The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: The Cat Of The House (feat. Matthew Berry)

Episode Date: December 19, 2025

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This is the Dan Levator show with the Stucats podcast. Welcome to another episode of Insights to Mediocrity. I'm Jeremy Tashay, here with our expert, our superstar, Tony Kalatea. Good to be here, Jeremy. Tony, can today's player hang with you and your heyday? It's a good question, because if you want me to be honest, my heyday was probably around 2017-18. I was playing at ESPN basically every day, playing with guys like Ryan Hollins,

playing like former pro guys that were, you know, we're still pretty active. And I would say that's probably the best I ever was, was in that time. Led the league in scoring at ESPN. I don't even know if we can find those stats. I think we should. I don't know who's out there.

Please find those stats for me. Research team, let's get on that one. That's where the myth of the 10-day Tony really started. Wait a second. This guy who's like, here's like a production guy, like is just giving everybody buckets. Like, why is this happening? Where is this coming from?

throwing lobs to Ryan Hans off the backboard and it was like oh wait okay so can they hang with me probably probably but at that point i could have probably been somewhere on a 10-day situation it's why they call them the man the myth the legend 10-day tony thank you Tony how do you feel about load management there's two schools of thought right there's a school of thought that i get paid to play and i pay to play right that's what differentiates the athletes you get paid to do this I pay to do this I can't load manage because I'm losing money

right like when I play in these leagues I'm giving money to the league to play so yeah you're a great athlete to get paid to play but I pay to play right and that's harder money that I'm investing when somebody else investing because they actually pay for me to play

so but the point is the guy who pays for me to play is losing money if I don't play therefore I'm in 40 minutes a game I'm playing all day so I don't I'm I don't like load management from the perspective of losing money. I'm not here to lose people money.

I'm here to make people money. All right. We've got some massive games in the NFL. Dan, I circled this one on the calendar. Jags Broncos in Denver, a who's who game in the AFC. And then we've got Sunday night football. Pats, Ravens. Ravens fighting for their playoff lives.

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Is this Pablo's people who are sending this to us? They say that Tony played 16 games as a senior at Killian High School. Have, uh, do we want some stats on this? Do we want, uh, some stats on Tony's numbers in high school? I did tear my meniscus the first, first, uh, season, or excuse me, the first practice of the season tore miniscus, so I played only half the games, but yes. First practice. Yeah, I rehab.

Yeah, I rehab for the first like six weeks of the year. Had surgery, then had to rehab the entire year. So I didn't play the entire year, but go ahead. I mean, as a front office person, uh, what do you want or need to see the stats to be real, be real wise insights into mediocrity. So first of all, I want to know it was a meniscus repair or they took it out? No, repair. Okay.

All right. Is that a good answer or a bad answer? No, it's, look, meniscus repair is longer recovery. He's listed as a power forward. He's pretty undersized for a power forward. Yeah, but he can shoot so he's based on the floor. And again, this was, you're talking about 2010 was my senior year. We're talking about Smallball really not being a thing.

We almost initiated Smallball in Miami, Dean County. I've never seen a clip of him in the post. Man, the post is dead, buddy. Like, wake up. That's true. What's the, the, there's an assistant coach on the Heat. It was a former high school coach, right? Of course. Coach Octavio de la Garana. There you go. There you go. Used to play it, or used to coach F at Florida.

What did you just say? Dale, I need you to run that one back. Octavio de la Grana. Coach, coach. Bless you. Everybody? Yeah. I heard he was around, you know, the high school scene a lot, like taking notes. And he said, hey, Coach Spoh, you know that new sound you're looking for? Well, listen to this. Tony, 16 games, 14 points per game, 6 and a half rebounds, 48% shooting. Not bad. Wow.

And again, I mean, I was 17, 18 years old. Like, you get better as you get older. I shot 40% my junior year. From where? Everywhere. From where? The court. 40%?

From the field, man. Somebody find me Zazza's stats. The court. I need to, I mean, you shot 40%? Yeah. What were the team records, Killian, and what were, how did you? Enemy. We spanked that ass.

All right, whatever, man. We went to the, we went to regional. You were playing against Zaslo's teams? No, no, hell no. No, but I'm saying like it would be the equivalent of playing against Zaslo as a junior. North Miami Beach versus Killian. I don't know what those schools are now in basketball. North Miami Beach has any kind of basketball history?

No, no. It was you. Killian has a very rich basketball history. And in that time, we had actually our rival school, Palmetto High School, literally separated by two and a half miles from the schools. Timmy Hardaway Jr. was their best player. And so we went against Timmy three, four, five times a year in different tournaments and district games, whatever. We lost our district championship in that year to Timmy, who had 45 was shooting from half court the entire time.

We played those Miami high teams that had their championship stripped. Steve Blake, Udonis Haslon. Go to teams. We played against those teams. I have aired, okay, in a number of different ways over the course of my career and recent weeks and today, most of all, as I stumbled to the finish line. going to say, man, you're bringing out all the tricks today. Just talking about Killian North Miami Beach and your high school years before the biggest game in 20 years for the University of Miami and probably for Texas A&M as well. I have not played enough the sound of a drunk Greg Cody trying to bring this game to life from the seat of an Uber on a long drive home with his son badgering him in the middle of the night wearing holiday clothes that he doesn't like to be in because he wants to be wearing a baseball cap.

drunk breath after a surgical strike of about 40 straight beers brought by a high-powered lawyer a founder of a media company and several other assassins including a sniper here's Greg Cody

lifting us into the sky before the big game Biggest game in 20 years The years How much more can I fire you up? I can't fire you up more than that Look at that. That's old, wizened That is an elder

Biggest game Brandon Marshall called him pops the other day Look, listen to me. This is the voice of the Miami Herald. Because it gave me 20 years. Newspapers used to matter. Because it gave me 20 years.

This program used to matter. Because it gave me 20 years. Tony just said a little while ago that he was 17 and you get better after 17. You know who else is 17 years old? Malachi Tony, bro. Imagine how good that brother is going to be. Yes. I think he's 18 now.

I think he's, I think so. But it's still ridiculous. Play on. Marcel Reed has thrown six interceptions in the past five games. He makes mistakes. I really, I know we analyze this stuff. I don't know what the assessment is supposed to be, Zaslow, off of last night's Seattle and Rams games.

They're very good teams. They're excellent if they play each other. I expect Donald to turn the ball over more than Stafford. And I'd like to watch them play the rest of the season. You can get rid of all the other teams if you want. You really can. I'd be fine watching those two teams play because I think those are the two best teams, most complete team.

Do you feel any better about Darnold after last night? No, but they can overcome it. They almost have against the Rams twice. Obviously, they're good enough to be able to overcome it. And that's not even with Smith and Jig but doing anything last night. They had no business winning that game last night at the Seattle. I mean, Donald throws the interception down two scores. Down two scores with two-to-point conversions.

They're down with nine, ten minutes left. And he throws the interception, a terrible interception, on the goal line. And they still managed to come back and win. Wherever it is that you can't predict turnovers, but you can predict more probable for Darnold to turn them over than for Stafford. Yeah, and Stafford had 457 yards last night without Devante Adams. And imagine coming up with that on the fly, finding guys like Davis Allen, finding guys like Tony Ferguson, whatever brother Ferguson name is.

Terrence Ferguson. Terry Ferguson, UFC fighter. Yeah, oh yeah, he went to my hands. But yeah, bro, I think Matthew Stafford, he might have cemented himself into the MVP conversation. With the loss? With the loss, as well as Sean McVeigh, it's going to be hard-pressed to name this coach of the year this year. Imagine the Seahawks. Imagine what they're doing in Chicago.

Who is the coach of the year? I can't tell you right now. Brable 2 is doing a great job. No, I just love the take, though, that Stafford won the MVP in a loss. Seaman. Right, and also, too, that people are not talking about enough. The 49ers right now have an opportunity to win out and play every single game, including the Super Bowl. at home throughout the playoffs

never been done amazing the other thing I was going to say though about however you analyze things that are as random as turnovers what do you do Zazzlo as a college football expert insider and journalist with Marcel Reed throws a lot of interceptable passes

not all of them have been intercepted he's got 10 turnovers he's good for one a game and in the last few games he's had more than you would think he should have Miami's got a good pass rush where it is that this game is obviously going to be decided, like all games, or who's going to turn the ball over. Miami lost when it turned the ball over four times against Louisville.

That's how they're going to lose. I imagine it's going to be very hard for anybody to blow out Miami, given how balanced they are on both sides of the ball. Yeah, that's the part that probably I'm most comfortable with, where even if, like, Texas A&M gets out to, you know, 10-0 lead. I think the Canes, I think Keynes are going to score on them tomorrow. I think the Keynes have way more firepower than Texas A&M. I don't really believe in Texas A&M, didn't love them at the end of the season, didn't love the way they looked against Texas, especially didn't love the way they looked in the second half against Texas.

Or South Carolina before that. And by the way, the game against LSU, too. Like, they ended up beating the hell out of LSU in the second half. But that first half, like LSU was in that game. I think the Keynes are going to be too much for them. This is all homerific as we bring up on the screen. Look at, I mean, just amused by the yellowing of the newspaper. Wow.

There it is. What do you have? American 79, North Miami Beach 47. Well, don't pay attention to the score there, all right, because that was a James Jones-led American high. All right. What are we going to do against all county James Jones? But look right there in the box score. Zaslow, two.

That's right. You scored two against James Jones. Yeah, you see James Jones right there. You're 17 or 14. I don't know which one was him. But yeah, James Jones had himself a game. Me right there. So, you know, I countered his 17 with two.

You know, whatever. This is something Greg Cody loves to write of newspaper that looks like this. That's me. The color of unbrushed teeth. Because it gave me 20 years. Listen to me through teeth that are unbrushed. Because it gave me 20 years. That smell like 40 Miller Lights brought by sniper, media founder, and his high-powered lawyer-wife.

Because gave me 20 years. Texas A&M and UM is what? Because game in 20 years. For which of the two teams? Because gave me 20 years. Texas A&M doesn't win 10 games of seasons, Zazlo? Not even with Mansell. Tony, do you have your name in a newspaper like that?

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Stugats. It's a good algorithm. This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats. here and the more of a thing about it, these are pretty good stats, man. First of all, shot 40% from three on good volume, 60 attempts in only 16 games. Second of all, when you take out those three-point attempts, guess what your field goal percentage is? 55% from the field. This guy was an efficient player, and he bangs on the boards too.

What's that? Six and a half rebounds a game. Somewhere I had it double-double, somewhere maybe I didn't go after him as much, but, you know, we're after. Again, one of the great failures of my career that before this game, we were talking about Tony's Killian High School sports stats. instead of our beloved mentor explaining to us from every angle how important this college football game is within 24 hours, 25 hours. 20 years. Not a lot of assists for Tony in that stats, but, you know.

I mean somebody needs to score. Damashak said that Amin is one of these cools. Why didn't you respond to that? Because I was laughing. It was funny. It was really funny. Because he described it as grab-ass. Like what they were doing.

They work. They work. Is PDA appropriate at a holiday party when there's a new person there that's just trying to get a sense of the playing field? Why were there public displays of affection between you and your dog? It's what I was asking before. Like, it's why I was, I thought it was strange that somebody who had been here for two days brought an animal around food. I'll tell you right now, that dog had some PDA with that laptop. He was licking the mouse.

Go in the town. What is happening, and I want real honesty from you here, because I don't know what the strangest thing was from a careening holiday party. I don't know whether it was the Greg Cody surgical strike of beers. I just gave me 20 years. I don't know whether it was Frankie dressed as Dominican Blade. That's great. And, yes, that's our security. Like, he has to go to the fight with you guys if you go, right?

Frankie's got to go. Whoa, if you go, what does that mean you're not going now? I'm trying to think of what the group should be. I'm not sure what, I think it should be a surprise who ends up going, but I think somebody in our group should be going and representing the show and somebody needs to eat spaghetti out of a bag. Guys, this sounds like a foist. It went from Dan's going to eat spaghetti out of a bag

to someone from the show needs to go eat spaghetti out of a bag. We need a fat guy to do it, so it's either me, Zaz, or Chris. Zaz says it's too late for him. I don't know what's going on with Chris. I need five people, one of whom is funny eating. spaghetti out of a bag. I'm not calling anybody the F word, but I think we should get stunt Dan. Stunt Dan definitely needs to be there.

Danny, got to be there. I think also Brother Robert, they'll be sitting back there with the collar shirt. Bob, he got to go, bro. And we got to send Ethan Bedowski. I mean, come on. Star turn. Look at that. These are terrible decisions.

These are terrible. That's not representing our show correctly. Yes, it is, Dan. Everybody here, the holiday party last night showed me. everybody is so valuable here that, man, it don't even matter. Send five of any of us. We're going to get it done.

Wait a minute. Dan has to go. I'm not going to allow this, or we're going to legislate this the way. Like, oh, the show was represented. Like, no, you have to go because that's the whole point. Netflix wants to say, and there's Dan Levitart and he's eating spaghetti out of a bag

as opposed to there's a guy who kind of looks like Dan Levitart, but he's a little shorter. Dan Lebitard sitting next to a guy eating spaghetti out of a bag. I think it's funnier. Just you next to Danny B. It should be Dan and then Dan's double with a gray beard eating the spaghetti. Let's take Dan's double. There he is.

I think you guys should have Danny go and just say, used to be with ESPN doesn't look the way that he used to. Ladies and gentlemen, Dan Levittart, and we should pass it off as it is me as an imposter. Like, we should give him my clothes, allow him to go, maybe sit next to Valerie. Bring Valerie. We got to bring Valerie. A libo hat, maybe public displays of effect. between him and Valerie and Trista's dog. Danny just said I'm in.

Trista's dog should be there. For sure. Valerie wanted Ollie. She was lobbying for another dog. And somehow, which I don't know if anyone else knows the story, two seconds into her meeting, Ollie, I found out there was like a vicious dog attack and a cat that almost died inside of the lebitard household. Her leg was viciously injured.

What kind of circus is you running? The dog almost died. That was a crazy night. Damn. The dog. No, so one of the worst decisions my wife has ever made is to bring a pit bull into a home that's got two cats. And have me stand between them when they want to fight. Like a foster or like a rescue, right? Yeah.

Well, yeah. Well, here's the thing. Oh, Trista, this is going to break your heart of somebody who loves animals. Like they just dump them off to live for themselves and fight in the wild in the Redlands. and they're beautiful animals, and they just dump them in the wild to survive. So this is a super anxious one, but a really bad decision to bring him into a house full of cats

when the cat thinks he's boss and he's right. The male cat named after Otis Redding doesn't like me and runs the house and didn't like a pit bull being in the house. And so there was a fight, and they had to settle it. And my wife got bit in a place that was dangerous, but the worst of it was me and the cat. I'm holding the cat.

You cannot get between these animals and the cat's got me on the wrists and I'm starting to bleed and it's screeching at me. So it's not even declawed? No, that's anti-peda. You can't declawed cat. No, it's terrible. It's a terrible thing to do to a cat. But so I'm looking at this cat in the eyes and this cat is grabbing my wrists

and wants to fight the pit bull and I say to him and I didn't say it out loud. No, you are the man of this house. I'm sorry for everything that's happened here and I must let you go now because you run things now because he just shredded me and wanted to kill that pit bull. But my wife got bit by the pit bull because you're not supposed to get in the way of those things.

Imagine a cat thinking it runs a Zaslo Mansion. I get it. I understand exactly why it is you would mock me on this front. Somebody's declawed in the lebitard house. That's what happened. I saw it happen. I looked into that cat's eyes and I'm like, you're more of a man than I am. I was bleeding.

I mean, it was bleeding down my elbows. Like, I didn't have claws. I would have thrown it so far across the wood. Chuck it. Oh, punted it. You think I couldn't, or you think I didn't try? Like, it, no, it embedded itself in me. Didn't you guys see I was having a Greg Cody bad arm day when I came in here?

My arms were all bloody. How have we not played the sound of your father drunk more today? Biggest game in 20 years. I just don't understand how your dad was, like, okay, he was clearly drunk, but he doesn't understand what it means when you say? What do you mean by that? Well, no, Whisper, Biggest Game in 20 years. What do you mean by that?

No, let's play the entire. thing. I do want to marvel at this because this is the toddler Erlene married and this is the toddler who raised Chris Cody. Once he gets a dozen in, he doesn't understand anything. All right, so, a whisper fake pregame show. I don't know

what you mean. Fake pregame show. I don't know what that means. Fake pregame show. Fake pregame show. Just you know whisper it. Do it. Fake pregame show. Yeah. Fake pregame show. Biggest game 20 years. Biggest game of 20 years.

Miami. University of Miami. Texas A&M. Texas A&M. That kind of thing. That kind of thing. Whisper of that kind of thing. That kind of thing. Just do again.

Fake pregame show. For the love of God. Free game show. Fake pregame show. Fake pregame show. Pregame it. Pre gaming it. Precaming it.

Precaming it. I did not hear the first time around though, for the love of God. That's exactly how my dad became at the end of his career where it's like we're badgering in for the last bits of drunken breath we can turn into content and it's like, get out of here. Just do again. Fake free game show. Don't for the love of God.

For the love of God, I would like the whole world to know right now and I'm predicting. I'm in the predicting game since I'm here in Miami, the New England Patriots will lose their first playoff game year. They are the biggest frauds in the NFL right now. They don't beat up on the dolphins, the Titans, the Browns, the Bengals, the Jets, the Saints. Didn't they beat your bills? Yeah, and what happened last... What have you done for me lately, young Tristler? Exactly. Is that the Mone? They're frauds. They beat the Giants.

And wait, wasn't the last game that you guys played against the Patriots? You were on the ropes until the very last second? Your line stepping. I think, and the temper the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Bro, just mock my word. It don't sound right right now, but they will lose their first playoff game this year. I do believe that after last night's game, most of us are feeling that whatever is being played for in terms of trying to discern whether Josh Allen will get to the championship game is who's the third best team in the league. We just watched the two best. The two most balanced football teams playing football, and the only problem Seattle has is,

is their quarterback going to turn the ball over? Sam Donald's got the best winning percentage in the sport the last two years. He wins a ton. Like, that game's ridiculous. You get down 16 plus, and you lose that game 155 out of 155 times before this. But he won it, and he won it, and there was fluky stuff that happened. But he, like, I understand that there was a special team's touchdown. But at the end, and there was a weird two-point conversion, but the game got won by the quarterback,

and that quarterback has the best winning percentage in the sport the last two years. And nobody cares because they don't trust him. The tough thing is he's just never done it in the postseason. Regular season, Sam Darnel for the Vikings, and then it's just, oh, pumpkin. I mean, this was the biggest win of his career. For sure. But still, like, you're going to get to the postseason. And it wasn't, like, dominant.

It was like, oh, this is a weird two-point conversion. It looked like you, yeah, it felt like you just kind of squeak wind. Right, they got three, two-point conversions. I don't, like, is that a record? That might be a record. Well, help me with the, I'm going to call it Achilles' heel or fatal flaw of this. The Rams have lost four one-score games ridiculously. Like, four one-score games where you're like, yeah, I kind of know they're still better.

Obviously, they're better than Carolina on the road. But, wow, that's weird. Stafford with three turnovers. That never happens. That's never going to happen again. I would say just football, though, right? Like, the Chiefs last year were great in one-score games, and now this year they were terrible. But, like, that happens.

Okay. But then the Eagles game. They're up 24-7 or whatever it is on the road. And then it's blocked field goals in absurdity at the end where you're like, Philadelphia's not better than them? It's kind of like the Broncos. The Broncos long winning streak or whatever. I think it's like the margin has been like something like 75 points that entire time.

Every game has been incredibly close for them. Grit. Is that what it is though? Or is it like this, if this were not Stafford, if this were happening to a team that was led by a quarterback, you doubt? You'd be, you'd be, like, what's wrong with them? What's wrong with them that they're clearly better than everybody in Florida? Didn't we just do this to Jordan Love by just merely losing to Carolina and Cleveland where we're like, oh, I don't trust them. They can't, yeah,

that's football, but nobody, nobody that's really good has its ability to get the number one seat and a buy in the playoffs affected by losing to Cleveland and Carolina. The team you're talking about is literally the opposite team of the Rams who played last night. You're talking about the Seattle Seahawks. You're talking about a quarterback that you kind of don't really trust. They lost to the Niners by four. They lost to the Bucks by three, and then they lost to the Rams by two. Those are their three losses. So you're talking about six, seven points between all those games, and you don't trust the quarterback, and you're looking at them and be like, oh, that's a weird team. They should be undefeated, yet they're not. Can you give me, please, when we talk about these

turnovers? How many, does Seattle lead the league in offensive turnovers? Like, is there another team that has turned the ball over more than Seattle. Because I saw that Sam Darnold said that, and it must be so, right? If Tua's got 15 interceptions, I assume they've got fumbles here and there as well. But I think that Seattle has turned the ball over like 24, 25 times. And Chicago led the league as recently as this weekend with causing 29 turnovers. Vikings with 27, Seahawks with 26, as per stat muse. Do you know how good you have to be to have their point differential, their record,

when you're turning the ball over that much. They're playing better than their quarterback's deficiencies. They're balanced beyond their quarterback's deficiencies. Last time they played the Rams in Los Angeles, they had four turnovers and were trying for a 61-yard field goal to win the game at the end. That shit's going to kill you, though, in the playoffs. Like, I understand they had one of those nights yesterday,

and they still ended up winning against the Ramss. But what if you only have to play two games as opposed to the Rams now have to play three? What if you get a buy? This is what's how the Patriots cheat code was for 20 years. They just had to play two games. And oftentimes they're playing a beat-up bad team that did an upset. And so they're no good going on the road.

No, it feels like that's the way, like, you better only have to play two games. But that's what caught last night was giant. Like, I don't know if Seattle will cough this up from here because football is weird. But the best team in the sport, to most people's eyes, just took the hardest possible path when football's random. and we trusted that coach and that quarterback, and they bleeped it up last night. Well, what's crazy is if Seahawks offensively are second in turnovers,

defensively in terms of cause turnovers, they're second as well. So it sort of balances itself out. At Panthers and at 49ers are the Seahawks final two games. So kind of tough. And the Rams at Falcons and Cardinals, really easy. So Seahawks are game up. And I don't know if I look into the division would be the tiebreaker then for the two of them. Seattle is three and two in the division.

Rams are three and two. Like, it could totally come down to the very end. What are the 49ers, though? Because the 49ers have something to say. Yeah, the Niners are even in the lost common with the Rams won back of Seattle. And, yeah, so it might come to play. We're looking at Sam Darnold going... And they're four and one in the division.

28 and 6 in two years, right? Like, that's where on the door said, if they win these last two games, they went 14 and 3 last year. They're going to go 14 and 3 this year. That's 28 and 6. We thought the NFL had figured out Sam Darnel. Right? Like, we had the conversation with Damash about,

has Tua been figured out by the NFL defensive coordinators have figured him out? He's now dust. That was Sam Darnold three years ago, two years ago before they picked him up when he was in San Francisco. Can we see something like this happened with Tua where somebody else gets him and then all of a sudden he has a revitalization

of his career? Like the book is close a Yad. Sam's brain still works. This is the part though, no. See, this is the part where everybody distrust Sam Darnel. This is super rare what I'm about to say. Sam Darnold's playing in a giant football game last night and we're now making the ones that Sam Darnold loses the giant ones

because he's won all of the others and we still question Sam Darnold because he hasn't done it in the playoffs. As soon as Darnold, when that game was 14-13 or whatever it was and Darnold throws that ridiculously stupid interception that gives the Rams an easy touchdown, everybody looked at the television and said yep, that's what Darnold's going to do, that's how they're going to lose. And if Stafford does it, you think a spaceship has landed on the field. And that's the analysis of those two teams.

I trust one quarterback. I don't trust the other one. Juju's right, by the way. The Niners are still totally. Yes, that's what's going to sneak in here with that broken-ass team. Like the Niners can finish first in the NFC. The Rams could finish third in that division. Still like the playoffs, but third in that division because the Niners won the first game against Seattle

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Dan Lebertard. The boy is Captain Sloppy. Stugats. Is this Chum Bucket? This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats. Zaz, who is your favorite person to play, you know, about that with? You've played it with a... Oh, I mean's really good at it, you know, because I like doing it for MBA,

but I'm thinking a little bit of something different today. Can we do a little bit of, you know, about that? Come on now. With who? With the mean? Patience, Dan. Let's let the music kick in. Get excited for a second.

Oh, God. I mean, you see why a cat controls your house. We're going to do, you know, about that? I was bleeding from the elbows. with Trista. Yeah, all right. That's right. I mean, don't be offended.

I can see you a little bit in your eyes. You're like, man, I'm offended because I like doing you know about that. I'm doing it with Trista today. Coward. All right, Trista, you ready? Do you know how this game goes? No, no, explain it to me. Okay.

Trista, I'm going to throw some NBA topics at you, and you're going to tell me if you know about that. First up here, there are rumors that the Milwaukee bucks they may not be trading yonis they may actually still try to impress yonis so that he stays and they may do that by trading for zack levin the kings want to trade everybody trista you know about those milwaukee bucks zach levin rumors yeah apparently the milwaukee bucks think that they can entice yonis to stay yonis also is very shaky in terms of whether he's ten toes down or on his way out.

Zach Levine, though, is the bucket getter that the Milwaukee bucks need. This is what the Chicago Bulls thought as. This is what the Sacramento Kings thought says. They should just throw into Mardorosen while they're at it. All right. Sounds like Trista knows about that, Zach Levine. Trista, the sporting news. I don't know about this report, but I saw this. The sporting news put out there that the warrior

should consider cutting ties with Steph Curry. You know about that? According to some random person. person on Sporting News and then re-reported on Yahoo, which made me feel like, is this verifiable? Steph Curry is going to be on the moves. They're cutting ties with him this year to maybe send him to the Houston Rockets? God, when she said, huh, I thought the same thing. Oh, my God.

I heard, huh, the hate, it was so close to me, hate. What? Yeah, what? I was, I swear. Chris thought it too. No, no, that's not the part I'm saying what to. Oh. Cut ties?

What? That part's weird too. Fake news. Gotta be fake news. All right. Sounds like you know about that fake news. Trista, the NBA Cup was a, I think it was a success, you know, and for the third year in a row they did in Vegas. But they're considering moving the NBA Cup final to maybe college venues like Cameron Indoor Stadium. You know about that?

Apparently, Adam Silver just wants to change everything that's good or that we've started to like into something. something that we absolutely hate. Cameron Indoor, smaller venue, harder to get to. Absolute terrible, terrible take to go into a college take. I think Vegas is the ultimate place to go, especially with the weather as bad as it is this time. I mean, Chris, when she said, like it was. I was so excited.

Me too. I mean, they've turned on silver, everyone. Now he's the clown commissioner. Yes, yes. Now he's the fool. Now he's the fool? I'm not going to say that. But that is a full-ass idea.

Cameron Indoor, it's a dump. And it holds like 6,000 people. It's a dump with a p on it. Put it on the poll at LeBittard show. Is Cameron in toward a dump with a puh on it? Everybody knows that. Everybody knows it's a bad arena. Same way everybody knows that Derek Jeter.

Bad guy. Sounds like Trista knows about that Camin Indoor being a dump. Trista. Game doesn't work if she knows about everything. Do you know that the Dallas Mavericks, they may be considering trading Clay Thompson, maybe training him back to the Warriors. You know about that?

Oh, also Anthony Davis. Apparently Clay Thompson said this wasn't this. I didn't sign up for all this ass. I signed up for Carrie Irving. I signed up for Luca Donchis. It feels actually like Clay Thompson might be trying to push his way out versus the Mavericks shopping him.

You know about that, Dan? I would have assumed that Clay Thompson was spent as a basketball player. Well, he's with Megan the stallion. The. I'd be spent, too. Tony. He is spent, Dan, spent like somebody else I know.

You know about that, Megan The stallion? Buddy, I know. All right. Buddy, you know? I mean, I got to confuse one time with, like, Nikki Minaj. He did. It's embarrassing. Suck a move.

Whatever. I can't know everybody. Finally, Trista. Trey Young. He made his return last night. He lost for the Hawks. You know about that, Trey? Do I know about Trayong?

Didn't know until this morning's ads that he actually returned. But I think they're actually shopping Tray Young still. I think this is a move to get his value up as high as possible and figure out a way to maybe get Janice to the Atlanta Hawks. You know about that, Dan? Trista thinks that the whole thing with Janis is soap opera. It's marriage couple counseling trying to make it work. after three efforts and that Giannis is just going to stay there and we're wasting our time talking

about it. I don't believe in marriage counseling. I told my wife years ago, if we ever get to a place where you suggest we should go to marriage counseling, just give me the divorce meeting. What? That's wait, hold on, hold on, stop the segment. I don't do that. What? Yeah. I think everyone, everyone in a healthy marriage, everyone and not a healthy marriage needs marriage counseling. No, I think therapy is good. Isn't that the same thing? Where we both go and we're explaining all the things that we're mad at each other about? No, that's not for me. Matthew Berry is here.

It's unfortunate because I want to talk about this with Zaslo, but we don't have... I'm running out of time, Dan. We need fantasy. We need him to make us some money. Matthew Barry. Matthew Barry. Matthew Barry. Matthew Barry.

That is right. Roll tide, Dan. My son's a junior there. Roll tide. Big game for us tonight. I don't think I don't think Elkoa beats them for a second time. And here's what else I think, Dan, that since taking over this starter, Djigobi Brissette is the fifth best quarterback in fantasy fall.

He's had at least 18 points in all nine of his starts under Brissette. No team in the NFL has a higher pass rate than the Arizona Cardinals. And four of the last five quarterbacks to face Atlanta have scored at least 19 fantasy points. Since week nine, the eighth best quarterback in fantasy is Jared Gough. Over that stretch, he's averaging 290 passing yards per game over that stretch. Only Matthew Stafford has more touchdown passes in golf, not counting last night. By the way, the last six quarterbacks to face the 10. Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but I've all scored at least 18 fantasy points.

And since week eight, no team has given more passing yards per game than the Buccaneers. They're playing Bryce Young, so let's not get crazy. I have young at Q. Board quarterback 20, but I'm just saying you could do worse if you're desperate than Bryce Young this week. By the way, Bucky Irvings had at least 17 touches in every game he's played this season. I mentioned the touches because seven and the nine running backs that have seen at least 15 touches against the Panthers have scored at least 16 fantasy points. Since week eight, by the way, Panthers, bottom five in rushing yards per game and yards per carry allowed to running backs. in each of his past three healthy games, Tyrone Tracy, has finished as a top 13 running back. He's averaging over 19 points a game in those games.

Vikings have allowed an opposing running back to score in seven of their last eight. You're not going to get this one, Dan, but believe it or not, since week 11, the eighth best running back in fantasy football is Kenneth Gainwell. He scored at least 16 fantasy points in four of the last five games. He's averaging 18 points per game. He's got a 16% target share. That's fifth among all running backs in the over under in the Steelers Lions game is 52 and a half as of this moment. that's the highest on the week 16 slave speaking of that game since week nine jameson williams the sixth best wide receiver in fantasy he said at least 16 fantasy points six last seven he's at

three straight games with a 26 percent target share or more steelers allow the seventh highest completion rate on passes of 15 plus air yards or more i like jameson williams over on his longest reception on sunday only the dallas cowboys have been more touchdowns to opposing wide receivers than the detroit lines uh just so you know as well uh in the first first game back last week, Mike Evans had a 37.5% target share targeted on 43% of his routes. Panthers have allowed at least 18 plus fantasy points to an opposing wide receiver in four of the last five. How about this one? Over the last two games, Dallas Goddard has a 30% target share. And only two teams of the NFL have allowed more touchdowns to opposing

tight ends. Then my beloved Washington commanders give me an anytime touchdown for Dallas Goddard. They've also given up at least 10 fantasy points to a tight end in seven of the past eight. Last one now, we talk about Titans against the Bengals. That's the only team that get the Cincinnati Bengals have allowed 15 touchdowns to opposing Titans this year. That's five more than any other team. Five more. Darren Waller has seen 58% of Miami's end zone targets when he's healthy. So give me Darren Waller for an anytime touchdown week as well.

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If you want more Matthew Berry information, thank you, Matthew. Happy holidays, sir. I appreciate it, Dan. Happy holidays. Everyone, roll pie. And, yeah, fantasylife.com. Let's go.