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4:08We'll get to your phone calls, 8773 D.P. Show. Email address, D.P. at DanPatrick.com. Twitter handle at D.P. Show. Good morning if you're watching on Peacock or NBC Sports Network. Or listening on our radio affiliates around the country, including I Heart Radio and Fox Sports Radio. You know, the college football, college basketball, the whole conference that they had at the White House on Friday. And the president there, you had 50 esteemed individuals who were there representing different entities. You know, you have former coaches, you have TV executives. I wanted to know why not have a current coach and or current player or players. Because you are talking about them. Ross Dellinger covering a event on Friday, who sports senior college football reporter. What was your biggest takeaway from this on Friday, Ross? Dan, I noticed that you let out an exhaustive sigh

5:10and you started to talk before you started talking about this event. And I would say that plenty of people in attendance probably had a similar sigh after it wrapped up. You know, I think the goal of this event, Dan, was to bring attention to the issue by gathering all these important people, these dignitaries at the White House in front of the president. So I think there was a goal of number one, bringing attention to the issue. And number two, by way of bringing attention to it, maybe you put pressure on congressional lawmakers to push something through a college sports bill through the Congress, which is with the president once, the city once. And I think actually it accomplished goal one. It certainly got people talking and had the attention brought to it. Whether we'll get a college sports bill from it, I'm not sure. There's a fight in the Senate over a bill in a fight in the House right now.

6:12And there's a bill that probably could get to the floor of the House to govern college athletics as soon as next week. But I don't know that it'll pass. There's confidence. It'll pass the House. As we learned during the roundtable on Friday at the White House, that it will pass the Senate. So still a lot of hurdles. And of course, one of the things we found out that was a little bit of a surprise, Dan, was the president saying he'll issue another executive order to govern college athletics. Not sure what will be in that, but he already issued one back in the summer. And it didn't change much about anything. So I'm not sure how this one will. Yeah. And if I'm wrong, tell me. But an executive order can't make a law, provide antitrust exemptions or override state laws or policies in the executive order. They can be challenged in court. So I don't know what's going to come out of this if anything. But where there are any ideas,

7:14any initiatives that were actually brought up in this roundtable? Not anything novel or groundbreaking. There's a good amount of time spent discussing the score act, the college sports bill that's in the house, that has twice failed to get to the floor because they didn't have the votes. And again, that I think next week or maybe for the following week, we will see that finally move. There's a lot of talk about the score act. And then there's a lot of talk from the president specifically about the judicial system, which you could tell he has sort of a vendetta against because of rulings that have come against him the last few months or so. So he sort of blamed college sports's current situation on judges and on their rulings. So no, they get back to your question. Not a whole lot of novel concepts that we learned.

8:15Just college sports folks sitting around with the president complaining about judges and hoping for something to happen in Congress. Why not a current coach or current players? Yeah, well, I mean, I think a group of small group of media, we got a few questions and at the very end. And someone did ask the president why there wasn't a current college athlete on the panel. And he turned to Randy Levine, who's the Yankees president, who actually put together sort of put together the roundtable and said that while there's no current athlete now around this specific roundtable that in the future, if this group continues, there will be athlete voices sort of joining. And in the parallel, the group will continue maybe not as big. They're going to break off into sort of like a smaller subgroup. I don't know, 3, 5, 10 people to continue working with the legislature.

9:17This is the thing, Dan, that you read all that's accurate about the president in an executive order. He can't do a whole lot. There's not a whole lot of power there. You need congressional action. So this small subgroup of the roundtable will work with lawmakers to try to shape college sports legislation that grants conferences in the NCAA, the power to enforce their rules, preempts the state in IEL laws. In-demes, athletes is not employees. That's sort of the three main things they want to happen. Now, for the casual fan Dan, part of what they want is an antitrust exemption to enforce their rules around transfers in the cap, the salary cap that we have now in college athletics, in the movement, just the movement of people transferring in eligibility standards. So that's how the casual fan might eventually see a bill come to fruition

10:18is so much pressure from all these eligibility cases that we've seen and the movement of transfers in college athletics. What role does Nick Sabin play? Well, I think he's got a pretty big voice number one. And for whatever reason, the president wants him to play a very big role. This commission or this roundtable that was put together was something blasts burning almost a year ago that kind of got out publicly. And the president wanted Nick Sabin to chair it. And Nick actually didn't really want to be involved. And so somehow you got talked into being involved now at this roundtable. He certainly got a big voice. And the president wants him involved. And if you listen to Nick Sabin, you know, he's got a lot of good ideas. I think he's got other ideas that some athlete rights folks may disagree with

11:23as far as the restrictions imposed on athletes. And that's the real argument here, Dan. And that's why Congress can't get a bill through is because you have most Republicans that are leaning toward the NCAA sort of side in more restrictions on athletes and more control for the NCAA. And a democratic side wants more control and freedom for athletes. But right now that control and freedom is, as the college administrators might say, out of control, right? And so they want some kind of rules and regulations. So you have this fight going on between Republican Democrats that I don't see getting resolved anytime soon. College football in better shape now or 10 years ago. Since the athletes are getting some kind of compensation right now from the multi-billion dollar business that is college football,

12:24you have to say it's in a better situation. But I think the unregulation and the intense movement that we're seeing among transfers and things like that in the situation with the inconsistent eligibility standard that it's not in a place, it's not in the greatest place that it could be. So there's just, there's a balance that has to be struck on how many, how much rule and regulation, how much restriction do you put on athletes? Because they, you know, 10 years ago, Dan, they had virtually none. Right. They had, they had no hardly any freedoms. And now maybe the argument is they have too many freedoms and so we don't have any rule and regulation. There's got to be sort of a balance there. And usually you get to that balance by with the NFL and all the pro leagues have done, Dan, which is collective bargaining. But it's not that eating college. And it has been a big topic of discussion.

13:24But it's not like you can push a button and get there. But many administrators want to try to start taking steps, Dan, down, down toward a collective bargaining agreement of some sort with major college football and basketball players. Thank you, Ross. Yep, going to be on. Ross Dellinger, Yahoo Sports Senior College football reporter. You know, I know there's a lot of legalese in there. And, you know, Ross trying to dumb it down a little bit for us. Just so we can kind of understand what that this means. Now what it means, the upcoming season. Your school, if you're in the SEC Big 10 or your ACC or Big 12. And there's a lot of moving parts here. Nothing's going to be solved any time soon. You know, once you have, you know, both sides of the aisle not agreeing on this. It doesn't matter, you know, the president can say whatever he wants. It's not going to have an impact. At least not anytime soon. Even if you have another executive order.

14:24It's just, there's only so much you can do. It sounds grander than what it is. But is college football better now? Is the product better now? I know it's better for the players. But is the product better? Because I can look past the other stuff. If I say, hey, what I'm watching is entertaining. I don't like that you can transfer multiple times. I think that there should be a cap on that. But if you want to try to, you know, make these players, employees, and have unions. And, you know, there's a lot of work to be done. But I think they could have cut this off at the path. And they could have. They could have prevented a lot of this. A lot of this. Because I'll go back to when, well, you're getting a free education. Yes. But if you look at the schedules of these athletes. It's a work schedule. And I wonder about school.

15:24Or at least I did. Coach Sabin said, we don't spend enough time talking about education. I don't know if these kids are going to school to get an education. They're going to school to play a sport and maybe play it after college. They're getting paid in college. I don't think it's the way it was if you're over the age of 50. Where you go. You know, get an education. You should be happy. You got a free education. This is big business. This is billions and billions of dollars. And they were labeled student athletes. And because of that, it's like, well, you got a free education. Yes, you do. But it's so much more than that. And yes, education. That's a rumor it feels like. And as I've said many, many times. I'm waiting for somebody to be ineligible, academically ineligible. I don't even know if we're enforcing that any time soon. Yes, Paul. It's a really tough question to answer. Is college football the product better now or 10 years ago?

16:26It felt like we missed the regulation of college football and more control. But if you look at what NL has done, look at Indiana. One of the great stories in sports history. Not just college football. And I think that directly happened because of the openness of college football now compared to seven or eight years ago. Well, you're bringing in schools that weren't in contention before. And I think that's a good thing. Instead of it being top heavy where it's the same five to seven schools. You get a school like Indiana to win the National Championship. You get a school like Indiana to win the National Championship. Never in my lifetime would I have thought that that was possible. And at times I still don't believe it. But you need to have those stories. All sports needs to have those stories where it's not predictable. That's the beauty. And, you know, even this year's Super Bowl is Seattle and New England. I don't think many people had either one of those teams going that far. But the possibility is there.

17:26You always want that with your leagues. Hey, the Spurs, they might be the team to beat in the West. It's a great story. Not the, well, it's going to be the same teams, same schools. And I think that's something that is very promising in sports. All right. Let me take a break. We'll talk about the NFL news here. Mike Tannenbaum from the Mother Ship will stop by. We'll take a break. We're back after this. This is a fantastic show. Be sure to catch the live edition of the Dan Patrick show weekdays at 9 AM Eastern, 6 AM Pacific on Fox Sports Radio in the I Heart Radio Lab. Stegats here, I have a podcast empire. It continues to grow and I have brought it here to IHORN. I'm also doing a live radio show from three to five PM Eastern because my wife wanted to kick me out of the house. It's called Stugots and Company Live, which is available in podcast form right when the show finishes every single day.

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23:30with a new head coach, year one with new GM. Are the dolphins gonna be tanking? I don't know if they're gonna be tanking, but I think what's gonna be really interesting, Dan, if you and I are having this conversation October and November, there'll be a number of teams that are probably more interested in fishing closer to the top of the draft than to making the playoffs. And I don't know if they're gonna have a tanking problem the way the NBA does, but without question next year's draft is loaded with quarterbacks. And there's gonna be a number of teams that may be out of it in the middle of the season. It'll be interesting to see how they comport themselves when we get there. But Tua, if he signs with the team, he still gets his money from Miami. That's correct, there's three quarterbacks right now. Kyla Murray, Gino Smith and Tua, that all have massive guarantees from their previous team. All three of those quarterbacks will sign for about $1.3 million this year. So it's not necessarily comparing apples to apples when you talk about Daniel Jones or Kirk Cousins

24:32or Maliquilis with those other three because a team is gonna see one of those three players as tremendous value. If you ran the dolphins, what are you gonna do at quarterback position? I'm probably looking for a bridge quarterback and then looking at next year's draft because it could be historically great. Look, the C's hasn't been played yet, we'll see how it goes, but there's a chance for it to be really good. So not just necessarily Miami Dan, but if I felt like I was a year away or just trying to establish myself, there's over 10 new head coaches, I'm sure a lot of teams are gonna have a very similar mindset. Max Crosby, Raiders getting two first round picks from the Ravens. Let me start with the Ravens because I wondered about this last week, why aren't more teams taking the approach, the Rams take? Like Buffalo, getting DJ Moore, I mean, I gotta be all in because we know that window of opportunity doesn't stay open very long and the Rams, it feels like for the last decade,

25:34have been all in. We don't need our draft picks, we're gonna get people who can help us when, or at least compete for another Super Bowl. The Ravens went all in with Max Crosby, Buffalo with DJ Moore, the Rams, you know, getting McDuffing. Why don't more teams follow that blueprint? Yeah, I think it's very sound and in particular, you were asking about Crosby, you know, there's a couple really interesting things. First of all, he's only 29. He's incredibly productive and he's exactly what you want for your locker room. He's a force multiplier. He's gonna make everybody in that program better. The interesting thing then that no one's really talked about is Jesse Mentor won from this nice young ascending coach that will have, you know, a reasonable breaking period to like, there is no hunting mood. Like the expectations for a rookie head coach have never been higher. If Lamar's healthy, he's a two-time MVP. You have one of the two or three best pass rosters in the league. You have Derek Henry, Rukwan Smith, Kyle Hamilton,

26:34amongst others, like, this guy's funny moons about 10 minutes. If you ran the Raiders, what do you do? You got more cap space than anybody. You got two first round picks. We know what you're doing with one of them. What would you be leaning towards if you were running the team? Three things, offensive line, offensive line, offensive line. I am, Dan, I am drafting Mendosa, but I am not playing him. I would have kept Geno Smith, and here's why. If you go back last year, they gave up more sacks than any team. You could look at it from a few different metrics. Don't ruin Fernando Mendosa before he's ready. I think he has a chance on the upside, Dan, to be Matt Ryan, a taller guy, a good arm, a good athlete, not a great athlete. He's going to need a firm pocket. That's something that the Raiders have really struggled with. So why are we in a rush to play him? I would go out and get somebody else to start, at least half the year and make sure that your offense align is settled before you do anything with Mendosa. If you don't want to ruin his career

27:34before they have a chance to be good. Yeah, I'm right there with you. I've been using the Andrew Luck analogy that you had this future Hall of Fame quarterback. You just didn't have a very good offensive line. And it eventually caught up to both the cold and Andrew Luck. Can you quietly shop the number one pick if you're the Raiders? Yeah, I'm not so sure they have it. Like just from teams, be it Arizona or the Jets, you could just say, hey, run into them at the combine, say, look, we're not negotiating. Tell me what the bill is. Tell me what the price is. Is it three ones, is it four ones? Chances are teams are going to do that because I'm sure they're looking at it at a multi-year sort of view of what we had talked about. When you think about Dante more next year, Archman and LaNora Sellers, like on and on and on. They'll probably be, I think, five or six first round quarterbacks if they play reasonably well this year. So I think part of what's going to hurt the Raiders from a leverage standpoint is teams are going to look at next year and say, we'll pay a premium, but we're not going to be unreasonable.

28:36Who had a better week or 10 days, bills, Ravens, Rams? I go with the Rams. If you and I were running the Chiefs, and we were just drafting the players on the Chiefs, clearly Patrick Mahomes is the best player, I'm not so sure that Trent McDuffee isn't two or three of their best players. He can blitz, he can tackle, he can play man, he can play zone, he can play slot, he can play outside, he's very competitive. There's nothing he doesn't do exceptionally well. And if we look at the Rams and say, what was outcome determinative, I would tell you, they're a lack of play at corner. Darius Williams, Emmanuel Forbes, they didn't get the high level play. And we're going to have to, at some point, cover Jackson, Smith and Jidba, man to man. We're going to have to be able to get off the field on third down. They could do that today, they can do that a week ago. And I was surprised, look, I know we've seen Kansas State trade, the Jerry Sneed, we've seen him trade, Tyree Kill, I put McDuffee in a different category. I think he's a great young player,

29:38and I was surprised that they traded him. He's Mike Tannenbaum, ESPN NFL Front office insider. What do you expect the rest of this week? I think the quarterbacks are going to be fascinating, because I think you put that bucket of three in one group. Again, that's Tua, Kyler Murray, and Geno Smith. Those are guys who are all one-year deals at a million three. So that's one bucket. I don't think anybody goes after Daniel Jones because of the durability issue, but let's face it, Dan, the cults are a little bit exposed. They took a $6 million risk. The transition tag was $6 million less than the franchise tag, understandably. But now, let's see what happens with him. And then the other one's going to be Malik Willis. Malik Willis was somebody that hasn't played a lot, but got a lot better with Green Bay. And it's going to be fascinating to see where he signs. What about the cults going after Kyler Murray? You know, that's interesting, Dan. They like Riley Leonard. They still have an Anthony Richardson.

30:39Obviously, they like Daniel Jones. That's why they transition him. Look, if you and I were running a team, I would say for $1.3 million, let's go get Kyle Murray. His ceiling is really high. He's only 29 years old. He's played good football, not consistently, but he's put it on tape. And I'm always for in a cap to a constraint system when you could take calculated risks and get a player that has a ability for incredibly, on a $300 million cap, you're essentially paying him nothing at $1.3 million. There's very, very little downside. Aaron Rodgers only going to have the Steelers as a potential landing spot. Yeah, I think so. I mean, I think this soda, if things they'll work out with Murray, I mean, that's the only other team. But, you know, let's face it, Dan. He's going to be 43 in December. He's an all-time great, one of the best I've ever played, but it's close to the end. And what you worry about there, and I've been around test of early at the end, far back at the end. I work with Dan Moreno, like talking to him. It's not their arm, Dan. It's their legs and their inability to protect themselves.

31:42And, you know, he's going to be 43. Father time's undefeated. If I'm Aaron Rodgers, I got to take a long, honest and sober view of, do I really need to do this one more year? Yeah, I just wonder about landing spots. Even Kirk Cousins, does he look at TV? And maybe commit to CBS, but with the caveat or the asterisk of, if somebody calls, I might be leaving. Although, I don't know if CBS would do that. I think he had a pretty good day view as an analyst here, but if you're going to replace Matt Ryan, you kind of want to know that that guy's going to be there on Sunday when you're doing your broadcast. Yeah, if I'm Kirk Cousins, like I got to be close to the end as well. Like, you know, he's a great dad by all accounts. You know, CBS seems like a pretty good opportunity. You know, we'll see, you know, sometimes these guys are so competitive, though. It's hard for them to leave. And by the way, a quarterback is going to look at Minnesota and say, I can be coached by Kevin O'Connell. I have Justin Jefferson,

32:43arguably the best receiver in the game. Jordy Dazs and TJ Hawkinson. That's a pretty good place to be. How did Minnesota miss on JJ McCarthy? Like, it feels like we haven't said the quiet thing out loud yet, but it certainly feels like they realize they made a mistake. Yeah, I'm not ready to go there yet. He started 10 games. I think we got to give him a great, have been complete. He's incredibly young. I saw him craft his probably six times at Michigan. He has attributes you can't see. He's a natural leader. He has poised about him. And I think there's too much upside to give up on him. Now, with that said, if we could go get Kyle and Murray or Kurt Cousins, I'm going to have a competition. But, you know, we've seen too many guys from Darnell, Geno Smith, Baker Mayfield, you know, go to their third and fourth team until, you know, quote, unquote, the light went on. And to me, we got to remember this, like worst case scenario is not JJ McCarthy, not working out. It's him working out someplace else. Yeah, yeah, that's true.

33:43But it feels like you're either good, really good with your team or you know that you're going to get, you're going to be a backup quarterback and then you're going to get your chance again. It feels like there's two buckets of quarterbacks. It's, that guy's going to bounce around and be Sam Darnell or Baker Mayfield or Geno Smith or you are going to get that quarterback who is going to be with your franchise from start to finish. Yeah, how about this? Like, I just tweeted this a couple of minutes ago. This is a remarkable statistic. Kyler Murray is the seventh consecutive quarterback drafted first overall that wasn't on the team that drafted him by the age of 30. The last quarterback to be drafted first overall and still be on his team at 30 was Matt Stafford in. He was drafted going back to 2009. So it's really remarkable how hard it is to develop a quarterback. Now Andrew Luck retired. But yeah, seven quarterbacks in a row didn't make it to age of 30.

34:44You ever get into shouting match with an agent? Huh. Yeah, more times than I would care to admit. Can you, can you give me one? You don't have to give names. But yeah, what? How allowed did it getting? Oh, it got, it got loud. There was one. It was so bad that I actually, not only did I call him to apologize and one of the hiring his son doesn't intern. They felt so bad. He. He. Oh, we'll be watching. Thank you, Mike. Great to talk to you again. All right, appreciate you having me. Thanks, Dan. Mike Tannenbaum. You can see him on various ESPN programs. Get up sports center NFL live. And you feel bad. You don't send chocolates. You go, well, hire your son as an intern. Couple of phone calls in here. Mark and St. Cloud. Welcome back, Mark. Hey, Dan. How are you doing? Good, sir. Good. I got a couple of bests and a worse worst. I feel bad for the kids at Navy.

35:45But I'm sure Fritzy that the Navy announcer was really excited when Boston, you hit that shot to take him out of the tournament. I'm sure he illustrated that. Well, best of the weekend, your Johnny's of St. John's University and your Benny's of the college of St. Benedict both make it in to the division three hockey NCAA tournament. And I have a rule speaking of the division one NCAA tournament. I'd like you to consider what you think of this. If you don't finish about 500 in your conference, unless you win the conference tournament, you can't get an automatic birth or an at large birth, I should say. You can't get an at large birth. If you don't finish over 500 in your conference, so Auburn out. Stand of the day. Minneapolis, the leader and money spent on only fans. Atlanta's number one nationally, but Minneapolis in the top five. Well, congratulations, Minneapolis. It is cold there. You look at some of these teams that are bubble teams. You got Auburn.

36:45They're 16 and 15. Indiana 18 and 13. Stanford 2011, Boise State 2011. And they're probably there waiting for Miami of Ohio to get bounced. Yes, Marvin. Auburn's a bubble at one game above 500. If you're like 19 and 12, well, you can't be 17 and 16. Like, oh, they're a bubble team. They did beat Florida at Florida. I don't know what their resume is. And you got Bruce Pearl talking about his son who's the head coach at Auburn. No conflict. Yeah. Yes, Marvin. But what about those 16 games they lost? I'm sure there's a couple of teams that they shouldn't have lost to. I agree. I agree. But, you know, if Miami of Ohio played in the SEC, they'd be lucky to be 16 and 50. Get ready for these arguments here. And now Bruce Pearl, I think he's rooting for Akron to get in as well, maybe to beat Miami of Ohio to win that Mac conference tournament.

37:47But Miami of Ohio would still get in with just one loss. If Miami of Ohio was in undefeated, people would watch their game or games. They would. They would be, I don't know who these guys are, but they're undefeated. And this is, once again, it's a TV show. I bring it up every year, even when you get matchups. And it's like, oh, Bob Nights at Texas Tech. And if he wins his game, then he gets to play Indiana. Oh, what are the odds of that? Yes, they manipulated. Yes, Marvin. I remember vividly this had to be maybe 2007. It was OJ Mail's USC team against Michael Beasley's Kansas State team. Oh, what are the odds that they're going to put these two top five draft picks on the same same game? Hey, Todd, would a neutral fan be wanting to tune in to see Miami of Ohio continue staying undefeated or to see them finally lose again?

38:48Well, you tell me I don't want to skew negative, but I think more people would tune in to see them lose their first game than to stay undefeated. I hope I'm wrong about that about they would be rooting. No, they would root for them. It's an underdog. It's Cinderella. Isn't that why we watch? Until eventually you want those teams to lose so we could see the blue ones. Yes, yes, but Miami, Ohio would be a great story, Paul. Yeah, I think Todd's an island on this one, because you root for the story and the run to keep going. You don't want a story to end prematurely. I think it's a great story. Yeah, yes, more. The one part that hurts Miami of Ohio is that they don't have a Steph Curry or Wally Zurbieg. A guy that's scoring 25 a night. They have eight guys that score 10 points in it. Yes, damn team effort. We want stars. Boo, sharing the ball. Boo, balance basketball. Boo, bounce fast, backdoor cuts. Yes, Todd. When is India out of basketball going to make a comeback? The year India was a national title, we're talking about the Indian Hoosiers as a bubble team.

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43:54He had kind of a... Oh, okay. Statt of the day brought to you by Panini America, the official trading card to the program. He had kind of a tense back and forth with a reporter about, you don't know this team, you don't know me, and kind of went back and forth there. So still fighting. The men's college basketball title odds, Draft Kings just sent those to me. It's Duke with a slight edge over Michigan, then my Arizona Wildcats, Florida, Houston, Illinois. Best and worst of the weekend. Todd, I'm gonna start with you, best and worst. My best of the weekend, how about some love for Tennessee State? They win the Ohio Valley Conference, which gives them an automatic bid to the tournament. They haven't been there since 1994, as far as March Madness dominating more head state 93 to 67. Worst, I'm giving it to Great Britain. Sorry, Great Britain in the World Baseball Classic and Team USA. After hitting a home run off three scuba on the first pitch of the game,

44:54it happens when two for 28, 17 strikeouts. No walks, not good. Good. Yeah, that pitch that... Treescuba through, I mean, it was meatball city. It was like, oh, I'm gonna get that first pitch over, just getting started and all of a sudden, it is kind of belled high and he belted it. Seaton, best and worst of the weekend. My best was the Raiders, actually. They got kind of a haul for Max Crosby. Maybe the people thought that their price they were asking was a little too steep, but they found somebody to step up for it and it seems like they're doing the right things. A lot of pressure now to do the right thing with those draft picks, but that was a good move by them. And my worst, Joe Burrow now in division has to face Max Crosby, TJ Watt and Miles Garrett. If he was looking forward to next season, he should not be. Yes, Todd. But Joe Burrow was also seen recently with Jessica Alba at a casino table which is something worth noting. I know, I did see that photo. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

45:55I doubled down. Marvin bested worst. Best of the weekend, Victor Womanyama in the spurs, coming back against the LA Clippers in Wembee, getting emotional, I mean, he was... That dude is different. And he saved the all-star game. I mean, he took the Americans to the limit in the Olympics. I mean, he's just on a tear right now, worst of the weekend. My Yukon Husky's losing to 11 in 19, Marquette. They shot three for 24 for three point range to end a regular season. And your coach gets fine $25,000, bumping in a fish. He kept his cool. Yeah, I wonder if they suspend him. I know that they immediately came out and said $25,000 fine. And then he's afterwards goes, I don't think I bumped in, but if I did, they said I did, then I guess I did. No, you did. Yes, Paul. It felt like more of a grazing than a bumping. I don't know if there's any difference in price,

46:55but, and I'm objective about this. I'm not a Yukon fan. It felt like a grazing, but definitely contact. Okay. Best and worst. Two best Nebraska Cornhuskers basketball. I watched them. That's been a good program for a while now. They're 26 and five. We talk about football schools becoming basketball schools. And then Missouri Valley Conference, Northern Iowa, four games, four wins, four days, to get the ticket to the big dance, as they call it. Yeah, they get to punch their ticket, as they like to say. Good program. You get to punch your ticket. Brian and Sacramento. Hi, Brian, best and worst of the weekend. Hi, Dan, thanks for taking my call. First time, long time, 5-11-205. Thank you. Awesome. That's the weekend. My nephew, freshman pitcher for Sac State, going on the road to LSU and recording not one, but two saves Saturday and Sunday last night, so that was very, very cool.

47:57Worst of the weekend, learning that college baseball still has a 10 run skunk rule Friday night. LSU smoking Sac State, not getting to see my nephew pitch. All right. Thank you, Brian. Matt, Noel Hio. Hi, Matt. Good morning, guys. How are you? Spectacular. Watching the world baseball class, it would have disparities in the teams. Brazil against the United States. Brazil has a construction worker on the team. And also one of the greatest things was Joseph Contrero, a 17-year-old from Brazil, actually gets air and judge to ground out into a double play. So it was pretty cool to see that. Yeah. And I'm watching the pitcher for Panama, and it kind of startled me. I thought Bartolio Cologne had a brother, a very similar size. Oh, no. Yes. He didn't really cut a figure of a baseball player,

49:01but I think you can get away with that as a pitcher. And he was getting away with that for quite some time. I was texting Mario, the eyes and ears of the show, and he, of course, rooting for Puerto Rico. He goes, I can't believe he's getting us out with that junk. And I go, he was dealing, as they say. Alex and Michigan. Hi, Alex. What's on your mind? Hey, I'm looking at two of them, maybe being a replacement for Maggames if they trade them. I think he can go there and maybe get some help. I'm having an offense that supports them. That's just the best support to them, and maybe he could have some value after it. Well, anybody who's going to go to the Niners who kind of have a pit stop, a reset, will benefit. If you're there with Kyle Shanahan, you will benefit as a quarterback. Matt Jones, Sam Darnal, just to name a few.

50:03But, you know, two of can end up in Atlanta. I mean, if you have, you build your offense for left-handed quarterback, now you have two of them. Andy and Buffalo. Hi, Andy. What's on your mind? Hey, Dan. Thanks for taking my call. Best of the weekend. I know it's the start of the NFL New Year, but here in Buffalo, everyone's ecstatic about the Sabers. They are victory last night over the lightning. They are now in full possession of first place in the Atlantic Division. Looking a lot like they are going to end their 14-year playoff drought, and last night's game had everything you want in a hockey game. Four fights in the first period. Eight, seven, final score. And I do have to mention my five-day-old daughter, Reagan Mary. She has only seen the Sabers win. Seven and oh, since the Olympic break. So, thanks for taking my call. Go Sabers. All right, Andy. That was wild. Just seeing the highlights.

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