On today's Dan Patrick Show, Miami Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel joins us to discuss the NFL's decision to continue to allow the "Cheat Motion." Jarrett Payton recaps Steve McMichael’s HOF induction ceremony. And host of Peacock’s Gold Zone, Scott Hanson stops by to share some of his favorite moments from the Paris Olympics.
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He's the head coach of the Miami Dolphins and of course a star receiver with Yale. Although I am looking at the stats and I can't find any stats from you when you're a wide receiver at Yale. I got a great picture here, Mike. I mean you're jacked here.
Yeah, well you didn't. You didn't look up the blocking statistics.
Hmmm, now, special teams, tackles, maybe.
Friendships made.
I'm gonna have to take your word on that. Yeah, if you were looking at the player comp like wide receiver who best resembles your wide receiving skills when you were at Yale, somebody in the NFL who plays the way you played?
Well, Uh, it's interesting you asked that. No one's ever asked me that, and and I know exactly the answer. The antithesis of every receiver that is in a receiving core of mind. So like I utilized all of the known, like I I was a I would body catch and and get no yak and a lot of the things that I was incapable of doing. You know that that drove my my scouting. Uh Uh, as the as I became a professional coach, so quite literally, Uh, if they're on our team, they don't share commonalities with how I play, because that's I knew what I didn't want, which was great.
Who was your idol growing up?
Well? Uh, I thought it was fortuitous that that my mom named me Michael, because Michael Jordan was the end all, be all and and will continue to be. If I ever meet him, I'll probably uh need a trust fall catcher.
Wait here in Miami, Mike's and Mike's in Florida haven't met Jordan.
I'm not that big a deal. Honestly, most most people you know in public approached me with I T questions.
You ever have to show your ID to get in the building, any building?
You know? So in my mind, I do I think you know, I I don't really really do. I don't really put thought or give justice to uh, like you know, being a head coach. How much I'm on TV and then like Hard Knocks, there's uh so people do recognize me. I'm just always surprised by it continually.
Uh, if you weren't coaching, what would you be doing?
Well? I knew from a very young age that I needed to be passionate about something I dabbled for. I wanted to be a coach my entire really childhood, with exception to I think it was sixth grade. I had about eight months where I was like, I'm going to be an architect. Architect, you know, I think, I I it would have to be something that I was passionate about, and so I was always going to go into football. I made sure that I wasn't just single minded, uh you know. And I was fortunate enough to go to Yale University and I tried a summer internship in business, and then ultimately it came down I wanted to be really good at something, and in business I couldn't. I'm I'm too empathetic, so like I could see myself like, n you know, I don't need that much percentage. And that's I think there's a threshold on how good you can be in business, So I don't. I really don't know. Maybe a hand.
Model, Okay, let me see the hands. Yeah, obviously didn't get in a lot of use at Yale. So yeah, they're they're looking pretty hot there.
I mean that that that that was hurtful. No, they they did. I was I was really I took. I took a lot of reps. You know, I just uh, I was a selfless player and made sure that I did all the non point of attack routes in games. Not a big deal.
He's the Yale legend who led the team in friendships. Mike McDaniel joining us the program. I'd explain this cheat motion and what happened yesterday and why are we calling it cheat motion?
Well, I think that's a phrase quinn by uh my longtime work associate Kyle Shanan. We have we have another phrase for it, but that's for another time. But you know, I think the one thing I've always enjoyed with football is is, like you know, along the process when I was the grunt worker on the staff and trying to find value with it within a football team. Uh, it always made sense to me that that your your problem solving issues and that leads to advent or uh you know, so being alongside you know, the Shanahans for my entire career and being you know, in different opportunities whereas a coach of a position within the offense and you know, just problem solved or problems solutions or solutions to problems. So like with fast guys. Uh you know, one of the one of the tools defenses uses reroute. So you know, I think last offseason watching uh motion out of the backfield, and you know, I think it was actually this week last year where we were in a joint practice and we tried it out for the first time to problem solve some of the reroute things we're anticipating.
And Tyree, this is the Tyreek kill rule.
Well, you know, actually the first person to do it was alec Ingold. Yeah, so we did it with alec Ingold and then and then it was like, wow, that was cool. I bet Tyreek could do that really fast. You know, That's kind of how it went. But you know, I think when we first got here in two thousand and twenty two, you know, Tyreek, we did you know, timing motions where you know, it was from the other side of the other side of the ball, but you'd go across the formation and we would start doing the some of the routes, the deep fifteen to twenty yard routes that we'd been doing systematically since I got into the NFL in two thousand and five. So you know that that was new then. When you have certain types of football players that are are willing to try new things and fail at it first and not get down, and you know you're able to kind of pressed the envelope and and solve some some problems through a little creativity.
I'm looking at the resume, So Broncos, Texans, California, Redwood, Sacramento, Mountain, Lions, Redskins, Redskins, Browns, Falcons, Niners, Niners, Dolphins. It's quite a resume.
Yeah, I'm the oldest young guy, you know.
But you're working with all of these guys. So you had Sean McVay, you had Kyle, and you had Matt Lafleur. Which person did you learn the most from from those three?
Absolutely Kyle Shanahan. He was like he set the table for all of us. He hired all of us in Washington by way of his father, and he he kind of trained us in the way that he was he was trained and was very uh you know it was cool like at the time, Uh, some some of his buddies at the Washington Post didn't think it was that cool that they called us the fun bunch, but it was you know, that kind of set a foundation and during during that time, you know, in twenty twelve, we drafted Robert Griffin third, and we had never done zone reads. So we were all together, you know, challenging the threshold of our own knowledge. We didn't like outsource any experts. We kind of had the problem solve and uh, you know with with with Kyle and then his father, you know, being the ultimate bosses. So you know, I think it was our formative foundation that I think you can see still today of how how we kind of go about our business.
Is it possible that Tyreek Hill can be overpicked?
I mean see, fortunately, fortunately, my job specifically is to maximize players' skills, which ultimately maximize their market value. And then I just dust my hands off and leave it to Chris Career the GM.
Okay, could he be underpaid? Well, I think yeah, not anymore.
You know.
I mean I don't really have a good answer for any one of those, so I could pretend to answer it or just outardly say I'm gonna dodge whatever you're saying. I'm so done with talking about money. Yeah, like totally cow.
What are the expectation levels like for this team this year? I mean, everybody wants to win to Super Bowl, but can you have tiers of expectations thereof we want to get here, we want to get here, we hope to get here.
Yeah, no, I think you you know, first, you know, I set set goals early and uh and uh, you know, as we get together as a team on this year it was April fifteenth, taxa and uh, you know, the first one is to established and maintain a daily standard.
You know.
I think, uh, one thing that we try to do here that that has gained momentum every year, and uh, guys really taken to is is that you have you have to. It's about doing the things that day. It's about being present and and really attacking that day and then stacking that and that anything worthwhile is you're you're you're honing your skills. And you know, I mean you can go down the line of anyone that was ever great and talk about deliberate practice and et cetera, et cetera. So it's doing that. Then you know, then you win the division to get a home playoff game, you win the conference, and you win the Super Bowl. One thing that that I think of expressed that I think the players understand is like a lot of times people put ceilings on their ultimate results or whatever, simply by being afraid to be bold. You know, we we we know that everyone says that, can you go about your daily daily life to be all in with that type of mindset to do something like that and in that process you get the most out of yourself. And if it's short of what your goals were, be strong enough to learn from that and press forward. But don't out of fear or hesitation or you know, play it safe by not being all in. So, you know, I think all is on the table for for our expectations inside the building. But what's what what I'm comfortable with that is because people's entire focus is like, all right, well you're producing today if you even want to sniff those yeah, provide action with those words today.
Final thirty second shift. The current NFL coaches ran the forty yard dash? Where would you end up?
So if you could, if you could bracket the people in my in my age group, right, and you know, pending there's an off season surgery, I know, Matt Lafleur like tear you know, Pops's achilles or tears as pack every year or something, I'd probably in the age bracket. I'd probably finish last of that of the younger guys. But yeah, I mean I when I say that I'm an extreme person, like I work and then I'm a dad and I literally so I do. I don't. I'm saving working out till when everyone's saying to me, you should work out, And I think I'm getting pretty close, but I haven't got there yet.
But you can take Andy Reid.
Yeah, yes, and and like now don't I mean I am, I'm youthful, an exert, exuberant, so you know I will, I will be able to hold my own but specifically with people that are older than me.
Yeah, you're sneaking athletic is what you are?
Yes, very very sneaky.
Nakuh great to finally have you on. Thank you.
Okay, Well, in the words that I gave our owner Steve Ross in my initial owner the interview, like what took you so long?
Oh no, we reached out, I mean what for two years? We reached down.
We were favorite show sports Center, Mike Aready three in my favorite show of Sports Center.
I mean we were told maybe in the off season he'll talk to you.
Well, you need to get down to the bottom of Uh, I have an email correspondence. Oh Okay, you know what, I need to walk that back. It's burning holes through my face right.
Now, just saying you were always invited. Okay, well I go to Yale games.
Yeah, yes, you're the you're the guy that Yes, that's so cool. Quite honestly, it's it's very odd. But like I've known you so much longer than you you've known me.
Ridiculous, that is true.
Yeah, you were like providing not enough Bronco highlights for me for years.
Yeah, I was. I was the Tom Brady of Sports Center. I got to do whatever I wanted to do, so I chose not to do Bronco highlights because nobody cared about them.
Yeah, that's a that's like a little soft flex there, because I mean, if you get to be the Tom Brady of something, you know, but I've always admired your I'll say it. I'll say it, illustrious career. Okay, it's a pleasure to be here.
Thank you, open invite. Don't be a stranger.
Yeah I won't, because where there's stranger, there's danger.
That good luck.
All right, very much.
We're all counting on you, all.
Right, I'll i'll if you need me, I'll be sweating here in about ten minutes.
Okay, thank you coach?
All right.
That is Mike McDaniel, former hand model and led Yale and Friendships.
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Good to see you again, Bud. How you doing?
What's going on?
Sir?
How you doing?
How's morale in Chicago? If I said Bears fans you should feel this way. How do you think they would feel?
I think super excited about what's to come. I think maybe.
Don't use the word super, let's just say excited because super sounds like Super Bowl excited here.
Well, I mean, if you talk to some fans, though, Dan, that's they're just hoping for something that is going to I don't know, just out of the box a little bit. I think that we're excited because offensively, Dan, we were in a place right now where we haven't never been before, with a quarterback that has the potential to to have those special abilities that are similar to me. I'm just saying this to me of Patrick mahomes ask of watching some of the clips and watching some of the practices, right, he's got that feel. And then and offensively, you have weapons on the outside as well that you can you can throw to, and DJ Moore and Keenan Allen and DeAndre Swift in the backfield. So there's a lot of optimism for what the future could look like. My issue is I feel like we've been here before, and I think that's the hardest part for Bears fans is that we've had the quarterback before. That we think is the guy and we get over our skis and I think we got to taper it back a little bit and understand that Caleb Williams is still a.
Rook that's no fun, Jered, I know fun. They won't go that.
But we have to change it up, Dan, we have to.
We have to here in Chicago taper back expectations just a little bit. We can be excited, but let's let this young man grow and can we? And I think what Ryan Poles has done is he's built a roster. He's changed this roster around. These are his guys now, and we're at a place where I feel like we actually have some stability and some foundation to build on. Probably my biggest issue and biggest concern is the offensive line. Can they find a way to be able to stay healthy there to give Caleb Williams the opportunity to.
Throw the football.
We've seen what the other side looks like and when Justin Fields was here running for his life, and that's just not going to do it and cut it for a future. If you're we're talking about a division that has gotten a lot stronger.
Well, let's handicap the division. Lions number one yes, Where do the Bears rank with the Packers?
I mean, that's what that's the unknown.
If you're looking at you know, Jordan Love and what he did this past season, I think you got to give the edge to to that team up in Wisconsin.
You have to.
But still I think we're we're on the cusp. But defensively, that's what I love. I love the fact that defensively, this Bear's defense has the has the ability to pick up where they left off this past season, and with a lot of young guys, especially on the back end of that defense, the swagger is there.
That's what I love.
I love the swagger being there because when you think about Chicago Bears football, you think about defense, tough nose, hard nose, run after you hit you hard.
That's what I'm hoping for.
So I think they're probably third if I had, if I had to say in my opinion, and then Minnesota being last.
Where were you on Justin Fields a year ago?
I'm still the biggest Justin Fields fan I will always be. I always felt in my heart that he had something special. I don't believe in just In my opinion that the Bears did right by him by making sure the pieces were around him, developing him like he probably should have been. And when I look at other quarterbacks in the NFL, for these young ones, it's about who's coaching you as well. And and for for Justin, some of this was his fault. Some of it was, you know, the organization maybe giving him the right pieces or teaching him the way that he needs to. But he said it Dan in that one interview last season where he was like, dude, I just got a lot going on, Like it's too much going on in my head. How do you find a way with a player that is telling you that, how do you slow down the game for him to make the game easier? And I just don't think they were able to do that. And hence the reason why he's gone now and and with the with the Steelers, and I'm hoping that this is his opportunity like that he gets he gets out of Chicago, he clears his head, and he gets an opportunity to become that player that he hoped that he was going to be here.
Yeah, I'm with you on Justin Fields. I would buy the stock.
I just think you have to have consistency in the coaching offensive coach head coach, and if I put Justin Fields on that roster this year with the Chicago Bears, we would probably be seeing something a whole lot different than what we saw in the preceding years.
Yeah, I think so. I think it was just it's a lot of pressure.
I think that's the reason why I say taper it back just a little bit, because we know it's going to be even more on Caleb Williams, the first overall pick for an organization and a city that is just starving for a franchise quarterback, like starving there. They're salivating at the mouth like they're about to eat deep dish pizza here in Chicago, Dan, that's how That's how excited fans are right now.
He's Jared Payton, radio host in Chicago and a co host of WGN radio's The Beat, and of course son of Hall of Famer Walder Peyton. You were at the Hall of Fame ceremony coming up this past weekend. Uh, pretty emotional for a variety of reasons. I'm sure. But how did you process everything being in Canton again?
Dan?
It was it was a I've been having a hard time explaining what the week was like in Canton because the hotel I was staying at there was just a bunch of goats with gold jackets down the lobby, grazing talking to one another, and it's just like you got to take your phone out and just take videos. But thirty one years ago, I was there as a twelve year old and my sister was eight, and I was inducting my father into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. And we go back. This is actually my third time back. I went back when Erlaker went in to cover it for WGNTV, and then I go back this time with my kids. My son's twelve and my daughter's eight. So yeah, it's just my mom was there for the first time since you know, ninety three, And I mean the reason why I was there was emotional. Steve Mongo McMichael has become like a father to me over the years, and the fact that I got a chance, you know, his battle with als, that he came to me and said, listen, I want you to do this for me speaks volumes to our friendship and also to just the person that he he is. And I was honored, and I know that there's just not a lot of people dan that have done this twice. I think Papa Bear Pallace did it twice. I think I know Al Davis did it twice. To be in that rarefied air of doing two induction speeches is pretty cool, and also being the first son to induct his father, so there's a lot of history there for me. But the cool part was seeing Mango get in and then also being around all the other goats and hearing them talk to me about my dad, and then also hearing like Tony Dungee and Tony Boselli talking to my son saying, you know what your grandpa was. I was out on the field to watch him, and then Tony Bisselli. I said, man, I just want to I wish he was here, and Tony goes, no, we wish he was here, Like you don't understand. We wish that he was around so we could sit and just watch him and talk to him. And it showed me the respect level that my dad had in the NFL and also amongst the rates.
And you were with Devin Hester in Miami, weren't you part of your college career?
Yeah, I was with Devin and I was also roommates with Andre Johnson. Andre and I came in the same year in ninety nine. So it was this, This is how I know I'm getting old. It's not only about getting Steve into the Hall of Fame, but my old teammates are now going into the Hall of Fame. And so to see those guys with their gold jackets and know that I was a part of their journey.
Man it there was all the fields in Canton over the week. It was pretty cool.
Did you know.
Andre Johnson was like, it feels like those who were playing with him and against him, said it was different. It was like a grown man against you know, high schoolers.
Yeah, we were actually there.
We were talking about that as the rain was falling down at the Hall and we were sitting underneath the hall and they didn't know what was going on, how they if they were going to get the ceremony off, and what they were going to do. We were all just talking to and I told Patrick Willis, I said, when I saw the VHS tape that they sent to the House of all the Commits that year that was coming out with me, that a lot of guys were on there, Clinton port Is, Philip U.
Cannon. But when you turned on.
The film and you saw Andre Johnson. It was it was something different. The ball would leave out of screen and then all you would see is this big, huge dude run underneath it and catch like a ninety yard bomb. And I was like, I knew from the moment that he stepped onto the football field that he was different. And you could just tell by his built too when he walked into a room. He was just different.
What's the coolest thing behind you?
Oh?
Probably this.
My dad's the replica of the Lombardi Trophy.
It's probably the coolest thing other than that.
Up behind me is also my first touchdown that I scored with the Titans against the Texans, So I keep that one close to me as well. And then the one one hundred also my dad, the one hundred, the NFL one hundred. That the thing that they had kind of little sculpture that they had that's up there as well.
So we'll check in with you during the season.
I'm sure there's going to be headlines coming out of Chicago, hopefully some good ones there.
Jared, it's always great to talk to you.
Always great to talk to you, Dan Jared Payton.
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Scott Hansen, co host of NBC Peacock's Gold Zone Olympic coverage. He is mister red Zone as well. I don't know if there's other colors coming his way, and you can watch the gold Zone right here on Peacock every day at too Eastern throughout the Paris Olympics. Any other colors we should be aware of, Scott.
I'm hoping to pay off with some green zone after all this attention. I like that.
I like that.
You see you, Dan, good to see you, Good to see you.
Give me the difference if there is a difference in sort of the cadence of what you're doing with the NFL Red Zone to the Gold Zone with the Olympics.
Yeah, there's a number of similarities and a multitude of differences. Actually, it's ultimately a whip around show for the Olympics. Just like red Zone will get you to the action that is the hottest going on anywhere in the NFL, We'll get you to the action that's hottest in Paris or Tahiti if surfing is going on at the time. So The concept is still the same. The cadence, the execution of it, as you well know, is completely different for a number of reasons. One, in the NFL, we've got a forty second play clock with which to work, right, So I've got Aaron Rodgers taking a snap. I know I can get to Kirk Cousins in another stadium and then come back to it. Half of the Olympic sports are untimed, so you don't have a clock with which to work, let alone a shot clock or something that you know that the action will be happening, you know, a minute later, thirty seconds later. On top of that, you've got road races that can last four hours long. You've got cycling sprint races that the entire gold medal match is forty five seconds. And then of course the fastest man fastest woman in the world take nine seconds ten seconds. So the execution is a whole lot different. And another respect when I cut to a Cowboys game on red zone, I'm not saying let's go to the Cowboys game. This is a football team that plays in Dallas, Texas. That there are eleven men over here. There are eleven men over here. The field is one hundred yards long. The scoring goes by six and then one or two. After I go to fencing, I better explain. Okay, three nine to three minute rounds scoring to forty five. Here's how you score. So it's like it's like reinventing broadcasting for an American audience. Every time we go to a different sport.
Give me the sport though that has you be fuddled?
Oh, which ones? Don't? I'll tell you what. I can't believe that skeet shooting, which seems simp enough, skeat shooting does not have instant replay. We had a women's skeet shooting gold medal head to head match, right pull and two Clay Moor's boom boom, the powder pops and stuff. The Great Briton shooter absolutely hit the target. A piece of the orange flew off, it didn't burst into powder, and all three judges missed it. The way they judged that sport is they have a judge standing right behind the one shooter, and if that person misses it, like the home play umpire, did he check his swing? They looked down first base line. They've got the same thing in shooting. All three of them missed it. The TV replay was absolutely clear, and the woman lost her chance for a gold medal because of that. That fuddled me. In modern world, we can't get it right sometimes.
Skeet shooting, scandal, question mark scandal.
You guys should be talking about it for the rest of.
The week here on the show.
Dan And you know names are also tricky as well, oh man, because you know, normally you focus on Team USA, but if Team USA is involved in competition with Team Serbia or azer By Johnny, you know, you gotta knows a little bit about not a lot.
You need to know a little bit about a lot.
You well know that the research department here at NBC Sports is world class. The attachment and the email that we all received for the pronunciation guide for the Olympics was one hundred and forty five pages of names and phonetics. You want to play a little game with you and the dan Ets, Okay, if you don't mind, Okay, I've got so. I'm going on my shift here for Gold Zone, we do three hour shifts. I'm going on my at two o'clock Eastern. I have a men's welterweight boxing match which features and someone write this down and if one of the dants can pronounce this correctly, I will personally run over there and give you one hundred dollars. And it was Bekastanian welterweight boxer. First name A s A d k h u j A that's the first name, second name or last name m u y d I n k h you j A e V. You're one of the world's greatest sportscasters, Dan. If you can tackle that, this is history right here on the Dan Patrick Show.
Anybody want to take a stab at this, Todd.
Sagka, John My Dinkojev.
You got I think you got the the the number of syllables right, but nobody, the the emphastist was not on the right salables on that one. Uh you want to try to end or no, no, no, this is this is where I say, and let's bring in the analyst who we'll be doing the boxing here. I'm going to say the fighter from Uzbekistan. That's what I'm gonna say, But it is a Sadhujah Moidy who Jiev.
But see, okay, having done this before, there's nobody from that country who's going to call you on this when you screw it up.
Just sound confident. Okay, I'm gonna got you.
I'm going to lean into it. I'm going to lean into it. And yeah, his mom's not watching Zone.
Yeah, they're not calling up you know the network, the you know, the hotline and going he miss miss Brint. I had a moment on Sports Center one time where I had a story about Shaquille O'Neil. The graphics person put up O'Neill as and spelled it like Paul ne Oh okay, Well the problem was Shaq's dad, Sarge, was watching. Oh boy, calls my voicemail and airs me out. You know, my son, How do you not know how to spell his I don't even know what he's talking about.
It's over my shoulder.
You read it, and yeah you didn't you didn't write it?
Yeah yeah, yeah.
So it's like people think we put up the graphics there, the you know, the fonts and all of those things. But yeah, you got to be careful with that. But I think you're safe with you know Who's Bekistan?
Yeah yeah, No, it's fun look at and you know what if the great thing about gold Zone is that if the fighter whose names we ken or cannot pronounce, does something out of this world. We can bring it to you that the crew at Gold Zone is remarkable because this hasn't really they've had Gold Zone in the'll past two Olympics, NBC Sports has, but it wasn't quite done in the red zone style. This is they brought me on to kind of bring that red zone flair to it. We're we're we're driving the car as we're assembling it, as the cliche goes, and we'll say we've got something. There's thirty nine different sports at more than forty different venues in Paris. We've got eyes on all of it, and if you trust us with your remote control, we'll get you to where you need to go. And there can be some of those moments. Did you happen to catch Mondo de Plantis? Oh yeah in the pole vault yesterday? I mean that was absolute goosebumps moments. I don't care if you've never watched a track meet in your life, just thrilling, thrilling theater.
I love when you yell out we have a medal.
Oh yeah, metal medal alert.
Yeah, we have a metal alert. Yes.
You know how that came about When NBC Sports was recruiting me. Let's say to sign up to host this. I had a meeting with some of the executives in Burbank. I live in Los Angeles, and we're just discussing things and one of the producers, Amy Rosenfeld, who was at ESPN for years and years. Amy and I were just talking kind of geeking about out about how can we really bring the Olympics. I said, you know what you guys ought to do. So many times you cut to the track or the swimming pool and it's a heat, it's a quarter final, it's a semi final, and it's like, okay, there's not really drunk. You need to let the people know, hey, stop the presses. There's a gold medal, Like did it end? Did it in? The pick is in at the NFL Draft? And I literally did this during this lunch and the lights went on and they said, why haven't we been doing that? Like you're covering all these events when it's a gold medal, there needs to be a visual and audio representation of hey, this is the part you need to pay attention to. So we kind of put the little graphic like the pick is in at the NFL draft for the gold medal.
Alert favorite moment so far has been one.
Ooh, there is a sense of good ones. I mean the Mondo de plant Is setting a world record when he didn't even need to attempt. It was pretty good. I'm an American. I love when the USA takes gold. However, my second favorite moment in any given games usually has something to do with the home country, the host country and France the judo heavyweight. I don't know if you guys talked about this or you happen to see this. Okay, France a judo heavyweight. He was the co lighter of the Cauldron. So that's how well he's thought of. Right, you only put your best, your most famous athletes, most popular athletes to like the cauldron as the host country, Teddy Renaier heavyweight judo athlete, and he won his heavyweight match with thirty seconds left to go, flip the guy over. It's called the epay, I believe is what they refer to it as, in front of the home crowd. And then he came back two days later for the team event, and I got to describe this to you. If I have thirty seconds, they do a team event. If they're tied, they the overtime. In team judo is a random draw for two competitors from the same weight class from you know, the gold and silver medalist finalists go to head. But the way they determine the random draw is the price is Right wheel. You know the wheel that they spin on prices right for the showcase showdown. Sure, they literally have one of these at the Olympics for judo. They spin it and it's going and it's kilograms kilograms kilograms going by on the thing and it stops at ninety kg, which is the heavyweight and o. It was a WWE moment. The crowd realizes our champion straight out of a freaking Marvel movie. Our champion is going against your champion and the heavyweight division for the gold medal, and Reneer won it in front of the I'm getting I'm calling it. I'm getting goosebumps right now. That may be my favorite moment from the Games. So spectacular.
If I put you and Andrews Siciliano in that studio and locked the studio and only one comes out?
Who comes out?
Now, see, you gotta do this. They put us on air together. They put us on air together, on camera together, which we've hardly ever been maybe in a talkback. When he was working for NFL Media, we would do something, you know, via satellite, put us on, and the internet did what the Internet does with that. Andrew and I are buddies. There is no rivalry.
I just ask you a question, Scott. I'm a journalist.
Okay, yes you are.
You're a lot taller, larger than Andrew. But he's very scrappy. He's been an underdog all of his life. Who comes out traveler, who comes out of the octagon.
I mean we're both Syracuse men too, by the ways. Now see there goes that ancient ESPN.
Because if Costas and I getting the octagon, I'm coming out alive.
Oh yeah, okay, oh yeah yeah.
Costas would have a team of lawyers waiting for you.
It's okay, that's okay, all right. So you against Cecili, Oh my.
Gosh, you're gonna make me. I had to think of a good Quippi SoundBite that dodges this question. How can I? I mean, because look at truth be told, we are in two different weight classes.
So yeah, that's it.
I hope it never I hope it never comes to that. Dan, I hope it never comes to that. I'm just glad that that people will still be watching NFL Red Zone on the on the NFL, and that Gold Zone, Andrew and I can share the airwaves gladly brothers in gold Andrew Siciliano and myself.
Hoping to be draped.
You almost got me. I almost said something. I almost said something.
I thought you were in the content business.
What are you doing well, I'm a guest on this in this environment, not not not the host. I'll leave it there.
Great to talk to you, FU, Great see it Dan. That's Scott Hansen. He is a co host of the Gold Zone.