The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - GBF- Grades

Episode Date: February 28, 2025

Billy, Mikey A and Fuentes discuss the NFLPA report cards that came out this week and why they make Billy want to strive for the Dolphins to be worse. How do some teams rate so bad in certain categories. Billy and Mikey have conversation about names and how we wind up stuck with the ones are given. Billy has major FOMO because of one story in the football world. Plus, a quick edition of More Mikely. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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with the BMO Eclipse Rise Visa Card. Terms and conditions apply. God bless football, Mikey, eh? God bless football, Fuentes. God bless football, Billy Go. Hey, thank you. By the way, today's episode of God bless football is presented by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours. So Stugatz is not here. He is traveling.

He has some much deserved time off for all the hard work he does during the season, going to visit his family abroad and internationally and all that stuff. And it couldn't have come at a better time because the combine is going on as we speak. And so far at the time of recording, the biggest story is Abdul Carter may be injured, but doesn't need surgery. So maybe not that injured anymore.

It's one of those injuries though, that's like, that's not something that's just gonna go away real quick. Like it's like a stress fracture in his foot. And that's the kind of thing where you're like, listen, I'm not saying he's not gonna go top five. I'm hoping he doesn't. I'm hoping he goes's not gonna go top five. I'm hoping he doesn't. I'm hoping he goes top seven, wink wink. But it's the kind of thing that make you think

just a little bit more about taking him. Yeah, I gotta be honest with you. I want things to be as dumbed down as possible to me when we're reporting injury. Like a stress fracture. I'm not a doctor, didn't go to medical school. Is the foot broken? Is it going to break soon? What's going on there? Just give it to me in as simple terms as possible. Not, hey, he's okay for now, but maybe this is going to be a thing down the road. Like, is he going

to be the number one pick? Is he going to be a top five pick? Is he not? Just simple stupid for me. He's gonna be, it's a stress fracture. I don't know what that is really. I'm not a doctor either, but I had one in my back and it's not something that feels good. Yeah, so we have a, you had one in your back. Hold on a second, I'm just gonna move past. And what happened?

And he was like, you need to stop playing football. Oh, you had this when you were a football player? Yes. And did you have? I mean, he didn't mean like, you have to stop playing for life, he was like, you just have to stop doing it now until it heals.

And what happened? How long did you stop playing for? Six months because it was the end of the season. Okay, so you're hearing it here first. Abdul Carter may be out for six months at least based on the experience Mike Ye had playing football in his high school and his doctors. Same level. Yeah.

I mean, also probably like 25 years ago or something at this point, right? So, okay. Um, we have a new game that we're going to play later today. Yeah, I mean also probably like 25 years ago or something at this point right so okay We have a new game that we're gonna play later today. It's called grades. We also have an Old favorite game that we're gonna play called more Mike Lee, but that's gonna be a little bit later in this show Mikey I want to address something now that Stu gots is out with you and with Mike Fuentes. I in my professional universe have an uncommon number of people around me with the name Michael and that was something that happened at ESPN as well. Fuentes's name is Michael but he goes by Fuentes. You go by Mikey A because the time when Sugata was doing weekend observations

up in Bristol, well he was in Bristol, you know what I mean, at ESPN there was you, Mikey A, there was Mikey C, who we miss dearly. So he made you Mikey A because of Mikey C. Now Mikey C goes by Mikey C and had gone by Mikey C before I believe. You were never Mikey A, you're Michael, like you see before, I believe. You were never Mikey A, you're Michael or Mike. No, I'm Mike. Nobody ever called me Mikey. And I think it was Stu Gotts' way because I was in Bristol and he was in Miami, obviously.

I think it was his way to be endearing without having to actually get to know somebody. Like, I'm not gonna call you Michael. I'm not gonna call you Mike. To me, you're Mikey. Yeah, now added to the complication was Mike Golick Jr. who became Gojo, Mike Golick Sr. who was Mike, and then down here we also have a Mike Ryan.

So there's a thousand Mikes in this universe and now that Sugatsa's in here, do you wanna go by Mike this episode or is he just married to Mikey A? Like what do we do here? how do we give you your identity back I guess you know what let's do it call me Mike for this episode okay let's throw people off okay I'll call you Mike now I will say that I'm probably gonna slip up a handful of times but I will I will do my best to call you Mike for

this episode you want to play just real quick should I just do my best to call you Mike for this episode You want to play our games? Real quick Should I just elbow my way in on goalie the next time we have him on and every time Stu says Mike and ask a question Just go over the top and answer it like sorry. I'm the new Mike now goalie by the way Mikey G Mikey G would be great. I think he would like that too. He seems like someone that likes shenanigans. Yeah, yeah.

By the way, well wishes to Michael. Like I believe he had like what? Shoulder reconstruction yesterday? Shoulder replacement. Oh my God, what I would do to replace some of my joints. You have no idea. Like I don't need it, but preemptive replacements on my shoulders, knees, hips, I'd do it.

Could you imagine just having like titanium joints? It seems like it'd be awesome. I got enough titanium already in my body that I'm good leaving it where it's at. Really, where do you have titanium? Yeah, I'm just gonna drop. I got metal in my leg and my arm and bad brakes that needed special fixings.

Wow. Jeez. How about that? You're an Abdul Carter stress fracture injury expert, but you have- Maybe I'm just weak. You know all the, yeah, did you drink milk as a child? Like what's going on here?

Like early onset osteoporosis or something? Probably. Not that we're making fun of anyone with osteoporosis, thoughts and prayers to anyone with osteoporosis. You want to play a game I like to call Grades? Yes. Okay, great. So this is a game that I like to call Grades

presented by Smirnoff, the world's number one vodka, please drink responsibly. We play this game roughly every year. And the way that Grades works is very simple. The NFL Players Association every year releases a report card of their grades where they have a number of different categories and each team ranks on a grade scale,

like a school grade scale, A through apparently F minus, or I guess A plus through F minus, which we didn't know was a grade. Didn't know F minus was a thing. Yeah. So F minus is a thing because as we found out, a number of teams received F-minuses in different categories

So we're gonna go over some of these grades and see what stood out to who and what our thoughts are on what Mikey Does that sound good to you? Do you want to go back and forth on this? How do you want to play grades? Let's go back and forth and you can start Okay, I'm gonna start with and this is probably gonna lead to a rant and it's a weird rant. I'm gonna start with the Miami Dolphins because the Miami Dolphins overall were the highest graded team out there.

They had A's across the board, A's, A pluses, A pluses, A's, they didn't even have an A minus in the major categories from treatment of families to food and dining, nutrition, locker room, training room, families to food and dining, nutrition, locker room, training room, training staff, weight room, strength coaches. All of them were in the A's. So it is regarded as, I guess, the top tier professional franchise in the NFL in terms

of the grading system and the players' grading. Now, here is where I have a qualm. I believe the Buffalo Bills, and I saw, and it's not here in the main categories, but I believe the Bills had an F in terms of travel, correct? F minus in travel, one of four F minuses, the Buffalo Bills in travel. So they finished dead last 32nd, F minus in team travel. And the Miami Dolphins, as I mentioned to you before,

A's across the board, everyone's happy about everything. And they were first overall. Now, I, someone who lives in Miami, am Miami Dolphins fan. Give my team an F in travel and have them make the AFC championship game. Okay? Like, I'm sorry sorry and this sounds ridiculous. I don't care about the players' comforts and them ranking A on these scales.

I want more wins. In fact, if I was management, while this is like a great thing for management and now we can get free agents, everybody's happy here, whatever, I wanna make the team less comfortable. I want the team to be hungry when they come. I want them to say, you know what,

I don't wanna get on that plane. We're gonna be a number one seed, so we have home field throughout the playoffs because I don't wanna travel on an airplane where there doesn't have wifi or the seats aren't big enough or I read that the seats have ashtrays still. That is the team accommodations that I want for my team to motivate them to not wanna travel in the playoffs.

Now, we also have the problem that the Dolphins need to make the playoffs. Now, if they make the playoffs, making the playoffs is the first step, but once we get to the playoffs, I want the accommodations for travel to be so bad that they're motivated to not have to travel. I think the Bills are doing a great job.

An F minus on the gradebook, an A plus in terms of strategy, if you ask me. I don't disagree with you at all. It's hysterical to me that the Dolphins are the only team that don't have anything lower than an A. They're the only team that doesn't even have a B plus on the thing. And then you look at some of these others and you just go like, the Saints have a D minus

or something in food. If you say New Orleans, the first thing you think of is food. How does New Orleans have a D minus in food? Like some of these grades are absolutely bananas to me. I think that the saints maybe, cause we were in New Orleans a couple of weeks ago. I think that if you think New Orleans and you think food,

you go to the saints, you're like, you know what? This is gonna be an incredible experience. I'm gonna go in, I'm gonna play for the saints. It's gonna be beignets every day. This is gonna be awesome. We'll have a king cake, whatever. And then you go in and it's like gluten free whatever and you're like, okay, this food sucks. So I can kind of see how you got a D- if you go to the

Saints and you think, okay, this is gonna be great food, great eating, maybe some jambalaya, and then it's all like healthy options for everything, you know? Yeah, I just, I mean, some of these grades, you look at them and you're like, how are you a professional franchise with an F as a weight room? Like what, where else are you putting money in your facilities if not the weight room?

That seems like- By the way, that's the New England Patriots have an F for weight room. That seems like probably the one that you wanna rank the highest in. Your Jets ranked 29th out of 32 teams overall. The low light is the F, not an F minus, but an F, which I don't understand because they finished dead last

in terms of ownership, but it's just an F, not an F minus. I don't exactly understand how you get the F, not the F minus. Also, your locker room was a D plus so the 29th is it really it's yeah like within the last decade I also wonder because the head coach received a B who were we grading on that because you just hired a new head coach and he hasn't coached a game yet so that that was, it was last year. And I were we happy with Sala because that like,

that's bad. Also somehow even with a B, the Jets head coach ranks 25th out of 32, which seems crazy. So I don't know if these players are afraid that their head coach is going to know what their grades are. None of them seem to care about the ownership whatsoever. The ownership grades across the board seem to be pretty bad.

But head coach, you give them a B, 25th out of 32 is crazy. Also for the Dolphins, Mike McDaniel got like an A plus, which is kind of like, let's pump the brakes. Are they worried it wasn't as anonymous as they pretended to be? That's what I'm wondering. If they wonder, and then where is it that they're willing to step up because I feel like ownership is like,

they're the ones that sign the checks. So if you're ranking your owner an F, that seems kind of crazy to me. Yeah, and ownership by the way, in the overall scale, weighted more than any other category at 15% of the grade. So. Really? Thank you, Woody Johnson. The commanders have an F in their locker room.

They have an A in ownership. They also have an A plus in head coach. So people, the commanders have the highest grade for the coach. I'm trying to go through the other F minuses real quick as we play grades for them. Cleveland and Arizona locker room, Cincinnati treatment of families, which is its own thing.

Like, how do you treat families so bad that the players give you an F minus? And Buffalo travel, those are the four F minuses. The, so the Bengals have two different Fs, but are still only 24 out of 32 somehow. Treatment of families, F minus, and food and dining areas, an F. What are you doing to these families

that you've given them an F minus? Because that seems like kind of an insane grade. Like short of, I guess they don't have daycare you were saying was one of the complaints for the Bengals. But also like that has to be game day, right? Because there's no one that's like clocking in. They go and they scan in with their key card and it's like, take your child to work day.

I gotta go take you to daycare first. Hey, you know, coach, sorry. You know, little Jimmy was crying a little bit when I tried to sit him down in his chair at daycare today at the facility. Yeah, so apparently all 32 teams, either, I should say 31 of 32, offer either daycare during games or a family room.

And the Bengals are the only organization to offer neither. And they also said the family meeting area for post-game parties and you know you know after the game all the families meet is like a four out of ten was it nice it was ranked the uh the jacksonville jaguars also have an f in terms of treatment of family they're're 31st out of 32, so I suppose they're just ahead of the Bengals. We talked a lot of Jaguars last week because friend of the show, but really friend of Stu Gotz, Tony Vaselli is now running the show over there and they had an opening for general manager and we came up last week with the idea of let's get Stu Gotts to apply for the job of general

manager and no more than 24 hours after we came up with this plan, the Jaguars announced that they had a general manager. Unfortunately, Stu Gotts never even had a shot of applying, which I think is not a good sign in terms of where his relationship with Tony Buscelli stands because if your friend is making the call, you can't even get a pity interview. I don't know how strong that friendship is and I'm willing to, and I don't know if you're feeling

the same way as I am, Mike Ye, I'm willing to go out on a limb and I can't outright ban Tony Buscelli from being on the show, but I kind of maybe wanna put him on suspension for a little bit, just because of the fact that he wouldn't interview Stugats. Now, it could be a convenient suspension because I don't know that Tony Buscelli will ever come on the show again, even though he keeps telling Stugats

or Stugats keeps telling us that he keeps telling Stugats that he's gonna come on the show next week, next week, next week, which is weird because last week, we were told next week, which is this week and Stugats is in Australia and best to my knowledge those trips don't you know materialize within 24 hours. So I think maybe maybe they knew that this week wasn't gonna happen and it was just kind of gonna be up to us to figure out what to do with this situation. and it was just kind of going to be up to us to figure out what to do with this situation. I feel like basically they heard Stu Gotz wanted to interview and they knew that if he did he'd get the job so they quickly made the decision to like save themselves from themselves. And you know Tony

Buscelli not being on the show anymore, I mean there's a big difference between Morning Drive host and former player and VP of football personnel or whatever it is that his new title is coming on a coming on a show like this. So I get it. What do you think your dream job is Mikey? I know that this is a question out of left field but Biselli went from football player, radio host, Hall of Famer, now is president of football operations in Jacksonville. So what do you, I guess, where's your end game? If you were to say, this is the job that I wanna have,

I've paid my dues, I did the grunt work early in my career, I worked up until this moment, you know, cause it's, I mean, look, let's, Mike, see I did it, Mike Fuentes, which is confusing cause his name is Mike Fuentes, audience. I'm not gonna speak for Mike A, which is just Mike today. I'm not gonna speak for Mike, but I'm gonna, I'm gonna guess the dream is not God bless football.

Now, nothing personal against God bless football or Mike or Stugats or anyone involved in the process, the Mojos, the K-Funks of the world, even though if we're gonna be honest, Mike may have dodged K-Funk last week. We don't need to talk about that. Mike. Mike.

I didn't say that. You know he's gonna get you in his notes. I didn't. The dream job is to be the Mike on God Bless Football. Wow. Well today. The Mike. Sad news, today we reached your dream.

It's not it. So downhill from here. No, it's not, no, because we got Fuentes. We got Fuentes. So you want us to fire Fuentes? Yeah, but if you're already. We assign him, it's fine. But if you're already calling me Fuentes,

that means you're already the Mike on God Bless Football. That's what I'm saying. Because you didn't refer to me as Mike. I mean, we have to eliminate Golic. Do you want to eliminate Golic from here? I don't want to, listen, I don't want to eliminate anybody. I just want to be the Mike. I want, when you say Mike, there's only one person

that's going to answer and it's me. Yeah, I don't, I would say, and I don't want to hurt your feelings. I would say have a different dream. Yeah, have a just dream differently, you know, like that. Not bigger or smaller, just different dream. I would say bigger, too. But like just different dream, because I don't think that that one's going to happen.

But, you know, aim for the middle and you won't miss. No, I guess. Yeah. Dream, dream a little bigger. Also, we didn't really hear from Gold that much this year at the end of the year. I don't know what's going on there. He's busy. Yeah. Yeah. Well, he is recovering from his replacement as we got to a little bit earlier today. Again, good vibes his way. I don't want to say thoughts and prayers because I feel like that's just attached to people.

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Please drink responsibly. The Smirnoff Company, New York, New York. Mikey, I did it again. That's it. Hey, it is what it is at this point. I appreciate you trying. It's more than Stu Gotts ever did.

Yeah. I am, as far as this audience is concerned, I am Mikey. I accept my fate. I'm sorry. Well, if we drop the A, is that better? Yeah, well, until Mikey C, you know, finally shows up here. He's never gonna show up, is what I've learned. No, he's never gonna show up. He's never gonna show up, is what I've learned. No, he's never gonna show up.

He's never gonna show up. That's never gonna, it's. Can I tell you something? Wait, I don't mean to betray him, but also I don't care. Sure. So we did a watch along for, I think it was the last game of the regular season where the Dolphins were potentially

gonna make the playoffs if the Broncos lost and they won I think right so did a watch along on that Sunday and I was trying to set up a number of things almost all of which fell through right so it ended up just kind of being me and like three other people doing it right I didn't even I didn't even bother you I don't think for that because I was, this is not worth bothering Mikey on. But I was trying to set up a dream of mine, and I think a sick dream that both of us have had, and I was going to have you be involved in it, but it fell apart. I was trying to get Mikey C on, and I told him so that he can go and ask you know the higher ups whoever it is that he needed to ask to make sure and they ended up coming back and saying

like maybe not on this situation or whatever right but it made it seem like it was hopeful for whatever but the dream scenario that we have had that I was trying to set up was Mikey see and Kay Funk on together, just potentially arguing with each other or whatever, which in hindsight is better that Mikey C wasn't allowed to do it, because Kay Funk would have said something that then would have triggered Mikey C to say something. And then that's kind of where the whole thing would fall apart for everybody involved. would fall apart for everybody involved? I have, I want to pitch an idea for the future of God bless football. And that is to take Kay Funk away from the betting segment. Well, from that, from that betting segment, add

him to a separate segment where it's just him and Mikey C arguing over who is more important and who should get more airtime on the rest of the episode. I like that, but I like that and never airing that, which doesn't help the audience at all. No, we don't have to. I think, you know what? I think that maybe we should schedule like, and this is not a joking matter, so we should not be joking about this, but maybe we schedule like some and this is not a joking matter, so we should not be joking about this, but maybe we schedule like some sort of intervention

or something for someone, and we just have both of them in there as attendees, and it's really just to have them interact with each other and maybe fight. And then maybe release it as like a stupidity or something, which I don't think has been active in like a year, but we'll probably with that. I feel like they would just both be pissy at each other

because the other one was taking the other one's airtime. I think, yeah. I think that K-Funk would be, no, I don't know who would strike first in their argument. Cause I would think it would be K-Funk, but I could see Mikey C kind of making the first little comment now that I think about it. Mikey C would call K-Funk like,

Mikey C's the OG K-Funk. He's the original like, I latched on. I have weird habits even while we're on the air. And you're just a copy of what I do. Yeah, yeah. I hope they interact and I kind of do hope that that he says that to him I have something by the way Michael who calls you Michael in your life my my parents and

Really a couple my my parents are really the only ones that ever called me Michael and it's funny because Because I have a son named Nicholas, and when we named him, I thought we were gonna call him Nick. And I only call him Nicholas, and then I hear his friends call him Nick, and I'm like, that's weird, that's weird, he's Nicholas. Well, you named him,

and you thought you were gonna call him Nick, why have you never called him Nick? I don't know, I honestly don't know, like it was just what I thought was going to happen. Yeah. And and nope, he's no Nicholas. He's not full. Is he a Nicky to anyone or no? No, not yet. Okay. You think he's going to grow into Nicky? Uh, I, I, I feel like I got to imagine at a point. Yeah. I kind of imagine though that there's always those friends that yeah, Nicky boy, you know, like I could see it. I could see it happening. So I have a cousin who we his name is Matthew and we always called him Matthew growing up.

Always always always Matthew Matthew Matthew Matthew always Matthew. And then I don't know if it was like his friends or like himself that created a rebrand where he's Matt. And he is like Matt, like starting in like high school and they'd be like, Matt? And I'm like, no, Matthew, like who's this Matt that you speak of? And then I think that he calls himself Matt.

And then in my head, I'm like, did you name yourself Matt? Did they name you Matt? Also like, am I supposed to call you Matt now? Cause like we've never done this before. And like, we're like 10, 15 years into him being a Matt now. And I'm still not used to like, the Matt, his wife calls him Matt. And I'm like, I don't know who this Matt is.

You're Matthew. And the weird thing is, is that's coming from someone who tells other people to call him Billy when his name is Guillermo. So I have, I have no leg to stand on, on this situation. I feel like there's some awkward moment in, in all of our lives when like it's some fourth grade teacher on the first day that goes, you know, Guillermo, Germo, would you prefer Guillermo? And all of a sudden, you're on the spot. You have to make the decision because what you say right then is going to be your name going forward. And I remember I even remember my teacher asking me, Michael,

are you Michael or are you Mike? And I went Mike. And from then on, that's who I was. Okay. It's funny that you should say that because I had a situation, I think, in 10th grade and we're going to get to football in a moment. I had a situation in, I think, 10th grade where it was always that right first day of school, first couple of weeks of school, they just read the roster and it's Guillermo, right? So they would go and they'd take attendance and it'd always be like Guillermo Guillermo Guillermo whatever right and then I would go and I remember it was probably like two weeks into a new year in like 10th grade history class right and this teacher liked giving like pop quizzes like all

the time and it would be like a Scantron pop quiz, 10 questions, whatever, which is like a waste of a Scantron, but whatever. So we do like a 10 question Scantron pop quiz. I think this is like the second or third pop quiz, which is crazy considering how early in the year was right. So the teacher's going around and he's like reading off the names, handing back the Scantrons and then he's like, I think that they would say like, Mr. Gill or Mr. whatever, right?

When they're doing that thing. And then he said like, either like, he was like, Mr. Gill. And then he goes, apparently you'd prefer to be called Billy and he hands me the Scantron cause I would write Billy on the Scantron all the time. Which by the way, has to be very confusing and disarming to the teachers who are just getting to know you.

If you're writing your nickname and they're like, who the hell is this? Like this person is not on my roster. I don't know who this child is. Going up and down the list going, I don't see a Billy, I don't see a William, I don't see anybody that could be this person. Yeah.

Which now makes me think and maybe I'll tell my daughters to do this and maybe you can tell Nicholas to do this like what if Nicholas just decides like to prank his teachers one year and just call himself something like crash so like yeah he just was like crash and then like you know crash last name whatever right and like crash it's like well yeah I'm crash now like what are you gonna do about it so I'll there was my second my second son uh we had a different name lined up and then when he got born my wife was like nope he's Christopher and I did not want him to be named Christopher. I wanted him to be named this other thing. And as he's grown up, he's totally this other name

and he's not Christopher. He is like, if you just look, I'll just say. Can you just tell us? Yeah, it's Rocco. He should have been Rocco. Rocco. He is a Rocco. He is a Rocco through and through. Her father wanted him to be named Rocco

because that was like his father's name. He is a Rocco through and through. And just wanted to be like maybe maybe you just have a middle name. Gregory. Geez. Very formal names. Oh yeah we're yeah Christopher Gregory. Yeah like yeah I can see why Rocco doesn't fit to like the old school name, but yeah, could you just call him Rocco? I would love to. And the worst part is, do you know, Christopher has so many damn letters for my son in kindergarten?

Like it has so, and like everything that we want personalized, you can't fit it. Like you can't fit Christopher because it's too many damn letters. I would run out of space on standardized tests for my first name because it's like nine letters long which I couldn't like every time I would get it back it'd be like Yerm because I'd run out of letters on the first name. And do you remember when you had to fill out the Scantron seats and you had to like write

your name with the bubbles? He'll be filling out bubbles for 20 minutes before he gets to answer questions. Yeah, you got to tell little Rocco that his name is Chris. Buddy, don't even bother with the second half of your name. Just be Chris. Or is he not a Chris? Do you call him Chris or Christopher? He's not a Chris.

I call him Christopher. He's not a Chris. He's a Rocco. Is your family royalty? Everybody goes by their legal names in your household like what's going on here? Well, it's funny cuz he wants to be called Chris cuz he doesn't want to have to write Christopher Yeah, because well, it makes call him Morocco. Just start calling him rocko Have you and your wife had like this conversation like uh, he's a rocko. Yeah, and she's like, yeah you you were right

He's a rocko. I messed up. I messed up. What happened? Just like last minute panic? It was in the running. It was like the least offensive name we both liked. I don't wanna know what the other offensive name is. Offensive is the wrong word. It's like the one we both both hated the

least okay well who made his rocko your wife I is a family name on her side it's it's funny because my father-in-law obviously wanted my first son to be named Rocko and we were like no we don't like Rocko no we don't like Rocko and then we had Nicholas and then we were having our second one and I was like you remember Rocko like that's actually that's actually growing on me like I like Rocco and then we had Nicholas and then we were having our second one and I was like you remember Rocco like that's actually that's actually growing on me like I think I think we should do the Rocco thing. She's like you know what I was thinking the same thing and then game time came kid came out she's like Christopher and I'm like no I don't know

what we said day a minute of like in arms his name is Christopher was Christopher ever discussed it was like I said it was like I guess we could do Christopher yeah like that one doesn't bother me and now now after having lived with it for for five years I'm like yeah we should have done the Rocko thing strange timing I agree just to decide let's do Chris says because she says it was the drugs I was just gonna ask like if he says it was the drugs because because like I would never suggest this to the listeners or to anyone but like It's a situation right? We're like she's she's on like the pain medication and like just go to the nurse like it's Rocco like and then and then like if she says like oh like, no, we never had that conversation.

Like you, completely. What are you even talking about? Like, was this a dream of yours? Like, what are we talking about here? Like, it was always Rocco. We've never once had that conversation and then Rocco stuck. Can I tell you something football related

since we're kind of doing a football show, I guess? Yeah. I have weird, and I'm not one to get this. I have weird FOMO on the combine. Yeah, I'm not one that gets FOMO. There's a weird situation at this office in particular where everyone gets FOMO for everything, and I never do. Like, anytime anyone goes out to like cover a game or do this

or do that like if you're not there everyone has FOMO everyone's like why wasn't I there I wanted to do this I wanted to do that I never get that and granted I've been part of some of the cool trips that that we've done like as a company and I get to do like Superbowl, stuff like that. So like I've been very fortunate on that front. We did the Daytona 500 a couple of weeks ago and that was like basically just because we could drive up to Daytona from Miami, right? Like it was like a 11th hour situation where even like, okay, like you guys can go do that,

like take the camera or whatever. But like, it was like bare bones. We drove up and like you can get, we got an Airbnb that we all stayed in. So it wasn't like we need three hotel rooms or four rooms or whatever, right? Like I did it the cheapest way possible. And we went to like this welcome party with Demi Lovato.

And like I've talked about this, like she's performing, it's like a corporate event. And we like went right up to the stage because no one's paying attention. So we put up a picture that we took with Demi Lovato that she just posed behind us during her, while she's singing a song. And I've never experienced the level of hate

that I had from everyone in the office. And they were all like, why didn't you tell me? I wish I would have gone on this trip. No one told me, blah, blah, blah. And then when we put up the, we were at the Daytona 500, they said, I would have gone to the Daytona 500. You'd think that our office was in North Carolina where all of a sudden everyone became like the biggest NASCAR fans in the world.

It's the craziest thing, right? So like FOMO happens all the time in the office, right? I rarely get it and have even been told by people like higher ups in the company, like, do you not care? Like, everyone else seems to care. I totally know. I know you enough to know exactly what they're talking about while still knowing that yes, you care.

But I totally get why they'd be like, do you even care about, do you even want to do this? But they ask, and they're like, it's like, I'm not complaining because it's good, but everyone else complains about not going to things. And we tell you, no, you're not gonna do that. What can I, that's fine, I'm not gonna go, whatever. They're like, everything okay? Do you not care about things? And I'm like, no, I'm fine, I don't need to go to things

just because other people are going. But that's all to say, I have FOMO now with the NFL combine. I did not think I would ever feel this. I did not think I would ever long to go to Indianapolis. But I see that the movers and shakers are there. I see that everyone is in Indy. And I'm kind of like, why aren't we there? And I think it's because we weren't paying attention

to the calendar. But I'm like, why aren't we there? And I didn't feel it early in the week when I would see the different shows are there. I saw Pam Akofy was there and he has his whole crew there and he's from Indy. So like for him, it's like not a big deal at all. They're going home.

They're exactly, they're set set up on the concourse, behind all the seats, and one of the shots has the field behind the guest or whatever. Then when they do the one cam on him, you just see the concourse, and it's a closed food vending concourse, and there's someone walking around holding a camera, someone sweeping, and I'm like, I around holding a camera, someone's sweeping,

and I'm like, I do not, I do not feel FOMO at all. And when I felt it, was when I read the story yesterday, that Jordan Scholes and Ian Rapoport were fighting with each other in a Starbucks, which I believe was described as, it was like such a ridiculous, it wasn't like verbal assault, but it was something like that. And it was like, okay, let me read this story.

Let me read this story. And then when I read the story, it was the lamest fight that I've ever heard of. And it was just two guys saying, you better ever better not ever do that again if you do that again like you're gonna pay mister like I'll be there exactly why I oughta and then NFL security was involved because the why I oughta I guess raised it to the level of potential physical

violence threats and there were maybe profanities but Jordan says that he doesn't remember any profanities and I think it stems from like Jordan revealing that someone was visiting a team and then Ian said like it wasn't official they just bumped into each other and then he's like you better never do that again and then he's like I mean whatever and they're just screaming at each other in a Starbucks and then other people are watching this happen And then I was like, you know what? We're missing it. Yeah I wish we were there. I

Think I think the combine might be the most fun of all the NFL get-togethers that there are during the year I think like, no, I think like all the, all the, all the handshake deals happen at like the draft and at the Super Bowl. But I feel like all the partying, all the, all the let's have a good time. The combine is essentially the NFL's version of a guy's trip. It's like, we're all going to leave, we're all going to just, we're all going to drink too much like we, like we used to, like we're in college and we're not. And, and I, I, I think we're all gonna just we're all gonna drink too much like we like we used to like we're in college and we're not and and i i i think we're missing out big not being there i think we're going to too many of the important events and not enough of the fun ones wow okay so let me make a note

of this so that uh maybe we can do this next year. I'm gonna put NFL Combine, and I'm moving away from the microphone, which is not good for me. NFL Combine 2026. Just get us a table with an extension cord at St. Elmo's. And I guarantee you, we'll have the best show on the whole thing. All right, so I put NFL Combine 2026,

hopefully we do it, because I saw Chris Sims and Mike Floria were there too. And like, this Chris Sims, what a trollop, huh? I mean, I guess he's not because he's just doing his actual job with the people that pay him. But like, man, he's at everything. And he never invites us anywhere.

We had a conversation about how we're going to have dinner together in New Orleans. That never happened. That was never going to happen. Never came close to happening. He's like, yeah, no, you know what? This is actually a good day. Let's do it this year. Last year, we couldn't because it was an NBC game. Never came close to happening. He's like, yeah, no, you know what? This is actually a good day. Let's do it this year.

Last year we couldn't because it was an NBC game. So I had a lot more. This year I'm gonna be so much more free. Never happened, not a once. Anyway. Yeah, I certainly wasn't at dinner, but that's because I have FOMO because I missed. Yeah, yeah.

Look, let me tell you something, Michael. I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I have right here written down on this piece of paper, NFL Combine 2026. Now, I'm gonna have to not lose this paper in the span of a year. So, I'm gonna keep this here for now, and hopefully my wife doesn't come by and try to clean up this situation because like, well, this looks organized here. This here. this here.

Behind you, yeah. Very much. I got a shot. Very much not organized. So this paper that I have here is gonna sit on top of the disorganization and maybe it will sneak by because it'll blend in with the other disorganization,

but also maybe we'll have a spring cleaning situation, in which case I'm gonna lose that paper. But I have NFL Combine 2026 written down to try to do that, and Super Bowl next year. I think I'm gonna, I tried this year, I don't know what happened. I obviously didn't try hard enough to get you there. I did get you to the draft last year, but I got you to close.

But you to close. Close, yeah. But you didn't. Yeah, I didn't even get to go to the draft last year, which seems like it would be a cool event. You could also argue you don't know because you didn't actually go to the draft. You went to Troy, Michigan. No.

You know, whatever. We were draft adjacent. We were draft. By the way, are we gonna be draft adjacent this year? Are we gonna be like pick adjacent? Or are we gonna be drafted Jason this year? Are we gonna be like pick adjacent? Or are we gonna be like? That's all very much up in the air at the moment. The locations that I have heard are-

Troy, Michigan. Nashville, no, it would be funny to go back to Troy and just do a draft party in Troy every year. You know what? I'm gonna send a message to someone right now. Please don't. I love our friends over in Troy, Michigan. to Troy let's do it again let's make this an annual tradition no I think we might be in Nashville and then they also said

like maybe New York in which I wrote back why so I don't I don't know if that's gonna happen but maybe New York maybe draft or maybe Nashville no I don't I think Green Bay is out of the running which sucks because I kind of like while everybody says like why would we go to Green Bay I think it'd be fun to go to Green Bay I mean to be more fun to go for a game right but I don't know so TBD on the whole draft situation I don't know where we're gonna be for the draft we should know soon because it's about a month away but you know who knows and? And we might be in Philadelphia next year in September.

Kickoff. Oh wow, you know what? No Kansas City this year. You're right. Yeah. I'm gonna write that down too. Kickoff. Philadelphia.

I'm gonna write that down, kickoff. Billy. All right, it's been written down on a sheet of paper and hopefully it doesn't get lost. Boy, that's a very important piece of paper. It really is. And the thing is that I wrote it on the bottom of it and like half of the paper is nonsense. It just says NFL Grades. It says if the season started today, which we didn't do. And then, ooh, here's something that it says.

When we come back, according to my sheet of paper, a new edition of More Mikely. Oh, let's do it. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh.

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All right, I got one good Moore-Mikley here. Okay. Moore-Mikley, to go first to worse. Ooh. The Lions or the Rams. Wow. or Mike Lee to go first to worse, the Lions or the Rams? Wow, okay. Now here's the interesting thing about the Rams that we haven't discussed it yet is the Matthew Stafford of the situation,

which I'm wondering if you as a Jets fan sees that. Yes, yes, yes. Okay, I don't even finish that situation. Yes, that Stafford to the Jets. It'll be everything Aaron Rodgers was supposed to be. Dude, if you guys end up with Matthew Stafford, that is an incredible situation for you based on what we thought the situation was going to be two weeks ago for the Jets. It's still it's just not going to happen. But anyway, so why is that? Yeah.

Because the Jets have an F in ownership as we learned in grades earlier in the show. Yeah, so you think that that's gonna be the deciding factor? What is he looking for? Like, what is he, what's his problem, basically? Matthew Stafford. 50 million dollars. Money in a shot. Yeah, 50 million dollars. Money in a shot is what he's looking for, yeah.

I mean, you guys, what's your cap situation? Do you have money you can give him? If that's what we need, then yeah, we'll find 50 million dollars. You'll find 50 million dollars to get Matt Stafford if he legitimately was like, yeah, I'll totally play for the Jets. Huh, all right, so where's the first?

The Rams, what was the other team? The Lions. The Lions. I'm gonna go with. Tough division, loss both coordinators. I know it's, I think I'm gonna go with the Lions. That's crazy to say, but I think I'm going with the Lions on that one.

Even though Rams might lose their quarterback. I'm gonna say the Rams just cause I don't know, like what is their plan after Matt Stafford? Like, are they going to go after Sam Darnold? Like, who's their guy? Sean McVeigh is their plan. That's what I'm saying. Like, Jimmy Garoppolo.

Like, what's your deal? I just don't know who it is. Unknown. So I'm going to have to go Rams. Wow. Can we do another one real quick? Just lightning round. I know we're up against it.

More likely worst to first. 49ers or Bears? 49ers. Yeah, 49ers because the division's just too stacked for the Bears. They're also now negotiating with Purdy. I don't know what that means because they're going to probably pay him way too much money. God bless football. God bless football. God bless football. It's finally happening. Winter is thawing.

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