Hour 1 - Robert Kraft gets the Bill Belichick Treatment

Summary

The Dan Patrick Show — Hour 1: "Robert Kraft Gets the Bill Belichick Treatment"

Date: February 3, 2026
Podcast: The Dan Patrick Show (iHeartPodcasts and Dan Patrick Podcast Network)

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Overview

In this lively episode, Dan Patrick and the Danettes broadcast from San Francisco during Super Bowl week, bringing their typical mix of sports analysis, humor, and banter. The show zeroes in on controversy over the recent Pro Football Hall of Fame voting snubs of Robert Kraft and Bill Belichick, explores anti-Patriots bias, dives into the quirks and politics of sports honors, and features candid reflections from guest Ross Tucker. Other topics include Barry Bonds' Hall of Fame case, unique football player styles, life on the road, the global ambitions of the NFL, and plenty of classic Dan Patrick Show comedic exchanges.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Super Bowl Week Broadcast Vibes

• The crew jokes about the haze in the studio:
  • “[01:14] Dan Patrick: Secondhand smoke is on tap today… a double dose of whatever somebody’s waking and baking in here. Aroma. You alright, Todd?”
  • The show is being taped at a location near McCovey Cove, beside the Giants’ ballpark, and the atmosphere is loose and jovial.

2. The Barry Bonds Statue Debate

• Discussion on where the Giants should put a Barry Bonds statue:
  • [04:10] Paulie suggests a water-based statue: “Can you build a water-based statue that pops up like a fountain during home games? The Barry Bonds statue would be in McCovey Cove.”
  • [04:47] Dan jokes: “It would come up and there’d be all kinds of algae on it and seaweed because it hadn’t been up there in a while.”
  • The CEO of the Giants stated a Hall of Fame induction is the precondition for statues.

3. Interactive Fan Statues (Joke Segment)

• The Danettes brainstorms on interactive statues, recalling JT Snow saving Dusty Baker’s son during the 2002 World Series ([06:00]):
  • Marvin: “What about interactive activity out front where you could scoop up Dusty Baker's kid? AI-based, not the actual child.”
  • Dan: “Okay, we’ll work on that… Workshop.”

4. Patriots Hall of Fame Snubs: Conspiracy or Process?

• Main discussion revolves around Robert Kraft and Bill Belichick missing Hall of Fame induction due to the 80% vote threshold.
  • Dan challenges the logic of intentionally voting for less controversial candidates this year ([06:23] – [07:26]):
    • “If the goal was to get these other candidates in… you got Belichick and Kraft out of the way. Now Kenny Anderson, LC Greenwood, or Roger Craig should get into the hall of Fame. Adam Schefter reported Robert Kraft did not get the 80% total… My only issue is if everybody had this altruistic motive… you still have to get 80% of the vote.”
  • Paulie raises the possibility of a backroom deal ([07:26]):
    • “I don’t like to use the word conspiracy, but for Kraft and Belichick to both not get in feels like maybe a group of guys got together and had a chat before they walked in the room to vote.”
  • Seaton, in his “media voter” voice, mimics rationalization ([08:07]):
    • “It’s not so much that I didn’t vote for him, it’s that I did vote for someone else.”
  • Dan expresses frustration at process gamesmanship:
    • “This is your job. Your job is, ‘Hey, Hall of Famer, yay or nay,’ not… ‘He cheated, I’ll get back to you next year on this.’” ([08:23])
  • They compare the Kraft/Belichick snub to how Barry Bonds is treated regarding steroids, voters using process as cover for personal stances.
    • “If you’re not voting for Robert Kraft for cheating… then continue to vote that way, what would change?” ([09:28])
    • Seaton: “People are using the rules of Hall of Fame voting to hide behind not wanting to vote for these people.” ([09:50])

5. Barry Bonds and Hall of Fame Voters’ Inconsistency

• Marvin recalls how Bonds’ MVP performance was rewarded by writers even as suspicions grew ([11:00]):
  • “They voted him MVP four straight years when his arms were popping out of his jersey… But now the Hall of Fame comes up and now I don’t want to [vote] because I guess I’m on some moral high ground.”
• Dan shares a player’s blunt reflection:
  • “He goes, steroids work, man.” ([12:00])
• Paulie runs through Bonds’ crazy stats at 39:
  • “45 homers… walked 232 times, by far the most in history. They took his bat away one third of the time and he still hit 45 homers.” ([12:21])

6. Jokes and Banter: From Ointment Balls to John Mayer Faces

• Todd jokes that pitchers should be able to cheat too ([13:55]):
  • “Every time Bonds got up, they should have allowed the pitcher to scuff the ball, put any kind of ointment … salve… everything goes.”
• Dan reminisces about scuffed balls in the 1980s ([14:28]):
  • “I remember the Mets called him ‘Mike Scuff’ … I remember seeing one of those because they collect them, and I was like, damn, how are they letting this happen?”

7. Poll Questions and Guest Lineup

• Polls posed: Is there/should there be anti-Patriots bias in Hall of Fame voting? Who’s the best dinner guest among today’s guests?
• Frank Caliendo, Steve Young, ‘Mad Dog’ Russo, and Ross Tucker will join the show.

8. Ross Tucker Interview (23:00–36:57)

• Ross’s “branding” as the ‘Princeton guy’ and memories as a Dallas Cowboy ([23:06]–[25:23]).
• On the Hall voting:
  • “If you’re someone that’s been part of the hall of fame for 20 years, 30 years, you have fought so hard to get guys like Kenny Anderson and L.C. Greenwood from the 70s on the ballot… These players, this is the only chance these players have.” ([26:42])
• On unique running styles:
  • “Is it not weird … no other player has tried to run the ball like Roger Craig did?” ([28:16])
• On his commentary duties for Super Bowl 60 broadcast back to the UK, the UK’s fascination with the Super Bowl, British measurements: stones, kilos, etc.
  • “[29:40] …it was the number one sick day in the UK [after the Super Bowl]. They’re learning.”
• Banter about British accents for UK broadcasts and the size of co-commentators.
• Drake May’s injury/shoulder: Ross observes his interview body language (33:00).
• On Sam Darnold and changing sports narratives: “I like people in life that overcome adversity, and I like people that just…” ([34:15])
  • Dan (teasing): “Oh, you do? You don’t like people who can’t overcome it? …That sounds like something Todd would do.”
• Ross quips about refusing to praise teams that cut him (“I don’t feel that way about some of the teams that let me go…” [34:39])

9. NFL Globalization & the Future Super Bowl

• Talk of expanding the NFL season to 18 (or 19) games and the leverage this gives players ([38:48]–[42:21]).
• Speculation on a future Super Bowl in London and obstacles (US public resistance, time zone issues, "Super Bowl Saturday") ([42:47]–[44:09]):
  • “You could take away the, like, ‘we’re American, you can’t do that’ thing… what people are really going to be upset about is why are you making me watch this at 4:00?” (Seaton, 43:12)
  • Suggestion that the biggest impact is changing fans' routines, not nationalism.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Hall of Fame voting:

  • Dan: “This is your job. Your job is, ‘Hall of Famer, yay or nay,’ not… ‘He cheated, I’ll get back to you next year on this.’” ([08:23])

• On Bonds & the double standard:

  • Marvin: “They voted him MVP four straight years when his arms were popping out of his jersey… But now the Hall of Fame comes up and now I don’t want to [vote]…” ([11:00])

• On global NFL expansion:

  • Dan: “They’ve gotten everything they could get out of America. Now it’s about taking over the world.” ([44:22])

• Playful banter on broadcast high jinks:

  • Dan: “You still got to turn your microphone on.”
    Paulie: “It’s the smoke.”
    Marvin: “It’s messing with him.”
    Dan: “Hey, great news. Todd’s microphone doesn’t work.”
    Seaton: “Yay.”
    Dan: “And we’re high.” ([01:14]–[01:46])

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Segment Timestamps

• [01:14]–[03:32] – Broadcast atmosphere, crowd, McCovey Cove/Bonds statue talk
• [06:15]–[10:25] – Patriots Hall snubs, voting mechanics, process critique
• [11:00]–[13:48] – Barry Bonds, media hypocrisy, steroid era, eye-popping stats
• [13:55]–[15:23] – Ball doctoring, humorous hypotheticals
• [23:06]–[36:57] – Ross Tucker guest segment (player perspective, Hall process, unique NFL styles, UK Super Bowl coverage, Darnold narrative)
• [38:27]–[44:22] – NFL growth, rumors on the season expansion, Super Bowl in London, American fan traditions

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Tone and Language

The show maintains its signature blend of sharp sports analysis, irreverence, and freewheeling banter among the Danettes. There’s a mix of sincere argument, laugh-out-loud moments, and inside sports knowledge, making the conversation engaging and entertaining for any sports fan.

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For New Listeners

This episode spotlights the intersecting lines between sports accomplishment, public perception, and legacy—whether in how we honor Hall of Famers, discuss all-time greats like Barry Bonds, or imagine football’s future as a global phenomenon. It’s the Dan Patrick Show at its best: honest, funny, and deeply in touch with both the serious and the absurd sides of sports culture.

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Guests this hour (coming up or mentioned):

• Ross Tucker (CBS Sports/Westwood One NFL)
• Steve Young (Niners legend — coming later)
• Christopher "Mad Dog" Russo (Sirius XM — coming later)
• Frank Caliendo (comedian — coming later)

Notable Poll Questions:

• Is there an anti-Patriots bias in this year’s Hall of Fame voting?
• Should there be?

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End of Hour 1 Summary

Transcript

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[Dan Patrick]

Secondhand smoke is on tap today. Day 2 here in San Francisco. Man, I got a double dose of whatever somebody's waking and bacon in here. Aroma. You all right? Todd? You got to turn your microphone on too. You still got to turn your microphone on.

[Paulie]

It's the smoke.

[Marvin]

It's messing with them.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah. Hey, great news. Todd's microphone doesn't work.

[Seaton]

Yay.

[Dan Patrick]

And we're high. Welcome to the show already in progress here. We will get phone calls coming up. Tyler sitting by. 877 3DP show. Great guest list here. Steve Young, Niner hall of Famer. A little later on, Christopher Mad Dog Russo from Sirius XM and Frank Caliendo will stop by and our good buddy Ross Tucker from CBS Sports will join us as well. Play of the Day Poll Questions Stat of the Day all of that forthcoming Stat of the Day brought to you by Panini America. The official trading cards of the Dan Patrick Show. I think they're working on Fritz's microphone. Super Bowl Sunday if you can't be here, the TCL ultimate series, the QM8K or the QM9K. The best seat. The official TV partner of the Dan Patrick show available at all major retailers. You're going to be okay, Todd. We'll get it fixed for you. Testing. Oh Darn it.

[Todd]

Sorry about that.

[Dan Patrick]

It works. That's a bummer. Yeah. We'll have a poll question. Seaton will come up with that. Yes, Paulie, it was like a pit.

[Marvin]

Crew coming in there to change Todd's mic.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah. Okay, so Steve Young a little later on today, Mad dog, Frank Caliendo and Ross Tucker will join us. Coming up, it's a meat Tuesday every day courtesy of Heartland steak company. So we have dill crusted salmon.

[Marv]

Come on now.

[Dan Patrick]

We have American pork chops. We have Iowa pork pork chops. Who has it better than we do?

[Paulie]

Nobody.

[Dan Patrick]

Alrighty, Iowa. This is the second best crowd we've had this week so far. Right now, round of applause for the second best.

[Seaton]

They can make it up to the first best crowd.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah.

[Seaton]

Depending on how it goes today.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah. If you'd like to join us here, you can first come, first serve. As far as seats at the China Basin park and right here in the shadows, I got McCovey Cove right over my left shoulder. We got the ballpark here. The Willie McCovey statue. We had the CEO, the president, Larry Bearer yesterday talking about the Barry Bonds statue that they've yet to I guess commission or where it's going to be. Jeff Kent gets a statue. Buster Posey will be a hall of famer. He gets a statue. Now Paulie has an idea for the Barry Bond statue. Now you want to reveal this?

[Paulie]

Yeah.

[Dan Patrick]

Okay. Are you being serious about where they could put the Bonds statue?

[Marvin]

I'd say 10% serious, 90% joke. Barry Bonds made McCovey Cove. He parked him in McCovey Cove all the time. The search of McCovey Cove. Can you build a water based statue that pops up like a fountain during home games? The Barry Bonds statue would be in McCovey Cove. If you look, it'd be a great spot.

[Dan Patrick]

Okay, but do you have to hit a home run for the Bond statue to come up?

[Dan Patrick Show Promo]

That's a bonus idea.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, but I don't know if the Giants have any left handed hitters who are going to be hitting into the.

[Marvin]

MC affect how they attract free agents.

[Dan Patrick]

Like it would come up and there'd be all kinds of algae on it and seaweed and because it hadn't been up there in a while. Yes, Todd, but just for the record.

[Todd]

It'S not clear where they're going to put it.

[Dan Patrick]

Wow.

[Seaton]

You really got a cream one to get it out here though.

[Marvin]

I don't think they're going to do the water based st.

[Dan Patrick]

I don't think so either. But where would you put it. Because McCovey Cove is on the other side of McCovey Cove. So that's over where we are. Then you have Juan Marshall, you have Willie mays, you have McCovey, and then you're going to have Buster Posey. Buster Posey, a catcher. So you would kind of. Do you want that in conjunction with home plate somewhere outside the stadium? But, you know, there's a whole walkway around this stadium of where you could put statues there. This is gonna be like you're in Italy with all the statues walking through Florence. Yeah, well, they're not going to be nude, but they're gonna have quite a few statues here. If. Well, the CEO said if you make the hall of Fame, you get a statue. Yeah.

[Marvin]

Paulie, how about some type of activity out here? Remember, they played during the O2 World Series when JT Snow scooped up Darren Baker, the son of Dusty Baker, at home plate?

[Dan Patrick]

Okay.

[Marvin]

Keep him from being run over. What about interactive activity out front where you could scoop up Dusty Baker's kid? AI based, not the actual child.

[Dan Patrick]

Okay, we'll work on that when? Yeah, Workshop. All righty. Seaton poll question for the first hour of this Tuesday program.

[Seaton]

Robert Kraft is not a Hall of Famer because. Stinking dot, huh?

[Dan Patrick]

Okay, who made the hall of Fame? Now? They've told me, okay, if the goal was to get these other candidates in, okay, mission accomplished. You got Belichick and Kraft out of the way. Now Kenny Anderson, LC Greenwood, or Roger Craig should get into the hall of Fame. Adam Schefter reported Robert Kraft did not get the 80% total to make the hall of Fame. So who got in? Because my. My only issue is if everybody had this altruistic motive in mind to get the other guys in, because Kraft and Belichick are. Are eventually going to get in, I hope that at least two get in, but you still have to get 80% of the vote. That's the problem I have with this. It's not like, hey, we didn't vote for Belichick. We didn't vote for Robert Kraft. Okay. Are two of these guys get in? That would be great. I just worry to be like, all of this, and nobody got in.

[Marvin]

Yes, Paulie, I brought this up the other day, and I. I think. I don't like to use the word conspiracy, but for Kraft and Belichick to both not get in, feels like maybe a group of guys got together and had a chat before they walked in the room to vote.

[Dan Patrick]

See, I don't know if they can do anything together that you only remember.

[Marvin]

I think it was 10 people had to not vote for Belichick and 11 didn't. That seems awful coincidental. Yeah, because there's nine he's in and.

[Dan Patrick]

But I don't know. What. If it's the same number for crafted as it is for Belichick, then we might have one of them conspiracy theories.

[Seaton]

You know, it's not so much that I didn't vote for him, it's that I did vote for someone else.

[Dan Patrick]

This is Seton with his universal voice for the media voting on. I don't.

[Seaton]

I don't have a problem with the Patriots. I'm not making it about them. It's just, it was time for these other people again. So it's not so much that I didn't vote for them, it's that I did vote for these other people.

[Dan Patrick]

I know, I know, I know. It still comes back to, this is your job. Your job is, hey, hall of Famer, yay or nay. Not. You know, he cheated. I'll get back to you next year on this.

[Seaton]

Robert Kraft and Bill Belichick didn't get in.

[Dan Patrick]

I know.

[Seaton]

That is crazy.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, I know, I know. Doesn't it feel like the NFL was split in two camps, that you have the Jerry Jones side of this and the Robert Kraft side of this, and Jerry Jones is actually winning something? That's what it feels like with Robert Kraft. Yes, Marvin.

[Marv]

That's the only thing he's been winning.

[Dan Patrick]

Oh, okay. I see what you nailed there. Yeah, you got him.

[Seaton]

Nailed it.

[Dan Patrick]

You showed him.

[Marv]

He's only a billionaire.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah. But we're also kind of making it seem like these guys are going to live forever. You know, Robert Kraft will eventually get in.

[Seaton]

Eventually.

[Dan Patrick]

Like you want to get in while you're alive. You know, just saying. It's like, oh, man. Sorry about that.

[Seaton]

Are we going to get to a point where Robert Kraft and Bill Belichick are like, we got to get these guys in this. We got to get them in. So sorry.

[Dan Patrick]

Okay, but if you aren't voting for Barry Bonds because he cheated, then you continue to not vote for Barry Bonds. That's what hall of Fame voters have done. If you're not voting for Robert Kraft for cheating or being a part of an organization or Bill Belichick, then continue to vote that way, what would change? Well, he cheated. Well, we showed him. We didn't let him in the first time.

[Seaton]

Yes, it does feel like the possibility is there that people are using the rules of hall of Fame voting to hide behind not wanting to vote for these people.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah.

[Seaton]

Hey, it's not, it's not me. It's the process. It's really just the process. So I would have voted for him if we could have gotten more in, but it's the process.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah.

[Marvin]

Going back to Barry Bonds, he, in his first year of eligibility got 36% of the vote. Every single year it went up. In his final year, he got 66% of the vote, did not get in, but it almost doubled over a 10 year period.

[Dan Patrick]

You have a whole new wave of voters on the hall of Fame and I think you're probably, they're probably more lenient. It feels that way about steroids. I don't buy into this. What Larry Baer, the CEO, said yesterday. Well, he was a Hall of Famer before, you know, he got here. Yes. But then he cheated after he got here. That you can't have both of those together. You know, it's, it's rum and coke. It goes together there. It's not. Well, you know, the rum that was there and then we had to sprinkle in something else there and that tainted the drink here. Yes.

[Marv]

Marvin, doesn't the media vote on the, on MVP also?

[Dan Patrick]

For the league, you mean?

[Marv]

Yeah, for like the NL mvp. Yeah, they voted him MVP four straight years when his arms were popping out of his jersey and his head size changed. And now all of a sudden you want to get on your moral high horse and say, oh, you know what, I know I voted for him for MVP for straight years. But now the hall of Fame comes up and now I don't want to because I guess I'm on some more high ground.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, no, that's a fair point there. Yes, Todd.

[Todd]

And then there's the whole. Steroids don't have anything to do with hand eye coordination. You still have to be able to hit the ball. Maybe it wouldn't have hit it 700ft, but still.

[Dan Patrick]

All I know is you look, look at the numbers and this isn't a left handed hitting friendly ballpark here. And what he did, what now, it's, it's amazing what he did. That that's. You kind of look at Lance Armstrong and you go, man, those steroids, they work. As a former player told me one time he got popped for steroids and I said, you know, how did you feel? He goes, steroids work, man. And I go, yeah, I get it. If, if you're willing to cheat. And they always say, well, I was just trying to get back injury, trying to help my teammates. Like, oh, okay. Oh, that's a good excuse. Like Andy Pettit always, hey, I'm just trying to help my team. And he'll probably get into the hall of Fame one day.

[Marvin]

Yeah, Paul, I love going back to look at Barry Bond stats with a five year run in San Francisco. It's really akin to a running back running for 3000 yards while others are running for 1500. He had a season at his. At 39 years old, he hit.362 to lead the league. He hit 45 homers. Oh, well, that's not that much. He was walked 232 times, by far the most in history. They took his bat away one third of the time and he still hit 45 homers. Yeah, it's freaky.

[Dan Patrick]

Well, he had a career resurgence. That's what it was. But it was based off of Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa. They were the sportsmen of the year. They were the big thing in baseball, cover of Sports Illustrated. And Bonds looking at that, going, are you kidding me? Those guys aren't anywhere near, near how great I am. So he went out and proved that, and boy, did he see he did too much. You know, it's like sometimes you get artificially enhanced and he got artificially enhanced. And that's, that's a problem because then you start to notice, you know, these guys used to wear their uniforms and they'd be really tight, snug, oh, look at that, they're fit. And then all of a sudden you get Manny Ramirez and some of these other guys that look like it was their older brother's uniform that they were putting on. Yeah.

[Marvin]

Paulie bonds needed PDLite, oh, 20 years to workshop.

[Dan Patrick]

Okay, all right, all right. We're gonna be good once this show starts this morning. How you feeling, Todd?

[Todd]

I feel good. I think every time Bonds got up, they should have allowed the pitcher to scuff the ball, put any kind of ointment or whatever they wanted to put on the ball. For every Bonds at that, they don't have to keep walking him.

[Dan Patrick]

Ointment, whatever, whatever's gonna make the ball.

[Todd]

Do any kind of movement, saliva, whatever.

[Seaton]

You got, salve, you want to put.

[Todd]

On anything, and everything goes. If he's going to do what he's doing, then the pitcher should be able to do what David's doing.

[Dan Patrick]

All right, thank you, Todd. Welcome. Okay, let's see.

[Todd]

Cheetahs cancel each other out.

[Dan Patrick]

Ointment. We're gonna put oink.

[Todd]

There could be an ointment there.

[Paulie]

You know what?

[Dan Patrick]

It wouldn't have mattered. Some lidocaine.

[Todd]

Like the old Mike Scott days of the 80s.

[Dan Patrick]

That little.

[Todd]

Little scuff kind of thing where the thing's wiggling where the Mets couldn't.

[Dan Patrick]

I remember the Mets called him Mike Scuff because those baseballs. I remember seeing one of those because they collect them, and I was like, damn, how are they letting this happen?

[Todd]

They turn their heads to bat and look at the home plate up.

[Dan Patrick]

Like, did you see that?

[Todd]

There's no way a bull does that.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah. If you're watching on Peacock, that's Todd taking bp. Oh, look at that cut. That was. That was Bonds. Like, focus.

[Todd]

Look at that weird facial expression.

[Dan Patrick]

Oh, man. You don't want. You can't get a fastball by that guy. Look at that.

[Marvin]

He makes faces like John Mayer playing guitar.

[Dan Patrick]

Oh. Oh, look at that rip. That was a couple of years ago at the Super Bowl. Tore a couple of ribs. Of course, you got hurt. Seaton. You got a poll question. Ross Tucker set to join us. Although you made contact. I mean, that they were throwing it around 90 miles an hour time.

[Todd]

All star in little league. We're all forgetting that.

[Dan Patrick]

Oh, I know that. No, I. I can't forget it. I've tried to, but I can't. Keep reminding me. Yeah, you got a poll question.

[Seaton]

His face looks like he's being. Like his limbs are being torn off.

[Dan Patrick]

It's like he's delivering a baby.

[Seaton]

Let's see. I'm gonna throw a couple of them up there. Is there an anti Patriots bias in this year's hall of Fame voting? Yes or no. Should there be anti Patriots bias in this year's hall of fame voting? Yes or no? Also, I feel like when you look at our guest lineup today, they're all. It's. Those are big personalities. We got a lot of characters. The biggest character on today's show, Ross Tucker, Christopher Mad Dog Luto, Frank Kelly Endo, and Steve Young. Okay, maybe it's a. Who would you want to have a beer with?

[Dan Patrick]

Well, Steve doesn't drink.

[Seaton]

Yeah. Well, who would you want to have. Go have coffee with?

[Dan Patrick]

I don't know. Frank Calodendo drinks either. When he's gone to dinner with us, he usually has, like, a diet soda or something.

[Marvin]

Great dinner guy, though.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah.

[Marv]

Awesome.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah.

[Seaton]

All right. Best dinner guest. Best dinner.

[Dan Patrick]

I'm gonna say Ross Duggar.

[Seaton]

Yeah, he is. He's the goat. That's who I'm hanging with.

[Dan Patrick]

Food's gonna be good.

[Seaton]

Yeah.

[Dan Patrick]

Have you know he's great storyteller. Yes.

[Todd]

Todd, Does Frank know when to turn it off? And then we had dessert. Everything has to be a thing.

[Dan Patrick]

Okay? That's you saying, when does Frank know when to turn it off?

[Todd]

That is the pot calling a kettle. And then they brought the salad. It's the best I could do for Morgan Freeman.

[Dan Patrick]

I know. No, no, it's not bad. It's not bad. But you're right. When you're. When you're having a conversation, Frank Calendo will go into a voice, and then you know that it's going to be about a five minute.

[Seaton]

Can you pass the salt here, I'll just give you the salt.

[Todd]

That's an appetizer. That's Spider 2 Wide Banana Appetizer.

[Dan Patrick]

That's an appetizer, you know. And then you say, frank, you want to order something? He gives you the Gruden stare and you're like, easy, here. You know, we got a couple hours.

[Seaton]

You had this cheesecake, man. Yeah, it's really good.

[Dan Patrick]

Is Frank hoping, like, it's better for Frank Caliendo if Jon Gruden gets another job like that? Because, you know, some of his impersonations, you know, these guys are older or no longer with us.

[Seaton]

He does a Romo. He does a strong Romo, right?

[Dan Patrick]

I don't think his Romo's better than yours.

[Seaton]

Oh, man, I don't know.

[Dan Patrick]

Jim, what would you do? I like that the analyst is asking Jim Dance. I don't know, Jim, what would you do? You running it, Tony? You're the analyst here.

[Seaton]

You're the one that played.

[Dan Patrick]

You're making $18 million a year. Make something up. Okay, Let me take a break here, by the way.

[Marv]

Make something up.

[Dan Patrick]

Let's take a break. We'll talk to Ross Tucker, Steve Young a little later on. I think this is the first time Mad Dog Russo will be on set with us, right? Yeah. All right.

[Todd]

Take a job out of you that.

[Dan Patrick]

You knew that Frank Caledendo will join us as well. We're back after this on the Dan Patrick Show.

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[Paulie]

It's one of my favorites.

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[Todd]

It's one of my favorites.

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[Seaton]

We did settle on a couple of poll questions we have. Is there an anti Patriots bias in this year's hall of Fame voting? And should there be anti Patriots bias in this year's hall of Fame voting?

[Dan Patrick]

All right, Todd, do you have a couple of suggestions before we get to.

[Todd]

I do. One was, if you're not a fan of the Seahawks or Patriots, how pumped are you about this Super Bowl? Very slightly.

[Paulie]

I'll watch.

[Todd]

But with no measurable enthusiasm.

[Dan Patrick]

Okay.

[Todd]

Another was when a TV ad is beyond annoying, the advertiser created it that way because they hope you'll talk to others about just how irritating it is, which helps spread the word about the product. Paul. He's mentioned that a number of times in the past on the show. Or they're just bad at making commercials. Okay, Bad bunny is bad.

[Marv]

Actually.

[Todd]

Good bunny. What a talent.

[Seaton]

Todd, how pumped are you for anything generally in life? Those are three very negative poll questions.

[Todd]

They are. They're all snarky and negative.

[Seaton]

Keep going. I'm sure they get more positive from here.

[Todd]

When in a new city, is it lame to dine at a chain restaurant. That's right up my alley. What do you think? Yes, it's lame.

[Paulie]

No.

[Todd]

Eat where you like. Others should mind their business and not be so judgy. Okay, what is a reasonable daily tip for those who clean your hotel room? This is a tricky one. 5 to 10 bucks. 10 to 15. 15 to 20.

[Dan Patrick]

Oops.

[Todd]

You're supposed to tip him.

[Dan Patrick]

There's no way you tip. I used to. You? Oh, I did.

[Todd]

I used to tip.

[Marvin]

You gave it up.

[Todd]

I decided I'd rather just kind of lay in filth for a week so I don't have to worry about the stress of how much stuff to pay because they didn't come to my room. So there's no guilt about not.

[Seaton]

How dirty do you get on a daily basis that you're laying in filthy.

[Todd]

I exaggerate a little bit. But, you know, at some point, if you stay somewhere for a week, you should probably have them, you know, turn down the bed and then the last one was. At what price is a nightly rate to valet your car at a hotel? Become obnoxiously expensive. Not gonna name any hotels. Over 25 bucks. Over 50, over 75. I will only stay at hotels with free parking.

[Dan Patrick]

Thank you, Todd. Back to you. He is Ross Tucker, CBS Sports, Westwood One NFL CBS analyst and a contributor to the show all year round. He hosts the Ross Tucker Football podcast. Follow him on social media Ross Tucker, NFL. Ross will be the color analyst on Talk Sport UK radio, Super Bowl 60. Yeah. Ross Tucker. Look at that. Yeah. Nobody loves Princeton football quite like you do.

[Paulie]

It's mainly a branding thing. I think we've talked about this. But if. If you can't be as funny as Frank Caliendo or as good at football as Steve Young or as successful on the radio as Mad Dog, you might as well have something going for you.

[Dan Patrick]

So that's it.

[Paulie]

I'm the. I'm the former Princeton guy. Like, if you said something to people like, who's Ross Tucker? That's what they'll remember. They'll be like, oh, yeah, that's the guy that fills in for Dan Patrick sometimes. I like him on Western 1. Pretty Harvard guy, right?

[Dan Patrick]

Ivy League. How did you do on the Wonderlic?

[Paulie]

Pretty well, yeah. In fact, I remember talking with my agent about this. He said, do well, but don't do too well, because they can almost hold it against you if you're. If, you know they want you to be a smart football player. They don't want you to think you're smarter than they are.

[Dan Patrick]

Okay.

[Paulie]

You know, well, that's like a real thing. Ask Fitzpatrick.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, no, he's talked about that. Yeah, Ryan Fitzpatrick did say, you know, you don't want somebody who's smarter than the offensive coordinator if you're the quarterback of the team or the head coach.

[Paulie]

Right. But I always think that that's flawed. Like, just because I.

[Dan Patrick]

Let's.

[Paulie]

I mean, I'm pretty confident, Dan. I was smarter than most of the offensive line coaches I had, but that didn't mean I went over the authority. You know, there's a chain of command there. And just because, you know, maybe I had different opinions or thought differently, I was never in a position where I was saying, well, actually, coach, we should do this.

[Dan Patrick]

Like, it's not.

[Paulie]

It doesn't work that way.

[Dan Patrick]

Could you have been the next Larry Allen, but you dumbed yourself down so you wouldn't be great?

[Paulie]

No, but I was telling. I met a Cowboys fan last night and I was telling him the story. I don't know why they did this, but I started the last seven games at left guard for the Cowboys in 2002.

[Dan Patrick]

So you're next to.

[Paulie]

No, Larry was hurt. This is when they had moved Larry to left guard. So Larry was hurt and he was questionable. For some reason. They wanted to keep playing games, so he was questionable the first three or four weeks. Dan, you have never seen people so happy to see me as the D lineman every week. I mean, it was not good for my confidence. Like, oh, Tuck, thank God it's you, man. Thank God it's you. I was like, dude, come on. Like, I'm going. We're competing against each other today.

[Dan Patrick]

Don't like and you can make a case. Larry Allen is the greatest offensive lineman in history.

[Paulie]

You can, I would say. I can't think off the top of my head of a more powerful or physically dominant offensive lineman. I don't know if he had the long term consistency of an Anthony Munoz or some of these other guys, but, man, Dan, he did stuff to guys in the NFL that we all did to guys in high school. You know, like in high school you could like get underneath a guy and drive him and dump him on the ground. That just doesn't happen in the NFL. I mean, almost never because those guys are so good. He did that consistently. Now, he also was a little bit of a home run hitter. Like, he could miss sometimes, but it was worth it to him to try to hit one out of the park. By the way, it's unbelievable. When I got here, I thought that they painted this Dan Patrick on you.

[Dan Patrick]

Thought that was permanent at the ballpark. No wonder. Like. Yeah, that's that. Yeah, you're right, Paulie. And you did well in the Wonderlic, huh? Can't fool you. Okay. Do you think there's a Patriot bias this year with the voters?

[Paulie]

I think two things. I think on some level, I'm sure that there are some voters that are holding the cheating scandals against them, but I really do think the more people I talk to about this, it feels like a flawed process. You know, if you're someone that's been part of the hall of fame for 20 years, 30 years, you have fought so hard to get guys like Kenny Anderson and L.C. greenwood from the 70s on the ballot to give them a chance to get in. Right. They're finally there. And then how do you decide? Am I going to vote for Kenny Anderson, who was really productive for the Bengals in the 70s and early 80s, or the owner for the Patriots or the coach for the Patriots? I'm not sure. I think they were well intentioned doing it this way. The way they used to do it where it was like two seniors guys, and then they would alternate contributor one year coach, the next contributor one year coach next. If they kept the old process, Belichick would have gotten in the first time he was the coach. And Kraft, I think would have gotten in the first time he was a contributor. But now that it's this convoluted system where you're comparing them, these players, this is the only chance these players have. You know, this is the only. And by the way, it makes me think we're here in San Francisco. Is it not weird? I got a potential poll question for you guys. Is it not weird that in almost 40 years no other player has tried to run the ball like Roger Craig did?

[Marv]

Remember Dan?

[Paulie]

Like the high knees and he would like knee guys in the chin. How is it he might get in the hall of Fame this year and for 40 years nobody else has even tried that. Isn't that weird?

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, but nobody runs like Eric Dickerson.

[Paulie]

It's true. Or on some level, Shady McCoy or Le'Veon Bell. Yeah, that might be the only position I can think of in the NFL where guys can truly have unique, distinctive styles that you can't. Look Barry Sanders, obviously, you can't really remember another guy doing it just the way they did.

[Dan Patrick]

Ross Tucker on loan from CBS Westwood One and part of the Super Bowl 60 coverage in England on the radio in England now, is it the. The. Like Scotland and Ireland and England, Wales, like How big are you going to be?

[Paulie]

Well, it's the entire uk wow. So now would be a good time for me to have probably looked up what that exactly means. Okay. Fritzi, do you know who makes up the uk? What countries make up the uk?

[Todd]

I don't. I know England's involved.

[Paulie]

Okay, you got England. Good. Scotland.

[Todd]

Okay.

[Paulie]

Anything?

[Todd]

Oh, I think Scotland.

[Paulie]

Any part of Ireland.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah.

[Marvin]

And Northern Ireland.

[Paulie]

That's right.

[Marvin]

Can't leave them.

[Paulie]

Right. So I didn't know this, Dan, but evidently talk sport in the UK it's not just like the west would one, but because the UK geographic area is smaller, it's like the only sports talk radio over there. It's for the whole country. So it's basically the Dan Patrick show and Westwood One combined into one. And the two things I had Will Gavin, the play by play guy, the British guy with the beard on my show, the two things he said I thought were interesting. Last year they got over 4 million viewers for the Super Bowl. This is 11:30pm to 3am and well over 100,000 listeners. Because I'm thinking, I think I told you this last time. Who's listening on there? If you like the Super Bowl? Who's listening on the rail 2am but it's like truck drivers, Uber drivers, you know, taxi, all those kind of people. And last year was the second year in a row, it was the number one sick day in the UK And I don't know why. I get like a sense of pride about that, but I love that the day after the American super bowl, the NFL super bowl is the number one sick day in the uk. They're learning.

[Dan Patrick]

Dan, it's going to be big for your profile.

[Paulie]

Huge.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, huge. It's going to be big. Maybe the king of England be listening.

[Paulie]

Maybe I'll be knighted.

[Dan Patrick]

Yes.

[Todd]

Todd, are you encouraged to speak in a British accent? Like, oh, I say, oh, chap. That was quite the pass.

[Paulie]

I have a. My. My daughter was in Mary Poppins. I've been practicing it. I have the worst. Like, I think it's kind of Australian when it comes out. I don't even know. I have the worst.

[Dan Patrick]

How about we. We don't go there?

[Paulie]

No, I'm not going to. Yeah, he, he has enough British accent. The play by play guy for both of us. He is electric and evidently I think you're going to be able to stream our booth cam. So we got a lot going for us. Number one, it's going to be dynamic. Number two, he might be the first play by play guy I'VE ever worked with that weighs more than me.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, yeah.

[Paulie]

He used to play O line, D line over there. He's a lot of kilos. I don't know how many kilos, but he's a decent amount of kilos.

[Dan Patrick]

Or is it stones?

[Paulie]

Yeah, what's.

[Dan Patrick]

Or is that the height, the stones, or.

[Paulie]

I don't know what is stones?

[Seaton]

Because it's hands. His horses. Right. That's like 15 hands.

[Dan Patrick]

Something like that, yeah. Okay. The Drake May. Yeah.

[Marvin]

Paulie Stones is equal to 14 pounds here in the U.S. okay, back to you.

[Paulie]

But where do they do stones?

[Marvin]

It's old school measurements in the uk.

[Dan Patrick]

All right, there you go. The Drake May issue. I know that we're kind of looking for any kind of storylines in his shoulder, and then all of a sudden he's getting healthier. I don't. I don't know if this is a big deal or not, or maybe we're making it a bigger deal because there's nothing else to really talk about that has to do with the game.

[Paulie]

I think it is a deal. I don't know if it's a big deal. Although I was watching videos of him last night at opening night, and I was there, by the way. Very interesting. By far the most subdued opening night I've ever been to. And maybe it was because it's in San Jose and most people are staying up here, but I would say half the attendance that it normally has. So I don't know how much of that is because it was San Jose or because maybe there's not quite as much buzz about the Super Bowl. But if you watch the videos. Okay, Drake Mays like this, talking with people, and his left arm is, like, really demonstrative. And he's not moving this an inch. Not an inch. Now, maybe that's just like his natural thing, but I don't know. I feel like I'm kind of. There you go. I feel like I'm kind of a both hands thing, or even if I'm moving my left hand as I'm talking, there's still some movement over here. It was like. Like, it looked. It looked awkward, like. And that my brothers are the guys I look up to, and I'm thinking, is that like. That doesn't seem natural.

[Dan Patrick]

This could be breaking news here. Like, this demonstration.

[Paulie]

Nobody has the sounder out here, do we?

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah. And then we talked about the image upgrade if Sam Darnold wins. Oh, does that wipe away everything?

[Paulie]

Yes, it does. He's. He's. He's our king, Dan. He's the king of the five team club. There's not many of us that have played for five teams. Okay. He, like, I'm not rooting for anyone because I'm calling the game and I'm crazy objective, and I would never, ever do that. Of course not. However, I will be very happy for Zam, Sam Darnold and fellow members of the five team club if he gets it done. I. I like people in life that overcome adversity, and I like people that just.

[Dan Patrick]

Oh, you do? You don't like people who can't overcome it? Well, you were. You root against the people.

[Paulie]

If you're out there in life and you're struggling with adversity and you can't overcome it, I hate you. I'm rooting against you.

[Dan Patrick]

That sounds like something Todd would do. And I root, root against these people overcoming adversity.

[Todd]

I'm a negative. I skew negative sometimes.

[Paulie]

No, but I'm. I'm thrilled for him. And what I like is, I like when guys take a blowtorch to lazy narratives. You know, like when Marvin Lewis was the coach of the Bengals, I was dying for him to win a playoff game just so the people that don't really follow the sport could stop saying, yeah. I mean, tell me when he. Tell me when he wins a playoff game. You know, and I think Darnold's kind of already done that because it was always, wake me up when he wins a big game or let me know when he play. Dan. They. They don't win that game in the NFC Championship unless he plays really, really well. I thought that they might be able to win it with him just being along for the ride. No, he had to play awesome, and he did, which makes it all the sweeter. And I love the way he's embracing it. I don't know if I fully believe him when he says, you know, I enjoyed my time with the jets and the Panthers and all of it led to where I am here. Yeah. I don't think I'd be saying about some of the teams that cut me. Okay. Like, I don't feel that way about some of the teams that let me go. At least not if I was talking with you guys privately. So I wonder if he really feels that way or not. But I appreciate how classy he's being with his process and those former teams. He could really say, see, jets, you should have stuck with me. See, I'm a Super bowl quarterback, but he's not going that way at all.

[Dan Patrick]

Maybe Sunday night, late Sunday night, he could say that. But that's not. That's not him. No, that's not Sam. No, he's Ross Tucker. He roots against people trying to overcome adversity. It's great to see you. Always have fun on Sunday night and make America proud when you're over there. Okay. Oh, yeah.

[Paulie]

That feels like pressure now. Like, I don't want to. I don't want people to think, oh, look at this American. He's terrible.

[Dan Patrick]

Well, just don't kind of color outside the lines. Don't do Fritzy stuff.

[Paulie]

Why. Why does the Coke and Sprite cooler over there have Miller Light in it?

[Dan Patrick]

Because I like beer. I got secondhand smoke. I got Miller Light today.

[Paulie]

I love that you're. I love that you labeled it Coke and Sprite.

[Dan Patrick]

I opened it.

[Paulie]

I opened it. And there's just Miller Lights.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah. And it's beer.

[Paulie]

That's what we did in high school, Dan.

[Seaton]

Yeah, I was gonna say it's just like high school.

[Paulie]

21 already.

[Dan Patrick]

Thank you, bud.

[Paulie]

All right. Thank you.

[Dan Patrick]

Thank you. The great Ross Tucker, everybody. CBS Sports, Westwood One and the Ross Tucker football podcast. Take a break. Play of the day.

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[Dan Patrick]

Oh, my God.

[Dan Patrick Show Promo]

Of the day.

[Dan Patrick]

This is the play of the day.

[Marvin]

Check this out.

[Dan Patrick]

Man at the logo, goes right, slips, gathers the basketball. Being harassed by Neesmith. Turns left, spins right, timer at 5. Amend down the lane. Layup attempt, side rim. No offensive rebound J. Shante and drops it in another.

[Todd]

Another offensive rebound for the Rockets.

[Dan Patrick]

And their lead is now grown to five. Houston's won three in a row, five of its last six. Man, are we desperate for a play of the day, Marvin. So desperate, nobody. We had Sharif yesterday. Sharif doesn't like it.

[Marv]

Jayshawn Tate walked in right now.

[Dan Patrick]

We wouldn't know who he was even in uniform. Sports Talk 790, the Rockets radio network, that's your play of the day. Play of the day brought to you by Penske Truck Rental. They can help you get it right. Reliable, fuel efficient vehicles, when and where you need it, gain ground with Penske. And we want to thank them for helping us get our equipment out here to San Francisco. By the way, there's a couple reports that James Harden and the Clippers are working on a buyout or some kind of agreement to trade him, perhaps to the Cleveland Cavaliers. So Cleveland is stocking up and we keep thinking that maybe LeBron ends up there. I don't think it's going to happen by this trade deadline, but maybe in the off season. And the New York Knicks reportedly went all in on trying to make a deal for Giannis. If I'm Milwaukee, I wait. I wait until the summer. More flexibility. But you might get some of these teams who realize, certainly in the east, it's wide open, you got a chance, maybe you could get Giannis. And depending on what Milwaukee wants in return. The commissioner met with the media yesterday and he did what the commissioner is paid to do, basically kind of deflect and you could ask him whatever you wanted to ask him. And you know, he kind of gave you that commissioner. Well, we're looking into that. Whether it's 18 games, it's international play, you know, a lot of different things that. Or at least on the docket here for him. And I don't know if there was any news there. I think that he says it's not a foregone conclusion with an 18 game schedule. Meanwhile, Robert Kraft went on a new a Boston radio station and said, basically, this is a foregone conclusion. We're gonna have 18 games. The thing that I want to know about now, this is the last great leverage play for the players in the Players Association. If there are things that they want, this is it. You go to 18 games. I don't think that we're going to 19 in my lifetime. But you can ask for more places. Roster. Expanding your rosters maybe by four players. You add that up, four players per team. The amount of money that's going to be paid out and benefits. Are you going to be able to ask for anything other than that? Are you going to ask for a little bit more of the pieces? And Paulie brought this up to me, goes, let's say you're Joe Burrow and you're in the middle of your contract and now they add a 19th game. Do they pay you what the average is of your paycheck for the 18? Like, do you get that for your 19th game? I'm, you know, it's an extra game check. So let's say you make $700,000, whatever per game. Do you then get, hey, you average out 700,000, so you get 700,000 for that next paycheck. But I think we're pretty close to it. I think we're also a lot closer to a Super bowl outside the United States than people would like to admit. I don't think you could do that with this president. I think you're just asking for pushback on that of having something outside the United States. I don't think that, you know, President Trump would allow that to happen. But maybe down the road. We asked Diana Rossini, NFL Insider, and she said, you know, I said five and a half years. And she said, absolutely. I could see it happening, you know, somewhere in that time period. And I think London would make the most sense because the NFL has been going to London. They went back there, you know, with the bears in the 80s, and it turns out a lot of fans, Bears fans in England and you know who. Roger Bennett.

[Marvin]

Yeah, Roger.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, the soccer guy. He became a Bears fan when they came over there with the fridge and McMahon and, you know, Walter Payton, Ditka. Yeah, Paulie, I went back and looked.

[Marvin]

The topic of a Super bowl in London, it's, it goes back to 2005, 6, 7 and 8. And I looked, it got really negative reaction here in America. And it's almost like the NFL said, let's put a pause on that and just slow roll out international games all over the world over the next decade.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, Seaton.

[Seaton]

Well, the one hurdle I agree with everything except what time are you going to start the game?

[Dan Patrick]

Could have to start it a little earlier because of London time.

[Seaton]

Right. So it's like to me, that's actually, you could take away the, like, we're American. You can't do that thing, take all of that stuff away. And what I think what people are really going to be upset about is why are you making me watch this at 4:00'? Clock?

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, that's.

[Seaton]

I don't watch the Super bowl at 3 o'. Clock. We've been trying to get Monday off because it's a national holiday day after super bowl day. You know, I don't think that people, I think people are going to be more upset about changing the time that they watch the game than they are where it would be.

[Dan Patrick]

But if you place it where you have the holiday, the national holiday right after that and you have the day off.

[Seaton]

Yeah, you don't need it anymore because the game's going to start at 3 o'.

[Dan Patrick]

Clock.

[Seaton]

So what do you need the day off for? The next day.

[Dan Patrick]

Yes, Paulie.

[Marvin]

Or the London super bowl is the one that's on a Saturday. Saturday, four o' clock party. Live it up, all day coverage. Sleep in Sunday.

[Seaton]

It's going to be Super Bowl Saturday.

[Dan Patrick]

Now, I don't know, I don't know.

[Dan Patrick Show Promo]

London and Saturday.

[Dan Patrick]

I'll give you the day off, you know, the day after the Super Bowl.

[Seaton]

Like, see, that's the thing. Like how many hoops are you going to jump through just to get the game in London for, for really no reason?

[Dan Patrick]

Well, this is about global expansion. I mean, that's why they're playing all of these international games. I mean, they've gotten everything they could get out of America. Now it's about taking over the world. Christopher Mad Dog Russo will join us. Also, Frank Caliendo and the hall of Famer Steve Young will stop by. One Hour in the Books on this Tuesday. Dan and the Dan, it's Fritzy Seaton, Marv, Paulie, yours truly. Hour two on the way right after this.

[Stugots (Tony Stugotz)]

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[Paulie]

This is an iHeart podcast, Guaranteed Human.