Mark Sanchez (2:41)

You are listening to the Dan Patrick show on Fox Sports Radio. Final hour in this Tuesday. Man, this has just flown by. We talked about the Vikings moving, how dangerous the Rams are, and we also talked about the Dallas Cowboys situation. Is the Dion to the Cowboys a real story? We talked to Tim Callishaw. Tim has been in Dallas writing about the Cowboys for over 25 years. He said he didn't think it was. Now Jerry reaching out to Dion and he might do that as a friend to friend and say, what do you think? You move on from Mike McCarthy. Reportedly you were going to give him a one year deal, which is a slap in the face. You're basically saying, you know what, Mike, you can, you can move on from this. But if you're willing to take a one year deal, then great, I'll still be the owner and the coach of this team. And Mike McCarthy probably thought, you know, five years, you know, it's like dog years. So it's not just five years that you coach the Cowboys. It's more than that. And as Tim Kellishaw pointed out in his column, and I'll read it again because it really sets the tone of what whoever is coming in there for the Cowboys. This is what you're up against. So this was part of his column that this was towards the end of it. And he's talking about how Dak Prescott is injury prone. He's 32, he can't run anymore. He had 24 rushing yards through seven games then against Atlanta, rushed for 30 yards on three carries. Next thing you know, he's having surgery on his hamstring done for the year. So that's 26 games he's missed in the last five seasons, just short of a third of the Cowboys schedule. So he's immobile and injury prone and you owe him a guaranteed $231 million. How do you fix this team if you can't fix Dak Prescott? Who's best equipped to do that? Now you can bring in Cliff Kingsbury, you can bring in Ben John. I mean, they can't make Dak healthier, they can't make him younger, they can't make him cheaper. So this is going to be the ninth coaching hire and Jerry Jones is spinning his wheels on the one story to now laughing stock franchise. One more Time. So that's Tim Calashaw, Dallas Morning News. That's the reality of this. You can say, boy, it's a great job. You're the Cowboys head coach. It's not. It's not a great job. It's a prestigious job. It. It's got a. A spotlight on you, and there's a difference. It's like the Yankee manager. Now, is it a great job? I think it used to be a great job. Is it still a great job? It's a prestigious job. You're the manager of the Yankees now. You don't have the front office getting involved with the Yankees the way they once did with George Steinbrenner. But Jerry Jones is George Steinbrenner. He's always meddling, always got to be involved. Now, George Steinbrenner wasn't doing two radio shows a week. He wasn't there after each game doing an interview that maybe the new. You know, the new era. George Steinbrenner would be doing a couple of radio shows. But Jerry Jones is addicted to this. He loves it. He. And I think that's why he drags this out. I truly think he loves these stories where the Cowboys are always. You know, they're. They're the. They're the tail wagging the dog. All of these shows this morning, turn on one of these shows. What are they talking about? Cowboys. What we talk about when we need to talk about the Cowboys. And now you have a real day here where they need a head coach. Is Dion involved? Well, you throw Dion in here, and all of a sudden you got some magic. You can talk about that. You can dine out on that for a long time. And that's why I asked Tim Kellishan, did he think it was real? Jerry Jones and Dion are good friends, reportedly good friends. And he might have said, now, who does this benefit? It benefits both. Like, somebody had to leak this, because let's say I call Paulie. Well, I don't. If I didn't tell anybody else. But then Fritzi says, hey, I heard you talk to Paul. Well, that came from Paul. That's how this works. I'm gonna. I'm gonna talk to Dion. Then I would say, hey, let's just keep this between ourselves. Well, he didn't want to. Dion benefits. What if Dion says, hey, I. I said to Jerry, I'm not interested. I'm interested in coaching Colorado. Well, that goes over really well with your recruits. But you turn down the Cowboys to continue to coach us. And Jerry, it's like, you know what Once again it's the tail wagging the dog. All this publicity, they're talking about my team now. That doesn't mean they're talking positively about your team. But as people make the mistake, any publicity is good publicity. That's not true. But for Jerry, I think he thinks it is. Yes, Marvin, the real question is what does LeBron think about this? And Taylor Swift. Oh, that's good. 8773 DP show email address dp@danpatrick.com Twitter handle the DP Show Mark Sanchez of Fox Sports will join us. Coming up, the Rams, they rolled the Vikings literally. They had nine sacks against Sam Darnold and all of a sudden Sam Darnold future is in jeopardy in question. Paulie wants to play the Sam Darnold game. And who wouldn't want to play the Sam Darnold game? I'm not sure what the rules are, but I'm ready to play. Here we go.

Dan Patrick (8:20)

Dan. This is the two part Sam Darnold game.

Mark Sanchez (8:23)

Oh.

Dan Patrick (8:24)

You have to tell me what team he's on next year and what his salary for next season will be. So we're going to help it out here. So let's say he signs a contract of 3 years 90 million with team blank and your guess is he's going to make 30 million next season. We're giving that to you. Sometimes it's prorated.

Mark Sanchez (8:44)

Blah, blah, blah, blah. Who's a very generous grader trying to.

Dan Patrick (8:47)

I'm trying to be friendly. Who would like to go first team and salary for Sam Darnold.

Mark Sanchez (8:53)

Let's go around the room, Todd. I'm going to say Titans two years, 41.5 million. Actually no, he's going to make fair. He'll get 58.5 million.

Dan Patrick (9:06)

That was not the game. It was next year's salary for Sam Darnold. But you got the team, right?

Mark Sanchez (9:10)

Yeah, he'll make $35 million with the Titans. Okay, one season. Wait, did, did Todd cheat off your paper Seaton? No, I don't think he cheated off my paper. I mean there's a couple of like what seem like more obvious ones. Titans was high on my list. Okay, I'm not going to say the Titans. I'm going to go with the Las Vegas Raiders of. Oh, took. Took Marvin's. Yes, the Las Vegas Raiders of Oakland. And I believe he's going to get a three year deal worth $95 million. Okay. Now if they take are the Titans and the Raiders off the board, Paul, we can't guess we could do it.

Dan Patrick (9:57)

That Way to press, Marvin. And I.

Mark Sanchez (10:00)

Well, no, I want you going with what you think. Think what? Like, what's the correct answer here in your opinion, Marvin? The Las Vegas Raiders at forty and a half million dollars a year. Forty and a half million. All right, Paul, Sam Darnold is where.

Dan Patrick (10:18)

Next year I'm going to go with the Indianapolis Colts. And he'll make $36 million next year.

Mark Sanchez (10:25)

Okay.

Dan Patrick (10:27)

Colts.

Mark Sanchez (10:28)

I'm going to say the Minnesota Vikings at $35 million a year. And that's a Sam Darnold game. Actually, I have to take.

Dan Patrick (10:39)

It's not the 40.

Mark Sanchez (10:42)

That's why. No, it's not done yet. Okay, wait, I'm changing my answer.

Dan Patrick (10:45)

Can you do that once the game is over?

Mark Sanchez (10:46)

Well, no, I. I don't know if I was finished here. I. I had my eraser Mulligan, my number two pen. Kill.

Dan Patrick (10:53)

Kill.

Mark Sanchez (10:53)

What. Whatever happened to number one pencil? Why did we go to number two? I don't know. And that's what they sell at Crappensburg State. A lot of number two pencils there. I. I'm gonna say the Vikings at 41 and a half million dollars. Yeah. Are you not a good Whistler?

Dan Patrick (11:13)

I'm a terrible whistler. He should take that immediately.

Mark Sanchez (11:19)

Sam Donald. If that's the oven. Yeah. So it'll be a one and done. That's the Sam Darnold game. Yeah. Yeah. It's an optimistic Sam Darnold game. Yeah, it is. I think we're. We're leaning positive. We had the poll question up there. Who had worst day yesterday? Mike McCarthy or Sam Darnold? I'm gonna let you guess who is currently getting 94% of the vote. Sam Darnold had a worse day. Yes. Although on our poll question we have him listed as Sam Arnold, which it's possible. Sam Arnold also had a bad day, but that's okay. Well, you would. The Rams put the D in. Oh, wow. Yeah.

Dan Patrick (12:01)

I didn't see that play. I was. I didn't watch the whole game.

Mark Sanchez (12:04)

It was a quarterback sneak. Yes. Oh, dear. Dad of the day, brought to you by Panini America, official trading cards of the Dan Patrick Show. Big Ten basketball live on NBC. And Peacock. It's Oregon and Purdue. That's January 18th on NBC. And Peak Eye. I was watching basketball last night. I think it might have Rutgers and UCLA. Did that start at like 6:00? Because I wanted to see. Rutgers has two lottery picks and I wanted to see Mick Cronin melt down on the sidelines. And he did a pretty good Job yelling and screaming nightly. Wow, Mick, how about some composure? But Rutgers has two lottery. They have two of the five best players, I believe, or five top five players that will be drafted. And I think they're eight and eight on the season. Yes, Mark. Relax, D.P.

Dan Patrick (13:05)

They'Re nine and eight now.

Mark Sanchez (13:06)

Oh, okay. With the win, they're.

Dan Patrick (13:08)

They're 214 in the Big Ten, so.

Mark Sanchez (13:10)

They might not make the Big Ten tournament.

Dan Patrick (13:12)

Right now they're like 17th in the Big Ten with two top five picks probably.

Mark Sanchez (13:17)

So you have Ace Bailey and then you have Dylan Harper. Dylan Harper, who's Ron Harper's son. And they're really good, but it. I. For some reason the team isn't really good. Yes, Paulie, I love a classic Big.

Dan Patrick (13:33)

Ten matchup like Rutgers versus UCLA on a weeknight like my kids used to watch.

Mark Sanchez (13:39)

But I think also they were talking about you had that and then you had. USC was playing somebody, you know, not that classic Big Ten matchup. But yeah, I'm just flipping through and all of a sudden I got Mick Cronin on the sidelines yelling and screaming and I go, all right, I'm going to watch this for a little bit. Yes, Mark. LA market versus the New York market. That's what they wanted when they got Rutgers. Yeah, you want Rutgers, that's that New York market. Because nobody loves Rutgers sports like the New York market does. New Brunswick and Westwood, they're right near each other.

Dan Patrick (14:09)

What's the problem?

Mark Sanchez (14:10)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that great success. I actually called a basketball game at the rack many, many, many years ago in the mothership. Great environment. They weren't a very good team, but great environment there. Let's see. Gabe in South Carolina. Hi, Gabe. What's on your mind today, Daniel? I got 6 foot 155. I got two things for you, Dan. But first, I'd like to shout out my three month old baby, little Bucky a buck. And Dan, I'd like to suggest that we rename the Most Valuable Caller Award. Gabe. Gabe, is. Is Bucky that his birth name that's on birth certificate?

Dan Patrick (14:50)

No, it's Hunter.

Mark Sanchez (14:51)

But he likes this cup that I bought from the Bucky's gas station. So I call him Buck slash Bucky. Okay, but what if the cup was called something else? Would you have called him like Stanley Tumbler? Sure, yeah, I like that. Would you call him Yeti if he was chewing on a Yeti cup? He doesn't chew on it. He just stares at it and smiles at it. Oh yeah, I'll call him Yeti. He'll be Yeti. Okay. All right, so, Most valuable caller, the award that we handed out to, I think James in Virginia.

Dan Patrick (15:30)

I think we should name it after.

Mark Sanchez (15:32)

James in Virginia, because if we have it every year, just up for everyone, James is going to win it every year. He's too good, Dan. Well, it feels like it's Chris in Syracuse, that it should be the Christian Syracuse Award won by James in Virginia, like Chris and Syracuse emeritus he was. When we would tell people, you want to be a professional caller, Listen to Chris and Syracuse. Hey, fellas. And then he would go right into his question, and then that was it. So James in Virginia winning the coveted Christian Syracuse Caller of the Year award. Yes, Mark. If it's the most shocking caller, then it could be the James of Virginia award. So you find out. Because he found out he was white. Yeah. You find out Andy's black. Oh, man.

Dan Patrick (16:17)

He's up for the James of Virginia award.

Mark Sanchez (16:19)

I know. It was one of those where. And I always love seeing Marvin's face when Andy called in. And then Andy from Buffalo, I believe, Rhode island or Syracuse. Oh, Rhode Island. And he says that he's black. And then you can see Marvin like, I'm not going to fall for this. We thought James in Virginia was black, and then all of a sudden, he sends in a picture. So James in Virginia sends in a picture. It's him and two black guys. And Marvin's like, which black guy is James? And then James started speaking on the video, and Marvin's like, no, no, he can't be black. James in Virginia, and anything's possible. Yeah, I know. David in Ohio. Hey, David, what's on your mind?

Dan Patrick (17:02)

Hey, Dan. Good morning. I saw DJ McCarthy tweet out this Latin phrase, amor fati, which means fate of love. So I want your take on that, and I think it would be good content. We can get Shane Irving on his take on Mike McCarthy getting parting ways with the Cowboys.

Mark Sanchez (17:23)

So thanks. All right, well, thank you, David. Yeah, I don't speak Latin. I barely speak English, so. And then as far as Shay and Irving, he's got to be happy that they're moving on from Mike McCarthy. I'm surprised we didn't hear from him. But once again, this is a new year, a new Shay. He's trying to be more mature, a better father, a better husband. Yes. Seton, I did see a tweet from Shea that said, God is good yesterday. I'm not sure exactly what he was referencing there, but I do know that figuring out the Cowboys head coaching situation was very high on God's priority list. It could have been just a coincidence though, that God is good. And they move on from Mike McCarthy. Oh, God. All right, let me take a break. We'll come back. Mark Sanchez, on loan from Fox Sports. Tom Brady called, gave him a shout out for eating a hot dog on the sidelines in a win against the Raiders many, many years ago. Sanchez will join us after this Dan Patrick show. 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. Hey, it's Steve Covino and I'm Rich Davis. And together we're Covino and Rich on Fox Sports Radio. You can catch us weekdays from 5 to 7pm Eastern, 2 to 4 Pacific on Fox Sports Radio.

Dan Patrick (18:53)

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Mark Sanchez (18:55)

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Dan Patrick (19:00)

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Mark Sanchez (19:01)

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Dan Patrick (19:08)

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Mark Sanchez (19:09)

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Dan Patrick (19:11)

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Mark Sanchez (19:12)

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Dan Patrick (19:15)

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Mark Sanchez (19:17)

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Mark Sanchez (21:35)

I love you by the way on NHL Network.

Dan Patrick (21:37)

We're looking forward to getting together each week to chat and chirp about the sport and all the other things surrounding it that we love. Right? Yeah, I just met you today, but we're going to have a ton of guests from the colliding worlds of hockey, entertainment and pop culture. And you know what, tons of back and forth on all things NHL.

Mark Sanchez (21:54)

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Mark Sanchez (22:18)

More phone calls coming up. Everybody's fired up about the viking situation. Kevin McCarthy, Kevin OConnell's role in the offense here. Could he have protected Sam Darnold? Do the Vikings want Sam Darnold? Who wants Sam Darnold on the open market? The Cowboy situation, Jerry Jones, Deion Sanders, by the way, Matthew Stafford, pretty economical. He threw for 209 and two touchdowns. He did have the all time passing yards per playoff game. He had the Highest number of 308 yards. So this is minimum at least four playoff games. So now he's down to 297 in his playoff career. Dan Fouts is second. Kurt Warner, the all time leader at 304 yards. Dan Fouts, 303. Drew Brees, 298. And then you have Matthew Stafford at 297. I'm looking at the point spreads before we get to Mark Sanchez. The Texans are getting seven and a half against the Chiefs. Commanders nine and a half against the Lions. The Rams are getting six against the Eagles. And the Ravens are getting. Giving one and a half to the Buffalo Bills. We make way for our friend. He's Mark Sanchez, Fox Sports, joining us on the program. How good are the Rams? Cool.

Dan Patrick (23:38)

I think they're an excellent young team that is peaking at the right time. And. Dude, I already forgot. Sorry. Good morning, Danets. And where are you six? I'm in Hawaii, actually. My. My wife's. We got two twin. We got twins on the way. So we're doing a little trip before she can't travel anymore and then will be in dad mode and wife mode and baby mode for. For most of the off season. So this is our chance to get away. But I'm not gonna miss you guys. Six, three. Coach, I'm getting a little heavy by the end of the season. I've been eating a little too much. I don't read on the sidelines. I eat hot dogs on the sidelines. And I'm probably like 240, 242 right now, so I need to trim up.

Mark Sanchez (24:23)

Wow. Wow.

Dan Patrick (24:24)

Yeah. Okay.

Mark Sanchez (24:26)

Shouts you out, though, Mark, with the. Yeah, I. I remember seeing a quarterback during the game.

Dan Patrick (24:32)

I text him during the game, and he text me back like a quarter later, just with one of those funny emojis, you know, messing around with each other. But it's. It's been cool to watch, you know, and when you see other players doing what you're doing and watch them grow throughout the season, it's. It's pretty fun.

Mark Sanchez (24:49)

Okay, go back to eating the hot dog. Yeah, you blew. You blew out the Raiders.

Dan Patrick (24:54)

Yeah.

Mark Sanchez (24:55)

You're eating a hot dog on the sidelines. Did you catch any heat from anybody?

Dan Patrick (24:59)

Oh, my God. Yeah. So we. We win three straight. This is my rookie year. We win three straight, then we lose, like, four straight. We go to California. I'm back home. It's in Oakland. We're playing the Raiders at the old Coliseum, and my whole family's coming to the game. My mom actually got a beer dumped on her by a Raiders fan that game because we were beating him so bad. And my brothers almost went to jail because they had to, like, throw this guy off over. It was great. It was crazy. Like, classic Raiders game. So then I wouldn't. I couldn't eat. Like, the night before and the day of, I was just, like, so in my head and so upset and couldn't figure out what was going on, why we're losing, you know, trying to. Trying to get better, whatever. And I just didn't eat. So those guys on the sidelines that have white shirts and blue shorts, they have like, one little NFL logo. They're like, kind of like ball boys. They do, like, water stuff, whatever. And so I just looked at one of them and I go, hey, dude, you got any food? Because I got pulled out of the game. I said, do you have any food? And he's like, you mean like a Power Bar or like a. Something like that? I was like, I don't know anything. Can you run up to concessions? I'll take a hot dog. I'll take a burger, like, whatever you got. He goes, yeah, dude, I'll get. I'll grab you a dog. And so he ran up, goes and gets a hot dog. He's running away. I'm like, yo, grab some mustard. Gets the mustard. And then you see the whole deal where, you know, Dan Deardorf and. And it was Gumball. I think Gumball Rip was calling the game. But they. They had the camera on me, and they caught me. But back to your question about the Rams, because I've had them a couple times this year. I'm so impressed with Chris Shula and this defensive coordinator. You know, you lose your defense coordinator, Raheem Morris, to Atlanta, and he takes over the job, and people think, like, oh, yeah, first year. Well, he's been there for eight years with Sean McVeigh, knows exactly what this offense is, what this team looks like, how it's supposed to fit together, and the way they've drafted and developed. You got to, you know, tip your cap to Les need and this defensive staff, because it's incredible. I mean, Byron Young, at one point, he was working at, like, A Dollar General and then ended up getting his chance to play at Tennessee, wherever he went. And he wears the number zero, he said, because that's how many people believed in me. And this dude's making great plays out there, whether you get Kobe Turner from Wake Forest, who was originally at Richmond, then goes to Wake Forest for his senior year. The dude's a captain for the LA Rams defense his second year in the league. Like, that's pretty impressive stuff. And then you put in these two rookies that wreaked havoc last year on the Florida State defense that basically had him undefeated and it's, you know, Fisk and Verse. And so they were able to generate pressure without bringing five or six players. A lot. They did it occasionally. You saw the Kobe Durant pressure, but when you can do it with four, that's a defensive coordinator's dream. You could just sit back, play coverage, generate your pressure with four, and force that quarterback to get rid of the ball. You got plenty of guys in. In coverage, and, I mean, you got to give them all their due. They really, really played well in that game. And to Stafford's point, you were talking about all those yards. It wasn't going to be that kind of day. It wasn't going to be a throw for 350 type day. Five touchdowns, you know. Yeah, 35 of 40. It's not that day. And for him to understand the formula to win that football game the way we're going to get after him on defense, that's what they talk about when you say complimentary football. That's what they're talking about when teams understand that, know how to play that game, and sometimes it's time to just Cup 8, move on with your life. You don't have to take the shot downfield, and obviously Matthew Stafford knows that.

Mark Sanchez (28:38)

Okay, but let me look at the Viking situation. You just got manhandled by the Lions the previous game.

Dan Patrick (28:44)

Yeah.

Mark Sanchez (28:45)

You know that. You know, the Rams are going to look at that blueprint and say, all right, let's. Let's just see. Can we bring four and put pressure on him and make him uncomfortable? We had Kurt Warner on last hour, and Kurt said, hey, I wasn't mobile, but I knew when to get rid of the ball. Sacks are not all created equal here. So what should the Vikings have done to mitigate the damage or certainly the pressure on Sam?

Dan Patrick (29:11)

Okay, this is an extreme example, but remember in the game when Stafford dumped the ball out?

Mark Sanchez (29:17)

Yeah.

Dan Patrick (29:18)

And people. Oh, it's intentional grounding. Intentional grounding. Do you understand his level of understanding all of his. Where all of his pieces are at all times and being able to get hit. Close your eyes, still have that picture in your head of exactly where all the chess pieces are. And to just flip that ball out, knowing you're going to get the ball where you're supposed to get the ball. I'm not getting sacked. I am not. I refuse to take negative plays. So sometimes when you'd see, you know, even Peyton Manning, Tom Brady immediately catch the ball, boom, it's not right. And either fall down instead of going back another five yards or literally just rifle the Ball at somebody's ankle, you're like, what the hell was that? Well, they know it's not worth it. You got me. I know when to hold him. I know when to fold them. Kenny Rogers, right? Like the gambler, I know how to play this game. And those kind of things are where Stafford is operating at an elite level and Sam is still learning some of those things. And it's tough because some of those are on him. Some of those. He could have got the ball out earlier. And in big games like that, we say this all the time. You know, I think Pete Carroll was incredible about reminding us of these big moments. And all the commercials and all the hype surrounding this game makes this game feel bigger. Same size field, same size ball, same rules, except for overtime. So what are we doing? We go back to our fundamentals. We know when to get rid of the ball. We know when to hold them, when to fold them. Let's go play some ball. And Sam, you know, unfortunately, he's just gotta. Gotta continue to learn, but hell of a year. I just feel bad because the last two games, that recency bias is gonna crush him when it comes to, you know, contract negotiations. This offseason, that and knocked him down a couple rungs, but, you know, clearly he can play now. You get them to that next level.

Mark Sanchez (31:16)

If you're Minnesota, do you like what it. What do you think Sam Darnold's future is? Where is it?

Dan Patrick (31:23)

Well, I think now it might be better for Minnesota financially, you know, because you start negotiating at a different number than you might have if he won the last two games. Right. Or he would have won the last. Vaughn sat out this year. Yeah, sure. That you totally can. If you love McCarthy and then you got to bring in another veteran, or you keep Daniel Jones, who's on the roster, and have him be your veteran, and then potentially be like Sam Darnold next year. Like, there's. They have plenty of options. The big. The big questions are all the free agents they got on defense. I think Joe Buck might have said it last night, but I think Mattelis is the only one in that back end in their secondary and linebacker group that's even on contract for the next year. So they got, like six free agents there. There were a critical part of their success. So I think it's not just a quarterback. There's Kevin O'Connell shown he can play well with a lot of different quarterbacks already, whether it's, you know, the past or not, whether it's Kirk Cousins, whether it's Sam Darnold, you know, they can do. He can do it. So now it's okay. How do we win that first playoff game? They got to get out of the wild card round or get the first round by and win a divisional. They just got to win a playoff game. And then, you know, what are we doing on defense? Who's going to play for us at quarterback? I think those are great questions. But now I think if anything, if anybody has the leverage, it might be Minnesota a little more than Sam.

Mark Sanchez (32:43)

Mark Sanchez, father in waiting, joining us online from Fox Sports. You know, you're competitive guy. Tom Brady is Tom Brady. But do you feel you're a better analyst than Tom Brady?

Dan Patrick (32:57)

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Careful now. Careful. Listen, and I hope Tom, would you answer that? But you gotta feel like, I feel like if you're, if you're playing quarterback or if you're gonna compete at anything, you got to feel like you're the best or you shouldn't be doing it, in my opinion. But that's just the way I was reared. That's just kind of the way, you know, we grew up. When you step into the booth, you step in between the white lines, you step on the court, you're the baddest dude out there. And if you don't think like that, it's not going to go well and it's not even worth your time. So, of course, I think, you know, I can do this better than anybody, but I'm sure Troy Aikman thinks that. I'm sure Tom Brady thinks that. And they're all really, really good. And at the end of the day too, when it comes to, you know, this announcing game, it's a little different than, you know, as, as a quarterback, you have a record next to your name, you have a completion percentage, you know, you throw for yards, touchdowns, you get all these stats. Was an announcer, you get a bunch of opinions about either you're good or not. Well, what makes you good? I don't know. You might like chocolate ice cream. I might like vanilla ice cream. We both think they're good. So you know what I mean. So it's, it's pretty subjective when you get to the announcing stuff. The thing that I do appreciate though, and this is kind of a Fox thing that I've really, you know, leaned into and looked up and kind of researched. But like when McMillan and Madden and, you know, all these old school broadcasters were together on the Fox team, they would collaborate because what happens is you have crossover tape. So think about it. You have a 16 to 18 game season. And you call the New Orleans Saints Week 2, and then you have the New Orleans Saints at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, week 18. Well, if you haven't seen New Orleans for 16 weeks, that is a completely different ball club. And those narratives going into week two have changed in week 18. So it was interesting before the last game of the season, we're together, actually, in the same place, by happenstance. But I see Tom, and he's working out, I'm working out, and he's like, hey, I got the Saints. You just called their game this past weekend in New Orleans. What's the word? Talk to me about him a little bit. You had him versus the commanders. Boom. Now he's got the commander. So we're just talking and sharing ideas and stuff. And, hey, man, here's what I saw. Here's where I think they got to get better. Here's what they're having problems with. Here's what they do really well. And this. This, to me, is their formula to win, you know, so when you watch the tape, I'd keep an eye on stuff like that. And he does the same thing in, you know, back to me.

Mark Sanchez (35:30)

Good. But. But who can bench more? Between you and. Tom Brady could bench more. Yeah.

Dan Patrick (35:36)

Oh, man. I don't.

Mark Sanchez (35:40)

No, he's. He's. He's all about Alaska.

Dan Patrick (35:42)

Yeah, he's not a big, like, bench. Yeah, he's not a bit. Yeah. Pliability, all the bands and stuff.

Mark Sanchez (35:46)

Yeah.

Dan Patrick (35:46)

I'll tell you what, he. He was getting it in that workout, though, bro. I walked into the gym, and I was like, I need a stretch. I just got off a flight. I had just arrived. I walked in with a pizza and sandals, and my man's over there, like, full Billy Blanks, like, Tae bow, like, going 100 miles an hour. I was like, whoa. And then I finally realized it was him. I was like, who is this guy? Like, what are we doing? Oh, sorry. Got it. What's up, dude?

Mark Sanchez (36:13)

Does Tom have a bunch of guys around him that they remind him how great he looks like?

Dan Patrick (36:17)

No, no, no. He's. You know, he's got a. He's got a. He's got a good group of people. And, you know, the trainer, you know, he's got. I'm over there just thinking back to my old workouts. Like, yeah, I think I'm supposed to do this.

Mark Sanchez (36:29)

That's why you weigh 242, Mark.

Dan Patrick (36:32)

Easy, Coach. We're not body shaming here. We're not body shaving. This is not a dad bod. This is a father figure. Okay.

Mark Sanchez (36:41)

Yeah, that's hot. Final minute here. Cowboys job is blank. The Cowboys job is blank.

Dan Patrick (36:54)

Interesting. Wild, available.

Mark Sanchez (36:59)

I mean, those aren't compliments.

Dan Patrick (37:02)

I. I don't know. I don't know who's best suited to take that job. Because if you go Dion, I think there's like, he, he's started to catch up to that learning curve of coaching in college and clearly made progress. Right. You can, you can tangibly see like, there's more wins than the year before. He got good players there. He knows how to motivate those kind of things. He's going to need some really good coordinators if he's going to stay that same mode. Unless he just goes hardcore coordinate the offense or coordinate the defense, he's going to be more of a delegator when it comes to responsibilities, coordinating wise. So I love that. It'll give them a ton of attention. It'll give them, you know, it'll. That star will be shining awfully bright, which I know Jerry likes. But if we're talking about somebody who's maybe a little more plug and play and obviously less, you know, media fodder and less, you know, stuff like that, less energy that way. I mean, how about a guy who grew up in the building who's done so well for you, who's over in Philly in your division, lighting the world on fire and killing more? I mean, I'm just. I. I just don't know if they do it because it almost admits that they made a mistake by letting them go.

Mark Sanchez (38:19)

Yeah.

Dan Patrick (38:19)

And keeping McCarthy at that point. Right. So either way, this defense, I mean, you're going to blow up this defense no matter what you're paying Dak, you're paying CD might want to figure out how to disperse some of that money a little bit. Got to revamp the O line a little bit. But that defense is going to get blown up no matter what. I mean, they were, they were hard to watch at times. They. They give up a lot of big plays.

Mark Sanchez (38:39)

Before I let you go, the Bills Ravens game comes down to turnovers.

Dan Patrick (38:45)

If Josh Allen takes care of the ball the way he does and the way he's running it, that. That was their only Achilles heel these last few years. In the playoffs, it would be one bad fumble, one mistake down the field trying to force the ball. If he plays turnover free football, which Joe Brady's got him doing, their offensive coordinator, it's. And you notice they're using Cook a lot more at the running back. Spot, not just running the ball, but catching the ball in the backfield. Josh has really stepped up his game and, and it's really just cutting down the mistakes and eliminating those turnovers. You look at a Stafford, you look at Josh Allen, the guys that play the best this time of the year. Take care of the football.

Mark Sanchez (39:24)

Safe travels. Good luck.

Dan Patrick (39:26)

Appreciate you, buddy.

Mark Sanchez (39:27)

The twins coming up. You got names?

Dan Patrick (39:31)

No. I'd like a poll question on that though, because they're identical twin girls. So we're going to need, you know, you know, some good ones.

Mark Sanchez (39:41)

Giselle.

Dan Patrick (39:42)

My son wants to name him Fish and Chips. I told him that's a tough sell. Please meet my daughter, Fish.

Mark Sanchez (39:49)

Like what?

Dan Patrick (39:52)

So I need Fritzy on that. I need, I need the boys helping out. I need the dam.

Mark Sanchez (39:57)

Oh, I don't think you don't need Fritzy on that. No, you don't. We'll come up with something. Yeah. Thank you, Mark.

Dan Patrick (40:04)

Appreciate you guys.

Mark Sanchez (40:06)

Mark Sanchez, Fox NFL analyst, former NFL quarterback as well. Identical twins. Girls. Yes. Paul.

Dan Patrick (40:16)

I have a question after the break about twins.

Mark Sanchez (40:19)

Okay, we're going to take a break. Last call for phone calls. What we learn what's in store tomorrow, this day in sports history. After this, be sure to catch the live edition of the Dan Patrick show, weekdays at 9am Eastern, 6am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio radio app.

Dan Patrick (40:37)

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Mark Sanchez (42:05)

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Dan Patrick (42:08)

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Mark Sanchez (42:33)

NHL Network, we're looking forward to getting.

Dan Patrick (42:35)

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Mark Sanchez (42:52)

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Dan Patrick (42:53)

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Mark Sanchez (42:59)

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Dan Patrick (43:02)

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Mark Sanchez (43:15)

Last call for phone calls. What we learn what's in store tomorrow. 877 3DP show. Yeah, that's a quick show. Yeah, a lot of topics. Don't know what we solved today, but we did spend three hours with you or vice versa. Hopefully you stayed with us, but the Dion situation with the Cowboys, also Sam Darnold's future with Minnesota. And as we get closer to these matchups coming up this weekend, we'll dive into that as well. Also have the national title game to preview coming up as well. Lucas in Texas. Hi, Luke. What's on your mind today? Hey, Dan. Good morning. Good morning.

Dan Patrick (43:56)

Look, hey, I'm no lover of the Cowboys down here, but talking about them.

Mark Sanchez (44:00)

Is exactly what their owner wants, so.

Dan Patrick (44:02)

So here we are. Look, my two cents on what happened yesterday and really what's been going on.

Mark Sanchez (44:06)

There for a long time, is that the situation is both absurd and tragic for different reasons. It's absurd because the next head coach of an NFL team, someone who's worked their whole life towards this, is going.

Dan Patrick (44:20)

To work for an owner gm whose highlight of the year was appearing on.

Mark Sanchez (44:24)

A TV show with Billy Bob Thornton and Don Draper. It's tragic because of the fact that if.

Dan Patrick (44:31)

And that's a big if. If the Cowboys ever win a Super bowl while Jerry Jones is still alive.

Mark Sanchez (44:37)

And involved, the discussion is actually going to be about whatever coach, GM or quarterback was able to overcome their owner and win in spite of him, not because of him. It's absurd and tragic all at the same time, and yet we can't stop watching. Yeah, but we're talking about it today because you have a coaching vacancy. Like, you have to factor that in. I normally don't go out of my way to try to talk about the Cowboys. I don't try to work them in every single day, any angle possible. But today it warrants that until they. If Deion goes there, that's big news. No matter who they get. If they get Kellen Moore and they take him from the Eagles, that's big news. This is a coaching vacancy. There's added intrigue because it's Jerry Jones. Who's he going to bring in? Is it somebody who's going to be a puppet government or are they going to stand up to him? Are they going to be able to coach how they want to coach? Can they make decisions? I'm curious about that, but I'll go back to what we've been talking about all morning long. You're going to bring in a coach and you're going to ask that coach, how do you make this team a winner with the limitations of Dak Prescott, injury prone, 32, and you owe him $231 million? That, to me, is the ultimate question here. Jim Nance on the program tomorrow. Robert Griffin Jr. III will join us as well, recap the poll results. Then we'll do this day in sports history, try to sneak in a couple more phone calls. Seaton. Robert Griffith Jr. III, is the Cowboys head coaching job desirable? Your options are yes or no. Right now, that's at about 78 are saying no to that one. It's a big gig, but, man, you're gonna get a lot of fun. You're not gonna get credit, you're gonna get blame. Unless you're a bigger person, like Dion would get credit. He's a bigger personality. Mike McCarthy's not. He's not going to win the charisma award and Jerry's going to come in and he'll take a victory lap. If they happen in his lifetime to get another Super Bowl. Yes, this is a fun one, too. We had another poll question up there. I don't know that we've ever had results like this before. Who had a worst day, Sam Darnold or Mike McCarthy? Right now, Sam Darnold has 99% of the vote. I don't think that's ever happened before. Yeah, 99. I think the Cowboys put Mike McCarthy out of his misery. I think it's like, all right, I coached the Cowboys for five years, had a couple of good seasons, did my best. We didn't give up this year. We certainly could have. And hopefully he lives to see another coaching head coaching job this day in sports history.

Dan Patrick (47:22)

Paul, here's a couple good ones.

Mark Sanchez (47:23)

1948, plastic helmets were prohibited in the NFL.

Dan Patrick (47:27)

Not in 47. They were fine with them then. They used to have plastic helmets and face masks. 1951, the first All Star game was played in the NFL in Los Angeles.

Mark Sanchez (47:36)

1954, Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were married. The marriage lasted blank months. Blank months. Three, six, nine months. I got the over nice. By the way, they eloped. Marilyn and Joe eloped. That's.

Dan Patrick (47:56)

That's the biggest star partnership in sports history. Right? The level of fame of those two.

Mark Sanchez (48:03)

People when they were together.

Dan Patrick (48:05)

Best baseball player in the world. Probably most famous woman in America.

Mark Sanchez (48:10)

Okay, back to you. I'd have to give that a little thought, but yeah.

Dan Patrick (48:14)

1974, the World Football League was founded. 76, Ted Turner bought the Atlanta Braves. Barry Bonds in 2002, signed a five year deal for $90 million.

Mark Sanchez (48:27)

The Dolphins won the super bowl in this date in 1973. And they ended up with a 17. 0 record. And we're reminded of that every single year. Yay. Yay. All right, Jim Nance. Tomorrow, Robert Griffin Jr III will join us. Let's go around the room. What we learned on the program. Back left. Fritzi, what'd you learn today?

Dan Patrick (48:51)

Mark Sanchez, weighing in at 240 plus, says he doesn't have a dad bod.

Mark Sanchez (48:54)

It's a father figure. 242. 242 ding. To 242 ding. Thank you, Satan. What'd you learn today?

Dan Patrick (49:04)

Mark Sanchez.

Mark Sanchez (49:05)

Looking for names. Yeah, for his. For his. Fish and chips on the list right now, but not looking good. Marvin, how about you? John Riggins only made one Pro Bowl. Yeah, and made the hall of Fame. Paul, what'd you learn today?

Dan Patrick (49:19)

The twins are identical.

Mark Sanchez (49:21)

How about ham and eggs? Yeah, there's something like that. You know, Swiss cheese. Todd, you got any? I gotta work on that. Thanks for joining us. We appreciate the support. We'll try to do better tomorrow. Have a great day, everybody. Some people just know they could save hundreds on car insurance by checking Allstate first. Like you know to check you have the tickets in your wallet first before you drive two hours to the big game. Seriously, you had one job, now the.

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Mark Sanchez (51:06)

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Dan Patrick (51:09)

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