The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: The Modern Day Willis Reed

Episode Date: September 5, 2024

We begin on a somber note as Dan discusses both our climate change emergency worldwide and our nationwide epidemic of school shootings after yet another tragedy yesterday in Georgia. Then, Mike wants to introduce Dan, Amin, and the Shipping Container to someone he believes should be our new example of bravery in championship performances: NASCAR Driver Tyler Reddick who won a title while pooping and vomiting all over himself. Plus, Annie Agar is here to be one our show's new football friends as she chats with the crew about her path, Brian Kelly's accent, what she's most excited about this NFL season, her unrelenting belief in Jordan Love and her Packers, and what she wants for Aaron Rodgers and the Jets this season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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can't get a grip on this problem and somehow doesn't seem to care about getting a grip on the problem because every time this happens, it's perpetual outrage and then no one is summoned to do anything about it. And I just don't know if you're not motivated by dead children or young life lost. I don't know what will motivate you to change something about guns in this country that we have a problem that no other country has, that we can't protect our most vulnerable in schools. And any of you listening to this who have children, I know that you are scared of the idea that you can send your child off to school, put him in the care of

others, which can be a very scary thing when you are a parent, and your child might not come home because he or she is shot to death in school where they should be safe. This is the only country that this happens with this frequency and it is so numbing that it happens so often that you will not hear about it in a lot of places today because we have just gotten sort of used to the numbing lack of humanity in dead children. Yeah, we'll just keep things everything the way it is. Yeah, we won't, we won't do anything about that. It'll just keep happening. And then Dan will come on and say the same thing that he always says, and nobody wants to hear it.

Hey, football, football, football. The other thing that I'm always talking about around here that has, you know, I've been scared lately, just generally scared in a way that has never happened in my life before my grind has told you that since having a child he is now everywhere he goes out in public he's checking for exit ramps he's checking as soon as he gets somewhere with his child how do i get out of here in public if something happens like it's just a away of living that uh... i guess parents often all of a sudden come home from the hospital without a

handbook and the very great fear of wait a minute this is all my responsibility how do i make sure nothing happens to this thing that will need me for years to stay alive how do i how do i do that the the idea that your life would change so much upon having a child that you wouldn't feel safe in America because there are guns everywhere. That's one kind of fear. The other kind of fear I'm always talking about around here is climate change that continues to devour our country and other countries that are poorer countries that you can get video whenever you want of just floods washing homes away if they were your cars your children if they were your homes that you would all feel the the pain and the

inconvenience of this but until it arrives on your doorstep we will continue to do some nothing in order to not prevent any of it and what I was encouraged by where all my fears reside is that there hasn't been a name storm in south florida uh... there has been a name storm for hurricane in the last three weeks during hurricane season and that is the biggest

amount of time that we have gone with out and named storm in hurricane season in fifty six years that we have gone without a named storm in hurricane season in 56 years. Like it's been more than half a century. The forecasters, because they don't know, there's a new normal with the weather. They don't actually know how big and bad

these things are gonna get with the bathtubs that the oceans are because the hot water is gonna make them crazy. And so they predicted that this was gonna be the worst storm season there was gonna be like 13 or 14 named storms and now so far through the last three weeks during hurricane season and this week is the worst week for like these ten days are supposed to be the worst none in 56 years so curious play our

song right now play our song here to celebrate a small three week victory. Die, we're all not gonna die. We're all not gonna die. We're all not gonna die. There's a hurricane in my earthquake and we're all wondering why let's turn on the news and find out how we're not gonna die excellent work roy god bless el nino which is spanish for the nino and a saharan dust storm that also might have affected this but also also the weather's pretty unpredictable. And right now, even though we're in the heart

of hurricane season, there's nothing developing in the tropics or the Atlantic, and a real outlier of a year that won't at all be politicized. There is something developing that's supposed to come near Cuba in about a week, but it will be a named storm. Something developing in Coral Gables, that's supposed to come near Cuba in about a week, but it will be a named storm. That's for damn sure.

We'll get to that in a second. I'm saying a week, then, who knows if we're gonna be alive in a week, we're gonna worry about a week. Well, thank you, Amin, because you're from Arizona and I wanted to ask you about this. The temperature in Phoenix will reach 100 degrees today for the 101st day in a row. So 400 people are suspected to have died of heat-related causes this year alone in Maricopa

County and the county uses 2 billion gallons of water a day. That's more than twice as much as New York City. Phoenix has been called, quote, the world's least sustainable city. It may legitimately fall due to climate change. You live there, are you going to die? Wait, hold on, I thought you guys had the title of the city that's gonna collapse. What is this? Wait, what county was this?

Maricopa County. Oh, can't trust anything from there. IDs, please. I mean, we're gonna be the city that's gonna collapse because of water. You guys are gonna collapse without water. Well, yeah. Two forms, two forms of identification. It's not that hard.

It's paper presented. Or plastic. It's a big problem. We're in a drought. We are constantly in a drought. Our water comes from the Colorado River and these massive manmade lakes that are reserves, Lake Roosevelt, Lake Powell, Lake etc. etc.

all these lakes and their levels have dropped precipitously and no one knows what's going to happen. Dan, I mean, it's one of those things where here you guys are suffering because, you know, because the storms and the liability they're in of building housing or building a city on the coast of a place that wasn't supposed to be. And also putting down so much development in asphalt that ground can't absorb any things because Florida was never supposed to be built on this way.

Did someone say asphalt? Someone did say asphalt. You know, it's Thursday, which means we're actually closer to the next NASCAR race. And yet on this show, a show that celebrated 20 years as an industry leader in sport, you guys didn't talk about the single greatest championship performance in the history of sport. Willis Reed is a name that many people my age know just because of old fogies like you, telling me about how brave he was to come out there on a knee and get four points and three boards. Let me tell you something, somebody won a championship the other day that left Michael Jordan speechless because of the bravery of this man's performance, and you guys had nothing to say about it.

There was a combined no-hitter last night, we didn't have anything to say about that either. Well, you know what? Maybe I would have said something about it if that pitcher, or pitchers, by the way, doesn't count. If those pitchers were covered in their own shit and puke. Maybe you would've talked about it. I mean, if Willis Reed came out shitting and puking all over himself, I'm sure that would also be part of the legend. That's Paul Pierce. Paul Pierce. Yeah, okay.

Jinx. But Michael Jordan, famous for the flu game, sat back in awe of his driver, Tyler Reddick, who won the regular season NASCAR points race by a single point. Why? Because he stayed in a race in which his words, let's play the video for the people. both. I got you covered. Pills you'll chew. Those are tubs. The rest of them you swallow with water. Yeah. Chew to chew. Great to swallow. Grab the f***ing pills are too small. Dropped all of them. I got the tubs but yeah I got the small ones the two medium-sized pills they just like they

couldn't get them out of the damn bag. That's right the pills that were supposed to help him he spilled all over his shit covered floor Hey when that happens in the car, you're like reaching down in between like the cracks I can't get it NASCAR's are like about a hundred and thirty five degrees inside of it It's a it's warmer than Phoenix Inside these NASCAR's that dude is in a tracksuit Baking in his own shit and puke have you ever had to drive and go to the bathroom at the exact same time? I gotta pee right now.

It's not easy. This dude did it for an entire race and doesn't get the attention of industry leaders in sport. What are we doing here? Dude, I almost peed myself on a ride from New York to Bristol. I needed to stop and there were no exits. I finally just pulled off like to the side of the road because it was so traffic-y. Like I just, it was back, everything was backed up. So I had to pull outside of the road, got out right there in the little middle

of the intersection, let it loose. So he vomited with his helmet on. Yeah. Oh, and he shit with his track suit on. So I had to get inside the car. It leaked out through the legs, right? It leaked out through the legs. Yeah. Oh, and he's shit with his track suit on. So how'd it get inside the car? It leaked out through the legs, right? Leaked out through the legs. I always ask, almost every interview we've ever done with a driver,

I always ask, do you ever pee yourself or shit in the suit? And the answer's always no, I can control it. So I don't know what was going on here. Well you do because Tyler Reddick said it, he was shitting and puking himself. And while that story, I'm sorry you had to go through that on your drive there. Let me ask you a question. Was Kyle Larson behind you chasing you for the NASCAR points lead? No, I wasn't.

No, I'm sure that's a different amount of pressure. One that should be celebrated. What I'm saying is replace the Willis-Reed example because it's dated. Every time we have someone powering through some physical adversity, we channel Willis Reed because he had four points and three boards. What you need to channel henceforth is Tyler Reddick winning the NASCAR regular season points race whilst shitting and puking all over himself. Forget Willis Reed, he's Larry Izzo.

That's a good inside reference there. Larry Izzo, for those of you who do not know, Bill Belichick is now on Instagram, so maybe he'll share some of these stories with you. The legend has it, and it's been confirmed, that Larry Izzo, special team champion for the Patriots, once without anyone noticing uh shit was it in a bucket or a helmet on the sideline on the sideline of an

NFL game before there were tents on the sideline so he was able to do it surreptitiously and Belichick gave him a game ball for doing that uh because he shit in a bucket on the sideline now tape that bucket around his hips and have him make tackles and maybe just maybe Larry Izzo belongs in the same Conversation as Tyler Reddick one of the greatest achievements in the history of sport Mike I don't want to be a contrarian here, but I kind of feel like while uncomfortable I think doing your job after shitting yourself is not that hard. I really don't think it's out

It's disgusting, but it's not hard. It would not affect my performance. That was like at the beginning of the race. This is like a three and a half hour race. It was a Southern 500. He is sitting in his own shit and puke, mind you, spilling pills all over the floor, feeling bad the entire time. And the weirdest thing about all of this is

he hopped out of the car, straight into photo ops with Michael Jordan and his teammates. Oh no. And Denny Hamlin like, oh great. Oh the smell, you haven't thought of the smell. That's the thing, he's sitting by himself in his own car. Go ahead and shit yourself. Everyone likes their own brand.

Not like that. You're running shits. Not like that, that's unacceptable. This is, I mean, given the toilet humor over the course of our 20 years together, you'd think that you'd scream this story from the mountaintops. What more does Tyler Reddick have to do

to get your attention? I'm curious. We'd all, we would all agree though, you'd rather have your own shit than someone else's. Of course. Okay then, so that's what I'm saying. It's bad, I'm with you on this. That's not what you were saying.

That's not what you were saying. That's not what you were saying. That's clearly not what you're saying. But it's also, whoa, when you're in the bathroom and you're cooking, you're like, oh, this is gross. It is, sometimes. No, you just sit, you might catch a whiff and go, whoa, this one's pungent today, but you're not like, oh, this is bad.

You're just like, it's like a net neutral. You're not loving the smell, but you're not grossed out by it. Mike, yesterday, in the chat, said exactly that. Really? You're gonna give some context? In the chat? Well, we're trying to make it seem lively in the chat.

We're a shit chat. Well, you have to be descriptive. Otherwise, you can mail one in with a poop emoji that far too many people do. Why would you assume that the new people listening on Peacock would know what you're talking about when you say in the chat? We have a group chat that's dedicated to our BM's. Yeah, it's called the shit chat and it's Contracted there is a difference between sitting on the toilet and being in a bathroom that smells bad and sitting in your own

Actual shit with this guy gets it. It feels awful I'm with you like if you're on the shit gets on the toilet It's ashes you get rashes If you sit in shit long enough you're gonna start getting rashes. Tyler Reddick is a hero, a Titan. It is unpleasant and something that Roy brought up the other day and I think it's in the realm of, we do more toilet humor and bathroom conversation than I would like, but occasionally I actually learned something that I did not know. One of the times that this happened is when we were talking about how people wipe and

whether you wipe sitting down or standing up as a man, and the new people listening on Peacock right now may never have considered this, and they are learning for the first time that there are either sitting wipers or standing wipers. Roy said something the other day that I did not know and no one taught me which is that he flushes the toilet with the toilet seat down because toilet particles will get into your home in a way that is unpleasant and I was I did not have the knowledge to know that I should be flushing my toilet with the seat down so I want to ask the question via poll at LeBittard show do you

close the lid before you flush the toilet in your home yes or no that's exactly right then because all those water molecules are going all over the place on your toothbrush oh nonsense and on your ass we do curse you gotta eat a peck of dirt before you die if I don't see it It doesn't matter We have had a discrepancy between Roy and Chris on general hygiene I will tell you that Chris doesn't wash ever below his knees Chris and Jason Kelsey Why you shouldn't use a hand dryers in the bathroom. Because that's all caked up poop inside there,

just warming up, festering as if you were in Tyler Reddick's track suit. Yeah, who knows when they changed that filter. They're living scared. I'm telling you right now, it's been years since I've used a hand dryer. Like, if they don't have paper towels, guess what? Wet hands when I leave for the bathroom.

Roy, next time Roy goes poop in our studio, I want you to bring me in after, and I'll just like, you flush it, I'll just start going, oh! No, that, no her that's right next time Roy goes poop in our studio I want you to bring me in after and I was just like you flush it I'll just start going oh no that no that's you I'll walk in that bathroom right after he flushes and I will start eating no no that's the other thing I don't poop in public places don't test me I'll do a house please help me here you guys are surprised do you do is this a no did you know this did you know that you're supposed to put the toilet seat down when you flush I was no one taught me this I

learned it in my 50s what are you laughing I mean how much would I have to pay to eat my air after I flush he said he didn't say that he stumbled because he said to say you would eat my poop you wouldn't eat my air that's right a teenager sees a whale breach and makes a U-turn and is celebrated by this show as a conquering hero. But this show is too elitist to give Tyler Reddick his flowers. You have to wait till I have to put on this ridiculous Richard Gearhead hat so I can force the issue.

This is usually the type of story that is right up your alley. And yet you don't want to celebrate this, man. I dare you to tell me something more impressive in athletics in terms of overcoming something to win a championship. I'm all ears. I've got to think about it for a second because certainly I will come up with something but what I really liked about the audio we played there is it had a granular audio quality that was lovely and I was wondering because there was some sound from this weekend that we did not get to. The Knoxville radio call, Chris, that we've been talking about this week, does it have – I've not heard it, you were telling me about it.

So what are the particulars of how this sounds before I play it? What needs to be known about the radio call, the radio call in Knoxville in terms of ambient sound when the ambient sound is your wife nagging at you because she doesn't actually care that you're doing a broadcast at the moment. I feel like we've all been here where the significant other is saying to you,

hey, this sports thing you take so seriously, can you please put it a few notches down on your priority list? There are other things happening around here that matter in our lives. A lot of people like the old, the new work from home. I'm working from home these days. It doesn't always benefit you when you're in a little spat with your wife and she might interrupt your radio show They're floater. These guys are good. That's why I think they'd pull the trigger pretty quickly on getting rid of Billy Sports radio it doesn't matter to your family

So loser situation My dad needs your help. Cosmo Chris. I know you don't come here. I'll take your two and a half million dollars. Oh, that's a first. You cut off the best part where he responds by saying it really isn't. Let me hear as the fire alarm goes off here.

Let me hear again what is the context what is he talking about on the front end? Is he he's just doing a regular sports radio show with his partner about Tennessee football? Yeah Tennessee football probably reacting damn good quarterback they got over there. I don't exactly know the context we're gonna have to listen to this. That's why I think they'd pull the trigger pretty quickly on getting rid of Billy. With him. Get off the damn sports radio. It doesn't matter to your family. It's a loser situation.

My dad needs your help. Ryan? Cosmo Chris. I know you don't want here. I'll take your two and a half million dollars. Oh, that's a first. They're talking about Billy Napier at the start of it because they're like, I don't know if they're going to keep Billy. So I can only assume that's the Florida coach. Why wouldn't they keep Billy? What happened? Well, we'll talk about that in a second because I do want to talk about something revolving around the hurricanes and the bucket of death is coming up here in a second because I do want to talk about something revolving around the hurricanes and the bucket of death that's coming up here in a second.

Ah, shit. But as it relates to Billy Napier, can you guys find for me whether there has been any confirmation about whether or not Billy Napier was arguing and had words as was reported with Albert the Alligator, their mascot? Like you guys don't do any reporting around here, you don't do any production work when I thought the Gator game couldn't get any worse for the Gators because that was an important game for them to start their season and Billy Napier is drowning and he struggles with water bottles Billy Napier I saw reported that he had words with Albert the alligator because he was pissed off and we got it we all know that the coach of a losing football team who loses like that

isn't interested in what the mascots got going on. So I want to believe that story, but that story seems like it wouldn't be believable, even though I gave the credit to whoever it was, Nathan, the conqueror, some blue check on Twitter. And I don't know if it's true or not. The conquering hero. If it had a blue check, you're good. It was great. No, that's, that's how you know if something's true or not conquering hero if it had a blue check you're good. It's great No, that's what that's how you know if something's sure not on that website sources told him that Billy Napier and the guy in the Albert the Alligator costume exchange words in the tunnels and had to be separated things go from bad to worse in games It was a sugar bowl in which Miami played, Florida Miami beat him up pretty good and Sebastian the Ibis came out after

hurricanes touchdown and embraced Miami players Sebastian the Ibis came out after Hurricane's touchdown and embraced Miami players. Sebastian the Ibis got a misconduct and a 15 yard penalty. Butch Davis was so pissed off despite crushing Florida because Sebastian made it about him and gave his team a penalty. Sebastian was also arrested at Florida State one time,

putting handcuffs in the mascot costume for getting in the way of things. No way. Yes, that's a thing that happened. They'll get the photo for us. Iconic image. Yes, for getting in the way of things. No way. Yes, that's a thing that happened. They'll get the photo for us. Iconic image. Yes, they'll get the photo for us. Mugshot too?

I saw somebody put that on their thigh as a tattoo. Sebastian getting arrested. Which I need to put next to my Lee Corso fan fiction on my leg. The thing that I wanted to ask you about the Miami hurricanes, you know this because you're immersed in the NIL stuff, but I hadn't seen a number put on what it is the University of Miami is paying for its team and I saw it reported that it's 15 million dollars. Yeah, whoever did that must have listened to Pablo Torre Finds Out a couple weeks ago and I also said it's north of that. So 15 million dollars makes it though,

the thing that, that detail was less interesting to me than it's one of the largest pay rolls that there is anywhere in the sport. What are you making noises about? Well, it's just, number one, it's north of that. That's from Josh Newberg. The reporting is from Josh Newberg, not Mike Ryan. Okay, but he just regurgitated something I said earlier. The thing is, I said it was

north of 15 because it doesn't do us any good to just put the number out there. I don't need everybody in our business. I think the best collectives don't necessarily put that information out there, especially right now as the market is kind of trying to settle a little bit. But there are schools that spend more than the University of Miami. There might be schools in this state that spend more than Miami. If it were just as easy about,

if it were about just spending resources on talent acquisition, Florida would not be trying to fire its head coach right now. There's more that goes into it. How many cops does it take to arrest a mascot? There's like four of them there and by the way he looks pissed. I guess he looks really... Sebastian the Ibis looks pissed. He's getting roughhoused. The eyebrows. It is the eyebrows. You're right. That is accurate. That is good journalism by you Tony. The eyebrows make Sebastian the

Ibis look pissed while he's getting arrested. That's exactly right. Mike, is there any particular reason you're hissing at me because I've credited the reporting to Josh Newberg and I didn't properly give you credit on Pablo Torre finds out? It was weird to see that circulate when the entire episode was about NIL

and it was out there. But yeah, he might've just listened to Pablo Torre finds out to find out that number and also it's north of that. You seem bitter. You seem defensive. It's just an odd thing and people are using it like, wow, can you believe how much they're spending without knowing any damn thing about what other people are spending yet? It sounds like a lot until you realize what Oregon and Ohio state are spending, I guess.

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Where's the mother f**ker Roeys is a great question. Stugats. Running huh? He running today huh? I'm ready. This is the Don Lebat a great question. Stugats. Running, huh? He running today, huh? I'm ready. This is the Don LeVatar Show with the Stugats. ["Football Friend"] This is a totally weird thing that we're doing right now in that I am auditioning Annie to be our football friend.

To be the show's- Really? Yes, I want- A football friend. Yeah, I wanna say, well, I wanna- Friend. I don't know whether she friend to be the show's really that yes i want all that i was well i want to i don't know whether she wanted pressures are now cheese yes uh... well that because any agar is someone's to god's and i love how much of a democracy in a meritocracy the content business has become

where rob delaney of becomes a famous comedian because he's good at making content on twitter and any is great at making her way into the football space in a totally new way that i haven't seen a whole lot of uh... i don't think i have this wrong and she seemed from afar like someone i don't like as a football for it and i don't know if she wants to be my father i don't know what she wants to be our football for a minute or two because you can have a football friend who is not your friend in everyday life, just a football friend.

Well, she'd be a great football friend. I'm, look, let's be clear on this. I'm not auditioning to be her friend. No, it's not, that'll come later. That's that maybe, maybe I'm auditioning her to be just the show's football friend. Is that something that you're willing to partake in Annie? The fact that you took you being my friend off the table absolutely

now I'm not feel a bit safer so I should tell the audience she's an NFL correspondent stadium network she's the host of the new wonder podcast the offensive line and that podcast took off I think it's more popular than bill barnwell show I think it's more popular than Belichick I think it's the most popular thing that there has been in the history of new sports football pride uh... podcast brought to us by our new football friend who uh... can you tell us how this all came to be can you tell us

uh... because we want to talk about football in general but your path seems to have been a really unique one well thank you yeah you know this started back during COVID. I was in my childhood bedroom. I moved back with my parents. That was not a good move. I do not recommend it. Great, great, great people,

but you don't want to live with them again. So I moved back into my childhood bedroom and thought, you know, I worked in local news at the time, wasn't doing anything. Football had stopped, sports had stopped, and I had just gone on TikTok, and I had the idea to do this big 10 meeting as if they were on a zoom call trying to get their season going again and it was kind of this

comedic relief during a really depressing time and it took off at a three million views overnight and I thought okay this is something people want right now and it led to doing these weekly NFL meeting videos that I do to recap kind of the games and what happened all while roasting players pretty relentlessly. So, and that now that led to the podcast. So this podcast hopefully will kind of elaborate on what I talk about in the videos and it's more of a conversation with my followers

and my fans and stuff like that. So yeah, it's called the offensive line because I'm known to say an offensive thing or two. It's been a good time so far. Can you tell us what you are most excited about as we get our first Sunday on Thursday as today is the day... On Thursday, Sundays are back. That's right. Today, Sundays are back because today is Thursday and that is why Sundays are back on Thursdays. What are you most excited about?

We are so back. You know what? I felt like I had to be productive every Sunday in the off season. And this might be a thing for football fans because you know, when Sundays come back and football's back, we do nothing. And I am so ready to absolutely do nothing,

but watch seven hours of commercial free football every Sunday. I go to church earlier. I might be even more productive on NFL Sundays because I'm trying to get everything done in the morning so I can just sit on my couch and do absolutely nothing and I cannot wait for it. But that's a broad excitement.

Oh, true. You want a specific game? She's a football friend. No, she's got the joke. She's got the joke. Jess has the joke. Jess, make the joke. Jess has the joke. Jess, make the joke. What are you?

I don't know what you're talking about. God damn. Payne, please make the joke. It is a broad. It's not a broad. Are we friends yet Annie or still have some work to do here? Oh, I love it. I just have to throw out of that's what she said

and then we'll be great. You didn't give me a specific answer to what you're interested in it's just general enthusiasm well the issue is my excitement starts friday night not quite sunday because as you guys might know i made die hard packers and and i will not have an enjoyable sunday if green bay does not win this game in brazil on friday night so i would just start there

that is where the excitement will come from i'm either i'm gonna get drunk fr Friday night either because it's a good game or because we just lost to Philadelphia to start out the season. It will be a very bad night for me. How do you feel about your first game for your team? First game of the year being on a Friday night? Because for me, I like my game Sunday one o'clock. The Jets play Monday night. I don't want to wait around. I want to be part of the Sunday action. How do you feel about that? Yeah, it's it's weird, too, because it's when there's a football game happening. I don't know if you guys remember we had that weird like Wednesday game during

Covid. Yeah, if it's not, it's like a match. And like it doesn't feel right if it's on a day, a Tuesday, Wednesday or Friday. I can't prepare properly. I'm not ready. I'm not I'm not at the hype level of like a Sunday. You know, we watched college football day Saturday. I have time to prepare for the sunday games i'm a little stressed and you can tell i think probably gonna lose sleep over this

uh... but i think it'll be good it'll be good way to kick it off brazil's gonna be electric i think so i i i have so i thought the packers can do well man if i was a lot riding on this as well before getting to the to the professional football stuff on college football what is it that you, like if I said to you, Annie, I got to, at the end of Saturday night, at midnight Saturday, I'm gonna give you a microphone, what were the best and most interesting things

you saw today? Like what were the things that you would wanna talk about immediately, what are those things? Definitely would not be Florida State because I don't even know that was football at that point. I did I know you guys were talking about LSU and Brian Kelly. Fun fact, Brian Kelly coached at my college. I went to Grand Valley and I would consider him. I've interviewed him a couple times.

So I would say that I knew him pretty well. Didn't know where the accent came from because man, let me tell you in West Michigan. That was not that was not the accent that we had over here. So he's just a chameleon. He adapts to his environment. As far as, you know, there's certain teams that I love. I'm an Ohio State fan too, which is very weird being in Michigan. So the Big Ten is, and then you guys saw maybe I put out a video this past week about the Big Ten. The Big Ten is like a religion over here. That's all we watch. So now that we got Oregon in there, Washington, these new teams from the Pac-12,

it's gonna be interesting. And I think I would mostly focus on what happened in the Big Ten just because that's my wheelhouse. But the games were, I mean, every Big Ten team won this week except for, I think it was Minnesota. It's pretty sad for them. But yeah, but I would, I stick to the Big Ten and that's kind of, that's what we watched around here.

As a Packer fan, you're watching of Jordan Love the last eight games. I don't know whether you can do this without bias, but in talking to Mina Kimes and an assortment of other people, all of them are certain that Jordan Love is going to be extraordinary. That it's not that the contract he just got will soon look underpaid because uh... they believe the people who are watching jordan love believe absolutely all they've got the next great thing in quarterback what's the argument against that uh... don't make me do that adult this is not going to talk about, I can only talk him up. I physically can only talk him up. The issue that I-

I asked you to be not biased and we're not gonna be able to be- All biased aside. All biased aside. All biased aside. All biased aside. All biased aside. I don't even know what negative to say.

I just think Jordan Love's ceiling is so high. If he regresses, it could be because maybe teams figure him out a little bit, but then I also think, you know, we don't have a wider receiver one because he doesn't throw to your best receiver. He throws to whatever receiver is available. I think we're going to utilize him a little bit more in the run game. And that might concern me a little bit because there's only like three plays last year of him getting outside the pocket of him using his legs.

And I think he can. And I mean, we have a great backfield now with Josh Jacobs too. So maybe he doesn't have to use his legs and I think he can. Um, and I mean we have a great backfield now with Josh Jacobs too. So maybe he doesn't have to use his legs. All this to say, I really try to find no bias in this. I'm trying to find negative things about Jordan Love and dare I say there might not be any. Oh for the love of God. Well the first eight games last year. Annie, Annie, Annie, we cannot beat you. She tried, Danielle. No, we can't beat you. Hey, Daniel Jones got paid on less talent. Daniel Jones got paid on less.

We can't be friends. Just because he had half a season. I don't know. Billy, we can't be football friends with this person. She tried to find the net yet. She just can't. She can't have more than trying. She gets how to play the game.

It's not her fault. She can't be a football friend. She put her biases aside. All biases aside, he's perfect and is the best. Wait, what the hell? What if we ask you to add the biases? Don't put them aside. Incorporate the biases. Now give us your Jordan Love take.

No, I got it already. Jordan Love will be MVP this year. The Packers are winning a Super Bowl. Wow. At plus 1,400. Jordan Love, I've already made the future bet. He's gonna win MVP. All biases aside.

All biases aside. All right, so all biases aside, how does Packer fan, all bias aside, all bias aside. All right, so all bias aside, how does Packer fan Annie Agar really want Aaron Rodgers to do this season? This is a tough one. You know, I want him to do well. I think he might win comeback Player of the Year. I want him to do well only because the Jets team is so,

he's never played, and this is coming from a Packers fan, he's never played on a team with this good of defense. And they just talked about it the other day, he's 81 and 10 when the defense holds the opponents to 20 points or less. I think the Jets averaged 20 points, their opponents averaged 20 points per game last season. This Jets team just deserves more.

I mean, they're a great, Breece Hall had a great season last year as well. And if Aaron was healthy, I just want to see what would have happened. So it lasts longer than four plays this season. A win comeback player of the year, make the playoffs. I don't think you'll win. You know, you're not going to want a Superbowl because there's a guy that exists that's named Pat Mahomes out there. But yeah, I want them to do well. I have no ill will against Aaron Rodgers, probably because

I want him on my podcast at some point. The second he's off the podcast, I'll say anything you guys want about him. But for now. Okay, so no bias aside. Now you're my friend. Now you're my friend. Bias aside. He will be my football friend.

That's ridiculous to say I'm not gonna be biased, I'm just gonna say the things that get him on my podcast. That's how you do it. Hey, I'm working this system, I'm working this system. I think Stu Gotz and I don't know if I'm alone on this because I really do think that the Jets, if Aaron Rodgers stays healthy, are going to challenge Buffalo and Miami for the top of that division in a way that, in a way that makes a conversation around that Jets team be different than any conversation we've heard, at least in part because the centerpiece

of everything is really controversial, and I think if he's healthy, he's going to make them great. Dan, I'm gonna say something. Annie, I'm glad you're here when I said it, because in 20 years, I have never said what I'm about to say. The Jets are making it to the Super Bowl. What?

You said it last year. Wow. You did say it last year, and then he was injured after four plays. The Jets are winning the Super Bowl. You did say it last year. I did not say that last year. He did say it last year. And then he was injured after four plays. The Jets are winning the Super Bowl. You did say it last year. I did not say that last year. You just upgraded it now because you realized

you did say they were making the Super Bowl last year. I mean, you're always fact checking me. Yes, and it's impossible. It's like Trump, I can't keep up with you. Like there's so many lack of facts that I can't keep up. Last year was last year. This year is this year. And this year, I I am telling you the Jets not only making it to the Super Bowl, they're winning the whole thing. How about that? Wow. Yes. He's fact

checking you and you're fact checking him. Hey! That's what makes, we're worth 20 years. He's about to kick your ass. Out? I'll go. Annie, thank you for being on with us. I don't know if we're friends. I don't know if you want to be friends with this dysfunctional of family, but I would tell the people again, she's an NFL correspondent at Stadium Network. She's the host of the new Wondery podcast, the Offensive Line, and her path is super interesting

because there are not a lot of people, there's so many, Stu, gots people trying to make their way into the football space. The idea that you would earn it sort of on your own is unusual because the internet has decided, yeah, we like this person. I still haven't decided that whether she can be our football friend or not.

Thank you, Annie. Thank you for being on with us. Thank you guys. I appreciate it. I'll remember that Jets prediction. Okay, thank you. Stu Gatz here. The most important things in my life are my wife,

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