Hour 1 – Aaron Donald Returns to LA, Belichick Wins Opener, Chris Simms

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3:05So he's out today. Of course, he has updated us on the surgery. I guess he's going under. There's anesthesia. So this is surgery for Todd. If you're watching on peacock, there is the picture of Todd moments ago as he is getting ready to go into surgery. Good morning if you're watching on peacock. Sorry to do that to you. So early in the morning to put Todd's picture up there, but Dylan in the back row, we have Marvin Paulie in the front row. Yours truly and the back room guys as well. Stad of the day brought to you as always by a Panini America, the official trading cards of the program. We say good morning to our radio affiliates around the country. Your phone calls are certainly welcome on Monday. Best and worst of the weekend. What you saw that you liked it didn't like. 8773DP show operator Tyler is sitting by to take your calls. Everybody searching for ways to save on insurance. Search no more. Liberty Mutual. Though customize your home and auto insurance. You only pay for what you need. Liberty Liberty Liberty. Get a quoted Liberty Mutual.com or your local independent agent.

4:09Pull question play of the day. Stad of the day. All of that forthcoming. I don't think it's a surprise, but maybe there's an element of shock that yes, Aaron Donald is coming back. I think we were kind of waiting to see what kind of money the Rams could free up. This is what I don't understand and Chris Sims from Pro Football talk will join us in about 20 minutes. How did the Rams just have 20 million dollars laying around? Did they go through the seat cushions there? At so far, I'll be damn we got 20 million dollars here for Aaron Donald. The incentives to make 30 million dollars. How do you have that money just kind of hanging around there in a 401k mutual fund? Something, but he's going to get 20 million dollars and I was curious. We're still trying to find this out. The Rams are prohibitive favorites. They are plus 500 to win the Super Bowl, followed by the bills and ravens at plus 1000.

5:10Probably the chiefs a few years ago, maybe similar favorites going into a season. But the Rams overwhelming favorites. They're over under is 11 and a half. They play in a tough division obviously with San Francisco and Seattle. But I think most people would probably go for the over there with the Rams, which would have me go for the under. But the odds to win the Super Bowl plus 500 winning the NFC plus 290 to win the division minus 105. Aaron Donald defensive player of the year odds plus 5000 has a better chance to win the comeback player of the year at plus 750. Here is Aaron Donald on why he's coming back. Been here. The end part of this team potentially doing something special. That's what it's about. I think the Super Bowl being back at so far kind of site you too. It's a long process to even get to that point.

6:11You can't jump past the process and the ground that you got to go through to get to that. Obviously that's the end goal you want to do. I'm just present and I'm here to be here. I'm just going to work. Get myself what I need to be. Earn my position wherever that is and whatever my role is. And just do that at a high level. How would you like to be the guy who is in his position right now? And Aaron Donald has to earn his position. I'm looking at this Rams defensive line. So Aaron Donald miles Garrett had 23 sacks last season. Kobe Turner had seven sacks. Byron Young had 12 sacks last season. Brandon Fisk had 11 and a half sacks in two years at defensive tackle. There's no excuse of not getting to the quarterback there with the Rams. Here is the Rams head coach Sean McVeigh. Good to be able to get Aaron back into the mix. He and I obviously you guys know how close we are and there's been a lot of dialogue that we've had.

7:14And excited to be able to just take it a day to time. There's I'm not going to talk about you know any sort of plans. It's going to be a day to time for us. What does that mean for Australia? You know the first step was all right if you're coming back let's let's do that. Let's get you out on the practice field. Let's get you acclimated to your teammates to your coaches. And then we'll see what that ramp up period looks like whether or not he's available or whether or not we think it's best to be able to do it. I think the best way to do it is take it one day at a time but we're obviously excited to be able to have him back. Yeah. And I go back to a Daniel Jeremiah said last week he said I can't see Aaron Donald playing. If he comes back he's not going to be playing in Australia. I don't need him in September. I need him in December January February. I need home field advantage. That's it so far. Super Bowl would be played there. I don't know how many snaps I'd have him on a snap count. Let him go in there situational. He only wants to play home games or you only wanting to play home games. Whatever it is to make sure that the bottom line the end goal is win the Super Bowl.

8:17Here are some other favorites that were better bigger favorites now. Kansas City in 2024 was plus 500. In 2021 Kansas City was plus 450. 2020 Kansas City plus 450. New England. New England in 2019 plus 400. New England 2017 plus 275. I'm looking at New England in 07 was plus 250. So this their prohibitive favorites but out of that grouping. I mean nobody has been a better bigger favorite than New England was at plus 250. That was 07. The Packers in 97 plus 250. Green Bay in 1998 plus 250. In San Francisco in 1996 plus 250.

9:25Stad of the day. Rontuba, Penini America. Yes Paul. How do you think the Seattle Seahawks feel about the signing and the coverage they've gotten or not gotten this month? Well they can't do anything about the signing and the coverage if I'm Seattle I'm like fine. I don't care. Let the Rams be up there. Kansas City be up there. The Eagles up there. Patriots Cowboys. Well Seattle one and Seattle was the best team in the NFL last year from start to finish both sides of the ball. Seattle's probably saying all right that's okay. If you can be an underdog is defending Super Bowl champs they are. Yes Dylan. Yeah if you're in their division you actually want everyone to just talk about how great the Rams are how they're going to win the Super Bowl etc etc. Are the Rams a team you root against though?

10:25Like Kansas City the Patriots certain teams you've rooted against Cowboys you've rooted against. Maybe the Eagles. I mean I don't find them polarizing. But it feels like are the Rams villains? They're just a smart organization they they do it right. You know that you make the trade to get Matthew Stafford you give up golf you're giving up first round picks and it worked. Now Aaron Donald's been retired for a couple of years you swing a trade for Miles Garrett. Because you got Miles Garrett in my opinion you open Aaron Donald's eyes to I don't have to be the focal point. Maybe I'm not the one getting double team. Hey this might be fun to go against one guy instead of two or three. They've done a great job now you got to navigate the Pukinakua situation.

11:26So and you got a great coach you got I mean defense you're winning games because of defense this year. And you got a Hall of Fame quarterback very good running back wide receivers but you know once again. To to at well doesn't excite me too much but that might be insurance if Pukinakua gets suspended. Yes Paulie I think the Rams are root forable if that's a phrase like I want to see Miles Garrett playing relevant. Football games at some point his career he's played in three postseason games ironically like Mike trout played in three postseason games first ballot guys but I want to see him play in January. But I don't know if the football world goes you know I'd like to see him play in the playoffs. I don't think that were that generous charitable that were like you know like Mike trout OK I get it you know three games in your entire career first ball of whole Famer then we're like all right be nice if you got a chance to play in a meaningful playoffs here is but I I never once said.

12:32Now I didn't say what'd be nice if he got out of Cleveland and be able to play in meaningful games. Because if you're in Cleveland it's like OK you'll see highlights now you're watching entire games and that'll be the difference people will watch Miles Garrett for an entire game. Speaking of which because it was week zero everybody is going Gaga over Caroline is win against TCU now granted TCU that's a few years ago they were in the national title game. So they went nine and four nine and four five and seven I think the last three years it's in Dublin OK you won the game but it's a standalone game and you might have watched the entire game. Yeah you're going all situational football ball belladshack mastermind he's going to draw almost I'm I'm yelling don't jump don't jump they jumped. If I know it how do you how do you go to the line of scrimmage if you're TCU and you've been told probably 50 times in the huddle don't jump don't jump don't jump and then you have the defensive tackle jump that's it.

13:43But did I think bill bellachack coached a masterful game no but it's better than a loss so that's all there's no style points here you know they're not going to be you know a ten win team they still look shaky on offense they they did play really good defense but you're playing TCU in Dublin slow down just a little bit. I hate to be a buzzkill but I'm being a buzzkill it was a nice win considering who they are what they've been and what happened last year yes Paul I just got this from fritzy actually about an hour ago will build bellachack be Dublin his win total Dublin his win total thank you thank you. Yeah I didn't need the second that's a Todd thank you yes Marvin. I'm with you I don't want to overreact but also the sign of a bad team is you celebrating when you get a team to jump off sides the way they were jumping up and down when TCU jumped off sides for them to seal the victory is like this might be five wins at best for this team.

14:55You know I'm going to give Todd a bloop on that considering he's probably getting ready you know for major surgery but he's thinking about the audience you know yes Dylan. Yeah you would think that Todd might be a little loopy from whatever drugs they put him on to knock him out that was that still just sound like this as usual. Yeah but they don't give me any drugs until they knock you down well maybe he's like maybe he's already done it is just a finger I mean they can't take that long. No but they put him under yeah but he might be awake now after being under is no I don't think the surgeries over yet no I don't think so. But that picture of him in his hospital bed and he's he's got the shower cap on his well. He was texting me over the weekend oh my god I said don't you have a wife like leave me alone. It's not major surgery because he want to know if I'd had surgery I said Todd I'm a game of operation I've had more surgeries than the entire room combined. He goes I know but when you go under like they make sure you're out right I go yes they're not going to they're not going to operate on you if you're still awake unless you ask I was asked with one of my knee surgeries do you want to watch they were going to numb me from the waist down.

16:14And I said no and this doctor couldn't believe that I didn't want to watch the surgery of them it was micro fractures surgery so they were taking it like a drill going into my knee into the bone I go no he goes well make a tape of it for you. Yes Dylan yeah I would watch maybe someone else get me surgery I don't want to watch it be done on me no I don't want to watch somebody else well I'm not like that clamoring for that but I'm saying I'd be more inclined if they're like hey do you want to see us do it on this guy. Then do you want to watch your own me none no don't need to but there these doctors are like fascinated with this hey what if I just numb you you got to watch I go no he goes we have a nice screen right here I could put it right here I go no no watching childbirth is enough and that's not even on me.

17:19All right we'll have a poll question today first hour Dylan. We'll come back okay yeah we'll come back with Chris Sims pro football talk how do the Rams have twenty million dollars just kind of set off to the side unless they knew that Aaron Donald was coming back all right we'll take a break just getting started on this Monday glad you're with us Dan and the Dan at stand Patrick show. Be sure to catch the live edition of the Dan Patrick show weekdays at 9 a.m. Eastern 6 a.m. Pacific on Fox Sports Radio in the I heart radio app. Hey is Kovino and Rift from Fox Sports Radio now in addition to hearing us live weekdays for five to seven p.m. Eastern to four Pacific on Fox Sports Radio we're excited to announce a brand new YouTube channel for the show. Yup that's right you can now watch Kovino and Rich live on YouTube every day all you got to do search Kovino and Rich F.S.R. on YouTube again go to YouTube search Kovino and Rich F.S.R.

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22:37when against TCU over in Dublin a statement win for Bill Bella check Chris Sims pro football talk live co host his podcast is entitled unbutton NBC sports college football and was okay help me understand how the Rams had 20 million dollars just kind of hanging around there waiting for Aaron Donald yeah well I you know I think they had a finagle a few things right but they had the they had money left over regardless I think that going into yesterday what was it maybe 15 16 million dollars below the salary cap there so that was the big question all along was was was Aaron Donald gonna come back and go nope just give me the 30 million dollars that I'm supposed to get and we'll go from there that's where I was always like I'm interested to see how this contract thing goes down but obviously they got it right they got some very easy if you're on the 53 man roster he gets big bonuses each week that way and then add it on top of that the bonuses right if they get to the playoffs in the Super Bowl which is all very realistic to where he could possibly make 30 million it's not the most far fetched incentive one year contract I've ever seen that's for sure how would you sure thank you how would you use him

23:54I would take it slow at first you know one thing I learned in my days working for no England in the short term I was there is that we would have weeks right and you remember this like grunkowski had like the I don't know some metal thing in his wrist or whatever right in one of his bionic injury moments and I remember he came back and I was like oh gosh he practices week he's gonna play and up always not gonna play all right next week all right practice all week look for the good I guess he's gonna know he's not going to play you know bill was great at making sure the guy who ready and in game shape not just throwing him out there because he's available again and I hope hopefully they take the the same approach I'm surprised it took him this long to get into training camp because I would have thought he'd want to get into some of the combat of situations and just feel and get his body into football shape that way I think first game you know fifteen twenty five snaps on big passing down's that's what I would envisioned, but who knows he is such a freak of nature. Maybe he's capable of more.

24:57I, if I send him to Australia, I send him on a vacation. He's not playing. I just say, yeah, you know, him and the family, you want to go over and root on the team and have some fun here. But I don't, I don't want him playing. No, no, the problem is is I don't think you're going to be able to stop him from playing if he thinks he feels good and is ready to go this week. But, but yeah, you got to be careful. You know, I know he feels great. And everything's trending in the right direction. But as he said in his press conference yesterday, I still haven't done 11 on 11 football. And you know, you can run the ladder and go around the loops and lift all the weights you want. But that first time you got to take a pulling guard on Dan, you know, and hit him and then put your body in some awkward wrestling position and then try to get him up. That's the next piece of the puzzle. He's got to get in shape for, feel how he responds the next day and go from there. And yeah, that's, you know, I'm, I'm kind of with you. It is not ready, ready, ready. Don't even risk it. But if he does play, I don't think it'll be a ton of just be some situations. Right. As a quarterback,

25:59you go to the line of scrimmage, you more concerned with Aaron Donald or Miles Garrett. Well, right now, Miles Garrett, I think that's the other thing that's so crazy about this. I think if it was really just about anybody else in the history of football, I go, wait, defense attack, oh, 35 years old, hasn't played in two years. I've never seen this before. I got to believe it to see it to really think it's going to be top notch. There's a little of that thought, but because it's Aaron Donald and we know he stayed in shape and he's a psycho of that is body anyways and all that. If there's one guy that can kind of do this, it would be him, but I can tell you just from texting with my friends in the NFL and everybody, I think everybody's a little like, can he really do this? Is he really going to be that good? And if he is that good, can he stay healthy, would take in two years off? And that's going to be something everybody's going to be watching for. It was cut down day yesterday. Were you cut in your career? Yeah, I was. I was cut, you know, two different times really. You know, once I lost my spleen and

26:59then, you know, I had that year where I had a year to get healthy, but the bucks cut me to try to trade me into the very last second. Then they cut me and then I got cut in Denver by Josh McDaniels as well and Tennessee in my last year of my career. So yeah, I've been cut many times. Okay. But how do you, how do you get cut? Like what? Yeah, well process. Okay. Well, it's it could be. All right. So Tampa, Tampa, I knew they didn't want to keep me and all that and they were moving on. And I marked Dominic, the old GM there. I remember him calling me and they were like, Hey, like we got a few teams that have been calling about you. So we're going to kind of see we might be able to trade you. But if we don't trade you, you know, we'll call you back and we'll probably have to release you at the end of the day. So that was that one Denver. I had no idea. I was in the locker room that day and I saw the guy that was going around getting people that were cut. It was the first day back of the offseason. And I knew there might be trouble with my price tag, my age and all of that. And I, all the sudden I turned around and that damn

28:01bastard that goes around and cuts people. He was at my locker and I was like, Oh man, really? I was like, damn, and that, that one hurt. That definitely did. So that's kind of how it goes down. It's not something you really want to see or or feel or deal with. You can't fight back. Can you? No, you can't fight back. And you know, the worst part about it too was with Josh McDaniel. I was there in Denver. You know, he, of course, such a great offensive mind. And I wanted some of my play sheets and things that I had in the playbook. And damn, they acted like it was NASA and the C.I. And they're, Nope, nope, you're not giving this a no. And I was like, come on. I was like, what, can I just go talk to Josh? I just want to keep this and this. I might coach one day. And you know, they were like, no, no, you'll, you'll have to deal with that some other time. Get the hell out of the building. He's Chris Sims, pro football talk live co-host that precedes this show on peacock. Help me understand the J.J. McCarthy. Like, hey, let's celebrate. You made the 53 man roster. Well, that's a big, big fall from a guy a couple of years ago. You're taking in. He's going to be your, you know, franchise quarterback. Right. No, things aren't looking good. That's second preseason game

29:07was, you know, alarming to a degree because all the things that we wondered whether he fixed or polished up and got better at playing the position. Can he throw the ball with touch? Can he throw with anticipation? You know, can he, can he stay healthy? Ganged up his ankle in that game a little bit. And we saw that game where we saw bad decisions, late throws, wide open guys where I don't know. We, we threw it so hard that the guy couldn't even catch it or it wasn't even in their stratosphere because he threw it so hard. He lost control of it. So yeah, they keep them because quarterbacks are such a big asset as we know. But yeah, it does feel like is he really the backup? Is Carson, when's the backup? Are they both kind of the backup? We'll see where it goes. But he certainly hasn't done anything to make us feel like, gosh, he's the future of Minnesota. Everybody gets caught up in arm strength. And I find it overrated because of the number of passes that are probably 15 yards or less. Now you got to throw to the numbers. I know all of that.

30:08But I want to know, do you have touch and can you put it where you need to put it? Yeah, I would start there because Will Levis is out of the job. JJ McCarthy's holding on and everybody talks about boy, they got arm strength there. Joe Milton might have the strongest arm in the NFL. Sure. I want to know if you can play the position. I hear you. That's that's that's number one. That's important. But I will say again, when you go through your great quarterbacks of the history of the sport or the ones right now, really other than Drew Breeze and maybe Joe Montana, the arms are exceptional. And I know what you're saying, playing the positions, the number one thing where you want it to really meet up is go, wait, can the guy throw his fastball and make power throws and still control the football, right? That's what we like Josh Allen when he came out, we go damn, he could throw it through a brick wall. But I'm not sure I'll hit the brick wall sometimes. And then he refined it and fixed mechanics and he saw that and then he started to go, wow, he can throw lasers and put it anywhere he wants. And that's the special ones. But you're right.

31:11I'm with you. I mean, if you give me one of the other, I want the guy that can play first, but your special ones, they do have those type of arms that I think sometimes not not even myself in the general public gives credit to those maybe four or five throws a game that my homes are Allen or Lamar make because their arm is so powerful. And those can be difference making type throws or plays in the football game. How do you think the Seattle Seahawks feel today? Yeah, like a little bit like the forgotten team like, oh gosh, yeah, hey, the Rams are going to win the Super Bowl. Did you hear that guys? I'm sure they're a little chippy about it. Probably kind of like, you know, liking the fact that they're looked at as the underdogs right now. But hey, this is this is a real rivalry. I mean, we know that division's crazy. And I mean, no disrespect to New England, who's phenomenal team last year and all that, but I don't think you would disagree. I mean, last year, they felt like the Rams were the second best team in the NFL.

32:15It felt like if they went to the Super Bowl, they would have beat the Patriots as well. They had the Seahawks on the ropes or, you know, in the first half of that NFC championship game. So, you know, they're a chippy group up there. They're damn good. And we shouldn't forget about them. That's for sure. What is the number one question you have going into this season? Oh, the number one question I have going into this season. All right. So, you know, that's a good one. And I haven't had anybody pose that to me. I think here's my number one question. How good is the Kansas City Chiefs going to be? I think that's a real like, I don't think as I have to end this week, I'm going to pick teams that go to the playoffs and do my playoff bracket. I don't think I'm going to pick the Kansas City Chiefs to go to the playoffs. I don't. I mean, I'm certainly going to pick them third in the AFC as I see West as I sit here right now. So, that to me, you know, it's not that it's a big question. It just feels so weird and odd and rare. Because it's one of the greatest quarterbacks we've ever seen. They've been at the top of the mountain for so long. And I do think they're kind of rebuilding their team on the fly here after

33:21an underwhelming year last year. And I just, I'm just not sure about them this year. And I don't see it on paper to go, oh, yeah, I think there's something here. They might make a real run at this thing. I saw reports that Patrick Mahomes is going to run less. I don't know how you do that mentally. When you go back to pass and there's the rush and I just don't know if you go, oh, that's right, I'm not allowed to run. Like, when you get back there, it's progressions. I'll go there, there, there. Okay. Now I have to take off. Lamar Jackson said that he didn't run as much as he normally does. He was banged up. But I don't know how you do that in the moment as quick as the game is that you go, no, not going to run. That's going to be something he has to adjust to. I think you'll see some plays that are ugly in week one because his mind's going to go, wait, I'm going to get out of here and get out of trouble. But his body's going to go, wait, wait, you're not that fast and you can't move that well right now. And he might, you might see plays where he kind of gets out of the

34:21pocket and all of a sudden, he's like, oh gosh, I can't get away from this guy. I just got to throw it away or throw it at the feet of somebody. I wouldn't be surprised if you saw a whole lot of plays like that at first. You know, but I do think it will start to click and he'll start to realize, wait, I can't always do it with my playmaking extending the play. I'm going to just have to know, hey, where's my hot route? Where's my quick throw? If somebody gets through the line of scrimmage, he's going to have to think like us, most of us normal quarterbacks used to have to think wherever he couldn't just go, oh, wait, oh, yeah, this guy is an open. I'll just sit back here and move around and make some time and buy some time before it throws some laser. So he's going to have to be a normal guy that way. But as you know, and as we all know, he's a Jim Rat. He's a junkie. And I think he will adjust pretty quickly. Why will this, could this, will this be the Buffalo Bills year? Oh, well, you're talking to the wrong guy, okay? Because I don't think it will be their year. All right, to me, the Buffalo Bills have been overrated for quite some time. You know, I didn't, I do not think

35:22they should have fired Sean McDermott. That would be the first thing. And anybody that knows me or listens to me, I always say it. I mean, they're in the window. It feels, and you and I have had this conversation, very John L. Weiish, where I go, wait, the team, you know, there's good. And but we're going to put them in the Super Bowl window. Why is that? Oh, because the quarterback is the best player in the NFL right now. And I just look at it. Hey, I like DJ Moore. Are they going to get a new coach energy bump with a guy that was already there and part of the, the regime as is? I don't know about that. And I still come away. And it's compared to the most of the top teams in football. I go, if we walk down the street in New York City, Dan, and I asked, you know, Johnny on 52nd and 5th and go, Hey, who's the best player on the Bills defense? I think you'd get a lot of, hold on. They got that head over guy. And so that to me is says a lot right there. And yeah, I don't look at them as a Super Bowl team, Dan. Your team Ravens, right? Yeah. I'm team Ravens.

36:26I like them. Yeah, I definitely do. There's potential there for sure. But yeah, I do like them. Is that your Super Bowl pick? Oh, no, it's not my Super Bowl pick. And I don't know what I'm going to do yet. I mean, I fall in love with the chargers. I listen, I think the chargers, I will say this. Don't do it. No, I'm not going to do it. But I do think that there, if it's really about that offensive line, and if they can just stay healthy, I do think I would put them maybe on the short list at the bottom of that short list of teams that I think are in the Super Bowl window. I do that. It's hard not to like the Rams. The NFC is so wide open. Philadelphia, of course, still has the talent to do that and be in the Super Bowl. Detroit, I still think it could come out of nowhere here. Not like they're coming out of nowhere and being that game. I gotta have me back next week. And I'll tell you who I think is going to go to the Super Bowl. I'm not sure yet. Are you buying into the Cowboys? I think the Cowboys are a playoff caliber team. I do like, like there's no question about the offense. So that's not even a thing. Well,

37:29blame it. Playoff team and playoff caliber are different. Yeah. No, I think they're a playoff team. Okay. That's I'll just say that. I think they are. And I think they've done enough on that defensive side of the ball and then having a new decordinator down there from Philadelphia and a different scheme that yes, I look at them to be a playoff team. The giants in their division, they are what you said, playoff caliber. I'm not sure I'm going to put them in the playoffs, but I do look at it and go, I wouldn't be shocked if we're here in mid-December going, hey, if the giants win their last two, they're going to go to the playoffs. I would not be shocked by that. Great to talk to you. We'll have you on next week to get your Super Bowl pick. Hey, I like that. Thanks. Hey, one thing. Make sure you tell those jerks I said, I especially that fritzy jerk, all right. He's out having major surgery today. Oh my gosh. Well, I would feel bad if it weren't for him, but I hope he's okay. All right. Well, you did lose his spleen. Yeah. Yeah. So I know about major surgery, but you didn't you don't need it, do you?

38:30Well, obviously not. I'm sitting here talking to you. So I made it, but yeah, he's not getting his spleen removed. I mean, I was texting with him last night. He didn't tell me he was going to make major surgery. Well, he had finger surgery or having finger surgery. What? All right. So let's reclassify what we just said. Did you say major surgery? He thinks of major surgery because they put him under. Oh my gosh. I'm, I'm, have me back next week when he's here so we can really discuss this. You almost died on a football field. Yes. I almost died on a football field. The fact that I didn't make the NFL top 10 gutsyest performances over some of those people that made that list. I want to go. They took out part of your gut. Exactly. Exactly. Did you when I come back player of the year? I didn't win Jack Italy crap. Not even Tampa Bay wanted to give me anything. This is they were so scared to be legally liable. They didn't even want to act like I came back from anything there either. You lost it. Do you have another spleen? No, I don't have another spleen.

39:34My spleen is in the trash somewhere in Tampa, Florida. It's gone. Thank you Chris. Say amen. That's Chris Sims. Yeah. He nearly died. He ruptured his spleen. He's bleeding out. Yes. Dylan. Yeah. I remember back in the high school days when kids will get mono and part you weren't able to play because I guess it would enlarge your spleen was one of the side effects. So they're worried about people rupturing their spleen with mono. Yeah. His podcast is unbuttoned. And of course, co-host on Profitball Talk Live co-host with Mike Florio. Take a break. Your phone calls next Joel Clath on that big win by North Carolina. And we'll look ahead to Lane Kiffin and LSU against Clemson. There'll be some better matchups here after week zero. I'm okay. I got my fix. It was fun. Got to see my North Dakota state bison against Jacksonville state. I don't

40:36gamble. I thought that that was one of those where they're just saying, here you go. You want money? Give the seven points to Jacksonville state. North Dakota state at home. I'd have been all over that. Dylan, I'm sure you lost that bet. I didn't bet that game, but I should have done because I lost all the three that I didn't take. We'll take a break. Play of the day. Next. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at Fox Sports Radio.com. And within the IHARDS Radio app search FSR to listen live. Here's something worth knowing. Chat GPT now has a new way of working for bigger multi-step projects. Chat GPT work. Give it a goal and connect it to the tools where work happens. And you can help create finished work from start to finish. Say you're preparing for a launch of a new campaign instead of jumping between different tools all day. Chat GPT can pull together information from your files, organize research,

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44:43And the cuts have broken and right open and lead 13 to 5. Pete Crow Armstrong building a strong case to be the master league most valuable player. Hobby Bias with the home. Oh my god. Pete Crow Armstrong with the home run. That's right. He was traded for Hobby Bias. Who got the better end of that trade? That's 14 home runs in the month of August for Pete Crow Armstrong who will be the National MVP. That's your play of the day. Play of the day brought to you by Chad GPT. A new agent for larger projects. No sweat. Chad GPT work. Give it a goal. Help turn scattered material into finished work. Get started at chat GPT.com by selecting work mode. Available on plus and pro plans. Chris in Syracuse leads us off. Hi Chris.

45:43Hey, thanks. Hey, I got a basketball couple bass in a worse than a shout out. Bass. Nice to see Bill Bellic. I've almost entertaining and informative in this post game press conference. Even talking about his buddy, Bondi Ovi and a bass to Jay Lahn, Daniels, who was acquired by Tampa for at the lead 25,000 dollars. And now looks like he's the backup quarterback for Baker Mayfield. He's one snap away from starting in Tampa. And if he were to ever start, I'm against Washington's Jay Dunned Daniels. I'm sure that would be a lot of fun for KVN radio announcers. And with you were saying Saturday at Rigglyfield in the badding cage before the game, Chicago Cup legend. Sammy Sosa tells Pete Crow Armstrong that he wants three home runs from him. And sure enough, PCA is his first three home run game of his career. He may run away with MVP. And I am by no means a worse time by no means a link to him. Fan it all, but to say he should be banned from coaching college football as a joke. And as I heard someone say, fan for what manipulating the system that college football has in place better than anyone else?

46:46Hey, who said he should be banned? Yeah, I heard it yesterday or last night. Yeah, I don't know if it was they're saying that the SCC should ban up from coaching college football. Yeah, I know it's out there somewhere. I don't have two sources, but I definitely heard it. No, Lane is good for college football. Thank you, Chris. He didn't make up these rules. You can say, you know, does he have any morality when it comes to what you should and shouldn't do? That's open to interpretation. But I don't. I think Lane's good for college football. If he wants to bring players back that he had at Ole Miss and they went to the pros and you're allowed to do it, this goes back to what I said. When all of this happened, I said, this is going to come down to the SCC fighting LSU. And that's what this is about. Because we were going to have Greg Sanke on the SCC commissioner. And his office said he's involved in a couple of lawsuits, actual lawsuits. The SCC is going after LSU to say, you can't do this.

47:50Yes, Dylan. I don't think coaching college football or basketball has necessarily always been considered like the bastion of ethics from like, you know, no. It used to be that we looked up to that coach. Like you, you know, you were like, oh, wow, he's molding men. And then you find out behind the scenes. No, it is, you know, don't look too close. You know, it's, you're not going to like what you see. I guarantee it. Yes, Marvin. That's like even going back to UCLA with John Wooden. Who was my man? Sam Gilbert? Yeah, there was always a guy back in the background. Yeah. Buddha in San Francisco. Hi, Buddha. But a D.P. Happy Monday, boys. Stay strong, fritzy. And that pick of fritzy in the hospital bed is something, D.P. The best of the weekend, D.P. Scotty Shepler Jr. the third, not only winning the bad ex cup,

48:52but he also equips his tiger woods. Perhaps you have heard of him in PGA career earnings and also joins them as the only golfers to win five straight player the weir words. And worst of the weekend, then, honestly, hearing that Dylan was the only person in the room who has watched the Matrix. What? And Conair is legit D.P. You need to watch that movie. Shout out to Marvin. And real quick, Dan, I have three fascinating NFL stats to finish. For his entire career, Tom Brady had a better chance to getting the Super Bowl. 47.6% than Steph Curry has of making a three pointer at 42%. Larry Fitzgerald, that's 17 season played. 42 tackles, 29 drops. And every NST team has played in the NST championship games since 2010, except for the Cowboys who haven't played in it since 1995. Shout out David in Ohio. All right. Thank you, Buddha.

49:52Buddha drop in some information. I know it sounds really impressive that Scotty Shaffler surpassed Tiger in the old time money list. If I pro-rated Tiger's wins and the amount of money that's available now, like then this isn't a conversation. Yeah. But Tiger was winning. Money was winning is different because PGA Tour did have to spice things up with their, uh, versus, uh, impressive what Scotty's done. It's, it's weird that he had a bad year in people's minds. But there are so many things that wins tied for first, top fives first, top tens first, top 25 first, scoring first, money first, strokes game first, uh, greens and regulation first, birdies, uh, around first, final round scoring first, major championship scored a par first. This was a down year for Scotty Shaffler.

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