The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: College Football Preview + Von Miller

Episode Date: August 25, 2023

Izzy Gutierrez and the shipping container discuss their worst plane stories, Jessica and Lucy preview the college football season, and 10 Day Tony unveils his QB tiers. Also, Von Miller joins the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. This is the Dunluba Tarshall with the Stugat's Podcast. Do you guys see that video of that plane where somebody opened the emergency exit door and they just kept on flying and landed and you see the video it's you see sort of the sunlight hitting a few passengers who are in the front rows and it's just wind whipping in their face and you don't know how they're breathing. The first thing that everybody thought as they watched that video is where the hell are those little drop down things that you're supposed to breathe into whenever?

Put it on yourself first and then the person was. Yes, yeah, whenever a cabin pressure changes, I would assume if somebody opens the emergency exit in the air, the cabin pressure changes. The explanation was the pressure didn't change enough because they were close enough to landing. I don't care. Give me the oxygen. Give it to me. I'd rather do that than give it to me. All of it. Like that to me. It's just a comforting thing to know. Hey, something's going wrong. Boom. That's coming down because they tell you it's

supposed to happen. What happened to the person that did this? He got arrested. He got arrested. So he or she, I'm pretty sure to he. They did this while being seated and strapped in. Right. It's not very comfortable. It's not that comforting because they always tell you, don't be alarmed if the thing doesn't like go up and down. Don't worry, air is still flowing.

It's like, no, I need to see that back leaving, though. I need that back leaving. I need that back to him play. But it just reminded me of just like some terrible, you have told some bad playing stories recently the only the worst one I have it's not even that bad. I'll tell it really quickly It was just me on a plane with a bunch of other media people coming back from the 2005 Eastern Conference Finals in Detroit and Mr. Dan Lebertard was on the plane and we were basically just fighting through some crazy Storm clouds and crazy rain and we didn't have an option of going around it

or waiting, apparently. And they said that they are telling us, right? And so we're just like, nose diving through these things. And it's just like, you hear the engine rev up and it's like, and you're just lifting up off your seat. And it's just like,

man, I don't, it's just the way I'm gonna go, blah, blah, blah. And the thing I remember the most, is first the two things I remember, one, once we got under the clouds, you look to the left and you look to the right and you're like, holy shit, those are bad storms on both sides. We went through the least bad of the three, that's crazy. And then when we're getting off, because we were in the back of the plane, Dan was in the back of the plane too. Dan gets up and he says he looks to me, he goes, you never get used to that. And I'm like, used to what, man, that happens to you all the time,

because I'm never going to fly with you again if it like, used to what, man, that happens to you all the time, because I'm never gonna fly with you again if it does, because that was the first and last time I ever had a flight that bad. Yeah, that sounds pretty scary. Usually turbulent stories become like a competition in Tommy Topper. I'm not trying to do that. But I also said that mine was the least scary. So he's also just not actually going to fly.

Yeah, it seems bad. When I went to Europe, my bad luck continued with flights and didn't get hit by lightning this time, knock on wood. It's easy though. I guess we were on this flight from Paris to Mekenos and we were experiencing some pretty bad turbulence. And I'm the guy that's always like, you want to look at the flight attendants. Yeah. If they're nervous, then you can be nervous.

So on my flight real quick, they were nervous. There was this one guy who got up because I'm pretty sure he pissed himself and the flight attendant tackled that dude, threw him into a seat and said, this is serious and I was like, damn it. And then that's when I started praying. It all depends on like the protocol that they have.

This was a European airliner. So we were going through turbulence as they were serving food. And they all hit the deck as soon as it happened and they were holding on to the cart. And that's a little jarring, but that's just probably their European protocol. I'm not exactly sure.

And then on my flight back from Athens into the States, I experienced a turbulence where people's heads hit the roof of the airplane. I guess a turbulence where people's heads hit the roof of the airplane. I guess some people weren't strapped in. And that, you should be. My daughter got a kick out of it, but also she bombeted, like shortly thereafter. Did that go to the...

No, no, no, like it was after things settled down. And I guess the turbulence did make her nauseous and I did the thing where I just cut my hands because I didn't have the bar of bag ready. And so she just yacked all into my hands as we're landing. And then we spent the next, no showers meant the next 12 hours in the Atlanta airport overnight. But yeah, it's a turbulence. I keep telling myself that no, no plane

has ever crashed because of turbulence. Right, right. But they probably have crash has some sort of turbulence. Do we know that? We know that that's true. That's what they always say, right? That's what they say. But what if the turbulence causes a big airplane

saying that, just trying to figure it out. And yes, Chris, I did pray. Because if there's any place where I'm just going to kick aside any doubt, it's 30,000 feet in the air. It's like, if there's a chance that I'm wrong, you got it. Whatever you can do, just please get me down safe. Amen. My plane almost didn't take off a few weeks ago

for the dumbest reason. They were not gonna let us fly because the line to fly was too long. So we'd been sitting on the tarmac for like hour and a half. I'm like, what is going on here? And the pilot comes over the speaker, he's like, guys, we're probably like 15th in line.

And if we don't take off by 8.57, we legally cannot fly. And it's like 8.50 and everyone is freaking out. That's the rule for every plane on the line? No, no, no, they get timed out. No idea, right. He like didn't really do a good job of explaining the rule, but we had just been there waiting there,

like, sorry, lines too long. This one always gets me. And we had to go with a minute. Thank you, just pull the Miami move, just cut in front of another plane without signaling. You can get there. I mean, just could be like, I'm on a timer, like I gotta go,

and you're just like, why do they have to stay in the back of the line? It's so dumb. Yeah, pilots get timed out. It's happened to me where I've had a deep plane because we were waiting for too long, and the pilots got timed out. So's happened to me where I've had to de-play him because we were waiting for too long and the pilots got timed out. So sorry, you're flight to South by Southwest

isn't gonna happen. And also when we were in Atlanta and we got stuck in the airport overnight, this was the first time that a pilot himself came out and apologized and said, legally we're not allowed to fly. The flight kept getting pushed back and pushed back and pushed back and they got timed out.

So then no flight that day. Yeah, he made an announcement. He was like, if we would have taken off one minute later, like we would not have been able to fly. And you all would have had to deplane. And like the flight would have just been canceled. So let's say he did take off a minute later, wherever you guys landed, would you all have gotten arrested? What would have been probably? I don't think that we would have, because we took off at like 8.56, and 8.57 was the cutoff. So if it had reached 8.57,

we would have had to turn around, deep-laying. What happened to 8.57 falls asleep? Yes, just like, it's just done. It was so annoying. And everyone, I don't know, I'm anti-clapping at movies or planes and stuff but everyone clapped when we took off. Yeah, that's a his. And I guess it makes sense because you know we'd

been waiting so long but I still was not happy about it. How about one time though for Airplane breaks? Because any time I land on an airplane I'm always just like feel like the brakes could just go out right now and even though we've landed because you always want you to hit ground you have this moment of just like. Yeah, the brakes. How about out right now and even though we've landed because you always want to hit ground you have this moment of just like you have the brakes but then the brakes but then there's like the moment of oh my god we're going 300 miles an hour on this one right right now something goes wrong when you touch first touch the ground it's going to be very wrong but that was one time where we was on a virgin Atlantic flight and

uh... the captain comes up and says uh... yeah we're having trouble with our landing gear we're not be able to get it down at the moment don't worry our last ditch effort is going down there and doing it manually and i'm like please don't tell me they have to go down there put the wheels down manually and me i'm kind of thinking that's not a big deal and i started thinking of old Chevy commercials where they would just have two pickups on the ground and then the way the plan which is the plan which is land on top of the Chevy trucks if that's a Chevy commercial but uh... and then people start crying the runway and the plane, which is land on top of the Chevy trucks, if that's a Chevy commercial.

But then people start crying around being, I'm like, why, they're gonna get, and then I just started doing the math. I was like, oh no, this is gonna be terrible. If they don't get the landing down, and then they finally, like about 10 minutes before, I think they said about 10 minutes before we were gonna have to land anyway

because of lack of fuel, that they finally got the wheels down and everybody started celebrating celebrating before we landed. We have video of the thing that started this entire conversation, which was that exit door being open while someone was in the exit row. And just curious, was that the reason? Just wanted to see what happened. And as you can see, a lot of wind there,

but no mask falling down. It's like when you're driving on the highway, it's like roll your windows up, dude. What are we doing on the highway? Apparently the guy who opened the door said he felt suffocated, which first thing you need to do is just talk to a flight attendant, please. Lucy goes highway windows down.

Let's not move, I don't do that move. Yeah, I love driving with my windows down. I think it's living in Iowa for several years where you just can't do it. I always, like I'll never go full window down on the highway, that's ridiculous, but half, yeah. Well, you also can't just do the one, right? Because then you get that weird sound.

What's up with that noise? I have no idea what that is, but it hurts. What's the science behind that noise? No. What's this? Look at us, Chris. You're asking us for the science behind that noise. Lewis just said I'm a helicopter.

Say Lewis knows every. In that video of that plane, you can see that there's a bunch of monitors. None of the monitors are on. I like to imagine that there's just someone there watching Finding Nemo that's really inconvenient. There's got to be somebody in the bathroom saying, I think I'm just going to hang out here

because maybe it feels safer in here, right? Because you don't got the wind whipping in your face. Like I would have jumped in the bathroom. Everyone looks pretty casual though. Probably would have been able to be. Look at their fingers though. Look at the death grip. They got on those.

Yeah. That guy is way too casual in the aisle seat with the blue long sleeve shirt. He's just going to be looking over every once in a while and just not making it a big deal. That's insane. Apparently this is called wind buffeting. In a nutshell, when you open just one window in your vehicle or the sunroof or moonroof the air inside your car thumps up against the faster moving air outside the window.

So it's just air thumping up against each other. This article from carandriver.com has a lovely little subheading explaining that says give me buffet. Get it? Because Jimmy Buffett does it say it's good or bad to do or indifferent because it does something seems indifferent Seems like it does something in my hearing today. I don't find enjoyable whatsoever. What's the speed limit in Iowa? You can go pretty fast there. I'll fast do people go there in the winter in the winter not fast I'm not going to driving in the snow and people out there very much are so I would avoid driving

I'm South Florida person. I'm like what does that have to do with anything like why would the winner? Why would she not be able to drive fast in the winner? I was like you idiot. Why are you asking? Weather that's right. Terrifying driving in the snow in Iowa. I will say I drove from Iowa to California and when I drove through Utah It's like 85 and it was awesome. I made that drive. I did a COVID drive from... I sought Lake City to Fort Lauderdale and did, and Anthony was driving and I'm just like, we're going a hundred and I'm just like,

are you sure we're not? He's like, look, it says 85. I was like, okay, you're good. If you guys are anything like me, you look around on a plane to see, is this one going down or is this one picking out the families? But I saw a tweet recently. I think it's not done.

Yeah, exactly. I'm looking for a tweet recently that I thought was really good, which is someone said that instead of doing that, they pick out their cast as if they were to end up on the TV show lost. So you pick your like six main characters and you create back stories for them. And it is their anxiety.

And so I think I'm going to start doing the same thing. My vanity is such that I was looking around my flight. I'm like I'm not the headliner here. It's like women's basketball team goes down to fiery crash and I'm just like, ah, it's people that look like they smoke cigarettes that you don't want to be on the plane with. So, those are the people that you look at and you're like, we're going down. Yeah, I look for cute children. I feel like, you know, if anybody's meant to go, it's not the cute kids. I'm gonna rattle off the achievements and all the day it's gonna be coming way before the big game. And I was just like, ah, I hope I hope this one doesn't crash for that reason. Can't go out like that. But

you'd be cool dying in a plane crash if you were the headline. Yeah, I got to be the headliner. Yeah, got to be the headliner. I was on a flight once with a big show. I'm like, I was on with Bob McAdoo. I was like, we're not going down. You all calling this former NBA MVP, also Chris Cody. Don Lebertard. Well, you guys building out the a rod bathroom of your imaginations. Is that what I heard you discussing during the break? towels with an A on them. You know, the thing you slide the toilet paper on, that's a baseball bat. Hey, like that. Still got them. You know the thing you slide the toilet paper on, that's a baseball bat.

Hey, like that. Stugats. You think he actually calls it the throne? Probably does. It's an actual throne. An actual throne. There's got to be a full length mirror in there somewhere. I imagine somewhere in his house, he has a replica of David, but with his head on it.

Ha ha ha ha ha. This is the Don Lebertar Show with the Stougat. We have a brand new segment that we're unveiling right now, Lucy. We have a top five list, but what are we, what are we calling this again? The top five reasons to watch college football this season. Not that you need any. You definitely don't need any. You don't need any, but we think that the show is a little light

on college football at times, other than the Miami Hurricanes, which we know are the best team in the world. It wasn't Mario's guys last year, it was Manny's guys, this year's Mario's guys, they're gonna be much better. And other than that, we don't talk about it too much on the main show. So we're gonna be doing a little college football segment

here and there. So we combined Brainpower this week to do a little preview top five list, but we have a couple O.L.I.s, I think. Yeah, we have one, but honestly, there's like a thousand that I get. There are a thousand. So maybe we'll just do our top five and then we'll just keep rambling after.

Yeah, I really like that idea. I like that idea too. So Lucy, you and Ty will obviously, we know that. I went to Notre Dame, Taylor went to North Carolina, he's the other big college football fan in the room. So this is gonna be a very non-biased assessment of college football minus those three teams. We are very biased about those three teams.

I have never been biased today in my life ever. Yeah, same actually. I also claim Clemson. Sure, you can have it. All right, so do you want to give us the OLI? Okay, our OLI is, we're just going to see what happens with Northwestern. We're just going to see what goes on with Northwestern.

Yeah, we figured it out like we said this before. At a boy Taylor. We're starting this see what goes on We figured it out like we said this is a boy Taylor. We're starting this for the first time So we're keeping an eye on Northwestern because a they haven't won a game in the United States in a couple years Yeah, bees impressive their coach just got fired and everyone's wearing t-shirts that completely Go right past the point of why he was fired. Yeah. So what are we looking out for? We looking out to see if they win a game. Are we just kind of following along for the messy drama? I think a little bit of both. I think we have the Big Ten West messy drama because you have PJ Fleck. Now you have former Paffits Gerald at Northwestern. Who knows what's happening with Iowa and Kirk Farant. I think Northwestern and Colorado or on my, do they win a game watch?

Last year's week zero sweethearts when they beat Nebraska in Ireland. Now on the OLI list for, keep an eye on Northwestern. Are you nervous? They're real weird there. About Notre Dame, what if they win? And then they catch whatever Northwestern got? Okay, I don't think that will happen

because last year Northwestern, yeah, they won in Ireland and they lost their remaining 11 games of the season. I don't think that will happen because last year in Northwestern, yeah, they won in Ireland, then they lost their remaining 11 games of the season. I don't think that will happen. However, I do hate playing Navy. I think it's something that sets me apart from a lot of other Notre Dame fans. It's a rivalry that I would be okay with not playing anymore. It's not because I don't respect the troops, okay? It's just a lose, lose proposition for Notre Dame.

If you beat Navy, cool, it's Navy. If you lose to Navy, your season is over, and you are toast. So not super looking forward to that, but excited for the game in Dublin, which I will be attending. Number five, we have another season of Bonex. Ooh, ooh, ooh.

I am a Bonex stand. I don't know what it is about bonics, but I just root for him and everything he does. I think it's because Auburn fans were so terrible to him and I don't think he deserved any of that. He's got a tough go of it. Yeah, he's got a billboard in New York. This is like Oregon's last year,

second last year, and the Pac-12. This is a special year for bonics, okay? It's his eighth year in college. I'm just excited to see him shine. There's a lot of old quarterbacks playing this year. There's a lot of guys that you're going to be like, Phil Dracovic playing for Pitt this year. It's like his fourth team in college football. Sam Hartman is a sixth year in college football. Bonex. I don't even know how old he is.

Two Daniels is on his seventh school. I'm pretty sure. Where is Kee Don Slovus? He's on his third. He's at BYU. Incredible stuff. Well, keep an eye on all the old quarterbacks and especially bone X. Yeah number four Texas back Exclamation point yeah, a cool question mark Are we on archbanging watch this year? Absolutely. I saw like four tweets about him this morning I like people are saying he's looking really good in practice. Oh boy. When yours is worried.

When yours is scared. Opposing big 12 coaches saying, I'll start again. Absolutely. All right. I don't actually think that happens. We're on Texas Backwatch. But I do sort of kind of believe the Texas is back because if you look at last season, Texas,

if Quinn yours had not gotten hurt against Bama, would have won that game. Absolutely. They would have won that game. And then I don't know what we would last season, Texas, if Quinn yours had not gotten hurt against Bama, would have won that game. Absolutely. They would have won that game, and then I don't know what we would have seen from Texas like going on, but they were almost back. So this year they're all the way back,

or we're not sure yet. I think I am afraid to say this on camera documented, but I'm gonna just say Texas is back. I think it feels gross, but I'm just gonna say that. That does feel disgusting. I think we should make a Texas back meter. I think it feels gross, but I'm just going to say that. That does feel disgusting. I think we should make a Texas back meter. We should monitor it throughout the season

and determine whether or not Texas back. And that's in itself a reason to watch college football this season. Keep an eye on the Texas back monitor. Lucy, what do we have for number three? All right, the number three reason that you should watch college football this season. We have something we've never seen before,

a point tracker for the Iowa Hawkeyes, where it is written into our offensive coordinators contract, that for him to keep his job, Iowa has to score 25 points per game. So you will see every week the 25 point per game tracker to see if Brian Farance keeps his nepotism job, which by the way, doesn't specify the offense, that's a score 25 points. The defense can do it and he could keep his job. Fairy bold to put Iowa's offense as a reason why we should watch college football this season and not really a reason why we shouldn't.

But I like girls who get it, the girls who don't. I like where your head is at. And I will be watching the Iowa points meter as well as the Texas back meter because there's a man's job on the line. What are you hoping for as an Iowa fan? Do you want him to fail spectacularly and lose his job or do you want them actually be good?

Iowa has a really bad schedule as in the sense of it's so easy and they're going to square points. I would, okay. My dream case scenario is Iowa scores 24 points per game, the entire season, and wins. All those games. Okay. I would like to win the games without scoring the points.

I'm not exactly convinced that that's a reason, but number two on our list. You're going to have to try to score points. You don't think that's going to be fun to watch them to try to do that. They've never done that before. That's your second. That's your first time for everything. Two Shay. Number two on our list, a reason for all of our listeners who hate

listen to our college football segments, to watch college football this season, to see which non-power five auto conference team Miami, the hurricanes lose to this season. We have good options. We have Miami, Ohio, which how great would that be? Miami losing Miami, Ohio, the Bethune Cookman, I believe. And Temple. Yeah. We can. Why don't we just count Boston College on the list? Well, they did lose to Duke last year. Yeah, you know what?

Duke's back by the way. You're right. Duke is back. Mike Elko, hell of a coach. Hell of a ball coach. Good quarterback. Good quarterback. Duke is back. Texas worse for not sure. It's on the meter. Miami lost, Duke is back. Texas worse for not sure, it's on the meter.

Miami lost to Duke last year. That kind of didn't count it, because Duke was back. But this year, I think let's add all ACC opponents into the mix. Let's just watch the college football this season to see which team Miami loses to. That is in a team that you would be like, okay, well, of course they lost to Clemson or FSU, whatever.

Oh, I love Miami. I'm not in like an endearing way. I'm just still like, do you love Miami? Not the city. Um, you know, our number two. That was number two. Number one, I'm just gonna see. My podcast co-host, Michael Xenior,

posited this to me last week on the show, which was that this one day, what we have is number one, will be the ultimate bar trivia question, which is who was the last team to win the Pact 12 championship? So our number one reason, why you should watch College Football this season,

is to see who the last team is to ever win the Pac-12 championship. Not USC. I hope not. You tell one it the last two years in a row. There's a lot of very good quarterbacks in the Pac-12. The Pac-12 is like surprisingly stacked this year. Like it's probably the best conference

if we're being honest with ourselves. Like the most competitive. It absolutely has the best quarterbacks per capita. If they all live up to the hype. I mean, cameraizing we've seen play before, Michael Penix we've seen play before. We know that they're both good. Bonaigx has his ups and downs,

but he's a fun guy to watch. DJ Ulyungla, like, flamed out at Clemson, but he's at Oregon State now. They could be pretty good. My eyes are on the beads. Well, we haven't the Pac-12? Caleb Williams, I mean, of course, but the, we have in the Pac-12, Caleb Williams. I mean, of course, but USC choked in the Pac-12 championship last year, so I'm not gonna...

That's another fun thing to look out for. Did they learn how to tackle? Is that something that they will learn in the off-site? Alex Grinch, the defensive coordinator for USC. He's back. He's like the Brian Farens of the Pac-12. It's wild, guys. Because we're so nepotism, he doesn't get the attention. Because he's just a bad hire. We're family tops.

Yeah, the Pac-12 is going to be awesome. This is actually like the last year for a lot of things. Yeah. So, I'm the last year in the big 12. This is the final year of the 14 playoff. It's like a kind of a last dance sort of college football season. It's going to look a lot different next year for sure. Do we, do we want to make college football playoff predictions?

Ooh, okay. Putting you on the spot. So I'll give you my methodology for choosing college football playoff. I picked the four teams that made it the year before. That's good. Because every year someone like Des Howard or Cole Kubrick or someone on ESPN

makes a college football playoff top four that has like NC State or Baylor or Pitt or a team that I'm just like, no, I don't, Jim, I don't know about that. So I always just go, Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State Michigan or whoever was at TCU, Ohio State, whatever. All right, I got, the four that we're in at the year before.

Okay, so I'm not gonna go the four that we were in it before because I don't think TCU. Well, yeah, TCU, I'll take them out because they got their asses kicked in the national championship. It happens. And they lost their offensive coordinator. Yeah. To everyone else. Yeah, and everyone else. All right, so I've got, let's go Georgia, you know, even though Kirby tells all the

guys they're doubted, no. Clip this clip. All right, Georgia, Michigan. Clip this clip. Right, George M. Michigan. Who else? Clemson. Clemson. OK. I have a sneaking suspicion Clemson is back.

So you have Clemson, Newport, A.C.C. I assume. Newport or back? Kate Clubnick. We'll be starting at quarterback. No DJ. They have a new coordinator. They have a great run game.

Clemson's always had the talent. They just had no real kind of direction with it. Like a few years ago, Clemson's numbers, we played this fun game at my old job where we would hide all the like logos and stuff and put up Clemson's numbers and I was numbers and you had to pick out which one was which and it was a lot tougher than you think.

I got it wrong at one point. Really? They were really, really bad offensively. Not a good offense, but they fired Brandon Street together offensive coordinator, brought in Garrett Riley from TCU, and they're going to have a much more explosive offense, I think people are assuming.

Yeah, and this, like you're not. Okay, you're in the ACC. So you have Clemson one in the ACC, you make the playoffs. I have the floor to state high, but I can't get behind quite yet. Ooh, overrated. I think a behind quite yet. Ooh, overrated. I think a little overrated. Florida State overrated.

We'll find out week one. My God. Yeah, they have, they have, within their first month, I think they have Clemson and LSU. So we'll find out real fast if Florida states what we think they're, you know, supposed to be. All right, so Georgia, Clemson. And Georgia, Clemson, Michigan.

Because they have the easiest schedule ever, right? And, ooh. Michigan because they have the easiest schedule ever right and who else I don't think I think Michigan's a lot better than Ohio do we have any pack 12 teams and that's what I was thinking because USC was so close but that defense is still bad it's not getting any better and the pack 12's tough this year I think they could lose a game or two I think everyone in the pack so no packed well So no Pac-12's just put off. You know what? Actually, I'm gonna go a Pac-12 team to play off, but I'm gonna go wild card because you're gonna be like,

oh, fun. Yes, she's doing it, folks. Not Oregon State, but let's not go that far. But give me Oregon. Colorado? Oh. Colorado, yeah. He owns back. There's schedule that's really hard.

Yeah. And they don't have any players. I mean, they do. Some. Yeah, interesting. Lucy, this has been fun. We'll be back next week with more you better in a level It's possible content Don Lebertard at the end of our conversation with Alex Smith and we talked for about 30 minutes But I feel like

Nobody is gonna remember anything about that conversation other than how you fell flat at the end with your very last word. Listen to how Stugatts here at the end of this interview says goodbye just exhausted to Alex Smith. That's still got what happened? Allish? I'm dead. I'm exhausted. I haven't stopped talking in a month. I mean, I know to tell you VCC down Limitar show with this two gods He's an eight time pro-bola two times super bowl champ He's got more sex than any active player in the NFL. And he's hosting a charity event this week called Vaughn's Vision to distribute glasses to underserved kids. And we'll get to that in a second.

But Vaughn Miller, thank you so much for joining us. Howdy, guys. Thank you, guys. What happened to me? So our pleasure. So I saw a headline the other day, Vaughn, that said, the Buffalo Bill Super Bowl run is dependent on Vaughn Miller's knee.

And I feel like it's a lot of pressure to put on one human's tendons, but I'm just curious how the knee is and how's everything going right now. And I can control me. I can control myself. Pressure comes from within. If you feel like you haven't put the work in, if you feel like you're not ready for the moment, that's where the pressure comes from. There's no pressure on the outside.

It's all pressure from within. And me, I've been recovering my knee, taking it one day at a time, controlling what I can control. And if it's all on Vaughn, if it's all on Vaughn, going out there and do what he's supposed to do, that's how I want it, because I'm gonna get his job done. And speaking of keeping Tendon's healthy,

I was watching a play from this weekend where your quarterback, Josh Allen, very important player, is running around like gets the playoff game and his life depended on it. Is there a point where you've got to tell Josh, hey, slow down or these games aren't important? Do you reel him in? You just kind of let him go.

No, that's how he plays football. That's what makes Josh Allen, Josh Allen. He's a great player. He's always trying to do the most to win. And that's how you want it. You know, you can't put a guy in there and tell him to go half-speed. It doesn't work like that. If you don't want him to play, then he shouldn't play. But that's just how Josh plays, man. I love the way he plays, man. And he's a great quarterback, one of the best courted-backs in the league. And, of course, it's the preseason. You know, it's you don't want to see all this

stuff, but that's just the way the guy plays and he's going to continue to play like that. Vaughn, this was going around social media last week as someone who's won two super bowls. When you go to your practice facility and you see a lumbardy trophy that the bills have not won and it says one team won goal. Do you look around and you're like, ah, guys, I've won these. We're not just going to be putting these up without winning them. No, I mean, this is one of the greatest sports, toe sports stories left. You know, the bills went to four straight super bows in the 90s and lost them all for us to be able to get there and win it. That'll be one of the greatest,

that's one of the last great sports stories. And this town bleeds Buffalo, Bill's football, it bleeds red and blue. They're all about football here, and they're done for it. And we're done and they give it to them. We have a great team, we have all the things in place. We just got to keep going that. We got to keep going that on. We got to keep going at it.

Our Super Bowl window is still open. Teams get better each and every year. We get better. So it's going to be exciting for us. It's definitely a motivator. And this is part of the reason why I came here. Once you win a Super Bowl, once you get to the Super Bowl, you win it.

It creates this addiction and get back there. And I want that so bad for my teammates. I want it so bad for me and myself, but I want it so bad for my teammates in this city. I want those those those guys and these people to be able to experience it. You've been a part of a lot of great past rushes mainly because you were a part of them. But Buffalo is pretty stacked. You brought in Leonard Floyd. You have Greg Russo over there. Even if you might navigate an injury or two, it seems as though the added depth took your injury in mind. Where does this pass rush rank

in terms of the teams that you've been on? Well, we got a great squad. This is probably the deepest pass for a squad that I've been a part of. Back in Denver, it was just me, it was just me, Shagbert, the markets were in Shane Ray and LA it was just me Leonard Floyd and Donald and and and great games so here we have a whole roster for the guys we got AJ Epinessa we got Bucky Bastion we got Shaq Lawson we got Greg Russo

Leonard Floyd and I think it all involves giving you guys a scout and secret. But it all involves around Ed Oliver. Ed Oliver is our guy. You know, he can do so many different things. He can a lot of been a five-line, but a nine. He's so active. He's so explosive off the ball.

That is our guy on the inside, and we just got to find ways to get him to the quarterback and we got to be able to help out and help him in a way so he can be a success. Vaughan, you're obviously not practicing yet, but you've got Demar Hamlin back in practice. And that was such an interesting topic because it's such a great feeling, but then people obviously get a little concern, maybe not realizing that his condition or his incident was completely random in a coincidence, and there's not putting himself in further risk out there, but just curious what that has been like having him out there, the reception that he got early on, and just your thoughts on watching the man who died on the field came back to life and is now back doing what he loves to do.

Back when it happened, and at the beginning of January, it was tough. You know, I think it brought the whole world together. And I think DeMarx has handled that situation in a magical way. He's used the fame and notoriety and the attention for good. It's never been about DeMarx Hamlin. He's doing stuff for kids. He's doing stuff for CPR classes. He's trying to raise awareness for the situation that he had, but on the football field, he just looks like the more. It's

It's the thing that it passed. You know, he's out there playing football. He's tackling guys. He's back to his old self Man, I think that's what he that's I think that's where he wants you to be. He wants to focus back on this football play And he's playing at a at a great rate for us. He's playing great in the last game. He had a lot of great tackles and I still coach him up like you know he's I still look at him like tomorrow. I give him the I don't I don't put in I don't I don't put in the mind that you know that the incident that happened on the football field.

He's back and he's ready to go and we coach him up and he plays in that manner for sure. It's a rollercoaster of emotions you guys under went last year. Now that he's back in the fold and it feels like you have somewhat of a normal routine. I'm wondering if anybody's found any humor in it. Is he challenging other guys in the locker room to get back from their injuries? Because, man, like he's back before you.

This isn't probable. The idea is that it was a serious situation, man. We don't joke about anything and stuff. Man, it's really all the thing in the past. And tomorrow is just so focused on being a better football player. And I think he wants to put that behind them. I think he wants to attention and recognition back on his football play. You know, he's a great player.

And before that incident happened, I pulled him to the side. I was like, man, you're playing great, man. Like, nobody. I thought he was the first round pick. You know, I never put into mind that, you know, he was a late round pick. And, you know, some of that adversity that he had to overcome coming to the Buffalo Bills. He is a great football player. And all the attention is being on him being a great football player and trying to push

him to be even better. Yeah, nobody really remembers that he was filling in for Micahide, very good player, for a lot of that season. So yeah, tell us about more of this Vaughn's vision, the charity event that you have this week before we move on. So we got a Vaughn's Vision charity event. We're giving back glasses. We've had all these kids get fitted for glasses and had their eye exams. It's a lot of kids that don't even know that they have vision problems. And that could be a game changer in the classroom. If you can't see the board and you don't even know that you have vision problems,

you're already behind the ball. And these are issues that I've had since I was a young boy. I started my vision in 2012. After a year just sitting back and trying to find a way to have an impact like my teammates had. Tim Tibo had the Tim Tibo foundation and he was doing so many wonderful things. He was building hospitals in the Philippines

and he was changing lives and I went to one of his events and I was like man, I wanna have this same type of impact on the world and it took me a year. In 2012, I took off my glasses and I was signing autographs and then it just hit me like, hmm, I took off my glasses and I was signing autographs and then it just hit me like, hmm. I'm gonna start a Vaughan's vision.

I'm gonna give back context, LASIK surgery, eye exams, pretty much everything in need, in everything that children might need, vision wise, and I started off to help one or two kids and to raise over five million dollars and help over 5,000 kids and five or six different cities.

It's been a it's been a true blessing and it's been humbling for so many people to get to get around and rally around my cause. The AFC East has become kind of the talk of the NFL, one of the more competitive divisions now because obviously Aaron Rodgers going in, you have two of coming back and he might be healthy. How is he going to do with the dolphins once he's healthy? When you hear the Tyree kill plays Madden instead of watching tape to prepare for games, is that something that has you discount the dolphins in any way?

No, not at all. We have a lot of great coaches. This is a shout out and appreciation to the coaches around the National Football League. We have some of the best teachers in the entire world. But these guys that have patience, but grown in and go over the same topic, weekend and week out and push these grown men to be better. It's definitely, I take so much appreciation in that. We have great coaches here.

There really isn't, I play outside a long back, I rush the pastor, it really isn't much to do after you leave the facility because our coaches go over each and every aspect of the game. And I'm sure the Miami Dolphins do the same thing. And you need to come off. You need to be able to relax and unwind. And I'm sure Tyree Hill is in the same way.

I'm sure they have great coaches that go over each and every nuance of each and every play, each and every game. And they do a great job of coaching us up. You know, in this league, you got a lot of great teams. You got a lot of great players. And what separates these great teams is really the mindset. It's not the knowing the technique.

It's not knowing the plays. Like Tyree, the knowing the technique, it's not knowing the place like, he's been in league for a very long time. I'm sure he knows each and everything about routes and defensive formations and offensive formations. Sometimes you just need that, that time to be able to relax. I'm the same way. I don't, I don't, I don't go home and play mad. You know, I like to golf and get on a simulator and do all of that stuff. But you need time to be able to, to relax to relax and i want to kind of decompress that way you can push harder and focus harder whenever you're at the facility have you seen the clips that have gone around speaking of the afts of hard

knocks and the magician or the illusionist that went to the jets and had air and rogers pick out a card and then it turned into a fish that was inside of a piece of plastic is that something that Sean McDermott is doing around Bill's camp? Nah, nah, it is not. Coach McDermott is more of a hard-knows coach. I started to watch the hard knocks,

but then it was just like, no, man. You couldn't get past the whole Eagle Crow story, right? Because we were watching that in the episode one and it was like, okay, this is kind of, what's up? And I couldn't get past, I couldn't really get past five minutes of hard knocks. It was just like the anorogist show and it's like, man, we get ready to play, we get ready

to play the jazz and it just too much. To me, to me, it just, it just felt like, man, I don't want to watch, I don't want to watch this team. Like if it might have been the Cowboys or somebody else, like, I'm still like, I got a little Cowboys fan in my heart. It was, if it was anybody else, but it's the jet. You hate the jets, they're annoying. You could say it. I want to say I hate the jets.

No, they're annoying. You could say it. The vision or robbery, we got to play these guys twice a year. They're loading up. They got a great defense. They got a great offense. They just got an in Rogers. Garrett Wilson is one of the best receivers in the league.

They get Bryce Hall back. They're getting healthy on offense. The offensive line keep my Kai Begton is has the potential to be one of the best Tigers in the league. And I just, for me, is just, I don't want to hear about how great another team is. So I just, I just washed a little bit of it. And it's just, it just kind of turned me on.

Win some day. That's why I used to hear. Say it wins something. Earn that Lombardi trophy you put up in your practice. No, no, they, they, they, they, they real win. They real win. They will win. They have a very competitive team. And they did a lot without Aaron Rogers last year. So it's only, I mean, you can only predict and you can only, you know, feel filling the blanks. Once you get Aaron Rogers, you get some guys healthy. Quinn Williams is a beast. I'm a huge fan of Quinn Williams. I'm a huge fan of

of South gardener. We've played Call of Duty together. I love my colleagues around the league. I just didn't want to sit there and just watch a whole hour talking about how great the Jets was. It was just me. I want to focus on the bills and focus on how I can get my team better.

Vanna, I don't want to keep you from the golf simulator, but I do want to let you brag about your golf game a little bit. It's coming along. I'm a 18. I just got my gin number. I got my official handicap.

I'm a 18. I'm working it down. And it's not, for me, it's not really the scorecard because I can hit all the shots. I can hit all the shots. I can hit the 330 yard drive can I can hit the 330 yard drive I can hit the flop shot you know I can I can do everything it's just really about putting it all together and that's really what I like about golf it puts you in this this um this mindset where you have to really really focus on your craft and that's what translates over for

football for me I'm a professional football player I can roll out a bit and do this stuff. And when I apply the mental aspect of football onto the mental, I mean, when I apply to the mental aspect of golf onto the mental aspect of football, it helps me become a football player. Now I'm not out there swinging clubs on the football field, but the mental, it helps me really focus on me and my body and trying to be the best football player I could be. But have you ever gone driver on a par three and hit it within a foot of the hole? No, man. I got somebody that I got somebody that put out the driver on par three, man. But I got some, you know, Ryan Lambert at Dallas National, he's my golf coach, my golf fitter, Ryan Locke.

I mean, I kneel lock over at Dallas National. They've been working when I got golf coaches over at Dallas National. And whenever in the off season, whenever I got time to go over there and do that stuff, I'll put all my focus into that stuff, man. And I actually, I truly believe that it makes me a football player because of the mental aspect of golf.

Well, it seems to work for Steph Curry. But again, Vaughn Miller, he's hosting a charity event this week, Vaughn's vision to distribute glasses to underserved kids. Von, thanks so much for your time and good luck in your recovery. Thanks, guys. I really appreciate y'all having me. And I love the show, man. Y'all keep going. I love to be back whenever you guys get ready. All right.

Don Lebertard. The alley has a bad reputation in general, right? It does. It's brought American history. Yeah, but on South Beach, someone's always just sitting somewhere, smoking a cigarette. You can't go down an alley around here and not see someone sitting there smoking a cigarette. It's still, it retains a pulsating heat from the night before.

You walk by some liquid that your like is that water. It's rain last night. That's definitely not water. Avoid the liquid. Always avoid the liquid in an alley. Still got, I venture to guess that if you were to rake your tongue on the asphalt of an alley, you would die immediately. I don't think it would be immediately though.

First, you'd contract very quickly right before death several sexual diseases and then you would die. This is the Don Lebertar Show with this Stugats! Alright, Tonies, NFL Top 5. We do them every week and we're so close to the return of them, but we're going to do something a little bit different. Okay, usually you guys want my tears, and I give you tears of your different kinds. Right now, we're going to go through all 32 NFL teams, all 32 NFL quarterbacks, and we're

going to rank them into tears. Six different tears for everybody right here. So we're gonna start at the top, Patrick Mahomes level. Number two, Elite. Number three, good enough. Number four, man. Number five, bad. And number six is an interesting one.

It's called the jury still out. Which could be good? Could be bad depending on the name. So we're gonna start in the AFC East. As you can see, I've already marked things down. We're having fun. Start off with the Patriots, Mack Jones. I gave him a May. Matt Patricia last year, defensive coordinator, calling off offensive plays. Weird right? Who would have thought of that? Okay, sure. So I'm gonna throw last year out. He had a decent rookie season. Their weapons not great. I'm just gonna

give him a man. I think he's just somebody that's a run of the mil quarterback. Maybe like somebody else down this list, I don't know. But he to me is like, there's just nothing special about Mac Jones. We're gonna go down to the Dolphins now, the hometown team. Tua, Tungo Vilova. And I gave him a jury still out. Jury still out on tour. Is he gonna be the elite of the elite

like he was projected out of Alabama? No, we already know. We can we can shelf that he is not in the elite here. I'm sorry. I've gotten sources that have told me in camp, he's not that guy. I've heard that. Multiple people have told me, not that guy. I've heard that.

Multiple people have told me, not that guy. So I'm going to give him a jury still out. I think he can be a serviceable quarterback as we saw in some games last year. His health is going to be a problem. I'm just going from what I've seen. His health may be a problem. And durability wise, he's not a huge guy. He's not a big guy.

So I have my trepidations on whether he can sustain an entire 17 game season in the NFL. Let's move on. Bill's jaw-showing, Elite. Let's wear it on if you're going to keep it moving. Elite. Here's where things get interesting. The Jets. Aaron Rodgers.

Elite. You can't go back to back MVP's, can't go 48 touchdowns and then have it off year and then drop off. Wow, wouldn't happen. Wouldn't happen. Air and Rogers, Garrett Wilson, Alan Lazard, good team. Moving over to the FC North. Deshawn Watts, and this was a tough one for me because remember, our tiers are Mahomes, Elite, Good enough, Man, Bad, Jury, Still out. Two years ago I would have said Deshawn Watts and Elite. Right now I got him good enough. I think he's good enough to maybe get you in the wild card.

He's got a show more than what he showed over the last six games or seven games last season. I get it. Hey Tony, he only played, you know, he was off for a year and a half. He tried to get back in the NFL after, you know, 12 games of the season. He just wasn't there. I get it. Most important part is, your elite play like it. I got him as good enough. Can you pick it, Jury's still out. Not so bad, can you pick it, and not so bad on the offense? I'm just two gloves.

Really? Come on, what are we doing? Any guy that wears two gloves, Jury's still out on him. And Teddy Bridgewater's not a starter, I'm still out on him too. Jury is. Bengals, Joe Barrow elite. What's that even?

Waste time. Love our Jackson, elite. We're not wasting time. Two of the best quarterbacks in the NFL Jackson, Elite, we're not wasting time. Two of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. All right, we're going to do a division that is not that good. I would say probably the worst division in football. The AFC South.

Both South Division, by the way, are terrible as a little bit of a caveat. Both are not good. CJ Stroud, Jury Stillout, Rookie, Good Body Work at Ohio State, nothing else. There's really nothing else with the Texans, like that's it. Trevor Lawrence, good enough. Made it to playoffs, got a wild card, came back from 27. Nothing, I was there, Sam Boselli, you guys know the story. Trevor Lawrence to me, good enough.

This is the year, does he take the step with Doug Peterson, with Calvin Ridley, with who else we have? Christian Kirk, all the guys that they've put together for him, Evan Ingram, ETN, all those guys. This is the year that he's got to make that step. Anthony Richardson. I'm very intrigued by Anthony Richardson. And we're doing this during the preseason. Of course, getting you ready for August, getting you ready for football. There was one play in Anthony Richardson's game against the bills where I said,

you know what, hey, the official tier is jury still out. Obviously it's the rookie, mostly all rookies are gonna get the jury still out. But there was one play, Anthony Richardson, off his back foot, arm angle, like if he was throwing it from shorts up to first base. It was a pick. I'm just gonna straight up be a restrain up with it.

It was a pick, but it was a laser. A laser beam, back foot, side arm. If we can redirect that laser to a guy wearing that cult blue, dynamic, dynamic. Alright, who else we have? Ryan Tain Hill. I have Ryan in the man category. It's the Mac Jones, man. Sure, a team had seven years with them that didn't know what he was.

Went to a different team who had an amazing running back. Yeah, okay, he's serviceable, sure, okay, whatever. He's just like, his baseline is man. He's been his whole entire life in man, dumb. Sad. Anyways, moving on, AFC West will rapid fire Jimmy Gropalo, living in the Man. There's just nothing there, no excitement, no passion. Brady's looking behind every corner, you know that.

Justin Herbert elite, patching my homes. And the patching my homes too, naturally. Russell Wilson. Bad. Look, look, look. Hack it? A hack, maybe? Maybe we're seeing a different side of him during hard knock for the Juts.

But what we saw last year was terrible. After a good year in 21, 22 he was terrible. I'm not going to put all the blame on Hackett. There's blame there to go around for everybody in the Broncos organization. And I need you to be careful because if Sean Payton comes in, no Gilligan hats, everybody's on time, the whole thing. And if they're bad, and if Russell's bad, how much do they own? $250 million still?

Yikes. Not good. Bad deal. NFC East. Dac press got good enough. Good enough. Like I like Dac. I think he's a good quarterback.

I think the weapons they have around him are good. I think McCarthy may hold him back situationally in a couple different things called runs when they probably should pass. I'm going to say Dac is good enough. The Communist Sam Howe, jury still out. Looking good in the precinct. Had some flashes last year. Big arm, scary Terry, Johan Dotson, I like.

It's jury still out. Daniel Jones, this is a tough one man because I want to say the jury still out. I want to. I think he lives in the meh kind of I think he's me. I think he's gonna I think he's gonna surprise people with his legs, but now the jig is up Yeah, everybody knows you can run That's it force force him to pass Darren Waller in now. I can't name your receiver. I saw Richie James was on the was on the on the chiefs Richie James is a great giant. What happened? We have no idea who the receivers are I say oh

Is Kenny Galaday still there? Oh? I've been told my ear he's still not there okay Paris Campbell Darius Slade and the two why receiver one and two man Jaleners now I could spend and two, man. Jaleners. Now I could spend the next five minutes on Jaleners. And I might. Or I can tell you this. A long time ago, when Jaleners were drafted in the class of Tuha, Justin Herbert,

Joburo, everybody. I told you, me, I told you, and Joburo, everybody. I told you, me, I told you, and I told Mike Fuentes actually personally before I met him. Jalen Hertz better quarterback than to a more sauce electric. Now fast forward two, three years, Jalen Hertz, 250 million dollar guarantee deal. Super Bowl runner up, elite team, taking the next step in his passing. Already probably one of the most dynamic runners in football. Great line, great offensive weapons.

I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm gonna do it. Put them in the Patrick Mahomes tier. Patrick Mahomes Jalen Hertz. Ain't a tier by themselves. Only one man was brave enough to tell you that Jalen Hertz was a real deal. This guy. I'm not, and it's not tooting my horn.

It's giving him the credit for doing exactly what I thought that he was gonna do is take his game to the next level Jalen her it's been Patrick my home's here. We'll speed through these NFC North Jared golf Jury still out. I'm intrigued by Jared golf in the lines this year You guys know that every year I have a team or teams that I follow and I'm like hey this team's actually not that bad. Excuse me the Jags last year, the Lions last year, the Lions I'm back on the Lions this year. I like what they're doing, Dan Campbell is something he has the boys ready to play in Detroit. Justin Fields good enough. I'm going to give him that already. I think he's a dynamic enough playmaker with his legs. I think if he takes that next step, throwing the ball,

they got DJ Moore. Things can happen. I like Justin Fields. Kirk Cousins Elite. He's a lead. Sorry. Sorry to tell you guys. The addition of Jordan Addison, Hawkinson, Justin Jefferson, a little bit of quarterback, Dashden. He was doing those things that he put the pin in and was like, teaching himself how to focus elite-level quarterback stuff. Jordan Love Jury's still out. It's hard to back up a legend who backed up a legend. So now you've got 30 years of Packer's Legendary

and now you've got Jordan Love trying to step into that. Very tough. Jerry Stillout on him. NFC South, probably the other worst division in football. Falkins, Desmond Ritter. I like Desmond. Jerry Stillout on him. They run a lot.

Arthur Schmitt loves to run the ball. That's gonna be tough. Panthers, Bryce Young, Jury's still out, like I said he was. What I was encouraged by was the fact that he can take a hit, get back up. The picture with Mina was worrisome. For others, maybe not for me, but others had him a little bit lower in the total pull. But Jury's still out on him. Derrick Carr, car man lives in the Tannenhill may category of hey, yeah We're gonna play all right. We're gonna maybe go 12 and five one year, but the majority of our time is gonna be kind of

hovering around 7 and 9 and 7 Does he move now from are the Raiders for real to the Saints for real? That is the bigger question and we'll discuss that later on Bucking your bigger mayfield. Man, man, just nothing there for me. Watch for John Wallford in that camp by the way. Just watch out for John Wallford keeping eye on. NFC West really quick, Brock Purti, man right now but can take a step into good enough if he has another good season like he did last year.

Kyler Murray, Jury still out. He may be bad. He may be bad. It may be all his fault. I don't know yet. Matt Stafford, good enough. They want to support me. Obviously, keep an eye out for Stetson Bennett. And the Seahawks, Geno Smith, man. Hey!