Hour 1 – “Sports Tired” and Loving It, Joel Klatt

Published Sep 6, 2024, 4:21 PM

Dan is a little tired after sacrificing some slepp to watch the end of last night’s NFL opener between the Kansas City Chiefs and Baltimore Ravens, but he doesn’t mind at all. And college football broadcaster Joel Klatt drops by to preview this weekend’s upcoming action.

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I am sports tired, and it's the best kind of tired to be. I thought, Chiefs up by ten, maybe say good night to Mike Tarico and Chris Collinsworth, And all of a sudden, I'm staying up. And then all of a sudden it ends like this last night and we see it and the toe, no, he's out of bounds, that's toenail. And the clock expired as well, So this would end the game if they rule this an incompletion. The runner's toe get out of bounds. It's an interprete past.

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And Kansas City, when's this game? By a toenail? And you might derive that that's the Chiefs Radio network there with the call night eighty six point five. The fan in Kansas City buy a toenail there? Plus, you know what I loved about this? If that call did stand, John Harball was going for two. He was going for the win, all right, just getting started. Stat of the Day brought to you by Panini America, the official trading cards of the program. It's available today. This is official Seaton. The Jalapeno Lime Moonshine.

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Body? Alrighty eight seven seven three DP show email address DP at Danpatrick dot com, Twitter handle at DP show. Good morning. If you're watching on Peacock, our streaming partner, you'll be able to see the game tonight. Packers are getting two in sal Polo, Brazil against the Eagles. More on that game coming up, Big Game College Football. It'll be Texas at Michigan. Michigan is a seven point underdog at home. Joel Klatt will be on the call for Fox. He'll join us coming up in about thirty minutes from now. All right, So I'm watching the game last night, and as I finished watching the game, I'm thinking, Okay, if I'm a Ravens fan, how do I feel? I feel really good, and then I feel really bad, like I had mixed oceans. And if I'm a Chiefs fan, I feel really good. But then there's part of me that's like, okay, we gave up a lot of yards. We did win. I didn't think either team looked particularly good. I think there were moments and we, of course all had the same thought about Xavier Worthy. It was like, all right, there's a touchdown. All right, there's another touchdown. And I kept thinking about the Buffalo Bills. When the Chiefs say to the Bills, Hey, you're gonna use that first round draft pick? Could we trade up? Sure? Would you be taking an offensive weapon? Oh? I don't know. The Chiefs select Xavier Worthy, fastest player in the draft. Now, the Bills did get the thirty second pick. I think they traded down to thirty third and they took Keon Coleman out of Florida State, and by all accounts, seems like he could be a a really really good player for them. But here's Xavier Worthy and Buffalo allows them to move up. First touch touchdown. By the way, Xavier Worthy is the ninth first round pick to score touchdown on his first touch from scrimmage in his debut. Davonte Smith did it for the Eagles in twenty twenty one, Marquise Brown with the Ravens in twenty nineteen. Aj Green with the Bengals twenty eleven, two thousand and eight, Robert Meetcham for the Saints, Felix Jones for the Cowboys in eight, Vernon Davis O six for the Niners, Mike Williams for the Lions OH five, Heath Miller OH five with the Steelers. Stat of the Day, stat of the Day, That beast stat of the day dat Oday, here comes that what stat of the day Stat of the day brought to you by a penny in America of the official trading cards of the program. Phone calls always welcome eight seven to seven to three DP show. Seatan will do the honors with a poll question for the first hour. We got a busy show. Rich Eisen, the face of the NFL Network, will join us. Coming up a little bit later on. Matt Liner will stop by. Jerry Ferrara, who played Turtle on Entourage. He's been in a lot of other things. They're doing a podcast. Nancy Lieberman, Hall of Fame basketball player and broadcaster in the WNBA. She'll join us a little bit later on as well. Lamar Jackson rushed for one twenty two in the loss last night. Third quarterback to rush for one hundred yards in a season opener. The last time it happened was a Raiders quarterback in twenty thirteen. Anybody want to gauge a guess. Twenty thirteen Raiders quarterback rushed for over one hundred yards in his debut. If you said Terrelle pryor you would be correct. Wow deep cut. Stead of the day, that of the day, Here comes the stat of.

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Did thank you Darius? Yeah? So watching Lamar the other quarterback to do it? Was Michael Vick in twenty ten, so rushing for at least one hundred yards in a season opener. When it's all said and done, I got Lamar Jackson at twenty seven. He's probably gonna rush for eight thousand yards in his career. I mean, he's gonna blow away Michael Vick. What is it, Michael Vick, Cam Newton, Steve Young's in there, Russell Wilson Junior, the third. Am I leaving out anybody? Pauline?

Yeah, you got the list right, Mike Vick, Cam Newton, Lamar Jackson is at fifty three hundred. He'll pass Cam Newton probably in a month. Honestly, in a month. Russell Wilson, Randa Cuttingham, and a bunch of retired guys.

He's going to have six thousand yards by the end of the season. He'll have a total six thousand.

I mean it's.

I don't know if he could get to ten thousand yards. I don't know if the Ravens want him to get to that many yards, but I don't think he can change. Like you're watching now, he was way too aggressive for me. When you're taking on tacklers, you're lower like we don't need this, you know, it's hey, I admire it, like Chris Collins were has said, you know, I kind of admire it, but I don't want it, all right, you know, the tough guy taken on. No, no, no, we don't need that. We don't need that. But I thought they were going to do a little bit more of the option that Derrick Henry and Lamar Jackson going down the line pick your poison, and I'm hoping that we do see that. It was nice to see Dereck Henry, you know yet, but thirteen carries, I don't know. I got to load him up a little bit more. And then Isaiah Lively he's the go to guy. Now likely, I should say Lively? Is there? Derek Lively? And then Isaiah Likely? Yeah. But this guy, I remember seeing him at Coastal Carolina. Yeah, who was the quarterback they had?

Was the Grayson McCall?

Yeah?

Yeah, maybe didn't he just Trent? Isn't he on NC State?

Now?

Yeah?

The tour continues. Yeah, he had long hair. I remember like a Thursday night Coastal Carolina game. I remember seeing this guy. I'm like, man, he's pretty athletic for a big guy. But you know, late in the game, they were going to him last drive, they were going to him and then thought he had the touchdown. And he had this to say after the game.

Would you take away from a competitive game like that against this team?

I say, this is probably the worst game we're gonna play all year, So this is the best that they got good luck in the postseason.

So that's Isaiah likely the Ravens tight end. You start to look at these skill position players that the Ravens have surrounded Lamar Jackson with, and you know, it's not an impressive list. They've tried and then they've whiffed on quite a few of these players. I think I do have a list so supporting cast Lamar Jackson on offense has had three skill position players who have made the Pro Bowl that since twenty eighteen when Lamar got there, Mark Andrews three times, Alan Ricard, who's a full back, three times, and then Mark ingram As a thirty year old running back. That's it. I can't count a full back. But you can't, right, It's just different now, you know.

Like no one says, remember those Alan Riccard years? Yeah, Mark Jackson, Allen Card, Thunder and Lightning. Okay, but they did.

They took a swing at Le'Veon Bell, des Bryant, Dashawn Jack and Odell Beckham Junior, the Third, Devonte Freeman, Melvin Gordon II and Latavius Murray. They're trying, they just haven't done well. And now Derrick Henry, let's see if he can put up some big numbers. They're certainly expecting him to do so. But I'm watching the Ravens. That's never a pretty offense. Like they don't they don't get into a rhythm. It's just Lamar is choppy. I don't I don't know how to describe it, like it's it just feels like that's the best guy on the playground and he's going to make a play. And like the rhythm part of it. You see that with offenses, like oh boy, they got it gone, and he's not afraid to pull the ball down. And I could watch Chris Jones. They could have put a camera on Chris Jones last night and I would have watched that. He's fascinating. And I remember I think Marvin asked me, well, what position does he play? And I said, he's just a football player, because he plays every position, you know, up front, all he does is go, hey, I'm gonna I'm gonna go over here. Hey, scoot out of the way. He's looking for a mismatch, and uh, he's fun to watch he disrupts. Yes, yes, Marvin, can Chris Jones be First Team All Pro at D tackle and D N so do a JJ Watt? Correct? Isn't that amazing? JJ Watt was a what Pro Bowl player or All Pro player at two different positions in the same year, high motor. You can play two positions at the same time.

Strength of two men.

Man, that's crazy. But but was it Pro Bowl or All Pro that he was at two different positions? Marvin checking?

Right?

Okay, thank you, yes, Paulie.

You know it's fascinating with stats that don't really match, Like Chris Jones had no hits on the quarterback last night. Now, if you look at that, he had two tackles and no hits on a quarterback.

That's it.

He was in the backfield as much as Lamar Jackson was. Like, the stats don't match his impact.

Yeah, that's why you know, I'd like Hurries. I like when you have somebody who's constantly putting press. That's why I love Max Crosby. He's putting pressure on you constantly. May not get the sack totals, but he's there all the time. Yes, Marvin, All right?

For J. J.

Watt for his outstanding season? What would unanimously name the first team All Pro defensive end and All Pro second Team as a defensive tackle? Two spots?

Selfish?

All right? Seat and pull a question? What are we gonna go with? First hour here?

Uh? Well, let's see we have a we have two options from Todd.

Are you guys tired today? Like it's a it's one of those good tireds.

What it means to be punchy. Yeah, it's like you're kind of giddy and fun and it's a great night.

It's worse staying up for Yeah, I don't know if I'm gonna last the entire three hours, but I'm gonna do my best. Kind of have to, I think. No, I don't, don't No, No, it doesn't have to do anything. I don't, Todd, I have to I will. I will say, Todd, it's Friday Fritzy, just letting people know. And you got a few guests, we got pigs in a blanket like this could be a lot of good things going on.

Yeah, yeah, a lot of good things, all right. See Smell's fantastic in here too. I don't know what then, that's that the onions.

That's the onions. Yeah, that's the chili that we're making right now. Good grief. Okay, whole question, which one should.

The NFL play games on Friday nights?

No way or sure?

Why not?

Now? I haven't heard anybody talk about this. It used to be Friday what we do. Fridays were off limits because that was going to be high school football. High school football, I believe, opens up tonight around the country. Now it is on Peacock, so it is on a streaming service. But I thought that now college has been doing Friday like quietly been doing Fridays. But I always thought that they were going to let high school stand alone and have Fridays to themselves. But this is a big game. I mean, this is a really big game, and you've outsourced it to Brazil Packers Eagles man.

Yes, Paul, there's actually a law about this. I had heard there's sometime about antitrust law years ago. I found it in Forbes magazine in nineteen sixty one. There is this law called the Sports Broadcasting Act of sixty one, when the NFL was expanding with the AFL no leagues. No professional football games can take place on Friday nights after six pm from the second weekend of September through December. So this is the first weekend. So it appears the NFL got around that thing, because I haven't heard it quoted, but I don't think they could do this in week two. Loophole Sports Broadcasting Act in nineteen sixty one. I'd love to see that on CSP.

Well, they couldn't have done that in sixty two. Then it was it was specific for nineteen sixty one, right, called the nineteen sixty one and.

It's still in place.

Okay, U Seaton, So that poll question, and uh, we have that poll question.

I have a preview of our threes pull question. Then maybe we run all three hours. Who enjoys Los Angeles more the starting quarterback for USC or an actor on a hit TV show?

So Matt Matt Lionard enjoyed Los Angeles. He did very much. I would have stayed another year at USC if I was him, even if he didn't have eligibility. What are you doing here taking a gap year? I'm not leaving graduate assistant coach. I don't know if Jerry Ferrara did damage though he was on Entourage. I think he enjoyed himself very much, but not Liner like maybe like Matt was dating starlets. I don't know if Jerry was extras. Jerry was dating.

Extras on Entourage.

I remember that show There's all yeah, pretty extras. Yeah, I know, male and female. Yeah, just call covering all basis.

Yes, And there's a lot of successful LA actors on good shows or great shows, but there's only one USC quarterback.

Well, back then, it was really a big deal to be the USC quarterback, like you were Well, no, you were competing for national championship. I'm not throwing shade at Miller Moss or Caleb Williams. Sounds like no, but they you were playing for national championships like and back then, you know there was no NFL football.

Dang, Miller.

Miller Moss sounds like a law for them.

Though.

Yes, I'm gonna go to Miller.

I'm gonna be represented by Miller Moss, not Miller Mass, Paul Miller Moss. Get it done. Uh we ride? Yeah, what's the what's the one about motorcycles?

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The one on the down the street.

Here, Tentola and Trentola. What is it we ride?

They actually say there was one that the one goes I don't ride motorcycles, but I could protect you on yours.

Oh no, no, this is the guy who's on the motorcycle. We ride, So we know what it's like.

Their whole business is like, we're motorcycle guys and we represent motorcycle guys.

Yeah, they could relate their extra centaive to it, since they themselves.

Are on to it.

All right, it's gonna be Yeah, we just broke down local law firms in the Connecticut.

Nobody's doing that. Carter Mario Yeah, and just kids yeah.

And golf blow I know those billboards.

Yeah, okay, AnyWho, we still haven't even gotten the toddspol questions yet.

All right, well, you know what, we'll do that after the break. I got a gear up today. I might have to have a caffeine blast.

Come on, let's rally, Come on, come on, come on, we get to do this.

Come on. Okay, Okay, let's take a break. We'll talk to Joel Klatt. He'll join us from ann Arbor. It's Michigan and Texas. High noon coming up tomorrow. Back after this.

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Gonna settle on a poll question for hour one. Joel Klatt, He'll be on the call for Fox Sports at noon tomorrow. It'll be Michigan against Texas. Texas favored by seven, and Joel will be with Gus Johnson on Fox Big Noon Kickoff. He'll join us coming up in a couple of minutes. By the way, you got rookie quarterbacks making their debuts coming up this weekend. Here's something for you. The last rookie quarterback to start and win Week one. It happened in twenty eighteen. Rookie quarterback, first start, got the win because the last let's see, rookie quarterbacks have lost seven consecutive Week one starts. And then you got four quarterbacks. You got Bonix, you got Caleb, you got Jaden and so three rookie quarterbacks, is that right? Three starting? Three starting? Okay, if you said Sam Darnald, you would be correct. He led the Jets over the Lions. That was twenty eighteen, and Sam Darnold making the start. The rookie JJ McCarthy got injured, and he'll get that start, all right, So rookie the rookie. We're gonna play Rookie of the Year game a little later on today. I wonder if we're gonna have recency bias with Xavier Worthy after what he saw last night. It's one of those where you go and Paulie brings this up a lot about targets. You know, there can be catches, but then targets is really important. And you saw that last night. Mark Andrews is a three time All Pro tight end and I think he had three targets. Now he is coming off an injury. Isaiah likely. I think he had eleven targets, twelve targets last night. Rashi Rice had nine targets last night. Those are always like that dictates sort of the offense is going to go in your direction or likely go in your direction. Okay, see what I did with that, Ton, very clever, Thank you, Ton Seeton. What's Todd's poll question for hour one?

Let's see Todd has after watching last night's game, I most convinced that dot dot dot, Hm, the Chiefs will return to the super Bowl. The Chiefs will three pet The Ravens will never make it to the super Bowl as long as Patrick Mahomes is Kansas City's quarterback. Yeah, Lamar Jackson's style of play will never lead to a title. Wow, multiple things can be true.

Yes, that is true. This is a real What are you most convinced? What's with the voice today?

The question is I'm most convinced, but it is true if several of these things could be all the same.

Yes they can. You could say yesterday, it just feels what is Kansas City? What's Lamar Jackson against Kansas City? Is he wanted Sea like that? Yeah? That's tough. Yeah, it just feels like there are certain players, and I've talked about this in certain sports. They're great during the regular season, but then when they get to the postseason, the opposition catches up with him or figures them out for one day, one game. His stats are really good. He even said, you know, if my legs would have been healthier, I would have you know, we would have been eat in Kansas City. And I'm like, last year he's talking about his legs, but I mean, I don't know. It's just choppy. It can be really exciting, but it is choppy. When I watch Lamar Joel Klatt, Fox Sports lead college football analyst. He'll be on the call with Gus big neon kickoff in ann Arbor, Texas in Michigan. Let me ask you about Lamar Jackson in that style, Like, how would you just if somebody didn't see Lamar, how would you describe his style?

Oh, gosh, that's a great question.

I would probably I would describe his style as conflict. He's constantly putting the defense in conflict because of his ability to impact with his legs. Now, I've been a big believer and I talk a lot with Daniel Jeremiah about this when we lead up to the draft, you know, because listen, I'm in the college game, so that style in college is probably profitable, to be honest with you, But as you go on, DJ and I like to play this like confetti tests in the draft, and we take a look at all the quarterbacks leading up into the draft and we're like, Okay, close your eyes and picture the confetti raging down. Can you picture him winning a Super Bowl? His style of play, his personality, all of the things that we try to evaluate in the draft process. And with Lamar, there's one thing. There's one thing that sticks out at times, which is, at some point in the playoffs, And this goes for any player, you're gonna have to as a quarterback, control the game from the pocket. Now that doesn't mean that you can't impact the game outside of the pocket, but at some point you will have to control the game from the pocket. And I think that to your point, regular season versus postseason, there are times when when maybe that's lacking, you know, But to be fair, it's like I don't study the tape of those NFL playoff games. That's from afar, you know, sitting there as a fan watching some of those games.

All right, So you have the big game at noon, it's going to be Texas in Michigan. Texas is favored by seven. Does that point spread say more about Texas or more about Michigan?

Probably a little of both. To write both sides of that fence. I think Texas looked really efficient and in control and physical, and they looked like a team that resembled what Alabama has been in the past, you know, And that's kind of what Sark wants to do and build a team that's versatile, can do a lot of things. Play physical, play fast, all of the things that you would need to go win a national championship. Meanwhile, I think that we looked at what Michigan was as fifteen to zero national champion, with guys that could take them above their style and philosophy like Corum and McCarthy and these guys, and then we watched them against Fresno State and Dan. To me, it resembled a lot of the twenty fifteen, sixteen early Harbaugh Michigan teams. Journeyman quarterback Jake Rudoch remember him. He was a transfer from Iowa Wilton State, was a quarterback back in sixteen. Those teams were good and philosophically really sound, but they lacked some of the pieces that could take them above their philosophy and their exes and o's. That's what it looked like kind of on on Saturday night against Fresno State, and I think that's why you're seeing the line where it's at.

Let's do the confetti test with quinn Ewers. Close your eyes. Can you see quinn Ewers with confetti raining down upon him this season?

Whoa wait, wait, wait, which confetti?

Are we talking about the many Lombardi Trophy confetti's that somebody cuts out, which is incredible, or are we talking about like the square college football confetti that's.

Cheap, Yeah, the cheaper version. Okay, National Championship? Can you see?

I can? I can.

I think that this Texas team is very versatile. I think that they are very there deep. They've got probably I would say that, well, the most experienced offensive line in the country. Certainly, they got four guys that have started for the better part of three years up front in front of him, and their most talented guy might be the fifth that isn't one of those experienced guys. I think that the only thing that is concerning for Michigan is that they're having to replace Byron Murphy and Trevandre Sweat. They're two defensive tackles, and you might be thinking to yourself, like, well, what do you mean in our game? In the college game, it's not necessarily about your quarterback, although that's important. The national champion always as an elite defensive interior defensive line that can control the game. We saw that last year with Michigan, we saw the two previous years with Georgia, and so Texas is going to have to overcome losing those two guys.

Might not be all about quinn.

Ewers as much as it is that defense, which is what I'm excited about for Saturday then, because that's exactly where Michigan is going to robe and they're going.

To try to soften up.

That's their entire mo is to try to control the game at the line of scrimmage, So that aspect of Texas's team is going to be tested.

I said after well the Monday, after watching USC play, they won the perception, like the perception victory of the weekend was USC because we saw them be tough, we saw them play defense. We as opposed to the last couple of years. I don't know how much of perception victory counts. You know, it's still one win, but it did feel like USC addressed a lot of the issues that we've been waiting for them to address.

Are they didn't hear more? Yeah? I think so.

And I think to your point on two different fronts, Dan, I think that there's you know, now, all of a sudden, the Big Ten is really a five team race, not a four team race. So all of a sudden, the top end of the Big Ten looks much more difficult for teams like penns State, Ohio State, Oregon in Michigan. And then you have this, this this narrative that starts and remember, you know, our sport is still subjective and we're still going to put teams into this playoff even though it's expanded through subjective measurements.

And when you beat a.

Team like LSU from that conference, the SEC, that's huge not only for your program, but also for the conference because those two teams coming into the season, USC and LSU.

Were largely thought of.

In a very similar spot within their conference maybe four, five, six, right in that range. So if you can win those games, it becomes really important from a narrative standpoint to see how many teams your conference can get into the playoff at the end of the season. So twofold on that, and I thought that the defense played tremendous, didn't We kind of forget in a very we are so man our brains move so fast. It's a quick pay society. Everyone's like, oh, man, Lincoln Riley can't coach. It's like hold on time out. Yes he can, and he has for the entirety of his career, and now all of a sudden, if he gets a defense that can play that tough, then I think the rest of the Big Ten certainly was put on notice.

What would what would be a successful season for Colorado?

Oh gosh, that's a great question. Before last Thursday, I would have said they could win eight or nine games. After last Thursday, I'm less confident.

And the reason is.

Is, while they have elite players, I think they have two players that might get selected in the top five in the NFL draft, Travis Hunter and Shedior Sanders. Outside of that, they tend to make the exact same mistakes and play the exact same style that we saw even early last year, and that growth hasn't really occurred. They mismanaged the clock. They don't have a creative run game, so they throw the ball constantly when they have to rather than when they want to. If you wanted to give them some kudos, you would say their run defense was a lot better this year, in particularly against the team even though they were FCS. But North Kota State is I think all of us know that are sports fans. They're a tough minded, run oriented program that's highly successful.

But those things.

About the clock management, the undisciplined play at times, in particular, like a few of those penalties on third down. If they do that against Nebraska, they're gonna get beat, maybe handily, because Matt Rules built something pretty special at least I think in Lincoln, in particular, with a freshman quarterback. If Shodoor Sanders and Travis Hunter play elite football, they can beat almost anybody on their schedule. But everything else has to get better. So I think that a successful season for Colorado right now is probably.

A bowl game.

Feels like this twelve team playoff is meant for Notre Dame to be in there every single year. It was almost I mean, this is TV. It's a TV show and you want Notre Dame to host a playoff game. It just feels like Notre Dame is I mean, are you okay with that? Do you get the same feeling that, hey, SEC is going to be represented, Big Ten's going to be represented, Notre Dame's going to be in there, get a couple of outliers.

You know most likely they are. I'm really interested to see what happens. Let me just like peer into the future before I answer your question specific I peer into the future. I just sense and feel within the next four or five years, Notre Dame will have more of a scheduling arrangement with a conference that will make their schedule more difficult. So there's that, because this is what's the it's not necessarily the problem of Notre Dame. I think Notre Dame's really good. Marcus Freeman is a heck of a coach obviously, and that defense looked elite, and so I have no problem with Notre Dame being in the playoff, And quite frankly, they probably will be ranked higher than what their seed is. I think they're probably going to be ranked in the top four because I don't know who's going to beat them.

On their schedule. The issue is their schedule.

Their toughest game, at least before the season was probably this road game at Texas A and M. Now it looks like it's the road game at the end of the year at USC. But between those two bookend games Dan, with Florida State losing twice, I mean, it's like ten straight scrimmages. I know that that sounds harsh, but like that, that schedule, it's it's totally in their court. If they want to play and hold their own standard, they'll be undefeated facing USC and they're going to be in the playoff.

Appalation State at Clemson tomorrow night. If Clemson loses tomorrow night, could you repeat that real quick? You cut out for a moment, Appalation State Clemson. If Clemson loses tomorrow night, Oh my gosh, Oh.

My gosh, don't do that to me.

I can't do I can't even I can't comprehend. You know what Clemson reminds me of Dan. They remind me a lot, a lot of twenty ten Texas. Texas had that six year run with elite level quarterback play Vince Young to Colt McCoy. But what ended up happening is is over those six years, the program's roster started to deteriorate, but we didn't know it because Colt carried them, and he carried them to that National championship game. He gets hurt, they lose to Alabama, and we thought that Garrett Gilbert was going to be like, well, he'll be fine because he's a five star and you know, he's Texas's quarterback, and they fell off the face of the planet, you know, And it took him until last year really to kind of like right the ship. The key was is that Texas missed on recruiting a quarterback, and I think Clemson has done the same now, Caid Klubnick. I'm hoping that this turns around. But this is what happened with Deshaun Watson to Trevor. Trevor Lawrence and at the end of Trevor's tenure, yes, they made the National Championship game, but he carried them packs that Ohio State team. He carried them to that point. And you look at the draft picks since he's left, and it's fallen off the face of the planet.

Just like Texas.

Texas went like ten years without an offensive player draft until last year and we're starting to see that with Clemson. So to me, it's not about dabbling the transfer portal or he's unwilling to do this or that. It's that they've missed at quarterback. We didn't see the deterioration of the roster like we didn't see it at Texas, and I think that's the issue. And I tell you what, this is not the game I would want to play if I was Clemson after losing to Georgia app State, like app State's going to be ready to play. Wouldn't shock me if they if they beat Clemson. But at the same time, I think that the Tigers, at least I hope the Tigers write the ship for their sake.

Tell Gus we sett alow have fun tomorrow. We'll be watching. Thank you, great appearance, Joel.

I appreciate it. Dan, have a good one.

Vote. That's Joe Klatt, Fox Sports lead college football analyst, and it'll be Fox's big noon kickoff in ann Arbor. It's Texas Michigan. We'll come back, got our play of the day, We'll settle on our poll. Question your phone calls as well. Rich Eisen will join us coming up next hour. We're back after this.

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Time touchdown, tens of City.

Xavier Worthy the second time in the end zone in the first game of his career.

That's courtesy of the Chiefs Radio Network. Xavier Worthy of the sixth rookie since nineteen seventy to have both a rushing touchdown and a receiving touchdown in his first career game. The last to do so Kansas City Chiefs Kareem Hunt twenty seventeen. That's your Play of the day. Brought to you by tire rack dot com, tire expert retailer, The Dan Patrick Show. Go to tirac dot com slash Dan try the tire Decision Guide. See the full lineup of Perelli tires special offers, free roade hazard protection, mobile tire installation, tirec dot Com the way tire buying should be. Buddha in San Francisco. Good morning, Buddha, No, no.

Buddy Friday, Fritzy, Let's go Baby, let's go Dan front Rope bring you today, Pauli. I love that shirt. Awesome reference and Marvin rock In one of the cleanest logos in sports. Well done, well Dan. It seems as if though Asaiah likely Toe was just a bit outside and uh Baltimore, Dan, they start to give me like Charger vibes when they're playing Kansas City. Man, it's just it's just not good.

Thank you Buddha, and once again, happy birthday to Buddha yesterday. Yeah, just and I know it's over a reaction Friday, but we normally over react on Monday. But you're just the offense did have a lot of yards, it's just choppy. And is it dependable? That's what I always fall back with when I watch the Ravens in the postseason. Can you depend on things there? Because that's what happens when you get to the postseason all else fails. Do you still have that singular you know weapon? Do you have a defense? Like you have to have something you go we can win a game with our offense, we can win a game with our defense. That's what happens in the postseason. There are times when the offense doesn't do anything. Quarterback throws three interceptions, four interceptions, but the defense plays great. You win ugly. That's the expression. That's what I'm going to want to see the Ravens regular season, I don't care. Once again, there's so many these teams that Dallas Cowboys regular season, I don't care. I want to see what you do in the postseason. There's certain teams that were waiting for them to have that big moment. Dallas can go thirteen and four, it doesn't matter. It's what are you going to do in a big moment? Baltimore you can go thirteen and four. I want to see what you do in a big moment. Now, we've seen that before with the Chargers. We're like that Chargers and then they get to the postseason and you go show me what you can do. Can you be dependable? And that's what will be my concern with Baltimore. They may not lose another game, I'd still go, Okay, can I count on them in the postseason? Andrew in Washington, Hi Andrew good morning.

Dan Dennez, Happy Meet Friday. I got a couple of comments about last night's game, and then I had to really go deep in my pocket first Saturday after you took all the football ones. But I thought it was ironic that Isaiah Lively was wearing diamond turf Airmax ninety six is, which were known as Dion Standers signature shoe, and he had a toe out. Anyway, Lamar Jackson, I think you're correct, Lamar Jackson. He plays the playground game and he calls a play that all the other team runs. So while he's dancing around and going up and down in the pocket and maybe taking off, the rest of the team is actually playing the called play. And so I think that's why it looks choppy, because it's like two different songs playing at the same time on the radio, and you're trying to go what's going on there, and so they're just not in sync. By the way, the stab of the day, I got to go to baseball and Parker Meadows won the game for the Detroit Tigers with a grand slam in the ninth inning on a full count last night. Now, his grand slam was hit off of one hundred point seven mile an hour baseball. Now, according to the Mothership, that is the second fastest home run hit by Detroit Tiger off of a fastball since two thousand and eight, when pitch trucking was started. So that's your staturs day, the fastest.

No, there's certain stats, Andrew that I just think are stupid, Like that's where you go, Okay, how can we do a deep dive on this? All I know is Parker Meadows hit a grand slam on a full count with two ounce in the ninth inning and gave the Tigers a four to three win over the Padres. I don't need to know that he hit it off one hundred mile an hour fastball and that's the second fastest pitch a Tiger has ever homered off since two thousand and eight. No, no, no, no, it's not a stat of the day. I don't know.

I don't know.

If it was that funny, Todd got a big laugh.

Parker Meadows can't lose.

Yeah, yeah, I don't need them. By the way, watching the game with somebody who doesn't know about the dynamic kickoff, the new dynamic kickoff, that was interesting. We're like, wait a minute, what are they doing here With this formation. Only one was returned, but okay, I'm fine with it. I just need the possibility of a kick being returned. We didn't even have that in previous couple of years. Rich Eisen will join us on loan from NFL Network Hour two on the Way, Fritzy Seaton, Marv Paul, and Yours Truly

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