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You are listening to the Dan Patrick show on FOX Sports Radio Hour 1 on this Tuesday, Dan and the Dan that's Dan Patrick show, Fritzi Seaton, Marv Poly, yours truly, Dan Patrick show and of course the very valuable backroom guys. Bill Cower will join us next hour. Reggie Miller will stop by your phone calls. Always welcome operator Tyler sitting by. He'll take your calls at 877-3-DP show email address dpdanpatrick.com and our Twitter handle at DP show got a play of the day poll question stat of the day. Good morning. If you're watching on Peacock, thank you. Also the NBC Sports Network and our radio affiliates around the country numbering over 400 cities that carry this award nominated program. Texans roll the Steelers last night, it was a very deceptive final score because it didn't feel 30 to 6. We went into the fourth quarter two minutes in. It's a one point game. The Texans played great defense. C.J. stroud didn't play well at all. The Steelers were kind of, the Steelers defense played pretty well. They just weren't threatening. And you don't have a, you know that pass rush against Aaron Rodgers. They hit him 12 times. 12 times when you're 42 is like 20 times when you're 22. So Rogers, is it his last game? I'm sure people are going to say the following. Well, you can't go out that way. What makes you think he's going to be any better next year? It's same thing with Travis Kelsey. Oh, you can't go out this way. We, we use this, we say this as if I'm going to stay and then you stay and you played well and maybe your team wins and then you go, well, I can't go out this way. Yes you can. Aaron Rodgers, I'd be surprised if he played again. And look, those numbers weren't bad during the regular season. I think if you said, and I think I did say if he replicated what Russell Wilson did and you got, you know, 25, 26 touchdowns and six or seven interceptions, you play good defense, you're going to make the playoffs as they always do. And that's kind of who they were. But the more you look at it, they probably overachieved. They're not a good team. But they somehow got in. You know, the Ravens missing The kick they get in, and they went against a really good young defense. That's a great defense. That'll keep them in every game. It'd be really. I'd be really surprised if they would get blown out. You know, C.J. stroud played terrible when he had five fumbles, lost a couple of them. You allowed the Steelers to stay in that game. And I think all of us in the back of our minds kept thinking, man, you're going to give Rogers a chance. You're going to give him a chance. And then all of a sudden, you get a couple of defensive touchdowns and you get a blowout there. So, 30 to 6, the final. The Texans rush for 164 yards, and that's your difference. Woody Marks went for 112. That's the most by a rookie in a playoff game since 2020. And Roger's final numbers? 146. The fewest passing yards of his 22 playoff starts. Also that pick six. The final pass, the first that he has thrown in 807 career postseason passing attempts. So let me focus on Rogers right now, and then we'll look at Mike Tomlin. Here is Aaron Rodgers. Ask about what he's going to do next year. Aaron, does that game affect your decision for what to do next year in any way? No. I mean, I'm not gonna make any emotional decisions. Disappointed, you know, obviously, such a fun year. You know, a lot of adversity, but a lot of. A lot of fun. Been a great year, you know, overall, in my life, in the last. The last year. And this is, you know, a really good part of that, coming here and being a part of this team. So it's disappointing to be sitting here with the season over. Yeah, he's not going to make a quick decision there because he hasn't made quick decisions before. This drags out. But you wonder, if you're Pittsburgh, let's say you're Mike Tomlin and you come back, do you want Aaron Rodgers to come back? If you're the Steelers, do you want Mike Tomlin to come back? Do you want Aaron Rodgers to come back? Now, I certainly get the feeling, and I don't have any insight, any information other than what you probably have available to you, and that is, if Mike wants to come back, he can come back. And if he wants to take a year or two off and do tv, that's going to be available. Aaron Rodgers, his prospects aren't very good, because if it's not Pittsburgh, who's going to bring in Aaron Rodgers, who will then be 43. And he did look 43 last night. He looked even older than that. His lineman looked 43. But Aaron Rodgers, I don't see him doing TV. It feels like he'll do. He'll be Joe Rogan, he'll do something like that. And probably, you know, he has the freedom to do that. He can then, you know, have an audience, have a platform, and probably make a ton of money. As for Mike Tomlin, I see him doing TV probably for a couple of years, and then, you know, and being around Tony Dungy and some of these other coaches when I was at the Mothership, they really needed it. They needed to almost disengage from all of that. And then you're able to watch. You're able to. You. You get to enjoy. You get to see. You're watching football, you're talking football, and you don't wake up on Monday or Tuesday morning feeling like he does. And I'll talk to Bill Cower about that next hour of, you know, that sort of disengage, and then you kind of settle in. And we've seen a lot of coaches who do that, and then they go back in, and then you'll. There's going to be six or seven openings next year and the year after that. Six or seven openings. The question is, does he want to coach again? And if so, where? But I don't. I don't see him coaching another team this next season other than if he does, it's. It's Pittsburgh. But I started to watch and just say, I know he had a. You know, he has a winning record. He got into the playoffs. They're. They're just not a threatening team. You know, I'm not a DK Metcalf fan. Just didn't feel like they could do anything. Where you go, wow, that team is that. They can. They can get. They can put some points up there, and the defense played pretty well, but it feels like an old team. And maybe because you got Rogers, but it feels like your window is small. Just ask the Detroit Lions, because we make this mistake, we go, and they'll be back next year. There is no guarantee of next year. And the Lions are further removed from super bowl contention, and they were healthy this year. There's no guarantee, oh, Pittsburgh will have a winning record next year. Okay, but as I said to you, either early this week or last week, if you said to a Steeler fan, hey, I'll give you 10 years of making the playoffs, but you don't win a playoff game, you're going to sign up for that. And the answer is no, you're not. But how many franchises would sign up for that? You're relevant. You make the playoffs, you play in big games, but you don't win playoff games. And that's where Pittsburgh is. Mike Tomlin, I think with that roster probably overachieved now, the division wasn't very good. Cause the Bengals weren't good, the Browns certainly weren't good and the Ravens were average as well. But if you're the Steelers, do you want to bring back Mike Tomlin? Do you hope that he decides to take a TV job? Aaron Rodgers got a little frosty on Mike Tomlin, possibly being on the hot seat. I mean, this league has changed a lot in my 21 years. You know, when you hear a conversation about the Mike Tomlins of the world, Matt LaFleur's of the world, those are just two that kind of. I played for and when I first got in the league, there wouldn't be conversation about whether those guys were on the hot seat. You know, but the way that the league is covered now and the way that there's snap decisions and the validity given to the, you know, the Twitter experts and all the experts on TV now who make it seem like they know what the hell they're talk about, to me that's an absolute joke. Okay, is he blaming the so called experts or the people who listen to the so called experts? Because we can say whatever we want if you get some team president or GM going. You know, I was listening to Dan Patrick. You know what I'm thinking? That ain't happening. There are a lot of experts out there, Aaron, including you. But I don't think any front office is going, wait, wait, what did they say? What did Ryan Clark say on Get Up? Damian Woody? What, what are they? What should we do? Yeah, right. And why would you compare guys like Ryan Clark and Damian Woody or, or say like Teddy Brusky or Jeff Saturday? Like their opinions are the same as random people on Twitter. Yeah. Why would you like lump them all together? They're, they're former players just like you're eventually going to be. Why not have the respect for them too? Yeah, look, you know, I understand Aaron's going to take a shot at the media. I get that. But you know, be fair in who you're taking a shot at here. Because if you're a front office and you're waiting to listen to Dan Orlopsky and you're going to go, that's the decision we're going to make. I'm going to put that on the front office, not Dan Orlopsky or if you get somebody who's never played the game like me. Yes, I know we keep linking them, but I think it's because they're in such similar situations with John Harbaugh and Mike Tomlinson. And sometimes I don't know that you can make a snap decision on a coach that's been there for 20 years. I don't really know that nobody this year is just like, whoa, one bad year with Tomlin, better get him out of there. Sometimes I think that Harbaugh and Tomlin are in the exact same situation in that sometimes it just runs its course. It's been 20 years, or almost 20 years. 15, 20 years, whatever it's been, you know, maybe. Maybe we've just kind of gone as far as we can and maybe you go look somewhere else now. And it's happened down through history with coaches. I mean, this isn't anything new. And he didn't just sit on a hot seat. The seat the temperature was being raised locally in Baltimore and Pittsburgh, not nationally. The conversation about Mike Tomlin locally is far different than nationally because all of these former players and they're all saying the same thing. Man, that's guy you want to play for. Man, he did a great job. Man, he always wins. Locally, they're going, we haven't won a playoff game in 10 years. Yes, we have a.500 or better record. Yay. And see, Pittsburgh is always like, they're never going to be bad enough where they can get better because they're kind of in the middle. Like, you're not going to be drafting in the top five. And that's part of the problem. Like, it's weird to say they got to get worse to get better, but this happens with NBA teams all the time. You get worse to get better. Like, the spurs got bad. They got the number one pick and then they got the number two pick and go back to when they had Duncan and David Robinson. They had to be bad to get good. Pittsburgh's never. I mean, it's a credit to that organization. And I don't see them doing a rebuild. And if they do, does Mike Tomlin want to be around for that? Yeah. Paulie, I was looking at what coaches from the past who got fired who were really shocking. And probably the biggest one all time is Tom Landry in Dallas. And I didn't want to look because I don't remember that. Well, he missed the playoffs three straight years 7 and 9, 7, 8. But his last year he was 3 and 13. And like you said, there's the opening because Tom Landry never had a 3 and 13 season. And then finally that was the one. Our stat of the day brought to you by Panini America, the official trading cards of the Dan Patrick show. And the first hour brought to you by the great folks at Tire rack for over 40 years, helping us find the right tires for how and what and where we drive ship fast and free, backed by free road hazard protection with convenient installation options like mobile tire installation. TireRack.com is the way tire buying should be. Poll question seaton, what do you have for me? You know, I think we're going to go with a couple of yes, no options right out of the gate. Pretty basic, pretty standard. What you expect? Has Aaron Rodgers played his last game as Mike Tomlin coached his last game with the Steelers? Yes, no. Yes, no. We got to get everybody on record. Okay. Well, we'll take a break and we'll answer, try to answer those questions. Coming up, other poll questions. Bill Cower will join us and we'll also check in with Reggie Miller as well. I saw where who's now James Harden is now ninth on the all time scoring list. He just surpassed Shaquille o'. Neal. And we were wondering this this morning when I came in wondering where's James Harden? Like when it's all said and done, how do we view James Harden? Because you can make a case he did change the game. Now you might say, did he change the game for the better because Steph Curry changed the game. James Harden changed the game as well. But I don't know how history like Russell Westbrook Jr. III, I don't know how history is now. They're both first Battle hall of Famers. But we'll talk about that. James Harden's he's ninth on the all time scoring list. We'll take a break. We'll get back to you with your phone calls. 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You got Nico Collins, Christian Gonzalez, like those are marquee guys. Concussion protocol and okay, I'm going to sound like the grumpy old man that I am. I, I appreciated having a football game on last night. I don't think we should have Monday night games in the playoffs. I just don't think that it's fair. A shorter week, regular season. Obviously Mothership's going to get Monday night football games. We have Thursday night games. But the playoffs, I'm not even big on Saturday. But you know, I'm not going to turn down watching a football game. I just want to be fair to the teams and you know, the Texans after that game. So you get it, you know, half day, a full day less than everybody else. So I'm watching it and it wasn't Good football either. Maybe that played into it as well. Thursday night is. Yeah, maybe they. Yeah. But I. I just do. We need Monday Night Football. And I know Mothership pays a lot of money. They want a standalone game. I get it, but I could do without it if it meant that everybody's going to be starting from the, you know, same. Same page, square one. Yeah, Marv. And it's also messing up next week's divisional round because the game that everyone wants to see, the Bills versus the Broncos, it's going to be Saturday. That's a Houston Texans. I know. Time. Yes. Not the Bills versus the Broncos. And so that messed up everything for next weekend, too. And that's the first game on Saturday. Correct. Because you got Rams and Bears then on Saturday night. But you had to put the Texans on Sunday, and they're going to be the early game against the Patriots or Niners. Seahawks Saturday night. Yes. Paulie, are we automatically playing the game? If you could only watch one game this weekend already. We can't do that now. No, no, no. I can't do that yet. We'll do a Friday. Maybe Friday. The most most watched game of the weekend instead of the most must win game of the weekend. All right. Is this sustainable, what the Texans did last night? Now, I don't expect CJ Stroud to have five fumbles, but that defense is great. It is Will Anderson, Danielle Hunter, the secondary. But I don't know if this is sort of like the. The. The Ravens with Trent Dilfer. Hey, all you got to do is get 10 points. That was the famous line Ray Lewis had. Hey, just get 10 points, guys, and then we'll win the game. I don't know if it's similar to that, but that is a very, very good defense. You know, I go back to the Patriots when they had an elite defense when Tom Brady was just starting. They weren't winning because of Tom Brady. They were winning because of their defense. Even with Eli Manning, the defense was great. Those super bowl wins, they won because of defense. And of course, some big passes by Eli. The Broncos in 2016. Elite defense helping Peyton Manning win another super bowl in his final season. Defense travels. It. It does. Now, if you get a running game in that defense, I'm asking CJ Stroud to just be threatening, occasionally threatening. And I know Pittsburgh's got a good defense. You're playing on the road. I understand all of that, but, you know, I. He's got to have a game. He's got to have, you know, a performance against the Patriots. Here but that, I mean, I wouldn't be surprised. Texans won that game. I really think that much of that defense. It's just. I don't know about C.J. stroud. I want to see a big moment from him that he can kind of accompany that defense, not be, hey, I'm kind of hanging on for dear life, or you're carrying me to the next round and you get a running game. Okay. I don't know about Nico Collins. That's a big loss there. Big loss, you know, for an offense that wasn't very threatening. And then you have the question of, okay, what do the Steelers do? Let. Let's take Mike Tomlin out of the equation right now. Okay? If I'm the Steelers, what am I thinking now? I don't know if it factors in if Mike Tomlin comes back or not. You still need to find a quarterback. Aaron Rodgers moving forward shouldn't be your number one option. Can you trade? Can you trade up? Is there a quarterback you want? Can you have a gap year and say, all right, let's. Maybe we do get a little worse to then get a little better. But that's the hard part. Who you getting? Are you sold on any of these? Quarterback Fernando Mendoza. You're not getting. You sold on Trinidad Shambliss? Yeah. Paulie. The Steelers right now have the 21st pick of the draft. They also have a lot of cap space. They're eighth in the league in available cap space with 33 million. So they're in pretty decent shape money wise, especially if Rogers leaves. So what do you do? I'll throw one out. Would you if you weren't going to stick with Rogers because you don't think he can get you further? What about trading for a guy like Mac jones of the 49ers? I would take Mac Jones over Aaron Rodgers right now. Mac Jones, probably 28. Yeah. Yeah. Now, once again, I'm one of those guys that Aaron Rodgers is probably talking about that I don't know what I'm talking about, but would I take Mac Jones? I mean, the reason why the Niners are where they are is because M. Jones won five of eight games for them. And I do think he's a star. I think he's. He's Brock Purdy. He just, like, get paid $265 million. He's a little less pretty. Thank you. Sorry. Thank you. Thank you. But still, handsome. Mac Jones would be great, you know, and you get a younger quarterback, but, you know, you're kind of in that no man's zone there. Like wait, who are we? What are we? We still defense and running the football. We're an older team. Ravens getting a new coach. Bengals will run it back. Maybe the Browns figured out one of these days. So it's a winnable division and it's a division that's in a state of flux here. But I don't know what, you know, trying to find that quarterback who's more than just a bridge quarterback. And it's not that Aaron Rodgers can't play. It's just sometimes when you play, and I saw this with Michael Jordan with the Wizards, when you play the way he did with the Bulls and then you go to the Wizards, well, you're not that same guy. You may think you are. And that's part of the problem. You know, Rogers used to roll right and just, he'd be throwing darts. He was unbelievable. Well, now you might kind of roll right, but you're not getting, you know, you're not running away from anybody. And it, he was more Joe Flacco last night, more stationary and you know, you're not even throwing for 200 yards there. So trying to find that guy. And everybody's trying to find that guy. Yes. Yeah. It's like in our, in our head we think that Aaron Rodgers is more Matthew Stafford than Joe Flacco. He's really more Joe Flacco. Yeah, yeah. Blood Paul, bring in Joe Flacco, a younger quarterback. He's 40 and a half. We're going to go with a younger quarterback. Who are we going with? Steelers youth movement. Reach out to Tom Brady, you know, why not? Tom, do you want to win a Super bowl with a third franchise here? Let me bring you in. All right, we'll get phone calls coming up. Also, I mentioned that James Harden is now the ninth all time leading score in NBA history. There was a time when I thought he was must see TV, you know, when he would go for 33, 34 points, 11 assists, he, he created a move. Now we all thought maybe you still think it's traveling. But he did create. Almost like Manu Ginobi created the Euro step. He created that step back jumper. But he doesn't win. Is anybody going to retire his jersey? The Clippers have never retired a jersey. They should be retiring Chris Paul. But okay, C's not. Does Houston retire his jersey? And okay, that's not the mark of, you know, whatever, excellent. But he's just kind of been that guy who puts up great numbers. It's like Russell Westbrook Jr. III where I go first. Battle hall of Famer. But what. How do you. How do you sum up Russell Westbrook? He was a triple double. Okay, what else? Yes, Paulie. James Harden, peak years, Houston Rockets. He had seasons with 36 and 9. 34. That's even crazy. 36 and 9, 34 and 11. I mean, these are really nuts. He led the league in assist twice. He led the league in scoring three times. Yeah, he got them the play. He played in 85 playoff games for the Houston Rockets. It's a lot of playoff games without getting to the promise. But he had a. He had a few playoff games where he played terrible. Yes, Marv. They were up three two on the warriors and then decided to miss 27 straight three pointers in game seven. That's what I remember. And people are going to forget that he played for the Sixers in the Nets. It's going to look like a journeyman, almost. Yep. But he's one of the top 10 greatest scorers of all time, statistics wise. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just weird, you know, I've been doing this so long. I see you when you come in, I see you when you leave. And, you know, you try to have a Rolodex in your mind. You go, okay, what do you remember about that guy? And it feels like Harden created a move. That's what I'll remember him more. So because he didn't play in big, he didn't perform in big games. Yes, Todd. So do you think it would be unwarranted or desperate of the Rockets to at some point put Harden's jersey up on the. On the rafters? To me, when I think Harden, I think the first team, I think of his Rockets, and not just because of the number of years he played there. But I don't think it would be odd to see Harden's jersey hanging from the Rockets rafters. Yeah, and I don't. I mean, if they put it up there. That's the French, you know, they decide what they want to do. But I'm just saying that. Did he leave a mark any place that he played? Yeah, Paulie, I'm looking at the Rockets retired numbers. I think he's getting in. Elvin Hayes, Rudy Tomjanovich. Hakeem Olajuan, of course. Moses Malone, of course. Calvin Murphy, Clyde Drexler. Yao Ming got in. Yao Ming had six good years, maybe two great years. Yeah. And he got in. Injuries, of course. I think he's getting in. You need a ceremony every once in every decade or so. Yeah, but Yao Ming had an impact on the NBA coming from China. So that, that, that was more than just him playing basketball there. You're right. It was a shorter career than what you would have hoped for there with him. But I don't know. James Harden, it felt like he's going to get his. I just don't know if they're going to win like that. That goes back to. You can put up great numbers. Are you a great player now? He's a great player. It's just he's not somebody that I would want on my team. Not if I was trying to win a championship. Now if I wanted somebody I could go and see every night, yeah, I would want him on my team. Yes. It feels like there was a point in time that you could have had him on your team. There was an early James Harden that was like, dang, we might be able to figure something out with this. Well, he was a curiosity in OKC because they had Westbrook and they had Durant and then Harden and then Harden wanted his own team and went to Houston. Yeah, Paulie, I'm looking at the all time scoring list and Steph Curry as of today is 21st with 26 to 50. There's this log jam between 24,000 and 27,000 at his pace. Steph Curry, this year he's 21st now. He will be. He'll be 12th at the end of the season. He'll go from 21st to 12th. How many other players can James Harden surpass? Nobody. I don't think. Wilt Chamberlain is almost 3,000 points ahead of him in the A spot. Okay, that's. Take some work. Yeah, but if he plays another couple of years, he's going to get him up. Yeah. Well, I have a quick quiz for you if you want it. A quick quiz? An NBA quiz. Marvin Fritzi. No. NBA music. Now give me NFL. We are Fox Sports. All right, Paul. Okay, I'm removing the top 10 scores of all time. Whose career would you want? Of the guys from 11 to 20, you got to pick their career. I'll go quickly. Carmelo Anthony, Moses Malone, Elvin Hayes, Hakeem Olajuwon. Russ Westbrook. Oscar Robertson. Not Robinson. Dominique Wilkins, Tim Duncan, Paul Pierce, John Havlicek. Those are the second 10 scores in NBA history. I'm going to say Tim Duncan and then I'm going to give John Havalchek who might. He's on the top five most underrated players of all time. I think he won eight titles, didn't lose a championship, and I think he had 26,000 points and Bill Russell said, he's the best player that I've ever played with. And then I would put Akeem Olajuan in there, who I. One of my all time favorite players. So you got to put Timmy in there because he's a top 10 player. Havalchek was wonderful. Created the sixth band. And then you put Akeem in there. Yeah. Paul. The least respected guy in the top 20. I'm gonna say Carmelo Anthony or Dominique Wilkins. I'd say Carmelo because Nick was the human highlight. Carmelo was the human black hole. Not official. One of the great mid range jumpers though, of all time. Sexy. I know you love. I. You know what, when I talk to a girl and she say, what do you do? Well, I go, I got a damn good mid range jumper. Where's your car? Oh, I don't have a car. I have a bike. Not a motorcycle. Yes. Seaton. Yeah. When Paul ran through that list, my answer was Carmelo Anthony. Even though I know you're supposed to say Tim Duncan, you're supposed to say. Then after that, maybe Paul Pierce or whatever. There's a certain hierarchy of guys. You're supposed to say, none of them are wrong. But I think sort of to Paul's point, and a really underappreciated career, maybe it never quite lived up to what we thought it was going to be, but he was an awesome player. Yes. Marv. Moses Malone, probably the most disrespected three time MVP of all time, bar none. His name is never mentioned in the top 10. And even when you talk about great centers of all time, Mo Mo Mo Fo Fo Foe doesn't get mentioned in that. His highlight tape though, is not. Oh, it's not good. I mean, a couple of stickbacks. It's not good. It was. Oh, there's another offensive rebound and there's a putback. Oh, there's a, you know, like a seven foot floater. Yes. Paulie. My pick is Hakeem Olajuan. It's pretty obvious I still think he's underrated. And his game would translate to today. Whatever. Because he had that, you know, 12 foot baseline shot. Very athletic. Got the dream, Shake. His footwork was so good. So good. Yes. Marv, Sorry. Going back to Moses Malone, I just remember him just absolutely dominating Cream Abdul Jabbar like, oh, Cream wanted no parts of Moses Malone. Damn. I'm sorry. Wow. Careful coming after Kareem. All right, that was just facts. All right. All just facts. All right, we'll get to your phone calls. Coming up, a lot of people want to talk about Aaron Rodgers, Mike Tomlin, the Steelers moving forward. Bill Cower will join us next hour. We'll take a break. Our play of the day is next. 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 me Reese Witherspoon in London ordering fish and chips so often they might start wrapping me in paper. I'm traveling with my Wells Fargo Autograph Journey card so I earn rewards wherever I book travel five times points with hotels four times with airlines, three times on restaurants and other travel and one point on other purchases. 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Bullock to his left. 40, 35, 30. Bullock 20 full lock, upended at the sideline, maintains his balance and runs for pay dirt courtesy of the Texans Radio Network. That's your play of the day brought to you by Liberty Mutual. Why pay full price when you can customize and save? Switch to Liberty Mutual and they'll customize your auto and home insurance so you only pay for what you need. Is Aaron Rodgers under contract for next season? Paul? He is not. Oh. He is an unrestricted free agent. Okay. I think this year he made three and a half million as his base and a ten million dollar signing bonus. And I added that. That's 13.6 million. Thank you. Thank you for doing the heavy lift. Thank you. My pleasure. Lucas in Texas. Hey, Lucas. Congratulations on your Texans. Hey, Dan. Good morning. Yeah, I want to say that this win is sweet for two main reasons. The first off is, you know, you have your team go throughout the season. There's nothing quite like, you know, you're not 100 sure if your team is good or not. And yeah, the jury's still out on the offense, but man, that Defense, I mean, that feels like a Ravens 2000 kind of defense, that maybe this team is good enough just to skate by on one half of the field and actually go pretty far. The second reason that this is such a sweet win is that I grew up with my dad right around the time that the Oilers and the city of Houston were having their ugly divorce. And so, you know, I never really got to experience love you Blue, obviously. But if there was one thing that my dad gave me from the Love youe Blue era, it was a. An intense hatred for the Steelers. You know, we just ran into Steel Curtain so many times. There weren't able to get past the Super Bowl. And to go into Pittsburgh and to have a defense just completely dominate them like theirs did to us for so many years, man, that was sweet. So it was a great win. Second Pittsburgh, Chris in Syracuse. Hi, Chris. Hey, thanks, Dan. Yeah. A couple of things for you. Yeah. Aaron Rodgers, last pass of his hall of Fame career is going to be a pick six in the playoffs, but down the road, nobody's going to remember that. And, Dan, I know this won't happen, but if Mike Tomlin still wanted to coach, and if Pittsburgh were to move off of Mike Tomlin, that would put the Ravens and Steelers both looking for head coaches. Both teams would like a proven coach who ideally knows the AFC North. And, Dan, you have joked about it last week. I think from the coaches that are available right now, the best option for both teams would be straight out of the movie Lucky number seven, the old Kansas City Shuffle. Tomlin goes to the Ravens, goes to the Steelers. Thank you, Chris. That's a deep cut there. Yeah, you got. The Browns need a coach, Ravens need a coach. Steelers may need a coach. And we thought the Bengals were. Well, they still may need a coach, but they decided that they weren't going to do anything. So the division is in a state of flux there. But this will come down to, I believe, if Mike Tomlin wants to coach again. It sounds like all indications are. And Tony Dungy joined us, and he was speaking with the front office, and it felt like, of course we'll bring Mike back, if he wants to come back. I just don't know. Like, there's part of him that has to be realistic and look at this and say, I can. I can I achieve what I want to. Can we win? Can we be a postseason force? I don't know. I think you have to be honest when you look at that, even though the division's in a state of flux, can you be a Force. Can you be a Super bowl contender? Not just, hey, I got a winning record and we got into the postseason and maybe a step away. I mean, Andy Reid took the Eagles as far as he could take them, and he goes to Kansas City. Maybe a change of scenery with Mike, maybe a couple of years, you know, a respite. Go and have a pit stop, do some tv, and then maybe you'll pick the ideal place, a place that has a quarterback or the opportunity to draft a quarterback. Yeah. Paulie, could you see the decision with Tomlin being in the next two or three days? And I asked that because I read an article in the Athletic and they said the reason for Black Monday is you want to pull the band aid immediately after the season. Because the next few days are coaches meetings. They have exit interviews with players under contract coaches, assistant coaches, and they make decisions about their futures off those. You don't want to have your head coach who's about to be fired do those interviews. But I don't know if Mike, Tom and, well, once again, I don't, I don't know the inner workings of the Steelers. If, like, how long do you give him to give you an answer? Because I would hope you would have an answer this week. I don't know if it impacts who you go after. Like, if you do it right now, does that change? Are you going after Kevin Stefanski? You know, you got John Harbaugh reportedly interviewing with the Falcons. Matt Ryan just got hired as the president of football operations there with the Falcons. And what was reported yesterday is Harbaugh is probably looking at the Falcons and the Giants. Now. I, I was told Giants all along. You know, I'm sure he's going to survey the situation, you know, make sure that he gets the most money. Hey, I might go to Atlanta, maybe the Giants up the ante there. And then Kevin Stefanski might take the job that John Harbaugh doesn't take. Yeah. Paul, you mentioned Mike Tomlin as a media person many times on this show. Three days ago, a seat opened up on CBS Sports's weekend show. Yeah, yeah, I brought that up. That with Matt Ryan leaving, I could see where Mike Tomlin could. You know, I joked Cower and Tomlin on the same set would be interesting, but talk to Bill Cower. Is he planning. Who's he planning on sitting in that seat? Andrew in Washington. Hi, Andrew. What's on your mind? Oh, good morning, Dan. Dennis, thanks for taking my call. Yeah, I think it's time for us just to wait for Aaron Rodgers to go on the Pat McAfee show while he's in his dark room on Ayahuasca and tell us what he's going to do because, I mean, you could tell he was all at 42 years old. The funny thing is, is D' Ameco Ryan's is only 41 years old as a coach for the Houston Texans. He sacked Aaron Rodgers back in 2008 in a game that's the least points Aaron Rodgers has ever scored in a playoff game for a team that quarterback. It's the least passing yards by a Steeler in a playoff game since 2011. And from what I see is it's the least amount of total yards, 175 by Steelers team in the playoffs. So I think all indications are that that pick six will be his last pass. Like Kristen Syracuse said, it's just time for him to move on and, and find his next venture. Which, you know, I don't know he'll be in media or not, but I'm pretty much done from hearing about him for a little while. It'd be good for a break. I could see him hosting a podcast. I could see him. He could, he could be Joe Rogan or work with Joe Rogan. I don't know if I see him in sports. Like that kind of seems beneath him. Maybe a little sports, but I don't know, I just, I don't see him being enthusiastic to chop up a Carolina Panthers game or something. I just don't. Steven, New Hampshire. Hey, Steve. Hey, Dan, Dennis. How are you guys? Good. I got a quick start of the day for you. Going to the MVP conversation and everybody was talking about strength of schedule. I don't remember where I got this stat. I wish I could credit the person, but in the last 25 years, only five MVP winners have had a strength of schedule that was in the top 10 hardest. 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