Dan Patrick Show

Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine joined the show to talk about his team’s struggles and what’s next in Boston. Dan asked if he can laugh at anything that happened this year. “Absolutely,” Valentine said. “I laugh about a lot of this stuff. But the record is no laughing matter.” Dan asked if he was down…

Michigan coach Brady Hoke joined the show to talk about the upcoming game against Notre Dame. Hoke talked about the work ethic you need to coach. He said he works 16-18 hour days, but he tries to encourage assistants to spend some time with their families. Hoke said he missed too much of his daughter’s…

FOX NFL officiating expert Mike Pereira joined the show to talk about the replacement officials. Pereira said the state of the officiating was “sad” because it’s undone work to get officiating where they want it. He said the League has been working on getting officials to control a game and keep it moving. And now…

Houston Texans running back Arian Foster joined the show to talk about his high expectations. Foster commented on the new emphasis in rules. He actually doesn’t like the NFL cutting out physical play. He said he grew up on old school football and guys like Ronnie Lott and he doesn’t like that the League is…

Profootballtalk.com’s Mike Florio joined the show to talk about the Monday Night Football game last night and more. Dan asked Florio his take on the officials in Week 2. Florio said they were good in Week 1, but reverted back to poor form this week. “It’s back to being the keystone cops we saw during…

Stanford coach David Shaw joined the show to talk about their win over USC on Saturday. Dan asked what he thinks of people calling this a big upset. “In our mentality, it’s not an upset,” Shaw said. “We’re on equal footing on every team we play.” Shaw talked about how they actually got the win. “Our defense…

MLB Network analyst Mitch “Wild Thing” Williams joined the show to talk about the playoff race. Dan asked Williams who he thinks gets into the postseason in the AL: Tampa winning the East. Yankees are a wild card. And the Angels are the second wild card. Williams said that he would vote for Ryan Braun for…

FOX NFL analyst Brian Billick joined the show talk about the big stories around the League. Billick said he doesn’t think that enough has happened to put pressure on the NFL to get rid of the replacement officials. Billick said that we all forget how much criticism we usually level at the officials early in…