The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: It Could Be Worse

Episode Date: September 19, 2023

Greg Cote's haircut continues into Hour 2 as we start to see a plan take shape... could this be Greg's best look since Chris's teen years? Then, Billy has a new social media rule, and running backs continue to go down in the NFL. Plus, Mike Schur is here to discuss the Writers Strike, do an impression of a Dolphins fan, and deliver his Stat of the Day. Plus, Jay Glazer is here to deliver some top tier football analysis and watch as we reveal Greg's new look to his wife. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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How's it going back there Greg? It's looking a little bit thin back there. A little bit thin. Yeah, we knew that going in. It's, you know, I'm still hopeful, you know. Right. I'm still hopeful. Cautiously optimistic and all that stuff.

Should we ask Lucas what the game plan is up top? Cause the sides it seems like he's going a little fatish. Let the man do his job. Curious because there's not a lot to work without there. Don't interrupt him. Roy, what are you laughing about? Just the sound of the trim is a background. I've always talking when in doubt, blow dry it. That's my attitude. We will get back to Greg Cody in a second, and the haircut in a second, but Billy has a request, a new rule

that he would like America to abide by. Yeah, just common courtesy, decency. If the broadcast on the TV decides we don't need to see this injury again, don't put it all over social media and just show me the injury that I don't want to see. The first time I remember it happening was Kevin Wehr and that was scary because that was like everywhere

and I went out of my way to not see it until someone decided I needed to see it and they just kind of put it on my feed. But yesterday the same thing happened with Chubb where it was like, yeah, we're just not going to show you this one because it was pretty gruesome and then it's just all over Twitter. I feel like the, I didn't see it that much on Twitter. I feel like the internet was being better. I feel like the, I didn't see it that much on Twitter. I feel like the internet was being better. I feel like the internet was wearing the little, I'm not saying it's,

I'm not saying it's not out there, but the heavenware thing was like you could not avoid it. I didn't see the chub. I would say that Billy needs to learn, we all need to learn because you know what's going to be there. So stay off social media. Well, I didn't know it happened. I'm just scrolling through and then I see this injury and then I turn on the TV. Like, oh, we're not going to show you that. And it's like, thanks Troy, it's a little late for that. I think we need to see it. Now, as a country, no, no, I know.

But I think we need to see it, to see what these guys go through for our entertainment. Like it's a bit of a gladiator sport. Hey, when you go to the Colosseum and a tiger rips a dude's head off, like, yeah, that's what I paid to see. It sucks, but that's what they're doing and that's why to

pay them and to make sure they're taking care of after sports like that's why it's important to see it. Fantasy football has made me a bad person now where if I see a guy injured my first thought is is he on my team and then as soon as it's I know out to defense okay yeah me too I thought I had a job for a minute I had to look that up. I was playing against job. Not nice. So you were happy. We should keep some of these things to ourselves. Oh, but Lucy, I would say to you, this part I find fascinating, right?

Because I was arguing about this with Steven A. Smith about the big culture and how we talk about athletes. But this right here is a poison as well. And I actually think Tony's right on this one. Because yes, I'm squeamish. I don't want to see it. Please don't show it to me. Keep me away from it it. Oh that's what football is that seems horrific. I might want that reminder every once in a while. Nick Chubb he can squat what how many how many pounds can he like that's

the strongest lower the strongest lower body there is in the history of that position is that guy running you can't tackle it because his lower body is that strong. Oh, that sport does that to that body. Yep, that's disgusting. Don't wanna see it. Yeah, we too. You keep watching. Yeah, we're gonna keep watching, but get up this morning,

had a list of all the running backs we've lost already this season. There's four of them. It's amazing. It's only two for the whole season. Four happy games. And their money goes down in the quarterbacks and my home's great.

Partly is one of them. They rework my homes because, look man, this is what happened to the economy of this sport is all a football realize, well wait a minute, super violent, there are 360 pound people out there tackling my running back, running back disposable. Lavin on Bell goes from the most patient and most amazing to, yeah, gone a couple of years,

Todd Worley, Todd Gurley, excuse me, gone in a couple of years, Sean Alexander Todd girl. Excuse me gone in a couple of years Sean Alexander You were great get out of here the lifespan three four years. We're not gonna pay you not gonna pay you not gonna pay you Hey, Nick Chubb great. You were great my god one of the most fun things the only reason to watch last night is Nick Chubb is amazing in his lower body and who? Oh Don't want to see it Billy. I don't mind. I don't blame you at all for wanting to shield your eyes and be protected from it. I don't like, I'm stunned

to be siding with Tony on this because I don't want to see it. I don't want the reminders. You feel like we need reminders for God. It also doesn't change your practice at all, though. We don't know what differences it make if you know. Exactly. We don't know what they're doing every Sunday, Dan. Well, I don't think that we know entirely because I would say if you say to yourself, easy on my fantasy team, my guess is that if another human being is in some kind of fundamental physical pain because that's somewhere you can die

we thought last year. You can die. Right. And it's like, well, was he on my fantasy team? That probably don't want to be that cold. Probably want to be like you're asking the internet for decency there. So I should feel bad about rushing to my computer trying to pick up Jerome Ford last night. I'm just saying that that is, you don't need to feel bad about it, but that's where athletes get even more dehumanized.

What waiver spot are you? Third. Not yet. Yeah, you're not gonna. Maybe the Giants back up. Brita, yeah, my Brita. The audience doesn't care. What are the Ravens?

The audience wants the addiction of fans. They care about what fantasy waiver spots they have. Yeah. And it sounds like I'm being negative on a very positive thing, right? But we can't disagree that the way that fans feel entitled to ownership of rosters has affected the way that we look at the athlete.

Greg is starting to look like Colonel Jessup's. I have no idea who that is. I think he's Jessup. He had it in that. He's not. That's what old people do. That's a fine. Is it I think he's Jessup. He had it in that. He's nice. I think that's what old people do. That's a fine. Is it?

It's not Jessup. It is what old people do. But he does look like that, right? He is starting. He does look. I can't believe that right now Greg Cody looks like one of the stars of a few good men. He looks like Jack Nicholson. Video.

Video. Can you please put Colonel Jessup in the corner of the screen replacing two gods replacing Stu gotses Paul fine bombs Thank you Dan Levitard what's them next to each other Colonel Jessup he looks great Greg Cody looks like a general right now who you're goddamn righty order the code red Can't handle the truth god damn right. I did you want me on that wall Greg is moving from Lyndon B. Johnson not to like Gerald Ford. It's a good look for him. Wow. Yeah, what an honor Jerry Ford. Yeah Michigan. Okay line. Yeah. I cannot help, Stugat.

I cannot help. As an alleged media mogul. Roy, I love that you laugh every time the racers go on. It's good to laugh. It's so good. It goes on louder and louder. But I can't help but think. This is word association for me, Stugat.

As somebody who's trying to run a media company, And we had Shannon Sharp asking for very little money. We had him first. We had him first and he asked for very little. And we're like, no, we don't want to pay you anything. Maybe after CBS, isn't it? But, okay, fair enough. But when he was trying to get back in the market, he was asking, we had him before he turned into what he is today.

And we had him and this is what what he is today and we had him and this is what he did from a few good men we live in a world that has walls and these walls have to be guarded by men with guns who's going to do it you you move to the line bird I have a greater responsibility that you could possibly father you weak for so I see all those things you have that luxury you have the luxury of not knowing what I know. Santiago Steps Wall Tragedy, probably saved lives. My appears, grotesque, incomprehensible to you. Save lives. You don't want the truth to be that in place of the party. You don't talk about it. You don't want to be on that wall. You need me on that wall. We use words like honor,

code, loyalty. We use these words of a backbone of a lifetime fit to see something You do the metal point rise. I have the time nor the inclination to explain My statement that rises and swings a little blaker freedom that I provide and they question the matter which I provided I'm a fool what a talent and There they are next to each other. That's amazing. Greg Cody right now looks like somebody who is viewing the various things on behalf of the military on a naval, on a base in Cuba. Was it a banner? Was it Guantanamo? Where were they? Guantanamo Bay. Where were they? You can't handle the truth.

Look at this's did it. He looks good. He did. Look, it's unbelievable. Look at him. Look at him. Look at him. Look at him.

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But make it look like a good, good man. It's really not important to me to have a lot of things to show off fancy cars, a giant home. Those things are just not part of who I am. But I've been coached and I've learned through my advisor that it's not one sizesize-fits-all. Everyone has their own preferences. Everything that I do with Edward Jones is tailored to who I am.

Edward Jones, we do money differently. Visit EdwardJones.ca-slashdifferent. Don Lebertard. Chris, what was happening there? Can you please just explain to me? Just give the audience a glimpse into what's happening inside your soul as your father is delivering clunker after clunker.

It's just not surprising. He was texting me last night, trying to get lines for it to make it funnier. And I was just like, I don't know if this one works. You're not really bringing anything to the conversation. It's just classic grid coding. Still gots. Actually, Christopher and I never had that conversation because I did reach out to him

and got zero response. That's not true. That's like I can show you my text right now. I was the fan of it. Alright, show me that text. There are the Cody's tag team in the show to kill it. The Cody's as the crazy tag team duo, the show killers. VCC Don't Liberty Show with this two gods. We urge you as we get up and running here as a video enterprise. It's just now beginning its growth and ascent because we had to teach a lot of people a lot of things

and move studios and change a bunch of things. We're telling you to subscribe to the YouTube channel where the video accompaniment accompaniment to what it is that we're doing can be Apporiously funny and today has resulted in what Greg Cody is already proclaiming the finest haircut of his life. He a career best. And the first a career best haircut. This is what it looks like when the man pays more than $12.39 Well, you're paying nothing he comes from a time of a shave and two bits or whatever that phrase is Shave in a haircut two bits. Of course he would know it Mike sure you are looking at what's happening over my right shoulder and you are

thinking what we have pointed out that he looks like colonel jess up haha i'm getting joe peshy is anyone else getting joe peshy uh... that's not what you want to go for their right-grade kody joe peshy would be bad correct we don't want joe peshy do we we want colonel jess up yeah i prefer colonel j. Absolutely. Yeah, you do I'm a murderous military lunatic We say Joe Pescile you're talking like the Irishman. Oh, you're talking about good fellas

Which movie was I'm talking about good fellows? I'm talking about like our home alone Joe Pesci It's like that's the slick back hair like a homelone jopechie. It's like the slicked back hair. Yeah, I don't know. And that video, please find that and put that in a corner as well to see if that is worthy of what Mike sure is saying because we really did think he looked like Colonel Jessup. He looks better indisputably. Mike, thank you for making time for us. We have you interning on Stad of the Day. We've got Adam McKay interning on horrifying climate fact of the day. You also are in the middle of a giant fight and it seems like a fight for our time, a fight for history.

You're right in the front of it. And it seems like Bill Maher and Drew Barrymore were forced to not break from the unity of your union. Bill Maher is hard to push back on this stuff, but it seems like he realized the error of his ways and not being unified here. Where are you on this today as we speak? Because I just found out that winning time was canceled and I'm like, how much more of our content

are we going to lose before this starts really hurting customers who care about well-made things? How much more of our content are we going to lose before this starts really hurting customers who care about well-made things? Sorry, I can't focus on anything you're saying. I'm just mesmerized by the haircut that's happening behind you. Thank you. That's not, I mean, it's not nothing you're doing.

Anyway. I would like to think they weren't forced. I would prefer to think of it as they thought it over and realize that it maybe was a better decision to not go back to work. But whatever the reason is, I'm glad they did it. I think the thing that they haven't common is that I think they've been in the business for a long time

and they're able to see which way the wind is blowing to some degree. And they got pushed back from members of various unions and gills and changed their minds. I mean, I tend to think, and maybe this is my own bias, but I tend to think that maybe Drew Barrymore's decision was more based in, you know, empathy, and that Bill's was a little more cynical. You know, there were some rumors that he had a hard time booking guests. I don't know if that's true. I certainly know that there are a lot of folks who don't want to cross pick a lines right now.

And maybe, you know, just because he's sort of by nature a contrarian, I think it probably hurt him more to back off. But I don't care. It doesn't matter to me. They both made the right decision. I'm glad they did it. And I hope that other folks who were tempted to sort of, you know, make a move in that direction, we'll think twice about it now, just because they, not because of fear, but because simply it's the right thing to do really for the union fights that we're all in. Thank you for correcting my language on that. Lucas, let me warn you because I saw the fear as you got near the jugular with sharp things

on shaving. I saw the fear of Chris Cody's face, producer of our show and son to a loving father who was worried about how sensitive his father's skin is. And if you do not know that information, Lucas, whatever business we just got you moments ago, will be harmed by you taking on the task of giving that man a shave with his sensitive skin if you cut him and he bleeds easily. I'm also wondering if he has the sanitized sticker is he gonna have like the alcohol spray?

All right, are you getting a shave as well? Great show to you. You should be next. Okay, I am. This is not serious. That's part of the haircut. He's just cleaning up. He's finishing up.

All right, I just wanna make sure there's not a sharp, sharp razor. Chris was worried that his father's going to start bleeding on television. There's a lot of loose skin in his neck too. Right. Yeah, Chris, I have a turkey neck. But cleaning up is around the hair. Like in the head.

He's cleaning up his chest. I mean, Luke is a professional with a straight razor. Have you never gotten a haircut? I have. They go, they get around a little under the shirt. Not that far down. No, come on under the shirt. A little bit like a shirt.

No, I think you need to talk to someone. Top of your back. Angel, can you please make a t-shirt that just exclaims I have a turkey neck, which is what Greg Cody just shouted from behind me moments ago. Mike, but I do appreciate that you changed the wording on my verb because it wasn't forces. Can you move the microphone a little further away

from the razor, dad? Thank you. I would say closer. Move it closer. OK okay i'll close it yeah i keep getting louder which is right this is what's funny is about what's having that royale found nothing funny over the first three hours of this then how much louder the razor keeps getting behind me oh my god royale listens to the show for how it sounds it's funny each time how loud that gets.

You corrected me on the language, Mike, because you have been very gentle with your language and people will find it off-putting, no matter how right a group is. If a group is forcing, through pressure, people like Bill Marr and Drew Barrymore, who may be freedom fighters to some who don't believe in the labor cause. They are being forced into unity. You wrote a book about this, Mike. How selfish people are.

They wouldn't wear masks for each other when it was the simplest thing at the start of the pandemic. You went through all of history's philosophers looking for the answer of why people can't do simple things for each other They end up being on the right side of this because you're on the right side of this But they're pushed by peer pressure and some people don't like that Yeah, no one likes to be peer pressured But sometimes it can be good. Sometimes it could be a force for good. I think A very light public shaming, I think, has a

place in society because if there's no people who have no sense of shame, have no sense of disgrace, and I don't know to what degree that was a factor here. And I don't want to describe motive to people because I don't know either of them, but I do think that they made a decision if you want to be generous and empathetic, you might say that they made that decision because they genuinely feel for the crews of the shows that they work on and that they feel that pressure of folks being out of work. And I guess the answer that they got and the answer they should get is like, yeah, we all feel that pressure of folks being out of work. And I guess the answer that they got and the answer they should get is like,

yeah, we all feel that. We all feel this tremendous sense of responsibility for everyone who works on the shows that we make and the movies we make. And also, there's ancillary folks out there who work in restaurants that are supported by studios and people buying lunch and dinner from restaurants that are supported by studios and people buying lunch and dinner from restaurants

that are near the places we work. Recently, the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, estimated that it's a $5 billion hit to the economy of California to have a strike on for as long as it's gone on. I don't think it's false to say that there were good reasons in their brains to think, we should go back to work. It's just you have to think of it in the larger context here, right? It's like that if we don't win this fight, if SAG after, doesn't win their fight, then the long-term damage that's done is much greater than the short-term damage that's being

done right now. So, I want to believe that they had good intentions and I wanna believe that they did the right thing for the right reasons. I hope I'm right. Also, how much does this haircut cost? If the old one, this is a free, well, how much would it cost normally?

$10. If your Tony said. That's what he paid. If your Tony's $40. This is probably more than that. $40 and up is what this would normally go for But I'm worth every penny Yeah, well he looks great and we will unveil all of this and see how he feels about it in

In a little bit But you said before getting to start of the day you texted me last night I have an impersonation for you and you wouldn't give me more information exciting. I've been working on I've been working on an impression You would hear my impression do I I don't know My it's an impression of every dolphins fan every time to a drop-sback to pass ready here we go Oh God, oh no, no, no, no, no, no, I throw it throw it throw it throw it throw it That's my impression Chris Cody getting you a sour face.

That's just not Chris. Chris Cody has confidence. Yes it is. Now when I see a defensive end that gets around the tackle, then I do that. Oh god, oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Get rid of it, get rid of it. That's the impression.

And like you guys have built this incredible offensive machine, this incredibly complex intricate well-oiled, Ferrari even offense. Mike, what you're saying is so great. It's so great. It's held together. The on-off switch is being held in place by a single human hair, and you all know it.

That's right. I'd like to do an impression of a Patriot's fan, but I don't want to be racist. Oh, that's good. All right, now it's your turn. Oh, that's good. All right, that's good. That's beautiful. That's beautiful.

That's beautiful, man. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Jack Hammer, ladies and gentlemen. Holy shit, an assassin strike from Haine. That never works. I try to badge her mic sure about how racist his city is all the time and it never works It's totally true bosses the only racist city you guys are right

But no there's no no racism to be found in any other american city it's only bossed in thank you every time you bring it up every time you bring it up to go and you admit it to the nfl and we've got him on record and finally he hits so hard to get on the street out of the Hollywood chases the end zones itself it's that's it he finally said it he agrees with the shit they should only have and racism at box bro yeah because it it's been we've we've we've done in every other city

they'll never be able to erase it out of the end zone in Boston and i'll be there forever yeah it's a try to and it'll stay there we could just get Boston then racism america would be over it's it's too bad we've located uh... we have a ninety eight percent success rate in ending races in America it's only the greater Boston metro area

finally he says it out loud and we can put his name on it yeah it's so long i have asked mic sure to uh... make his state of the day something that is bigger more epic where he go on a search through God's based on the stat I gave you earlier in the show that Tom Brady never took a snap when his team was mathematically eliminated from the playoffs.

I believe that to be the greatest stat I've ever heard in football, I want Mike Sure as intern for Metal Arc media to go find us the greatest stat there ever was to come up with one conclusive stat that can have no argument because it's the best of all the possible statistics. And he starts that quest, not today with one of the greatest, but by ending this segment as we've done it, and then graduating to his quest for the greatest stat that's ever been found. So let's give off, let's end this segment as we know it with this one last final stat before he goes off in search of the greatest, start of the day, and this is the start of the day.

I think you're returning on original sounds, so I can hear the music. Yeah, Mike Here are some players Who threw as many or more passes for the Jets as Aaron Rogers did This is for you, sir. Got's thank you. You ready? Yeah, I'm ready Cliff Kingsbury Curtis Martin Al Tune, Freeman McNeil, Braxton Barrios, Leon Johnson, Wayne

Crabette, Belal Powell, Richie Anderson, Keesha Johnson, Jeremy Curley, Tom Tupa the punter Tom to any more I think you threw many more to a playoff game yeah Matt Turk and of course legendary half-back Dick Christie who was 0 for 7 passing from 1961 to 1963 and thus has the exact same 39.6 pass rate as Aaron Rogers. Good luck on your quest Mike to find the greatest stat ever told I know you're busy.

We appreciate your time sir. We will check in with you again. I want to do this daily. I want the hunt to be daily so as much time as you've got for us I'll take it. All right. We'll see. I'll see you on the other side. I also have information breaking news for the group that we're going to have to get a conclusion to early encoding has texted me. How is the

haircut going? I'm legitimately worried. I think we have to unveil Greg Cody, Colonel Jessup to his wife and see if baby. Baby! After review, the call on the ice is a whole new season of NHL action with Skip. Every order earns you a shot at winning one of over 200,000 prizes, including NHL Shop.ca and Skip Gift Cards, Skip Game Time Tires, and the Grand Prize, a trip for two to the 2024 Rogers NHL All-Star Game in Toronto. Order, shoot, win, with skip, no purchase necessary, ends November 30th for rules, visit winwithskip.com.

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It's an insane cesspool of obsessions, the information business, and as he's grown in life, the competitive parts of him are still there. He's still a monster information guy, but he's found other things that give him purpose, that feel loving and have self-love in them so much so that he looks radiant right now. He looks like he's got some of the thickness of stress off him and he is feeling like someone who is taking care of himself and on the unbreakable podcast he talks honestly about the most vulnerable things, the things that men often keep hidden. So I urge you to listen to that podcast because he's helping people in a way that's deeply meaningful as a messenger because they see this muscle madman who kicks Sean McVeigh in the shins in his

living room and and he tells you inside the places that he feels broken but uh you know he's unbreakable and so check out the podcast check out the book but people want your football information Jay and before we get to you I have to thank Lucas for the haircut that he did to Greg Cody. We will find out from Greg Cody at the end. Thank you, Lucas, for being here. You can pack up your stuff. We represent Kendall and our people very well. You don't got to go home, but you got to get up on out of here.

And so Greg Cody is here, and he looks beautiful, we think, but Erlene, his wife, will come on here at the end of this segment and she will tell you what she thinks of his haircut, which he was very scared of. I've told Greg, he is gonna have a night tonight. Baby. Yeah, all right, so Jay, thank you again for- What's a haircut?

Yeah, you see, this is the way we'll play, Clayton. Were you balding and then you went, what were you balding and then you made a style choice? This is God's hairstyle. Yeah, I got no choice in this actually know up the guys at Fox I was holding on for dear life. Here's a guy who's using Propecia and Rogan and freaking motor world everything I could and The guys at Fox one there like yeah, you gotta let that thing go and I'm like you can't tell me to do that They said we can't tell you to do it, but we're really suggesting you do and I'm like, you can't tell them to do that. They said, we can't tell you to do it,

but we're really suggesting you do it. They're gonna do it. Yeah, because you couldn't have pulled that look off now, correct, if it had just been a little bit of paper mache on your head right now. You would look less cool. I think you would look a little castanzish if I just had to go with it.

It's a totally different look, but so much more amazing when you kick people's ass at MMA. Yeah, it's no doubt about it. Maybe I should go with the castanz and amazing when you kick people's ass at MMA. Yeah, I should go to the stand and look and then kick people's ass. Can you explain to me, Jay, what just happened with my home's contract? Is this just the chief's treating an employee well because other guys are getting guaranteed money and they're like, no one's more guaranteed than our guy? Yeah, I think it was just a thing of like, all right, we're going to bring it up here to what's now, I guess, the norm to the top of the market there.

Because he really, who's down towards bottom 10, so he's the best there is. So I think this demo was just trying to make sure that there's never, ever any bent blow. There, you know, anything ever goes off the rails there. Why do we care though, Jay? Can you explain to me how or when this happened? I don't know.

Do you remember when it happened? You've covered this since the beginning. I don't remember when money became a thing where there's breaking news that everyone cares about. And I'm like, why do we care about this? Yes. When the internet really, you know, and Twitter took over, I think that's when, because you're right,

you just, just used so because I got a deal done. But it wasn't, oh, we got to see the numbers. And we got to make sure that these numbers aren't fake fake and we're holding kind of agents to what things are really said and done. No, back, you know, I started covering the league in 95, the giants in 93, but start doing that, you know, the minute by minute breaking news in 99, and it was never, well, the agents are saying this, but the real number through this and you're right, I don't care as much as everybody else but I someone fans really like it So, you know, it's our jobs to give the fans what they like

Jay with all the injuries to running backs across the NFL Is it more likely now that Jonathan Taylor gets traded here in a couple of weeks? I think it what they want, you know, they're looking for a one, you know Promise to if you're gonna trade for Jonathan Taylor not only you have tripped Jonathan Taylor We're gonna have to give him a new contract and you just see that, you know, and you promise to if you're going to trade for Jonathan Taylor, not only you have a tripped Jonathan Taylor, we're going to have to give him a new contract. And you just see that, you know, everybody is definitely that position. You know, there's no solution. And I want to, when I went around for my training camp tour and I hit a lot of these teams, this came up a lot.

And it was, there was no solution as far as a maybe you do this and that takes care of them better and it brings them where they're supposed to be because they should get paid higher. They are the bell cows. They are putting themselves out there and a lot of times, every time, if you don't have a good ground game, everything else isn't going to work. So they are severely underpaid but it's just how business is they. We can't change if McDonald's people like cheeseburgers, we can't change the you know, if, if, if, you know, McDonald's, you know, people like cheeseburgers, we can't change the fact that people like cheeseburger, we can't just say, oh, I forget it, they're not going to want cheeseburgers anymore. It's just

the way that business is. And that's probably a really, really bad business analogy, but I'm trying. Uh, yes, do better, Jay Glazer. We need better business analogies from you. But what did you see from the first two weeks that you thought can be extrapolated? Some of the analysis of this sports J is dumb because whatever you thought about the Browns, when that happens to Chubb, everything changes about what you thought about a team.

But what you've seen through two weeks means what? Usually nothing. Usually first two weeks fan gets everybody really upset and hot and bothered about what they see about it Kim or if it came looks great right out of the gates like oh, man, this you know everybody They're not gonna be able to be stopped. Let me just remind people this in 07 when the Giants won their Super Bowl straight hands last game their first two games I believe they gave up 48 points and 49 points in those first two games

So if you're a giant fan back then, you're the sky, it fell, crashed all around you, there was no shot. They ended up having the biggest upset and truthful history, being that undefeated Patriots team now year. So it's really, the NFL's always been who gets hot and healthy last. But it's the greatest reality show in the world.

So it's part of the soap opera, we overreact quite a bit. Speaking, the one thing you do have to say is, yes, the Jets, we're obviously going from Ariradjus to Zach Wilson, that's gonna be, they've got to get to a point where their ground game is great, their defense is phenomenal. And despite giving up what they give up the other day,

they do have a really good defense. So they have to kind of go back to all, all, all, convince themselves of, hey, we have a ground game in the defense. We don't have an MVP at quarterback anymore, but we can still kind of win games the old fashioned way. Still gots, what did you pull out of your ear there that you're rolling around on your fingers?

Some of Greg's wax. It was, there you go. Cannellmaker. You have seen here, Jay, from the Dolphins. What? I just saw Steven A. Smith put him one, two on his power rankings to God's Cowboys number one. Dolphins number two.

I don't know where the 49ers go in there. But what did you see from the strongest What did you see from the strongest teams that validated what was your opinion already? Yeah, I did love the dolphins going in this season. Even like when I was at the Jets, people I was talking to there, that was the team they kind of had their eye on. I'd like to build a lot more than what they've been showing.

The dolphins are a balanced team. Bringing Vic Fendio down there to that defense. They're giving a lot more stability. And I think that, you know, Vic's defense is so complicated. It's just gonna get better. I was gonna understand what they're doing. We can weak out. And as long as I keep too healthy,

and I like to with an edge too. I like this. He's not just sitting back anymore. I kind of know how to do things. He's getting a little pissed off. I like it. Jay speaking of quarterbacks, the Colorado quarterback is getting people's attention. Shadur Sanders. And you've said you think he's going to be a top five pick. And my question is this,

when the NFL looks at him, do they see potentially a transformational quarterback? Everybody's looking for the next m homes. Yeah, but there's no next mohomes. That's not gonna happen. You know, Caleb ended up being the first big of the draft, but Shador, look, he's got the work ethic. He grew up with a dad who not only was in more talented than anybody else, but Dion worked so freaking hard. I worked with Dion at CBS and Dion's had a huge influence and impact of my life

my career and just how smart he is and how much work he puts in at things. That's what you want to see from guys. The reason why guys come in the NFL and they falter so much is because a lot of times they just try and go on the talent they had from college. Well, you only work on your craft in college a few hours a day. Now you get 24 hours a day. So who's going to use all the extra time to try and get better? And that's what you know, that's hard to, you know, really gain understanding from in the short times that you can interview guys and all the work that you're doing. And now you're kind of limiting questions and and how you can push buttons and whatnot. But Chidorah's guy who's going to come in there and he's going to work his butt off to just trying to get

better. So yeah, I've got a lot of belief in him. I will tell the audience again, unbreakable is what he's doing with his life that feels most purposeful professionally and he gives you uncommon honesty, vulnerability and healing if you're willing to be open-minded about some of the things that may be troubling you. So check out the book and the podcast. Jay, I have to unfortunately, and I feel great remorse about this because everyone loves his information.

Get you off the phone so early in Cody can tell me whether Greg Cody's haircut is something that she finds more important. Right, yeah. So forgive me. I feel blasphemous, and I'm sorry, but goodbye. Goodbye, Drew laser. All right, good seeing you again.

We will pick it up again, because this football information is craved throughout the country. But I want to go now to Erlin Cody, Erlin before we show you, before we unveil your husband and his new look, Greg, you might want to take off the headphones here. I'm nervous. I really am. Also, mom, remember to unmute. Yes, Greg, you might want to take off the headphones here. I'm nervous. I really am.

Also, mom, remember to unmute. Yes. Greg, what are your thoughts before we go to your wife? What are your thoughts so far having seen in some of the video cameras here about your haircut? Because it's slick back, it's going to require some care, but you do look, I think, much cleaner than you did before. I feel clean.

Even without forget the mirror, when I touch the back of my head, it feels a lot shorter than it's felt in a long, long time. Maybe too short. I don't know. We've ratchet it up the drama so high that Jay Glazer is still here. He's still looking. He will not leave. He wants to see what's happening here. Jay, do you have a prediction uh... you did not see great a story to break the great kony before the

it's it couldn't break the story it probably can't be worse right okay uh... show them let's see let's see her lean give us your honest undistilled thoughts i'm terrified i'm just terrified

oh well it could have been it could be worse. Oh, It could be worse ladies and gentlemen the high Is it lucky tonight or what I was asking Whoa, I mean I was scared to death quite frankly. All right, I was asking for a friend. I was scared to death. Quite frankly. I was scared. I was really scared. I texted you, Dan.

Did you see that? Yes. That is. Okay. So you're no longer scared. When is the last time? What year was it? What decade was it when his hair looked this good? I think it was in the 2000s maybe early early 2000. Okay. When I was 16.

I got to take out some of those gray though. I get it. Well then now you got all you got left is gray now. Yes that is true. It is very thin. What is bringing home. Thank you, Orleen. Little brother or sister for Chris on the way or what what do you think you there he is I think Christopher is getting his nap okay wow wow oh jay glazer in the post game just lingering

I'm done thank you guys love you Thank you.