The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: It's Me And You (And Me Again) At The Sueys
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Wait.
Was that the group?
chat?
Ah, sent a text to the group that definitely wasn't for everyone.
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Chris, I don't have confidence in what it is that I just saw.
And I walked into a room where it didn't seem like Billy had much confidence in what he saw
playing out on video.
And then when I came out, I looked at your father and he was grinning ear to ear while
watching something and he was watching himself he was watching whatever he was doing whatever he
had orchestrated billy where are you with whether this is going to succeed or not oh i mean i have
no idea if this is going to succeed or not i just know when we walked in you and i separately we had
the same experience where we were quickly ushered out of where our normal was just like hey hey pick up
the pace get out of this room get you can't be here you can't be there go hide in this corner going
we can't have you here there was a live active
music video shoot going on. It's Suey Week. It was not a music video. It was a rehearsal like we did in
the New York show. We try to rehearse things with my dad. I'm sure we'll screw it up. You can't
rehearse things with him. They don't work when you rehearse anything with him. Well,
that's what like, as we learned with New York, you're right. We tried to practice this once or twice
before. We're about to go lie to it. It's Suey's Week. Okay. You're trying to bring the
enthusiasm to Suey's Week. And this is how we're doing like the adornments on Suey Week. We're doing a
taped thing that required your father to rehearse.
For me, the best award shows start with an opening number.
And that's what we're trying to prepare here for the audience.
Is that true?
Put it on the poll at Lebitard show.
Do the best award shows start with an opening number?
Oh, yeah.
Don't they all?
Are any awards shows that don't start with an opening number?
I'm not, you know, I haven't tuned into award shows in probably 15 years.
But I don't assume that you start.
I guess, yeah.
Did Conan start, Conan started dancing around with, like, in the last one, he did a bit of a musical, right?
I don't believe you.
Yeah, I don't think so.
I think you watch all the award shows.
15 years?
You guys are now accusing me.
We talk about every award show after it happens.
We did two weeks of Shane Gillis talk.
You watched every award show.
I didn't watch any of the ESPs.
All I saw was the 10-minute monologue.
You watch them.
Okay, I don't know what to do with being accused of being a liar now.
15 years.
That's your move now.
out of here.
Look, it's Suey's Week.
I will be, I will tell you that the last award show moment I remember was my wife waking
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Is your dad, I wasn't watching it.
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All right
All right, man, yeah
Yeah
The timing on the lip sink was slightly off
Lipsink.
Pretty good, all things considered.
And Suey Week is here, and I heard you taping stuff.
Put on your headset like a professional.
He's actually got ear pods in.
Really?
He's ready to cook.
Who?
Who's the professional now?
I'm sorry.
Forgive me for underestimating you.
You look great.
I haven't seen...
There are only two times that I've ever seen Greg Cody dress this way.
Two times.
When his boys got married.
That's it.
That's it.
That's the...
list this this outfit does not get worn except on these most special of occasions is this the only
suit that you own it's also for funerals yeah it's uh weddings and funerals and special occasion this is
probably one of three suits i own and it's the one that's the closest to being new and clean
it is great you look great and thank you for getting us uh on this awards week off to a rip
roaring start we're going to open with uncomfortable moment because i imagine i've got a few of those in
there. I'm the reigning champion here, correct? This is my category. Wouldn't you guys
agree that, like, Stugats has mispronunciations. Greg Cody has back in my day,
most uncomfortable moment or biggest mistake. Those are my categories. Well, don't, I'd like,
I put up a good fight in biggest mistake. So don't take that one. Okay, but you would agree that
if I were the betting, I've got to be the betting favorite on an uncomfortable moment. You know who
actually had a great performance this year in terms of a person you're going to see pop up in a lot of
categories, David Sampson. I mean, he can make us uncomfortable. I would say, no, you are in
here, but David Sampson brings it in uncomfortable. I believe a mean has a good one, so it's
pretty widespread, actually. We'll get to that in a moment. But speaking of uncomfortable moments,
I want to play some video for you. This is from Mike Bibby's podcast, and Shaq is making an appearance
on the podcast. And he's told parts of this story before, okay, of how it is that Shaq and the
Miami Heat broke up. It included Shaq being escorted out by security, wanting to fight Pat Riley,
His things were taken outside and they were not to see each other.
And Shaq has told those portions of the story before.
But I want to present to you this story as he told it to Mike Bibby where his anger was.
And I just want to bring it to the dolphins to ask you how it is that they're going to handle situations like this if things escalate this year.
And you do not have somebody like Pat Riley at the helm of your organization.
How do you handle this?
One day Jason Williams came late
Remember you used to have that clock
Yeah
But Jason Williams came a half a second late
And he was like
Hey man you need to get out
I told Jason we're not doing that
Because you know that's when
When he got rid of Antoine and all my guys
And I had a regular team
So we was losing like crazy
So he told J.W. get out
And I said now
We're not getting out
He said well you get out
And I said mother fuck put me out
So we got into a little scuffle
And then the next day I was traded
a little scuffle uh yeah so i ask you uh mother bleeper you put me out obviously with shack
how do you do it but let's make it tyreek hill let's let's make the season start and now
the focal point of everything you do offensively in your job and your future all rely on i kind
of need the deep threat he kind of makes everything happen and you know he's not going to behave
if it goes poorly at the start right you guys you guys understand that there's a voluminum
old chemical in the dolphin locker room that was shouting at the end of last season,
get me out of here in public.
And they didn't trade them.
And that spoke volumes.
Mike McDaniel's job is teetering, and he needs Tyreek Hill, who's still arguably his best
player and his biggest threat.
He had some, not as much trade value as he had a year ago, but in the past off season, he
still had some trade value.
They didn't put him on the market because they need him too badly.
And so therefore, if Tyreek is this version of what Shaq was then, they're proven that they're not going to trade him just because he's petulant or refuses to go back.
I want to ask you guys about the hypothetical, though, about like, what do you do when things escalate to that point where you've got more than any team in the league right now?
And Asante Samuel's father gave voice to this.
Asante Samuel Jr.'s father, Asante Samuel.
Crazy where we are, 20 years doing this show.
We have to clarify.
That's correct.
It's Asante Samuel's father.
I think Fernando Tatis Jr. is the junior of a junior.
I'm not totally sure.
I think so.
I think I've got that right.
But when I tell you of the dolphins and the chemical ingredients in their locker room,
and I say to you that no team in the league, none comes with the reputation,
I don't know if that guy's in control of all that.
I don't I and that happened quick Greg that that happened he went from expectations mastermind to show us something boy genius and oh is he overwhelmed wait a minute are these people too strong for him right are these personalities too strong for him all of that happened quickly show me where else in the league it exists because I've got the dolphins here everybody gathered around saying how do they go quickly to irrelevant if this thing blows up early in the season because because because you know
the joint practice that they had that echoed from C to C is indicative of, yes, things are
actually falling apart there before it's even started.
Right.
Well, I think that's why they traded Jalen Ramsey as symbolic of the need for a culture reboot.
Jalen Ramsey spends the entire season being petulant, being late, and they said enough already,
and they traded them.
And you don't see many teams that go public with the idea that we're not tough enough.
That's why we're always fading late in the season.
need a culture reboot here. And they've done that. So let's see, you know, because a couple of
their-Taron-Arms said retired. What does that mean? Hold on. Culture, they've done that. No.
What do you mean they've done that? I mean, they've done that. They've said they've done that.
No, no, no, no, no, no, wait a minute. That's not the same thing at all. Right.
I mean, how do we judge that? Right, exactly. The season's just so. We know what's a goal of theirs.
We know what they're aspiring to. I guess we'll lay out and see the results together.
This is the reason that I ask you guys the question, because when you start this way with the expectations and everything that happen there, what usually doesn't happen is that the audience is sitting there watching, the customer is watching and being like, Coach, I don't think they respect you.
And then coach comes out and says, well, we're doing this different with the time and this different with the time and this different with the time.
Hey, coach, I don't think they respect you.
Like, just because you made a whole bunch of different rules, you're still the same guy they didn't respect before.
with rules. So you're skeptical at their ability to pull this off. But I mean, what are they
supposed to do in the public space to convince you that they're changing? I'm saying they've got a
problem at the top of their food chain with a volatile chemical that says, I want to be the
leader. And then quarterback says, no, you're not. We don't trust you. Kansas City wouldn't let you
get in front of microphones. There are great reasons that no one around here trusts you.
Just a play devil's advocate. Arguments against. They didn't just have one malcontent atop their
food chain. They had Jalen Ramsey, too, and they got him out of here. And Tua seems to have
asserted himself publicly more as a leader, more publicly considered a guy that can maybe
rain Tyreek Hill in. I think that's right to be met with skepticism. It's a super
interesting dynamic when that receiver got Tua paid. And now Tua has to go the other way on,
no, I'm the big dog here. I'm the leader. But what happens when I take you out of the
Offense. Now Waddle's my number one and no one thinks he's a number one. No one. Well, but he's a really good number two and Malik Washington is fast rising. So they have a good wide receiver room, but they do need Tyreek. You're right. But the thing about Mike McDaniel. The way they need him though is interesting. It's like a lynch pin on everything. Yes. It's a really dangerous chemical to have near the detonation. Right. And they're relying, a big part of their hope is relying on a big bounce back year.
from Tyreek, whose yardage almost went in half.
And Waddle.
And Waddle as well.
But the thing about criticizing Mike McDaniel too much, he's the same guy who made the
playoffs two years in a row and scored 70 points against Denver, and then he's the
darling of the league.
He has one eight and nine season, and everything blows up.
But, Greg, it's an optics problem.
Very obviously, a young man who looks like a young man, and who looks like he could be
thrown by his ankle.
into the crowd by any of the people who play for him
has the reputation of not being tough enough
because he's compassionate and empathetic
and he's a nice guy
and he doesn't look the part of football coach
doesn't talk the part of football coach
and now they need him to act like a football coach
and he's here at every point saying got to be me
I got to let my players be them
look how that got you in trouble you let them be them
and then they started showing up late
and they do what they want on your time
Like there's a functional lack of respect that's out in public.
Okay, but I think he earned back an inch of that respect when he traded Jalen Ramsey.
I think there was respect earned when Tua on the first day of camp says Tyreek Hill has to earn back our trust.
I think that was huge for Tua to say that, and that's a leadership thing that you say.
Let me ask the group the question.
What did you find there, Jeremy?
Did you locate something that made your eyes light up?
Fernando Antonio Tatis is the father of Fernando Gabriel Tatis Medina Senior, who is the father of Fernando Gabriel Tatis Medina Jr. So, Dan, you were in fact right.
Fernando Tatis Sr. is not actually Fernando Tatis Sr. So does that mean that the present day Fernando Tatis in the major leagues is Fernando Tatis Jr. Jr.?
So Fernando Tatis Jr. has the exact same name because the maternal name is included.
So yes, Fernando Tatis Jr. is the third Fernando Tatis, Medina, Jr.
They have different middle names, right?
Yes, I didn't know that Senior v. Junior had to also include the middle name.
I don't know if that's the case for everybody.
Is it? Is that the rule?
That's the rule.
Okay.
I don't think that's the rule.
Otherwise, you use a middle name to definitely.
differentiate. Well, that's it. That just becomes a nickname or a different way to say a name, right?
You go by your middle name. I thought the middle name was just an appendage that had no real clout in any way.
It was just dangling there. It was second place on the choices of your parents.
I think that there were three previous Will Fullers. And that was just their name.
I know, but that became Will Fuller, the third, then junior, then the third.
But Fernando Tetis Jr., is not going by Fernando Tatee's the third. Put this on the poll at Levitard show.
does the middle name have any clout and put on the put it on the poll as well at lebitard show
is the middle name just second place for the first name right he's not going by the third because
he's not a third because the first in line wasn't a medina tatis i don't believe that the
middle name is in play here but i don't know what the audience would register there i didn't think
that the junior junior had to have the identical middle name i think middle names are significant
in a lot of families to a lot of people in my family both of my sons have middle names that
are there for a reason. And I can't speak for everybody, but I don't, don't disrespect the middle
name. That's all I'm saying. Well, but what clout does it actually have? It doesn't have a clout
because nobody uses it. But give it, okay, but give, well, not, look, Stephen Smith is not the
same as Stephen A. Right. Like, Stephen Smith, there's an A there for a reason. Yeah, but nobody knows
what it stands for. There are people who know what it stands for. I don't think so.
I think he made it up. What plow does the middle name have? I want you to give me one thing. I want you to
give me one thing the middle name does, one thing you know the middle name to be. Give me
something, Greg. I'm looking at you. I'm asking you these questions. You know, you're telling me
you think the middle name is something. I'm asking you, give me one thing the middle name is.
The middle name is a continuation of family, history, and legacy. To some, in my case, Christopher's
middle name was my father's given first name. Michael's middle name, my other son, is my given
first name. And so there's something there that makes me feel good. So it's just you is what
you're saying. It's your name being passed down. It makes you feel good that your youngest son has
your mental name. It's just you giving your son something that he has to hang on to after we've
written your tombstone. I'm just, oh, my tombstone's too full. Sponsored by draft kings.
Right. I'm just saying that right now I have a granddaughter. I don't have any grandsons.
So, you know, the Cody last name. Wow. Maybe in trouble.
That's all I'm saying.
You know?
Oh, there's a...
Chris.
There's a lot in Canada.
Well, I mean, the elongation of my family.
You go into Canada and everyone's like, oh, Cody!
Hey, Cody!
It's like Smith or Jones.
Cote.
Cote.
That's right.
Yeah.
No, that's a...
But here, in my case, you know, but why can't my granddaughter take my last name?
Maybe she will.
Yeah, there you go.
I'm going to have to talk about that.
I want to, yes, please.
Let's talk more about you.
I know you enjoyed doing that and putting your name wherever it is that you can.
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And then that Stafford threw him 25 and two.
Oh, there's a brand new kid in town out of BYU.
Stugats.
They call them Pooka.
Cooca.
Bucca.
This quarterback is not named two of us
Yeah, yeah, he is Pooka, Pooka, Nakuwa.
This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats.
Getting back to the question I was asking you guys,
If a coach loses respect optically and actually,
can he get it back when he doesn't actually have job security or clout
or when an overthrow if you start in adversity
will end up with them swallowing you
because they don't respect.
Oh, now you change the rules?
It was okay for us to be everything that we were before,
but now you're changing the rules
because you and the GM are on the hot seat now
and because we have a reputation as a team,
league-wide, as being soft and...
The great combination of soft and unmanageable.
Yeah, but soft is on the players.
that's not to me that's not on the head coach but it's the style of play as well it's not just no it's their
style their offense doesn't travel in December I know it's also the style it's because they rely on
speed more than any other team in the league and nobody was complaining about that in the the middle
of two seasons ago when they're the but that's where the that's where the reputation comes from
like to me it's unfair to ever call a football team soft but this one has that reputation does it not
am I just is anyone going to dispute me on this I would say it did have that
reputation, but let's see about this year.
Okay, so they haven't played a game, but they may have changed it, even though, you know,
Chubb and Phillips are hurt, and, you know, like, they're signing Judon for $6 million.
Yeah, it's a good signing.
Yeah, it's a good signing.
Like, when you guys tell me, forgive me for bringing up what his rehashed subject matter
on chemistry, respect, leadership, but as we head into a football season that risks the job of the GM and the coach.
and as the coach's reputation has gone up in flames in a way that needs to be rescued by this season and even if they start eight and two, no one's going to trust them because of everything that December has brought to this franchise this entire century.
They go into this season with him needing to be a leader and he needs Tyreek Hill because Chris made a face when I said Jaden Waddle wasn't a,
Jaylen Water wasn't a number one.
He's not a number one.
He came here, and it looked like he was number one.
Tyreek Hill made him look like a number one.
Then the drop started, and you know that offense is not going to look the same if I take Tyreek Hill out of it.
You all know it.
No matter what a mastermind of the coach is, you all know that if I don't make Tyreek Hill perfectly healthy,
if he looks banged up or slower like he did last year, look what happens to the offense.
It all falls apart.
I don't know if two is their most important piece.
I really don't.
He is on offense.
Devon H. Chan.
The reason I say it is because I think Tua needs Tireke Hill more than Tireke Hill needs Tua.
I think Tirec Hill gets open against anybody.
I think Tua needs Tiree Kill to run that offense so he can throw the ball every time two seconds in.
Well, Tyree Kiel's got something to prove, too.
He's an aging wide receiver coming off an extremely disappointing season.
So he's got something to – everybody's got something to prove.
Devon A. H.N.
average eight yards of carry as a rookie.
Last year was more of a standard.
four point something. Everybody on that offense has something to prove. Patrick, Paul,
the left tackle's got something to prove. Do you guys disagree with what I'm saying that Tua needs
Tyreek more than Tarek needs Tua? They need each other, I think. I mean, we've seen what this
offense looks like without Tua and it's an absolute disaster with a healthy Tyreek Hill. But we've
also seen the Dolphins last year didn't really do anything when Tariq was injured all season. So
they seem to need each other at this point in their careers, but I don't think one can necessarily
succeed without the other. There was that report from a dolphin insider that cited sources that said
the offense goes to hell when two is not out there. So would you guys agree with me? And I believe that
that is also so. But when Tyreek has not been quite right and two was out there, I've also
see them constipated and no longer looking like the offense they looked like that gave us
enthusiasm or a fourth quarter against the Ravens and 70 points against the Broncos and put the
expectations where they did. Whatever your expectations for the season are, seven and a half is the
number for their season, the betting number. Greg Cody, the Homer, has written a column saying,
go over there. We will get to his column in a moment if we want to do a dramatic reading. I would
love anyone to give me the most homerific parts of Greg Cody's most recent column beyond the paywall.
But if I tell you right now, whatever your expectations for the season are, I'm not even going to,
maybe you've got it at 12 wins. Take
just Tyreek Hill out of that. Now where are your expectations? We know that you can't trust their
quarterback to stay healthy, but now just take Tyreek Hill out. He can't play. He's suspended. He's hurt. He's
traded. Where do your expectations go on this season? Because I believe all the expectations for
the dolphins weren't just that they could win. No, they had the explosive offense. It didn't look like
what the chiefs looked like last year. They had the guy that made them a big play threat. And it's not
something they've had since Marino. I mean, there's a lot of data points that you can pick
at. Tyreek Hild didn't look like himself last year. It got off to an inauspicious start,
but it's baked into the fabric of this franchise to his health. He just can't finish a season
healthy. But what's the answer to my question on Hill? Without Tyre, I mean, they have weapons,
right? It all depends on his Jalen Waddle going to be healthy. Malik Washington has looked
okay. It's preseason so far. You have no idea.
what Darren Waller is going to be at this point in time.
Ollie Gordon has looked good if he's the number two.
He's good in college.
Just the dolphins are more likely to win a game if Tyreek Hill is out injured
as opposed to if two is out injured because the falloff is crazy.
Yeah, and the dolphins are not alone in relying super heavily on their best player.
What is J.J. McCarthy's chances if Justin Jefferson gets hurt in Minnesota?
I mean, there's a dozen teams of the league like that.
Yeah, but usually the risk is.
of health and that one's random.
This one's got more in it.
This one's not just health.
This one, you can lose everything
that was your
head coaching career in the
first four games. If he
doesn't actually have control
of Tyree Kill and if he doesn't
actually have the respect of
Tyree Kill. And furthermore,
if Tyree Kill has actually lost
the respect of those people in the locker
room because he did what no one
does. At the end of last season, when it was
down. When Tyreek Hill tells you he's just a winner, all he's known is winning. He loses poorly
and throws a temper tantrum in public that every player feels and no player acts on because no other
player is quite the baby that this person is. I'm afraid it feels pretty predictable how the
dolphin season is going to go. It's going to get undone by an injury to their quarterback and that'll
be that. And then they'll have to reevaluate how they want to move forward with this franchise. I know
they tried for so long to get somebody with the production of Tua's, but every season there's some
sort of scare that makes you wonder if this guy can continue playing football. You have to almost
include it in your projections that he's going to miss a few games. I wouldn't. I mean, he has had
one season in five where he played all 17 games. That's bad. It's bad, but there's no, you know,
the law of averages, right? I mean, there's no reason why he can't do it again. One of the reasons
there is, his head, his head. I think that there is plenty of reason why he can't do it is because
of all the other injuries that he took. I'm with my dad. He's due. That's not how the law of averages
works. He holds the ball a shorter amount of time than any other starting quarterback in the league.
Ever. Right. So, you know, there are things in that offensive formula designed to prevent his
getting future concussions. But the reason I think more highly of the Dolphins' chances this year
than some do is the first half schedule is really easy. Okay. And then it gets really tough with three
games in a row, but all three of those games are at home. So I think there's a favorable schedule here
for them to get off to an encouraging start that foments hope.
Billy, were you making faces at the ability to do one loss on the Dolphin schedule?
No, I would love to do one loss.
You can go over right now if you would like.
I was just going to say, I don't know if you guys caught the preseason game on Saturday,
but two is still the size to scramble sometimes,
which is kind of like, what are you doing, sir?
Why do you continue to do this knowing,
especially in a preseason game that means absolutely nothing?
Here is the most homerific paragraph from the Cody column on Miami Herald.com, if you want to go behind the paywall.
Tua, yes, Tua.
Those are exclamation points.
He rarely uses those.
It's true.
It's when he really means it, okay?
Yeah, I-TALs, exclamation points.
Greg Cody does not often use the exclamation point.
If I, if number of times in your historic 50-year column career, give me a number, that you have used the exclamation point.
you believe? Well, it's a long-ass career, so I would say less than 100. And usually I use it
in an ironic sense. Like, I use it to over-dramatize how I imagine people are receiving this.
Tua, yes, Tua. The quarterback is a cornerstone, reason for optimism and hope if you believe
it can stay healthy. I do. I really don't know how you can believe that. Like how anybody can.
It's not you. I just don't know how you can have faith in that. But okay, I do, says Cody.
Tua is 38 and 25, 603 winning percentage as a starter.
Justin Herbert drafted one spot later is 4138, 52% winning percentage.
Tua in his career has led the NFL in passing yard, completion percentage, and passerating.
QBs who have not led in all three categories in their careers include Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, Joe Burrow, Herbert, Josh Allen, Aaron Rogers, and Dan Marino.
None of this is to put Tua at that level, but to say when healthy, he has the skills to be a top 10.
quarterback.
Stop being a homer, Beau.
Yeah.
Every word of that, I believe.
I believe.
When you leave the league in three categories, passing yards, accuracy, and
pass a rating, it shows you have the skill set.
When you say all those guys haven't done it, though, I go, that must not be that
important then.
Because it was like, Burrow, Mahomes.
Yeah.
I just, no, it's just to illustrate that.
But are you living in an echo, Greg?
Because you could say some of the same things.
Like, every team that had Carson Wentz.
This is not, not.
An echo chamber.
Every team that kicked the tires on Carson Wentz
as a possible solution was saying similar things.
Okay, I get that, and Trent Dilfer won a Super Bowl.
I know there are anomalies in every formula you use to judge quarterbacks.
What I'm saying is, and we saw it when he was healthy two seasons ago
and made the Pro Bowl.
When, too, is healthy, and granted, it's the biggest if,
the biggest asterisk in all the sports.
When two is healthy, he's really, really good.
I'm not saying he's, you know, Joe Burrow.
Maybe it's that cold.
Well, you know, you lose a game in sub-temperatures in Kansas City.
Well, they lose all those games.
They lose the game in Kansas City.
They lost the game in Green Bay.
They lose a game in Buffalo.
They do have a cold problem.
Well, so do a lot of teams.
Look at Kansas City and Buffalo's home record in December and January.
Pretty good.
You know, it's not just Miami that goes from hot weather to ice cold and struggles.
The good news is they play Buffalo Weeks.
three at Buffalo.
So they're not in the cold.
What do you think on that one?
I think that's, could be the only...
Thursday nighter.
I think that could be the only game they lose the first half of the scene.
Wow, okay.
Oh my God.
Win at Indy, win versus New England.
A lost Buffalo, win versus the jets.
Dan and Greg, wouldn't you think that the upset here would be if Tua just finds a way to say healthy the rest of his career?
Yes, I don't know how Greg can say with any degree of conviction.
If it was something you could bet on, he'd be a favorite to get hurt.
Doesn't this one feel obvious?
I feel like we've seen this guy on a field scare us enough times and we've seen some fairly
innocuous hits that have led to him being out for extended periods of time.
I feel like we can say with certainty at some point that dude's going to become such a
liability to put out there that teams are just going to decide he can't be QB1 anymore.
I want to go over with you guys some of the thoughts that I have on a Cowboys documentary
here that ended up being big and empty.
But one of the things that was in it that was interesting and was,
one of the few things, actually.
I was hoping to learn more during it that I learned during this.
Troy Aikman's concussion problem that made him retire was so bad that he played an entire
NFC championship game that he doesn't remember.
He still doesn't remember playing in it, played well in it, won it.
Got to the Super Bowl because concussions were something that were so primitive back then
that if you had four in 14 months and he was getting hit a lot in ways that weren't getting
concussed. We didn't do enough with the close of two of those, the faces of that position in that
generation, Steve Young and Troy Aikman. This was before concussions became a big thing. They were
faces of franchises and literally walked away from the game. And we just kept on moving and it wasn't
until Ben and Amalus and then boys started cooking it out. Yeah, but now we're going to have
with two of some things that are presented throughout the entirety of his career. Like we're not
that far removed from wondering whether he should retire or not. But let's move on to other things
because there was a lot of stuff from over the weekend. And we have closure on something too.
investigative report. Jeremy has scoured the internet to get us answers on junior, seniors,
trays, and fours.
Ultimately, the way that this works is if you're going to be a junior, you do need the middle
name to be a part of it. This is to decipher between people with entirely the same name,
first, middle and last name, or multiple last names. If the father is deceased, that's when
you would go with I-I over junior. And then obviously, if you're going with further Roman numerals,
it's ultimately further generations, but you would also go with I-I if it's going to be someone
who is named entirely after another relative or person that you know.
So there's all of your information.
Can you give me some more information on Tua without Tariq and Tariq without Tua?
Yes, I can.
Tua Taka Vailoa has a passer rating of 90.1 with 4,691 yards, 28 touchdowns, and 15
interceptions in 24 games without Tyreek Hill in his career.
Tyreek Hill has had 50 catches for 567 yards and one touchdown in the 10 games for the
dolphins without Tua.
So five catches for 56 yards and a tenth of a touchdown per game.
In other words, Tyreek needs Tira, more than Tua needs Tarek.
It's irrefutable.
Thank you, Jeremy.
One is stinky and the other is truly terrible.
Now look up Tyreeks' numbers with and without Patrick Mahomes.
And then we can see if two is better than Patrick Mahomes.
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Don Libetard.
All right, we got to go back out there.
That was big.
Wake him up.
Uh-oh.
He doesn't want to be bothered anymore.
Now it's getting tense because he didn't need that as a result.
He needs something that happens.
You can see it.
Mother Ethel.
Can we bother?
Are we bothering you right now?
Turn on your microphone.
My microphone's on.
Stugats.
Paint the scene.
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Good night.
This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats.
One of the things that happened over the course of the weekend is Avery Johnson,
the quarterback for Kansas State, that we learned together in an embarrassing public apology from Mike Ryan,
that he is mixed.
and not Scandinavian. It was a very confusing controversy from last week. Greg Cody doesn't know
about it, so if you guys in the back room want to get Avery Johnson and that photo that had him
looking like Dolf Lundgren, really, like Nordic, really, in nature. And then we learn that,
no, he's mixed. And not only is he mixed, but, and this one is going to be something that,
we can't play the video because there are a couple of videos from this weekend in sports that
we simply can't play. One of them is Rampage Jackson's son and a video that's, you know,
might end up looking like you're witnessing a murder, a snuff film because it's not even funny.
It's just violence of the highest order. And then this story is, I think, just kind of funny
and reminded me of Zaslow, who doesn't have any control over his kids, because Avery Johnson's
father, it was an amazing headline to see, honestly. I didn't even understand it. I had to
reread it a couple of times when I saw it. Avery Johnson's father in fist fight with
other son. And so the video is of a father and a son just fighting outside of the game.
Football's back, people. The violence is back. Kansas State lost. Kansas State lost with their
quarterback. What are you shrugging your shoulders about and moving away from the microphone
for? No, I'm looking at that photo and trying to process it. Like, who's hitting who?
We can't play. We cannot play the video.
here. We introduced you to Avery Johnson last week. We can't play the video because, again, violence
concerns, but it is a father and that father appears to be beating up the son, right? The other son
is getting beat up. The other, Avery Johnson's brother is getting beat up there. Resets a clock
for six months, according to the Zaslo Mansion rules. I texted Zaslo this weekend because
Zaslo's son, 16 years old, referred to him as sugar tits the other day.
And I just texted him, Zaz, when your son says to what you think looks like the father
that you are sugar tits, you are now the older brother.
You have ceased being the father.
Do any of you have parental relationships that would end up in a fight with one of your kids?
My brother and I were always afraid of my father.
We were afraid of his old man burst.
I'm still a little afraid of it.
He's in his early 80s and my father has a burst in him of rage of old Cuban rage that if I were going to fight him, I better make sure to take out his stamina because he's going to come at me and I'm still a little afraid of it.
Yeah, you're going to outrun him.
That's what he'll take out of his stamina.
I'm going to have to do something, but do any of you have the relationship that would escalate to a physical one under any circumstance with your father?
No, my dad's never wanted that noise.
I mean, I haven't had a fist fight since middle school.
No, but I've seen you when you get upset, and I've seen you when you and your son get physical,
and I know you to be thinking that you're 20 years younger than you are.
So you probably, who wins a fight?
You or your son?
I mean, I think he, hopefully he would let me win if he cares about his inheritance.
But I do possess old man's strength.
That's a thing.
OMS, that's like a thing, which I...
I asked you a question.
Who would win a fight between you and your son?
You are 70.
Okay, I cannot envision anything happening that would have us come to.
blows. You've gotten really mad at me that time. I've seen it. I've seen it when he grabs your
elbow. I've seen it when you grab his elbow and it gets we're elbow grabers. Okay, the only time
I would be physically violent with either of my sons is if they have me in an arm lock and I say
let me go twice and they don't and then I'm going to come at him with an elbow that might aim a
little bit high. My dad's thing always been when we like rapy cack around. That's what he calls it
rapy cacking. He'd be like, I'll break your arm. I'll break it off. Oh. What's a rapy
Yeah, that's his thing. I don't know. What is a Rappi Kack? Put it on the poll, please, J-J-J-J-J-J-J-R-A-Labit show. Have you ever used the word Rappi-Cack? Do you know anyone who has ever used the word Rappi-Cack?
I do. Thank you, Greg. We're clear on that.
Not just me.
I got it from some.
How would you spell RappieCack?
R-A-P-P-Y, C-A-C-C-K.
And what is it?
It's Wheelhouse, baby.
The Rappi-Cack Wheelhouse.
And what can you tell us is the formal definition of to Rappi-Cack?
If a head coach goes, we're going to Rappi-Cack that team.
Are you kidding me?
The very first thing that shows up on Google when you search for it is a lebitard Redditat-R-E-Post from six years ago asking if Rappi-Cack is a reference to a
1992 Buffalo Bills fan group, but I will keep looking.
Rabby-Cack originated.
I have it as horseplay, not to cut you off.
I've never heard the word before Rappie-Cack.
I've never heard you say it in context of like that team's going to Rappie-Cack them.
It's always like, quit playing around.
Stop Rappie.
Next one is a tweet from Greg Coddy in November 21st of 2017.
Lobos update, Greg's Lobos Rappie-Cack Allison 109.9 to 93.4.
So wait a minute.
You're telling me, you're searching the entire.
This is all of the internet,
of the internet, as our information guy,
and the only two proofs that you have
that there is a word,
that it's not a word.
What do you do?
It is a word.
Old English origins.
Who did you hear from?
You were about to tell us.
He can't find on the internet
any references to anyone using the word.
No, what he's found is evidence
that Greg is keeping it alive.
Is this another, too?
Is this another Alan Cherry joint?
No.
I found one from December 11th, 2017.
Also, Greg.
Stunning.
Dolphins beating page.
2720? Yeah, that too, I guess. But I met number eight seed Greg's Lobos rallying behind Jarvis
Langey to Rappi-Cat, Chris Cody, 120 to 117.4.
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