Hour 1 – March Madness Is Coming, Ross Tucker

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3:03And we had flames. We had smoke. We had a fire alarm. But everybody is okay. And you know, usually what happens, women and children first, it was fritzy, women and children first. And Todd, your 40 yard dash time was pretty impressive yesterday. I totally obliterated that he preached this record from here to the park. Stat of the day brought to you by Panini America, the official trading card to the Dan Patrick's show. By the way, the big German said, I'm going to get you an incense burner. You're not going to be putting, I was putting incense into a candle holder. And it burned down and there are other stems from the incense that caught fire. And then we had smoke and then we had fire. But everybody is okay. We survived. We learned a lesson yesterday. I thought it was a little overly dramatic to stop, drop and roll that the big German said. And he came in with his axe. He was going to actually chop down my door. And I said, no, just turn the knob. Yes, he didn't. I am trying to figure out how the incense started a candle fire.

4:04Like those things sound, like while the incense lit the candle on fire, candles are supposed to be on fire. Well, no, I have a bunch of stems from previous incense in there. Ah, I can't believe it. Yeah. So almost like a forest and it's just chopped down with a bunch of trees in there. Those are the things that caught on fire. They caught on fire. I see. Yes, understood. And I kind of joked and I said, did the morning shows pick this up? And Paulie said he was going to check. And then all of a sudden I find out that Harvey Levin in TMZ, they did a full report on this as well they should have. Because, you know, Hall of Fame broadcaster nearly perished yesterday. Paulie, do you have the headline from TMZ? Of course I do. It's in my inbox every morning. TMZ sports fire in the hole. Studio up in smoke on air, the damn Patrick show. Forget hot takes. The damn Patrick show had actual flames coming out of the studio. That's well said.

5:04And I appreciate that. But Harvey, thank you for reaching out just to make sure everybody was okay. Yes, Todd. You also said we learned a lesson, which I thought was an interesting choice of words, by the way. Well, it's kind of like you with the Broncos. It's we. Okay. Right? Like we, when we win the sports Emmy, it's not me. Someone burns the place down. We as a group burnt it out even though you specifically. Okay. We all take credit. We all take blame. Okay. Thanks for clarification. Thank you. Yes. Yes, Paul. Back to the TMZ piece. My favorite part of it in paragraph four. And this was tweeted out to millions of people, by the way. Yes. As the crew scrambled, the big German AK Air Jones behind the scene staffer who Patrick revealed as a certified firefighter in EMS bolted into the equipment room to assess the situation. He did. He bolted in. He was very calm. It's the big German right now, the most famous firefighter in America right now.

6:04Breakout day. I don't know who his competition would be. That's the point. Yeah. I would say he's, he's pretty. Now, if President Trump invites him to the White House and gets him, you know, a medical freedom of maybe fire prevention week. Okay. Yeah. He brings Eric German, Eric the big German to the White House. Yes, time. If a goalie can get it, then great. And it was a great win over Canada. Why would the big German get it? He like save their life. Yeah. Connor Hellbuck didn't save lives. Big German save lives yesterday. Uh, but thank you. Thank you for the thoughts and the prayers, flowers. There's wreaths out there, you know, that they put by the door, but everybody's good. And my thanks to the big German. He came in, came to the rescue. For over 40 years, Tyrax been helping customers find the right tires for how and what and where you drive. Ship fast and free. Back by free road hazard protection, convenient installation options like mobile tire installation Tyrax.com, way tire buying should be a good morning.

7:07If you're watching on peacock, thank you, download the app if you haven't done so with the NBC sports network and our radio affiliates, including I heart radio, Fox sports radio. Get ready. College hoops is about to take over. Of course, they've been playing basketball for a few months now, but now's when we turn our attention to college basketball and watching last night, I was watching a Duke put on another impressive performance there and blowing people out, by the way, and then we started to wonder about this when you look at certain players and then you go, boy, that name sounds familiar and you go, you know, Cam Booser, Carlos Booser, you know, the father's son combination here and then you start to go down the list and it feels like go back to when Chris Long was the number one pick on the draft and he was out of Virginia and his dad, of course, how he long a whole of favor. And if you're looking for that lineage and you're going, that's probably a pretty safe

8:07pick because Chris Long turned out to be a pretty good football player. You can trust the the jeans there, but you know, Steph and Seth Curry and Del Curry, Clay Thompson, Michael Thompson, Joe Kim Noah and Yannick Noah, Yannick was a very talented tennis player, Kobe and Joe Bryant, Peyton, Archie and Eli Manning, Patrick Mahomes and his father was a relief pitcher. You got Christian McCaffery and you got Ed McCaffery, Barry Bonds, Bobby Bonds, Kendrick if you junior, Ken Griffey, Boba Shit, Dante Bishet and then you got the Boosers. But you have the Booser twins, so you have one twin who's maybe the number one pick on the draft and then his brother is like six inches, how are you twins and he's six inches shorter? Kaden Booser is six inches shorter and I'm thinking, how does that happen?

9:08Yeah, one's going to be, you know, probably the first or so, I'm looking at the odds here and it's a debanza right now is maybe the second pick. You got Patterson at Kansas, who might be the first pick, Peterson, I don't know why I keep calling him Patterson, but he is Darren Peterson. He is expected to be the number one pick on the draft, at least those are the odds. Now I'm watching last night and you're seeing a duke team that's blowing people out. I think they're last three wins, last three games they won by 99 points total and here are the odds. So number one overall pick, Darren Peterson minus 120, AJ Debanza plus 120, Cameron Booser plus 650, Kingston Flemmings plus 12,000 Caleb Wilson plus 12,000, yes point. Cameron Booser for duke, he looks about 22 years old, I checked, he's 18, like not 19

10:14in a week or so and it's not the Greg Odin thing, he looks like a grown man physically, he's got the full beard going, they don't look like freshmen anymore, some of these guys, the thin freshmen of our past. Yeah, he's ready to go and coach Shashewski, of course, probably playing to the home crowd saying that Booser is the best freshman in America. He might be, he's going to go in and play right away, but here is Coach Kay talking about Booser. To me it's not close, this kid is so dependable, so poised and puts up amazing numbers in accuracy, in passing and rebounding and he sets up physical tone for our team that another team has to match. He's had really as good a year as any freshman that has played here. And that's saying an awful lot, but Duke roughed up NC State to clinch the ACC and there

11:15the number one team in the country, Duke has won its last three games by combined 99 points. Statter the day, brought to you by Panini American, the official trading cards of the program, Arizona at number two team in the country, beat Iowa State. Iowa State is sixth and they roughed them up 73 57 clinched the big 12 regular season title. It's still strange to say that Arizona, big 12, but now here's something that I was not aware of, but Tommy Lloyd, head coach at Arizona, one is 140th game of his career. That's the most by any coach in his first five years in NC double A history. Statter the day, statter the day, statter the day, statter the day, here comes, here comes that. Statter the day.

12:17All righty. We'll get to phone calls coming up, operator Tyler sitting by. Ross Tucker our good buddy will stop by in 10 minutes. Reggie Miller, final hour of the show, Roger Bennett, men and blazers, has a new book out about the world cup. Always great to have him. He's always a his Twitter at DP show, email address dpdampatric com. up with the poll question for the first hour of the program. College basketball has become the following. It's like there's a restaurant that changes its menu every single day. So you don't know what you're getting. That's college basketball every single year. It's, hey, you want to go to that restaurant? What do they serve? Who knows? But it'll be great. It'll be fun. It'll be exciting. Yeah, it'll be dangerous. That's what college basketball is. Every year, it's like, oh, and so what's the menu? I don't know. Who knows? But come on in. Take a chance on it.

13:18It's like good for college basketball to not have a little bit of familiarity. You know, the women's game, you get those players who are playing four years in the familiarity. With men's basketball, you're just going to be introduced to some of these players and it's going to be time for them to move on. Purdue, it feels like it's like a barber shop quartet. You know, they've been there for a while. Their mascot should be a musket. Yeah, you're like, how long you guys been together? I don't know. I lost track. But we got a couple of guys who've been there. It feels like five or six years. They're a really good team. And of course, we talk guard play, senior guard play. That's always important. And get ready. Get ready for that rush of Jay Billis and Seth Greenberg and telling us, you know, who to keep an eye on. That eight, nine matchup, the 12, five matchup of all of those. Barkley, maybe watching some college basketball. Who knows?

14:20Is he involved in the coverage this year? Are they doing anything with ESPN or CBS? Yes. Yes, Marvin. I don't think so because they're with ESPN. But Nate Burlesin is on covers for the NCAA. I know. He saw that. Yeah. CBS mornings NFL today. Now he's going to do college basketball. I'm not sure who I always got to kick out of watching Barkley on the selection Sunday. Because Charles watched as much. He watched less basketball college basketball than I did. But he'd be up there telling you, you know, it'd be Wisconsin Stevens point or something. And Charles trying to tell you something. I would love to have seen what it was like when they were on camera, trying to force feed them information. And I thought CBS went about it in the wrong way because they didn't know college basketball. But Clark Kellogg knew all about college basketball. I wanted Kenny and Shaq and Charles to be off talking about topics, not necessarily breaking

15:25down the starting lineup for Marist College, but it was entertaining. It probably not in the way they designed it to be. All right. Seaton, pull question for the first hour of the program. Who would you rather watch a game with football with Ross Tucker, soccer with Roger Bennett, basketball with Reggie Miller? That's good. Soccer with Roger Bennett. I just think he's such a unique, fascinating voice. And he's so bright. And he would have stories. He's entertaining. There's no wrong answer. But I think there's a right answer. And it's Roger Bennett. I think they're all great. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Ross would be great. I mean, everything you just said about Roger works for Ross and Reggie. Yeah, for sure. Yes. By the way, big R, first name guest day. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Ross Roger and Reggie. It's a pirate's favorite letter. For some reason, I have a spelling error here where I put Rod Tucker. And I kind of love that his name was Rod. Well, he will be in about 10 minutes when I introduce him. Ladies and gentlemen,

16:30Rod Tucker. Rod Tucker. A big day, friend of L teams, you know, franchise tag conversation, releasing vets. We'll keep an eye on that as they roll in. Yannis back for the bucks. I didn't think he'd play for the bucks again, but he's back. So we'll talk to Reggie about that coming up. I was off by a week. My apologies. I think Jason Tatum might be back for the Celtics on Friday. I think they play the maps. I was told it'd be the previous week when he would be back, which is still early coming back from the Achilles, but boy, Boston is an interesting team. They're a fun team to watch because there are a lot of guys contributing. And if you can get a half or three quarters of Jason Tatum, I think they're the team to beat in the east, certainly. All right. 877 3DP show will come up with our poll question. And we'll get to your phone calls as well. But when we return, it'll be Rod Tucker joining us on the Dan Patrick show.

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21:07Paulie said that there was a very popular newspaper in Europe, in London, I think, the sun, and they picked up the fire story from the show yesterday. Actually, a lot of places are picking it up off the TMZ report about the almost tragic fire in the Dan Patron Studios. Yeah, it's one of the bigger papers in Europe picked up the story and then blazing it all over Europe. Em blazing. Yeah. Yeah. And we have men in blazers later on with Roger Bennett. The himself. Yeah. But, you know, we're lucky. Big German back there was signing autographs when I went back. He wants to do a dramatic reenactment of how he saved our lives. Dancing with the star is possible. He wants to, he wants to get his fire fighter unit, his, well, fire fighter in a uniform, not his unit. Yes, Todd. Is this comparable to the sunny landing and the water? Close. Now, does Tom Hanks play the big German in the movie? Have you sold the rights to the,

22:08not in development? I talked to Sandler. I talked to Sandman about it. Oh, yeah, I think you've got a fire. He's playing the big German. Ross Tucker, you might know him as Rod Tucker. He is, of course, host of the Ross Tucker football podcast following on social media at Ross Tucker NFL. Good morning, Ross. Good morning. So, first of all, I was with my daughters. They have a two hour delay because it's raining. So I don't know where the Rod Tucker is coming from. Secondly, I guarantee it'd be more fun to watch a football game with me than to watch soccer with Roger or basketball was ready. I get, I get, Reggie was a much better player than I was. I'm sure Roger Bennett is like, I promise everybody listening or watching, you would have an amazing time watching a football game with me. Okay, maybe we arrange that. Maybe we have a contest, watch football with Rod Tucker. Seaton, I guess, labeled you incorrectly. I just had a typo in what I was

23:15looking at it. For some reason, Rod Tucker instead of Ross really cracked me up. So I just mentioned it, but it's really nothing deeper than me making a typo. But it was R-O-D-D. So, not to like Todd, it's Rod Tucker. I thought maybe you got a chance to watch a football game with me and Fritzie together. And it was like, you know, J-Lo, Benefer or whatever, where Fritzie and I were a combo package. I've watched a game with Fritzie. That was not fun. Especially if it's the Broncos. I mean, that's the only reason to watch it. Now, you and Cheyenne Irving would be interesting watching a game together. Maybe the Cowboys. I picture Fritzie just being a nervous, nelly, negative, the whole game. That does not sound like it'd be fun at all. It wasn't. We've I've watched a Super Bowl with him. I've watched regular season games with him. And it's,

24:19he's a mess. He's a mess. Yeah. Okay. Were you invited to the Combine after your Lusterie's career at Princeton? No, not even close. Not not even. I wasn't even on like the the Combine, Combine snub list, which is fine because I stunk at all those drills for the most part anyway. It wouldn't have helped my stock would only have hurt me. Although, I've not even been able to persuade some of the GM's if I got some of those interviews. That would have been my best part. But you did a pro day. I did. I went to Rutgers. I did a pro day two months after I had had herniac surgery, sports herniac, core muscle, whatever they call it. My numbers wouldn't have been that good. Anyway, Dan, but my agent felt like I needed to prove I was healthy. Here's all you need to know about my numbers at the Rutgers pro day. Before it started, there's like 16 NFL teams there. I introduced myself to the scout from the Eagles. I tell him, hey, I'm from Reading

25:22outside of Philly grew up a huge Eagles fan would go to training camp, you know, go to Princeton. And he's like, okay, because it's nice to have a local flavor sometimes with undrafted for agents. So we have a really good conversation. My pro day goes so poorly that afterwards he won't even make eye contact with me. And he got out of the Rutgers bubble as fast as he can. And the Eagles, I played for almost every team. The Eagles never had one Iota of interest in me whatsoever. That's how bad my pro day was. The arm length topic that's now superseded the hand size. How important is arm length here? Okay. So this is exciting because you're talking to one of the world's foremost experts in this. And we had breaking news at the combine. For the first time ever,

26:22someone my height or taller has shorter arms than me. Oh, yeah, blame it. There we go. Breaking news. For the first time at Carson Beck, Dan, I was 64 and 5'8s. And my arm length is 30 and 6'8s, right? 30 and 3'4s. horrendously bad. So I no longer introduce myself as a seven year journeyman offensive lineman. I'm now one of the 10 best NFL offensive lineman of all time with sub 31 in terms. Carson Beck was 64 and 3'4s. And his arm length was 30 and 5'8s of an inch. Carson Beck, the first person, and I didn't realize this like in high school, we're going back. If I just had normal arms, Dan, like 33 inch arms, I would have been dunking in high school basketball.

27:24I would have gotten more girls. It would have been incredible. If I just had normal arms. You have a Carson Beck's a quarterback. Exactly. Which means it doesn't matter at all. Listen, it's not the be all end all. It definitely helps. Just like your reach helps if you're a boxer. But remember, Mike Tyson still found a way to knock out a lot of guys that had a longer reach than him. So you have to combat it. So I had super short arms. What would I do? I attacked immediately. It's called jump setting where as soon as the ball is snapped, I would use the initial quickness to try to get on the guy right away. Because if I wait on them, Dan, and you go against Richard Seymour, and they have the one arm. It's got a long arm that one arm. They put it right in my chest. I had no shot. I was like this. It was very difficult. So it's not a need to have

28:29but it's really nice. And I'm very curious to know what my career would have been like. Just give me 32-inch arms. Just give me even below average would be fine. But it's very hard to play professional football if you're a male version of a T-rex out there. Would you rather face Miles Garrett or Aaron Donald? Aaron Donald. Yeah, I mean Aaron's incredible, but he doesn't have the length element that Miles also has. And if I'm going against Miles, there's a lot of space. Space is not my friend. With Aaron, I can at least try to jump him, try to get on him quickly and give myself the best chance. I was pretty decent against power. It was more of the movement stuff that really would give me problems. Is Ross Tucker, CBS Sports Westwood one, analyst and host of the Ross Tucker football podcast? Let's look at the quarterbacking situations here. Where do you want to start?

29:35Which team do you think you have a better handle on what they're going to do here in the next couple of weeks or months? I actually want to start with a player. And I think this is fascinating because I on today's Ross Tucker football podcast had Greg Rosenthal. He went over his free agent rankings from the NFL.com. His number one ranked free agent then, Malik Willis. Yeah. And I know Chris Sims. I've heard Chris on your show talk about Malik Willis. Here's what's fascinating. No. I don't really think people want a trade for Kyler Murray or Tua Tungo Vialoa. And we know Cousins going to get released. Those guys might get released, but they have a lot of guaranteed money left. What does that mean? That means these teams might be able to get Kyler or Tua potentially for the minimum, for the minimum. Tua has 54 million guaranteed. You can get them

30:38for the minimum. Are you doing that? Or are you paying Malik Willis? Who hasn't played that much football 25 to 30 million dollars a year and committing to him? On some level, Dan, you're going to get a competent starting quarterback like Tua and maybe Kyler on the very, very cheap as opposed to a guy in Malik Willis who flamed out who he's going to be a free agent. And there's going to be multiple suitors because he looked good in the three games or every played last year. The financial element of this is really, really fascinating. Okay. So the dolphins are going to be on the hook and Arizona's on the hook for the money that Murray and Tua are going to make or still owed. Well, so what they're going to try to do is get anything in return, whether that's a draft choice and or get another team to pick up some of their contract. So that's what all the negotiating

31:39is, you know, but it's like Denver eating the Russell Wilson contract. Well, that could be the case for both Arizona and Miami or maybe there's so much money there that they have to give up a draft choice to get someone to eat half of it, right? Like, okay, we'll give Tua 20. You give them 30 and we'll give you a seventh round pick or whatever it is. I'm just making this up, but the dolphins might have to give someone money ball it, if you will, Dan, might have to give someone a draft pick to get them to take some of Tua's financial burden off of the dolphins. They'd rather do that probably than just outright release them. A source was telling me yesterday, we were kind of going over the musical chairs with quarterbacks and he brought up, do you think the jets being on the clock with the second pick overall was enough of a deterrent that Trinidad Shambles goes back to Ole Miss and Dante more stays at Oregon? Do you think that that could have

32:43factored in at all for these quarterbacks to say, I could come out, but that's not where I want to go. Well, a lot of people were saying that about the New York jets and I can't tell you how strongly I disagree with that being part of the discussion. You have a chance to be the number two overall pick in the NFL draft and I know you can say the Jet Tornigrade organization or whatever asked Drew Aller from Penn State, asked Garrett Nussmeyer from LSU, asked some of these guys who are now just hoping to be day two picks, who a lot of people were saying maybe last day would have been first round picks or going into this year, they would have been first round picks. So we'll hear all this stuff about Dante more and Archmaning and Shambles and listen, they can't all go one or two

33:44next year Dan and people, this notion that you want to avoid the jets. First of all, it's a little bit disrespectful to their new regime. Secondly, what organization do you think is picking one, two or three next year that you think is so great that you're going to avoid? That is the worst logic and they're like, oh, they make plenty of money. Yeah, you're going to tell me five million dollars of NIL is worth turning down $50 million dollars, fully guaranteed. If you know you're going to be a top five pick in the NFL draft, you have to go from a business standpoint. If you love college and Oregon, if you think you need more time to develop, we can have that conversation. From a strictly business perspective, I think it's a sign to think that someone would return to school to avoid a certain franchise. Once again, it was just a thought that was brought up with no, no, no, and I believe you Dan, but I've seen many people talking about that over the last few

34:52weeks on social media, including people I respect. By the way, you're also then a year further removed from potentially getting $60 million dollars a year after your third year in the NFL if you're a good player. It just, it doesn't make sense to me at all. I mean, who do you think, who do you think is going to have the number one pick next year? You think it's going to be the Seahawks or the Eagles? That's not how it works. If Fernando Mendoza came out after his last year at Cal, okay? Yeah. Nobody knows him. Might have done the interviews great, might have been a decent combine. Is he a second day draft pick? I think so. I think he probably ended up being a day two pick. There was enough buzz about him at the end of last year. But even if he stated Cal this past year, not at Indiana, you see the number one pick on the draft. No, definitely not.

35:59But definitely not. Okay. He's a number one pick because he played really well, but the team had tremendous success. He played in a lot of big games against. If he stays at Cal, let's say they have a great year and they're nine and three. He's not the presumptive number one pick. He's probably not even top 10. If you're looking at the most impactful player, let's say, let's just say offensively. It's Jeremiah love. Okay. I agree. Why would he not go second even though the Jets have Breeze Hall? If I can get another dynamic playmaker, why don't I cater my offense so you have to stop me? He can play wide receiver. I mean, you could Christian McCaffrey him and Breeze Hall, they're probably keeping. Why wouldn't the Jets take the best, the most impactful offensive player? Couple reasons. I think one of which is the financial. You know, even to franchise

37:05tag of running back is like $12 million. So let's just say they franchise tag Breeze Hall. You have a position like that for $12 million. You're not getting and I'm not saying I agree with this Dan. I'm just telling you, this is how they look at it. You're not getting the value of Jeremiah love being a top 10 player at that position. If you're paying him what those guys make already is the number two overall pick. He'd be right up there with, you know, towards the top of the running back pay scale. Whereas if you take Arvel Reese and he's an elite edger usher rather than paying Miles Garrett or Micah Parsons $40 million a year, you're only paying Arvel Reese $10 million a year. So you're getting tremendous value. The argument would be that you're not recouping the same amount of value if you have a running back that high as opposed to the other

38:07positions where the veterans get paid an exorbitant amount of money. That's why you went to Princeton. Thanks. And I always I have the jacket. I see it. I see it. What was your grade point at Princeton? 3.4. Good enough to be. I think they cut off for academic all American was like three three or three three five. I was right where I needed to be Dan. Just right. I qualified. You were an academic all American. Yeah. Junior senior year. Okay. Yeah. Cosita. Cosita district two academic all American, but we don't need to remember. Cosita in the district. I mean, I don't see a plaque there behind you with all your helmets and footballs. Oh, that's because I have my wife made me put my prints in degree up, but it's on the side. I don't that doesn't need to be featured. It's just on the side wall over here. He's Rod Tucker or Ross Tucker, the Ross Tucker football podcast

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43:16Yeah, Daytona rim right hand rim Roger. One twenty two one eighteen new job by four down the center on their feet. You're play of the day. That's courtesy of the jazz radio network. Keontay George finished with the dunk there in the fourth quarter for the jazz. He finished with 36 points. Jamal Murray had 45 for the nuggets. Play of the day brought to you by true green. Don't waste another weekend. Doing your lawn care yourself. Partner with the official lawn care treatment provider, the PJ tour and get a golf course quality lawn the easy way. Sign up at true green dot com and sit back and relax. My thanks to Will Farrell. He reached out this morning. Wanted to make sure that everybody was good thoughts and prayers from Will. We appreciate that. Already early poll results there and you know what? This might be sneaky on Will's part. Getting the early movie rights after I mentioned. Sandler would probably be interested.

44:18He's made contact. Early poll results. Who would you rather watch a game with football with Ross Tucker. Soccer with Roger Bennett or basketball with Reggie Miller. Happy to say a 52% running away with this one right now. Football with Ross Tucker. Excuse me, Rod Tucker. Oh, Rod Tucker. Yes. Yes. Reggie Miller has 33% of them. Okay. All right. Christian Syracuse leads us off. Good morning, Chris. Hey, thanks, Dan. Hey, you got a couple things to throw at you. And also a couple things off the fire yesterday. I thought of a potential t-shirt. It would read, have the date March 2nd, 2026. And then it would say, Dan Patrick and his studio in Fuego. Okay. And also, I loved years ago, Paul said a couple times that if ever there was a fire in the studio, the first thing he would do was run as fast as he could. Get a wet towel and throw it over Dan's hair. And a few weeks ago, Patrick Mahomes restructured his contract with the Chiefs.

45:18Hoping to make a run at another Super Bowl next year. Dan, during this year's NFL award season, you talked about how they never give offensive player the year an MVP to the same player. I wonder if Patrick Mahomes really rebounds next year and wins MVP if he could also win come back player the year, because I don't believe an NFL MVP has ever won that. And Dan, off your interview yesterday with Jeremy Fowler and being a big Viking fan, with JJ McCarthy looking more and more like our next Christian ponder. The bikes need a quarterback. But being well over the cap and we planned on having our starting quarterback on a rookie deal, I hope we just signed one of the short-term quarterbacks. Not a guy who could potentially be our quarterback of the future. And I'm sure our new GM will want to have input on that decision. And Dan, I still can't figure out why at this time of year, the Vikings have no new GM in place. Thank you, Chris. Sean and Daytona Beach. Hi, Sean. Dan, long time, long time.

46:18Thank you for calling me back. I have a few questions regarding the fire yesterday. We all know your affinity for first responders. We can look at the desk, we see all the patches. If I'm not mistaken, I believe you have first responders in your family. What's your wife aware of what happened when you got home? Because my wife was, my Alexa told her that there was a local arm going off. She had to call the house. That's me, what was going on. And also, have you ever had an incident at the house with the cigars? Thanks a lot, guys. No, nothing with these cigars, but I don't leave them unattended. And no, my wife, I did not want to bother her with this. Now, she might be reading the papers, or maybe the today show picks up this story, and then she's going to go, you didn't tell me. And I just, I don't want to burden her with, you know, she has other things to worry about. And, uh, look, crisis averted.

47:20I mean, the big German who, if you're watching on peacock, he has his, his firefighting uniform here. He has it here at his jacket, his helmet on. Had a light on the top of it. He knew that something could happen. He's prepared. Yes, Marvin. Does Robin Roberts do a one-on-one with the big German? Well, I would probably be there with him. Oh, it's got to be about you. Um, I think if you're going to get ratings, you know, you're like, oh my gosh, Dan Patrick, and they're the guy who saved his man, Cliff. Yeah. So I think it, it works better when you couple. And I think me sitting there, uh, you know, he's reassuring. He's a big guy. He's got his uniform on and he smells like smoke. And, uh, I mean, I smell like cigar, but he smells like smoke. Uh, David in Ohio, hi, David, welcome back. Hey, Dan, sorry about yesterday. Got a few, uh, got a few fire puns here for you.

48:21The Dallas Cowboys don't need a fire department. They already put themselves out every January. Second one, following the fire department for the Cowboys is pointless. There's never really a real blaze. Just a lot of preseason smoke. Last one, the Cowboys are like a fire grill. Loud dramatic. And nobody actually in danger of winning anything. Thank you. All right, David, David, take any shots and to Cowboys, uh, Lucas in Texas. Hi, Lucas. What do you have for me? Hey, Dan, good morning. Good morning. I've got a show pitch for you and just saying, but real quick, don't read too much into Will Ferrell's altruism there. I bet he's concerned about a certain package that he gave you a little over a year ago. If you remember what I'm what I'm talking about. But, uh, my show pitch for you, if you remember, I gave you the, uh, Dan Patrick takes a real gamble and watches the Cowboys game with Shane Irving. I've got a new one for you called sport court where you hear arguments from two different sides of a sport debate and you as the judge issue are ruling.

49:24And if you, if you'd allow me, I've got a case to bring before you because I just have a sports argument with a friend. Okay, real quick. Yep, my argument is that Duke basketball is not a blue blood yet. The argument being that a blue blood transcends more than one coach has a period of dominance. So they need to win a national title under Shire to actually become a true blue blood. How rule you, your honor? I would have to do some research on that of the number of schools that have had multiple national championship winning coaches. But yeah, I could be kind of a judge duty. We could do a sports version of judge duty where you come in. You state your case. I like that. Roger Bennett, men and blazers. Got a book out about the World Cup. Red G Miller will stop by as well. Last support through telehealth, but it feels overwhelming and rushed. Check out orderlymeds.com now orderlymeds.com was built to be different.

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