Chris Collinsworth (3:34)

Why would we be faking morale? It's the holidays, the Thanksgivings coming up. We're all in good spirits.

Dan Patrick (3:40)

There should be no faking of it. Everyone should be in a very relaxed, happy mood. Okay. All right. I'm just. I'm not quite sure. It just felt like it was over the top and maybe wasn't real. And we do deal with real. I think. I think this is genuine happiness and feeling. But is it happiness because you're off tomorrow? I. Oh, there's some crap tomorrow. That's Satan's standing ovation. Todd, you know what? You earned that day off. You enjoy it. Thank you.

Marvin (4:10)

You enjoy every second of it.

Dan Patrick (4:12)

Okay, but are we. Is morale high because Todd is off tomorrow?

Marvin (4:16)

That's possible.

Dan Patrick (4:17)

Okay, Fair.

Chris Collinsworth (4:18)

Fair assessment of things.

Dan Patrick (4:19)

All right, well, Todd's here, Seaton's here. Marv, Paulie, yours truly in the back room. Guys, take advantage of the calendars. They're available@danpatrick.com autograph non autograph calendars. And check out the tailgate moonshine store autograph calendar with select tailgate purchases.

Chris Collinsworth (4:34)

Wow.

Dan Patrick (4:35)

Supplies. Last stat of the day brought to you by Panini America. The official trading cards of the Dan Patrick show. All right, we'll get to your phone calls. Coming up, Chris Collinsworth will join us. Fresh off his 500th NFL broadcast, Reggie Miller will stop by in the final hour of the program, the Niners. Keep it going. I did Ask the question, are they good? Are they threatening? Are they relevant? And I would say are they good? Yes. Are they relevant? Yes. You got Christian McCaffrey. Are they threatening? And I would say no. Even though they have eight wins, they're in a tough division. I think they're the third best team in that division. They've had injuries, a bad investment with Brandon Iuk. I think they just decided that they're not going to pick up his contract or the option for next year already. Then he get $30 million a year. Weren't the Steelers interested in Brandon Ayuk, man? Cause they don't have. They got George Kittle, they got Jennings, but they used to have some elite wide receivers. Debo's in Washington, you got McCaffrey and McCaffrey is not going to give you those 130 yard gains as far as rushing, but he's going to give you 80 rushing and he's going to give you, you know, 60 receiving. He's going to probably end up doing a thousand yards rushing, a thousand yards receiving. But you start to look they have their two best defensive players in Fred Warner. Bosa is not there as well. Kyle Shanahan's done a really good job and then they survive. Now granted you survived because you're playing Carolina, but Carolina is a six win team and Brock Purdy throws three first half interceptions but you still end up winning that game. Carolina was non threatening. The final score was 20 to nine. So San Francisco's eight and four and Carolina is six and six. There's so many teams still in the playoff picture. But this Cowboys Chiefs game on Thursday, the ramifications of it. Just imagine if the Cowboys win that game. So that Cowboy bandwagon that's picking up a lot of steam and a lot of passengers here and all of a sudden they're going to get closer and closer and put some heat on somebody at maybe in that last week or last two weeks of the regular season that they might sneak, sneak in and then they would be a dangerous out because they're playing defense. That offense is really good. The Chiefs, if the Chiefs would lose that game now all of a sudden they need help. But if they win that game, the boost that the Chiefs would get, that they beat a good Cowboy team in Dallas on a short work week, that's all. You know, once again everybody in the AFC is probably upset with the Colts because the Colts did a disservice to Everybody. You're up 20 to nine. Put them away. Because if you don't, I don't care what Mahomes numbers are. I don't know what his numbers are. This year. He is the most valuable player because he's the one guy, the one quarterback that I have complete confidence in that if you get him to the super bowl, he can win a Super Bowl. I can't do that with any other quarterback. And even Jalen Hurts, who has been very impressive in Super Bowls, that's the one guy. Now, is he the most valuable player during the regular season? No, because his numbers aren't great. But if you put him in a postseason, he's the one guy. That team where you go, I don't care where they're going, they can win those games on the road. But if you don't kill him and they're still breathing and he's still there at quarterback, he still can go to the super bowl, which is pretty amazing because I don't think the team is that good. But I do think when they need to be good, they're great. What is. And I said this will probably be the highest rated regular season game in the history of the NFL. Cowboys, Chiefs, Thanksgiving Day. Paulie, do you have a list of the top five games of all time?

Paulie (8:41)

Yeah, Front Office Sports compiled a list just six months ago. There's a lot of Thanksgiving Day games involved in this list. I'll give you the top five. December 2, 1985. Monday Night Football. Bears versus Dolphins, 39 million people.

Dan Patrick (8:55)

Okay, so the Bears were undefeated.

Paulie (8:56)

Right.

Dan Patrick (8:57)

And I remember Marino had a couple of touchdown passes to end the winning streak for the Bears.

Paulie (9:03)

And they lost and filmed the Super Bowl Shuffle the next day. That's cocky. The fourth all time. Thanksgiving Day 2021. Raiders versus Cowboys, 41 million. Thanksgiving Day 2023, Cowboys versus Washington, 41 1/2 million. December 3rd, 1990. Not Thanksgiving Day. 49ers versus Giants, 41 1/2 million. The game was 7 to 3 90ers and the highest rated game all time regular season. Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 2022. Cowboys, Giants, 42.2 million.

Dan Patrick (9:39)

I think they're going to get to 45 million.

Paulie (9:40)

The combination of Thanksgiving and Cowboys is the factor.

Dan Patrick (9:43)

And the Chiefs.

Paulie (9:44)

Yep, that's the killer. Like Cowboys are in of the top 10 ranked games all time. Cowboys are in seven of them.

Dan Patrick (9:52)

Yeah, I mean, that's why the network scramble, hoping to get cowboy games even. You know, when they were losing in the early part of the season and I said that people are still going to watch. It doesn't matter. People will still watch. And now you get them Relevant and maybe picking up some speed. And now you have. People are going to be tuning in. This is the conundrum, because you're going to have people who don't like the Cowboys but are going to like the Cowboys if they beat the Chiefs. You don't like the coverage of the Cowboys, and that's what I always go back to. It's not the Cowboys. It's the coverage of the Cowboys that I have a problem with. You know, Dak is a good person, a nice guy, likable guy. I don't have any issues with him. I mean, Jerry's good content. He's entertaining. But I don't. It's not like I dislike the Cowboys. It's. I dislike the coverage of the Cowboys and there's a big difference in that. It's like Shador Sanders and the Browns. I don't have anything against Shador Sanders or the Browns. I, I dislike the coverage of Shador Sanders and the Browns. And Shador is going to get the start against the 49ers. Yes, Marvin.

Marvin (10:58)

Yeah, The Cowboys beating the Eagles last week. That definitely helped.

Dan Patrick (11:03)

Oh, that was it. Oh, thank you.

Paulie (11:05)

Can't argue with that.

Dan Patrick (11:06)

That helped with the height of this game.

Marvin (11:09)

Oh, absolutely.

Dan Patrick (11:10)

No, it doesn't matter. They're still tuning in. It. It doesn't. The Cowboys are always going to get people, but I think people are more.

Marvin (11:17)

Interested because they just beat the Eagles in the fashion they did or.

Dan Patrick (11:22)

No, you, you know, they're. They're still. Yeah, it heightens it a little bit, but it's still the Cowboys and the Cowboys on Thanksgiving and Kansas City coming to town where you're going to be rooting. You're going to find people rooting for the Cowboys only because they're facing the Chiefs and they don't want to see Patrick Mahomes in the Chiefs anymore. Do you realize, you know, some of the social media comments when the Chiefs were losing to the Colts, like, you had people saying they should get rid of Andy Reid. Like, you know, the game is passed him by. And I'm like, you are some spoiled, spoiled fans. Got a Hall of Fame coach and all of a sudden the game is passed him by. They're not a better team than the Colts, talent wise, but they won the game. And I think that sometimes we lose sight of that. It's like we're not blowing people out anymore. No, those Kansas City Chiefs, they're not coming back anytime soon. You're grinding it out just like just about every other NFL team. Yes, Marvin, Spoiled.

Marvin (12:22)

I think you meant to say another word that starts with S? Stupid.

Dan Patrick (12:27)

Oh, yes. Wow. Okay.

Paulie (12:29)

I was trying to guess.

Dan Patrick (12:29)

I was just going, yeah, I was thinking stink. Spoiled sucker. Yeah, yeah.

Paulie (12:35)

If you want to see fun tweets, look at the halftime tweets when Dallas was down 210 to the Eagles. Crushing. Embarrassing.

Chris Collinsworth (12:43)

Those are more fair.

Dan Patrick (12:44)

Yes. Saying Andy Reid can't coach anymore is absurd. Saying the Cowboys stink because they're down 21 nothing on this crappy season. That's not really a streak. Couple of phone calls in here. Andrew and Washington. Good morning, Andrew. What's on your mind?

Caller (12:59)

Oh, good morning, Dan. Dennis. I have a day late. Best and worst. My best would be that the Panthers were actually on Monday Night Football. My worst was the Panthers were on Monday Night Football. I don't know how you don't win that game after getting three first half interceptions. They definitely didn't look like they were on the rise in that game. They just look like they go up and they go down. It's been a roller coaster season. Hoping for the best, for the end. I also have a stat of the day. You kind of took that one about Joker on becoming the fastest to 10 triple doubles in a season. But also just to kind of give you an idea of what he's doing compared to the rest of the NBA. The NBA has five players that have had 15 plus assists in a game. Joker has three games of 15 plus assists in a game just this season by himself. I think when we get out of football season we'll look back and go, wow, he's doing another historic season.

Dan Patrick (13:49)

Oh, he's the mvp. He's the best player in the game. You can have Shea Gilgis, he's a wonderful player deserving of the MVP. That team is 17 and 1. There is no better player in the NBA than Joker. Just not night in, night out. He's going to give you double dip. I mean he's averaging a triple double and it's really kind of just going through the hey, I'm just playing. And it's not one of those. Man, did he have a night. It's. I even said, well, he only had 17 points, but then like 16 assists, 11 rebounds, it is. He makes it look easy. It's not easy. He makes it look easy. And please, if somebody says, well, does he play defense? He look at his steals. Look at, look at, he averages two steals a game. That's usually what the league leader is around. Two steals a game. And look at his rebounding, defensive rebounding. I oh, you didn't give me rim protection. Okay, I. Who takes it to the rim anymore? Rim protection. Yes. Marvin.

Marvin (15:00)

I'm just gonna feel bad if The Thunder win 75 games and he's not going to win the MVP after putting up another historic season.

Dan Patrick (15:08)

I don't know if they would go 75 and seven, but if they win 70 games. Okay, Shay.

Marvin (15:15)

MVP.

Dan Patrick (15:18)

Well, if you want to give it to him. I mean, they took one away from Joker with Embiid.

Marvin (15:25)

Don't remind me.

Dan Patrick (15:26)

I mean, that was a personal. That's where Kendrick Perkins make it made it personal. Like how can we give him another mvp? Like, you know, only Larry Bird and those kind of guys get this. He is playing at such a high level. Like it's. It's ridiculous how. And Shea is a wonderful player. He's great. And. And given the mvp, I just don't think you should go. We're bored with Joker. Let's give it to somebody else. And that happens. It really does. Yeah.

Paulie (15:58)

Paulie, I've got the list here. Top 20 all time career NBA triple doubles. It's Russell Westbrook with 205. But Jokic is catching him fast. He's at 174. He could probably pass him this season or early Next. Magic Johnson's fourth all time. LeBron's fifth all time. Here's a couple funny names. Ben Simmons is 15th all time with 33 triple doubles in his career.

Dan Patrick (16:23)

Damn.

Paulie (16:23)

He has two more than Michael Jordan.

Dan Patrick (16:26)

Who would you rather have undergrad? Would you rather have collie in Chicago? Hey, Kali. What's on your mind?

Caller (16:35)

Hello, Mr. Patrick. It's Kali McCall in 4 2£51. That didn't get the laugh. I was looking for. Todd. Welcome to.

Dan Patrick (16:46)

Welcome to your world.

Caller (16:47)

All right, here he goes. There once was a pass hole so odd he wore out a curtain rod. No one ever goes to Vegas, I'm certain, just to play with a curtain. Nobody parties like Todd.

Dan Patrick (17:00)

Thank you, Colin. Well done. I like that. Callie McCaukin calling. Yeah, I know. Very nice. I know. It was a call back from me making a mistake when I was in Vegas. Macaulay Culkin. Yeah, That's a pretty creative limerick, I'll give him that. Really? Yeah. I thought it was pretty good. Okay. Not gonna win any awards or anything.

Chris Collinsworth (17:22)

But it was pretty good.

Dan Patrick (17:22)

It was a serviceable limerick. You got one foot out the door. You're going. I mean, you do. I mean, you're not working tomorrow. You're out the door, right? Like your head's somewhere else. Today I'm pretty Much.

Chris Collinsworth (17:34)

At the airport.

Dan Patrick (17:35)

My body is here. And you're going. You're going out of the country.

Chris Collinsworth (17:40)

I'm going to Amsterdam to visit my.

Dan Patrick (17:42)

Daughter who's studying abroad in Copenhagen, and she's going to meet us in Amsterdam. I wanted to study abroad, and they didn't want to study me. I remember my first two years in college. I'd like to study abroad. Where? Oh, right here on campus. Oh, I thought you meant out of the country. No. Yes.

Paulie (18:02)

Paulie, Amsterdam's fantastic. And one of the things it's obviously known for is the thing that Fritzi would never participate in. It's like Vegas. He's gonna go to Vegas and not go out, and he's gonna Amsterdam and not partake in what they're.

Dan Patrick (18:12)

There's no way the curtains in the hotel are gonna be anything like the fountain blue.

Chris Collinsworth (18:16)

So I'm gonna have to deal with that.

Dan Patrick (18:17)

Yes. Marvin, wait.

Marvin (18:18)

So you weren't doing damage and you were getting bad grades?

Dan Patrick (18:21)

I wasn't playing and I wasn't getting any girls, and I wasn't going to class. So you weren't playing and you weren't playing? I, I. My first two years of college, it was dry. Doesn't sound like a great experience. It was. It was not. Gotta admit, I. I had a coach who didn't like me. I had girls who did not like me, and I had classes that I did not like them. That's. Yeah, sounds like a trifecta. It was. It was embarrassing. Embarrassing. And looking back, I get it. I get why coach hated me. And the girls didn't like me either. But at least I had a better college career than Todd did because I wasn't at home with my mom.

Chris Collinsworth (19:10)

No doubt about that.

Dan Patrick (19:11)

No comeback at all for that. Nobody.

Chris Collinsworth (19:14)

Mom, get out of the room.

Dan Patrick (19:15)

We don't want. Cupcake, stop. We had to have one foot on the floor for visitation one day a week on a Sunday. And the RA would come up and down the hallway and be like, hey, gotta have one foot on the floor. Like, that actually happened my first two years of college.

Marvin (19:34)

What's that mean?

Dan Patrick (19:36)

That you couldn't have no feet on the floor and maybe be in your bed?

Marvin (19:40)

Come on, now.

Dan Patrick (19:40)

Put two feet on the floor. Come on now. But I was. There was nobody in my room, so I didn't have to worry about that. They'd be like, hey, you got one foot on the floor. No one else is in here. Seems unnecessarily strict. How about we take a break? Chris Collinsworth, he was a big deal. In college at Florida. He'll join us coming up. Dan Patrick Show Be sure to catch the live edition of the Dan Patrick.

Marvin (20:04)

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Dan Patrick (24:43)

Hey audiobook lovers. This week on the podcast I'm sitting down with musician, producer and walking encyclopedia Questlove. We're talking about Mark Ronson's memoir Night how to be a DJ in 90s New York City. All right, like we talked about before, Mark Ronson found sanctuary in the DJ booth. What's a tool or piece of equipment in the studio or on stage that gives you the most control?

Marvin (25:06)

So I have two microphones on stage. We have the microphone that you hear as the audience. Then we have a second microphone in which we communicate with each other. I feel like that second microphone kind of saved all of our friendships. No band likes each other after 20 years or 25 years, the Beatles broke up in seven and a half years and we're going on 35.

Dan Patrick (25:31)

Listen to Irsay the Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club on the iHeartradio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Chris Collinsworth, NBC Sunday Night Football analyst and just completed celebrated his 500th career broadcast Sunday night with the Bucks and the Rams. On Thanksgiving night, he's got the Bengals and the Ravens. Joe Burrow is expected to start. They will kick off at 8:20 Eastern on NBC. And Peacock, before we get started, apparently you were listening to my college conversation, my college days at Eastern Kentucky for two years. And you would like to be my therapist. Go ahead.

Chris Collinsworth (26:13)

Well, you know, just, just a little bit. It was interesting that, you know, you were in college and it was the college rule, you know, it was one foot on the ground you had to keep, not two. Right. If you had been a professional at that point. So in today's nil world, I think you would have had to have two feet on the around in order to, you know, pass.

Dan Patrick (26:36)

How was your college? I mean, you were a big deal. You're, you know, big star at Florida.

Chris Collinsworth (26:42)

It's like everybody else's, I think. I mean, you go in there, you have no idea. My one son had the best idea. Austin went to play at Notre Dame. And he said, you know, the most interesting part of college is the first week. Like, everybody's in a full panic that they don't know anybody, they don't have any friends and they want to have friends. So he said, I just came up with the idea. I was going to go up to every hot girl on campus and go, look, hey, we're all new here. Here's my phone number. If you need anything, they give in yours. It was like the greatest scam of all time that he just had this whole thing worked out in his brain. And the rest of us are like, hi, hi, I'm from Titusville, Florida. Yeah, I want to be a doctor, but I probably will never get there. So I'm hoping I can be a broadcaster. You know, like, what are we all doing? We were all terrible.

Dan Patrick (27:36)

Wait, you wanted to be a doctor?

Chris Collinsworth (27:38)

I went through a year of like, pre med and it was, you know, I could do fine in every class except for the weeding out class was chemistry. And I made like, Cs and pretty much understood at that point that wasn't happening.

Dan Patrick (27:54)

What are the chances Lane Kiffin goes to your alma mater?

Chris Collinsworth (27:59)

You know, I was watching that game when Florida was Playing Ole Miss. And I was thinking, this is going to be the most messed up thing of all. Florida wants Lane Kiffin, and now Florida's team is going to beat Lane Kiffin before. And so now nobody's going to want Lane Kiffin. Like, only Florida can come up with this scenario here. I, I don't know. I, I, I've heard little rumors on the outside, and they're thinking that, you know, Lane's going to give them a discount for going to Florida and probably not going to happen. And, you know, there's always a few things going on. So that, yeah, Florida's, Florida's kind of in need. And you got to say, what Lane has done at Ole Miss has been pretty remarkable. That's, that's pretty good stuff.

Dan Patrick (28:43)

All right, so you got the Bengals coming up. Would you be starting Joe Burrow if you were coaching the Bengals?

Chris Collinsworth (28:52)

It's so hard to know, you know, going in there. I'm not doing the game on Thursday. Jason Garrett will be doing that one. But it's, it's, it's difficult, right? I mean, you've got a franchise quarterback here. You're not in all likelihood going anywhere. But the part of that is it's still possible. You know, I know the percent is like 1% that they do this, but they split with Pittsburgh, and they have two games remaining with the Ravens. So if they were to beat the Ravens in both games, I mean, the leader in the division, 6 and 5, you know, they're both 6 and 5, and the Bengals have three wins. So you knock off the Ravens twice. Who knows? Is that possible? It's possible. It's a divisional game. You're still not out of the hunt. But I have a feeling that Joe Burrow is kind of that guy, that it just kills him to not be in the lineup with his guys. And we've already heard a little bit of the rumblings from behind the scenes. You know what it did for the defense that Joe Burrow practiced all week last week, that he's not giving up on the season, and he wanted to play and it kind of gave a spark to the whole team. So is, I'm assuming the doctors know what they're doing. Would I do it? On its face, no. There just doesn't seem to be that big a reason to do it. But it's Joe Burrow, and, you know, God bless him, he's competitive.

Dan Patrick (30:13)

Yeah, you got the Ravens twice. You also have the Dolphins and the Browns and the Cardinals, so you could kind of catch lightning in a bottle. Here and maybe make it interesting, putting some pressure on the Steelers. But like, you can't bubble wrap him, Chris. Like you're paying him $50 million to be your quarterback. You can't go, well, we're not going to put him out there because the games don't mean anything. You still have a fan base you gotta play, Kate, as well you do.

Chris Collinsworth (30:40)

But the point of it, and only someone who has lost two Super Bowls could say this honestly, you only played to win a championship. That's it. It doesn't do you any good to win a game, to win a season, to have a winning record. And we had a 10, six season. We didn't get to go to the playoffs and wah wah wan. And you know, everybody was always crying about that and. But you know, nobody remembers anything you did if you didn't win at all. They just don't. I mean, I've never had anybody come up to me and go, oh, boy, I remember those two AFC championship games you guys played in. No, they remember, oh, I remember when Joe Montana beat you twice in the Super Bowl. That's, that's what they remember. And it's, it's, it's a really, you know, I wish I had one more chance to do it. Is the funny part about it, it's like, it's like everybody wants to play to win the whole thing. The whole thing. And when you don't, it just doesn't matter. So if Joe Burrow playing this year somehow hurts his chances of winning it all next year, that's why I would think about it.

Dan Patrick (31:49)

Does it make it any easier that you did lose to Joe Montana?

Chris Collinsworth (31:55)

No, because really we go through. So I do games in San Francisco all the time and you go through. And of course the super bowl trophies are front and center when you're there. And they had five Super Bowls and three of them were complete blowouts. They blew out the competition and two of them were close games against us. So we definitely had a chance. We had the first one. We were down 20 to nothing at halftime and still had a chance to win the game by the end of it. But yeah, it's. Yeah. So this is. You're becoming my therapist. I was, I was going to be your therapist. Now you're becoming mine. I need, need, I need this.

Dan Patrick (32:36)

Yeah, we're talking to Chris Collinsworth. Just completed his 500th career game. It was Sunday night. More catches in the NFL or more games that you called.

Chris Collinsworth (32:46)

Games that I called.

Dan Patrick (32:50)

You're close to 500 receptions.

Chris Collinsworth (32:51)

Weren't you or 17, something like that. We had a couple of strike years in there and yeah, so I mean, it wasn't like nobody caught. Like you could always be around the leading receiver if you caught 60 to 70 passes like that. Those are the guys who were going to the Pro bowl back then. Now those are like fourth string guys. It's, you know. You know, the other part is funny. I never had one. I don't, I can't remember a touchdown pass. I'm sure I had one of under 10 yards. You know, I was watching Devonte Adams the other night and he was like, quick slant. Jerry Rice would have one. I never caught a wide receiver screen. Like the game is just. I never caught a back shoulder throw. Nobody even invented a back shoulder throw at that time. I was like, how stupid were we that we didn't think to have somebody stop on a go route when he was in position to be able to make the play. Nobody had the bunch formations where you could get three receivers and get them out of man to man coverage. I remember playing the Raiders and the Cleveland Browns with their great cornerbacks that they had and you just lined up out wide and tried to get open fast. And then meanwhile they're blitzing their quarterback and getting after them. It's so funny looking back on the game where it was and where it is today and the answers that they have in the passing game today, it's a wonder they ever run the ball at all.

Dan Patrick (34:20)

You're kind of whining here, the Super Bowls, you're whining about not being used incorrectly.

Chris Collinsworth (34:27)

Yeah, but. But at least I didn't have to keep one foot on the ground.

Dan Patrick (34:32)

If the Cowboys beat the Chiefs. Finish that sentence.

Chris Collinsworth (34:38)

Pay attention. I don't think they're catching the Eagles. I really don't. But when you have an offense like that, yeah, pay attention because they did make some moves, right? They made some moves to improve their defense. That was really pretty bad. And really the first game against the Eagles wasn't that sort. It wasn't that bad a game. That was the opening night. So the divisional opponents always spend a ton of time working on the teams in their division. So Dallas is the one team, that division, should they sneak into the playoffs and you go, you know, who are the favorites right now? You probably say Philadelphia and the Los Angeles. Ramsay are the two front runners. And Dallas, because they can score points, could have a day, could have a day against either one of those things.

Dan Patrick (35:28)

I'm still trying to figure out what's going on with the Eagles and They're probably still trying to figure out does it come down to the offensive line maybe isn't as good as it's been in previous years.

Chris Collinsworth (35:40)

I think that's true. I do think that's true. I bet they were great. You know, they were so far superior than what they had been in the past. And the other one that, I mean, I talked about it on the air the other night, but Jalen hurts. I think to some extent they haven't completely opened up that offense and they're going to make the playoffs. There's no way they're not going to make the playoffs. And the goal is to get to the playoffs and unleash the hounds at that point. And so you think about when the Eagles are great. In my opinion, Eagles are great when they have not scrambles, which Jalen does, but designated run plays with him. They, they run powers, they run read options, they run various plays. That sets up the run game because now you've got to leave the backside edge player there because you know he might hand it off, he might run the other way, off to the right. So when you get those plays going, when you get those runs going, even if it's just five per game, it sets up Saquon Barkley to not have to have that backside in. You're going to have an extra safety come down in the box to try and stop him from running. And what happened last year was when Saquon got out, it was against a single high safety and no single safety ever tackled him. But now defenses are getting away with two deep safeties, being back there in the run game and coming down and now they're able to tackle him and he's not, he's getting the 10, 15 yard runs, he's not getting the 70 yard runs. And the other part of that is now you've got quarterback running, you've got Saquon exploding with big plays and now you're setting up what A.J. brown does best, which is play against man coverage. A.J. brown with his in cuts, with his slants, with his catch and run, he looks like a tank out there on the field. Now you get those two things going, which they had last year, and now you got AJ Going and now the Devontae Smith is, you know, the fourth thing you got to stop. And so he gets man coverage and he's catching the bomb. So I think when they get to the playoffs, maybe I'm completely wrong, maybe I'm completely out of my mind. I do think you're going to see Jalen Hurts run on some of those designated plays more to set up everything else.

Dan Patrick (38:08)

Did Tom Brady reach out to you about how to become an analyst?

Chris Collinsworth (38:13)

He did, yeah. Yeah. Did he reach out to you?

Dan Patrick (38:16)

He did not. Because I, I, I wouldn't have the firsthand knowledge of that. I did talk to Drew. Drew Brees a little bit about it, but that's, you know, you're in the studio, and I said, it's so sterile there. You got to create excitement in the studio when you go to the game. That allows you to be as close to the action as possibly playing. What did you tell Brady to go to the studio?

Chris Collinsworth (38:42)

Honestly, it's exactly. It's the same thing I told Peyton Manning. Same thing I told all of them. I said, you know, the studio is something that. What are you preparing for? You've got like five or six different hits during the course of the show. You know what you're going to talk about going into it. You can research it easily. It's not that big a deal. Now, you do have to know a little something about all the teams and, but that's not too bad when you go, when you do the game and you are starting from scratch every single week. I mean, we did Washington a couple of weeks ago, but so much has changed during the course of the last couple of weeks with that. Now you got to go back and I got to be able to study Marcus Mariota, and I got it because now he's taken over the quarterback.

Dan Patrick (39:26)

Yeah, but this is what Tom did on a weekly basis.

Chris Collinsworth (39:29)

Yeah, but here's, here's what I tell them, and the same thing I told pain, man. I go, look, you're used to getting ready for one side of the ball, your offense against their defense. Now you have six sides of the ball that you got to get ready for. Now you got to get ready for the backup offensive tackle and who's the assistant weight coach and who's the general manager and what moves might they be making and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And, and it's, it's work. I mean, and Tom, God love him, that's what he said. He goes, I love the work. I love the grind. I miss the grind. I want to do that. And I go, okay. I said, now let me lay the last bit of you. Now, we've got. You're used to playing eight road games a year. You are now going to have 22 road games. You got 22 straight road games. I know you want to be around your kids. I know you want to have some time. You Want to do that. But that's. That's what it's about. When I. We did the pregame show, we would go in on Saturday. Now I go in on Thursday night. So Thursday night to Monday is. Is your 22 straight weeks life, if you're ready for that. And like Peyton. Peyton was. He's the genius of all geniuses. Somehow he went from he was going to call games to sitting in his basement with his brother, screwing around and getting Emmy awards. Like, yeah, I have no idea. He's the smartest human being I ever met in my life.

Dan Patrick (40:53)

Okay, but did you try it?

Chris Collinsworth (40:54)

Brady wanted it. He wanted it.

Dan Patrick (40:56)

Did you try to talk him out of it and tell him to do studio instead of going on the road?

Chris Collinsworth (41:02)

Did I do that?

Dan Patrick (41:02)

Did you try to.

Chris Collinsworth (41:04)

Yes. Every one of them that called me, I go. I go, look, just bear with me. I'm going to try and talk you out of what you're talking about here. And. And I give them the same. I give them all the same spiel, every single one of them, because I don't want them coming back to me going, oh, man, my life was ruined. I'm living on the road. You know, I might as well be a baseball player. You know, I'm never home, you know, so I didn't want. I didn't want to hear that back. Now, getting to the stadium on Sunday and calling a game is way better than being in the studio for all the reasons you just said. Because you're sitting there and you get the action, you get the excitement of being at the ballpark. You get what we pay for, right? As fans. How many times have you paid to have a seat in the stadium for the big events? And I'm there every Sunday night. It's fantastic. Now, you know, you talk for three hours. I mean, the President of the United States doesn't get to talk for three straight hours at any point during the week. So when you mess something up, you know, you say something stupid or something that you didn't, you know, mean to insult somebody, but you do, then you pay the price and you end up in the blender of social media for a little while, and then somebody else does something.

Dan Patrick (42:21)

So you're whining about being on the road for 22 weeks. Do you want to be back in the studio? Is that what you're saying? Wow, Collinsworth coming off the road, question mark, you're up to 500. I mean.

Chris Collinsworth (42:39)

What am I going to do? Shoot for a thousand?

Dan Patrick (42:41)

I'm like, no, you can go back in the studio now.

Chris Collinsworth (42:44)

No, no, no, no, no. I'm perfectly happy. I love what I'm doing. I'm in it. I'm in really. We have a great time. You have a road family. I mean, you know what it's like. You have a road family. I mean, it's like you have people I live with literally for six months out of the year, and you love them and you're happy to be with them and the whole thing. But I just think that quarterbacks in general, especially ones that have had the careers those guys have had, they're used to a certain way of life and they're not, you know, it's, it's work. I mean, you go to the practice facility, you sit around, you got to get there early for the head coach, then you stay another two hours afterwards for the quarterback who's coming out of a massage. And, you know, I mean, there's, it's, you know, it's different. It's different.

Dan Patrick (43:28)

Real quickly.

Chris Collinsworth (43:29)

Whining. You're turning me into a whiner here. I don't want to be a whiner.

Dan Patrick (43:32)

You complained about Montana. You complained. You know, I'm just, I'm just listening to you, Chris. I'm here for you.

Caller (43:42)

Yeah.

Chris Collinsworth (43:43)

Yeah. Well, I appreciate that. I see Bobby Knight right in front.

Dan Patrick (43:46)

No, that's Lou Holtz. That's Lou Holtz at Arkansas.

Chris Collinsworth (43:51)

No way. With yellow hair.

Dan Patrick (43:53)

Yeah. Back in the day, he had, Yeah. I mean, he had Robert Redford kind of hair.

Chris Collinsworth (43:58)

Did he really?

Dan Patrick (44:02)

I'm a lot older than you, Chris. Thanks for joining us. Safe travels there with Washington in Denver on Sunday night.

Chris Collinsworth (44:10)

I'm gonna work on being more positive here.

Dan Patrick (44:12)

Thank you. All right, that's what I do. Chris Collinsworth and the Thanksgiving night game, it'll be Bengals, Ravens, Mike Tirico with Jason Garrett. They will kick off at 8:20 Eastern. We'll take a break. Your phone calls coming up. Reggie Miller in about a half hour from now.

Marvin (44:27)

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Dan Patrick (48:37)

Hey, audiobook lovers. This week on the podcast I'm sitting down with musician, producer and walking encyclopedia Questlove. We're talking about Mark Ronson's memoir Night how to be a DJ in 90s New York City. All right, like we talked about before, Mark Ronson found sanctuary in the DJ booth. What's a tool or piece of equipment in the studio or on stage that gives you the most control?

Marvin (49:01)

So I have two microphones on stage. We have the microphone that you hear as the audience. Then we have a second microphone in which we communicate with each other. I feel like that second microphone kind of saved all of our friendships. No band likes each other after 20 years or 25 years. The Beatles broke up in seven and a half years and we're going on 35.

Dan Patrick (49:25)

Listen to earsay the Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club on the iHeartradio app or wherever you get your podcasts. MO in Arizona. Mel, welcome back.

Caller (49:43)

Morning, Dan Danette. Happy holidays. I want to start off with the 49ers are good enough. I agree with you, Dan. With IUK was a really bad contract. They could have had him for another. They could have had him for another year for free basically with the franchise tag. And that's. Anyway, I digress. But hats goes off to Robert Salah the defense because if I'll take a pot in the face. If you can name three guys on that defense. Anybody besides Marvin.

Dan Patrick (50:15)

Okay. Oh, Marvin Kent. Okay.

Caller (50:17)

All right.

Dan Patrick (50:17)

I was going to say Marvin. Marvin might not be able to.

Chris Collinsworth (50:22)

Right.

Caller (50:22)

But if you told me that Brock Purdy throws three picks and we still dominate the game, I'll take that all day. So we're all right.

Dan Patrick (50:30)

You guys are. I mean, you got eight wins. Given the injuries. That's saying a lot. That really is. John in Pennsylvania. Hi, John. What's on your mind today?

Caller (50:39)

Hey, good morning, Dan. Quick side note, you look very comfortable this morning. That's a really nice hoodie.

Dan Patrick (50:44)

Well, thank you.

Caller (50:45)

I called it. Yeah, you're welcome. I called in because you were talking about the AFC east earlier or. Well, you were talking about the afc. I'm sor. And I hate to disagree with Seton, but Chiefs are going to make the playoffs and so are the Bills. It's going to be wild card. What we have in the afc, Dan, a lot of really nice stories. Nice stories with the Colts and the Patriots and the Broncos. But like Lewis Riddick said, dangerous in December, man. And you're going to go back to Vegas. Who are you going to put your money on? Trevor Lawrence and Bo Nix or you going to. And Baltimore? Sneaky, scary. Five in a row, man. The AFC get to the rubber meets the road in. In December.

Dan Patrick (51:27)

Yeah. And I think. I think I agree with you. I just want to see some of these storylines actually play out where it's a. Like the Colts get to the postseason and don't bow out quickly because, you know, all year long we're like, are they legitimate? You know, Jacksonville. I have no idea how good Jacksonville is, but they got seven wins. I don't know how good the Colts are. Do I think that they appear to be one of the top teams in the afc? Yes. I want New England to still be formidable. And yes, I agree. If I was going to Vegas and I was going to place money on a team in the afc, it would be the Chiefs. Absolutely. Lucas in Texas. Hi, Lucas. Hey, Dan.

Caller (52:10)

Good morning again.

Dan Patrick (52:11)

Hey, welcome back. Sorry Marvin hung up on you.

Caller (52:14)

Well, I didn't know I upset the ham side of this debate so much. I apologize. But I just wanted to bring up a quick point about Tom Brady. I don't know if you saw this on Sunday's broadcast. He had a moment right at the end of the first half where the play by play guy gave him a real softball question of, hey, look at your Patriots best record in the league. And if you go back and watch, it's 20 seconds of painfully awkward silence where it feels like his robot brain refused to let him say anything positive about the Pats on camera. And so it just.

Dan Patrick (52:47)

I don't know.

Caller (52:47)

I feel like I've been patient with his performance as a broadcaster, but I think he needs to put one at one of the other side. I think he needs to go focus on the Raiders. They need a lot of attention. It just was a really awkward moment. I don't. You saw that.

Dan Patrick (53:01)

I did not see that. But I think Tom has to be more of the Tom off the air, out of the quarterback room because when you hear those stories, Tom is fun. Tom tells stories. You get on there. Sometimes you get buttoned up too buttoned up. And that would be, you know, don't be so dependent on stats as much as first hand knowledge. Nobody knows more than you do. Give us that information before we see something and have fun with it and laugh at yourself. Yeah, Seaton, that's kind of why I love Troy Aikman. Well, he did get to a point where it's like, you know, he doesn't give a blank. Well, yeah, maybe, but he just has an ability to in five seconds tell you exactly why that play happened. See this block right here? Made this whole play happen. Or this? I'll see this play right here. This is the key to this whole thing. He has an ability to very quickly explain something that you probably didn't notice. And he also is not afraid of giving an opinion. And that's where a lot of these guys get a little paralyzed there. But I would just watch a game as if we're watching with you in your room and Todd's playing with the curtains.

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Does anything go better than Lego and Star Wars? I don't think so. Kids will love becoming a part of the galactic action while playing out their favorite adventures. Like with Jango Fett Starship. I mean, this LEGO set is fantastic. It features a detailed recreation of Jango Fett's starship with four stud shooters, a seismic charge dropping function and wings that rotate with gravity. Plus it has three Jango Fett with two blasters and a jetpack. Young Boba Fett and Llama Su. Perfect for endless play. Now for the big fans, there's Jango Fett's Firespray class starship from the Ultimate Collector series. Packed with details and surprises for fans, this large scale set is perfect for anyone hunting for a mindful building escape. Plus, you end up with a fantastic display piece. You can build this while your little ones build the kid set. You'll be like Jango and Boba building an adventure shop. Now for Star wars lego sets on lego.com or in lego retail stores.

Dan Patrick (56:15)

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Marvin (56:59)

What a matchup we got, y'.

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Chris Collinsworth (57:18)

That's a game changer right there.

Marvin (57:21)

Yeah, that taste always hits the right note. Just like the band at halftime. And just like that, we're back at it. Passionate fans, school colors everywhere and an ice cold Coca Cola. That's a winning combo. No matter the sport, no matter the yard. Everybody knows fan work is thirsty work. So grab a Coca Cola and keep that HBCU pride going.

Dan Patrick (57:45)

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