Dan Patrick (2:36)
You are listening to the Dan Patrick show on Fox Sports Radio. Hope you had a great weekend. Everybody gangs all here in the home studio ready to go. A lot to recap. And we get ready for a national title game coming up tonight, although I'm listening to espn, ESPN promoting this and it's David versus Goliath. Huh? Excuse me, Notre Dame a David? I don't think so. Now, you might look at the point spread and say eight, eight and a half. But Notre Dame, one of the more storied, maybe the most storied franchise of all time in college football history going against the Ohio State. So that'll be coming up. Tonight. We're going to talk to Ryan Clark of the Mothership. His son plays for Notre Dame. He's a defensive back. He'll be playing in the national title game tonight. So he'll join us. A little double duty with a father watching his son, but also we'll recap some of the football with him. Steve Young, the Hall of Famer, a little bit later on. Best and worst of the weekend. We will give you hours. Your phone call is always welcome. 877-3-DP show email address dpdanpatrick.com Twitter handle @@dpshow and we say good morning if you're watching on Peacock, our streaming partner and hello to our radio affiliates around the country. So Notre Dame vs. Ohio State, Chiefs handled the Texans, Commanders shock the Lions, Eagles hold off the Rams and the Bills hold off the Ravens. Also, the head coaching vacancies that will change probably this week. Bears, Cowboys, Jets, Jackson, Jags, Raiders, Saints. Couldn't help but think about the Cowboys over the weekend. Certainly when you see that the Eagles and Commanders are facing each other in the NFC title game. Also you have Dan Quinn, who was defensive coordinator with the Cowboys, who's with the Commanders, and also Kellen Moore, who was an offensive coordinator for the Cowboys. The offensive coordinator for the Eagles. Do they interview Kellen Moore? They gonna. Well, if they do, they have to wait a little while here. But the fact that you had him and you had Dan Quinn, you let both get out of the building and you're still looking for a head coach. Feels like I don't have any information on this, it feels like we're starting to see the temperature on Dion going to Dallas lower a little bit here. I think it was nice, it was fun, and everybody grabbed it, ran with it and speculated. But it feels like maybe that's been tempered just a little bit. So we'll keep an eye on what could happen this week now with Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn, the coordinators with the Lions available to do interviews, have a poll question, play of the day, stat of the day, all of that forthcoming and the early conference championship betting lines. According to DraftKings, the commanders are getting five and a half against the Eagles. The Bills are getting one and a half against the Chiefs. I also found this interesting. The best odds to win the Super Bowl. Well, I'm not surprised at this. I think the Eagles have been the best team in football for quite some time. Then it's the Chiefs, Bills, Commanders a distant fourth here. But the early odds to win the super bowl mvp. It's two players who have the best odds. If you said Patrick Mahomes, you'd be correct. And if you said Josh Allen, you would be correct. Both can't be in the super bowl, but they both have the best odds. Followed by Jalen Hurts, Saquon Barkley and Jaden Daniels. This was really a Saquon Barkley weekend in a Jaden Daniels weekend. Now we can talk about what happened with the Bills and the Ravens, with Lamar and Mark Andrews, the Bills defense holding up when they needed to, the Eagles holding off, the Rams. Chiefs against the Texans. Yes, there's going to be conversation. Patrick Mahomes gets all the calls. He doesn't. But I think because they're always on national tv, when he does get a call, it stands out more than anybody else. Michael Jordan got calls. LeBron got calls. This has happened before. Tom Brady got calls. At least in our minds. You say they get all the breaks. Well, these games are always in front of us. Therefore, when you see something like this, you remember it's kind of burnt into our brains here. But the Chiefs over the Texans, and I know the Texans, they're, you know, they're complaining about we had to beat the officials. If that's your mindset going into a game against Patrick Mahomes feels like you're kind of defeated. Hey, we got. We knew we had to beat the referees as well. Well, you might have had to beat the referees, but it would have helped if you kept the Chiefs from beating up your quarterback. You had over a hundred yards more of total offense. You didn't have Any turnovers? You have no excuses other than your excuses that you didn't take care of business. Did Mahomes get a call there or two? Yes, probably did so. Probably so. Or at least the letter of the law with the NFL. But they had opportunities. You can't have your quarterback get pressured, hurried over 20 times and get sacked, what, eight times. I mean, he was hit 14 times. That's on you, not on the officiating, not on Patrick Mahomes. The Chiefs do just enough, and you have to do just a little bit more, and you didn't do that. So I don't want to hear the complaining from the Texans. You had a great season. You had an odd season. You. You came back and you had impressive football there at the end of the season, but you. You guys lost the game. You had your opportunities in the red zone. Don't miss kicks. I mean, there's. There's a lot of blame that goes around. Let's not start with the officiating. Start with yourself. The commander shocking the Lions. That was one of those where, wow, somebody better slow down Washington. And they couldn't do it. And the Lions, you know, they did their part from the standpoint of they put up points and they had yardage, but you had turnovers, and that's the big difference. You know, we saw this with Jared Goff, and we saw this with Sam Darnold. Like, you're like, okay, all right. Hey, these guys are looking good. And then they weren't looking good. And then all of a sudden, we seem to regress back to, yeah, kind of the same old, like, is this the ceiling for Jared Goff, maybe? They had a wonderful season, and they had a lot of injuries to overcome, and, man, was there some pain. And Dan Campbell's voice after the loss, when you lose these games, man, it's like the players, what they put into it, a lot of people don't know.
