The Dan Patrick Show
Hour 1 – USMNT Has Good Problems, Caitlin Controversy, Taylor Twellman
26 Jun 2026
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Chapter 1: Why is the USMNT's loss to Türkiye considered a good problem?
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Chapter 2: What are the implications of Caitlin Clark's controversy in the WNBA?
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Chapter 3: How does Taylor Twellman analyze the USA's performance in the World Cup?
I'm a bit concerned.
This seems like an borderline anti-American pro-England World Cup dish. Is that what's going on here?
It's actually, we're taking it back. That's what we're doing. We're taking it back from England. Okay. Much like we did in 1776 then.
All right. I'll back that then.
I vaguely remember that. What else is on the menu? Cherry pepper pork chops. Those are going to be a little spicy. Garlic bread. Cheesy garlic bread. And jalapeno cheesy corn and the meat, the beef tenderloin, and the pork chops supplied by Heartland Steak. Who has it better than we do? Nobody. All righty. Got a play of the day poll question. Stat of the day. All of that forthcoming.
Oh, the United States lost last night. Oh, no. They didn't need to win. Once again, it's a lot of people clutching their pearls on this, and people coming in who aren't World Cup or Team USA followers, per se, on the periphery, and it's like, we lost? What's that mean? No, it's okay. We're moving on.
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Chapter 4: What lessons can be learned from Team USA's knockout stage preparations?
It's okay. But I think we get caught up in, well, we win. We win. Come on, we can't beat Turkey, eh? I mean, come on. Well, they didn't have their starters in. I think you had nine new starters. Kristen Polisic got to play. Looked good. And I think it's promising. Moving forward where now we get ready for the knockout stage. 877-3DP-SHOW. Email address dp at danpatrick.com.
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Todd's in the back row, Marvin and Paulie up front, yours truly, and the backroom guys. Aside from Turkey over Team USA, 3-2, USA advances to the knockout round. Ivory Coast, yes, Ecuador, Netherlands, they end up winning. Sweden and Japan tie, Paraguay, Australia end up tying. Back to Team USA. One of the better stories of the tournament, of course, home field advantage.
But while the loss was disappointing last night, especially a goal coming in the closing moments, in the bigger picture, the grand scheme of things, this doesn't affect the Americans reaching the knockout stage. That was the goal. Then all of a sudden, you have reporters saying, well, you guys could have gone undefeated in the group stage. Coaches are saying, well, who cares?
I mean, we can go undefeated and lose the next match. Our goal was we're moving on and we want to be ready.
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Chapter 5: What factors contribute to the success of young soccer players in the World Cup?
This is a good problem for Team USA to have. We haven't had this good problem before. But Team USA still has every reason to believe it can make a deep run. You know, good teams learn from victories. Sometimes you'll get a win and it covers up some of the bad things you were doing.
With the loss, it may ultimately prove more valuable because maybe a wake-up call with some certain things that Team USA did and did not do. But 3-2, the final in that. All right, Dylan, poll question. First hour is going to be what? Well, I've got a smattering of poll questions from Todd, actually.
For starters, Team USA's World Cup late loss to Turkey is no big deal, a bit concerning, or very troubling, Dan? It's no big deal. No big deal. If you had told everyone that ahead of time we would be able to afford to lose a game in the group stage, I think people would sign up for that, right? Yeah, it's a good problem to have. Yeah, Paul?
It's like a college football team going undefeated, and they're already in the playoffs, and then they lose their conference title game.
It doesn't matter. You'd like to win it. You'd prefer to win it. They didn't.
World Cup title odds, in case you're wondering, France is your favorite, followed by Spain, then Argentina, England, Portugal, Brazil, Germany, Netherlands. Team USA is plus 3,000 to win the title. France, by comparison, is plus 400. But also, I was looking at this, according to DraftKings, Team USA odds to win the cup, plus 3,000. To reach the final, plus 1,200. To reach the semifinal, plus 400.
to reach the quarters, minus 115. Dylan, of course, the resident gambler in this program, usually on the wrong side of things. Are you betting on Team USA big or just maybe to advance a couple more games?
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Chapter 6: How does the WNBA handle player controversies and media scrutiny?
Well, for starters, I have to admit something. I actually watched the entire game last night, which I think was the first buzzer beater I've ever seen in a soccer game. Did you bet on Turkey? I did. Okay, that's fine. You're not anti-American for doing it. You're pro-capitalist. Which is pro-American, by the way, if you're pro-capitalist. Okay, well, congratulations on that. Thank you.
It does show how quick, you know, the price of my patriotism is apparently Turkey plus 250, I guess. Okay. I can be bought. Okay. Yes, Paul?
It just felt, and I was listening to Clint Dempsey after the game, that America wanted to go 3-0, the American soccer fans, a big night in L.A., let's take down Turkey, go 3-0.
It's almost like it was a little rain on the wedding day type thing. It's no big deal, but you prefer to walk off with three wins.
yeah yeah i agree you want it to you know keep that momentum going uh eric winolda when he joined us yesterday he said no this is about just keeping momentum going instead of having reporters asking questions like wait what happened you know we you could have done something no other team has done no the fact that we didn't need to do that tells you everything you need to know about this team what other poll questions do you have there first hour dill
Well, do we want to get into the WNBA stuff at all? Sure. Okay. Throw it out there. Alyssa Thomas' flagrant two-and-one-game suspension for her actions against Kaitlyn Clark is fair, even though not assessed at the time, or way too little too late. I think it's a smart move. That's all. Smart move.
Watching in real time, you don't see it, you slow it down, and you can just go back retroactively, suspend her for one game. Should have been called in the moment. I still think the more dangerous call was when Kaitlyn Clark went up for a jump shot, tried to come down, and there was a player in her landing area.
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Chapter 7: What are the challenges faced by the WNBA in promoting its stars?
That's where you sprain an ankle, break an ankle, and that has to be called. This caught fire yesterday. We still don't know about the 30th anniversary poster of the WNBA. I think it has to do with licensing, that maybe you don't have the rights to Caitlin Clark. I don't know if that includes Diana Taurasi and Sue Bird and Candace Parker.
I mean, it's not white and black because you have Candace Parker, Tamika Catchings, who are black. They're not on the poster there. Might have been licensing. Do you have the rights to Caitlin Clark to be able to put her on that poster? As silly as that may sound, there has to be a reason. We said yesterday, is it incompetence or was it intentional?
Because I don't believe any publicity is good publicity, especially if you're the WNBA, especially with this topic. But the number of people who are like, Caitlin Clark should just go overseas and play. These players bargained to make more money so they don't have to play overseas. You would have these players finish a season and go over to Russia and play. They don't want to do that anymore.
And if you're Caitlin Clark and Nike is paying you all this money, you want to be on display here. So taking your ball and going home, not a logical response to this. Yes, Paul? On the WNBA 30th anniversary poster we brought up yesterday, it could be a rights thing. Darren Revelle of Collect, our friend who does sports business, said it definitely was part of it.
Other than Nike, Clark allows licenses... to use her name and number, but not necessarily her likeness without permission. It definitely could have been a permission thing with Nike and Clark's likeness.
Yeah, but I don't know about these other players. Diana Taurasi and Sue Bird, Candice Parker, Tamika Ketching should be on that poster. I mean, that bothers me more than the Caitlin Clark because Caitlin Clark, it feels like that's just marketing or licensing. Why wouldn't you put, I erroneously said founding fathers, but it's the founding members of the WNBA, the people that this was built on.
They should be on a 30th anniversary commemorative poster. But yeah, that was wise for the WNBA.
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Chapter 8: What insights does Taylor Twellman provide on the future of soccer talent?
By the way, just a note to the WNBA, have somebody available. Yesterday, we're one of the few outlets that called looking for a quote. We couldn't even get a quote out of anybody. And Paulie was working on that most of the show. Like, have somebody available, all right? Like, you have to answer tough questions sometimes, and this is a time when you have to answer a tough question.
But have somebody available, that's all. Have somebody available for comment. Everybody was traveling. Nobody was available yesterday. And then it spirals out of control, and it gets even worse. And then all of a sudden, everybody's got an opinion about this, even people who probably didn't even see the game. They saw the highlight. Oh, my God, look at what they're doing.
Okay, we've been doing this. We've been doing this since she got into the league. It will continue until something happens with the WNBA, where they have some kind of edict that says, look, it feels like we're going to the opposite extreme to not protect her. Yes, Paul.
You said this yesterday in the moment with the poster situation. If it's a conflict of rights or likenesses, say it. Say it early and get it out there. If they would have said this yesterday morning early, you wouldn't have had 12 hours of hot takes about them leaving her off the poster.
Yeah, I know. And then, you know, people get caught up, well, because she's white and straight. They've had white and straight stars before, okay? Like, can they... That's not why WNBA players may not like Kaitlyn Clark. They don't like that she gets all the attention. That's all. Now, if you want to factor in other things, okay, maybe.
But the overriding factor, I think, that you have this pushback from players is, hey, she's kind of got cart launch. She got the red carpet treatment. We're the ones who have been here in the league. We built this league. Okay. And they're right. But that doesn't mean the WNBA should not protect Kaitlyn Clark. Their ratings are 30% higher than any other team. People tune in.
She's a difference maker. I mean, that's not an opinion. That's a fact. She's a star. They should protect her because we're watching the stars. We see what happens, what doesn't happen. We see when Wemby does something. Or Jalen Brunson or Luka, we're watching the stars. So be aware and watch the stars as well.
You don't have to treat them that way, but there should be more respect in how she plays the game. Now, does she try to sell every foul every time down the floor? Yes. Yes, she does. And I think that's bothersome to the league, to the optics, and to the opposition. But I just want to make sure that this doesn't get out of hand where she suffers a really bad injury.
And she's coming off an injury plague season a year ago. But, yeah, yesterday they let it kind of metastasize, and that's on the WNBA. But have somebody available, that's all. And you could even say, look, we have no comment on that or we can't comment on that. Or maybe you can say, hey, it's a licensing situation. That's all. There are certain players that we don't have control over. That's all.
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