The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - GBF- Still Assessing

Episode Date: December 27, 2024

Stugotz, Billy and Mikey A are fresh off some of the worst games of football of the year after Christmas and Thursday Night Football. Billy is trying to determine his health status after a car accident and has some thoughts on batteries. The guys play a game of "frauds?" and discuss where Kirk Cousins will play next year. Plus, Stuyagotz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. and get up to $75 in PC optimum points. Visit superstore.ca to get started. Uber app for details. God bless football, Billy Gill. You're cold. God bless football, Mike. Yay. God bless football, StuGuts. Billy, why are you cold? What's going on with you? It's that time of year.

I don't know. I'm like right under a bend what's on the year I'm sick again in a car accident yesterday's a lot you really yeah what happened you okay I'm fine I mean am I ever really fine though I'm fine and went out got some espresso pods and got hit by a guy driving back. It's okay. My bumper got taken off. Now we'll see. Now it's the thing. It's fault of yours. It is fault. I had a lead light and he ran a red. You get a safe hour.

Yeah, yeah. I filled out the report, all that stuff. He was doing that thing where he was like, I just have minor bumper damage. And it's like, yeah, but mine's on the floor, buddy. And the back of my car is dented. And my car is dented. And my car's 10 years old. They're probably gonna tell me it's not worth fixing

and now I'm gonna have a car payment I don't wanna have. I'm glad that your car just has a dent, but that's not what you did to mine. Were you alone in the car, Billy? Were there any family members? No, I was alone, luckily. Yeah. That's good. Calling in Jordan Levine or what'd you do there?

Well, here's the thing is I'm very lucky. Obviously nothing happened to me Yeah, well actually I don't I don't know on the record if anything happened to me yet, you know, some of those things Takes a little takes a little bit of time and then you just start my back is a little tweaked You know what I mean? Mike? I've read said earlier just scratch that from the the audio, please. Thank you I'm still assessing. I'm still assessing I'm still assessing my situation But I already took my car to like my wife You got to take the car to get it fixed like right away, and I'm like yeah

Let's take it but in my head I'm like but also like that's not how insurance works That that things is gonna be sitting there, and I could just be driving it around I don't know how legal it would be driving around without a bumper, but probably not But I wondered I dropped it off and now I'm without a car luckily. I I don't have to drive anywhere Next week, but it's just you know, I feel like I lose my freedom a little bit You know, I mean, I'm assessing my body too, right? So you're not sure whether or not you have three fractured ribs You're not assessing. We're in the assessment stage.

Yeah. One of those things, it takes a little bit to figure out exactly. How's the back feeling? I mean, I'm assessing. We're still assessing. Tell you what. Yesterday. Yeah. Probably one of the worst football games ever played.

We should do the NFL. Speaking of car accidents, last night's football game. Yes, I'm calling it in to our living. Maybe there's something wrong with my head. Maybe there's something wrong with my vision, but I didn't like that at all. Has there ever been a football game, Mikey, that you never gave a chance? Like you never turned it on in the first place? Because that was the game for me last night. I could see how that would be the game

I could honestly see how that would be the game. Yeah, that was your Super Bowl pick right there. Yeah Bears and Jets Put that game on and my wife comes in and she comes to sit with me. She's like, oh is this a big game? I'm like, no me she's like oh is this a big game I'm like no she's like well why isn't it a big game I was like well that's the team Stu gots picked to be in the Super Bowl and they're out of it and that's the team that thinks they're gonna make the playoffs but isn't and they're gonna be out of it that's how I described last night's game and neither of them could do anything against the other team. Right.

Yes. Which was crazy. Caleb Williams. I don't know. And the Bears. I don't think they know how time works. It's very confusing. Every time they go to snap the ball,

they're either like right about to get a delay of game, they take way too long, they mismanage their timeouts like the end of that game yesterday was wild about how bad it was at just managing time also like managing what they should do with the ball you're you're basically within field goal range and Caleb Williams is throwing like Hail Marys like if they're down a touchdown and they need a touchdown to score you just need like seven yards and you can tie this game and go into overtime and instead you're scrambling around after again you take

it down to one second left you're scrambling around and you're throwing it 40 yards downfield hoping someone catches it like what are we doing? Trying to lose. Is Caleb Williams still looking for a Heisman moment? Like is that what he's doing? Is he still scrambling around looking for that play to put on a Heisman reel? I don't know what he's doing but he like and he looked upset the entire time while he's doing it it's like dude just check it down like throw like a seven yard out and have him run out of bounds and kick a field goal, go to overtime.

Hopefully you win the toss and then just kick another field goal. That's all you need to win this game. Six, three, six, three. No, but I think the Bears believe you that Seattle obviously needed the win. They're in they're in the playoff hunt. Right. I don't know if you want to count that as a win. And it impressed nobody. But if you're the Bears and a Bears fan, you're happy with that

result. You are. You have to be. You're 4-12 now. I mean, you don't want to win that game. That's winning a meaningless game for absolutely no reason. For what? To keep Seattle out of the playoffs? Who cares if Seattle's in the playoffs or not?

They're not going to do anything if they get there. That's a good loss for Chicago. It is. Which leads me. Can we start my game now? the Bears. The Bears in the playoffs or not. They're not going to do anything if they get there. That's a good loss for Chicago. It is. I which leads me. Can I can I can we start my game now? I have a game I want to play. Yeah, it's

called Brods. Oh. Oh. Oh. So, here's how you play. You ready before you get to it though? Is this okay? Cuz we're on the Bears. Oh, please. Yeah, did you hear the latest rumors about the Bears? Pete Carroll wants the job I Saw there was a USC coach with a former USC quarterback. I mean I saw there was a back and forth on that Yeah, where Shepty was like Pete Carroll wants to get back in on the game

And then there's accusations that he was doing the bidding for Pete Carol being leaked by Pete Carol's agents. Oh, I see. Shefty was doing the bidding. He did not like that accusation whatsoever. Why would, why would he? I understand why he wouldn't. He's a man of integrity. I mean. No, I understand it. Hey, where's Shirley Schefter? We haven't talked to her in a while. We should check in, see how the holidays went. Should I check in on Monday?

You want me to do that? Yeah. Yes. I don't know. Do we think Shirley will be up when we're recording at like seven in the morning? Maybe. She will be up for four hours.

Okay, we'll see. I don't know. She'll be done with lunch. I don't know. I saw Shirley on that cruise and I feel like she burns the midnight oils. You know what I mean? Yeah.

I have a surprise for you before we get to our frauds. And that surprise is Chris Sims will not be joining us today. Oh. But I spoke with Chris Sims yesterday. He told me to wish you guys a Merry Christmas. He will give us not one, but two appearances next week for his absence this week. How about that? He will not. They actually would would say he's not gonna he's not gonna join us on Monday at first thing in the morning Get out of here. He has to work and I'm paying him. So yes

What do we want Chris Sims twice in one week? I think to have Sims on Monday to break down what we just saw we never do that with them So I don't yeah, okay, OK. We don't have to. I'm just telling you, we have a bonus appearance for Sims whenever you want. OK. What is Sims like on a Monday morning after working Sunday night football? Right. Well, he also he does his question. He does his podcast really late Sunday nights like he's doing it during Sunday night football.

So he's up. He's up burning the midnight oils. I don't know why everyone's burning midnight oils this week. I don't know why. We should we should probably next week also on Monday if we're doing a segment I call planning out the show we should uh, I'll reach out We should talk to Lucy on Monday's yes preview the big college football games the weekend if she's not traveling That's what happened last week is she was traveling back. So we'll see. Yep. You have NFL Saturday and Sunday You have college and Monday. You have college football, the playoff Tuesday and Wednesday.

Billy's upset about this. We'll get to a frauds. It's just a second. Yeah. Well, you didn't like you. Want the you want college football on Saturdays is what you were saying before we before we started here. Well, I mean, you betrayed me. So, yes, I was annoyed.

I would say more so than upset. It is kind of like I was. Why would say more so than upset it's kind of like I was why do we we had we had the playoffs last weekend and I was like okay I'm excited let's see here what do we have coming up oh no Tuesday and Wednesday but then but then for all you football lovers out there even though every day there's football if you're counting bowl season you're watching you know like all the the little bowls that are going on and let me not let me not I want to say this right now and get out and apologize for what I just said I don't want to diminish any of the

quote-unquote little bowls if your college is playing in one of those bowls I will say I am envious of you because my team has not been bowl eligible for years so if my team was in one of those little bowls, I would be very excited. However, I there was a time in my life that I watched all of the bowl games and every day I'd tune in to see what was going on on like the, you know, tire bowl or whatever. Right. This year, I haven't really been watching all the bowl games. I'll have them on in the background, but I haven't been watching them. I don't know. I have you. Are you guys like that too? Yeah, I haven't watched any of them.

I won't watch any of them. The only ones that matter to the playoff. Yeah, well, that's that's kind of maybe what it is for me is that I know because there's now so many postseason college games, I know which ones are like really important. Not that the other ones aren't like the other ones are on just to have something on and be entertaining can watch football but. We're also on the Saturday phase of the NFL schedule so I still got to point it out we have three Saturday games we have a full set of games on Sunday we have Monday night football we have Tuesday a playoff game in college football and then three playoff games on Wednesday. We're headed into like a lot

of meaningful football games this weekend. And you know someone's getting a little exhausted. It's that time of year. And you know you know what I've realized is I'm getting older. When the calendar changes you don't get new batteries. Same batteries as the old year. I'm just as tired January 1st as I was December 31st. No new year knew me, same me, I'm still tired. There's no charging the old batteries, you're right about that. There's no recharge the old batteries just keep getting older. And I'm not running on lithium friends.

I'm store brand double A's. Are you trying to say you're burning? I get what you're saying with the batteries, OK? You don't recharge. They just keep going until you're six feet under. They don't, though. Mine don't. This is not the Energizer buttery.

Mine are depleting. Right. Do you guys remember when they had the batteries? They don't have them anymore. Do you guys remember when they had the batteries that you could touch the side and have like a little meter and it showed you how much? What happened to those?

Why did they get rid of that? I wonder. They didn't work. Well. Last thing you want is for everybody to think that the batteries are dead. They didn't work. You'd be like, oh, all the batteries are dead.

I got bad batteries. Now that we're talking about batteries and I'm glad we, I don't know who brought us here. I'm glad you asked me about Saturdays and college football. How did we arrive? You did this. The greatest. The greatest. Not sure who got us to batteries, but I'm glad we're here. So I have this thing that I think is called like a battery daddy or something like that.

Right. Where it's like a case where you can store all of your batteries. A baddie. And it comes with a Where it's like a case where you can store all of your batteries. A battery? And it comes with a, it comes with like a battery, like a tester, right? So you can test to see. How much battery life you have left. Yeah, well, my first one died, so then I had to go on Amazon and buy like new

battery testers, because obviously you can't not have a battery tester. Now that I've been exposed to a battery tester, I need to have a battery tester and way that I work is I'm just gonna back one so I bought one to put in the junk drawer then I put one to put back in my battery daddy anyways so now when I go to change batteries and something's not working I know I don't toss out the two batteries if it's two or four or whatever I test all of them to see which battery betrayed

me and which ones's still working. Now, let me ask you guys your strategy on this. If you have two batteries that you take out and you find out this one is not working, do you replace both? Or just start fresh with brand new 100% batteries? Or do you just replace the one even though you know the second one is already kind of on its last leg I? Like two fresh batteries Yeah, but you probably toss out both batteries in the idea time yeah I do but if you get a battery tester you you know this one says a little juice now. I've done both things

Much to my wife's chagrin. I have I have replaced both batteries And then I'll throw out the bad one and then I had a ziplock bag of Used batteries that still have some juice left in it and I would throw those in the junk drawer So I have some double a some triple a's all in a ziplock bag my wife's like what are these I'm like She's like are these new batteries. I'm like no, and she's like, well, let's throw away. I'm like no no no, they're not new But they're still good right if I need a pinch, even though, you know, every hurricane season, I'll go on Amazon about, and I shouldn't say this,

because now everyone's gonna do it, because this is a very sound thing to do, about, you know, three weeks before every hurricane season, I'll go on the old Amazon, and I'll buy 100 AA batteries, just in case. Wait, we've arrived with Amazon at the old Amazon already. Yeah. Yeah.

I'll hop on there and I'll get about 100 double A's, 100 triple A's, and I'll get 25 to 40 C's and D's just in case. You can never have too many batteries, Billy. I'm learning you can. I'm learning you can have too many batteries. Especially when you have a junk drawer that just has partially used batteries. And you know what I do?

Use batteries, use batteries belong in a baggie in a junk drawer, okay? You don't throw them in the garbage, you just hold onto them forever. I've also found that they serve a purpose, and I'm gonna tell you this purpose, and I think you guys will agree with me there are certain things and I'm gonna be completely honest my children's toys where I want the batteries to die those

toys get those partially used batteries just in case daddy's having a long day then maybe daddy from the past can save daddy from the future by putting in a battery that doesn't have quite enough juice and then the toy that makes a lot of noise all of a sudden doesn't work and you're like I guess it's gonna need new batteries. Let's change that one tomorrow and then the way that that works is your kid moves on to like something else and forgets about that and then you'll have like a good two weeks of silence just because you put in there the junk drawer batteries

that you know don't have that much juice left in them. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Wow. Texan's Ravens. Oh my God. Frauds? Oh wait, hold on.

Was that part of the game? Let's not. All right, Mikey's game. Thank you for that, Billy. Wait, Mikey, have you noticed what's going on with Billy's eyes twitching? And I think there's a bone sticking out of his shoulder. I'm assessing still. I'm still assessing. It's assessing still that I was in the assessment phase.

OK, I don't know what whiplash looks like, but I'm looking at it. Yeah, seriously. Yeah. Mm hmm. Assessing the number that's still assessing Stenger is going going, whatever their names are still assessing. Well, the guy got nine point eight million for the same kind of accident. I mean, we're the who did some guy in the commercial. I mean, yeah, what? OK, those commercials.

Well, Billy, don't talk too much. Don't say anything. All right. Let me do the commercial. I mean, yeah, what? OK, those commercials. Well, Billy, don't talk too much. Don't say anything. Let me do the talking. No, those those commercials, though, right? It's like we got we got a billion dollar settlement. It's like, yeah, the client got like $50,000 and you guys got the rest of the billion. You kept it all in your fees. Right. Isn't that how that works?

I don't know. There's more. Well, very useful. You'll tell us. Can't walk anymore. And the lawyers are like, go on yachts throwing parties. Allegedly, allegedly. You can't come after me now, right? That's how the law works.

That's how the law works. That's how the law works. Cohen got me $2.3 million and there's nothing wrong with the person. Hold on. We're assessing still. I'm sorry. I shouldn't say that. It's false advertising.

I am tired. I have two frauds. Oh, you want to do that? Is that you tossing the mic to play a game? That's how tired I am. I'm out of batteries. Wait, before you play frauds, did you guys like the Netflix games?

Like not the games themselves. Do you like the Netflix coverage of the games and all that? Yeah, it was fine. I thought it's fine. I'm kind of with you. It's like, yeah, it was good. It's fine. It was cool. You know, the numbers came out.

They were fantastic, obviously. They were two bad games, but you just had upon everyone was home. The numbers were fantastic. They trumped the NBA. LeBron said this is the NBA's day. LeBron, it's not. The NFL watch your days. They'll take your day. Because, by the way, the NBA also put out numbers and like, this is the highest viewed NBA games in five years like okay so like we just have more people on earth like more people are watching NBA more people are watching

basketball like I don't know about the end and Netflix love Netflix but I'd love to work for Netflix sure I don't know but the way they put numbers out what are we doing oh nine billion streamable minutes for these NFL games. Like, okay, great. Like, I'm not gonna break out a calculator. I don't know what that means. Like, nine billion streamed minutes, okay. Who cares?

Nine billion people watched for one minute. Not that, but that's not, that's the thing. When you break down the way that those numbers come out sometimes, yeah, no. It's like, oh, 65 billion people watch these games. Like, really? Like, these are the biggest games after the Super Bowl like I really doubt that but okay if you say so, right? anyway Hmm. I turn I take 17 different subscriptions to watch football. Oh, I'm gonna send you need it right now

Yeah, you need Amazon. You need Netflix. You need Sunday Ticket. You need YouTube. It's a Saturday. It'll be Sunday Ticket. I don't. During the Ravens. During the Ravens and the Texans game, I did this thing late in the game. I saw Beyonce's halftime show.

After the halftime show, I'm watching like, this game is over. it's not close. I did the thing, flipped it over, Christmas vacation, classic. Oh, classic. Always there, and always funny. There's a new Christmas classic that's out. Stu Gott said, I think you'll be interested.

Mike, I can't get a read on your your movie taste So I'm not sure if you'll like it or not It's called red one. A lot of people are talking about it now. Love red one. Oh I haven't seen it. So happy to hear this. I'm writing it down now. So happy to hear this much Billy Here's this is all you need to know. It's a Christmas movie. The Rock is the head elf. Oh, done. It is. Okay, now. J.K. Simmons is Santa Claus. What? A Jack Santa Claus. A Jack Santa Claus. Jack? Really? Yeah, you can watch it for free right now on Prime if you want to go watch it on Prime's two gods. Okay. Now, it is very fantastical. There are mythical creatures in there, so

you just need to know that. Now, it was released in theaters and was a major flop. Big time dud. I think after it came out, people were like, does The Rock still have this? Because I don't think it was well received in theaters. But I think, I feel like we were just, it was always destined to be a streaming movie. It is crushing it on Prime.

It's so good. It's a Christmas classic and people are discovering it now. You should check it out. You're gonna like it. It's a Christmas action movie basically. It's fun. Okay, so I am going, I am gonna check it out over the weekend.

I have nothing to do besides watch football. I will squeeze that in and I do wanna talk to you about something I did squeeze in since the last time we spoke. But I will squeeze that in. And I do want to talk to you about something I did squeeze in since the last time we spoke, but I will squeeze that in. I'll report back to you on Monday. Not for not for the kids, by the way. Probably watch it. Not I mean, maybe teenagers is fine, but if you're older, little older, yeah, older kids, teenagers.

I will report back to you on Monday. If it's if it if it lived up to the height, you'll forget. But I'm telling you, it's it's I won't forget. I wrote you'll forget, but I'm telling you it's it's Look red one. I wrote it down red one look it says it right there There you go, and then you'll see the movie that I saw this weekend that I got mad at you, okay They have watched the Aaron I watched the Aaron Rodgers documentary and now I like them Yeah, why'd you do that to me? Why did you do that to me? I was gonna ask you guys if you had watched enigma that was on my notes today of questions

to ask you guys I was gonna ask you if you had watched it because I Mikey Last week watched the day that it came out. I didn't know that it came out and We had the show the next day. So I watched a 930 I saw people like talking about I was like, oh crap that came out today So I tried to watch it all in one night to just have someone on the show have watched it. I watched the first two episodes. I fell asleep in the third

because it was like already late at night. I haven't gone back to finish the third yet. I haven't come back to the third yet. So guys, did you watch all the episodes yet or no? I watched the first and the second episode. I don't know if the third's weird or not, but I found myself really liking Aaron Rodgers and really respecting what it is he went through with the Achilles

injury last year and how badly he was trying to get back. Now, I know he produced it and he controls the final messaging on this thing, but I didn't want to watch it. My wife wanted to watch it. I told my wife that Billy said it was exceptional. My wife said, why don't you want to watch it? He's your quarterback. I said, he's not my quarterback for long. He never really was my quarterback. It was four plays and then he tore his Achilles. And I said, I'm afraid I'm gonna like him after watching this.

I watched it 45 minutes in, I'm like, damn it. I love him, I want him back. I watched it and I thought, you would go on one of those retreats with him, wouldn't you? No doubt, I want him. Like you would definitely go on one of those retreats with him. Have you seen it yet, Mikey, or know, here's my feeling on it.

I've watched enough Aaron Rodgers this year. I don't need to watch anymore. Oh, come on. Now, Mikey, I said the same thing with Billy brought it up on the show. He said, you see the Aaron Rodgers doc. This was last week and I say, I see it every Sunday. I don't need to watch it. And then I went and then I watched it. Yeah. Well, part of it. And then I went and then I watched it. Yeah. Well, part of it.

I think we're all stuck two thirds of the way through. When he gets to edit and control the messaging, you like him. When he's live on television, not so much. He does. You do see that he, let's just say, was partially truthful with the media during the Zach Wilson era when he's like, yeah, Zach's doing great out there. Cause there's videos of him watching the games at home. Like he'd watch,

I guess the games on his couch or whatever. And he's like, this office is shit. They're so bad. Like he's, he's ripping the jets on the couch. Like they can't do anything. This is terrible. Uh, Mikey, you would love if you watch it. There's a speech he gives, I don't know, nine, 10 days after the Achilles tear, where I think they're one and two. He comes into the locker room.

He talks to all the guys. It gives you goosebumps. I think they got to four and three that season. I don't believe, for me, it did. They snuck him into a hotel. He gave a speech in a conference room at the hotel. They snuck him into the hotel, but also there's a camera crew on the inside of the door watching him come in.

So how they snuck him in is kind of questionable. Yes. Before we get to frauds, quick question for you guys. LeBar Jackson, third MVP. It's coming up, right? He's going to win his third MVP. This is crazy without making a Super Bowl, right? That seems to be the talking point this week. Everyone had already kind of wrapped it up for Josh Allen. It seems like they're in a back and forth game, right? Where I think the voter fatigue

is part of what is going on there. Where it's like, yeah, let's give it to Lamar again. We just gave it to him and Josh was looking good and Josh really doesn't have any weapons. Like, let's be honest. Where Lamar, I guess, has Derrick Henry and maybe people are holding that against him, but he has five touchdown passing games, so it's not all Derek Henry

That's not why he has the record and by his individual stats are pretty much all better than Josh's this season No, I know but that's interesting because Mikey when Lamar was winning the MVPs before this season It was Lamar was the guy that had no weapons, right? And that's why he was winning the MVP He took that team and he had that record and now we're not doing the same thing with Josh Allen because Lamar Jackson has been so great Billy to get to the super if the season ended today which is a Monday feature but just quickly just a preview. Uh if the season ended today Lamar Jackson would have to win at

Buffalo against Josh Allen and then go to Kansas City and be Patrick Moms. Yeah. Yeah, maybe. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe not. Let's vote on the MVP then. Yeah, exactly right.

Let's vote on the MVP then. It spags, I mean. It's always spags. The Chiefs look fixed. I'm just, I'm gonna come out and going to I can't believe I'm saying this. They're getting hot at the right time. Well, okay. I feel like homes are starting to play.

Well, I don't Kelsey to hey, Travis. Kelsey's on the team. Who knows? And they got Hollywood. Browns. They have the Andre Hopkins. All of a sudden. They're getting healthy.

Kareem Hunt. Hey, he found a time machine. Pacheco's back. Guys, I feel like if we look back to like first week NFL kickoff we weren't doing this. But I feel like if we look back, we might have predicted, yeah, they're going to be whatever during the regular season.

But like come playoff time. Don't worry about them. They're going to have figured it Yeah, they're going to be whatever during the regular season but like come playoff time. Don't worry about them. They're going to have figured it out by the time that comes. I feel like we may have said that we have. Yes. Uh Trey Wingo loves to tell the story

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by now people probably have just bailed on us. They're not listening anymore. No, I think they're enjoying what it is. They were writing down everything to do during hurricane season. Yeah, battery talk. They took all those notes. I hope they didn't honestly because like sometimes I come up with these little hacks and these little ideas for myself, and I find these things, and I'm like, better keep this one close to the vest, because if too many people know about it, then I'm not gonna be able to do it anymore,

because everyone's gonna be doing it. Then there's a battery shortage. See, I was gonna laugh at your junk drawer batteries. I was gonna laugh at that, and then you were like, no, you put those in the kids' toys, and I'm like, genius, genius. See, now we're talking. Everything has a purpose. Everything has a purpose.

Yes. Everything has a purpose. It just takes a while for me to get there. I just kind of try to walk you through what I'm thinking. And I remember, remember, I'm still assessing. You keep tweaking your back. Yeah. I'm still assessing. Well, no, Mikey, I am telling you, within 30 minutes

of the release of this episode, Billy's phone is going to be ringing off the look. There might be a bad day and there might be a battery shortage next May, which I think is not the case. Interesting. Should we get the frauds? Billy, do we have a daily fantasy game or no? Yeah, we do go to dkng.co slash smirnoff.

You can compete against us. Last week, finished in the mid-100s. I was looking good and Josh Allen had a dud of a game. He got me like 12 fantasy points.'ve I've already set up my lineup for this week I'm pretty excited about this situation not gonna tell you who's on it cuz then you're gonna steal my players and that's not gonna happen daddy's gonna win this week right why would I want to steal your players I mean I've been I've been hot lately not not in finishing in the money that I

have not since the first week or the second week of the season I've been hot that I've been in the the single digits or the low triple digits It's been a while since I've been a Mikey a territory of five hundred and tenth place interesting I finished a hundred and third last way to go but up. That's true Third already selected my team this week. I'm very excited. How did you do last week? Mike? Did you play last week or no? I did I did. I did. I jumped 200 something spots. There you go. You just got to keep moving in the right direction.

Every week you jump up 200 spots and sure enough, three weeks down the road, you're in it. And by the way, as we've said a number of times, every week is a new roster. So what you did last week doesn't really matter what you do this week. Yeah. I have a Saquon and Jordan Love this week. How, I have a safe one in Jordan love this week. How about that? OK, wow. I'm taking those guys.

They're going to win. I don't know if I would take safe one. Philly's they might start resting him at some point. OK, sorry. Oh, sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. By the way, it's going to be the best set of wildcard teams we've ever seen, right? In the NFC. What do you think? Some of the worst division winners? Well, I mean, one of those three teams

has to win that division. Right. Yes, you're going to have games like Packers and Falcons. Yes, correct. Michael Pennings, huh? Do we have to reopen the game? I don't know. It's kind of late in the season to reopen this game.

Well, let's let's check back on Monday. OK, OK. Are you guys excited about Kurt Cousins being your quarterback next year? Super, super excited. I'm back back in.

You see the going to you or the Colts like like 100%. Like that is a question. Who is the team most likely to sign Kirk Cousins? If Kirk Cousins gets to choose, it'll be the Colts. He's got to, like, Colts. He had an opportunity to go to the Jets once. They offered him more money than Minnesota.

Fully guaranteed. And he was like, hey Minnesota, can you come close close cuz yeah but there's a different career wait so you think Kirk Cousins feels like the Colts are Kirk Cousins away is that what you're saying the Colts yeah Mikey's that's it Colts always do this this no no no does Kirk Cousins think that the Colts are Kirk Cousins away is that is that what Mikey is alleging? Maybe. But the Falcons thought they were Kirk Cousins away. Yeah, but Kirk Cousins. They were Michael Penick's away.

There's a little difference. Yeah. There's a little difference. Kirk Cousins is not a bad backup to have. If you have Anthony Richardson, who is somewhat injury prone, not injury prone, but he does get injured a lot because of how he plays. And if he goes out and then Kirk

Cousins is your quarterback, like that's not the worst thing in the world. I know it's what the Falcons are saying right now. They have the best backup in the NFL. Any team who gets him if he's not starting would have the best backup in the NFL. I think Kirk Cousins and Anthony Richardson are going to be Russell Wilson and Justin Fields next year. There's going to be packages for Anthony Richardson,

but it's really going to be really good to be Kirk. Yeah. But Kirk's going to want to start. That's why he's going to the jets. Yeah. Well, a lot of people want to start that. I won't be able to. Oh, jets. He's starting for the jets. I could see him starting for the jets. Like, oh, could you, could you talk yourself into like being excited about it though? I mean at one time at one time he was trending towards being a first ballot Hall of Famer Well, I think I've heard you yeah, and he got hurt and then that was that

Who's the coach is good question? Who is your coach gonna be who's gonna want your job? I don't know It's a great question. You'll find someone Yes I don't know. It's a great question. You'll find someone. Yes, someone good. It would actually be funny. You sound like you sound like Mama Gold like talking to Mike Junior. You're going to find someone. It would be someone out there for you. It'd be funny though if you didn't. And you went into the season like we just have four debaters. No one wanted to be our coach.

Would you take table? No, really, you wouldn't take Dave's. No, not as my head guy. I would not take. Would you take the show? Would you take Stefanski? Yeah, who wouldn't? Why would I? Them firing him would be so.

Well, I don't I don't think they're gonna fire him But he might have he might want to move on from that place. I have no idea Next Jets head coach Aaron Glenn It might be that doesn't excite me the lions offensive coordinator. No, but but it would excite jet fans, I think Why because we have pressure to a jet game and count how many Aaron Glengers as you say Why? Because we have pressure. You get game and count how many Aaron Glengers as you say. I'm not like zero. We have precious few guys

throughout the history of the Jets organization that we actually he's kind of benign. Hold on. What if you what if you guys what if you don't hate them? What if you guys are the next group of people that believe that Clip Kingsbury is going to solve your team? We're not. Oh, please don't. Yeah, that's a thing. I'm trying hard to get him twice. That's coming. Is someone's going to fall in love with Cliff Kingsbury again? Yes. Ben Johnson is not dreaming.

Ben, you would want Ben Johnson, right? Mike, he's not going to the Jets. He's not going to the Jets. He's going to the Bears, I would think. He's staying with Detroit. I'll take Pete Carroll. Would you again? Again?

Yes. Why not? You're going to play off season with Pete, didn't we, Mike? I don't remember. Yeah, I was. I was single digits then. Yeah, little baby. Should we get the frauds?

Rods. Well, I'll see you guys coming up to a lot of people been asking because I'm on a heater. So we will get to that. Mikey, what's this game we're going to play here? Well, it's complicated. Yes. I mean, I could explain it all, but I could just say Seahawks brought. Yes.

And how are we supposed to respond? Just yes or no. Brats. Billy. Oh. That how you play? Kind of. My turn. Sorry, I was looking ahead at the schedule to see what I'm excited about this weekend.

Seahawks. Brats. Brats. Stealers. Brats. Brats. about this weekend. Seahawks frauds, frauds, stealers, frauds, frauds. Did you have to believe it? OK, to be frauds, I have a question. Did you have to believe in them at some point? Because I don't I love the technicality of it.

Did we ever believe in them? Really? I did. I was the one who said, yeah, I did. I was the one and I'm tired of believing in Toblin. OK, he's going to get bounced out first round frauds. Wow two more. Yeah more quick. Yeah Texans Broads. Yeah brats

I'd say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say game. Big dog. No, you got to take her. Loves a good big dog. He would like it. I don't know. Josh loves a good big dog. Yeah. Yeah. Are we done with frauds? That's it. That's a good game. I loved it. What are you excited for on the schedule? Billy, the whole show before we get out of here. Frauds. I'm going through. Monday Night Football doesn't do it for me. Lions 49ers.

Well, now here's the game that has to do it for you, Billy, on Saturday is Bengals Broncos, right? Because the Dolphins still have a chance and you need the Broncos to lose that game and they're likely going to lose that game to the Bengals at home. So yeah, but the Dolphins are tied with the Bengals. They must have a tiebreaker.

But I look. You just want to have a shot headed into the final week. That's all I've had these conversations with my family members who have convinced themselves Like I think the Dolphins are make the players. I'm like they are not guys We need to we need to accept this this this is not gonna go the way that you want this season like just right It's okay. We'll figure it out. We'll move on. Let's assess afterwards. I'm a big assessment guy We'll assess afterwards and we'll move on the game that I'm excited about even though I feel like I feel like maybe next week we'll be playing an edition of frauds for this game Packers Vikings. It's a big one. Yeah.

And that's what Mike, Mike and I were saying earlier, you're going to have wild card games, which have like a 15 and two Vikings team at Tampa Bay. Oh, like this is, this is a bigger game than first round playoff games for sure. Like for sure. Yes. No, the three best teams in that comp will for if you want to include the Eagles, but three of the four best teams in that conference play in the same division. So I only one can win it obviously. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Right. Yeah. I don't even know.

I don't think any of those three teams are frauds. Do you? Yeah. We'll figure it out on Monday. Right. We'll find out. On the next episode of God Bless Football, find out if we think one of those two teams is frauds. Ooh, I like that. He's setting this up just to rip Sam Darnold. That's all Super Bowl. No, you're not. I

have. I am. No, I have. Let me tell you something. I cannot. Let me tell you right now. Any time I get an opportunity to show what a lousy and embarrassing organization it is that me and Mikey root for, I'll take that opportunity and this

would be one of those guys. Listen to me. What if we go to New Orleans to get a chance to play football? I'm not going to play football. I'm not going to play football. I'm not going to what a lousy and embarrassing organization it is that me and Mikey root for, I'll take that opportunity. And this would be one of those guys. Listen to me. If we go to new Orleans to cover the super bowl and we're talking about the Vikings, I'm not going to be a happy camper. Like, what are we doing here? The Vikings.

Well, hold on. Let's explore this for just before we get out of here, Mikey, let's explore this. What is going to make you a happy camper? Yeah. The Vikings, not the Vikings. Let's see. Packers make you with the Packers make you more, more happy. More. I make you a happy camper. Wait, why?

Well, the lions, the lions. Yeah, yeah. The lion. We had a week, a week at Campbell. Yeah. OK, well, we will. Sirianni make you a happy camper. And I feel like we've done the Eagles like two or three times already. Now that's way too many, but we've done the Eagles a couple of times already. Yeah, like three years ago. Yes.

Or two years ago. Yeah, the Eagles are fine. So you want so so you want the Lions? Well, give me give me give me all the teams and I'll tell you the Rams. No, I don't want to talk about the Rams, the Falcons. Come on. Come on. I mean, you know the answer. I mean, so so you're just missing the team. But the box box.

Well, let's. A happier camper. Could you could you have could you? There's no way the talks are going to the. Could you handle a week of Todd? They're going to have a home game if they win that division. They're not going to the Super Bowl. Let's just.

But that would make you happy because you love Baker. I know that would make you happy. It would make you happy. And we OK. Look, next week, Happy Camper. Next week, we're going to have a game. This week was Happy Camper. Next week, we're going to have a game called Let's Talk. Right. And this is this is how Let's Talk works.

Let's talk is going to work like this. We're going to look at the teams of the season ended today who are in the playoffs. And we're just gonna, guys, let's talk. And we're just gonna have basically the breakup talk with them say, yeah, yeah, no shot at winning the Super Bowl. Like, let's talk. What are we doing here? We know how this is gonna end. Why are we going through this? We don't need, we, I don't need this. You don't need this. Let's talk. Yes, it'd be great. It'd be fun, Bucks if we went together to the Super Bowl, but let's talk. Okay, it's not going to work. It's not going to work out.

Next week. Happy camper bills. Happy camper. Yes. Yeah, happy camper, but sad camper because then Josh wouldn't be available via subway to talk to. We'll see. Happy camper chiefs. Yes. Yeah, I'd be happy camper with the chiefs. Even though we've done, even though the chiefs win every year, I'd be happy camper with the chiefs. Yeah. We'll get Andy Reid on afterwards.

And you also have a familiarity, you know what I mean? I know what we're doing with the chiefs in the Super Bowl. We love bags. I already know. Yeah, ravens? Ravens? Happy camper?

Yeah, I'd be a happy camper. I think we'd all be happy campers if the ravens made it. That'd be a pleasant surprise. You don't think that they can. They won't. Here's a question for you. Yeah. And I don't know why anyone would care about this but us.

If the Ravens make the Super Bowl, then the Chiefs would not be in the Super Bowl for the first time in a long time. Who on the Chiefs then becomes their Radio Row representative because Patrick Mahomes is, I believe, too big. Even though he has Subway stuff, I don't think Patrick Mahomes is going to be taking around Radio Row. And Travis Kelsey is, his Radio Row days are done as well.

He used to be a staple of Radio Row, Travis Kelsey. He's outgrown it. 100%. of Radio Row, Travis Kelsey, like he's outgrown it. Yeah, 100 percent. Like I would remember sitting down with with next to at a folding table. Like there's no chance that Travis Kelsey sits at folding tables anywhere in his life anymore. Like there's not a table that he sits down at that doesn't have legs that are permanently in place. And I stand by that comment.

He doesn't do folding tables anywhere. And I just saw listen. OK, I just saw him in Tahoe sitting at a folding table, though. That's all I'm saying. Now, you're all right. I didn't see it. I don't know. That was that was then.

This is now. You know what I mean? Like that was back in July. Right. Right. Yeah. You did say it back then. You're saying it now. December twenty twenty four. Travis Kelsey only sits at tables with fixed legs. Right. I got it. I got it. I'm with Mikey.

I think it's it's either Pacheco, Kareem Hunt, maybe a Deandre Hopkins, perhaps even Carson Wentz. Carson Wentz. Chris Jones or Chris Jones is a good one. Yeah, no, you know, you know, it might be Xavier worthy. Oh, yeah, that's a great one. Young, exciting. Yup, yup.

Also, who can we send out to radio, let's go Xavier. Also probably would be our A-chan of last year. It's like, this guy's kind of boring. Yeah, yeah, hey. I don't know, I don't know. I didn't say that. Your words, not mine. No, I'm assessing, I'm assessing.

Yeah, you okay Billy? I don't know, I don't know.. I'm assessing. You okay Billy? I mean. I don't know. I don't know. Anyway, how do we end this episode? Go to Studio Guts. Good idea. It is time for this week's edition of Studio Guts

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