The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: Jessica Barfs Up Her Sandwich (feat. Mina Kimes)

Episode Date: March 4, 2025

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You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. This is the Don LeBattor Show with the StuGuts Podcast. Mike Ryan has that look in his eye for wherever it is that you get your Mount Rushmore fixes. For some reason, I think all of us, I think everybody here, this might be the new 80s or 90s baseball, what that was once upon a time, where we all liked doing Mount Rushmore's around here.

I think everybody likes doing Mount Rushmore's. But happier than Mike Ryan today, I saw it as a streak across Jessica's eyes because being in the chat when the chat is competing to be clever at my expense is one of the funniest places to exist in the history of our show where the creative community is enjoying being creative mocking me.

I miss that community. I feel like Jessica got, if not introduced to it, I saw it on her face as she was watching them be clever, and I've been disappointed that those people haven't come over and helped our sponsor, Boost Mobile, when it comes to telephone calls. That those people have been better in the shadows, not performing, just sort of being anonymous

and being in a YouTube chat, and it's easier to be clever there than when it is you have to perform. These callers have been disappointing to me, Chris Cody. I have found that Boost Mobile has not got its money's worth sponsoring this segment as we've asked for better and better takes with a phone number that has been purchased and has Gotts' name on it.

Why are you shaking your head no? Because I couldn't disagree more. I thought the last montage we did of callers had multiple funny hot takes on it. We have another one here, it's almost two minutes long and I feel really good about it. It's presented by Boost Mobile, the boldest take from the weekend and it's the newest 5G network in the country, Dan, so get it together. And they're definitely getting their money's worth. Co-founder Dan Lebatard. You know,

I gotta say my notes with the last segment that we did is for you. I feel like you were just so defeated that you just assumed that it was going to be a bad segment and the last one was really good. I think we turned is for you. I feel like you were just so defeated that you just assumed that it was gonna be a bad segment and the last one was really good. I think we turned the ship around. Fatty beneers. So let's get to our latest montage of callers giving their boldest take. Greg, Billy was giving you good material there

and you were just giggling at it, it seemed like. No falsehoods, I was talking to the directors. Ha ha, that's a fine. Good thing we stopped there. All right. Let's play this montage of the boldest takes. Ben Simmons crawled so Cooper flag can fly. Hey, Dan Brock on a mobile. I got a hot take for you.

It's about snow. I hate snow. I can't stand the stuff. It's the worst. Everybody likes to romanticize snow. It's so beautiful. It's so fluffy. It's so pretty. It's overrated. Hey, this romanticize snow. It's so beautiful. It's so fluffy. It's so pretty. It's overrated. Hey, this is Pat from Long Beach, New York. And my hot take is that ketchup packets have the most useless amount of ketchup. Thank you.

Hey y'all, Jaybird from Cleveland. First time, long time. Here, I got a hot take for you. Nolan Ryan in today's day and age on a decent staff, a free starter. I'll hang up and listen. I don't think jelly beans should exist. Hey y'all, here's my limited fake of Steve from Sex and the City. Miranda? Hey Danny, this is Danny from Baltimore. My take is that yellow mustard should be banned.

It's not a pro ketchup take, it's not a pro mayo take, it's not even an anti-mustard take. This is a pro spicy brown take. Whatever you put mustard on, pretzels, burgers, dogs, salad dressing, whatever it is, spicy brown is better than yellow. Hey Dan, it's Mike L'Onomobile. Will Chamberlain never scored 100 points. There'd be a video of it. Come on, you can't tell me that in 1962 there was no video of this thing happening.

We're all supposed to believe it. No chance. He didn't do it. Hey, this is Mike. Been listening for like 15 years. Dan, I'm amazed sometimes how you can put two and two together for what a smart man you are. You're talking about Village X's girlfriend getting onto the commercial and no no other managers ever done that. Have you looked at the wait? Have you looked at how they look? Her man, and I'm blowing this. I'm gonna call again and try to get it in one take.

Sorry guys. I love that guy. He was cooking. He was cooking. He was taking Steve from Sex and the City. Miranda? That was amazing. What an amazing impersonation that was.

That's one of the best limited fakes I've ever heard. 305-486-GOTS is the telephone number. G-O-T-Z. Also video, I think you revealed something earlier in what it is that we do We're doing that you weren't supposed to reveal so go ahead and just put that out there now It was during a commercial break. We have now revealed that this is a domino tournament But he's Boppy is going to destroy an NFL legend We want you to shave save the date April 13th

We are going to make that a very limited thing and it's gonna be a very good party. So just make sure to save the date and we'll have more announcements in the coming days. Miranda? Miranda? Yes. That's, I mean.

I don't like Steve. I agree, jelly beans shouldn't exist. Oh, I feel bad for Steve. I feel bad for Steve. I do too. Like in the reboot, Steve. But I don't like any of them. In jelly beans shouldn't exist. I feel bad for Steve. I feel bad for Steve. I do too. Like in the reboot, Steve. But I don't like any of them. Oh, we're not talking reboot, not canon. Miranda?

People did seem to like Steve as the guy who always got run over and yeah, you're probably in the minority on not liking him, right? Eh. Miranda? No, like, come on Steve, you got a good thing. Like, what's going on here? But then in the reboot, which is apparently not canon.

Like, she's putting poor Steve Thiel to the ringer. You just feel bad. It's like, oh, my wife left me because I'm deaf now? Like, that's tough. He's just aging. It's awful. Aging. Not canon.

Miranda? Let me grab. Greg Cody has a take that I have not heard a lot of as I have seen football explode and any kind of football content to be something somehow that never gets old. That people cannot get enough of, oh, Debo Samuel was traded over the weekend,

give me football information wherever it is that you have it. Greg Cody is down on the NFL Combine. He says it's unnecessary. Right, I thought it was interesting what Cam Ward said in explaining why he wasn't going to throw at the NFL Combine. And he basically said,

y'all got five years of tape on me throwing. That should be enough. I'm paraphrasing, but that's essentially what he said he's not wrong I think it's it's a couple of weeks of content for the media I don't think fans particularly care to see whether somebody ran a 4.37 or you can't say that I don't think you can say that I believe they've turned this into an event like they turn everything into an event you may say this and old media may say it i think that look

i don't know if it's got millions and millions of people watching it but it's got plenty of hundreds of thousands of people who are super interested uh... and so you might not have interest but you do not speak for the pocket of people they're feeding here i would i would ask me to come to this question and be interested in her answer because I think that NFL front offices and scouting departments would be just fine without a combine. I think

if all of a sudden the NFL said nope we're going to save millions of dollars no more annual combine in Indianapolis the draft goes on as scheduled everybody's fine because everybody's had years to scout these people everybody The draft goes on as scheduled. Everybody's fine because everybody's had years to scout these people. Everybody has them at their private visits

to interview in person. You don't need the combine. Yeah, but like the intermingling aspect, the whispers at the bar after the workouts, it's like a real event for movers and shakers, Greg. Is it beneficial more so for smaller school players or lesser known players that get invited? Yes.

Do the top names need to throw? No, they don't really need to do that. That's kind of been the case for a while now. Yeah, but the smaller school players are known, right? I mean, nobody, the Division III player is going to be drafted if he's good enough. People know, you know. Because of processes like this, like they probably won't be throwing a pro day at that

school. They probably don't have the resources and then a front office may not allocate those resources to go scout a D3 player. I do see the benefit of it, but I don't know enough about it nor do I care enough about it. But I do see the clips that happen out of there and Will Howard seemed to have had a nightmarish workout. I saw the super cut that they put together. And that, so it can hurt you.

You don't want that out there. But it also might not mean anything. That's where I agree with Greg. If you have an outlier performance, either good or bad, it may matter more than it should versus years of tape. But it is, I think, I mean, I'm sure that many scouts would argue that it's good to have all of those metrics and statistics equally measured at one place

by the same people to compare and contrast. But yeah, like at the end of the day, how much influence should it really have versus what it's worth? Probably depends. Jalen Milrow's hands grew. Yeah. Thank you, Combine. Imagine you're a scout for one of the NFL teams

and before the Combine you're like, guys, I'm telling you, Will Howard's the guy. I'm telling you, he's the one. No one's talking about it, he's the one. Then he performs like that. And now you get him as a UDFA. You have to go back to that meeting and be like, I'm telling you guys,

do you think that guy today is like, all right, I was wrong? Or he's like, I'm telling you, it do you think that guy today is like, all right, I was wrong? Or he's like, I'm telling you, it was just a bad day. He had a migraine. And so you think his entire draft stock changes, flips, because of a bad combat performance? Like I just said, I think it's definitely a,

if someone was fighting for Will Howard, they now have to go to that meeting today and be like, do I really go to the medic again for this guy? Am I gonna lose my job over my take on Will Howard? You're asking the important questions. But then they show the tape of Will Howard in an actual game against an actual good opponent kicking ass.

That's why I think if you're that scout, you gotta just stay strong. You can't let one combine ruin it, you know what? I'm a Will Howard guy. Well, the thing though that I have seen happening that is amazing to watch football as a content factory, and they've created another weekend for people to get together and make some television out of it

and have some parties at St. Elmo's and turn it into a bit of an annual event. But Billy Gill doesn't want to travel down the common sports media paths. He goes out to FIU baseball. He goes out to corndog contests. Billy Gill is not interested in your big popular things that everyone seems to like. What is that supposed to mean?

Well, the corndog contest. The corndog. Well, I didn't know I was going to. I did get a heads up that there would be a corndog eating contest at the event, but that's not the't know I was going to, I did get a heads up that there would be a corn dog eating contest at the event, but that's not the event that I was going to. It was a satellite corn dog eating contest where the winner now gets to participate in the Miami Dade County Fair corn dog eating contest.

But what am I gonna do? Walk away and not watch a corn dog eating contest when one takes place? Ooh, a challenger's spin-off movie, but it's two people competing in the Corn Dog Eating Challenger Contest. This Corn Dog Eating Contest was fierce. They had a ringer come in, if I'm gonna be honest.

Was it a diather? What? What? No, so the Corn Dog Eating Contest, there was a ringer there that obviously had been doing this before, and then they just ask anyone, anyone wanna be a challenger,

you can come and eat corn dogs. This guy ate six corn dogs in a minute. It was six corn dogs, he ate them in a minute. It was gonna be whoever was eating the most in the two minute time frame. He ate them all. What was his technique? Did he eat around the stick,

or did he put the stick in his mouth and then pull the stick out? Yeah, you pull the stick out. Like a cartoon cat eating a fish? Yeah, and then there was a wrestler Domino, who was the, obviously, wrestler Domino was the judge of the corndog eating contest. This all happened as it does

as my secret society burger club that I become a part of. We were having our monthly meeting at our secret burger society and then there was a corndog eating contest at the secret society being judged by Domino, local wrestler, fan of the show. Lovely, Domino lovely. Domino's girlfriend, very lovely people.

Loved meeting them. They're big fans of everyone here. Yep, both fans of the show. You can see Domino wrestle the first Saturday of every month at the tank, I'm told. And Tripping Animals, I think the third Saturday of every month. That's incredible by you.

Yeah, I got into it with Domino. I'm trying to find the time to make myself available to go see Domino wrestle. Where was this event? Maybe involve myself in a match, who's to say? I haven't spoken to Domino about that. We'll see what happens. Where was this?

This was actually at the grand opening of a restaurant that's coming out. That's why the burger meeting was there. We were tasting the burgers and the chicken tenders that they have and they also have like homemade ice cream sandwiches. It was delicious, all of it, great. I wanna be in a ice cream sandwiches. It was it was delicious all of it I want to be in a secret burger society. It's hard to get into you have to subscribe to the burger B's page Domino

We'll be at our Domino tournament. Maybe Is that who your dad's fighting? No, it's an NFL legend Yeah, NFL legend your dad is fighting this NFL legend. He's going to destroy this NFL legend in a fist fight to the death I'm gonna just say he's going to destroy this NFL legend and you'll have to wait for more information on this subject. Is Domino indeed coming to our Domino tournament? Is this the invite? Well Domino you're invited friends like come on down to the tournament. Okay so this this person though that I'm assuming that all of you when you hear six corndogs in a minute and eating them that way, I'd be afraid of splinters is what I'd be afraid of.

No, they rip that, so he rips out, look, people are going to say that's silly, he's not going to eat the stick obviously, but like I think the same thing with bean chills, right? So like you take a bean chow and a bean chow is basically a shish kebab and I try to eat the shish kebab by taking out the stick and then I eat the pieces of meat individually, right? Now, those shish kebab sticks can splinter. A corndog stick, I don't think so, because a corndog stick, to my knowledge, is like a popsicle stick.

Domino. Hey, you're live on the air. Do you wanna come to the Domino tournament? Okay, there it is. It's a deal. Domino's in. Domino's in. He's there for the murder of the NFL legend. Hi Domino, good to see you again.

Que hola? La lucha. Yeah, okay. Bye Domino, have a good day. Alright, the excellent part. He looks like the Iron Sheik from over here. He's basically Tony. Or what Tony wants to be is Domino in every sense of the word. Cool, jacked, good at wrestling. Tell me more about the corndog tournament.

What were the highlights? What was the competition? There was no highlights, it lasted a minute. The guy just stuck six corndogs in his mouth in a minute and swallowed it. It was the craziest thing I've ever seen. And then he had like a little, so we see the Nathan's famous hot dog contest on the 4th of July and they have to do the buns and like there's the whole like

We do the things that's all So they do that right and now they're gonna do the thing with the corn dogs and the corn dog is basically the same thing Internet be nice to me. I've never ever in my life thought you know, it would be great Internet be nice to me. I've never ever in my life thought you know, it would be great Eating multiple corn dogs in one sitting. It's really a talent that you wonder how you learn you have right? Papa gummy at Okachobe fest you'll have six of those bad boys. Half of one is fine. Jalapeno corn dogs. I'm with Jessica on this you you can't have more than one corn dog It has to be one corn dog. It can't even be two corn dogs. It has to be one It has to be one corn dog. It can't even be two corn dogs.

It has to be one. Oh man, that's gross. Put it on the poll at Lebatard Show. Can you have more than one corn dog? I was trying to think of the last time I've eaten a corn dog. It's been decades. Greg, you would have liked this

because the guy that was announcing the contest actually made this comment and some of us were wondering because there was, I think think four competitors in the contest and you know the professional eater was doing it very quickly obviously he had six corndogs in one eating and I think all of the people that participated got like you know for participating they won passes to the fair or something right?

One of the guys was just eating a corndog. Like he went there and they're like did you just want like a free lunch because he was just eating a corndog. Like he went there and they're like, did you just want like a free lunch? Because he was just eating a corndog very leisurely and then he got to take the rest of them home. Wow, what a great play by him. Heady play as the saying goes. That's right. Good for him. Gordo Howe. I'm so mean. Howdy everybody, it's Mike Ryan. Have you heard of Gold Belly?

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Dan LeBbatard. Did you get lost on the way to Home Depot today, Dan? Like what, what's going on with the plants? Get his ass, Mina. Stugats. But do it in song. You look like you're about to ask me to like check the oil on my car.

Get him. Or like come over and like look around and point things in my house that need to be fixed. This is the Don Lebatard Show with the Stugats. [♪ music playing in background. Mina, is this season worth watching of Love is Blind? I've seen articles that said it's the most boring season yet. I think it is kind of boring for a stretch and then really heats up at the end.

Oh yeah, okay. That's how I would say it, yeah. Which is always a hard sell for people, like when you're recommending a TV show and you're like, the first three episodes suck or season one is bad, it's always. Is it all out yet? You can always skip the pods. The pods, like, it's so boring.

A lot of pods, a lot of pods this season, yeah. I like pods, I like honeymoon, I hate when they go to the apartments because that's when life gets real and that's when I don't want to see. The best episodes always though are when everybody meets each other around like nine or 10.

Like all the people who were rejected or didn't make it to the tropical location. Yeah, so like when Jessica- When they have the big meetup. Yeah. Jessica surprised him at the lake party like a couple of years ago. And then the guy, I don't even remember his name,

was like, oh, what did I do here? What city is it this season, Mina? It's Minneapolis, and that's the other thing I found interesting, it's like very, very Minnesota. What are you reviewing these days? Like what are you recommending to people? What are the shows that are best? Have you seen Paradise on Hulu?

I have just started that. The first episode makes the premise great. I haven't started that. That has been recommended to me. Weirdly, my husband decided that this moment in history was a great time to start The Man in the High Castle. Which is, do you know what the premise of that is, Dan? I do not.

It's based on, I believe, a Philip K. Dick novel or short story collection or something, and it's basically what would happen if America lost World War II and the Nazis won? Yeah, that's not great timing. What would happen? That would be bad. It's not great timing, yeah, not excellent.

It's four seasons and we're on season three and it's kinda tailing off, but, so I guess, season one and two I thought were quite good. Season one's really good. Your recommendations have always been good. What else do you have for us these days? Because you like, Slow Horses was something you were recommending.

Obviously The Leftovers is something that is one of your favorite shows, one of mine too. What else are you giving us though these days? This is a little old, but if you haven't watched it, Dan, I think you and Valerie would like Black Doves on Netflix. Did you watch that? I have not.

Oh, it's really good. It's Keira Knightley. Ben Wishaw is one of my favorite actors. Plus Paddington. And it's just a six-episode limited series. It's about spies and double-crossing. It's weirdly kind of a Christmas show. It takes place in London during

Christmas, but it's really, really, really entertaining. You've got a bit of a spy weakness here. Do you have any 007 opinions? Mike Ryan earlier in the show was arguing that Michael Strahan cannot be 007. I had an idea, a pitch for 007 from years ago. Maybe it doesn't really apply right now, but it was, the idea derived from one of my favorite movies of all time, which is Edge of Tomorrow. Have you guys seen that? With Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt?

Yes, one of the best movies ever made. You're talking Mike Ryan's language here, whenever you bring up anything Tom Cruise related. So he's great in it, but Emily Blunt is fantastic as like the badass super soldier. And I thought after I watched that, that she should be 007. She's British too.

That's a great idea right there. Also the entire internet would set fire to your every thought. Spoiler alert, it was actually done in the last film. There was a woman that was 007 and assumed that role for a while. If you think there's controversy about making 007 black, go ahead and make 007 Forever a Woman.

Dan, they did it with a black woman. Mina, Sam Darnold appears to be testing the market. The Vikings are doing what many would say is a smart thing. Usually when someone has that kind of season, the franchise is like, this is too good to let go. But they have their succession plan in JJ McCarthy. They also brought in Daniel Jones. What do you think about this move?

From their perspective, you mean? I think it makes sense. I think the only question I had as to whether or not they would stick with Darnold was if they had any concerns internally about JJ McCarthy, his health coming back from pretty brutal injury, what they're saying internally. I had some conversations in Indianapolis that led me to believe they're pretty confident about him.

They feel good about, is there music, is the music, you playing the fast music? Yeah, yeah, go faster. All right, all right, no, I'm not gonna go faster. This has already been- You've gotta respect the music. What do you mean? Stand strong, Mina, do not respect the music. I don't respect the music. What do you mean? Stand strong, Mina. Do not respect the music.

I don't respect the music. They always try to make me talk faster too. I was thinking about this at the Oscars when like the, you know, costume people are up and they start playing the music and like what it takes the mental fortitude it takes to just continue like blazing past it. And I thought I'd be pretty good at that

because I do it on this show all the time. So I am not surprised because I think they drafted McCarthy where they did for a reason. They like him. I also think that, you know, the benefit of having the quarterback on that sort of rookie contract is you have all this freed up money to spend on things they need to spend on, like the interior offensive line. Doesn't make sense to me to have, you know, it would be more than 40 million dollars. I think Sam Darnold is probably going to get at least two years

guaranteed of over $60 million. So I'm not surprised the Vikings didn't. I think it was the right move. Your thoughts on Greg Cody saying the scouting combine is unnecessary. It depends for whom, I guess. Unnecessary for viewers. That's a good question, but the teams-

He's saying for the teams, for the, he's saying for the scouts, for the evaluators. Unnecessary. You know, the example I gave was Cam Ward declining to throw and explaining that y'all have five years of tape on me. That should be sufficient to know about me. Is he wrong?

So what's not wrong about throwing, I think that it's very debatable whether or not the top prospects have to actually do that kind of thing. But the reason they're there is for the meetings and the medicals, Greg. So the teams all in one place get a chance to meet the guy that they're gonna invest in their entire future in,

and also the medicals. This was actually the original purpose of the comma, it was really the medicals. And that's why it happens every year and will continue to happen. What's gonna happen with Miles Garrett? What's his real power here? It all depends on whether or not he's willing to hold out

because the sense that I get from being there, and that's why we're there by the way, is just a gossip essentially for a week. The Browns have no intention or interest in moving on from him. So this could get really ugly if he is actually willing to hold out and that is an open question It's also pretty impossible to move him, isn't it?

it would cost them a lot, but if it was for a Actual like freight of draft picks, which I haven't heard any packages being thrown out They should do it because they're a rebuilding team They should at least consider it pardon me if it's like a lot But I haven't heard any rumors that any team is willing. I just think other teams don't find it to be that believable at the moment. But if I would, Mina, can you please tell me, given that he's their only star, given that it's locked up with the Sean Watson, given that he's going to be

wasting the next few years here, if you allow me the hypothetical of it's not about the money, there's no amount of money that keeps him there. How messy does that actually end up getting? Again, as with all these guys, it's all about his willingness to make it messy, Dan. And like it's easier said than done. I mean, one of my first stories at ESPN, the magazine was that Derell Rivas, who was the king of mess, right? And I came away from that.

And of course, one of the greatest moneymakers this league has ever seen, and a guy who literally won, right? Every time. And I came away from that story believing the reason he was capable of that wasn't his ability, but his absolute, like the steel he had in his personality,

not caring about the influence of media, fans, family members, teammates. He, Derubarivus, truly did not care. And I think for Miles Garrett, it's gonna come down to whether or not he has that same sort of personality, which he might, by the way. Are we team Schultz or team Rapsheet?

Schultz has to be, oh no, I blocked him. Ooh, people are gonna make a thing about this. I should have said that. Uh oh, and now we're here. Okay, but that really, okay, so that would be, that would influence your opinion here, right? Yeah, so I'm a little bit biased. My favorite part of that encounter was Jeremy Fowler,

who I work with, just trying to disassociate in the background of the photo. I don't know if you guys noticed that. He looked like that Marco Rubio in the couch, just like. Homer Simpson into the bushes. So we're team Fowler then, okay. It sounds like it. Yeah, I'm team Fowler, yeah. Can you explain to us the Giants and Aaron Rodgers? Desperation on both sides.

Pittsburgh is gonna do what at quarterback? I think they're gonna roll with Will Centerfields again. I was surprised, I mean, it ultimately didn't matter, and maybe this is why I shouldn't have been surprising, that they weren't more aggressive about Matthew Stafford the way the Giants were, and the Giants absolutely were. Like, they really wanted to take a shot at that because I feel like the only path that the Steelers have to actually getting over the hump

last year would have been to take an aggressive swing at Stafford but you know it obviously is debatable whether or not that possibility even existed. Mina as a respected journalist do you think that LeBotard has abdicated all claim to journalism integrity by sacrificing his integrity banging a drum in cheerleading at a Florida Panthers game? I saw that. He looked like he enjoyed it a lot. First I'll say that, which I was surprised to see the level of enthusiasm you had to bang that drum.

No, I think it's okay. I've thought about this, Dan, because I've never been asked, the Seahawks have this thing called, like, raising the 12th man flag, and I have wondered, like, would I do that? And I think I wouldn't, but my job is different from yours. I'm football specific. I just feel like the Homer allegations would be too intense for me. I think you're fine. You're not a hockey reporter. Integrity, that's what integrity sounds like, Dan. What happened to Orlovski?

Wait, is that the sound? That was one of the sounds I made. It's also Wildebeest mating in a small bathroom. I was just about to say, I do not want to think about the other context in which Dan makes that sound. It's exactly that context. I think you just made Jessica gag on food. I think Jessica was, Jessica's been eating a sandwich here,

like aggressively. Play the sound again and focus on Jessica's face. Jessica, think about this. Jessica's been aggressive sandwich eating. That's wrong what you're doing, Mina. Orlovsky, he did a very tearful, emotional goodbye to NFL Live and then popped up two weeks later on first take.

What's the story with him? I was on NFL Live with him yesterday. But he said, I'm not gonna be seeing you guys for a long time, people don't know what happens in the future and it seemed like he was saying goodbye and his contract was up. And then he was back a couple of weeks later. He was in Hawaii.

All right, so he went to Disneyland too. He had the misfortune of going to Disneyland on the one day in Los Angeles it rained. What are the Raiders gonna do? I think it's an interesting one because I do think that it might take some movement on their part with the quarterbacks. I do think, I know there's gonna be interest in a rookie. To me, they seem like the Sam Darnold destination.

So if I had to make a prediction now, I could be wrong. I would say Sam Darnold plus a rookie who's not one of the top two guys. Number one pick, Abdul Carter allegedly going to be participating in the pro day, maybe even running. There's rumors that he runs a four, three. There was some momentum taken away from him because the injury surgery not recommended. What are you hearing a few days removed from the combine?

The Titans dream how they would love for this is to play out is that one of the, so I guess the Giants or the Browns panics and tries to get to 1-1 to take Cam Ward. Everybody I've talked to, to a man has agreed Cam Ward is QB1 in this draft. There's several teams that are interested in him. So for the Titans, the way I view this draft, and I think a lot of most people do, there's two truly, truly elite players, Abdul Carter, the pass rusher and Travis Hunter. If they can just stay in the top three while maneuvering down and grabbing picks, they

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