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on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. You are listening to the Dan Patrick show on FOX Sports Radio Hour 2 on this Monday as we always do every Monday. Best and worst of the weekend. What you saw that you liked, you didn't like, boy. NFL News Fast and Furious 2 has been released officially by the Miami Dolphins. Dolphins trading Minka Fitzpatrick to the Jets. Rashawn Gary goes from the Green Bay packers to the Dallas Cowboys who It's a busy morning. It's only 10am Eastern we'll talk to Mike Tannenbaum, the NFL executive insider from the mothership. He'll join us coming up in about 20 minutes. Reggie Miller, a little more than an hour from now. Did the lights go out? Are the lights back on? I think it was just a moment there, you know, with all of these different moments that we've had on the show that maybe that was just a power, power surge or something like that. All right. 877-3-DP show email address dp@danpatrick.com Twitter handle @dpshow and the poll question for hour one and what do you what are we going to go with an hour two? We have this one from Paul dude,
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Tua and the dolphins. Right now the dolphins has about 69% of that vote I just put up there. How well do you understand the intricacies of NFL contracts? A lot, kinda or very little right now. Early, early votes, but 50% of the audience? Very little. Yeah, I'm right there with you. I try not to get caught up in the minutia. I just want to know what are the real numbers here? Because agents will give you numbers and then all of a sudden you go, well, you know, best case scenario that that might be the contract. We'll get to your phone calls. 8773-DP-SHoM Email Address dp@danpatrick.com Twitter Handle DP-SHoM Good Morning. If you're watching on Peacock or NBC Sports Network or listening on our radio affiliates around the country, including iHeartRadio and Fox Sports Radio, you know, the college football, college basketball, the whole conference that they had at the White House on Friday and the president there, you had 50 esteemed individuals who were there representing different, different entities. You know, you have former coaches, you have TV executives. I wanted to know why not have a current coach and or current player or players because you are talking about them. Ross Dellinger, covering the event on Friday. Yahoo. Sports senior college football reporter. What was your biggest takeaway from this on Friday, Ross?
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Dan, I noticed that you, you let out an exhaustive sigh as you started to talk before you started talking about this event. And I would say that plenty of people in attendance probably had a similar sigh after it wrapped up. You know, I think the goal of this event, Dan, was to bring attention to the issue by gathering all these important people, these dignitaries at the White House in front of the president. So I think there was a goal of, number one, bring attention to the issue and number two, by way of bringing attention to it. Maybe you put pressure on congressional lawmakers to push something through college sports bill through the the Congress, which is what the president wants, has said he wants. And I think actually it, it accomplished goal one. It certainly got people talking and had attention brought to it. Whether we'll get a college sports bill from it, I'm not sure. There's a fight in the Senate over a bill and a fight in the House right now, and there's a bill that probably could get to the floor of the House to govern college athletics as, as soon as next week, but I don't know that it' confidence it'll pass the House. There's not confidence, as we learned during the roundtable on Friday at the White House that it will pass the Senate. So still a lot of hurdles. And of course, one of the things we found out that was a little bit of a surprise, Dan, was the President saying he'll issue another executive order to govern college athletics. Not sure what will be in that. But he, he already issued one back in the summer and it hadn't changed much about anything. So I'm not sure how this one will.
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Yeah. And if I'm wrong, tell me. But an executive order can't make a law, provide antitrust exemptions or override state laws or policies in the executive order, they can be challenged in court. So I don't, I don't know what's going to come out of this, if anything. But were there any ideas, any initiatives that were actually brought up in this roundtable?
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Not anything novel or groundbreaking. There's a good amount of this time spent discussing the SCORE act, the, the college sports bill that's in the House that has twice failed to get to the floor because they didn't have the votes. And again that I think next week or maybe for the following week, we will see that finally move. There's a lot of talk about the SCORE act and then there was a lot of talk from the president specifically about the judicial system, which you could tell he has sort of a vendetta against because of rulings that have come against him the last few months or so. So he, he sort of blamed college sports's current situation on, on judges and on their, on their rulings.
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No, get back to your question. Not a whole lot of novel concepts that, that we learned. Just college sports folks sit president complaining about judges and hoping for something to happen in Congress.
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Why not a current coach or current players?
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Yeah, well, I mean, I think a group of small group of media. We got a few Questions in at the very end. And someone did ask the president why there wasn't a current college athlete on the, on the panel. And he turned to Randy Levine, who's the Yankees president, who actually put together sort of put together the roundtable and said that while there's no current athlete now around this specific roundtable, that in the future, as this group continues, there will be athlete voices sort of joining in the.
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Apparently the group will continue maybe not as big. They're going to break off into sort of like a smaller subgroup, I don't know, three, five, ten people to continue working with the legislature. This is, that's the thing, Dan, that you, you read all that's accurate about the. Than in an executive order. He can't do a whole lot. There's not a whole lot of power there. You need congressional action. So the small subgroup of the roundtable will work with lawmakers to try to shape college sports legislation that grants conferences in the NCAA the power to enforce their rules, preempts the state nil laws and deems athletes as not employees. That's sort of the three main things they want to happen now for the casual fan, Dan, part of what they want is an antitrust exemption to enforce their rules around transfers and the cap, the salary cap that we have now in college college athletics in the movement, just the movement of people transferring in eligibility standards. So that's how the casual fan might eventually see a bill come to fruition is so much pressure from all these eligibility cases that we've seen in the movement of transfers in college athletics.
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What role does Nick Saban play?
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Well, you know, I think he's, he's got a pretty big voice, number one. And for whatever reason, the president wants him to play a very big role. He was, you know, there was this commission or this roundtable that was put together was something last spring almost a year ago that kind of got out publicly. And the president wanted Nick Saban to chair it. And Nick actually didn't really didn't want to be involved. And so somehow he got talked into being involved. Now at this, at this round table, he certainly got a, a big voice and, and the president wants to be. Wants him involved. And you know, if you listen to Nick Saban, you know, he's, you've got a lot of good ideas. I think he's, he's got other ideas that some athlete rights folks may disagree with as far as the restrictions imposed on athletes and that. That's the real argument here, Dan. And that's why Congress can't get a bill through is because you have most Republicans that are leaning toward the NCAA sort of side and more restrictions on athletes and more control for the NCAA and a Democratic side, control and freedom for athletes. But right now that control and freedom is, as the college administrators might say, out of control.
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And so they want some kind of rules and regulation. So you have this fight going on between Republican Democrats that I don't see getting resolved anytime soon.
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College football in better shape now or 10 years ago.
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Since, since athletes are getting some kind of compensation right now from the multi billion dollar business that is college football. You have to say it's in a better situation. But I think the unregulation and the intense movement that we're seeing among transfers and things like that in the situation with the inconsistent eligibility standard, that it's, it's not in a place, it's not in the greatest place, right. That it could be. So there's this, there's a balance that has to be struck on how many, how much rule and regulation, how much restriction do you put on athletes? Because they, you know, 10 years ago, Dan, they had virtually none, right? They had, they had no hardly any freedoms. And now maybe the argument is they have too many freedoms and so we don't have any rule and regulation. There's got to be sort of a balance there. And usually you get to that balance by what the NFL and all the pro leagues have done, Dan, which is collective bargaining. But it's not that easy in college and it has been a big topic of discussion. But it's not like you can push a button and get there. But many administrators want to try to start taking steps, Dan, down it down toward a collective bargaining agreement of some sort with major college football and basketball players.
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Thank you, Ross. Yep. Going to be on. ROSS dellinger, Yahoo. Sports SENIOR COLLEGE FOOTBALL reporter. You know, I know there's a lot of legalese in there and you know, Ross, trying to dumb it down a little bit for us just so we can kind of understand what that this means now, what it means the upcoming season, your school, if you're in the SEC, Big Ten or your ACC or Big 12, and there's a lot of moving parts here, nothing's going to be solved anytime soon. You know, once you have, you know, both sides of the aisle not agreeing on this, it doesn't matter. You know, the president can say whatever he wants. It's not going to have an impact, at least not anytime soon, even if you have another executive order. It's just there's only so much you can do. It sounds grander than what it is. But is college football better now? Is the product better now? I know it's better for the players, but is the product better? Because I can look past the other stuff if I say, hey, what I'm watching is entertaining. It's. I don't like that you can transfer multiple times. I think that there should be a cap on that. But if you want to try to, you know, make these players employees and have unions and, you know, there's a lot of work to be done. But I think they could have cut this off at the path and they could have, they could have prevented a lot of this, A lot of this. Because I'll go back to when, well, you're getting a free education. Yes, but if you look at the, the schedules of these athletes, it's a work schedule. And I wonder about school, or at least I did. Coach Saban said we don't spend enough time talking about education. I don't know if these kids are going to school to get an education. They're going to school to play, you know, a sport and maybe play it after college. They're getting paid in college. I don't think it's the way it was. If you're over the age of 50, where you go, you know, get an education, you should be happy you got a free education. This is big business. This is billions and billions of dollars. And they were labeled student athletes. And because of that, it's like, well, you, you got a free education. Yes, you do, but it's so much more than that. And yes, education, that's a rumor. It feels like. And as I've said many, many times, I'm waiting for somebody to be ineligible, academically ineligible. I don't even know if we're enforcing that anytime soon. Yes, Paul, it's a really tough question to answer. Is college football the product better now or 10 years ago? It felt like we missed the regulation of college football and more control. But if you look at what NIL has done, look at Indiana, one of
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the great stories in sports history, not just college football. And I think that directly happened because
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Well, you're bringing in schools that weren't in contention before, and I think that's a good thing. Instead of it being top heavy, where it's the same five to seven schools, you get a school like Indiana to win the national championship. Never in my lifetime would I have thought that that was possible. And at times I still don't believe it. But you, you, you need to have those stories. All sports needs to have those stories where it's not predictable. That's the beauty. And you know, even this year's Super Bowl, Seattle and New England, I don't think many people had either one of those teams going that far. But the possibility is there. You always want that with your leagues. Hey, the spurs, they might be the team to beat in the West. It's a great story. Not the. Well, it's going to be the same teams, same schools. And I think that's something that is very promising in sports. All right, let me take a break. We'll talk about the NFL news here. Mike Tannenbaum from the Mothership will stop by. We'll take a break. We're back after this Dan Patrick Show.
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Great question. I think Dan, they're resetting things. It's year one. Let's take the cap charges. Let's eat. A lot of the money this year. Some of it's going to go to next year and start fresh. I think it's sending a message about culture and More about the future than, hey, if we win six or seven games or eight games this year, that doesn't matter. So I understand why they were doing year one with a new head coach, year one with new gm.
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Are the Dolphins going to be tanking?
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I don't know if they're going to be tanking, but I think what's going to be really interesting, Dan, if you and I are having this conversation October and November, there'll be a number of teams that are probably more interested in fishing closer to the top of the draft than to make in the playoffs. And I don't know if they're going to have a tanking problem the way the NBA does. But without question, next year's draft is loaded with quarterbacks and there's going to be a number of teams that may be out of it in the middle of the season. It'll be interesting to see how they comport themselves when we get there.
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There's three quarterbacks right now, Kyler Murray, Geno Smith and Tua, that all have massive guarantees from their previous team. All three of those quarterbacks will sign for about $1.3 million this year. So it's not necessarily comparing apples to apples when you talk about Daniel Jones or Kirk Cousins or Malik Willis with those other three, because a team is going to see one of those three players as tremendous value.
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If you ran the Dolphins, what are you going to do at quarterback position?
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I'm probably looking for a bridge quarterback and then looking at next year's draft because it could be historically great. Look, the season hasn't been played yet. We'll see how it goes. But you know, there's a chance for it to be really good. So not, not just necessarily Miami, Dan, but if I felt like I was a year away or just trying to establish myself, there's, you know, over 10 new head coaches. I'm sure a lot of teams are going to have a very similar mindset.
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Max Crosby, Raiders, Getting two first round picks from the Ravens. Let me start with the Ravens because I wondered about this last week. Why aren't more teams taking the approach the Rams take, like Buffalo getting DJ Moore? I mean, I, I gotta be all in because we know that window of opportunity doesn't stay open very long. And the Rams, it feels like for the last decade, have been all in. We don't need our draft picks. We're going to get people who can help Us win or at least compete for another Super Bowl. The Ravens went all in with Max Crosby. Buffalo with D.J. moore, the Rams, you know, getting McDuffie. Why don't more teams follow that blueprint?
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Yeah, I think it's very sound. And in particular you were asking about Crosby. You know, there's a couple really interesting things. First of all, he's only 29. He's incredibly productive and he's exactly what you want for your locker room. He's a force multiplier. He's going to make everybody in that program better. The interesting thing, Dan, that no one's really talked about is Jesse Mentor went from this nice young ascending coach that will have, you know, a reasonable break in period to like there is no honeymoon. Like the expectations for a rookie head coach have never been higher. If Lamar is healthy, he's a two time mvp. You have one of the two or three best pass rushers in the league. You have Derrick Henry, Roquan Smith, Kyle Hamilton, amongst others. Like this Guy's honeymoon's about 10 minutes.
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If you ran the Raiders, what do you do? You got more cap space than anybody. You got two first round picks. We know what you're doing with one of them. What would you be leaning towards if you were running the team?
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Three things. Offensive line, offensive line, offensive line. I am, Dan. I am drafting Mendoza, but I am not playing him. I would have kept Geno Smith and here's why. If you go back last year they gave up more sacks than any team. You can look at it from a few different metrics. Don't ruin Fernando Mendoza before he's ready. I think he has a chance on the upside, Dan, to be Matt Ryan, a taller guy, a good arm, a good athlete, not a great athlete. He's going to need a firm pocket. That's something that, that the Raiders have really struggled with. So why are we in a rush to play him? I would go out and get somebody else to start at least half the year and make sure that your offensive line is settled before you do anything with Mendoza because you don't want to ruin his career before they have a chance to be good.
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Yeah, I'm right there with you. I've been using the Andrew Luck analogy that you had this future hall of Fame quarterback. You just didn't have a very good offensive line and it eventually caught up to up to both the Colts and Andrew Luck. Can you quietly shop the number one pick if you're the Raiders?
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Yeah, I'm not so sure they have it. You know, like just from Teams, be it Arizona or the jets, could just say, hey, run into them at the combine, say look, we're not negotiating, tell me what the bill is, tell me what the price is. Is it three ones, is it four ones? Chances are, you know, teams are going to do that because I'm sure they're looking at it at a multi year sort of view of what we had talked about. When you think about Dante Moore next year, Arch Manning, Lenora Sellers, like on and on and on, they'll probably be, I think five or six first round quarterbacks if they play, you know, reasonably well this year. So I think part of what's going to hurt the Raiders from a leverage standpoint is teams are going to look at next year and say we'll pay a premium, but we're not going to be unreasonable.
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I'll go with the Rams. If you and I were running the Chiefs and we were just drafting the players on the Chiefs, clearly Patrick Mahomes is the best player. I'm not so sure that Trent McDuffie is in two or three of their best players. He can blitz, he can tackle, he could play man, he could play zone, he could play slot, he could play outside. He's very competitive. There's nothing he doesn't do exceptionally well. And if we look at the Rams and say like what was outcome determinative, I would tell you like their lack of play at corner, you know, Darius Williams, Emmanuel Forbes, they didn't get the high level play. And we're going to have to at some point cover Jackson, Smith and Jigba man to man. You know, we're going to have to be able to get off the field on third down. They could do that today. They can do that a week ago and I was surprised. Look, I know we've seen Kansas City trade the Jerry Sneed. We've seen him trade Tyree kill. I put McDuffie a different category. I think he's a great young player and I was surprised that they traded him.
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He's Mike Tannenbaum, ESPN NFL Front Office Insider. What do you expect the rest of this week?
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I think the quarterbacks are going to be fascinating because I put, I think you put that bucket of three in one group again. That's Tua Kyler Murray and Geno Smith. Those are guys are all one year deals at a million three. So like that's one bucket. I don't think anybody goes after Daniel Jones because of the durability issue. But let's face it, Dan, like the Colts are a little bit exposed. They took a $6 million risk. The transition tag was 6 million less than the franchise tag, understandably. But now let's see what happens with him. And then the other one's going to be Malik Willis. Malik Willis was somebody that hasn't played a lot, but got a lot better with Green Bay. And it's going to be fascinating to see where he signs.
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What about the Colts going after Kyler Murray?
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You know, that's interesting, Dan. They like Riley Leonard. They still have Anthony Richardson. Obviously they like Daniel Jones. That's why they transition him. Look, if you and I were running a team, I would say for $1.3 million, let's go get Kyle Murray. His ceiling is really high. He's only 29 years old. He's played good football. Not consistently, but he's put it on tape. And I'm always for. In a capped and constrained system, when you could take calculated risks and get a player that has a ability for incredibly on a 300 million dollar cap, you're essentially paying him nothing. At 1.3 million, there's very, very little downside.
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Aaron Rodgers only going to have the Steelers as a potential landing spot?
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Yeah, I think so. I mean, I think Minnesota if, if things didn't work out with Murray, I mean that's the only other team. But you know, let's face it, Dan, he's going to be 43 in December. He's an all time great, one of the best that ever played. But it's close to the end and what you worry about there. And I've been around Test Averdi at the end, Farb at the end. I work with Dan Marino, like talking to him. It's not their arm, Dan, it's their legs and their inability to protect themselves. And you know he's gonna be 43 father times undefeated. And if I'm Aaron Rogers, I gotta take a long, honest and sober view of do I really need to do this one more year?
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Yeah, I just wonder about landing spots. Even Kirk Cousins, does he look at TV and maybe commit to cbs, but with the caveat or the asterisk of if somebody calls, I might be leaving. Although I don't know if CBS would do that. I think he had a pretty good debut as an analyst here. But if you're going to replace Matt Ryan, you kind of want to know that that guy's going to be there on Sunday when you're doing your broadcast.
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Yeah, if I'm Kirk Cousins, like I got to be close to the end as well. Like, you know, he's a great dad by all accounts. You know, CBS seems like a pretty good opportunity. You know, we'll see. You know, sometimes these guys are so competitive, though, it's. It's hard for them to leave. And by the way, a quarterback is going to look at Minnesota and say, I could be coached by Kevin o'. Connell. I have Justin Jefferson, arguably the best receiver in the game, Jordan Addison, T.J. hawkinson. That's a pretty good place to be.
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How did did Minnesota Miss on JJ McCarthy? Like, it feels like we haven't said the, the quiet thing out loud yet, but it certainly feels like they realized they made a mistake.
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Yeah, I'm not ready to go there yet. He started 10 games. I think we got to give him a great event complete. He's incredibly young. I saw him practice probably six times at Michigan. He has attributes you can't see. He's a natural leader. He has poise about him and I think there's too much upside to give up on them now. With that said, if we could go get Kyle and Murray or Kirk Cousins, I'm gonna have a competition. But you know, we've seen too many guys from Darnold, Geno Smith, Baker Mayfield, you know, go to their third and fourth team until, you know, quote, unquote, the light went on. And to me, we gotta remember this, like, worst case scenario is not J.J. mcCarthy not working out. It's him working out someplace else.
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Yeah, yeah, that's true. But it feels like you're either good, really good with your team or you know that you're going to get, you're going to be a backup quarterback and then you're going to get your chance again. It feels like there's two buckets of quarterbacks. It's, that guy's going to bounce around and be Sam Darnold or Baker Mayfield or Geno Smith, or you are going to get that quarterback who is going to be with your franchise from start to finish.
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And how about this? Like, I just tweeted this a couple minutes ago. This is a remarkable statistic. Kyler Murray is the seventh consecutive quarterback drafted first overall that wasn't on the team that drafted him by the age of 30. The last quarterback to be drafted first overall and still be on his team at 30 was Matt Stafford, and he was drafted going back to 2009. So it's really remarkable how hard it is to develop a quarterback now. Andrew Luck retired, but yes, seven quarterbacks in a row didn't make it to age of 30.
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You ever get in a shouting match with an agent?
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Yeah, more. More times than I would care to admit.
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Can you. Can you give me one? You don't have to give names, but what. How loud did it get?
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Oh, it got. Got loud. There was one, it was so bad that I actually not only did, I called him to apologize, I wound up hiring his son as an intern because I felt so bad.
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We'll be watching. Thank you, Mike. Great to talk to you again.
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All right. Appreciate you having me. Thanks, Dan.
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Mike Tannenbaum. You can see him on various ESPN programs. Get up SportsCenter, NFL Live. And you feel bad you don't send chocolates. You go, we'll hire your son as an intern. A couple of phone calls in here. Mark and Saint Cloud. Welcome back, Mark. Hey, Dan. How you doing? Good, sir. Good. I got a couple of best and a worse worst. I feel bad for the kids at Navy, but I'm sure, Fritzi, that the Navy announcer was really excited with Boston. You hit that shot to take him out of the tournament. I'm sure he illustrated that well. Best of the weekend, your Johnny's of St. John's University and your Bennings of the College of St. Benedict both make it in to the Division 3 hockey NCAA tournament. And I have a rule. Speaking of the Division 1 NCAA tournament, I'd like you to consider what you think of this. If you don't finish above.500 in your conference, unless you win the conference tournament, you can't get an automatic birth or, you know, an at large berth. I should say you can't get an at large birth if you don't finish over.500 in your conference. So Auburn, out of the day. Minneapolis, the leader in money spent on only fans. Atlanta's number one nationally, but Minneapolis in the top five. Well, congratulations, Minneapolis. It is cold there. You look at some of these teams that are bubble teams. You got Auburn, they're 16 and 15. Indiana, 18 and 13. Stanford, 20 and 11. Boise State, 20 and 11. 11. And they're probably there waiting for Miami of Ohio to get bounced.
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Yes, Marvin, Auburn's a bubble at one game above.500. If you're like 19 and 12. All right, well, you can't be 17 and 16. Like, oh, they're a bubble team.
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They did beat Florida at Florida. I don't know what their resume is. And you got Bruce Pearl talking about his son who's the head coach at Auburn.
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No conflict.
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Yeah. Yes, Marvin.
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But what about those 16 games they lost? I'm sure, there's a couple of teams that they shouldn't have lost to.
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I agree. I agree, babe. But, you know, if Miami of Ohio played in the SEC, they'd be lucky to be 16 and 50. Get ready for these arguments here. And now. Bruce Pearl, I think he's rooting for Akron to get in as well, maybe to beat Miami of Ohio to win that Matt Castle Conference tournament. But Miami of Ohio would still get in with just one loss. If Miami of Ohio was in undefeated, people would watch their game or games. They did. They would, they would. They would be. I don't know who these guys are, but they're undefeated. And that, you know, this is once again, it's a TV show, I think, and bring it up every year, even when you get matchups and it's like, oh, Bob Knights at Texas Tech. And if he wins his game, then he gets to play Indiana. Oh, what are the odds of that? Yes. They manipulated. Yes. Mark.
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I remember vividly this had to be maybe 2007. It was O.J. mayo's USC team against Michael Beasley's Kansas State team. Oh, what are the odds that they're going to put these two top five draft picks on the same. Same game?
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Hey, Todd, Would a neutral fan be
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wanting to tune in to see Miami Ohio continue staying undefeated or to see them finally lose again?
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Well, you tell me.
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I don't want to skew negative, but I think more people would tune in to see them lose their first game than to stay undefeated.
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I hope I'm wrong. They would be rooting. No, they would root for them. It's an underdog. It's Cinderella. Isn't that why we watch until eventually
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you want those teams to lose so we could see.
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Yes, yes. But Miami Ohio would be a great story. You know, Paul. Yeah. I think Todd's an island on this one because you root for the story and the run to keep going.
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You don't want a story to end prematurely.
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I think it's a great story. Yeah. Yes. Morph.
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The one part that hurts Miami of Ohio is that they don't have a Steph Curry or Wally Zerbiak. A guy that's scoring 25 a night. They have eight guys that score 10 points a night.
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Yes. That damn team effort. We want stars who share in the ball. Boo.
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Balance basketball.
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Boo. Bounce pass. Back door cuts. Yes.
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Tom, when is Indiana basketball going to make a comeback? The year Indiana wins the national title. We're talking about the Indiana Hoosiers as a bubble team. Just to rub it in the whole football basketball dichotomy.
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Now how about we take a break? More phone calls. Reggie will join us next hour. We will give you our best and worst of the weekend after this. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows@foxsportsradio.com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to listen live. The March tournament brings volatility upsets and momentum shifts. With webull predictions, you can trade strategic positions on college basketball outcomes, react to matchups, and assess probabilities as the tournament unfolds. Whether your bracket is busted or you're on the way to the top of your leaderboard, bring your strategy to your trades in real time. Get started by downloading the Webull app today or visiting webull.com event Contract trading is speculative and may not be suitable for all investors. Customers should carefully consider the associated risk before investing. Visit webull.com disclosures Next Monday, our 2026 iHeart Podcast Awards are happening live in south by Southwest.
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China's Ministry of State Security is one of the most mysterious and powerful spy agencies in the world. But in 2017, the FBI got inside. This is Special Agent Regal, Special Agent Bradley Hall.
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Sacramento Kings may have quit on the season, but Russell Westbrook Jr. III is not. He had 23, 12 and 11 as the Kings beat the Bulls. He now has 208 career triple doubles, an NBA record. He had kind of a. Oh, okay. Stat of the day, brought to you by Panini America, the official trading cards of the program. He had kind of a tense back and forth with the reporter about, you don't know this team, you don't know me, and kind of went back and forth there. So still fighting the men's college basketball title odds. DraftKings just sent those to me. It's Duke with a slight edge over Michigan. Then my Arizona Wildcats, Florida, Houston, Illinois. Best and worst of the weekend. Todd, I'm going to start with you. Best and worst.
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My best of the weekend. How about some love for Tennessee State? They win the Ohio Valley Conference, which gives them an automatic bid to the tournament. They haven't been there since 1994. As far as March Madness dominating Morehead State, 93 to 67. Worst. I'm giving it to Great Britain.
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Sorry, Great Britain.
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In the World Baseball Classic against Team usa. After hitting a home run off to Escubble on the first pitch of the game, the offense went 2 for 28.
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17 strikeouts, no walks.
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Not good.
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Good. Yeah. That pitch that Tariq Scubal threw, I mean, it was meatball city. It was like, I'm going to get that first pitch over, you know, just getting started, and all of a sudden it is kind of belt high. And he belted it. Seaton. Best and worst of the weekend. My best is the Raiders, actually. They got kind of a haul for Max Crosby. Maybe the people thought that their price they were asking was a little too steep, but they found somebody to step up for it and seems like they're doing the right things. A lot of pressure now to do the right with those draft picks, but that. That was a good move by them. And my Worst Joe. Joe Burrow now in division has to face Max Crosby, TJ Watt and Miles Garrett. If he was looking forward to next
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season, he should not be.
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Yes, Todd, but Joe Bar was also
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seen recently with Jessica Alba at a casino table, which is something worth noting.
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I know I did see that photo. I double down. Marvin. Best and worst.
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Best of the weekend. Victor. When Benyama in the spurs coming back against the LA Clippers in Wemby getting emotional. I mean he was. That dude is different. I mean he saved the All Star game. I mean he took the Americans to the limit in the Olympics. I mean he's just on a tear right now. Worst of the weekend, my Yukon huskies losing to 1119 Marquez. They shot 3 for 24 for 3 point range to end the regular season.
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And your Coach gets fined $25,000. Bumping in official.
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He kept his cool.
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Yeah, I wonder if they suspend him. I know that they immediately came out and said $25,000 fine. And then he's afterwards goes, I. I don't think I bumped in. But. But if I did, they said I did, then I guess I did. No, you did. Yes. Paul. It felt like more of a grazing than a bumping.
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I don't know if there's any difference in price, but.
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And I'm objective about this, I'm not a Yukon fan. It felt like a grazing.
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But.
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But definitely contact. Okay. Best and worst 2best Nebraska Cornhuskers basketball. I watched them.
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That's been a good program for a while now.
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They're.
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They're 26 and 5.
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We talk about football schools becoming basketball schools. And then Missouri Valley Conference, Northern Iowa. Four games, four wins, four days to
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get the ticket to the big dance, as they call it. Yeah, they get to punch their ticket. As they like to say, good program. You get to punch your ticket. Brian in Sacramento. Hi, Brian. Best and worst of the weekend. Hey, Dan, thanks for taking my call. First time, long time. 5 11, 205. Thank you. Awesome. Beth of the weekend. My nephew, freshman pitcher for Sac State, going on the road to LSU and recording not one but two saves Saturday and Sunday last night. So that was very, very cool. Worst of the weekend, learning that college baseball still has a 10 run skunk rule. Friday night, LSU smoking. Sac State, not getting to see my nephew pitch. All right, thank you, Brian. Matt in Ohio. Hi, Matt. Morning, guys. How are you? Spectacular. Watching the World Baseball Classic. What a disparity in the teams. Brazil against the United States. Brazil has a construction worker on the team. And also one of the greatest things was Joseph Contreras, a 17 year old from Brazil actually gets Aaron Judge to ground out into a double play. So it was pretty cool to see that. Yeah. And I'm watching the picture for Panama and like it kind of startled me. I thought like Bartolo Colon had a brother very similar size. Oh no. Yes. It, he didn't really cut a figure of a, of a baseball player but I think you can get away with that as a pitcher. And he was getting away with that for quite some time. I was texting Mario the eyes and ears of the show and he of course rooting for Puerto Rico. He goes, I can't believe he's getting us out with that junk. And I know he, he was, he was dealing as they say. Alex in Michigan. Hi Alex. What's on your mind? Hey, how's it going? I'm looking at two of maybe, maybe being a replacement for Mag Jones. If they trade him, I think he could go there and maybe get some help on having a offense that supports them, a system that supports them and maybe he could have some value after. Well, anybody who's going to go to the Niners to kind of have a pit stop, a reset will benefit. If you're there with Kyle Shanahan, you will benefit as a quarterback. Mac Jones, Sam Darnold, just to name a few. But you know TUA can end up in Atlanta. I mean if you have you build your offense for left handed quarterback. Now you have two of them. Andy in Buffalo. Hi Andy. What's on your mind?
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Hey Dan, thanks for taking my call. Best of the weekend, know it the
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start of the NFL new year.
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But here in Buffalo, everyone's ecstatic about the Sabres. They their victory last night over the Lightning.
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They are now in full possession of first place in the Atlantic Division. Looking a lot like they are going
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to end their 14 year playoff drought.
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And last night's game.
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Had everything you want in a hockey game.
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Four flights in the first period, eight seven, final score.
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And I do have to mention my
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five day old daughter, Reagan Mary.
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She has only seen The Sabres win
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7 and oh since the Olympic break. So thanks for taking my call. Go Sabers. All right, Andy. That was wild just seeing the highlights but there should be an app that says hey, tune in to the Sabers Lightning game. It is chaos. Paulie toyed with that idea of coming up with an app where it kind of alerts you to here's where to find it.
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We're working on it.
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Or workshopping that. Reggie Miller will join us coming up in about 25 minutes from now. Final hour in this Monday after this. This is an I Heart podcast. Guaranteed human.