0:00

You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show

0:02

on Fox Sports Radio Hour

0:05

two on this Thursday, Dan and Mdane's

0:07

Dan Patrick Show. Dick Vital will join

0:09

us coming up in about fifteen twenty minutes

0:12

or so, we'll talk about what kind

0:14

of plans does college basketball

0:16

have to get this season underway? And of course

0:18

March Madness. John Calipari, Kentucky head

0:21

coach will join us coming up as well. Spent

0:23

the first hour a lot of it talking about Chiefs

0:26

Texans coming up tonight and are

0:28

the Chiefs a dynasty in the

0:30

making. You know, if you go back to

0:32

the postseason, they could have easily

0:34

lost all of those postseason games. They trailed

0:36

in all those postseason games. They trailed by

0:39

double digits in those postseason games.

0:41

But they came back, and they came back

0:43

in the Super Bowl down ten with

0:45

seven minutes to go. A couple of plays

0:47

here, a couple of plays there. Niners

0:50

didn't make a couple of plays Chiefs did,

0:53

and they're your Super Bowl champs. I

0:55

don't know what the line is tonight, mclovin.

0:57

Is Kansas City favored by more

0:59

than four or five? Maybe?

1:02

Yeah, check on that. I don't know. I haven't

1:04

even looked at any of the point spreads coming

1:07

up. I know that Tom Brady is an underdog for

1:09

the first time in over seventy

1:11

regular season games with the Buccaneers,

1:13

and he's probably going to be without Mike Evans this weekend

1:15

as well. Yeah, McLevin, we're seeing

1:18

nine. Oh okay, I'm big number,

1:20

but I'll double check if that's an early one. If it's

1:22

moved off that, no, it's probably right. I don't

1:24

know why it was that generous with the Texans

1:26

here going into that game, and it's not a

1:29

revenge game. I don't know if

1:31

Al Michaels and Chris Collinsworth will frame

1:33

it that way, because the revenge game

1:35

would be if you beat Kansas City in

1:37

January, not in September.

1:41

Yes, mcclub see, I think it is a revenge game

1:43

because they're going to forget by January, but that's

1:45

their last game. They've been brewing on this game.

1:49

Well, I mean, if you're Kansas City,

1:51

if you're gonna lose a game to the Texans,

1:54

you want to lose in September, not in January.

1:57

So I you know, is Kansas

1:59

City not going to play as hard or

2:01

the Texans gonna play even harder because it's

2:03

a revenge game. Wouldn't you have played

2:05

harder in the postseason game last

2:07

year when you had an opportunity

2:09

of twenty four to nothing. Wow? And

2:12

I still go back to that play on the

2:14

fake punt by Daniel Sorenson,

2:17

and that's it's a sneaky great play.

2:20

I mean, he did what he's supposed to do because

2:22

your job, you know, his job,

2:24

his assignment is you go where

2:27

that the up guy is on the punt,

2:31

and that guy was bouncing around

2:33

a little bit and then Sorenson is just watching

2:35

him and all of a sudden, and if

2:38

he doesn't get him, they get thirty yards.

2:40

They're in great position to add

2:42

more points, and they would have been up maybe

2:45

thirty one to nothing. And

2:48

it was one play. You go back

2:50

to one play and

2:53

then that sparked them. Momentum

2:55

changed, Kansas City's offense came

2:57

alive, the Chiefs actually started playing

2:59

defense, and the rest is history.

3:03

You got a pull question, mcloven. We didn't have one in

3:05

the first gyn, so we were debating what is

3:07

the most likely team to go from worst to

3:09

first? And kind of happens every year, So I'll look

3:11

at the fourth place team in each division.

3:14

Washington football team, who added

3:16

nowhere is getting hype this week. I don't

3:18

know if you've seen any of it. They're like a lot of playoff

3:21

dark horse whoa because they have like

3:23

nine first rounders on their defensive line

3:25

is why? But okay, so just

3:27

because they got Chase Young, Chase Young,

3:30

Montes sweat Jonathan Allen

3:32

to Ron Payne, you know they had it

3:34

last year. But people think that we're with Ron River there

3:36

there'll be a much better team. Okay. Yeah,

3:39

there's a stat that everyone's dining out on with Washington

3:41

that Dwayne haskins last couple of games were

3:44

really good. They're separating his first bunch

3:46

of games between his last two and

3:48

that's like they're pinning that on his improvement.

3:50

Well, he had a good final month of the season,

3:53

and we pointed that out a couple of times. But

3:55

I don't I'd

3:57

have to look at what these other teams were playing for or

4:00

But would I be surprised

4:02

if Washington made the playoffs? I

4:06

would be. Now, I don't think

4:08

the Eagles are going to be as good. You

4:10

never know about the Cowboys, the

4:12

Giants, can they be a little bit better, I

4:16

guess. And

4:18

then you have Washington. I

4:21

mean that was a wounded division last year. When

4:23

you think about it, I mean

4:26

the Eagles won it. I mean somebody had

4:28

to win it. It was like the Cowboys

4:30

lost it. Yeah, mcclub okay.

4:33

Next division, the Detroit Lions.

4:36

I would say the Lions have a better

4:39

chance than Washington to make the playoffs.

4:41

I think because of their offense and

4:44

if Stafford stays healthy, then I

4:47

would say they could sneak in. Because I don't know about the

4:49

Bears, I don't know about the Packers, the

4:51

Vikings. Vikings got as

4:53

much talent as just about anybody in the NFC,

4:56

But it's going to come down to Kirk

4:58

d Cousins and how he's able to form

5:00

in the postseason. That's one of those I don't care about the

5:02

regular season. There's certain players

5:05

like Lamar Jackson. I'm curious about

5:07

the regular season, but if he is

5:09

going to put up great numbers, we're going to say

5:11

the following, well, can you win

5:13

a playoff game? He's

5:15

owing two? Yeah. Mclub. Next

5:17

division in the Carolina Panthers. No, do we

5:19

even need to put them on the poll? I

5:21

think they're getting worse. I don't think that they're

5:24

you know, and that might be by choice,

5:27

but I don't I don't think they're gonna do any damage.

5:30

Arizona Cardinals were last in the NFC. West

5:32

Man, that's a it's such a tough

5:34

division. As you said yesterday. Yeah, I

5:38

think if they got close to a wild

5:40

card, I think they could do a

5:42

wild card. But you know, you got Seattle,

5:45

You've got San Francisco. I don't think

5:47

the Rams are going to be great. I don't think they're

5:49

gonna be good. You know, if they're

5:52

average, you know, can Arizona

5:54

be a little above average?

5:56

They maybe win nine games? Now,

5:59

you know you have DeAndre Hopkins in there. If Fitzgerald

6:01

is still there, Kyler Murray, does he take that next?

6:03

You know that quantum leap that we sometimes see

6:05

from first year to second year players. And

6:07

if that's the case, then Arizona

6:10

could be one of the surprise teams. I would

6:12

say Detroit out of that group, unless you

6:14

have another one. Well, I'll give you the four AFC once.

6:16

The Dolphins, Bengals, Chargers,

6:18

and Jaguars were last place teams last

6:20

year. Maybe the Dolphins being in the mix

6:22

there. I guess because

6:25

I don't expect too much out of the Jets. I don't

6:27

think the Patriots are going to make the playoffs.

6:31

You got weird quarterbacking situations

6:33

with all of those. So two is not going

6:35

to play? Burrow is a rookie. When

6:37

does Justin Herbert play? Gardner?

6:41

Minshew and Jacksonville? So

6:45

I guess the Chargers. But you

6:47

know the Chargers are already banged up,

6:49

and you know Tyrod Taylor's

6:51

your quarterback? But for how long? And what

6:56

else? Jaguars question? If I gave you thirty

6:59

to one odds that they go oh in sixteen?

7:01

Would that bad interest you? Are

7:04

they a possible oh in sixteen? I

7:06

don't think so. If I put up one hundred, I get three

7:08

thousand, Yeah, double check that. I know

7:10

the odds are big. I know it's a popular bad

7:12

out there. I don't think they're going to

7:15

go winless like the

7:17

Lions did a few years ago. The Browns,

7:19

I mean, they won six games last year.

7:21

I'm gonna look at, you know, three

7:23

wins for him, maybe four wins. I

7:26

have a quote from this time last year where

7:28

Peter King says the Miami Dolphins are gonna

7:30

be galactically bad. He was on our show.

7:32

He said galactically bad Dolphins and

7:35

that they could go. Oh in sixteen, Dolphins

7:38

won what six games? Yeah, they're five

7:40

and eleven, and they were considered going into the season

7:42

a complete tank job. And they caught my

7:44

attention when they beat the Patriots

7:46

in New England and a game that New

7:49

England had to have, and I went,

7:51

wow, Brian Flores,

7:53

I don't know what he was doing, you know, because they traded

7:55

away players make of Fitzpatrick,

7:59

so Laramie Ton, so like

8:01

they traded away they're known players,

8:04

and you still had Ryan Fitzpatrick. And

8:07

somehow, some way they were able to make

8:09

all of that work and he

8:11

got the most out of that team. I think that

8:13

we're expecting a little too much out of the Dolphins

8:16

this year. Now. I want to see

8:18

if two of plays. I hope he doesn't play.

8:20

I hope he plays when he is

8:23

ready to play, not that they need

8:25

him to play as

8:27

long as he's healthy. Like if

8:30

keeping him out longer makes him stronger

8:32

and better, I'm all for that. But

8:35

he is in a great situation with

8:37

Ryan Fitzpatrick because Fitzpatrick

8:39

will be very helpful, beneficial for

8:42

two of him. So what's the pole question?

8:44

Okay, So we're putting up right now, most likely worst

8:47

to playoffs team, and I'll give you those

8:49

eight division losers. I also wanted to put

8:51

up an NFL MVP pole, but I don't

8:54

want you to have to give away your super Bowl pick,

8:56

okay, because I'm afraid if I said who's

8:58

gonna be in the MVP Mahomes, Jackson, Brady,

9:00

Breeze, Wilson, Prescott, Brady

9:04

Watson, that's the odds. I put Brady

9:06

in twice. Sorry, do

9:08

you have? Is the MVP going to be your super Bowl

9:10

winner? Is that how it works? Or is it possible

9:12

that it's like a Lamar Jackson situation?

9:15

My MVP will

9:19

not be on my super

9:21

Bowl pick, and

9:26

I'm not gonna let you guess my

9:28

MVP pick. Next hour, I'll let

9:30

you guess, because then I'll give you my super Bowl pick.

9:33

I think you might have hinted at your MVP

9:35

pick earlier this week. You've

9:37

said a couple things, You've laid out some bread crunks.

9:40

I didn't know you listened to the show, mclovin, but

9:42

I think I know your MVP and I have no idea your Super

9:44

Bowl pick the Lakers and Rockets

9:46

coming up tonight, obviously the Texans in the chiefs

9:49

and adjust your viewing pattern. The

9:51

Lakers Rocket starts at seven, so

9:54

they don't compete with the NFL game. Raptors

9:56

beat the Celtics and double overtime. Clippers up

9:58

three one on the Nuggets in a pretty

10:00

performance by the Clippers. Kawhi Leonard,

10:02

once again, you know, we keep we brought this

10:05

up a couple of times where hey, shouldn't we vote

10:07

vote on the MVP after the playoffs?

10:10

Well, while we go, that's a four guine conclusion

10:12

that Lebron's going to be your MVP. That's

10:15

not the case. Kawhi

10:17

Leonard has been great and

10:20

if the Clippers would win the title, he's

10:22

your MVP, not Lebron. As

10:25

much as I think Lebron, you know, should

10:27

have been a closer vote because

10:29

I think it's going to be a blowout with a Greek freak, you

10:32

know, Lebron has been great and kind

10:34

of reinvented himself this year. LSU

10:39

will allow fans at their games.

10:41

I guess twenty five percent. Do we need to

10:43

have the number? PAULI yeah, twenty, which equals

10:45

about twenty five thousand. The Braves have just

10:47

scored again. They have now scored forty

10:50

nine runs on the Marlins. They're up forty

10:52

nine to nine in that game. That

10:54

is not true, it's twenty. They scored twenty nine

10:57

on the Marlins last night, and yes they were

10:59

swinging for runs in

11:02

the late innings there. On

11:04

paper, the Celtics seem to have had the advantage

11:06

over the Raptors. You know, they're more versatile,

11:08

they're younger, and you could argue

11:11

they're more talented after Kawai left,

11:13

but the defending champions. After losing Kawai,

11:16

they ended up with the second best record in the NBA

11:20

and they were down three games to two in the Eastern Conference.

11:22

Simmis. They found their way Wednesday night to survive

11:25

Kyle Lowry one time playoff

11:27

goat was great and you

11:30

know Norm Powell stepped up last

11:32

night. He got hot Fred van Vleet.

11:35

They played big minutes there and now

11:38

the Raptors remember when they went down O two

11:41

and we started to wonder, like if

11:43

you go down O two and the

11:45

Bucks went down O two, and we said,

11:47

who's more likely to come back? And I said, Toronto

11:50

is because they

11:52

know what they need to do. They've been there before. I

11:55

liked their coach, and we were saying

11:57

that backcourt with Fred Van Vleet

12:00

and Kyle Lowry and here they are going

12:02

to a game seven against the Boston Celtics.

12:04

But here is Kyle Lowry

12:07

after the game saying that this is what

12:09

you need to do to win that. Yeah,

12:11

do it. It takes to win basketball games. I mean tonight

12:14

myself, Pascal freddie

12:16

Og played fifteen minutes, man, Like

12:19

that's big time. That's a big time stuff. That's

12:21

what takes to win backs, win a game like that, and we

12:24

did whatever we need to do. For me, it's just about

12:26

playing basketball. Yeah, it's playing

12:28

minutes and everybody contributing

12:30

there. There was an interesting

12:33

exchange, at least I found it interesting. Michael

12:35

Porter junior, he's the Nuggets forward

12:38

and it feels like he's been in the NBA for about

12:41

fifteen minutes and he's he

12:43

could be a really good player, had great hype coming

12:45

out of high school, went to Missouri, hurt

12:47

his back, but still mid first

12:49

round draft pick by the Nuggets. He scored

12:52

fifteen points in the first half last night,

12:54

and then he didn't get many shots

12:56

in the second half, and he

12:59

had this to say about the offense

13:01

of the Nuggets, what are you looking to do to

13:03

get yourself more involved when you're not touching the ball?

13:06

I mean, that's really up to the play cause it's really up to the

13:08

coaches who they want to put them put the ball in whose

13:11

hand? We kept going to

13:13

Yoaka Mall. There's there're two amazing

13:15

players. You can never get mad at that. But I just

13:17

think to beat that team, we gotta get

13:19

more players involved. We got to move the ball a little bit

13:21

better. We can't be predictable against that

13:23

team. And then somebody

13:26

followed up that answer, Mike,

13:29

are you at a place I know it's your rookie

13:31

year, but are you in a place where you can voice

13:33

that that concern and that thought to Malone

13:36

or do you just kind of just let him dictate?

13:39

Nah? I think you know, if I'm gonna be out there

13:41

on the floor playing a lot of minutes, I think I should voice

13:44

that. So I probably talk. I'll

13:46

probably talked to the coaches, you know, just tell them

13:48

what I see being out there on the floor, just letting

13:50

him know. Look like they

13:52

know what we're doing, like, we got

13:54

to swing the ball. We got a lot of players who

13:56

can play basketball and score, so we

13:59

gotta get some more guys of all. Okay,

14:03

So Michael Porters saying that their coach

14:06

doesn't know what's going on out there and he needs

14:08

more touches. If you if

14:10

you want to talk to your coach, going

14:12

through the media not the way to do it.

14:15

And Michael Porter Junior,

14:17

the third is not build up any house

14:20

credit here. You started

14:23

eight NBA games in your career. How

14:27

about we get a couple more games under your belt

14:29

there for calling out the

14:31

coach that he doesn't know what's going on out there

14:33

and you need more touches. But the media

14:35

guy, the follow up guy, was a great question

14:37

because he saw blood in the wall. Oh yeah, hey,

14:40

these I love when these athletes say these things.

14:43

I would caution them privately

14:45

and just say, you know, if you're going to call out

14:47

a coach, I'd say, talk

14:49

to the coach, because this won't

14:51

go over well with a coach. Malone.

14:53

Yes, if you're a Malone, do you're getting his face about

14:56

it? Ignore it? How do you deal with that?

15:00

I would just say to Michael, hey, let's

15:03

win the next game. All

15:05

right, we'll get we

15:07

can we can discuss this at some point. This

15:09

is not the time to do it. I know what's

15:11

going on out there. So he's

15:14

saying, you know that somehow

15:16

the Clippers know, Uh, Jokich

15:19

and Murray are going to get the ball. Wow,

15:23

that is some great scouting on the Clippers part.

15:26

Wait, the Joker and Jamal

15:28

Murray are gonna get the you know, inordinate

15:30

amount of shots. We're so

15:33

predictable. I don't know if

15:35

I want to take the ball out of their hands to put it

15:37

in Michael Porter Jr. The third hand, but

15:41

he has a

15:43

a high opinion of his talents. Sarah Suton

15:45

did the Nuggets coach play professionally

15:48

because I felt like there was another sort of hidden jab

15:50

there too where he goes, you know, as a player being out

15:52

there what I see They're like, Wow,

15:56

I don't know. I don't know if Malone,

15:58

you know, had one of those journeymen overseas

16:00

kind of careers, because if they, if he did, his

16:03

Wikipedia really skips over it where

16:05

he basically graduated college and then became an assistant

16:07

coach. Yeah it Peers. He played for the Loyal

16:10

a Greyhounds basketball team for a few years,

16:12

started a bunch of games as a point guard, but then

16:15

he went right into the coaching realm. Why

16:17

is it that you have to play the game or

16:19

you have to be really successful for the

16:21

coaches to players to respect

16:24

their coach. Well, there is something to be said though

16:26

about having actually played an understanding

16:28

that mindset and playing at

16:30

a higher level than somebody who's watched

16:32

the game their whole life. Red Arback

16:34

didn't play. Yeah, well there's yeah, there's certainly

16:37

exceptions. Phil Jackson

16:39

didn't play at a high level. He played in the

16:41

NBA. He played. Pat Riley didn't

16:43

play at a high level, but he did play in the NBA.

16:45

Right. I just felt like

16:48

it seemed like there was another dig in there too, though,

16:50

like as a player being out there and what I see, Yeah

16:52

I missed z. Yeah. Yeah. Balichick

16:55

barely played. He played at a college where was like Division

16:57

three B Wesley end

17:00

I barely had a football team. He's

17:02

not really a player, no, But

17:05

you know, Lawrence Frank was

17:07

a manager. He was the basketball

17:10

manager I think in Indiana,

17:12

and he ended up being a successful NBA

17:15

coach. So I don't I don't know

17:17

if like some of the best players aren't

17:19

good coaches, right,

17:23

But I wonder if there's any football coach or like NFL

17:25

football coaches who never played a down of football,

17:27

like not even grade school or high school. Oh well,

17:30

I wonder if that would want extreme, that'd

17:32

be almost impossible to not play

17:34

at least Pop Warner. Yes, wouldn't

17:36

you kind of be like if some media critic who

17:38

never hosted a day of radio in his life was like, hey,

17:40

you know, here's how you should be doing your radio show,

17:42

you'd be like, dude, what do you don't even know what you're talking about?

17:45

Well, they have, and

17:48

it's always like, men, shut up, dude, you don't even

17:50

no clue what you're talking about. Well, there are

17:52

media critics that I respect with

17:54

their approach when they critique you. It's

17:57

when somebody who I don't

17:59

respect you when you know and you want to

18:01

critique me then and you're like, you're a hack.

18:03

Shut up. Yeah. We once had

18:05

a media critic sit in and host

18:07

this show at least a decade ago, and

18:09

to turn the tables. This media critic asked me

18:12

to review his performance filling

18:14

in for you, and I gave him a

18:16

decent score. I actually pumped it up a little

18:18

bit to protect his ego, and

18:21

I got a call saying, really, you gave

18:23

me a B minus, a B minus, and

18:26

that as like, dude, I should have given you a D plus

18:28

because it wasn't good. And that's the last

18:30

time we spoke. Yep, you

18:33

can fill in the place. But yeah.

18:36

Media critics don't take being

18:38

criticized that well, well, they think it's

18:40

easy. What happens

18:42

is, if you're really good, you make it look

18:45

and sound easy and

18:47

it's not. You know, but that's

18:49

like the brilliance of Bob Costas is he

18:52

makes it look easy and it's not. It's

18:54

like stand up comedy.

18:57

There are guys who just make it look so simple,

18:59

like you just get up there, Hey, I just deliver

19:01

some jokes. There, I know where this is going. Oh

19:04

whoa one, there's the other guy and then there's the

19:06

other guy. Can make it look like the hardest thing ever.

19:09

But Jeff Garland funny

19:11

Man said, you have to do five hundred

19:14

hours just just

19:16

to you know, be average as

19:18

a commedian. How

19:20

many hours have you done, Todd four, I

19:23

don't know if I did a full hour, if you add up

19:24

there. You know,

19:26

three appearances there was Minnesota,

19:29

La, New York, in Atlanta. I don't know if that ended up to a

19:31

full hour. Yeah, Sue, I know that. If I'm the

19:33

coach of Denver Nuggets today, I'm like, so what, so

19:35

tell me what you meant? Hey,

19:38

Bud Whyn't you come sit down here for a second. Let's talk

19:40

about this. So okay, you're not getting up touch, so tell me what you

19:42

meant by that. How about

19:44

you come up with a game plan there, Michael, can you come

19:46

meet in conference room B of a Flamingo

19:49

suite? You know, don't be afraid to guard

19:51

Kawhi Leonard. How about that? So let's

19:53

talk about that. Let's take a break. Dick Vitow will

19:55

join us. We'll get to your phone calls, settle on our poll

19:57

question, and I'll have my super will

20:00

pick coming up next down. We'll

20:02

take a break twenty one after the hour here on the Dan Patrick

20:04

Show. During

20:07

these unprecedented times, you can rely on

20:09

Legal Zoom for legal help, whether it's a

20:11

living trust or protecting your family. You

20:13

know DBA LLC a nonprofit.

20:15

You want to start your business the right way, Legal

20:18

Zoom can help you and they'll find the right solution

20:20

for you. And you know the legal waters.

20:23

It's tough to navigate, but if you have that

20:25

person there who's your skipper, then

20:28

you're going to find the right people. Legal zooms

20:30

not a law firm, but that's a good

20:32

thing because they don't charge you by the hour.

20:34

You don't have to leave your home to get something done.

20:37

You can start online. They provide advice

20:39

from their network of independent attorneys.

20:41

It's legal zoom dot com. We're all faced

20:44

with new challenges, so if you need legal

20:46

help for yours, you can count on legal Zoom. No

20:48

matter what happens. You want to make sure your loved

20:50

ones are taking care of That's why you

20:52

need to have that will or living trust. And

20:55

if you're starting your business, restarting your

20:57

business, you just want to make sure that

20:59

you get help. Visit LegalZoom

21:01

dot com today. That's legal zoom dot com.

21:04

And once again, when you need to make it legal,

21:06

make it legal zoom dot com. Thanks for listening

21:08

to The Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be sure to

21:10

catch us live every weekday morning nine

21:12

to noon Eastern or six to nine Pacific

21:15

on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local

21:17

station for the dan Patrick Show at Fox Sports

21:19

Radio dot Com or stream us live

21:21

every day on the iHeartRadio app by

21:24

searching f s R or

21:26

stream us live on the Peacock app. Get

21:29

a couple of phone calls, we'll make way for

21:31

Dick Vital, who will join us. Let's go

21:33

to tie in New York. Hi Tai, what do you have for

21:35

me? Dan Patrick?

21:38

Six to one point guard one eighty five spectacular.

21:43

It's funny because I've picked up some of your your

21:45

colloquialisms like spectacular and fantastic.

21:49

But with the Raptors in Celtics,

21:51

I think the game change when Fred

21:53

dan League got closed out on turned

21:55

his ankle, knocked down two three's in a

21:57

row. Before that, the team was asleep. A

22:00

box gam of the bench gave them big minutes. And

22:04

the common theme for me watching as an

22:06

aspiring scout is that rats

22:09

teams is having a hard time applying to

22:11

knockout punch to teams.

22:13

Yeah, I know there's something missing there,

22:16

but you know, you're going against the defending

22:18

champs, and I didn't expect them

22:20

to bow out easily even when they

22:22

were down two. You

22:25

know, I don't think we panicked

22:28

when we came in that next day and said, you

22:30

know, the Bucks I knew were in trouble, but

22:32

that's just because I thought the Heat were a better team.

22:35

And watching the Raptors, Raptors

22:38

are going to be you know, they're taking them to a seventh

22:40

game. You know, give credit

22:42

to them. More phone calls

22:44

coming up. Dick Vital has a new

22:46

book. It's called The Lost Season, to look at

22:49

what the journey to the twenty twenty

22:51

National Title Game could have been all about.

22:54

It's available online where books are sold.

22:56

All proceeds from the sale of Lost

22:58

Season will be done to the v Foundation

23:01

for Pediatric Cancer Research.

23:03

We make way for the Hall of Famer. Dickie

23:06

v How are you, Dick, Well,

23:08

it's great being with your dad. I got a little

23:10

problem with Zoom and at least we're talking. Buddy.

23:13

Hey Dad, you were missus Zanesville.

23:15

I took the buddy of mine Larry Wade, and

23:18

Larry Wade says, oh my god, I know Dad.

23:21

He said, my wife is related to him,

23:23

Susan Wade. They said, you a

23:25

hero in Zanesville. Well,

23:28

they still talk about my jumper in Zanesville, Ohio.

23:31

Dick. But you know that's that's

23:33

Uh, that's normal around There's a lot of cities

23:35

around the country that Dayton. They still talk

23:38

about that as well. Let me tell

23:40

you this about Dayton. You mentioned my book the last season.

23:42

I have a lot of stuff in here about Dayton, obviously

23:45

because could it being should have been. They

23:47

played, you know, Kentucky's, Carolina's. We'll

23:49

hear about devil offhen But a team like

23:51

Dayton was so special last year and I felt

23:54

so bad for those kids. And the people can

23:56

get my book down. I want to just clarify one thing.

23:58

If they go to dick by Tell dot com,

24:01

they can get autograph copies. Every

24:03

dollar that I would make quite the book

24:06

is going for kids battling kids. So we just

24:08

had our gala. We just said it virtually

24:10

and we raised seven point four

24:12

million dollars to now give us thirty

24:15

seven million since we started to gala,

24:17

and it was bit's been great. I'd love to get

24:19

you out here one time, my Fred. You'd have a

24:21

great, great time with a bunch of beautiful people.

24:24

It's just really been terrific. And let me

24:26

tell you this, I missed you big time at

24:29

ESPN because you're one of the special greats

24:31

at ESPN, especially when I was there

24:33

at that time. You're always so good

24:35

to be with, good to talk with, at to

24:38

join you. You know what, the first time I

24:40

met Dicky V and he was

24:42

this was during March Madness and he

24:44

was on the set. I think Sienna had

24:47

just upset Stanford with Todd

24:49

Lichty. Does that sound right, Dick, Yeah,

24:52

sounds right to me. Yeah, Todd Locky was from

24:54

a player. Yeah, yeah, that was a great story.

24:56

And I remember all of a sudden, Sienna upset

24:58

Stanford and Dicky V is to Howie,

25:01

Howie, get me something on Sianna, get

25:03

me something on Sianna right now? You know Howie

25:06

Schwab, you know the great how He's running stats

25:08

up there, and all of a sudden, I'm going, yeah, welcome

25:11

the ESPN. This is great, This is

25:13

great. But we had so much

25:15

fun during those days. But we still do. You know, you're

25:17

doing great at what you're doing it, and I

25:20

just really, uh, I'm just excited

25:22

to be getting man in terms of you know, I'm eighty one

25:24

years old, that dad, I act about twelve. I just got

25:26

off the tennis square played singles that I want

25:29

shoving five man. You haven't to bring on,

25:31

bring on Djokovic. I don't throw, I don't hit, boil

25:33

the line. I just did. I have the lunch just when

25:36

I played. But what the bottom line is,

25:38

I'd like to be active and keep active,

25:40

and the book is keeping me active. Now. You

25:43

mentioned Howie how he did all the research in a book,

25:45

and I did it with Dick Wits, and it's

25:47

something I really loved. But hey,

25:49

I'm telling you, my friend, we need the

25:51

NBA action has been off the charts. That's

25:54

seventh game between Toronto and

25:56

Boston is gonna be unbelievable.

25:59

Let me ask you about the reason why you did

26:01

the book, because I wondered I was

26:04

hoping that the NCAA, the selection

26:06

committee would actually put out a bracket

26:08

of what could have been. And then people said,

26:10

oh, that's cruel and unusual punishment to

26:13

the players. I said, no, not playing

26:15

as cruel and unusual punishment. I

26:17

think just the hypothetical of what could

26:20

have been, what the matchups would have been,

26:23

would have been fun to see. What do you

26:25

think of that? Yeah, yeah, no, I

26:27

think you make a great point here, and that's

26:29

what we do in a book. In my last chapter, the fantasy

26:32

chapter, we do a whole thing. We play

26:34

out the games we could think to score, who's

26:36

gonna win, and we come down to an

26:38

actual plane four, an actual winner in a whole

26:41

bit and you know, it just fun.

26:43

It's just one person's opinion. It certainly very

26:46

subjective, but I think people like doing

26:48

that. People enjoy that question that I have

26:50

right now. I'm really concerned, you know, are

26:52

we gonna have basketball? I gotta believe

26:55

we're gonna have it. I think the optimism

26:57

is great about it, and I'm hoping to pray

27:00

we have it. But you know, we gotta have a March madness.

27:02

We have to. We can't go two years in a row without

27:04

it. I don't know if we'll have any fans in here,

27:06

but who knows. Well, I know one

27:09

thing, Dad, it's great to be living here in

27:11

the tamp area. But I really so, you

27:13

know what, I'm really ticked off though. Here's

27:15

the time I had season tickets now for

27:17

the Bucks for years, that season tickets for

27:20

the Raised for years. I go, I'm

27:22

great friends with the Lightning coach John Cooper.

27:25

What a time the Lightning is gonna win the Stanley

27:27

Cup. I'm gonna tell you, right Now I don't know not about

27:29

hockey. I know what I'm saying. Well, you play

27:32

with pride and you play with passion, and

27:34

right, I gave a talk I told John Cooper when I spoke

27:36

to them before the playoffs all started.

27:39

I said, you're gonna beat Tony Bennett. You're gonna

27:41

be Tony Bennett. You're gonna do what they

27:43

did in Virginia. Virginia gets beat in the first

27:45

round. Remember they get beat by a sixteen seed

27:48

umbc and they want

27:50

they don't whine about it, cry about it. Tony

27:52

handles a classy. They come back the next

27:54

year to win the national title. Well, last

27:56

year, people follow the Lightning

27:59

weren't terrific. They had a great regular season,

28:01

but they get beat four straight by Columbus.

28:04

They get bounced out of the out of the

28:06

NHL playoffs. This year they were the finals.

28:08

Right now with the Islanders. I'm telling you, mister

28:10

Patrick, I don't know hockey,

28:13

but I'm telling you they are going to

28:15

win. And John Cooper is going to be the Tony

28:17

Bennetts of hockey. Okay, if you

28:19

can, if I send you have the power to pick a

28:22

Tampa team to win a title. This year, the

28:25

Rays, Lightning or Buccaneers.

28:29

Oh I picked the win. Well, right now,

28:31

I'm going Lightning. I'm going to Lightning. Even though

28:34

I think I made the Rays. The Yankees

28:36

we have two hundred million dollar payroll, may not even

28:38

make the playoffs. Possibly, And here's

28:40

the race. And I said it before the season. I

28:43

said, this team won ninety six games last

28:45

year, and they got better. They got better talent

28:47

now than they had it then. And right now, the four

28:49

up on Toronto, not the Yankees.

28:52

Four up on Toronto, six up on

28:54

the Yankees with about seventeen to

28:56

play. And this team is legit. Man,

28:59

we have to put her on top of great relief

29:01

bitches. Defense is tough, and

29:03

I Tay Cash does a great job. At the payroll.

29:06

I mean, god, we could have paid Dan Patrick.

29:08

Are you kidding me? Are broll? Wow?

29:11

He's Dick Vital the Hall of Famer

29:13

the last season and look at what the journey

29:16

to the twenty twenty National Championship could

29:18

have been. It's available online where books are sold.

29:20

All proceeds from the sale of the Law Season

29:22

donated to the v Foundation for Pediatric

29:25

Cancer Research. The ACC Coaches

29:27

came out yesterday unanimously voted to include

29:30

everybody that's three hundred and what

29:33

over three hundred and fifty schools to

29:35

be in the in the tournament.

29:37

Here. What do you what do you make of what

29:40

the ACC is trying to do here? You

29:43

know, Dan, I spoke to Mike yesday Shashevski,

29:45

and I think what they do with is creating some interest

29:48

in basketball. We got you talking about it. I

29:50

was on show, this bablic Okay show. They talked

29:52

about it. The bottom line is they

29:54

are people talking, but that's not real. It's not going

29:56

to happen. That's no way. First of all, you

29:59

got rewards success, and that doesn't

30:01

reward success. And I just I'm

30:03

not a big fan of that proposal at

30:06

all, but I just hope. I think we may have a

30:08

smaller field, if anything, and who

30:10

might maybe a bubble situation. Who

30:12

knows how they're going to handle that. But the thing

30:16

is, we gotta put it in the hands of the experts, because

30:18

really is the number one priority has got to be

30:20

the health and safety of everybody involved,

30:23

you know. And saying that, let me just say this to

30:26

our nation man, right now, we need more love,

30:28

Dan, We need more people like you, optimistic

30:30

people passionate about what they

30:32

do. We need more love, We need people hugging

30:34

one another. We need people caring. I

30:37

learned to my home. My mom and dad were uneducated

30:39

the fifth grade. But it always tell

30:41

me Richie never addictive. Was Richie be

30:44

good to people, and people would be good to you. And

30:46

then they would always say, treat people like

30:48

you want to be treated. If we won't treating

30:50

each other, would respect and love and

30:53

feeling and said it is hate that's out there, it

30:55

would be such a better, better situation for

30:58

all of us, well,

31:00

said Dicky V. I hope you're well, hope

31:02

Lorraine is well, and the kids, and keep

31:05

keep Howie Schua busy down there. Okay,

31:08

I am just tell people please go to Dick

31:10

fighttown dot com and you can get a

31:13

copy autograph of my new book,

31:15

The Laws Season, because I'll do anything to raise

31:17

money for kids. Thirty seven million to

31:19

be raised seems like a lot of money, but it's

31:21

not so much more is needed and

31:23

there's nothing worse, you know, Dan, I'll close

31:26

with this today. If somebody hasn't

31:28

tough out there today, tough travel,

31:30

tough thing out a job, think about

31:32

this forty five to fifty

31:35

mothers and fathers today. Today,

31:37

I'm gonna hear four words. Don't mom and dad

31:40

ever wants to hear your child

31:42

has cancer is brutal What it

31:44

does to a family. So I plead

31:46

to people donate. You can donate

31:49

fighttown dot com to It goes through the v Foundation

31:52

and it all for mine. When you do the Dick, fighttown

31:54

dot Com goes for kids battling

31:57

cancer. Thank you, Dicky be We

31:59

appreciate it. Good with the book, Daddy, love miss

32:01

you man seen up for the ESPN. Those

32:04

were great days. Many really flown

32:06

by my friend. Keep doing a great

32:08

job. You're doing a terrific job. Thank you, Dick.

32:10

That's Dick Vitel the Hall of Famer once again.

32:13

The book is the Last Season. Look at the

32:15

journey of the twenty twenty National Championship

32:17

and what it could have been. And I

32:19

don't want to give away the ending there with Dicky v

32:22

in his final four in his national title pick, but

32:24

he did what I thought that the

32:26

selection committee should have done. And

32:29

you know, just give us something to talk about. We lost

32:31

the tournament. Give us something to talk about what

32:34

could have been. We know that we lost

32:36

the season, we lost March Madness,

32:39

but have people still

32:41

talk about college basketball? Put the brackets

32:44

out, you know, and it

32:46

wouldn't have been the exact science there, but

32:48

it would have been fun. Yeah,

32:50

point, I felt really bad because a lot

32:52

of people are jumping on a Dayton bandwagon. Obie

32:55

Toppin was fun to watch. And even though Dayton's

32:57

not a you know, they're not like a what

33:00

is it? What was the one in Chicago Loyola. Yeah,

33:02

they're a bigger, better program historically than

33:05

like a loyal Alla kind of came out of nowhere. Well,

33:07

Dayton's played for a couple of national titles. Right, they're

33:09

a serious basketball program. But they would have been the darling

33:11

of the month probably so and Obi

33:13

Toppin is going to be a lottery pick, could be a top five

33:16

pick. And it was a it was a nice surprise,

33:18

I think for that community,

33:21

you know, and Dayton's a wonderful basketball town,

33:23

great basketball town, and uh, Dayton

33:26

was you know, they were legit. They were probably going to

33:28

be a number two seed. I don't

33:30

know if they were going to be on the one line, but

33:33

I think they were what eighteen and oh, they

33:37

were a formidable team. There, we'll talk

33:39

to John Calipari. He'll join us coming

33:41

up next hour. Let me get to Anthony

33:43

and Florida. Anthony, what's on your mind today?

33:47

How you doing for the time? A long time? All right? Well,

33:49

well eleven and

33:53

just real quick. I'm a mailman out here in the Panhandle

33:56

of Florida, and you make my mornings go a lot, buy a lot

33:58

better, sir. Well, thank you, Anthony. What can we do

34:00

for you? Uh? Pie of

34:02

the face for Redskins are sorry?

34:05

The warh Ston football clubs are wild

34:07

car teams. You're

34:09

gonna take them? Does anybody want

34:12

a piece of Anthony's bet that Anthony's

34:14

gonna take a pie of the face if the Washington

34:16

Football Club, uh don't

34:18

make the playoffs as a wild car team? Yes, me

34:20

club. So saying Washington

34:23

doesn't make it, he's he's got him making the playoffs.

34:25

Yeah, I mean, I feel like Seaton wanted to jump

34:27

in there, but he's already got an easy pie. See, he's

34:29

got one that he got from yesterday. I'm not I'm

34:32

not making the bet with the radio is going over

34:34

nine and a half. I'm not doing Yeah, that was that

34:36

was not a good bet. I don't think yesterday, but

34:38

yes, Todd is not going to be in the playoff.

34:41

Todd is actually gonna step Okay,

34:44

So Anthony, your bet is with Todd,

34:46

with the Washington Football Club

34:49

not making I'll get my daughter. I'll let my daughter

34:51

throw the pie in the Facebook. And she's nine, so she'll have a

34:53

blast bet. Yeah, as long as we get the video of it.

34:55

That that's all we care about. Yes, heton not to

34:58

be a stickler o. But then

35:00

he said that they would be a wild card team

35:02

not make the playoffs. So

35:04

just in the odd chance that they actually play better

35:07

than that, and are they just make the playoffs

35:09

but are better than a wild card? I

35:11

just want to clarify because you know how this goes,

35:14

Anthony. How about they just make the playoffs?

35:17

Okay, there you go. There, we we've clarified

35:19

that. Yeah, yes, pot, I say, if Todd

35:21

loses that bet, he would have to go there and do the

35:23

Anthony's mail route. You've got to go to the Panham

35:25

would be kind of nice. Yeah to the fine

35:27

print there time I didn't read that part. That's

35:30

okay, I'm still there. It

35:32

has to be the surest of sure bets for Todd.

35:34

Do somehow want a wager like a pie

35:37

to the face or wheeled upon it? Not a big gambler, not a

35:39

big risk taker. Oh, I know, I

35:41

realize you're very, very conservative,

35:44

and I've still had a lot of trials and tribulations

35:47

in my life with my very careful approach.

35:50

Not if I actually took a risk, multiply

35:52

that, but you you don't.

35:55

When's the last time you really took a risk? The

35:58

last time I really took a risk? I

36:01

think I stopped by the local gym

36:03

and I was considering going in there to touch

36:06

the weights that other people have touched, even though it

36:08

was at like twenty five percent capacity. And I got

36:10

back in the car decided not to work. What is the wildest

36:13

thing you've done in your life? The wildest

36:15

thing I've done? I think I was about seven or

36:17

eight years old. I was playing football in the snow with my friends,

36:20

and the ball went over the fence into like

36:22

a street where this car's going around, and

36:24

I attempted to go get the football, even

36:26

though it was kind of a busy street there, and forget

36:28

about the cars. I got my pants stuck

36:31

at the top of the fence trying to climb it, because I'm

36:33

not a big fence climber, as you guys would be shocked to here, and

36:35

the bottom in my crotch area got stuck in the

36:37

top little pointy parts of the fence, and I was

36:39

hanging upside down by my pants for a solid

36:42

twenty minutes until someone got out of their car and unhooked

36:45

me while my friends were hysterical laughing about

36:47

that. That's the wildest thing

36:49

you've ever done in climbing a fence as a child to get

36:51

a lost ball, I got in a fourth grade

36:53

fight with my friend Eddie. We kind of threw we

36:55

kind of pushed each other a little bit, and I might have shoved

36:58

them down a small flight of stairs. But outside

37:00

of that, doesn't get much, doesn't get crazy

37:02

like that. That couldn't make

37:04

the top one million

37:07

things that Satan's done in his life. I

37:10

just I just don't do anything up. He's got

37:12

much better, more exciting stories. My time

37:15

at dn't Yu came and went taking the train back and forth.

37:17

And but your wildest thing you've ever

37:20

done is you climbed the fence as a seven

37:22

year old, and you got your crotch stuck

37:24

at the time. Well, there was Simone when I was like nineteen

37:26

and she was thirty four. But I'm not gonna get into the graphic date.

37:28

That was pretty wild, but that's not risk taking.

37:30

That was like an obvious that's a wild thing, right,

37:33

But that was that was but an obvious thing to participate.

37:35

And I wasn't taking any kind of gamble like

37:37

being a part of that scene. But

37:39

it was a wild thing. It was a wild

37:42

thing. You and Simone, Yeah,

37:44

got some scars to prove it. Scars,

37:48

but yeah, what you whatt the crew to tailor what?

37:50

You brought the vegetable platter up to her condo and

37:52

she said, you said

37:54

you weren't gonna get into the details. You've

37:58

got one story in your life that's really my

38:00

store. That is Simone and the crew

38:02

detay. Yeah. See, you know what else is a huge

38:04

risk? Do the Texans try

38:06

to pass against the Chiefs tonight? Ours

38:09

try to bring it back. I'll see what he's doing, got ringerbacks football.

38:11

That's a big risk. We're

38:14

gonna take a break. We'll be back after this. Thanks

38:16

for listening to The Dan Patrick Show podcast.

38:18

Be sure to catch us live every weekday morning

38:21

nine until noon eastern six to nine Pacific

38:23

on Fox Sports Radio, and you can find

38:25

us on the iHeartRadio app at

38:27

FSR or stream us live

38:30

on the Peacock app. Go to rock Auto dot com

38:32

or the parts your card, truck, whatever need. Rock Auto

38:34

dot Com a family business founded by automotive

38:36

engineers back in nineteen ninety nine. Two goals

38:38

in mind. First to give you direct access

38:41

to all the parts information hidden in the computers

38:43

and catalogs behind the part store counter, and second,

38:46

to make the parts affordable by offering

38:48

reliably low prices. At rockauto

38:50

dot com, you choose the part, brands, prices,

38:52

features you want anytime twenty four seven, and

38:55

if they have somebody saying a dealer

38:58

only are no longer available, make sure

39:00

you check with Rock Auto. The parts are delivered

39:02

right to your homer office. You don't waste time and money

39:05

hunting for the parts, phoning, driving, waiting and lines.

39:07

Go to Rockauto dot com. Make sure you tell them we

39:09

send you all the parts, your car, truck, whatever

39:12

need. Rock outo dot com. My

39:14

super Bowl pick coming up next hour. You

39:16

guys, I told you my soup

39:19

and my MVP of the regular season does

39:21

not play on my Super

39:24

Bowl either one of my Super Bowl teams. Does

39:27

anybody want to guess who my MVP

39:30

is for this upcoming season? No

39:33

hints? And

39:37

do we have a poll question? McLevin? Is that is

39:39

that football related? Yeah? We have who's

39:42

most likely to go from worst to

39:44

first or worst the playoffs? Okay, the Detroit

39:47

Lions are actually running away with it, as you mentioned,

39:49

Cardinals second place and Chargers Dolphins

39:52

less than one percent of the Jaguars. Peter

39:55

King has the Dolphins making the playoffs. I

39:57

don't. I don't have the Patriots making the playof

40:01

but I could see I could see the

40:03

Lions. It's just because

40:05

I'm not sure about the Bears. I'm not sure about the

40:07

Packers. I'm

40:09

kind of sure about the Vikings. Yeah, mclen

40:12

I have an MVP. Guess. Okay, is

40:14

it a friend of the show, Russell Wilson? Russell

40:17

Wilson is your pick? Todd,

40:19

you have a pick? Initially was gonna

40:21

say Cam Newton, but I'm gonna go Baker Mayfield is

40:23

gonna have some huge season, and you're gonna

40:25

go with Baker and Baker Mayfield. Okay, see

40:28

O'Connor, I was gonna say Cam Newton, Cam

40:30

Newton will be tough being

40:32

the MVP if you don't make the playoffs. Pauly

40:36

Ester, Carson Wentz, Carson Wentz,

40:40

one of the one of you is

40:42

correct? This Andrew

40:45

is correct. Yes, Andrew is correct. I was gonna say,

40:47

who of you thinks you're correct? If

40:49

Russell Wilson Junior the third will

40:52

finally become an overnight sensation after

40:54

a decade in the NFL. Yes, I

40:56

was basically mostly on an Hour two segment

40:59

from about four days ago, and you sort of

41:01

hinted that the narrative was going to lend itself to

41:03

Russell this year, like it's time. Well,

41:06

it's weird how that this has happened. You

41:08

have a coach Seattle, I think

41:11

throws the fewest passes in the

41:13

first quarter. I'm sure

41:15

there's stats, but I'd love to know what the

41:17

numbers are for Seattle in the first, first

41:19

quarter, first half, because they have to

41:21

be at the bottom of the list, and then all of a sudden

41:24

they've sort of panic and they go, look, you know, hey,

41:27

Russ go out there and win it for us. I'd love

41:29

to see if they allowed him to open it up

41:31

a little bit and not have

41:33

to wait until the fourth quarter. But uh yeah,

41:36

that's that's my pick. Jeff and Detroit. Hey

41:38

Jeff, what do you have for me today? What's going

41:40

on down one time for chat row

41:43

Um, just calling you. Unfortunately

41:46

this morning we lost one of our

41:48

own, Jay Dot passed away

41:51

a significant other to Alicia, who is

41:54

a big Dan Patrick listener from

41:56

my understanding back to the ESPN

41:58

day, so I just wanted to, uh,

42:01

you know, send our love and prayers

42:03

out to this. You know, she just might be listening

42:05

to the show, so just you know, send

42:08

our prayers out to comfort her and our family in the

42:10

time of me. Like, now, I

42:13

got a question for you. I'm getting ready to I

42:15

have to take a bet before the game starts. Who

42:18

do I get on Buffalo Bills

42:21

versus a top of bat Bucks? Who will

42:23

do better? Now I'm swaying

42:25

towards the Bills, you know, I'm thinking

42:28

that if I can go ahead, because it's just

42:30

that one particular isolated bet and

42:33

it's been put out there so I could

42:35

you know, it swings favorably

42:37

in my direction if I take the bill.

42:40

Yeah, but I don't want to. I don't like giving

42:42

betting advice, Jeff, I don't,

42:45

but thank you for the phone call. I don't.

42:47

I get nervous about that because I don't

42:49

get any credit when I'm right, but I get a whole

42:51

lot of blame when I'm wrong, and I don't

42:54

want to do it. Yeah, I'm a club. It's kind of tough to

42:56

bet Josh Allen's gonna win more than Tom Brady.

42:58

It could very well be, but that's just feels so weird

43:00

to say something like that. What could be Buffalo

43:03

is going to win more than Tampa instead

43:06

of Josh Allen is going to win more than Tom,

43:08

because then it feels like I could say head to head matchup

43:10

there. Super Bowl picks coming up, new

43:12

poll question as well, headlines

43:16

that you can't see happening in

43:18

the NFL. We'll have that for you

43:20

coming up. And John Calipari Final

43:22

Hour coming up.