The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: The Dan Lemontard Show (feat. Lucy Rohden & Tony Calatayud)

Episode Date: October 28, 2025

"When I'm dead and gone, you guys will appreciate me." Lucy had a blast at LSU, but she's the grim reaper when it comes to college football coaches, and she's learned Brian Kelly is even worse than we thought. Plus, Tony's here for his Top 5 and to humbly let us know which takes he had first. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The tequila. That invented tequila. Broximo.com. Please drink responsibly. Quervo. This is the Dan Levator show with the Stucats podcast. How many times have you shaped LSU into the side of your dog? For 24 seasons.

Like, how did you get the inspiration for this? It was during 9-11. Oh! Dan, we are here at the mecca of college football, Tiger Stadium, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It's unbelievable, unfathomable. Nothing you will ever see in college football compares to LSU Tiger Day. We came here to ask fans the tough, serious questions. Like, what's parking like on campus? Yeah, the parking has been really bad this semester. The parking's been bad.

Yeah, no, they took away the, uh, the engineering. parking. What? Yeah, no, no, no. What are you wearing? What's the fit today? LSU overall. Overall, overall bros.

Back whenever my bro fit in them as well, it was LSU overall bros. Like the sisterhood of the traveling pants. I'm class of 25. I'm a dead vip with formula into court, but on my left leg I got our hit list. We're currently undefeated, so lots of kills. And obviously beat the hell out of it to you. There's no other answer. Was I been seeing Texas struggle this year?

It's been a little funny. right? Number one free season to unranked in record time was satisfying. They're adding a parking garage, hopefully. OK, OK, so we have a positive. They haven't said that they're going to do it, but we're hoping they're going to do that.

Have you met any A&M fans? No, don't want to today. They're weird, right? Very weird. A little culty. Yeah, very culty. I don't know if I should be scared of them. I just try to stay away, honestly.

Yeah, they'll, they'll hoop at you. Whoop, whoop. They put people in Alice. apartment and was like yeah yeah it's okay and so the parents were complaining as they should right and they were like yo the this filled rats and roaches no that's what the parents were saying i saw like tic talk about this we're here for our buddies bachelor party uh staying in new orleans we got in on thursday night did all the bourbon street everything took the bus down here now we're ready uh ready to go bachelor party in baton rouge is kind of

sick like that's sort of the dream yeah pretty awesome so do you guys walk around and people just stop, you take pictures of the dog? Are you guys like celebrities here? The dogs are celebrities. Obviously, A&M, more traditions than any other school times like 1,000. What is your personal favorite? First Tuesday at a month, silver taps on academic plaza,

and we honor those who, any students who passed away. And going out and supporting is a big part of who we are as Aggies and that Aggie family. Damn, that was beautiful. I thought you were going to say the thumbs up. I thought you were going to say, whoop. Yeah, get them, but yeah, obviously. Gig them, whoop.

Now they take away. parking from the PFT and the business college because they're like oh yeah we're gonna build a dorm here because we need dorm room for people because we put them in the apartment yeah do you have anywhere to park no of course not what do you think this is what is your experience been so far we literally just parked like two minutes ago do you think Brian Kelly should get fired if they lose today maybe but they're not gonna lose today because it's always been the Tigers money line plus 112 oh yeah like Brian Kelly yeah I think Brian Kelly is a

good coach I think the piece is under him need to change. Even if we walk out of here with a victory, LFU fans should be able to thank us for getting rid of Brian Kelly. Fire his ass! They're coming for Brian Kelly. Look at last week, Pavia had a whole five minutes

back there by herself. He could have put on a lawn chair and sat down and drank a fucking peanut collada. Bring back, Coach O. You know, it's okay if he's . Who has it? Brian Kelly's a bump. He was, yeah.

Last season. or his first season. We got a guy that 6-8 throw the ball up and let him catch it. And you haven't used him with two games? Get out of here. The Booster Club will pay the bill. Please help us. Go Tiger!

That has been what every single interview has been like today. We haven't even asked people to talk. even ask people to talk to us. I just stand here and I go like this and people come up and they start talking to us. My last name is Kabuchi. I'm the only Italian you ever see with a mullet. Yes. And a real gold chain. The football games are fun. We know we have a good time. Yeah, we have a great time. But I mean, you know, I wish the parking was cheaper. You know, you realize they get, they give tickets for a hundred dollars a parking ticket? What in a college area?

That's the price to get parking pass. I mean, you're like, ah! Alice, you... What do you think about the parking on campus? Oh my goodness. Keep hearing them, like, play this song, neck, and I can't tell what the lyrics are. Hey, oh, suck that tiger's shit.

That's what I thought they were. Just download the Game Time app, and use code Lucy for $20 off your first order, term supply. Yo, the Dan Llamatar show. Messed with it. Yo, this is where it's set. Go Tigers! Go Tigers! In last night, in the arms of a girl in the...

Louisiana! Dan, man, we have never gone to a game here, where it has not ended up with LSU losing by 30 points. And it's happened again. What are you going to do? There does seem to be a common denominator in this, and it's not me. It might be Brian Kelly. His time could be up.

We already got Sam Pittman at Arkansas fired. I do believe that I was responsible for James Franklin getting fired as well. So I wrote this song. Operato, won't you put me on through? Got to talk to the A.D. to get Brian Kelly fired. Hurry up, won't you put him on the line. Got to get someone to coach this team.

Come Baton Rouge. She's on a run here of getting coaches fired. She met Zaz for the first time in Baton Rouge. How'd that go, Zaz? You hadn't connected with Lucy Rodeon before. It was great. She made her debut on my podcast, Zazlo Show 2.0 last week. And we were at the rare site together.

And, yeah, ran into where we were sitting next to each other in the press post. She represents the Dan Lemon Tard show very well. wherever it is she goes. What did you think, Lucy? Welcome of the Brian Kelly firing. Oh, I thought it was funny. What do you mean? I think that's the most appropriate answer.

It was hilarious. I think what was so funny to me about this, it was such like a perfect little example of what Brian Kelly's career was where like if he had just not been deeply unpleasant for one conversation, he would probably still have a job right now, but his commitment to being the worst

is why he got fired. Chris Cody thought we should do a segment sponsored by, I don't know, a toilet paper company of Brian Kelly is a piece of bleep, that he is not a kind person, and people are happy to see his arrogance humbled. No, I think that's accurate. It's been a little funny to watch sort of like online the reaction to this, where it's just been a bunch of people sharing their Brian Kelly horror stories, and there's truly not one nice word said about him. I think you can kind of see that. And normally what happens when a head coach gets fired, you see a ton of decommits the following day or people entering the transfer portal. You haven't seen that because people were going to LSU in spite of Brian Kelly, not because

they wanted to be around him. So, like, truly his demise, not winning enough football games for LSU standards, but just being so deeply unpleasant that when he had the chance to keep his job, he could have talked to the AD and just done what he had asked. The AD was like, please, just fire your office. offensive coordinator and we can move along. And he was like, no, I want to fire more people. And the AD was like, I don't need you to fire more people, just the offensive coordinator. And he was like, no, I'm going to fire everybody. And it started this big fight. And that's why they

decided to let him go on Sunday. He could have still been there had he just been not the worst for 10 minutes. But he physically can't do that. He really comes off like a total asshole. Like there's the one clip during the game the other night where you have the big punt return. by A&M and you see him go up to his special teams coach mid-game and tells him this is what's going to get you effing fired. And then you have this tweet by this Matthew Langlois who mentioned I was forced to medically retire before I can get a second or third opinion when I was playing very well before my injury I'd hear from Coach Kelly quite often. The second I got injured, not a word since, genuinely one of the worst humans I've ever been around. And then you also

got that story from, I think his name's Greg Brooks, his player last year who had to leave the team brain cancer and like he can't walk anymore. He's very sick. And the family claims that they've never heard from Coach Kelly. It was on like ABC was a whole thing earlier this year. Like he seems awful, Lucy. No, I heard the same thing from Kyron Lacey's parents that after everything that happened with him, they did not hear a word from Brian Kelly. And I have probably seen 10 to 15 similar stories over the last 24 hours of people who are just like he's worse than you think he is like there is not a redeeming quality at all with this guy and the real bummer is like damn he gets 56 million dollars for being the worst that doesn't seem right that's not cool

how does this affect all the other uh the other firings like what what is happening which are the good jobs out there this is the best one out there i think this the best job right now by far outside of Ohio State and Texas is one of the best jobs. No, but best job available, best job that's actually in play for somebody. Lucy, do you think it's by far the best job out there right now? Absolutely. Brian Kelly is the only coach within the last 20 years that has gone to LSU and not won a national championship. And I think that's because of Brian Kelly and because of like how he operates and who he is.

If you look at LSU, they're the only public power for school in the state of Louisiana, which is a great recruiting area. and I know people say recruiting doesn't matter, but I think it still very much does. They have close proximity to Texas. There is money at LSU. There is a lot of those fans. You saw those fans on the video. They're insane.

They give so much money to that school. They care deeply. They have a good NIL. Like, it is a school that is destined to do well. And there's this cool factor with LSU that Brian Kelly definitely messed up quite a bit. They're going to have to rebuild that significantly. But like LSU, you can recruit, you can win. LSU is like a vessel.

You just have to drive the. ship and you will get to a national championship. There is so much just potential and talent and resources with that school that like, okay, you look at Florida, yeah, that's a good job, but you're competing with Miami, Florida state, and then everybody who comes into the state of Florida. And you have just, it's a little, I know LSU is messy when the governor gets involved with firing the head coach, but Florida is also very messy. Penn State's in the Big Ten. I don't necessarily know if you, you don't have the same sort of recruiting level that you do at LSU, then you would Penn State. So it is the best job available. I think it's like one of the best jobs in

college football period. I would put it up there with Ohio State one, two for me and just like how good of a job that is. And because of that, if you're Florida State, if you're Auburn, if you're Kentucky, Michigan State, Wisconsin, all these schools that are in a weird spot where you're very clearly unhappy with your head coach, you're looking around and you're seeing this, this coaching carousel get more and more competitive. Are you comfortable firing who you got right now knowing that you're probably not going to get your first choice, your second choice, your third choice, maybe not your fourth choice. It kind of like leads this sort of weird decision-making for some of these ADs, some of these schools of like, okay, well, we know we're not going to get who we want if LSU's in the mix, if Florida's in the mix,

Penn State's in the mix. Do we just suck it up, have another really crappy year, pay a smaller buyout, and then wait when this coaching market is way less competitive? Oh, the football season. Cruel beast. Sometimes it gives. Sometimes it rips away. way. Sometimes you've got good times. Sometimes you got bad times. But one thing that'll always lift your spirit is making it Miller time. Because game day just hits different with Miller

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It's the Ravens and the Dolphins on Thursday at 7 p.m. Eastern only on Prime video. Restrictions apply. See Amazon.com slash Amazon Prime for details. Don Lebertard. He seems like a not nice guy. 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 Stoogads. Lucy is headed back to Columbus this weekend for Ohio State, Penn State, in the horseshoe. Mike, who would your first call be to if you're LSU? I think this one's obvious, and they're one of a few places that have the balls to make this call. I think it's Nick Sabin, folks.

Nick Sabin says he's had one career regret. He's had one career regret, and it was leaving LSU. I think it should have been the first call that they made. Whether or not he was receptive, that's another discussion. But they kind of owe it to their fan base in that program. First call you make is to Ms. Terry. And you heard Ms. Terry said she hasn't seen the numbers yet. You know what I was love.

Lucy, what do you think there? No, I agree. Ms. Terry's the first call you make, and you give Nick Sabin a blank check. You say, whatever you want, come on down home. We've seen you on college game day. Clearly, you miss ball. I don't know if Nick Saban goes or not. I really have no sort of read on that situation, but it's the first call you make outside of that. I think you call Joe Brady. I think you have to call Lane. Lane's going to coach six different teams next year. I'm excited to see how that works out.

And then also I'd call Summerall at Tulane because I think that's sort of what you've got going on right now. Nick Saban is obviously the best option. And it's funny because like normally that sounds like a joke, but it's a legit possibility that LSU could get Sabin. I think Texas A&M is good. I'm not sure about the rest of the of the conference, what do you make of the fact that Texas is squeaking past and Alabama are squeaking past teams like South Carolina and Mississippi State? So for Texas, look, I will give Texas credit to start off with. You came back from down 24 points in Starkville, which is a ridiculously difficult place to play. I don't know if y'all have ever been to a game with those

cowbells. They're awful. They really do fry your brain. I think it's genuinely the toughest environment, one of them in the SEC because of those things. So you come back, Archbending actually played really well that game. Like you have things to look forward to, I understand he got hurt. Texas has needed three overtimes to be Kentucky and Mississippi State, who I believe combined to have one SEC win over the last year. Like this is not a position that you want to be in. And then you have all the stuff with, there's rumors coming out that Sark's like, you know what, I'll take the Titans job. I don't care. I'll fail upward. That's fine. He comes out and he's like, absolutely not. I would never do that.

That's so fake, which like, it's whatever. I don't take any of that stuff that coaches say seriously. I think that, like, we are not giving enough credit to how embarrassing this Texas performance is. Like, Texas should not be ranked by any means right now. They are not a good football team. You are struggling against teams that cannot win SEC games. And what you're going to tell you is, like, this shows you how deep the SEC is. What I think it really shows you is how bad Texas is.

That means you unload on Texas this weekend against Vanderbilt. What means that? No, go ahead. Hit your imagery. Oh, what? Time to get in it. It's Lucy's Internet Minute. I really do love that. I always forget the voice every single time. So the internet has not been vibing this week, Dan. I hate to tell you. They're only working on Halloween costumes. So really, my feed has been kind of weird. It's been a lot of tarot card readings. There are a lot of big things coming up for me. Excited about that. And then this guy that plays songs on.

rubber chickens. I don't like, I don't like how many people on the internet say that this guy looks like me. I got tweeted this video a bunch of times. You guys can hit it here. That's you, Chris. He does look like you. I love him. Just squeezing a bunch of rubber ducks. A lot more talented than you. All right, I don't want to get his binged. How does he tune them? That does not look like me.

It does. It looks so much like you. I think it is you. I thought it was you. Alright, maybe it does. It's got the surface area of forehead that would appear if you ever took off a baseball cap. Chris, how do you make the ducks sound like that? Really?

You tune them. The chickens. They're not ducks. It's rubbered chickens. They're not ducks. Rago is dialed. I got them doing chop suey on mine. Very thin ducks.

Lucy, thank you. Enjoy, uh, enjoy Ohio State. Good seeing you. Good talking to you. Do you think I get. Ryan Day fired. He's done after I'm there. You've got a hot streak going. Oh, no, we didn't get her to settle the debate if UM runs the ball up the middle too often.

We didn't spend enough time on it in the local hour. I didn't know you looked like that, Jeremy. Oh, my God. How do you feel about to see you? It's on the line, right? It's a little bit. It's a, it's borderline, borderline. Safe her out. Problematic. Let's go to first base, umpire Lucy.

Roy said it's okay. No, well, he doesn't, he's not the decider for everybody. On this front, he better be. I'm going to go. Okay, she's going to go. I thought she was going to select whether or not what Jeremy was wearing as a costume was problematic or not. We've got to get to more Otani, more greatest baseball game ever played, and we're going to do so by going to Tony's top five on the NFL.

Poor Jeremy, we really should be talking about this game last time, 18 innings. Greatest athlete that's ever lived in the greatest game that's ever been played. Before we get to Tony, wherever it is that Tony is, can you guys just put up for me a couple of different video things that we have of Justin Bieber's response, Justin Bieber's reaction to Otani's home run last night, and also get for me, if you do not mind, the legends who were in the sky box telling everybody in baseball that you needed to continue to walk Otani. he made he was on base nine times it's a ridiculous thing to say i did not think it was possible to be on base nine times it's not he's the only one to do it in a base and he's pitching today must be a tough ticket based off where jason beber was sitting uh yeah that is not particularly close to the field but no he's in a skybox he's in a sweet yeah it looks like just club level to me yeah it does uh so what happens he's down on otani he's a tree's from he's canadian so

he's a big blue jays guy how about the guys in the skybox Let's see all the legends who were just saying you got to walk Otani in this spot. You've got who do you have in this box? We've got Gary Sheffield. Prince Fielder, Shane Victorino, flying Hawaiian, I see there. Just a bunch of legends, just everyone holding up four fingers. Like, no, no, you don't pitch to this guy. A bunch of cowards.

I don't know, man. Ryan Howard. It didn't go well when they did pitch to him. Like, you'd rather give him one base. freely, then have him take all four against your will, I think. Where is Tony? Do we know where Tony is as we go to him for Tony's top five? I saw it in preview, and I know exactly where he is. I recognize it inside of three seconds. Oh, look at this. This is very exciting. He's at Flanagan's. He's where we're going to be on Thursday night,

because Miller Light is helping us throw a block party. We're going to have a watch party on Thursday night, And there is Tony right there, celebrating, tailgating two days early. Look how happy he is. Look at him. He's a giant Otani fan all of a sudden. What a bandwagoner. Giant Otani fan. All of the sudden.

What a bandwagoner you are there. What are you doing wearing a Dodger cap today? Dan, I'm a massive Dodgers fan. What are you talking about? You are. Since early this morning. Absolutely. 18 innings, 18 innings last night.

It was probably one of the most incredible games I've ever seen. Freddie Freeman does it again. He did it again last October and he does it again now. Otani, the best baseball player we've ever seen. I'm excited to see him tonight on the mound. And we got Yamamoto one more time at the end if we don't kill him in two, so I'm very excited. He's one of the liars from last night. You don't think he saw the game last night?

The whole game, no. You think he is. Tony, how many? No, that's not true. players did that's not they were napping the players were napping seven seventh inning nap nap sleeping during a nap 17th inning nap and you know it just the useless contribution from you like fundamentally empty he is so proud of himself how can you be proud of yourself about what it is that you did let's do tony's top five top five NFL off

Hold on, Dano. Hold on a second. Wait, wait, wait. Oh, hold on. Hold on. I'm here in front of the Flannies because I want to promote what we're doing on Thursday night. Presented by Miller Light Watch Party for Thursday Night Football. Dolphins versus Ravens. Right here, literally right here. I'm boots on the ground right now, right in front. There's going to be people as far as you can see. Danny, pan that way. Pan over that way. Pan over that way. There's going to be people that way all the way down. This block party is going to be absolutely insane. Party starts. off at 8 o'clock, kickoff 815, plus come in a costume because there's a $1,500 costume contest presented by Flanagan's, presented by Miller Light. Dan, this is my home Flanagan's right here. We're going to do my top five. I'm going to walk over in a second, so I'm going to need you

to filibuster for about 15 seconds. Underneath the Tiki Hut, that's where I pick up my Flanagan's. You could see me on a random Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, wherever, I'm right there. Oh, the chicken nachos. Very exciting. I'll filibuster for you now as I turn. turn the show over to Greg Cody, who... They're cooking the ribs right now, by the way, Dano. I think Greg Cody is mad that the Ravens are a seven and a half point favorite at Miami for the game that we will be there for on Thursday night. Yeah, I'm not mad. I'm a little surprised.

I think the Dolphins getting seven and a half at home off their performance Sunday is a good buy. I'm surprised at seven and a half. You always think that. You always pick the dolphins. You always pick the dolphins to cover. You are one of the world's great homers. Totally false. I did pick the Dolphins to cover last week, and I was right. You always do. I do not always do. Quit lying. You always think they're going to be better than they are.

I pick Cleveland to win. See what you did, Dan? What about cover? You're killing him, Dan. No, I think Baltimore is going to win the game. I think L. Jack's going to have a big game. I wish he was still a lobo. But I do think the Dolphins plus seven and a half is a good buy. good home dog. I'm sure I'm not the only one in America.

Matter of fact, I'm going to say the line might go down to six and a half. That kind of thing. Check out the big stars, big series, and blockbuster movies. Streaming on Paramount Plus. Cue the music. Like NCIS, Tony, and Ziva. We'd like to make up your own rules. Tulsa King.

We want to take out the competition. The substance. This balance is not working. And the naked gun. That was awesome. Now that's a mountain of entertainment. Don Lebatard. I want to address Tony and all men who would wear that shirt in public.

Stugats. Don't do it. This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats. Tony is now in position to talk about his top five, his top five NFL observations brought to you by Smyranoff, Dan. It's top five, Tony's top five, presented by Smyranoff, the official FACA sponsor of the National Football League. Smyranoff, please drink responsibly.

The Smyranoff Company, New York, New York, Vaca, 40% alcohol by volume. Dan, I'm here underneath the Tiki Hut. Very exciting. Not many Flanagan's have Tiki Hut. This is one of a rare few that has a beautiful Tiki Hut. And as you could see, Big Daddy over my left shoulder, my right shoulder here. We've got a couple OILIs. I'm going to hit them to you real quick.

Boom, boom, boom. And then we'll start with the top five. All right, first OLLI. Miles Garrett had the best defensive performance from a rusher that I have ever seen with my own two eyes. Hashtag save him. I'm joining Mike Ryan I couldn't find it yesterday I looked all over I'm going to spend

I'm going to dedicate my life to finding Mike Ryan's initial reaction to Miles Garrett's trade request because he didn't want him rescued back when I was arguing he needed to be rescued the player empowerment guy is like yo you're stuck you're stuck if you don't perform they can cut you but you perform you're stuck

that's what I was arguing that's what I was arguing back when I was talking about player empowerment and you were on the other side of it false. Ain't you couldn't find the audio to back it up. I'm going to. He did plenty.

And it resulted in the greatest contract ever at the time. And he's going to suffer for the remainder of his career in something below mediocrity because he chose the money. He is going to suffer all the way to the bank. All right. Another OLA. We had this conversation yesterday, Dan. You can talk about Mike with it after the break.

Salute to Travis Kelsey for his 83rd touchdown, tying Chiefs legend, Priest's Holmes for most touchdowns in Chiefs franchise history. Next one, he is the record holder. Shout out to the boy, Travis Kelsey. Yeah. Adaboy. Packers continue to just kind of hover under the radar. They're 5-1-1.

They kind of pop up and they're like, oh, they lost to Cleveland. Oh, but wait, they beat Pittsburgh. They're 5-1. I'm keeping an eye on those Packers. Why did they lose to Cleveland? They lost to Cleveland and tied Dallas. So stupid. And otherwise they'd be.

He's seven and oh, and we'd be saying they're better than the Colts. Last OLLI here. Poor Andy Dalton, that's all. It's good. All right, number five. Speaking of those Ravens, don't look now, but Snoop Huntley just saved the Ravens season. They're going to go on a little bit of a streak here. Pittsburgh on the way down.

Baltimore is rising. They're going to win that division. Remember I told you that. Lamar's going to come back. They're going to be the Dolphins. They're going to be all right. So Sue Huntley just saved the Ravens season. He also said Davis Mills was going to be good.

And who said something today earlier on the show about that? No, wait a minute. Diana said both things. First of all, she said that if anyone calls the Texans on Davis Mills, the answer is no way. And she said like Tony, about an hour before Tony, the Ravens are going to make the playoffs. They're the favorite by Draft Kings right now to win that division. Well, here's the thing, Dano. I told you three weeks ago

that the Ravens were going to make the playoffs. So I actually beat her by three weeks. So if you want to go back and do that math, you can give me the source on that. Thank you. Yeah. Continue. One day, you know what?

When I'm dead and gone, you guys will appreciate me. Whoa. I promise you that. Whoa. Yeah, no. You guys attribute all these great takes to other people, and I said it three weeks ago. It's crazy.

It's because you take all the takes. Anyways. Take, thank you. Number four, Feliciales, to a belated national tight ends day over the weekend. 12 touchdowns scored by tight ends. Tucker Kraft, Dallas Goddard scored two each. Shout out to the tight ends. I love tight ends.

Remember, Andrew Hawkins says I could have played tight end in college. We're still going to work on that, by the way. Where is Hawk? It's a good question. Guy was in every Friday. Now he's a ghost. Halloween's Friday. Come on, buddy. All right, number three.

Broncos are combined, six points away from being undefeated. Circle the date 1116, Dano, a who's who game in the AFC West. Broncos versus Chiefs 1116. Oh, they're going to miss their tan, though. That one really hurts. I thought that Denver closed the gap, but you cannot lose that player and be the same defense, especially when you're chasing Kansas City. Kansas City's chasing them, Dano.

No, they're not. Number two. We'll see about that. Number two, Drake May has quickly become the most fun to watch quarterback and fearless quarterback in the league. Dan, you've been talking about guys throwing horizontally here, horizontally there.

Low A. Dodds. Patrick Mahomes isn't the guy he used to be throwing the ball 50 yards down the field. Drake May is that guy. He's the next evolution. of we were nervous to throw deep, now all we do is throw deep. That's the guy right there, really like Drake May. There are a couple of guys in the league.

Can you guys think of them off the top of your head because Burrow used to be this. There are a couple of guys in the league who have the pocket present. Aaron Rogers used to have this. It's not the same anymore. Drake May can absolutely feel what's going on behind him in a way that is really confident in the pocket. Jordan Love has some of this. That long play to Tucker Craft the other day was absurd. heard that he was able to flout, you know, the ball was floundering out there and it went for 50 yards.

Give me the guys that you think of having in that league the feeling that they know someone is behind them. They're only like four or five of them. Baker's gotten there. I think Dax's pretty good at it. Stafford. There aren't many. Stafford, I would say, yeah. Plus, he didn't have great receivers, Drake May. I mean, that's not all him, but a lot of that, What's happening right now is Drake May. He's great. Number one. Number one, Dano.

The Colts have the best record in the league. The best point differential by 49 points over second place, the aforementioned Patriots. Through eight weeks, they stand at 3.46 in points per drive only training the 2007 Patriots at 3.57. And they have more points through eight weeks, 270 than Andrew Luck. and any Peyton Manning lead team. Only trailing Johnny U. the boy. So the Colts are legitimately probably the best Colts team

we've seen in the last 60 years. It's good. That would be a crazy thing to say. Thank you, Tony. We will be out there Thursday night. All of us, we will be out there on Thursday night at Flanagan's. Appreciate the top five every week.

Appreciate that you are hustling all over South Florida. Thank you, sir. That is crazy. The stats he just gave, I believe the offensive age makes it so that we have to be careful how we do some of this stuff. I don't think anybody listening to this would believe that this Daniel Jones offense is better than all of the Peyton Manning offenses that allowed Peyton Manning to win MVP of the league. But statistically, what he's saying is so through half a season. How do I convince America through half a season? seen several seasons of Daniel Jones. How do I convince America through half a season?

Hey, Daniel Jones is better than any offense the Colts had with Peyton Manning. I think you show a photo of Jonathan Taylor. I think Jonathan Taylor is continuing the running back renaissance in the NFL, Derek Henry, Sequin Barclay, Jonathan Taylor. If you have an extraordinary running back, your quarterback is much better. Yeah, but it's not like Peyton Manning didn't have Marshall Falk in the Edger James. You know, these are great these guys were just as good if not better than John. But that's going back a long ways. And Marvin Harrison is better than Pittman.

But statistically, what do you do with the information that he just presented you, which is he's saying best Colts offense in 60 years? He's saying best Colts offense since Johnny Unitas. And I don't believe I can convince anybody who knows football or anybody who doesn't know football that through eight games, Daniel Jones is better than the offense that Peyton Manning ever ran. That's not something I'm not going to be able to convince anybody of that. No, I'm not sure how you do that because at least like in the

NBA when the numbers are inflated, it's like, okay, they play a lot faster now than they did back then. The NFL hasn't changed that way. Like, you can't really play faster. There's no real way to do that. It's not faster, but passing offense is something that can be more explosive. But passing numbers are down this

year. They are down this year. Yeah. It's efficiency, right? And it's almost like the NFL now needs a stat sort of like, like OPS plus in baseball, where it goes in comparison to your own era, right? So when you look at OPS, yeah, those numbers are way up now because guys are trying to slug the ball more. But when you look at it in comparison with your own era, it's based on a scale of 100,

and you can know how great you were at that time. No, we're talking about football right now, man. Not baseball. We're talking about football. Shohei Otani would be better than any of these guys at football. But don't you trust, it's got to come down to in the post season. going to be an underdog because the betting public is just going to decide Daniel Jones has to prove us wrong. But you keep waiting for these moments in games. They're just running through

TCB games like nobody's business. They're performing well on the road and he's not making the mistakes. He looks fantastic and we're at the midway point of the season. Very comfortable. They are making it look easy. They are scoring 30 points a game, but we have not caught up to what the Colts are. They're scoring 30 points a game the way the Chiefs used to score 30 points a game and over the last three or four games the way the Chiefs look. But back when all the overs on the Chiefs were always, they will score, the betting number on the Chiefs for several years was 31, 31 and a half for a game. That's where the Colts are. They are super efficient on offense. I'm at the point now where I still, look, it's a Daniel Jones-led team.

I guess I got to see it, too, just like everybody else. But if they do end up getting eliminated in the playoffs, I think it's more likely that it's the defense. And you could throw all over those guys. I trust the offense way more than I trust in Indianapolis defense. I think it's a similar spot as Sam Darnold last year, where the Vikings had this great, I mean, they went 14 games without winning division. Vikings had this great regular season.

Sam Darnold was really good. And it's like, okay, but in the biggest game of your career, which was twice, so it was week 18 against Detroit, he was terrible, and then the wild card, he was terrible. I feel like we're kind of in the same spot with Daniel Jones. You can have this great regular season. Your team can have a great regular season, but let's see what you do. Well, correct me. Correct me here, Mike, please. Can you look this up for me?

Because as I recall, the Vikings had a lot of one-score games. The Colts, by a wide margin, have the best point differential in the league. They're not playing close games. They won the one against Denver that was close. They scored a lot in the one against Denver and lost the game at the end and only a penalty on a field goal ended up nullifying the miss that would have ended up in a loss at home for the Colts to the Broncos, the team or a team that they are likely to face in the playoffs. Can you guys walk me through what you think on this, though?

The running back in a way that has been really, really precipitous has lost value. The four running backs in the league, and Derek Henry has not been this this year, but the four running backs in the league that people look at and say, those are the four best, the most elite, by a wide margin, are Sequin Barclay, and whatever order you want to do this. Saquan Berkeley, Derek Henry, Bejohn Robinson, and Jonathan Taylor. The Colts are winning because of Daniel Jones and Jonathan Taylor on offense. How can you tell me the running backs not very?

valuable. How can you tell me when the running back looks like that and is that hard to tackle, has that center of gravity, has that kind of balance? I guess I'd put James Cook in there somewhere, too. But you only mention four. Like, there are 32 teams. So, like, wouldn't that be why the running, like, okay, those are freaks. Those guys are a cut above everybody else. I don't know that there's this resurgence in running backs when we only named four. But you can't say it's that disposable and that unimportant when I believe all of us would say that Jonathan Taylor would be in the end. MVP conversation. That's exactly what I said. And I also said he's the reason why Daniel Jones is doing as good as he is. And to amplify that, according to Draft King's NFL MVP odds, Daniel Jones is only sixth in the MVP category, which is not great for his stats. Jonathan Taylor is the number one running back in the MVP race, which is unhurt. Running back's never win. Yeah, by far. So Jonathan Taylor, you can disagree, is the key to Daniel Jones doing what he's doing. doing. The Vikings last year played 10 one-score games that were nine and one in them. It's easier to unmasse Sam Darnold in the playoffs on the road when that happened. But what Sam Darnold had

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