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Lele Pons
This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.
Kerry Brownstein
Hey, Portlandia fans.
Fred Armisen
Kerry Brownstein and Fred Armisen here.
Kerry Brownstein
The dream of the 90s is alive in podcast form.
Fred Armisen
We're launching Podlandia AO Rewatch our brand new podcast where we revisit every episode of Portlandia together, breaking down sketches, going deep on our iconic characters and pulling back the curtain on how it all got made.
Kerry Brownstein
And we'll also be joined by the people who helped bring it all to life, guest stars, collaborators and friends, including director Jonathan Krisel, the mayor himself, Kyle McLaughlin, legendary musician Amy Mann, and many more.
Fred Armisen
Kyle is going for it. Here you fully improvised not just words, but a song about.
Dan Patrick
Well, I thought you were all going
Caller/Listener
to write a song.
Fred Armisen
I remember you thinking that. Listen to Podlandia AO rewatch on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
Ari Chambers
What's up, fam? It's sports journalist Ari Chambers.
Sam J
Hey, what's up, y'?
Marvin
All?
Sam J
It's your girl, Sam J.
Ari Chambers
And we're the hosts of Everyone Watches Women's Sports, a new podcast from.
Sam J
Together we're breaking down the biggest headlines, the viral moments and the stories everyone's talking about across women's sports.
Ari Chambers
From game changing performances to culture shifting conversations. We'll give you our takes, our debates and a few laughs along the way
Sam J
because everyone watches women's sports. Listen to Everyone watches women's sports on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
Mike Florio
This is Chelsea Handler from Dear Chelsea. Every week the news gets worse, the world gets crazier, and Yamanika is here
Dan Patrick
to tell whoever's responsible, you're the problem.
Sam J
Do you know I just found who Sydney Sweeney was? If he got a bunch of women, then I should have a bunch of men do better or do less so
Dan Patrick
I don't have to do so much.
Sam J
I'm Yamaneika and I'm out. Listen to youo're the Problem with yamaneika on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
Lele Pons
My first guest is Paris Hilton, Shakira, Luke and Yerin.
Dan Patrick
You have surprises, many surprises.
Lele Pons
Welcome to the Sweet 305 podcast where the group chat comes to life.
Dylan
What?
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Dan Patrick
Final hour on this Monday fun show so far. Breezing through. Mike Florio, on loan from Pro Football Talk will join us. The bizarre situation with an Arizona Cardinal executive who he or somebody he knows placed a $25 parlay on the first five draft picks and it turned out to be a windfall of over $700,000. A little inside information there. We'll talk to Florio about that. Also, those football fields that became soccer fields that were grass fields that look gorgeous and if you're an NFL player, certainly one that's played with the Giants or Jets, you're looking at that field going, certainly be nice to play on that. It probably be a little more beneficial for my knees. Why can't we keep these fields? Why can't we have these kind of fields? Whoever put in that turf, you would probably want that for your stadium, outdoor stadium. Stat of the day as well was brought to you by Panini America, the official trading cards of the Dan Patrick show. And we'll have a poll question for the final hour of the show. Dylan, why don't you recap what we've discussed the first two hours.
Dylan
Well, Dan, first two hours, best defense in sports history, 2026 Spain, 85 Bears, the 2000 Ravens or other 85 Bears still running away with it, 43%.
Dan Patrick
Yeah, it's the Steelers. Yeah, the Steelers won four Super Bowls in a row. The Steel Curtain. I mean that to me, you can pretty much name everybody. When you can, you know, recite an entire defense, that's when you become a household name. And Pittsburgh certainly was that. Yes, Dylan, if we keep it to
Dylan
sort of the one off teams, take the Steelers out of the equation. Is it the Bears still.
Dan Patrick
Boy, that performance. Now once again, those two teams played bad offenses in the super bowl or they made offenses look really bad. I like Tony Eason and the Patriots. Not a fair fight. And you had the Ravens against the Giants. Kerry Collins, not a fair fight there either. Yeah, Paulie, back to the Steelers.
Paulie
They were so good for so long. Like you said, they had a ton of household names on their team. Jack Lambert was famous. People had posters, mean Joe Green. You go on and on. But like for multiple defensive players to become stars, that shows longevity.
Dan Patrick
And they had Donnie Shell didn't even start. He might be in the hall of Fame. You might want to check that. He was kind of a defensive back linebacker hybrid. And but you had, you had so many great players on that, those Steeler defenses. Yes, Todd, Donnie Shell is in fact
Todd
a member of the Pro Football Hall.
Dan Patrick
That's how good that defense was. Yeah, Paul, Yeah, he was four years
Paulie
in a row first team all pro. He didn't start for the first five years of his career and then became a starter for quite a while. Wow.
Dan Patrick
We'll give you our best and worst of the weekend. Todd, I'm going to start with you.
Todd
My best of the weekend. Down four nil at halftime of the third place World cup match. Even though they ultimately lost six four. I'm going to give some love to France, showing some heart, fought back in a relatively meaningless game. Cut it to 4 3. Ultimately lost 6 4. But still, that was nice that they didn't give up and continued playing worst. Another prominent pro athlete's property was targeted and thankfully everyone was unharmed. Saquon Barkley and his family, victims of a home invasion. Pretty scary early on Saturday morning.
Dan Patrick
How about you, Dylan?
Dylan
My best Dan. Shane Gillis breaks two Guinness world records for the largest comedy audience and the most tickets sold by a solo comedian. Fellow member of the Louis CK fan club. And then worst the World Cup. I'm calling it the consolation game. It was fun, but it's really just an exhibition. And after watching that, that really shouldn't count for the Golden Boot tally.
Dan Patrick
Yeah, but it did. Mbappe ended up winning. Marvin. Best and worst of the weekend.
Marvin
I'm skewing negative. I have two worst. First worst Cam Scatter boo. At Fanatics Fest. Attempting a backflip.
Dan Patrick
What are you doing?
Marvin
And not sticking the landing on his surgically repaired ankle.
Dan Patrick
What are you doing? What are you doing?
Marvin
I know. Other worst, Tom Brady getting into a WWE style feud. Also at Fanatics Fest with Logan Paul. What is to who's advising Tom?
Dan Patrick
I don't need to see Tom in the ring for a wrestling match with Logan Paul or I don't know which Paul it is. Is it Logan Paul? Aaron Paul? Is it Paul McCartney? Like, like I don't, I don't care. But as soon as he slapped him, I go, oh no. Now we have the build up. You got the setup. Oh, there's bad blood between these two. Was there so called bad blood going back to the flag football game, Didn't Tom do something to him at the flag football that they did. You remember?
Marvin
I don't know the backstory on this.
Dan Patrick
Yeah, I thought that, I thought he made fun of him or threw a ball. I don't something with one of the Paul brothers. But yeah, now I know now Tom's gonna now be a wrestler if he goes out in a Speedo, then I'll go. Okay. All right. You're all in on being a wrestler? Yes, Dylan.
Dylan
We have a little bit of news, Dan. Apparently, Jake Paul issues a harsh warning after Tom Brady slaps his brother Logan. Paul, that is. Things are really heating up.
Dan Patrick
Okay, here we go. You ready? Paul brothers against Gronk and Tom Brady. Yeah. And then you throw in Edelman. You know, bring your little brother to school, bring your little brother to a wrestling match. You get Edelman in there as well. There has to be a payoff after this. But I was like, oh, no, don't do this. Yes, Dylan.
Marvin
Yeah.
Dylan
This is the quote from Jake Paul. I'm honestly p worded. I wish I was there to back him up, he said. But I have one message for Tom. The Paul brothers are coming for you. And revenge is sweet. We like to keep your head on a swivel.
Dan Patrick
We like to call them the Paul Bears. You see, we're gonna. We're gonna carry you out of that ring. We're the pall bearers.
Marvin
What you gonna do?
Dan Patrick
Yeah. Yes, you are right.
Todd
There was some kind of Brady and Paul joying back and forth on the football field during the Fanatics flag football classic. That I guess escalated now into what we're seeing.
Dan Patrick
Yeah, it's always connected to the fanatics. Yes, Dylan.
Dylan
Yeah, I would like to point out I'll take the blame for this. We are doing exactly what they want us to do right now, which is just mentioning them in any sort of capacity.
Dan Patrick
Well, no, I'm mentioning it. So maybe somebody goes, yeah, it does sound pretty stupid. Somebody suggested to me, you know, if Tom gets in there against Giselle's new husband in the ring, that would be interesting. I was like, well, that's kind of harsh. We went there too soon. But he's a Jiu Jitsu master. Isn't he something?
Dylan
Yeah, I don't like Tom's odds in that one.
Dan Patrick
No, probably not. I have an update on the Kawhi Leonard situation. It's from a source. The Clippers investigation. Adam Silver doesn't have the near final or final report at this point. This matter has become more complicated than anticipated and involves issues that dovetail with potential legal implications. My source goes on to say the league also has to contemplate if any similar activities happen, happened elsewhere, and what, if any, steps need to be taken to clarify the do's and don'ts once the investigation is done. They're using their go to firm, Wachtel, Lipton, Rosen and Katz. So this is being taken as seriously as it can be. But the firm ultimately guides when the final conclusions are reached. So do I think this has happened before? Yes. This one just got out. But do I think there have been some sweetheart deals from an owner to a star player? Hey, after you retire, we'll make sure you get this. I'm just saying this isn't a one off, in my opinion. And maybe that's what the commissioner is making. This is 10 months. This is 10 months. Yes, Mark.
Marvin
So is that what it means when somebody's a special ambassador? Like one of the great players in a franchise's history? Oh, what's he do? He's a special ambassador now?
Dan Patrick
Yes, Todd.
Todd
And you don't want to mess with rosaring cats. There's just no win situation there now.
Dan Patrick
They mean business. They mean business. All right, final poll question for the final hour. You got one? I do.
Dylan
Then a little golf talk. What? Now that we're we've concluded all the majors for the year, what was your biggest surprise from this season? So, obviously we had Rory winning a back to back Masters, Aaron Rye coming out of nowhere to win the PGA Championship, Windham Clark seemingly back from career purgatory to win his second U.S. open, or Ryan Fox winning the Open Championship, who at one point on Friday was plus 225,000 to win the tournament.
Dan Patrick
I would say Ryan Fox. I know it's recency bias, but when you consider. I don't think he took up golf till he was 25, turned pro at 37, and then you win the Open Championship at 39 and you birdie for the last six holes. That's pretty special. Pretty special, yeah.
Paulie
Paulie, I would throw in the PGA Tour, taking back control of the sport of golf completely. The live tour a year ago was still fighting the good fight or bad fight. And they're dead.
Dylan
Dead.
Dan Patrick
Did you get both of yours in, Marvin?
Marvin
I did, yes.
Dan Patrick
Okay, Paulie, best and worst.
Paulie
I got two. Best of the weekend. Josh Kerr, British runner, broke the mile record. He went 34. I'm sorry, 3:42, 66. The record was 3:43 13 back in 1999. Great job by Josh Kerr. And then the other one, Indiana football not going backwards. They're going up. Kurt Signetti signed the biggest recruit in program history. Five star recruit out of Indy Mansion sales. He's a wide receiver.
Dan Patrick
Yeah, but who's their quarterback? No, that's what I want to know. I mean, you know, you can have a great receiver. I didn't Mendoza's brother transfer to Georgia Tech. He was on the depth chart. Maybe backup quarterback there. Yes, Dylan, it is.
Dylan
I know. It's kind of interesting to think like, all right, Indiana pulled this off. Can they. Is there any shot of them replicating this? And the fact that they're already kind of on their way to doing that is still amazing to me.
Dan Patrick
I don't get it. Yeah. I don't know what their odds are going into this season, but it is weird when you think of Michigan as a basketball school. Indiana is a football school. By the way, Golden State won the summer league. My guy Yaxel, who's like 25 years
Marvin
of age, he's a man. Literally, he's a man.
Dan Patrick
No, no, he's. Yeah, he spent some time in college and overseas and he can play. He'll be a contributor right away. Yes.
Todd
Todd, you think LeBron might give them another look after that big summer league victory? Maybe he's leading one way or the other.
Dan Patrick
I don't know. I don't know. I would. Yes.
Dylan
Dylan has the Grizzlies summer league dynasty kind of. Is that a wrap?
Dan Patrick
Yeah, I think, I think it's done.
Dylan
Yeah.
Dan Patrick
Yeah, I think it's done. Yeah.
Paulie
Paul Hoosier's new quarterback, Josh Hoover, formerly of tcu.
Dan Patrick
Oh, yeah. That's a big deal.
Fox Sports Radio Announcer
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Paulie
Yeah, he's a. He's got a lot of experience. He's had like 25 starts at least.
Dan Patrick
I, I only saw the video. I didn't watch this live. Josh kerr shattering the 1 mile world record in London. 3 minutes 42 and 6. 6 seconds. So he beat the 27 year old record by nearly a half a second. And if you watch him, it feels like he's sprinting the entire time. And it used to be milers, they would pace themselves. Pace themselves. And then you would have that final kick. It felt like he was on a final kick for the entire race there. But running a mile. I remember, you know, Jim Ryan, if you go back, he was a guy out of Kansas and you're breaking a four minute mile now. Like it's now you're. Then it was breaking 350. Now you're down to 342, running the mile. Look at the marathon. Somebody go, go. Under two hours in a marathon anytime soon. Pretty wild. Let me see Adam in Maryland. Hi, Adam. What do you have for me today,
Caller/Listener
Dan? I'm going to try and help with the wedding speech. I've done a few hundred speeches.
Dan Patrick
I know you have to wait a minute. Hold on. Marathon is now under two, Paulie.
Paulie
Yeah. Kenyan's Sebastian saw ways 1-593- okay, just April of 2026 and a shocker.
Dan Patrick
It was a guy from Kenya who did it.
Caller/Listener
Right.
Dan Patrick
Yeah. Never figured that was going to happen. By the way, Indiana odds to win the national title. It's Ohio State, Notre Dame, Texas, then Indiana tied with Oregon. Yes.
Dylan
Dylan, wasn't the, the marathon record breaking? Wasn't it? The guy who came in second also broke the record, but it was just like a hair behind.
Dan Patrick
But he didn't win. He didn't win. I'm sorry. Adam, what do you have for me?
Caller/Listener
All good. Four things to think about for your speech. Number one, this is the only time in your life that everyone in the room is rooting for you.
Dan Patrick
Well, no, I have two other daughters, so I'll have two more tries at this.
Caller/Listener
Feeling back three times in your life.
Dan Patrick
Okay.
Caller/Listener
Number two, you will choke up. Have a line ready like, you know, the over under was four minutes that I was going to choke up. It's not funny, but everyone's going to nervously laugh and it lets you get your breath back in about 20 seconds.
Dan Patrick
Okay.
Caller/Listener
Third, go into the room during the cocktail hour and stand where you're going to give the speech so you have muscle memory and comfort when you go back in.
Dan Patrick
Wait a minute, Adam, didn't you give me this advice like a couple of months ago? Yeah, okay. No, I remember because you said, find a spot where I'm going to be giving my speech, so it will be familiar to me. So. Yeah, but thank you for reminding me of that, Adam. And it's not lost on me. I'm gonna. I'm gonna find out, you know, where the, you know, the wedding reception is, and then I'm gonna go stand there and then I'm gonna see who I'm making eye contact with or trying to avoid eye contact. Alan in Charleston. Hey, Alan, what's on your mind?
Caller/Listener
Morning. How are you?
Dan Patrick
Good.
Caller/Listener
I'm trying to take some heat off the top.
Dan Patrick
Got a bad connection, Alan. Sorry about that. Jared in Kansas. Hi, Jared.
Caller/Listener
Yes, sir. How are you?
Dan Patrick
Great, Jared.
Caller/Listener
Just farming out here in Kansas and shout out to Jim Ryan. I also think that you guys should have a. And I listen to you on the tractor every morning. But I also think that you guys should have a sound bit for Seaton's
Dan Patrick
laugh or something also, so use that as a drop. Seaton's laugh. I don't know if we have the rights to that. Marvin, could you check with Seaton if we can use his laugh?
Marvin
I'll talk to his people.
Dan Patrick
All right, because we. We have Darius Rucker's laugh, don't we?
Marvin
Checking.
Dan Patrick
Oh, okay. We don't own the rights to that either.
Paulie
His is like a machine gun.
Dan Patrick
It is. He put on a great show on Friday night. Did a great job. Now, I was on stage playing the tambourine during Wagon Wheel, and I say to Paulie, I said, oh, did you go to the concert? He goes, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was with my wife. We were out there, you know, row, whatever. And I go, okay. I said, you see me? He goes, yeah, on the right side of the stage. I said, no. For the encore for Wagon Wheel, I'm on stage playing the tambourine. Paul said, no, I didn't see you.
Paulie
Like, okay, you gotta go up by Darius next time. You were kind of in the background, I guess.
Dan Patrick
No, but that's. Now, I did say. I. I think they turned off my microphone. Ah, yeah. Because I said to the drummer, I said, steve, is this thing on? He goes, I think so. So I pulled it down and I started singing. And normally Darius will turn around when I sing because he'll hear my voice and know that that's, you know, something different. He didn't turn around. I think they're on to me. I did see his fiance. I don't know if Emily was thrilled that I mentioned they're getting married February 20th next year in Charleston.
Paulie
Just redid it.
Dan Patrick
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes.
Paulie
Paul, did you go on stage and give him a guitar?
Dan Patrick
Twice.
Paulie
See, that's where I thought I saw you, but you had, like, a hat on backwards, and you look like a guitar tech.
Dan Patrick
Yeah, yeah. I said to the guitar tech, I said, let me. Let me take Darius's guitar up on. On. Hold my hand. I said, give me that thing. And so I just walked over. He didn't realize it was going to be me. Turned around, he started laughing, and then I helped him put it on, and then, you know, hit him on the rear end on the way out. All right, Mike Florio will join us on loan from Pro Football Talk and more of your phone calls as well this Monday. Back after this, Be sure to catch
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Subscribe hit that thumbs up icon and comment away. Have to admit, sometimes I take it for granted. It's always there. It's always going to taste great. It's my friend. It's Miller Time. But let's say you're running late to watch the game and your buddy has already found seeds. That's a Miller Time mvp. How about a person who brings enough Miller Lite for everybody? I once had a friend who brought a 12 pack of Miller Lite, but there were only seven beers in it that he drank the beer before he got there. So he said he brought a 12 pack. It was a seven pack. But I can't blame him. He didn't want to wait. Miller Light. Yes, Dylan.
Dylan
That could have been me, actually.
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Ari Chambers
What's up, fam? I'm sports journalist Ari Chambers.
Sam J
Hey, what's up, y'?
Paulie
All?
Sam J
It's your girl, Sam J.
Ari Chambers
And we're the host of Everyone Watches Women's Sports, a new podcast from Together. And I heart women's sports because, let's
Sam J
be real, women's sports is giving us way too much to talk about these days.
Ari Chambers
So Kelsey Findler, she became the first female solo rower to go from California to Hawaii.
Sam J
My first thought is just like, what's up with the snacks? Like, what are we eating?
Ari Chambers
The highlights, the rivalries, the breakout stars, the moments that take over your entire
Sam J
timeline and the conversations that start during the game and somehow keep going all week. Every week, we're breaking down the biggest stories across women's sports.
Ari Chambers
Naomi Osaka showing out. She beat Sabalenka.
Sam J
Shout out to you, Naomi, you get the palm.
Ari Chambers
Naomi, you get the palm for that.
Sam J
Because we're not just interested in what happened, we're interested in why everyone's talking about it. Because everyone watches women's sports. Listen to everyone watches women's Sports on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
Kerry Brownstein
Hey, Portlandia fans.
Fred Armisen
Kerry Brownstein and Fred Armisen here, you
Kerry Brownstein
know us, or rather, you know them. Tony and Candace, Nina and Lance, Spike and yes, the chicken.
Fred Armisen
We've played a lot of iconic characters over the years, but today we're showing up as ourselves. To tell you about Podlandia. AO rewatch our brand new podcast.
Kerry Brownstein
Each week we'll revisit an episode of Portlandia from the very beginning, breaking down the sketches, exploring the backstories of our most iconic characters, revisiting the Portland locations you know and love, and opening up about our creative process.
Fred Armisen
How did any of this get made? Why do we think that was a good idea? We're ready to talk about it.
Kerry Brownstein
And we'll also be joined by the people who helped bring it all to life, guest stars, collaborators and friends, including director Jonathan Krisel, the mayor himself, Kyle McLaughlin, legendary musician Amy Mann, and many more.
Fred Armisen
Kyle is going for it. Here you fully improvised. Not just words, but a song about it.
Mike Florio
I thought he was going to write. I thought you were all going to write a song.
Fred Armisen
I remember you thinking that.
Kerry Brownstein
Listen to Podlandia. Ayo rewatch I on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
Lele Pons
My first guest is Paris Hilton, Shakira, Luke and Yerin Samira e Gracie.
Dan Patrick
I'm so excited. On the bouncy bed, you have surprises, many surprises.
Lele Pons
Welcome to suite 305, where the group chat comes to life. What up? You're the only person I know that loves a yellow starburst. It's lemonade. This is suite 305. Listen to suite 305 with Lele Pons as part of my Cultura podcast network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts.
Dan Patrick
8773-dp-show email address dpdanpatrick.com Twitter handle @dpshow Good morning. If you're watching on Peacock, thank you for downloading the app. And if you have Peacock, then you're watching pro football Talk Live as well, Mike Florio, co host with Chris Sims, his latest novel, Big Shield, available on Amazon in ebook form, 99 cents. It's a tale of the mob and pro sports in the age of legalized gambling. Help me understand what's going on with the Arizona Cardinals.
Mike Florio
Mike well, Dan, good morning, first of all. And second, this was one of those Friday afternoon summertime bad news dumps where the NFL announced that Ryan Gold, the team's director of college scouting, had been indefinitely suspended for two violations, two separate categories under the gambling policy, one, making parlay wagers and two, providing inside information about the team's draft picks to others. And he hired a lawyer. Lawyer issued multiple statements on Sunday explaining his side of things. But I look at it this way and a general manager from another team reached out and said there's no way they're going public with this unless they are damn sure it happened. Why are you welcoming this scandal? The NFL has avoided much of the stuff we've seen with the NBA and mlb. Why would you say, hey, everybody, look over here, we got a guy who was giving inside information for the purposes of wagering on Cardinals draft picks, unless you are 100% sure that the guy did it.
Dan Patrick
OK, but let me understand this. This isn't the top five picks of the draft. This is the top five picks of the Arizona Cardinals. And is this person in the war room, you know, texting somebody moments before, hey, here's the, here's the pick?
Mike Florio
Well, we know that that happens anyway because there's already a lag between when the pick is made and when the pick is announced. That's how and that's why the NFL is very, very clear with the broadcast partners. Tell your reporters not to report until the the pick is officially announced by the commissioner. But yeah, this is a guy who's in a position and director of college scouting is the top scout in charge of college players who arrive through the draft. So unless the GM Monty Austin Ford, is completely freezing out his top executive in charge of scouting college players, this guy's in a position to know as it relates to their first pick, third overall, it wasn't hard to know who the first two picks were going to be. Number one, Fernando Mendoza. Number two was either going to be David Bailey or Arvell Reese. So someone had to have an idea what the Cardinals are going to do at number three. And then after that, as you go farther down the board, you know who the team likes, you know where this is all going, you know how it's playing out. Even if, as Ryan Gold's lawyer said, only the owner and the GM knew the picks, you still are in a position where you got a pretty damn good idea which way the wind's blowing.
Dan Patrick
Okay. But what I'm told is he placed a $25 wager parlaying the results of the team's first five draft picks. The wager paid out $732,500.
Mike Florio
Well, and you're in a position to make a pretty damn good educated guess as to who's going to be there. You know who the team likes. It's not unreasonable. And a lot of things still have to fall your way because we know once the picks start, it can go haywire. One pick changes everything. But you know who the team likes. You got a good sense as to who's going to be there. And if that's what happened, look, it's still a lot of luck, but he's in a position to know who they like. He's in a position to know what their board looks like and when the players are likely to exit the board. And if that's what happened, he nailed it.
Dan Patrick
I mentioned I had a little bit of an update on Kawhi Leonard, that situation, and I was told maybe the NBA is making sure that this didn't happen with other teams where you kind of give somebody a little sweetheart deal on the side or, you know, we'll give you something that's off the books here. Does the it doesn't know. I it doesn't feel like the NFL would do this and only if they did it maybe at the quarterbacking position. But I have you heard anything where there's like sweetheart side deals that are off the book salary cap with the NFL?
Mike Florio
Well, there was an issue with the Broncos years ago where they did something with Elway. They created some sort of an issue after the fact they lost a couple of third round picks. I believe this was back in the days before we had an army of people covering everything that happens in the NFL. But that's out there. That's already happened. And there was speculation that something was going on with the Patriots and Tom Brady and TB12 being used as an outside resource. And as I've had it explained to me many times, look, this was an era where the league was looking for anything they could use to hammer the Patriots with. The league made sure there was nothing untoward happening when TB12 was this outside resource for the New England Patriots. But Dan, I remember back in the early days of the salary cap, I think the 49ers went out and bought a team of free agents, and there was all this joking and speculation about briefcases full of cash. How could you ever completely police that unless you truly devote massive resources to ferreting it out?
Dan Patrick
The Aaron Donald situation kind of hanging there a little bit, feels it feels more likely than less likely, at least in my opinion. In your circles, what do you think happens with Aaron Donald in the Rams?
Mike Florio
I feel like at some level, the Rams are milking this thing just to make it dramatic and cinematic. I mean, hell, they're in Hollywood. They may as well make it as interesting as possible. And I also think there's value in not making it obvious during this period where we're searching for anything to talk about. Because the moment the Rams add Aaron Donald, if that happens, they've already got the highest bar of any team in the NFL. They're already the betting favorites to get to the super bowl and win it. You had Aaron Donald, and the pressure on that team goes through the roof. And if you're Sean McVay, you got to be able to motivate your players. And if all these guys are hearing from everyone they know and looking everywhere they go that they're already going to win the super bowl, you're still 0 and 0 with everyone else. And every team you play is going to be coming at you even harder. And people are going to be sick about hearing more and more about how great the Rams are. And they're in a division that's got two other super bowl contenders in it, so I can understand why they're taking their time.
Dan Patrick
Mike, I'll take that baggage. If I. If I could find out today Aaron Donald's playing, I'll be happy to take the baggage, but I just think there's.
Mike Florio
There's no reason when you combine the fact that we're just trying to make it interesting and let's just not push the bar all the way to the top at a time when there's nothing else to talk about. It's less noticeable when all the teams are in training camp and there's just this flood of news. That's a tiny little point, because no matter when he comes back, we're all going to be saying it's the Rams of the field, and a lot of people are just going to assume the Rams will win it. And we've seen this before. We know that all it takes is one injury. I don't want to put the Maloco on anyone, but all it takes is one injury and everything changes. And you got a 37 year old quarterback with a history of back problems. Anything can change at any time. There's no guarantees. As a wise man once said, it's
Dan Patrick
wedding day talking to Mike Florio. Pro Football Talk the Big Shield. Big Shield available on Amazon ebook form only $0.99. A Tale of the mob and pro sports in the age of legalized gambling. When Mike McDonald was on the show when we were in Tahoe, he said that he had somebody with a conflict of interest who might have helped them Seattle beat New England. If it's a different team than New England, Mike, do people care about it as much as they did that he didn't mention a name, but it was the Patriots.
Mike Florio
Well, I think that's part of it, Dan, but the choice of words. Conflict of interest. In the 25 years that I've been covering the NFL, the only time the term conflict of interest has been used is in relation to Tom Brady and his role as minority owner of the Raiders and primary broadcaster at Fox. And that's just been in the past couple of years. So you say conflict of interest and Patriots are in the conversation and. And Brady's getting ready to hire the Seahawks offensive coordinator to be his head coach, which would give him a little extra incentive to have this guy riding into Las Vegas who's got a brand new super bowl ring he can flash around a locker room that hasn't had a Super bowl ring in 40 years. 40 plus years. Conflict of interest, I think was the, the match to the fuse for the people in New England.
Dan Patrick
Well, everybody thinks it's Brady and it's not. But it doesn't matter. It's just like people are like, yeah, I don't care what you say, it's Tom Brady. Before I let you go, and maybe the biggest reason why I wanted to have you on, I couldn't help but look at that field at the Meadowlands and that looked like a beautiful field to play football on. But why can't we get to that point? And that's a field that. There's a history of injuries with that field. But where do we stand with the NFL, NFL PA about implementing these grass fields again?
Mike Florio
Well, Dan, I've got a copy of Big Shield right here. I don't know how well you can see the COVID My nephew Anthony Zech designed it. It's got a bunch of 20 bills on it. It's all about money. It's all about cost. The cost of maintaining a high quality grass field versus the cost of just laying down a carpet. The lost revenue. If you don't have a system to protect the grass. You can't do all these other events. So you've either got to have the tray that slides out like they have in Arizona and Las Vegas, or you could have one of these complicated systems like Real Madrid has, where they take the thing like on an elevator, and the grass field goes underground and then it's covered up by whatever else they want as their surface. And the problem is this. It's now a collective bargaining issue. And 92% of the players can say, we prefer grass. Well, at least 50.1% have to prioritize grass. When it's time to negotiate with the league. What are you willing to give up to get grass fields across the league? And it's going to be expensive. It's going to cost money. They're going to have to give up money. And what the NFL would want is, at a minimum, they'd want to take the full expense of putting high quality grass in every stadium and they'd want to split it 50, 50 with the players. And I'm sure the NFL would put together this ridiculous calculation that would be trumped up to look even bigger than it's supposed to be. And they'd say to the players, here's the price tag for having grass fields. If you want to share it with this 50, 50, we'll do it. So I think the only way to do it is to try to shame them into it. That's why we saw the PR campaign on Friday. And Dan, here's what I would do. I would go one team at a time. For example, you got new ownership coming into Seattle. They got artificial turf there. They need to start a pressure campaign on Vinod Khosli and his family to do the right thing by the players and choose to put in grass there. And I think the way to do it is focus one team at a time. But the league's going to want all the teams that currently have turf to hold the rope because they know they've got something here, they've got something valuable for the next cba. So I don't think it's ever going to change unless teams choose to do it one team at a time.
Dan Patrick
Back to Tom Brady for a moment. What's he doing? Slapping Logan, Paul and like this, we're going to be in wwe, right, Dan?
Mike Florio
We all need someone who will tell us when we're doing something stupid. And nobody's telling Tom Brady he's doing something stupid.
Dan Patrick
And look, there's a big payday, Mike. There's there's. There's money attached to this.
Mike Florio
But he's like at some. I. I hate the phrase whenever someone directs to me, you're better than that. Because my response is, well, I'm actually not. But Tom Brady is better than this. Tom Brady is above this. It's just a bad look. It's hokey and it's goofy and I'm not really tapped in to the wrestling crowd. I got a feeling they're not clamoring for Tom Brady to come running down the the stage and slide into the ring and jump up and beat the crap out of Logan Paul. I almost said the other word.
Dan Patrick
He's not gonna. He's not gonna beat up Logan Paul.
Mike Florio
Well, I mean, if the script calls for it, he will.
Dan Patrick
But this is what's going to happen. The Paul brothers, I call them the pallbearers. They're going to be in with Brady and Gronk.
Caller/Listener
Yeah.
Dan Patrick
Yeah.
Mike Florio
And you know, I mean, the joke's on all of us because if they do it right, we're all going to watch it. Even if we hate watch it, we're going to watch it. So come on, Tommy.
Dan Patrick
Camps open in how many days?
Mike Florio
I mean, they're starting to pop open with rookies showing up. At some point this week, they'll explode and before you know it, everybody's back. And football season's here. You get to that point in the late summer where the grass smells a certain way. I mean, we're getting there. Getting there, baby.
Dan Patrick
Thank you again, Mike.
Mike Florio
Great talking to you, Dan.
Dan Patrick
The book is Big Shield, available on Amazon in ebook form 99. A Tale of the Mob and Pro Sports in the Age of Leaves. Legalized Gambling. Eric in Illinois. Before we take a break. Hi, Eric, what do you have for me today?
Caller/Listener
Hey, Dan. 51016 5, first time caller, recent listener, thanks to my seven month old grandson Miles. I have to listen to you guys when I babysit. So. So listen. My daughter was married in 2018. I was given five to seven minutes for my speech, had it prepared, practice it multiple times. Unfortunately, I ditched my notes and I went on for 47 minutes.
Dan Patrick
Oh, my God.
Caller/Listener
Several people tried to get the DJ to cut my mic off, including my daughter, but he refused and he later told me he was not doing that to the guy who was paying his bill.
Mike Florio
Wait, wait.
Dan Patrick
How do you not read the room? Were you drunk?
Caller/Listener
Maybe a little bit. Yes. Not gonna lie.
Dan Patrick
Oh my God.
Caller/Listener
Don't drink before your speech.
Dan Patrick
And yes, that's 40 minutes too much, Eric.
Caller/Listener
I know I've never lived it down.
Austin
They watch their, they watch their video every year on their anniversary call and
Caller/Listener
give me grief apart about it and all of our friends and family. I'm not allowed to give a speech anywhere at all.
Dan Patrick
Well, I'm going to time mine out. I'm not going to stray from, I'm not going to be ad libbing. There'll be a couple of, you know, ad libs in there, I'm sure. But I, I'm hoping five minutes, that's, that's my over under is five.
Dylan
Yes, Dylan, I think five minutes is a good number. I also think 47 minutes. I can't tell if that's more impressive or terrible.
Dan Patrick
Okay, I, I talked to my daughter yesterday and she said, you know, hey, thanks for getting your haircut, blah blah blah. I said, okay. She goes, by the way, you're first up. I go, what do you mean? At the reception, everybody gets seated, everybody gets introduced. You're first up. I said, all right, get it out of the way. Then I can get my drinking game on. And she said yes. So first up. Just found out, get it out of the way, people will forget about it. Plus I found out that the walk to actually get married takes over three minutes if we hurry. And I said it. It's almost a quarter of a mile. It feels like, no, I'm being serious. I go, wait, she showed me the distance between where we start and where she's getting married. I go, oh my God, hun, I have a chance to cry. Stop crying. And then cry again. I'm going to get my steps in.
Paulie
Burn a couple.
Dan Patrick
It's a long now. Nobody had a longer entrance than Tara Lipinski, the, the figure skater. I went to that. I couldn't see her, I swear to God. My wife. And we looked back and I, I could see sort of something I don't. They met, they were half a mile away, her and her dad. She shouldn't have been on skates because it would have helped her getting up there. It was like, oh my God, that. Who's with. Oh, that's your dad. Oh my God. It's the longest entrance I've ever witnessed for a wedding. Beautiful wedding, by the way. Beautiful. All right, let me take a break. Last call for phone calls. What we learn what's in store tomorrow. Right after this.
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Dan Patrick
Last call for phone calls. What we learned, what's in store tomorrow? I think Drew Brees is stopping by. Stat of the day is always brought to you by Panini America. The official trading cards of the Dan Patrick show. Austin in Illinois. Hi, Austin. What's on your mind?
Austin
Hey, Dan. First time, long time. 6:1, 180 pounds. So you just had the gracious honor of speaking with my father in law, Eric.
Dan Patrick
Wait, he gave the 47 minute speech at your wedding.
Austin
He did, yeah. We have 47 minutes of it recorded. I'm in my heart of hearts. I feel like it was an hour and 15, but we have 47 of it on tape.
Dan Patrick
Okay, what was the mood? When your father in law is given a 47 minute speech, then what do
Austin
you think the move was?
Dan Patrick
Did you at any point say to your wife, go save your dad?
Austin
There was a couple, a couple shoulder, shoulder nods, couple head nods. And just a couple, just blank stares into the ground. Like, what do I do? Of course, you know, it was eight years ago, and if we had the relationship that we do now, it would have been very easy to stand up and have him sit down. But yeah, it was. It was crazy. The speech touched every part of her life and his life and their relationship together. Through watching Barney to braiding her hair, to, you know, her first time of the month. It went everywhere, Dan. It was truly incredible.
Dan Patrick
You know, Austin, I'm going to put some of this on you. At some point you have to stand up and say, hey, you know, enough. You paid for the wedding. Thank you, dad, but we, we have an entire wedding reception to get to.
Austin
I'll own that one. You're right.
Dan Patrick
Thank you for the phone call. What are the odds of the father of the bride and then the husband of the bride calling up to confirm that?
Marvin
Yes, Marvin, that's why I like Paulie's idea so much about having an enforcer.
Dan Patrick
Yeah.
Marvin
To somebody. All right.
Dan Patrick
No, they should just have music. Like at the Academy Awards. They just music. Five minutes. Five minutes, that's it. We start music, we cut your mic. That's it. Yes, Marvin.
Marvin
Oh, and also everyone that does speeches. You're not a stand up comic.
Dan Patrick
Yes. You're not as funny as you think. Right, Todd, That's a shot.
Todd
I was waiting.
Dan Patrick
Just waiting for that. Mad in Nashville. Hi, Matt.
Caller/Listener
Hey, Dan. Good morning. I appreciate you guys. Fifth time, long time, six foot and stopped getting on the scale. Got a best and worst. Gonna start with my worst. Giving mbappe the golden poop for a meaningless game where obviously defense was optional. Seems Seems kind of half hearted, especially when Messi had a phenomenal tournament. Walks away with nothing as far as the best. I mean, Caitlin Clark, you know, dropping 45 and 10, I think she just proved that maybe she is one of the top 11 guards at the WNBA currently. You know, I'm sick and tired of people bashing on her. I think Dennis David, Dennis Jr. Likened her more to Trey Young. She's Steph Curry. She's Steph Curry, the wnba, and they need to embrace it.
Dan Patrick
Well, okay, she is Steph Curry, but you got to look at Trey Young's numbers just to be fair to that comparison. Now, Trey Young does is not dynamic. Now, he was in college. He's not dynamic. Steph is dynamic. And Caitlin Clark is dynamic. She's an unbelievable passer. Her biggest thing is you got to stay healthy. And if she stays healthy, I mean, Kelsey Mitchell is a scoring machine everybody talks about. You know, Caitlin can score. Mitchell scored at least 25, I think in like 20 consecutive games. Yeah, Marv.
Marvin
And then the WNBA overall, Olivia Miles.
Dan Patrick
Oh, yeah, I love Olivia Miles. Olivia Miles is. Paige Beckers has the second best MVP odds right now to Asia Wilson. But Caitlin Clark still shooting that far. But her passing is what is so much fun. So much fun. And most great shooters, scorers are not great passers. And she certainly is this day in sports history. Paul, just a couple.
Paulie
1859, Brooklyn and New York played baseball at Fashion Race park in Long Island. They charged 50 cents to get in the first time taking admission. And 1947, the NFL ruled that no professional team could sign a player with College eligibility remaining.
Dan Patrick
1973, Wilbur Wood starts and loses both games of a doubleheader. He was a knuckleball pitcher and he lost to the Yankees 12, 2 and 7, nothing. Let's see. Go around the room, see if we learned anything on this program. Todd, you learned anything?
Mike Florio
I did.
Todd
Guillaume gave you a trial haircut at the salon ahead of your daughter's wedding next month while she looked on for approval of that.
Dan Patrick
Well, he didn't know it was a trial haircut. He just gave me a haircut. I know it's a trial haircut, but thank you. Yes. Dylan, 47 minutes.
Dylan
A little too long.
Dan Patrick
No, by 40 minutes.
Marvin
Marvin, you went to Tara Lipinski's wedding?
Dan Patrick
Yeah, I did. I did. I got to know her and Johnny Weir at the Olympics.
Paulie
Paul, brand new hairstylist.
Dan Patrick
Yes, Guillaume. Todd, what did I learn?
Todd
Rory McElroy. Not bashful to admit he's not particularly fond of DeChambeau, who he thinks is an attention seeker.
Dan Patrick
Have a great day, everybody. Our pleasure serving you today. We'll talk to you tomorrow.
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