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3:05Roger Maris and Babe Ruth. People thought, well, somebody's going to break Babe Ruth's record. It should be Mickey Mantle, not Roger Maris. And he played in 162, Babe had 154 games. How about Barry Bonds and Hank Aaron? How dare they let somebody as dirty as Barry Bonds beat the ultra-clean Hank Aaron? Miles Garrett, Michael Strayhand to a lesser degree. I don't think anybody had a problem with that. It was when Michael Strayhand moved past Mark Gastono, but Gastono wasn't a beloved guy. It was just the way that Michael Strayhand was afforded that sack against bread far. But those are just some examples. You'll probably have a few more for me. But Bam out of bio with 83. And it just feels like the old school NBA fan or analyst is like, how dare you make a mockery of the game. Well, no one was there when Wilk did this, but Wilk was chasing 100 points that night. And nobody talks about that.

4:06He talked about 100 points. Wilk was chasing 100 points that night. I know the game was already out of hand. Now it was about Wilk getting 100 points. Bam out of bio still put up over 60 points through three quarters. You can talk about the fourth quarter. But let's please acknowledge the first quarter had 31. I had nothing to do with some scheming game plan to draw fouls. He put up 31. Eric Spolster, the Miami Heat head coach, then realized maybe there was something special. And he was going to let him have a special night. Then you go for 62 and a half time. So 62 legitimately. 62 at the end of three. I'm sorry. So those are all legitimate. Thank you, Paulie. There. That's legitimate there. Now did the fourth quarter get out of hand? It did. But he still put up 83. And I think we get caught up in this vacuum of how dare he do that.

5:10You know, and we can't speak for Kobe. I mean, I did ask the question of what do you think Kobe would think? Jason Jackson, the voice of the Miami Heat. I asked him. He said, well, that was, you know, Bam out of bio's idol. I don't know. I mean, if we have Bam on the show, I'll ask him. We give any thought to maybe not going for the record, but he has it as the second highest score. I don't know if we've ever been that upset about a situation where somebody didn't even break the record. They just broke Kobe's record. Yeah, Paulie. A lot of people who cover basketball, not just fans who might be angry, but serious basketball people. Robert or who played basketball were very, very bothered by the fourth quarter. They said that wasn't basketball. That was a quest to pass a certain player and get to 83 82 points. And the heat fouling, that's not natural. The throwing the ball off the backboard on a free throw, that's not natural.

6:10They were bothered by the aesthetics of how the record was set or broken. It's hard to play defense in the NBA now. I think we can all agree. Everything feels like a foul. And Bam out of bio took advantage of that. He took advantage of a bad wizards team. But if you're still putting up at least 60 points at the end of three quarters, I have to acknowledge that you had an incredible night. And yes, was the game out of hand? Yes, were they trying to get him to 83 or 82? Yes. Did the wizards double team, triple team, were they foul? Yes, all of these things. But it still comes down to, you had to stop him. Everybody gets to play against the wizards, at least twice a year. Now, a lot of guys get career highs or season highs against the wizards, but 83, still 83. And I was looking at the NBA scoring. In 2000, teams averaged just a little under 95 points per game.

7:11In 2026, teams are averaging 115 points per game. And I was looking to see how many teams have lost a game this season while scoring at least 130 points. At last count, I had 25 games. Team scored 130 and lost. In 2000, teams averaged 91 possessions per game. This year, 99 possessions per game. Back in 2000, teams averaged just under 14 three point attempts per game. This year, teams are averaging 37 three point attempts per game. Start of the day. Start of the day. Start of the day. Start of the day brought to you by Padini America, the official trading cards of the damn Patrick show. Yes, Seaton.

8:11130 points and they lost? Yes. I had 25 games. At last count. Did you think it would be more? No, I thought it'd be like 120. Maybe if you score 120 points, you should win the game 130 points and lose the game 25 times. I think somebody lost 150 to 147. Now, we've had some double over time games, but yeah, I'm looking at the numbers here. Unless Google is failing me. But, you know, I got 130, 134, 137, 134, 132, 136, 138, 130, 132, 150, 135, 133. Yeah, I got 25 games so far. That's crazy. I don't even know if I've tabulated March yet, but that's... There might be more. It might be close to 30 times. Yes, Todd. And you only have yourself to blame in the sport of basketball. You're playing offense and defense. It's not like the NFL.

9:11It's like, we scored all these points. They were still losing. What's going on? I think I've started the ball. Yes, fully. I went back and looked at this and it all goes back to Steph Curry. Steph Curry in 2014 before he had his breakout season. NBA teams attempted 17. Actually, check that 21-3s per game. 21-3s attempted per game in 2013. Four years later, it was 32-3s attempted per game. Every other stat is the same. Generally, shots per game, fouls per game, shooting percentage. Everything else is generally the same. Well, if you're looking back in 2000, there's eight possessions more per team per game. So that's a lot. Yes, Marvin. It's kind of like the Ravens at the beginning of last football season where they score 40 points and losing. Like, come on, you can't score that many points in a professional setting and lose. But that is. Well, I feel bad for a bam out of bio. It's like, how dare you? How dare you score 83 points? But, you know, and some of the Danettes

10:12brought this up yesterday that this might be more about Kobe being beloved. If LeBron had scored 81 and bam out of bio scored 83, I don't think people would have nearly the problem. Because LeBron's not beloved, Kobe is beloved. And I think because of that, it's like, you know, bam, why didn't you stop at 81? I think if Kobe were alive and able to ask that question, what would you have wanted him to do? I'm going to guess Kobe would probably say, go for it. Knowing Kobe's mentality. But can't speak for him. But having, you know, the number of conversations we've had with him on this show, he was the shark. His full speed ahead. And go for it. Also, when Wildscore to 100, has anybody looked at the Nick's lineup? Has anybody looked at the Nick's big men guarding him? The Nick's were one of the worst teams. The Raptors weren't any good when they were facing Kobe. It's like, let's just be fair to the entire picture,

11:14the totality of what bam out of bio did, what he accomplished. And yes, the Wizards are bad. The Nick's were bad back in 1962. But nobody brings that up. Nobody brings up that will was chasing 100 points. Yes, Mark. And the fact that Kobe's no longer here with us makes it even worse. If he was here, he may have been able to call off the dogs and maybe send out a tweet or even send like a personal message like they do on like the scoreboard after a game or whatever. And so now that he's no longer here, it makes it even worse. That's the thing about people passing away early, especially entertainers, where it's like, he would have wanted this. Well, we don't know what he would have wanted. And so now you're speaking for him. Yeah, Jordan sent just a congratulations to him. But he didn't say, hey, congrats. You made him mockery of, you know, the sport in the last month or last year. That wouldn't have been very nice to see. Not probably not. But you know how Jordan is, you know, he surprised.

12:14He didn't. He can kind of poke you a little bit. Hey, congratulations on three legitimate quarters that you played. Yes, Paul. I do wonder though, if we had Kobe Bryant on yesterday and you asked him about that fourth quarter, he'd be polite and congratulatory. But I think he may also say, did it feel like a basketball game? Did it feel like a competition? Because his was a competition. I could see him maybe taking a little line like that. Maybe, maybe. But this is one of Bams' idols growing up. And then you surpass, it's not even the record. That's the amazing part. It's the second best scoring game of all time. Now people are saying, well, you know, if you take away free throws, how many points? You know, where would he rank all time? I'm like, but you can't take away free throws. You know, when Wild scored a hundred, he had 32 free throws. He made 28. But, you know, you shoot 43.

13:15I mean, it's embarrassing that there were that many fouls called. At some point, at some point, and I had a former official say this to me yesterday. At some point, I know they're making a mockery of it. And I am going to make a mockery of it as well. I'm not calling all of these fouls. Because you know what's happening here. And then you're just going to say, I'm not going to let you just keep fouling or get fouls and make this about the free throw line. Now, that's a former official saying that. Yes, polling. I do have that stat. A network posted this yesterday. If you remove free throws, who's the had the greatest scoring night of all time? Wilt 72 points, Kobe 63 points, and then a bunch of Wilt games. Bam would have been 73rd ranked all time with 48 points in the game. You take away the free throws. You take away the three points. I mean, okay. Well, congratulations, Bam.

14:18You're the second highest scoring game in NBA history. All right. Seaton, you got, yes, Marvin. And since Kobe doesn't play anymore, I forgot how Kobe stands are. And they were out in football. Oh, they were mad. Oh, they were mad. Imagine if he surpassed Michael Jordan in a game. Oh, what? That's all right. You can't do that. Well, I got life at it. Yes. How sure they're going to be when they realize where Kobe's last 12 points of that came from? From the free throw line? I don't know. Yeah, we should look it up, I think. I think a considerable number of those were one point baskets. Oh, I know. Who knew? Who knew that you could have this kind of accomplishment and you could set people off. Bam. All right. So I have a whole question. Our good buddy Ross Tucker will join us.

15:18What Max Crosby situation is shady at best. And then the GM for the Ravens, Eric DeCosta said, well, we were looking at bringing in Trey Hendrickson and Max Crosby. Okay. Also Kyler Murray set to, I believe, meet with the Vikings today. Doesn't sound like there's another suitor for him, but I think it's the right place for him. I thought the Colts maybe, if they didn't go in with Daniel Jones. Daniel Jones is the new Kirk Cousins. It's like, how did he get that contract? But he did. Coming off an injury, paying him $44 million a year. Be sure to catch the live edition of the Dan Patrick Show. Weekdays at 9 a.m. Eastern 6 a.m. Pacific on Fox Sports Radio in the I Heart Radio app. Mr. Gatsier, I have a podcast empire. It continues to grow. And I have brought it here to Ivar. I'm also doing a live radio show from 3 to 5 p.m. Eastern

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20:22Watch MLB opening night. The New York Yankees versus the San Francisco Giants. Live on Netflix. Wednesday, March 25th at 8 p.m. Eastern, 5 p.m. Pacific. Let's bring in Ross Tucker, our good buddy. Ross, what do you make of this situation? Well, first of all, Dan, I've been in that situation before that Max was in. So you got the right guy today. We've been the right guy yesterday too, Fritzy. But you got the right guy today. Wow. Bumped him for Diana Rossini. Wow. I didn't know you got bumped. Okay. Oh, yeah. No, it's only been like 10 years. I thought Fritzy and I were like friends or whatever. You know, I come on pretty much every week whenever Fritzy asks. But I guess if Diana Rossini needs to move it, I get bumped. I don't know what it's because. Hold on, Ross. Let me let Fritzy at least have a word here. It was less of a bump, more of a reschedule. What happens was Diana was, you know, working the phones and doing her thing. And she initially thought she had to come on earlier

21:23than something changed with who she needed to speak with. And then she had to make it later. And Ross was in the final hour. And we thought it wouldn't serve the show best to have them on top of each other as back to back NFL guests covering a lot of the same topics. So we rescheduled. Not bumped. Ross did today and we had an extra day to promote it. And that's really how I see it. And I hope Ross doesn't have her feelings about that. On social media, he seems to know. Well, essentially, Dan, what happened is, Diana Rossini was Trey Hendrix, and I was Max Crosley. And Fritzy is the Ravens. A terrible person. No, I will say this though. You guys will love this, okay? 2007, I was a free agent. The first day of free agent, I went to the Redskins, and they offered me a very modest contract, of course, modest signing bonus. Past the physical, the whole deal. Then I fly to Atlanta. I'm in a downtown Atlanta hotel. The next day, we get picked up in a limo. It's just me and Joe Horn.

22:24Joe Horn is going to sign for like over $10 million a year. I guess they had the limo anyway, so they let me ride in it. And we went to the doctor's office in downtown Atlanta. You know, we get the MRI, we get the whole deal, the scan, we meet with the doctors. We get back in the limo. The limo's not moving. We're in the limo outside. The limo's not moving. All of a sudden, the limo door opens up. And some guy from the Falcon says, Ross, can you come here? I said, okay. I get out of the limo. And he's like, I'm Anthony blah, blah, blah. You failed your physical. We're going to take you back to the airport. That was it. I never even made it to flowery branch to the Falcon's facility. Never talked to the coach, Bobby Patrino, or the GM or anybody. I just went right back to the airport, while I'm in this guy's car, I call my age. I'm like, tell the redskins we accept. So I actually know what it's like to fail a physical.

23:25That's evidence that one team can pass you and another team can't. And that was my experience with it. I had already been cut several times. A little different than Max Crosby, but yes, it was not much of a conversation. We're taking you back to the airport now. Do the Ravens have to tell Max Crosby what part of him, why did he fail that physical? That is an amazing question. That's the best question I've heard yet. And the answer is no. Because I called the Falcon's trainer, because listen, I already played six years. I was 28 years old. I wanted to know what they saw. Like, why did you guys fail me on the physical? And they started talking about things. I'm like, that's not true. Like, I don't have that. And then they got another guy on the phone. He's like, listen, Ross, you had disc surgery at multiple levels.

24:26We see some chronic, whatever. Like, we're not taking that chance. And I thought, okay, but that's an awesome question, Dan. Why are you the best interviewer? Because they don't have to tell you. But I wanted to know for my own edification, like, for the rest of the sudden, should I just not play anymore? If it's so bad, I fail physical. Maybe I shouldn't keep playing football. Yeah, I'm just trying to sort through this. And I really came to the realization yesterday that maybe this was just buyer's remorse, that the Ravens making a move, giving up two first round picks, and then going, we got to pay him that kind of money. Is he going to want a contract extension? We got to redo Lamar's contract. So it felt like they, maybe the reality set in of, do we need to do this? Because this is an awful lot. Why don't we just sign somebody who's not as good for a little less money? And we don't have to give up two first round draft picks

25:27and Trey Hendrickson. Well, I would say that, in talking with some people in the NFL, that's what most people believe happen. And what I think is so fascinating about it, is my initial reaction was, why don't we go ahead and check the phone records? Did you, did you call Trey Hendrickson before Crosby got there? Was it after Crosby got there? But I think the Ravens are one step ahead of me and everybody else by saying, oh no, we were trying to get them both. Because if anybody checked and anybody did research or talked to Trey Hendrickson or his agent or looked at phone records, they clearly were talking with them before then. And so, I don't know, I'm kind of with you and on the poll question, I would say, I don't, I mean, do I believe that the Ravens might have had a dream of having both Hendrickson and Crosby? Yes. Do I think that they thought that was realistic? Absolutely not.

26:28That when there's all these other teams out there, like the bills and the bears and the Colts and the Eagles or whoever, looking for an edge rusher, do I think that the Ravens thought it was realistic? That they could get two and those other teams get zero? No, I don't. I think what the real question now is, is let's all just assume, okay, that they did get cold feet, they did get buyers remorse. Is that totally bogus? Is that totally BS? Or, hey, is this just business? And they realized this was a better decision and business is business. I think reasonable minds can disagree on that. Talking to Ross Tucker, CBS Sports Westwood won NFL College football analyst and host of Ross Tucker football podcast, follow him on social media at Ross Tucker, NFL. What are the Raiders do now? Well, that's interesting. Fortunately for them, they still have the money to take Max back.

27:31You know, they're absolutely going to listen. They trade him once. I think if they get an offer that they're still comfortable with, that they would still move him, I think now, you know, whether it's Max's doctor, the Raiders doctors, there's a lot going on out there, kind of like he said, she said about what's really going on with Max's knee. This might be something where the Raiders revisited around the draft. It might be something then where they revisited in July when they know he can pass a physical. They know he'll be cleared. And then the team that would be trading for him, number one would be taking on less risk. And number two, the draft choices that they would trade wouldn't have to be until 2027. So on some level, you know, you can be a team where you still take your first round pick in 26, but then maybe still get Max Crosby.

28:33I don't think that this is the end of it. I'd say it's 50-50, whether Crosby plays for the Raiders or not this year. If I had the bet on flipping that coin, I would bet he still goes somewhere else for a little bit less than what the Ravens offered. Kyler Murray, it feels like all signs point towards Minnesota. Tell me why this works and why it might not work. Well, it might not work for the same reason. It's never totally worked with Kyler Murray. And that's because of his incredible inconsistency. You know, you would think after seven years that you have a pretty good idea of what you're going to get from a player on a weekend and a week out basis, that is not the case with Kyler. And that's really, really tough for any organization, any coaching staff. You know, even like Kurt Cousins,

29:34you kind of know what he is and what you're going to get. With Kyler Dan, it's like a week-to-week deal. And I don't know if it's his preparation or he doesn't adjust as well if the defense is not what he was expecting. But there are weeks where he looks as good as anybody. He can play an MVP caliber level. He can put the team on his back and play awesome. There's also weeks where he's a bottom 10 quarterback. He's very rarely in the middle. He's either really hot and plays really well or really poor. I think Kevin O'Connell believes he's seen enough of the really hot days that he can get Kyler to play with more consistency. This whole deal where Kyler is reportedly talking with three to five teams today.

30:34About 2027 and doing zooms with them I'm going to go do what Sam Darnell did. I'm going to have a great year for the Vikings. What would your interest level be next year after I do this? I mean, I've never heard of this before. But obviously it's a pretty big bet for the Vikings. They just fired their GM. You know, they're already seemingly throwing the towel in on JJ McCarthy. So O'Connell, I mean, they got to, how often in your career would you ever question the work ethic of your quarterback? Very, very rarely. Very rarely. And if you did, it's a major problem. I mean, that's a terrific point because the day as soon as the Cardinals front office in a meeting said,

31:34okay, let's give them this massive deal. But we got to make sure he's preparing. I know it's a hundred million guaranteed. But let's put something in there where he has to do four hours of homework a night and can't play video games. Damn. That's the exact second where you don't give them the hundred million dollars. You can't do that. People don't change that much. People kind of are what they are. You know, I play with Brady absolute psycho when it came to preparation. You know, most of the other guys I was around, you didn't have to question them in that regard. Interestingly, you know, I've had Steelers guys tell me that early in Ben's career he was kind of the last guy to get their first guy to leave. And they still had that much success and he still had that much success. That would seem to me to be very, very rare. And the issue for a guy like Kyler

32:34if you've ever seen his high school highlights, it's the craziest thing you've ever seen. So when you're in 10th grade and you're basically the state player of the year in Texas at the highest level, you never lose a game for three years and college you win the high and you're number one pick, he's never really had to do it. You know, he's always been able to high level without doing it. Maybe this is the wake up call or maybe O'Connell can just put him in a situation where he can excel without maybe being as much of a student of the game as some of the other guys are. Great to see you. And great to talk to you. And I feel really bad that Fritzy did this to you. And if you'd like for me to suspend him or fire him you just say the word, Russ. No, I think that's a little harsh. I think I'll probably feel better about it

33:34by next week. I'm just a little hurt. I'm just a little hurt. So I was not going to say no though because of how I feel about you and Paulie and Cetan and Marvin. But as it lays to Fritzy, I mean, within the last month Fritzy thought I was doing the Super Bowl in London for some reason. And now he bumps me because his tech said Diana is more attractive than you. We want to go with her. And that's the part that really hurt me. And I'm going to back Fritzy on that. Yes, yes, Paulie. Yeah, Russ, you can look at this the other way. You are the one and only featured guest on today's show. It's your own stage. I know my mom texted me and said it's the best guest lift Fritzy is ever had. My leg on, aren't we? Thank you, Russ. Sorry, Russ. You guys. Russ Tucker. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation.

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37:35St.Midge update the poll results from hour one, and we're going to go forward to. Oh, man, hour one we've got up there. Do you believe the Ravens were trying to pair Tray Hendrickson and Max Crosby together? You guys want to guess the results on this one? 85-15. Oh, boy, are you close? And in which direction just to be clear? They don't believe that the Ravens were going to repair both of them. It would be 89% do not believe that. Which I think is funny. You know, the only thing that I kind of think like maybe there is some truth to it is that they weren't able to sign Tray Hendrickson very fast right after the Max Crosby thing fell apart. So there were clearly already discussions happening. They were clearly talking to both parties at the same time. Man, to be able to turn that around that fast, maybe there is some truth to it. Well, I don't know who was in the market for Tray Hendrickson. I didn't hear any other teams because of the asking price.

38:35But if Eric DeCosta, the GM of the Raven said they were interested in both, then I kind of agree, okay, maybe they were. You know, maybe you were kind of flirting a little bit. Maybe they got buyers remorse when they were bringing in Max Crosby. Maybe the more they thought of it, the more they were thinking, man, do we want to give up two first round picks for this guy? Well, let's bring him in. Well, he's coming in anyway. And then you go, maybe we'll pass it physical. Max, we got some bad news for you. We're going to have to let you go back to the Raiders. Tray Hendrickson online won. Okay, hold on. Max, see you later. And thank you again. But you get Tray Hendrickson. I understand it. If I'm the Ravens, I don't give up two first round draft picks. Now granted, those first round picks are going to be, well, this one this year was a top 15, I believe. Now, the one after that would probably be in the late 20s.

39:37But if I can get Hendrickson, I think he can give me two years. I know they gave him a four year deal, but it'll probably be two years. And if I can get something out of him that he's not Max Crosby, but I don't have to give up those first round picks. And I think those are essential. They're going to have Lamar restructure as deal. But their Ravens are saying that they were in the market for both of them. All right, some of the headlines from last night. Italy helps out USA basketball baseball as they advance. By the way, the breakdown of players on team Italy who were born in Italy. Todd, do you want to guess how many of team Italy were born in Italy? I'm going to say six. All right. Seaton? I'll be more optimistic. I'll say ten. Okay. Marvin? Four. All right. Paul? Seven. Three. Three.

40:37Stad of the day. Stad of the day. Stad of the day. Stad of the day. Here comes that. What? Stad of the day. Brought to you by Panini America, the official trading cards of the DP show. 24 from the United States. Three from Italy. Two from Venezuela. And one from Canada. And team USA benefits. Because now you have the elimination round. You have team USA facing Canada tomorrow night. Italy plays Puerto Rico in the quarterfinals on Saturday. Yes, Paul. Dan, just to be balanced, I've got USA's baseball roster here. Zero players from Italy born on our roster. Zero. Yes, you. Does it take away from the world baseball classic that it's basically just Americans going by their nationalities? Where's Ireland out there? Can we get a team of Irishmen? Soccer does this, doesn't it?

41:39With the World Cup? I guess. I think you have to be a citizen. So I'm guessing that everybody is a citizen of the teams that they're playing for. Well, you could have dual citizenship. Dual citizenship, right? Right. I'm assuming that that's the case, but I don't know. If I was from the United States and I played for Italy, I would demand that I get dual citizenship. I think you got to give me something other than the opportunity to play in the World Baseball Classic. But it's been fun. I've watched a whole lot more than I thought I was going to. And watched Italy. Now, I'd have to go to my 23 and me and look at that and see who I would play for. How many options would you have? Well, I think I've got a great Britain. I could probably play for Great Britain. Ireland, Wales, Scotland. They're not playing baseball. I got the one and a half percent Escanazi.

42:40So team is real tough. There you go. There you go. I will take you. All right. There's like 1% West Africa. So I know. Did they have a team? I'm not quite sure. You start to look at your 23 and me and you go, I got some questions about, you know, whatever happened down through the years here. How do we get, you know, some of these countries in there? The 1%, 2%. Yes. That's my 23. Me was arguably, it was simultaneously great and the most boring of all time because it was like 99.9%. You know, English or, you know, Irish, UK, British, like whatever. It was all concentrated right there. But you'll get those stragglers like that one and a half percent. You're like, what happened here? But mine was a little more interesting than I thought it was going to be. Because I thought it was going to be all, you know, the emerald aisle. But turns out that there were some rogue percentages in there.

43:45All right. So Team USA gets Canada on Friday night and Italy moves on to take on Puerto Rico. A couple of college basketball notes. You had McNeese, not McNeese State anymore. Lehigh and Idaho, they get their tournament bids. Bobby Hurley's out at Arizona State. Syracuse has a job opening. And I'm thinking Jerry McNamara. Now he's got a tournament bid with Sienna. And then after that, then he takes the two hour and 15 minute drive from Sienna College to Syracuse to take over it is all the modern. What about Bobby Hurley joining Danny Hurley at UConn? Could you imagine him as an assistant coach there? They were on the same team, right? Marvin Descent Sound, right? It was Corp. Bobby and Danny, yeah? Yeah, years ago, I think they were both coaches on the same team. But was Danny with Bobby at Buffalo?

44:45Or was it Wagner? Bobby Hurley with Danny Hurley for two seasons at Wagner College and one season at University of Rhode Island. Oh, okay. Yes, so Bobby Hurley is out at Arizona State. Here's another thing. The same year Indiana football wins the national title. The basketball team goes 18 and 14, lost to Northwestern yesterday by 13 to get knocked out of the big 10 tournament. Indiana's a football school. Much to the chagrin of the state. That's a basketball state. But for Indiana basketball, like 15, 20 years ago, this would be a huge deal if this happened to Indiana basketball. Now, once the last time you talked about Indiana basketball, once the last time they had a player that you talked about with Indiana basketball. That's what's pretty surprising here. NFL free agency slowing down, although you still have Kyler Murray. Kyler Murray is going to be probably visiting Minnesota

45:48or might be a Zoom call based on what Ross Tucker was talking about that Kyler Murray wants to know after this season. If I have, you know, if I'm correctly reading what Ross Tucker was saying, that, hey, I'm going to go and play for one year. I want to know who's going to be interested in me after this. If that's what Ross Tucker was actually describing, that maybe I go to Minnesota, I want to know is somebody, you know, looking at me long term, that he has three to five Zoom calls that coming up this week, which is kind of surprising. I don't know why I would tip my hand and say, hey, we'll be interested in you in a year from now. In the NFL, at that position, things change. Daniel Jones got paid $44 million a year, the new Kirk Cousins in the NFL, and good for him.

46:48I was surprised at that amount, but Daniel Jones was a thing there for about 10 games, and then not a thing after that. He's going to end up making just an unbelievable amount of money. Yeah. Can we do career salary game with Daniel Jones? We can. With this contract or without? With this contract. Celebrities. Celebrities. Celebrities. Celebrities. Celebrities. Celebrities. Celebrities. Celebrities. Here we go. Two-part game. Daniel Jones, how much has he made, and will he make after this contract,

47:48based off the minimum he can make? What has he made already a little hint? In 2023, he made $46 million with the Giants. What has he made so far? Let's just combine it. Okay. Yeah, make it easier. I don't know if it's easier, but make it just one total. Todd, you want to throw out Daniel Jones will make after this contract, how many millions of dollars? 227 million. See? I'm going to say $253. Marvin. $281. I'm going to go $239.5. Throwing in the five. $258 million. Oh, dang. I was close. Yes. Congratulations. Congratulations, Seaton. Thank you. Let me see. I get that five million difference that I was off by the fire. Then you win that. Yeah.

48:48Jones owns that. What was that to me? NFL is looking at the night before Thanksgiving. The Wednesday night before Thanksgiving, when there's three games on Thanksgiving, and why not cram another one in there? Now, social media was like, oh, I don't like this at all, but you're still going to watch it. Like, the NFL, you can't deny. Like, there's other sports or other events where you go, I'm not going to watch it. It's the NFL. You'll watch. What else is going to be on? You're going to be maybe going to the bar, using people on that Wednesday night before Thanksgiving coming back home, getting together with former classmates. But you're going to have a game on, and that's what they're looking at. Wednesday night, the night before Thanksgiving. I keep wondering what is the downside? I don't know if there is, because they have you. It'll be fantasy, it'll be gambling, and it'll be nothing else is on.

49:49And you'll watch, yes, Todd? Wasn't there something to be said? There are days of like, you're waiting, once a week, your favorite TV show is on, and that's the big day, and you can't wait, and they have a tease at the end, and there's something that builds up as opposed to, you know, just having it every day. Wouldn't that take away some of the... Okay, Todd, would you want to go back to 1985 when there's two games, maybe three games available? I'd like a few more than that, but I think we're getting to an oversaturating point. I think that hurts the NBA. It's definitely hurting MLB, and there isn't such thing as too much of something. Okay, but how much is too much? That's what has to be figured out, but I don't think we need the NFL every single day as much as we all love the NFL. You know, I wouldn't mind like a day or two break between trying to keep track of all the games. There are. There's no Tuesday game. But once they get Thursday, and they just, they keep pushing the envelope, and you know, I don't see a need for like, trying to see if every day of the week that could be at least one NFL game. So if the Broncos play Wednesday night... It's the Broncos, I'll watch that.

50:50I don't know if I'm necessarily watching a St. Spalkins game on Wednesday night, but if that's the only game that's on, that's how they get you. They have to stand alone game, so you end up watching anyway. Yeah, I don't think people tune out. They're turn away. That's the NFL. You know, as long as the product is good, entertaining, interesting, then people are going to watch. Even if you don't, you don't bet on the game or you don't have fantasy attached to this. Yeah, see. Yeah, I mean, I'm kind of along the same lines as Todd, where I do think that we don't need the NFL almost every night. I think that there's probably room for everything else, and I think it's... I'll always watch my team, and I'll always watch what the important games are, but it becomes less likely on that, yes, say that we add a Tuesday game, a Wednesday game, whatever. Even Thursdays, I'm kind of like, unless it's a team or a game that I'm really interested in, watching. Yeah, but I think we're different,

51:50because, you know, I think younger fans probably are betting on the game, and they probably are doing fantasy. We're not doing either. Therefore, you're watching these games, and the number of people that I'm around younger people who say, hey, I got to have a reason to watch this game, and they want to put money on it. That's not us. I just think that, you know, they have you. You'll watch the game for the most part. I'm with you on Thursday night. It's like, I don't like Thursday night football. I don't think the quality has been good. I don't think it's fair to the players. I hope they don't do Friday. I hope they don't do Saturday. But the NFL wants to push, they want to push it out to the world, and it's like they take us for granted. Now, the expansion is, you know, global. Everybody's going to be playing a game outside the United States. Yeah, Paulie. I went back and looked at the Thanksgiving Eve schedule for last year, 2025. There is no football on college or pro, obviously. But there was a triple header of NBA games. Three games between five and 10 p.m., and the NBA started this.

52:51The first ever NBA triple header was last year on Thanksgiving Eve. I looked at the networks, and it was all like packaged shows, not traditional network shows, like pre-thanksgiving type shows, holiday type fair. Man, the NBA, every time they must turn around, they go, wait, what's the NFL doing to us? Yeah, Christmas day. The night before Thanksgiving. Yeah, Satan. Yeah, I think it's interesting that you're just talking about how young people need a reason to watch the game, and that reason more often than not currently is gambling. That would be the sign of not having a good product, though. If you need a reason to watch the game other than it's just a good game, but, oh, well, I have money writing on the game, so now I have to watch the game. That would indicate that, I have to watch the game. That would indicate to me that the NFL product is not good, because unless you're gambling, then you're less likely to watch it. Well, they don't grow up as fans of teams nowadays. You grew up as fans of players,

53:51because you're in fantasy. I don't know, loyalty-wise, if you're watching games, how many games you watch? I just know, in my family, with my kids, it's, I'll watch the Packers game. But they have fantasy, so you might be watching it that way. But for us, it's different. I mean, I probably watch more football, because I'm not gambling, or not doing fantasy, because I had a hard time when I was gambling watching those games. And I watch Red Zone. I'll watch the big game, a full game, and then I'll watch Red Zone. But I think, you know, kids nowadays, you know, attention span, it's just different than us. Crackin is built to make crypto simple. Buy Bitcoin, Ethereum, and over 450 other assets in seconds. Fast account funding. Fast with draws. And recurring buys, if you want to stay on schedule. Simple, secure, and trusted for over 14 years.

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