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Let's see we got one now here from play under five hundred team that.
Will make the playoffs.
Mm hm, So this is like the best of the bad teams. I guess we're saying, right, let's see, we've got the Dolphins, the Bengals, Buccaneers, Rams, Niners, scenes others neither neither.
Wow.
I'm tempted to say the Dolphins because I said that two weeks ago. But you got a factor in the Niners. It may just not be their year. Just may not be their year. Trying to put everything together. The Buccaneers are I know they beat the Giants, but I don't.
I don't.
There are times when I watch now it helps having Mike Evans back and Baker played well, and you're going against Tommy Salami and the Giants. There By the way, Malik Neighbors, the great wide receiver rookie wide receiver, was asked this question after the loss to Tampa Bay, Malie, did.
You expect the quarterback change to beat to provide more of a spark than to me?
Obviously, it ain't the quarterback.
The same homecome when we had DJ at quarterback. I mean, take a look, take a look. It ain't the quarterback. What it is? Everybody?
Nobody did me, We'll take three more.
I don't know.
I I don't know what it is if I'm trying to lose it.
Okay, so it's not the quarterback. So what is it?
Well, you gotta have an answer. If you're going to say it's not the quarterback, then who is it? Hey, give me a hint. Is it somebody who doesn't play? Is it the front office? Do you think the owner John Merra after watching Saquon Barkley, maybe he didn't even watch last night. If you're the if you're the Giants owner, wat I don't know if you're gonna go, hey, ah, Saquon's playing Sunday night and then all of a sudden, you know, he ends up over two hundred yards rushing.
I don't know.
Now, if that's a different coach, a different owner, with your coaching staff, you might go, you know what, fire them.
All, like we should be embarrassed. We let this guy go.
I think you made the right decision considering where the team was headed last year. The problem the decision you made before that was keeping Daniel Jones. They went to the playoffs and their quarterback had fifteen touchdown passes. When's the last time a team made the playoffs with their starting quarterback throwing fifteen touchdowns?
Yes, Martin?
Why a Tittle?
Oh? Who played for the Giants?
Correct the Hya Tittle famous for that photograph where he's on his knees, his helmets off, and he's got blood trickling down the side of his head.
Ya Tittle good poll mark? Yes, Paul I.
Would say, without looking at at Trey Aikman had to be in there for fewest touchdowns in a season, but he had really good numbers. Like you said, I think a couple of years he had fifteen touchdowns one year and they went to the Super Bowl. He had fifteen touchdowns and six picks.
Yeah, and then won the Super Bowl.
Well, Daniel Jones had fifteen touchdowns a couple of years ago and they went to the playoffs. But bringing him back now he's released, I think the Raiders would probably be number one on the list of where he would go. He does say that he wants to play for a playoff contender. It would be interesting if you said, hey, I don't care for a winning team or not. I'm used to that. I'll go play for anybody. Well, how about the Raiders? Gardner Minshew broken collarbone? All right, Seaton poll question, So we have the best bad team? Who was the worst good team? I think I'm phrasing it correctly from last hour.
Best bad team, worst good team.
You know what is interesting though, it feels like, if you're looking at the playoffs, if they ended now, excuse me, if they started now. Yeah, Chiefs and Lions are obviously great. Bill's Eagles are really good obviously. Then after that you would have the Steelers and the Seahawks.
It's a three seed. It feels like there is a clear separation between the one and two seeds and everybody else. Okay, not even close.
You Steeler, Seahawks, Texans, Falcons, Charges, Vikings, Ravens, Packers, that's uh funny, and then Broncos and Commanders would be the seventh seed.
Yeah, yeah, it feels a little top heavy there. That's pretty top heavy. Ravens at the Chargers, Chargers getting two and a half watching the Commander's game and you know a crazy finish where you get missed field goals, missed extra points, you get blocked punt, you get two kickoff returns.
Here is the uh.
The commander's call on the missed extra point that could have sent the game into overtime.
It's berserk stap low trust, wake gets a down.
Cyber's kick step stop.
A bad step.
They got the whole doubt.
It's Cyber missed it left. You missed it left, So now they have to try another on.
Sidekick Austin Seybert. Yeah they did, and then they ran it back for a touchdown. Here is the Commander's kicker after the miss.
Austin obviously emotional, not the result you wanted.
What's going through your mind right now?
I just want to play better for my teammates. You know, just wasn't striking all, but it means lots of me to be here with these guys. So I just want to put my best.
Foot moving forward. That final extra point it was a low snap.
How much of a difference did that make?
Didn't make a difference at all.
It's on me, all right.
It did make a difference. But I like how he's trying to put his best foot forward. Yeah, yeah, forward.
Through them all. Is that your right one of your left? Right here?
That's courtesy of seven News DC. I like the reporter where you want to sound empathetic, you know, sympathetically play the beginning of it, posovs.
Very breathy.
It sounded like he's doing a Tiger Woods impression. Well, obviously I need to hit the ball better, Give.
Me one more, give me again in posinovs, that's where, okay, I'm gonna roll out the sympathy carpet.
I've done it before. I'm sure I have.
When I interviewed Bill Buckner after the ball went through his legs or Mitch Williams gave up a home run to lose the World series.
Talk to us about that, Bill, what happened there?
Mitch?
You threw?
I'm also exasperated.
I hurt for you.
Oh.
Empathy, Yes, it's the best.
That's what you need to do sometimes. You know, if you're an interviewer and I got to get something out of you got to get some emotion, it's going to be emotion.
Yes, Todd, I wish the kicker would have said, it sounds like you missed the kick.
Hey, are you okay? Just asking a question? Yes, Paul.
Should there be a stat that blames the person on the kick because the blown snap, the BS as we're calling it, the blown snap cause the kicker it looked like the hitch just a hair and that may be cause the miss if the holder blows it BS blown or BH blown hold. I think it'd be fair because it was a long snapper set up the miss.
But is it a BS or BH.
Blown snap, BS blown hold, BH blown kick BK simple simple stat to add on put some blame on people. We like blaming people here.
Yeah, we do.
It's not each other. There you go, just not each other. How about some phone calls here?
Hey, how about it?
Yeah, Rick new Heislal Joint is coming up next down. We'll try to make sense of what happened over the weekend and a senseless college football weekend. It was almost like relegation in the Premier League, where you just kind of that game happened, and then they're waiting to see what happened in the three o'clock game. Then there's this you know, the later, and then there's seven o'clock game, and then ten o'clock game, and you're just like you wake up Sunday morning, you try to piece it all back together. It's like a Rubik's cube and it's not finished yet by any stretch of the imagination.
Doug and Syracuse. Hi Doug, what's on your mind today?
Well?
I got two bests.
One is Kyle McCord and the other is finally watching you on.
A peacock instead of listening to you at work.
Well, thank you, Doug.
Hopefully it's a promising it's positive there to watch the show.
I think he said he had two bests.
What happened there on the hold?
Can you take us through that postin obviously?
Do you imagine if we all try to do that when we go home with our wife.
Oh, just go hey.
Honey, well honey, obviously chicken was a little dry tonight.
You want to take us through that.
Yeah, nosh, you want to take us through Uh honey, obviously at dinner a little late tonight, you want to take us through that.
What happened there? Who do I do I blame? Blame any boy liked badring? There's a homework situation.
Someone didn't get their homework done on time, and you what.
Can you tell us that?
Now?
It's just on me. It's on me.
I should have been kicking in earlier and uh, that's that's on me.
Why are there so many pillows on the bed.
Usually there's some kind of potato vegetable on the side.
We just didn't Belly and Chicago joins us Hi DELI, Hey a lot.
Out there, Dan.
I wanted to say I have a little om eyes to Nick Lovin.
And that would be.
Greg Olsho's coming on is gonna You know? He was talking on the Bears broadcast and he said that the past sets up the run instead of everybody else's as saying run sets up the pass.
Even you Okay, Well that's his thought, and thank you Delly that the past sets up the run.
Uh maybe maybe in today's NFL.
I always thought that the run made play action a little bit more legitimate, because if you can't run, then why do play action? Because I ain't buying into play action. So I would say the run would set up the pass in my playbook. Eric in Indiana, Hi, Eric, what's on your mind?
Hik Uh, that's why I'm tired. I got a question for you. Do you think it's a Bear It's a culture thing with them not being able to win.
To.
Wash Rent and repeat of GM coaches not wanting the quarterback, not wanting anything other than just to save their own butts and their own jobs as the head coach and the GM, I just see it over and over and as a lifelong Bears fan, I just can't seem to shake that culture from the top, from ownership all the way down.
Oh, it's definitely systemic.
I mean, Eric, you can't be surprised at anything that goes on the dysfunction with the Bears. I talked to a friend lives in Chicago, and he said, do you realize that the Bears were interviewing Dan Quinn a couple of years ago.
They flew him in.
Coach and I go, okay, was that a joke, like, hey, coach, you're going to be in coachy? Mean, they're very cheap, they're very cheap, and this has been going on. You get what you pay for. And I don't know if Matt Eberflus is back. I mean, I'm not one to say, boy, you gotta fire that guy. I mean, there's certain situations where you go, that guy's going to get fired. I've ever been meyer. I said, you got to fire him. But Doug Peterson, you know, they keep him great. It doesn't matter to me. But there's certain situations where you go, is that the guy you want leading your team? And I think Chicago sometimes has taken the safe route or they've gone with somebody who might have been a little cheaper there. But I look, Caleb Williams made a couple of plays where I go, damn, that is that's exciting.
That's exciting.
And Okay, maybe Bears fans don't feel like you got your franchise quarterback.
You do.
He's learning how to deprogram from how he played at USC. That's really hard to do because he played at such a high level. Hey, I did this in college all the time. Well, there are a lot of guys who did a lot of things great in college, and then you get to the pros. It's a whole different game, and you're seeing that he can make plays, and he made a couple of plays, very athletic plays. He just has to be more consistent. All right, We'll take a break. Greg Olsen from Fox will join us. Coming up next. More phone calls after this Dan Patrick Show. Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weekday morning nine to noon Eastern or six to nine Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local station for The Danpatrick Show at Foxsports Radio dot com, or streamus live every day on the iHeartRadio app by searching FSR or streamers live on the Peacock Act. He's the busy Greg Olsen, NFL on Fox analyst and joining us on behalf of DraftKings sportsbook.
We'll talk about that.
He was on the call for the Cowboys and Commanders with Joe Davis, and next Sunday he's got the Cardinals and the Vikings.
Greg, good to talk to you again.
You've played in a lot of games, You've watched a lot of games, You've broadcast a lot of games. Where would you put yesterday's game between the Cowboys Commanders on that list?
Well, I think it's safe to say it's right at or near the top, And especially I think it was really just the contrasts of that fourth quarter forty one points, how those forty one points were scored were.
Just it was absolute chaos.
But it really came after a pretty pedestrian two and a half three quarters, like nobody really could get anything going. It was red zone field goals that were.
A circus to begin with.
We couldn't make field goals, couldn't make extra points leading up to that, and then the fourth quarter just got insane.
Special teams plays.
Both good and bad, eighty six yard and essence hail Mary type plays in desperation mode that go for touchdowns. It was just I can't say I've ever seen a sequence of events that culminated with an ending like that, all in one quarter, all down the stretch, maybe ever, at least in a game that I can remember.
And you bring up a great point, sometimes we go, boy, that was a great game. It wasn't a great game, but it was a great finish. It was a great final quarter. When you guys get together with the commanders during the week and you sit down with Jaden Daniels, how much are you allowed to ask about how healthy he is with those ribs, because it certainly looked like their game plan was different with those ribs, that they weren't going to put him out there running.
Yeah, I think yesterday was probably the most the healthiest he's been, and it was probably the most that they had been willing to activate him as a design runner that we've seen, at least through the last couple weeks. So when you go back to the Philly game, in the Pittsburgh game before that, their previous two losses, they weren't using him as a runner at all. So I think yesterday had the nice touchdown run in the third corps that was a really nice design, really nice play there off the left side, had a few other nice ones. He ran a speed option in the first half for a big pickup for a first down, couple scrambles, so I think I think yesterday was the healthiest he's been in a long time. It seemed like they kind of ran the entire offense through him, as they were earlier in the season. It's really just their inability to get the ball down field. That's the big problem that they're having. And the irony is it kind of at the end of the game, in desperation mode when they needed to, you know, a two minute score and a two point conversion down eleven, they got it throwing the ball downfield, attacking and then of course to Terry McLaurin eighty six yard touchdown in desperation mode was another one. So they opened it up there at the end of the game, and I just think they need to.
Do it more.
How do you explain what Dallas did, Matt And I don't know if this is more on the Commanders or you give credit to the Cowboys, you.
Know, I think it's probably as like anything, I think it's a combination of both. But I give Mike McCarthy and that Cowboys group a lot of credit. I mean, they were reeling and then they come into that game yesterday and they're excited to get Deron Bland back. They're all pro corner. He had missed the entire season with a foot injury. They get him back, they get Parsons back, but then they lose Digs. Trevon Diggs, he was out due to injury. But it was really the offensive side of the ball that we knew going in was just really down a lot of guys. They had Ceedee Lamb and then it was a lot of backups. You know, they're missing Tyler Smith, missing Zach Martin rotating at left tackle. They thought Brandon Cooks was going to come back, he ended up being out another week, and of course Cooper Rush taking over for Dak.
So they showed a lot of life.
They made plays where they had to Schoonmaker again, the backup tight end to Jake Ferguson. He makes the big touchdown there in the end. So it was really a good effort. But it was special teams, It was defense, and it was offense, and it was really more the recipe that we're used to seeing from this Dallas team that's had a lot of success. Take the ball away, make splash special teams plays and then obviously get the offing. So that's what they did yesterday and I think they deserve a lot of credit.
I'm looking at the DraftKings odds this morning for MVPG. It's josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Saquon Barkley. What does Saquon Barkley have to do? Can he be the MVP this year? I mean, let's be honest.
Can he be? And how can he be the mvpig.
Well, I think obviously the first thing is just continue to perform at the level that he's been playing at. And now whether or not that's feasible or not, whether that's realistic to play at this level as a running back down the stretch through the playoffs, it's hard to say. I mean, he's playing at such a what he had three hundred dollars purpose last night or a little over like, it's just what he's been able to do.
That is the perfect offense for Saquon Barkley.
And I think all this nonsense about oh if he would be doing it if he was with the Giants, and that's not a knock on Saquon. It's just the situation that he walked into the offensive line, the weapons, the style of system, everybody out a mobile quarterback you have to account for. With Jalen Like, it is the perfect offense for a player like Saquon Barkley to unleash everything that he's good at run and pass. To win the MVP, he's probably gonna need some help. He's gonna probably need these quarterbacks Lamar and Josh Allen and probably goff to a degree to like come down to earth a little bit. If if Josh Allen continues to play at the level he has, and he continues to get Marquee wins against you know, the Chiefs again, and he gets the against Lamar at some point, like, if he continues to win those games, it's a quarterback award, and we can argue whether that's fair or unfair, but there's no question Saquon Barkley is as good as anybody in the entire league, regardless of position. Just unfortunate for him he doesn't play quarterback.
Thanksgiving Black Friday, DraftKings Sportsbook has touchdowns for sale. All customers eligible for a touchdown parlay profit boost on Thanksgiving Day. Buy one, get one deal for touchdown bets on Black Friday. We're talking to Greg Olson NFL on Fox. How aware were you of the points spread when you played?
When I played, I couldn't tell you if we were favored underdogs, what the over under is. I've actually learned more about it in the broadcasting world, just because you hear it more and there is an element to these guys who do make these spreads and do make these It's.
Amazing how close they always are.
Like they the way they look at the game from points, yards per play and efficiency numbers. They kind of look at it as more of like a math equation than they do just like x's and o's on the field. But yeah, I think if you pulled ninety nine plus percent of the players in the league, they couldn't tell you. But obviously we know with fans and you know the way, it's obviously become just the fabric of everything on Sundays. I think it's part of the popularity of the game. I think people are interested now in games. They might not be fans of those teams, but obviously they have vested interest in the outcome or at least the score. So I think it's changed the way people watch the game. I think it's brought a lot of interest nationally as opposed to just following your regional team. And but yeah, I don't think it's something that players are aware of really.
To any degree.
Yeah.
See, I don't know if you can have day to day life in the NFL and not be aware of what's my over under four yards in this game, or I mean it's there, it's all over social media. I just I don't know how you could go into a game now in today's environment and that everybody is allowed to talk about it. Everybody's encouraged to gamble and not know, Hey, you know what, we're favored by two and a half tonight, Like yes, there, maybe they are nowadays.
You know, when I was playing, obviously, was a very different landscape, Like fantasy.
Football was what we were all aware of.
You know, you'd be in the grocery store and you know the lady behind you in the line.
You know, I'm playing in Chicago, and the old lady in line.
You think she's gonna tell you great game because you you know, you just beat the Packers or the Lions or whatever. And she's like, you cost me my fantasy because you only caught two balls. And I'm like, oh my god, Like that's not what I was expecting you to say. So like that was the era like I played in, and then daily fantasy became a thing and it's kind of and it's kind of evolved from there. But yeah, I mean I remember those days early in my career trying to figure out, like, are we happy that I won?
But I didn't have enough catches?
And then on the flip side, you had a big game, but then the team you're on lost.
Were you happy? It was a that was a rude awakening.
When I first got in the league, fantasy football was probably at its highest level.
Do the Lions have any issues?
Yeah, I mean, listen right now, the last couple of weeks, it's hard to say they do. I mean the way that and I think the thing that everyone always thought was going to be there, all right, can you survive the injuries? Can you survive Hutchinson going down and now Angeloni gets hurt?
Like and this defense, what is it?
They haven't given up a touchdown in six quarters or something like that, Like, it's pretty remarkable. Aaron Glenn, the defensive coordinator, he has done a fantastic job. Wouldn't be surprised if he's one of the next defensive minded guys that gets a head job. He's done a great job because so much of the attention of Detroit has been on of course, the Jared Goff story, which he deserves all the credit in the world for how he's handled that. And then Ben Johnson, he's the bell of the ball. He's been the number one choice of a lot of teams. They just can't seem to snag him away from Dan Campbell in Detroit. So the offense gets a lot of the attention, understandably so, but I think Aaron Glenn in that defense and their ability to weather the injury to their best player and one of the best defensive players in the league in Hutchinson, is is pretty remarkable.
And now the question is they got to sustain it.
And as we all know in the NFL, especially, you get to the playoffs, one bad afternoon, couple bad breaks, and all of that good work, it's over. There's no best of three, best of five. So they've got to maintain this for six more games, six more weeks or so, and then keep it rolling through the playoffs.
So it's a long road ahead. A lot could happen.
But if the league ended, if the season ended now, I don't think there's any question they're the best team.
Who's the best tight end of all time?
Man, that's a great question.
If you would have told my younger self that anyone was ever gonna beat Tony Gonzalez. That was like the guy we all grew up watching in high school and college and had a chance to overlap with him for a few years in the league and get to know him. Tony was always at the top of the mountain. The longevity, the consistency, and then of course just the sheer volume of yards and catches and touchdowns just seems so incomprehensible that anyone would ever approach it.
Then Gronk came along and he did it again.
Different could do the run blocking physical, one of the most prolific guys. Obviously, him and Brady kind of rechanged how people. He didn't have quite the longevity to approach those numbers, And now you enter a guy like Kelsey. I think we've gotten to the point where Kelsey's in that argument of saying he has he passed Tony and he might not ever reach the final numbers. I don't know how long he's going to play, but when you start talking seven about seven years in a row of a thousand yard seasons, then you factor in the postseason success that he's had and the amount of wear and tear and games and catches and yards in the postseason. That's kind of where him and Gronk have kind of separated from a lot of the other guys at the.
Top of the list.
So it is hard for me to put anyone above Tony because that was the guy like I really looked up to and idolized through my career as a young player. But I think Kelsey and Gronk have kind of entered that, and I think Kelsey might be pulling away.
He's Greg Olsen courtesy of DraftKings sportsbook Touchdowns for sale all customers eligible for a touchdown parlay profit boost on Thanksgiving Day and buy one, get one deal for touchdown bets on Black Friday. Great to talk to you again, Save Travels, Cardinals, Vikings coming up. Thanks for joining us, Greg, I appreciate it.
Always good to be on have a great thing you too.
That's Greg Olsen, NFL and Fox Analys's former first round pick, three time pro bowler. I think last pick of the first round or next to last pick of the first round.
We played the win was Greg Olsen drafted game.
I think it was next to last pick by the Panthers in that was that O seven draft.
Does that sound right? Get some of my best people on that.
Yes, Marvin greg Olsen was picked thirty first overall by the Chicago Bears.
Oh Bears, then Okay, Bears, then Panthers.
That's a great move when they let him go, that's hey, we got this young tight end. It just catches a bunch of football.
Let's let him go.
Yeah, we don't want somebody good geez, let's get rid of him. Mark and Birmingham, Hey Mark, what's on your mind today?
Hey dan Ate?
Best of the weekend My Auburn Tigers winning four overtime thriller against Texas A and M Wild after being twenty one and I'm not sure if rushing the field, but whatever. Worst is the Montana State Bobcats. Yes, they beat my Montana Grizzlies, but then they dumped the three hundred pound Brawl of the Wild trophy onto the field.
Okay, you know what, there should be language in storming the field or storming the court. You can't be up a certain number of points and then storm the field like they came. They were up twenty one to nothing and then A and M came back and then you end up winning like there seems to be like a window of that's unbelievable. We won it last second. We get to storm the field too. Gosh, we almost blew that. Let's storm the field, guess Paul.
It's also weird when a quality program like Auburn. Auburn shouldn't storm the field against anybody because they've generally been good, but they're frustrated. And I think that's where Oklahoma, a traditional powerhouse, they beat Bama. That's a frustration storm.
Yes, Marmon my rule.
I'm going to add to this. If your program has won a national title, you can't storm. You cannot storm the court.
Wowow okay, but it has to be recent history winning a national title.
Oh yeah, Texas A and m you guys can storm the field for sure.
Yeah.
Yeah, they won during prohibition.
Might be right.
I don't know if they storm the field during prohibition. Yeah we wont Yeah.
Uh Alan Atlanta, Hi l welcome back. Best and worst of the week.
Not just a good morning, Dan, but a great morning. I actually forgot how good a football Sunday could be when you don't have the stress of being an Atlanta Falcon fan weighing you down all day Sunday. That's to the weekend the just year number of upsets in the college football rankings. I loved it and m you know, sweeking past Auburn to let Georgia clinch a spot in the SEC Championship. Just a great, great Saturday and no worse of the weekend because the Falcons didn't play, so my heart wasn't broken.
Well, congratulations. You know, I did watch a little bit of Massachusetts in Georgia.
Didn't mass jus cover U?
It was fifty nine to twenty one.
A monster cover.
I think it was seven seven at one point. Now, didn't they fire their coach and their quarterback?
Got it?
I mean, I don't know. I'm kind of like I got it. Just it's so weird to even see that. Even if it was basketball, that would be such a weird. Yeah, Georgia, of course you're gonna have that showdown with Massachusetts. And I'm watching and I'm going, all right, that's a sad life, sad life. But I did watch a little bit there, Jerry in Cincinnati, did you mask cover?
Oh yeah, your mass was getting forty two and a half. And it was also, like you said, it was seven to seven. If you're U mass football, you pay take a picture of that scoreboard.
Yes, yes, yes, that's a win. Yes yes, Jerry Cincinnati, what's on your mind? Jerry?
Yeah, yeah, thanks guys, I took to you massing the points. Appreciate that quick quick t shirt idea. And then a comment about these reporters. The lady last week had called that located her dad. Yes, instead of the d DC. What about the f DC. Found Dad's club?
Oh, found Dad's club. That's a really small group though, Jerry.
I think he might be surprised. But anyway, real quick about these reporters. Dave Lapham, who we all love. This guy's on emotional roller coaster ride through these games. Then he has to go to the locker room and at loss where it sounds like he's at a funeral and he's rushing over to Joe Burrow out of Breadtha go Joe, Jojo, Hey, I'm sorry about that, Jeez, what do you? What do we do?
Joe?
Well?
Dave Lapham used to be alignment with the Bengals. In fact, when I was covering the Bengals and I would go and interview Chris collins Worth or Boomers Ice and they were still playing, Dave Lapham was there. It was really a very nice guy. Loves the Bengals. He's the color analyst on radio. He's the guy who was interrupting the play by play voice yelling and screaming.
You know that he really cares.
But when you when you're there, and there's an art to asking a question when it's a really difficult situation, and it might sound a little like this.
Austin obviously emotional. Yeah, see, I know it's hard. Hard, Yeah, it is. It's hard for me even asking the question. Yeah, because I know I'm just I'm so frustrating with this. I'm sick of it. Yeah, And I know you aren't too. Awesoin obviously emotional.
Okay, It's almost like when you're you're blowing on something and trying to get the frost off of its, clean your glasses like Jerry Jones' son probably went cleaning his dad's glasses. All right, let me take a break. I got into our Best and Worst of the weekend. We're going to do that coming up right after this. Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weekday morning nine until noon eastern six to nine Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, and you can find us on the iHeartRadio app at FSR or stream us live on the Peacock app the Packers and the Dolphins at Lambeau. That'll be Thursday night at eight Eastern on NBC and Peacock.
Time to go around the room. Let's sprinkle the infield.
Best and worst of the weekend, Todd Best and worst of the weekend.
You mentioned him earlier. Best of the weekend against Wyoming Sally Boise States, Ashton jen becomes the twenty eighth player in college history of rush the two thousand yards in a single season, first running back since twenty nineteen to do it. He's run for over two hundred yards in a game four times this year. This year's numbers two hundred and seventy five carries, two thousand and sixty two yards, twenty seven touchdowns, averaging seven and a half yards per carry.
Worst of the weekend.
It's a group effort here, Alabama, the Aggies, Oh Miss, Colorado, BYU, and Army. I threw them all together among the schools that had bad losses where they needed big wins, especially Alabama embarrassed by Oklahoma, Oh Miss, sinking no, no, no.
But gotta spread it around here. Let everybody else have a shot at this Todd.
I probably should have left out a few of those.
Okay, see no Connor best and worst of the weekend of the ones that Todd didn't take Of.
The ones that Todd didn't take hold on, let me scroll down through my list here.
I'm gonna go double worst.
Unfortunately, I think that the Chiefs are one of my worst, completely unimpressive, lust or barely beat a team that they should have destroyed that I know they keep. Their record is great and they keep doing just enough to win, but it's not great.
It's not great at all.
My even more worster it might be my worst thing in sports for sure, is being a player on the New York Giants. That is a miserable situation, absolutely miserable. And most of the time when a team goes into full tank mode, you're like, well, here's a bunch of guys that are playing for their job. I think that those are dudes playing to get the hell out of there, Like I don't even know that anybody wants to be there, and I don't know that they're not going to be good for another five years at least.
Wow, they're terrible.
The Giants are horrendous, Marvin, would you rather play for the Jets or the Giants or not play?
Maybe the Jets, Maybe the Jets.
It feels like the Jets will move on from Aaron Rodgers and then maybe there's some light at the end of the tunnel.
Feels like clean, sweep, fresh late. Everything's going to be new, except for the owner, Marvin. Best and Worst of the weekend.
All right, DP.
Best of the weekend Jordan Addison from the Vikings. He had a monster game, eight receptions, one hundred and sixty two yards and a touchdown. People always forget about him because Justin Jefferson gets.
So much coverage.
Worse of the Weekend Man Amari Daniels Texas A and M running back dropping the ball. Actually, I have a piece of sound if you don't mind.
Kenny Id's answer down forty three, forty one direct snap pitch back read.
Rose right, it's a good call there, Pauli beston Worse of the Weekend.
Best Arizona State football packing the house. The Helmets look great. Really nice to win. They're relevant. It's it's taken a long time. Really in the national picture. There's the weekend Ole. Miss you have a bye week, you have Florida. I know it's at Florida. You're flirting with a home playoff game, and now you're flirting with being.
Out of the playoffs. Yeah, yep.
Oh that was Ole miss was cruising this year.
Yep.
And you know, give credit to Florida because that was considered the toughest schedule in the nation and they somehow survived. Billy Napier somehow survived this and they've played really, really good football. You beat LSU last week, So give credit where credit is due. I was talking about Daniel Jones threw fifteen touchdown passes and the Giants made the playoffs in twenty twenty two. Kenny Pickett he threw six touchdown passes last season and the Steelers.
Made the playoffs.
That's the worst performance in modern era for a quarterback and they played twelve games. Marcus Mariota thirteen touchdown passes for the Titans, Tyrod Taylor fourteen for the Bills, Alex Smith fifteen for the Chiefs, Brock Osweiler fifteen for the Texans, Teddy Bridgewater fourteen for the Vikings. Tim Tebow had twelve touchdown passes in eleven games. When the Broncos went to the playoffs. Matt Schaub fifteen touchdown passes for the Texans back in twenty eleven. Matt Hasselbeck had twelve touchdown passes for the Seahawks in twenty ten. So, looking at how bad some of these quarterbacks have played, and you still made it to the playoffs. There, Scott and Tampa, Hi, Scott, Hey.
Dan, first time, longtime, six foot and a whoppin' buck seventy And that bell is actually why I'm calling you get the end years of frustration. I listened to you every day on my way to work, and I have no clue this story behind the height and the weight.
I would imagine a few of your listeners might not.
Know either, all right, he Scott, I'm glad you asked. This goes back to when I was at the Mothership and I was doing a show with Rob Dibble.
And Dibble's a big guy.
He was always working out, and it seemed like every day he would tell me how much he weighed, be like six four to thirty four. And it just so I had the bell as something, you know, to remind him that he keeps saying this on the air and I don't think Dibbs ever picked up on it that the height and weight bell was about him, because he would always say, hey, i'm six four, i'm two forty two,
