And then we realized soon after that when he threw for 50 touchdowns, who was the quarterback prior to Patrick Mahomes? Yeah, that was Alex Smith. And even the draft profile, you know, he was going to be, you know, the second coming of Brett Favre. He's a gunslinger. Those games, nobody played defense in the Big 12, which is true. But I don't think people saw the intelligence of Patrick Mahomes. I think they just saw that he kind of ran around, you know, Texas Tech, unless you really love football, you're not going to find Texas Tech games unless they're playing against somebody. The first time I saw him, it was Oklahoma State. And, you know, they're always shootouts. It's like 42, 40. And I kept thinking, well, it's another Texas Tech quarterback. They always have big numbers. You know, Mike Leach always has that offense. They're going to get, you know, 35, 40 points. They'll lead the nation in passing. But then they don't do anything in the NFL. But Mahomes was different. Yeah, Paulie, the draft profile. We've talked about this from NFL.com. inconsistent gunslinger, reckless. Not an athlete, more of a scrambler. They critique his throwing motion. It was. The word project is used on a couple different websites. But the Chiefs, they didn't start in week four. They didn't have to start in week four. That. I don't know how much that helped his rookie year. Yeah. You have Alex Smith, and I think Mahomes has talked about, you know, Brady's talked about this. He wasn't ready to start. He needed to sit and watch and kind of understand how the game moves at what pace. And Mahomes has talked about that, that he got to learn under Alex Smith. Now, I don't think Alex Smith knew that. Hey, I'm going to give you all the secrets. And then all of a sudden, wait a minute. What. What are we doing? Do you have Alex Smith at the Super Bowl? So this is seven years ago this morning that we had Alex Smith on, and I'm trying to get him to tell me where he's going to be traded. Where are you going to be playing next year? Yeah, I mean, you're not going to get much right now. I got nothing. I got. Sorry to disappoint. I got absolutely nothing for you that's gonna do. You know, in your head, you just can't tell me. No, I mean, I wish I knew. I wish I. Listen, I got a year under contract there in Kansas City. I mean, that's. Is there a wish I was in control of this thing? Right. I mean, I wish I was the one that got to be able to. To. To do this. That's just not the reality. Okay, but if you were in control, what would you do? What do you, you know? Yeah, tough. Listen, like I said, I mean, you're. You're not gonna like this answer at all. I mean I, I mean I love, I love where I'm at. Right. I felt like we underachieved. I felt we as offensively last year did some, you know, awesome things, you know, so. But, but who knows? I've been playing along enough. I've been through this before. I know the trade deal. So I'm not, not naive to it. You know, this is a crazy business. A lot of crazy stuff can happen. And then he was traded to Washington for Kendall fuller and a third round draft pick. But he got $94 million deal, $71 million guaranteed. If you go through the vowels, A, E, I, O, U. That's what it sounded like. Alex Smith. So Paulie asked me the question. I'll be Alex Smith. What would you do if you were in control? You sometimes. Why? Yeah, he, he knew something. He had to know something because those deals don't get done that quickly. It's like when free agency starts. It's like 1201. They got a deal done in a minute. No tampering here. But Alex, he had to move on. And he'll be the Trivial Pursuit. Question or answer of who was the quarterback prior to Patrick Mahomes? All righty. 877-3DP show. Dylan, what's the poll question today? From the first hour. All right, then we're going to go with. Without knowing what would happen in the future, would you have traded Alex Smith after the 2017 season, which was statistically his best season. Touchdowns, yards, TDN, INT. Ratio. Now, not everybody agreed that you got to move on from Alex Smith because we weren't quite sure what they had with Patrick Mahomes. So to be fair to. Oh yeah, everybody knew. They didn't. Not everybody knew. Leading up to the draft, if everybody knew what Patrick Mahomes was going to be, Kansas City wouldn't have been the only team trading up to get him. He would have been taken well before Mitch Trubisky. Too soon there. Yeah. What would his career been like if he played for the Bears? There's certain organizations where you go, if that guy had gone to that organization, would he have been a great like Tom Brady? If he went to Cleveland, would he have been Tom Brady? No. If Mahomes doesn't go to Kansas City, he's not one of the great quarterbacks of all time. But in the system, by the way, I know that there's a, I don't know, a documentary or there's a three part series about, you know, it's Brady Versus Belichick. Chris Mad Dog Russo was talking about this, that he's hosting this. Are we going to do that to Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes? Why do we do it for Brady and Belichick? Now I know there's no conflict. It'd be like if Mahomes left and let's say he went to the jets and won a Super Bowl. Would we then have this argument of, I don't know who's better, Patrick Mo? Who. Who was more responsible, Mahomes or Andy Reid? But we do that with Brady and Belichick, although they've done a pretty good job of complimenting each other. I'll go back to the super bowl when the Patriots lost to the Eagles. And I interviewed Brady prior to that was during super bowl week. And I said, do you think you'll ever sit down with Bill and reminisce? And he looked at me like, you gotta be. That's the dumbest question. He goes, no, but now they're sitting down and reminiscing and, you know, verbal bouquets and everything is good. In fact, Bill Belichick was on the Jim Gray podcast, the let's Go podcast, and talking about Tom Brady and the super bowl trophy. Players win games. You can't win games without good players. I don't care who the coach is. It's impossible. You can't win without good players. I mean, it's, you know, it's Brady, it's McGinnis, it's Frable, it's Brusky, it's Corey Dillon, it's Randy Moss, Troy Brown, Lawyer Malloy, Ty Law, Rodney Harrison. Those are the guys that won the games, man. I didn't make any tackles. I didn't make any kicks. That was Venatori that made that kick. In 4 inches of snow, you got to have good players. They don't name it the Star Trophy. It's named the Lombardi Trophy. Maybe they should name it the Brady Trophy. He won seven of them. Okay, it's a throwaway line by Bill Good. Follow up by Jim Gray. They don't call it the Bart Star Trophy. They call it the Lombardi Trophy. We'll revisit this coming up in a little bit because I got a few more thoughts about this and naming the super bowl trophy after Tom Brady. I have some other options there. So what other poll questions are we thinking about? First hour, Dylan. Well, going off that, then we can go with, should the Lombardi Trophy be renamed the Brady Trophy, yes or no? Let me save that. Okay. I'm going to save that Seaton is on the road. We'll hear from him later on this morning. And thanks to Mako. Go to danpatrick.com follow the road to New Orleans. Most cars on the road could use a little TLC. @ Mako. They bring your car back to life with affordable paint jobs, light collision repairs. Get a free estimate today. Oh, better get Mako. All right. So we will discuss that a little bit. Also, when we had the NBA commissioner Adam Silver on yesterday and I said, hey, give me some wild suggestions and we'll bring back just the comment that he talked about of making these games 40 minute, not 48 minute games, 10 minute quarters. And I don't think he realized it was going to explode. And I did try to warn him that it was going to take off. And maybe he did know. Maybe he did want to gauge the reaction to something like this. And I was surprised at some of the reaction. We'll talk about that. And there were certain news organizations that kept it in context, which I appreciate. And there are other ones that have misleading headlines in there because this was just wild things that you're thinking about, maybe two free throws if you get fouled on a three point shot. And then he dropped the bomb where he said why don't we make it universal? This is what they do in the Olympics, this is what they do in Europe. Maybe we'll have 40 minute games, 10 minute quarters and not 48. We'll discuss that. Phone calls 8773 DP Show Email address dpdanpatrick.com Twitter handle it DP Show Just getting started. We're back after this 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, it's Steve Covino. And I'm Rich Davis. And together we're Covino and Rich on FOX Sports Radio. You can catch us weekdays from 5 to 7pm Eastern, 2 to 4 Pacific, Fox Sports Radio and of course the iHeartRadio app. Why should you listen to Covino and Rich? 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Bobby Bones has everything you need to stay connected to the Yellowstone phenomenon. I look forward to it. Listen to the Official Yellowstone podcast Now on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Let's go to work. We started the show with a anniversary of Source. Seven years ago today Alex Smith traded from Kansas City and Patrick Mahomes took over and subsequently took over the NFL, throwing 50 touchdowns and going to the AFC title game. Every year. He's been a starter. Now going to the super bowl where they're one and a half point favorites. Paulie said, there's some player comps that are fun. I brought up Brett Favre was what I was told by a scout you know, he's a little reckless. He. He likes to. He likes the thrill, likes the danger. Sort of like trying to fit things into tight windows. But his football IQ is what stood out to this scout, and Andy Reid probably had to have seen that. Somebody saw it because they're like, hey, we're going to go up and get him. And I don't think anybody was thinking about Patrick Mahomes. I think deshaun Watson, like, there are other quarterbacks where you're going, oh, somebody going to go up and get him. And look, desean Watson, I know there's a lot of things not to like about him now, but in college, he did everything you wanted him to do. He won big games, won a national title. Now he looked, you know, maybe a little frail, but still, he was a really good quarterback. And then Mahomes was just a curiosity. I mean, I have to admit I had no idea that he would be even a starter in the NFL, but I didn't study him. And it's not my job as an analyst or breaking down tape, but just the eye test where you're watching, you go, damn, he's fun. But there have been a lot of quarterbacks that are fun. Johnny Manziel was fun, but can you do that on a regular basis? But I always like, you know, the player comps are great because you can move on from that draft, but your opinions about that draft stay with us. Yes, Paulie. So for the past decade, Lance Zierlein, who's been on this show, does player comps and analysis before the draft of almost every player. So this year, he will do Jalen Milroe, pros and cons, and then do a player comp. So back in 2017, what was his player comp for Patrick Mahomes coming out of Texas Tech? Dan, you're going to go last. Fritzi, you're going to go first. Player comp for Patrick Mahomes, I'm going to say, but we're taking Brett Favre off the table maybe. Oh, okay. He could be one of those players. It was not Brett Favreau. Oh, okay. That's a hint. Okay. Todd, you got a player comp for Mahomes. Seven years ago. I'm gonna go. We'll come back to you. Yeah, come back to me. Dylan. Ken Stabler. Respect the old school poll. Or Roethlisberger. Marvin, Jeff, George. Wow, that's not a compliment. Wow. I'm gonna go. Brett Favre. It was Jay Cutler. Big arm, creative, reckless, with some of the words used. Todd, do you have a. I was gonna say Steve Young. As far as someone that mobile and, you know, can kind of put in a spot. Okay. Yes, Marv. I just said Jeff George. Jeff George. Jay Cutler. Tomato, tomato. No, no. Who threw a prettier ball than Jeff George? Warren Moon. That's about it. So he's on a short list of pretty. Yeah, I don't want to say that. Yeah, but you can. Yeah, pretty balls. About time someone said it. Yeah, yeah. Jeff George had pretty down. Who had the prettiest balls in NFL history? Dan? Warren Moon. Prettiest balls I've ever seen. You can have a pretty ball that you throw, but they have to catch it, too. That wasn't his fault. Well, maybe he threw it and looked beautiful. It just didn't always end up where it was supposed to. Jay Cutler was a really good athlete, really good athlete. Jeff George, I never thought he was a really good athlete. You know, Warren Moon was a really good athlete, but, yeah, these player comps are always. They're. They're interesting. Yes, Todd, If Mahomes had a heater and looked disinterested, it would be a perfect comp to be a cuddler. Yeah. And if he was married to a reality star like Christian Cavallari. All right, so there's the. The comps for Patrick Mahomes. So that was eight years ago when he was going into the draft, and then seven years ago on this date. I still love listening to Alex Smith. Alex Smith is just there to promote a product who know Head. Head and Shoulders or Old Spice. And then I'm going, where do you want to go? I, E. I, O, E. You what if you can decide where you want to go? Yeah. Poor guy. Putting the heat on him. And then two hours later, they made it official. And then we saw him. We're like, why don't you tell us? He goes, I couldn't. I, I didn't really know. I knew I was going to be tried. I just didn't know that I was going to be traded or where I was going to be traded. Have you tried the low sugar Gatorade, though? Fruit punch? A lot of headlines yesterday. A lot of people picked up the commissioner, Adam Silver, who was with us, and I felt the interview was slipping away. He was talking about, you know, there, there was a lot of PR there that he wanted to get out, get some positives, remind people, I mean, there's a reason why he came on. I, I've known him for over 30 years. You know, I knew him when he worked For NBA Entertainment. He was doing production there and now the commissioner. But I, I could tell that I was running out of time and I, I wasn't getting anything from him. And he was going to talk about some things. He had bullet points. And then I said, all right, now I got to interrupt him or make it rapid fire. And then that's when I said, give me the, give me some of the crazy ideas that come across to your desk. And he had this to say something else that I'm a fan of and I'm probably in a minority as we get more involved in Global Basketball. The NBA is the only league that plays 48 minutes and I would be, I am a fan of four 10 minute quarters. I not sure that many others are. I mean, putting aside what it means for records and things like that, you know, I think that a two hour format for a game is more consistent with sort of modern television habits. I don't think people in arenas aren't asking us to shorten the game. But I think as a television program, being two hours, that's Olympic basketball is being two is two hours. You know, college basketball courses. Yeah, but if you like it, I'd say it has kind of a little bit of a push there. Yeah, but it's such a dramatic change to the game. I mean, I think something like that would have to be talked more about over time. Now, once again, that's a wild idea. He did say he's in favor of it. He didn't say it's going to be on the agenda, you know, with the owner's meetings or the competition committee. He was just throwing out some things. He was talking about, you know, maybe you award two free throws if you're fouled on a three point attempt. But social media said, oh, why don't you have your players play every game? Why don't you get rid of the three point shot? So this is a, this is a global sport. Name players coming over from all over to play and that's what they play, you know, 10 minute quarters. The Olympics, 10 minute quarters. And what he's saying is, can I get my guys to play more games? Maybe the games are more intense and maybe we don't have load management. And maybe it's more of a consumable product that it's two hours in length. So they have to think of these things. I mean, Rob Manfred came up with the pitch clock. We don't even talk about it now. We're fine with it. Right. Everything's okay. Even the kickoff in the NFL. As goofy as it looks, okay, we have more returns on kickoffs, which is what we wanted here. I mean, this isn't outlandish that he's saying, hey, four ten minute quarters. Well, Mike Malone and the Nuggets were at the Garden last night against the Knicks and he slammed this possibility. He said before the game that I hope we don't go to 10 minute quarters. He says, I hope that we don't go to a four point line. Nobody said anything about that. I hope we don't become Barnum and Bailey when we're just. When we just have to do what we have to do to keep viewership because there's history and greatness in this game and it's purity in this game. I hope we can find a way to stay true to that. Okay, that's a big leap by the head coach of the Nuggets. Be. I mean, we got to be open minded about all of this and, and they, these coaches should be too. Tom Thibodeau, the Knicks head coach, he didn't like it either. All the commissioners said he answered a question about kind of the crazy things that come across his desk. He didn't say, hey, this is going to happen. He didn't say that. But the headlines don't matter. And if you put it in context of what he's saying, he's saying, hey, I'm a fan of this, but he's just one guy. Here's the Knicks head coach, Tom Thibodeau. I'm probably more traditional, so I'd hate to see that. Just, that's just a person. I really haven't thought about it just because of all the records and things of that nature. So I think we have a great game. I think what people really want to see is competition. So all, you know, the. And when you study what's transpired, you know, over time, there's always been different styles of play. So the 60s, the 70s, 80s, 90s, that what, what goes into winning is the same. And then what I think what the fans enjoy is great competition. So I think if we focus on the competition aspect of it, the everything else will fall into place. Okay. We have romanticized the 80s, late 80s, early 90s, that we were younger and oh man, did they play. It was physical back then. It wasn't good basketball. First team to 90, you won. It was bad. The Knicks and the Cavs, bad basketball. Physical, bad basketball. Even going back to the 70s, when I was watching, I mean, in my mind, God, it was awesome. But if I went back and Looked at it now and I would probably say, God, they miss a lot of shots or there's no movement there, there's no athleticism, I mean, whatever the criticisms would be. But I think you gotta be open minded. And what records are we worried about that Coach Tibbs was talking about what records? Now if there's incentive clauses in your contracts, okay, then maybe we'll have to modify those, but I don't think you can look if you're a commissioner nowadays and look, we got more offense than we've ever had in the NBA. Why do people have a problem with the NBA? You got offense, you got guys shooting threes. But what is it that people don't like? What league added more offense? And we go, nah, too much, I don't know, too many threes. I don't like it because I've seen basketball be played where you can incorporate the three, just not be reliant on the three. And that you're seeing people, players take threes who shouldn't be taking threes. Everybody, not everybody is meant to do that. But it'd be like me saying to a pitcher, don't throw a hundred, you know what's best. If you don't throw a hundred, you may last a little longer. Or hey, don't be swinging for home runs. I mean, I don't know how to cap the threes. Or you only get to swing really hard one time or you can only throw over 101 pit like that's what I mean. Baseball is you throw it, you hit it. Now they've tried to add more. They got the stolen base back. I mean they. But that's because you have to be open minded. Now I'm not thrilled about it, but I love that he shared that. And then everybody's going to think that it's going to somehow be put into law next season where all he wants to do is get reaction, you gather information. All right, maybe we can't do that, but he's thinking about those things. And he's also looking at, you know, how we consume basketball is through social media. You're not watching games. But he's not worried about that as much as are you consuming some part of the game. And these networks are waiting in line to give them billions of dollars. Somebody's making money, somebody's watching this. And it's a global sport. Seven of the 10 best players aren't even from the United States. This is a global audience as well. And you may not like it, but it might be one of those things. When it happens, you don't even think about when it's successful. Yes, Marv. I think the biggest thing that hurts the NBA is what everyone's thinking. Load management, where they say, hey, coming up, the Lakers played the Suns. I don't know if LeBron and Kevin Durant are playing. There was a four year stretch where the teams they were on, they didn't play like either one of them. But it, this might help that. Like that's what I thought. Maybe it helps with load management if you take off the, you know, go from 48 to 40, what's that going to mean per season for teams? And it's probably, I think he said 15 games that you'd be taking. You'd still play 82 games, but the amount of time would amount to 15 games. Maybe you get players who will play and maybe there won't be load management. Yeah, Paulie. If you look at the NBA and how it became a global sport, you remember it's before your time as well. The NBA was secondary to college basketball for decades. In 1951, they made the lane 12ft. It used to be 6ft, right? In 1954 they added a 24 second shot clock. Would he have been against that at the time? To speed up the game and add all the scoring, um, they added the three point line. After the merger with the aba, all these things happen. And I'm sure in the moment your instant reaction is don't change anything. But you never, you never get to the next level without change in any sport. I would bring back the red, white and blue basketball that the ABA had. Like if you really want to showcase, your kids would love that. Just seeing the rotation going through the air. But you know, once again you got coaches like Michael Malone who doesn't want a circus out there. Now it can be a circus in a variety of ways, but I think you got to be open minded to it. And that's all the commissioner was saying. Hey, I like this idea. But people ran with it as if to say, oh my gosh, that he wants to do this. That's stupid. Yes, Mark, I think the only question the players are going to have is do we still get paid the same? They will. It's still the same number of games. This is what's going to happen. Mark my words. The first player who gets paid a million dollars a game and then sits out a game, the reaction is going to be a blowtorch. Because you get paid a million dollars to not play, then it's going to crystallize for people, they're going to, they're going to have this moment where they go, damn, he's getting a million dollars now. A football player plays 17 games, you add to the playoffs, I don't think anybody's going to have a problem if Patrick Mahomes is getting paid a million dollars a year to play in that game or 2 million because they, you know, the careers aren't long and you're going to only be playing 17, 18, 19 games basketball, that's where you'll get. I'd play for free. Yeah, okay, but when Shea gilgis Alexander makes $82 million, I want to know. I watch the reaction when he sit. Now, maybe he doesn't sit out games. By the way, I think he had 54 last night. Yes. Relax. You only have 52. 52, my bad. Yes, Todd. But even with the load management and you buy tickets to a. Even know if your top players are going to play and the cost of parking and food and jerseys and everything, people are still showing up. It hasn't gotten to the point where such a little amount of fans are showing up to games where they're losing significant money, where the owners are like, we got to lower the price so we got to make sure these guys play more because no one's coming anymore. So somehow they're making money enough to pay all these players. So these fans are complaining, but they're still tuning in. According to Adam Silver, the ratings are about the same this last year is what he was selling. Okay, then why would he be suggesting this if there wasn't an issue? He's looking towards the future here. If everything's great, then don't award two free throws on a missed three pointer that you get found. Don't think about making it 40 minutes. If everything's great, it's like everything's great in here. I don't go, you know what? I think I need to make a change with the Danets. Like, I'm not. It doesn't make any sense. If everything is great, then fine. But you have to be forward thinking. If you're a commissioner, you have to be because you're, you're. I mean, you're. Everybody's looking for their spot. There's only so much time in a day or in a week or a month or a year. And the NFL encroaches on everybody. And that's what all of these commissioners, you know, you have college football right now, the Big Ten in the SEC and the other commissioners, but really it's those two talking to commissioner Roger Goodell. They want to work with the NFL to say, can you help us have our standalone national title game? So it's not later, it's after the afc, NFC title game or divisional game. That's what's happening. You have to partner up. You have to understand your place on the sports landscape. And I think that's all Adam Silver did. He's just looking. What do we do? How do we do it? When do we do it? Do we do anything? Do we raise the basket? Do we lower the bat? I mean, not lower the bat. Do we widen the floor? Like, guys are so big. If you watch a game in person, you're like, how does everybody fit on the offense or defensive side of the ball? Like, there's not enough room. I. I think you can get in the corner. I don't even know. Like, some guys probably can't even shoot threes in there because they can't get their feet inbounds. Yes. Marvin. Unrelated, but kind of related, NBA players are enormous. A.J. brown was at the, at the Lakers game. He looked like a little person next to LeBron, like, or Tyrese Maxey. Steph Curry and Miles Garrett are the same height. Like, these guys are enormous humans. And now you want to have him sit in the corner where their feet barely touch. I. I saw Conor McGregor with Brooke Lopez sizing them up now. I mean, Conor McGregor, you could rest a drink on his head, but still you saw, boy, that guy, he's the baddest man. And then, you know, you're around him and you go, oh, dang, you're like five, eight. Here's Brooke Lopez, seven feet tall, staring down. It was funny video. All right, let me take a break. Let me take a break. Break. We'll come back with our play of the day right after this. 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. Oh, my God. The play. The play of the day. This is the play of the day. Check this out. Truder with the ball at the logo, guarded by Gilgamesh. Alexander goes by him. Hand off. Peyton goes up. Hey, dunked it on Hartenstein. Little elevation sensation for GP2. That's courtesy of the game warriors radio Network. Gary Payton Jr. II throws down a dunk over Isaiah Hartenstein. The warriors ended a three game home losing streak as they beat the Thunder despite Shay Gilgeous Alexander scoring. That is your play of the day. Play of the day brought to you by. Get the Pros, the right pros. We gotta have the right team on the court. Express employment professionals that can help. From contract placements to full time hires, we've got you covered. Visit ExpressPros.com today. They'll handle your hiring so you can focus on growing your business. Dylan in for Seaton, who's on the road. He'll join us a little bit later on. Would you update the poll results from the first 49 minutes of the program? Yes, Dan. So the question was, without knowing what would happen in the future, would you have traded Alex Smith after the 2017 season? 65% say no. All right. All right. Yeah. Little surprise with that. Yeah, yeah, he had a good year. He did. But, you know, they went nine and nine and six. He went nine and six. It was their worst record of like their previous four seasons. But his best statistically. Yeah, because he had won 11 games three times in his career in Kansas City. But that was seven years ago today that he was traded. We were in Minneapolis that. That morning. All right, a couple more phone calls in here. Andrew in Washington. Hi, Andrew. What's on your mind today? Good morning, Dan. Dennis, thanks for taking my call. I want to give a shout out to Dylan. Dylan, you're doing a great job. Just remember it is. Thank you, Tod. Todd. Thank you. Anyways, the 40 minute NBA game sounds really good to me. I actually think it'll work out great. Yes, the rotations will be different, but Mike Malone just made a reference to something that none of us think would be great. The four point line to make it look hokey. But I think that it'll be good for the NBA. Just like Paulie said. All those other things that were put in place, we don't look back on them. And Tibs, what record are you really worried about? So I wish somebody would have followed up with that question to get ready for the Super Bowl. I do have a quick trivia question for the room. So there's only been 1000 yard rusher for the last 10 Super bowl winners. Can anybody name who that running back was? Super bowl winning team had a thousand yard rusher. Only one of them over the last 10 years. All right, anybody want to offer a guess? Thousand yard rusher, the last 10 Super bowl winners. Crickets. Crickets. Yeah. Paul, was it the Eagles? No. Here's a clue. Dan needed a clarification about this guy's last name on last week's DP Texas Gamble podcast. Needed a clarification. You remember Marv? So it's not Christian Okoye. No. They didn't win the Super Bowl. My guess was going to be J Ajay, which is a tough last name. No, actually, there's little clarification on certain products. And the thousand yard rusher was for the 2016 Patriots. Le Carrot Blunt. Oh, alrighty. I didn't know. Didn't know. I needed a pronouncer on that or clarification. This is the start of the day. Thank you, Andrew. I think I was. I needed a. A blunt and a joint. I think that was the reference that came up on the gambling podcast. Yeah. You wanted to know the difference. Yes, because I didn't know the difference between a blunt and a joint. Yes. Paul LeGarrett has to have a side business, Legerrett's Blunts in his hometown. Yeah, I have a thing. Yeah, but even he spelled blount. Yeah. B O, L, O, U, n, T. Blount. Yeah, but it's legarit Blunt. What is the difference between a joint and a blunt? Dylan blunts a cigar wrapper versus, like, a rolling paper. Okay. So you just take the. The guts out of a cigar. So that'd be like what Snoop would smoke. He smokes blunts. I don't think he discriminates too much, but, yeah, he's probably taken down a few blunts. Yeah. And where does a spliff fit in here? That's weed and tobacco in the same vessel. Is it? Yeah. Dang. We haven't missed a beat with Seaton out of here because he would be the one I'd be asking those questions, too. Just doing my job, Dan. Thank you, Dylan. Thank you. Gambling podcast. After the show, we'll have Shay and Irving. Sammy P. Is back. Who said that the Chiefs were going to win the super bowl to start of the year with his prediction. Betsy. Yeah. Bad Larry. Yeah. I think he had the Eagles, though. Okay. Winning the nfc and that was, you know, looking back, I was a gutsy call. So Bad Larry, Shay and Irving Dylan will have the gambling podcast available@danpatrick.com you can also go there and follow along where Seaton is on the road. We'll hear from him coming up. Also, I make the case that we'll never have anybody other than a quarterback win an MVP in my lifetime. I'll talk about that coming up. Hour two with Fritzi Dylan, Marv, Paulie, yours truly. We're back after this.