Hour 1 – NFL Draft Hangover, Louis Riddick

Summary

The Dan Patrick Show — Hour 1 (April 24, 2026)

Theme:
The post–NFL Draft “hangover” — stories, analysis, and reactions from Thursday’s dramatic first round, including surprise picks, awkward draft moments, evolving NFL strategies, and an insider’s perspective from ESPN’s Louis Riddick, live from Pittsburgh.

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Episode Overview

Dan Patrick and his lively crew react to the chaos and intrigue of the first round of the 2026 NFL Draft, held in Pittsburgh before a record crowd. The team debates the wisdom of this year’s most controversial selections, shares behind-the-scenes stories, and invites ESPN’s Louis Riddick to provide an insider’s perspective — especially on the Rams’ headline-making pick of Ty Simpson. There’s also plenty of locker-room banter, humorous takes on draft rituals, and candid insight into building NFL rosters.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Pittsburgh Draft Atmosphere & Crowd (02:04–04:00)

• Record Attendance: Over 300,000 fans attended the draft in Pittsburgh, creating an electric, city-wide event.
  • Dan Patrick: “Another great audience here by the way. Pittsburgh last night. Wonderful, wonderful performance by the entire city. The weather was great. Over 300,000 showing up...” (02:04)
• On-Site Experience: The crew extols the perks of the host city: food, cocktails, the distillery complex, and the requisite “cigar clothes vs. regular clothes” post-draft routine.
• Menu Chat: Playful banter over the “Meat Friday” spread—spiced maple bacon candy, seared porterhouse steaks, smoked wagyu brisket.

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Rhyme Time & Show Banter (04:39–06:39)

• Lighthearted Segment: Todd unveils “Rhyme Time,” combining sports trivia with wordplay, centered on Pittsburgh (lots of groaning from the crew).
  • Example: “Particular pigskin head... Choosy Narduzzi.” (05:18)
  • The segment is met with mixed enthusiasm from the team.

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NFL Draft: The Jeremiah Love & Ty Simpson Picks (07:21–11:47)

• Jeremiah Love:

  • The Cardinals’ pick at #3 overall. Despite Love being a favorite player, the hosts question the fit due to Arizona’s lack of a quarterback or offensive line.
    • Marv Albert: “...But you're going to a team that doesn't have a quarterback. I don't know if they have much of an offensive line.” (07:21)

• Rams’ Ty Simpson Surprise:

  • The Rams take QB Ty Simpson at #13, a move that blindsided most analysts.
  • Dan details insider texts with Jay Glazer, highlighting just how secretive teams were about their draft strategies.
    • “He goes, I was so—O O O O worried that you heard something about the Rams taking Ty Simpson? I hadn’t heard anything.” (09:23)
  • Speculation that LA moved up because other teams might snatch Simpson earlier, though evidence remains unclear.

• Debate Over Rams’ Priorities:

  • Crew questions if it’s wise for a current Super Bowl contender to use their top pick on a backup QB rather than an immediate-impact player.
    • Paulie: “With the 13th pick, Sean McVay obviously wants another weapon for next year ... there's impact players available at 13.” (10:22)

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Unusual Draft Storylines & Stats (11:47–16:40)

• Jadarian Price to Seattle: Noted as possibly the first-ever NFL first-round pick to never have started a college game (as a running back); Josh Jacobs cited as a similar case.
• Draft Awkward Moments (Poll Question):
  • Debates over cringey commissioner hugs, failed family handshakes (Fernando Mendoza leaves brother Max hanging), and more.
    • Marv: “When I saw Fernando Mendoza and his family ... his little brother kept ... his hand out ... and his brother totally blew him off.” (12:12)
• Roger Goodell’s Handshakes: Crew riffs on the commissioner’s attempts to relate to draftees through “dap” handshake/hugs, sometimes with mixed cultural success.

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Louis Riddick In-Studio: Draft Breakdown (26:44–41:50)

Arrival & Vibe

• Riddick, Pittsburgh native and ESPN analyst, visits in a “Shaft-worthy” airport-bought leather jacket, sharing Pittsburgh pride. (26:44–27:44)
• Recaps the overwhelming energy of Pittsburgh’s massive draft crowd and the exhaustion of covering “the coolest thing the NFL’s got going.” (27:55)

The Ty Simpson Pick Debate (28:32–33:32)

• Context:

  • Riddick wasn’t surprised—he’d spoken to Simpson’s father months ago, who’d been told Ty was a first-rounder.
    • “...the team that, quite honestly, really liked him the most picked it.” (28:53)
  • Dan expresses skepticism over the Rams investing so much in a backup QB when they’re chasing a Super Bowl now.

• Front Office Dynamics:

  • Riddick and Dan suggest LA GM Les Snead seems to be planning for a long-term future, possibly beyond coach Sean McVay's tenure.
    • Riddick: “...it felt like Les Snead is saying, I’m going to be around here for a lot longer than Sean McVay is going to be.” (33:13)

• Prediction:

  • Riddick with conviction: “He’ll have a decades-long career in that organization if Sean sticks around ... It’s the perfect, perfect, perfect spot for him.” (32:41)
  • Dan: “He could have a better career than Fernando Mendoza. That’s given the situation.” (33:02)

On Draft Evaluation — Taping vs. Measurables (34:31–36:56)

• Dan points to prospect Reuben Bain, dominant on tape but sliding in the draft due to poor measurables.
• Riddick explains risk aversion—GMs prefer “objective data” (height, arms, speed) to protect themselves if a pick busts.
  • “Measurables give you comfort in the event that the player doesn’t work out, that you don’t get fired.” (35:10)
  • “[Drafting] is a risk assessment exercise ... The higher up in the draft, you go, you want to check every box possible ... so if it doesn’t work out, you can sit there and go, wasn’t me. It’s the player.” (35:10–36:56)

Cardinals’ Jeremiah Love Pick & Offensive Firepower (37:02–39:20)

• Riddick justifies the pick: “I need explosive plays ... I don’t care where I get it, just give me a weapon. That’s what Jeremiah Love is.” (37:08)
• Dan counters: concerns about lack of OL and QB for Arizona.
• Riddick notes Love will build fan excitement and sell jerseys, even if the roster isn’t ready to win.

Second-Round “Sleepers” — Riddick’s Watchlist (39:42–40:43)

• Names to remember from today’s rounds:
  • Denzel Boston (WR, Washington) — “...Like Marques Colston, but even bigger and faster.”
  • Trading Stukes (S, Arizona) — “Absolutely lights out as a safety.”
  • Keontae Scott (DB, Miami) — “One of my top-5 favorite people in this draft. An absolute monster.”

Reflections & Full-Circle Feelings (41:03–41:50)

• Riddick explains that he once “hated the draft” as a 9th-round pick, but now embraces it as an ESPN analyst coming home to Pittsburgh.
  • “...the draft changed my life at ESPN 11 years ago. It’s kind of a full circle moment. It’s really cool.” (41:50)

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On the Draft's Intensity:
  • Louis Riddick: “You work so long to get ready for this ... you’re so locked in for 3-4 hours ... When you get back to your hotel, you’re just exhausted.” (27:55)
• GMs & Player Measurables:
  • Louis Riddick: “Measurables give you comfort in the event that the player doesn’t work out, that you don’t get fired. The draft is really a risk assessment exercise.” (35:10)
• Assessing Ty Simpson’s Fit:
  • Riddick: “He'll have a decades-long career in that organization if Sean sticks around ... It's the perfect, perfect, perfect spot for him.” (32:41)
• Draft Marketability:
  • Riddick: “They're going to go Jeremiah Love, I'm buying that jersey. I want to see what this kid looks like ... It's a business too.” (38:54)
• Draft Night Family Drama:
  • Marv: “His little brother kept ... his hand out ... and his brother totally blew him off.” (12:12)
• On Winning Curing All:
  • Marv: “In our sports society, when you win, it’s the great elixir. It covers up a lot. It’s one big bandage.” (51:29)
• On McVay & Rams Future:
  • Dan Patrick: “It felt like Les Snead is saying, I'm going to be around here for a lot longer than Sean McVay..." (33:13)

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Additional Memorable Moments

• Personal Stories:
  • Todd’s “night in” during the draft, savoring a turkey club and chicken tenders (17:20–18:53).
  • The “awkward handshake” poll leads to a broader reflection on evolving sports greetings, from daps to fist bumps (13:56–14:27).
• Draft Aftermath:
  • Extended debate over why so many TV analysts failed to offer substantive praise for certain picks (“He’s huge. Ok, what else?” — 15:25).
• NFL Off-Field Drama:
  • Recap of New England coach Mike Vrabel’s awkward apology press conference amid off-field controversy; speculation on his future (48:41–51:22).

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [02:04] – Pittsburgh’s draft crowd and scene
• [07:21] – Jeremiah Love, Ty Simpson, and Rams/insider draft intrigue
• [11:47] – Strange first-round stats and awkward draft moments
• [26:44] – Louis Riddick joins the show
• [28:32] – Ty Simpson & Rams pick analysis
• [34:31] – Tape vs. measurables in NFL draft logic
• [37:02] – Cardinals’ Love pick and explosive plays argument
• [39:42] – Second-round sleeper picks (Riddick’s list)
• [41:03] – Draft reflections and Riddick’s career arc
• [48:41] – Mike Vrabel controversy discussion

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Conclusion

Hour 1 of The Dan Patrick Show is a blend of expert football analysis and the breezy humor fans expect. Whether it’s dissecting the Rams’ head-scratching QB pick, debating the value of “explosive weapons,” or sharing personal stories from draft week, the crew delivers an engrossing, behind-the-scenes look at one of the most unpredictable first rounds in NFL Draft history. Louis Riddick stands out for his thoughtful, conviction-filled insight into GM strategy and team-building. For listeners seeking both laughter and football intelligence, this episode delivers — with plenty of Pittsburgh flavor.

Transcript

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[Dan Patrick]

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[Marv Albert]

We did it. We made it to a Friday here in Pittsburgh. Another great audience here by the way. Pittsburgh last night. Wonderful, wonderful performance by the entire city. The weather was great. Over 300,000 showing up. I remember Bill Cower when he was with me yesterday and we went to commercial break and he goes, gosh, I hope some people show up. I said, bill, they will 300,000 last night, give or take a couple of thousand. And I think that stadium seats just over 60,000. So you had five times the amount of people that you can put in that stadium. Weather was great, the atmosphere was great. And we got a little bit of a twist there in the first round. We'll talk about that with the Rams with Ty Simpson coming up, broadcasting from the distillery complex in Pittsburgh. All week long, thank you for wonderful hospitality here. Great food, cocktails, cigar lounge. And you know, this is where you separate your clothes when you get ready to go home. It's like that's the cigar clothes and then that's the regular clothes, and you try to separate those in your suitcase. But it's been a great atmosphere here, great environment.

[Dan Patrick]

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[Marv Albert]

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[Dan Patrick]

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[Marv Albert]

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[Paulie]

It's like a bougie butter. It's kind of a bone marrow butter. Hy. It's really, really good.

[Marv Albert]

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[Paulie]

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[Marv Albert]

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[Stugotz]

Nobody.

[Marv Albert]

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[Dan Patrick]

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[Marv Albert]

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[Dan Patrick]

of humor, Fritzi is here.

[Marv Albert]

Got a rhyme time coming up a little bit later on we do with a Pittsburgh theme. Okay. Give the audience an idea of what rhyme time consists of.

[Todd]

Okay. So rhyme time. There's two clues and then the two. The answer to those two clues actually rhyme with one another.

[Marv Albert]

Okay.

[Todd]

Rhyme time.

[Marv Albert]

Okay.

[Todd]

Like an example would be Particular pig skin head. Particular pig skin head or coach to try to make it a little easier. If someone is particular, they would be choosy. And that pigskin head locally at a university. So a little time. I can't make them easy. I can't just hand you the answers. So choosy. Narduzzi.

[Paulie]

That's a tough one.

[Todd]

Particular pigskin.

[Marv Albert]

Okay, give me a better one so the audience will care.

[Todd]

That's fine. That's fair.

[Marv Albert]

Like, you don't lead with a real tough one.

[Dan Patrick]

That's like Jeopardy.

[Marv Albert]

Doesn't give you the toughest questions.

[Todd]

Right? You gotta go to 1200. Okay. How about paddle boat, Dandruff, Fighting stealer. Paddle boat dandruff, Fighting stealer.

[Marv Albert]

So something Palomalu, right?

[Todd]

Like a paddle boat. What took a little boat? You're a big boat. Main person. Name a type of little boat that you can get in and paddle.

[Paulie]

Paul Pontoon.

[Todd]

What rhymes with Palomalu? That would be a rowboat. You've never been in a canoe? Canoe Palomalu. You know, help me out here.

[Marv Albert]

We're off to a slow start.

[Todd]

What is that really a bad clue, a paddleboat being a canoe?

[Marv Albert]

We're trying to attract an audience.

[Todd]

I think you guys are purposely playing dumb to make this, like, just ruin this for me.

[Marv Albert]

No, no, I'm not playing dumb.

[Todd]

Canoe Palomalu. Now I got to give you a third one.

[Marv Albert]

Do they even rhyme?

[Todd]

Blaze Rocky. Think local. Flavor local. Think Pittsburgh. Blaze Rocky.

[Marv Albert]

Fire.

[Todd]

Fire Blyer. There you go. You're not helping me sell this at all.

[Marv Albert]

And now, hold on. Let me. Let me let the audience. More of that coming up a little bit later on Canoe Paloma.

[Todd]

You guys got to work with me a little more.

[Marv Albert]

All right, Dylan is here. Got a Ravens hat on. Nobody's taking a shot at you this week, have they?

[Dylan]

There you go. Just orally.

[Marv Albert]

Orally.

[Dylan]

Verbally.

[Marv Albert]

Okay. Okay. Thank you for clarifying that.

[Louis Riddick]

You're welcome.

[Marv Albert]

Pittsburgh. They're really nice people. They're not that nice.

[Louis Riddick]

They're not quite that nice.

[Dan Patrick]

Paulie is here.

[Marv Albert]

Marvin's here, yours truly, and of course, the backroom guys as well. A lot to kind of decipher here. We'll talk to Lewis Riddick, who was on the draft coverage last night. He played his football at Pitt. He'll join us coming up. Tom Pelissero, NFL Network. Matt Miller, the draft expert from the mothership, as well. Some of the highlights.

[Dan Patrick]

It's weird to.

[Marv Albert]

I felt bad for Jeremiah Love, and it's weird to feel bad for him, he's going to make more guaranteed money than any other running back in history at over $50 million. But he's going to Arizona. And I thought it was maybe malpractice because once again, you're getting a guy who is great. He's my favorite player in the draft. But you're going to a team that doesn't have a quarterback. I don't know if they have much of an offensive line. McBride is good. You got Marvin Harrison Jr. The third, and now you get Jeremiah Love. Now, you got building blocks there. But I thought that Jeremiah Love, somebody was going to go get him. He's expensive for a running back, but he goes third to the Cardinals. The Ty Simpson situation. I want to take you back to yesterday morning. This was probably 12 minutes before the show. Paulie goes, oh, do you see? Glazer was on barstool. And Glaser said, hey, there might be something happening in the draft, a big surprise. And I'm paraphrasing. He said, why don't you reach out to him? I said, okay. So I text Jay and I said, are you up? Because it was West Coast. I said, are you up? He said, yeah. And I said, hey, what's going on with the possibility in the first round? Can you give me any kind of breadcrumbs here? And he said, it, you know, it's blown out of proportion. It's not going to be like Travis Hunter the year before where there's a big trade between Jacksonville and Cleveland. So then at the very end, I go, hey, what are the Rams doing? And he said, oh, the Jeremiah Love thing is a smokescreen. And I go, I wasn't asking about Jeremiah Love. I said, I think they're taking Ty Simpson at the end of the first round. So there's a pause, and he goes, I don't know. What do you think? And I'm thinking, you're the insider. Why are you asking me this? So I said, I just think they're. They're going to get somebody and then they'll get somebody at the end of the first round. So you get somebody now. You get somebody maybe who's going to be in the on deck circle for Matthew Stafford. We see the Rams, they take Ty Simpson, 13th pick.

[Dan Patrick]

And all of a sudden I get

[Marv Albert]

this text from Glazer. He goes, I was so. And then he put s o o o o o o o Worried that you heard something about the Rams taking Ty Simpson? I hadn't heard anything. I just thought they're probably going to come up and get him.

[Dan Patrick]

And it turns out that that was

[Marv Albert]

his big scoopage that Simpson was going 13th overall. He might be the right guy. Was just the wrong time. My thought was if you get him in the end of the first round. Now I've, I've tried to find this out this morning and I haven't gotten. And maybe Tom Petalcero or Louis Riddick can help me. But it felt like they knew somebody was going to take Ty Simpson a whole lot earlier than anybody else thought. I don't know if it was Pittsburgh. I don't know if the jets would have come back up. The Cardinals, somebody. From what I'm trying to gleaned, some information is they had to go up and get him at 13. But until you know, we have our insiders on there, I don't know that for a fact. Yes, Paulie.

[Paulie]

So the big debate here is the Rams are our current super bowl contender.

[Marv Albert]

I got the best. They have the best odds this morning from DraftKings, right. To win the Super Bowl.

[Paulie]

And with the 13th pick, Sean McVeigh obviously wants another weapon for next year. Last year the 13th pick was Tyler Warren, the tight end out of Penn State. He had like 80 catches in 800 yards. There's impact players available at 13.

[Marv Albert]

I got DraftKings. The Rams are the favorite to win the super bowl, followed by the Seahawks. Then it's the Bills and Ravens, Chiefs, Niners, Patriots, Chargers, packers and the Lions. I don't know what impact these draft picks had yesterday. I do like what Seattle did. They got Jadarian Price. He was the other running back at Notre Dame. Can you find out, has there ever been a first round pick who never started a game in his college career? Because I don't think this running back started a game for Notre Dame, but I think they got a great pick because Kenneth Walker goes to Kansas City. You pick him up and I think that's a great pick for him because

[Dan Patrick]

he was a he.

[Marv Albert]

That'd be one of those, you know, when you would have love go out of the game and Price come in and there was no let up there for Notre Dame. But I don't think he started a game. But I can't remember a first round draft pick who didn't start a game. All right, Dylan, what's the poll question for the first hour of the program?

[Dylan]

We got a couple options, Dan. I have one from Todd. Per usual, I will read it without any changes. The most awkward moment of the NFL draft was an increasingly sweaty Roger Goodell extended commissioner hugs of selected players. You don't know me like that. Fernando Mendoza accidentally leaving his little brother Max hanging for a handshake.

[Marv Albert]

Okay. I thought that that was like a

[Dan Patrick]

corporate, off site meeting.

[Marv Albert]

When I saw Fernando Mendoza and his family. A lot of blazers, awkward white guys shaking hands. And, you know, you'd have. And his little brother kept.

[Dan Patrick]

He had his hand out for his

[Marv Albert]

brother, and his brother totally blew him off. And you're just like, hey, high five. And then it'd be like, dad, but

[Dan Patrick]

somebody's trying to shake your hand.

[Marv Albert]

And I was like. And, you know, you get up and you start hugging each other. You're in the same room for the last hour. You don't need to introduce yourself to the people you've been sitting there with for an hour now. Just like. Okay. Yeah. Yes, Paulie.

[Paulie]

I thought the Mendoza family did a good job acting like they were surprised that their. Their brother went number one in the draft. They're all jumping around, and then they're pulling Raiders hats from the cushions to the couch. Not a big surprise.

[Marv Albert]

Yeah.

[Dylan]

With like, a news crew there.

[Marv Albert]

Yes, Marvin.

[Stugotz]

Roger Goodell, he's been perfecting his dap with the players because it's an easy slap hug. Now, there could be a cultural divide sometimes with an older white man and younger black people, but now it was slap hug. There's no. He's been working on that.

[Marv Albert]

Yeah.

[Stugotz]

So good for him. I mean, but he was sweating, like,

[Paulie]

brother love in the wwe, our handshakes over crisp handshakes.

[Marv Albert]

Because yesterday we had a member of the audience.

[Paulie]

We got a picture afterwards.

[Marv Albert]

African American gentleman who came up and he gave me a handshake.

[Stugotz]

Gave you a job interview.

[Marv Albert]

Handshake, handshake came to you. Marvin. Man, he started.

[Louis Riddick]

Yeah.

[Marv Albert]

Like, he was all over you. Like, it was a honeymoon.

[Stugotz]

It was like the key and Peele speech.

[Marv Albert]

Yes.

[Stugotz]

The skit.

[Marv Albert]

Yes.

[Stugotz]

Where everyone, you know, handshake, handshake. How are you? Good to meet you, Marvin. Happy Black History Month, brother.

[Louis Riddick]

Yeah.

[Stugotz]

James of Virginia.

[Marv Albert]

Yeah. Yes, Dylan.

[Dylan]

I guess we could do the poll question. If you go in for a handshake, are you doing the classic handshake, A quick dap. A fist bump, the dap hug. Because I get this wrong about 90% of the time.

[Marv Albert]

I think you just got to be

[Dan Patrick]

committed right away, whatever it is.

[Marv Albert]

Like, I put the hand out, but I'm more of a dap guy now. I'm like, all right, we don't need to bring it in and any of that stuff. The commissioner does seem a little overly commissioner like it's just like buddy, you know, he gets excited there. Yes, Todd.

[Todd]

I think it also depends on the age of the person. Like a handshake is universally accepted, even if it's starting to die out like the dinosaurs. But if like some 75 year old woman comes over to you, like if we're meeting someone here for a meet and greet, you know, daps would seem like a kind of a weird thing that someone that might be someone's grandmother.

[Louis Riddick]

You got to dap them up.

[Marv Albert]

Well, thank you, Todd. It seems you, you're the king of.

[Todd]

I know, hugging and awkwardness.

[Marv Albert]

Hugging.

[Todd]

Yeah.

[Louis Riddick]

Yeah.

[Todd]

I, I will meet someone for the first time and I'll bring it in. That's. I was brought up that way. Not. They don't. You don't want to get arrested or anything, but not, not to the point where they're calling 91 1. But just, you know, I just like to show people affection and sometimes it comes across as inappropriate, which is not the intention.

[Marv Albert]

Yes, Paul.

[Paulie]

I don't know if it's on Fritzi's poll of awkward moments, but Kaden Proctor, the offensive tackle of Alabama when he got drafted by Miami, nobody said anything nice about the guy. They didn't say like, he's a great player. Mel Kuiper said, career underachiever, still waiting for him to pan out. Nick Saban, this guy used to play underneath him and he was less than complimentary.

[Marv Albert]

It was weird that you're trying to say something. It's almost like it feels like a must lie situation where you want to say something and then when your compliment is, he's huge. Okay, what else? He's huge. And I go, okay. And then all of a sudden you're hearing Mel say something. Nick Saban saying something. And they're saying, you know, he's really got to apply himself and, you know, keep his weight down. I think was another comment. Yes, Todd, it's tough when they show

[Todd]

offensive lineman highlights in general and they put like the little arrow or the little light on that person and I know they're doing something significant. But for someone that doesn't play football or it's certainly not offensive line, it doesn't look like anything that exciting. You're that big, you should be able to push them backwards for a couple of seconds so the running back can go through.

[Marv Albert]

Thank you, Todd.

[Todd]

Welcome.

[Marv Albert]

The Cowboys got Caleb Downs. He seemed pretty excited. Felt like that was. Do you want to talk about an intelligent football player? A great football player, played at Alabama, played at Ohio State and Dallas Went to get him. And I think that was a great pick. As much as we bang on the Cowboys, and there's a lot of reason to do that. They've drafted pretty well. They've had some pretty good draft picks here, but, you know, the big headliner was Simpson going to the Rams. All righty. Any other poll questions there for the first hour?

[Dylan]

Paulie sent me one, which is just.

[Marv Albert]

You seem like you got roughed up last night.

[Dan Patrick]

Okay.

[Dylan]

I was actually. I was going to address this. So we were here watching the draft, and it was pretty loud in here, so I was. It was either talking over people or the three cigars that I smoked.

[Marv Albert]

You didn't look like you were banged up last night. I wasn't, but you look banged up today.

[Dylan]

I wasn't drinking this morning.

[Paulie]

Baby steps.

[Marv Albert]

Okay. All right. But. But you're okay?

[Dylan]

No, I feel good. It's just my voice is a little hoarse.

[Marv Albert]

Okay.

[Dylan]

I only smoke three cigars.

[Marv Albert]

Yes. John.

[Todd]

I don't want to get too personal, but I kind of like the raspy to me more thing. We're getting a little close.

[Marv Albert]

What did you do last night?

[Todd]

I went to Hamburger Harry's or whatever

[Louis Riddick]

the place is called.

[Todd]

Touchdown. Touchdown.

[Louis Riddick]

Jesus. What was it called?

[Todd]

Home Run Harry's. And I got a turkey club and a side of chicken tender. It's a good thing. I got two things.

[Dylan]

Side of chicken.

[Paulie]

It's not a side. It's a separate. It's a separate entree.

[Todd]

Some people get French fries. I got like. And chicken tender. But there was. The order was. It was fine. It was serviceable. But I was expecting, like, you know, when I go, like, to New York to get a big corned beef sandwich.

[Marv Albert]

Where did you watch the draft?

[Todd]

I watched the draft in the comfort of room seven, now that I checked.

[Dan Patrick]

Okay.

[Todd]

Room seven.

[Stugotz]

No one's going there.

[Marv Albert]

Nobody's going to your room.

[Todd]

Well, now that I've checked out, just

[Dylan]

in case you don't know, I knew that yesterday.

[Todd]

There's no stalkers, but 7:17 in the Sheraton right there. The Sheraton Square station.

[Marv Albert]

You were there by yourself?

[Todd]

I was. And I really enjoyed. I enjoyed my time.

[Marv Albert]

Whoever's in that room next is in for a rude treat.

[Todd]

I had my Broncos little Zubaz pants on and a little softball shirt. I put the TV on. I had my. My hot. My honey mustard for the tenders, a little mayo for the turkey club, and I was good to go. I was fine.

[Marv Albert]

Nobody embraces the city of Pittsburgh quite like you do.

[Todd]

I went for A long walk on Tuesday after our rehearsal and everything. And then the other days, I just. We went out for dinner. I was sociable, right. We went into Tuesday night and Wednesday night. But at the last night, I wasn't in the mood for anybody. Honesty.

[Marv Albert]

We had a draft party last night.

[Todd]

I heard that you guys may be coming here for something, but I'm not a cigar smoker. And it gets in my face and my eyes stop burning. I'm like, you know what? I'm going to just watch it under the covers. I was in bed there, like at

[Marv Albert]

8:17 under the covers.

[Todd]

I think definitely by 8:30. By pick six. Whoever had the six pick. I was definitely under the covers. I got hot and I took the

[Marv Albert]

COVID There are children here. So you.

[Todd]

You were under the COVID I was very comfortable.

[Marv Albert]

Okay.

[Todd]

I had my bronco onesie on.

[Marv Albert]

All right, here we go. You are so, by the way, the Todd cast. If you ever want to know more about Todd and why Todd is Todd the [e-mail] that's my mother's fault.

[Todd]

We know that.

[Marv Albert]

It is your mother's fault.

[Todd]

At 56, I said, some point, you got to take responsibility for your own behavior.

[Stugotz]

It's very easy.

[Todd]

A lot of people do that. My mom screwed me up. A lot of people do that when they talk to their psychiatrists. But at some point, you're like, you know what? I'm an adult, and whatever I do, that's on me.

[Marv Albert]

Now, this is Friday. Fritzi, I'm going to put you on a word count today. Okay?

[Todd]

That's fair.

[Marv Albert]

I'm going to have to do that. All right, so we're going to have to have a word count for each hour.

[Todd]

Are you saying I tend to ramble a little bit? I don't get to the point. What do we say?

[Marv Albert]

Land the plane, Todd. Land the plane.

[Todd]

Back to you.

[Marv Albert]

How about we take a break?

[Todd]

That is a Dan Patrick show.

[Marv Albert]

How about we take a break? More on the draft right after this. From Pittsburgh on the Dan Patrick show,

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[Marv Albert]

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[Marv Albert]

Great crowd here in Pittsburgh. Sun's out. You got day two of the draft coming up tonight. Wonderful performance by the city. Stat of the day is always brought to you by Panini America, the official trading cards of the program. I asked the question. It wasn't a rhetorical. I didn't know the answer because Jadarian Price goes to Seattle, first round pick, but I don't think he had a career start at Notre Dame. And I was wondering, when's the last time we had a player without maybe a career start? Did Josh Jacobs start at Alabama?

[Paulie]

He was mostly a backup. Harris. Damien Harris, yeah.

[Marv Albert]

So I don't know. But Josh Jacobs was the first round pick, wasn't he?

[Paulie]

The other one, I would say, is Ronnie Brown and Cadillac Williams at Auburn. Cadillac Williams got most of the carries. Ronnie Brown was a first rounder, I think, and he had much fewer carries.

[Marv Albert]

Yeah, Big day. Ray just sent me a note. Josh Jacobs got playing time. He was the backup to Damien Harris. He had under 700 yards rushing. Final year at Alabama. Selected 24th by the Raiders. But I don't know, it was just one of those weird stats or facts that. Here's a backup running back going in the first round to Seattle, Louis Riddick of the Mothership. He covers the NFL and college football. Former front office executive with Washington and Philadelphia. Please welcome our good buddy, Louis Riddick.

[Louis Riddick]

What's up, guys? How are you? Nice to see you. Dan Patrick. How are you, sir? Let me throw this down here. How about that? Hail to pit.

[Marv Albert]

All right. Look at you. Got all kinds of gear. You came in looking like Shaft. You know what?

[Louis Riddick]

I figured I didn't want to wear my typical Lululemon. And you know, I, I said, you know what? For my guy, dp, I'm here in my city, okay? Here where the, you know, where I spent some really good years.

[Marv Albert]

Got your leather jacket.

[Todd]

You know what?

[Louis Riddick]

This, this is one of my. You know, I bought this at an airport, right? I bought this at the Newark Airport. They had, they, they, they've opened, they opened some high end, like, shops. There was like a boss. A boss clothing store. And I was in there like 6:30 in the morning. They were just pulling the, the gates up and I was like, give me that coat. And the guy was like, we're not open. I was like, give me that coat. And I bought it.

[Marv Albert]

Yeah, now.

[Louis Riddick]

And now my wife Dec. Like, you wear that thing everywhere.

[Marv Albert]

Yes. Marvin.

[Louis Riddick]

Yeah.

[Stugotz]

You look like you could have been in Jodeci.

[Louis Riddick]

You never know, man. With this bald head and stuff. Yeah, I am dating myself a little bit.

[Marv Albert]

How you feeling? Good.

[Louis Riddick]

Just tired. You know, it's, it's. There's so much emotion from last night. I mean, that crowd was ridiculous. 300,000 people. I mean, are you kidding me? You work so long, Dan, to get ready for this, you know, you, you basically, it's something that I started doing back in September. And then the night comes and goes so fast, but you're so locked in for three, four hours that you, when you get back to your hotel, I mean, you're just exhausted. And I just. I mean, I took a shower, fell right asleep. And today's even longer. But this is. The draft is one of the coolest things that the NFL's got going.

[Marv Albert]

All right. How surprised? Where did your surprise begin?

[Louis Riddick]

Oh, man. I think surprise wise, and I think there's no question the Ty Simpson pick probably caught everyone off guard. It did not, to be honest with you, catch me off guard. I talked to his father. January, February, and he was trying to decide if he wanted to go back to school because Miami wanted him to hit the transfer portal and come down the Coral Gables.

[Marv Albert]

Yeah. Six and a half million dollars.

[Louis Riddick]

And he was told at the time, he was like, hey, man, you need. Your son needs to declare he's going to go in the first round. And he stuck to it. And the team that, quite honestly, really liked him the most picked it.

[Marv Albert]

Yeah, but I can like the player. I don't like the pick. I don't like taking him that high.

[Louis Riddick]

Yeah.

[Marv Albert]

I want to know. There had to be some intel. And this felt. This is a less sne draft pick. This is the. Because if I looked at the body language of Sean, a lot of people

[Louis Riddick]

have been looking at that.

[Marv Albert]

That didn't, didn't sound.

[Louis Riddick]

Yeah, it look good. It looked like Sean was sitting there going, you know, I could have used a bunch of other positions other than quarterback, but that's what lesson's job is. Les. Job is to take care of the football team, both short and long term.

[Marv Albert]

I thought Brable looked more comfortable in front of the microphone than Sean McVeigh did last night.

[Louis Riddick]

I'm not touching that.

[Marv Albert]

Somebody.

[Louis Riddick]

There's a lot going on there.

[Marv Albert]

Somebody had to want Ty Simpson to go up that high.

[Louis Riddick]

It was less.

[Marv Albert]

No, no. What other team?

[Louis Riddick]

Oh, you know what? I don't necessarily believe that. I, I.

[Marv Albert]

You don't think if he was there with.

[Louis Riddick]

No, I think, I think sometimes, from what I was told, Pittsburgh was not going to take him regardless if he was there.

[Marv Albert]

They needed help on the offensive.

[Louis Riddick]

Right. They weren't going to take him. They weren't gonna. They, they kind of. I think they felt a little, a little regret over how the Kenny Pickett situation turned out. And they, they knew, like, a lot of the backlash that they got for that pick was that maybe some people didn't think Kenny was a first round pick in the first place. And I don't think they wanted to go through that again. I don't think they wanted to deal with that kind of speculation.

[Marv Albert]

But the Rams are winning now. I got DraftKings has them with the best odds to win the Super Bowl. Yeah, okay. Jordan Love worked out for the packers, but the, you know, Ty Simpson doesn't help the Rams. If he's helping the Rams, that mean Matthew Stafford got hurt. Yeah, I, I don't understand.

[Louis Riddick]

But see, there's, you know, here, here's the other thing. And, and I understand, like a first round pick is something that obviously you expect to get immediate return on investment. There's a lot of time left in off season. They can still do things in order to help this football team short term, while at the same time. Now, remember, remember last year before the season started, we didn't know if Matthew was going to play. Who's to say that something couldn't flare up on him in the next three, four. Now we hope we. He's one of my favorite people, so I'm not wishing bad things on him at all. But Les is trying to take care of the future while at the same time feeling as though they've done some great work with the veteran free agency market for them to take both of Kansas City's corners to trade for Trevor Jalen Watson, I mean, they, that was their number one need. Now, I know this offseason they've also, they've also floated around and kind of flirted with trading Devonte because they thought maybe they could be in on the A.J. brown sweepstakes, which he's going in New England. Yeah, but they were trying to get him too. So, yeah, they, they, they've been very, very active.

[Marv Albert]

But you got. Okay, Dante Adams is 34.

[Louis Riddick]

Right.

[Marv Albert]

You had Lemon there, Sadiq there.

[Louis Riddick]

True, true.

[Marv Albert]

I mean, you had some weapons there. And Sean loves shiny toys on offense, no doubt.

[Louis Riddick]

And I think there was probably a lot of real good discussion and probably some heated discussion in that draft room about what they should do. But from what I gather, I think, I think it was Adam who reported it. Somebody did. I don't know if it was Adam or Peter. They said that, that Sean called Matthew before they, before they picked him and told him, look, this is the way we're going to go with it. So I'm sure it's something that's going to need, you know, some massaging, a

[Marv Albert]

little more respect than the packers did Aaron Rodgers, to say the least. Hey, turn on the draft. We're going to take another quarterback there,

[Louis Riddick]

to say the least. But you know what? This is the perfect place for Tyson himself.

[Marv Albert]

I agree.

[Louis Riddick]

He is going to. I, you know me, man, I, I like to make big declarations because I, I'm kind of a convicted person when I, when I really believe something. He'll have a decades long career in that organization if Sean sticks around and they just can. This is the perfect, perfect, perfect spot for him.

[Marv Albert]

I was. As weird as this is going to sound, he could have a better career than Fernando Mendoza. That's given the situation.

[Louis Riddick]

I don't disagree with that. It could happen that way.

[Marv Albert]

But this is what I thought. And once again, I have no intel on this. It felt like Les Snead is saying, I'm going to be around here for a lot longer than Sean McVeigh is going to be. Sean might be a. Let's give this one more shot and then I'm going to do some TV here. Yeah. Is that fair to say that?

[Louis Riddick]

Yes. It's, it's funny. Look, see, this is why I love you, man. This is why I love coming on this show. I was just saying that downstairs when I was talking about, I was like that, that's what, that's exactly what it feels like. Like, hey, Sean, I respect you. You're one of the very best and he is. But I have a feeling that, you know, that, that Les feels as though he's entrenched in that organization. And look, the Runway for GMs is obviously is always longer than coaches anyway. Yeah, I mean, Marvin Lewis told me that a long time ago when we were both in Washington and I really was thinking about getting into coaching. He said, stick with front office. He said, this coaching businessman, although he went on and what, coach 13 years for the Bengals? Yeah, but that's exactly what it's probably telling you. Like, he knows that. Hey, him and Stan Kroenke, we're good. You do what you need to do. Sean is without a doubt going to go. Sean. Sean has hall of Fame caliber coaching, you know, acumen. But he's also a dude who you could just kind of, you can see he's got so many people who want him to do so many things. He's not hurting for opportunity.

[Marv Albert]

Talking to Louis Riddick of the mothership covering the draft last night, help me understand this. It feels like every year you get teams who look at the tape.

[Louis Riddick]

Yep.

[Marv Albert]

But then they look at the measurables. So Reuben Bain, when I watched him play in the playoffs last year, was the best Player on the field most of the time, well, he's got short arms and he didn't run a 40, therefore he's going to slide a little bit. I don't understand. Help me understand that the tape doesn't lie, does it?

[Louis Riddick]

No.

[Marv Albert]

Okay. Measurables lie or deceive.

[Louis Riddick]

Measurables give you comfort in the event that the player doesn't work out, that you don't get fired. That's what they do. The draft is about, is really a risk assessment exercise. So for Reuben Bain, right, if you take him inside of the top 10, if he works out, you're a genius. You watch the tape. You know football. Even though there's people going, he's got 30 inch arms. If he ran a 40, he'd probably run about 4, 8, 5. He only weighed 263 pounds at the combine. These guys don't work out in the NFL. But he worked out for you. So you must be pretty damn good at picking players. That's great now. And so you could sit there and pat yourself on the back now. But see, that's not how GMs think they think, what if he doesn't? Because then the owner's going to come to me and go, guys who are this short, that arm length, run that slow, there's a history of them not succeeding in the NFL. Why would you do that? Why would you put our organization at risk knowing what the objective data showed you? You're out of here. That's what happens. People, the higher up in the draft, you go, you want to check every box possible. That in the event that it doesn't work out, you can sit there and go, wasn't me. It's the player. That's why Russell Wilson slid. That's why Aaron Donald slid to 13. Aaron Donald was the best player in that draft by far, by far. But why did he fall? Because he was only 6, undersized, he only had 31 inch arms even though he won every freaking award in college football. And right now is maybe it's going to go down as maybe one of the top two defensive players in the history of football. But they didn't want to take him that hot. And that's why. Because in the event that you're wrong, you want to be able to say, it wasn't me.

[Marv Albert]

Give me the draft strategy that you didn't like.

[Louis Riddick]

Strategy. I don't, I don't think there was.

[Marv Albert]

You're okay with the Cardinals taking Jeremiah Love?

[Louis Riddick]

Yeah, I, you know why? And I knew you were going to go there When I was sitting here running this through my head, simply because I don't. I've had so many coaches, and it started with James Franklin, like, two years ago when I was out at the. We were down at the Peach bowl, and they were playing Ole Miss, and I was talking to them about team construction, and I was like, what's the number one thing? What's the most important thing in team construction right now? When you're talking about building rosters, whether it's in college or pros, what is it? He goes, offensively, I don't care where I get it. I need explosive plays. He goes, it's too hard to drive the football. Eight, nine, ten, ten plays a drive, and. And to get points, whether it's college football, high school pros, I need guys who can win games. If we stink up the joint for 59 minutes of a game, a guy who can win it on one play. I was like, where do you care where it comes from? Because I don't care. Just give me a weapon. That's what Jeremiah Love is.

[Marv Albert]

No, I love him, but I don't like the quarterbacking situation. I don't know about the offensive line. It's kind of like Ashton Genti with the Raiders wasn't a good offensive line, that's didn't have a quarterback. And I don't know if he's a. You know, like, there's a.

[Louis Riddick]

There's a couple. Yeah, you know what? And I. And I like that. Ashton and Jeremiah are totally different, though.

[Marv Albert]

Oh, I. He's my favorite player in the draft.

[Louis Riddick]

And here's the other thing, too. The situation in Vegas was just messed up. You know, Chip Kelly, Pete Carroll. It wasn't gonna work. It just wasn't. John Did. They didn't do a good job of building that offense. Monty Austin Ford has a lot of work to do. But you know what else Jeremiah Love's gonna do? He's gonna, like, make that fan base go, look, we need to go to the games. We need to buy some gear.

[Dan Patrick]

But I want to see greatness.

[Marv Albert]

It's.

[Dan Patrick]

It's like, you go, hey, there's Giselle.

[Marv Albert]

But she's wearing a burqa. Like, I want to. I want.

[Louis Riddick]

You know what?

[Dan Patrick]

I want to see her.

[Louis Riddick]

But I mean, look, a lot of people had mocked guys like CC Maui Noah, tackle from Miami to that spot. You think anybody's coming to the State Farm Stadium to see CC Maui Noah? They're going. They're not going there. They're like, who cares? They're going to Go Jeremiah Love. I'm buying that jersey. I want to see what this kid looks like. And as we all know, it's a business too.

[Marv Albert]

I know.

[Louis Riddick]

And that's. Hey, I love the kid. I love him. I think he's going to. They'll get it right there, I think.

[Marv Albert]

Okay, give me the big. You guys had to be hoping Ty Simpson fell into round two and you could have had a Shador Sanders situation. Right?

[Louis Riddick]

I had enough of that last year. Arguing with Mel. No, I actually, I, I wanted it to happen just like it did because now we're going to talk about it again today. There's some good players who are still on this board already.

[Marv Albert]

Give me three players that you go remember these players when I come on

[Louis Riddick]

next year for that that were drafted last night. No, you mean that'll be drafted today?

[Marv Albert]

Yeah.

[Louis Riddick]

Okay. Let's see. Denzel Boston, the wide receiver from Washington. He is. If you remember Marcus Colson when he was in New Orleans. That's what he is. But he's maybe even bigger and faster than that. Trading stooks to safety from Arizona. This is a guy who most people go, who the hell's trading stukes? I'm just telling you about. 6 foot, 195 pounds, 4. 3. He is absolutely lights out as a safety. Lights out. And there's another guy from Miami named Keontae Scott who plays defensive back. One of my. He's one of my top five favorite people in this draft. An absolute monster. Those three names. If you just go ahead and talk to football with your friends, you'll look really smart. If you mention those guys names in a couple years, they're going to be like, how the hell did you know that guy? No, because all be because you were here on Dan Patrick.

[Marv Albert]

I don't think that Mel Kuyper would ever describe Jeremiah Love as Gisele Bundgen in a burqa playing in the air. Now, I could be wrong, but I don't think you get that kind of analogy.

[Louis Riddick]

No.

[Marv Albert]

On. On draft night.

[Louis Riddick]

No, you wouldn't. Maybe you should come and join our desk.

[Marv Albert]

There's way too many people up there already. Way too many.

[Louis Riddick]

It's so fun though, man. I mean I, I absolutely love. Look the draft. It's wild coming back here to Pittsburgh and doing the draft because when I was drafted in 91, it. It for about 15 years just haunted me. I hated the draft. Every year that came around because I went in the ninth round and I probably should have left school here when I was.

[Marv Albert]

They don't even have a ninth round anymore.

[Louis Riddick]

I would have been a free agent. I would have been a free agent. I should have left here when I was a junior. I would have probably went into the first top of the sec. I had a distance, an absolute crap senior year. And so the draft was always something I hated. And to come back here now with to do the draft and the draft changed my life at ESPN 11 years ago. It's kind of a full circle moment. It's really cool. It's, it's super cool.

[Marv Albert]

I appreciate you getting up. I know you had a long night. And thank you for joining us all year long.

[Louis Riddick]

You know what? I love coming here.

[Marv Albert]

He's Louis Riddick of the mothership. Our play of the day is up next.

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[Marv Albert]

this is the play of the day. Check this out.

[Play-by-Play Announcer]

The OH1 pitch. Swinging a drive in the air pretty deep to left center. I don't think anybody's gonna get that. It's way back and it's off the wall in play and to clear the bases all three runners are going to score as the third of those fam comes home standing and standing at second with a bases clearing three run double is Bo Bichette and the Mets are back on top 10 to 7.

[Marv Albert]

Oh break up the Mets.

[Dan Patrick]

Mets Radio Network the victory helped the

[Marv Albert]

Mets earn their first series sweep of the Giants and doing so in early April.

[Dan Patrick]

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[Marv Albert]

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[Dan Patrick]

The offensive Rookie of the year, Jeremiah

[Marv Albert]

Love is number one, Carnell Tate two, Fernando Mendoza three, Jordan Tyson four and Makai Lemon is fifth on your Offensive Defensive player of the year. The Jets, David Bailey, Sonny Styles, Arbel Reese, Reuben Bain Jr. And then Caleb Downs. And as I mentioned at the beginning of the show, super bowl odds have the Rams as the favorites right now, followed by the Seahawks, then the Bills and the Ravens, Chief Snyders, Patriots, Chargers, packers and the Lions. There was a moment last night when Mike Greenberg, hosting the draft for the mothership, had the commissioner on and he did ask about Mike Vrabel and the Patriots.

[Louis Riddick]

Now.

[Marv Albert]

I was surprised, but you know, Greenie probably thought I gotta ask this question just so people understand, you know, the conduct detrimental policy. How does it apply to a coach instead of a player? Is this conduct detrimental? It's detrimental to a marriage, but I don't know if it's detrimental to the NFL. And then Mike Vrabel, the Patriots head coach, talked to the media last night.

[Mike Vrabel]

I take accountability for my actions and the actions that caused a distraction to the people that I care most about. My family, his football team, the organization and our fans. You know, my previous actions don't meet the standard that I hold myself to. They don't. And what I believe is best for the two most important things in my life, my family and this football team, is for us to take the necessary steps, to work together and to give them what I told them I'd give them, which is the best version of me. And that's what we're going to do. And that's going to start. That has started. That'll continue this weekend and it'll continue for however long it takes for me to give them and to complete that promise of giving them the best Version of me.

[Marv Albert]

Possible.

[Dan Patrick]

Certainly.

[Marv Albert]

It was a good thing he made the super bowl last year, I would think. But if I'm him, I stop talking. No need to talk about it anymore. Just concentrate on your team.

[Dan Patrick]

The problem I would have as an

[Marv Albert]

owner is, is he loose with the

[Dan Patrick]

information that he shares?

[Marv Albert]

I would be worried if I'm in the locker room of what he would be sharing if he shares with other reporters like he reportedly did with Diana Rossini. Like, that would be the football part of this.

[Dan Patrick]

The other salacious stuff.

[Marv Albert]

That's between him and his wife, Diana Rossini and her husband. But I will say this all could have ended if somebody did provide a picture of the other women who were supposed to be there with Diana Rossini at this resort, or if he had buddies who were there. There are no pictures. If you say you're there on a girl's, you know, weekend, give me a picture.

[Dan Patrick]

Bring some girls in.

[Marv Albert]

Let's see if you were actually having. And nobody provided anything.

[Dan Patrick]

I would hire girls to take a

[Marv Albert]

picture there, just to say I was there with girls, you know? Well, I couldn't say that I was there with guys. Yes, Paulie, go to the hotel bar,

[Paulie]

find a couple girls who've had a couple of cocktails. They want to get a selfie.

[Todd]

Yeah.

[Paulie]

You're in the clear.

[Marv Albert]

Yeah, but that's where. If I'm Mike, I just stopped talking here. I can't imagine Diana coming back from this to be any kind of NFL insider. Any information

[Dan Patrick]

jobs that you know, and

[Marv Albert]

maybe Barstool would hire her. She's been great when she was on the show with us, but I don't know if you can shed this anytime soon. And it's unfortunate. It's unfortunate because kids are involved with this. Grown ups do stupid things. I feel bad for the kids. Yes.

[Stugotz]

Marv, Is he going to have a shorter leash in New England because of this or. No, if he keeps winning, it's all good.

[Marv Albert]

I. I think in our sports society, when you win it, it's the great elixir. It covers up a lot. It's one big bandage. Yes.

[Paulie]

Paulie, you always say the deodorant of winning, but he's. He's a legend there as a player. He's a successful coach. I don't know if this is playing the same locally as it's playing nationally.

[Marv Albert]

Yeah, I don't know if he's going to get interrogated by the local media. You know, they're probably like, hey, just keep winning, you know, but how does this affect you the ownership sharing information. That's would be the one thing that I would want to know about. And did you tell them it only happened once and now you have to go back and say, you know what? I lied. It happened again. Tom Pellicero, NFL Network Insider will join us coming up. Matt Miller, the draft expert at the Mothership, will join us as well. One hour in the books on this meet Friday. Fritzi, Dylan, Paulie, Marv, yours truly and

[Dan Patrick]

a great crowd here in Pittsburgh. When draft day rolls around, every team has a plan. They studied the board, crunch the numbers,

[Marv Albert]

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[Dan Patrick]

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