Speaker 1: Let the celebration start.
Speaker 2: War Sean Salisbury on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 1: We're gonna welcome in Dan Patrick to the show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Dan Patrick's show, Hall of Famer legend, you know
Speaker 2: does it all and award winning Dan Patrick? And you
Speaker 2: know he used to Dan you started your career? Where'd
Speaker 2: you spinning records? In Cincinnati?
Speaker 1: Where'd you start? Didn't you start as a DJ?
Speaker 3: Ind at the University of Dayton. I had my own
Speaker 3: show ten to one at night. Therefore I did miss
Speaker 3: my classes, my eight o'clock class, my my senior year.
Speaker 3: I think I went first day, mid term final. We'red
Speaker 3: I got a D minus. Yeah, you passed it, though
Speaker 3: I did. I did pass it, and I would spend
Speaker 3: records at night. Loved it. So Bill love music more
Speaker 3: than anything you do.
Speaker 2: And I mean do you have like I mean you
Speaker 2: hit the post a lot. We've talked about that. I mean,
Speaker 2: I mean, can you are Is it too early in
Speaker 2: the morning to ask you to give me one like
Speaker 2: the weather and who's you know who?
Speaker 1: The cuts playing?
Speaker 3: Is?
Speaker 2: Is it too early to ask you? Because people don't
Speaker 2: get to see enough of that from you. I've seen
Speaker 2: it and heard it. I'd like to know if you
Speaker 2: could give me one to the post.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I could, because if you're a
Speaker 3: hockey player, you don't want to hit the post. But
Speaker 3: as as a DJ, you want to hit the post.
Speaker 3: I think I would need music and to be ready
Speaker 3: for that right that.
Speaker 2: Next time we have you on, we'll do it. We'll
Speaker 2: have a producer play a little music. We'll get you
Speaker 2: in and out so you can hit that post fair enough.
Speaker 3: Okay, this is what you do. Next time, you'll play
Speaker 3: earth Wind and Fire and you'll play the song September,
Speaker 3: and then I'll talk up to the vocals there I'll
Speaker 3: hit the post with them.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 2: Dan Patrick joins, he's got his own show that he's
Speaker 2: got to get to and kind enough to spend time
Speaker 2: with us. Dan all to talk about this super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Number one reason you're intrigued with.
Speaker 3: It because I look at Jay Hurts what it means
Speaker 3: and Nick Steririani what it means to them to kind
Speaker 3: of get into the position of Okay, now you're legitimate.
Speaker 3: Now you're one of the best quarterbacks. Now you're actually
Speaker 3: one of the better coaches. Andy Reid, Now you're getting
Speaker 3: closer to Belichick. We keep talking about Mahomes getting closer
Speaker 3: to Tom Brady, Andy Reid's getting closer, and he's more likely
Speaker 3: to get closer to Belichick and Don Shula as the
Speaker 3: all time leader in victories, and I don't think we
Speaker 3: focus on him enough. But with Patrick Mahomes, now I
Speaker 3: think he gets into a different category. Yes, it is
Speaker 3: Tom Brady, but it's also to me, Michael Jordan and
Speaker 3: Tiger Woods. It's just a different type of dominance of
Speaker 3: you're winning three in a row, something that's never been done.
Speaker 2: Do you think do you think that Patrick Mahomes has
Speaker 2: passed Joe Montana for second on the goat list right now?
Speaker 3: I would say yes. It's almost like we've forget about Joe,
Speaker 3: which is but we forgot about Terry Bradshaw. I mean,
Speaker 3: we've forgotten about quarterbacks that did you know they won
Speaker 3: super Bowls? That's the ultimate grade at the bottom line
Speaker 3: is how many super Bowls. It's not a fair grade
Speaker 3: because if you said I could have Dan Marino, I'd
Speaker 3: take Dan Marino. He didn't win any Super Bowls, but
Speaker 3: he changed the game. I think you know Elway got
Speaker 3: blamed because he lost three super Bowls and then he
Speaker 3: won two didn't get credit. Really it was Terrell Davis.
Speaker 3: So you know, we're very fickle in how we hand
Speaker 3: out credit when it comes to these things. But winning
Speaker 3: a Super Bowl, Mahomes, I think the way he plays
Speaker 3: is what separates him even from Brady. If you said
Speaker 3: at the peak of Brady and the peak of Mahomes,
Speaker 3: Mahomes plays the position better, in my opinion, doesn't mean
Speaker 3: he's a better quarterback. He plays it better. He plays
Speaker 3: it differently than anybody else, And people forget Joe like
Speaker 3: he was the ultimate when your nickname is Joe cool, right,
Speaker 3: that's I mean at that position and winning. But I
Speaker 3: you know, I feel bad that we kind of just
Speaker 3: blew right by Joe Now it's just it's Mahomes and Brady.
Speaker 2: Dan Patrick Dan Patrick Show joins us longtime friend here
Speaker 2: on Sports Talk seven ninety Sean Salisbury Show. Dan who
Speaker 2: has the biggest challenge player or coach in this game?
Speaker 2: On whether it's a unit or a group of players.
Speaker 2: You know, I said Steve Spagnolo and his ability to
Speaker 2: stop the home run from Berkley. Do you see it different?
Speaker 2: What's the biggest challenge of the game for either side?
Speaker 3: I think it's Nick Sirianni trying to prove that he
Speaker 3: can match coaching withs with Andy Reid, because this is
Speaker 3: where I don't care who wins. But I learned a
Speaker 3: long time ago, don't bet against the better coach quarterback
Speaker 3: combination with Tom Brady and really you go back to
Speaker 3: Jimmy Johnson and Troy Yek, when you go back to
Speaker 3: Bill Walsh and Joe Montana, like you have those combinations.
Speaker 3: This is where it matter the most. Obviously, you know,
Speaker 3: Nick Sirianni kept his job, They fired their coordinators, and
Speaker 3: we don't even know what his relationship is with Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 3: We don't even know what he really does during the game.
Speaker 3: Andy Reid is there as the offensive coordinator with Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 3: so trying to match wits with him in a crunch
Speaker 3: time situation. That's because this is where the Chiefs they
Speaker 3: always win. And that has to come back to Andy
Speaker 3: and what you see with Patrick Mahomes, this is what
Speaker 3: I want to see with Sirianni and Jalen Hurts with
Speaker 3: the game on the line, can they outperform out coach
Speaker 3: the Chiefs? Dan?
Speaker 2: Is it disrespectful during this talk and kind of at
Speaker 2: the very at the last handful of games of the season,
Speaker 2: disrespectful to the Chiefs that it feels like we spend
Speaker 2: more time talking about the ref's impact on a game
Speaker 2: and on the Chiefs than we do how good they've been.
Speaker 3: Well. I don't think there's any denying that there have
Speaker 3: been called that are favorable to the Chiefs. But sometimes
Speaker 3: you make your own breaks sometimes, you know, the analogy
Speaker 3: I've made is when Wade Boggs took a pitch the
Speaker 3: umpire thought of as a ball, or Rod Carue or
Speaker 3: Tony Gwynn, you got those. If Greg Maddox threw a
Speaker 3: pitch around the plate, you got the call. Michael Jordan
Speaker 3: if he missed, something must have happened. He must have
Speaker 3: gotten found. It's not fair. You would think the guys
Speaker 3: who need the calls would get calls. But you're giving
Speaker 3: the better people better players. But I do think they
Speaker 3: know how to use the system. Now, I don't blame them,
Speaker 3: I blame the system. Plus, all of their games are
Speaker 3: on National TV Sean. Every single game is a Marquee game.
Speaker 3: You see every single one of their games. It's not
Speaker 3: like a one o'clock game that they're playing, you know,
Speaker 3: against Carolina. They're always playing, and they're playing in front
Speaker 3: of everybody, so you see everything. You see Kelsey, you
Speaker 3: see Taylor Swift, you see Patrick Mahomes, Mahomes' wife, and
Speaker 3: so that's why people get chiefed out. It's not their fault.
Speaker 3: I just don't want people ten years from now to
Speaker 3: look back and go, well, you know, they were pretty special,
Speaker 3: because we tend to do that. You hate the Cowboys
Speaker 3: until you look back and go, well, that was a
Speaker 3: damn impressive run. And I think that's what people are
Speaker 3: going to do with the Chiefs. You'll look back and
Speaker 3: you're going to probably say to yourself, even though you
Speaker 3: didn't like them, you're going to respect them even more.
Speaker 1: Mortgage is on the line. Who you're picking in the game.
Speaker 3: Always the Chiefs with.
Speaker 2: Mahomes always, no matter who the opponent is right always
Speaker 2: and Andy and the ability to make plays when there's
Speaker 2: nothing there.
Speaker 3: But they win one score games. Yep, that's that's not
Speaker 3: a coincidence. That's my design, no matter how they win it.
Speaker 3: And look, they become a defensive minded team since a
Speaker 3: couple of years ago. You know, they run the football,
Speaker 3: it's ball controlled. They don't hit home runs, anymore. You know,
Speaker 3: they've gone from being you know, somebody Aaron Judge to
Speaker 3: somebody who's you know, bat three forty eight and you know,
Speaker 3: hit seven homers, but is always going to get on
Speaker 3: base and score and be part of, you know, a
Speaker 3: winning team. You know, it's Aaron Judge to each row.
Speaker 3: And so I don't think we look at them as
Speaker 3: a dominating team because they don't score points the way
Speaker 3: you know they once did. But that defense is so
Speaker 3: good and you know you're they do it, and it's
Speaker 3: spread out and they plug and play like the Patriots
Speaker 3: US too. It'd be like, I don't care who it is,
Speaker 3: we have the common denominator coaching quarterback. Now, just build
Speaker 3: around that. And we took Tom for granted that he
Speaker 3: would somehow make that guy better and win a big game.
Speaker 3: And Belichick would somehow come up with guys on defense,
Speaker 3: and they would you know, design, you know, design a
Speaker 3: defense to take away your best players. That's what Kansas
Speaker 3: City is doing. It's the blueprint. Same thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Spagnola has proven that he's as good a
Speaker 2: big game defensive coordinator we've ever had Dan Patrick for
Speaker 2: a few more minutes, and Dan's unique with you because
Speaker 2: not only to get the interview the best you know
Speaker 2: on your show, but you love it as a sports fan.
Speaker 2: So let me shift a little bit with your gig.
Speaker 2: In all the years you've been doing it, what what's
Speaker 2: the best part of your job?
Speaker 3: I think being allowed to be curious to whether we
Speaker 3: discuss something on the show, or it's a guest you
Speaker 3: have on and you're curious about something. It's like when
Speaker 3: Adam Silver, the NBA commissioner, came on last week and
Speaker 3: I was just curious, like, what are the crazy things
Speaker 3: that come across to your desk? And when he said, well,
Speaker 3: here's one, and then he said, how about you know
Speaker 3: four quarters ten minutes each quarter in instead of forty
Speaker 3: eight minutes. No, it's forty minutes. So by just asking
Speaker 3: the question, now he could have swatted it away, but
Speaker 3: he did. He did engage with me and allow me
Speaker 3: to go into his office, you know, figuratively, to see
Speaker 3: something that he's considering. And so that I love. I
Speaker 3: love that. You know, we have Joe Burrow on today.
Speaker 3: When did you know you had this confidence you know
Speaker 3: you can ask those questions. Bryce Young is on today.
Speaker 3: I get what point did you realize that you knew
Speaker 3: how to play the game, or the game was different
Speaker 3: to you. Those are the fun things that you get
Speaker 3: to be curious in a setting like this. It's live
Speaker 3: TV and radio, and you know it's something that it's
Speaker 3: as close as I can get to playing the game,
Speaker 3: because you know, there the element of you're on a
Speaker 3: tightrope a little bit. You're asking questions and it's you
Speaker 3: can't blink. The camera doesn't blink.
Speaker 1: And I love that.
Speaker 3: I love that when it's three hours, it's live, let's go,
Speaker 3: and at the end of the day you feel like
Speaker 3: you played in a game.
Speaker 2: All right. When you broke in and we talked about,
Speaker 2: you know, when you were spending records in DJ and
Speaker 2: and to now in this long, illustrious career, what's the
Speaker 2: best media And I don't mean who, but what's the
Speaker 2: best media change or maybe one you don't like over
Speaker 2: the last forty years in your mind.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm going to sound the like they get off
Speaker 3: my lawne guy, but I think journalistic principles have declined
Speaker 3: rapidly and will continue to do so. Everybody has this source,
Speaker 3: everybody's an insider, uh, and that's not the case. Plus,
Speaker 3: you know, what are we saying what are we allowed
Speaker 3: to say not allowed to say? It just feels like
Speaker 3: the lines are so blurred right now, and I worry
Speaker 3: about that that it's it's sloppy, and I can't speak
Speaker 3: for everybody. I can't speak for what we do on
Speaker 3: this show, and that is make sure you get it right.
Speaker 3: You know, we're not here to sprain news. We're here
Speaker 3: to break news, and if you don't have it, you
Speaker 3: don't have it, and don't I'm not one of those
Speaker 3: people who, hey, there's a story that came up, Hey,
Speaker 3: do you know anything about that. Yeah, I got a
Speaker 3: source who told you either have a source that you don't.
Speaker 3: But we throw that out, probably more so than any
Speaker 3: other statement in sport. That source is close to me,
Speaker 3: and I have sources on some things, and there are
Speaker 3: other things where I go, I don't know anybody in
Speaker 3: that organization because I don't think you know, you have
Speaker 3: to be honest with your audience, and that that does
Speaker 3: concern me as we move forward that I don't know
Speaker 3: if it really matters, and maybe it doesn't matter to
Speaker 3: the audience, but it does to me.
Speaker 2: Well, Dan with that, and obviously with like Nick Saban,
Speaker 2: the nil and transfer portal war on him and now
Speaker 2: he's doing a hell of a job as a broadcaster.
Speaker 2: But it probably pushed him out prematurely. I think that's
Speaker 2: pretty obvious. Would this the way it's gone about journalistic integrity,
Speaker 2: would it force you to leave sooner than you wanted
Speaker 2: in this business?
Speaker 3: Oh? No, No, because I'm in the content business, right
Speaker 3: So if there's upheaval, if there's controversy, like, I don't
Speaker 3: have to negotiate with an eighteen year old who wants
Speaker 3: to transfer to me at my age.
Speaker 1: You've maybe enough over our careers.
Speaker 3: Brother, Yeah, I'm not taking a producer who's coming through
Speaker 3: the NIL portal. And you know, Pauli's here. If he
Speaker 3: decides to leave and go, you know in the transfer portal,
Speaker 3: that's good for him. But you know Nick Saban had
Speaker 3: to deal with this, and you know he got tired.
Speaker 3: Jay Wright at Villanova, there's a lot of coaches that
Speaker 3: just said coach K like, I don't want to do
Speaker 3: this anymore. And I get it. I just I think
Speaker 3: you've got to be young, and you got to be
Speaker 3: you got to be on your game with this because
Speaker 3: it's constant, constant, and but you know, the upheaval in
Speaker 3: college football. I think it needed it because it was
Speaker 3: under that student athlete umbrella, and now it's everything's out
Speaker 3: in the open. What are you making? Who's paying it
Speaker 3: to you? Do I want to stay? Do I want
Speaker 3: to go? I think it will eventually settle. But these
Speaker 3: are all these chancellors and presidents and athletic directors and coaches,
Speaker 3: and they all missed all of this. It happened so quickly.
Speaker 3: It's like now they're trying to clean up the mess
Speaker 3: after the elephant in the circus.
Speaker 2: Do you still watch the game as a fan with
Speaker 2: the same passion you did twenty five years ago? Any
Speaker 2: game college football, NFL basketball, is it's the same passion
Speaker 2: and interest for you.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't watch as a fan because I don't
Speaker 3: root for anybody. But I think I'm watching probably the
Speaker 3: same way I have the last thirty years. I think
Speaker 3: it's more of an analytical eye of what are they doing,
Speaker 3: how are they doing it? And then I'm always thinking,
Speaker 3: how does this work on our show? If you bring
Speaker 3: this up, the guests that you're going to have, who
Speaker 3: compliments this. I think it's more of formulaic that you're
Speaker 3: watching building to tomorrow of what you're talking about, or
Speaker 3: the next day or next week whatever that is. But
Speaker 3: I think that's the important part of And look, do
Speaker 3: I miss that the high and low of your team
Speaker 3: one and that low of your team got, you know,
Speaker 3: like the Lions. I missed that pain. I miss that high,
Speaker 3: that euphoric high you get when your team wins or
Speaker 3: when your team loses. I don't have anything. I'm not
Speaker 3: invested in anything.
Speaker 1: All right, let me let's leave you on this.
Speaker 2: Do you do you have a time clock for how
Speaker 2: long we get to continue to watch it?
Speaker 3: Is?
Speaker 2: I know you had mentioned a couple of years ago
Speaker 2: you said maybe at a certain date five years. Does
Speaker 2: that change every year or is it just going to
Speaker 2: be a wake up and say this is the this
Speaker 2: is my going away year.
Speaker 1: How long are we going to have you do this?
Speaker 3: It'll be December twenty fourth, twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 1: That's a guarantee ball game for sure.
Speaker 3: I'm John Elway walking off the field.
Speaker 1: You are are we gonna get you?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 2: Are we gonna get your rocky chairs? Is it like
Speaker 2: do we get to get the gift thing on him?
Speaker 2: Send you on to you know, on the circuit the
Speaker 2: last year. You are literally on December twenty fourth or
Speaker 2: twenty twenty seven, you're done, bingo.
Speaker 3: I'm done. Yes, you can send your gifts to the
Speaker 3: man cave.
Speaker 1: I've come.
Speaker 2: What even I am the gift? I'm coming in person.
Speaker 2: Will it be well? I guess you're not gonna announce
Speaker 2: where you're gonna do it from. I know your show,
Speaker 2: so that is it. I get twenty four all right,
Speaker 2: I know you got your own show. I love you man,
Speaker 2: see you buddy, all right, see it bye. He's got
Speaker 2: to go. That's what happened. When he's got to go
Speaker 2: do his own show. He's December twenty fourth, on twenty
Speaker 2: twenty seven, Dan Patrick's done.
Speaker 1: You heard it right there.
Speaker 2: But he said it before, but I had to follow
Speaker 2: up make sure he wouldn't, you know, just getting us
Speaker 2: to give him all the going away gifts. We'll come
Speaker 2: back and discuss Sports Talk seven ninety rolls on