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I was curious about a couple of things, and one was that Sean McVay and the Rams went for it on fourth down four times in the first quarter and I don't know what the Message was with his team, like, let's jump on them early. Let's make them one dimensional. Let's make Sam Darnold have to beat us. The running game was great with Seattle. Maybe we can take the crowd out of this. They did jump out to a 16 point lead and Sam Darnold had a couple interceptions, wasn't playing great. Kenneth Walker Jr. III looked great. He's one of those guys that a standalone game really helps because it reminds you of. He runs downhill, as the analysts like to say. He runs downhill, he runs hard. And Seattle is resilient. If I would say one word. They're resilient because they, they almost beat the Rams earlier this year when Sam Darnold had four interceptions. They lost by two, I think. And then here you have this game in Seattle. I don't know if it's sustainable. Like that's the big question I have. Can you get by in the playoffs if you have another game like this? Seattle's 12 and 3. Rams are 11 and 4. Vegas this morning reminding everybody the odds to win the super bowl. The Rams plus 425. Seattle plus 500. Broncos plus 750. Bills plus 800. Eagles and Texans at plus 1100. Trying to win these games. You continue to win these games. It's really difficult to be on the tightrope. You know, we saw that with the Chiefs this year as opposed to last year. I think they were 12, 0 in one score games. Last year, 1 in 7, I believe this year in one score games. You can't live and die by it. I mean you can, but it's just not sustainable. And I think that's what I'm looking at with Seattle. You won, but it's one of those. Yeah, but. And even the Rams. How, how did you not win that game? Stafford throws for 450. Puka Nakua has over 200 yards receiving. You got turnovers, you got a couple interceptions. Stafford didn't throw in any interceptions. I was surprised. You gotta close them. And Seattle's defense ended up winning that game with a couple of key stops. Two point conversion. I loved it. Here's the reasoning behind it. Their head coach, Mike McDonald follows something we had talked about really throughout the season and then really particularly for this game because of the playoff situation. You know, you play for the tie, you know, make lock up a playoff seed. But I just felt like, I just felt great about our play and I, and I trusted our guys and to Clint's credit too, he was really confident and, and then the players Ultimately make it happen. So once we got that drive going, it was pretty clear on what we were going to do. And I thought the Rams did a really good job containing Jackson, Smith, Najigba because he had six catches for 64 yards. That was in the final quarter. So they, they contained him. And he's great. First half, he didn't have a single catch, but he is a really good player. He's really talented. He's another one of those, oh, that's right, that guy. And now he's not puking a kua, but he has, he has put himself out there. He, he, he's trying to sneak into the short conversation of best wide receivers. But the Rams defense had Sam Darnold seeing ghost. Another rough outing. And you know, that third quarter pick was bad. Struggling to find open receivers. You know, it still comes down to Seattle can win in the playoffs if Sam Darnold plays well. I don't think you can get by with a couple interceptions and ask your defense to bail you out. They have. I just think you're going to have one of those games where you get tripped up if Sam doesn't have, you know, one of the better than average games. Maybe a no turnover game because keep in mind they struggle to score against the Colts. That offense didn't look good against the Colts. You got the win, barely beating Philip Rivers on a last second field goal. It doesn't exude confidence. Like, I feel far better about the Rams than I do Seattle. And if I feel like the Niners in Seattle are very similar, but I'm not quite sure because I don't know how the Niners are doing this. I mean, it feels like Christian McCaffrey has 23 carries for, you know, 68 yards, five catches for, you know, 44. And you know, they had all these injuries, your two best defensive players, and Kyle Shanahan's done an incredible job because you're watching. They've had Mac Jones, they had Brock Purdy. Like you want to talk about coach of the year. He did a great job. Great job. Satan, what's the poll question for hour two? Well, we just put Todd's up there. Let me check. I haven't even looked at the results on Todd's Lane Kiffin question. Okay, he had up there. If you're Lane Kiffin, are you rooting for Tulane to win? Let's see. Right now, 63% of the audience say no. Okay, that's good. Happy about that. All right. And this one's from Paul. If your life depended on A catch. Justin Jefferson, Jamar Chase, Jackson, Smith and Jigba. Or Puka Nakua. Puka Nakua right now has 43% of that vote. The next closest is Justin Jefferson at 25%. Yeah, that's one of those kind of out of sight, out of mind. Where you go when he does great things. That's where you go. Yeah, that's why he's the best receiver in football. Even Jamar Chase. Jamar Chase loves playing against the Ravens, by the way. Like, his numbers against the Ravens are ridiculous. But Jigba is there. But Puka Nakua, I don't know how fast he is. I just know he's fast enough. See Diana? Or is it Diane and Corona? Diane and Corona. Morning. Diane and Corona. Yes. This is me. So happy to be on here. I just. If Polly wanted to know the best way. It was uncanny. Brian, my husband Brian, is driving us to get my total knee down right now. We just pulled up in front of the hospital, so I thought I would just call in, as my husband says, drop some knowledge on Paulie. Oh, okay. So basically, think of it as a resurfacing that you get to keep most of your parts. You keep your kneecap, they resurface the back of your kneecap, you keep the good. They take away as little as bone off the top of the tibia and off the bottom of the femur. They take as little bone as possible, and they put in some titanium joint places or joint pieces, one on the top, one on the bottom, and some gliding pieces there. So just, like, think of it as a resurfacing. In some procedures, you get to keep your ACL and your pcl, and some you don't. So it just depends on the doctor you use and what ligaments you get to keep. Do you have that ice machine that you'll put on your knee? And it just gives cold water constantly when you get out of the hospital? Do you have that already? Yes. Okay. And they say, don't leave it on whatever X number of hours. Leave it on 24 hours, Diane. Leave it on 24 hours because, oh, my God, it saved my life when I had my knee done. Oh, that's so funny. We had the privilege of getting to meet Marvin when we were out there in Springfield. And Brian, my husband, is the trainer at Centennial High school, where Jared McCain went. And so I am so blessed to have the perfect healthcare provider for this whole adventure. Well, good luck. Good luck, Diane. And easy on the Percocet, because, man, I was like, I wanted to feel when I felt better. I didn't want something to mask and that pain the first, like, three weeks. Oh, my God. And I had this machine that just had cold water, really cold water, and, you know, kept the swelling down. But my wife would say, do you want a Percocet? I go, nope, nope. And then all of a sudden, you know, she'd hear me upstairs. You want a Percocet? No. Can I get a beer? Jeff in Wisconsin. Hi, Jeff. What's on your mind today? Hey, DP and the boys. Happy New Friday. 60 of PP dad bod 205. See, I was calling in now Diane kind of so my thunder, But I don't have quite a nicer way to put it. I do anesthesia and do joint replacements all the time. So especially on the hip replacement, they lop off the top of your femur and put a new metal ball and rod in there. So. And then they resurface the cup that it goes into. So that's the resurfacing. But, yeah, on the knee replacements, they still lop off a good piece of bone, both on the femur and on the tibia. So, Jeff, how often do patients wake up from anesthesia before they're supposed to? Yeah, you know, it's great. At my place, we actually have probably half of our patients stay awake and watch the procedures on TV screens. Oh, I was offered that years ago with a knee surgery, and, you know, I had, no pun intended, a cutting edge doctor. And he said, do you want to watch? I go, no, because he said, some people wake up from anesthesia and they're nauseous. And he said, you can watch this and we'll just numb your knee. But a lot of people opt for that. How do you feel about that, Jeff? Oh, it's great. I get to get them a little bit high and then talk with them for an hour where they're getting their knee lop pieces. So it's kind of entertaining, man. And you don't get squeamish at all when you hear, like, a saw being fired up there. Drill. I always tell them I'd never stay awake on my own, but I can watch yours all day long. Thank you, Jeff. Thanks for calling in. Yeah, when you hear, like, there's a saw involved in this stuff, and you're like, oh, man, I don't want to be around for that. I remember when I had micro fracture surgery where they're drilling up into my knee, and they showed me the video afterwards. It's like, I don't want to be watching this while it happens, I don't want to be crying. No tears. Yeah. Paulie, the anesthesia is always the most fun person because you're looking right at them, they're right next to you. Yeah. And they say, count down from 10, three, and then it's out. You don't get to one. Never. Yeah. And. And you always want somebody who's just going to be a. A little cheery, you know, when you're going to go, okay, all right, I am, you know, gonna get hit. Feel a little pinch here. Okay, here we go. All right. And hey, when you wake up, you're gonna be, you got a new knee. I go, okay, count, count down from 10. I think I've gotten to maybe six. Maybe like 10, nine. And then you're out. And if you go in for a colonoscopy, you want to talk about the best sleep of your life, I'd go in for a colonoscopy just to get a great night's sleep. Go in for a nap. Your third time in this month. Yeah, I know. Yeah. Paul. So it's like restoring an old car. The knee replacement. A little sheet metal. Yeah. Little Bondo. Fresh paint. Send you back out. It's like Mako. Yeah. Yeah. Old school. Yeah. Oh, better get Mako. Yes. John, I know they have a protocol in place, but I'm always afraid they're going to start doing whatever painful thing they're going to do, and I'm not Capulli out yet. And I remember on a number of occasions, I'm still awake. I'm still awake. Don't. Don't start yet. But that's bad for business, Todd. It is bad for business. And it's very neurotic on my part to think that they don't have things in place to make sure I'm absolutely. The patient's out cold before they start operating on you or sticking something up your toe. You do think the worst case scenario. I do. I'm always in a panic. Anytime I've ever had something done, it's like I'm still up. Don't do anything yet. I'm going to feel that. Wait. Chris in Syracuse. Good morning, Chris. Hey, thanks, Dan. Hey, a couple things to throw at you. Last night in New York Knicks, play by play, Guy poked a little fun at the NBA Cup. The Knicks came back and won on a three pointer with four seconds left. And the Knicks, play by play, Guy said with a giggle, never underestimate the heart of an NBA cup champion. And you know, three 2 point conversions last Night for Seattle. That's got to be pretty close to an NFL record. And also, Dan, I'm not sold on Seattle either. They could be this year year's Minnesota Vikings. And the common denominator, Sam Darnold. Boy, wow, Chris. Out of nowhere, out of nowhere. By the way, the Joker had another triple double. Do you realize that he leads the NBA in rebounds and assists? So imagine Magic Johnson leading the NBA in assistance and rebounds and then averaging 29 points a game. That's what Joker's doing. He's leading in, in both categories. He just passed Kareem, I think for the most assist by a center in history. He's in his prime. And if, and if he doesn't get bored, these numbers are going to be wacky. Like, you know, and I knew, I know we have the, the new big man coming into the game, but Joker is playing water polo on land. He holds the ball up, you know, when you watch water polo. And he's a point center. He's right there, top of the key, and he is going to find the open man or he'll take his shot. You can't block his shot because he puts it so far behind his head. But he had another triple double. He's going to have the most triple doubles in NBA history pretty soon. Yes, Marv, and for him, he's on scholarship with that championship because, yes, he's one of the few guys that won it without another all Star currently, even though Jamal Murray is a great player. But he's on scholarship. He won it with the team that drafted him, so he's all good for the rest of his career. Yeah, and he also got to ease in because he was his second round draft pick. Nobody knew anything about him even when he got drafted. Then they have a Taco Bell commercial that came up, so you didn't even, you know, hear the, the pick. But he got to ease in a little bit. Giannis got to ease in a little bit. Kawhi got to ease in a little bit. Steph Curry eased in a little bit. I get that helps. You know, the expectation level is you got to be great and you got to be great right, right away. That's why what Cooper Flag is doing is incredible. They may not be off the chart numbers, but it's incredible that he's 18 and the hype that goes along with this, he's supposed to be great. Joker and Giannis, it's like, you know, maybe they'll make the team, maybe they'll eventually be a starter, maybe they'll be a role player. But what we've seen with Cooper Flag with the hype that surround him, I mean, that. Who else had that hype other than LeBron? Zion, maybe? Yes, Mark, when Benyama. Oh, there was hype. I don't think he had the hype that Cooper Flag had. Victor Wembanyama is the one guy we talk about generational. He's the last generational player since LeBron. Yeah. But I think people watched him and you know, he was out of place on the floor. He didn't have a point guard and, you know, he was kind of like a deer that's just kind of getting up on his legs and, you know, a fawn. And now you could see all of this. I just, I don't remember the height being what Cooper Flag was. Yes, Mark, maybe because he was in France. Yes. But I remember even when he came over, this guy, it was like Andrew Luckish, like the biggest prospect since Elway. They called Andrew Luck. This was Victor Wyama, a the biggest, you know, prospect since LeBron James. All right, we'll take a break. Louis Riddick from the mothership will join us. We'll talk some college football with him. And we're back after this. Be sure to catch the live edition of the Dan Patrick show weekdays at 9am Eastern, 6am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio in the iHeartRadio app. Hey, it's Cavino and Rich from Fox Sports Radio. Now, in addition to hearing us live weekdays from 5 to 7pm Eastern, 2 to 4 Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, we're excited to announce a brand new YouTube channel for the show. Yup, that's right. You can now watch Covino ENRICH Live on YouTube every day. All you got to do search COVINO and RICH FSR on YouTube again. Go to YouTube. Search COVINOENRICH FSR. Check us out on YouTube. Subscribe. 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Louis Riddick of the mothership, ESPN NFL college football analyst. He'll be on the call. He's got James Madison and Oregon. Kickoff at 7:30 Eastern on TNT. All right, where do you want to start? You want to start on your game or is there another question that you want to talk about? Well, hey man, you know me, Dan. I'll, I'll go wherever you want to go. But I can tell you this, all right? For the people who don't believe in James Madison, you would say what? Well, I would say this. Look, defensively, this football team can get after it. There's no question about that. I mean, obviously you're going to look at their level of competition and go, well, who are the most high powered offenses? They played. What P4 offenses have they played? I mean, they played against Louisville. They lost to Louisville. They were in that game all the way though, until Louisville made a couple big plays down the stretch. They play Washington State, you know that game. That team is closely contested, but this, this, this is a football team. Look, they've got some guys on that side of the ball, especially on the defensive line, that linebacker that can really get going, that can get going. Now the problem is Oregon may be getting healthy in this football game, especially a wide receiver. If you're talking about guys like the Corian Moore coming back and you know, Evan Stewart may be healthy in this game. Gary Bryant Jr. They're three, like three of their most explosive players. I don't know if Dan Lanning plays them or not, but man, are they, they are formidable. And then look, I mean JMU can really run the football. Their quarterback, Alonzo Barnett can really get after. And if you look at some of the most, some of the mobile quarterbacks that Oregon has played against, they've had some issues with them. I'm not saying that JMU is really is going to win this game. You know what, it's out here, you know, in Eugene, this weather, this stadium, this football team, Dan Lanning, the number of five stars that got on the team, they're up against it. I get that. But that's why you play the games, man. That's why you play the games. And quite honestly, if you're going to have a, you know, a group of five type of school, go up against a heavyweight like Oregon, you're going to want the matchup to kind of look like this one to where. Who knows what JMU can do? Who knows how long they can keep it close. We'll see what happens. I don't know what you thought about Nick Saban's comments about basically saying, you know, JMU and Tulane are minor league baseball teams. They shouldn't be playing in the baseball playoffs. I was surprised because he's not at Alabama. He's sitting on the biggest platform in the sport. Yeah. JMU and Tulane didn't create this scenario. They took advantage of this scenario. Sure. So, yeah, it surprised me a little bit. Only because, look, at one time, Nick was coaching at Toledo. Nick knows what the Kent State. He know. He knows what the long hard road looks like. And because he traveled it and he, he ascended to become the Goat. And, you know, hats off to him. I was coached by him. I respect the hell out of him. Love the guys. I mean, I. All the good. It's the question. But look, yeah, I think if you're those schools, if you're too late in your jmu, you're sitting there going, hey, wait a minute, man. We don't need to be catching strays from people. So we're just kind of doing what we need to do. We didn't, we didn't put ourselves in here. Y' all put us in here. So we're going to line up and play the game. Now, I get what Nick is saying. I get what he's saying when you're talking about teams that are being excluded from this. When you look at Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Texas, let's just take those three in particular. We know that JMU and Tulane probably, you know, 99 out of 100 times those three schools are going to beat JMU or Tulane. We get that. And quite honestly, fans probably would, would rather see those teams in there. And that's all Nick is saying. So they need to figure out a way to kind of rectify that if that means that group of five schools don't get, get included in this. Although, I mean, I've heard people talk about the fact that those schools would litigate this thing to the very end and be like, you can't do that. You can't keep us out of this. What are you talking about? I mean, it is what it is. I mean, deal with it. If you're Texas and if you're, if you're Vanderbilt and if you're Notre Dame, then win your damn games. Don't worry. Don't worry about us. Don't try keeping us out of it. Just. How about you Just got earn your way into it. But I get what he's saying. Talking to Louis Riddick of the mothership. He'll be on the call. It'll be James Madison in Oregon, kickoff 7:30 Eastern and couple other things. Yeah, I'm curious, did you watch Thursday night game like you're. What, what do you think of Sam Darnold? You know, I'm glad you asked that because he talked about catching straights. Sam's been catching a bunch of them over the past couple weeks, hasn't he? Yeah. So, you know, ever since keep his team before out in la, people been like, well, there's the Sam we know, that's the Sam we're talking about. Where's JSN now? Where's, you know, all this feel good, you know, talk that was surrounding him. That's not who Sam is. And then last night, you know, he has, he throws two picks and you're sitting there going, you know, late, and again you're going, oh, oh, here we go again. But what did he do in crunch time? That's what everyone wants to know in crunch time in a big game, national stage, at home, so much on the line in the NFC and in that division overall, what does he do? He delivers some fantastic throws, big time throws. Won the Cooper cup, won the jsn. Under pressure in the fourth quarter when they need him the most. And he, he doesn't blink. Everyone else has blinked talking about him, but he hasn't blinked. And I love that. I, I think that kind of game last night could really for him as much as, you know, when we talk to him, he doesn't seem to ever doubt himself. He doesn't come off as someone who's sitting there having these real introspective conversations with himself and trying to find himself and all that bs. I think last night though, even for him, he may have gone. See, I, I do have what it, what it takes in order to rise up at the biggest moments. Now, he had a lot of help last night. He really did. And you know, one of the biggest, one of the biggest acquisitions this season is going to be the acquisition of Rashid Shahid for, for Seattle. And you saw it last night, it was coming. You saw him, you know, poking and prodding over the past couple of weeks as far as trying to find his groove. Then the punt return hits. You know, he's a guy who, he showed it. You showed it last week late in the game against Indianapolis, that, that was the guy that Sam went to. Kenneth Walker started going last night. The Defense gets some big stops late in the game. They couldn't. They still, they. They still haven't figured out what the hell Puka Nakua was doing to him. They still haven't figured that out. But. But I mean that. Which was incredible. Look, Sean McVeigh is a freaking. I love Sean McVeigh, the Duke and scheme up your defense as well as anybody. And Matthew Stafford, you know. You know what, Dan? Speaking. Look, I'm not saying Sam Darnold's Matthew Stafford. All right. Remember, there was a lot. There was a while. There was a long time and that we sat there and we doubted Matthew Stafford when he was in Detroit. People wanted to blame Stafford for not being able to lift what at the time was a franchise that wasn't very well run and lift them out of the gutter and put them on the pedestal, you know, and then he goes to la, gets around the right people. Next thing you know, he wins the super bowl and now he's going to probably win the mvp. But I think with Sam. Sam's in the right spot right now. He's in the right spot with Coach McDonald's. He's in the right spot with Clint Kubiak. And last night could be a turning point game for him. I really do, and I hope it is. I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago with Puka Nakua, there's football speed and there's track speed. Yeah. He has football speed. I don't know what, you know, like Jerry Rice, like where you go. And there's. I think there's similarities and that he. He seems to always be fast enough and if it's in his radius, he's catching it. So as a former defensive back. Yeah. What would you be trying to do with him? A lot of times what you saw last night with Puka is, look, I've been beating this drum since I started on TV back in 2013. Free access to wide receivers off the line of scrimmage. You're asking for it. You're asking to get your rear end ripped by teams that can scheme you up and instinctive wide receivers who are in lockstep with their quarterback if you let them play seven on seven, which a lot of the game in today, Phil. And I'm not get off my long guy. I get it. The game is evolved. We're trying to protect players, all that. But a lot of the game now is geared towards allowing wide receivers and quarterbacks to put up Star wars type numbers. One of the things that you still have at your disposal, though, as A defense is, is the, is the whole idea of the disruption of timing and rhythm of a passing. If you don't disrupt the timing and rhythm of the Rams passing game. Puka and Matthew Stafford, they meet every morning at like 4 or 5am the same thing he used to do with Cooper cup and, and Puka is so damn instinctive and as you're talking about has such great functional strength and speed. And Matthew is this first ballad lock, you know, surefire hall of Fame type caliber quarterback that if you allow them to just come off the line, use their motions and shifts, find the zone voids and you're going to sit there and you don't disguise your coverage as well or you have miscommunications in the back end and you allowed Puka to just work his magic in between the numbers. In particular on those deep end cuts that you saw him running last night where he's catching and he's off to the races. You're going to wind up giving up 225 yards receiving to a single guy. You've got to, you know, you know who, and I know this is a dude who's always in, is in the media more times than not now for the wrong reasons or for reasons that don't involve football. But Bill Belichick was the very best and even at the, you know, in the, in the later moments of his career in New England, still understood that and made defenses execute those kinds of things or you wouldn't play for him. And that's how he was able to shut down some of the greatest offenses when he was, when he was a head coach and coordinator. He understands that that one thing is still something you have in your, in your toolkit and if you don't use it, you're just asking for it. And last night that's how Puka went off like he did. What if you were the GM of the Chiefs? How are you approaching next season? Oh, boy. Yeah, Brett's a good friend of mine, Brett Veach. And I'll tell you what, first and foremost, I think you've got to get Patrick at bell cow running back. You got to, you've got to get him a guy he can turn around and hand the ball to and he's probably going to get you four and a half on average and maybe rip, you know, at least two to three plus 10 plus 20 yard runs a game. So you've got to do that. You've got to get him a true number one at wide receiver. You've got to get him an X that even when the team knows you're going to throw it to him, he can still make plays. You've got to get him that guy. And obviously the offensive line got banged up the season. You saw how bad it became. You saw how every single, every single pass attempt became like, became like playground ball for Patrick. And Patrick can't be the guy who's constantly running for his life and trying to. And obviously coming off that injury, you don't want him being the number one, number two rush on the team. He just can't be. Offensive line has to get healthy. They have to get him a running back. They have to get him a true number one. What's the succession plan for Travis Kelsey at tight end? That's a lot, expecting him to retire. Even if he doesn't, you still need more juice at that position. As good as he is, you'll need someone who from a physical perspective really does inject fear into a defense in that area, that 15 to 20 yard area between the numbers. Because this guy is such a unique guy. Travis is one of the, he's the greatest. He's going to the hall of Fame. You think he's the best tight end of all time? The numbers say he is. Well, Tony Gonzalez, I played against Tony. Tony was, I didn't play against Gronk, but I played against Tony. And Tony was damn near uncoverable because I played against Keith Jackson when, you know, he had just left Philly and went to Miami and Marino was throwing in passes. I know there's some really, really good tight ends that have played in this league, but, but Travis is right there. He's right at the very top. Have fun tonight. Hopefully we get a competitive game for a while and I think we will. Yeah. Hangs in there. Kickoff at 7:30 Eastern on TNT. Lewis, thank you. Yeah, safe travels. Happy holidays to you. Thanks a lot as always. That's Lewis Riddick of the Mothership on the call. So he's got JMU and Oregon. That atmosphere, all you can hope is you surprise them and then take the crowd out of it. Take a break. Who had the best week in sports? We'll discuss that. More of your phone calls as well. 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. Chapter 10. Ronan's eyes widened as the moon enveloped their secret sanctuary. Go, he warned. I'm losing control. Luna defiantly stepped forward, tracing the scar across his jaw, then lose it. She whispered she was ready. She has Nexplanon etinogestrel implant 68mg radiopaque to prevent pregnancy. 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I usually tune in just to see what their uniforms and their helmets look like. It's like, all right, I'm good. Yeah. Paul it's hard to, I think for the America to believe in a team that's named after our founding father. Just. That doesn't sound like college football historically. And I think James Madison is awesome. I didn't approach it that way, but okay. George Washington. They did well in March Madness. Yeah, football, not so much. Sliding into the weekend brought to you by King's Hawaiian. And make sure you pick up a pack. You'll find them in the bakery or deli section of your local grocery store. Kings hawaiian.com Alrighty. Best week in sports. Todd, I'll start with you. Who had the best week in sports? I'm going back to last Sunday so it's within the calendar week. Josh Allen and the Bills are racing a one point deficit. That big win at Foxborough giving it to them. Okay. Seaton Best week in sports. I must say Trevor Lawrence had the best week. That was a monster game for him, one he really needed. Marvin, best week in sports. The New York Knicks. They won the prestige. They won the cup. They won the cup. And then Jalen Brunson last night, game winning, three pointer against the, against the Pacers. Yeah, they won the cup. No banner, though. We're going to be talking about that years from now when somebody says, where were you? And we'll say, well, we were doing the radio show. We were there when they won the cup. Paul Best week in sports. I'm kind of a seating on this one, but I'm going. Liam Cohen, the head coach of the Jaguars, people goofed on him a lot in his press conference and he wasn't given a lot of expectations this year. And they came to playoffs. Good chance. Yeah, but he should have been goofed on in that press conference. True, it was goofy, but I think they judged him by it and don't realize he might be a really good coach. Well, he did a great job with Baker Mayfield. I mean, he had a terrible exit from Tampa Bay, but he's done well. I think there. Somebody's gonna have to check with this. There, there's somebody else who deserves credit with the development of Trevor Lawrence. I think he's the quarterback coach with the Jags and I think he was a quarterback's coach. I don't. I don't. Yeah, Paulie Spencer Whipple, the Quarterback coach of the Jaguars. Might be. He was brought in early 2025. Where was he in Tampa the prior year? Checking, because this was pointed out to me by somebody. It's like, hey, Con has done a really nice job, but you know, they got somebody who's more hands on with Trevor Lawrence this year. I'm like, okay, yeah, Paul. Yeah. Spencer Whipple joined the Jags in 2025. He was with the Cardinals, the Arizona Cardinals, from 19 to 24. Okay, let's see. Paul in Iowa. Hi, Paul. What's on your mind? Hey, Dan. Well, most valuable backroom guy, Tyler, the moderator. That's my vote. But you, you kind of stole my thunder with the hundreds of thousands of reasons Lane Kiffin is cheering for Ole Miss this weekend. So I have a college football playoff proposal for you. What if instead of conference championships, the smaller conferences named regular season champions that played each other in kind of a first four model during conference championship week to make the playoffs? I would take all of this under advisement. I don't think they have something that is etched in stone where you go, okay, that makes this all the sense in the world. I. If you have a first four round, you know, you have those games and then you have somebody winning that game, then they get it. I just don't think you can have that many games. You can't ask college students, college athletes to be playing 18 games. And you know they're approaching that. If you have 12 and then you have a couple playoff games, let's say you play two playoff games, then you play another playoff game. So there's three there. You're at 15 games right now. And I think, you know, you can't look at them as professionals. They're getting close. But I think asking them to play 15, 16, 17 games is too much. Darren in Oregon. Hi, Darren. What's on your mind, dt? What is going on? How life treating you? I got a bad connection there, Darren. Aiden in Utah. Hi, Aiden. What's on your mind? Hey, dp. Merry Christmas and happy holidays. First and foremost, especially you, Todd. Merry Christmas. I want to, I want to say what's going to happen with the Chiefs or what I would do if I was. If I was running the Chiefs, right? So Chelsea is going to retire. You're going to have to replace him. Patrick Mahomes needs a weapon. I also don't think Patrick Mahomes is going to be 100% start of the season. He has the LCL2. It doesn't add time, but it doesn't make it any easier. I think they're going to put the season as a wash, top five picks and then they're going to get Jeremiah Smith and then they're going to go on a whole nother run. All right, sure, why not? Yeah, Mahomes sounds like he's going to be ready, you know, opening weekend. God. Good luck coming back from that. I was just coming back now. I didn't have an lco, I had an acl. But just coming back to be able to walk normally, just do normal things, even jogging, it was a good nine months and you know, you try to put weight on. Here's the other thing. If it's your, you know when you're gonna plant your knee, plant your leg. Like that's a tricky one when you're going to run and you're going to cut and you can't help but think it and you know when Brady was got his knee blown out, that's off his plant foot. And so I mean I commend him that he got over that. Where it's like, you know you're going to think about it. Running backs talk about this that you don't want to think about it but you can't help but think about it when you're going to make a move and you got something surgically repaired and in a game like situation and you don't want Mahomes to be running as much as he did the past couple of years. Just getting that plant foot where you feel confident in being able to step into a throw, that's a lot to ask for him to be ready for the start of next season. Final hour on this Meat Friday. Ryan Leaf will stop by the studio in about 10 minutes. More of your phone calls as well. Fritzy Seaton, Marv Pauley, yours truly. Vote on the Most Valuable Dan ed@danpatrick.com Chapter 10 Ronan's eyes widened as the moon enveloped their secret sanctuary. Go, he warned. I'm losing control. Luna defiantly stepped forward, tracing the stone scar across his jaw. Then lose it, she whispered. She was ready. She has Nexplanon etinorgestrel implant, 68mg radiopaque to prevent pregnancy. 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