The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Dan Le Batard, Dan Patrick, Dan Lanning, Dan Campbell

Episode Date: January 7, 2025

After Dan tells the crew about his upcoming event in New Orleans with Dan Patrick, Dan, Mike, and Jeremy compete for the best Stat of the Day. Then, Cam Ward was statistically the best QB UM has ever seen, so why did the audience react so poorly to Dan's take that he was the best ever? What's the difference between greatest and best? Can you be in that category if you never won a title? Plus, Stugotz delivers his Weekend Observations including his Top 5 Annoying Things That Can Happen To You On a Golf Course and his Lamar Jackson's Top 5 People Who Need To Prove Something In The Playoffs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I think I have a good stat of the day. Does anyone in there think they have a good stat of the day does anyone in there think they have a better stat of the day can any of you beat what I'm saying is a pretty damn good stat of the day I think I might have one for you Dan I've been holding on to this for a couple of weeks now why are you talking like that because I'm afraid to say I have something better than you for a couple of weeks yeah give me the me the music. Start of the day, start of the day, in this year's start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day, in this year's start of the day.

Start of the day, start of the day, in this year's start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day, in this year's start of the day it is the start of the day stat of the day is presented by miller light i'm going to reveal something here i've never revealed before you know that stugatz has beef throughout the top of our industry because Rich Eisen or somebody else accuses him of being a bad person when Stugatz accuses them of stealing something from him.

But I am willing to admit for the first time here on the air, we have stolen the Stat of the Day thing from Dan Patrick. It is totally stolen. Once upon a time, I think I concocted some scenario where he had stolen something from us that I think involved Stu Gottz, maybe Super Bowl Saturday, I don't remember what it was.

Super Bowl Saturday. And I stole back Stat of the Day, and I will just tell you that secrets like that will be unveiled at the Super Bowl when Dan Patrick and I get together. I've got plenty more, but Dan Patrick, have you guys ever been to Tipitina's in New Orleans? It is a fun and cool place and Dan Patrick and I are doing an intimate night just for like people who are really about the community of radio

and would like to hear about how the innards of this stuff is made because our producers talk on the air, from dan patrick he was doing that uh... before we were doing that and so he and i are getting together at the super bowl it means i will be sniffing and whiffing around god bless football at some point that week great stat i will get to the stat in a second but the whole thing is stolen from dan Patrick and I want you to know that

Rich eyes and comm is available Dana Billy what were you saying in my ear as I was distracted by the alarm in here is the equipment melting again because that's what? Tilled our two yesterday is the equipment melting again. Well, I mean it's a new building. It's like four years old So we're figuring out the kinks Mike what do the people need to know about what i'm doing with dan patrick uh... in uh... suit during super bowl week it's ticket web dot com you search levitard it's pretty easy to find our audience and then patrick's gonna be an intimate night so it's not gonna be

that many people and i'm not sure you understand qr codes but in the event that uh... many in our audience do there is a qr code right now if you're watching along on youtube or any of our fine partners, including Pete Cockin, which you can also find, Dan Patrick. You scan that QR code, it will take you right to a ticket link, but yes, you are right. If you search TicketWeb and you search Dan Lebatard,

it is the first result. This is gonna be a wonderful evening, very intimate, you interviewing Dan. And Dan interviewing me. Dan's... Couple of Dan's cutting it up. Sorry to interrupt you It's one of your signature lines, and I just do dance you know no holds barred is there anything We're not gonna touch. What are we doing here? I think everything is gonna be touched Wow that is where you can actually get Dan's FS

one thoughts I'm just telling you all that we're telling our audience before Dan Patrick has told his audience and there are only gonna be a few hundred tickets for this sold. This is a very very intimate it should be an in-demand ticket this is an event that plenty of people travel to and there's gonna be meet-and-greet opportunities we're gonna make sure that it's an evening that fans of you or Dan or both will never forget. When do you determine that you should hold something back for the next one?

You know what I mean? Obviously you say we're gonna tell all, but you gotta hold a little bit back for the next tell all. You know what I mean? You have to determine first whether or not there's gonna be a part two. Ah, is there gonna be a part two? Yeah, Paulie interviews Billy.

This could be a series as we partner. Look man, I want Fritzy. Stigatz, we're really valuable right now. This is be a series as we partner. Look, man. I want Fritzy. Stigatz, we're really valuable right now. Like, this is the content streaming age. We've got our independent thing, and we're in a contract year, and we can become free agents in six months, and everybody's in the game now and wants sports content.

Like, we can make a series out of teaming up with Dan Patrick. Or we can really cash in on richeisen.com and not need any of this. Let's do that. All right, so here's the stat of the day. Oh yeah. We keep talking about basketball and very soon we do all understand, if not injured, that Wemby is gonna break all of the records and what Wembyama is doing, through 100 games,

listen to this, Stugatz, through 100 games, more threes through 100 games than Clay, than Steph, than Durant, than Irving, than Harden, first 100 games of their career. More blocks through 100 games than Shaq and Dikembe and Hakeem, more rebounds than Karl Malone and Barkley and Kevin Garnett, moreounds than Karl Malone and Barkley and Kevin Garnett more points than LeBron and Durant and Wade and Duncan he's 21 he's

growing maybe still physically what he is going to do to the sport if he doesn't break is just break all of the records because that that is an extra-terrestrial playing basketball seven seven people that that height cannot do those things ever. History of the sport. I tried to warn everybody. He broke the sport. He's a freak. He's amazing.

But it's not as good of a stat as this one, Dan. Well, Dan's was a wordy stat. I mean. Per Jeremy Frank of MLB Random Stats, Babe Ruth hit more home runs in Jimmy Carter's lifetime than any currently active player. Not better. Let me think about that for a second.

No, it's good. Not better. Babe Ruth hit 430 home runs while Jimmy Carter was alive. Giancarlo Stanton is the active leader in home runs at 429. As confusing as it was, I still like Dan's better. Did you know that Jimmy Carter was alive, Jean-Carlo Stanton is the active leader in home runs at 429. As confusing as it was, I still like Dan's better. Did you know that Jimmy Carter was alive for every Nosferatu premiere?

What? That's a good one. That's a good stat. Jimmy Carter never saw Joel Embiid make a conference final. I saw that joke making the rounds on the internet. Can we get to that sound of Mike Francesa talking about Jimmy Carter, remembering Jimmy Carter? to that sound of Mike francesa talking about jimmy carter remembering jimmy carter. i just see the breaking news that former president jimmy carter has passed away at the age of amazingly 100.

i don't know if he's the first president to ever make 100. he was not a great president You can wait a second before criticizing. No, you can't. You're Mike Francesa, he's dead. Get there quick before the body's cold. Not a great president. Give it a pregnant pause.

That stat was basically just Babe Ruth is a better home run hitter than any active home run hitter. No, it's Jimmy Carter's old. That's what it is. No, it's not. No, because the stat was Babe Ruth hit more home runs than any Active MLB player no Babe Ruth hit more home runs while Jimmy Carter was alive 430 of his 700 plus home runs. Do you see what you've done to the show after promising that yours?

It's a good stat. That's a great stat. This is on you whoever doesn't like the stat It's on you you got to look in the mirror and's on you guys. That's a damn good stat. I'd put it up for a vote. Democracy in honor of Jimmy. I like Mike's. He would've liked it. Not a good president. Mike's is the best.

Chris, you are of the belief, are you saying, are you now voting? Because I would like our stat of the day to evolve into a growing competition between people trying to top each other With a giant prize at the end of the season for whoever it is that gets this particular victory watching a game with you or I can't we're gonna have to be another to submit 12 videos Raise game. I mean in the future you go out to game with me and Dan Patrick that would have some value like if we were to partner in a way that would conquer the streaming wars.

Chris can you help me navigate how we turn this into a competition because you're voting publicly for Jeremy stat over the Wemba Yama stat that I gave I was more just arguing that it's a good stat. They're both good stats. I'm going to go with's though over Mike. Yes, I will say that. That's just my vote. Okay, it's a controversial one. And I know you don't like those controversial waters. You like to be right in the middle, but you're siding publicly with Jeremy. Billy, you didn't understand what the hell

Jeremy was talking about. Chris is saying that's on you. Okay. I mean, it's not, but that's fine. Siding with me here is a dangerous game, Chris. You might not wanna do it. I was confused by what it is that you were giving as a stat But my stat was very long as to God's correctly and confusing. Yeah. Well, was it confused slightly less confusing? How was mine confusing? How was my stat of the did you read it again? Let's hear it. Well

From the beginning all of it. Yeah When but yama through a hundred games of his career! More th- Why'd you guys do that? You know what, Jeremy? Get out of here. Again. Get out of here. Minor penalty, two minutes for boring. So, dueling stats of the day for a big prize at the end of the year? I think we could do that in a way that is fun. You guys see what's happening throughout the industry.

Billy was making fun of it earlier about how everybody's in the content game now. But Dominic Foxworth is having a live show. He's having a live show where the trivia is Bomani against Dan Graziano for sports nerd trivia greatness for all time. Billy Gill is also trying to build a giant god-blessed football empire that travels. Billy Gill and Stugats did a coast-to-coast football tour that they invented on the fly. I believe competing stat of the days might be a better March Madness tournament that the one you've presently designed for us that it just has me going to a college

basketball game with somebody. I mean. Almost approved. We're gonna put Jeremy's as a what, seven seed? I mean I'm down to torment the fans if that's what you want. Have them vote for a three month old stat from Jeremy. We have big breaking NFL news. We do? Yeah.

That's not the order that that usually happens. The Tennessee Titans have fired General Manager Ran Carthog. Now you may think that this is not that important but as of yesterday Cam Ward was favored on most sports books to be the number one overall pick. In fact the head of college scouting over at the Tennessee Titans was AJ HighJ. Highsmith. So I happen to know there was a lot of positive traction for K-Mor to go number one overall to the Tennessee Titans. But now they are blowing out their front office with this number one pick.

So hold on a second. Hold on a second. I want imaging for that because Mike Ryan has now done that about half a dozen times. The I happen to know is his Adam Schefter. Yes. The I happen to know is his Adam Schefter yes the I happen to know is his Schwarzenegger I'll be back whatever your catchphrases are when he hits you with an I happen to know it's like hey I'm not being silly guy here I've talked to a person who knows a person this is valuable information that's Mike being an information broker yeah I was I was

pretty certain Kim Ward was going number one to the Tennessee Titans prior to this move this move is surprising let me talk about cam ward for a second because stugots. I don't know if you saw this over the break I really did enjoy this and I was also confused by it like legitimately confused by it a lot of people Objected to my prisoner of the moment take that cam ward just had a season so prolific That I'm willing to say that at any position, any time, that's the best quarterback that's ever played for the University of Miami and outside of Rick Barry, that's the best season I've seen a person have.

People thought that I had no sense of history, but I've seen all the quarterbacks who won Heisman's for the University of Miami. Their statistics are dwarfed by Cam Ward. You're talking just quarterbacks. You're not talking about the Warren Saps, the Michael Irvins. I did send out a tweet that alluded to him possibly

being the greatest player in program history, and at that point you have to stand down. Okay, Rick Barry can argue, I'm talking about a prolific season. I'm talking about what it is the University of Miami just wasted when what I saw was historic greatness by any measure, and when I put the stats in front of you, because this is the part I was legitimately confused by. I'm like, it's not close close i'm not saying something controversial to say that this is the

most prolific season university of miami quarterback has ever had its empirically so it has all the records so it's not it's not an opinion but the arguments i got on behalf of to read up and test the verdict of the head better defenses are better coaches are better skilled guys for the one national champion it has nothing to do with what i'm talking about but that's the one that fans can really wrap their head around and also you but the errors are a little bit

different but he added this luckily for this program they have a prestige about them and to i guess for touring a turn on the minds of many, you have to win big. Okay, but guys, winning's not a quarterback stat. Like, I get it. I get what we're doing there. And we've done it for a long time.

Not as much in college, though. It is. Joe Burrow's legacy is not just that he was great, is that he won big. No, but Mike, like the year Gino won the Heisman Trophy, he had 19 touchdowns and 7 interceptions. Like Cam Ward had a better season. It is not remotely a hot take, what Dan said.

Cam Ward is the greatest, most prolific quarterback that ever went through that program. If you look at an individual season, it is really impossible to refute. I think what people are doing there is they know the Canes history, they know how many national championships they've won and they just imagine hey the quarterback play had to be great. They don't realize it was Craig Erickson and Steve Walls and guys like that. But wait, just okay look it's the lamest of flexes. But okay, you know Kane's history, yes, okay. As do I. And I don't, like, I've seen the quarterbacks

who have played the position, and it's not just numbers on a page when I tell you that Cam Ward had 1,500 more yards than Vinnie Testaverde. That he had 39 touchdowns compared to Testaverde's 26, compared to Toretta's 19, that yes, it's different eras, but he also threw fewer interceptions and his completion percentage was better.

Like, it's not close statistics, it's this guy, and I will tell you again, I saw these two people playing with nothing but first round picks. Like, all over the field defense, offense, and the coaches are better than these coaches. Like Kane's history, what are you talking about? This is not close, it's not an argument, it's not a controversial opinion. It is, as far as subjective things go in sports, a fact. Well you're gonna have fans argue even the merits of Ken Dorsey.

Who would have an argument for this because of the amount that He won and then you go back and you watch some of Ken Dorsey's throws and you wonder wow I remember that differently It's also kind of like who cares you know like it led to absolutely nothing and it was a one-and-done year here I appreciate you taking this opportunity really thank you for speaking for the audience No, I'm just saying like like, it was the best Miami hurricane season in damn near 20 years. But it led to nothing. And he's not like a legacy hurricane.

He's just like a gun for hire. He was a mercenary that came down here to try to get them to the playoffs, and it didn't happen. If I may, led to nothing that really undervalues the program. But it lost to Pop Tarts Bowl. The program that they're trying to build, it's year three of Mario Crisaball. The book book on Mario Chris a ball was that he was a quarterback killer

Prior to this and a bad in-game coach and a bad in-game coach He still hasn't shaken, but I actually think he did a lot this year to shake that Considering the one score games in which he pushed all the right buttons you watched the Syracuse game I did and I actually don't think he was wrong there You're entitled to your opinions when it comes to that but the math is actually in his favor He kind of corrected that but the big narrative around him was that there. You're entitled to your opinions when it comes to that, but the math is actually in his favor. He kind of corrected that, but the big narrative around him was that,

look what he did to Justin Herbert. This guy kills quarterbacks, and he changed that around. In year three of Mario Cristobal, everybody knew this program's heading in the right direction. Cam Ward was a big piece of that. So no, I don't think it was all for naught. It was a year that Miami had that I had been dying 15 years to watch

that wasn't a fraud the way that 2017 felt like. But he needs to get another one now. He does, he does, but you can't get another one without getting the first one and he doesn't get the first one without Cam Ward. But Billy's point is a good one. There's a difference in terms of how UM fans remember these quarterbacks.

There's a difference between a Gino, a Steve Walsh, an Erickson who waited his turn, then there is, you know, know for a hired gun who came in one season didn't make the playoffs like that's more feel differently about those guys That's college now. Yeah, it's just gonna. It's everywhere. It's not Transferred you know all right like all of them, but you know that but that's part of why it is that I'm surprised by the reaction Right you guys do understand that I'm sitting here saying something that i just believe is matter of fact like it's not it's nothing the reaction was when when i tell you what is the cost of everything that we're watching here where it's not going to be amateur in uh... in anymore

people will protect their memories from being cheap and because of everything you just mentioned that is meant to diminish cam or what is going to be the public and like everything you just mentioned that is meant to diminish camera what is going to be the public and like everything that just happened with camp or if he's not the number one pick is number two and it is an ocean between two and three my only got in cheap i've watched enough hurricane football to know

they didn't fix their problems those are first round picks running all over the field cam ward you're denying him his greatness based on his defense wasn't good enough his coach wasn't good enough the recruiting wasn't good enough the skill guys were good up and i just saw a guy dominated the position the way i've never seen as someone and and forgive me for the pridefulness in this

if if you're gonna allow me to be a gatekeeper on anything in sports the University of Miami's History is something that I've covered since the beginning and I'm I'm not prisoner of the moment I'm awed by what I just saw and I think Miami wasted it like they wasted something that you never get They did it was a blown opportunity and ended in a bummer but I will say the the amount of shit that cam ward caught for ended in a bummer, but I will say, the amount of shit that Cam Ward caught for opting out of the second half, which is bullshit, he didn't opt out of anything.

In fact, he played more than anybody had actually planned for. Emory was taken, they were going to evaluate Emory Williams in that game. He played too much. And it was discussed, if you don't think he didn't talk to the NFL teams that were eyeing him, because I've heard that take out there.

Who happened to know? I know this. Like this was discussed. Wait a minute, is that another stat? That happened to him, that I know this. No, I know, you happen to know I know this like this wait a minute is that another stat happened to know that I know that I know that I know like this was discussed with NFL teams think about what he did watch the film of that first half against a top five pass defense Kim Ward was missing three of his four top receivers in that game he was missing three of his top four receivers in that half Mike It's a top five pass defense. And the guy was just putting on a master class.

He makes six throws a game that I'm like, those are all like the maximum professional throws. But you guys know what's going on here. It's never been easier to make the college football playoffs. And with Cam Ward having that great season, they still didn't make the playoffs. So I mean, that factors into how people feel about the season.

All right, cool. Who's the greatest quarterback in Wyoming history? It's Josh Allen. They didn't win shit with him. Mike, I'm not saying that I care. I don't. I don't care who the greatest quarterback in UM history is. I'm just saying that's how fans look at it.

That's all. I totally get the fan perspective because this is a program in which, like, Billy is right to seize on. They didn't actually, they don't even have a Pop-Tart toaster trophy to show for it. It's a shame that this season worked out that way there. But Dan is irrefutable, like, from an optics perspective and from a counting stat perspective,

it's just Miami fans think that you have to do some winning there. Football season is here, and there is absolutely nothing better than game day. But it can be a little bit stressful. You're placing bets, you're setting fantasy lineups, you're figuring out the most comfortable position to sit on your couch for the next 12 hours. No one has time to think about this part. Cooking.

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This is the bet you're afraid of doubling down on? Putting up a billboard in Edmonton? Stugats! I care more about Matthew Kachuck than I do my daughter. This is the Don LeVar show with the Stugats! It's also not how sports works, right? Because like the best heat player in franchise history is LeBron James. But everyone will tell you it's Dwayne Wade when it was LeBron James. He's the best.

Because he was only here. I had to, I just, it's a distinction. That's a distinction. Best versus greatest. And that's the distinction here. If you're a Kingsman, you're applying that to the That's a distinction That's the greatest and that's the distinction here If you're a king and you're applying that to the court of LeBron's the greatest and the best about that Wow Wait, you said Michael Jordan was no he's talking about the ball top talking heat I thought if you're the greatest in the best, then you're the greatest in the best. I thought we had like, I thought that's what you.

Pete, Pete. I think you guys are ignoring, and I know that the Rand-Karthon thing was an on-ramp to this discussion, but you guys are ignoring the fact that this opens up the door for the Cleveland Browns to potentially acquire Kam Ward now with the number two overall.

All right, I wanna do what I happen to know. Let's do weekend observations here. Is that gonna bring Mike back if that happens? I think so. I think he's just announcing that. I think, I think. What if Deshaun's still on the roster though? Look, look, I think he's gonna be on the roster.

I think he's gonna be on the roster. I think he's gonna be on the roster. I think he's gonna be on the roster. I think he's gonna be on the roster. I think he's gonna be on the roster. I think he's gonna be on the roster. I think he's gonna be on the roster. I think he's gonna be on the Mike back I think he's just announcing that I think I think what if the shots still on the roster Look, look, I mean he's he's never gonna play again. I happen to know that he's going they can't do anything They're just gonna come yeah, I'm gonna pay it

They're gonna pay him all the money and he's just gonna go away Mike. Don't throw that. I happen to know around flippantly I want to put some strength. No, he's doing your I happen to know He's done the show Watson's not there on another pass for the Cleveland Browns. Okay. Yeah, we need to report Okay, we're gonna do weekend observations in a second But I get so jacked up when I saw that the Titans fire Mike you broke in the programming I have Mike Ryan. Mike Ryan. Mike.

You broke in the programming. I have, in our history as a show, I have delighted in any number of things. But one of them, to have some funny, poignant, artistic, and interesting thing spring from around all of the shit that the shon watson was mike ryan taking the moral stand of giving up his childhood allegiances

over that's a bridge too far cleveland browns i cannot support you if that's what your quarterback is going to be he's now announcing that if they draft cam ward he's back and i think we have to allow it. Hawkins gave me permission. And I will say, though, there is a strong chance that wherever Cam Ward went, I'd just support that team.

Because right now, if I had to identify with any team, I identify with Baker Mayfield. Baker Mayfield is my team. I watch the Bucks more than anybody else, because he's my guy. And Cam Ward, you're my guy, too. So Hawk is the gatekeeper on this? He said I was allowed so and I think most people can understand this and also I think what buys me a lot is most people know

that it wasn't BS with me. They know. Well they thought they like secretly watching. They accused you of BS and you proved to take the righteous stand. People can accuse you of virtue signaling but you did signal virtue and then you did signal virtue and then you followed through with it because you gave up your allegiance but billy do you have any one of the things that happens when mike right of mike gets aggressively homer if it around all things university of miami is everyone

uh... has to run scared because you will uh... get chewed up because you've been fighting the internet for years and it's clearly not healthy uh... you were trying to get in on Mike and explain you didn't win the Pop Tarts, greatest UM quarterback ever, my ass. What was a pop shot? I wouldn't know, I wasn't taking shots at him, it's just, he's not gonna be remembered

as an all-time great hurricane. And is it because he didn't win or is it because he was the mercenary? Because I do think there, I think there's a cost to that. It's both together. To Billy's point,, is Brad Kaya remembered as an all-time great Miami Hurricane? Because if you look at the passing records,

because of his longevity, he's up there. So it's not just records, but I think it's the greatness. No, but Ken Dorsey's remembered very fondly, and he was not the greatest quarterback at UM history. No, but he had like- He keeps getting fired for some reason. He had like three incredible seasons with Miami. It's a longevity thing, too It's it's it's it's a difficult

I don't really know how to judge him but also being the number one overall pick at that position for Miami that also doesn't happen All that often. I know number one pick in a very long time test of Ernie I last time I know how to judge Ken Dorsey and those college numbers that you romanticize The running backs were Frank Gore, Willis McGahey, and Clinton Portis. That was the backfield. It was the three of them. The wide receivers were St. Tana Masrachi,

Wayne and Andre Johnson. Andre Johnson, yes, that is correct. That is correct. Yes! Every time it actually gets said out loud, I just can't believe it. It's like seeing Tom Brady in seven times Super Bowl champion.

You're like, really? Yeah, but you know, in his defense, he didn't have a Xavier Restrepo out there. Who is the greatest receiver in program history? All right, enough of that. Enough of that. Weekend observations, enough! Yeah, that read too.

It is time for Stu Gatz to share his game notes. No one in the media will tell you what happened better than my boy Stu. Weekend observations presented by Miller Lite. Dan, last weekend, the sport gave us a little breather. But this weekend, hold your breath. A final four game Thursday night. Another on Friday night.

A pair of wild card games on Saturday. Three on Sunday. And one on Monday. And Dan, just like that, make no mistake about it. Football is back! We gorged, you gorged over the holidays. It's disgusting. Chris Cody still hung over.

Chris Cody is gross. Just gross. I just burped. Just football. You are still three days, but you're burping from football four days ago, aren't you? Put it on the poll, Juju. Are you burping from football four days ago, aren't you? Put it on the poll, Juju.

Are you burping from football four days ago? Football's back? Are you excited for the weekends? I mean, Thursday through Monday? How can football be back? It has never for one minute been gone this season. A little breather last weekend. It doesn't once in a while.

So, so greedy. They come in, NBA gives you four buzzers, gives you four game-winning shots, NFL gives you 31 to 2 and nothing and then dwarfs the numbers It wouldn't be Saturday of Super Wild Card weekend if it didn't involve the Houston Texans It's true. It's a staple. It's true Gerard Mayo's worst loss was that win Dan you know what the B and Boise State stands for? I do not. Blah blah blah. I'm sorry. I'm sorry to Boise State. Speaking of Boise State, they still play in that blue turf.

It's annoying. Enough. It's a gimmick. It's what you're known for. No one takes you seriously because you play on blue turf. Is that true? You want me to take you seriously? Play on some fresh green grass. Really? Yeah. Okay, so are you guys, do you guys agree with that? The blue turf hurts boysie? It's for sure what they're known for.

It's like the first thing I think of. First thing that comes to mind. But it's not, I thought it was positive. It's negative? Yeah. It's their brand. I like it. It's a gimmick.

I mean, yeah. But who said, do a lot of people criticize, I thought people just generally liked that there's one team in the sport that has a different feel than everybody else. Have you ever seen Eastern Michigan's? I always think I'm colorblind. Yes. I always think something happened to me.

Yeah. I want one person on that committee to admit to me that they were rooting for Arizona State. They were. They needed an upset. They didn't get it. Anyway. What a great game, man. the game for Arizona State. They needed an upset. They didn't get it. Anyway, what a great game, man. It was the

greatest elite eight game of all time. Arizona State Sneaky Good this year. Number five. Like he he backed up all that talk like after you see what Gent did against Penn State and he went up against. Do you know how elite Texas is at those? Goal line stands yeah every time they their defense is needed to stand up

He's there and they just Ohio State is the only team that's better at that tough guy football on the goal line Texas is unreal and Arizona State met power with power such a primitive form of football How good are you on the goal line Dan? You know what the C and Cameron Scadabo stands for? I do not. Zonka, Dan. It stands for Zonka. That's a good one, Stu Gotts.

Yes, that was fun. How crushing is it to be Arizona State and know that this year, oh yeah, we're good enough to beat anybody. We could have, well, I have three losses, but we're good enough to beat anybody. Is there anything more deflating than an underthrown ball that wasn't done on purpose

still burning your ass because I kept Happening to Texas a little lucky Riley Leonard put some pants on Guys playing in shorts, it's weird or pull up the socks Georgia walk on corner back walk on doesn't mean walk on the field when the ref is sprinting down the sideline. Hey, walk on next time. Walk off.

Wow. I was introduced to Nitro Tuggle of Georgia. Is that his real name? That is a great name for a wide receiver. That's not a nickname. Nitro Tuggle. Yes. Jesse Tuggle? Yes. Chessy Tuggle's son? I don't know.

All I saw was Nitro Tuggle and I'm like really? That's a great what athlete would not want the name Nitro? What wide receiver wouldn't? The biggest loser from the Notre Dame and Georgia game was Brian Kelly. Going from Brian Kelly

to Marcus Freeman is like getting broken up with and dating Miss America next. Notre Dame just didn't win the breakup. They dominated the breakup. They did put it on the pole. The greatest breakup in the history of breakups. I mean put it on the pole at Levitard show Did Notre Dame dominate the breakup? It's gonna be fairly hard to explain to your grandkids how it is that Northern Illinois beat the eventual national champion

if Notre Dame only has one loss this season. Nitro Tuggles real name is Nitrion Tuggle. Okay, unfortunate. I think that's even cooler. That's kind of amazing. I agree. Where does the nitro come right? Dan you know what the D and Dan Lanning stands for I do not it stands for do it in the playoffs

The committee made many mistakes none bigger than allowing Oregon into the playoff Dan landing enough. I'm tired of that guy. Hey, seriously, greatest coach in America, my ass. Put it on the poll please, Juju. Dan Lanning, greatest coach in America, my ass, yes or no? You know what I like to say, Dan? One word, just one word. If it walks like a duck, if it talks like a duck,

it's not going to the college football final four. It's funny. I do know a coach that won a Rose Bowl there. Cleaning a golf ball on the course and proceeding to immediately drop it into the sand beneath you. Annoying. Why is there sand

there? Sand is dirty. I'm cleaning. I'm in a cleaning zone and there's sand there. Sand is dirty. I'm cleaning. I'm in a cleaning zone and there's sand. Anyway, top five annoying things that could happen to you on a golf course. Golf course problems are a segment. Look, Stu Gots would

like to spend his retirement. Just let me do five minutes of my golf course problems. Gonna do it right now. Number five, leaving your club just off the green and having to make the drive of shame to go back and get it. The worst.

Number four. Grabbing your nine instead of your six. This is the show Stugats wants to do in retirement. Just complaining about golf stuff. Number three. Forgetting or losing your lighter. Number two., carts that stop when you've gone into restricted areas. Sadly, like reverse out of it.

Yeah, you're stuck. This is so country club, Stugats. Stugats not looking in a mirror on this one is so good. Yeah, why don't I just get to drive wherever I want? Because you're someone who would just drive wherever you want So they've got to stop the car because you're the only kid you're the here the eight I would just drive through the sand trap and leave your marijuana your joints there Yeah, number one high winds that prevent me from lighting my marijuana

Yeah, I tucked inside the cart In the little like cubby in the cart God is a he's a golf course menace a menace Losing your lighter can you imagine just wants to take a shortcut back to his weed. I'm gonna drive through seven sand traps at 100 miles an hour in my Jets golf cart. I don't wanna be stopped. Congratulations to Times Square on New Year's Eve, the biggest ball drop in New York

since Aaron Judge in the World Series. It's a good joke. Oh yeah. Taylor. Taylor. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please.

Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please.

Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please.

Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Can I do them from the penalty box? Billy and Stugats were trying yesterday to find out what the Kansas City Chiefs were before they were the Kansas City Chiefs. They were trying to figure out a loophole around Chiefs Talk because Stugats wants to be entitled to Chiefs Talk. Do we lift the ban? Because he's questioned for two years and they've won both Super Bowls and I mean he's going to be right eventually.

Do we lift the ban to let him get it wrong again? I think it's better to lift the band so that he can fire off as many of these bad takes as possible So that when they win it we have more ammunition than just the old take his got his own shovel He's got to but he's got to all-time To all-time questioning he questioned my homes his quarterback I question benching Alex Smith forith for patrick mahomes of the last year i said this is the year to get a nice at it again yesterday this is the year to get it

he's not been allowed to say that all season because his opinions on the chiefs should be null and void i don't know how you cheapen the more they they can't be more wrong there historically wrong opinion billy do we left it and you have faith in this fifteen and one sixteen one chief steam it's fifteen and two and it's not that i have faith or i don't have faith it's because stu gotts

i can't be trusted here hey the brown dot news for you. If the NFL wants Christmas, they'll take Christmas. That's the truth. The drug sniffing dog at the airport always scares me. Put it on the poll, Juju. Even if I don't have drugs on me. At Levitard Show, does the drug sniffing dog at the airport always scare you? It's because Stugatz is always doing something suspicious and he doesn't trust that dog to not be able to smell the suspicious.

I just never know if I've taken all the weed out of my backpack. I always assume that those are just bomb sniffing dogs. They're drug sniffing. Any dog that's sniffing scares me. They're both, they're both. What if the dog's having a bad day or just wants to be kind of like a dick?

If you're gonna talk the talk, you better walk the walk. On Saturday, Mike Tomlin looked a lot colder than Zach Taylor. You know what the T in Tomlin stands for, Dan? I do not. Talk the talk, better walk the walk. Yeah.

He looked old and he looked cold. Yeah. He did. It's over. What? We'll get to that in a minute. Wait a minute, what is over? Tomlin.

What? It's overrated. I mean, you do realize We'll get to it. They could beat the MVP again. All they have to do in the playoffs is score more than 13 points and they got Lamar right where they want him.

So. And this is like the perfect setup for Tomlin. What are you saying? What are you saying? I'm saying Mike Tomlin is overrated and it's over. You may regret this. That's what I'm saying. I hope this one ages like guac.

If I come to your house over the holidays and one of the things you're offering has powdered sugar on it, guess where it's going. Yeah, your tummy. Wow, you got it. Yeah. In my belly. That's right. Right in the belly. That's where it's going. Lamar Jackson. Do it in the post season. Yep. The Lamar Jackson top five people who need to do it in the post season list. But don't do it this week because you embarrass me with my take. Right, not this week. All right, he's put the stakes out there, people. Stugats likes to get all the takes out there

so he can never be wrong, so he can say, I got the one right even if I didn't get the other one right. You have Tomlin and Russell Wilson beating Lamar Jackson? You have that happening? I've seen it. I mean, multiple times. Wouldn't we argue that the team that Lamar least wants to see because they've seen him so often and they're the only one that can actually do anything against him is the Steelers?

That's right on. It's over. Number five, Dan Campbell. Nice little story. You make it to an NFC Championship game. You better start winning because if you don't start winning Detroit's gonna start getting mad at you. Oh wait a minute already we have not talked for two days about number five the signature victory at the end of the season which is the Lions doing that to the Vikings which is exactly how Sam Darnold is gonna get his season ended. Mm-hmm. Number four Sam Darnold. A lot of people questioning whether or not he could do it in the postseason Dan he better do it in the postseason every time lot of people questioning whether or not he

could do it in the postseason Dan. He better do it in the postseason every time he loses zeros come off that contract. How about that? Huh? He's made himself a lot of money no matter what. He lost himself some money last week. He can win it back

though this week. Number three, Josh Allen. He has to. Josh Allen dotcom is available. Just call Todd. Number two. Mike Tomlin. You're telling me Tomlin doesn't have an immense amount of pressure on him headed into the postseason? It's to God's. He's had a winning season every season. And we're in agreement. The Steelers have exceeded all expectations this season, correct? No? No, no.

No? No, they ended the season poorly actually, I mean. Okay. It's the trick. Yeah. You just hit low expectations and then wow. Yeah. Right, you go nine and eight every year,

the 10 and seven stands out. Yeah, but you're, man this one's funny. I don't wanna get too in the weeds on this, but Stu Gatz will give Burrow and Cincinnati credit forever for not getting to where Tomlin just got like they burrows better off Not playing playoff games like you're what you're doing is super unfair the winner of the Super Bowl should have to play the Bengals Put it on the pole juju at Levitard show should the Super Bowl winner then have to play the Bengals for the Super Bowl win Who's hotter than the Bengals right now I mean a meeting. No, it's the greatest

It's the Stu gots dream scenario of he can say whatever he wants because they don't actually have to play the game. Yep Thank you. It's it's wonderful. Yeah number one Patrick Mahomes What? Dan if you're chasing the all-time great, chasing the goat in Tom Brady, you have to do things that Brady has never done. What did Brady never do? Win three straights.

You think- What does Mahomes have a chance to do? Win three straights. You think the- you know what? You know- If not, now when? I mean- Suh got his major penalty, five minutes forward, talking about the Chiefs.

I mean, I'll finish these later, but someone's coming for him, Dan. I don't know when it's going to happen, but people are coming. Bryce Young. Bryce Young is coming. Was it on the list? I'm sorry. You have no yet naming rights to the list. You have to go. It's his list. It goes without saying. I'm sorry to do that. Before I go, here come the Leafs. You're gonna miss Austin Matthews. What a year 2024 was.

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