The Dan Patrick Show

Hour 3 - Drew Brees

42 min
Feb 11, 20264 months ago
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Summary

Drew Brees joins Dan Patrick to discuss his Hall of Fame induction, his career overcoming physical limitations as a 6-foot quarterback, and his business ventures including Stretch Zone. The show also covers Olympic coverage, NBA lottery reform proposals, and various caller topics ranging from driving etiquette to AI-powered sports analytics.

Insights
  • Drew Brees attributes his success to heightened awareness and feeling rather than sight, compensating for his height disadvantage by developing superior pocket awareness and decision-making instincts
  • Sean Payton's leadership style involved instilling unwavering confidence in unconventional plays like the Super Bowl halftime onside kick, demonstrating how momentum and timing matter as much as execution
  • The Saints' faith-based approach to Brees's shoulder recovery contrasted sharply with the Dolphins' medical skepticism, showing how organizational culture and belief systems influence player recruitment decisions
  • Olympic coverage demonstrates how storytelling and athlete profiles drive viewer investment in niche sports, creating unexpected engagement with events viewers would normally ignore
  • Multiple callers proposed NBA lottery reforms focused on penalizing tanking, indicating growing fan frustration with strategic losing and desire for competitive integrity
Trends
AI-powered sports analytics tools are becoming accessible to fans, enabling detailed historical tracking of on-air bets and performance metrics across podcast archivesQuarterback evaluation metrics are evolving beyond physical measurements, with successful undersized QBs like Brees challenging traditional height-based scouting paradigmsOrganizational culture and leadership confidence play measurable roles in player recovery and recruitment outcomes, particularly in high-risk medical situationsSports franchise relocation discussions continue at state and local levels, with communities like Des Moines attempting to attract major professional teams through economic incentivesAthlete health advocacy is gaining traction, with high-profile figures like Bo Jackson using media platforms to encourage preventive health screenings among audiencesStretching and mobility services are emerging as a distinct wellness category with franchise expansion potential and measurable health outcome researchOlympic viewership patterns show strong correlation between narrative-driven content and engagement with unfamiliar sports, suggesting storytelling drives sports consumptionUnconventional NFL play-calling during high-pressure moments reflects broader trend of data-driven and momentum-based decision-making replacing conservative play-calling
Topics
Drew Brees Hall of Fame InductionQuarterback Height and Physical Limitations in NFLSuper Bowl XLIV Onside Kick StrategyShoulder Injury Recovery and Medical Decision-MakingOlympic Sports Viewership and EngagementNBA Lottery Reform and Tanking PreventionAI-Powered Sports Analytics and Podcast TrackingAthlete Health Advocacy and Preventive ScreeningStretching and Mobility Franchise Business ModelNFL Draft Evaluation MetricsOrganizational Leadership and Player RecruitmentSports Franchise Relocation IncentivesQuarterback Pocket Awareness and Spatial AwarenessWinter Olympic Events and Viewer InvestmentProfessional Sports Betting and Wager Tracking
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Stretch Zone
Drew Brees discussed his investment and board position in the led stretching franchise, which he credits for maintain...
Breeze Airways
Drew Brees mentioned his airline venture when discussing potential endorsement and business opportunities.
OpenAI
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People
Drew Brees
First-ballot Hall of Famer and former NFL quarterback who discussed his career, Super Bowl victory, and current busin...
Sean Payton
Former Saints head coach credited by Brees for leadership excellence and the famous Super Bowl halftime onside kick d...
Bo Jackson
Hall of Famer who recently appeared on the show and discussed prostate cancer surgery, generating significant viral e...
Nick Saban
Former Miami Dolphins head coach who evaluated Brees's shoulder injury with significant medical skepticism during rec...
Jason Garrett
Former NFL quarterback coach with the Dolphins who was involved in Brees recruitment discussions.
Dan Marino
Hall of Fame quarterback mentioned as a mentor figure during Brees's recruitment visit to Miami.
Mike McDonald
Seattle Seahawks defensive coordinator credited by Brees for building an elite pass-rushing defense system.
Max Crosby
Las Vegas Raiders defensive end discussed by Clint Kubiak regarding his commitment to the franchise.
James Buster Douglas
Boxer who defeated Mike Tyson in 1990, referenced in sports history segment.
Mike Tyson
Former heavyweight champion who was defeated by Buster Douglas in 1990 upset.
Bill Russell
Hall of Famer confirmed to have attended McClellan High School in San Francisco.
Clint Kubiak
Former Seattle offensive coordinator and current Las Vegas Raiders head coach discussing team dynamics.
Tom Brady
Referenced regarding potential future involvement with Raiders organization under new coaching staff.
Eric Heiden
Speed skater credited with Olympic achievement equivalent to winning 100m dash and marathon simultaneously.
Michael Phelps
Olympic swimmer mentioned as dominant force who transformed swimming at the Olympics.
Quotes
"I always felt like I had something to prove. I had a chip on my shoulder. I mean I don't know what it's like to be 6'5". You know, do those guys have better vision? Do they? Can they see up over the line of scrimmage?"
Drew Brees
"If you close your eyes and take away your visual sense, all of a sudden your sense of hearing is heightened and your sense of smell and your sense of awareness and feeling of what's around you. That's probably the best way to describe playing quarterback in the pocket amongst a world of giants."
Drew Brees
"Sean Payton had nicknamed that play ambush. And I'm literally the first meeting of the week... he's like, 'Hey, here's the practice schedule. By the way, we have this onside kick it's called ambush. It's not a matter of if we're going to call it but when.'"
Drew Brees
"The Saints was a totally different story from the perspective of look, I mean we know that city was destroyed, but Sean Payton and Mickey Loomis had just this unwavering belief in me to be their guy and to be a leader of that organization."
Drew Brees
"Up to 90% of people feel more energy, have better range of motion, they sleep better, less pain, back pain, hamstring pain, wherever you might be experiencing it."
Drew Brees
Full Transcript
This is an I Heart podcast guaranteed human. You are listening to the Dan Patrick show on Fox Sports Radio. Final hour in this Wednesday, Drew Breeze, first ballot, Hall of Famer will join us. It's the Olympics. You can watch it in prime time from Italy on NBC and peacock. Watch a lot of the Olympics yesterday on peacock. And you get locked into something that you would never watch. But because it's the Olympics and because there are medals at stake and we got pride, patriotism and it's in another part of the world. So there's a fascination that you have with these events that normally you wouldn't care about. But all of a sudden you get so invested and all of a sudden now you're a judge and figure skating or now you understand ski jumping. By the way, it is an optical illusion because when you look at ski jumping, you go, they got to be crazy to do that. Okay, when you go down the ski slope and when you go out, it looks like you're about 300 feet up in the air. You're not. You're not up as high as as it appears. Now are they still crazy to want to do that? Absolutely. But that was a one of those things when I was in Sochi and I got to see the ski jump and I went, okay, it's not crazy. I get so like crazy high. What I'm just saying, you just, eh, the ski jumping, I'm finishing ski jumping. I'm saying you still got to be crazy ski jump to minute shirt. You got to be, I'm a ski jumping denier. I don't think you're up as high as the, there's an optical illusion to it. If John and Illinois calls it, don't take that call because he's definitely telling you to, you know, watch what you say, stay in your lane. And this I know. You're right. And I, you know, I got to feel like I'm kind of, like I want to channel some of John's energy too on that one because I don't care if you're 10 feet off the ground, but you're hovering above it for that long. That is crazy. You know, fast you're going, I'm just saying. NBD, I would do, I do it once. No, you wouldn't. I think I would. No, you would not. Yeah. If it meant we want to sports in, I would do it. I could set that up. Okay. I would do it. I said one in Southern Vermont. That's not too far from me. Probably driven past it a bunch of times. I have. And I go, that's not that big a deal. All right. Fire up the wagon. I mean, of all the winter Olympic events, that's not the one I would pick. Maybe I'd probably do curling. I like to be low to the ground in case I fall. But I love, you know, when my wife watches curling and she goes, do you think they pick up a broom at any other point in their life, in their daily routine, then what they do when they're doing curly? It's not like your wife goes, Hey, hey guy, mind you get your broom out. I just sweep the kitchen. I don't think that's happening, but that's, that's what came to mind for her. And then I told her, reminded her the story of when we had confetti all over the floor in the old man cave and we gave Todd a broom and you treated it. The confetti like it was a shuffleboard and you were pushing. And I said, Todd, that's the gather the dirt that gets into a one small pile and then you can just kind of scoop it up into the, but I said, have you, have you used a broom before and you said no? I used to like an old vacuum cleaner in my grandparents house, like those old hoovers or whatever it was and it's just like you're plugging into the wall. No, no, but you had never used a broom. No, I'm not a broom guy. I'm not a broom guy. I like like dirt devil kind of guy. One of those little dust buster kind of guys. That's all I'm about. I mean, maybe Harry Potter is a broom guy, but like I'm not. Who is a broom guy? But yeah, watching those events and then getting invested in them and they do a really good job because they'll be a profile on an athlete and then all of a sudden you buy into that story and then all of a sudden you're part of the rooting section. And now you understand it's somebody from a small town and they made it here. You know, set a circumstances, some obstacles, but they're here. And that all of a sudden we're watching this. And this is the most important thing that's on TV. Yes, Marvin. If you're an Olympian, are you just thinking, man, gold? This could set me up for the rest of my life. So say if you're a figure skater, a ski jumper, even in gymnastics and the summer Olympics, are you just thinking, if I win gold, I'm Mary Lou right. Yeah, but good, but not everybody. You got to be in an event like that. There's a lot of gold medalist who don't cash in like we think they will. Not every gold medalist or any medalist cash is in. But if you're in those marquees like gymnastics, yeah, you've got a good chance to parlay that into a 30 year career of speaking engagements. But there's, there's only a few of those. It feels like those athletes, those events. I mean, Michael Phelps just took over swimming. He took over the Olympics. He dominated, you know, like Mark Spitz did. Back in 1972, Eric Heiden in the winter Olympics, when he was a speed skater. Yeah, Eric Heiden is, and I know we don't talk about speed skating because it doesn't come up unless it's the Olympics. What he did is equivalent to winning the like you saying bowl, winning the 100 meter dash and winning the marathon. That's what Eric Heiden did. He was unbelievably fast and then he had the durability for all these endurance races. And I think he's still a doctor, but Eric Heiden was one of the, he's a doctor. Well, yeah, what a show off. I know. Pick one or the other. You could be a doctor or win a bunch of gold medals. Yeah. The US Olympic Committee pays the winning athletes. If you get a gold medal, you get 37, 5, 22, 5 for silver, 15 for bronze. Some of the other countries pay over $100,000 if you get a gold medal. Yeah. Well, Russia used to do that. China, I think, I think there's certain countries that they paid overpaid. And then you would get some athletes who had Chinese descent or Russian descent, they, they would go and compete with them because they knew that they could make more money competing for that country. Let me see. Cory and Kansas City. Hi, Cory. What's on your mind today? Hey, good morning, Mr. Patrick. Huge broom guy here. As always, Mark, feet and tank forever guys. Second port side, six foot three down 50 pounds to 185. So amazing, super, super bowl week has always fell as Gerald McCoy was to highlight for me the NFL blood story of how we got to stand them. I really did too. Pretty hard. The BBC and Recurring more as a regular guest, but quick way in on the poll question, then two driving related comments. Here in Kansas City, when we were winning our championships, they were canceled in school as far out as two hours away for people to attend the parade. So, yes. But on your driving topics, number one, during my driving test, my instructor told me that I was better and reversed than driving forward. And then two, I would like to challenge Todd for the past full title. I drive 10 miles an hour above the speed limit and the left hand lane, totally appropriate. However, if someone comes up super aggressively behind me, I call me wait. I let them go around me. And once they have passed, I hit my bunker and I move over to the right hand. Oh, wow. Corey. Yeah, Corey. Stay true to yourself. Kenny and LA. Hi, Kenny. Hey, Danny. So I got a couple things for you. First on the NBA and then on the high school teammates, as far as the NBA is concerned. Next time he had Brian Minors, I'm talking to him about a genius colleague to talk about. It's kind of like a reversal. If you lose too much, let's say they come up with February 1st or the all star break, that's not going to help you in terms of how many chips you get for the lottery. So I'm talking with you about that. Wendy was fantastic last night. I'm actually going to the game tomorrow night. Hopefully we'll get at least Austin reads and the Bron play. And then in terms of high school teammates, Mike Robinson, the beta tension, Kurt Flies will me outfield of McClellan's high school. Yeah, in San Francisco. That's a bill Russell go to McClellan's high school. Maybe check that. That's a pretty good outfield there. Well, I've been saying for a while, once you're eliminated from the postseason, every win you have after that gets you more of an advantage of, you know, ping pong balls. Like I want you still competing instead of a you're eliminated. Now we don't have to play anybody, but I want to make sure that we're still competing the rest of the year. Yeah, we'll get somebody on tomorrow to talk more about it. They bill Russell go to McClellan's high school. He did. Yeah, that's what I thought. Chris in New York, hi Chris. Hi, Dan. Thanks for having me. Not to be confused with the prestigious Chris and Syracuse New York. Anyway, I am an AI engineer and I was calling in because I took a new job and I've had a few weeks to do basically nothing. I went ahead because I've heard you can see about this on and off the last four or five years and built an AI site that goes through your audio files of the show and tracks pited the face. That's so that we have history and standings from the last at least two years of transcripts. I know that's been a bit of a pain. I wanted to share that with you guys and the BRGs. Okay. How are you going to share that with us? It is a public link. The BRGs already have it. But if we are looking at it right now, now there's a caveat. AI can make mistakes, but I wanted to ask you a pop quiz of according to this, who is the only Dan or Dan with a losing pie to the face record? A losing pie to the face record. Paul? I'm guessing Todd. Yeah, it's a good guess and a sensible guess, Paul, but it's actually one Marvin print, you literally don't bowed in 14. And Dan, I'm showing that you actually have one pie to the face that you have not taken. Well, there was one where Fritzy did not deliver the pie in time before we went off the air. That was an epic fail. So that should count as I was going to get the pie. I was ready to go and Todd couldn't pull the trigger there, Chris. We are counting that. I do believe that when I say that, I haven't actually reviewed it, but I'm actually showing one bet that hasn't been paid off at all. How many how many pies to the face have not been paid off? You know, again, AI can make mistakes and we can almost broke my computer putting this thing together, but if we ramp up the speeding power, we can get a little more accurate, but I'm showing a total of five unpaid bets, two of which are by show members. Okay. All right. Well, we'll look at that, Chris, and thank you. Sure thing. An honor to call in. Thank you. All right. AI, it's here. When we were in San Francisco and out at the Chase Center, and I was talking to a local, I said, well, who's buying up that property? They said, open AI. And it was like as far as I could see, open AI was buying all of this property in San Francisco, over by where the warriors play. Brad and Oklahoma. Hi, Brad. What's on your mind today? I'm six foot. Yes? I have a question about the bone. No sign. Oh, what happened? What's the follow up? What do you give it to him? You didn't. Did you sign it? I did give it to Bo Jackson. I had had that bow nose for over 30 years, and I keep everything. And I thought, you know, one day, I'll see Bo and I'll have him sign it for me, the Nike campaign. And I said to Bo, here, I want you to have it. And then we went to commercial break. And he said that my grandkids already have one each. You keep it. And then he grabbed it and signed it. And it's on the truck coming back. The big Germans driving back. And I'll put it up in the man cave probably tomorrow. But that was that was a great interview because Bo made it great. Bo had to share that he had had prostate cancer surgery. And I'll keep saying that to you. Do not wait. When somebody says, wait to your 50. Do not wait to your 50 for prostate. Any of these cancers, there's no need to wait. It's not some magical. Hey, you're 50 now. You know, you can go in. I just go in, get a colonoscopy, prostate cancer, get your blood tested. I mean, do it. Because Bo Jackson didn't know. And maybe he does know. He probably saved some lives that day in San Francisco with what he said. Because here's Bo Jackson having prostate cancer surgery three months earlier. And then revealing that on the show. And then telling everybody, hey, I got it. You can get it. And I just appreciated the honesty that he gave us. But the story where he got his bell wrong. And he went to the other sidelines. And he sat on the other team's bench. And didn't realize it. That got over four million views. I think on Instagram or one of the social media channels. Yes, Marvin. It's now at 10 million views. 10 million. Correct. I would have thought Bo talking about prostate cancer would be the one. And Marvin goes, hey, got a clip with Bo Jackson went viral. I said, oh, that's one about prostate cancer. He goes, no, no, when he got his bell wrong. And he went to the wrong bench and sat down. Didn't realize it was half time, I think. 10 million views with that. Wow. That's the power of Bo Jackson. First ballot hall of famer Drew Breeze will join us next. More of your phone calls as well back after this. Be sure to catch the live edition of the Dan Patrick show weekdays at 9 AM Eastern 6 AM Pacific on Fox Sports Radio in the I Heart Radio app. I have a podcast empire. It continues to grow. And I have brought it here to I'm also doing a live radio show from three to five PM Eastern because my wife wanted to kick me out of the house. It's called Stagatsick Company Live, which is available on podcast form right when the show finishes every single day. Some of the biggest names in sports. A lot of phone calls. I love you guys. It's one of my favorites. A lot of interact. A lot of interact. You guys not taking themselves too seriously. Those are just some of the things that you can expect from Stagatsick Company and Stagatsick Company Live. So listen to Stagatsick Company Live and our original podcast. Please subscribe, rate and review. Stagatsick Company and God Bless Football. Taylor's livelihood depends on it. Do it today. And you can check all of those out on the I Heart Radio app. Apple Podcast for wherever. You get your podcast. You know what? I think all of this is still pretty surreal. I don't think as a kid you necessarily sit there and think about Hall of Fame. I think at that point you're just thinking I just want to play this word for as long as I can. I love playing it. I love being a part of the team. Maybe I can play in college someday. Maybe I can play in the NFL someday. And then all of a sudden you play 20 years and the numbers add up to the point where people think it justifies you being a first ballot all the famer. So I mean honestly I just have such such a respect and a reverence for the game and to the opportunity of play it for so long and try to make my mark on the game and be better than when I found it. But you defy the odds because if I said hey he's not 64 not 65 in an era where everybody had to be 6465 in college. You're six feet and you're not a runner. I can't doesn't add up like how did you beat the odds to be able to throw for 60,000 yards? Well if you recall you had me on your show about what 10 years ago at the Super Bowl and I think we went through my draft reading where it did say I was a runner. It was saying I would run through people. I didn't know how to make a mess. It's that a tough runner. That was 20 pounds ago and I was playing in the Big 10. Had to bulk up. You know honestly I think pride in that. I take pride in being, you know, call it a six foot quarterback, you know maybe being a little bit undersized. I always felt like I had something to prove. I had to chip on my shoulder. I mean I don't know what it's like to be 65. You know, do those guys have better vision? Do they? Can they see up over the line of scrimmage? And you know it's like a whole new world up there I bet in that strategy. I mean I always felt like honestly this is the way I'm always described it is if you close your eyes. So you take away, you know, your visual sense. All of a sudden your sense of hearing is heightened and your sense of smell and you're just sense of awareness and feeling of what's around you. That's probably the best way to describe maybe playing the quarterback position in the pocket amongst a world of giants where at times maybe you can't necessarily see exactly where you're throwing the football. But you can feel what's around you and you can sense the depth of the linebacker and then the safety over the top and you know that that receiver is going to be rolling that in, cut in at 15 yards and your feet are telling you it's time to turn the ball loose right. And you let it go and you just lay it to that spot and then it's like poetry and motion to hit some in the hands and it's you know first down and then you're on to the next play to do it again. So like I can't tell you how many times that was playing the quarterback position where you wouldn't necessarily always see it but it didn't mean that you couldn't feel it or that you couldn't visualize it. Let me put you in Drake May's position on Sunday and what would you have done differently as far as protections or philosophy of when you get the ball out like what you know what are you doing differently when you see what Seattle's doing? Well first off that defense was as good as there was in this league you know all your long that Seattle defense. They could rush the passer. They had a ton of skill on the back end as well. I can't give enough credit to Mike McDonald and kind of just what he built with that system with that team. At the end of the day when you're playing a pass rush like that there's a premium to finding ways to get the ball out. Just trying to get the ball on the perimeter to guys where it's one on one maybe they have a chance to just get you three four yards. I think you just have to be okay with the fact that you may not get a ton of explosive plays because you're not going to have the chance to hold the ball very long. Then you mix in a put you got to run the ball effectively you got to get on the perimeter and then you kind of pick and choose your slots to throw in a play action to try to push the ball down the field. But you have to be okay with more of a ball control. There's a premium on not having negative plays not giving up sacks because you get a third long against that defense like you're done. You know, and so play the field position battle a little bit. Look, early on your defense was playing really well too. They were holding the Seattle to a bunch of field goals. So you were keeping the game close, but they just needed to cash in a few more times and just not give up so many negative plays. I'm talking to first ball at Hall of Famer True Breeze. When were you told you guys were going to open up your Super Bowl the second half with an onside kick? So Sean Payton had nicknamed that play ambush. And I'm literally the first meeting of because it was you know two weekly time from you know NFC Championship to Super Bowl. Literally the first meeting we come in and it's like hey here's the practice schedule. Bup-up-up and oh by the way we have this onside kick it's called ambush it's not a matter of if we're going to call it but when so get ready and it has to work. So it wasn't score it wasn't score dependent. You're opening up the second half. Yeah it was it was all look and and this is this is part of the greatness of Sean Payton. It's just the instincts and just feeling the flow of the game and the momentum and just knowing the right time to to call it. And again he said it wasn't a matter of if it was when like when are we going to do this we're going to call it. And if you recall the way that game started with the Colts you know they came right out scored on their first two possessions they were up 10-0 and then we called it down a little bit in the second quarter we got to feel goal two field goals before half. And and so Sean felt like okay we now have the momentum we're kicking off in the second half. They're kind of resetting themselves on the other side because we had you know staged a little bit of this comeback. So he's like this is this is when they'll never expect it. So much of an onside kick is you do it when nobody thinks you're going to do it right in the Super Bowl biggest stage coming a half time you have all the momentum you know and and and it was the perfect time to do it. And it could have gone wrong it could have gone really wrong. But again again a great sign of leadership is instilling confidence right in belief in in your team and making it feel like it's work. I mean told us again very first meeting we are going to call this and it has to work. It will work. But you knew going out the set start of the second half that ambushes on. Well and here's a great thing too is he intentionally kicked the ball the direction he kicked it. Knowing that here Thomas Morstead is going to kick this thing and it needs to happen at our sideline right. Like again you're thinking about the human nature element of all of a sudden there's a scrum on the ground for the ball and all the officials are over there. Brian bodies away trying to see who has the ball and if they're on the St. sideline and everybody's going St. Paul St. Paul St. Paul you know if there's any type of a you know a question it's a it's white ball right as opposed to that happens on the opposing sideline and they're just getting it from the other side maybe you know the results different. We speaking of results different we talked to Jason Garrett last hour and he said that he was there in Miami and having dinner you and your wife thought that you were going to be going there. What I didn't understand is okay you had a shoulder injury but they decided on Dante Colt Pepper who also had a damaged knee and they kind of bet on his knee over your shoulder. Yeah you know I remember everything about that trip to Miami again like on paper you know I'm coming off of the the major shoulder injury not sure if I'm ever going to play football again but but hopeful and it's the normal in Saints and the Miami Dolphins. On paper this was the easiest decision in the world it's the Miami Dolphins all the way. Nick Sabin's the head coach has done an outstanding job of that defense one of the best defense of the league. Zach Thomas Jason Taylor like they had finished that last season the previous season winning seven in a row. Really the only question mark for their team was quarterback. They had skill position guys. Jason Garrett was the quarterback coach. Light Malarkey was the OC they were on the same offensive system that I was coming from in San Diego. On my recruiting trip there we're eating dinner on Wayne Heizingas Yacht and he's sitting there talking about how every summer we're going to go to Scotland and play golf. Me you and Dan I'm like Dan they're like yeah Dan Marino I'm like that was okay and it's like my mentor now you know me like this is the greatest day ever you know. Stay to Florida no stating attacks. I mean this is a no greater right. But also on that trip they put me through like this this rigorous you know health you know inspection basically like six hours of testing contrast MRI tube you know where I'm in the MIT I literally literally for two hours and they're trying to assess just the damage that was done to my shoulder and the chances of me being able to come back and be the same. Remember sticking these big needles in my arm to test my nerve endings I mean it was nuts. And at the end of the day Nick Saban looked me in the eye and said you know our doctors think you have a 25% chance of ever coming back and planning it. And I'm like well okay I know what they say but what do you think you know he's like I you know I got to believe what the doctors are telling me you know but you know we still want you but you know it's just letting you know kind of you know what's been said. And so I just really didn't get the feeling that they had a ton of faith or confidence in my ability to come back. So despite how good that visit was and how much respect I had for them and the organization and everything you know the Saints was a totally different story from the perspective of look. I mean we know that city was destroyed you know but Sean Payton and Mickey Luminous had just this unwavering belief in me to be their guy and to be a leader of that organization it was going to be this collaboration and I was going to have so much input they were building this thing around me and it was just that moment where I felt like I had a chance to be a part of something so much greater than football. I felt like it was God's calling my life to be there and so that's why we chose the world. Did the Saints not have an MRI machine they didn't put you through the same test that the dolphins did. Apparently not it was down. You know for you I think it was a little bit maybe it was like you know ignorance is bliss it was like we don't want to know we would rather not look at the images or just going to you know maintain a ton of faith and hope that you're going to be okay. Tell us what you're doing with the stretch zone effect. Yeah so stretch zone is a practitioner of led stretching brand the fastest growing largest in the country it's been around since 2016 I've actually been a member since 2018 it was a big part of my routine towards the end of my career just to help with my flexibility and mobility which which helps to generate power as a throw in a rotational athlete all the things that you would lose with the aging process I was trying to stay ahead of and keep an edge with to the point where I believed in it so much that when I got done playing I ended up being an investor ambassador sitting on the board for stretch zone opening up franchises in Louisiana and Indiana and it's amazing I obviously I know the impact it's had on me and my career and just my overall training and health and it totally you know so many people of our clients our customers feel the same way but now we're releasing a research study that has pretty amazing you know results in regards to like the true benefits of practitioner led stretching through stretch zone up to 90% of people feel more energy have better range of motion they sleep better less pain back pain handstring pain wherever you might be experiencing it and just being able to get back so many of the things that maybe they thought they had lost but the practitioner led stretching through stretch zone has been able to get back to them so just an overall better quality of life good for you congrats again always appreciate you joining us thank you Drew you two Dan thanks man great seeing you Drew breeze now you can say first ballot holo famer it would matter to me now I know you want to get in the holo famed but getting in with the first ballot designation that all of a sudden like Drew walks in six five not six foot yeah see Drew breeze first team all dap guy one of the strongest daps in the league for sure really yeah yeah watch any video of him after a play or like in the locker room with some dudes super strong dap game never a miss always licking his fingers though yeah yeah yeah Drew the lick in your fingers did your wife ever say we you stop it yes yes she's like do you know where your hands are here as a quarterback does our yes I'm sorry I just it just became habit you know did you ever do it around that I spuggler chinstrap you know like to lock in I'm I'm a figurelicker did you ever do it around the house yes that's the thing that's messed up when I get in when I get in an environment where I have to like flip the switch and go super focus mode like you will see and I can't help it on telling I can't lie to the point where yeah my wife will be like did you really just randomly lick your fingers like walking down the street like she and she's she'll go like what are you thinking about and I'm like I'm thinking about this she's like when you get laser focused you just immediately go to the the finger like that's like your that's your mechanism how did you not get a Kentucky fried chicken deal you know that's a great question Dan we're we're we're gonna we're on okay more yeah more McCain's more of a Cains guy but but you know okay yeah what about for breeze uh yeah well for breeze we got breeze airways yeah um there's there's there's a lot of there's a lot of a lot of directions we can go here I'm trying to help you I'm trying to help you I know you you're you're creative creative working director all right I'll let you go that's uh I'll lick my fingers here Drew breeze yeah yeah he would always you could tell like they'd be getting a drive and you know game on the line all of a sudden he'd be licking his fingers I remember I'd always clean the bottom of my converse when I was playing yeah I always wiped them that's a big one yeah yeah yeah that's yeah yes Todd I love when the interview is over in the guest sticks around and he's over here what we're saying and then all of a sudden there's a part two of the interview afterwards no Mario does a great job that he'll he likes to keep the guests there just in case we need to come back to them all right let's take a break last call for phone calls what we learned what's in store tomorrow after this Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk line up in the nation catch all of our shows at Fox Sports Radio dot com and within the I Heart Radio app search fsr to listen live last call for phone calls what we learned once in store tomorrow 877 3dp show email address dpadampatric dot com twitter handle at dp show Lucas in L.A hi Luke what's on your mind today hey Dan first time long time uh I got an idea for mba tanking and redoing the lottery so let's say we take the five worst records and we re-rank them by games missed by players so let's say this team of the bad record missed 30 games but this team had a worse record but their players missed a hundred games whatever team missed less games you get the better pick because that means you're actually playing your guys and you still suck rather than a team who players are missing games and suck all right you know what I'll bring this up to Chris Manick's who covers the NBA for sports illustrator he'll join us tomorrow but thank you Lucas thank you Ryan in Iowa I Ryan what's on your mind hey Dan thanks for the year this morning now i'm calling for some NFL breaking news um the i uh the Des Moines Register is important and the ios senate has uh put out paperwork to attract Chicago Bears to come to Iowa well good luck with that good luck with that I remember when people thought that uh hardford was going to get the patriots they used hardford and I just remember neighbors were like do you think we're getting the patriots I go no well they're talking about that hardford's gonna get the patriots I go it's not gonna happen it that you're being used was that victor kiam was he the uh owner back then yes marvin they played hardford like a fiddle i was a kid when that happened because foxboro the old foxboro stadium was a dump oh you know we need a new stadium oh hardford all the ideas out here in connect oh we're getting the not they built your light right next to the old stadium i know yes he i mean not for nothing but the the patriots did sign a deal with the governor of Connecticut to put a stadium there and then the patriots broke the deal yeah i mean they did sign a deal to make it happen that that would make me lead to believe it might yeah i just never thought it was gonna happen uh but you know demoines the demoines bears yes paul 300 miles away from downtown Chicago okay all right all right get up early road trip road trip clint kubiak former Seattle offensive coordinator now they had coach of the raiders was asked this question yesterday you've uh spoken to max crossby and a seated guy you could see anchoring your defense here for years to come i did uh you know i got the drink cup of coffee with max this morning i love talking ball with him and and you know look forward to continuing those conversations he was he was the first one in here is more than working out so i fired me up i hope he stays but i understand where they sat him down with the last two games and he was like hey i want to play don't do that to me and uh was holding the organization accountable for that and then there was a report that he told tom Brady never play for the raiders again you can give it a little bit of time you know a little bit of separation and i'm sure tom Brady can smooth this over and talk about you know moving forward with this franchise and a new quarterback and a you know the offensive coordinator the super bowl winning team and you know we have something here that we're building stay here you know be the main stay of this defense here yes marvin they always tell you who the first person in building is but they never say who's the last person you can't have numerous guys who are the first guy in the building right because there has to be that one guy who's first in the building not man he's the first guy in the building kind of guy well is he the first guy in the building no he's one of those first guys so we have first guys in the building here i think Tyler might be the first guy in the building but that's not due to dedication that's due to he has to turn on the lights it's not like he's getting to work early earlier than everybody else yeah but you know look at Tyler if you're watching on peacock and NBC sports network look at he working hard right there got my dog in there taking care of winning taking care of the phone calls yes Todd that's not to say he's not also passionate about getting in early and just getting things situated and get his day going early he likes to be here well he has to be the first person here is turn on the light I mean he has to be but it doesn't mean that he doesn't want to would prefer not to be oh just try to put a little positive spin on it well i'm just giving reality here maybe either way he would have been coming here 63645 in the morning this day in sports history in 1990 Dan this is a hammer in Tokyo Japan James buster Douglas knocked out Mike Tyson in the 10th round to win the heavyweight championship and i remember and i've said this before the mothership sent Eric Clemens to Tokyo and i think there were other networks that didn't send anybody because they didn't think Mike Tyson was going to get knocked out by buster Douglas but all of a sudden we have Eric Clemens there and we're getting access to one of the biggest upsets in boxing history uh Jamie and Oklahoma hi Jamie what's on your mind hey Dan second time long time five 10 220 pounds hey uh i got two things but first i owe Marvin a pride to the face we bet that the Raiders were going to be a 10 win team this year and they definitely were not so i need to know what kind of pie i'll Marvin take blue beer okay how about a blueberry jane all right hey the second thing is look man you've uh championed for a lot of people uh when it comes from the hall of fame that that get overlooked i'm just wondering your opinion on Jim plunkett well he's got the two super bulls and usually that's magical enough i just don't know if the rest of his body of work is hall of fame worthy great story um you know great career at stanford you know i went to a bad team in new england um but you know he he produced some uh big games in the super bowl in the playoffs yes pulling he was 72 and 72 in his career as a starter his career is a little bit like darnels in the way that it didn't work out for a while and then started working out in other places yeah he went to a good team uh Brandon and you tall hi Brandon hi dan uh second time long time five four one sixty here's here's how you fix the draft uh for the NBA um 30 teams equal odds you do three televised drawings one for the uh final the in season tournament the other all star game half time and then the third and it's normal and then your position is based on the average of those three drawings and you basically resolve any ties by coin toss or rush and roulette okay i like that i didn't know where you're going to introduce russian roulette in here to finding out who's going to have the number one pick in the draft feels extreme it's a little a little uh but you know life and death sports is life and death kareem and uh colorado hey dan good morning guys hey listen that story with group reasons plenty i always thought that was the nastiest thing ever where he would lick his fingers before touching the ball i referee basketball and last week man i walked into the locker room we're getting ready for a game and a guy is literally spitting on the bottom of his shoes wiping it with his hands yeah he sticks his he sticks his hand out this shake mine i'm like uh that i think it happens to be about some dapp instead i used to do that you spit on your hand you like the dust off your uh your converse all stars get some traction there definitely yeah you do that on defense like you yeah man i'm ready i'm gonna play some defense here i'll sit in the chair yeah we didn't slap the floor back then we cleaned the bottom of our shoes that meant we were really serious about playing defense slapping the floor it's so unnecessary oh we're really gonna play it goes right by you i said that to wadge the steep wadge of house can you get to because man you slapped the floor i'm going right by you you're busy garden ed kota yeah barb and kota barbeque shaking yes he just looking at an all finger licking team here uh drew breeze obviously Matthew Stafford big finger liquor marino marino massive finger licking guy yeah for sure uh i think Montana may have okay shy about licking a finger too all right uh Jake Dale home Jake Dale homie yeah he had a strong habit yeah marve different sport but Steve mash yeah yeah and finger liquor Todd what did i learn on today's program Jason Gats and the fins were very in an acquiring breeze but coach statement said no rototiff worked at a cuff concerns are too high at asking price what we learned brought 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