The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: The Miami Revenge Tour

Episode Date: December 9, 2025

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Notre Dame is declining a bowl invitation after being left out of the playoffs. I don't like it. If you don't get it, you're way you just take your ball and go home you can not be an independent control your own schedule and then pout when you don't get in we're nother day so we just belong in the playoffs forget who we played or who we lost to will just be digging our hills down in the sand cancelling our Christmas travel plans Taking our ball

With us and going home To prove a point to the committee Because we couldn't beat the good teams That we played I think we'll just opt out The only option here is be Whiting Clouds I think we'll just stop down

There's nothing else to do But just sit and pal I think we'll just stop down We've got a bitch and moon Because they left us out I think we'll just stop down We're petty baby boys And we're crashing out

I did not expect To be as excited About the way things played out With the Miami Hurricanes yesterday As I was Like I don't lose sleep over the hurricanes All right I don't lose sleep over

College sports It's kids, it's student athletes You know? Like I don't let it make me angry. And I was on the plane yesterday getting back from the SEC championship game, and I got the selection show on my phone. So now when we arrive at Miami airport, I'm walking through the airport, watching on my phone. And once they got to Alabama at number nine, it said Alabama, like, oh, Cain's got a shot now. Because if it said

Alabama at nine, Cains are screwed. And then... If it said Notre Dame at night. Yeah, what did I say? He said Alabama. If it said Notre Dame, and I'm like, oh, Cain's a screw. But if it says Alabama, got a chance. What if I held out hope? The Cains had passed Alabama and the AP vote. And, I mean, that performance was really bad. And if you were leaning on history, hell, if you were leaning on that show,

teams that lost a conference championship slid. And they lost their conference championship the worst. It's one year. It's one year history, though. No, no, no, no. No. every year of the CFP. You lose that game.

There was a reigning national champion Georgia team that ended up beating Florida State by 70 that lost its SEC championship game that didn't have a chance to defend its title. I don't think it's comparable to compare a four team and a 12 team. It's such different circumstances. But in the expanded playoff, everybody slides.

And for that team to be the one lone outlier that didn't slide, it makes it kind of strange. and it was maybe a little tip of the hand when they climbed inexplicably over Notre Dame. We did mention that maybe they're guarding against them losing in the SEC title game by them putting Alabama over Notre Dame when Notre Dame was pretty dominant against Stanford and Alabama had a bad game, a game in which they almost blew a 17-point lead to 5 and 7 Auburn, a team that's not very good, but the committee raised them and they gave all sorts of weird logic for it. but you're right once Alabama flashed up on that graphic I was like okay well I'm prepared for this one

this is the fight that we've been fighting for a month question if Duke does not win the ACC championship because once Duke won the ACC championship like all right I thought there was a chance I thought it was a good chance the Keynes were going to get screwed because Alabama's going to bump down and that's going to keep that stupid buffer that they've been lying to us about for the past month in between Notre Dame and Miami. But because Duke won the ACC championship, is the committee going to say, we can't not have an ACC team in? So you know what?

Miami. You're in like, like, do you think that, did that actually help the Keynes? I mean, I just, I'm curious, because of all the things you said, the one thing you said that was correct is that Notre Dame has a right to feel Duke. And the reason why is because every show, I mean, Mike's. anger week by week is based on the one thing where it's like they're ignoring it, they're ignoring it, they're ignoring it. And then at the last minute, they're like, oh, that's right, Mike's right. But nothing changed between those two teams. They were idle. Nothing. So how, I'm wondering how they're going to explain that to the world. I want to chew on that for a second, but briefly, let me get back to the original point. About Duke. Hunter Eurocheck made it very clear to the point that it was pretty convincing that the Duke Virginia game had zero impact on this Miami-Noderdane decision. And I'm with you. I kind of feel like it's hard to turn to the Big 12 and the ACC and say two group of fives get in and only one of your little conglomerate get in.

I'm with you when I was laying my head down and go to sleep on Saturday night. I was like, I guess I want Duke to win because it's a little extra, but the CFP has been consistent and strong, stronger than anything else that when saying the Duke victory had nothing to do with those. Don't forget what was also working against Miami was the night before Friday night, Boise won the Mountain West. and that helped Notre Dame's case because it strengthened their schedule

a team that they crushed just won their conference. My question is if Virginia would have won, would that have forced the community to have some sort of conversation about Virginia or no? No, Virginia would have gone in. Virginia would have gone in. Yeah, Virginia would have gone in automatically.

But I want to talk about what a mean reference, which was, it did seem like Notre Dame got caught with their pants down here. And I know what their AD is saying right now. Their AD is taking it out on the ACC, not a fan of how the ACC have taken to their social channels. Remember, Jim Phillips kind of stayed out of this and he just answered,

yeah, Miami deserves to be in, not really taking shots in Notre Dame. I think this has been a very arrogant response from Notre Dame. Oh, very. No, it's arrogant. It's arrogant for sure, but it also reminds me of like, we've all been there where you're dating a significant other. It's like, what do you want for your birthday? I don't want anything. It's okay. I don't want anything.

You don't do anything big. So you don't do anything big. I thought you cared. Like, wait a second. I thought we were on the same page. You told me. You didn't want anything. You told me you don't want anything. And now all of a sudden, I'm wrong. So to tell the audience, Pete Povacua, the Notre Dame AD, went on Dan Patrick's show, and he said the ACC did, quote, permanent damage to its relationship with Notre Dame for all the anti-Irish playoff politicking.

The conference publicly leaned into in this lead up to the selection show. Again, you approach this with an arrogance thinking that head-to-head ultimately wasn't going to matter. I think he also knows that this is deflection, right? He's an administrator, and a lot of Notre Dame fans are upset that he wasn't out there publicly campaigning more, getting out in front of this. Notice he's turned his ire to the ACC, who he has some sort of brilliant partnership with, where he gets all the benefit of the relationship, doesn't have to share any of the revenue with them. Yeah, they don't give them any money, right? No. So, whoa, we're shocked that the ACC is backing one of the teams that

it actually has to share revenue with, rather than a team that has the sweetest deal in all of the sport, that if they make the playoff, none of their success is the ACCs. When Notre Dame is considered for these pools, even though they basically play an ACC-light schedule. They're not part of the ACC narrative. The ACC is a joke. They don't get to claim any of Notre Dame's success while they beat up on their teams. And as of the selection show, apparently beating them doesn't benefit you either. And Rich coming from a team and a school that's like, hey, my mommy has a note that says

that I get to go to your field trip next year. If you've got to do it, like my mom said it's okay. Okay, can somebody explain this to me? I'm a four-year-old, what that report is because, A, I don't understand what it means, and B, B, why is this just coming out now? All right. So this is what Bavakwa told Yahoo Sports. In a part of a memorandum of understanding signed by CEP officials last spring,

Notre Dame will be assured of making the playoff if it is ranked in the top 12 starting next year. Why? That's the deal they struck, man. This is based off of the fact that when it was initially expanded, Notre Dame became So like a year ago, two years ago. Right. When they expanded it, their AD at the time or their former AD, Jack Swarbrick, was part of this. But ultimately what ended up happening, right, is you have these five automatic qualifiers that are all the top five conference champions.

As an independent team, Notre Dame cannot automatically qualify. And in turn, their only option is to be an at-large team. So this memorandum that they ultimately signed was if you're ranked in the top 12, you're going to turn into an automatic bid. Why are we just learning this now and not two years ago? I think it was out there last year. Yeah, I think it was out there last year, and this was a helpful reminder. Ross Dillinger brought it back up to people's attention.

So this is a real thing that's going to be a thing next year. I also think it was in part of a correction that the committee had in which Notre Dame was not eligible for a buy, no matter how good their season was. They changed it after one year. They changed it after one year, and this might have been lumped in on that. I mean, there are ways to guardrail against that. If it comes down to Notre Dame in that 12 seed, the committee can also get out in front of this

and have Miami in front of Notre Dame earlier like they should have. Again, the ridiculous part here is that they set up Notre Dame for this okey-doke, and Notre Dame came with this arrogance saying that it couldn't happen to them, and they believed this BS when at the end of the day they were going to be close on metrics and Miami has the chief tiebreaker that is applied to all a competitive sports. For them to not think that this could happen to them shows a great arrogance on their part. And you can also tell by some of these comments is Pete's not going after the actual power. The AD is not invoking the SEC whatsoever.

He's going after his flat track ACC partners, which I also think is in bad faith. The ACC helped you out in 2020. Bad leadership by Jim Phillips and company to just let them in the end. ACC and have an ACC scheduled the entire time. Remember the Big Ten, Ohio State made the CFP going five and O that year. The ACC had Notre Dame over a barrel. They were helpful to one another. And for them to get nothing but this BS from Notre Dame, go ahead, explore other opportunities. Do it for other conferences because I don't need Notre Dame in my conference. I really don't. I don't need any of this nonsense. I would love to share in the revenue. I would love you to be a

full-fledged member. But if you're going to have your cake and eat it too and not sharing any, any of the spoils and we don't even barely, we barely get credit for when we beat you. Find somebody else. Enjoy the Mountain West, pal. It was an incredible amount of hubris leading up to Sunday. Hubris Davis? You put the tweets out there. Hey, Kane, Alabama, you guys go argue with each other.

Oh, okay. Was that them? Did they tweet that? I thought it was just a... No, like, the fans were like, all right, this is, now that Alabama's been blown out, this is not a Miami Notre Dame thing. Miami had the better argument against both schools. I feel for you. I understand. You feel duped. You feel duped, but that's on you. You should have been

sounding the alarm bells that, hey, there is potential here for the obvious to happen. Miami had a common opponent against Alabama. They lost FSU, Miami beat them. Now, what Alabama had over everybody else. Kate should have been ahead of Alabama too. Strength of schedule. Notre Dame was right there. They lost a head-to-head with Miami, and they didn't have the common opponent deal that Miami had over Alabama. If you had any foresight, like we'd been telling you for weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks, this was going to potentially happen. They should have been more prepared.

The reality is, is if this college football playoff committee was to be any level of consistent, both Notre Dame and Miami would be in. Because BYU is a team that went to their conference championship, got blown out, and in turn, dropped out of the playoff conversation. They were already out if they didn't win the conference champion. But why shouldn't Alabama be?

Right? Because Alabama was a team that was right there, and they got absolutely done. dominated in their conference championship game, which led to a third loss, by the way, negating one of their best wins, right? Where BYU just lost to a team you already knew they weren't as good as. And they got blown out and they got knocked out,

at least to maintain a level of consistency. You could say easily, Notre Dame and Miami, you're better than these two teams. We just saw them go head to head with playoff teams. They got dominated. They're out. That was a de facto playoff game for both. But there's no level of consistency.

You're picking, you're handpicking when you want to use the conference championship game is something that matters or not. She said she didn't want anything. I don't get it. But I do think that you brought up some good points. Zaz, where I think you were going as it pertains to BYU is I hear all the arguments, and you could have argued maybe they should have been included in the field that was in.

But it was out there for BYU. They knew the stakes. They were outside looking in when that game was going to play. Even if they remained the same, they're still out. Yeah. So they knew that they had to win that game to get in because it was an automatic qualifier, and they knew the deal going into it. Like you're mad that Alabama,

didn't move, and so they still get in. Even if BYU didn't move, they still don't get in. So, I mean, does it make sense that one moved and the other one didn't? No, but even if BYU was treated the way Alabama was, they still don't get in. It's fair enough. It's just more like, I think maybe the setup and the conceit from there maybe should have been that BYU would have been ahead of the two teams that are not making a conference championship. But that is something to argue on the back end, right?

you're right. The way it was set up, they needed a way to get in and they knew the stakes of that going in. It just makes no sense to have teams that go to a championship. Like, BYU does drop in the ranking one way or another. Like we see one team drop. We see another team that doesn't. And that's where Notre Dame has to be absolutely furious. And BYU has to have a gripe maybe not as strong as Notre Dame's. The biggest, there's going to be changes one way or another. I don't know what they're going to be. I would start with, we don't need to have this show. And I know it's part of a contract. I know it's part of a contract and it gets the ratings. I get it. But we don't need the show. We really don't because all these rankings leading up to the only ranking that clearly

matters being yesterday, it literally didn't mean anything. Well, it did more than not mean anything. It misled. Yes. Yes. And that's the problem. I don't think the answer is to not have the show. The answer is have the show be done well like have them do what they should have been doing the whole time as opposed to an irony making us have a better show by just having mic mad every goddamn week Kirk Herbstreed echoed this points like that Tuesday show seemed so stupid

because I can understand a fan being for Notre Dame being like how the hell did what happened over the weekend if this was a Miami Notre Dame thing the entire time why didn't you they actually said the opposite it. They told us that Miami and Notre Dame were never in direct comparison. Now, the last few days, they opened the door to that, which I guess Notre Dame should have been prepared for that more. Why? Why the last few days? That's support. This was, Miami had to get right. I wasn't arguing that they should have been ranked ahead in Notre Dame after they lost

SMU because Miami was what felt like in the middle of a spiral turned out to be a hiccup. But once Miami proved that they could write the ship, the F we do them, which has been much to the listeners dismay been my complaint the entire time. I'm watching a clip of him on the Dan Patrick show, the Bacca. His background is like the bleachers, but they've been folded up, and so you can see the numbers. Corny. Corny.

You don't deserve. You don't deserve to be in a playoff. You know what? No one wants you in the bowl game. Get out of here. Now, can we move the conversation forward a little bit? And what I mean by that is the canes. No, no, no, no.

The Keynes are playing one of the teams that Notre Dame lost to, all right? So we can't have this whole to-do leading up to it, and the Keynes get the spot over Notre Dame, and then the Keynes go to College Station and lay a massive egg, all right? Like, now you need to go there and take care of that business, all right? Come on now. out there and let everybody give you and I told you so. You didn't belong. Notre Dame belongs. To speak to the ego of Notre Dame fans, they were people unironically posting that the tile

of the matchup, Miami versus Texas A&M, and all of them quote tweeting, Notre Dame beats both these teams. Notre Dame had the opportunity to play against both these teams. Notre Dame went over two against these teams. So good. That's how they've arrogantly approached the last few weeks is that they don't understand that concept. But in terms of an opponent. This is now a three and a half point line. The market corrected it. Homefield advantage in that sport for a stadium like Cowfield. She's looking like four right now. Look like four.

It's about three and a half in that sport. So this is essentially a coin flip game in the eyes of the odds makers and I can't wait to watch it. I went to Kyle Field four years ago. Mario Crisball, year one. Intimidating? Yeah, I will say that's like the best atmosphere I've ever been at for a game

in terms of intimidation and you feel the stadium rocking. Do you feel all 100,000 people? Do you feel like it's a good matchup for the Keynes because this is the Texas A&M team that even going into that Texas game, we were looking at their schedule. Like, wow, they're really only playing the bottom half of SEC teams. And then they played one of the better ones in Texas. They got their ass kicked. The defense has looked a little leaky here recently. South Carolina is not a good team. They went up 30 at Kyle Field, the aforementioned. They're a line of scrimmage team.

So they play into some of Miami's strengths. I think Miami's playing their best ball. And I don't think Texas A&M is helping their cause because I got about a 24-hour expiration day on being happy to be here before we turn our attention to Texas A&M. And they've already been out there talking. You have an old lineman saying, we don't have to worry about Ruben Bain. That was, that's some quote. He's not a player that we have to worry about. He was asked about, you know, how are you going to stop Ruben Bain?

He's going to be one of the top picks, he's going to be one of the top picks. A guy like chuckles, like, we're not worried about him. Yeah. And Mike Elko, head coach, Mike Elko said that little freshman slot that they have there is a nice player. Okay. All right. We'll find out together. Mike, now, remind me his thing.

Texas A&M to school with the guy who talks like this. Yeah, no, we have to, I think Chris Cody and I have to run it back. Yeah. Four years later. Hello, old friend. And by the way, and by the way, look, I don't want to get it to myself, okay. But the winner of Miami, Texas A&M, you know who they play. Who?

Ohio State. Oh. Zaz. You want to get revenge store? It's lining up very nicely. Have you seen what this revenge store could be? You want to get nuts? Let's get nuts.

All right. If Miami goes to Cal Field and does something that they couldn't do four years ago, which is beat Texas A&M there. Remember, Miami did trounce Texas A&M the following years, won of Tyler Van Dykes better games. But if they beat Texas A&M, as you mentioned, they go to the Cotton Bowl against Ohio State. So we'll have all those Fiesta Bowl highlights,

and that's revenge that has been on Miami's hearts and minds. Every supporter of the Miami Hurricanes has been wanting to see that matchup. If they get past Ohio State, speaking of the Fiesta Bowl, they exercise those demons and it could potentially be Carson Beck against the Georgia Bulldogs. And then

there is a way that this bracket shakes out that if Miami were to somehow go through that murderer's rope because there isn't a tougher path for a team to get to the final than the Miami Hurricanes. But if they do, it's in their home stadium in Miami Gardens and potentially they could be taken on the Oregon Ducks.

Mario Cristobal's old school. There is quite the revenge tour path here. I was going to say quite possibly they could be taken on James Madison. No one believes. Hell yeah, they can. Dude, when you were watching that James Madison game, we were like, I probably shouldn't have come out. That defense in the second half really strong against Troy.

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We're all very excited But you know what A lot of other things happened over the weekend. There was a lot going on. Amin, let's do some weekend observations. Transition. It is time for... I mean...

To share his game notes. No one in the media will tell you what happened better than my boy... I mean. Weekend observations is presented by Miller Light. Zaz? After a couple week of absence, including the internet connection fiasco of last week, which for some reason seemed to really grip both the audience and the show.

It's a bad interconnection. You guys act like it's the first time it's ever happened. Guess what? I'm back. I woke up this morning half expecting the chiefs miraculously pulled it off somehow. Death of a dynasty. Will Taylor Swift write a song about Kansas City's failed relationship with success? Mahomes.

14 to 33 and 3 interceptions. Someone check on Nick Wright. Thank God the CFP is set. Miami made it. So we can finally shut the fuck up about it. Notre Dame. Grow up. Someone check on Smetty.

How about them, Finns? Gutsy. Relentless. Proving Greg Cody right. Don't bend the knee. Someone check on Greg Cody, by the way. Desmond Bain was the second most accurate quarterback in New York yesterday. He hit, I don't know, be right between the numbers. You not see this?

I did, but what's his deal? You know what my favorite part was? He beans him, and then he turns on and he goes, our ball. He points, he points, and then. surprise that I don't know he's pissed up like what's up but it's not even like he was like you could have just taken the ball and started a fast break no yeah I don't know I don't know what that was about the second time he's done that this year yeah the things you learn about a guy he when he gets out of Memphis the NFL always has the most unbelievable injury

reports it'd be like player X lobotomy upgraded to questionable who the fuck is Riley Leonard good to see Mike Tomlin and the Steelers make it out of Baltimore alive you don't know who Riley Leonard is? No. Who that? Former Irish. It's a another name QB. It made it to the national title game.

He played very well for the Irish. I don't watch college football like that. What's college football? Knock knock. Who's there? Pittsburgh Steelers. Steeleers? Who?

Pittsburgh Steelers made it out of Baltimore alive. I'm not very good at knock-knock jokes. Don't look now, but here come to Celtics. Playing well. Jalen Brown. Get out of here. My God. Dan legitimately wondered if the FIFA World Cup draw would have as many viewers as Cowboys Lions.

A billion people tuned in worldwide to the World Cup draw. But yeah, I'm sure I fell a little south of Thursday Night Football. Is he serious? It was a big game on Thursday Night Football. Like, I felt this, he wasn't doing show. He was sincere. It's like, do you think as many people had watched Cowboys Lions, watch the World Cup draw? Like, Dan, are you...

Do we have an actual number on the World Cup draw? It's a billion. It's north of a billion What is that like in share, in TV like All of it A billion? All the TVs? All of it. I think that's a 10% share.

Globally. The Cardinals defense Gave up 530 total yards to the Rams. At one point I think Eric Dickerson rushed for a game. Guys, I think FIFA might be rigged. I got tickets. Thanks to Mike put me on.

My ticket It's turned out to be for Group B, which is Canada, Cutter, and Switzerland. Now it's personal. You bastards. Got nothing. How do you get in an elevator, press L for lobby, and then walk right out when it stops at 15? And, like, not notice. These people do this all the time.

I'm like, you thought this was the lobby? You're that into your phone that you didn't hear the thing, yell out? 15. Like, can't you feel that you only went down one floor? every day, in this building especially. I can't believe Dan let Miro refer to Jeter as Jietz. I try to jump in, I'm like, what? We're going to do this? Everyone just listen quietly to the story.

Frauds. News came out that Chris Paul and Tai Lu hadn't talked in weeks. Weeks! You know how miserable of an asshole you got to be for T. Liu to be avoided? This is not a guy who's like, oh, conflict. Here's an idea for Vince Gilligan. Pluribus but cast Chris Paul. The world population will be decimated midway through episode two.

Do you guys remember when I pitched Vince Gilligan, the idea of a Gilligan's Island reboot, and he liked it? That made Dan mad. Those were the days. Simpler times. He was so upset. Who the fuck is Brady Cook? Kevin Stefansky, get that resume ready, buddy.

You see this? Yeah, what was that play? That's the old, like, oh, you're not the best guy. I'm the guy who makes the wins happen. Like, Shadur, by all accounts, was pretty good yesterday. Yeah. How about let him throw the ball on that plate? Yeah.

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Similarly, you can't be annoyed when said people in the row who got up to go to the bathroom will get concessions or whatever return from that journey. You especially can't be annoyed when this happens during halftime. Oh, come on. Like, I thought they were getting annoyed when it was during play. No. I got up to go and then, oh, and then at the end of halftime, after I haven't done the deed, come back, oh, oh, like, what did you think I was going forever? That's crazy. Also, stand up when people walk through.

You don't want to catch an errant hog to the face. Keep it kosher. Wait, so when you walk past, you front-faced them? Absolutely. What? If you don't get up, that's crazy. If you don't get up, you're getting hog. You front face as you're scooting past.

If you refuse to get up when someone is walking to the aisle, I have the freedom to point my hog in any direction. That's wild. That's wild. You know what's wild? Not standing up. I agree, but still. You know what's wild?

Not standing up and acting annoyed. Front face while you scoot past that's wild. Jude, put it on the pole. Is it okay to front face while you pass someone in an aisle? Okay, C. SGA. Isaiah Hartenstein Lou Dort

Alex Caruso and Isaiah Joe that's a starting five caliber lineup right there and they were still 11 and a half point favorites going in crazy

they won by 30 yeah but if the Knicks add some bench you know Yeah Jesus Christ What the hell was he talking about No not yet Not yet

23 and 1 This week on Cinevob Episode 292 Collateral Damage A movie that Roy let me know It was supposed to come out on 9-11 And it got pushed

Found out later that not only was a delayed, they had to edit it, including a scene where Sophia Vergara plays a terrorist who hijacks a plane. Same thing happened at 24. It was supposed to debut that month. They had to push it back. And an ad with Arnold Schwarzenegger's face

with an explosion behind it, and the tagline, what would you do if you lost everything? Bad timing. Cinephope, wherever you get podcasts. Shout out to Santos, who was at M.A. Hangout the other night Saturday night, a Cinephope fan.

Will Hardy, telling his team during a timeout that the music ran out. Oh, there it is. Will Hardy, telling his team during a timeout, quote, I'm tired of doing this every f***ing game. I feel you, bro. We're all trapped in our own personal hells.

His just comes with millions of dollars. Speaking of hell, Art Bryles. Those are the weekend observations. Good job, I mean. Don Lebertard. John, can you rate my Al Pacino from that billiard scene in Carlito's way if I do it for you?

I think it's pretty good. Yeah. Stugats. You think you're big time? But you're going to die. Big Tom. That is my infamous scale of one to ten. That's a, that's a 7.6.

Solid. Good job, good job. That's a suey nominee right there. This is the Dan Levitar show with a. There's two gods. So I caught a bunch of the World Cup draw on Friday. The Caraco? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then, like, I put the channel back on, like, two hours later. And they weren't even close. Close to Dunn. It was an embarrassment. We knew that show can go long, but the programming. I mean... Well, you didn't like the FIFA Peace Prize? Who won, by the way?

I didn't like that. I didn't like the Audible that they called to have the world leaders come out and pull their own countries just for the photo op. It was a Johnny Infantino show. And, like, Buddy led the crowd and Chantson. I wasn't a fan of the Rio Ferdinand comedy sketches. What was that? Two hours into it, everybody was like, just pick the damn team. What was that?

I don't know. Like, whose idea was that? I don't know. I didn't stick around. I honestly left. I'm a soccer fan. I was looking forward to this whole thing. And once we got about 70 minutes into it, and I was already, like, shown Donald Trump and

Johnny Infantino multiple times when I don't want to see them at all. I was like, all right, I'll just Google it afterwards. But, hey, the United States got a good draw. Did they get a good draw? All the host countries got really nice draws. Funny how that works, I mean. But yeah, like this was probably the best case scenario. You have Panama, which will be the United States' first match.

They have Australia, a team that they should beat. Now, Turkey has beaten the United States recently. Odds on favor for them to come out of that playoff. We will wait to see who does. Turkey can probably give the United States some problems, but the United States is a host nation that does give teams some boost, and it lays out quite nicely here, sitting up potentially a rematch against Belgium in the World Cup.

Again, not the same type of talented Belgium side. So if you're a United States fan or just a casual observer that wants to root on old glory, it lays out quite nicely for you. And if you want tickets and you're just – or maybe you're just stuck with Canada, Qatar. I'm so upset. I was so – because I'm watching this poll and I'm like, okay, it's cool, it's cool. All right. And then I'm like, you got to give me something here.

And the third one came out. I'm like, you got – my only hope is, I guess, if Italy wins. Well, maybe you can upload those tickets on GameTime. There you go. Take the guesswork out of buying soccer tickets with Game Time. Download the Game Time map, create an account, and use code Dan for $20 off. Your first purchase. Terms apply.

Again, create an account and redeem code D-A-N for $20 off. Swipe, tap, ticket, go. Go! Download the Game Time app today. Now, guys, I'm surprised that Chris Paul didn't pull the ultimate move when he was asked to fly home. Have you guys ever heard this story about Ty Lawson? when Ty Lawson was towards the end of his time in Denver. They reached a point where he was inactive, but they would go on the trip. You'd go on the trip and just enjoy whatever city.

So the Nuggets, allegedly, created a new rule. If you're not on the active roster, you can't go on the trip. But they did it right before they were going to go to play, I think, the Lakers. And obviously, in the NBA, the L.A. trip is like, that's cool. Like, you're setting excursions up months in advance. Especially because you usually stop for the Lakers and Clippers. Right. a lot of time.

It's a long break in a way. You're sending the advanced scouts out there to make sure things are kosher when you get there? We have a programming done ahead of time. And so to be told right before that trip, oh, you ain't going. Ty Lawson allegedly was so upset. He booked his own flight, then bought tickets to Nuggets Lakers and sat courtside. And I was like, Chris Paul should have done that.

He should have bought courtside tickets and sat there. That would have been amazing. And just heckled and second-guessed everything that the Clippers were doing. Wasn't Tyloo caught recently? There was some video footage that came out where he was talking trash about CP3 after they were released him. That's the stuff that I'm really, really starting to get annoyed with the internet about. It's like we're going to take things completely out of context. Like when the Lakers played the Mavericks about a week ago and they're like, look,

LeBron didn't even dabble about Anthony Davis. He dapped him up literally right before that video was cut and clip. And the bad part was it was propagated by ESPNLA. Like, you guys have to know better. Like, you can't just be sharing shit. Like, you guys were at the game. Why would that be something that you miss? But then you're just going to aggregate whatever's shared out there.

But, no, it's, it's, we're talking about a play. And I guess, I want to say Chris Dunn, couldn't remember something about the play. So Chris Paul was telling James Harden about that. And then, Tailu was basically saying, it doesn't matter what the play is called. F, because it was called CP or whatever. It doesn't matter what it's called. Gotcha. Just run this play like this.

matter who's on the floor. But again, it's cut and put out in the context like he's talking trashed by Chris Paul. Even though Chris Paul was right there. Yeah. This wasn't like after the fact. Oh, really? Yeah, that was like from training camp, that video. Oh. I just love the idea of Chris Paul being at the game and like Chris Dunn bricks a shot and he's like, yo, Ty, told you you shouldn't get so many minutes. Like just yelling from from court side. I got it even better than that. You're supposed to be in help. You're supposed to be like, what are you doing? Oh, coaching them from court side. You guys see the whole thing with Chris Haynes?

He came out on Amazon Prime and he said, Chris Paul tweeted the word leeway, or the Instagram story, the word leeway. The definition of the word leeway. And the reason for that is there was a game where... Someone with Van Gundy, right? Well, Chris Paul changed the coverage. He told Quiet a switch or whatever.

And Van Gundy after I said, don't ever do that. And he says to him, you might have had the leeway to do that and the other stops in your career. You do not have that leeway now. Which is like, that's pretty cold. Even though they're a terrible defense team. But that's Van Gundy's thing.

He's like the defensive guy there, right? They were excellent last year because of Van Gundy. And ultimately the coaches, that's the coach's approach. It's like, hey, if I come up with a scheme and we execute the scheme and we're terrible, that's my fault. But if you guys start freestyle and ad-libbing and audiblying, then we'll never know what works and what doesn't work. And so that staff, a lot of people came out very anti-clipper. I'm like, you got Tyler. Lou, really good coach.

Pretty respected guy. His associate head coach is Jeff Van Gundy, very respected guy, former head coach in this league. Then you got Larry Drew, former head coach in this league. Then you got Brian Shaw, former head coach in this league. Then you got Jay Laranaga, was a head coach on the collegiate level. It's like, he doesn't have like a young, inexperienced staff that really needs a Chris Paul to be timing in every and second guessing everything.

They got a pretty good staff. And the best player on the team is two-time finals MVP. So what's the issue? What's the issue with the clivers? Why are they bad? Yeah. Oh, because they've been hurt. Oh, they're old.

And they're old. And the game passed by. They're off season. But they were so good. They were so good last year to close the year out. It was like, okay, wait a second. The Clippers started to find it. You know what?

One of their best players plays in the Heat. That's right. Norman Powell was the glued to kept the entire team together. You know what's crazy? Flying in the MIA walking past that Miami Heat Store has seen Heat 24 jerseys. I'm like, what? At the airport? Powell!

If we can get back to the NFL here. So yesterday, the Bengals and Bill's played in a snowstorm and for the life of me because I turned away from the game for like a few minutes. I turned away from the game when, you know, the Bengals went ahead 28, 18, I think the score was. And there was like nine minutes left in the game. And five minutes later, they were down 3828. What the hell happened there? R. Beryl threw one of the worst picks that I've ever seen anybody throw. One of them was a pick six, right?

It was a pick six, but he tried to throw a screen pass to Jamar Chase that I don't know if he lost the ball. I don't know, like, what happened? It was pretty cold. It was. It was. The dime that he threw to T. But he was good all game before that. Yes, he was, right.

That's what I'm saying. And the Blizzard was in the first half, by the way. Right. So he throws like a shot put, like what we call in Spanish, Un Glovito, which is a balloon. Un Glovito, he throws up, and Benefer just like goes up, picks it off and runs it 55 yards to the house. But it was like such a bad pass, and I was like, who is that? Zaz, you may not know this, but it's actually warmer while it's snowing. When it stops snowing, it starts getting really cool.

No, but it'll be harder to throw the ball when it is snowing. It's harder when it's cold, man. My hands. Yeah. I don't know about watching. And then Josh Allen had like a 65-year touchdown run, too. Yeah, so the bills, like, I guess keep their playoff hopes alive because they're by no means they're a lock. I mean, and the Bengals take a major, I guess a major dip with their ninth loss of season.

They really need to win their final four games. win the division only chance in. I mean, you saw the Steelers and the Ravens yesterday, an abomination of a game. But still, the Steelers, they wind up going back over 500 here. Was that a catch, by the way? I don't think so. You don't think so? I don't think so.

I don't think so. I don't think so. Two feet, and then the ball gets taken out. I don't think so. I mean, he processed, right? But I thought it was a catch, but I thought he caught it. I thought it was a catch. But the NFL got more fascinating for me.

That was an Alamo game, as it was described for the Chiefs. And I can you believe? Can you believe? Let's just rewind two months ago. How are the Texans winning games? That seems good. Their defense has gotten better and better as a season progress. Their corners are the best tandem in the league. I want to focus.

I know the University of Miami has really hijacked this show, but we're kind of largely ignoring what's happening with the pro team because we don't expect much. But here they are with the same exact record as the Kansas City Chiefs. Yeah, ma'am. I'm telling you, we're a couple of wins away from Greg Cody hitting his preseason prediction. Yeah, but there's really no way into the playoffs. They're two back of the final playoff spot. I mean, it's them, I know they've been getting fat off of bad teams. They're going

to have to win some big games against better teams. I think they'll win next week. Monday night in Pittsburgh. I mean, the weather could be rough. I don't know. I think they could win that game, but then the final three games, very rough. And now Tampa needs that one, right? Very rough. That was a really disappointing result for that. And New England's going to need the final game to hold off Denver for the top spot. Can the Dolphids outscore the Bengals in Sunday night football, which could be flexed out, but I don't believe they can because you saw the Dolphins quarterback yesterday, and he's horrific. So I think the Dolphins is realistically going to have a chance at one more win this season. For me, the headline from

the NFL day was what's happened to the Kansas City Chiefs. Does that feel like a death blow to their chances? They've gone to nine straight AFC championship games. Are we seeing a changing of the guard or at least the end of this incarnation of the Chiefs? But I want to turn my eyes over to the NFC. Oh, Green Bay is getting Watson back and Jaden Reed back at the same time. Josh Jacobs was incredible as that game went on. That was super impressive. And I've been a huge Jaden Reed guy.

You have Watson making the big chunk plays down the field looking super healthy now. But Jaden Reed is their go-to guy. He makes something out of nothing. And now that they have those two guys there, I'm feeling good about my preseason Packer ticket, Tony. My thing is this. I look to the other side of the ball in that game. I was like, man, the Bears, they had this, like, scrappiness about them.

They were playing good defense. Caleb Williams felt like he had things going, you know, getting together. Such a bad throw. And now I just look at a terrible throw at the end of the game that obviously costs him the game. But I look at it and I'm like, is he just being propped up by a really good O.C.? The same way we're looking across at the Lions down being like, okay, they got good pieces. I don't think that's fair because we're talking about being propped up by a really good O. It's only a second year.

Yeah, okay, but you got to be good. Early. Especially when you look at what's happened to Lions since said O.C. left, right? Right. Like they have great players, which is why things work. I'm on Ross St. Brown, Jemir Gibbs. But like, golf is not the same golf that he was last year. But why does Caleb Williams need to be a finished product in year two? Because everybody needs to be a finished product immediately.

Like, that's the issue. Are you new here? Now we look at Jaden Daniels and you're like, okay, now a season lost injury and a season lost to a lot of injuries across the team. But it's like he's got to be great next year or else is he done? Like C.J. Stroud, great year one. And now we're questioning him too. Like Caleb's never really put it together.

they bring in a Ben Johnson now he's got this team playing well but now you play a team against that they have a rivalry with rivalry with in the division and they do that and it's like ugh Jayden Daniels is who my weekend observation by injury reports

is about three weeks miss three games dislocated elbow I'm like doesn't sound like you should be playing football bro you got a dislocated elbow how about the one on on MMA and UFC oh man Alexander Pantosia did you see that Zaz you see the exploded elbow

nah no even I know about that Everybody's talking about that, even Shane Gillis. Nah, man, you'll know about that. The exploded elbow was brutal. Went to catch himself. You remember when Rondo went to catch himself in the playoffs a couple years ago and his elbow bent backwards? Imagine that, but like a...

Yeah, I remember Wade got blamed. And then the heat took that ass.