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Card has no cash access and expires in six months hey, it's Bobby Bones. Join me and former NFL quarterback Matt Castle every Wednesday for our new podcast, Lots to say with Bobby Bones and Matt Castle. Between us, we have over 17,500 passing yards, multiple New York Times bestsellers, and one mirror ball trophy from Dancing with a Star. So where else are you gonna find a show with that much athleticism and football insight? We talk sports, but we talk pop culture and music and a little bit of everything. Listen to Lots to Say with Bobby Bones and Matt castle on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Jon Stewart is back at the Daily show, and he's bringing his signature wit and insight straight to your ears with the Daily Show Ears Edition podcast. Dive into John's unique take on the biggest topics in politics, entertainment, sports, and more. 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You are listening to the Dan Patrick show on Fox Sports Radio final hour on this Thursday. Just got word that Bob Uecker passed away at the age of 90. We'll try to put something together for tomorrow. I don't know if we can do it in the final hour here. Bring back some of the moments. I stayed in touch with UK a lot. We started texting the last couple of years and even in the off season, I would just send him a text saying, I'm thinking of you. And he always would have something funny to say. But the age of 90 and the number of people that he touched with his humor going back to when he'd be on the Tonight show and he would crack up Johnny Carson and he was just, you ask him something and he had a great response. He was always fun when we went out to Milwaukee when we did the sausage race, we got to spend some time with him and he'll be greatly, greatly missed just having that sense of humor. Still broadcasting games. He didn't do it on a nightly basis, but he said last text that I had, he said, let me know when you're swinging through Arizona. It'd be fun to get together again. So Bob Euchre passing away at the age of 90. Yeah, Paulie. I always found it so almost underrated that he took a subpar baseball career. I think he played five or six years and wasn't that good when he played and parlayed it into a monstrous media career. Movies and everybody liked the guy. He was a household name. He been a household name. I mean one of the more popular liked people in sports and otherwise. I love that story, though. When they he was asked about catching a knuckleball, he said it's not that difficult. You just wait till it stops rolling and then you pick it up. So. And how do you catch a knuckleball? Oh, it's easy. You just wait till it stops rolling. Because Duke was a catcher and I did have this. He let me see. Here's one of my last responses to him. Let me see if I've, I've got that. He talked about his batting average. No, let's let Me see. We'll get to Ed Werder here in a moment. Ed, thanks for being patient. Let's see, he says, thanks for checking in. Dan, always good to hear from you. Hope your crew is doing well. I finally got to my batting average when he turned 90 and I, I said 190. Congrats. And he said 210 with runners and scoring position. We'll try to bring back, you know, he, he was on our show a few times. So we'll try to bring back some of that humor. We'll have the back room guys try to find that for tomorrow. I saw a tweet from Ed Werder and I always reading Ed Werder's tweets and had something to do with the Cowboys. Ed is a Cowboy insider for WFAA TV in Dallas. Had to do with Dion. Had to do with Jerry Jones. And maybe, maybe this is actually in the on deck circle and could happen. And Edward are kind enough to join us. So you piqued my interest with this. So explain what your tweet was all about. That was my one and only interest in tweeting, Dan, was to get your attention. Thank you. And to have an opportunity to make a long awaited guest appearance on the show. You want to play golf again, let me know. Yeah, so I've been obviously following the Cowboys, you know, for a long time, but, you know, certainly throughout this season, and extending that coverage through the dismissal of Mike McCarthy, which I think surprised a lot of people, even those of us who cover the team on a regular basis. And, you know, when you start configuring a list of potential candidates to be the next head coach, only in Dallas do you have to make sure to include Deion Sanders and Jason Whitten, former, you know, Cowboys tight end great, who Jerry is enamored with, who has only coached at the high school level. Regarding Deion, obviously we know that he has not yet formally interviewed for the job. The Cowboys have extended invitations to Leslie Frazier and Robert Sala to be the first two to interview formally for the job. But Dion told Adam Schefter the other day that Jerry Jones reached out to him and they discussed the job and everything. I continue to be told, Dan, is that Jerry is interested. It was described to me as he's enamored with the idea. Obviously, it's hard to imagine any coaching candidate who could create more interest, someone that Jerry could more sell to the fan base here, which needs to happen and make Jerry more money than Deion Sanders. I mean, he won a Super bowl here as a player. So there are also people around Deion who tell me that he's being urged by his supporters in Colorado to take the job and that they believe if Jerry ever does offer him the job that he will take, that he has an extension to remain at Colorado on his desk that he hasn't even looked at as he considers these other possibilities. But, you know, I mean, there are also people close to Dion who tell me they don't see it happening, but they've seen things happen with Jerry Jones that they didn't expect to happen before. And he did hire Barry Switzer, so you can't rule anything out. He's the most unpredictable owner in the NFL on any subject, especially this one. But do you think that Jerry Jones had somebody in mind when he was willing to let Mike McCarthy leave? I assume that Jerry's done this enough times. This is his eighth time, that he knows before you let somebody who has some value and has proven himself to the degree, you know, Mike McCarthy has as a head coach in this league with two different franchises, that you're sure you're going to get somebody who you think is going to do a better job. Yeah, I. Man, for some reason. And I was talking to Tim Callishaw, of course, he covers the Cowboys, and he said Dion was treating this as if he was offered the job. Like, his response was, hey, I'm honored or humbled or whatever, but I got work to do at college, as if he was getting the job offer. And. And then I thought, well, maybe is Jerry doing Dion a favor? By, hey, we maybe have. We. We have some interest here, and that helps him even more with that extension at Colorado. But you think this is real? This is. This is something that could happen? I think it has merit. And I think when we're talking about Jerry and Dion, you always have to be wary of how this conversation could benefit each of them, and it certainly does. But I think there is a possibility of it happening. I mean, Dion apparently told Adam Schefter that he doesn't need to use the Cowboys as leverage to get what he wants at Colorado, that he's him, and that there's probably a lot of truth in that, given the effect he's had on that program and the attention he's brought to it and the money that's been dedicated to the program since then. But, yeah, and I think a key figure, if this were to go very far, would be Mike Zimmer. You know, Mike Zimmer was a defensive coordinator here this most recent season under Mike McCarthy coached under five head coaches in Dallas, and he has not decided what he's going to do in terms of whether he wants to continue coaching or not. I think a lot of that is dependent upon what direction Jerry decides to go and hiring the next head coach. And he would certainly, almost certainly Dan, be a part of it if Deion Sanders is the coach, because Mike is very close to Deon. He coached him when he was here. He was close. So close to his program at Jackson State and then at Colorado that there were people speculating that Zimmer was going to be the defensive coordinator at Colorado. That never happened. But Zimmer made it clear during the season when we spoke to him that he does frequently still speak to Deion Sanders. So I'm sure he would be heavily involved in that. And it's interesting that he has made no mention or. Or offered no decision on his future. Okay. But we've talked about Jerry, and he hires coaches that are submissive and malleable, and that's not Dion. So is. Is Jerry finally maybe coming around to that? I need to have somebody be a head coach, act like a head coach, and not be looking over their shoulder constantly. Well, do you think that Jerry would think that there's not room for him to influence Deion Sanders, who's never coached at the NFL level, on how he views his best route to being successful? I think Jerry would see this as a very. A very positive opportunity for him to influence the way Deion Sanders coaches Jerry's football team. Now. It was interesting that during the season when Jerry was first asked about Deion, you know, he praised him as one of his favorite players of all time and his, you know, his competitiveness that he brought to the team. But he also sort of dismissed his value as a head coach in the NFL because he said what Deion offers now that's most attractive and most influences his success at CU at the college level is his ability to recruit, and that's not going to be a significant part of his success in the NFL should he opt to coach in the NFL. And. And that's true. I mean, you. He could influence free agents, but the Cowboys are. Have not been heavily involved in free agency in recent years to their own detriment, quite honestly. You know, they were the last team to sign a player four out of the last five years. So it was interesting to me that Jerry thought that was the most unique ability Dion possessed and that it would not be a significant factor in whether he succeeded at the NFL level. Did Mike McCarthy won out that's not the sense I got. I mean, when the season ended, he was unequivocal and very public about the fact that his goal in the next few days was to remain in Dallas. He said he had made an investment in Dallas, the Cowboys had made an investment in him. I think his family wanted to be here. I Sincerely think Mike McCarthy wanted and expected it to work out. And I don't know that we fully understand the real reasons it did. Great to talk to you as always, Ed. Thank you. Thanks, Ed. Ed Werder covers the Cowboys for WFAA TV in Dallas. Longtime contributor to. To espn. So I guess it's real, real ish. But that's. I just. You already have enough eyeballs on the Cowboys, so it's not like, hey, we got Dion now. You know, if the Jags hired him, then you'd say, man, you're gonna get some publicity here. You already got publicity. Colorado needs Dion. Dallas doesn't need Dion. You know, with the. The attention that he would bring, man, do you imagine. I can't imagine Dion going, man, I don't know anything about coaching. Let me listen to Jerry Jones about this. What does Jerry know about coaching in the NFL? Well, Jerry knows business, I'll give him that. He's a great businessman, and I think he loves that. You know, there's constant chatter about the Cowboys, but if they don't get Ben Johnson, like, who are they getting? Who wants that job? Who. Who is equipped to take that job? Dion is equipped to take the job from the standpoint of, hey, I can go to the press conference. I can win a press conference. I can take Jerry. I know what to do with Jerry. It comes down to this for me. What are you going to do with Dak Prescott, 32, injury prone, immobile, and you owe him $231 million. That's the big problem. Couple of phone calls in here. David in Ohio. Hi, David. What's on your mind today? Yeah, Dan, I heard you talking about the auger. I know that those are made for, like, digging holes and stuff, so thought maybe you could install yourself a new mailbox or something like that. That'd be fun. Second thing is, if they hire Deion Sanders, I think in his contract, Jerry Jones need to put. Yeah, I'll put sunshades up at. AT&T Stadium. So. Thank you. All right. Thank you, David. Well, Dion wears sunglasses so he won't be bothered by the glare. Texas Stadium. Garrett in Wisconsin. Hi, Garrett. What's on your mind today? I62200 so I'm just calling to talk about Bob Uecker, you know, legendary brewers radio announcer, very sad about his passing. That's one of my favorite moments, wasn't when the brewers would, you know, make it to the playoffs or whatever. It was when he was in the clubhouse getting beard poured on his head and doing the ripcord dance, celebrating with the team. Um, grew up listening to him with my dad in the summer as us on the radio, working outside. And those are some of my best memories of Bob Euchre. Yeah, if you're listening on the radio, I mean, that's when you really establish a relationship with a play by play person. That's when that, that person is your person. You know, tv, it's different radio, you know, you're listening there in the background. You know, growing up, you'd listen on a transistor radio and that became your friend. That was your friend talking to just you. It felt like, and there was, you know, the great. It felt like synergy between that play by play voice on the radio, especially with baseball, because there's so many games and at night and you feel like he's talking to you. Norm in Florida. Hi, Norm. What's on your mind? Hey, Dan. Six, two, two, 15. I met Bob a couple times at spring training, so you probably heard these. I just wanted to honor him with a couple quick quotes that I really. He said when I came up to bat with the bases loaded in, two outs in the night, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes. And then he had one. In 1962, I was named minor league player of the year. And it was my second season in the bigs. And then I just got two more. He had to go. And when I, when I looked at the third base coach, he always turned his back on me. And one of my favorite ones is his last one. He talked about. I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn't really have that money to put out. Thank you, Norm. Yeah, we'll try to put something together tomorrow. We don't have the time in the final hour to pay tribute, you know, a full tribute to the passing of Bob Euchre, by the way. Sunday, Sunday, playoffs continue. The divisional round. It's Matthew Stafford and the Rams. They go to Philly, take on the Eagles, the winner one step away from the Super Bowl. So the NFC divisional round matchup Presented by Intuit TurboTax, Sunday, 2 Eastern on NBC. And Peacock. We'll talk to Jerome Bettis. We'll ask him about his alma mater playing in the national title game. I believe his son is set to go to Notre Dame. And also we'll ask Bussy about his Pittsburgh Steelers. He'll join us coming up here in the on deck circle. We're back after this. 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So where else are you gonna find a show with that much athleticism and football insight? Based in Nashville, we're more than just your basic NFL show. We talk sports, but we talk pop culture and music and a little bit everything. Because we got lots to say. I. I texted you and you texted me back. Now, I don't know if you have the update, but like, all the little thumbs up and heart and stuff, like it's all colored. They changed it and the heart's a little pink. It felt like I told you I loved you. I'm going to be honest, it was a little pink. There was something sentimental when you, when you send it, it was like, do I send the heart? Now I don't like the color edition. It's extremely pink. Listen to Lots to say with Bobby Bones and Matt Castle on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. Jon Stewart is back at the Daily show, and he's bringing his signature wit and insight straight to your ears with the Daily Show Ears Edition podcast. 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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 and all things NHL. Yeah, you're going to soon going to find out we're not just hockey talk. We had all kinds of random stuff on this podcast. Movies, television, food, wrestling, even the stuff that you wear on NHL. Now you wish you could pull off my short shorts, Ferkie that short of Kazarakis. Listen to NHL Unscripted with Burk and Demers, the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. What's going on, everybody? This is Justin Pennock from John Boy Media, the host of the Football Today podcast alongside Bobby Skinner and Chris Rose. We're rolling three times a week on Mondays, on Wednesdays, on Fridays, breaking down everything you need to know about the NFL. We're talking about the MVP race. Is Josh Allen going to pull it out? Lamar Jackson, Can Saquon Barkley even break the rushing record? Can the Steelers keep up their momentum? We talk about everything. We break it down. Stats, analytics. And of course, Chris Rose is bringing his perspective on being a pro in the media world as well. Listen to Football Today on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts and you will be glad you did. Hope you could join us for the postseason run. 877-3-DP Show Email address dpdanpatrick.com Twitter handle the DP show if you're just joining us, Mr. Baseball, Bob Euchre passed away at the age of 90. We'll try to cobble together some of the interviews that we did with Bob over the years. We'll bring that to you on tomorrow's program. He's drone Bet Jerome Bettis, the Hall of Fame running back won a Super bowl and a former running back out of Notre Dame 1993 draft, I believe. Do you see your jersey behind me? I see it. I love it. I love. That's old school right there. That's Rams Jerome Bettis. Yeah, that's where. Do you want that back? Do you want that back? No. Hey, I appreciate you displaying it proudly. I appreciate that. How many jerseys do you have? Do you collect jerseys? I do have. I do have some. Yeah. I've got a. I've got a few, but. But what I did was I collected Them as I was playing from different players, you know, we would trade jersey and stuff like that. So I didn't do much like buying jers or anything like that. It were all given to me at one time or another. All right, give me an idea who you have. What jerseys? I mean, my, I guess my pride and joy would be Jim Brown. I mean, I didn't play with him, but he, you know, he signed it and everything for me. Marshall Falk. I'm trying to think. Barry Sanders. It was a lot of running backs, as I think about it, but the problem is I don't have them displayed. My wife didn't let me put any of my jerseys up in the house, so I. So wait, wait, wait. You bought the house? Bus. You bought that? I know. Here, here's what you got to understand. It's some battles that's not worth fighting. And you gotta know, and I'm smart enough to know that was not a fight that I was willing to put out a lot of capital on. Okay, but do you have defensive players that you swap jerseys with? No, I've got. I swap. I swapped with Erlacher. His shoes, our shoes. Like in the last, one, last playoff games, we, we traded shoes. So that was pretty unique, but it was one of those one time things I didn't do very often. Alrighty. Let's start with your alma mater. What do you expect to happen on Monday night? I expect to be a very close game. I think a lot of people are thinking it's going to be a blowout. It's. I don't, I don't see that being the case. I think when you look at the teams that Ohio State struggled with, the team that had a lot of physicality, and I think that's what Notre Dame brings to the table. Physicality. At the point of attack, they're going to run the football. They're going to be physical on defense. Now, I will say we're at a bit of a disadvantage because, you know, our best defensive lineman, he's. He got hurt, you know, in the first playoff game. And so we don't. We're not as strong as we were up front. That's a little bit of an issue. But, you know, we, we played them a couple of years ago and you know, back to back years or one and after the other, and they were competitive football games. Right. We lost there at the end of both games. And so it tells you that we can play with them. That's not the issue. The key is we can't give up Big plays on, on defense and we have to create some big plays on offense. I don't see us going 80 yards down the field every single drive. So we've got to open that offense up a little bit and throw it down to be successful. You're going to the game? Yes, definitely. It's in Atlanta and I live in Atlanta, so there's no way I would not be at that one. And is your son going to Notre Dame? My son is enrolled, yes. So he's a, he's a, a mid year freshman. So he. We literally just dropped him off last weekend at Notre Dame, so we're real excited for him. Did you cry when you dropped him off? No, I didn't cry when I dropped him off. Fortunately for us, his big sister, she goes to Notre Dame as well. So it gave us a sense of. Well, gave me a sense of comfort knowing that his big sister was there on campus in Kenner. My wife, on the other hand, she left a day or so after me, so there was some crying. I do understand in that department. He's Jerome Bettis hall of Fame running back. The running back is back, boss. What happened in the NFL? See, let me tell you what happened. Running back never left. The problem was you couldn't find those franchise running backs, and let me tell you why. So in college, they changed the game in the sense of they went to these four wide receivers and they went to this smaller bag so they can go laterally down. You know, all the running in college is lateral. There's nothing downhill. So they went to little bitty small running backs. The problem is the NFL doesn't want little bitty small running backs. They still want power football downhill. And at some point you couldn't find the running backs. Right. If they're not coming from five or six schools, you know, the, the Georgias, Alabamas, the SEC schools, maybe a Wisconsin or Notre Dame every now and then, maybe Ohio State or Michigan running back. But outside of that, you're not getting running backs from all over the country like you used to. And so as a result, the NFL had to go to say, you know what, we'll figure it out. We'll go with these guys who can. We'll get four guys who can do with one guy could do. And that's what kind of happened. That and you start having to pay your tight end and the second receiver. And that money has to come from somewhere. So they say, you know what, since we can't find the franchise running back, let's pay these other guys and if we find one, great. If we don't, we don't. Which running back is more prominent in his team's success, Derrick Henry or Saquon Barkley? Oh, that's a great question. That's a great question. I would have to say Saquon Barkley because we have seen what the Baltimore offense can do without Henry. Yeah, it's not as explosive, but they are darn good without them. Right. So. And they've, they've gotten to the lane, same level of success. Now when you look at Philly, they're not as good as they've been in the past. If you take Saquon Barkley off of that football team, I don't know if they make the playoffs because they're just not clicking from a passing game perspective. And so with that being said, if you don't have Saquon Barker there, they don't have, I don't think a chance. Is Derrick Henry a hall of famer? 100%. Not a question about it. He's what he's been able to do over the years that he's been able been in the NFL 100%. I believe he's hall of Fame worthy. So I don't know what that looks like, but I do believe he has all of the characteristics. If his, if his career ended tomorrow, I think he definitely would be in the hall of Fame. What's wrong with your Steelers? I think they haven't been able to offensively get it figured out. They need a second receiver, a big time receiver. They don't have one on the other side of George Pickens. They've got to figure out about George Pickens in terms of can he be the player that they need him to be right on the field, off the field, all those things. And so I think they have to sit down with him and get that figured out. I think also you got to figure out the quarterback position. I think Russell is a good quarterback for the time, but I think the problem is he's not a long term solution to the issue. They have got to figure out a long term solution at the quarterback position. And a lot of you hear a lot of talking heads speaking about the coach and this and that you in the NFL, we've seen this now, this, this record is not, you know, new. If you do not have a quarterback in the NFL, you are not going to win in the playoffs. That is a, that's what we know for sure. And right now the Steelers have gone through this, this, you know, window of time where they've Been trying to figure out the quarterback situation and they have failed. They have not gotten it right. So I think that's what they got to figure out. I think if you put Russell in a position where he's got two really good receivers, a really good offensive line, a good running back, he can be successful. But to ask Russell Wilson to carry this football team on his back at the quarterback position, I think is unfair to him at this stage in his career. Yeah, but Bussy, I got to put some of this on Mike Tomlin. That, yeah, you get to the playoffs, he's helping try to get a quarterback. I don't think it's like he's powerful in that organization. So Mike's involved in this. So if you're involved, like you can say we got to get a quarterback. Well, I got to blame, put some of the blame on Tomlin that you haven't found a quarterback. Well, here's, here's what you have to do. If, if Tomlin was picking all the players, I would say, okay, another piece of this puzzle is you have to commit resources. Right? And so that means you've got to give up a couple first round picks. Right? Well, the Steelers, the draft is very instrumental in how they build their football team. So it's, it's a, this is not a head coach decision in terms of what they will have to do in terms of draft capital to go up and get a quarterback. Now maybe they haven't seen a quarterback that is worth, you know, packaging and mortgage in the future on. And I get that that may be the case, but I believe because of, I mean, they're prisoner of coach Tom's success because they don't have a losing season. They're picking anywhere from 18 to 25 to 26. You're not going to get a quarterback there. Right. And so because in the last 17 years or whatever it is, they have been there, that's where they're drafting. So they've got to make a fundamental decision on how do we get the quarterback in there. The one year when I was there that, that everything fell apart and I think it was probably the only year that we were, you know, under 500 with Coach Coward. It was 6 and 10. We got, we got Ben that year. Right. And so you don't get, that's the situation. You're not able to get that quarterback. So I think at the end of the day there has to be some high level discussions on are we willing to commit multiple first round picks to go get the quarterback that we need. Now they're trying to get players that have gone from team to team, and for the most part, some of these guys, their careers are more behind them than ahead of them. Right. You're not going to solve the problem with that type of scenario. You can. You can get from year to year, but it's not sustainable at the quarterback position. And that's the difficult, difficult part of the scenario that the Steelers are in. Is Ben Roethlisberger still the best quarterback in Pittsburgh? That's a good one. No, I definitely don't believe so. I know he's still throwing it. He's still throwing it to his kids in the backyard, but I don't know. I don't know if we can put him out of retirement and go for it. Have fun on Monday night there. And good, good to catch up with you again, Bussy. Hey, thank you, man. And you could have had any jersey you wanted at that spot. You put mine. I'm honored. Thank you so much. I appreciate you. The LA Ram, Jerome Bettis. Thank you, bud. Take care. All right. Hall of Famer. Yeah. 1993 draft pick out of Notre Dame. He wore number six there with the Fighting Irish. Bussey would be featured now today, you know, with these running backs. But he does bring up something interesting that college is five wide now. It's. These quarterbacks are completing 65, 70% of their passes. And you're not winning with just power football. Yeah, Morph. When I was a kid, in my head, he was the trendsetter because he was like the big running back. And you had guys like Natron Means and Bam Moore's. You had the poor man's Jerome Bettis. So he was a trendsetter, at least when I was a kid. Natron Means. Yeah. Yeah. I felt like you had to have one of those guys, whether it was, you know, a first and second down running back. And then maybe you had somebody who came in and. Or you had two running backs in the backfield. Yeah, Paulie. And it's weird because Jerome played a lot of fullback. He was the blocking back on someplace. Then he'd switch to be the tailback because they had a lot of tailbacks at Notre Dame. Plus, wearing six made him look faster than he was with the sleeker number and it made Bussey look faster. Let's see. Jim in Michigan. Hi, Jim. What's on your mind? Thank you for taking my call. 612 26. And I just wanted to mention, if anybody hasn't had the pleasure of watching Eucurt address the Cooperstown crowd when he was brought in. There it is, the funniest damn thing. I bet you I've watched it half a dozen times and it's just, it goes way beyond the Johnny Carson days. He was just, just wonderful. It was a great presentation. Yeah, he became famous for not being famous. And he was so self deprecating. I mean, he kind of invented it, you know, when you're making fun of what you weren't. He would have loved to have the Mendoza line for his batting average. He would have been like, yeah, I'm killing it. I'm batting.200 here. He was a 190 guy. All right, we'll take a break. 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Selfishly, I want an office of minded guy so I can build with him and be with that coach for the next 19, 17, 15 years and so I can also learn and grow and, you know, things like that from him and what he's seen and what he, you know, what he's gone through with, you know, maybe other QBs or been around. Okay, Caleb Williams should have said the following to Aman Ross St. Brown, what do I want in a coach? I want your offensive coordinator. That's what I want. Nickocoach selfishly. And I'd like maybe a couple of offensive linemen. That's what I would like. All right, last call for phone calls. Bob in Montana. Hi Bob, welcome back. No, hey, dp, two quick things here. Your final caller on Monday said he was a semifinalist for Survivor and actually back in 2004, I was a semifinalist as well. In fact, one of my buddies worked on the show for eight seasons. He's on that Christmas card that I sent you guys. So if that caller wants an edge, I'd be happy to relay my experiences in the interview process and then maybe that way at least somebody from DP Nation will get on the show. And then second, my daughter and I actually go ice fishing quite a bit historically. You guys take off the final or the week after the Super Bowl. So I was just gonna invite you out if you wanted to come out to Montana after that, we'll take you out to Georgetown Lake, which is just right down the street from where you go on your big fly fishing trips in the summer with your brother. Well, I first have to conquer the state of Maine before I'm gonna branch out. Conquer. Yeah, I have to conquer Maine and then maybe I'll start to look. Seek out other states to conquer bigger challenges. Yes. Yes. Scott in Scottsdale. Hi, Scott in Scottsdale. Hey, Dan. I'm a little out of my geographical element with respect to where Bob lives and where you are right now, but a couple of things about ice fishing. If you can make sure using your auger that's at least 4 inches thick, you're in pretty good shape. You also want like a blue and clear ice. So it's usually an indication it's thick enough to skate across. And worst case scenario is if you do find yourself in the water, if you have the picks and you can put them as horizontally apart from you as possible while kicking your legs, you can usually float up enough where you can pull yourself up on the said ledge and you have a little scapability. Well, thank you, Scott. Yes. I am checking with the locals. They tell me about what the ice needs to look like. And then, you know, and usually, you know what, here's my rule of thumb. If I see trucks that are parked on the lake, then I realize that it probably can hold me, me and my dog. So we're probably about £250 combined there. So I think we'll be. We'll be okay if I. And also I follow tracks. If I go on the ice and there's snow, I just follow where there's people tracks. And unless, like, I'm walking and all of a sudden those tracks disappear. Cracks. Yes, yes. Would you follow the big guy? Let's say a bunch of people are walking on the ice. Wouldn't you stand like 10ft behind the biggest guy? Because if he's okay, you're okay. Is that a good policy? It's if. It's like if a bear was chasing me and I was with Todd, I'd feel really good because I'll run faster. I'll run faster than Todd, guaranteed. That's fair. And then the bear. Bear will be, you know, taking care of Todd and I'll be running away, getting ready to grab my auger. Andy in Rhode Island. Hi, Andy. Hey, good morning, Dan. Dennis. What's going on? Marvin. Fritzi. Dan, I actually have a personal question. I know you had a way with your late. With the ladies back in the day, with that voice. But what did you figure out? That you actually had a radio voice? Because it's silky. Dan, let me tell you, when it comes to the speakers, it is killing it. And I'm surprised more ladies aren't calling. I. They're probably intimidated, though. I think. I think that's probably the. The kindest thing that I could say about it. Andy. It's. You can't buy this. You can't just lucky. You got to have this voice and you have to have this hair, and it's. That's a combo platter. It's like having, you know, power and speed. Yes, Todd. It's like those supermodels that go on the talk shows and say, no, I'm not dating anybody. No one's interested in me. I can't find anybody. No one approaches me. Oh, no, no. I. I would. Telling the truth, nobody was interested in me. But it's the intimidation factor of the voice, though, which is what he was getting at. That's why you. Maybe more girls are. Todd. Todd. If I went, hi, how are you? Hey. Just want to. Just want to say hello. Yeah, I'm getting a little excited myself. Thank you, Todd. I know I'm not what you're looking for. I know guys would get excited when I would talk to them. That's a problem. Hey, could you get me a beer? Hey, I know that voice. Yeah, I'll bet you do. Yeah. Steve, I just had a conversation while waiting to pick up my son from soccer the other day. Another dad that I know very, very well. Great guy. He's just like, hey, so how's Dan doing? Good God, what a voice. What a voice. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's pretty good. You guys take it for granted. It's true. I mean, imagine if I had a high pitched voice and you had to listen to it every day for three hours. Instead, you get to listen to this. And he asked such great questions, too, with that. Yeah. Oh, he does. He does. Yeah. He doesn't look as good as he sounds, though. That's part of the. I didn't want to say anything. It would be a lot different, though, if you, like, you just asked Jerome Bettis, like, yeah, if Ben Roethlisberger is still the best quarterback in Pittsburgh, I would lose some effect. I don't want to listen. I've heard some shows like that. I'm aware of some shows. I was in Chicago. I covered that team. Oh, go too deep, too deep. Wow. Bring it back. That could be anybody just want to jam what I don't like late jam what? That's the punch trying to should have thrown this day in sports history. Gotta get it back together after that dad. 1961 Mickey Mandel signed the highest one season contract in baseball history. $75,000 in 1961 and oh 1988 the St. Louis Cardinals announced they're moving to Phoenix. Michael Jordan in 93 had 64 points against your Orlando Magic. Mark Sanchez our guest yesterday through three touchdown passes on this day jets upset the Patriots went to the AFC title game. Todd, what did you learn today? Jerome Bettis isn't sure the Eagles even make the playoffs if Saquon wasn't in their back view Seaton, what did you learn today? Bussy's got another domer in the family. Yeah, son going there. Marvin. The Patriots played a playoff game on a Saturday against the Texans. Paulie, would you learn Collinsworth pulled a hammy at the 38 yard mark. Todd, what did I learn today? We all learned you got an auger to go ice fishing in Maine, but thankfully the wife said no to you. Getting a chainsaw for right now. Okay, it's still up in the air. I think if she sees how I treat the auger, then she'll say, all right, you can get a chainsaw. Look forward to talking to you tomorrow. Take care. Hey, it's Bobby Bones. Join me and former NFL quarterback Matt Castle every Wednesday for our new podcast, Lots to say with Bobby Bones and Matt Castle. Between us, we have over 17,500 passing yards, multiple New York Times bestsellers, and one mirrorball trophy from Dancing with the Star. So where else are you going to find a show with that much athleticism and football insight? We talk sports, but we talk pop culture and music and a little bit of everything. Listen to Lots to Say with Bobby Bones and Matt Castle on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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