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It's kind of harsh. It's not like we came in for the save and then we gave up the game winning home run. I know. These are independent judges that make arbitrary decisions. And what kind of analogy would you have? We weren't selected yet. Again, they picked something over us. In our category, the most faceless people. I used a sports analogy, Todd. That's what I'm trying to get to. I know, but we got to forget about it. We cried, we moaned, we whined in the first hour. We didn't blow it. There was nothing. We did everything we could. It felt like it was a pick six. Really? We lost on a pick six. I mean, that's the feeling I have today. We had it and football analogy. Who do we lose to? NFL Live with a pick six? Seeing Dan Orlovsky walking up there, I'm going, yeah. His skinny jeans on. Yeah. Quarterback pick six, Whatever. Yes. Marmon, are we more like Russell Wilson at the one yard line? Wow. NFL Live is Malcolm Butler. But Russ already had a ring. A good point. We don't have a ring. What time pick six would suggest you or one of us or as a group. We made the wrong player through. Made an error of some sort. We threw a pick six. When I think it's more of an officiating mistake by the judges of the academy. Todd, you didn't Say a word in the first hour and now all of a sudden you're going to criticize every one of our sports analogies. I just, I don't, like, blow it and I don't, like pick six. I don't think that depicts what happened. We're just having fun. It's okay. All right. I'm a little sensitive, too. You're not the only one that feels, you know, a little bummed that we didn't win. Yes. All right, let's go. Come on. Yes. Paul, who of this group most thought in the moment when they're reading the thing? Me. I was actually not, I shouldn't say confident to the level that I was looking at the steps to walk up there going, watch those steps because they're a little jagged. There was a cameraman who was up by the stage and I thought, you know, if I walk up, you know, make sure I don't bump him. Or we as a group, you and I actually had a last minute conversation about your speech or what you're going to say. And we kind of riffed a little something to the level where I was like, yeah, Dan's going to be up there talking. I had people coming up prior to saying, hey, I hope you win. You're going to win. I saw Kyle Brandt, good morning, football. He was right there, shook his hand. I think I sounded sincere when I said, hey, good luck. I didn't mean it. No, no, it's okay. We lost. Okay. Now you can say we didn't win. That felt like a loss. Okay. Yes. Like Elgin Baylor. It's great. Great, great player. All time great player. Never got a ring. It's okay. Maybe more like Patrick Ewing. Well, I was trying to think of somebody who got to the finals, like many, many times. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like, oh, oh, for eight. I think something like that. Yes. Paul, I think I have the comp. And this is very timely in a sad way. The great actor George Wendt, who played Norm on Cheers, that everyone knows he passed away yesterday. And I didn't know that he never won an Emmy award, a supporting actor award. I would have just assumed he did. He got nominated, I think six times. He was 0 for 6 and it was six straight. Just like George went. We are 0 for 6. We are Norm from Cheers. That's a big compliment. Now everybody knows our name, right? I think we're well received. They like us. Good reaction. If we're the Norm from Cheers of sports, TV and radio, that's a compliment. I'm okay with that, yes, that's all right. You're comfortable with us. Pull up a chair, have a beer. I mean, not this early. Although it feels like should check on the back room and see if that's the case. Oh my goodness. They, they went hard on the way down, diving into the alcohol and I, you know, I said look, there's no bathroom on the bus. So everything in moderation. And lo and behold, a couple of the BRGs had to have the bus pull over. Yes, Todd, they were knee deep in Taco Bell at about 1:15 in the morning in the kitchen there. So they had no interest in going to bed or doing anything that would resemble getting ready for. At one point I look over and Tyler is double fisted. In fact, I took a picture. But yeah, the brgs got to go and it was great. You know, we were there in Mass. If you're watching on Peacock, that is Ocean. Ocean's 12 there. Danny Ocean, all of us there. That's the group. That's what makes this show tick. Say good morning if you're watching on Peacock. Now you know what I have to work with. That's what makes this even more amazing. We say good morning if you're watching on Peacock. Thank you for downloading the app and our radio affiliates around the country. Fox Sports Radio, iHeartradio, Wayne Gretzky. Next hour we'll go to the NFL owners meetings. We might have a vote this morning on the tush push. 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We're clearing out everything and they're great T shirts. $10 right now@danpatrick.com. yes, Paul. I have a little update on the tush push from Diana Rossini of the Athletic. She said both the league's competition committee and players health and safety committees have voted to ban the play. She said that was an expected vote to now send it to owners, but that would be half the last steps. Not a surprise or breaking news, but she said those are the final steps for it's handed off to the owners, the issuing one, that the health and safety committee committee voted to ban the play. That means they have to have some type of data to basis. Well, they can, they can look at the potential. So you can say we want to be proactive here. Yeah, you know, they look, the commissioner doesn't want the play. That's why they tabled the vote the last time they got together. I mean, this is really simple. And then you have some backroom dealings, you get your votes. Maybe there's quid pro quo with whatever going on. But, you know, here's the NFL owners, here's the NFL wanting more kickoffs now. They're trying to, they're trying to kind of massage, manipulate. How do we get more kickoffs? So the kickoff, they wanted to get rid of the kickoff, but they wanted to keep it. But they didn't want you to run, have any returns. They, they wanted to, hey, they kicked it out of the end zone and you're going to start fresh on the 25 yard line. And then all of a sudden we're like, no, we need, we need kickoffs. We need some movement here. Now they've gotten some movement here. Now what are they going to do? They're going to, you know, because now it's safer. Now we're going to try to have more kickoffs here until we get to a point where we were before, where it's not safe on the kickoff. Can't just leave it where it is. Like when you think about a league that tweaks, its, its game, its rules, the NFL does this more than all the other sports combined. But they also get more attention because they tweak. If you think about it now, it does drive me crazy. They're like, you know, you know, you can go, wait, is that the rule now? Oh, wait a minute. That's where they spot the ball. It's hard to keep up and it's my job to keep up because they're always tinkering with it, like, can we just figure out how to play the game already? You imagine somebody came back to life who was, you know, played football in the 50s and they're like, wait a minute. What do you. First of all, what are you doing on the kickoff? Oh, damn, look at those helmets. Wait, you're not allowed. I can't hit him up in the head. Wait, I can't use my arm as a weapon. No, you can't, man. What happened? Yeah. The evolution of the NFL. Yes, Paulie. I can't tell whether I love that about the NFL or don't, that they're willing to adjust to what the fans want and change rules year to year. But there's very little consistency from year to year, and it makes it more complex to watch, even for hardcore fans. I mean, it started with the catch and completing the process. That drove me crazy. And it just felt like, let's get lawyers to provide the language here. And then you're going, oh, my God. And if you just take a stroll through the rule book sometime, you'll be like, I mean, I think it's probably easier to pass the bar exam than it is to understand the NFL rule book. And I'm being serious. There's so much there. Let's say you grew up in England and. Or let's say, you know, you grew up where they played cricket. And then you go, hey, check out football. And you're like. And this is coming from cricket, where I'm, you know, still trying to figure it out, where you're like, wait, now, how come everybody doesn't get to go out for a pass? And, you know, when you think about it, that's one of those rules that sounds like, well, you know, do we want that? Yes. I love to have chaos. You know, you have your tackles that. Wait a minute. But if you line up there, then you're too far back in the back. No, you can't have two guys in mo. No, you can't. Like, it's. It's wild. Yes. Marvin. Remember when the playoffs started, we were like, oh, what are the overtime rules? I'm not sure. This year, when Donovan McNabb didn't know about overtime and he played in the NFL, and you're like, we got a lot. We got too much going on. Zach and Knoxville. Hi, Zach. What's on your mind tonight? Adp. Thanks for taking my call. Y' all were talking about the analogy with the sports, and this sports in me feels like a real Charles Woodson, Peyton Manning, Heisman Trophy situation, where ESPN and ABC and Brent Musburger put him over the top. And that's what's happening to you guys. You're getting. You're getting Big leagued. And I don't appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you, Zach. Thank you. We appreciate that. Thank you for the analogy there. Kevin in California. Hi, Kevin. What's on your mind? Good morning, guys. I got two ways you'll get an Emmy next year. One is pretty simple. Drop the. The just like in the Social Network. Just be damn Patrick show next year. Make it simple. Okay. Okay, yeah, continue. I'm sorry. Now my second option is the long shot. Add 10, 10 McGinley, the actor who always joined shows, and put them over the top in the 90s and the 2000s. Yeah. Add him to the cast. That's my second option. Okay. Thank you, Kevin. Kind of like Deftones. Not the Deftones. Yeah, just. Okay. Yeah. Edge. Not the Edge. Smashing Pumpkins maybe? Or actually, I think they are the Smashing. But see, I was waiting last night. So they make the announcement right before they make the announcement. I'm waiting to hear the. Yeah, the Dan Patrick show. And then when I heard NFL Live and the dude that announced it was ready to get out of there, he's just like, all right. In the Emmy goes to NFL Live. Espn. Congratulations. See you guys later. Bye. That was Roy Wood, the comedian. Yeah, yeah, Paulie. When I heard. When I didn't hear the I started turning out of my seat. I was like, maybe we should change it to the. Have a little more attitude about ourselves. T H E e. Yes. The Dan Patrick show. Lisa in Albany. Hi, Lisa. Hey, Dan. First time, long time. As a startup, non profit. I totally respect what you are doing with such a lean team. And I think it's completely ridiculous that you're competing against these one trick pony type shows. You know, football or baseball. I mean, how baseball gets three nominations also makes no sense. But here's my issue with the event you started in your garage was the sports Emmys taking place last night in a garage. There was bad echo, weird camera shots. The audience looked like they were pained to be there. They need to grow to your level top notch before you want to be up on that stage. Anyways, I have the. The app downloaded for 2026. Let's go. Thank you, Lisa. Thank you. It's a tough audience. By the way, Lisa gets it. If you're. If you're looking for laughs and you're somebody up there like David Hill who got the Lifetime Achievement, Mr. Cream Rinse. He makes a joke about Hugh Jackman, had work done. And I'm like, what crickets? And nobody's laughing. And then he goes, any. Anyway, I got off the rails or Let me get back on the rails like it's not a place to go and expect any kind of laughter. That was awkward. Yes, it was. Yes, it was. Mike in Wisconsin. Hi, Mike. What's on your mind? Morning, fellas. Thoughts and prayers. Sorry for your life, but I think I cracked the code on why you didn't win. I apologize if you covered this, but how many of your clips that you submitted included the Cowboys and. Or LeBron? Oh, I don't know. I can get the list real quick. Is that a good thing? We should have had Stephen Wilson Jr. Sing about his dad and LeBron rather than just. Or they love the Cowboys and it made him cry. Yeah, yeah. Because his dad was a huge Cowboys fan. If he just said something like that, then it probably. Dang it. It's a good call. Is it a good thing to have LeBron and. Or the Cowboys in there with your sports Emmy? Real. Yeah. We got to see what they submitted. Yeah. Paul, I could tell you if NFL Live won, it must be because they hit the Cowboys quite often. Not being facetious. They. That's a big topic on their show. Yeah. I would. I would assume they were in there. Yeah. Because they spent $3 million on a VR headset. Oh, yeah, I know. And they're like, we're breaking down. We're gonna go inside Dak Prescott's head live to see Dan Orlovsky's got. Yeah, we spent million dollars on this one. Yeah, yeah, whatever. Yeah. Like, we can't compete with those guys with the budget that we have. And they have, like, goggles on and they're doing artificial intelligence and whatever. We're Crystal palace and they're in man city. Right. We are competing with them. Yeah, but Crystal palace won. We didn't win. Yeah. It took him 119 years, though. I don't have that much time. Nothing's guaranteed. That might have been my best shot. Death. This could. Could. That could have been it. What, Todd? So we're saying there's some kind of cheat code. There's certain words, phrases, things that have to go into the clip reel that puts you in a better standing. I think there are better ways to present your show. I do believe that. I do. I'm not saying that we didn't do it this time around, but, you know, it's. It's. But there's a lot of talented shows out there. Great shows. Yes, Marvin, I know. I know exactly what you need. You got to get five people into the hall of Fame. Any of their respective hall of Fames. Like you did last year. In the year before. In the year before. That's the Emmy reel. But I got John Fasenda into the Pro Football hall of Fame, Brent Musburger into the hall of Fame, the band Foreigner into the Rock and Roll hall of Fame. I said more. I gotta get Mel Kuiper in there. All right. But you would think. And. And the selfless sports Emmy goes to the Dan Patrick show because we promote others. Yes, Paul, quickly, I know we got a break, but in the past, we did send in the John Fascenda clip as part of our Emmy reel. And that year we did not get nominated. Last year was not the Brent Musburger year. The upcoming year will be the Brent Musburger year that we would have that clip in our Emmy reel. Our Emmy reel this year was Stephen Wilson Jr. Singing Josh Jacobs tackling me, you memorializing Jerry west when he passed away, Deion Sanders at the super bowl, and Tory Lovolo of the Diamondbacks telling Paul Skeens they'd start for the All Star Game, which was a great segment. That's a hammer. It is. It is. It is it. Great list. You know, now that I think about it, though, it is a lot more difficult to just talk about the NFL. We're going to. It is a lot more difficult to just analyze the games that just happened and then preview the ones coming up. You're right. That is. They are tackling much more when you look at what we submitted versus what they probably submitted. All right, you're right. It's. What they did is much more. We're going to head to the owners meeting, the NFL owners meeting, 137 people. We're going to talk about the Tush push and some of the other things coming up right after this. Filling one hour versus three hours. Yeah, but that gives us more time. You know, we get three hours of content. Maybe we do a half hour. Which one of those five clips do you think is the one that cost us, Paulie? Trying to tackle Josh Jacobs or getting tackled by Josh? No, you know what? We're winning because. Well, we're nominated because this is what we do. That's all we did. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. 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I appreciate a little morale boost from the audience. Normally they like to, you know, bring us down a little bit down even more than they can, but they're really rallying behind us today. I think we're the hall of Very Good. I realized that around midnight last night. I think it's the hall of Very Good, and I'm okay with that. If that's how I go out, I go out. Is very good. Yes. Marvin. No, no. Just. I mean, I'm, I'm in the hall of Fame, but I'm saying us collectively, it's very good. Yes, yes. We actually bring you down. Yes. I'm a Hall of Famer now. I got. I'm just in the hall of Very Good. That's. All right. Well, thanks. Now that you put it that way. Jeremy Fowler, ESPN senior NFL and national reporter, joining us from the owner's meeting. All right, Jeremy, where are we? The countdown for the vote for the Tush Push. Yeah. Dan, great to be with you. And you are a Hall of Famer in my book. You should not let last night's results affect anything at all. Certainly. But don't you contribute to NFL Live, the show that won the sports semi. Do you get a sports Emmy? I think I actually do from what I am driven to the show. Should you have won, should NFL Live, should that have won last night over us? You know, I think it's a tremendous show. Laura Rudledge and Danicre do a tremendous job. I love that show. I'm just kidding. I'm a very, very small part of it. However. Okay. Your hall of Fame career should be the morale boost that you need this morning. All right. All right. Okay. Sorry to do that, too. That's all I wanted to talk to you about, Jeremy. Thank you. I don't care about the Tush Push. And we're done. Okay. What's the timeframe here on the vote? Any minute, then, but so that the packers their proposals in owners, my understanding, are voting like right down the hall as we speak. You know, they're meeting on adjacent. Kelsey walked through the hallways with Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie a little while ago. So he's in the meeting. Maybe he can sway some votes. Maybe he can help the Eagles here. Their Phillies clearly all hands on deck to try to sway some people. So what was told to me from some teams is that there is momentum for this to change, for the Tush push to be banned. They only got 16 votes in March though, so they need 3/4 majority vote, which is 24 votes to get this push through and then, you know, they'll go from there. So seems to be momentum, but I think it will be close and it could be really. I'm checking my phone right now to see what goes down here, but it is expected early this morning. What kind of language do you think is going to be in or changed with this? Let's say they get rid of it. Is there going to be language that's put in their rule book? So the language right now is from the packers proposal that was tweaked this week to make it broader. Because I think the issue that teams had back in March was like it was too specific to one team. Right. They felt that it's specific to the Eagles. They wanted to tailor that to just be back to the way it was in the early 2000s, which is you can't push or pull any ball carrier at all at any time or it's a 10 yard penalty. So I think that sort of whets the appetite a little bit of some of the teams that were on the fence. You know, they're just. There are a lot of teams that want to get that quote, rugby style play out of there. What's still unclear, Dan, is what the data is on injury prevention here. Like if there really is an issue with this play that causes more injury risk than others, then that's great. Let's see the data. But right now I don't know that anybody's seen that Health and Safety has talked to the league. So maybe today we'll get some sort of clarity on why that's important or if this is more just under the guise of player safety, which I know is. Some around the league believe that might be the case. Yeah, I think they're. And, and they could probably frame this and say we're being proactive. We don't have negative data or injury data. We, we want to be proactive. I, I understand how they can spin this, but like, aesthetically it's not pleasing the NFL is in an entertainment business, and it's a predictable play. It's like the extra point. Like, we don't want to. We don't want predictability. They can't say that. But I think that's really what's happening behind the scenes. That. That's my gut feeling. Well, and the Eagles are a major brand in the league, and they've had tremendous success with it, and it evokes a lot of emotion because from a football standpoint, there still are teams and coaches and general managers in the league that will tell you, like, you shouldn't punish a team for being able to execute a play that you can't stop. So that is really a core issue here that really won't go away. So you're right. It's a matter of taste in a lot of ways. And, you know, is injury prevention really a thing? You know, some people in league say that they think it could cause some sort of catastrophic injury. We just don't know yet. So we have to go by what they want and the fact that, yes, it is an entertainment industry. But, yeah, I think part of the equation, too, is that a lot of teams feel like the Eagles would still get these plays without having to push from behind. Like, usually Jalen hurts in that offensive line. They get it anyways. So I don't think the Eagles would be all that affected by this, to be honest. On a football standpoint, I don't either. I don't. I. I said that. I've. I've been saying that with that offensive line, with that quarterback. There's no quarterback like him. It's a low target. It's not like Josh Allen. It's a low target for a guy who squats 600 pounds. I mean, let's be realistic here. You're not going to stop that. I mean, you might a couple of times, but they're probably. You know, their success rate will probably be over 90%. But, you know, we had Matt LaFleur on at the draft, and here's the Green Bay coach saying, admitting that the NFL nudged them to be the team that would put its name behind this to get this play banned. So that's the NFL saying to the packers, hey, I mean, that tells you everything you need to know. The NFL does not want this playing well. It would be. It would be naive to think that Roger Goodell is not involved in the decision making here. You know, you have a couple different tenants. You have the competition committee, which is eight or nine people, you know, composed of general managers and team presidents around the league. So they've recommended that the Tush push should be out. You have the health and safety component and then you have Goodell, who is a presence and if votes need to be swayed, he can be involved in those discussions. So typically what the league wants, the league gets the Phillies pushing back here, you know, like Nick Sirianni has a pretty big coaching tree now with Shane Steichen in Indianapolis, two or three others that are head coaches whose teams benefited from the Tush push and don't want to go against the Eagles. So but that's only three or four teams. Do you have enough to sway the majority? Jeremy Fowler, who will win a sports emmy because NFL Live won a sports emmy last night, joining us from the NFL owners meeting. You can have mine. We'll switch the name. Be fine. What else should we be aware of that could happen today? So the interesting news this morning, Dan, was that the playoff reseeding proposal from the Detroit Lions, which they were proposing, hey look, if you have a better record as a wild card team than a division winner, you should jump them in the seatings. That has been off the table. That has been now revoked at least for this term. But it was a little bit of a surprise. It didn't have much legs but I thought they would at least vote on it. They are not doing that now. So, okay, going to be the same playoff format this season. But there is an acknowledgement here that like if it goes to 18 games eventually or in future years, they're going to have to recede this thing. They're going to have to work it out. They don't really want situations where teams have meaningless games in December and January when you're locked into a two seed and you're resting your guys or you saw the Rams do that last year, resting your guys in the last week. You know, they want these games to matter. Even though I think some fans love second and third stringers playing and the dynamics of who's going to tank and who's not. Like I think there's an element of that. But for the most part the league doesn't want that. They want good games. So I do think they're going to switch that eventually. It just won't happen this week. And then you got some onside kick news. There's some stuff about, you know, you can do an on site kick anytime during the game, not just the fourth quarter when you're down. If you're from behind, you can do it in the first quarter if you want. And they're going to move the kickoff point like a yard. I don't know why. I'm going to find out why they're doing that. They're trying to create a better success rate on these kicks. It's kind of become a boring play. They're trying to spice it up. But you have to declare that we're. Hey, we're going to have an onside kick. You have to tell that, right? Oh, my God. Correct. Okay. Yeah. So it's, it's. They're, they're hoping for a little bit more excitement. Anything I need to know about Aaron Rodgers today? So, Dan, I checked on that this week. You know, I kind of get the same lines from people in Pittsburgh, which is, hey, we remain optimistic, we remain in contact with Aaron Rodgers. No new update yet. So they all are essentially still waiting on him. You know, I go back to like, this is his first foray into free agency in a 20 year career that was highly unpredictable. So this was never going to be smooth or easy. And you know, OTAS is in a little under three weeks for the Steelers, like May 27, so that'd be the target date for them. They would, you know, certainly hope that by then he's in the fold. I don't think they've changed their plan. They're waiting on him. They know he's had some stuff in his inner circle or some family stuff that he has been dealing with, but she alluded to on the Pat McAfee Show a few months ago, so they're sensitive to all that and they're just going to kind of roll with Mason Rudolph until then. There's some teams I've talked to, they're still kind of wondering like, is he just waiting out the Vikings? You know, because the Vikings would be an ideal scenario. One of the best play callers in the league and Kevin o' Connell. Nine dome games. You're guaranteed nine dome games per year. There's some element of that. But I, you know, checking with the Vikings, I still don't expect that they're moving forward with J.J. mcCarthy. So he really has no other option other than Pittsburgh or retire, it seems, right now. Did he get married? I, I do not know that. I haven't heard that. Okay. I haven't heard that. So my, you know, it could be just something a matter with his family. But yeah, I know I saw him wearing a ring and then there was speculation did he get married? And maybe it's a mood ring which would be appropriate for Aaron. Like what, what's the mood? That you're in. But thanks for joining us and congratulations on, on winning the sports Emmy last night. Thank you, Dan. I appreciate it. Thanks for having me. That's Jeremy Fowler. He's a big time NFL reporter for NFL Live at the mothership. Yes, Paul, I like that. We didn't even know that he won a sports hemi for being a participant NFL Live. And he goes, yeah, I think I do get one. Yeah, must be nice. That's what working at a place like ESPN or Fox or whatever is. I have friends who have a dozen and they're like, oh, I think I picked one up this year. You're like, oh, my gosh. John in San Diego. Hi, John. What's on your mind? Hey, how's it going? I had a question in regards to the on site kick. It's very frustrating year after year that the owners don't decide just to completely get rid of it because the success rate is so small and there's been so many close games that have ended in such a small percentage of getting the ball. Why don't they vote to have like a 4th and 15 player? Something more likely that a team can get the ball back because the onside kick just obviously it's impossible. Yeah. They have proposed that. There's been language that's been drawn up where teams have suggested that. I just think it's, it's an inherently violent sport. You know, we're past the concussion lawsuit. I think when you sign up, you know, hey, it's violent and I could get hurt. I just don't. You can take safeguards, but safeguards should be with equipment. You still need to play the game and this is how the game is played. And yes, it's violent, but I don't, I just don't think you can do a little of this and a little of that and tweaking and, you know, we're gonna have an onside kick, but you gotta promise you're not gonna hit somebody hard. Hey, you got to tell us that you're gonna have an. I mean, it's, it's pro football. It's going to hurt. You sign up for that. We'll take a break. More phone calls coming up. We will play. Are we going to play in or out, Paul? Or fill in the blank? Fill in the blank. Fill in the blank. All right, that's after this. Be sure to catch the live edition of the Dan Patrick show, weekdays at 9am Eastern, 6am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. While others are sitting in lecture halls. You're already building your future at Ferris State University. Hands on training starts from day one. 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You know how it Works. Todd. I do. Okay, blank NFL players will be on Team USA's flag football team at the Olympics. 10 with 10. 10. Seaton. How many are as roster size total? Do we have that information? Do not have the roster size. That's going to greatly impact my guess. All right, I'm going to say, let's say if there's 12 players, perhaps I'm going to say also 10 Marvin non famous NFL players will be in flag football. Okay, Paul, that's a good one by Marvin. I'm looking at the flag football list and the initial rosters for 20, 24 out, and there's about 18 guys on this list for the men's team. So my answer is two. Two will be on the roster. But you can only have one play for each country. No, one for each team. For the country. One player from each team can have, right? Like, like the Bills can't have two players go. They can have one guy and then the Dolphins can have one guy and every team in the NFL is allowed to have one guy go. But am I misunderstanding that? Well, then, then you'd have 32 guys who. You don't have to take one from every team. I thought it was Team USA will have one NFL player that like the team that represents Team USA. Then wouldn't that be the answer to the question, one trick question, just NFL players will be on Team USA's flag football. If there's only allowed to have one player, then the answer would be one. Yes. That's what I thought it was. I thought it was. You're only allowed to have one from each team. Unless I've read it, you know, incorrectly, because then you get rid of. You're going to get rid of all the guys who have been playing flag football. Well, yeah. So then the question would be, out of that whole roster, how many of them will be NFL guys? So if you have 12, I say there'd probably be like two flag football guys, but 10 NFL guys. Yeah. Okay. Perfectly NFL. By the way, nobody understands what's happening, but we're kind of like, I think I read it the right way. The Eagles response, if the push, the Tush push gets banned will be blank. Todd. Fine. We'll still beat you anyway. All right. Seaton. Loophole. Marvin. Minimal. Paul. Very snarky. The response. The Timberwolves are blank. Todd. Done. Ish. Seaton. Ish. Goodish. Marvin. Thunderstruck. Paul Treading water. Pacers versus Nicks will be blank. Todd Chippy. Disappointing. Marvin. Nostalgic. Paul Epic. As an actor being known Mostly for one iconic role would be blank. Todd. Limiting Seton. Cool. Marvin. Pigeonhole. Ish. Paul. Awesome. But a grind. Yeah. George went. Who was norm on Cheers. Passed away. Or as Todd likes to say, George went. He went to a better place. George went to a better place. Okay. Our show will be in the hall of blank. Todd. Wonderful. Yeah, I did. I went there. Okay. I went there. All right, all right. Wonderful, Wonderful. Paul or no. Seaton. All are very good. Marvin. Hall of fame for influence. Paul. The hall of fame. Okay. If there is one, we will blank a sports Emmy. I would blank a sports Emmy for sure. Oh, no, that's not a yes or no. Sorry. You seen how Emmy looks? Yeah. Todd. We will blank a sports Emmy continue to wonder what it might be like to win Seaton. That's funny. That's a perfect answer. Yeah, we will continue to wonder what it's like to win a sports Emmy. I think that's a nice way of saying we will not win one. Marvin. We will see a sports Emmy. Oh, we've seen him. Oh, that's what I'm saying. We'll continue to see him. Paul. We will no doubt win one. Four months after we all retire from the show. I don't want one then. All right, that's it. That's called fill in the blank. Yeah. Yeah. Come on. Hall of fame. Hall of Very good. Mo in Arizona. Hi, Mo. What's on your mind tonight? Morning, Dan Danette. I myself have been snubbed out of a couple of employee of the month, but I get it. I know why you guys are being snug, man. You guys got to get a script, man. That's it. Oh, we got to go as scripted. Yeah. People. There's some people who think the show is scripted. It's not. There's times it probably should be scripted, but no, that's not scripted. If that's what it takes to win the sports Emmy, I don't want the sports Emmy stuff in Pennsylvania. Hi, Stu. Hey, Dan and Dan. At first time, long time, six five, 205 pounds like you, Danny, product of strong Ohio roots. And I'd also like to throw in a suggestion for winning the sports Emmy. I think you need to go full Roy Firestone. Have Fritzi arrange interviews with friends of the show that let's just say are pre programmed to emotional breakdowns and use those in your submission. You'll get the vote for the emotional heartstring folks. So that would be my suggestion. I think you get the emotional side of it. Thank you, Stu. You know, Seaton I think this is an interesting point that somebody else brings up. It's kind of similar to Stu's point. Maybe next year's sports Emmy clip should be nothing but us talking about not winning a sports Emmy. So if we like say we did the comparison of, I don't know, NFL Live versus all of the things that we cover, we have people singing, we had all of this stuff. And then that was then in the. So you're really getting two years worth of clips into one segment. Does that make sense? Yeah, but that's if we're talking about what we submitted last year as like, see, this was all way better than the people that won last year. But then that's our new clip for next year. Now you're really getting all of last year's clips and all of this year's clips. Are we tanking our sports Emmy submission for next year? Oh, and ramp it up for 2027? I have no idea. I. I'm not sure. Let's say what is it June? No, it's May. Okay. We have, we still have a lot of the year to rally to figure out Emmy submissions upcoming. Yes, Todd, what if we just submit? You saying Lakers, Cowboys, Lakers, Cowboys, Lakers, Cowboys, Lakers, Cowboys, lakers, cowboys. Just 15 minutes of that just to see what happens. Can't do any worse. I want to get nominated. Todd. Final hour on the way. While others are sitting in lecture halls, you're already building your future at Ferris State University. Hands on training starts from day one. With real world skills that lead straight to careers in construction, engineering, automotive tech and more. You're not just learning, you're earning. Building a life you can be proud of. And with in state tuition for out of state students, success is within reach. Ferris State University. Unleash your potential. Register now at Ferris Edu. That's Ferris Edu. This podcast is sponsored by Talkspace. 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