Hour 2 – Adam Sandler, Ross Tucker

Published Dec 6, 2024, 5:27 PM

Movie mogul Adam Sandler joins the show to discuss the shooting of “Happy Gilmore 2” and Dan's role in it. And NFL analyst Ross Tucker stops by to discuss the Detroit Lions and how they keep picking up wins in spite of their injuries.

You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox Sports Radio Our two.

On this Meet Friday, Dan and the Danettes Dan Patrick Show. We're down to Danette. Pauli is out for the day, but Fritzi is here to pick up the slack. The Minister of humor. Also Seaton Marv yours truly in the back room.

Guys.

Ross Tucker our good buddy from CBS Westwood one. He was on the radio call the Lions game last night against Green Bay. We will do the most must win game of the weekend, the best weekend sports. Also Booker McFarlane for the Mothership will stop by. College football rankings released on Sunday, got a lot of conference title games coming up later on today and tomorrow. The headlines dominated by the Lions. They're now twelve and one. They beat the Packers eleven game winning streak, and they win it thirty four to thirty one. The big story is Dan Campbell. Campbell, as in Gamble, continues to do it on fourth down. I'm okay with it, like that's your identity. Players know that. In fact, listen to Dan Campbell. His players know what to expect when they get into these situations.

Look, I told the guys. Knew, players knew, coaches knew. Listen, this is don't ride the wave. You know, we could be up two scores, we could be down two scores, and but just because we're one or the other, we got to play our style of game going in what we felt like we need to do, what I felt like we needed to do, And so that meant the risk was there, and you know, and you fell in negative territory, you get you know, you're trying to hold him to a field goal. But I knew that was that was how I wanted to play that team with where we were at.

He takes a chance, he takes a gamble, they know he's going to he took over. In twenty twenty one, the Lions lead the NFL and both fourth down attempts one hundred and forty and fourth down conversion seventy seven. So that's fifty five percent. Now that's not a great percentage because that's thirteenth in the league over that spam. But this is the identity. This has been the identity from day one. And I think your players they just want to know, you know, how many times do you see are they going to go for it? Oh wait, the quarterback wants to go for it. The coach is not going to go for it late. There's no disconnect here. Jared Goff knows I'm going to call two plays now, and I think it's a great advantage when your quarterback gets into a situation where it's third and seven. Well, you're calling two plays there if you're going to go for it on fourth down. Let's say you get five and now it's fourth and two, so you're already gearing up for that. It's like when the Chiefs without Harrison Butker and I said, gosh, you're giving Patrick Mahomes and even added another advantage because now he gets four downs against you, because maybe you're not going to go for that field goal. Maybe you're going to go This is two down territory, third and fourth down eight, seven to seven to three. DP Show email Addressdpatdanpatrick dot com Twitter handle a DP show question for hour two. By the way, in case you're wondering, since it is a meat Friday, smoky meatball, palm sandwiches and curly fries, who is it better than we do?

No body?

Thank you, Todd A little bit a little bit more okay for the curly fries or for the meatball palm.

The meatball parm, but the curly fries with that that combo, that's right up my alley.

OK.

I may sneak something over to the side there when you guys.

Are no, no, we have to know we eat at the same time. My thanks to Ryan Leave who sat in the chair yesterday while I filmed my scene and Happy Gilmore Too. It turned out to be two scenes that I filmed. Adam Sandler will join us in an hour from now and I'll let him describe how the day went. Yesterday, long day, a lot of fun. Got to see Shooter McGavin. He was shooting some of his scenes yesterday as well. Benny Safdie, great director. He's also an actor in this movie. He's the villain in Happy Gilmore Too. And once again, I just found out about the script yesterday because they never sent it to me. I found out who's in it, a lot of cameos and a plot twist that I did not expect either. We support small business owners with all of our products, and we hope that you do the same. Danpatrick dot com. Whether it's our Tailgate moonshine, whether it's our t shirts, whether it's Gilgamesh Brewing in Oregon for the new audible Ale Pennies Bang Biscuits made by Sunbeam General in New Jersey. Danpatrick dot Com supporting small business owner. Stat of the Day brought to you by Panini America, the official trading cards of the program. All righty, what do you have setan.

Well we put up there for the first hour is as Ventura Sports movie? Obviously a very important question. Right now, sixty one percent of the audience say.

Yes, no, it is not, No, it's not no.

Okay, Well, as I said, I watched it yesterday, so I'm in my trailer. I shot one scene and then I had like three hours and then all of a sudden, I'm trying to find something to watch very limited, and then uh went to Hulu and got Ace Venture a pet Detective Dan Marine, a very young Dan Marino, Courtney Cox, a very young Courtney Cox.

And uh, it's.

About the Dolphins and losing their mask on. There's Super Bowl rings that are involved in this. So I said, yeah, it's a sports movie, yes, ma.

And in what part of the movie do they actually play sports?

They don't, not that I'm aware of. They say laces out though they do laces out, they do. And then you know the place kicker.

What's his name, Fink Finkel, Finkle, Ray Finkel.

I don't want to spoil it, but there's a twist.

Oh there's well as Einhorn Einhorn as Finkle twist.

Courtney Cox. Here you go, ruined it. Yeah, you did, you did.

And then we started talking about best best five year or six year runs for an actor or an actress, and we had a lot of suggestions there. I would put Harrison ford Is up there. We had some he had some absolute bangers.

Yes, we have a.

Lot of people weighing in on this. It's going into music movies. There's a massive eminem debate happening in the back right now, which is great. This is one of my favorite submissions that somebody sent in Kyle in Pennsylvania talk about an underappreciated run of movies that I think you're gonna like dankay Vin Diesel.

One of the great actors of our time.

Seriously, one of the great actors of our time. In a five year stretch he had Boiler Room, Pitch, Black, Fast, and Furious, maybe even two of them. Uh, Triple X the Pacifier Chronicles of Riddick. He had a run there where Vin Diesel was arguably the bigess box office star in the world.

I was going to say he probably banked more money, you know, five year window.

That's seven billion dollars right there.

When Fast and Furious came out, I thought this is going to be a monster hit because it had cars, and it had women, and there was sort of a plot there. And I thought Gone in sixty seconds with Angelina Joli like and uh Nicholas Cage.

I thought that one could have been a franchise name like Montana Rains or something like that. Yeah, yeah, something like that. Yeah, and it was his brother Memphis.

Is his name Memphis Memphis, Memphis Rains or something.

Yeah. Giovanni Ribisi was in there, like the tweaker, uh like garage guy Giovanni. Oh yeah yeah.

And then you had who's the guy who was godfather, the old the older guy in the movie, famous actor, damn famous famous, he was famous James con No, but that that kind of Scott con was in the No, no.

It's Darlin Brandon.

No, how about you google Gone in sixty seconds?

The cast.

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Diane Keaton, no Will.

Patton, Timothy Oliphant, Sean McBride, this guy, Robert Duvall is.

Sorry.

It took a long time to find him. That's not a stat of the day.

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Good morning, fellaws. Having meet Friday, I was so hoping i'd be next. After that, I was screaming, Abe the gooda to the dashboard.

But that's it.

Bobby d for sure problem member of the DBC DDD Club and my long past father who also had the smoky turns that are similar to your own voice, gave me my entire life. Well, I think is a walk off in this category. I've been talking about quadruple threat. Writer, director, producer and actor of two of the greatest comedies in American history, Melton Brooks release Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles in nineteen seventy four. That's one year two probably of the top five comedies of all time.

And he did it all all right.

Can't go wrong with that. Brilliant, brilliant man. Sewan and ohio Hi, Sean.

I'm here to call out todde Ritz for not mister eighties and so not saying Patrick's crazy eighty six to ninety one, young Blood, dirty Dance and rode out next to kan Ghost in point break.

Yes, Ton, I will see your Patrick sways and raise you to me more from the mid eighties to early nineties, blame it on Rio, Saint Elmo's Fire about Last Night, the Seventh Sign, Ghost, a few good men in decent proposal. All from the mid eighties to early nineties. Wow, a good run, good run all before strip Tease.

Yeah, and that one a good movie.

I'm throwing a red flag on you, including blame it on Rio and then well more.

Michelle Johnson. There's a reason why. Yeah, they're topless in there.

What happens some does it falls off?

Wasn't I mean, what a creepy movie.

Michael Caine, Michael Michael Kaine, Like there's so many of those movies where that couldn't be made.

Now, Vince in Austin, Hi, Vince, what's on your mind today?

Hey guys, good morning, happy for everybody. Dad missed it yesterday. Anyway, Marvin, Marvin, your Husky's come to Austin. Sunday looks tut. Your championship run is over? Sorry, my twelve blasted.

Vince, You and Marvin want to place a bet on this? Oh you hung up on a Marvin that?

Wow?

I didn't hang up on him?

Yes you did, Yes you did. Are you afraid of the Texas Longhorns.

Of Texas back? I swear on my father. I didn't hang up.

Yeah, but you don't like your dad? Did you swear on your mom? Exactly?

But I would bet him? Okay, Texas, Vince, callback our run is over? What run is Texas basketball?

Yeah? Okay? Straight up though, no point, straight up, no, straight up?

All right to the Vince, Marvin is going to take you up on your bet. Man, if you lose, you got to take a video of taking a pie to the face.

Yes, seton my brother David checking in with Anthony Michael Hall nineteen eighty three to nineteen eighty eight. All right, you have National Lampoon's Vacation, sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Out of Bounds, and Johnny b Good and right past that is Edward Scissorhands.

That's a pretty good run. Yeah, it's a pretty great run.

Yeah Yeah, Andrew and Washington. Welcome back, Andrew.

Good morning, Dan Den. It's a happy meet Friday. Thanks for taking my call. I do have a couple of questions, but first I have an mmwg OTW most must win Game of the Week. Mine is going to be the Seahawks at the Cardinals. You look at that division in the NFC West, it's only you know, two games away from the Diners at the bottom to the Seahawks at the top. You know, the the Cardinals are given the Seahawks two and a half points, yet the Seahawks beat them in Week twelve, sixteen to six. So I think that really says which team is going.

To win that division. So that's my MMWGOTW Dan. Two questions for you. One, you know, did a car come up with Sandler for all of your appearances in his movies? And two maybe a quick hot five minute hot poll more in character on set in a suit? You or Joe Peshim.

Yeah.

I don't want to bring Joe into this. Yea, he stands alone. I just got back into my Sports Center days. They put a mustache on me and.

That's all it is. You get locked in and that is truly like riding the bike.

When you sit there in the chair, you got a suit and tie on, and you got your lines on prompter and you're just reading prompter. That's all it was. And I mean there's some magic there obviously, but now it was fun because Sandler sits all the way in the back. So when I'm on set and I got this kind of a sports center set and it's dark all the way back, you can't see anybody in the back. So you got all these camera people, sound people, hair makeup, like a hundred people there, and then you will do a take and then Sandler will yell out something like Danny, Danny, why didn't you put uh, why didn't you say? And then then you do that? And then so he did. He does this all the time. When I did just go with it where I'm on stage with Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Andis then and Dave Matthews Sendler's all the way in the back, just yelling out lines, Danny, Danny, why don't you try this line? But sort of work shopping it as we go along, and then usually we just go back to whatever the script is. But it's always beneficial to have the eyes and ears of Sandler throwing out stuff there, but he'll join us coming up top of next hour. More phone calls eight seven seven to three. DP Show email address Dpadanpatrick dot com, Twitter handle at TP show. Good morning if you're watching on peak, thanks for downloading the app letting us into your lives and those listening on their radio in the car over four hundred cities.

What I just got word from mister Sandler there right between scenes right now, so he's actually gonna join us next at twenty five past the hour.

I got Ross Tucker.

I know, I'm gonna kindly move Ross gently because he's a big man to either later in the hour or the top of the eleven hour, because Samman needs to do it as soon as.

Poss' is gonna kindly move him gently.

Hey, having to move Yesterdear, you're.

Gonna like he was gonna be joining us in four minutes now.

It's not very professional, but sam Man's on a very tight schedule and needs to do it next. So hopefully Russell understand.

Here we go playing the Hollywood star. Okay, sam Man, all right, we'll take a break. Adam Sandler joins us next.

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I'm a regular on the show. I don't know how you could do that through three minutes before I'm coming on.

You told me now.

He was actually very cool. Of course, you and Sam Man should be calling in a few minutes, all right.

So Ross Tucker will join us coming up in about twenty minutes from now. I was all set to be asking some hard hitting football questions, sir Ross, because he was on the call with the game last night, with the Lions now winning eleven games in a row. But Sandman will join us coming up. See would you update the poll results? In fact, I don't even know what the poll question is for hour two. Well, we got another offbeat one. Let me see, is a spentuer a sports movie right now? Sixty two percent? That's actually getting worse. Say no, okay, And somebody else.

Suggested, would you have the actor's career Ryan Gosling, Ryan Reynolds also good the lines going for it on fourth down? Is a good idea or bad idea? And then another one off of a SoundBite we had. But is it called the red zone or the red area?

Who called it the red area?

Matt Lafleur said, well, when we're down there in the red area, we need to be I feel like i've heard that a little bit more lately.

The red area.

I think that's something you find on your body, like down in the red area. Oh yes, I went.

To the dermatologie for that a couple of times. You give me a little cream, You're.

Fine, thank you. Is that a red area? Yeah? Yeah, I haven't heard the red area, bere.

I feel like if I sat here on the show and I was just like, well, you know, they're down in the red area, social media would be like, you don't know anything.

You're stupid, You're so stupid. How did you get this job.

As we make the smooth segue to Adam Sandler, happy, Gilmour two set to call in. I believe, Oh Todd's on the phone with Salmon. Now this is where Todd does his impersonation. I killed do it?

Oh let me Danny?

Ready, okay, all right, here we go. All right, Todd, did you do your Sandler impersonation to Sandler?

I did not?

Go ahead, go ahead.

I saw that on the Thanksgiving specially when he was playing his guitar with Kevin Neil, and I just love that.

Stuff, Okay, I sad man, I love you.

Good, good, good. Hi Danny, how are you feeling.

I'm good, Okay.

I have.

I have to tell you that I stole my sweatshirt. That that first scene that I'm in I have it on today.

Oh no, Danny. They were looking for it all morning. Oh guy, Tom down, Dandy.

I know that you guys get caught up in wardrobe and you can't take anything. But it was the next to last day, and I loved it so much that I I was just gonna take it with me. I also, I told these guys you were on the phone. I don't know if you're talking to your wife, I'm done with my scene. I'm leaving last night, and I grab a chair and you're going, Danny, what are you doing? And I go, I'm taking a happy Gilmore two souvenir chair.

Yes, yes, no, no, no, there was no doubt you deserved the chair. You did good work last night. I just think I was a little shocked at the amount of M and.

M's just.

Are we allowed to talk about some of the people in the movie, Like, what can we talk about here since the movie wraps today?

Yeah? Are we on the air right now? Yes we are, Okay, Yeah, we can't talk about anything. No, no, no, no, Yeah, you can say who was there? Shooter was there and he was hanging out right.

Yes, Shooter McGavin.

Okay, But can I talk about some of the cameos?

I don't know if they they're gonna yell at me no matter what, because they asked me not to do any dress. But but what we what do you want to say? What do you say? And I'll tell you if it's good or bad to talk about?

Like can I talk about Eminem having a cameo?

Okay? Yeah, yeah you can't. You know, Eminem was cool, he he came by and he was he was great.

Okay, wat how do you reach out to Eminem? And what role does he play in Happy Gilmore too?

I can't tell you. Okay, Okay, Eminem time and he's he's a great guy and he came in, was funny as hell and was just it was just I think we just hung out a day with Eminem and he just shot and shot and was insane, said said a million things. We can use in a million things that we just We're glad we have him on tape.

Jack Nicholas, Yeah.

Jack Nicholas, Yes, we did. He came by for a couple of days, all all the all these great shoppers came by and we we yes, they did a great scene and we all we all hung out and he was amazing and he hung out with us and his wife was was awesome and we we I in the scene. I sit next to Jack, so I got I got to talk to him and he was he was so nice to me, man, he was, he was. He did literally to me. I talked to him on the phone and I was right before, like, uh, a couple of weeks before we shot, and I was it reminded me of growing up so much and what he meant to my dad and what he meant to.

The whole world pretty cool.

I was like, well, I think the only other boys said on the phone that would make me feel what I'm feeling was Johnny Carsonis and just kind of felt like, just you calmed you down. Everything he had to say was so sweet and calm, and he felt like, just just I better listen to this man because he just knows everything.

Okay, here's another thing, and I'm not sure if this is true. I think John Daly brought this up that the movie was coming out in March or April. I thought it might have been a blockbuster fourth or July weekend. But I'm wondering if you're trying to have it aligned with Masters week where you have Happy Gilmour Too come out.

It's not coming out then it's I don't know one hundred percent, but I think around July. Okay, July fourth, but but they we're trying to get it done in time for July.

Yeah.

I just you never know what's going to happen. We're just just finishing today at the last day. You will phenomenally Yesterday, Danny, seriously, we all talked about.

You, just you.

You were just so smooth and everything you said was funny as funny as hell. We're going to use it all over the place. And uh and thank you. And you look Hanta Mattel in the must desk, you look like the trong. You look like you're hitting the way hard, buddy.

But you know what, sam Man, I just had somebody say I look like maybe a younger thinner Andy Reid.

I wouldn't. I wouldn't say thinner, but yes, wow, I.

Don't know if you should be calling me out chunky Cole Medina.

Yeah, no, Andy Reid. By the way, he's a handsome bash. Nothing wrong with that. And he says he's punning on those commercials he does the twinklers and steals some nugget or something easy. I think he eats my homes last nugget or something.

How much pressure do you feel? But the build up and trying to deliver on something like this.

Well, I you know, a lot, a lot a lot. I want I want it to be great. Me and Hurli. He's next to me right now. We're in the trailer going over the movie, just talking about the thing and what what how we're going to put it together, and yeah, yeah, it's on your mind. You just you just we got a lot of good stuff and we just want to make sure that it all comes together and and and keep keeps it going from start to finish. And that's that's the goal. We'll see, we'll see. We're definitely nervous, but we feel some sort of confidence.

We're talking at him Sandler. The movie Happy Go More to probably in July. They wrap it up today. I did get yelled at by one of your producers. Eli, I found out that you can't use the F word in the movie.

Well this this you never know, you never know. Maybe maybe if it makes total sense, that word is gonna be so Eli, I'm gonna Eli just got fired.

The movie ends today, so you can't Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, I guess this is the last God damn, you don't like that. Oh by the way, Eli got fired. In cases parents are listening, I love.

You, No, no, great. Once again, it was fun.

Great to see you a lot of the familiar faces there and and uh, I know, I know you've been told not to talk about the movie. So thank you for at least volunteering if you wanted. Uh, if I wanted you on the show today. So thanks for joining us.

I wanted to be with you day just to celebrate how great you were last night. And and uh all the boys say hi to them and uh a holiday.

Well wait, wait a minute, hold on, Samon, there was there is a little bit of a problem.

What.

I'm sure you had a lot of golf galleries. You got a lot of people extras there, and you have been nice to get the dan Nets into movies, and I waited for.

The invitation to hand it to them so they can be.

The dan Nets are in the water Boy. If we do The water Boy again, they're in that. I didn't want that. I know none of them like golf, So that is true.

Is there going to be a sequel to The Water Boy?

Okay, I don't know in what order, but I think next sequel. I know, no matter what I say, people are gonna say I'm serious. So but I'm gonna start off. I'm gonna start off with We're doing a sequel to Bedtime Stories next, then it's Sea Going. No, I'm not I don't know what I'm doing.

Okay, Okay, so there's no sequel to water Boy. You're just joking, I mean, no.

I don't know, you never know. I probably not, but uh bouche tackling anybody at age fifty eight, it's a little weirder than them hitting a golf boy, you know what I mean, would be dead, would be dead right now if you hit anybody in the NFL.

Yes, Sam oh, yes, seton sounds like Adam is writing The Sun of the Water boy.

Ooh, that could be good. That could be good. And who's playing the sun?

Uh? Timothy Challow, Harry Keho.

Oh yeah, all right, Well we'll figure out. I can't.

I can't imagine.

Okay, So Sandman played pick up with Timothy shallow May on a New York City he playground. How what kind of game does Timothy shallow May have?

Oh he's a very smooth operator on the on the court. And I played ball with him. I played ball with them a few times out in l A too. He's cool. I think I remember Timmy came over to the house. He had some good three on three to get eat it up man. A kid likes to win. He's good.

How were your daughters when Timothy Challow May came to your house?

They were They held it together. He was so cool to him. So so that that they held it together. But it was a night. It was a good Three days after, it's still smiling, you know what I mean. It felt good.

Thanks again, Thanks again for the opportunity and talk to you soon. Save travels.

Way to go, Danny, Thanks for your time, Love you boys, see you soon.

That's Adam Sandler.

I did get close to texting Sam Man a while ago to say, hey, if you need extras, but I thought, no, he has invited you guys in a couple of movies, and I was waiting for the invitation for you guys, so I didn't want to. I didn't want to push my friendship boundaries there with San Matt. Just so you guys know, Marvin could have been in a movie.

Oh sor right, Josh de Mell looked out.

He did.

We were in the beginning of our buddy games. Oh it's not happy Gilmore too or anything.

No, it's not No, it's not so Yeah, Eminem's got a cameo there. I was shocked at you know, Rory McElroy's in it, Bryce and to Shambo, it's weird. They brought together the PGA tour and the live tour for a movie. So you had to Shambo and Kopka Rory and they were all together and there's no media around, so they actually probably got a chance to, you know, have a herd to hard talk about the live tour and the PGA tour. So, uh, I guess July will be happy Gilmore too. John Daly said he thought of his March or April, and I'm thinking that as a John knows nothing about movies. John is in the movie. But I thought that is a unbelievable turnaround and thought I'd ask the Sandman Tom, and Iowa, Hi, Tom, what's on your mind today?

Hey, fella's happy Meat Friday. At y'all, I've got the definitive argument of why Ice Winter is a sports movie, and it comes down to there's an entire generation of us now when we watch a football game and there is a kick miss, the first thing we look at is the ball, and someone invariably will.

Yell out places out Dan, love.

You, guys, thank you, thank you, thank you. Tom.

Let's take a break, because Ross Tucker kind enough to allow Fritzy to push him back a little bit there so we can make way for big time Hollywood actor Adam simm.

I can't believe you guys would do that to me right before I'm coming on.

Take a break back after this.

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Speaking of good friends, probably not as good a friend of Fritzi as he is to me. After Fritzi said, Ross Tucker, why don't you wait twenty minutes? We got to bring in Adam Sandler and I said no, make Sandler wait, and you said no, can't do that, Ross Tucker, CBS Sports, Westwood One, and the Ross Tucker Football Podcast. Ross was on the call for Westwood One last night, packers in lines. So you can tell your kids you got bumped for Adam Sandler there, Ross.

Yeah, you know what's so funny about that, Dan, They're twelve and eleven.

I'm wondering what they know about Adam Sandler. I think it might be way.

Cooler to tell my wife and friends that I got pumped now. I actually replied to you guys on X at Ross Tucker NFL, and I got a new poll question of the day for Seaton. Should I be honored or offended that I got bumped for Adam Sandler.

There's already a one hundred and thirty votes.

Seventy four percent say honored, twenty six percent say offended.

So far, I would say you should be honored. You should be honored.

To me, I don't care.

I'm just in a hotel room in Detroit, and it's a way cooler story now, Like I'm gonna tell everybody you know, it's a way cooler story that I got bumped for Sander. Then if I just came on at ten twenty, the only issue Dan is I scheduled. I was on the radio in Chicago before I came on. Fritzy texted me no less than ten times while I'm on the radio on my phone in Chicago, can you go letter ten forty eleven oh five Sandler?

Oh, he's gonna break in his thing. Like like.

Fritzy, how about just one text with all of the information as opposed to the ding coming in every three seconds as you say three more words and hit send.

I would say to that that I didn't mean to ding up your phone, and I wasn't certainly wasn't aware that you were on in the middle of an interview on some on a radio stat even an interview.

But things were also changing.

I was getting different notes from the Sandman about when he was available, so that caused me to change the update on what I had to share with Ross. While we were moving things around, I saw I wasn't meant I mean to be a.

Pasting Thank you, Todd Ross. Can a team peak too soon?

Yes, no question.

Can the Lions be peaking too soon?

I don't think so because of how injured they are on the defensive side of the ball. I mean, they have thirteen guys on IR on defense. Nobody else has more than seven after a Lee McNeil, who's a stud by the way, after he went out Dan, they didn't have a single guy playing last night that was in the too deep on the defensive line fur their opener.

Think about that. That is nuts.

They're playing with all guys off the street or practice squad guys and still beating the Green Bay Packers in a game like that. It's incredibly impressive. I mean, I'm watching Kwan Alexander and Jamal Adams makes some plays. They just signed both those guys this week and it's a Thursday game.

It's incredible.

What they've done, and I would say in particular, the offense is awesome, but for them to be good enough on defense to win these games with some of the guys they're playing with is super impressive.

Yeah, I just wonder about that the attrition, When does that catch up to them?

So far they've managed it.

But this is where I go back, and I said at the start of the show, I like the I think the Eagles are the most balanced team in football right now, and maybe the best team in football right now. Buffalo is in there as well. Certainly the Lions are. I can't diminish what they've done. I just have to look at the bigger picture here, and that is at some point in the postseason, you're gonna have to stop somebody that You're not gonna win all these shootouts, at least I don't think you will.

But what would be your biggest concern with the Lions.

Well, so two things.

One is reader's gonna come back. Ali McNeil's coming back. I had Azeloney on the Ross Tucker Football podcast Wednesday. He's coming back from that broken forum. So they're actually gonna get a bunch of these guys back before they get into the postseason. That will help. And the number one seed is just huge. I mean, being able to not have to play that first week, so you get more people healing. And I can tell you last night, and I know some people said on the television broadcast that maybe they couldn't hear the crowd. It was loud, really loud. I thought it affected the Packers a little bit. My biggest concern Dan about the Lions is fourth down variants.

Right.

You know, they're very aggressive and they were three out of four last night and it's a big reason.

Why they won the game.

And on a lot of those instances, they are going with the numbers and what the percentages say.

But the percentages and the numbers don't know.

It's the NFC championship game, and they don't care, you know what I mean, Like they don't care. So you know, let's say it's fifty percent on a lot of fourth down conversions, right, Well, they were seventy five percent last night. They were three out of four in three playoff games or maybe four. I wonder which one of those it comes back to bite them. They threw the ball, Dan, on two fourth and goals, they threw it, you know, a lot of bad things can happen there. A d Linan can back the pass down golf, can have a bad throw, good defense by the Packers, the guy could drop it. When you're in a situation. This is not the Eagles with the tush push on their fourth downs. They're throwing the ball on some of these fourth and goals. They were both touchdowns. They're in one of the playoff games. It's not gonna happen for him. They're gonna go one for three on fourth downs and it might be what costs them.

And I wondered about that, if Dan Campbell is saying, let's give somebody something to think about in the postseason by what we're doing in the regular season on some of these fourth down calls, that we're not going to be predictable. The predictability is we're going for it, but there is no predictability in what play we call there. That's the only thing I thought of there. But if you played on the lines and you're on the offensive side of the ball being alignment, and you know Dan Campbell's going forward on fourth down, what does that do for a team when they get in a huddle and you basically know when we get to third. We're getting to fourth down as well.

Well.

There's two awesome aspects of that. Number One, we saw this a bunch last night. It enables them to be willing to run the ball on third and medium, which really helps the play action pass game, really helps out the offensive line. They're not afraid to run third, four, five, and six. They'll run the ball. They ran for a first down a couple of times they didn't, but they got closer than they went forth on fourth down. So that's a cool aspect of it. And then the other thing is just the belief and faith that that team has. I thought a couple times started the second half, then after the they stopped them on fourth down and pat the Packers went up twice in the second half, and I thought, Okay, what a valiant effort by the Lions, but they're out manned and it's just not going to happen for them. I think because of how much Dan Campbell believes in them, I think it reinforces the self belief, the confidence. We talked to David Montgomery, I ain't eagle on myself after the game, and he said, Dan Campbell told them all week almost every fourth down if it's close, we are going So those guys they just know that Campbell believes in them, and even if they don't get one, they know they're going for it and they know their coach believes in them that they're gonna get I think that's a big reason why they're so resilient and they keep coming back even when the Packers take the lead like they did.

Curious your opinion on A Z's al Shire, the three game suspension on Trevor Lawrence and will we see a modification of the rule or a possible rule change with this play.

I think they need to strongly consider what they're going to do with the quarterback slide. I never thought of this until I heard Rex Ryan talking about it earlier in the week, and I'll give them a lot of credit for that. It's not a smart decision by a quarterback unless you Tom Brady it and do it super early. But that kind of goes against human instinct, right, Like human instinct is to get as many yards as you can and then get down. But when you slide feet first, the thing highest off the ground, the last thing to get down and protected is your head. You're making yourself very, very vulnerable. Now, I thought al shi Or could done a better job of avoiding that collision. And I will say this, though anybody's ever played, We'll tell you everything out there happened so much faster than that does when you're watching on TV. I mean, it happens in an instant. I thought he got one game for basically the hit and his track record. You know, he's had some other questionable hits. I thought he got another game because of how bad it looked for Trevor Lawrence and cart it Off and all that. I thought the third game honestly was because of his reaction afterwards and like the riot that it started. I actually really thought they would reduce it to two. I'm surprised that they didn't.

Always great to talk to you, and thanks for joining us and my pleasure.

I don't know when Happy Gilmore two will be released.

It's probably no long it'll be Jolyn.

I know that I feel like John Daly doesn't know what he's talking about.

I know at least that.

And you're probably going to get bumped from the guest list of being able to see the movie, So just letting you know get you might get bumped again.

Ross.

Thank you guys, I.

Love that movie. We watched that fifty times in college. Love it.

Thank you, Dan, Ross Tucker, CBS Sports, Westwood One, the Ross Tucker Football Podcast, and social media at Ross Tucker, NFL. You got the Bills coming up for the Lions. You've got the Niners, the artist formerly known as the Niners, you got the Bears, you got the Vikings. So not an easy route, but they should be able to win three out of four. Final Hour on the way, Booger McFarlane will stop by. Hope you'll join us. Final hour in this meet Friday after this

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