Dan Patrick (4:00)

You are listening to the Dan Patrick show on FOX Sports Radio. Final hour on this meet Friday gang's all here. We got Friday, Fritzi, you got Seton, Marv, Paulie, yours truly in the back room. Guys. It's a meat Friday. Beef and chorizo, chili, jalapeno, cheddar, cornbread and bacon cornbread. Who has it better than we do?

Todd (4:23)

Nobody.

Dan Patrick (4:25)

Sunday night, Patrick, Mahomes and the Chiefs and a must win situation against the GMAN Primetime showdown Sunday 7 Eastern on NBC. And Peacock, which is where you'll find this program. Thank you for downloading the app. You can watch or you can listen or you can watch and listen. Over 400 cities carrying this award nominated program. 8773 DP show operator. Tyler's sitting by. He'll take your calls. And Seton, final poll question for this week is what? Well, this is on the. I just got this. This isn't a poll question actually, but it's great about the name thing that we've been talking about. Yeah. This person just wrote in, it's not sports related, but I have two sons here. My wife had no idea. But their names are Johnny and Bodie from Point Break.

Caller (5:10)

Yeah.

Dan Patrick (5:12)

Wow. Once again, if, when, when your wife delivers and she's probably had an epidural and you know, drugged up and you're trying to come up with names. Just the fact that Brad Johnson said to his wife, I got a name, Maximus Johnson. And somehow they signed off on that and he's a quarterback at North Carolina right now. All right. So we'll get phone calls coming up. Yeah, I don't know how we stumbled on sports names. I don't remember any of my friends being named after athletes, but Kobe was a big name certainly after he died. Those 12 months after, I think the number of parents who name their children Kobe went up like 200%. Floyd Mayweather was a name that was on there. I'm like, who's naming their kid Floyd or Mayweather? Any other names on there? Shaq, I understand that there, there was a wave there where Shaq or some version of Shaquille was, was pretty big. All right, so the poll question for the final hour of the program. Let me also update you real quick.

Dan LeBatard (6:16)

We had from the 2020 draft, other.

Dan Patrick (6:19)

Than Jalen Hurts, who will end up having the best career? It's Justin Herbert is just barely edging out Joe Burrow and Jordan Love. But Joe Burrow and Jordan Love are very, very close.

Dan LeBatard (6:28)

They're at about splitting about 30% each.

Dan Patrick (6:31)

If Joe Burrow wasn't hurt right now, he might be leading this poll question. Yeah. All right. The. That's tough. Dolphins put up a good fight last night. They were 12 and a half point underdogs. But Buffalo Bills didn't commit a turnover and they improved A3 and oh, the Dolphins one turnover and it wasn't like Tua got sacked. He got hit once, but they fall to oh and three. Now they get around 10, nine, 10 days and then they're going to be playing the jets in a standalone game on Monday night. The voice of Miami, Dan LeBatard, host of Meadowlark Media, is the Dan Levitard show, which you can find on this channel. Peacock, is that right? Dan? Right after us. You do? Okay, I just want to make sure.

Dan LeBatard (7:16)

Yes, thank you.

Dan Patrick (7:16)

Yes. Okay.

Dan LeBatard (7:17)

I want to get in on your names game here, though. Can I want to. Which is the more interesting name fact here in this, in this equation, I'm giving you that all of George Foreman's kids were named George, including his daughter who was named Georgette, or that Dennis Rodman, one of 19 children, his father was actually named Philander.

Dan Patrick (7:41)

Would you ever name your child after an athlete and if so, which athlete?

Dan LeBatard (7:48)

Well, I am childless and I have not given this question any thought. This is why you're the great one that you are. In terms of interviewing. Would I name my child after an athlete? No, I don't think I would do that. I would have to do that. I think I would take. If I was going to name them after a family member and not just a name, a name I liked, I would name it after a family member. I should say not. Not an athlete. I would not do that.

Dan Patrick (8:09)

So like Marino LeBatard.

Dan LeBatard (8:11)

LeBron Le Batard.

Dan Patrick (8:14)

Oh, are you still bitter over LeBron leaving Miami?

Dan LeBatard (8:18)

No more. Clearly not. If I was just. Clearly, I'm hugely grateful if. If what I just did there is name a child. How ridiculous would that be? Poor and poor little LeBron Levittar.

Dan Patrick (8:32)

Oh, how about Riley? Riley LeBatard, after Pat Riley, your good buddy.

Dan LeBatard (8:37)

Could be a boy or a girl. I could go Pat. I could go Pat, and it could be a boy or a girl. I could go Riley, and it could be a boy or a girl.

Dan Patrick (8:45)

Probably not, Tua, but let's, let's, let's dissect here. What we've seen is the weather or the temperature underneath Mike McDaniel. Warmer today.

Dan LeBatard (8:57)

Well, that game, they were well coached last night. That's an outman team with, I think, a historically bad defense. And I don't believe that coaching is the reason that they lost that game. They've got a fundamental architectural problem here, Dan, in that I believe that's the best game the Dolphins can play, and they're doing it by throwing the ball as many times behind the line of scrimmage as they are past the line of scrimmage. Now, that whole game last night, the average air yards in that game for Josh Allen and Tua was 1.4 yards, 1.4 yards on completion. So a lot of the league is doing that. But when I say they have a structural problem, Dan, here's the structural problem, because they're no longer what they were which was the best offense in the league. They're constipated on offense, and Jalen Waddle and Tyreek Hill don't look like they can give you much. But Josh Allen against the Dolphins is in the regular season, 13 and 2, 8. And, oh, at home, he's got 45 total touchdowns and eight interceptions against the Dolphins. On the other side, the Dolphins have now lost four of their last 17 and eight in a row against winning teams. And here's the structural flaw. And two, as cap hit the next four years is more than Josh Allen's cap hit in Buffalo. And that's obviously an issue that's not going to go away for a while.

Dan Patrick (10:19)

I just don't understand why they jumped the gun on Tua with his performance, his injury history. And they could have kept him another year. They could have franchised him. I'm just trying to understand from the front office, from ownership, where they go, nope, we got to sign this guy up. Now why?

Dan LeBatard (10:39)

They're wildly mismanaged. They've got a GM who's got the longest tenure in the league without winning a playoff game. They have not enough good players. And they got fooled by scoring 70 points against the Broncos and having a comeback against the Ravens, which a lot of people do late in games. The Ravens have blown 17 second half leads and they got enamored with. They had the best offense in the league. And more than that, Dan, and this, this part matters. They had exciting offense, they were the fastest team in the league. But now you look up and they're accused of being soft and not physical enough. And the three guys that they have on offense that you need things from Waddle Hill and to all physically undersized like yeah, they, they were fast and, and speed burns, but speed also ages. And their offenses, you know, it's, it's a bit like a Ferrari in that if a spark plug is off, it doesn't run right. There's not a lot of margin for error. I think one of the stats last night they had two. They had a drive that had multiple successful attempts on 3rd and 10 and it's the first time they've had that since 2022. Like they, they used to be a big play offense, but now what they had to do in that game last night is do a perfect 16 play drive that converts a bunch of third downs and just keep Josh Allen off the field for a while because we can't do this anymore. Where what we used to do is will have a scoring drive that goes one, two or three plays, not 16.

Dan Patrick (12:16)

How safe is Mike McDaniel?

Dan LeBatard (12:18)

Safer today than he was before the game. Right. Because I really thought that whole game Dan was going to go the way the first half did, which is just keep handing the ball to James Cook and he's going to get nine yards every time and that, you know, they didn't stop him in the first half. And the most stunning thing for me to happen to this season for the Dolphins is that they stopped the Bills at all in the second half. Like, like, I don't know, you know, the Bills still scored 31 points, but the fact that the Bills were punting in the second half, I've seen no evidence from this team that it can stop anybody. Dan, I really do believe that the defense is historically bad.

Dan Patrick (12:53)

Talking to Dan Lebatard and host of Metal Arc Media is the Dan LeBatard show that follows this on Peacock. You know, when you're quirky and you win, we're fine with that. When you're quirky and you don't win, then all of a sudden we start to pick apart your answers at a press conference. Here has the quirkiness, the nerdiness of Mike McDaniel worn off in South Florida?

Dan LeBatard (13:16)

Yeah, that part is obvious. But the glee with which the quirkiness is being mocked by the Rex Ryan's of the world who seem to be delighting in calling him Nerd Boy and McGenius because he had some of that Brandon Staley stuff where, oh, you think you're smarter than everyone else, do you? He had reason to write for a minute. He had reason to believe that when they had the best offense in the league and Raheem Mostert had 18 touchdowns at the running back position because it didn't seem to matter whether his offensive line was any good or not, they had offense. He, he took a quarterback that all of us wondered about and had that quarterback leading what was the best offense in the league. But there's something else happening with McDaniel, right? Because we don't really want our coaches to be interesting. They're, they're better off being public faces and voices for a team. Jim Harbaugh is awfully quirky, Dan, like, I like him. But fans kind of would prefer that their coach just sort of be presidential, be somebody who connotes leadership and doesn't do very much with interesting sound bites. Like in the history of, of, of sports, when you think of the coaches who are real personalities, you know, whatever, Steve Spurrier, Mike Leach, they're just. There aren't very many that you think of, Jerry Glanville, there just aren't very many that are wild personalities. They, they, you know, Andy Reid, Bill Belichick, that tends to be what you get.

Dan Patrick (14:50)

Fans in South Florida. Would they rather have the U be great or the Dolphins to be great?

Dan LeBatard (14:57)

Oh, that's a good question. Because I'm going to say the Dolphins because it's the, you know, 50 years of dolphin football includes a time, and I don't think your audience has any recollection of this. It includes a time where the Dolphins were the winningest franchise in all of sports, not just in football. They won by percentage more often than everyone else. And now they've got the longest drought in the sport. A sport that includes, you know, the Bills for a while. We went 17 seasons without getting to the playoffs. The Raiders haven't done anything in the playoffs in a long time. But the longest drought belongs to the Miami Dolphins. And this began as a football town because of the Miami Dolphins. We still have an expressway here named after Don Shula because of what the Dolphins did a long time ago and. And the mi. The Miami Hurricanes have had some recent success, some success this century. The. The last playoff game the Dolphins won, Dan. Lamar Smith scored a touchdown against the Colts. It was not on television locally that there was a Dolphin playoff game. That was so long ago that you could not see it locally in Miami.

Dan Patrick (16:12)

Can you think of another franchise where when you go to the game, you see this jersey and it's a jersey that is from a player who played decades ago in Dan Marino. I give all the. All the different. Now you might see that with the jets maybe or the Bears with Walter Payton, but when you're thinking about the Dolphins, do you see other jerseys? Have. You know. You know anybody besides Dan Marino in the building?

Dan LeBatard (16:42)

There are a good amount of to a supporters. It is hard to support some of the things Tyreek Hill is, even if you're excited by him on the field. But this has been a fan base that is unusually starved for excellence because it's become a regional team, Dan. It's not a national team. And one of the reasons that we're talking about them now is because for about a 16 game span or maybe a 20 game span, they had an offense that was interesting that could make big plays. And so for one brief moment there, this team had expectations that had people talking about it nationally. And what I've been surprised by the first three, three weeks of this season, you tell me if I have this wrong, because there are plenty of bad teams in that league, the jets, the Saints, Carolina, but national laughing stock from coast to coast over the first three weeks of the season. That's been because they've got three very polarizing things as the face of their national identity. McDaniel, Tua and Tyreek Hill. And the weirdest thing about that, Dan, is I think Tua is the most polarizing of the three. Think about that for a second. And it's just because we haven't been able to accurately measure what is this guy like? Is he. Is he a franchise quarterback or is he not a franchise quarterback? That discussion made the conversation around to a more polarizing than the one around McDaniel who can give off the quirkiness you speak of, and Tyreek Hill, who does some pretty awful things as being a menace to women and children.

Dan Patrick (18:15)

Thank you for taking time.

Dan LeBatard (18:17)

Thank you for having me.

Dan Patrick (18:19)

My best to the family.

Dan LeBatard (18:21)

Thank you. I'm gonna go home right now and this is too much information, obviously, but See if I can try and make a little LeBron LeBatard.

Dan Patrick (18:29)

Whoa.

Dan LeBatard (18:33)

Look at the purian interests of Dan Patrick. Startled.

Dan Patrick (18:36)

I feel bad for your wife.

Dan LeBatard (18:41)

My undulating sensuality is not persuasive to you.

Dan Patrick (18:48)

Thank you, Dan. That's.

Dan LeBatard (18:49)

Thank you, buddy.

Dan Patrick (18:50)

Dan LeBatard. Did you hear that, Todd?

Todd (18:54)

That's pretty wild stuff over there.

Dan Patrick (18:55)

Yeah, I'm rooting for him. Are you or in cheerleader outfit.

Dan LeBatard (19:02)

Let's go.

Dan Patrick (19:02)

Metal Art Media is the Dan LeBatard Show. You'll find it on YouTube, but you also find it on Peacock. It follows our show. Okay, let's take a break. Let's regroup here. Come up with a new poll question. More phone calls as well to meet Friday. And of course, I. It's part of my job to inspect the meat Friday. And the chili looks delicious. And might I say, it tastes delicious, too. It's beef and chorizo chili. I remember when McLovin was out having sneaking food on a Friday on a meat Friday, and I could see him because I had cameras all over the place. And then I go out and I said, what are you doing? And he goes, what? And I said, no, wait until everybody else has meat Friday. He goes, well, you had some. I go, my name is the show here, knucklehead.

Todd (19:53)

That wasn't a good response.

Dan Patrick (19:54)

It was not that. And when he said, yeah, I don't know about the ribs. They didn't fall off the bone. That. That one was. That didn't go well either. Not exactly falling off the bone. Not. I don't know.

Paulie (20:06)

He said, not his best work.

Dan Patrick (20:08)

Yeah, that was unfortunate. Yes, that was. All right, let's take a break here. Let's take a break here. We'll come back after this Dan Patrick Show. 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 app.

Dan LeBatard (20:26)

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Dan LeBatard (24:07)

Hey, this is Matt Jones. I'm Drew Franklin and this is NFL Cover Zero. We think NFL coverage should be informative and. And entertaining. And twice a week. That is exactly what you're going to get. We're just here to try to give you an NFL perspective a little bit different.

Dan Patrick (24:25)

Did you see the Colts pretzel? That was my other big takeaway from that game.

Dan LeBatard (24:27)

What was that?

Dan Patrick (24:28)

Looks like something that should not be sold.

Dan LeBatard (24:30)

Oh, my.

Dan Patrick (24:31)

So that was my other big Colts takeaway.

Dan LeBatard (24:32)

I sold that.

Todd (24:33)

Yes.

Dan LeBatard (24:33)

Might want to go back to the Colts stadium. Yeah, I might want to go back to the drawing board on that.

Todd (24:37)

Yeah. I thought the shape we had with.

Dan Patrick (24:39)

Pretzels was working pretty well. It's worked for generations.

Dan LeBatard (24:42)

We're just here trying to enjoy it. We hope you all will join us throughout the year. And let's go.

Dan Patrick (24:47)

I hope I'm as youthful as Pete Carroll is at his age. He's a young 73.

Dan LeBatard (24:51)

He is a young 73. He is spry. I wouldn't fight him. I would listen. NFL Cover Zero with Matt Jones and Drew Franklin on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

Dan Patrick (25:08)

We've talked a lot about the Tom Brady. The appearance of a conflict of interest being a broadcaster but also being part owner of the Raiders and then being in the coaching booth. Antonio Pierce, the former Raiders head coach, was on Mad Dog Radio and he talked about Tom Brady being a broadcaster and a minority owner.

Caller (25:30)

Michael Jordan was owner for a long time of NBA team, and then just recently, I believe he was announced to be with NBC. Correct.

Dan Patrick (25:37)

Yep.

Caller (25:38)

As you know, helping him out. That didn't happen while he was the owner. So this is unprecedented, what we're seeing. I think I would be uncomfortable if it was the other way around, to be honest with you, because you're not dealing with just a normal person. Tom Brady is the elite of elite. One of the greatest quarterbacks, one of the greatest players in the game. It's not hard for him to watch a few things on a Friday practice or hear things in a production meeting and be like. And have tidbits. And you'd be foolish enough to think that he does not want to share that with the Raiders because we had those conversations about certain things. Right. And he was very informative about things that he knew or he felt. And that's why you bring in a guy like Tom Brady into your organization to be a minority owner, because he gives you those aspects and different insights that some people can give you.

Dan Patrick (26:21)

Antonio Pierce, the former Raiders head coach with Adam Shine on Mad Dog Radio. It's, it might die down a little bit, but then it's going to come back up when the Bears play the Raiders in a week after the Bears play the Cowboys and, and Tom is calling that game. It's going to come back. It's not going away this year. And I think eventually the NFL is going to nudge Tom into maybe make a decision here, and he would side with being the minority owner of the Raiders. Jeff in Youngstown. Hi, Jeff.

Caller (26:55)

How you doing, Dan?

Dan Patrick (26:56)

Good, Jeff.

Caller (26:57)

61208 semi athletic back in the day. Okay. My son, when he was born, named him Spike after Spike Owens from the Boston Red Sox left the hospital to come back two and a half days later after a weekend of beer slides in my house and having a little bit of a party, my wife changed his name.

Dan Patrick (27:23)

And changed it from Spike. To what?

Caller (27:26)

Derek.

Dan Patrick (27:26)

Derek.

Caller (27:28)

But the name Spike stuck. His nickname stuck for his life.

Dan Patrick (27:32)

All right, maybe she was a Yankee fan, called him Derek. Derek Jeter, Spike. Oh, and when he a Texas Longhorn, I believe. Zachary in Pennsylvania. Hi, Zach.

Caller (27:45)

Hi, Dan. So I know you were talking about the push push earlier and they said they wanted to crack down more and called the play tighter.

Dan Patrick (27:53)

Yeah.

Caller (27:55)

Well, there's a weekly show that's done by the Eagles left tackle Jordan Mylotta, and he brought up the point that not only on a majority of those plays is the defense lining up offside or I guess within the neutral zone, but they're also actually calling out the Eagles cadence, trying to get them to jump offside. So if they're going to call the play tighter, are they going to call it tighter both ways? Because the article that I read seems like they were gearing it more towards calling it tighter on the offense and not on the defense.

Dan Patrick (28:29)

Yeah, but these defenses are desperate and they're trying to gain an advantage. Can we, can we mimic your cadence? Can we get you to jump offsides? Are we in the neutral zone? This is how this play will be eliminated from the NFL next year, in my opinion, because you can't officiate it. All right? There's way too much going on here. All they have to do is take out the person in the backfield and then you could still do what is called a quarterback sneak and nobody can have a problem with that. But yes, I could see where the defense is lining up offsides in the neutral zone. And if they're calling out your K. I understand all of this, but. But the play is here. So you got to deal with it. But you know, when you have Mark Masky, the Washington Post say that the NFL is put is putting the Eagles on notice. Like the Eagles shouldn't be on notice. The officials who didn't call it correctly should be on notice. Brandon in Oklahoma. Hi Brandon. What's on your mind?

Caller (29:36)

I Dan, first time, long time, 6 foot, a lean 165. So a couple things. My son is Finley Alexander Warricks middle name Alexander after Alexander Emmanuel Rodriguez. And second part is 1998, I think spring training, Port Charlotte, Florida, Texas Rangers. You and Pudge Rodriguez did a I think Sports center commercial. Yes, around the pitchers mound. I was in the background playing catch. I never saw that commercial aired and I wondered if you remembered that.

Dan Patrick (30:15)

I do remember being there in Port Charlotte and spend some time with Pudge. Yeah, we were doing a few of those with athletes. I did one with Mike Piazza as well. That, that was a big campaign with SportsCenter. Alan in Toledo. Hi Alan. What's on your mind today?

Caller (30:33)

Hey, Dan. Six foot, 300 pounds, beefy. Hey, I want to listen to your show. 24 years ago you were probably on ESPN radio at the time. I was on my way to work. Some guy called in, he said he named his son Espen espn. Well, not thinking my wife is gonna get pregnant again. Six months later she's pregnant and we named our son Espen Patrick Singlar. So using your, your last name and. But he spelled, we spelled name Espen and he two in two weeks.

Dan Patrick (31:07)

And your wife was fine with that?

Caller (31:10)

Yes, she was. That some other people weren't. But you know, we looked him up and there was like the guy Espen Knutson. I remember if you remember his story. Yeah, yeah. So it was a real name. So. So it's ESP E N. And one of the teachers at work, when or at school when he was in school used to call him. They used to give that husband they go.

Dan Patrick (31:32)

Well thank you for sharing, Alan. Yeah, I remember that. That was a big deal. Somebody named their kid Espen, Espen Patrick. All right, thank you. I'm honored. Yes.

Todd (31:45)

Marvin, word of advice for anybody that's.

Dan LeBatard (31:47)

About to have a baby or will.

Todd (31:49)

In the future, don't tell people what.

Dan LeBatard (31:51)

You'Re going to name the baby.

Dan Patrick (31:52)

That's very important. Gosh, yes, because somebody will have a story, a negative story or they know somebody or knew somebody who had that name. And then all of a sudden this happened with my mother in law. It didn't matter what name. She had a problem with everybody. And I said to my wife, I said, hun, let's not tell her. Let's not tell her the next one, okay? Lie to her.

Paulie (32:19)

Yes, Paulie, but there's also the thing. Wouldn't you like to run it by someone so you don't make a mistake? Like, either at the hospital, some type of neutral party or ombudsman, they say, like, don't name your kid, that he's going to get beat up.

Dan Patrick (32:33)

Well, okay. Marvin's grandmother named Marvin. And Marvin said that he was made fun of because he was named after Marvin Gaye. And you know how kids can be. And if I said to his grandmother, you know, they're going to rough him up. I'm guessing your grandmother, as tough as she is, would still say, hey, he'll, he'll, he'll survive.

Todd (32:55)

Builds character.

Dan Patrick (32:55)

Yeah, builds character. I, I didn't need an ombudsman to help me with any of my names. I mean, we couldn't get out of the hospital now. Okay, my wife and I had this discussion the other night. You have to name your child when you leave the hospital. Is that correct? Is that universal in the United States?

Paulie (33:18)

Generally, they want the paperwork done and filled out before you leave the hospital. You could change it on your own.

Dan Patrick (33:23)

But no, but you have to have a name for your baby when you leave the hospital.

Paulie (33:27)

Correct?

Dan Patrick (33:27)

Because we did change it six weeks later. But I think legally they don't allow you to get out of the hospital because I said to her, and she doesn't remember really, when she delivered, you know, one of my daughters, and I said, hun. They said, you got to have a name. I don't remember that. I go, hon, you don't remember anything? I'm telling you that they put the pressure on me because we thought that the baby was going to be a boy. We didn't have any girls names. I said, hun, just pick a name. All right? So next thing you know, we got a name. Let's get out of here. Six weeks later, we're at the courthouse and we're changing the name.

Paulie (34:06)

Yes, Paulie, I read this that you do not necessarily have to name your baby before leaving the hospital, but it's much easier because the baby, the hospital takes care of the paperwork on your behalf. If you leave the hospital without giving the baby the name, you have to do the paperwork with the state or city on your own at a later date.

Dan Patrick (34:23)

Yeah, and I don't even know how we came up with Emily. It's like. And I go, okay, that's good. I Don't care. Let's go. Let's get out of here. And then all of a sudden, we started getting baby gifts. And they. The baby's name was on, like, you know, a little stool that you stand on to brush your teeth. And we had a babysitter who came over and she finally goes, whatever happened to Emily? And we go, oh, my gosh. No. We named her Georgia. Named her after her father, her grandfather, George. Yes, Todd.

Todd (34:52)

I'd be bummed people like giving personalized gifts than to finally just randomly pick the name that was going to be changed six weeks later. I bought the special stuff. You pay extra and you're trying to find a fancy thing to put their name on. It's not even going to be their name.

Dan Patrick (35:03)

Of course you'd make it about you. Thank you, Todd.

Todd (35:06)

That's not cool.

Dan Patrick (35:07)

Pedro in la. Hi. Well, you didn't get, you know, a baby gift for any of my kids.

Todd (35:13)

That's not fair.

Dan Patrick (35:16)

It's true. Kids.

Todd (35:17)

Kids, though. That I did do.

Dan Patrick (35:19)

Pedro in la. Hi, Pedro. Hey, guys. Good morning.

Caller (35:23)

Long time listener. First on caller six six zero two fifty five. First off, shout out to the grand highs. Grand high school answers where I'm a math teacher calling regarding the names. I don't know if you guys have heard that in Colombia, a couple named their kid Chad GPT. They didn't just type GPT, they spelled it out in Spanish. So it's a whole new name. I think it's making. It's gonna make it in 20, 25. What do you guys think?

Dan Patrick (35:53)

Thank you, Pedro. Chat GBT. Is that what he said? Well, good luck. Yeah.

Paulie (36:02)

Paul, you know that nothing makes this is I'm Bill Pullman level of anger right now. Nothing makes me mad. More mad than when parents make it about themselves and to the detriment of their child with names.

Dan Patrick (36:14)

Because Paul doesn't like the late actor Bill Pullman.

Paulie (36:17)

Everyone knows.

Dan Patrick (36:17)

Yeah.

Paulie (36:20)

He's still alive.

Dan Patrick (36:21)

Oh, he is. Yes. No, no, he was late for a meeting. I'm. Oh, oh, you thought I meant he was dead. Yeah. Oh, let me see. Kayvon in Phoenix. Hi, Kayvon.

Caller (36:32)

Happy meat Friday, boys.

Dan Patrick (36:34)

Thank you.

Caller (36:35)

I first off, very excited about my youth's taking on Texas Tech tomorrow. Go Utes. And I named my son Stockton after the greatest point guard in NBA history, John Stockton.

Dan Patrick (36:49)

I'm good with stock, you know, as my mom said. And she had 12 kids. If you have them, you name them. And she never, ever said anything about, you know, a name and why'd you do that? Or never Nothing. Yes, Todd, what happens?

Todd (37:10)

And I can relate to this to a certain extent. What if your kid ends up being kind of a stocky fellow and now he's stocky Stockton and just kind of walked into a problem there just because he wanted to honor a Jazz basketball player.

Dan Patrick (37:20)

I don't think his last name was Stockton. I think his. His.

Todd (37:23)

Yeah. But either way, grab a hold of any name.

Dan Patrick (37:27)

Okay.

Todd (37:27)

Stocky, stock.

Dan Patrick (37:28)

I guess you know that you would have to factor that in, too. It's like having, you know, name speed. Yeah. And you're not fast dart, you know. Pete in Florida. Hi, Pete. What's on your mind?

Caller (37:44)

And it's a real pleasure. How you doing, Danets? How's it going? I have three kids named after athletes. I was a huge Philadelphia Philly fan back in the day, and my oldest son, Steve is named after Steve Carlton. My next son is Mike, after Mike Schmidt. And my third son is Jeff, after Jeff Hostetler, who was born two days after the Giants beat the Bills in that Super Bowl.

Dan Patrick (38:12)

I would have called him Haas. Yes, Haas, not Jeff.

Dan LeBatard (38:16)

Do it.

Dan Patrick (38:17)

Yeah. Is it too late to change his name Pete?

Caller (38:21)

Yeah, that's for sure. But the funny thing is, is my wife didn't catch on until.

Dan Patrick (38:26)

Until like years later. So, yeah, I would have called him Hoss. I thought he was going to say name one of his kids Dalton after Darren Dutch Dalton. Yes. Marv.

Todd (38:36)

He was a Giants fan. I thought Lawrence Taylor, whatever his last name is.

Dan Patrick (38:40)

Yes, Todd.

Todd (38:41)

I don't want to raid on anybody's parade, but you run the risk if you name someone after an athlete or a famous person and then they get into some kind of horrific trouble with the law. And they may have been great once, but we know of certain people that used to run for many yards for the Buffalo Bills. All of a sudden you're honoring someone at one point. Next thing you know, that's what's on top of their Google card.

Dan Patrick (38:59)

I like how you don't want to rain on anybody's parade, but there your whole DNA is to rain on somebody's parade.

Todd (39:08)

This person was great back in the day, but then all of a sudden they committed some horrible act. And that's what you were named after.

Dan Patrick (39:12)

Pete in Charlotte. Hi, Pete.

Caller (39:16)

Hey, dp. Second time, long time. I have a friend of mine who his wife named his child, first name Nazmo, second name King.

Dan Patrick (39:28)

Yeah, I've heard this before. Thank you, Pete. No smoking nosmok. King. Yeah, I had heard that. You know who told me that in the late Howie Schwab said that his wife worked in a hospital and there was a sign that the family didn't have a name and they decided and their last name was King. Now Howie Schwab stumped. The Schwab swore that this was true. Their last name was King and they called the baby Nasmo, as in no smoking. I'm gonna trust the great Howie Schwab.

Paulie (40:10)

Yes, Paulie, that's where security the hospital should turn those parents around, walk them upstairs and put them in a room and say we got to fix this.

Dan Patrick (40:18)

When we come back, the most must win game of the weekend, the MMW gotw. We're 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.

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Dan LeBatard (43:47)

Hey, this is Matt Jones. I'm Drew Franklin and this is NFL Cover Zero. We think NFL coverage should be informative and entertaining and twice a week that is exactly what you're going to get. We're just here to try to give you an NFL perspective a little bit different.

Dan Patrick (44:05)

Did you see the Colts pretzel? That was my other big takeaway from that game.

Dan LeBatard (44:08)

What was that?

Dan Patrick (44:08)

Looks like something that should not be sold.

Dan LeBatard (44:10)

Oh my.

Dan Patrick (44:11)

So that was my other big Colts takeaway.

Dan LeBatard (44:13)

Sold that.

Todd (44:13)

Yes.

Dan LeBatard (44:14)

Might want to go back at the Colts stadium. Yeah, I might want to go back to the drawing board on that.

Todd (44:17)

Yeah, I thought the shape we had.

Dan Patrick (44:19)

With pretzels was working pretty well. It's worked for generations.

Dan LeBatard (44:22)

We're just here trying to enjoy it. We hope you all will join us throughout the year. And let's go.

Dan Patrick (44:27)

I hope I'm as youthful as Pete Carroll is at his age. He's a young 73.

Dan LeBatard (44:31)

He is a young 73. He is spry.

Dan Patrick (44:33)

I wouldn't fight him.

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I would listen NFL Cover Zero with Matt Jones and Drew Franklin on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.

Dan Patrick (44:49)

Last call for phone calls. What we learn what's in store for Monday, this day in sports history and the most must win game of the weekend, the MMW gotw. Paulie, I'm going to start with you. The most must win Game of the.

Paulie (45:02)

Weekend is Notre Dame versus Purdue is too obvious. So I'm going to go Illinois fighting Atlanta versus Indiana. Illinois ranked ninth. If they can get a couple more wins before that Ohio State game, they can afford a loss to Ohio State and maybe sneak into playoffs. But they have to win before that, so they have to beat Indiana.

Dan Patrick (45:22)

Todd, the most must win game of the weekend.

Todd (45:24)

Paulie took me out of going with Notre Dame having to beat Purdue, so I'm going to go with the other obvious one on the NFL side. The Chiefs do not want to go to 03 by losing. They do not want to not lose and they should not lose to them and they can't be 03.

Dan Patrick (45:37)

I always like when a quarterback throws an interception and the announcer goes, he'd like to have that one back. Really? What if he said, no, it was a good throw. You know what? My fault. Seaton. Most must win game of the weekend. Your Tennessee Titans must win.

Caller (45:52)

Whoa.

Dan Patrick (45:53)

This is a must win game for the Tennessee Titans. They're playing. Playing Indianapolis. They're about to go on the road for three straight. Four out of five, something like that. They've lost eight straight games going back to last season.

Dan LeBatard (46:07)

You need to turn this one around.

Dan Patrick (46:09)

They've lost four consecutive divisional games. You, they need to win this weekend. What if they end up with the number one pick in the draft and he already took your quarterback? Yeah. Great. Pressure's off. Unless you look at another quarterback and you go, he might be better. This is supposed to be a quarterback rich draft. Oh, by the way, every year, the following year, it's a quarterback rich draft. Yes.

Paulie (46:34)

I got a quick pie in the face. Bet the number one pick in the upcoming draft will not be a quarterback. Not be.

Dan Patrick (46:44)

So Arch Manning isn't going to come out. No. Okay, does anybody want to bet that the number one pick in the draft is not a quarterback? Melvin.

Todd (46:57)

Now, I'm with Paulo on this one.

Dan Patrick (46:59)

Oh, you are? Well, who do you think is going to be the number one pick in the draft?

Paulie (47:04)

Not a quarterback.

Todd (47:06)

I'm going to say edge rusher.

Dan Patrick (47:10)

Okay. Most must win game of the weekend, Marvin.

Todd (47:15)

The Chicago Bears.

Dan LeBatard (47:16)

They got a game at home against the Cowboys and Ben Johnson just called out your team for lack of effort.

Dan Patrick (47:24)

It has to be the Chiefs because we're looking at the bigger picture of the Chiefs being back as the Chiefs. Winning a division, making the playoffs, being a Super bowl contender. Yes.

Todd (47:34)

Todd, if the Bears don't give a championship caliber effort against the Cowboys, what are we going to say about Chicago.

Dan Patrick (47:39)

On Monday that they didn't give a championship caliber performance.

Todd (47:45)

Sounds like Ben's ready to take them to the NFC title game already. I mean, year one.

Dan Patrick (47:49)

Okay. All right. You better worry about your Broncos against.

Todd (47:54)

I have some concerns about that game. They need to win now.

Dan Patrick (47:56)

All right.

Todd (47:57)

Or first place. After three weeks in the AFC west.

Dan Patrick (47:59)

This day in sports history, you know, the Texans are getting into the most must win game of the weekend as well. This day in Sports history. Paul.

Paulie (48:08)

1999, Sammy Sosa became the first major league ballplayer to hit 60 home runs twice. And this was a fun one. Well, not for him. Tom Gamboa of the Kansas City Royals, first base coach, I think was attacked by a man and his son at Comiskey park standing near first base. They two. The two men were charged with battery.

Dan Patrick (48:29)

But the weird part was it was beat up a first base coach day at Comiskey's.

Todd (48:34)

I don't think that's true at all.

Dan Patrick (48:35)

I think it was. You get to bring your son and speed up a first base coach.

Todd (48:39)

I'm gonna have to look that up.

Paulie (48:40)

They're bonding their dad and their son. They're having fun together.

Todd (48:43)

What sponsor would get.

Dan Patrick (48:45)

They went to jail together. Hey, let's continue to bond in jail, dad. Brian in Grand Rapids. Hi, Brian.

Caller (48:54)

Hey, Dan. How are you guys and the boys? Happy. Oh, me Friday.

Dan Patrick (48:57)

Thank you.

Caller (48:58)

Just my long time listener and also lover of the show. My mom and dad actually. And there's somebody that loves love like you do. They. They celebrate 50 year anniversary. My parents hung us. So this coming Saturday, if I can get a shout out my friend, I'd appreciate it so much. You'll make her cry.

Dan Patrick (49:16)

And your mom's name is?

Caller (49:19)

Carol Bukamo.

Dan Patrick (49:20)

Oh, Carol. Happy anniversary. Congratulations. Thank you, Brian. 50 years. I'm 38. Got 38 years. I can hold on for 12. Well, I don't like physically can I hold on for 12? Can I stay alive for 12 more years? I think so, yeah.

Todd (49:46)

A lot more than that.

Dan Patrick (49:46)

Thank you, Todd. Hopefully you're taking the over. Yeah, but you're Mr. Negativity, so I don't know.

Todd (49:50)

I just don't like morbid talk. And you're going to live a very, very long life.

Dan Patrick (49:54)

No, I'm not healthy. No, I'm many, many years. Do you think you're helping me live a longer life?

Dan LeBatard (50:00)

Wow.

Dan Patrick (50:02)

I'm sorry.

Paulie (50:04)

Fair question.

Todd (50:04)

I'm gonna probably lean towards no, but not.

Dan Patrick (50:08)

I know, but you probably.

Todd (50:11)

I provide a certain amount of aggravation and that affects blood Pressure. And, you know, you may want to get some labs drawn in the coming days just to see where you're at.

Dan Patrick (50:18)

Some labs?

Todd (50:20)

Your local quest Lab center.

Dan Patrick (50:22)

So I might not live as long as I should because of this job?

Todd (50:27)

Because of me specifically.

Dan Patrick (50:28)

You call out, yes, I did.

Todd (50:30)

It's a horrible thing to say.

Dan Patrick (50:33)

Will you start listening to me a little more?

Todd (50:35)

Yes, I will.

Dan Patrick (50:35)

No, you.

Todd (50:36)

You know what if you put it on me.

Dan Patrick (50:38)

No, there's no way you'll need that kind of guilty.

Todd (50:40)

I wonder if I had anything to do with that. I thought he was gonna live through his 90.

Dan Patrick (50:44)

All eyes are going to be on you at the weight. I wonder if I had anything to do with that.

Todd (50:49)

Dirty looks.

Dan Patrick (50:49)

I know.

Todd (50:50)

That's Fritzy. He's the one that would always aggravate them. He'd have to do the gong and the code of silence. He aggravated him.

Dan Patrick (50:54)

That's what happened. I know. You're gonna walk in. My wife's gonna be there, and then you're gonna go. I'm so. I'm so sorry.

Todd (51:00)

He was having some heart blood pressure issues because of the aggravation. Stupid mock headlines.

Dan LeBatard (51:05)

You did this.

Dan Patrick (51:07)

This is your fault.

Todd (51:08)

How dare you show up to this. You didn't care.

Dan Patrick (51:13)

He cared so much about you, Todd, and you didn't reciprocate.

Todd (51:18)

Please leave. Take your bagel and cream cheese and leave.

Dan Patrick (51:21)

Or whatever. Showing up here.

Todd (51:23)

I just have that hot dog for a second. It looks like there's some good food here.

Dan Patrick (51:26)

And wear underwear next time you come to a wake, Todd.

Todd (51:29)

Can't promise that.

Dan Patrick (51:32)

Hey, could I sing a song maybe? You know, when they put Dan's casket in the ground, maybe I'll. You know what I'll do? Dust in the wind. You know, like Will Ferrell.

Todd (51:40)

I was gonna go. I don't think people would appreciate that.

Dan Patrick (51:45)

Yeah, see, there's that little classic. Yeah.

Todd (51:48)

Tasteless. What it is.

Dan Patrick (51:51)

You're lucky it's a Friday, and I've got, you know, about six more minutes with you, and then I am out of here.

Todd (51:58)

Look at some labs drawn.

Dan Patrick (51:59)

Thank you, Todd. Let's go around the room. What we learned on the program. Todd, you learned anything today?

Todd (52:04)

I did. Former defensive back Darren McCourty didn't love being on an island. Having to stay with Antonio Brown, Julio Jones and Calvin Johnson. That's a lot.

Dan Patrick (52:11)

Seaton, what'd you learn today? Todd's gonna have a long weekend. Seaton is going to be in Oklahoma. He'll be there in Norman, Oklahoma, for the Oklahoma Auburn game coming up. This weekend. Marvin, what did you learn today?

Dan LeBatard (52:23)

LeBatard is ready to make a LeBron.

Dan Patrick (52:25)

I know. Yikes. Seaton, what did you learn? Oh no, I mean Paulie, what'd you learn?

Paulie (52:32)

I learned a lot about baby names.

Dan Patrick (52:34)

Todd, what did I learn today?

Todd (52:35)

Dan lebarton informs us that two is cap hit over the next four years of Miami is more than Josh Allen's with Buffalo and that is an issue.

Dan Patrick (52:42)

I hope you had fun this week with us. We did. We'll try to do better coming up on Monday. Have a safe weekend, fun weekend and we look forward to talking to you on Monday.

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