The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Hee-Haw Three

Episode Date: November 7, 2023

Stugotz loves the way Troy Aikman ripped Zach Wilson last night, but he has a problem with the way Dan and others are discussing the Craig Counsell news. Then, Josh "Jobs" Dobbs a.k.a. the Passtronaut is a sensation, but we have some concerns about how much the QBs across the NFL have been neutered by play-calling and check downs. Plus, does political polling still work if no one has a landline? Don't worry, Greg Cote does. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is the Dunlabor Tarshall with the StugatSpotCas. You don't happen to have it. Do you have any Ethel Merman type of music like is it? They were trying to be a younger show here. Did you not watch the intro? It would be a show tune for sure. There's no Lucy's friend and Ethel. No business. No business. So not Ethel Merce. That's right. I thought you were going to. There aren't a lot of Ethel's. We're not making Ethel's anymore.

Why? Put it on the pole at levitat show does sound like a a woman beginning to sing poorly at the top end of a musical an old woman why i want to get to what is happening with crag council in a second but before we do that stugots i do want to address what Billy just brought up with Ron McGill. Indisputably good television at any time that I've been alive, putting on Arnold Schwarzenegger

with the donkey that's in his home and just seeing where that goes. That is, it's what I want with my Monday night football, it's what I want with all of my television, if I'm watching Captain Lee and I'm watching anything. I want a donkey wandering around with Arnold Schwarzenegger. That's going to make anything better. You can't put a donkey at a boat then, that's crazy. What are you doing? Arnold Schwarzenegger does have a famous animal friend.

I saw it in the documentary, Slice the Loan just came out with a documentary to counter. Arnold's documentary, Arnold's documentary was three parts I'm sure it's better than sliced the loans, but they're still competing and sliced the loan I can't imagine having a Donkey in his home. Well, no one you could imagine having a donkey living in their home Probably I was unsurprised when I was more surprised that Schwarzenegger had a tank, had an actual, he was driving around a property with a tank. I was more surprised by that than I was in the documentary seeing that he's the most on brand thing ever. I just didn't know that I didn't know that a,

he's Arnold. I did not know what civilian could get a tank. It's not a real thing. Did you know you know the donkey? I mean, he did. Like, yes, it's common knowledge, huh? I mean, yes, you did. Yes, but it's common knowledge, huh? I'm sorry. He's right.

Yeah. That's how my dad used to do strike three calls when I would pitch to him at the same yard. He, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, that's right, those are the days. Only if it was a strike though. You don't abuse that call. Lulu's a good name for a donkey.

I agree. That's a handsome donkey. That's a good name for a donkey. Like, agree. That's a handsome donkey. That's a good looking donkey with a big giant head. The photo made the donkey look like it weighed about a thousand pounds. The mannings have it figured out. They have really conquered business in terms of profiting off of famous royalty names at the quarterback position. They've figured out with a giant company

and they've teamed up with ESPN to support something that while it has its critics, all they do is use their name power to get something like that every week because it's hard to get an old shorts and ager to show up for your broadcast. They use the power of their name in a way that gets better guests than anyone else can get for a weekly thing.

And they do it in a way that pops here and there. You don't even have to be watching the broadcast. They're just enhancing whatever the future of their business looks like because they're going to be conquering shit for 10 years doing whatever they want from their homes, from wherever they want with whoever the partners are that they want. But they still have plenty of clunky moments, and those are my favorite parts,

because Peyton doesn't know what to do, he gets real red and Eli starts laughing. So while there are moments where the donkeys just crushing at great television, there are also moments with Trevor Lawrence, where it's just awkward. Do you think that Trevor Lawrence was watching along at home and was like crap?

Now what do I do? I gotta follow the donkey. I gotta follow the donkey. I mean Trevor Lawrence. Not Arnold. A great from Carter'sville, Georgia, is probably, like that that he's a bore, but like, how do you follow up a donkey in Arnold Schwarzenegger?

I don't know what Trevor Lawrence's self-assessment is as the number one quarterback picked in the draft in a very famous sport who is the centerpiece of his city. I don't know. I would assume that most quarterbacks who are good in that league have a very strong self-assessment. I'm not sure that they come away from that saying I'm following Arnold and the donkey. I have no chance of being good here. I don't, I really don't, it's a good question. I don't know that Trevor Lawrence thinks to himself, I have to be maximum entertainer here. It's much easier to go in confidently if you're just Trevor Lawrence and all you got to do is be Trevor Lawrence. You don't need to bring a donkey. You don't need to bring Schwarzenegger. You just bring your six and two.

Yeah, but, but given the option, you'd want to go pre-donkey, right? Yes, of course. Or your Kishon Johnson, and then you have the Lawrence buffer there in between, and then you get the Kishon at the end. Right. We did get Trevor Lawrence doing a British accent, because they were like, you're Jacks, you're England's team. What do you think?

He's like, I'd love being their team, bro. That was great. On the other side of this, there is serious tension on the regular telecast, because they are asking Joe Bucket Troy Ackman to constantly promote what's going on on the manning cast and you can tell Ackman is not a fan of it. You could also tell if you watched the telecast last night, the normal one, that Ackman is not a fan of Zach Wilson.

He took three hours and you Zach Wilson as a pinion of last night. He absolutely crushed Zach Wilson. And it was very entertaining to watch. Aikman's great. I love him. But he is not happy about promoting the mannings. He hates it. He should be who promotes another show.

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yeah with great car now it's okay now it's good no no it's good yeah no it's fine yeah Troy Ekman did spend the entire time bashing the jets to got his take from last week all of last week that if erudgers comes back he shouldn't be allowed to start if Zach Wilson is healthy and the team is in playoff contention. Yeah, that's the proper response. That's the proper response. Because dude got hot with 50 seconds left against Tommy DeVito against the Giants. It's a great moment though.

I want to get to what's happening to Craig Council because I didn't see this one coming in a lot of ways. I don't know that I didn't see this one coming in a lot of ways. I don't know that the Mets saw this one coming. I don't know. David Samson got this one wrong. It seemed to be a foregone conclusion that Craig Council was going to be the manager of the Mets because of relationships. I don't know that a lot of people had him going to the Cubs. He signed a giant deal with the Cubs where he is making more as a manager than he ever did as a player. And now the owner of the Brewers says

because they were surprised and hurt by Craig Council leaving evidently. You don't say this quote if you're Mark Adonacio unless you're hurt. We've lost Craig, but Craig has also lost us. He's lost this community. And now like Craig Council stuff is being vandalized. Okay, over it.

I mean, seriously, if you're the owner, the fan base, everyone's crashing Craig Council. He bailed on us, he ditched us, he wasn't loyal to us. We're a good team, he's from Wisconsin, are you kidding me, Dan? Are you kidding me? He took a better job in a bigger market. He took one of five or six jobs

that still matter in Major League Baseball, the Cubs, the Cardinals, the Phillies, the Met, the Yankees, the Red Sox, the Dodgers, maybe seven jobs that matter. So he took a better job in a bigger market. And so he suddenly not welcome back at Kenosha Wisconsin. Guess what? Craig Council, your life just got better.

I had seriously enough. I can't believe people are this outraged over Craig Council and a manager leaving their market who cares. Nobody. But he did do it in kind of a questionable way. So, like even if you're a Cubs fan, like David Ross was a beloved Cubs manager for a long time.

He may have been on the outs because the season had go the way I've expected, but at the same time, like, he took someone else's job. It wasn't an opening that existed until there was clearly negotiations behind the scenes to land him and then fire the manager that was there. Yeah, but this stuff happens also to make you feel better if they were like the day before

David Ross and the Cubs have parted ways. Like what's the difference? He leaves the job. If I may stop for just a second and salute what I believe to be the world's laziest grapideers, Craig Council's Little League field. It is funny. It has to Craig Council's name on it, or it did, before someone just wrote the word ass over Craig Council.

Does that mean? Does the referee former Major League player get a park? I'm surprised he has a park. Oh. Craig Council is a world series hero. Thank you, Greg kody for your always impeccable timing this is about where he started to deteriorate the last few weeks

it's where we lose him if he hasn't done a back in my day the delirium sets in now uh... i'm uh... i'm feeling it right now uh... full of vitality and listen i get why the brewer's ownership is

angry at Craig Council. They gave him a start in managing. He did nine years, I think, with Milwaukee overachieved the entire time. Nothing was expected from Milwaukee in payroll and they were consistently good. And he's regarded by people who really know as a master of preparation, as somebody who really knows the sport is perfect for the modern day of sitting between the front office and the data and management of human beings

who's feelings you need to care. So the people of Milwaukee and Wisconsin, they don't want anyone to get good at their, get a chance, get good at their job, and then go to a better job at a better market. That's why they're stuck in Kenosha. I'm serious, like they're not thinking big. Craig cancels thinking big.

He got the cup job. It's a great job. Who wouldn't take that job over the brewers? I don't mind him leaving for a bigger market and a better job, but it was incumbent upon him to do so in an amicable way and not blind side the team that had just employed you for almost 10 years. Is it?

I think so. I would say more problematic in the realm of these things is that somebody else had a job who was popular and that part is cold. It's a cold part of the business, but you believe he owes when he's someone who has to keep this private because we are in agreement, right?

That some of this stuff before it happens, you don't want it leaking, correct? Yeah. So you owe what to your employer as a courtesy when you're leaving? A smooth exit. An exit free of controversy. and exit free of controversy and exit free of your own or saying you've lost this city get out of here but isn't isn't leaving the controversy like

there is no such thing as leaving a good way to leave is it is there yeah I mean if leaving is what they're mad about not the way he left there They don't, that quote, he's lost the community. He's lost the community. Well, he also went to their rival, which could be in play here too. That's how we're doing it. That's how they can be doing it, yeah. But no one in the community is thankful

for the nine seasons he gave them, like this guy's the gatekeeper of the community. I mean, it's very like LeBron leaving Akron vibes the first time though. Like, yeah, they could be thankful for him, but you can also be pissed they left. And it's one of ours, that one's always tough. That one, when people get regional identity

and he allows you to say, he allows big shots to gots to say get over yourself, Kenosha. That's why you've always lived in Kenosha. Cause you're a Kenosha.'s why you've always lived in Kenosha because you're a Kenosha not thinking big enough. Chicago's not far away I mean everybody says that in Milwaukee it's a thing here it's 90 minutes away that's that's a cheap feature Milwaukee and there's a place that's got burritos as big as your head that's it but you know how man people in Kenosha get, because Stu got to get to rain down condescension from I live in Parkland, a bigger town than Kenosha.

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Stugats! Oh, fuck me. This is the Don Lebatard show We get some golf ASMR. Stoogats. Oh, fuck me. This is the Don Lebatard show with the Stoogats. [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ I feel like an asshole all the time. But rarely in sports do I feel as much as whole, as what I'm about to say as the person who goes dark when everyone else is celebrating something?

Because right now people are enjoying so very much the triumphant Josh Dobb story. He's got the great nickname, the Pastronaut, because he was interested in space science in college. So they're calling him the Pastronaut. He's played for five teams since week 15 of last year. And the way that he just did it, doesn't know the names of his offensive lineman

is asking in the huddle, what are you guys on the right side of the huddle doing on this play? Everyone's enjoying it. He ain't it's video. He figured it out, man. Got the W. And on top of everything else,

the video of him coming into the locker room where he's being celebrated by it. There's a video crew. It's, it's the great feeling of a, you've won on the road. You're a bunch of warriors. You've helped save your season. Kirk Cousins is down and he walks back into the locker room to the game ball and everyone's saying, like, keep it down. Keep it down. Let's make him feel welcome. That video was moving to people. And all I could think about, while everybody was celebrating the past or not, is poor Jaren Hall, splattered at the goal line. And that's how quickly you lose your job

and your opportunity in that league. The new guy comes in and wins your locker room. You were trying to get that extra yard. Hey, Robert Williams, thanks for all your work that league the new guy comes in and wins your locker room. You were trying to get that extra yard. Hey, Robert Williams, thanks for all your work for the Boston Celtics. We trade you out of there and we've wrecked your career. Thanks for nothing.

That's how quick it can happen. Everyone is celebrating Josh Dobbs and I feel terrible that Jaren Hall had the opportunity of a lifetime and was splattered at the goal line unconscious and has to watch this video. He's too groggy to understand what he's watching, but what he's watching is there goes my job. Yeah, but he got that job because Kirk Cousins store his ACL.

That is correct. It can happen that quickly and that league. That is absolutely correct, but I feel like a jerk because everyone is celebrating Josh So I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I this year, and I'm not saying now this season. I'm saying in the future, he's gonna be a backup, possibly a starter for bad teams, but a backup like Chase Daniels is gonna make $50 million in his league. He should sit out the rest of the season starting right now. Oh wow, it was an interesting-

It's not gonna get better frame right now. Hold out. It was an interesting little nugget that he provided the media that his agent told them, it looks like you're gonna get traded, pack your bags. It's either going to be Minnesota or Cleveland. I thought that was a juicy little tidbit. Cleveland had traded Josh Dobbs over to Arizona

and watching PJ Walker and all the replacement set, tried to replace to Sean Watson, provided his shoulders hurting because they're playing a good team. Josh Dobbs would have actually been, if you look at the tape this season, what have been an upgrade? You might have taken to Sean Watson's job over there.

I don't know that he is a winning quarterback. I have seen him lose a great deal. You watched the game last weekend? I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah. Before that, one was one in seven. He's got guts. He's got mox, you can even tell that what like, he had to replace Malir Red. He's got, he's wanting got moxie. You can even tell that what like he had to replace

his career record. He's wanting out as far as I'm concerned. It's not a great situation, usually, of Josh Dobbs. Prior to this portion of his career had to come in for you. He was a man off the street a couple of times in his career, but Josh Dobbs performed admirably in a difficult situation when he was with the

Titans. And in being a difficult beat, like, you didn't want to bet against Arizona Cardinals. You did it. Yeah. You know, good teams went. I was upset. I had that game when I was upset when Dobbs came in. I mean, yeah, Josh Dobbs, he's a gamer. Yeah. Well, the minute Kyler Murray came close to being ready to play again. He was suddenly expendable. I mean, let's not make Joshua a lot of money. He wasn't actually that expendable though. He was expendable because that team is trying to tank. Right. They started to play in two. They're trying to do two things at once, trying to make a fair evaluation on Kyler Murray because they're in the sweet six for Caleb Williams and they need an answer on that.

But in the meantime, while there's all this ambiguity surrounding that they were trying to lose and Josh jobs with the cowboys right but if he if they thought they had a future with Josh jobs that they're not gonna trade them like that Josh jobs jobs the what the better name is what we should call him because Tony is right Joshua jobs this is where this is where great Cody starts to deteriorate you'll be

able to market Antony and Anthony said earlier and I think he's got this right What Josh jobs just secured is jobs for a long time that one game wait a minute I can bring him in off the street he doesn't know anybody and he could go win at the Falcons in ways I don't understand scrambling somehow has more 20 plus yard runs than any quarterback in the sport. That's right. Just scrambling around for 20 yards, a play busts up. And next thing, you know, Josh Jobs, but Jobs has so much value right now in today's NFL, right? When you look at Tommy DeVito, when you look at Zach Wilson, like,

the backup quarterback, it's a good time to be a backup quarterback. Is it not? This is something, Stugans, that I think bears noting. It's become hard to play that position harder, and Greg Cody mentioned something during one of the breaks. Very quietly, Mike mentioned some of this on just scoring being down, but very quietly, we've returned to Brock Oswiler for yard past day, where everyone is so scared of the past rushers, that there's a lot of checking down, getting rid of the ball very

fast, getting very small attempts on yardage. Even the chiefs at times. Everybody. Yeah. It's lower than it's been since 1970. It's worse than it was since Brock Osweiler. When I was complaining that they needed to change the rules, what, it's not just that scoring's down.

It's the defenses that become so sophisticated, even the rules are changing to support offense, that's still because those people are so fast and feel so small for their speed. They're not throwing the ball down feel like will let us end up the Tony goes crazy and makes him Dan Marina because it's like holy shit somebody's just throwing the ball down field because everyone's throwing it short and it's gone wild conservative. Yeah, we're seeing guys complete 33 passes for, you know, 208 yards.

I mean, it's crazy. And I noticed last week in NFL week eight, there were, I think, eight or nine overunders under 40 points, like 37.5, 38 and a half over under. That's an epidemic. That's a plague of low school. Do you realize when Houston and Tampa do that? That you're grateful Because there are 20 teams playing offense like the Steelers are right that you're throwing. Yeah You're throwing to your running back 13 times in the Saints game for 30 yards

Like you're you're just checking down at every turn. I don't think it affects the product at all because Josh Dobbs wins in the witching hour and you get Houston and Tampa Bay to two teams that nobody considers championship worthy. But they play close games and you get your story lines and somehow we don't care that scoring's down and that the offense isn't that good and then none of those games in the

one o'clock hour were any good except the one I keep talking about. And almost feels like you just need that one game in the window to make it a good weekend because there's a lot of fart games on the schedule. There's a lot of fart games coming up this weekend that are terrible but all you need is that one game to go 3 2 35 and it's like oh oh wait, this is exciting. We're back. Well, yeah, till you have the Falcons of Minnesota as well and that one o'clock window, right? That would you now where we're pretty good, but it was a bunch of average teams, but it was very good. But what I'm saying is that's the, it's such a stupid magic that sport has.

No matter who's playing, no matter what their record is, the game is close at the end. I want to root for Heinecke. I want to, I want to root for Heinecke. I want to believe in my backup quarterback. I want to believe in Josh Dobbs, the third quarterback on a broken Minnesota team. And the whole thing stupid, isn't it? Yeah, but we love it, I mean. I'm not saying we don't love it. It's the greatest thing ever.

I'm not, I'm not saying, they know it's shit game last night. It was upgraded from fart game to shit game. Not if you had the charge. It's a shit. Well There's that too easy. Don't That is why I can't bet Monday night dogs even though they tell me they went into 70% clip that right there's because of course That's what's going to happen except the night that I've got The chargers and then all of a sudden hey there's Zach Wilson driving down the field at the end.

To beat me. I had this happened to me on Sunday. I thought the bet was one. Patrick Mahomes, 26 rushing yards. Same bullshit. The total was 24 and a half. He had 26 fairly early. Then the bad snap to Toa. Then two kneel down. Oh boy. And I go from over to under. And I was screaming curses at my computer. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Jacob's thing is mystery podcasts. He loves to go to who done it. And when it comes to McDonald's, his thing is finding the exact right moment to steal a McNugget from his friend Sarah's trek when she's not looking.

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fifty five minutes a week is just say catch phrases We even make songs about them, and you know what is a song for crying out loud. That's great. Hopefully that's a Sui nominee for best song and you know it baby and you know it Stugats You know it. You know it. You know it. Baby, you know it. You know it.

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and I also just want to talk to people about polling and Who's answering phones these days in order to participate in political polling? Who has landlines in our audience because obviously over the last 10 years you can't really trust polling but I am genuinely curious who is answering phones. My father is a person who likes to answer the phone no matter who is calling but I think most people listening this if it's an unknown number you're pretty much not answering it. Ever.

Yes. So I don't know how the polling is working. We'll get to that in just a second. But during the break, for as long as I've known him, Stugatz is always plotting. And what he plotted during the break, Greg Cody was making fun of me. He's been calling me for years, lebateers, because I write columns or wrote columns that had a lot of heartfelt stuff in it and

syrupy nonsense. And so Stugots and Greg Cody during the break were making fun of me for choosing the lane of in South Beach sessions. instead of going the route of Roy Firestone, which is a route that's been taken where you make the interview E-Cry. I'm taking the untaken lane of I make myself cry in South Beach. It's a great lane. In South Beach sessions, it's something that no one else has done but what what I want to so as stugants and Greg Cody are making fun of me about this I see because stugants again for 20 years has been plotting during the breaks Billy you will love this part

stugants then says realize the dawns on him that he has shared something with me in our industry that is a lane untaken and he's like, I'm going to take that lane of Stugots is going to cry during the interview of guests and I don't believe that that's the right lane for you. You're going to make myself cry. That's right. That you're going to cry while interviewing others. Me. But, you know, this is funny. The idea of Stugat, have any of us seen Stugat's cry?

It's, do you, but do you believe that a rock can cry so that you can get some moisture, some emotion out of a boulder? Fake it. It would be slightly inauthentic, I think. emotion out of a boulder fake it it would be slightly in authentic i think uh... stugatz is i cried before i don't doubt that you have i don't think any of us have seen you cry uh... that's fair moms funeral perhaps maybe was a crying i don't remember you now we watch that on the end of the day no tears and i wonder

you're up sorry mom love you. Does anyone here have a landline, Greg Cody, do you still have a landline, correct? You know, I did until about four or five years ago. And now we... That's not true. I called you landline like months ago, a couple months ago.

Well, but it's not, when he says landline, Dad, yes, you still have a home phone or, yes, it's still, he has a wireless. It's a long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, dad, yes, you still have a home phone or yes, it's still he has a wireless Let him explain it's wireless when I think of the word landline. I'm thinking of the cord The trail This is what it's just happened happened here and i want you to understand because so many of you don't even understand what it is to have this particular phone that kody has in his kitchen but once upon a time he had a phone that was

attached to the wall and that phone the thing that he would put to his ear had a looping curly wire that went all the way to the phone to the physical phone. And so that's what he's calling a landline. What's that got to wireless? Greg Cody doesn't realize he's got a landline in his- That's a good point.

You're right. That's what I call when I really want to reach you. It's like how you get my dad. If he's at home, he might not answer his cell phone, but he'll answer that landline. That's true. And then my mom still, you have reached the codeys. Like it's an old fact, like they like living in the 70s.

Yeah, it was only recorded 20 years ago, that message of hers. Do you know how to access it? If you heard your voice mails at any point recently, I don't do that. I leave voice mails just for fun because I know that most people do not even check their voice mail anymore. Well, cell phones now you don't even have to listen to it. Like, you can look at it and it transcribes it for you. So you can kind of see what it is that it says

without having to go through the whole thing. But there's some people whose voice bills are full and it's impossible to actually leave a voicemail which is kind of like, what's going on here. It's just someone who has taken no interest whatsoever in listening to any of their voicemails. So you got this message, lever. Hey, buddy, I'll be back. It's all you have to do. I voicemail. Right. You got this message, Lever. Hey, buddy, I'll be back.

Yeah. It's all you have to do. I see the missed call. I love a good message. Oh, tarot. No, you don't. You believe terrible messages. Right.

Call me back when you have a minute. It's like, well, what is this in record? That's not a message. Also, to God says the one that has the full voicemail long. I do. Yeah, I do. When is the last time anyone here

listen to a voicemail message? Is it something that any of you were doing? Like these are all, because I assume, correct me if I'm wrong, but the way that polling is done to find out because people are now saying Trump is dominating the polls and I'm legitimately asking, is the polling something that's accurate now

Who's answering their phones to do the polling to sign up for this stuff? I listen to my voicemails last last week I think because I was getting close to Being full there. Does it tell you when you're feeling like how do you know when you're just trying to clear up memory? And you can see like the amount of memory that is left on voicemail. So I was just trying to purge them and I went back and I listened a few of people that aren't no longer here. Yeah, I have that too.

How does that make you feel soon? Not good. I'm just making it on a cry. My most recent voice is gonna be difficult. I gotta be honest with you. Like I've been thinking about the number of times I've cried in my life and since I've been thinking about the number of times I've cried in my life and Since I've been like a fully formed adult. I don't think I've cried once

When was that when it became a fully formed adult? Let us know. I thought there was gonna be an announcement of some sort around here I actually have a dentist appointment today at four o'clock. It's the last voicemail I have I probably should have listened to that and you just read it says hi this says, Hi, this is Francis for Anthony, we're calling for you. We're calling to confirm, yeah, you're just gonna be up for four o'clock on Tuesday. I've run into issues here where the, whatever the science is involved in technology involved, doesn't understand the accents of some of the people leaving me voicemails, and you go far enough down

and it's nonsensical, so then I have to actually listen to the voice, because I'm like, this makes no sense whatsoever. What is this person actually saying? I have an unlisted voicemail. Someone left a message from 2017. Yeah, I do right here. It's trodkeller. Oh, let's hear what we listen to it. Yeah, sure. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. That is a dangerous game, man. Yes, I think we roll the dice.

Is it, why is it a dangerous game? I don't know. Is it possible that a former ESPN executive is simply yelling on your voice, man? It'll just be him shooting down one of Stu Gatz's hair brain schemes. Probably. No, no, no, you can't actually go back on game day

for two consecutive weeks. I got one from Prague in 2018 as well. How about that? 17 there. I'm going to use 17 sounded a lot more cordial than the one in 18. Let's get to the useless sound montage. Please, it is here earlier than it has been in previous weeks. Billy, your appraisal of the going on here is what? It exists. All right, good praise. When you convert in third down, you get more snap opportunities.

Against a good football team that's known for scoring points. And a good quarterback, you gotta be able to score points. And I wouldn't do it enough. No one's gonna feel sorry for us. So we gotta get back to work. We gotta learn from our mistakes. No one's gonna feel sorry for me. No one's gonna feel sorry for us.

I'm gonna learn from it, get better. We need to learn from these mistakes. I mean, that's what these games come down to. Hard fought when, look, none of these are ever easy in our league. And for anybody that ever thinks that you got an easy one, you're waiting to get your ass beat. Get a really good job of being poised. You'll be able to bounce back and get a win, it always feels good.

It does feel good to win. Luzans never fun, losing sucks. Good humbling day, sometimes you have days like that, but give us a chance to be able to take a step back. We got to find ways to do better and come up with the win in those situations and no excuses, just got to work and figure out how we can do it. We're gonna start with Officer Lyon making great blocks, but our running basketballs don't want to do. We got to eat it and we should be pissed off.

I said it looked like he was like the anchor leg of a 4x1 and track so he got those knees up and was rolling down the field so a huge play that obviously mattered a ton at the end of the game. It's a gusty performance from him. I wasn't all clean, but he gutted it out. Our football team did not answer the bell here. We did, we couldn't get it done. That's why we worked the way we work, and that's what we'll do, we'll get back to work.

Thought we had several games in a row where we're making good struts. And then when we went out late in the egg today. A lot of good we can take from this and use as we keep going. Guys have just done a great job of fighting through that, keeping our eyes straight ahead, no turning to the left, no turning to the right. He's the ultimate pro, he loves football,

he's a great teammate, and he does anything you ever ask of him. He's making plays, he wants it, he loves it. I mean, got to finish drives, the yards don't mean anything if you don't finish those drives for sure. I was very, very proud of the result of, you know, very encouraged about the team. I think it was really just our guys, you know, making plays.

We were just able to go out and play good team football. I mean, football's such an unbelievable game. There's highs, there's lows. Cutter parts of our offense at, we did well, but there are definitely things that we can clean up. Was it his best game, obviously not? Was it his worst game? No, I'm not going to say it was even closer to his worst game. I feel like anytime we get something good going, we kind of shoot ourselves in the foot. Man, we just came in a locker room and we sort of saw like, there's nothing that they're doing that stop-and-ers. Man, let's stop shooting ourselves in a foot. Took it football teams playing each other. It was great to do that here in Frankfurt. And I just thought both teams put it all out there during that game.

What was that? He's just meeting the obligation. What was that? That's somebody. I heard him in Holland there. What was that? Candy Reid. What?

Why? What just just just tired of giving interviews in Frankfurt and yeah good game. To do that here. Just in Frankfurt. And I just thought both teams put it all out there during that game. Andy Reed is just running out of words. It looked like it was somebody in the back of the room trying to get a attention to him. He's like, and the, you know, he's running at a breath too. Andy Reed's got to be tired of that, not the fat jokes. Although that too, he's just got to be tired.

Tell us how great my home is. Yeah, yeah, Frankfurt, yeah, yeah, seven and two. Always seven. Two great teams, both teams. I'm always seven and two. Yeah, I'm bored by being seven and two. I've got the best quarterback, go believe yourself.