The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Who Broke The Bill Belichick News?

Episode Date: December 16, 2024

Dan caught a drone show in Miami over the weekend and amid the controversy in New Jersey is trying to convince himself not to be scared of technology. After that, he wants to discuss some of the most under-appreciated things at Meadowlark Media: Jessica's baking and the difficulty of Lucy's job. Dan tells us about the difficulty of trying to get Lucy a credential for this week's College Football Playoff game in Texas and we brainstorm which big guns we need to bring to get her into the game. Plus, Billy believes Taylor didn't actually break the Bill Belichick news even though he went on Paul Finebaum's show and claimed that he did. Does he get to take the credit for whispering it in the corner of the room and telling everybody they can't say anything? What would happen if Chris Cote went on Paul Finebaum's show? Plus, Luc and Jessy, the Pop Tart Bowl has an epic trophy, where Deion Sanders goes from here and Jeremy has a Christmas Song that isn't really a Christmas Song. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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See Uber app for details. This is the Don Leventor Show with the StuGuts Podcast. I'm not sure, StuGuts, how you feel about what I'm about to say, because I think at this point in my life, I don't think that I should spend so much time scared of technology that when I go outside on my balcony and I see in what looked to be like 30 mile an hour winds, it's super windy out there, I see a drone show where all of these different drones become all of these amazing Christmas things in the sky.

And every once in a while, a drone flies off in a direction and crashes in the ocean or falls on the sand. But largely what I'm witnessing in front of me is a bunch of machinery that I cannot believe is coordinated like this in normal winds, but also is able to withstand 30 mile an hour winds to do this ridiculous

technological dance that in some way, shape, or form, I think will have lasers one day to control me. And so I can't just enjoy the show because in New Jersey drones are doing evil things because I don't trust the billionaires, I don't trust. Allegedly. in New Jersey, drones are doing evil things because I don't trust the billionaires. I don't trust them. Allegedly.

Well, we don't know what they're doing. They're not doing anything. I think that part's confirmed. The drones haven't hurt anybody. But there are apparently drones in the sky in New Jersey and New York that- And Boston. And like Northeast places where the people on the ground are

like whoa what is this these are UFOs and then the government's like no these are probably just aircraft or like maybe there are some drones but they're not like foreign drones that are gonna like kill people which is what some people think they are I watched the news this morning and they were talking about it it was so funny because they had the reporter go on And be like do not shoot the drones with your guns. That's a really bad idea You might shoot a plane you might shoot the drone down It could hurt somebody and it was just them for like 30 seconds being like don't shoot the drones with your guns everybody I love that song how it turned into song by the end as both a parental warning and don't shoot the drones,

but you guys do understand the fear instead of just being awed by what it is that I'm watching. How it is that I get to, dear God, I saw in Ukraine and during a Russia war, I'm introduced to drone technology. I don't understand how it is that Russia hasn't already won that war. That all seems terribly horrific, but oh, there's video footage of a couple of Russian soldiers and there's just a drone over them. And now they are dead because I just saw two soldiers killed in Russia because drones can

do that now. Can't you just Can't you just enjoy a Santa Claus shaped drone show like what is happening that you see this you're like Russia drones What they make over your yeah, what do they know like an elf how they make a tree exactly like it's fun They made an elf surfing on the surface Over the ocean surfing elf they had the wave and everything. I'm like, how? They had obviously, you know, the snowman. They throw in a snowman for you, a Santa Claus.

A Feliz Navidad. It's fun, man. Misspelled. Just focus on that. How'd they spell it? Feliz Dades. Oh, that's fine. It wasn't spelled right.

Yeah. Drone this, drone that. Enough about Virginia Tech football. That was a reach. Well, we drone on Mondays about all manner of football. Can I get to the interesting transfer portal stuff? Because we've been obsessed with football here for a couple of months, and college football,

and we skip past national signing day, but all of a sudden we're the show that's consuming, you know, 16, 17, 18, 19 year olds and where their free agency is. It's wearing on me. All of it, football, never stops. Lucy too. Lucy, well you say it hurts. I think, I think much, there are two things I think

are criminally underappreciated around here. First, Jessica's cookies. Or Jessica's baking. Second, second is people think Lucy's just fooling around on the weekends and she is battering the country, going from party to party, dragging Rose with her, getting pepper sprayed. Her body hurts, she hasn't had, how many straight days did you work, Lucy? Like, in what, forever? I don't know, I gotta tell ya,

brain cells, they're at an all time low right now. That's what I'm saying. During the season, especially when I had to be in Miami, I would be working like 16, 17 straight days. Because what a lot of people don't realize is I'm doing all the pre-planning for this stuff. So all the video ideas and stuff, I do have people to help me with that,

but that all is my thing. I type everything up, I'm incredibly organized, it's a ton of work, and then there's so much involved with travel and all this stuff. And it's been ton of work, and then there's so much involved with travel and all this stuff, and it's been, this is my 16th straight week on the road. I did go on vacation the week before, so actually technically 17, but that doesn't count

because I was just doing stuff for funsies. But it wears on your body, I'm a little bit tired, my tummy hurts a lot, and I'm really, really tired. And I'm so tired. You had a bye week though, I mean. Yeah, but then I had to come here. I thought I had a bye week and it turned out I didn't. Here off the buy, huh?

So this is where Metal Arc Media needs to do better in general and I am now gonna ask Billy and all of the resources of Metal Arc Media to gather behind me because I- And Billy though. Well, all of the resources of Metal Arch Media to gather behind me because I... And Billy, though. Well, all of us. I need everyone here's help. Jeremy's just left, okay?

Let me write this down. Yes, please. I need my army behind me. Jeremy's got his Scott Frost song. He's gone to prepare that because now he wants to serenade us with Christmas carols that Stu Gotts and I don't readily identify as Christmas carols. Is it a Christmas carol if it's just the tune of a Christmas carol?

Because nothing about that song was actually Christmas. Yeah, the transfer portal happens during Christmas time. It's like Die Hard being a Christmas movie. But Jessica's saying that is a Christmas song. I don't care. It doesn't resonate for me as a Christmas song. But what I need the army behind me on is the following. Stugats walked in on me the other day. It was, it was God. Super Bowl licks.

Well, it feels like he walked in on me naked. It did because of how vulnerable I was. So yes, Super Bowl licks. Thank you, Billy. Because I was so vulnerable because he's walking in and I'm leaving a message, okay? I'm leaving a message because I'm trying to get Lucy a credential for a game and Stugatz is seeing me have to call a sports information director and leave an old-fashioned message because we're a guerrilla outfit, we're a pirate ship now, like Metal Lark Media. I mean, we stream on Max, the college football is streaming on Max,

we're on Peacock, I mean, we're on SiriusXM, but she's not being treated like she's a legitimate media member, so I have to make a call so that she can have the credential access. And the question I to ask you all is should we bring down the full weight of ricky williams on the texas athletic program to get us media credential as lucy needs to get into a playoff game

should we have ricky williams brought in is our muscle to threat like hey you know what i gave my body to the school can we get a credential for metal arc media I don't believe we should threaten anybody the the people at Texas have been very very kind I wish they wanted me there but they have been very very kind and the thing about me I know they may not think I'm a professional media member but look at the way I'm handling this I told freaking professional right I told Lucy Dan if you fail that I will call Major Applewhite I mean I did, Dan, if you fail, that I will call Major Applewhite. I mean, I did. I told her that. I have his number. I will call him. I've called him before. I will call him again. Also, I suggest perhaps Ricky Williams and Chris Simms, who was a quarterback

in Texas, except I'm not certain anyone at Texas likes Chris Simms. That's a problem. No, they hated him. Yeah, they don't like him. Yeah. I mean, it's understandable. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love Texas personally. I love them so much. Horns up forever. So I've been writing all this down and I'm wondering what my role is. Right, what is Bill doing here? What is Bill doing here?

Right, just out of curiosity. Because you needed Billy, the weight, everyone behind you, right? What I need is for our group to decide how we should handle the use of Ricky Williams to get, tell me when the game is, where it is, and what needs to be done, you believe, that we should do to now get credentials

when I'm not getting my phone calls returned, and it's humbling. It's humbling to not get your phone call returned. Well, this is what I'm gonna do to help out. I'm gonna figure out when and where the game is, and it's in Texas at four o'clock on Saturday, and now I'm gonna pass the baton. Have you tried that?

Thank you. Calling a manning. Wow. They may have a family section. You may be able to get a ticket from a manning, Lucy. What is the highest up we can go? Because skipper calling conference commissioners has not worked.

We have tried that and it has not worked. Have you said please yet? I said please and was kind and I used my manners. All right, so. And Texas was very nice. I do not want to all over Texas. No, what's the, you have said. They're just doing their job.

They have been nice to work with. Some schools they just say no and they don't say anything and I take it as no I hate you and then that really hurts my feelings. But Texas didn't say they hated me. But we still are a bit of an underdog here, an upstart media outfit and I do believe that the way you have battered your body in pursuit of covering football well over the last two years makes you someone who deserves to be credentialed to cover these games. You have earned it. No one's giving you any gifts here.

Does anyone know Matthew McConaughey? Wow. Do we know him at all? That's a good one. Do you know him, Dan? Dabo was very excited about the prospect of meeting him at the game on Saturday. He could pull some strings, I think.

I don't have his number on me, just his email, but. I think I figured something out. I've been typing away here on the old interwebs, Dan, and I think I figured something out. I know how to get Lucian at this game. Download the Game Time app. You create an account, use code Dan for $20 for your first purchase.

Terms apply, download Game Time today. What time is it? Game Time? You just go right there, you go to GameTime.co on the internet and then you just scroll around and say, oh, Texas football? And then boom, it pops up and you can even choose where you're sitting, crazy.

Fan experience is better than the press box too, right? I mean, if you can get in there. For sure, unless it's really cold out. No, but press box and on the field are different things, right, Lucy has gotten a lot, that's where she got pepper sprayed, that's where the real action is. In fact, shouldn't someone who's been recently

in the vicinity of being pepper sprayed have earned their combat? Yep. Well, she hasn't pepper sprayed there, though. Rose should go. Rose can't go, she's out of town. Oh. Wait, no. Does Taylor have Matt Brown's number?

He probably has Texas connections. Taylor! I'm trying to make connections here, Dan. Neil deGrasse Tyson went to Texas. You have his number, right? He's supposed to be on with us at some point, so maybe we'll badger him on air to see if he can help us. Let's see if we can get a crusade going for Lucy in order to do this.

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first purchase. Terms apply. Again, create an account and redeem code D-A-N for $20 off. Download Game Time today. What time is it? Game Time. Don Lebatard. He seems like a not nice guy and he's always been a not nice guy. I don't care for him and I hope he has the day he deserves. Oh, wow. Wow, Liz D. 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 after yourself. I'm like, I hope you have the day you deserve.

I think it's so much like, it twists the knife. 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 Don LeBathard Show with the StuGards. You mentioned Taylor. I saw and I don't know what to do with this Chris Cody.

I don't know if you also saw it, but in a way that was a little bit aggressive and I thought very gently reprimanded by Jessica in the eating area. Billy cornered Taylor, had him cornered around the cookies, the delicious, delicious cookies where everyone is gathered, and said to him, you didn't break that story. He was like he was bullying him. He was all around him. He was like, you didn't, that story, just because you whispered it in the corner of the office, that's not really breaking a story,

just because everyone here knew it, that you knew it. That's not breaking a story when you break the news, but you keep it to yourself. Well, the actual conversation, how do you guys have a photo of this happening? This is insane. They do. What am I doing?

Privacy right there. We have a photo. Look at Lewis. Lewis can't be trusted. Lewis can't be trusted. He is asking people. What's Sampson doing? Kugler is once again, secret eating.

Seating. Did someone just fart next to Jess? What happened in that photo is I asked Taylor, I said, how did you end up on Fine Bomb? Damn it, it was me. I farted. I'm taking notes in the eating area there of the fact that Billy has cornered Taylor.

And that Jessica's making the face that someone farted and that Lewis can't be trusted. Look at you reporting, Cougs just doing dishes. Getting back to your roots. He's not doing dishes, he's secret eating. Jess's cookies were delish, by the way. Oh my god. He has felt, Cougs feels shame the way Jason does,

that the talent has noticed the way they've eaten. Which one was your favorite, Billy? I liked, I think, the gingerbread, and then I had one that was like three different layers, and I didn't know what it was. I was gonna ask you. The rainbow cookies. Maybe.

The red, white, and green ones? It has chocolate on the top. No, this one has chocolate on the top. Oh, those are the butterscotch tahini sesame bars. Delicious, you should try some, Dan. Billy, why would you corner Taylor and badger him with you didn't break that story? Well, because the guy is on Finebomb,

and I said, how did you get on Finebomb? And he's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whatever he was saying, I don't know, I wasn't listening. And the thing is that I don't understand is he's always in the corner and he always has this insider information, but he's like, but you can't say anything. And everything is like a secret to him

and he doesn't go out on a limb and report these things. I'm not doubting that he didn't have the information, but he was actively telling everyone you can't mention it, you can't say anything about this, and refused to go on record saying anything until the news came out. He's like, I had that. And then he's taking a victory lap. He's like, no, Olly Connolly had this information and you dismissed him because he's British, which is a hate crime, Taylor. Not to make this about hate crimes right now, but Taylor hate-crimed Oli. Wait a second.

And then he said, he doesn't know what he's talking about. He's wrong. That's actually how he talks. And then boom, he was exactly right all this time. And we almost had him on Godless Football the same day that Taylor was on with Finebomb but Sugat's canceled at the last minute. But correct me if I'm wrong. So they told Oli maybe next week.

Yeah. Oli also reported there was a 400-page manifesto, which apparently was not true. I'm still not Olly, maybe next week. By the phone. I don't know if that's the most good room. Olly also reported there was a 400 page manifesto, which apparently was not true. I'm still not certain on that situation. Taylor, was it true? Taylor doesn't know. He can't tell you anything until after it happens. Waving a finger, not true.

Until after it happens. Let me explain something to everyone who is actively in our community yelling, Less Taylor. Taylor, you're doing journalism all wrong. You're doing the insider stuff all wrong. You don't get to be the insider who carves the lane of, I've got all the news,

but I never actually risk saying it out loud only to a couple of people so that I can say afterward that I had all the news. It stays inside, you can't do that. That is not, you gotta put it on the outside or it stays on the inside. You cannot live in both places, not even around here. I'm trying to help him, I know that you guys

don't see it this way, but I think of Taylor much like two of, two of us, I think of Taylor as a son to me. Same. Taylor's like my work son, so I see Taylor and I'm like, you know what, Taylor, we need to kind of let's go out there. You part of something He works hard Billy this is so yeah, Billy. This is so funny last week

I was saying are you confident enough in your sources to just put the news out there? Yeah, it wasn't because he's telling us I talked to three different people It's like dude you have all the information put it out there that we can't I can't say But then they did no then all he did Taylor's like I you have all the information put it out there that we can't I can't say But then they did All he did Taylor. I got advice worst case you're wrong. It's fine. Yeah, no one even cares. No one cares 2024 Yeah, and tell you nothing the slow report hasn't even posted it yet. That's true So you have to confirm if it's true or not now Dan. Do you know who Ali is by the way? Do you know his connection to Billy? I do not he He voted him as one of the top 10 NFL insiders.

Yeah, Oli's the one that put us on that list, so I have to stay on Oli's good side. Taylor also was telling me, and I can't say this, because like anything else that Taylor has that's new is we can't report it to anyone until after it happens. He's like, I'm working on a big addition to the VIPs This is an NFL caliber guy. And I'm like, and what is he doing? He's gonna come on with us every week I go where I don't mean Thomas will figure it out. It's not your good impression

He's gonna go he's gonna endorse it is wait a minute He's gonna endorse me and I'm gonna endorse him and I'm like, what is you endorsing Sam Darnold do for anyone? He's like I can't say Less Taylor less real real Taylor? More fake Taylor? More fake Taylor? Cuz that is a good fake Taylor. I can't report anything I'm not confident enough to report anything I'm gonna whisper it in the shadows. No but. It's not gonna actually be news because it's only gonna be you and me talking. They did report inside Carolina did report that the deal was being finalized before ESPN

said that the deal was being finalized. AndPN said that the deal was being finalized. And after Ali, yeah. Ali said it was a done deal, and then he told us about a manifesto that maybe didn't, but it was fun. Well, the manifesto piece is crucial. Was there a manifesto or was there no manifesto? Jessica, you were defending Taylor.

You were trying, before you made the fart face, you were trying to defend Taylor from Billy's in the eating area. Before Chris farted. Well because Billy was like, oh if Taylor can get on Fine Bomb, then what is the point of Fine Bomb? If we're being real, I watched it.

Fine Bomb punted on it after like three minutes. Really? Yeah. Honestly, I was watching it and I'm like, Taylor, you're in a television studio. Why are you joining on Zoom? He probably didn't want to make Jason do a bunch of work. He was eating. We know that Classic Jason here's an important part to the Taylor

And you can only see this on video on Taylor when you're saying something you just gotta go like this Just go like this throw your hands you push yourself back a little bit off the wall You just make a declarative statement like this, okay? Keep working on that fake Taylor. It's not good enough that I liked your audio version. Now you've got a video version as well. Keep working on all of them. I'd like as many Taylors as you got.

He's mad at us. I thought his fine bomb appearance was great. I thought it was great. He looks great. Big smile. The lighting was a little dark, but it's okay. Good job, Taylor. You guys are telling me that Taylor on behalf of metal

Arc media stumbles his way on behalf of Inside Carolina for gonna be honest which is another issue just on this studio I want to analyze this for a second stop sharing the news Lucy and Rose are out here getting pepper sprayed Jessica's flying all over the country to be a part of near near the Notre Dame experience. Taylor we send to events where big New York things lose he comes back and he gets on fine bond before the people around here. Mike Ryan has bought his way into the athletic program of the University of Miami and its insider information chain. And Billy is proud golden panther voice for college football. How is it that Taylor's the first one to arrive on finebom from

around here as a college basketball college football. He broke real legit Bill Belichick going to North Carolina. Biggest college football story of the year Dan. Billy is saying that they had Taylor on for two minutes and then Paul's like why they get me this bozo run them off the air like why is he here just to tell you? I didn't say that Chris said that Chris said I watched it and it was like a four-minute interview I think maybe that was the plan so a four-minute interview because he whispered in the corner office that Belichick was going to North Carolina and told us not to tell anybody started ripping because he called outfter. No, because he called out Schefter and they said, oh, we gotta get this off.

We can't do this to one of our partners. But I thought Paul agreed with Taylor saying, I'm not shocked that ESPN is taking credit for something that's not their report. He was being a little condescending about it. No, Paul's a man of the people. He is, yes. Paul was fighting with Taylor.

Yeah. But he did it with a smirk. And I wasn't buying Paul. Really? He was being a little condescending Hmm. Why is Taylor on this show before any of our actual experts? You don't get me on fine bomb would be pretty useless Why would you be on fine bomb Chris what would I would be that's what I'm telling there It's a kind of self-awareness from Chris that I love.

I'm willing to go. The only people are Lucy and Jesse. I mean, that's it. I think it's a social experience. Our makeup artist? I think Lucy and Jesse. Football is getting to me, man. I'm tired. You just called Jessica Jesse? Lucy-Luce. I called Lucy-Luce.

I like that, actually. I think it's endearing. I don't like Lucy-Luce. That's a good song. You know the song I'm talking about. Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy out here right now my friends over at Simply Safe are extending their massive Black Friday deal for our Levitard show listeners. Simply Safe is the home security I trust to keep my home and family

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out of the rodeo gate after a Sunday where he's traveled after La Crosse that he runs from that studio into this studio. By the time we get to right about here, he's flat delirious. And so it becomes even lazier casual chummery with Loose and Jesse. And I'm gonna just try to connect, but this is the worst version of me.

I'm really tired. It's the holidays I've been crawling toward these next two weeks. How do we get Chris Cody on the Fine Bound Show? I'm in. This should be our mission. I mean, for real. Well, both of these.

Let's get Texas, we need a credential. Tell me how I put pressure on Texas. Get me some names, get me some information, I want our audience to just explain to Texas that we're a legitimate media operation that is covering college football. And then we'll put Chris Cody on Finebomb to prove it. But most media companies don't threaten the entities

to get access, that might be our problem. I really don't want us to threaten them. Lucy, if you change your mind, you wanna go to the Notre Dame game, I'm pretty sure I could get you a credential that way. But I did, my tickets are accounted for, I'm sorry. Yeah. Not on Game Time though, gametime.co.

Lucy, you wanna get there, you can get games. But this is a secondary market. The tickets are so expensive for that game. It's gonna be 20 degrees. People are gonna spend thousands of dollars to sit there in snow and, I'm worried about the toll road. Whiteout conditions on the toll road? I'm worried about your dad.

Are you going as a family? Like, what are you doing? Oh, yeah. Jessica, this is the price of fandom that the television experience is better than the stadium experience in winter football weather. It's a, who the hell wants to be in the- I'm excited, I gotta do winter coat.

You found one? I did find one. Where, Burlington? I'll do a fit check on Friday. Oh, okay. I'll send you a video, Lucy. Should we plan for like, what if Saturday doesn't happen? Like we have Monday bowl games.

No, you can't say that. Like the Myrtle Beach Bowl, is that fine? The famous Idaho Potato Bowl. I cannot go to Myrtle Beach. Ooh how about the Hawaii Bowl? Ooh Northern Illinois is playing in the Potato Bowl. Revenge game for me. They do the French fry dump.

Yeah. Oh wow. Did you guys see the Pop-Tart Trophy is a working toaster this year? That's crazy. That's awesome. The Pop-Tart Bowl trophy might be the best trophy in all of sports. Oh, by far.

They hired GE engineers to make it an actual toaster. It's ridiculous. This is the kind of energy we need from bowl sponsors. And they ripped it out of an actual Pop-Tart, whatever, aluminum casing also. These people get it. The Pop-Tart Bowl people get it. Yes, they get it.

Do they get it more than the Mayonnaise Bowl people? No, not for me. I think it's equal. I think so. I think it's equal. Bowl people get it. Yes, they get it. Do they get it more than the Mayonnaise Bowl people? No, not for me. I think so. I think it's equal. They equally get it. But Pop-Tart keeps upping the price every year. Because it started off just, oh cool, Pop-Tart Bowl, hell yeah.

Then it was, okay, you can eat the mascot. There's a live mascot there. Oh yeah, I remember that. Then it was like, oh my God, we're gonna make the trophy into a toaster. I don't wanna look ahead, but what are they gonna do next year? Oh, an actual resurrection of a dead body. You guys have not made enough fun of the idea that Mike Ryan's University of Miami led in

the voting at Heisman by Homer Dan Lebatard just finished a football season of great acclaim where we can argue it was the best offense in UM history and he was the best statistical quarterback in UM history and it ends with a fart noise at a bowl for Pop-Tart. No that's a great bowl Dan. It's one of the most prestigious bowls. I'd say that like outside of the playoff that's probably like the fifth bowl. I'd say that outside of the playoff, that's probably the fifth bowl. I'd rather win that bowl than lose in the first round of the playoffs.

That's a great bowl. Yes. You get that trophy. That's ridiculous. You keep that trophy, right? Yeah, I think so. It's not like the, yeah. So, Dan, there's like premier bowls

that the conferences try to get their best teams into. And the Pop Tart Bowl is one of the ACC tie-in premier bowls. So it's really- Still one of the craziest things to got to ever say. And you're playing a team Iowa State that was also like one game away from making the playoff. These are two like playoff bubble teams. It should be a great game if everyone decides to play, which it sounds like Cam Ward is playing.

They keep asking him and he's like, I already said yes, I'm playing. I saw her Strepo is thinking about it. He has to talk to his representatives. What do you have to think about your need? Your days of playing football are numbered. Play all the football you can. No, he's projected to be like a fourth or fifth

rounder in there. Okay, punt returner. Whoa. Can I say what? Is that his name? Can I say what? Wait a minute. Listen, can I just say real quick before,

one happy birthday Dan, we're just gonna move on. Happy birthday, woo! You know what UM and UM fans gripes should be? Always having to play at Camping World Stadium for their bowl games. What a horrific stadium. I love Orlando and God bless them for trying to make that stadium nice.

But that stadium, Camping World Stadium, what a drag if you have to play a bowl game there. And every single year UM finds himself at a bowl game there. It's always a different one, but it's always a bowl game at Camping World Stadium somehow. So over the years, Billy has gotten really good

at a number of different things. Thank you. And one of them is rolling a grenade out here and then running away from it, okay? And just because we're not in the local hour anymore, I will not have you just roll out here, Restrepo, punt returner, and then run into the shadows. That's right.

I said happy birthday. Days are numbered. With distracting talk when you just said of the University of Miami's most prolific receiver ever, you've put him in the Berrios, the Braxton Berrios cash. Yeah, that's not fair. Of possession receiver in the NFL, that's not big enough to play in the league. That's not physically big enough possession receiver in the NFL. That's not big enough to play in the league

That's not physically big enough to play in the NFL. That's what you're that's what you're doing to him You're you're saying he's only Braxton Barrios He will be no better than that the most prolific receiver in the history of the University of Miami That's what you're saying. I didn't say any of that I said happy birthday and then I said why do they have to play at the Camping World Stadium? No, you're right that it does seem like they play there a lot but last year they did play actually somewhere else they played at the pinstripe Bowl that was the game they lost to Rutgers so that one wasn't in Orlando but it does feel

Billy's so right that they all feel like they're at that stadium it does well oh I thought we were gonna talk about the other thing never mind what's right it does it mean what happened it breaks various vibes right no did you vote for him for the Heisman we're strep wrote down is that what you had him on your It does, I mean. What happened there? It, Brack's embarrassed vibes, right? No? Did you vote for him for the Heisman? Restrepo, Dan, is that what you had him on your ballot? Six? Fifth? What's the number?

They only vote for three. There's no fourth vote. Oh, so third. Would have been third. I was struggling. Do I get Travis Hunter there at third or do I put Restrepo in there? Do I give it to one of the Hispanic names

at the University of Miami instead? But Billy is right. That guy's not gonna be a great receiver in the NFL. There's no way. How can you know that Puka Nakul was like what, a fifth round pick, fourth round pick? I mean, because I know it's. Okay.

I don't know how sometimes to measure quick. I think we all know what size in the NFL looks like and that doesn't look like CD Lamb. I understand if we're gonna do this. Devontae Adams. If we're gonna do this based on appearances, then Restrepo probably would have never topped Michael Irvin and Andre Johnson and all the other number one picks

the University of Miami has had at wide receiver, who also played with great quarterback. Well, I mean, that's the thing, though, is you can credit it to Cam Ward partially, right? And also, like, if you make the NFL, like, is you can credit it to Cam Ward partially, right? And also, like, if you make the NFL, like, don't let Billy Gill bring you down. Why would you listen to anything I say? Like, Braxton Barrios is a great like. College football insider who could be on fine bomb along with Lucy and Jessica,

but not Chris Cody. Chris Cody could not be on fine bomb. That would be ridiculous. What would you talk about, Chris? We're still finding my lane. We're going to find one. Yeah. You could talk about the slow report. Stadium food or something. You know. I'll think of something.

He's not going to have you on for that, though. Here's the thing. Hello, this is Chris Cody from the Dan LeBattard Show. He was a little dismissive, by the way, in introducing Taylor. He wants to talk about the walking tacos at the University of Texas stadium. He comes to us from inside Carolina

and also does some stuff for the Levitard Show. Dismissive of us in general, what we're a fading media entity is. Kind of sounds like Skipper. I do believe he'd be a great entity for us. Petered out there. He didn't? Cause you heard me say fading media entity

cause I was taking you back to trying to feud with Texas over Lucy's dead body. Let's call it maybe live on air Texas, that'll work. Okay, let's do that. I wanna talk about. No, no, no, no. Do not. I wanna talk about what happened, Stu Gotz.

Please do. With Aaron Judge's dropped baseball in the World Series in a second, because I think it's funny. But can I get an appraisal from the room as Jeremy comes in possibly with a Frosty, a Scott Frosty the the UCF man song is that the title I don't know we'll find out together rolls right off the tongue

can I get can I get an appraisal from you guys on do you believe it will get any better for Deion Sanders than where it is right now, this minute? Do you believe that what he has built in two years, which gets two players, you know, he gets two players, two very unique players, family, to him, he gets them, both of them could have been in the Heisman Trophy room, and they made Colorado a team that only lost three times,

and that was, two years ago, the worst program in division 1a for several years now yeah so that right now this is agreed a monster success two years of improvement correct no doubt and so now what though because how much better does it get from here once you lose those two players Travis Hunter I did not see all of the players that were playing the league, but the reason that he was able to play wide receiver and cornerback is because I saw no player while playing football who was consistently jumping higher, like for his size, I saw no one grabbing the football because he was jumping higher than all the other athletes on the field, more than Travis Hunter even though he didn't look like he was bigger than anybody.

But if you're asking will it get better for Dion at Colorado I'm not certain. In life of course it will he's about to see his son be drafted in the first round. I'm not saying I'm not saying life I'm just asking you guys what's the appraisal now of Colorado didn't make the playoff but a team that we all thought was good and interesting and two years of massive improvement unquestionably massive improvement that we all assigned to two players who are family and are top five picks. Yeah I mean I think that having a player that you coach recruit and coach and then

transfers with you win the Heisman is a just a tremendously huge accomplishment as a head coach and then having your son who will probably be a first round draft pick in the NFL like yeah I don't know how it gets better than two great players like that one wins the Heisman the other is like your actual son not only is it gonna be difficult to replace that level of production but also the family dynamic like these are these are his family so yeah I mean great season obviously disappointing they didn't end up making the big 12 championship game they were close but huge improvement from last year and like two really great success stories but I

think this is what Dan is asking you should be able to build off of what he just did over the first two seasons right like where is this the pinnacle for Deon Sanders? The thing that i would simply i would just simply alert every one to the story in our midst lest we underestimated because to got to saying to great stories no three great stories dion sanders was laughed at

when he mentioned i should be able to coach an NFL team. I don't need to interview. You should respect that I know enough about football. I should coach NFL. Nope, you're gonna have to go historically black colleges, Deion, someone like you, a Hall of Famer, usually doesn't have to go that route on how it is that he's gonna work his way up the system.

But historically black colleges is where you're gonna have to start. Then you're gonna parlay that into Colorado. And I think, correct me if I'm wrong, I don't know the history of this trophy well enough to know whether a player who has come from a historically black college like Travis Hunter has ever made it this far in the business of what is marketing and football to get to best player in the land led by someone who's a father figure. God damn, that's a success story

stand back and marvel at what just happened you were big feeding media frenzy at the beginning and black excellence gonna make it a culture war two years and he got his family to the league top five picks from a historically black college earned all of it but you are left to wonder were those the reasons d on went to colorado so we can get his two kids, those two kids, as top five picks in the NFL. What does he do now? I think that's a fair question to ask. And if he does nothing else, that's fine. But Stugat, so as watching one of the best businessmen in sports that I have ever seen climb to the top of this

business in two years to the heisman room when i've lived long enough to say randy moss is walking with a cane in cancer was a big controversy when he showed up to the heisman room with sunglasses it was a received quite as nice as travis hunter putting on a smile when randy hawthorne any moss was trying to attack that sacred room with all of the style and swagger that comes

now with what dion brings to black excellence in twenty twenty four loud in your face and i'm gonna overrun the heisman room and football and i tell you i'm great and i'm gonna show you i'm great and who's gonna deny i'm great now what the reason i ask the question is because i fear winning is so hard that it will be hard to get another two top five picks who can help you grow it that fast in two more years and he should be looking to parlay this opportunity in whatever is the most

explosive opportunity of dallas cowboys or wherever he can get into the maximum marketing game up no i succeeded the college game correct you guys saw how hard this was right it doesn't go through black colleges to get here this fast i'm in the commercials and i got two of my boys because he considers travis hunter family i got into the what what it was in the big room and the other is throwing the football out in a

frozen street with neighbors in getting giants fans excited because they don't have a quarterback because malik neighbors cuts cut yes thank you because because uh... what's his name uh... because the veto is out with a concussion now and that's where the giant season because they're going to look like a good they're going to do a lot of the other thanks for their third quarterback give me another Christmas song. Gus Malzahn has just been fired. Scott Frost gonna be your coach.

Now you are going for Big 12 titles The Knights looking for their old approach Everybody knows Nebraska was a real sh** show Oh, that offense was not right. UCF, it was not long ago. Undefeated seasons were inside. Did you know the transfers are on their way? Leaving other schools. Beautiful. Alright, let's stop.

Frosty would have been better, but it's beautiful, Dan. That was good. Not frosty though. To see if Scott Frost really knows how to thrive. The only reason that I tried to get out of that, it was not to bully poor Jeremy. It started with Gus Malzahn. Jeremy is doing a vulnerable thing, it is hard. The reason I tried to get out of there quickly is because he whimpered at the start of that song and only my headset did my best.

And so I was trying to help Jeremy there because he did the most vulnerable thing, which is I'm going to throw myself in the song and the expectation of song being good. Oh, it's not as good as I wanted it to be. I did my best. That's right. I do a better one. Yeah, go do a better one. Yeah. All right. That's right, do a better one. Yeah, go do a better one. Alright.

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