The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: Stugotz's Weekend Observations

Episode Date: February 10, 2025

Dan has a story about being racist in New Orleans, but he can't decide if he wants to tell us about it. Then, it's time for Stugotz's Weekend Observations and he has plenty after Super Bowl Sunday. Stu touches on Tom Brady being back, the Anthony Davis-Luka Doncic trade, his Top 5 People If They Were Named After Things In New Orleans, Jimmy Butler and the Warriors, Spags, Fangs, "the guy who says he isn't contagious," Eli Manning lying, Jalen Hurts as a tier 1 QB, Aaron Rodgers, and his new Top 5 QBs of all-time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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gets to be right because the Chiefs lost and we will get to his weekend observations in a second. But please do not let me get out of here today without telling the story, embarrassing to me, very embarrassing to me, of me being racist in New Orleans. Do not let me get out of here today. Oh, I won't. I think we might. No? Yep.

Before telling the story. Bad for business, I would say. Mm-hmm. That's a tease. Yes. It's a great tease. Thank you. Still doing it after 20 years in the business at that but thank you if we did it the

old-fashioned way radio people would stay around i could tease it all week uh... and i may because it's it's a good story and i'm gonna have corroborators and witnesses and uh... you guys i think are going to just laugh at me in a way that's uh... pretty good let's get this Stugatz's weekend observations. It is time for Stugatz to share his game notes. No one in the media will tell you what happened better than my boy Stu.

Weekend observations brought to you by Miller Lite. Dan, he had the worst two-year stretch of his career. He lost his wife who went on to have a kid with somebody else. Then there were questions about his broadcasting skills and whether or not he was the greatest of all time. But last night, what last night, Dan, everything changed really because that debate was put to bed. Jessica, you can't believe this. He's going to say it. I'm going to say it. He's going to say it. I'm going to say it and Dan just like that make no mistake about it. And Dan, just like that. Make no mistake about it. Tom

Brady is back. Goat. He said it. He's back. Mahomes is still on track. For what? Seven rings. Goat. He's nuts. Brady's record in these Super Bowls in terms of stats a lot better too. I mean, Mahomes is seven touchdowns, seven interceptions in the Super Bowl. Mahomes is lost by 40 points, the two games. That a boy. Presently clearer that Tom Brady is the greatest

of all time in his sport than it is even Michael Jordan. And that comes down to rings as well. You're taking it a little too far. I mean, it's Michael Jordan. The answer is always Michael Jordan. The gulf between Brady and Second Fest is larger than it is in the NBA. LeBron is both the youngest player to score 40 plus in a game and the oldest player to ever score 40 plus in an NBA game.

And? I'm just saying, to his point, whatever you think the difference is, it's not the difference between he played in 10 Super Bowls, it's nuts. And pro Jordan fans will always go on the argument of rings because they do that so often when LeBron can't do that against Tom Brady.

No. So Brady, Jordan, Mahomes, LeBron. Jordan, Brady. Yeah, what a time to be alive. Brady has more rings than Jordan. Doesn't matter. Put his rings in a box. Well, in my personal record book,

Jordan has eight rings, of course, stugatsbook.com, because he took the two years off, Elijah won one too, that he never would have won, Elijah doesn't have any, Kenny Smith never makes it to TNT. I mean, how about that? No tiger. Think if he went golf, you would go with Jack, right? Golf, the golf in golf is also smaller

than it is in the NFL. Golf of America, I shouted through the plane. That's not a thing. He should have called it the Gulf of America too while he was at it. It would have been more on brand. Again, coming up soon, Dan's racism. Andy Reed, do it with Jalen Hurtz.

How's that blockbuster Anthony Davis, Luca Donkic trade going? The big nothing trade Seriously you guys made the biggest deal out of this trade nothing burger And just like that Dan Nick Sirianni is a leader of men Chris can you find for me the original press conference that we all made fun of of Sirianni? I just want to play that back. His original introductory press conference please. I tried to tell everybody something was just a little bit off in Kansas City. I wasn't wrong. Just early. Unfortunately for all of us, Nick Sirianni undressed Andy Reid. You

know what Kansas City was doing all season, Dan? I don't, but he didn't. They were playing with fire. He didn't undress Andy Reid. I mean he did. You thought that was an out coaching situation? Oh, absolutely. Yes.

Are you kidding me? They built that team to beat Kansas City and they beat Kansas City. You think Sirianni is the reason that they did that? You think something that Fangio did yesterday was why they did that? I mean, Sirianni gets the credit, does he not? He's a leader of men now. I mean, I can't think of a single coaching decision

he made in that game. Fangio didn't do a good job yesterday. No, he did a great job, but if four guys- It blitzed once. He didn't have to blitz because the defensive line did a great job for Fangio and their DBs are great and Kansas City's receivers aren't any good play you practice Dan. Yeah Dan you know what happens when you are constantly playing with fire

You get burnt eventually you do yeah, I love we got to make t-shirts. I wasn't wrong. I was early That is so good like we have to make we have to make chief make t-shirts, I wasn't wrong, I was early. That is so good. Like we have to make Chiefs t-shirts with Stugats's face on them, because now being against the Kansas City Chiefs is a thing, Stugats, you can become the hood ornament on that. I'd love to see it as someone who advocated for Alex Smith over Patrick Mahomes.

Alex Smith wins that game. Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. Does Alex Smith win that game? For anyone who compared Patrick Mahomes to Tom Brady before yesterday, you have until the close of business today, which for me is 1 PM Eastern to take it back. COB. Tyreek Hill took it back. You don't see a lot of that. Really? Tyreek Hill just took it back. He says I took it back. Before the deadline.

Tyreek Hill says everything I said after the season emotionally, I just take it back. I'm sorry. Jason Sehorn walked so Cooper DeGene could run. Cooper DeGene, sneaky athletic. Sneaky. He's sneaky. He's a white corner. What do you mean? It's sneaky athletic. He's enormously athletic. Jalen Hurts, welcome to tier one. No. Oh yeah. He's there. No. No, he's there. He's tier one. I mean for now. Come on. How can you's there. He's tier one. I mean for now. Come on

How can you say he's not a tier one quarterback? He's been to two Super Bowls in three years and he won one. How many are in the tier? Because Sturgant you only do this is did he win games when it's not a quarterback stat? Yeah, that game was not you think Jalen Hurts was the he was playing a different sport than Patrick Mahomes was playing the entire day my tears He also played really well in the first Super Bowl that they lost I'll play them. Yeah Tier one In honor of the Super Bowl in New Orleans top five famous people if they were born after something that

New Orleans is known for Oli Edgar Allen Poe Boy I don't understand this list. Is it just gonna be New Orleans things? Yeah, okay. Oh, I Billy Jean King cake Number five. Jambalaya Elliott's number four. Cajun Langdon. Number three.

What's wrong with that? It's Trajan. It's not Cajun Langdon. It's not. It rhymes. It's my list. Okay. Number three, Apollo Creole. Fine. No, no, no. Number two, Dan Marty Graziano. And number one, Binyeye Hilario. Graziano. Here come the Canucks. Canucks. Tomato, tomato. He's been doing this for years.

Tomato, potato. He doesn't know how to do it. Quinn here is now out for the four nations. Amen, amen. The Empire State Building should be embarrassed for putting Green Eagles colors on its building. That building has no You can't do that. It's a one color. You cannot throw on the

Empire State Building. You can't do it. There's actually two colors. There's Boston Green and then there's Philadelphia Green and I imagine Boston Blue Red, whatever the Red Sox are. You just can't. You don't celebrate

certain teams in New York. Philadelphia is one of them. Is it two, three? How many colors are you putting that you can't put on? What is the ruling you're making here? Philadelphia, Boston, you can never put their colors on the Empire State Building, unless something tragic happens. That's it.

But not in celebration. Boston Marathon, I understood, you know? Okay, one time exception, you're allowing. I have marveled at Jessica's shoveling. Is that granola? Like, it has been. Yeah. It's really good.

You've noticed that too, right? No, but it's been for like seven straight minutes. It's been genuinely impressive to watch. She is just eating granola with her hands. And it's- The conveyor belt of granola. It's a lot. It's not a little bit of granola.

I've dropped so many of it on Saugr's head. There is so much granola all over Wisconsin. I assumed that the dog, a dog that was not the previous dog, Willa, that was in here was covered in crumbs. And I assumed that she would also have it on her shirt because she was clearly not eating with any utensils. It's everywhere. was clearly not eating with any utensils. I mean, so, but if it was, if Willow was there, it would get eaten, correct?

Yes, that's correct. She's just grazing the entire time. Look, she has been- Grazing is polite. She has been putting- It's like a shovel, a hand shovel. Three finger, yeah, well, it's been a little, what is that? What is a little- A backhoe. A trowel? What is a little backhoe? trial

What are you trying to say? Yeah, she said it correctly all it took for Mackay Bekden to reach his potential Was getting as far away from the Jets organization as possible. I hate them To whoever decided to change the Fox score bug, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Oh, you don't like it. You like Brady, but not that. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. That's all I'm saying. Brady was great. He was good. No. No. You didn't think he was good? He was good for him. We already had this conversation. Yeah. He was good for him, but not good for a broadcast. But he's back right no well. He is

Nobody loves helping facilitate a three-team trade quite like the Utah Jazz They're always in there the 13 Danny Danny age really he is the hero for the modern age on people who just really love to think that their picks would all be better than Anthony Davis. Danny Age and the collection of picks that is the plague upon sports right now where every person listening to this only thinks of him as a pick collector.

Jimmy Butler, instant dividends. You see that game? Wow, down 20 to Chicago. Jimmy Butler, instant dividends. You see that game? Wow. Down 20 to Chicago. Oh, some say too much ego in that locker room. I say not enough. You want more ego in the Warriors locker room? It's working.

Through one game. Through one game, it did work. It looked good. It looked fun. That's what it looks like when Jimmy insists on getting 13 free throws. Dan Lebaton, taking Super Bowl week off so he can instead hold a self-centered sit down with Dan Patrick.

Dan, the StuGOTs is strong in you. I enjoyed that. I gotta be honest with you. I really did. I thought you did a great job. I thought Dan Patrick was very unfair to you afterwards. I did. how I'm just saying that you're probing through his life and making him talk about stuff he

didn't want to talk about what did he think you were gonna do that's what you do that is what I do you crack people open I was I was told that I did not know I could not hear from the back of the room, but it was relayed to me that, I think Dan Patrick's producers have narc'd on you, that you made it so loud in the back that they couldn't hear what was being said on stage. They also made fun of us and said that we talk over you all the time.

How about if you're a self-respecting venue, you buy speakers that you can hear the show everywhere? Whoa, I am not taking out Tipatina's... Who cares we're never going there again. That's a legendary spot. Dan Mike though, that's a legendary spot. They host one thing and you know, new kids on the block to a music video upstairs for you to buy some speakers.

They've hosted a number of different things. Some might say MetalArk should be responsible for those speakers. But again, speaking in the back of the room about DP, I mean. Was Stugat. It was stating, don't bring your own chairs. I mean, DP lied about Super Bowl Saturday. So I called him, I said one word, liar!

We couldn't hear you. We couldn't hear you up front, but you would understand how it is that his producers are different than our producers. Yeah, they're all men. Nothing is less believable than the guy who says he isn't contagious. I might be looking at you, Billy. Are you sick? Starting to feel it.

Sniffles, little sniffles. Grotes. The shovel pass isn't as cute when you were down by 34. Such a good point. Such a good point. The forgotten play from this Super Bowl. My god, do you realize all of

the people who would have been hyperventilating for months if that little flip for 6 yards to Kelsey had been a decider on third down, if it mattered at all. Yep. The S in Super Bowl stands for snooze fest. The B in Super Bowl stands for Brady. Joe Shane should get a ring. Congratulations to the entire Chiefs team because somehow Drake was still the biggest

loser from the Super Bowl. You can't spell MVP without the V in Vic Fangio. Fangs! What a game by Fangs. Game of his life, huh? You didn't have to do anything. Well, we did a lot. We held them scoreless.

You didn't have to do anything. Just hey, send the four guys up there as fast as you can. I know they there. I know they scored the second half the only guy with this take today I mean, thank you Today when everybody said was the most talented quarterback ever in a Super Bowl, but it's seldom scoreless to 22 guys spags also listen those boys don't count those are garbage points They didn't count the defense took their foot off the pedal, so I'm sorry. Sometimes less is more. Yep.

And that's what those points counted, Billy. Spags did his job yesterday as well. That was won by the defensive line. Right. Whose defensive line? Patrick Mahomes has never had that game before. Dick Fangio's offensive line. Right.

I just like the lane of salty Dolphinspan, who's like, Fang sucks, he's still bad. I'm not even saying of salty Dolphins fan. Who's like thanks sucks. He's still bad I'm not even saying that I'm just you should still gotta come down from that I'm simply saying to everybody that I will not look at that game and have you tell me that Siriani and Vic Fangio Look out coach them. They could play that game a hundred times It would look that way because of the advantages they had on both lines You would say this though right the Eagles built the Perfect roster to beat that Kansas City Chiefs team right you would say that built a pretty

So howie roseman gets a coaching had nothing to do with yesterday's I'm not saying look guys You don't need to be extremes no spags did an excellent job stop the MVP of the league, but what Philadelphia had offensively physically that was obvious to everyone watching is those advantages up front Usually don't exist like that Baltimore has some of them and when you see him they score 40 points It was shocking to see Kansas City pushed around like it's usually not that obvious. It never is that obvious It's never that obvious where you're watching a physical game and you're like, oh man, all the Philadelphia's guys are 360 on the offensive line. And still Kansas City stopped that, but on defense they couldn't do anything? Like, Mahomes is great, he didn't choke.

That's not, that's not him having a bad performance. That's him, that's him having, knowing football and having zero confidence that anyone is going to stop it from feeling the way it did against Tampa when all the world's pressure was on him and They couldn't block for defensive lineman. I mean, it's hard to say he didn't choke last night I mean just because you've won doesn't mean you can't choke Okay, so a guy who's 16 and four in the playoffs right now choked in that one with 19 games of experience. Okay aqua

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and now I think we're just playing a game in this studio where we're just naming safeties. Kind of like the 90s baseball player game. Like a couple minutes ago, I just blurted out Brock Marion. Great one. And it made a few people happy blurted out Brock Marion. Great one. And it made a few people happy. Yep. Stugats. Bob Sanders. Yeah. No, he was early in the list. Classic. Very cathartic. Yeah. Adam Archuleta. Not a good safety though, but a

great name and a name. He had a run. A name alone sounds like he should be better. Adam was a good safety for a few years. Did someone say Brock Marion? Yeah, so that's where this was a gambit Hey, listen, I'm struggling with memory as I get older. This is the down Libertar show with the Stu guards Every time I see Rob Polinka, I'm shocked. It's not Rob low Still no low is age better than polinka. Yeahenka used to look like Lo and Lo doesn't age. That's not, I don't even blame Palenka on that. It's just Lo doesn't get old. Palenka ages like a normal human being and Lo is going to be a teen star for the rest

of his life. It's, you know, I mean, surely Mike will accuse Rob Lo of something. Why hasn't Paleninka's hair changed? What's going on there? And also, I saw a great photo of John Ham next to Rob Lowe. No one enjoyed Bourbon Street more than John Ham. He went ham. Put it on the poll, Juju. Did anyone enjoy Bourbon Street more than John Ham? To be fair to Nico Harrison, who could have possibly seen Anthony Davis getting hurt?

They tried to tell us we weren't watching the game closely enough, Stu. Hey Super Bowls, enough with the Roman numerals. I mean seriously. We did this on Mystery Create. Just give me a 60. I mean 59, whatever. Enough. I'm tired of trying We did this on Mystery Create. Just give me a 60. I mean, 59, whatever. Enough.

I'm tired of trying to figure this out. Do you know Pablo can't count Roman numerals? Put on the poll at LeBatard Show. Hey, Super Bowl, enough with the Roman numerals. Yes or no? Thank you. Demar Hamlin, she wouldn't come back player of the year. Every year he plays.

Joe Burrow came back from a wrist injury. Demar Hamlin came back from death. So you're going to just keep giving it to him. Name it after him every year. Yeah, everything else pales in comparison, does it not? Yes, pretty much. It is not under dispute that if you die in the field and are resuscitated that is coming back better than from a wrist injury. The person who shushes me because they only care about the commercials. I hate you. Enough. The commercials.

Hey tip of the cap to one UB Brown. Have we tipped the cap yet? I'm gonna tip a cap. Briefly, yes. Yes, he deserves it. 91 years old. Legend, Dan. Absolutely. Yeah. I mean, got to do it his way, till 91. And whatever you think of other broadcasters and how they age, I don't know that I've seen one age this well into 91 because of how much he loves basketball. Close second main.

Broadcasting and teaching basketball, because the arguments can be made that he taught more basketball than anyone in the history of the sport I saw the stat on Twitter that he coached or broadcasted 80% of NBA players in history. That's amazing Yeah, I hope it's true. He's an archive. That would be good if it were true. Yes. I Too hope it's true. That's good vetting by you executive producer with journalism standards I wonder what the difference is between our producers and this I mean higher one woman Just what?

Fritzie was on my plane to Chicago It's a lot nicer to me in person than he was on the air. I think I didn't notice Fritzie. Come on man person than he was on the air. I think I didn't notice Fritzy. Come on man. I like Fritzy. He's a top 5 guest booker all the time. I don't want to feud with the Dan Patrick show from any angle. Ah, they started it. I mean, I just showed up. Supported you. But he just showed up to support us. Fritzy didn't. I was there. Best abilities availability, Dan. Well, Fritzy's boycotting. Does anyone know what the boycott's about? I have an idea. What's the boycott? I don't want to ask. I don't want to ask. I don't even want to ask.

It can be me. We could start a bidding war. We could sit you in their studio in an actual boycott. Like, sit in their studio, like here. Yeah. You know what the Celtics did to the Knicks over the weekend? They reminded them who's who. I did see that. Why are you laughing at that though? When it happens to your team?

I don't know. Just, uh, everyone thinks the Celtics are like an unworthy champion. They're ridiculously good. That they are. They were ridiculously good. That they are. They were very good last year, and they did that to Cleveland too. Did you mention that when they went into Cleveland 10 days ago and did it?

I didn't mention that, no. Just to my nicks. I don't know why I'm laughing. It's my nicks. I mean, it's an odd reaction. I haven't watched a sport in three years, to be honest. You and Mike Ryan as well, yeah. Anthony Davis has been hurt the whole time.

Slowly coming back though, he's still hurt. So what'd you guys think of death threats? Death threats? Yeah, I wasn't a fan of that, and don't do that. That's a bad look, don't do that, that's a bad thing. Don't do that. You're not a fan of death threats. No, in fact I'm coming out publicly against them.

Are there many fans? You're not a fan of death threats. No, in fact I'm coming out publicly against them. Are there many fans? He had to hire personal security at his home, like it's threatening enough that he feels like he's gotta add an expense around his house because he's the one who traded Luca. That's a scary time for him. No, I think that's legitimate.

I mean, there's vile stuff being sent to him. I understand it's emotional time. You can make the, you can tell yourself that they should have not have traded Luca. I get that, but no, there's civility and decorum. You guys want to see my limited fake impression of Nico Harrison when he saw Anthony Davis get injured during that game?

F**k. Into his hand? That's pretty good. Couldn't get it seen. Right, so let me see your- That's how you have to do it. Let me see, yes, but really hurting, right? Yeah, oh, the thing just happened

everyone thought would happen. Halftime, he's great, he's nine for 12. Look, he's not a number two, he's not a number one. We're gonna compete. He announces I'm here. Yeah, I'm here, we're gonna compete. One half of Anthony Davis basketball, and then you're out for a few weeks.

Let me hear him again. F***. Good work. You're not, you're not like Dan Patrick's producers at all. You're better. Fritzie can never. Chris was on a roll last week while you were out. He missed it.

He was good. Right Chris? Okay. Eli Manning saying he's at peace not making it to the Hall of Fame on the first ballot liar Eli Manning more like I lie Manning no Reggie Wayne either odd Well I don't I don't actually want to in any way disparage an amazing Sterling Sharp but how many years has it been like what what changed here in the last many years that I'm not used to seeing those things and it was a beautiful. I know what you're gonna do you're gonna try to give his brother

credit for it? No I'm not wait a minute that's what you're open the door for. That would be disparaging it. They do get promotion I mean. I would not, wait a minute. That's what you're open the door for. That would be disparaging it. They do get promotion. I mean. I would not disparage it. I just legitimately haven't looked it up. And so, look, I know how great Sterling Sharp was. I would have thought he was already in the Hall of Fame. I'm legitimately asking what just,

this is an unusual amount of time to go. And I didn't know whether there was any backstory there that I didn't know that I needed to know. Eric Allen also joined probably too late. Probably. Great peepers. All-time peepers. Amazing. Some of the nicest. Yes. Legumes. Yes. Beautiful lagoons. Could stare into them for hours. Eagles play the Bengals next Sunday. Who Next Sunday, who wins? The Eagles? I don't know. I feel very strongly about this.

I'm going Eagles. Bad defense is gonna have a hard time against the Eagles. Bad defense is gonna be a problem. Taking Barrow. I'm pretty confident it'd be the Eagles. But I like this college football brain take of yours. The Bengals are like a SEC team, I guess. Bama would have beaten the Chiefs.

Look, for the record, lest the history get lost in getting all lightheaded about like my homes and Brady and how they know how to win, the Eagles winning two championships, like in one case with their backup quarterback, and then with a quarterback, they're not hiding, but a quarterback that has a lot of help that would allow a lot of quarterbacks to be good,

because that's the kind of help that you need. The popular take was, in terms of effectiveness, he's the least effective of their skill guys. The Eagles won 37 to 17 when they played each other earlier this year. Listen, Mike, you say the least effective of their skill guys, no, I was trying to ask this question different ways last week and never did it really well. If I were to say by position on the Eagles give me guy

where he ranks best in the league amongst his peers at doing that job I don't know how low I go before I arrive at Jalen Hurts and I mean that as no disparagement of Jalen Hurts. He's got about seven or eight guys that you can make the argument do that job. Lane Johnson does his job better than Jalen Hurts does his job. Meaning AJ Brown's a top five receiver,

Devante Smith is a top, I don't know, 20 receiver. How many quarterbacks do you go before you get to Jalen Hurts? You're at Jalen Hurts as a tier one quarterback. He is yeah No, this is by this definition would not say Kwan Barkley is best in a game. Maybe best in show Like there was a movie those offensive line Grades are very strong Nobody cares nobody cares. This is the thing about football though

I don't understand why it is that we don't talk about the part that, oh, they're more physical upfront stronger than everybody on the offensive and defensive line. We don't understand that part of it. Like we don't. And no one cares about it. The most obvious part of it though. Sometimes it gets mitigated. Right.

Yeah, you say it's the most obvious part. The line was essentially, they were an underdog by a point. I know, but when I talk about, yes I'm look I just want to ask you guys when Chris Jones is laying down on the goal line because it's not a stoppable play with that offensive line for two yards do you understand that this is a tank moving through a real estate acquisition game that's more physically violent than all the others? There have been Niners defensive lines where I go into games against the Kansas City Chiefs thinking that that D-line has the advantage and it doesn't necessarily work out that way and everybody would like to point to, well the Denver Broncos dominant line, of course

they're going to dominate Cam Newton. You don't really know until you see it. You don't really know how all the pieces and there's an element of coaching. So shout out to Dick Fangio. We need to speed this up because we got to get to Dan's racism. Aaron Rodgers, the rare quarterback, that you're just as excited the day you get rid of him as the day you got him. Do we really need another OJ Simpson documentary? The Bronco, the glove, we get it, he did it, if the glove doesn't fit, you should have quit. How about we quit making the documentary? How's that sound?

You must have quit by the way. Basketball is better with Dicky V. Jessica, what are you shaking your head about? You got the line wrong. So I guess we do need another one. It's a fine. Did you see we're getting another Prince documentary because we're not getting the original one? No! Yeah, the Prince's estate came out and said,

essentially, you're never gonna see that other one, but we've announced a new deal for one that we like. Crushing. Philly fans, and this is most of you, if you fired Nick Sirianni at two and two, do me a favor, don't show up to the parade. He didn't show it but no one enjoyed last night's game more then Tom Brady my revised top five quarterbacks of all time based off of

last night's results number five Troy Aikman three wins without the two losses Terry Bradshaw, four for four. Joe Montana, four for four. Number two, Tom Brady before Dan declared that he was done. And number one, Tom Brady after Dan declared that he was done.

Tom Brady's back, Stugat says. He is, watch out for the lightning. Solid team, they're always around, man. They are. That is one of Stugat's finest ninja moves. It never gets old, he's got perfect comedic timing on it. I don't know how it's something that doesn't expire or age. He always surprises me after all these years with watch out for. Bill Parcells was right when he said it.

He is still right today. And he'll be right as long as games are being played on a football field. Run the ball. Stop the run. The Big Tuna. Visionary. I really didn't think, he wasn't wrong, he's just early. I just really didn't think in 2025,

I'd be sitting here saying, you know how you win the game? Beat him up front in the trenches. The game always comes back around though him up front in the trenches. The game always comes back around though, Dan. In the trenches, yes. It always does. It's back to basics. Here's something to ponder.

Did Nick Saban send the wrong quarterback to Oklahoma? What do you think? I don't want to revise. You don't need to discuss it now. It's something in the pond there. Okay, thank you. Philly, I'm not joking. I don't want to see more than a thousand people at that parade. Oh, come on.

What are you talking about? It's going to be a total carnival. I know, but they shouldn't be there. They all fired their coach at two and two. You guys are... Philadelphia is going to get more crazy for this than they would in any sport, correct? Yes. It'll be bigger than hockey and basketball and baseball and those fan bases are plenty passionate, but it's not this, right?

Well, it's the Eagles and they love the Eagles, but it's the Eagles beating the cheats. That's... I mean, I just, I think of, what do you think of Philadelphia as? Because I think of them as a, I think of them as football first, even though. I think baseball, to be honest. The winning hasn't, the football hasn't won the most, but I think of it as a, it thinks of itself as a football city, I thought. The last time they won the Super Bowl, oof, it was scary.

If Adam Vinatieri isn't a first ballot Hall of Famer, no kicker ever will be. To anybody playing pickleball, do me a favor. Grab a racket, go out on a real court, hit a real serve, and play tennis like Johnny McEnroe intended. Johnny Mac What are we doing with pickleball? It's glorified ping-pong. It's good exercise. I don't care what it is. Play tennis. If Jason Kelsey celebrated with his ex-teammates last night, he's a bad brother.

Jason Kelsey, Kansas City Chiefs collision course. Put it on the poll. If Jason Kelsey celebrated with his former teammates last night, is he a bad brother? Cooper DeGene and Saquon Barkley winning a Super Bowl with his former teammates last night. Is he a bad brother? Cooper DeGene and Saquon Barkley winning a Super Bowl on their birthday. Hell of a birthday. Speaking of hell, or Pryles,

Dan, those are the weekend observations. Thank you. So you being racist, let's go. I'll get there in a second. Maybe I won't. I'm gonna tease it all week. It's a good story and we're gonna get the guests involved so we can make maximum fun of it. Jessica, do you agree with Stugatz's take that, put it on the poll, Juju, that pickleball is glorified ping-pong?

Yes, it is live-action ping-pong. I haven't played in a while. I actually want to play again. I miss it a little bit, but I'm always scared I'm gonna tear my achilles it is a problem uh... it is plaguing the sport you know i love the game of tennis me and mike we love tennis and what's happening is then they're taking apart tennis courts are replacing them with pickleball courts pickleball is killing tennis and i'm not a fan of the credit tennis racket string it up and go play some real tennis and that's what it on the pole is pickleball killing tennis uh... also play for me the sound just so you know who the champion is because you

guys are telling me that all i'm saying is that coaching doesn't matter it's not what i'm saying i'm saying kansas city at one you would have told me that's by a spag did a great job and he did do a great job he stopped sequon barkley it's amazing i don't know how the hell he did that they were able to do it all game somehow and it didn't matter because the game is made a lot of easier for jail and hurts when you've got all of these guys and philadelphia knows all you're trying to stop seqon i'll just thought forty five

yards down the field because i think that we can't cover everybody i got too many for you have any of the government of the israeli jim brown okay good luck with that uh... because the game is like, you do understand what we were watching yesterday is Jalen Hurts afforded the opportunity to play a totally different sport than the one that Patrick Mahomes was playing.

Of course, yes. Okay, and so when I don't say, I'm not saying coaching doesn't matter, I'm saying this is your champion today, introductory press conference. Next thing that's very important to me is that we build a smart football team. That we have a smart football team here.

And I know we have the people in place to do that. The first part of that, the first part of being smart is knowing what to do. We're gonna we're gonna know we're gonna have systems in place that are easier to learn. Alright complicated to the defense or offense that they're going against or the special teams group they're going against but easy for us to learn because when we Can put that because we when we can learn our system and we can get good at our system Then our talent can take over less thinking equals talent take over But we need to have systems in place and we will have systems in place and here's the system

We're gonna punch in the mouth All game long and you're gonna lose and Chris Jones going to be in the fetal position on the goal line. But today he sounds like a genius. He actually did call a shot with their first Super Bowl run. Their whole advantage was decisiveness, less thinking. Jalen Hurts knows where he's going with it better than anybody, quicker than anybody else. Because we made fun of this. So you're saying this aged well.

No, it definitely shaped my opinion. I thought this coach was incapable. I thought he picked great assistants the first go around and I thought the NFL would catch up to him and for a while there it looked like they might. They went into that bye week, totally reshaped themselves. It's a credit to him. He's certainly got a great eye for talent when it comes to coordinators. Dan, thinking equals talent takeover. You two are a visionary because you told us many many years ago the most important thing in the NFL for success is being able to get to the quarterback with for well but and that's what he was doing but beyond that though there is simple

genius okay there is simple genius in we've got an offensive coordinator who's a hot shot and has ego and what we're going to do is we're just going to run the ball that's what we're going to do and everything will play off that so no racism we're just gonna run the ball. That's what we're gonna do and everything will play off that. So no racism. Hey folks, it's Mike Ryan. It is big game week. And I've got just the thing to make your big game time a Miller time. From fireside conversations to football Sundays,

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