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Dan Patrick
This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human. You are listening to the Dan Patrick show on Fox Sports Radio, hour two on this Thursday, Dan and the Danette Stan Patrick Show. College football coming up tonight. It'll be Miami and Ole Miss, Miami favored by three and a half. It's the Fiesta bowl and then you'll have Oregon and Indiana rematch. That will be on Friday night. We'll talk some NFL. We'll get ready for the weekend. Ryan Fitzpatrick, former quarterback, now working for NFL on Prime. Jesse Palmer, ESPN college football analyst, will stop by as well. I'm not even sure if we settled on a poll question in the first hour of the program. I maybe didn't do my responsibilities by asking Seaton, but I'm sure he put up a poll question or two.
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Seaton
It's okay. We actually thrice Dan, a poll question thrice today already we have up there. Which team got better yesterday, the Atlanta Hawks or the Washington Wizards?
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Dan Patrick
Neither.
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Seaton
Well, one of them had to have, right? The Atlanta Hawks slightly got better by.
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Dan Patrick
About 53% after the blockbuster deal.
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Seaton
After the blockbuster trade that took place. Yeah, the Atlanta Hawks slightly better yesterday. I don't know if that's addition by subtraction in the minds of this audience or not.
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Dan Patrick
Yes, it is.
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Seaton
No offense to.
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Dan Patrick
Yes, it is. C.J.
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Seaton
Mccollum, et cetera.
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Dan Patrick
Yeah.
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Seaton
We also have up there a bracket to get predictions in for the AFC and NFC playoff. Right now in the NFC, the Rams have about 30% of that vote. And then there's a three way tie between the Bears, Eagles and Seahawks at 15%. And then in the AFC, bills have 33% of that vote, followed by the Patriots with 25. They're both kind of running away with the AFC.
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Dan Patrick
Okay. 8, 7 7, 3 DP show operator Tyler sitting by, doing nothing but taking your phone calls and keeping an eye on my dog, Winnie. Stat of the Day brought to you by Panini America. The official trading cards of the Dan Patrick Show. You know, you start to look at these games this weekend in the NFL and now I think we look at them differently, at least for a couple of teams because when I talked to Dan Orlovsky yesterday, I said, is Sean McDermott coaching for his job this weekend? And he said, I hate, I hate to answer this question, but, but if I'm going to be honest, I would say yes, they're favored by one and a half at Jacksonville. But now you have to factor in that you have John Harbaugh out there. So this is changing a lot for a couple of teams. A couple of Teams that are in the playoffs and certainly a couple of teams that have held on to their current coaches, like the Miami Dolphins, Are they going to keep their current head coach if John Harbaugh would be interested? The Pittsburgh situation, I don't see that with John Harbaugh. If Mike decides that he's going to go into tv, which I think that there is still a very good chance that that could happen with Mike Tomlin, that he not going to take another coaching job, but he would get into tv and almost, you know, we. There was a trend there for a long time where coaches would come into the mothership and they'd be there for a year or two and then they would go back out into the coaching pool. And maybe that's what Mike Tomlin, and he's still relatively young, and maybe you can sit, watch and then figure out the place that's ideal for you. It's like when Jon Gruden came out of the booth and I thought, gosh, you know what? You better be right. You better be. It's a lot of money the Raiders paid you, but you better be right. Because you don't get that job back. And he's not going to get that job back. I don't know if he's going to get another head coaching job. But you go in, you got the money, and you couldn't do much with that organization. You obviously got in trouble with the league. But when you take those jobs, it, you know, if you're giving up a TV job, chances are you won't get the TV job back. And those TV jobs, you can stay there for 10, 15 years. Look at Bill Cower, Jimmy Johnson, Tony Duncan. You know, I know that there were probably feelers for Tony to coach the Detroit Lions before Dan Campbell. And, you know, these franchises are doing the right thing. Like, let's just ask. Let's just ask if this person would be interested. And you know, they've got good TV jobs. And you would think with Bill Cowers, makeup that man, I got to have something competitive. And that's the one thing that you just can't get. You can't replicate that. The only thing you can do that comes close to that as a former player or coach is to do a game. Because when you do a game now, you're at least involved in the setting. When you do studio, it's very sterile. And sometimes trying to get guys to be animated, to be excited, that's difficult to do in that kind of setting out of the game. Like J.J. watt is better doing A game, because that kind of fits his personality. You want that? You know, Brady needs to be involved. He needs to be at a game, dissecting, you know, kind of sorting everything out here. I'm going to prepare for two teams here. When you're in the studio, hey, you got 30 seconds to talk about Bo Nicks, okay? And then you start talking. They go, you know, we're gonna cut it short 15 seconds. And then you. Okay. And then you throw out something. You don't even know what you said. You got somebody talking in to your ear, and you're like, there's no other setting like that. I guess I can tell you what being a studio analyst is like. And somebody speaking into your ear. Like, as a host, there'd be times when I'm talking and I have somebody in my ear telling me, hey, throw it to Mike Florio. He's got breaking news. So I'm listening to Tony Dungy, tell me something. Or I'm talking to Tony, setting him up, and I've got somebody saying, hey, Florio's got breaking news. We do it here. You know, I can be talking. Paulie goes, I got breaking news. Guess who just got fired here. Oh, Charles Barkley is going to be able to join us in 10 minutes. Like that's what happens. Charles Barkley got fired. Well, kind of. With tnt. Should have never left tnt.
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Seaton
And new ESPN would do this, but.
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Dan Patrick
Trying to tell somebody what that's like, because, look, I've grown up with headphones on for 40 years. Or you have, you know, what is called an ifb that's in your ear. So you don't see this on tv, but it's there, and then there's talking to you. But these, you know, former players, these former coaches, it is foreign. It is still difficult after all these years that when somebody's talking to you and you're speaking and you're trying to make sense, and it's really challenging, but to be in the studio, it. It is. You go in there, you have a pregame, you might have, you know, breakfast, and then you have pre. Your rundown. Then all of a sudden you go out there, you're all fired up. You know, you got an hour show or whatever. Rich Eisen has a, you know, three or four hour show. And then all of a sudden. And then all of a sudden you just watch games, might have something to eat, and then halftime, gear up, and then all of a sudden. And then you just sit and watch, and then you got to gear up the very end, and then that's it, then. You're done? Yes.
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Todd
Todd, how long did it take you to not get distracted or lose your train of thought or. The tendency would be to stop talking at that moment while someone's in your ear? That had to take a while to hone that skill. Not from day one, certainly.
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Dan Patrick
No, still happens. It just. It's. It's a natural instinct. If somebody starts to say something to you, you stop. You know, Marvel will give me time cues when I'm doing commercial reads, and it'll be like, he'll give me 30, and then he'll give me 10. And, you know, inevitably, sometimes you just kind of stop. Yes.
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Todd
Tom, what happens if, for whatever reason, you didn't hear what was whispered in your ear and they're telling you something important? And I know over time you get used to it, but you were in the middle of saying something, so you're hearing yourself talk and thinking about what you're gonna say next. How do you let a producer or. Or the co anchor know that? I don't. I don't know what kind of cue they just gave me or what they just said for me to say.
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Dan Patrick
I just usually do a little bit of a hand signal.
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Todd
Oh, like, I need that again.
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Dan Patrick
Yeah, like. Yeah, but you don't want it to be, like, you know, theatrical. No, no. You just do a little, you know, give it to me again here. Yeah, Paulie, we do that here.
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Paulie
If I said into your ear, Charles Barkley next hour, not this hour, and you didn't hear me, you would give me a little head shake, like shaking off the catcher. Just a little. And I know I got to say that again.
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Dan Patrick
We say good morning if you're watching on Peacock, that's our streaming partner. Say good morning to our radio affiliates as well. Are you rooting for. Let's say you don't have. You're not a fan of Ole Miss or Miami. Who are you rooting for tonight? To me, it's obvious I'm rooting for Ole Miss because that kind of creates the. The mess continues. The conversation continues. The Lane Kiffin situation. Miami's been here before. This is foreign. As great as Indiana story is, Ole Miss story is pretty damn good. Like, oh, my God, they're in the final four. This is Ole Miss. Now, Indiana trumps everybody because of their previous 100 years of football. They were the losing his team in college football history. But Ole Miss, this is a great story. The Lane Kiffin scenario. Yes, Mark.
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Marv
But for new generation, Miami seems like a Cinderella story. Now, if you're under 35. You don't remember the 80s, the 90s, even the early augh. When they were just dominating college football. So you're like, oh, look at this Miami. What's Michael Irvin doing out there? And they have no idea of what Miami used to be. So is it just the Lane Kiffin factor that's making you root for Ole Miss?
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Dan Patrick
Yeah. Yeah. But I was impressed with Miami. I've been really impressed with that defense. So I don't know if that's enough to go. Boy, I hope you know. Let's bring back to you. And then I got Michael Irvin on the sidelines acting silly. And there's Ray Lewis there. There's Ed Reed there. Yeah, Paulie.
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Paulie
And Ole Miss feels like a great program, but they also feel like an SEC school that's always on the cusp. Remember a bunch of years ago, Laquan Treadwell got tackled right before the end zone. They were going, and it feels like they've been close before and it'd be refreshing to see them get there.
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Dan Patrick
Yeah, yeah, that. That's when it wasn't nil. They were just paying players. It felt like allegedly. Allegedly. Allegedly.
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Paulie
That's how you got Kim D Chain those guys.
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Dan Patrick
That's where you go, wait a minute. That guy's going there.
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Paulie
Blue chips, too.
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Dan Patrick
Yeah. Seaton.
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Seaton
The thing I like about tonight's game, if you look at it just without Lane Kiffin, is it's sort of like two underdogs got further than they were supposed to. Both of them got there with huge upsets. Miami's road to get there, it was crazy. What they beat Texas A and M and Ohio State. Right. So, I mean, those are two big wins for an ACC school that usually doesn't get a ton of respect. I love that idea.
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Dan Patrick
And you're right. When you. You look at Miami now, because we thought, well, they shouldn't get in. Notre Dame should get in.
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Seaton
Right.
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Dan Patrick
But Miami is proving that they did belong. Alabama didn't prove it belonged. Ole Miss losing Lane Kiffin or are they going to drop down? And thankfully they didn't. And that's a great story. Let's see Adam in Phoenix. Good morning, Adam. What's on your mind today?
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Paulie
Hey, man.
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Caller
First time, long time. 225, 5, 9. So you already said by Tomlin, if he does end up either separating or getting fired from the COs, that he'd probably want a TV for a year. But if you're the jets, and I'm a long time suffering jets fan, like 30 years. Now you have an opportunity to fire Aaron Glenn and get either Harbaugh or Tomlin. We've seen that a good coach can turn things around. Is this something that you would want that they should consider, or do you stick with Glenn?
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Dan Patrick
I would stick with Aaron Glenn. I can't imagine Mike Tomlin or John Harbaugh would want to coach the Jets. The jets is a situation where you get somebody who knows they may not get an opportunity with other, you know, teams that, hey, I got to take this job. John Harbaugh and Mike Timely don't have to take that job. Lucas in Texas. Hey, Luke. Hey, Dan. Good morning. Good morning.
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Caller
I love the inside baseball you'll talk about with the production value. Gives me a little more sympathy for that CBS News. A nightly news anchor that had that flub on his first night. That's rough to see. But you guys talking about Nil makes me think. I feel like this is a thing that will come up a few years down the road. I think they've got to sort out super conferences and the NCAA or whatn. But with all this money going to players and the transfer rules not really carrying any kind of credit requirement of classes completed and whatnot, we fully divorced the idea of student and athlete. They are athletes. I feel like you're going to have a player like a Diego Pavia who knows that their best environment is probably in college. I wonder if we're going to see a lawsuit to try to classify these football players as employees of the university and get away with for your eligibility altogether. I mean, is that something that you could see happening in the future?
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Dan Patrick
I can't. I can't sit here and honestly say, oh, I don't see that possibly happening. You know, Diego Pavia spends 10 years at Vanderbilt. Like, I have no idea anymore. Here's something that never comes up. And it came up a lot when I was growing up. It came up a lot when I was in college. Players ACT actually got academically ineligible. Like, they. They didn't. They didn't qualify. They didn't do the amount of work. They didn't get a grade point. I mean, come on, at Prop 48? No, I haven't heard one guy, you know, academically ineligible. When's the last time you heard somebody, hey, why isn't he playing academics? You don't hear that anymore. It used to be, man, you got to go to class, you got to get a 2.0. Now I haven't heard anybody. And, you know, with all the transfer portals and semesters Starting and ending and bolts. You know, all of this stuff. I had a hard time going to class.
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Paulie
Different reasons.
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Dan Patrick
Yeah, yeah, Paulie, okay, this is a.
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Paulie
Very obvious, maybe dumb question, but I heard Carson Beck talk about the football schedule at Miami. He says at 7am to 7pm if you're a fifth or sixth year player in college football and you already have your degree, do you currently have to attend a class at the university to play for a university?
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Dan Patrick
I thought Matt Leinert did that with.
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Paulie
Ballroom dancing, but that was a good generation ago. Like, let's say like Carson Beck is 23 years old and he would have multiple degrees if he went to school full time, if not a master's. Does he have to go to a full time schedule? Does 12 hours, four classes?
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Dan Patrick
My college football source will probably be texting me here momentarily.
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Paulie
Look into it.
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Dan Patrick
Yeah, Yeah, I don't. I don't know how important academics are anymore.
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Todd
Yes, Todd, I'm thinking if there was anything, A, wouldn't have to be a full schedule, and B, it could be one of those remote things where from your dorm, you click a button and you'd have to physically be in the lecture hall and you can just kind of do it from wherever you want to be.
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Dan Patrick
Man, if we would have had Zoom back when I was in school, that would have been awesome. And, man, your senior year and you go, man, I got an 8 o' clock journalism class. Man, I'm gonna. That's gonna be awesome. And it wasn't awesome, you know, not because of the teacher and the class, but because I'm like, do I really need, like, that's a, that's a class you do need to go to if you want to do this for a living. All the other ones, you know, the challenge of modern day marriage, you know, do I need to go to that where a priest is telling me about marriage? No. And I did. I didn't go either, but it seemed like a really good class. Yeah, you know, I'm gonna learn about marriage.
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Paulie
Me.
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Dan Patrick
Girls from a priest might meet some girls in there. All right, Ryan Fitzpatrick will join us, former quarterback, and we'll get to more of your phone calls as well. Jesse Palmer will stop by in the final hour of the program. We're back after this. Be sure to catch the live edition of the Dan Patrick show weekdays at 9:00am Eastern, 6:00am PAC topic on Fox Sports Radio in the iHeartRadio app. Hey, it's Rob Parker and Kelvin Washington from the Odd Couple on Fox Sports Radio. And in addition to hearing us live weeknights from 7 to 10pm Eastern on Fox Sports Radio. We are excited to announce brand new YouTube channel for the show. That's right. You can now watch the Odd couple live on YouTube every day. All you got to do, search Odd Couple FSR on YouTube again, YouTube, just search Odd Couple FSR. Check us out on YouTube and subscribe. Todd's been sending me pictures of Katy Perry this morning and no context attached to it. And then he find finally sends me an article that Katy Perry went to Ole Miss and she was on college game day back in 2014.
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Todd
Granted, it was over a decade ago, but I thought, you know, I always like to look at celebrity fans of, you know, teams that are in the final Four or what have you. And that just kind of came up as. And she did that whole, you know, suck it, back row thing that we have a little connection with Katy Perry over the years.
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Dan Patrick
If you want to reach out to her, people, should Ole Miss win and she comes on the show tomorrow, I'd be fine.
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Todd
Sounds good.
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Dan Patrick
Okay. Ryan Fitzpatrick, you can find him on NFL Prime Video, the Thursday night football analyst and Prime Video will present its second NFL wild card game Saturday. It'll be the Bears and the Packers. That'll be at Soldier Field. They start their coverage at 7:30 Eastern, only on Prime. Looks like he's got some product in his hair. Probably worked on his beard. Beard as well. Which, which one do you spend more time on, your hair or your beard? Beard.
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Ryan Fitzpatrick
Quite a bit of time on the beard this morning. Actually trimmed the edges of my mustache for you. So that's how you know, I like you.
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Dan Patrick
Nice. I did wonder about this where we put labels on players. And I wonder about you going to Harvard, if that was there any positive that you went to Harvard or what negatives when you were going into the NFL.
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Ryan Fitzpatrick
I think the initial negative was a funny one which was do you actually like football or do you have other interests? Are you going to become a doctor or something? And that was something I had to kind of overcome and could overcome that one pretty early just in terms of passion and how much I enjoyed playing the game. And then I think, you know, I accepted that label because it was always, oh, he's smart, he can pick up a playbook. We bring this guy in, he'll pick up the playbook quickly. And when I got to Tennessee, which was year nine for me, Dal Loggins was the offensive quarter. Mike Munchek was the head coach. Wasn't really into it or feeling it and wasn't picking up the playbook very quick. So Dallas Loggins challenged me and said, dude, I thought you were smart. I can't believe you're having a hard time with this. And that night I sat down and learned the whole playbook and came back the next day and was ready to go.
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Dan Patrick
Okay, but is there any correlation between going to an Ivy League school and being football smart?
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Ryan Fitzpatrick
No, I don't think so. I mean, there's certainly not, but I always try to convince people that there was a correlation. Yes.
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Dan Patrick
Let's look at the Bears and the packers, and I'm wondering who has the most pressure on them going into this game. If I go, Matt LaFleur. Ben Johnson is, you know, not facing the same pressure that I'm sure LaFleur is, but how would you kind of level out the. The pressure on either of these teams and coaches and quarterbacks?
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Ryan Fitzpatrick
Yeah, I think LaFleur's got a lot more pressure on him. Ben Johnson, masterful job this year. What he's done with this team, completely changing it around in a year, what he's done with Caleb Williams, I think it's been great. And really just the mentality of who they are, especially offensively, they have an identity, they're physical, they're going to run it straight down your throat, they're going to do the play action stuff. But LaFleur, I mean, they've lost four in a row, and this is a big moment for him. You know, Jordan Love hasn't played for two and a half weeks. They just rested Everybody in week 18, so all their stars are going to be fresh. Josh Jacobs hopefully will be as fresh as he's been since that New York game where he got injured. But lafleur's got the most pressure on him coming in and trying to win this game. And I think Jordan Love as well, you think about last year and that game versus the Eagles in the playoffs. He's got a lot to prove and he's had a great season, so I'm hoping he comes out and has a good game.
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Dan Patrick
Is it crazy to say, is Matt LaFleur on a hot seat there in Green Bay?
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Ryan Fitzpatrick
I think that's crazy to say. I think if you look at the organization and, you know, them making rash decisions, I don't think that's who they are. So I think it ratchets up even more for next year if they don't win this game and they have a poor showing on offense. But I don't think he's on the hot seat.
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Dan Patrick
No. I talked to Dan Orlovsky Yesterday he said he felt like Sean McDermott might be coaching for his job this weekend.
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Ryan Fitzpatrick
That would also be shocking to me if that was the case. I think if anything there, you know, maybe they. Well, they might lose Joe Brady at coordinator, but if they don't win this game, maybe they try to freshen that up and look somewhere else. But that, that game is going to be really interesting because the Bills, at least as of yesterday, were still favored in that game on the road going to Jacksonville. But Jacksonville winning eight in a row, just kind of, you know, putting on their tape the last few days and watching them, it's been Liam Cohen and Trevor Lawrence. It's been great to watch. Trevor Lawrence is really these last eight or nine games.
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Dan Patrick
But what's different, Ryan?
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Ryan Fitzpatrick
So I think first of all, it's just the confidence. But they had, you know, they played Seattle and the Rams and only scored 12 points and seven points right before their bye week. They went into the bye. I don't know what they did, but they came out guns a blazin. I think the addition of Jacoby Myers helped, but Parker Washington has been awesome on that offense. They've got a ton of talent, but Trevor is playing with a ton of confidence back there. And even last week and the week before, watching the games, watching him get pressured, his ability to see it, to get the ball out and throw it accurately, he's done a great job through the year of getting better and better at that. So confidence is such a huge thing for quarterbacks, especially quarterbacks that have been up and down. And Trevor's playing at a really high level right now.
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Dan Patrick
So you can learn that. That's a learned skill that you can. You can see it throw it. You can see it before it happens.
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Ryan Fitzpatrick
You know, I think part of it for him is being more comfortable in the offense. I think it's also having a coach that demands more of you. And that's a huge thing with Trevor this year is Liam Cohen and the demands that he has put on him. But, yes, you can. Certainly that's something you can learn throughout a season and get better and better at. And I think Liam Cohen, we got to give him some flowers because you look at Baker last year compared to this year and his numbers, there's no crazy coincidence there that Liam Cohen was his coach last year and has really done wonders with Trevor Lawrence this year.
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Dan Patrick
We heard that maybe John Harbaugh lost the locker room. Ian Rapoport reported that Adam Schefter came back and said that that wasn't the case in Baltimore. But how does a coach lose the locker room?
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Ryan Fitzpatrick
I love the. The Schefter versus Rappaport. Yeah. Oh, the reports, the inside their reports. How does a coach lose the locker room? I think part of it, and I don't know anything about that situation, so not speaking on that, just speaking in general, part of it is, and I've seen over the years, if you don't demand the same thing, the same commitment to excellence out of your great players that you do out of the young rookies, it's easy for a coach to come in and yell at these young guys into the demand a lot of the young guys. But when you don't do that with the best players on your team and the stars and you kind of let them get away with things, I think that's the first way where you can start to lose a locker room and guys can start questioning, you know, your consistency as a leader.
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Dan Patrick
The elevation progression of Drake May, it's kind of remarkable when you consider he's probably going to finish second in mvp. Now, we have seen those quarterbacks who've made that jump in the second year, but how do you assess how he's doing that? When they do have running game, it doesn't feel like they have a lot of stars at the wide receiver, tight end positions.
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Ryan Fitzpatrick
I think with quarterback we talk about all the time infrastructure. So Mike Vrabel gets there and what does he do? He gets him a number one receiver and Stefon Diggs, he goes and gets a great play caller, some would argue the best play caller in the last 20 years in the NFL and Josh McDaniels. And then he also bolsters the offensive line. You know, he gets Will Campbell, he gets Morgan Moses, he brings in Bradbury dead center. So it's like all these things, the protection got better. The star player he could throw to when it's one on one got much better. And the offense around him. And the thing I love about that system, I was in that system with Bill O' Brien in my 10th year in the NFL. And if you draw a line in my career, what it was before year 10 and after year 10 and after, I learned more in that 10th year than I've ever learned in my career about football. The way they teach it, the demands they put on a quarterback. So it's really nice to see the ascension of Drake May this year. And the scary part is they're going to demand so much of them. It's just going to get better and better and better.
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Dan Patrick
Okay, but what are you getting in year 10 that you didn't get in the previous nine years?
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Ryan Fitzpatrick
For me, it was just the way that I looked at the game all of a sudden, you know, a lot of these offenses now are going away from demanding everything out of the quarterback, the mic points, knowing every little intricacy about the run game, why we're doing things on specific plays, what defenses are doing and why, what are they trying to attack you with? How are they trying to come? It was just a completely different way for me to look at football. And, you know, and knowing that every single thing that we did had a purpose, it was really cool for me to be able to take that then and use it for the rest of my career.
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Dan Patrick
That give you a better understanding of Tom Brady's greatness?
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Ryan Fitzpatrick
Of having, like, absolutely. I mean, full, complete control the whole time, but just the demands that it put on him early in his career and the greatness that we all got to sit back and witness. He was in complete command the whole time. And really amazing when you get to kind of see the way that it's made behind closed doors.
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Dan Patrick
Did you feel like he was better than you?
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Ryan Fitzpatrick
Who's that?
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Dan Patrick
Brady?
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Ryan Fitzpatrick
Yes. Yes.
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Dan Patrick
I mean, I'm not talking about the end result. I'm talking about when he got on the field. You got on the field. Did you get. Did you have to come to that conclusion? He's just better than me.
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Ryan Fitzpatrick
Yeah, absolutely. But it was. Every game was, you know, on a consistent long term basis. He was always going to be better than me. I just had to be better than him, you know, in that moment, for that specific day. And I think we played 14 times and I was better than him. 3 of 14 times. So percentage is not great.
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Marv
But.
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Ryan Fitzpatrick
But there was three of them.
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Dan Patrick
Okay. And I. I didn't go to Harvard, so I'm not good at the numbers. Paulie, that's probably not good percentage.
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Paulie
You're asking me?
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Dan Patrick
Yeah. Oh, that's right. Yeah. In fact, there's nobody over here that I can ask. Well, Todd went to nyu. That's not a good percentage.
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Todd
Those are not great odds.
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Dan Patrick
Yeah, but that's not an Ivy League school, though.
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Ryan Fitzpatrick
Hey, I'm still. I'm still okay with it, though. I relish those three victories.
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Dan Patrick
Have fun. Yeah. What?
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Paulie
Paulie Ryan won 21.4% of the time.
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Marv
Okay. All right.
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Dan Patrick
Well, there you go. One fifth. Okay, but how mad was Brady in those three losses to you when you guys, you know, quarterbacks always say, hey, great game, great game, great game.
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Ryan Fitzpatrick
Yeah, you know, you know, it didn't, it didn't go very well. He wasn't very happy. He never liked losing so he never.
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Dan Patrick
Said, hey, you know, that's awesome. Congratulations. I'm happy for you, Ryan.
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Ryan Fitzpatrick
No, I don't think it ever went that way because the last one was, the last one was when I was in Miami and it was his last regular season game at Foxborough. So it was not very happy about that one.
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Dan Patrick
Wow. Well, you're gonna be a, you know, Trivial Pursuit question. Maybe.
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Ryan Fitzpatrick
I got a lot of them though, Dan. I got, you know, who threw the most interceptions in this game? You know, the only NFL quarterback to throw six touchdowns and no picks in a game and no touchdowns in six picks. So I'll hang on to that one forever.
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Dan Patrick
You know what, I'm on a round of applause for that six zero six I like it. I like it.
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Ryan Fitzpatrick
It takes a special player.
- [30:18]
Dan Patrick
Yes, it does. Have fun Saturday night. Thanks for joining us.
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Ryan Fitzpatrick
Yep, thank you very much. We're looking forward to it.
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Dan Patrick
That's Ryan Fitzpatrick prime video. They will have the game on Saturday night. Bears, packers. That'll be at Soldier Field kickoff 7:30 Eastern only on Prime. I forgot all about that. Six touchdowns, no interceptions. No touchdowns, six interceptions. Somebody is scoring on you.
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Seaton
That's an awesome trivia like personal, like stat to have.
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Dan Patrick
Oh, that's good stuff. David in Phoenix. Hi David. What's on your mind today? Hey.
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Caller
Hi Dan. I got a question for you and the boys. Not to change the subject up too much but I am the three time reigning Golden Wreath Award winner in my neighborhood. It's otherwise known as the griswold with my 3 Pete. Can I call myself a dynasty?
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Dan Patrick
Yes. Yeah.
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Caller
I appreciate that.
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Dan Patrick
Congratulations David. About a round of applause for David.
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Paulie
Another big day.
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Dan Patrick
Jeff in South Carolina. Hi Jeff. What's on your mind today?
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Caller
And first time, long time. 05:11, 175 earlier in the week you had Mike Tannenbaum on and I noticed he kept referring to as a baseball player and you said you needed to look up your Wikipedia page. Well, I did and at the very first paragraph, very last sentence in the early life section, it said the Cincinnati Reds wanted to sign him as a pitcher and have him play for the rookie league team in Billings, Montana. He opted out. Now is that just something that you would see young have in common or is that true?
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Dan Patrick
I went to a Reds tryout camp but I ended up playing in a. They had a semi pro league in Cincinnati that I did that after college but not going to Billings Montana. But, you know, I'm glad Mike Tenenbaum read my bio. That's first thing I said. And I went to a guy I went to college with at the University of Dayton. He sent me an email right after Tenenbaum said it. And because he pitched for the baseball team, he goes, what baseball team did you play for? And I had to tell him after we went to commercial break, I said, tony, I gotta check my Wikipedia page. The older I get, the better I was. Oh, what do we got? Big news.
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Paulie
We'll get right to it. According to adam Schefter of ESPN, that's Dolphins have fired head coach Mike McDaniel.
- [32:55]
Dan Patrick
Wow.
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Paulie
On a Thursday.
- [32:57]
Dan Patrick
They made it to Thursday.
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Paulie
Dolphins owner Stephen Ross met with Mike McDaniel this week to discuss the season. After that meeting and reflection, Ross decided to move on.
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Dan Patrick
You know, let, let's take a break and then we'll react to this. Damn, he made it to third. That's why I said yesterday he had to be watching his phone after the Harbaugh news. All right, we'll take a break. Back 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. Just got word that the Dolphins have fired Mike McDaniel. And let's go back to when John Harbaugh was fired. Harbaugh's agent said that he had already been contacted by more NFL teams than there were current openings. Six openings, seven teams reaching out. So let's take out the Ravens. There were a couple of teams and maybe a playoff team from what I'm told. That might have at least put a bug in the ear of the agent of John Harbaugh if something were to happen, whether that's true or not or, or could happen. So I guess if you're looking at the Miami Dolphins and you got Mike McDaniel, and I even said this when this was all taking place, there are coaches walking around with their cell phones hoping that a text or a phone call from up above doesn't happen. And Mike McDaniel was one of those coaches. Because if. Now I don't know if John Harbaugh is interested or Kevin Stefanski is interested, but you're firing him on a Thursday. What do you know now that you didn't know on Monday other than John Harbaugh is now available? Yes.
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Seaton
My guess is I see it going like this. We waited. No, we're going to stick to him. Right now we like. We believe you.
- [34:53]
Dan Patrick
We believe in you.
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Seaton
Let's have a meeting. So what are you thinking for next season? Well, we start with Tua. We're keeping him.
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Dan Patrick
Okay.
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Seaton
And you're fired. All right, thank you, Mike, and good luck to you in the future. But we're going to part ways.
- [35:07]
Dan Patrick
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- [35:21]
Paulie
Mike McDaniel took over the Dolphins in 2022, 9 and 8. Got to the wild card, got to the playoff appearance. Then they were 11 and 6, another wild card. But they were the number one offense in football last year, the 18th ranked offensive football, this year, the 26th ranked offensive football.
- [35:38]
Dan Patrick
Yeah, it just feels like that he survived, we thought, okay, if you make it to Wednesday, chances are you're going to be safe, man. Yes, Todd.
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Todd
At least they got it in this week because there's no black next Monday. You got to get it within the six day period or it's really ridiculous.
- [35:56]
Dan Patrick
Well, there might be, who knows? Whatever happens this weekend. And look, I'm going to go back to what Dan Orlovsky said and he's connected. And I said, you know, is Sean McDermott coaching for his job? And he said, I hate, I hate to answer this, but if I'm going to be honest, I would say yes. I don't know if that's true or not. It feels like Sean McDermott's been coaching for his job for the last couple of years. But they're favored in Jacksonville against a team that's hotter than anybody right now. But Mike McDaniel out in Miami, is that a good job? Because that, that's, you know, you, you got to look at it and you got to be honest and you go, okay. Is the Raiders job a good job? No, Atlanta a good job. We keep trying to convince ourselves that it's a good job. I do, I keep going, golly, they gotta be better. Is Tennessee a good job? That one feels like if as long as I have patience from up above, give me three years, I got my quarterback. I like my quarterback. He's competitive, he wants to be great. I got cap room. If you give me three years, maybe I can bring this team back to where they were with Mike Brable. Is Cleveland a good job? I would say, no, you don't have a quarterback. You got front office you got an owner who medals great fan base. But your best asset. You should have traded. The Giants appear to be that. That to me is a good job. I, I think, I think they, they should be better than what they are. And I don't want to take a job because historically it's a better job than it used to be. Like Baltimore is a great job because that's ownership front office and they got a roster and you know, I got my quarterback. Great football team. Yes, Todd.
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Todd
And with all the parody in recent years, you can't necessarily take or not take a job because you're worried about the competitiveness of the division. Like if you're the job. Oh, I got to chase after. I'm going to get past the Bills and Patriots. If you're going to be given three, four years and one year. As we know, some teams make the playoffs and they don't make the playoffs the next year. I wonder how much they factor that and how tough the div is. Are you going to take a coaching job?
- [38:24]
Dan Patrick
The one thing that I thought of when we got this news is what role did Troy Aman play in this? He's a consultant to help them find their next general manager, I believe. Well, now he can help them find their next head coach. Dun dun. While having another job, by the way.
- [38:49]
Paulie
That seems to be the new path these days. Matt Ryan wants to stay at cbs.
- [38:53]
Dan Patrick
He's not. They're not gonna, they're not gonna allow that.
- [38:55]
Paulie
How can they not? You mean the NFL or cbs?
- [38:59]
Dan Patrick
CBS isn't going to do it.
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Ryan Fitzpatrick
Yeah.
- [39:03]
Dan Patrick
Matt, no. Matt Ryan, if you want to be the president of the Falcons, then be the president of the Fountain. I mean. No, no, be. It be silly. You want to be hands on and you want to have that job. You're not traveling back and forth from New York to Atlanta. You know, commit to the job. If I'm cbs, losing Matt Ryan is not like losing Bill Cower. You know, he did a really good job there. But I would say do your job. Don't try to do both jobs. Troy's not doing this during the season. I mean, Tom Brady is. I've had a problem with that. But Troy, he's going to be a consultant. And this is going to be. Until they find their coach and general manager, then he's going to go back to being a broadcaster. But Matt Ryan, I know that he talked about that, but I think that they decided that, hey, I got to be all in on this.
- [39:54]
Marv
Yes, Marv going back to the Dolphins real fast. Are they in the same category as, like the Raiders and the jets and the Browns as far as just inept franchises because they got a longer playoff win drought than a couple of those franchises. They're up there about 24, 25 years with no playoff wins.
- [40:11]
Dan Patrick
Yeah, They thought they found their quarterback. They made the mistake of extending him, not making him prove it. You got the Tyree Kill situation. Like, who knows? They gave away a couple of pieces prior to the trade deadline. I love their running back waddle. Is he a number one? Like, I don't know. I don't know what you have there. That's part of the problem, you know, at least if you see building blocks and you go, okay, we got that position. Our line is pretty good. Hey, we got our quarterback. We got a number one wide receiver. Okay? Those are things that you all that everybody has to have good offensive line. We got our quarterback and I got a number one wide receiver. Okay? And then you can start to build. But these teams that we're talking about, a lot of these teams don't have that infrastructure. So Mike McDaniel's out and the Dolphins are in the market for a head coach. Jesse Palmer, on loan from the Mothership, will join us. He'll preview tonight's game. Talk to him about a few things. Your phone calls are also welcome. Final hour in this Thursday straight ahead, the new year brings new health goals and wealth goals. Protecting your identity is an important step. Your info is in endless places that could expose you to identity theft leading to lost funds. LifeLock monitors millions of data points per second. If your identity is stolen, Lifelock's restoration specialist will fix it, guaranteed, or your money back. Resolve to make identity, health and wealth part of your New year's goals. With LifeLock, save up to 40% your first year. Visit lifelock.com sports terms apply. This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.