The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Smells Different At The Fronton

Episode Date: October 2, 2025

"That's what we're doing now? We're eating bagels and toast to stop concussions?" Mike Ryan claims he will walk up to Udonis Haslem, poke him in the chest, and say 'what are you gonna do? Hit me?" Plus, the gang goes go to the bucket and discovers that shockingly Spero Dedes is not on Colts-Raiders. No need to fear though, because Chris Meyers is. We love you, Old Money Charlie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Visit camh.ca to help us forge a better path for mental health care. This is the Dan Levatore show with the Stucats podcast. The fear of Udana's Haslam as enforcer for our bucket has evidently worked. I'm in negotiations with Udana's Haslam to become the bucket enforcer. We're going to go to the bucket here in this hour. Roy is paying his penalty of being an old-timey, baseball player, Zaz is paying his penalty of doing the entire show in a bed. What's U.D. going to do, honestly?

Like, if one of you guys decided, not that I would do it, but if one of you guys decided, you know what, I'm not going to pay this off. What's he going to? He'll be in. He'll be going to hit someone. Well, you can ask him. When he comes in, you can ask him. Hopefully he trades us, go cherry.

I don't think he's going to come in. I'm just going to say, hasn't shown his face around here once yet. I don't think he's coming in. You're going to hit me. You're going to hit me. We got laws here, brother. He's not going to hit me. Tony's already suing the company.

He can't make me. Oh boy. I might hop on make this a class action, you know what I mean? You're not gonna hit me. Billy, tear your quad and we can join. We'll see how you guys do when he is here. Are you threatening that he's gonna hit me? No, I'm just, we'll see.

You guys can take it up with him when he's here. I wonder if some of the base in your voice will disappear when he's standing behind you. Zazzo took a nap during the break. We'll find out together. Yes, but he's serving his punishment and people are serving their punishment. I have to do mine tomorrow, so... Don't do it.

What's you gonna do? hit you? He's not going to hit you. I'm going to walk right up to Udana's hassle. I'm going to poke him in the chest and say, what are you going to do? Hit me? Well, no, then you hit him first and then he can hit you back, I think, is what it works. I will respect his personal space while also mentioning that his renegades fell to the cyclones, the top of the table cyclones, because you know what happens? Tell him. When you go up against the cyclones, Dan, do you know what happens? You lose to the undertaker.

That's right. You go one on one. one with the undertaker. And it doesn't work out for folks. I'm telling you right now. Smells different at the fronton right now. He's like, Manu, if you squished him. You smell it? You smell that?

Smells different at the fronton. It smells like SIGs. It smells like Greg Cody passed out there on the floor. That's what it smells like. Thanks for bringing up the darkest time in my life. If you want to help. Video team show the undertaker. Ah, there he is.

If you want to do something, uh, Saturday in Miami to help the animals. We've got a bit of a crisis down here, one of many in Miami, with the animal kingdom and people not taking care of the animals. But the Humane Society of Greater Miami is doing something here on Saturday from 830 to noon food trucks, games, pet costume contest, adoptable dogs. It's Margaret Pace Park on North Bayshore Drive. And you can check out the details there and at the website for thehumane Society.org. slash walk the animals if you want to participate in that. I've got a number of different football things that I want to get to.

If you want your baseball, and I am excited for the baseball today. If you want your baseball, pitch clock is going to be in our two. I don't know if you guys have been watching late night television. It's been nice. It's been heartwarming to see how much these guys like each other. This was not the case for Letterman and Leno and Conan, the way that these people respect each other like each other, So you've got Kimmel in New York right now, and Colbert is on his show,

and Colbert is, you know, also having Kimmel on his show. And I don't know if you guys saw the numbers, but did you see September 17th through September 23rd, how many cancellations Disney and Hulu got? Because this was not leadership developing a spine. This was the people speaking and with dollars making Disney. forcing Disney to stand up to an American core principle, 1.7 million people in a six-day span canceled their subscriptions and got the attention of management and forced them to develop something of a spine. But, like, how many re-signed, and now they can come out and say the board, hey, great quarter.

Look, record re-signs. Quarter million people rejoined, but it's a slow burn. They'll be back. Also, like, some of the people were putting out the pictures, like, they would buy the subscription just to then say they canceled. it and they have it for a year already because you're already paid up front and then in a year from now they'll just subscribe again and then you just inflate and boosts

a subscription number. It's kind of a game. Okay, so it didn't work. It wasn't the American people speaking. Billy's got a different take on this. The 1.7 million number doesn't mean anything. Billy's got a different idea of it. No, you think the people of America actually have a voice in anything that goes on anymore. Get out of here.

That's the truth thing he's ever said in his entire life. I can make a difference. Corporatists versus oligarch. Listen, if you think you can make a difference, go adopt a dog this weekend at Dan's Doggathon. But can't sleep, Disney's not going to do anything. I love the animals. I love the dogs.

And cats, too. A little less than the dogs, but we love cats. We like cats. It is Saturday from 8.30 to noon. Humane Society, Miami. Dan's Dogathon. If, or Dan's Dogathon, if you prefer to call it that, that's fine. Just make sure that you help the animals.

Billy seems to be very concerned about Tua. Tua hasn't been the same since Billy bought his jersey. That guy. You think that's what it is now that we're talking it out? That's what it is, right? That might be the thing with you, yeah. I mean, I was not to make this too much about me, but I was with my now wife for probably like nine years or something

before we got engaged. And with Tua, it was like a year. And I bought a jersey. That was quite the commitment on my part. He's made me look like a fool. He continues to do that. Listen to this sound here from Tua explaining how it is. that he's avoided concussions this year?

Come to know or come to understand from what the doctors we're talking about is, you know, your brain kind of sits in fluids. And, you know, if I'm eating eggs, bacon, and sausage, and there's not much carbs, like if there's no bread or whatnot, you kind of drink water and it'll just flush out of you so you can't stay hydrated that way. But the carbs kind of help soak that in and stay there.

That's why I haven't had a concussion. I crush carbs. My brain, you can't rattle this thing. I'm worried about this guy. Are you not worried about that? Who, me? That's what we're doing now. We're eating bagels and toast to stop concussions.

Learned about hydration. This is the guy who is leading the team now. Oh my god, what are we doing? What are we doing? Dan, what are we doing? Legitimately forgot Zaz was a... Did he just wake up? Like, what happened?

You know, I'm getting a little bit sleepy. I'm not going to lie. Like, I'm really comfortable here. It looks comfortable. It doesn't look like much of a punishment either, I've got to say. The punishment is trying to keep my eyes open. I'm very sleepy. I love to just, like, trying to educate us.

Like, guys, listen up. Yeah. I figured it out. It's smart as... I'm eating eggs, bacon, and sausage, and there's not much carbs. Like, if there's no bread or whatnot. I love the whatnot. Dan, there's no bread.

You don't eat bread, Dan? That doesn't sound too bright. I'm not a dietitian, but the carbs that helps with the water that takes out the water? Should he be drinking more water? It adds the water. Like he can't hurt his head because there's no water now? What are we doing? It makes his brain, in all that liquid in the head, it makes it kind of not bounce around as much.

The carbs fill it up more, so it just there's less bouncing around. Because of the water. So he's just, if he's super hydrated, he can't get concussions. The brain is in fluid, like he said. His brain is like sloshing around in fluid, and that means more concussions. Every time you eat a piece of toast, it's just, it's more, it's not moving around as much. Like a pillow, like that, like sitting on the pillow. Do you think when he took that hit, the late hit, in the game the other night, that when, because you saw when he got up, he was like smiling and he was shaking.

It says, yeah, bagel and cream cheese this morning play up. So the fluids are good or bad for the concussions. Let's have them explain it to us one more time. Nah, don't. I'm dumber listening to it. Come to know or come to understand from what the doctors we're talking about is, you know, your brain kind of sits in fluids. And, you know, if I'm eating eggs, bacon, and sausage and there's not much carbs.

Like if there's no bread or whatnot, you kind of drink water and it'll just flush out of you. So you can't stay hydrated that way. but the carbs kind of help soak that in and stay there. So the carbs help keep the water in your brain so that it keeps your brain safe. Whereas if you don't eat carbs, the water goes right through you, you pee it out, and all of a sudden, there's nothing protecting your brain. Okay, why did he rattle off proteins? Those are good, too, but you need a lot of carbs.

Those aren't really carbs. Or whatnot. So proteins, according to AI, are not inherently good for hydration, but carbs are good for hydration. But he didn't list off, he didn't list off carbs. But then he said there when you drink water. If you hadn't drink, if you don't have carbs in your system, when you drink water, it goes right through you. My personal opinion on this is that the best way to cut down on concussions is to cut down on the football.

No, he's paid too much money. He sounds like Zazna. But are you cutting down on football and having carbs or protein? Because that's the issue at hand here. You can have carbs and protein. And if you cut out the football, you're going to have fewer concussions. Can I put butter on my toast? Not around this office.

When we're speaking about... I think it's wheat toast or white. Have we decided which is better for no concussions? You got to go white, right? The fat one. Speaking of quarterbacks that are looking or sounding foolish, I don't know if you guys noticed, but immediately after we had a mean on and we were talking,

Tony said that the mine population in America is either endangered or extinct, but there is still a floor. flourishing mime economy in Europe. But as soon as that happened, that night, one of the Jets celebrated a play by miming, by doing a mime celebration during the Monday night football game. And Shador Sanders yesterday, and Shadur Sanders' mom has called Rex Ryan Cancerist for some of his commentary on Shador Sanders. Here's Shador Sanders.

Does this qualify for you guys as miming? He doesn't get the start this weekend. And Dylan Gabriel gets the start. Joe Flacco has been bench. And let's remember last week, Rex Ryan told him to shut his mouth. So I think that's what he's doing here. Okay, so is this successful miming from Shador Sanders as we try to bring back the mime in America an endangered species?

What do you think? You have to show to some coaches just to have them belief in you that you can, you'll be ready. It was advertised as miming. That is not miming. You got to be as if you're in a box. It's more pantomiming, right?

If you're not doing this, you're not miming. Yeah. Oh, I'm a miming. He's not miming. He's not miming. He's not pantomimiming. He's just pretending to speak and no words or sounds are coming out of. of his mouth.

Bad for the podcast listeners. While grinning. He's just grinning, mouthing words, and they're just like, do you want to say anything? I'm not used to talking about a third-string quarterback. You see a lot of third-string quarterbacks doing nonsense? This is nonsense. Well, the thing about this move also is that he was a practice squad guy, as he told us before, but also Joe Flacco's been benched, but is still listed his second string.

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that catchphrase Bad news for opposing teams in the Triple A Stugats These all smiles Till the broads are Clutch again

Clutch again Clutch again This is the Dan Lebatar Show with the Stugats I did see what I thought was a third-string quarterback getting mugged in Dublin. I did, I thought it was. You got to report that, though. When you put next to each other, because we'll get to the bucket in a second.

But when I put that to a sound and that Shador's, Sanders non-sound, when I put those things next to each other, and then I compare it to the quarterback that every defensive coordinator in the league is fearing because his confidence level is through the roof. The Rams are ram tough and Matthew Stafford getting away from the Lions organization that had two of its best players ever quit. Matthew Stafford got so much confidence just in leaving that he was throwing to Cooper Cup in a Super Bowl when everyone in the stadium knew he was going to throw to Cooper Cup and he was doing it late in a Super Bowl with no look passes. Did you guys see that I think Matthew Stafford made Xavier and Howard quit

last weekend? And this isn't a play against Xavier and Howard, but I want to show you guys, all so bad for the audio audience. I want to show you guys Matthew Stafford looking off the safety because he's looking one way and the Colt safety goes with Matthew Stafford's eyes, but that is not where Matthew Stafford is telling the ball. He's not throwing the ball where he's looking. He's throwing the ball to a place he is not looking at. Not completely lost for the podcast listeners because there is quite the audio payoff here. You can hear Matthew Stafford very excited and pleased with himself. Very happy, very happy that he tricked the safety saying you are a fool for looking at me.

don't look at me don't look at me don't look at me see ya see ya I mean the confidence level on this dude you get so many hours

of these kinds of reps he's so confident back there the old dog I love watching this old dog he's learning new tricks doubles what are you doing out there no look

no look passes is what he's doing but he's done this he did this earlier this year against the Titans where he threw a ball to Devante Adams where he was looking the opposite way and fit it between two defenders and Devante Adams had a window of about six inches to get the ball through

and it was the most incredible pass I've ever seen. What a month for Xavier and Howard came out, feeling really good about himself because he went against old carb protein Tua and then in a matter of four weeks having to go up against Puka and Matthew Stappard just decided I'm not good at this anymore, I'm gone. Two out of no look past this year.

There's an interception that ended a game, but he tried. It is really rare for a player in the middle of the paychecks to quit a football season. Vante Smith did it with the bills, did it during the middle of a game where he just quit and retired. But Zavian Howard was, I thought, going to be important to the Colts. I thought that he was only available this offseason because of an assortment of off-field problems. and a slowing of his speed with age combined to make him someone that not a lot of teams were interested in. When Xavier and Howard was a great player, not a good player, was a great player for the Miami Dolphins, to see him quit in the middle of a promising season or at the beginning of a promising season?

Super strange, because these guys, the way the contracts work, these guys are paid during the season. Guys do not quit during the season. They might quit during training camp. They might quit in the off season, but quitting isn't generally something that happens four games into a season. And the Colts are good, right? I could see if the Colts were old and four and things were just miserable if they were the Panthers or if they were the Dolphins or if they were the Saints. But it's like the Colts have a chance to win the division to make some noise in the playoffs. And it's like, you know what?

I'm good. Mike, before we go to the bucket here, can you get the gearhead real quick? I know you've been dying for about two weeks to talk about Denny Hamlin. You can't shut up about Denny Hamlin. and you're somebody who's trying to get us, the audience interested in the Denny Hamlin story because it's an interesting story. You've got a wild loose cannon driving around

at high rates of speed running relatives off the road. Yeah, you've got him racing for Joe Gibbs Racing, but he co-owns a racing team with Michael Jordan. He is actively suing NASCAR, a sport that he is, you can't say dominated, but he's been one of the best drivers of his generation, but he's never won a Cup Series championship. He's arguably the greatest driver to not have that to his name. He's won so many big races.

And this year kind of felt like it's going to be the year for Denny Hamlin. But the last two weeks have been truly bizarre. Again, he races for the legendary football coach Joe Gibbs. The last race prior to this one, he ran Joe Gibbs' grandson off the track. And he wrecked him, leaving everybody confused, including Joe Gibbs. Then the following week, he is chasing down Bubble Wallace, who is in first place. He owns this car. That's fine.

He's paid by Joe Gibbs to win races. We all get that. But it seems as though he goes out of his way. If he just stays in his lane, he's going to win this race. In fact, he takes himself and Bubble Wallace out and Chase Elliott comes from out of nowhere to win the race. So do we have the still image of Bubble Wallace flipping off his boss? Bubble Wallace gave an interview immediately post-race, heated, saying, Just the hand out the window?

Two hands out the window, yes. This is a cheater's never prosper. Like this is... He's giving the middle finger to his boss for the world to see. Now, Denny Hamlin kind of pulled rank. It's awesome to hear Denny Hamlin immediately after everyone has all these questions, go to his own podcast and try to give his POV on it. He defended his actions here, but Denny Hamlin's having a really interesting season.

Can we queue up the video of Denny Hamlin trying to explain himself as to why he did this, to Bubba Wallace, and it kind of sounds like he pulled rank on Bubba. On Sunday, I am the driver. The person in the 11 car is the driver. That's where the disconnect, I think, comes from. They expect me to be the guy with a 2311 shirt on when I'm in the 11 car, and that's just not possible. I was racing the 23 the same as I would race anybody in that moment.

It is not up to me to get 2311 into the round of 8. My responsibility is to get the 11 into the round of 8. Joe pays me a lot of money to make sure that that car wins a championship or has a shot to. Could you imagine the outrage if I just backed off and let him have it? It's a kooky situation. Every time I explain this to somebody, no, he races for another team, but he owns the other team. And people wonder, well, how does that not appear to be a conflict? It does appear to be a conflict, but actions like that make you really confused.

But it wasn't eyes on the prize. And meanwhile, he didn't notice Chase Elliott running low. He gave Chase Elliott that win. Credit to the nine car. But this is a really interesting, precarious situation. It kind of feels like Denny Hamlin, even though he says all the right things in public, is feeling the pressure to not be motorsports' greatest loser. Speaking of conflicts before we go to the Dentech bucket here,

I don't know if you guys have an opinion on this because we haven't talked about it in a while. But at this point, the highest paid broadcaster in broadcasting, Tom Brady, is distracting me during games because he's still bad at this. Like, it's not even that he's neutral or mediocre or milk toast or just there and I don't notice it. I'm noticing and he's distracting me with it not being good. Has Tom Brady done anything during any of these broadcast? that you guys remember, never mind the way that Tony Romo started where he was correctly predicting plays. Is there anything memorable that Tom Brady is giving the Fox broadcast for that $375 million guaranteed dollars that any of you have from the first four weeks

of the season that would indicate that he has improved at this to you? No, no, but that's not why they pay him that money. I mean, you know that. They pay him that money so that he's in the room with potential sponsors and advertisers. Like, that's literally why he's distracting me during the broadcast. That can't be like. It's not about you, Dan. They don't care about you. Well, but they don't care about us.

Okay, but you don't, I guess I'm asking you, are you got, I'm noticing when he's doing things incorrectly. I'm not noticing when he's doing them correctly. And at this point, he needs to just be an offensive lineman. Don't get a penalty so I don't notice you. I was hopeful with Eagles bucks because I think that was probably the best game of his career last year because he was giving us insight into the whole like weird dynamic with him and Baker and Baker replacing him and being successful despite the vibes being totally different and I was eager

for that but he's not meeting with these guys so there's not much to build on over there and that's really impacting him I thought all right if he's allowed to be in these meetings like he wasn't allowed last year we'd get a better Tom Brady I was confused as to why they decided to allow it and that all unraveled with one still image of him in the the Raiders press box but it doesn't feel like a big game when he is on it. I find myself listening to Greg Olson, missing him on the bigger games. I was wrong about this. I thought Tom Brady would lean on his experience and storytelling because no one has experienced more for the audience and Tom Brady. And we're just dying to hear all these stories. It hasn't worked out at all. And there doesn't seem to be room for

improvement. What a surprise. You can't just say, hey, I'm going to be a good broadcaster and be a good broadcaster. You can't just say, hey, I'm here. I'm Top Guy now. You think you can just be in bed and be a good broadcaster? Not everyone could do this. Let me rephrase. There's plenty of room for improvement. He doesn't seem capable of improving. Check out the big stars,

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This balance is not working. And the naked gun. That was awesome. Now that's a mountain of entertainment. Paramount Wolf. Don Lebertard. John, can you rate my Al Pacino from that billiard scene in Carlito's way if I do it for you? I think it's pretty good.

Yeah. Stugats. You think you're big time? But you're going to die. Big time. That is my infamous scale of one to ten. That's a, that's a 7.6. Solid.

Good job, that's a sui nominee right there. This is the Dan LeBatar show with the Stugat. If he hasn't improved yet, what gives you the indication that he's going to improve? I've seen no indication so far as we prepare to go to the Dentech bucket that he's capable of making memorable content. I mean, Dan,

and to be fastened, Sam Donald was bad for a long time and then he got good. Gino Smith the same way with maybe Brady will take a couple of years and be good. That's not how it works in broadcasting. Guys that are thought to be bad, they get

Jason Witten. Oh, no. Like people with prime time, big marquees, jobs. Maybe we do this experiment for a couple of seasons, but at a certain point I gotta go. Not as long though, as to Tony's point, he keeps adding value and making sales. He's not good at it, but he's

bringing in a ton of money for them. They're going to keep them around. The bucket is presented by Dentech's ultimate fantasy football punishment. Learn more and sign up your league at Dentec.com. Tony's going first here, and finally people are paying their punishments around here. Tony,

what did you get? Brick the good one, Dan, Let's see, I got the Steelers. The Steelers are, where are they here? They might be on a buy. They're on a bar league. Congratulations, Tony. The buy teams are Atlanta, Chicago, Green Bay, and Pittsburgh. I'm underheeded this season.

Early buys. Zaz also has a buy because he's got the golden helmet of life for three straight weeks. Congratulations to Sleepy Zaz. Mike, go ahead and select from the bucket, please. I lost last week, but I'm taking my sweet time to pay this off because I don't see you, Adonis has them here enforcing shit. Also, thoughts sell old money Charlie, who's got a help battle ahead of them. We love you, Charlie.

A former Reaper in his own rate. Wait a minute. The Reaper's not always the same Reaper? It might still be Charlie. Probably I shouldn't have invoked the Reaper there. Jacksonville Jaguars. I'm putting that back. They got the Kansas City Chiefs.

Frisky. Are at home. They're three and a half point dog against the Chief. Frisky. Charlie would be final. Kind of like the Jags. Touch base with Charlie yesterday. Odd timing and judgment from you.

Well, we haven't said it. We haven't said it. This one's really bad. I downgraded severely. Everybody is out for the San Francisco 49ers today. Everybody. The 49ers are playing against the Rams, and that line has gone up to nine and a half.

It started at like three or four or something. No Bernie, no Jennings. No kiddle. No Pierceall. I mean, they got white guys all over the field, and even the white guys were not on the field. I don't think football is for John Jennings. Got concerned every game.

Billy, go ahead and select I'm got the Seahawks Three and a half point favorites against the bucks, I'm putting that back Really? I like them too What do you? I like that. The Hawks at home is a three and a half point favorite You don't like that? I'm with Billy. I like the bucks

It's one of the biggest favorites of the week I don't like them I got the Colts, seven and a half point favorites at home I worked out. I'm jealous of how I worked out for you You are a brave spirit Spiro D is on that call for sure. Roy is going now. Moell Ecox.

The Arizona Cardinals. They're a big favorite. Seven and a half point seven and a inch Tennessee. Come on, Roy. Live dangerously. Chris Cody's going to go now. All right, here we go. Rummaging.

You got in trouble for his quote. I got the Packers. It feels like, oh, bye, loving it. I'm jealous of how Wallace is going for everybody else. Tim Ward got in trouble for saying they were asked? Yeah, yeah. They don't want the rookie saying that. He's a double agent, huh?

I don't like this Castellanos thing. Yeah, that's weird. You talk to Christian Becker or you don't talk to anybody. Reaper, climb over Zaz. Don't walk around the camera. You want to hand me the bucket, Reaper? No, you can't have two hands on a bucket. Oh, wow.

Conflict of Matrix, Deeper. I like that. Not a good look, Reaper. Don't do that, Reaper. Reaper, you want to walk all the way around? All of a sudden, they're militant about how they're protecting the rules around the bucket when they have it. How you do anything is how you do everything. That's right.

Powerful. I love how happy the Reaper seems. I got the dolphins at Carolina. Oh, that's good. Wow. You're going to regret that. Remember their offensive lineman? Classic Broder.

How did I pick it again? Wow. It's still going to work out for a lot. You know, what? It's, you know, sorry, you're sorry. It's right. I don't think that's how that's supposed to work. That's how it's supposed to work.

That's how it works. That's why you put it back because that chance is always alive. I think everybody survives except for me. I'm a guaranteed all. So the dolphins are going on the road to Carolina, and I don't know why you would trust that team on the road. Carps. I also don't know when we talk about Kansas City and Jacksonville.

Mike Ryan threw back Jacksonville. Kansas City is a big favorite in that game. To make them a big favorite on the road in a Monday night game is giving them a lot of credit for what happened against Baltimore. Chris, you say it's not that big a favorite. They're telling me that they think that the chiefs are seven points better than the Jags. If they're making them on a Monday night game, I think Monday night dogs covered a 70% clip throughout the history.

of Monday night football because you're the only game and on Monday night it might be even a little bit higher than that. The Chiefs evidently changed a whole lot of opinions just with Xavier Worthy coming back. Yeah, they're a good team. The rule for if it's a big line or not is if it's less than five, small line, if it's five or more, big line. The only reason that I say three and a half points is a big line is because games in that sport are so close. I mentioned that last week it was weird to see in the witching hour as they went into the witching hour, the only one score game was Bills and Saints because the last few weeks of the witching hour and honestly the last three years of the witching hour, what they've done in that sport to legislate

equality is a bit crazy. It's basketball with its salary cap does not create the kind of parody that football does. There is nothing like football in terms of creating these teams are close and you've seen very little this season that you can describe as a surprise. The Saints play the Bills close and you're surprised, even though the record of the Bills opponents is terrible. Cleveland beating Green Bay. Biggest surprise is a surprise and it can only be so much of a surprise because Cleveland's at home and the spread is seven points. But you've seen very few double-digit spreads this year. Yeah, I would point out though, yeah, well, it's hard to do it in the NBA. They do have seven consecutive

unique champions, you know? Now, going into the year, like, you kind of know who those teams could be that could win, but you've got a different team winning the whole thing every year now. Oh, but here's what I'm maintaining, though. You're right. After decades of basketball

being totally lopsided by this, the champions are indeed more random over the last seven years empirically than they've ever been. But you know what's not happening in those playoff games? buzzer beaters, close games. These three-point games at the end

where all of a sudden somebody's hitting a shot you remember forever because the three-point shot has made it so the distortions in these game sevens are always 20, 30-point games. They're not close. They're double-digit games. Football's never that. Like football, it's weird when I'm watching last weekend

and the games aren't close in the witching hour where I'm just now at this point expecting. If you're giving me eight or nine games, half of them at the end are going to be, everybody's tearing each other's heads off to get six. And it was almost like the Super Bowl last year, right? The Super Bowl was a blowout, and everybody's like, oh, damn, this was supposed to be a great game. They had played two years prior, and it was a great game there.

And it's like seeing a blowout in that sport just kind of feels weird now. I will say something that I don't love at the end of these NFL games, which, you know, most of them are close. I don't like because the kicking is so good now. You start like the final drive on the 30-yard line. All right, if I pick up 30 yards, I'm ready to kick a field goal at the buzzer. Like you don't get these long drives to win a game anymore. It's unsatisfying. Vic Fangio, of all people, has had some opinions on the kicking.

I will say, though, when you guys, go ahead and name them. The Seahawks crush the Saints. Name all the games. Carolina crushed the Falcons. Name all of the games this season where somebody goes out there and just wins by three or four touchdowns. and the game is decided very early. Patriots Panthers last week. Colts Dolphins, Lions Browns last week, even though.

Panthers's Falcons. Yeah, that was. I mentioned that, but it's half a dozen. They're playing a lot of games. To play a month's worth of games and you can name the six of them because there aren't that many is a little bit nuts. But let's play Vic Fangio talking about. What's he talking about here? Is he talking about the number of miss kicks this season?

Oh, no. He's talking about the length of these kicks. and how it's changed the games, and, you know, he might accuse people of doing some stuff. These kicking balls that they changed this year have drastically changed the kicking game. So it's almost like they need an asterisk here, like it was the live ball error, or the asterisk for those home runs bonds and Sosa and McGuire were hitting. Is the shape different? No.

In years past, the officials would rub them down or other people would rub them down and you play with them. Now the balls are in-house all week. And they kick those balls that they've had and nobody else touches them. I mean, the guy in Dallas is going to hit a 70-plus yarder this year. You can just book it. It's drastically changed the game, the kicking game, and the field goal. Guys have longer range than they used to. Kind of like Brady Anderson with the Orioles.

And we went from 15 homers to 50 in one year. You used a performance in hatching drops? I am insinuated. Which reminds me, when we invoked how does a role this chapter? and do it at his age in that sport. That's reckless. No. It was reckless of us to not mention it.

No? It was reckless of us to talk about him and not crochet with how great he was that game one. I'm going to tell you something. That's kind of BS that you get to just get a ball, a different ball, a ball that no one's touched to kick. You should have to use the ball that was used the previous play. I think that the other team, I, like, they should, I rub down the other team's balls, they rub down my balls.

None of that is how football works. Each team always uses their own balls. Apparently, it used to be a league thing, and now the team's... You should have to use the ball from the previous play. Now there's just kicking balls, is what he's saying. You guys mentioned that New England-Carolina game, and it made me think of Shamanaut alum, Chris Myers, walking through football purgatory, always getting that game.

And I know he just looks at the schedule, and he's like, bleep you fuck. Like just bleep all of you. I think he looks ahead at the whole week's schedule. He's just like, that's my game. They're never going to let Chris Myers be anything other than the guy broadcasting the sixth game. They're not allowing him room for promotion

as they pay Tom Brady $375 million to be terrible. Do you think he books the flight before he gets the actual Fox schedule? There is nobody more unhappy that the bucks are good with Baker than Chris Myers because you could always guarantee you could say your watch to it. Chris Myers was on the

bucks called. Do you think when the Colts schedule comes out, Spiro Did he just puts that on the fridge. He's like, you know, it's exactly where he's going to be. If the Raiders are playing the Colts, he is there. He's going to be there this week. I don't even know, but I know he's there. No, he's got to be there. I'm a check. Carolina, that game, Carolina New England. Ooh, that game's on Fox. Spiro will not be there. I did not want to watch that game. I had no interest. I haven't wanted to watch a game. What were you guys saying of Carolinas for a while? What were you guys? The two offensive linemen.

There was somebody that we, there was a team we were talking about in the other room the last couple of days that someone identified them as the worst franchise in all of sports. And it got me too thinking because through my lifetime, the Clippers and the Lions are sort of viewed as that's the worst franchise there is. And somewhere in there, the Charlotte Bobcats get to skate a little bit. I've been recommending the Angels get in this conversation when you consider the resources they've applied to not be as bad as they've been. That was the conversation we were having. You mentioned the Angels because Albert Pujols is going to be their manager and you were wondering whether the Angels were the worst franchise in all of sports. My guy, Spiro Didis has Tennessee at Arizona. We knew it. We knew it.

AMC South High. By the way, how does Fox steal a classic CBS game like Colts and Raiders? That is a CBS first class game. There is no way that should be played. on Fox, and that game should always be a 425. Guess where? Tell me where Chris Myers is going to end up this week, because I do believe

that when Chris Myers gets Carolina, when he gets Carolina and the Patriots, he's saying bleep his bosses, because he's not allowed any upward mobility calling football. This weekend, Chris Myers has Vegas at Indianapolis.

If I grab a random fan, I'm like, hey, do you follow baseball? Oh, you know, kind of tangentially. All right, name the three best players of this generation. They might go off the top of their head. Trout, Otani, Pujols. And I'd be like, they played on the same team at the same time. And they were bad.

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