The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Tamara's Buttons (feat. Lucy Rohden)

Episode Date: January 5, 2026

"What's wrong with whimsy and joy?" Lucy is here to talk College Football, but first, she helps the crew break down Bill Kennedy's peak performance at the coach's challenge camera, a woman losing her mind on the Eiffel Tower, and an Internet Minute she's pretty sure Dan will hate. Then, Tony's Top 5 delivers some news about the clear and obvious historic suppression of Cuban QBs and the net worth of random strangers on the sidewalk in Miami. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stucats podcast. Lucy Rodin spent another season crushing it for us. It's why she is on all those lists of greatest newcomers in the history of newcoming to all of sports things. She was at the University of Miami Game, Texas A&M. She got an exclusive get. Mike Ryan was there to be interviewed. And that is on YouTube.

if you want to see the report from Texas A&M, that weird cult that Miami dispatched in the first round. But before we get to Lucy, I just want to put in front of the audience and Lucy. Referee, Jeremy was mortified by this. People said that Jeremy is this as a referee, that Bill Kennedy has enjoys himself some voice of Bill Kennedy. A lot of people have been tagging me in this. The defensive player makes contact to the chest and force. prior to the movement of the offensive player, resulting in the defensive foul being upheld and the coach's challenges unsuccessful. After reviewing the play, the out of bounds that was called

was called correctly due to the fact that there was no illegal contact by the defender. Resulting in Philadelphia ball at mid court, the coach's challenge is unsuccessful. I love this man. in my whole heart. That's entertainment value. I'm so excited that people feel like that's how I deliver it. And it's not just the audio, he's playing to the camera. Oh, yeah, he is. It's awesome. The shiggin of the head. And the challenge has been unsuccessful. He knows the people love it. I don't like it.

Why? He's mocking the coach. And the coach's challenge is unsuccessful. He's mocking the coach. It's tremendous. That's the best. It's probably a bad challenge. If I'm the coach, I'm so angry right now. You don't, you're not allowed to mock me. Lucy, what are your thoughts here? He's serving C-Nex Tuesday.

That is electric. I couldn't love it more. And the second I heard his voice, I said, damn, they got Jeremy's ass. That is so, Jeremy. You don't like that he's a showman. You don't want him. You don't appreciate that he comes from a lineage of look at me,

referees like Steve Javvy. It's like, just deliver the thing. I feel that way with Jeremy sometimes. Just give me the info. Okay, relax. Just give me what you want to say. Yep. Just let's keep the game moving.

What's wrong with whimsy and joy and adding a little performance into our life? Sorry, he's romanticizing his job. Thank you, Lucy. Put it on the poll, please, Juju. What's wrong with whimsy and joy at Levitart show? Yes, yes or no. Yes or no. Let's tell me there was an Eiffel Tower situation.

I don't know what your feeling is here before we get to college football on elevators, Lucy. But evidently somebody was fearing height. in the Eiffel Tower and got on to an elevator with someone who was scared. So let's play this audio. Yeah, they're heading up to the top of the Eiffel Tower. And I just want you to, how would you react if this person was in your elevator?

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Why am I doing this? Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I'm dizzy. I'm dizzy. Oh, my God, I'm dizzy. Breathe. Breathe. Why?

Don't do it. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Why? Mom, please. Mom, people do this every day. You're fine. You don't know how I feel right now.

You're almost done. Oh my God, I can't see. I can't bleeping C at the end. Why? I feel bad for the kids that are with her. Like the kids you could hear are mortified. Like, mom, people do this every day. You don't know how I feel right now.

Why? Why? So you don't have to walk. That's why. That was me before Bryce Fitzgerald's pick. pick in the end zone. Speaking of which, Lucy, your thoughts on Ohio State, Miami and Miami, Mississippi? Well, Ohio State, Miami, Miami was just better, right?

And that score was closer than it was because you had that early turnover in the game. I just, I did not think Miami would win that. I do think Miami's going to be Ole Miss. I think that the way they match up is very interesting. When it comes down to what happened with Ole Miss and Georgia, I genuinely feel like Trinidad Chambliss broke Kirby Smart because he was making decisions. he would never normally make, where going forward on fourth and two when it's a close game, okay, I don't think you need to do that when you're like basically in your own end zone at this

point. And then you have that final drive at the end of the game where they were just so poor with how they were managing the clock. They were moving so quickly when they really didn't need to and they put Ole Miss in that position to win that game. I don't necessarily know if that's going to translate to the next round where I think Miami's defensive front is so good that it can cause some problems where Trinidad Chambliss won't have the opportunity to break Mario Cristobal. But I'm really excited for this matchup because Trinidad Chamblis has been one of the most fun players to watch this year. In Miami, what they've done through this postseason run has been nothing short of incredible. They've been more physical every game. They've looked better

every game. That defense has just been a joy and a pleasure to watch. So I'm really, really excited. Lucy, do you think Lane Kiffin watches these games? Yeah, absolutely. He was live tweeting through it. He kept tweeting the flag of Trinidad to be like, no, I support. I believe he was trying to originally go on the broadcast and give his commentary. Obviously that did not work out and players came out afterwards and they were like, we won this game in spite of you to troll you because we heard you were doing

stuff like that. He's absolutely staying tuned. Do we have any context, Mike, historical context for the sheer absurdity of what's happening with this bowl game and the Lane Kiffin assistants? Like, is there any context, Lucy, in your lifetime that you can remember of things being so

messy that a team that's about to play for the championship, half of its staff belongs to Lane Kiffin and Lane Kiffin is left. The closest context is when Nick Saban had to fire Lane Kiffin because he was taking the FAU job. That's the closest thing I can get, which is also a Lane Kiffin scenario. Mike and I were texting about it a little bit yesterday. It's like this is one, also a lane Kiffin problem, but it's very much just the calendar in college football is very broken that like you are still competing for a national championship while, like, and this is

happening at Kentucky as well with Will Stein, and you're still having to host people for the transfer portal. It's just a giant mess. Lucy, why, I mean, in a similar context, like, why did Ryan Day take over the play calling duties from Brian Hartline, who was still on the sidelines for that game? He said that it was because he didn't, he had so much on his plate, he wanted to make it easier for him to still continue to coach at Ohio State and, you know, take that job at USF. I don't know why he would do that, because it was very funny. Like, there's a direct change in time when Ryan Day stopped calling plays so when Ohio State won a national championship. So he was like, let's go back. Let's just switch it up one more time and then they lost immediately.

This is the third consecutive game in the college football playoff in which Miami goes up against an offensive coordinator that is leaving the job, either for a head coach or for a position at LSU. Thank you. Lucy, can you please help me understand what to make of modern college football business when 31.5% of the football players are presently in the portal. Well, Dan, all I really need to say is Iowa's punter entered the portal. That's how you know we have a problem. What do you mean you want to leave Iowa as our punter? That's insane. This is like reaching a point where I think they're going to have to reinstate some like, rules and regulations because obviously the way it was before isn't good but from my perspective what I think they should do is everyone gets one free transfer you get a transfer if your head coach leaves and that should be the end of the list because you are seeing it now more than ever where players are going to four different schools in four years obviously you're probably not getting a good education if

that is the point but like let's be honest we didn't come here to play school I think the nil day and age has been so just we underestimated how much money there would be involved and how lucrative it would be yet like even today I saw a USC transfer going to West Virginia and I saw that he was paid $550,000 last year to play football for USC and he only had one catch on the season. So like you are just in this like weird, weird sort of no one knows what's going on. They're throwing money at everything and it's causing everyone to jump because why would you not leave for greener pastures if you know you can get paid, especially in a sport like football where you don't necessarily know if you always have a future in it and you don't necessarily

know like where you're if this is something that's going to last. you be on college, so why not make the money now? It's a giant nightmare, but for 30% of players to be in the portal, a good chunk of those will not find homes. They are going to end up back at their old school or something else is going to happen, but like it is genuinely insane and unreasonable. Lucy, if you're Miami, would you rather go against Trinidad Chamberliss or Kirby Smart? I would probably rather go against Kirby Smart right now, just with the way the Trinidad Chambliss looked last week. Like, he was phenomenal and electric and he's so much fun. but I really like Miami's defensive front.

I think they match up well against each other. So that's going to be the right match. Are you not allowing when you consider that? Are you not allowing what kind of advantages a champion coach would have over specifically a player that played for him for two years whose every weakness he's going to be able to prepare for? I do think that that is something that kind of factors into it. But what I've been most impressed with Miami through this run is the poise that Carson Beck has shown.

because that was sort of the issue for me with Miami going into the postseason was you have seen how Carson Beck in a scenario where he needs to win a game will fall apart and throw five interceptions he has not done that this postseason so I think I'd rather go against Trinidad Chambliss where you're okay

you're going up against this actually I changed my answer you know what Dan your question was so good I changed my answer I do want to go against Trinidad Chambliss now okay wait a minute what just happened I changed my answer okay I got new information I changed my answer I didn't think you can change your mind like that.

You absolutely can. That's a life lesson for everybody. Okay. I guess we'll have to allow that. We all need to be more like me. I guess, so you had an opinion and you changed it in mid-flight while having the opinion. Absolutely. We just witnessed it.

Is this a historic, is this why she's one of the best and wisest up-and-comers in the history of sports up-and-coming because she can change her mind about a take while she's having. it. So what you're... It's bold of a person to admit that they were wrong or that they've changed their mind. And I don't mind doing that. That's why I've been in therapy for five straight years. I feel like it's a legitimately good sports radio question to ask of somebody if you're Miami, would you rather play the better quarterback? Because Gunner Stockton does not scare Miami at all. That is not what Trinidad Chambliss is. The idea that we don't actually understand the mechanations of the coaching machine and that Kirby Smart would be confident

enough against Mississippi to do a double reverse fake pass when you're playing for, that's crazy, okay, to have that kind of looseness because you've played for the championship so much, but also to have the advantages over the frail psyche of a kid, of a kid, of a kid who grew up on his watch, a champion coach knowing what a kid's weaknesses are. No, I mean, this makes it easier for Carson Beck, because that was the narrative. After the Ohio State, that was like the first question Scott Van Pell asked him was like, you know who's potentially coming next and he didn't really want to answer the question. But to avoid that sort of narrative and that conversation I think is good for Carson Beck. Even though I think he's played with such boys throughout this postseason that I'm not sure how much of that would be an issue. I love Miami's defense. I think that's what this matchup comes down to and it's probably good that the spotlight isn't on Carson Beck so much. Do you guys want to imagine what it was like to be next to Carson Beck as he was watching Mississippi, Georgia? What do you guys imagine he was rooting? Are they rooting for Georgia?

I don't think so. Really? I don't think he was. You don't think he wants the opportunity to beat them? I think he's happy to see them gone. And I don't think he had the greatest of departures with Georgia. If he was the one to do it, fine. But the fact that he doesn't have to be the one to do it,

and they didn't get this far, and he already gets to have that feather in his cap. His mentions are cleaner this week. Yeah. It would be a tough week for the young man to handle with all that stuff. Now he doesn't have to worry. about it. We're reposting Colby Young holding an upside down you and Jaden Harris

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Eastern. See official rules at program website. Don Lebertard. He seems like a not nice guy, and he's always been a not nice guy. I don't care for him. And I hope he has the day he deserves. Oh, let's see.

Stugats. I hope he has the day he deserves. That's how I get people when they're really mean to me. I'm not like, go F yourself. I'm like, I hope you have the day you deserve. It's a great kind, it's a great kind insult, yes. It's beautiful. It's leaving it to the cosmos to sort it out.

That's a less southern, bless your heart. This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats. I know that I know that I can do some things here that can feel like infantilizing. But I'm not trying to do it when I keep saying kid of Carson Beck. You guys do understand whatever you were as freshman, sophomores, juniors, and seniors in college, whatever this spotlight is, like, it can be super confusing for someone who's not yet an adult, and to have your frailties examined by the internet, and to have your psyche question as fragile, because Lucy, I remember talking

on the phone with Lucy, she's like standing on the field, and she's like, here comes the Carson Beck interception when she's watching some close game in Georgia, to have that reputation as a kid if you're reading everything that's on the internet, holy shit is it easier to play Mississippi than Georgia this week to have Georgia come out of the woodwork to tell you all week what a shitty kid you were when you were there? Like, I just

can't imagine as we keep making the money and money bigger and bigger with these guys like you're going to break some of them. I told you a couple months ago. He had a very difficult time with the transition over to Miami and what Georgia was saying about him and the internet conjecture and the public breakup and the stolen cars.

He had to go back home and kind of rediscover his passion, and he matured a lot over the awesome. I mean, I think, look, I agree with what you're saying. I would especially agree with what you're saying if it was Miami at Georgia. Like that, that I would totally be with you. But I don't know, it's a part of me that thinks he would like to have ended up season. Oh, but you see what you're doing, and I'm curious what you think on this, Lucy. What Zaslo is doing here is that I can imagine that that's what a great competitor would want at every turn.

But you're making it the stadium and something that's not real. to you, the internet is real to people this age. The internet is a poison to people to all... Not just that age. But he can stay away from the internet if you want. No, but yes, yes. Not just that age. It's hard, dude.

You can't stay away from the internet. As much as you would like to, you can't. I'm with Lucy on that. You're always going to hear things. All right, I got your first couple of clues. Fine. Hit it. Oh, it's time to get in it. It's Lucy's Internet Minute.

So I have two options, Dan, one I think you're going to appreciate, one I think you're going to hate. Which one do you want first? I only want the one I would appreciate. Okay, let's start with the one you hate and we'll just get that out of the way. I'm glad you asked. Good call. So there's this girl on TikTok, her name is Tamara, and she has gone viral because there was this video of this girl being like, here's how I'm going to reset my life in the new year and my New Year's resolutions. And Tamara commented on the video and said, for the new year, I'm going to get 300.

And everyone was like, that's awesome. What are you going to do with the buttons? And she was like, I'm just going to get 365 buttons to represent the passing of time. And people were like, okay, I get it, but like, what are you going to do with the buttons? And she was like, I'm not going to tell you what I'm going to do with the buttons. That's none of your business. It only has to make sense to me what I'm doing with these buttons. And so she's become this sensation because everyone is trying to figure out, what is she going to do with these buttons? Is she going to put them in a jar?

Is she going to make a craft out of them? but she won't tell anyone. And she's actually become this kind of icon where she has this great thing of like, what I do with the buttons only needs to make sense to me and you guys need to get a life. Like, it doesn't matter for you at all.

And it's become kind of inspirational. And so that's what's been going on with tomorrow and the buttons. Do you have any questions? How do you know me so well that you knew how much I would hate that? All of them. Jeremy seemed to like it.

I need some buttons in my life. Yeah, she really knows how to push your buttons. What are my buttons for this year? That was good. Okay. Now here's the other one, Dan, that I think you'll like more. What? I thought it was good.

Okay. So the other one is that Tom Brady was spotted on a fun little New Year's vacation with one Alex Earl. Do you know who that is, Dan? I do not. That is like a very famous influencer. Her and her boyfriend, Brax-Aberios, just broke up. She's quite young. And so her and Tom Brady were spotted together.

Things are happening. However, the most important part was that. someone took a video of him with his phone flashlight on in his back pocket. Oh, Tom. Oh, man. He is like the number one divorce guy right now because a few weeks ago he posted his little Instagram story after Giselle like announced her or something, whatever, with the song, I don't want to be alive, but I don't remember the name of the song.

Can we get a list of people that Tom Brady has been linked to since the roast and since the divorce and $375 million contract? Sophia Vergara, I believe there was a rumor. I think it's just Sophia Vergara and Alex Errol, but Alexerr, there are pictures, so that's, that's linked, linked. And this, but they, that relationship with Braxton Berrios was made famous on Hard Knocks, right? She wasn't a famous influencer before that, or was she? No, she was a famous influencer. Dan, you thought Hard Rocks made her.

No, I just don't, I don't remember the details. All right, so she was famous before, I'm, forgive me, for not having all of my information, correct. Okay, I'm sorry. You know what? I'm sorry. Is your flashlight on? I thought you would like this one, my bad. Lucy, thank you for being on with us.

good seeing you again. We're going to get one final report from the last four games. Yes, or are you totally done for the season? We're going to the National Championship. Maybe I'll stop by the office if you're nice to me. All right, check out what she did at Texas A&M. Again, a great get. Mike Ryan was there to be interviewed.

Just a stunning get by Lucy to go all the way to Texas A&M so that she could get an exclusive with Mike Ryan. Thank you, Lucy. Appreciate the time. Bye. That game feels like it was two months ago. When I say this spirit hasn't been here since 2001, I am legitimately asking everybody who's tried to care about Dolphin football since then. No playoff wins and all the time since then, and the professional franchise seems lost again.

It's a quarter century of just laughing stock stuff, if not for the Jets, if not for the Jets who in this run have made it to AFC Championship games, plural. You saw, by the way, the Jets made some pretty impressive history yesterday, right? I couldn't believe that stat. You got the stat of the day music there? I could not believe that stat. To me, there is no greater representation of failure. For the Browns to have Miles Garrett at a rose in a sewer in Cleveland celebrating a great moment. There was no more symbolic moment about anything going on in football yesterday than this stat.

Oh, no, Tony's waving me off because we're stealing Tony's. Although on the Miles Garrett stuff, we do have context. Oh, that's right. We do. That's right. Okay, so how about this, Dan? Thanks to Dave Damacheck, Football America. All right. He sent me, he sent over a tweet from somebody who added some context to Miles Garrett now the fake king. Why are you quoting that yammering knob like if he knows something when he's got all these Pittsburgh biases? Well, let's listen. That is hanging over this, but it's a good point. Numbers are numbers. We like data. Okay. So Brown's opponents, here are the stats. Brown's opponents had 540 pass plays.

during this time period, right? Not Miles Garrett had 540 pass rush attempts. Watt was a pass rusher on 393 of the Steelers 557 pass plays in the games he played, minus two games for injury, of course. Garrett was a pass rusher on 479 of the Brown's 540 passplays. Meaning, Dan, Miles Garrett, almost 22% more. attempts than T.J. Watt resulting in just a half-sack more, of course, in one extra game. Now, I don't exactly know what all those numbers mean, but I think it helps my case.

Does, and to your larger point of being able to count games, believe T.J. Watt missed games, which is why the snap thing happened there. Okay. So you understand games provide the SNAP. So it sounds like both things are now in my favor. It sounds like we have data to parse through and make a determination. Why are we quoting that garlic breath yammering knob Dave Damichick? It's a word association now.

Football America, you hear his yammering tapestries. Football America, every Monday and Friday, he does a, it really is a weird, funny. He's weird and funny. And that show, and that show has like a funny historical range because he also knows the history of football. Look, what is happening presently in Miami, what I'm in the middle of now that I obviously, we recognize doing this 21 years in this market, Football never gets to matter like this over the last 20 years down here. We've been screwing around playing a bunch of football for 20 plus years that everyone knows isn't going to result in anything good.

This is the best that football has felt here in 25 years. And that thing is the best thing I've ever seen in this town in terms of making me fight with the rest of America. Outside of the heat team represented by LeBron, Chris Bosch, and Dwayne Wade. That team made a whole generation of people love sports for its attitude. And that team is back. It's been 20 years since. It's been 20 years since you had Sean Taylor and Andre Johnson and Jonathan Vilma

and all these people that you knew were going to be playing NFL football. Well, what can the Keynes do? because I don't feel like there's that hatred right now. Like, what can the Keynes do for it to be in us against the world thing? It's always like that with that helmet. It's always... You're feeling that?

Yeah, it's always going to be that way. Michael Arvin's doing it. He's not a polarizing mascot. That's not beloved, endearing, and charming. And it's a guy that's on fire. No, but that's Miami's obnoxiousness. Like, that's been... That volcano has been brewing since he was 19.

Miami's been a pretty strong underdog. They have a story that if they didn't have that helmet, people would be like more people. The main reason people wanted Notre Dame in over Miami is because people just generally historically don't like Miami. So Miami's got all these great underdog things going for it. But because of the brand, it doesn't feel that way. And they're certainly running into a much better underdog story in Ole Miss.

Don Lebertard. No one else here is willing to do it. Trump or a Biden. That's not true, Dan. Okay, Tony, you can catch up. a thousand imprisonations. That's not bad, man. Finally. Pretty good.

Stugats. Yours is terrible. You just got to get a little redder, a little pinker. You're right there, man. Yours is not. You're biting me. What do you mean? That's actually not bad. This is good, that's not terrible. That's not terrible.

You got to come together. A little southern twang there. A little George Bush in that one. This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats. You guys need to get me. We're going to go out to Tony. But Tony, I'm going to need you to become a more serious Latin correspondent around here over the course of the next two weeks

because I believe that we're setting up here for the Miami Cubans against the Indiana Cuban. And it's two very different Miami's and two very different Cubans when it becomes University of Miami against Heisman Trophy winner, Fernando Mendoza. We've got to build this up. It's going to be the most Cuban. It's got the potential to be the most Cuban national championship football game ever played. Yeah, Dan, it's a beautiful part.

Thank you, by the way. It's a beautiful part of the college football universe where for so long since the inception, basically, of college football, the Cubans have been shut out. Right? Like, we have been shut out completely outside of a couple guys here and there. But now we're on the national stage promoting, you know, this beautiful game of football. We've got a head coach and Mario Cristobal who, provides the old generation of Cuban Americans,

the ones that their parents came over, hardworking. Their parents didn't have two dimes to rub together, and he made it into this amazing life. And then we also have the other side of it, Fernando Mendoza, who's like the third generation now whose parents have come up. They have money. They sent this to Belen Columbus. He lives a different type of life.

Now, he's another set of a draw point for Miami Cubans to be like, oh, I know that guy. That guy's my friend. That guy's my cousin. It's a beautiful part. It would be a serious thing. Why did you do this? And you, Tony, Tony, just because, like, you weren't given a football to go through your walkthrough at FIU,

it doesn't mean that you actually went up against institutional racism. We were shut out. We just needed a couple generations to figure it out. Nobody said anything about institutional racism. We just didn't have this dance ball. They're not keeping the Cubans out. The entire NFL is looking for 32 guys that can play that position. Nothing matter if they're Cuban or not.

I know. They're not shut out. They just haven't been good. It does. it does matter. It matters to me. By the way, Dan, a beautiful mural, probably the most famous mural in all of Miami Beach right here behind me, painted by the one and only

Libo. So I wanted to come as our last Tony's top five for the year of the NFL season for Week 18. I wanted to come to a very beautiful and familiar spot. Lebo's mural here on 41st and Meridian on the beach down. You got the NFL saying, hey, Buck Ortega, pick another position. We're not letting you do this.

Tony, thank you for... All I'm saying is that we weren't given the opportunity, okay? We weren't giving the opportunity. That's all I'm saying. Cuban quarterbacks haven't been good. How you doing, guys? What do you know? Thank you for doing it from there. I like.

He's saying hello to. Who are you saying hello to? People walking by? Here's a beautiful thing about, here's a beautiful thing about Miami Beach. Hold on second. Here's a beautiful thing about Miami Beach, right? Especially where we are, which is a little bit more quaint, not South Beach, which is obviously, you know,

40 some odd streets that way. What we're looking at here is a beautiful part of Miami Beach where the person walking by could have $100 million in the bank and we have no idea, or they could be driving a belly and be absolutely flat broke. That's the beautiful part about this city right here. Why don't you ask that guy? All right, this is how we're going to do man on the street from now on.

The next person that comes by there, you stop what you're doing and you just ask them a net worth question. Thank you for doing it there. I remember watching my brother and being terrified because he was up on scaffolding, doing that particular mural like that's not easy to do so thank you for doing it from there it's one of my favorite spots in miami of course dano all right we've got a couple o l i and then we'll get into the top five so starting off in the o l i worst records in the nfl obviously now that everything

is set cardinals at three and fourteen titans at three and fourteen jets at three and fourteen raiders at three and fourteen sauce gardner at two and fifteen that's right the cold Colts were there. Remember when we were talking? You remember Colts and then went to the Colts? You guys remember all that? That was a long time ago. Yeah, you know. All right, last OLI, the Falcons were eliminated from the playoffs

on December 7th and yet finished tied for first in their division, a division that had no winning records and got sent Carolina to play a home game against probably the best team in the NFL. That shouldn't have been allowed yesterday. Like two teams have a chance to win the division, but it's another team. team who has no chance that gets to decide who wins it when they went when like Tony said they were eliminated four weeks ago that shouldn't have been allowed that's where the commissioner needs to step in and do the right thing you have come in off this break just breathing fire you have so many strong opinions hey buddy quick question what's your net worth go number three that's a that's a tough one that's a tough one to ask who would answer that like opening that's why he

Preface it with quick question, you know. Glad you asked. What's your net worth? He said, no, thank you, or I'm good, one of the two. That means he's broke, Dan. Let's be honest. That means he's broke. All right.

That was O'I, Dan. We'll start with number five, and somebody could give the stat there. The Jets made history that can never, ever be repeated. I don't know who has the stat there, but they went the entire season without getting an interception on the defense. His never happened before will never happen again. It's crazy. No team has ever gone

an entire season. They played Trubisky yesterday. Trubisky had four touchdowns. No team has ever gone an entire season without an interception. That's a crazy stat. And their coach is a defensive coach. Like no quarterback threw a bad

pass. Somebody, a tipped pass, something. So a drop pass. He played two a for God's sake. A drop pass. They played two of a great. Twice. Like, what? That's an excellent point. Number four. I've played to it twice.

Thank you. Got to come up with one of those. Got to get one. At least a bad ball at the line or something. All right, number four, congrats to Matt Stafford on the MVP, but I want to tell you this right now, Rams,

upset alert in Carolina question mark. No. Take that back. Take it back. Their season's over. Carolina's season is over. Carolina's season is over. And he can happen.

Since week three, Carolina's season has been over. That team cannot, will not, win anything, never mind a single game, not a single game. The Carolina Panthers have zero chance in that football game against the Rams. Their season's over. It's always been over.

It was over before it started. It was over when they lost against the Dolphins. It's still over. It's not less over because the Saints couldn't beat the Falcons yesterday. It's over. It's over because Baker Mayfield killed them and it's over. Hey! Not dead yet, Dano.

They got a real life dog chance against them. They got a home game. All they got to do is just beat the team at home if they already beat. Exactly right. Made Stafford, you know, look kind of foolish through three interceptions, I think, in that game. Number three, Sam Darnold is 28 and 6 in the last two years with two different teams. I don't know what to do with that info. I just wanted to bring it to the masses.

How you doing? That Carolina, L.A. result was so confusing to Dan that we ended up having two days of philosophical conversations about our turnover's luck or generated or some combination. The Rams are the best team in football. The Rams are a five-seat. They're the best team in football. They've lost five one-score games in ridiculous fashion. God, what a run that was. Two full days of turnover conversation

because of one result he couldn't understand because of one bad take like 10 weeks earlier. Do you guys know that Sam Darnold's grandpa's name was Dick Hammer and he was the Marlborough man? What? I don't tell you. What? Sam Darnold's,

Grandpa, right there, we're looking at him. Dick Hammer, he was the Marlboro Man. You have never done anything better than what you just did. Here we go. Take Tony. Guys, quick question. Feel free to not answer me. No.

Net worth over a million dollars? Yes, okay. I like that. Thank you, sir. Man, good question. That was John Skipper. Oh, she didn't speak English. Okay.

Oh, that means yes. Tell Skip, I said hello. Number two, congrats to Miles Garrett. We're watching one of the legends of the game snap in and snap out. It's cool to see. I wasn't around to see some of these legends in pass rushing.

We see Miles Garrett, he's not a bad team, but it's amazing to see him do his thing snap in and snap out, year and you're out. Third best, single season sack. Third best. Yeah, you're a sucker. You're a sucker. And number one, there's obviously,

there's nothing else that we could say. I've got the hat going. Obviously, you see the hat. Osambeaucelli. Samboselli. Samboselli is in the building. Thank you, yes. Let somebody take a picture of this, how beautiful it is.

With the Libo mural with the Samboseli in the background on the water. Dan, I want you to stop what you're doing right now. Take out your phone, okay, and text the Khan family. Let them know to get us inside the building for Jags versus Bills, okay? Am I flash the tone? Yeah, whatever. Make sure, okay, we'll do a live show from there. We'll make something happen this Sunday, Jags versus Bills, a massive game.

But I want to read you a couple things. Liam Cohen and the Jags right now are the best team in the AFC. Okay, hottest team in the AFC, best team in the AFC. Trevor Lawrence is a top five quarterback in the league right now. He fixed, Liam Cohen fixed his issues, just like he fixed Baker-Mayfield's issues last year. Liam Cohen, great coach. And I want to give you some stats with Trevor Lawrence. His last eight games, 19 passing touchdowns, five rushing touchdowns.

The only players with those touchdown totals in an eight-game span are MVP Lamar Jackson from 2019 and 2015 MVP Cam Newton. So Trevor Lawrence playing at an MVP level to the last eight games. Dan, get us in the building. We're going to represent our Jags. The biggest thing in Duval County right now is these Jaguars. San Luis needs to be in the building when they play these bum-ass bills to get them out of here finally. Jags going to the Super Bowl. Let's go.

Here's Trevor Lawrence getting some grills. I did already. Trevor Lawrence. Here's Trevor Lawrence getting grills in the locker room because that's where we all had this season ending, of course. We appreciate you so much for everything you do. I just want to know all of Jacksonville behind you. We know it's a meme that's kind of going to virus, so we got to your own view.

He didn't want to put it in. They made him. See how he looks with the grill in. Got to put the bottom in, too. They're not serious people. trust, I will not trust the Jags. I cannot trust the Jags, even though they make a mid-season trade that changed everything because all of a sudden Washington's a great slot receiver and the Jags are now serious people. They don't even have Trevor, Trevor Lones, they don't even

have Travis Hunter. They got great receivers all over the place. I'm telling you, this offense is a problem right now in the AFC. Their defense also sneaky good to handle Leo Cohn, Coach of the year. See you later, Tony. Appreciate the time as well. It is interesting that we all view the AFC as an entirety of weaknesses, all of them. All six of them, flawed football teams, all six of them teams you don't totally trust for myriad reasons. That is not the case in the NFC. There's not a single result in the AFC first round that you'd be surprised with, right? Like anyone could beat anyone in any of these games, right?

I mean, I don't see much of a difference between Houston and Jacksonville. Now you start getting into whether or not Houston can win a championship on defense with C.J. Stroud being someone who occasionally. puts up 38 points a game now. Their offense isn't as their offense was not struggling the last half of the season as much as it was in the beginning half of the season, obviously. I'm still trying to recover from that whirlwind Tony appearance. He wasn't alive to watch Michael Strahan and T.J. Well, no, he was shut out from watching that. He was shut out. That's right. He's going to produce a 30 for 30 about how Buck Ortega was blackballed from the position. One of these Cubans have to lose. We can't have an all Cuban natty. Tony will be unbearable.

even more so. I believe that we have to build up four weeks now to the most Cuban championship ever played possibly in Miami. You realize how close we are. Fernando Mendoza is the he is the Heisman trophy

winner. Indiana is unbeaten. Indiana's had the most impressive season. That's not up for dispute. One of my great complaints about college football, I think this is a reasonable one, is you rendered that Ohio State Indiana game totally meaningless. It was that Big Ten championship, meant nothing. It was a game played for

no particular reason. It mattered in seating. Yeah, I think it matters. Come on, man. I mean, it's irrefutable. It mattered in seating. Indiana went unbeaten this season, and it wouldn't have mattered whether they won or lost that game.

Like, Indiana is just as good as... They would have played Miami in the cotton bowl. Ohio State would have played Alabama, and they'd be playing Oregon right now. They had a much easier draw. We are all in agreement. Are we not that Indiana, because it beat Oregon that Indiana, and because it beat Ohio State, that Indiana has the most unimpeachable record that there is there, correct? Right, which is why they got the one seed. And they

won by a field goal against Ohio State, and now they are favored to win the championship, at least in part because of what they did to Alabama, not the cream of a total fraud of a conference. Like, there is no result that I got over the last two weeks, more of an indictment of the SEC and more verifying of my belief that everyone in that conference has been a highly regarded mediocrity. Every single thing in that conference is a highly regarded mediocrity. Well, I'm assuming that you're then going to say that the Big Ten is the best conference, but is the Big Ten that much better than the SEC? The Big Ten won all of its bowl games except Michigan against Tennessee and the SEC lost too

many of its bowl games because all of its teams are frauds. Look, I know I'm being absolutist about this, and I know I'm overstating it. But what we've just seen from college football, if you're not willing to look at what those SEC results would say and say, oh, that whole big conference, we're saying Oklahoma and Texas would be there and how exciting is it. And it's going to be an unbelievable unprecedented conference. They played all of those bowl games and you weren't impressed by anybody. I just hope that people take the lessons from this college football playoff, which was tilting at windmills all season long, trying to tell people that just watch Get Up that the SEC isn't what it was. and the SEC conversation is literally from a bygone era. Do not let this SEC and Big Ten Talk carry over in the next season.

Now that you've seen Miami do this, now that you've seen these conferences fall off, do not subscribe to it because you're going to keep a good team out because you're going to go along with this narrative that's total bull.