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Listen to NHL Unscripted with Virk and demers in the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. You are listening to the Dan Patrick show on Fox Sports Radio. It's hour one on this Tuesday Dan and the Danets Dan Patrick Show. We got a lot of topics here. I don't know if we have enough time here, but we have three hours to try to digest everything, spit it out for you to consume. Tim Calashaw, Dallas Morning News on the Cowboys and Mike McCarthy parting ways and Deion Sanders, come on down. Kurt Warner was on the call last night with the Vikings and the Rams. He'll join us and Mark Sanchez from Fox Sports will stop by as well. Say good morning if you're watching on Peacock. 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And when it comes to that Rams defense, they're not household names like they were when they won a Super Bowl. They do have some offensive firepower. They have a well known head coach. But that was a great team performance last night, shutting down the Vikings 27 to nine. They sacked Sam Darnold nine times and you get the feeling the Rams probably looked at what the Detroit Lions did when they faced the Vikings the previous game. And that is we're going after Sam Darnold. We're going to put as much pressure on Sam Darnold as possible. And it certainly worked against the Lions. And the blueprint worked last night. Sam Darnold was uncomfortable the entire evening and after the game he spoke about his play at the end of the season. You know, I clearly just didn't play good enough the last couple weeks. You know, left too many throws out there that I would usually make and kind to take better care of the football. Today especially, you know, I feel like I can be a lot better in terms of just moving on with my progressions, not trying to force anything and but yeah, again, I give them a lot of credit for the way they came out, they played and the plan that they had. The Rams tied an NFL playoff record with nine sacks in a playoff game. The Titans did that in 2021, the Chiefs 1993, the Browns in 86 the Niners back in 84 at the 1966 Buffalo Bills. It felt like every time Sam Darnold was sacked, money was coming out of his pockets. It was like, damn, there's a. There's another million dollars. There's another million dollars. Poor Sam. What's going on here? They put pressure on him. And I would have thought that they would have expected this from the Rams. And the Rams are a young team, you know, aside from Matthew Stafford, they are one of the younger teams in the NFL. And they are one of those teams at the end of the year that we thought, boy, you don't want to face them come playoff time, it felt like them. And the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, well, Tampa got kicked to the curb, but here the Rams and the Rams will have the Philadelphia Eagles coming up. And in case you're wondering, the rams are getting six against the Eagles, the Texans getting seven and a half against the Chiefs. This according to DraftKings. The commander is getting nine and a half against the Lions and the Ravens are a one and a half point favorite against the Buffalo Bills. Alrighty, Seaton, poll question here and then we'll go back to the game. We'll also talk about the Cowboys situation with Mike McCarthy, who is now free at last to talk to other teams. And we'll ask the question, don't know if we have an answer to it. Will Mike McCarthy be a head coach in the NFL next season? All right, Seaton, you know what? Just quickly off of last night's game too. It was so brutal. Every time Sam Darnold made a mistake or got sacked or did something, they would immediately cut to Kevin O'Connell's face. Let's get to coach's reaction to what we just saw. And then they would, they would sort of ping pong back and forth between Sam Darnold just looking shell shocked like, what's happening? And Kevin O'Connell being like, oh my God, this is awful. Was JJ McCarthy on the sidelines? Because I kept thinking, if you're going to show sideline reaction, just give me the quarterback in waiting here and try to figure out now what do you do because you can't throw. Third, Sam Darnold had a wonderful year. Maybe the comeback player of the year, but you have 35 touchdown passes. What did he have, 12 or 13 interceptions. He played great. I would like to have seen Justin Jefferson's reactions as well with everything that was going on. Because if you're the best wide receiver in the league and you're probably going, is, is this as good as we can get because you don't know what you have in J.J. mcCarthy. Now they think they know because they drafted him high but went out with the knee injury. And now what do you do with Sam Darnold? Sam Darnold apologist Paulie Pabst Yes, Paul, Weirdly, I was thinking about this. The Vikings may have benefited by the loss yesterday because three weeks ago they had to bring Sam Darnold back, whether it be franchise tag or contract. Now they have the wiggle room to move on from him. And the fan base probably wouldn't revolt. At least this morning they wouldn't. So they're, they're light winners last night. Yeah, I see where you're going with that. That. Okay, we have to keep him, too. We don't have to keep him. And the fan base would, you know, be able to say, we saw him in a couple of big games and he didn't do well. I look, it's going to come down to the quarterback. Win or lose, we give them credit, we give them blame. It's more than that. Now, there are a lot of times that quarterbacks will they have to take the blame for sacks, and this is a situation where Sam Darnold has to take some of the blame. I think they sacked. He was sacked 57 times this year. You know, Russell Wilson would get sacked, Joe Burrow would get sacked. You know, there's certain guys who get sacked a lot, and that's, you know, in large part because, you know, Caleb Williams, you're trying to hold on, you're trying to make something happen. But give credit to the Rams, that Rams. And if you don't have to blitz, I mean, it's such a benefit when you just send your defensive line and then you're back in coverage and you put pressure. Now, this is what the Vikings were doing prior to the last two games. Brian Flores, that defensive coordinator, he was throwing all kinds of junk defenses, crazy stuff. And it worked. Until it didn't. Yes. Eaton the if you're looking at Sam Darnold, I don't know how you, and you're the Vikings front office, I don't know how you, in the off season, sit Justin Jefferson down at a meeting and say, we're sticking with Sam. I, I just don't know how you can. I don't really know how you can look at any of those receivers and be like, okay, I know it's a rough two weeks, but we're going to stick with that. Dude, I just don't know how you can. But these aren't pedestrian numbers that he put up. Yeah, Paulie, it feels like last night he was exposed. Sam Darnold as a good, not great quarterback. Maybe like Brock Purdy has been somewhat exposed as good, not great where under optimal conditions in November, he's fantastic. In a playoff situation. There's so only so far he could take you. And Matthew Stafford feels the opposite. Like you'd ignore the regular season with Matthew Stafford and say in the playoffs, I trust this guy. Yeah. But there's only so many quarterbacks who truly are game changing. You know, Lamar is. And Josh Allen is Patrick Mahomes. They're truly different than everybody else because you can have, you know, and you can put Joe Burrow in there. I think, I think Joe is legitimately great. But you still look at sort of that second tier and there's a big difference in that. I mean, Jalen Hurts is a good quarterback. I don't think he's great. Justin Herbert, I think he's a good quarterback. I don't think he's great. There's, there's a lot of them that are lumped in there, but there's only a couple that you go, oh my God, that guy with the ball game on the line, he'll make a difference. Sam Darnold's not one of those guys. Kirk Cousins is not one of those guys. Jaden Daniels is becoming one of those guys. Like he's starting to sneak into the top five of wow. And now let's see what he does because it's week by week. Your report guard is week by week. And then we go, all right, I'll give you an A, give you a B minus Sam Darnold, I'm going to give you a D. And then that's it. Then your final report card and then you go into the off season. If you're the Vikings, you have to be extremely confident in JJ McCarthy. If not, you might have to say to Sam Darnold, we're going to franchise you and pay you whatever, $44 million as an insurance policy. Yes. Fritzi, it's so easy to get caught up. I did too. 14 and 3. Wow. This guy is something. Look at the Vikings. But the weight of that lion's loss and yesterday's loss, that's like three losses each from 14 and three losing those two games. But I don't know what to take away from this with Sam Darnold. Like at the end of the season, if you say, how did Sam Darnold do you know the totality of the season, I'd say, good, good. Now is good worth $50 million? Not to me, but then it's not my money. But then how many years has he earned? Or does he say, look, I can benefit from the market because there's no other free agent quarterbacks who are good or on my level that I'm going to be able. Not everybody gets a quarterback and he might have to wait until the dust settles at the draft. And then that's when a team reaches out and says, all right, and then if you get two teams in a bidding war, then maybe Sam Darnold is making, you know, whatever, three years, 120, something like that. And I thought that might be the direction the Vikings were going to go in, is put him in that Baker Mayfield, you know, kind of financial slot. Yeah, Paulie, it reminds me a bunch of years ago, maybe 10 years ago, remember Carson Palmer was on Arizona, his last stop, and he had that great 2015 season where I think there were 13 wins and he was an MVP candidate, comeback player of the year. And then he had a playoff game, I think, where he threw five interceptions and it undid the entire season and he never got it back. The perception Here is Kevin O'Connell, the Vikings head coach on Sam Darnold's season. You know, I think it's very important we all think about, you know, Sam's body of work, what he was able to do this year when not very many people thought he would be able to lead a team to 14 wins. Very rare for a quarterback in their first year. In fact, it is rare. The most wins by first year quarterback with a team. And just the way he came in, committed himself to just a daily process to be the best version of himself. It did not work in work out in the end. I'm proud of him. Proud of, you know, really everybody in that locker room but Sam and the journey him and I went on this year will always, you know, be a, you know, something that's a special place in my heart. For sure, you gotta back your guy and Kevin's doing the right thing. Sam Darnold completed 68% of his passes and had a passer rating of 106.4. 35 touchdowns, 12 interceptions through Week 17. Then he completed 53% of his passes, QB rating of 66.4, had one touchdown, one interception in his last two games. So a dramatic fall off. And you wonder, did these teams figure out something in this situation? Now I always like it when somebody says, well, we got the blueprint. Well, there are certain teams that have the people to carry out a blueprint. I can have the blueprint to solve a Rubik's Cube. That doesn't mean I'm going to solve it. I'll be like, damn, how do these kids do this? Yes, Paulie, Possible solution for next year for the Vikings. Play Sam Darnold in the regular season. Play J.J. mcCarthy in the postseason. He was great. In the postseason for Michigan. Problem solved. Okay, that's. Did we come up with a poll question? Seaton, I think I asked you. I don't know if we got a couple of them. Well, yeah, we got a few of them. Who had a worst day yesterday, Sam Darnold or Mike McCarthy? You could argue the case that only one of them had a bad day. All right, you know what? I'm going to discuss the Cowboys situation coming up and maybe Mike McCarthy had a good day yesterday. Maybe. What else do you have? How about is the Cowboys head coaching job desirable? According to Troy Aikman? No. Said that last night, but I still think it is. Well, we'll talk about it. All right. Got another one for me? Sure. How about, how much money has Sam Darnold lost in the last two weeks? A ton. A bunch. Somebody's still getting paid big time. What if you had that metal detector guy goes out on the field after the game. You know, those guys are on the beach walking around like, damn, I'm. These aren't coins. These are a hundred dollar bills that I'm picking up here. I felt bad for him because you don't root against somebody. And he was a good story. It just felt like he was shell shocked when he was going back to pass after the fourth or fifth sack. You almost go back going, where's it coming from? And the last thing you want to do as a quarterback is be thinking about getting sacked. Now you need to know where pressure is coming from. There's a difference of where's it coming from or which guy is going to make me hurt. And that was the feeling I had with the Rams last night. But give them credit. That's tying an NFL playoff record with nine sacks. Putting the pressure, therefore taking the pressure off the Rams offense. We'll take a break, we'll come back, we'll talk about the situation with Dion, with Jerry Jones, with Mike McCarthy and ask the question, Will Mike McCarthy be a head coach in the NFL this next season? Just getting started on this Tuesday. Glad to have you on board. We're back after this Dan Patrick Show. Fox Sports Radio has the best Sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows@foxsportsradio.com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to listen live. Hey, it's Steve Covino and I'm Rich Davis and together we're Covino and Rich on Fox Sports Radio. You can catch us weekdays from 5 to 7pm Eastern, 2 to 4 Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. 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And then we kept wondering, are you missing out on that window to be able to interview. Let's say you want to interview Ben Johnson of the Lions, but you missed that opportunity because now this week he has to prepare for their next opponent. The Commanders or Aaron Glenn, whoever. You know, any of these coaching candidates, and I don't know if they were interested in Mike Vrabel. It feels like Mike Brable was going to the Patriots and that was a done deal. But are you interested in Ben Johnson? I'm going to read you something that Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas Morning News. He'll join us coming up a little bit later on. And he talked about Dak Prescott. Like, really, the person you're hiring has to be able to fix Dak Prescott, who I think is around 32 now had injuries. And Tim Caleshawn says Dak cannot run anymore. He had 24 rushing yards through seven games when he tried to turn back the clock against Atlanta, rushing for 30 yards on three carries. The next thing you know, he was having hamstring surgery done for the year. Kalashaw then goes on to say, that's 26 games Dak Prescott has missed in the last five seasons. So that's just short of one third of the Cowboys schedule. Immobile and injury prone. Question mark. Jerry Jones can't even afford to ponder those issues right now. Dak Prescott's $231 million guaranteed deal. The owner can think only in terms of how to fix his quarterback. Who is best to equip to do that. Figure that out and the Cowboys at least have a shot at getting back in the hunt. Fail on that front in his ninth coaching hire, and Jerry Jones is just spinning the wheels on his once storied and now laughing stock franchise one more time. You got to bring in an offensive minded person, correct? Or you got to bring in a great offensive coordinator, somebody who is going to fix Dak Prescott. Well, how do you fix a guy who can no longer run injury prone, missing almost a third of his games. And the expectation level is cowboy like. And that is. Let's get back to the playoffs. Let's get back to a title game. Let's get back to his super bowl here. I know Deion Sanders and, and Jerry loves shiny objects. Dion is a shiny object. But is he the right person for this job? I think Dion is great at being a CEO. And by that I mean I don't know if he's a great coach. As much as he can run something he can oversee something. I think he can hold people accountable. But I don't know if this is a situation where you go, dion, I don't think Dion makes Dak Prescott better. And I don't know if the story is real. Who does it benefit for this to get out? Jerry. Well, Jerry just wants, you know, publicity. Hey, we're, we're trying. We're trying everybody reaching out to Dion. People said, Dion, you should reach out to Dion. I'm reaching out to him. It helps Dion. What if Dion says, hey, I said, I'm, I'm committed to Colorado, I'm going to be staying here. Like, if I'm a recruit, I want to know, are you really committed to this? And then there was a report, maybe the Raiders and Tom Brady, there was another report that it's not going to happen. Dion is not a candidate for the Raiders. So is Dion a candidate for the Cowboys? As of this morning? I would say he is, but I don't know the, you know, the full validity of that. Is it true? Is it accurate? Is it real? And I think that's what we have to kind of sort out. And Tim Callishaw will join us coming up at the top of next hour. And I don't know, you know, Dion and Jerry are good friends. Is it a good story or is it a good situation? A real situation. And what happened with Mike McCarthy? I kept reading that they wanted to extend. They were going to extend him for one more year. One more year. That was it. And if you're Mike McCarthy, that's a slap in the face. I mean, you're a borderline hall of Fame coach. You won a Super bowl, you got a pretty impressive resume, and Jerry's going to treat you like that. Does he really want you? It's like you. You're going to get divorced. You don't want somebody to date the person that you're divorcing, but then you don't want to keep that team. That person. That's the feeling I get. Mike McCarthy. We questioned the hiring from the beginning. I thought he did a pretty good job. But Jerry doesn't want. See Dion, I think, would he would return fire on Jerry. I think that he would. He would question things. At least I. I would hope that he would. If you want to go in there and succeed, you have to be able to stand up to Jerry and say no. And nobody's done that. He's hired people who won't do that. Can't do that. Not willing to do that. Dion's different. But you gotta fix Dak Prescott because you gave him all that money and you're stuck with him. $231 million for a guy who's 32 and injury prone. It's not a great situation. And you gotta pay Micah Parsons. You paid CD Lamb. So you have a couple of nice shiny objects, but what do you really have? It's like a necklace where you have, you know, three or four beautiful pearls and everything else is artificial. And that's sort of where the Cowboys are. You know, the commanders. They're in the playoffs, the Eagles in the playoffs. Then you have the Cowboys and you have the Giants. Will the Giants figure it out? Will they figure it out before the Cowboys do? Yeah. Paulie, I want to go back to Mike McCarthy and I'm going to present you a theory and let me know what you Think of it. Is there any chance, because we don't believe in mutual breakups, someone walks in the room with the agenda to leave or to stay. Is it possible that Mike McCarthy spent this past week looking at the situation, asked for way too much or also saw that it's going to be a short term ish contract and said, I'm going to keep asking for things until Jerry says no. Then I could exit here without saying I quit or left. And there are other options for me that Chicago or other that will give me a 5 year deal with a full contract and a real GM. Is there any chance Mike McCarthy was the person who made this happen? Well, I think you can ask for it out of professional pride. I would say to Jerry, I want three years here. I can't go year to year because if you're a player, you just, whether it's consciously or subconsciously, you lose respect for the situation. Like that coach, he doesn't think enough of him to give him security. It's like what they did with the Bears with Matt Eberflus. It's like lame duck, you're not going to be back here. And Mike McCarthy has, he's earned more than just, hey, we're going to keep you around for another year. And I don't blame Mike, you know, maybe he will benefit, maybe he will get a long term deal. I just don't know. You know, there's a report this morning that, you know, maybe the Bears are going to go after Pete Carroll. Okay, so then the Raiders aren't going to bring in Mike McCarthy. Is Ben Johnson going to go there? Do you want the Saints job? Is that available for him? So you start to look at these. There's a reason why these teams have openings. The Saint situation doesn't seem like it's a really winnable situation. So I don't know if he's coaching next year. Even with that experience, that resume. I, I'm not bringing him in unless it's that guy is the right guy for our team. Well, I think he's the right guy for an experienced team, but a team that he can also be the head coach of and not be a puppet. And Dallas, he was a puppet. And this is, you know, Jerry's M.O. but I don't think Mike McCarthy. I would be surprised if he's coaching next season. And then the Bears situation with Pete Carroll, okay, I heard he did. He had a great interview. Now it's rare when you don't, when you hear, boy, somebody had a terrible interview, you're always hearing, man, he had a great interview. I don't know what that means. No, don't. Did you pick up the check? Like, what, what happened? Where you go, man, that's a great interview. Yes, Paul. Mike Rabel was on his introductory press conference yesterday with the Patriots and talked about his first ever coaching interview is for Urban Meyer in Ohio State. He goes, I blew it. I was terrible. I didn't have anything prepared. I didn't know what he was going to ask. He said, I blew my first job interview. He was very candid about it yesterday. But this is where you have these coaching candidates who go in and then they find out how to interview and then it helps them down the road. And I think that's where we look at the Rooney rule. And sometimes you say, well, that candidate's not going to get the job. But you do get the experience of what that's like to go in an interview. And I always go back to Mike Tomlin when he went in there, and he might have been just a, we got to bring in this guy, the Rooney rule. We got to interview a minority. Well, he came in and blew everybody away. And maybe you get that opportunity. But I don't know if Mike McCarthy is going to come in and go, hey, I'm your answer here. I don't believe that. But, you know, maybe I'm jaded because what happened in Dallas, it just felt like we were looking at Mike and you didn't really see the head coach on the sidelines. You just saw a guy who. That was his title. 8773-DP-SHoVE email address dpdanpatrick.com twitter handle at DP show we'll talk to Tim Calishaw, Dallas Morning News. He'll join us top of the hour. Also, Kurt Warner will stop by. He was on the call of the game last night. Jay in North Carolina. Good morning, Jay. What's on your mind? Hey, Dan. Long time listener. Love you guys. I had two thoughts, Dan. One is a T shirt idea. When the Chiefs complete that three peat. Damn. Three, Pete. Okay, all right. Well, thank you, Jay. If the Rams upset the Eagles, imagine the Rams and Lions to go to the Super Bowl. Stafford could rip the hearts out of lion fans. That would be tough if you're a Lions fan. Stafford goes, wins the super bowl, then you feel great about your team. And then here comes Matthew Stafford again. Rip your heart out, Brent in Georgia. Hi, Brent. What's on your mind? Adp, how's it going? Hey. All right. So I think what you saw last Night is why Sam Darnold has been regulated as a career backup. The dude has a tail and any defense can see it. I can see it from my couch. The dude gets scared to death in big moments, and it's all over his face, and a defense is going to eat that up. So while he may be good in regular season, when the. The pressure is not high, he's those good numbers, has all these good numbers. You have to look at more than just numbers. And the guy just don't have it in big moments and a defense is going to just tear him up. And I think that's his. And he. And he can't hide it. He shows it all over his face and I think that's why he's. He really cost himself a buttload of money last night. Oh, he did? Yeah, I think so. Like, that was a perception game. We kept saying, okay, can he erase what happened against the Lions? Can he zero in, win this game that you were a favorite and they had it on a neutral site in Arizona and he looked overwhelmed. But give credit to the Rams, they overwhelmed him as well. Tim in Iowa. Hi, Tim. What's on your mind? Morning, Dan. How are we doing today? Good, but. Good. Hey, real quick, just a different perspective on this game last night. And that is, I realize with every sack, Sam Darnold lost money, but he lost twice this year to the same team and the Lions and the Rams. I don't think there's enough onus being put on the coaching staff for not being ready to have an offensive line game plan to protect him, to allow him to do his job correctly. I mean, I know he didn't look good and he looked scared, he was tentative. But I mean, isn't KOC this great offensive mind? How did he not have a defense, you know, package up front to block for these defenses that are coming at him? Especially after he just saw how Aaron Glenn got at him the week before. I just, to me, it was more of a coaching issue to put Sam in a position where he was just getting, you know, beaten all day. Yeah, I think it's fair, fair to bring that up. And you're right with Kevin O'Connell and if we can get him on, I would ask him that. What did you see against the Lions that maybe you weren't aware of, that the Rams were going to do the same thing, but Sam didn't play well. It comes down to the quarterback. If he played well, we'd be talking about Sam Darnold made himself money, but he didn't yeah, see, right. I mean that's sort of like the problem was compounded where, you know, when he was getting sacked, he was getting hit hard too. It seemed like, like he wasn't just getting taken down, he was getting crushed. But even then on those moments where he was able to get the ball out, he either overthrew the ball, threw it behind somebody. He wasn't even making the simple plays that he has to make. Yeah, and I do I have to, you know, factor in Kevin O'Connell because I've said he's a great coach, probably going to be coach of the year, offensive minded guy, former quarterback. You got to find something. Because it felt like they kept doing the same thing and the Rams had no reason to alter their scheme. Andrew in Washington. Morning, Andrew. Hey, good morning, Ganden. It's. Thanks for taking my call. Yeah. Comment on Sam Darnold too. I think during last night's broadcast it was brought up how when pressure would come, he would run out of the pocket instead of just maybe take a step up and slide which then he would keep his gaze downfield to his open wide receivers who's missing, you know, wide open wide receivers. So, you know, that's something like Sam seeing Ghost Darnold back in the day of New York Jets. I mean, I think that's what we saw and that's what the previous caller had talked about. My question is this, did he really lose that much money? The reason being is we were just talking a few weeks ago about how, you know, 41.3 million guaranteed franchise tag would be a steal form. So that was what he was going to get. Is he not going to get a contract that has more than $40 million guaranteed after this? Well, that's what Paulie keeps saying. Paulie would like to spin it that Sam Darnold will still get paid, but probably by somebody else. Yeah, I think that's a good call. I was going to say that he will probably not get franchise tag. He might not be a Viking next year, but this may open the door for the free agent become of the free agent class. Because the free agent class this year is terrible. The other top people are like Justin Fields and Desmond Ritter and Kyle Trask and Drew Locke. Those are the free agents and it's also a small quarterback draft his depth. Sam Darnold may actually get to test the free agent market this year and get. He may get three years, $70 million from a blank team. But at least there's a future there if he stays in three for 70. Well, I'm just saying like let's say it was a low end contract. Well, that's, that's backup quarterback, almost three for 70. He's getting 20, you know, two, $23 million. Yeah. He made 10 million this year. He's going to make, if somebody signs him, he'll make probably, you know, 38 to 45 million dollars a year and feel that. And there's more chance now that he will not be franchise tagged. Right. That I don't know. You know, if they say J.J. mcCarthy's healthy and I have no idea. That's the great mystery. It was a mystery that they were all in on him because we never saw him be. Put the game on my back. I'm going to win games for you at Michigan. He was just a really good college quarterback. I'm assuming that Kevin O'Connell knows, you know, that what he has with him and he will be a starting quarterback, a great quarterback or at least the potential to be great. Yes, I have looking, let's see this year, Geno Smith getting 25. Okay. He's. Sam Darnold is going to get more than that. Yes. Baker Mayfield is at 33. Yeah. Derek Carr and Aaron Rodgers are at 37 and a half each. Yeah. I guess you could stop me when you think we're going to get to where Sam Darnold will hit. Oh, I think it's right in that neighborhood. Stafford is at 40. I think it's 35. Well, it's also the next guy up as well with all, you know, Aaron Rodgers, when did he sign that contract? When did Derek Carr sign that contract? And so where are maybe it's, you know, upper 30s for Sam Darnold. Yes. He's also at the, the timing it out with other next guys up who shouldn't have been paid. 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Listen to NHL Unscripted with Burke and demers, the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. Oh my God. The play of the day. This is the play of. Check this out. Donald against the Rush Blitz coming He's hit ball down, scoop, scooped up Jerry versus has it down the right sideline with blockers 105 the defensive rookie of the year with a scoop and score 18 point win. The Rams largest postseason victory since the 2021 wild card when they defeated the Cardinals 34 11. That's courtesy of the Rams radio network. Your play of the Brought to you by Rapid Radios, the official walkie talkie of the DP show. It works on a national LTE network and there's no subscriptions ever. A great alternative for your kids or an aging parent. We use them on the show all the time. Go to rapidradios.com for up to 60 off and free shipping. Let's get a couple more phone calls in here. By the way, you're looking at Mike McCarthy. Mike McCarthy has had at he's had 11 seasons of 10 or more wins in his career. The Bears have had three seasons of 10 or more wins, period. But I don't think that he is attractive to the Bears fan base. Not that you have to try to placate them. You want to get the right guy and if you get the right guy, then they'll accept him. But Mike McCarthy, how many coaches have had 11 seasons of 10 or more wins in their careers? We should check on that. The Bears have had three seasons of 10 or more wins, but it feels like, and I don't know how legitimate this is, but Pete Carroll is getting, it feels like a lot of traction with Chicago. I was told last night that Ben Johnson, the Raiders makes more sense because he doesn't want to go against the Lions and Dan Campbell being in the same conference. Whether that's true or not. I think also the allure of Tom Brady and Tom Brady is making decisions with the Raiders. It feels like he's making the decisions with the Raiders. Ben in Minnesota hi Ben. What's on your mind today? Good morning, Dan. 61235 I was just curious. I know Sam Darnold, he's probably done as a Viking, but I'm just saying that he shouldn't be totally thrown under the bus because the defense, the coordinator got out, coached both games against the Rams and the Lions, the last games that we played them. And my other hope is that I'm hoping Jefferson doesn't become the next Viking receiver who wants to get out of town, you know, more like what happened with Diggs and Moss. Yeah, I did think about that last night, Ben. Like at some point, you know, and receivers have been enabled. Like they're like, all right, you know What? I want this. I want out. I'm not happy with this. I don't know if Justin Jefferson is, you know, that's his personality. But I did wonder about that last night. Yes, Mark. Yeah. So the pressure is going to be on JJ McCarthy if they get rid of Sam Darnold because it's going to be a JJ. It's your responsibility to give us another 13, 14 win season and to keep Justin Jefferson happy. John in Cincinnati. Hi, John. Dan, thank you very much. Appreciate the time. Just curious, your perspective. Why is Ryan Day never mentioned in any of these coaching searches? It seems like every year there's three or four college coaches and as successful as he's been, he's just never really mentioned. I don't know that I suggested that he would have been a better hire in Jacksonville than Urban Meyer, but I had heard that from a scout that if you're going to try to develop Trevor Lawrence, Urban Meyer is not the guy. Now, of course, it was a disaster. I don't know if Ryan Day aspires to do that. I don't like he might just be a college coach, but I suggested that he would have been a better hire than Urban Meyer. Yeah, Paul. I had to look up Ryan Day's resume, but he was a college coach for years and years. And then 2015, he was the Eagles quarterbacks coach. In 2016, he was a Niners quarterbacks coach right before he went back to Ohio State. Wow. So maybe he does want that eventually. Maybe if he wins a national title, he'd put it out there. But, you know, they're reaching out to Marcus Freeman reportedly instead of Ryan Day. Sean in Oregon. Hey, Sean, what's on your mind? A. Well, Sam Darnold, that's on my mind a little bit. And you know, I'm. I'm thinking that he is what he is. You know, he's been a backup quarterback and I think he's probably go back to being a backup quarterback. I mean, I, I don't think these guys and they're going to try to make him like a. Like, you see the nervous energy on that guy. You see the panic. It looks like he's run out of a fire. A good quarterback doesn't do that. A good quarterback is always like calm, cool, collective, and he's comfortable in chaos. You'll never see Joe Burrow or Joe Montana. Russell Wilson, he wouldn't have a look on his face like that. And I just, I'm not buying into this. I think people get a small sample size and they think they know what's going on. They see a few games here, they see a few games there, and this is just not gonna. It's just not gonna work out. Dan. I just don't believe in it. I'm not gonna buy into it at all. Well, I don't think you can accidentally throw 35 touchdown passes. So I have to be fair to Sam Darnold. He was in a bad situation with the jets, and then you get relegated to a backup quarterback and he got kicked to the curb and, you know, then he ends up in San Francisco as a backup quarterback. And then Minnesota is like, I mean, if they thought that much about Sam, they wouldn't have drafted J.J. mcCarthy because J.J. mcCarthy is what, three years younger than him. So it's not like you're saying, hey, we got this guy and we're gonna get, you know, he's. He's old and he'll give us one or two, two years. You weren't, you know, completely sold and you probably bought. Brought him in for an insurance policy with J.J. mcCarthy. I don't think that's going to be the case. I think Sam Darnold will get paid and we're going to then find out just how good he is. Because the teams that need quarterbacks are the teams that aren't very good. Seaton. Update the poll results from the first hour if you can. Yeah, we got up there right now. Is the Cowboys head coaching job a desirable job right now? Your options there are yes or no. Right now, 78% of the audience have it as a. No, not a desirable job. It's still the coach of the Cowboys. You may not like the quarterback, you may not like the owner, but you like the title. And you got to be wired to be able to be the head coach. Either you're a very submissive person and you're going to allow to be bossed around by Jerry, or are you going to be able to stand up and say to Jerry, you want me to coach, let me coach. If not, go out and find somebody else who is going to listen and do everything that you ask them to do. We'll talk to Tim Caleshaw, the Dallas Morning News. 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