The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - GBF- Monday Hangover: Greatest Game Ever For Real This Time

Episode Date: September 30, 2024

Stugotz and Mikey are fuming over the Jets loss to the Broncos. We may have seen the greatest college football game ever this weekend, and for the first time in over 20 years, Stugotz really means it. Did they do the ACC dirty on Friday night with the Virginia Tech vs Miami game? Winners and Losers has a deep dive into the 4-0 Kansas City Chiefs beating the Chargers. Plus, Billy reveals his exciting announcement when it comes to the BBBBBBB. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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god bless for both windows what are you laughing at what does that's a terrible yet they are yeah yes they are pay Yeah, yeah, they are. Yep. Hey, hey. Yeah. Plus side rainy day, dangerous game.

Aaron didn't get hurt. Let's just count the blessing. Well, it kind of did. I mean, he did get hurt. He was limping around in the second half. Yeah, he's fine. I mean, did you watch the game? He wasn't fine.

Yeah, I mean, yes, unfortunately, yes. I know, I know. Listen, that is what me and Mike have been, Mikey A have been saddled with our entire lives, watching that game. Honestly. That game! Okay, so he seemed to be, I wouldn't say hurt,

I'd say tweaked, right? He seemed like he played through it, so he was fine enough, but, I mean, I guess, what was it? It was like a 10-9 game. You can't take him out. So you have to play him but it could have been a lot worse for him. It could have been a lot worse. Is there a difference? Is there a difference between hurt and tweaked at 40 years old? Yeah, like hurt is he missed the entire season after four snaps tweaked is you know football football happened. I mean Mikey the good news is he you know, he stayed in the game.

Yeah. Played through it. That is a positive. If you want to take a positive out of that game, Bo Nicks had negative seven passing yards at halftime. The Jets still lost the game. So if we want to take a positive from that game, Aaron survived it. Yeah. That's what Billy is saying. Surviving Vance. Whether or not that's a good thing is to be determined. the game. Aaron survived it. Yeah. That's what Billy is saying. Surviving Vance. Yeah. Right. Yay. Whether or not

that's a good thing is to be determined but you know he he survived it. We're two and two we wanted so badly to be three and one. Uh but the Bills lose the Dolphins play tonight. So uh I'm trying to be positive about the two and two New York

Jets. How about that Mikey, eh? Yeah. Why? I don't know. I finally, I finally turned on Salah. It's finally happened. I, I, I, he's out of excuses for me. He's gotta go. What happened? Now is when it was too much for you? What happened? There was always an excuse built in for the last whatever three, four years of his, of his 10 years as a Jets coach. He never had a quarterback. He had Zach Wilson. Okay, that's going to

get you a pass in a lot of places. But I have never seen a team get what 15 penalties called on them for 90 yards. Right. This is it. They're they're terrible. They were completely unprepared for yesterday. I've turned on Salah. I want him out. All right. I mean, I hear you. You're frustrated. I understand that. That turn on Sala. I want him out. Alright. Alright. I mean, I hear you. You're frustrated. I understand that. I'm uh that's on Aaron Rogers.

I mean, I'm sorry that game is on Aaron Rogers. You bring Aaron Rogers in to be uh to be your quarterback. You don't score nine points at home against the bad Denver team. Yeah. It's on Aaron Rogers. I mean, I'm sorry Mikey. That game is a game we

have watched for 40 years and we thought when this guy became our quarterback, there would be I'm sorry, Mikey. That game is the game. Nathaniel Hackett. I mean. You think uh Curb Herbstree was praising Nathaniel Hackett during the game like he did the week before? Telling him he's a messiah and he fixed everything because Aaron Rodgers has a leg that works. Right. Yeah. Well, onto London for the Jets against

the Vikings. Yeah, revenge game for Sam Darnold. Eh, across the pond though. Sam Darnold, the player. And by the way, here's what makes it worse. Jet quarterbacks headed into tonight. Former Jet quarterbacks That was one of the worst games of the weekend. I even had it on my list of games

we probably don't need to talk about. Broncos and Jets were very high on the list. I'd normally have notes and just little things about the games. This one just had three and it was just stats. And I was like, ah, maybe we'll get to it, but we probably won't talk about it way too much. But here we are starting to show that,

hey, hey, hey, what? Just like that, Alabama is the number one team in the country again. How about that? What was that game? The greatest game in the history of college football. Okay, so here's the thing about greatest game in the history of college football, like three times a year. Here's the thing that was no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I'm going to peel back the curtain. Sometimes I'm just

saying it. Yeah, this time I mean it. Alright. Here's the thing about that game being the best game of the year and the best game in college football and whatever, right? History. It's oh and the best game of college football history. Yes. Okay. It's the rare best game in college football history that if you were playing as a video game would have been ended because of a mercy rule. Like that is a game that I could not believe the final score. I told Fuentes I wasn't gonna say this, but I will share this. Cause I wanna be- So this is something you weren't gonna say, but now you're gonna say it.

Yeah, I'm gonna be upfront and honest about this. I'm pretty sure this is an experience that not only Billy had, that a lot of people had, but Billy's gonna share it. Okay, go ahead. I feel like Mikey knows where this is going by that not only Billy had, that a lot of people had, but Billy's gonna share it. Okay, go ahead. I feel like Mikey knows where this is going by just the yet. I already know the answer, and I'm right there with you.

I think I do as well, I mean. Yeah, so George, Alabama, last week I told you, I was in love with football, it was appointment television, I was gonna stop everything I was doing to watch it. That was four days ago. Yes, and you guys off air, a little ribbing of me, and said that is not true, we don't believe you for one second.

Because of said ribbing, I made sure to make it appointment television and sit down and watch it. However, as a father of two, 7.30 is a challenging start time for me. Of course, 7.30 is a challenging start time for me. Of course, indeed. So I joined slightly after the 7.30 kickoff and when I sat down, I think it was seven nothing,

turning 14 nothing, and then I watched it become 21 nothing and then I think 28 nothing, and I said, okay, I think we're good here. I don't think I need to stay up until almost midnight to see how this game finishes. And what I did was I turned on the FIU game. Wow. Just to see if FIU would hold on

and they did for those who were wondering. FIU held on and they won. They're now two and three on the season. Wow. And then- Congratulations, pause up. Pause up indeed. Yeah.

Yeah. And then I was watching the Miami-Virginia Tech game on my phone, and we can talk about that game later if you want, because I was wondering, oh man, Miami, I cannot believe that they're gonna lose to Virginia Tech, and then they came back. And that was Friday night. So that was Friday night.

You know what? Feels like a month ago, right? You're right about that. But we can still talk about it because the Hokies got hosed, how about that? You're right about that. Friday I watched that on my phone, falling asleep. Penn State, Illinois? Saturday?

No, I just I just thought it was a beach day. Yeah, I was there with the family. Always tired after that. Yeah, a lot of sun, a lot of sun. Lo and behold, I wake up and I say, whoa, I cannot believe that that game ended the way that it did. Can't believe it. Right. Ryan Williams, 17. Amazing. You know what I was doing at 17?

What? Not that. I know. Not that. None of that. I was. None of that. Yeah, you were. I feel like, and I don't, I mean, look, I'm not a lawyer. I don't even know what day games are on, apparently. But I feel like if you hit him hard enough, that's child they're on eight year olds. What a time for college football. Uh let's go. Jalen Jalen Milro. He's good. Pretty good. Yeah. Pretty good at football. He's good. Now, Beck came into that game as the many people thought he was the number one overall pick um in this year's draft. Yeah. I'm not certain it's not Jalen Milro. I mean, I'm serious. That guy is so good. I said it last year. Everyone laughed at me. I mean, he's

every bit as good as if not better than Hertz and Tua. And he is. Look at the numbers. Compare the numbers. To who? To Hertz and Tua? Yeah. Jalen Milrall might go down. If they win the national championship, could go down as the greatest Alabama quarterback ever. I feel like you say that every year though that they have a good quarterback. Just like it was the greatest college football game of all time Yeah, well this time I'm serious. It's up there this this time. I'm serious the rare

439 passing yard performance from Carson Beck that was kind of like yeah, not a great game now that Georgia Interception that Georgia team in the second half might be the best team in the country Beck certainly looked like the number one overall pick in the second half. He did, until he didn't. Can I ask you a question? Yeah. Can I ask you a question?

Sure. So, because of the new playoff format, you have been against this game being important. Now that it happened, did you change your thoughts? I mean, you just called it the greatest college football game ever. It was. But it wasn't as important.

Well, the stakes aren't as high because Georgia still has a very good chance and likely will make the playoffs. So that's the big difference. Yeah. I mean, in years past, if Georgia loses this game, it would be a very difficult path back to making it to a college football playoff with four teams.

Just look last year. Right. They were basically a shoe in, they lost the SEC Championship, and now they're completely out. Yes. Where this year, that's a totally different story. Like you know Georgia's in. And Georgia might be the second best team in the country.

They might be the best team in the country. Well, there's no scenario in which Georgia is going to be left out of a 12-team playoff. No, probably not. That's why. That's the only reason I'm saying it. Yeah. But the game itself was great. I mean, it was. It's

Alabama, Georgia. The good thing about the playoff is now we have the possibility of having that game again. Yes. Or something. And again, you could have it twice more. That's, I feel like two is enough. I don't want three. I don't want

the same game three times. I agree with you, Billy. I agree with you. Two is plenty. I want a rematch. I don't need a three-peat. Yeah, exactly right. No, thank you. Well, hold on. Let me present this scenario. If Georgia wins the next one, you guys don't want a third, like a rubber match? You don't want that. It's like a championship.

Like a heavyweight fight. Like a heavyweight fight. Right. Got to get part three. Well, no, they're saying no. They're saying two's enough. That's ridiculous. Yeah, no thank you. You might get it three times though. Not in the same season. No, thank you. The problem is you're not going to get that game three times. You'll never get that game ridiculous. That's ridiculous. Yeah, no thank you. You might get it three times though. I'm the same season.

No, thank you. The problem is you're not going to get that game three times. You'll never get that game again. It was the greatest game ever. The last time I said, you know. The next one. Right. But the last time I said a college football game was

the greatest college football game of all time and I meant it was Miami, Nebraska, I said at the time though, it was the greatest sure. I'm not sure. A marriage proposal? No. No. Nope, nope, nope, nope. I said at the time though, it was the greatest game. I didn't mean it. I want to check in on that marriage. Texas, USA. Either

still together? What? Vince Young? The Vince Young game? I said at the time right after the game, it was the greatest game of all time. I did not mean it. I want to check. Didn't mean it though. Okay. This time I mean it. Let me know if

they're still together. I'm I'm looking on this. I'm Ian Johnson. The proposal. Yeah, who proposed after the game. I'm wondering how that is doing Oh, you're it's like the Bachelor. Yeah. Yeah. Well, oh this is not the same Ian Johnson. This is an old man Checking to see if they're still We'll get to that later Wow, he's 39 now, huh time flies That's crazy. That is the most shocking Yes Holy cow. 39? Yeah. I don't believe you. Do we want to go back to the NFL or do we want to just get college out of the way now?

I mean we did a lot of college. I shouldn't say get it out of, well we did one game. Was that Miami-Virginia Tech? The game that I remember happening on Saturday even though it happened on Friday. It was Friday night. watching it on your phone Yeah, I did watch it on my phone in bed and I was living watching it on like a what like whatever this like for screen I was positive that I could see what was going on. You love football. I do love dedicated to it Yeah, I go to I love it take football into bed. I know Maybe we'll could say that I mean, I guess anyone that has a you know TV in their room. Anyways, uh Maybe people can say that. I mean, I guess anyone that has a TV in their room.

Anyways. The Cains game. Home cooking, right? Like that was, that was, okay, here's the thing, right? Let's just, let's just, and I know this is gonna be very unpopular around these parts. And this is what I will start with. Probably should not have been called a touchdown

on the field, but this is what I'm thinking. They didn't know what to do, so they called it a touchdown knowing that then there would be a review of the scoring play is what I'm assuming, why they called that a touchdown. Isn't there some kind of rule, like final two minutes, like shouldn't they be reviewing it anyway? All scoring plays.

Well, that's, but it was a scoring play. That's the thing, it's a scoring. That's why I'm thinking, and I could be wrong, I'm not super up on my ACC rules. Right. But I'm thinking that if there was a doubt, it's like, let's call it a touchdown, then we can always overturn it when we look at the review. However.

But isn't that what you want? Yeah, yeah, no. That's the way you want them to go. I just don't know how. Give me two chances. Right, I just don't know how you call that a touchdown and then reverse it. Well, what I don't, that is kind of the thing,

because that's the tricky part of this. That might have been the worst camera work and least conclusive video I've ever seen. You had no idea what happened. Correct. Right? Be fair to the camera guy, it's an impossible task. No, no, no, it's not.

We're not saying it's on the camera guy, but if you're a referee, how do you look at that and say, hey, I'm gonna reverse the call I just made on the field. You can't do it. Making the call live. I blame the camera guy. Making the call on the field is almost impossible. Look, I'm not blaming the camera guy. I'm blaming the other camera people because it seemed like we had one or maybe two views of it in a stadium filled with two dozen cameras at least focusing on the game. I don't know why we didn't have more views

of what it is that happened there. Now, it did kind of feel, and they did the ACC dirty. They did the ACC dirty in the aspect of, oh, we're looking into ACC headquarters where they're reviewing this play, and you have a two and two team going up against an undefeated Miami, and you're like, hmm, what would be best

for the ACC here? Would it be to have the seventh ranked team in the country remain undefeated? By the way, it also seemed like a real ragtag operation up there. I know, I mean, what was it? There's PTO going on, like where was everybody? It was like two people there.

There was two guys there there couldn't have cared less I had a shirt on time They brought over like a manager like ah Mike we can't really I don't know how we're gonna give it to them What do we do here two guys that didn't care and then two guys glued to like a 15 inch monitor. Meanwhile Miami On their phone Miami celebrating on the field like their light show and everything, not even realizing it was called a touchdown. Then you have this lengthy review. And as the review's going on, and as I was in bed,

my wife is asleep and I'm just kind of alone with my thoughts and my phone watching this game again. You're alone with football because you love it. I'm zoomed in like this and I'm like, I see it. I see what's going on here. I don't know how, with the video that there was, you can definitively say that was an incomplete pass. That wasn't whatever. Like when you slow it down, I'm sure everyone would have said that's not a catch.

Yeah, right. Right. But Billy, that's what I'm saying. Once you call it a touchdown, how do you reverse that? The referees played it wrong. You have to say no touchdown and then reverse it to a touchdown. I'm asking if there's some home cooking going on and then. You think they just went into that deciding like, hey, we're gonna throw it up to the ACC headquarters to a guy who shirt is on talk, not paying attention. He's gambling.

You think they just said, hey, the canes are gonna win. I don't know about the gambling part. This is the gambling part out of it. The shirt was on tuck though. This is the ultimate Stu gods. We don't know kicking up higher, they'll figure it out. Look, not the worst play. I will say this though.

Except here. As it was going on, I did say to myself, and I can attest as being the only other person that heard it, because I said it to myself, I said, oh, they're looking for any way possible to give you on this win. They are looking for anything they can see on this video. And the statement that they came out with was quote

During the review process of the last play it was determined that the loose ball was touched by a Miami player while he was out of bounds which makes it an incomplete pass and immediately ends the play I Think we were fishing for something there. I Think fishing for a rule. Well, so here's the thing. I saw that yesterday in the NFL though I did same exact thing fishing for a rule No, I can't remember the game but a guy touched the ball. He saw that yesterday in the NFL though. I did same exact thing. Fishing for a rule? No, I can't remember the game, but a guy touched the ball, he was out of bounds,

the play was dead. The other team should have the ball. Chicago, Chicago. Yes. Okay, but here's the thing. If the Virginia Tech player catches the ball, as they say that he did, and he's in bounds, if a player has his foot out of bounds and touches the ball,

that doesn't nullify the catch. Right. It doesn't mean the ball doesn't exist anymore because the other person already has possession. Once the ball was kind of knocked out, the person standing out of bounds touching the ball would make it a dead ball. But if it was knocked out, that's after the initial catch.

So was it a catch or was it not a catch? That's what they never confirmed or denied. Then you have the whole thing where like, he's bobbling it, does he survive the ground? So he has to come down with the ball, have one feet in, he's touching a defender who's out of bounds, the, his own man who he's also laying on top of is out of bounds, it's a,

I'm happy, I didn't have to make a decision. But I can see. Yeah, that's why you toss it up. Yeah, exactly. That's exactly why you toss it up. That's exactly why you toss it up. Right, right. Kick it up the ladder. Thank you, the untucked shirt, unbelievable. Billy says he has a big announcement. Oh, no exciting announcement

No, not say not big. I'm sorry writing by the way also cuz I don't know if we're gonna go back to college That's fine 26 teams in the top 25 What? 26 teams in the top 25. There's a tight number 25. There's a top 26 top 26 Texas A&M and you LV UNLV are tied in 25. Oh my God. Which by the way, UNLV came back from their quarterback quitting, blowout, now they're in the top 25. They are.

Well top 26 I guess. They were top 25 before but now they're. Top 26. But they won without that kid. Top 26. Right. You're excited, you love football. I love football, Kentucky beats Ole Miss,

Arizona beats Utah, Notre Dame, they did what they had to do. You saw it all. They did. I mean, yeah. What a season. What a season of football so far. I can't even get my day straight.

I know. It's amazing. I had two more games tonight. Oh. Unbelievable. Not great games, but. Yeah, but you're deep playing. Well.

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New York. Mm hmm. So, I have a big announcement. I don't know if you're ready for it now or if you want. Well, wait a second. One of my favorite games, winners or losers. A big announcement or an exciting announcement. Which

one is it? Mm hmm. You said exciting last time. Exciting last time. Big difference. Yeah. Yes. It's exciting to me. I don't know if it's exciting to the audience and it's big in the way that it may change everything forever but really it may not be the whole seem seismic yeah right the very fabric of existence

uh-huh well I know about all that right carried away yeah uh anyway hey Indiana's good at football huh they are yes I'm glad you good at football, huh? They are, yes. I'm glad you stressed at football. Yeah. Yeah. Five and oh for the first time in like 50 years or something. Their first game of the season was against FIU and FIU was hanging with them a little bit then they made some stupid errors.

Yes. Which we don't need to get into because I know that no one wants to hear about. My recap from week one of FIU Indiana, week five of the season. Yes, but Indiana is good, you're right. Yeah. They're five and oh, they play Northwestern this weekend, looking to be six and oh, it's a good team.

I mean, it's a team that could sneak into a 12-team playoff. Their coach came from James Madison, I believe, and they asked him in his introductory press conference, how do you recruit people? How do you get here? Competing against the big teams, what do they say when they see you come over? And you know what he said?

He goes, Google me. I win. And he does, he's not wrong. He wins. You wanna play winners and losers? I do wanna play winners or losers. I'm looking at the polls right now. I love looking at who the 12th team in the country is

to see who they'd be playing in the playoff. Well, that's tricky though, right? It is tricky. It's really 11 and then you have the other team that gets in. So, twelve is really like a bubble. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Who's twelve though? Ole Miss. Bad loss. Ole Miss in the AP and in the coaches, Paul. It's it's LSU. I don't want to see LSU. Well, that's the point. I'm just enough of LSU. Right, exactly right. Anyway, winners or losers, then we'll get to your exciting seismic big announcement. So winners and losers, presented by Smirnoff,

the world's number one vodka. Please drink responsibly. I have this week, and I don't know if you guys have any winners and losers, I have two winners and one loser this week. Wow. Yeah. I have two winners.

Oh, okay. Very good. I'll throw a loser on the pile. Okay, good, good, good, good. All right. Wow. Yep. I have two winners. Oh, okay. Very good. I'll throw a loser on the pile. Okay, good, good, good, good. All right. We needed one. My first winner, we already talked about it, so we can just get through this one really quickly.

My first winner is Ryan Williams from Alabama. 17 years old, 177 receiving yards. He had the game-winning 75-yard touchdown on that 75-yard drive right after. Georgia took the lead, gave them the lead right back. Seems like a crazy environment. Yes. Alabama. Yes.

And Georgia was. Should this have fanfare? Nah, it's fine. Okay. All right, so we did that one already. All right, now do you want my next winner or do you want my loser? So you have two winners, you gave us Ryan Williams.

You have another winner, another loser. You want me to give you a winner first? Sure. Alright. Uh Dan Quinn. Oh. Dan Quinn is the coach of the commanders. Uh he has Jaden Daniels. Jaden Daniels is going to turn Dan Quinn into a Hall of Fame head

coach. That's how good Jaden Daniels is. You know. They steamrolled Arizona yesterday and I gotta tell you something and I'll be the first to say it. the You know, they steamrolled Arizona yesterday and I gotta tell you something and I'll be the first to say it. Kyler Murray enough enough. I'm tired of

trying to figure out how good you are. Here's what I figured out. You're not good. Wow. How's that sound? You figured that out. I did. I have a co-winner with Dan Quinn. Uh that's a coordinator, Cliff Kingsbury. Yeah. He's flourishing in the offensive coordinator role, beat his old team really bad yesterday. Jaden Daniels looks good.

Big winner, Cliff Kingsbury. All right, so that's the top of those coattails. Yes, no doubt. I feel like that was a difficult game for Cliff Kingsbury, right? Because he loves Kyler Murray more than anyone on earth. Not as much as Jaden Daniels. No, he loves Kyler Murray.

Loves Kyler Murray. To a level that's odd that I think goes back to he was trying to recruit him in high school and it was a whole thing and then he tried to get him to come to his con and then he didn't so then he became his head coach. He loves Kyler Murray. He does love Kyler Murray.

It has to have hurt him deep down to have hurt Kyler Murray that bad. It has to have hurt him. I think Jaden Daniels is everything he thought Kyler Murray was going to be. This is an old girlfriend, new girlfriend situation. Really? He loves his old girlfriend, but he really loves his new

girlfriend. I think this is the one true love and it really hurt to watch that happen. Jaden Daniels is completing 82% of his passes. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. 82%. As a rookie. Yeah, that's not bad.

It's ridiculous. He had his first interception yesterday. I know. He's so good. We need a loser though. Remember when remember when Austin Eichler decided to go to the commanders and we're like, huh? Yeah. Yeah, that worked out. Yeah, that worked out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because the Chargers, I don't know about the Chargers. No, I mean, they're two and two, but you're right. Oh, no. Both the Chargers. That's the way you have to talk about the Charger just like that because

you don't know. I don't know the Chargers also. Yeah, I have four and oh, I don't know about the cheese. I don't want to do this again with the cheese. The cheese are one of the like the most confusing for no team of all time. Oh, no., jeez. That's my other winner, by the way. I think that they're like, they're on a major, or I shouldn't say major, but it very much feels like championship hangover with them, right? It's just like, I don't wanna say that.

They're 4-0, I mean. Yes, they're 4-0, but like, and we're gonna get criticized, whatever, and they were even kinda saying it yesterday on the broadcast, like Romo and Nance were talking about it a little bit. It's like, ah, this seems a little different this year, which is fine and like I wonder. It's a great Romo by the way.

It was and it wasn't even on purpose. I wasn't even trying to do a Romo and Nance. That's how he does it. It kind of was, ah, I don't know Jim. Yeah, it's weird because it feels like, you know, do you guys remember Big Three era Miami Heat? And I don't know if you guys kind of felt the same way, but like when it was done, it was like,

oh, I can't believe, I guess I'm remembering this differently, but when it was done, it was like, oh, I can't believe LeBron left, blah, blah, blah, blah, whatever, right? But then like come June, when you were working down here, like, oh, we gotta tune off from basketball.

We don't have to do this every night. Like, this isn't the worst. Like, I'm not saying that the Chiefs are, you know, trying to lose, but I'm saying like, if they didn't make it to the Super Bowl, I'm sure they would be like, you know, okay. While wanting the three-peat, they'd also be like, oh, you know, okay.

Like, I kind of wonder if they're like, oh man, we're four and oh, like how are we gonna get out of this one? And then guess who reappeared yesterday? Travis Kelsey reappeared yesterday. No, I don't think my home's just wired that way, Billy. I understand what you're saying. I think he's like, we're four and oh,

wait until I get going. Yes, but also like, we kind of saw it like, okay, if you were to ask Caitlin Clark Caitlin are you glad that basketball is finally done after you're like ridiculous stretch of basketball it's probably yeah it's gonna be nice to go on a little vacation and have a break here sure yeah I understand I feel like the chiefs keep going can I get my loser in there because it's all about this game okay so I still have a winner and a loser okay yeah I like Mikey thank you

for grabbing the steering wheel there because Billy we were all feeling it is I still have a winner and a loser. Okay, you're the winner. Yeah, yeah. I like Mikey. Thank you for grabbing the steering wheel there because Billy, we were all feeling it as being completely ridiculous. We were about to go on Caitlin Clark and W&G. He was getting out of hand. The Chiefs don't want to win suddenly. They want the season shortened. No, I'm not saying-

They're trying to figure out- Nope, nope. They're trying to figure out how to get out of their four-nose start. Nope, not what I said. But there's no way- No. There are guys in that locker room thinking, just get us to the playoffs. Nope.

We're tired of this regular thing. Nope. Not what I was saying. No, locker room thinking just get us to the playoffs. No, we're tired of this No, not what I was saying. I my ability to get me home No, my larger point which obviously I was not expressing clearly enough was right should they not make it to the Super Bowl? Should they not go on a deep run? They'd be okay. They'll probably be relieved maybe yeah and I'm not saying that they're laying the groundwork for that now because they're clearly not they're for an oh, but You know There's one team in the AFC that's undefeated. It's them the groundwork for that now because they're clearly not. They're four and oh but you know. There's one team in the AFC that's undefeated. It's them. This is a bit of a mirage because what's going to happen is that they're four and

oh, they haven't looked good. And at the end of the season, if like things start going bad or if they have like a bad playoff loss, people are going to be like, Oh, what happened? What happened? It's like, this has been the team all year long. Like last year when they won the Superbowl, they didn't look great and they just went on a great run in the playoffs. I know.

Anyways, we don't need to keep talking about the Chiefs because you know how that goes with me, it leads to Kailin Clark talking. We interrupted Mikey as a loser for us. Yeah. We don't need to keep talking about the Chiefs. My loser of the week comes from the Chiefs. Patrick Mahomes.

Oh! Why the hell are you trying to make a tackle? Oh, yeah. You shouldn't be trying to make a tackle, and if are you trying to make a tackle? Oh yeah. You should be trying to make a tackle and if you are trying to make a tackle, it should be a very gentle push out of

bounds. You do not need to be diving at people's knees where of course you eliminate the one weapon you can rely on outside. Well, no, you can't even rely on Travis Kelsey this year. You eliminate the one because you went helmet to knee

and and you took out Rashid Rice for probably the year. So let me get this straight. You're a loser. You're a loser of the week. Patrick Mahomes who won the game. He's the quarterback of the 4-0 Kansas City Chiefs. Yeah. Listen, stop making it harder on yourself. You shouldn't be making tackles. That I agree with. I do agree with that. I don't know if I call him a loser when he won. He's won four straight, two straight Super Bowls, but I get your larger point. Well, he also set up his team for disaster because he threw the interception that then led to him injuring one of his own teammates, which wasn't great.

Loser! But that's the thing, it's like, just get away from the play. We're part of team. If you get a pick six, come back on the field, go down the field and score, forget it. Look, absolute worst case scenario is he hurts himself on that play, right?

Which is like, why even bother? But then he takes out Rashi Rice, which is like, what are we doing? Because he like, he was like blindly tried to tackle the defender turned offensive player there. He just tried to blindly tackle him. He turned like, I'm willing to bet, and I don't know if we can find the camera work on this,

he closed his eyes. That very much was he threw himself and closed his eyes right and then once he made contact he was probably yeah I got him and it's like oh no wrong person got the wrong guy wrong team yeah I got my best player I'm gonna go out on a limb and say he closed his eyes on that play okay yep anyways you want another winner and another loser for me or you guys just want to kind of move on no I, I mean we have this exciting announcement coming up, but no, I want your winner. I want your loser. That may change everything forever. Right. Okay, may change everything.

May. So you have a winner or a loser. A winner. Right. Falcons Defense and Special Teams. The Falcons Defense and Special Teams provided all 26 points in Atlanta's twenty-four win over the Saints. Man, that seems impossible. To score twenty-four points, the other team doesn't score an offensive touchdown and you lose the game. Yeah. Wow.

Sure you weren't playing the Jets? Wow. I would have killed for twenty-four points. Kirk Cousins, huh? First ballot Hall of Famer. Well, that was pre-injury. Once the injury happened, things changed. Right. Yeah, everybody. He went to the second ballot. Yeah the injury happened, things changed. Right. Yeah, everybody.

He went to the second ballot. Yeah, well, we'll see. Right. We'll see. Okay. Yeah. We will see. There is no one on earth in Minnesota who thought, man, we lost Kirk Cousins, we got Sam Darnold, and we're gonna be 4-0.

It's crazy. Nobody thought that. No. I did. I thought it. Except Jeff Vance. Yeah. All right. You want my loser of the week? Again, former Jet quarterbacks headed into tonight. Eight-no. Go ahead. the you ask yourself. How'd you know? Everybody's asking.

It is a great question. Nick Harris, of course, the backup center for the Browns. Of course. Nick Harris had a very bad holding call against Christian Wilkins, which ended up negating what would have been an 82 yard touchdown by Amari Cooper in a revenge game for Amari Cooper. It was called back then later in the game.

He botched a snap to Deshaun Watson when he wasn't paying attention, leading to a six yard loss. The Browns ended up losing that game. Nick Harris, loser. Loser. Unfortunately, sorry Nick, I'm sure you're a very nice person.

Right there with Patrick Mahomes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Nick Harris and Patrick Mahomes. You're two losers of the week. Identical. Yeah. I have a winner.

Do you? Yeah. Who's your winner? Spags. Oh. Our boy Spags. You ask yourself, how are the Chiefs 4 it up? It's not because of Mahomes.

It's not Andy Reid. It's not the offense. It is that defense. And that defense is led by a legend. And that legend is Steve Spagnola. He is a big, he's gonna get a head coaching job out of this. You want me to send him this clip so maybe he comes back on the show?

Yeah, well he is coming back. Is he? Yeah. So that's- Are we gonna sit down with him in Kansas City? Well yeah, things happen. He's a busy guy. Any minute. Credentials. Yeah, well. They didn't happen.

That's true. I have a winner. Oh, okay. Derek Henry. Oh, of win. Everybody called him wash after week one. Of course. I don't think so. Yeah. Ravens might be the best team in the NFL. What happened? It might be. What happened? We were coming in saying, Oh, these bills, no one's going to be able to compete with them. Layed an egg. I don't know why I made that sound. That's more of a fart. I don't know what sound you make. What sound do you think it makes like when a duck lays an egg?

That's a good one. Yeah, like a plop. Yeah, it's like a plop. Okay, yeah. So that was the Bills. Lay an egg. Yeah. We needed that.

Did we? Well, the Jets did. Oh, okay. I didn't know who the we was. And the Dolphins did. Yeah, the Dolphins. We should have seen it coming, the second Chris Sims and Mike Goldick

were like, he's the best quarterback in football now. And then, yeah. He, look, I am not. Oh, the Bills are still very football now, and then yeah. Look, I am not. Oh, the Bills are still very, very good. Oh yeah, no, I'm sorry. Josh Allen is very good. The Bills are very Bills. The Bills drop so many passes.

But that's a team that's three and oh. Like you knew, like that was fairly predictable from this standpoint. Ravens are one and two, Bills are three and oh. Like you knew the Ravens were gonna. The Ravens historically have good like prime time performances and they'll do this and then like something will happen and then at some point this season,

the Ravens, boop. Right. Yep. Exciting news. That was a laying the egg. I got it. If you remember from earlier. Derek Henry had 199 rushing yards. Yeah, he's good. Yeah. Jerry Jones could not afford him.

Had he not fumbled that ball forward, he would have had a 200 yard rushing game. Yeah. With three touchdowns? What's that? He would have had three touchdowns. Three. Well, he had the receiving touchdown as well.

He hadn't caught a receiving touchdown since 2019. It's crazy how good they look, and Lamar only has to go 13 of 18 for 156 yards. Yeah. Now granted, he rushed the ball 54 yards as well, but that's like that is the perfect if you asked John Horbaugh, how do you want to win games last night is the way he wants to win football games. That's it. Like he's not putting like to win. I think everybody would like to

win as handily as they know, but he's not putting Lamar in harm's way, meaning he's mitigating the opportunities for Lamar to get hurt because Derek Henry's having such a good game running the football. Were you guys, did you guys think Josh was seriously hurt? Because I did. When they when he fumbled that ball and they drilled him and he was laying on the ground, I was like, oh man, that's not good for Josh Allen. Sure enough, boom, right back up. I

didn't think he was hurt. Yeah, man. I don't think he's capable of getting hurt. Really? No. Okay. Yeah. Alright. Has he been hurt in his career? I don't think he's just heard him. Yeah, I think he just heard him. A few years ago. Couple games. Maybe emotionally. Yeah. Like heartbreak. Yeah. I don't know. So anyway, are you ready for this exciting announcement, Billy? No. No, no, I'm not. So we'll do it next. Well, we'll do it. I'll tell you. I'll tell you this.

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but we do it on Sundays. It's like weekly, but it's daily. It's a whole thing. Anyways, yeah. You get your budget. As you may or may not know, I finished in fifth place two weeks ago. I was riding high.

I flew too close to the sun. Last week I finished like 10 spots from the bottom. Right. This week I was feeling really good about it. Bounce back week? Bounce back week. When I put together my roster, I did it. So I don't know when you guys put together

your rosters in fantasy, right? If it's like up to the minute or if you like set it up, like and this one where you're building a roster new every week, sometimes like I'm scrambling there to get it in right before. Sure. Other times I'll sit down on a Saturday

and I'll dedicate time to this. I sat down. Because you love football. Because I love football and I wanna, yeah. So I set up my team on Saturday and I said to myself, how is this roster even legal? This shouldn't even be allowed. This is such a good roster, boom,

325th place or something, yeah. So this is a very, this is very hit or miss for me. Right. Very hit or miss. It happens all the time because you can on DraftKings for Daily Fantasy have what feels like an all-star team. Yeah. Like a pro ball team, right? But listen, the experts win because they're not focused on the quarterback. They're right. They win in the margins and the margins for DraftKings is kicker is defensive special teams is

taking a guy for $4000 at wide receiver that does better than the guy you took for $8700. That's how these guys with here's the thing. I've been riding Baker like every week this week. I took Sam Darnold who had a good who had a good fantasy week. He had like 23 points, but shouldn't have gone away shouldn't have gone away from Baker and somehow I ended up with Mike Kasecki as my tight end and he got me 0.1 points. Right. That that'll do it. Sure. Yeah yeah stuff like that will do it. Anyway yeah but I'm really I had a lineup this week that I I filled my Amazon

card. I didn't check the scores. I was like I know who's on my team. I know I'm winning. There you go. So I filled my Amazon card. I was like I'm gonna. I was like, I know who's on my team. I know I'm winning. So I filled my Amazon cart. I was like, I'm gonna go ahead and hit send. But before I do, let me just check real quick. 58th place. Just out of the money. 58 is that bad. Just out of the money.

Yeah, that's unfortunate. I thought that I finished 325th, I finished 379th. So I didn't even do as well as I thought. Yeah. Interesting. Anyway, is it fair to, so I didn't even do as well as I thought. Mm hmm. Yeah. Interesting. Anyway, is it fair to say, I don't care. Like are Bears fans already

saying to themselves, we picked the wrong guy? I think it's early for that. Probably not coming off a win. They are, but they're not talking about the quarterback. They're talking about the coach. Well, maybe because they could

have had Jim Harbaugh, you're saying. They could have had a lot of people. Right. A guy named Eberfluss. A guy not named the coach. Well, maybe because they could have had Jim Harbaugh you're saying. They could have had a lot of people right. A guy named Eber Fluss. A guy not named Eber Fluss, correct? Yeah. Um I mean they're two and two. I like I realized

Kayla Williams could still turn into a great quarterback. You see flashes of it but Jaden Daniels is already a great if the Bears decide to move on from their head coach, it will be the third time that they took a quarterback with like the first pick, that then they fire the coach after a season. And it has not ended well for them historically,

as we've seen. Belichick? Enough with Belichick. I don't know why you keep doing this whole thing. Well, because he's gonna coach again, that's why. I'm so in love with the washed 73 year old coach that had a hey date like 10 years ago. No, I'm not. You are, you keep bringing him up. I don't, he's going to coach again. That's why. So in love with the washed 73 year old coach that had a hey date like 10 years ago. No, I'm not. You are. You keep bringing him up.

I don't. He's not going to coach. They want to hire him. Wait, wait. You're saying that he's not going to coach. All right. You're saying that he's not going to coach because no NFL teams want him to coach. The thing is, he wants to coach. He wants all the power. NFL teams don't want to give him that because he deserves it, but I wouldn't give it to him. He can't do it without Brady. He's kind of proven that. So why He wants all the power. NFL teams don't want to give him that. Okay. Because it's already proven. He deserves it, but I wouldn't give it to him. He can't do it without Brady. He's kind of proven that.

So it's like, why give him all this power? Mikey, you're Woody Johnson, and he picks up the phone today, Belichick does, and says, I want to coach your team. What do you do? I fire Robert Sala and I say, welcome Bill, but I mean. He has all the power. You took the lowest bearing fruit possible.

Yeah, that's not fair. Yeah. Replacing terrible with slightly better at this point. You're a McCasky and Belichick calls, is it still the McCaskys in Chicago? What he calls, what do you do? I have no idea. CJ Stroud had 345 yards.

Yeah. Thank you, Billy. In an unimpressive win over the Jaguars. That would have been a disastrous loss. If the Jags beat the Texans, that is not great, but CJ Stroud, 345 yards, ah great, business as usual. You're right, they lose that game, Belichick goes to Houston. I mean, how about that?

Oh boy, okay. He might end up in Jacksonville. He brought me there, I'm sorry, he should end up in Jacksonville. How about this? How about the Chiefs do what I was saying? And for some reason, they go crazy and they're like, you know what? Andy Reed's gotta go.

And they bring in Bill Belichick with Patrick Mahome. Yes. Now you're playing the game, my friend. That's a dumb game. I don't like this game. It's a great game. What are you talking about? We haven't talked about this game either.

But I thought Spags was the reason. You haven't talked about this game either? Spags is the reason. I mean, but Spags, listen,'t talked about this game either. But I thought Spags was the reason. They haven't talked about this game either. Spags is the reason. I mean but Spags, listen, I I said this to Spags last time he was on. Sometimes a coordinator is just

good at being a coordinator. Yes. Yeah and he is great at it. Hall of Fame great. He is going to get to the Hall of Fame if he just stays a defensive coordinator. Yeah. He's great at it. He's the best in the business. Anyway,

what were you saying Billy? Buccaneers. What about them? Blew out the Eagles. They're back. Bakers. Yeah. Baker, Baker may be good. Baker is good. Yeah.

Yes. He is good. Maybe good. Maybe good. Ask me that last week. Baker's good. Baker may be good. We've teased it long enough.

Also, the Bengals may be bad, even though they won by ten. Yeah. Belichick. We've teased it long enough. Big, special, exciting, seismic announcement from Billy Gill. they're going to be bad even though they won by ten. Yeah, Belichick. We've teased it long enough. Big, special, exciting, seismic announcement from Billy

Gill. Next. Our apologies. No Lucy this week. Lucy is making her way back to Florida from the I think where was she Billy? She was at the Alabama. Alabama again. Okay. You don't need to you don't need to know all the trouble. Alright. So, Lucy

should be with us next week. We uh we hope she gets back safely. Uh Billy has a big big announcement. He has his picks for tonight. Two Monday night football games tonight. You have the Dolphins, they're playing. You have the Seahawks and the Lions as well.

And so see if the Dolphins could get to two and two. The Bills are at three and one. Dolphins would, with a win, would be tied for second in the AFC East. Yeah. A revenge game of sorts. Titans, the Dolphins after last year's Monday night football game, even though obviously

the stakes are not as high. Oh, I guess the football game, even though stakes are kind of high. Th to win this game. Uh so i or seismic announcement. I what we were calling it. A listen, I called it big. I said it's not big. It's no exciting. That's I called it big, I called it seismic. You said it's not big, it's not seismic, it's just exciting, that's what you said. I also said I think it changes everything, but it doesn't matter.

You did say that. So last week we had two Monday night football games as well and Mikey said, so which game did you choose? Are you gonna pick both games, whatever? And I just had three picks. Now here is the important news. It's time for Billy's Big Board Betts

brought to you by and I have my trusty board as I always do. However, this week I brought a friend, another board. Wow. Because there's two games. So, we're going to make three picks for each game. Wow. A couple of boards cutting it up. There are

six picks this week. Wow. Yeah. Six. That's right, six. So this is the exciting news. Yeah. Oh, okay. Twice as much. Seismic. You wanna get, you see? I don't know how to sell or I don't know how to sell.

I thought it was sponsored. I gotta say. No, no, no. I was excited. I'm excited. All right, let's just get started because there's six picks that we gotta get to this week. All right.

The first one Calvin Ridley under three and a half reception Alright, yep Titans of Dolphins Ridley is gonna go under three and a half receptions Okay, I will tell you this and I have told you guys this before we're not in a DraftKings state But if I was in a DraftKings state, these are best I may or may not feel strongly enough to place a wager on. Now, this game, I don't know what the hell's gonna happen, if I'm gonna be perfectly honest with you. I'm making these, this was one of the hardest ones to pick

because I could see a situation where it's a high scoring game, I can see a situation where it's a disaster. All right, so- Huntley could throw for 350 yards, but Huntley could also have like less than 24 passing attempts. Sure, so this is still the same board,

but this is pick number two for that board. This is pick number two. Okay. Will Levis over.5 interception. I like it. If I know anything, which I don't, is that Will Levis is gonna throw an interception in this game.

Okay. That might be my lock of the week. Is that Will Levis is going to throw an interception in this game. Okay. That might be my lock of the week. He just needs to throw one. That's it. That might be my lock of the week. Is Will Levis throwing a interception? Over half an interception.

Not one, over half. Okay, over half. You can't throw a half. So one. Oh, over half. All right. He has five on the season. Yeah, over half.

And there's only been three games. So. He has five on the season. He has one that. Alright, he has five on the season. Yeah, over half and there's only been three games. So he has five on the season. He has one that just rips your heart out every single week. So and the Dolphins to your credit to your point have a

good secondary. So I like that over half got it might be my lock of the week. So this is your third pick on the first board and final pick of this board. Each team will score one touchdown and one field goal in the game. Okay. Yeah. the third and final pick of is it offensive touchdowns? Oh, that's a good question. Right. No, no, it's a touchdown. It's a touchdown. Ready? Yep. All right. Board two Seahawks Lions. Billy's Big Boards bets brought to you by BBBBB. Right. Now,

here's the debut of BBBBBB. Billy's Big Boards bets brought to you by, and this is the B-Board. Okay. All right. So, the B-Board is making its debut, and the B-Board's first pick is, so the B-Board is making its debut and the B-Board's first pick is Jared Goff under 242 and a half passing yard. Okay. What's your theory there? The Lions get out to a big lead.

I, I, I think and I, I could be wrong about this. Right. And I'm kind of hedging and you'll find out a little bit later. I think we may be in for a bit of a slower game on this one. Okay. Yeah, we'll see. Because the Seahawks give up a lot of points and they give up some yards, but I think that Jared Goff is going to be under 242.5 passing yards.

My second one, I'm going to take the Seahawks plus four. Wow. I think necessarily that they're going to win the game, but I think it's gonna be a close one. Got it, so you have the Lions by three is what you're saying. Yeah, well less than four. Not to be too exact, right? I think the Seahawks are a little fraudulent. I think the Lions blow them out.

Yeah, me too. I think. The Lions need it more. Look at the Seahawks wins, not impressive. Then, that's why we're hedging here, because I have the over 47 for the game. So, I'm playing it safe on this one, right? Right now on the season, I am seven and five.

Last week I was two and one. This is a risky one. Six picks could swing it in one direction or another. This may put me in a hole that I can't get out of, but it also may be setting me up for success, or I could go 500 and end up basically exactly where I am. Right. So we'll see but a little bit of a hedge there. Yeah. At the end, you seem nervous. Yeah. I mean, I'm letting it ride tonight, Billy. I'm on the edge

of my seat right now. Yeah. Yep. And you love football. I love football. I love it so much Football. I love it so much that I forget what days certain games are on. Right. But in my defense, college football should not be played on Fridays. That's a conversation for another day. College football games should not be on Friday. I have a late winner. Really? Okay. Quick.

Young Waku. I had him on my list of winners and losers and I took him out at the end. Yeah. Yeah. My guy, sniper. Big winner. Career long, 58 yard touchdown to win the game. That guy is lights out in a year where kicking has been very consistent. He's a consistent. God bless football.

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