Paul Pabst (2:19)
You are listening to the Dan Patrick show on Fox Sports Radio, hour two here in Las Vegas. We're at the Fontaineble Hotel. Some friends got up early with us, but the gang's all here. Fritzi, Seaton, Marv, Paulie, yours truly. Well, Frank Caliendo will stop by. Nicole Briscoe works for the mothership, covering Formula one. Nobody covers Formula one like we do. No, buddy. Okay, okay. We're learning. We are learning. You know, we're open to this. We're open to open wheel. Open wheel. We're trying to figure this out. Understand? I just know Max Verstappen is the favorite for the championship, or at least this. This championship here in Vegas. Yes, Tom. There ain't no stopping Max. That's what they say. Thank you, Todd. Everybody says thank you, Todd. Yes. Paulie Lando Norris. I don't know much about him. I think he's British. But you just say, I'm a Lando fan, and then you sound like you know what you're talking about. Yeah, well, Lewis Hamilton, maybe the greatest driver of all time. Yes. Eaton. There's something so awesome, too, about, like, what do you do for a living? Oh, I drive for Ferrari. Like, these insane car brands, you know, that are, like, the top of the top, and then you're a professional driver for that brand. That's incredible. Yeah. Mercedes McLaren. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. But you're looking at, you know, the streets of Las Vegas is where the race is. It's just weird to be driving and then seeing the track. But I love the overhead shots, especially at night when they have these races. I think the one in Dubai, I watched that. But it. It's kind of presented as almost a pinball machine. It's just so much going on, the lights and how the city kind of envelops the race. But we'll. We'll talk to Nicole Briscoe. She'll help us. Maybe she can give us a little bit of a Cliff Notes version Here. Look. What to look for. We were caught up in driving in the rain in Formula one, but not nascar. And do you have windshield wipers? You know, the important things that, uh, the serious F1 fan already knows? Yes, Paul. And they're gonna be driving through the streets past all the attractions. I can hear the announcers going, we're stopping past the Spearmint Rhino at 147 miles per hour. So we're here in Vegas. We're in the second floor, the food court here. Fountain Blue Hotel. They've been our home away from home out in Vegas and rolled out the red carpet during the super bowl and certainly become friends of the show. 877-3-DP-SHoVE. We'll try to get to some more phone calls here. Stat of the Day is always brought to you by Panini America, the official trading cards of the program. And our calendar is available@danpatrick.com autograph non autograph calendars. Somebody asked if the non autographs cost more. I said, that's very funny. But no, the autograph calendar will cost you. It's just a little sense, a little calendar sense of humor, a little mean spirited there. It's not necessary. You could also go to the tailgate store and get an autograph calendar with select tailgate purchases while supplies last year. All right, let me do this in dramatic fashion here. Sunday night, two quarterbacks with firepower and finesse get their time in the spotlight. Baker Mayfield leads the Bucks against Matthew Stafford in The Rams Sunday 7 Eastern on NBC. And Peacock, you don't have to hype that game at all. Yes, Marvin, who's your MVP so far? Matthew Stafford. Okay, not even close. In two weeks ago it was Baker Mayfield. No, that was probably three or four weeks ago. But you know that that Bucks lineup has been decimated. You know, all the injuries with skill, position. But Baker's done a great job. I mean, that game in Buffalo, I'd be surprised. It was high scoring. But Matthew Stafford's been great, been great. And he was the one guy said if he stays healthy, the Rams can win a Super bowl because of him. If he stays healthy, they can win. And right now he's healthy and you know, they're probably one or if not the top, the second favorite in the NFC to go to the Super Bowl. Yeah, Paul. And you can find stories from two years ago when Matthew Stafford was 11 touchdowns, eight picks and he was injured in 2022. Like, should the Rams start that transition plan now? Do they extend his contract? Three years ago it didn't look good for his future. Well, then everybody said, hey, the Rams got two first round draft picks, so they're going to get their quarterback this upcoming draft. Stafford's got one more year. I mean, at some point you got to start looking at that. But I don't know if you get somebody, let them sit for a while. You know, I was looking at the Falcons situation. They thought that they were in a perfect situation that we got our quarterback, Kirk Cousins. We can't pass up Michael Penix. And now Michael Penix is injured and you got Kirk Cousins and you're going nowhere. And then some people may lose their jobs because of that. And you're stuck with Michael Penix and you're stuck with Kirk Cousins. Although somebody who I know in the NFL circle said don't be surprised if they try to trade Kirk Cousins back to Minnesota for next year. Wowzers. Yeah. That's heavy, though. That, that's a, that's a vote of non Confidence in J.J. mcCarthy. Yeah, yeah. But once again, he's got to stay healthy. And you know, what you have in Kirk Cousins. And I think we thought, you know, J.J. mcCarthy had as much pressure on him this year as anybody because of who they got rid of. You got rid of Sam Darnold and Danny Dimes. Kirk Cousins goes to Atlanta. You use a high draft pick on J.J. mcCarthy. He had to be great because this team was ready to go this year. And that is. That's a big miss right now. Yeah, Paulie. And with J.J. mcCarthy, it's not just that he's not playing well and not staying healthy. He suffers in comparison to Jaden Daniels. Kayla Williams is getting better. Drake Mays, you know, really hitting his stride. And it makes like, what's happening to you? Where are you at? Well, a lot of times we look at a quarterback and then we base his success off the other quarterbacks taken in the draft. Like Ryan Leaf is one of the biggest bust of all time because, well, Peyton Manning was in that same draft. But the Colts wisely took Peyton Manning. Although a lot of revisionist history, not everybody in the Colts war room was sold on Peyton Manning over Ryan Leaf. But they did make the right call. But a lot of times we'll go, oh, my God, you could have had, you know, like Greg Odin, you know, people like, oh, that guy, you're going to take him that high. You know, Sam Bowie, of course, the injury plague center when they could have had Michael Jordan in Portland. Yes, Martin, that happened recently with Bryce Young and C.J. stroud. Like that. That hurts even more when somebody else is doing way better. That was picked after you. What's the poll question for the second hour of the program? Even though we only had one short period of time in the first hour. Seaton. Yeah, we're gonna get a couple more going. This was sort of in the same vein as the one Paul suggested, but cooler profession. F1 racer, pro surfer. I have like a rodeo cowboy or. Or girl. That's kind of a pretty baller job. And then we have room for a fourth if anybody else has one. Okay. Cooler profession, though, being A professional surfer. That's pretty awesome. So Kelly Slater. Yeah. Lewis Hamilton or. I don't know. There is no. I don't know of a professional rodeo person, but that seems like kind of an awesome job. There's not a lot of people that do that. I don't want to be a professional bull rider. I want to have everything about it until I get on the bowl. Yeah, yeah. So that would, that would. Have you ever been on a horse? Yeah. It's scary as hell. Yeah. Getting on a horse for the first time is terrifying. Cuz they're gigantic and you're like, what am I? So I'm supposed to control this thing. I like to go bareback, relax. But have a saddle on the horse. It's just, I'm. I'm bareback. That's the problem. Everyone should have a saddle on the horse. Yes, they should. They should. Yes. Marvin. So you want the bull rider aesthetic. Yes. Okay. Just not the actual profession. Oh my God, no. And your, you know, your job. Last eight seconds. Whoa. Todd, I've been there again to tell you something in confidence. So you make a public phone. You're a bull rider without. Without the cowboy boot. Oh, no. You do have the cowboy boot. I do. I went to Denim and Diamonds when I used to live in California. But the whole outfit, my big belt buckle. Yeah. It's funny is that when I was driving out here, I pulled off at a place, I don't know, somewhere in like Denver, in like Colorado or Utah or something like that. I was looking for a hotel and I drove past a boot barn and I was, I almost turned around to go take a picture of it for Todd. The boot bar in San Bernardino. That's the 1, 700 bucks I spent. Yes. Dan. I just happened to have the PBR rider rankings up on my screen. Of course I did. I keep that up at all times. Jared Parsonage is the number one rider this year in the PBR rankings. Makes a lot of dough, but like that's not something, you know, if you're a surf champion, you don't make F1 money. No, no, no. Not FU money. But like surfing. People can try. Most people don't ever try bull riding or ever try race car driving. So those two are kind of standalone. I think. I, I would like to be an F1 guy. They dress very cool. They got everything about it looks like, I mean, Brad Pitt did a movie on formula one. He'd be like the eighth best good looking F1 driver. He'd be like eighth. No offense. Yes. Todd. I'm trying to figure out which would impress the ladies the most. They're hanging on the beach watching you surf. Watch. Or you're in some kind of saloon and you're able to do the mechanical bowl for minutes on end or whatever is considered a good run. Or of those that we mentioned, all you got to do is get out of a car, take your helmet off. Just 200 miles an hour, and you got your unit, you got your, you know, your fire suit on. You don't even have to say. You don't have to do anything. Yes. I think you guys are underappreciating, though, the sort of. The sort of primal nature of controlling a wild animal. That's crazy. That's like. Probably goes back to, like, the oldest form of competition is, can you tame this thing? Wow. Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of Neanderthal in a way. Okay. Yeah, yeah. But I'm gonna control a car that goes over 225 miles an hour. Yeah, but can you get on a bull or a horse or something that's going crazy and make that thing do what you want it to do? But they only have to do it for eight seconds. I have to do it for a couple of hours. But everybody drives. Not that fast. Right? But they do drive. Yes. Paulie. I'm on the PBR website, and they also. The bull rankings. They rank the bulls. So, you know, Excalibur. You don't want to get on that. You don't want to be on Buck Nasty this year. He's four for four with buck offs. He's leading the league. That's a real name. That's right. Buck Nasty. Four for four and buck off. Don't go. Are you gonna give me, like, oh, what's Josh Giddy on that list? I want to know which one of those professions lends itself to the best practice. Cardiac.
