Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Road to World Football Show Thursday, February 19th,

2026.

I'm Patrick. Join by Denny Carter. Kyle Dvorchick were joined by many news items.

We're joined by a mock draft. The Kaar released last week.

Denny's been grinding blurbs, Rivers and Count grinding blurbs, just two amongst many on our website.

Denny's finding stuff like Brian Dable saying Cam Ward is a big factor

and taking the Titans O.C job. This actually might have been Kyle that posted that one.

I think Denny found this one, the athletics, Athletic Lewis, excuse me, Alec Lewis believes

Mac Jones, quote, checks more boxes for the Vikings than any other available quarterback.

And so Denny's already getting into the point of the season. Like point of season. Mac Jones saves the Vikings. Who says no? Listen, I appreciate you giving me a credit for all these blurbs. I've done done. We're going to talk Daible with Cam Ward, though. The Vikings maybe with Mac Jones. We're talking about the Falcons probably without Tyler R.G. Don't tell me Denny didn't write that one. I didn't. Tears and his beers on that one. I'll shout out Nick Botaford probably wrote the Mac Jones one. I think he's the one on right now. Tears and Denny's Algiers, beers, leaving the Falcons, never been more irrelevant. I'm trying to rebound with Isaiah likely who's heading to free free agency. No progress. And the Ravens attempts to sign him. I'll ask you guys how you think he might pan out. Justin Fields, if we have time, then we're going to ask Kyle about his mock draft. Who is the wide receiver one? What's the over under for first round receivers? Is Jeremiah Love? St. Louis is Jeremiah Love. For sure in the top 10.

Is there a second first round quarterback? Things of that nature. But first, you know, debate,

always raging in the sports space. Tanking has kind of become one of the eternal debates.

Everyone agrees this year, it's worse than ever. And the NBA, everyone's really fed up with it,

except for one man, former Dallas Mavericks owner, Mark Cuban, who says actually tanking is good. And thank God, Danny made that sound. To me, it sounds like the kind of thing you wouldn't typically agree with. Yeah, he's right. So nothing wrong. I mean, you should try to lose. It absolutely makes sense that we have a professional competition, hundreds of millions of dollars in fan interest online.

Teams should not be trying to win.

It makes perfect sense to me.

There was a time when I would have said, yeah, absolutely.

They should follow the analytics and they should lose because the analytics always says you

should lose.

But no, no, no.

In my old age, I say, that's not right.

And that violates like the basic tenets of why you play a game.

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