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Dan Patrick: Aaron Rodgers Did Not Own Adam Schefter

“Aaron harps on fake news all the time. Adam Schefter is at least trying to get the right information here.”

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ESPN NFL insider Adam Schefter went viral on Wednesday sharing a screenshot of quarterback Aaron Rodgers telling him via text to lose his phone number.

Schefter was trying to get to the bottom of a scoop that both he and NFL reporter Dianna Russini had on Rodgers’ future in the NFL and talks with the New York Jets.

Dan Patrick thought everyone dunking on Schefter didn’t see the bigger picture and that Schefter was just doing his job.

“Aaron harps on fake news all the time. Adam Schefter is at least trying to get the right information here,” Patrick said Thursday on his radio show. “I think he’s tried to get it from Rodgers.”

Dan added that what he’d like to get to the bottom of was who leaked the information about Rodgers having a list of players he’d like to play with and talking to the Jets about it.

“That’s what I would like to know. Cause Aaron wants transparency,” Patrick said. “That didn’t last long! Jets have already leaked this.”

Patrick said ultimately his issue isn’t in that Rodgers wouldn’t speak to Schefter or Russini.

“I had no problem with that. And I know people go ‘Dan, Rodgers owned Adam Schefter,'” Patrick said. “I’m like, no he didn’t! Schefty tried!”

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Mike Ricordati: I’ve Made 97.1 The Fan Tons of Money, I Should Be Able to Skip Breaks

“We’ve never been accused of being professional.”

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97.1 The Fan afternoon hosts Mike Ricordati — also known as “Common Man” — and Jonathan “T-Bone” Smith raised eyebrows around the industry earlier this week after the pair refused to take regularly scheduled commercials breaks while discussing Ohio State’s loss to Michigan. The show was threatened with suspension and removal from the air if they didn’t return to taking commercial breaks.

On Common Man & T-Bone Tuesday, the pair discussed the incident at length, with Ricordati sharing his displeasure about the situation.

Although he was apparently not supposed to discuss what occurred the day before, Ricordati opened the show by describing the incident. He conveyed that he was back on the air despite some people assuming that he would not be allowed to host the program. Moreover, he acknowledged that there were points on Monday where he did not believe he would be on the day’s episode, although he posted on X that he would be on the show at 3 p.m. later in the day.

“We were talking and drinking bourbon on the air, which is not professional but who the hell cares,” Ricordati said. “We’ve never been accused of being professional.”

Smith thought that the hosts’ consumption of the alcoholic substance would get them in trouble, which was indeed confiscated later in the program. The initial concern seemed to stem from the program skipping a commercial break, which prompted Ricordati to expound on what he believes is a double standard within the building. TEGNA also owns a television station, WBNS, which operates under the same roof and provides breaking news coverage when necessary. During these times, the outlet interrupts regularly scheduled programming and eschews commercial breaks as it procures and disseminates real-time information en masse.

“But when there’s a national day of mourning among Buckeye Nation, they expect us to go out there, do our 10 minutes [and] hit the break,” Ricordati said. “Why? We’re here to provide a service to you, so you take the hit for a day. If you’ve got a radio host willing to sit there for three hours straight and drink bourbon and talk to people and still adhere to FCC regulations, which we were going to do, then you know what? Eat the commercial inventory for a day. I volunteered to pay for it.”

Smith suggested that instead of going to break, the show could have implemented live sponsorship reads, using plumbing services as an example. Not only would it have hypothetically provided a boon for business, he surmised, but it would have also ensured that the outlet could keep attaining revenue.

When Ricordati began to ponder how often the program has an episode as monumental as an Ohio State loss to Michigan, he recognized that it is becoming an annual tradition, a matter of concern for fans of the team. Smith replied by vowing that if the team loses a fourth straight game to Michigan next year, the program will discuss the NBA and eliminate football discussion from the episode entirely.

“NBA and just commercials. It’ll be TEGNA’s wet dream,” Ricordati added. “Oh yes.”

Although he did not divulge specific details about the conversation he had with management on Monday, Ricordati implied that he raised his voice and revealed that Fishman did not show up for work. While the reason for Fishman’s absence is unknown, Ricordati took it as an opportunity to say that he won the battle.

Mike Ricordati then took issue with the idea that he doesn’t have the ability to dictate how his program operates, in spite of his long history with the station.

“I have been on these airwaves for 20 years,” Ricordati affirmed. “I have hosted more shows than anybody in the history of this radio station. I’ve made a lot of money for this place. If I want to do a show where I blow through a break or two, I should be allowed to do it.”

“What do they think?,” Smith said later in the segment regarding company management. “They know who we are; they know this show. We’ve been on the air together for 11 years; you’ve been on here for 20 years. They know how this show is. We talk; we tell people what’s on our minds [and] we have an audience that listens to us because they expect us to not pull any punches, which by the way, that’s what yesterday was all about.”

Following a brief discussion about Ohio State and the job security of head coach Ryan Day, it was time for the show to take its first scheduled commercial break of the afternoon. Ricordati told his producer once again that he did not want to go to a break, eliciting laughter within the studio before the show ran its first set of advertisements.

“We’re going to do a fun show today,” Ricordati disclosed. “I can’t do yesterday’s show again for a variety of reasons.”

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Jim Rome: I Don’t Want to Talk About How the NFL Sucks Every Day

Rome argued that “hate is the new dopamine” while noting that he doesn’t want to talk about what he hates all day.

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Jim Rome didn’t want to have to be that guy on Tuesday, but he had no choice.

Rome opened his CBS Sports Radio show by prefacing his comments on Monday night’s Bears/Vikings game by saying his goal isn’t to just ridicule the NFL schedule into oblivion.

“I don’t come in here every single day looking to bag on and hate on NFL primetime games,” Rome said. “And yes, I’m the one who said it – hate is the new dopamine. But that’s not how I get down. That’s not my deal.”

Jim Rome added that just saying everything sucks isn’t a sports take. But he pivoted from there saying that it’s OK to say 95% of the primetime games in the NFL suck because it’s true.

“Then not only is it a take, it’s the only take,” he said. “How are these games actually managing in primetime to get worse and worse? And how is anything going to top the atrocity that we sat through last night?”

Fans in theory should get a more competitive, high-scoring affair on Thursday night when the Seahawks take on the Cowboys. But Rome just couldn’t believe how torturous Monday night’s contest really was.

“Technically, the Bears did win that game. But technically, really, we all lost,” he said.

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Mad Dog: Gus Johnson ‘Bothered The Hell Out of Me’ Saturday

“For crying out loud, Michigan/Ohio State isn’t even better than North Carolina/Duke, who play twice a year. So let’s be careful with the hype machine.”

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FOX Sports college football voice Gus Johnson has made no bones about his affinity for Ohio State wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. However, Chris “Mad Dog” Russo has heard enough.

During his Mad Dog Unleashed program on SiriusXM, Russo shared that not only was Johnson obnoxious for the constant use of a nickname he bestowed up Harrison, but he was also misguided for calling Ohio State/Michigan the greatest rivalry in sports.

“Gus Johnson — the hype machine that he is — please, when you broadcast a ballgame, I don’t need to hear about Maserati Marv, number one. And number two, that’s not the greatest rivalry in sports history. Have you heard of the Yankees and the Red Sox? Giants and the Dodgers? How about Bears/Packers? Have you heard about that?

“For crying out loud, Michigan/Ohio State isn’t even better than North Carolina/Duke, who play twice a year. So let’s be careful with the hype machine. That bothered the hell out of me.”

When a caller pushed back on Russo’s opinion on the Michigan/Ohio State rivalry, he continued by saying “That rivalry’s not Yankees/Red Sox. To compare college football to the Yankees and the Red Sox is ludicrous.”

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