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Show on Fox Sports Radio, hour two on this Monday. Hope you had a great weekend, everybody. Fritzi is off the next two days. Dylan is sitting in his chair. Seaton is here. Marv, Paulie, yours truly in the back room. Guys, phone calls, especially on Monday, best and worst of the weekend. What you saw that you liked, you didn't like. And you can be in our bracket challenge. It's live right now on foxsportsradio.com we got word that Alex Ovechkin is in the bracket challenge. Of course he is. I love that. We'll have Adam Sandler in there, Brian Cranston from Breaking Bad. Quite a few celebrities there and you can play along with us. Stat of the Day brought to you by Panini America. The official trading cards of the Dan Patrick show. We'll get to phone calls coming up. We'll check in with the Minnesota Vikings. Are the Vikings interested in Aaron Rodgers? Because people think that Rogers is holding up the Steelers, the Vikings are holding up the rest of the NFL. But there's really a lack of context here of are the Vikings interested? And I said last week, why don't the Vikings just come out and say J.J. mcCarthy is our quarterback unless you're interested. And they may say, well, we don't need to do that. Why should we do that? They're right. But if you're all in on J.J. mcCart, maybe they've told him privately, hey, we're not commenting on Aaron Rogers. You're our guy. Let them speculate all they want. You know, we'll hold up the Giants, we'll hold up the Steelers here. We'll check in with the Vikings to find out. Is there interest there at all? Because I don't know if I've the Steelers and the Giants already have reportedly have contracts in place and offer for Aaron Rodgers. But then you throw in the caveat of, you know, he could retire. Aaron Rodgers is holding everybody. He's holding me hostage because I do have to cover it because it is a big story. If he goes to the Vikings, if he goes to the Steelers, not as much if he goes to the Giants. But still, he's a first ballot hall of Famer. You have to cover this. But it feels like this is and I've talked about this numerous times, there's wishful reporting, it feels like the NFL community wants to keep this alive, that Aaron Rodgers may go to the Vikings. The Brett Favre comparison, Green Bay, the Jets and then the Vikings. Feels like it's wishful reporting, but we'll see if we can get some answers here. Coming up, how are your brackets, by the way? When do we have to officially fill out our brackets? Has to be ready to go at the end of the day. Wednesday. Historically, that's what we've done. Okay. But not Thursday morning. I believe Wednesday the 19th. Okay. First round games are Tuesday. Excuse me, first around games are Thursday at noon. Yes. All right, so the end of the day on Wednesday, I might be able to do a Thursday morning. No, because I have to get everybody. Oh, boy, oh, boy. You know, some of these Hollywood types, they don't want to be told what to do. And then you have to go through a spokesperson and then go through their agents and. Yes, Marvin, I was told in the back. Wednesday, Wednesday at the. At the close of business. Cob. Yes. Dang, cob. I'm going to say by the time the newsletter comes out, it's six Eastern. So EOD also working end of day. Yep. C O B E O D. Eod. Okay. Yes. Paulie. One of my favorite things about our celebrity bracket contest, Todd pulls some pretty random celebrities every year and he always picks a new crush that he has of an actress or entertainer or a news person. Yes. This year he put on big time actress Jennifer Lawrence, who's never been on this show or has any connection to the Dan Patrick show or college basketball. I think it could be fun. Yeah. They're usually swimsuit models, local weather women, Ashley Judd, but she was a big Kentucky basketball fan. There was at least a basketball hook to her. But Todd, any chance that he somehow can talk to somebody on the phone and he, I give him credit, I never had that confidence growing up, ever. And Todd has too much confidence when it comes to those things. He has. He has no fear. Is it fear or shame? How about awareness? He has no awareness. It's a fear, shame, awareness. Lester Holt is on the list here. Yeah. Lester, let's go, lad. NBC newsman. Yes, all right, Lester, of course. But I said to Todd, you decide who you want, go after whoever you want. And he just loves this. But Todd's out for the next couple of days. Yes, Dylan, I was gonna say, I think it's just too easy for Todd to get in touch with people that might. He has like his Rolodex of everyone's phone number. Well, he's very determined to like, we got Michael Douglas a couple of years ago and back to back years and I went, the Michael Douglas, huh? And Todd goes, yep, yep, yep. He's gonna be in it. And I go, okay. Of course. Michael Douglas. When we were having Michael Douglas on the show in studio a few years ago, and we were told he doesn't follow sports, don't ask him sports questions. A PR person says that. And I go, wait, I'm asking him some sports questions. And it turned out he was a great guest. You know, Ryan Reynolds, he doesn't really know sports. But then you start talking to him. He was just a great interview. Billy Bob, he knows a little baseball. I'm like, if they're coming on, we're going to have a conversation. And they were all great because they want to be great. But Alex Ovechkin, the fact that he is going to fill out a bracket is pretty cool. Poll question. Seaton from hour one. What are we going to go with an hour two? We got two of them up there for our one. Okay. Who would you rather see in the tournament? Your options being West Virginia, Indiana, Boise State, uc, Irvine, Ohio State, or North Carolina right now? Gosh, almost a. Almost a tie. West Virginia, slightly ahead of Indiana. Just slightly ahead of Boise State, just slightly ahead of North Carolina. Nobody wants to see Ohio State. Nobody wants to see uc Irvine. Okay. It's close, though. All right. North Carolina in fourth in that 8-773-DP show. As we always do every Monday, Best and worst of the weekend. Operators sitting by, taking your phone calls. The Bengals have built their team from the outside in, so you have wide receivers, and that's not the normal way you do this. Jamar Chase is great. T. Higgins, wonderful as well. You're paying nearly $70 million a year for two wideouts. It's a model that's really tough to sustain. The offense wasn't the issue last year. Joe Burrow, coming off wrist surgery, needed protection more than ever, and I think this was a. Joe, we're going to keep you happy. We're going to bring back both of these guys. I wouldn't have done that. I would keep Jamar Chase. But, you know, you're in a division that has T.J. watt and Miles Garrett, so there are teams that have good, impactful defensive players. But, you know, the Bengals have firepower. They can win. You know, they can win in dramatic fashion, and they can lose in dramatic fashion because that defense. And I don't know if they bring back Trey Hendrickson. He's 30 years of age, led the NFL and sacks. That, to me, seems to be the big head scratcher there. And I. And I liken Them to the Miami Dolphins that, you know, you have a quarterback you paid a lot to and you got two wide receivers that you build around, you know, waddle and, and Tyree Kill. It's not a blueprint for success. Can you be the Philadelphia Eagles? No, not anytime soon. They built from the inside out. They built offensive and defensive line. If you look at great teams, you know, sustainability, you got to have a great offensive and defensive line or at least good offensive and defensive line. You can't be 27th in defense, third in offense and make that work. It just, you know, Kansas City, they were an offensive minded team, then they became a defensive minded team and then they ended up winning championships being a defensive minded team. Chris Jones and they ran the football. Patrick Mahomes, not the guy throwing 50 touchdown passes but they adapted. They, they had to change who their idea, their identity was. The Bengals, they're going to be fun to watch. This just felt like we don't want Joe Burrow to want to to one out. But they did go to a Super bowl. But they went to a Super bowl and at the time had a very good defense, respectable defense to go along with that offense. But you know the salary cap's going to go up. Bengals signed these guys. Now what do you do? What can you do? Pittsburgh's going to be good. Baltimore, you know, is going to be very good. Cleveland, they might be competitive, they're not going to make the playoffs. But the afc, I mean it's that there's a lot of good teams there. But I think that that surprised me that they signed. Well they were going to sign Jamar Chase but they didn't have to announce that they were going to make him the highest paid player in the game. Non quarterback. And you don't have any wiggle room if you say that. It's not like you go yeah, we were just kidding. You know we want him fifth highest non paid. No, you made him the highest paid non quarterback in the game. Could have done this a while ago and T. Higgins could have done that a while ago as well. Yes, Paulie, going back to 2021, the Bengals, the year they made the super bowl they had the 7th ranked offense and 17th ranked defense which is not bad. I was trying to comp them to remember the Rams with Kurt Warner back in the day and Tori Holt and Bruce and I just assumed they were all offense for three years in a row. The Rams had the number one ranked offense in the NFL for two of those years. They had a top 10 defense both of those Years, they made the super. Yeah, you. You have to have something in. In the upper teens, if you're going to have a really good offense, you got to at least have that defense that can stop somebody at some point in the playoffs. The regular season is different. Teams are built for the regular season, Teams are built for the playoffs. Teams are built to win in all the elements. Can win on the road, we can win if it's going south, we can win if we're going north, we can win with our bad, you know, with our B game on offense. But you got to have your defense there that's able to be respected. Yes, Marvin. And sometimes for teams that are even offensively minded, you at least need one big play from the defense. Almost like you said with the 99 Rams, they want a Super bowl because of a great defensive play. Yeah. So that's all you need. Yeah. I mean, there are. There are teams that are fun to watch, but I don't know if we take them seriously. Like, I like watching the Dolphins. I don't think they're threatening. I think they're fun to watch. There's just certain teams where you go, yeah, they're fun, but it's just, if you want to win a championship, I mean, now the pressure is really on. Joe Burrow, when you think about it, we got your receivers now. I mean, he did make a Super bowl, but I don't think there's any other quarterback who has two receivers as good as those two. Can you think of somebody else who's two. Two receivers are as good as. Now, Jordan Addison's good. I don't think he's better than T. Higgins in Minnesota. Yeah, pulling. It's really not that close. I'm looking at some lists, and there's not two A receivers with a person. You could say Jalen Hurts has two very good receivers. I don't know if we could shoehorn him to that level and people will bring up. Well, the Eagles have wide receivers. They do, but they don't use their wide receiver. They don't throw the ball. I mean, they. It's surprising if they throw it more than 20 times, but they don't have to. They have a really good defensive line, a really good offensive line, and then you throw in Saquon Barkley. They're not asking Jalen Hurts to win games. The Bengals are going to say to Joe Burrow, joe, we're spending a lot of money here. Yeah, Paulie. Last year, the Philadelphia Eagles threw the ball the least amount of times of any NFL team. 448 attempts. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Morph. What about the Rams? Where do you put Puka and Devonte Adams? Not as good as T. Higgins and Jamar Chase? Because I think, I think those two guys are better than the Rams, too. I think Jamar Chase is better than Puka. And this is, you know, this isn't Adams 5 years ago. T. Higgins is really good. He's really good. So I would say that I don't know if there's anybody else. I mean, Waddle and Hill, but then I'd rather have Joe Burrow throwing to my receivers than, you know, Tua throwing to those two receivers. And who knows how long Tyree Kill is going to stay in Miami. I still, I still think you'll end up with Kansas City for some of you end up back there. All right, eight, seven, seven, three. DP show email address dpdanpatrick.com Twitter handle @DP Show Kirk Cousins staying in Atlanta. Cooper cup goes to the Seahawks and your number one seeds, Auburn, Florida, Duke, and Houston. Hello. Gregory. Gregory in Orlean, I believe is what it says on the screen. Is that right? Greg Olean. O L E A N. Oh, where is Olean? Right next to Saint Bonaventure University. Oh, okay. All right. Well, welcome to the program. All right, 632-50. I have a. I have a question for Seaton. Now, I know he's a West Virginia alumni, but would he rather be a Notre Dame leprechaun or a West Virginia Mountaineer? Oh, dang, that got serious. Seaton. Boy, that's a hell of a question. I'm probably gonna have to go with the Notre Dame leprechaun, though. Yeah, you know, a lot of heritage there for me personally, so I would go with that. Would you be able to grow the beard that you're supposed to have with the. Not great. Not great. I'll tell you that. That might be when it comes down to, like, the pros and cons, I might get cut because of my horrible beard growing ability. But then the Mountaineer. Yeah, no, I'm not the one growing either. Yeah. If I could be the Seton Hall Pirate in the, like, full stuffed head, I could do that. Well, I could do that real well. You know what? We should see if you could be the Seton hall mascot for a game. I would love. Would you. Would you be the Seton hall mascot for a basketball game? Hell yeah. Okay. Hell yeah. As long as I don't have to, like, you know how sometimes all of a sudden the mascot, they're like, you know, It's a timeout and out come the trampoline. Like doing a flip and landing his head in the basket. I'm not doing any of that. Yes. Marvin, wait. D.P. i want in. Can I be Jonathan Husky? He could be whatever the Pirate is. Would you be the Husky Seon hall against Yukon. Would you be the Husky without. Come on. Okay. Of course. All right, Paulie, can we get the I team to see if these fine universities would be willing to let us put our guys into their mascot calls are already being made by somebody. I don't know who, though. And then you guys have to fight each other and then wrestle and then it becomes a thing. Definitely fight each other. Right half court. Yeah, yeah. Easily. Yeah, easily. I mean, we got to have this go viral, you know, It'll be on SportsCenter top 10 plays. It'll be the two mascots fighting each other. All right, let me take a break. Are the Vikings actually interested in Aaron Rodgers? I don't know. We'll find out next. 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. 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