The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: The Aaron Rodgers Achilles Conspiracy

Episode Date: November 7, 2023

Dan is questioning why the company paid for Chris Cote to go to Germany if he was going to be drunk the whole time, but Chris thought the assignment was simply "be Chris in Germany." Also, Billy and Stugotz are having some complications with the God Bless Football schedule. Then, Billy unleashes an Aaron Rodgers conspiracy theory regarding his "torn achilles" and how he may be pulling the wool over all of our eyes. Plus, Burnie takes a spill, LeBron James is a sight to behold, Greg's rat-based alcohol consumption, and confusion over the Dolphins record against "winning teams." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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and electrifying life every day. See how at opg.com. I can't. on all the shows. Do you not all of the shows that you watch that allow you the ability to just skip past the intro? You skip it. Not when it's a brand new one and we're trying to drive subbies over to youtube.com slash at levitar show. I'm not asking what your habits are with this particular. Well, we also don't give people the option to skip our intro. But when you get the option of skipping the intro after you've seen it on any of your favorite shows the first time, you don't watch the succession intro again, do you?

You just... That bangs occasionally. I'm like, I remember this name, it bangs. I've been getting a lot of contact over the last couple of days that is some form of this, and I'd like to cover it, because I don't know how the decisions get made around here on who to send to Germany. I would assume that it's a trip everybody wants to make and I would assume that it is a reward for work well done because we only have a couple of spots for things like this and what I've been getting from a lot of people who are watching our Germany coverage is a lot of saluting of Juju and a lot of the

show has to address how lit Chris Cody was at the game. And I just heard before the show that Chris Cody made what sounds like several phone calls and facetimes to the states that he doesn't remember making, that he has no recollection of, what are you shaking your head about, Billy? If you were on assignment, you wouldn't drink giant drafts of beer before the game that would affect your coverage and your ability to do your job.

No, Chris and Jude you killed it. I thought that that's what the fan experience we were in the seats. I wasn't drinking in the press box. I think part of it is like, what was the actual assignment? You know what I mean? Like that's over the dolphins. Well, be Chris in Germany and watch the dolphins get.

But was that the assignment? I checked was be Chris in Germany. What should I have done? I don't know, I don't know what the assignment was. One of those calls was made to me. He faced time me and does not remember our entire conversation. That had to be part of it. Because the only nut I really got after it quote unquote was the to me. He FaceTime me and does not remember our entire conversation. That had to be part of it. The only nut I really like got after it, quote, unquote,

was the first night. I had a couple nights before the game. And yeah, I don't remember doing that, if I'm being honest. Did the size of the beers catch you off guard? Well, there was beers, brought worse tequila. They have tequila in Germany. Haha. I think that was only in Miami? Shhh. And you shouldn't drink the tequila after the beer.

Your father is a veteran beer drinker. I would say in my life, I know we're before liquor, Dan. Never been sicker. How about that? Ah. Good line. Sorry, you were saying? I just was a little delayed.

And let me tell you a story about what happened with Stugat yesterday, just so that you see where he is on the delays of life. Put a bookmark there though, because you were saying something. You were about to tell a story. You were doing something. Something was happening. Welcome to my Tuesday experience, where the liquor before beer in the clear about that.

Rednecks the black friend of Jack, that's if you see a snake. Mm-hmm. Tell them. So Stugat yesterday, this is a thing that actually happened as the entitlement around here creeps ton precedent and proportions where Chris Cody thinks we sent him to Germany to drink beer. Did you send me there to like ask a question in the press conference? Well you were credentialed so presumably.

I'm asking you what I thought our show would like the person out there like go there I have a document. The bar, so to speak, pun intended, the bar is very low. The bar is just can you exceed when you make a phone call, you remember it? Well, that was an off hour. That wasn't like a content phone call.

It was one of you at his time. Yeah, I mean, yeah. I don't know why I would be calling Stugat to one AM. I don't know. Maybe I met a fan and they were like, Hey, I love Stugat. I don't remember. I asked Chris, are you okay? And he said, yes, I'm fine because you're the one I would call if I was kidnapped. If I was kidnapped, he's got. I need help. But if you're calling him, then that wouldn't reassure him. He'd think you were kidnapped. They'd be terrible kidnappers if they let him FaceTime someone.

Well, honestly, what would you do? If Chris collages, he's like, I'm kidnapped, you'd be the perfect person to call because he's like, I got it, buddy. And he forget about it. I think if you're in jail, I'm the perfect person to call. I, well, no, I'm not. I'm never the perfect person to call.

Dan is the guy to call. You got to call Dan. Yeah, you got to call it. Moneybags. But I don't want to paint this picture incorrectly. I was the only drinking I did during like business hours was during the game. I was not like, when we were, that's a problem.

No, but like, no, you're going to see a game. You're covering the game, Chris. Look guys, we went around two days before the game, doing content. You're going to see that video. I think today, maybe tomorrow. Maybe, whatever. Maybe, maybe.

Maybe, maybe, well, maybe we'll see it today tomorrow, whenever, maybe. I've learned with the NBA all-star game and other things. Sometimes things just vanish and don't actually appear. It was honestly nice to be somewhere where content is expected and not need to, because usually I'm the one, it's like jazz hands, give Chris the microphone, he'll go, juju's the bleeping star.

So I got to sit back and like, produce juju because everyone flocks to him and the content is there. I go there thinking we need to make good content. I'm not sitting there saying it needs to be the Chris show. So I thought we did great stuff, juju's rocked it. But first, a little drinky poop. Well, you gotta get one beer to like,

just get the edge off, right? It's hard to go up to people man on the street style. If you want to like be outgoing you got to have a beard just to get the edge off. You also are wearing a Dolphins jersey while you're credentialed which is not that's called party in the front. Fan ready to go whenever you need it. That's not what it's called. Professionalism in the front. But professionalism is not wearing the Dolphins jersey ever Yeah, but if you have your jackets it all the way up Billy and it's tucked in they can't see the different rules in Germany. Yeah Without any self-awareness and without a smile on his face this actually happened with Stugatia today

Billy you will appreciate this didn't think we were coming back to this you have read, as you have reached the halfway point on God bless football driving you totally insane. We had a call yesterday Dan. Let me hear your story first because things change minute to minute with this guy. No, go ahead. Let me hear about the call. I will not forget about my story nor will I forget about how I generally felt when Stugat said this to me again. Not smiling, not laughing just totally serious. Well, so we had a call where we're trying to plan out the How I generally felt when Stugat said this to me again, not smiling, not laughing just totally serious. Well, so we had a call where we're trying to plan out the week and Stugat has an obligation

on Thursday. So that cuts out Thursday from our potential recording days for the show because God must football. We taped throughout the week because it's impossible to get all the people we get on at six in the morning on Friday when we publish it. So we have to kind of, you know, we go to Austin, Eccler when Austin Eccler has time. So we go to these people throughout the week as they hand. So we have a conversation like,

we'll take it light this week. We'll have Goliath Sims, Eccler, and we're gonna take with Marcus Spears, so spoiler alert, Marcus Spears will join us. We're like, okay, it'll be an easier week. We'll do that, right? And then we hang up the phone and three hours later things have changed

and spagnolas in play. And we're talking about some coach from some team. And then it's like, hey, I'm gonna reach out to Jimmy Johnson so you can get the boat captain on and maybe follow up with Nitro again this week and the fantasy guy. And what we agreed to being a lighter week, which still isn't light,

because it's like six interviews, has now turned into potentially 13. And it's all, can you see if they can do tomorrow or the next day? And it's like, well, no, they can't do tomorrow the next day We need to plan this out might have Kirby smart See let's have us let's have this conversation. We agreed that you can't do Thursday When do you think that we're gonna have time to do all of these things that we said?

Let's just if we only have two days. We're gonna kind of it's a fair point. Yeah, line him up. I'm sorry We only have two days we're going to kind of it's a fair point. Yeah, line him up. I'm sorry. Right. Well 13 guys are women in order. Yeah, do them one at a time. Thank you. You know on your clock. Yes. You know, you throw out a bunch of requests, Sabin, by the way, also might be in play. Just like, you know, Billy and maybe Lane Kiffin, but you throw out, you know, you throw out a bunch of requests and you know, you get a couple. That's that's the game. It's a numbers game. You know give them a specific time slot K smart yeah you're between five PM and five oh five yep that's that's when you're here you get it yeah yep but Kirby smart's not waiting around for us to say we have five minutes for you at this exact five minutes why not because that's this is crack this is crack code it Greg Cody does believe that the world lives to serve at his every whim. So too does Stugat, which leads me into my story where this will be revealed.

Before we get there, I need a favor. Jimmy Johnson, you have a great relationship with him. Billy can explain what happened. What do you mean? No, I'm not making a request for Jimmy John. I, I, I, you guys, so they do not going to do it. I just, I need you to get Captain Lee into the fishing tournament. That's it. Jimmy would love Captain Lee. In fact, I'm guessing Jimmy does love Captain Lee and we need to get Captain Lee into Jimmy's fishing tournament. We do. He was four oh and one day. He was. Yeah. How's the billies big bet brought to you by. Oh, how's Billy's big bet brought to you by oh Billy's bets big board brought to you By still unsponsored Feldman. I don't know what you're up to but ten and two the last five weeks Incredible I had jury duty in the middle so one week we didn't make pig but ten and two yeah, right?

Seven and one the last three weeks three and oh yesterday. I'm on fire I'm only I'm only, 14, nine and one because I start off very slowly. That Aaron Rodgers injury did not do many favors. And then as you remember, I don't even remember who the player was, it lost four yards on a run and then ended up costing me that better earlier in the season.

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destiny can't be controlled. Right. The oxymoron. Stugats. I fully thought you were to go in, would take the oxy out of it. that's what you are. I did say it, I'm saying that's what you're going to do. Oh, no, I say it. Okay. I love you. You didn't say I love you back. You're mad at me. That is put it on the polkae air mode. The Stugats throw it, I love you. It's only to get I love you. That Greg, I love you. I love you. Okay, feel better now. This is the Don Limita show with this two cats. Aaron Rogers, I made a big show yesterday of coming into the stadium on no crutches and taking three steps, step drops and throwing them all 55 yards. It's incredible. Nobody should be able to do that 54 days

after the kill you serve Nick Sorry. He's making a big show of it in a way that's just wonderful. It really is just going as if he couldn't throw on any other field. He can't throw privately. He's got to go onto that field and throw the ball 55 yards on Monday night football. It's the only reason to watch Monday night football involving the jets.

Little JJ what? I mean, he's going to be playing football this year. It's crazy. It defies logic and it probably defies better, better thinking on the matter, but, and we'll see what kind of quarterback he is with that injury. But the jet said at their trade deadline, Joe Douglas went to the microphone and said the reason why they didn't make a move is they expect him back this year.

He tells Dirlin James, after the game and Miphyl, give me a couple of weeks. This is, for error Rogers, if he comes back, something that does defy medicine. He is at the forefront of something that is different and I think that's what's the motivation here. That and getting back to his team, obviously. But that we've never, this used to be a death sentence.

Yes. The Achilles. And for his career, it still might be because he still has to perform. And we'll see what that looks like. But the thought that you would tear your Achilles in week one and come back in the regular season, that's not a medical world we've ever lived in. He's doing it all for the cameras.

That has to, I guarantee he gets back under the stadium. He's like crying, sobbing and pain at 30 so much. You see him doing, he's very gingerly doing it. He's doing it just so people are like, oh my God, could he do this? He's not going to be back in time. Would you guys come back behind that offensive line because I would not? No. Like people are getting on Zach Wilson, I'm sorry, it's not Zach's fault, He has no time. It's a win for him. If he suits up and takes another snap this season,

yeah, that's a big F you to the in his eyes to the science and the medical community and and the doubters and the haters out there. Look, I did something that no one's ever done. I mean, it kind of is though, right? It is a big F you to somebody who is like, I'm going to put crystals and dolphin sex noises. I'm going to come back like nobody's ever come. I mean, it kind of is though, right? It is a big FU to somebody who is like, I'm gonna put crystals and dolphin sex noises and I'm gonna come back, like nobody's ever come back before. Well, again, he has to perform because if he goes out there and looks washed, it's gonna be a problem, but the fact that he's out there

that in itself is a dub in his mind. He's, Mike is already moving the goalpost. Like, it's not only that he has to come back, he's gotta come back and perform. Well, I'm not, it's not only that he has to come back. He's got to come back and perform. Well, I'm saying, that's a fair thing to say to me, but also I think part of the reason why someone doesn't come back

is because they would play like crap. Yeah, I guess I could be out there in week 16, but I'd be a total shell, and I'd risk re-entry. Like that still looms over this, but it's a fair thing to shoot in my face. Like, oh, he's just moving the gold post on him. The reason why people don't come back at that time, maybe they feel the same way that

Air Rogers feels right now, is just they can't do the same things. And from the dude that's walking gingerly and taking steps to think that that would be an effective quarterback a month from now, that doesn't make sense to me. I don't know why he would come back prematurely. And it would be if he comes back in the next couple of weeks it's science defying it's ridiculous in a way and and it is likely to re-intering himself and ending his career is greater then if he is a normal person and and tries to come back at the beginning of next

season it it is just that there's no there's no great upside to him coming back. The jets aren't going anywhere. They've got a pretty good defense and a horrific offense. And I don't know if he alone coming back from a kill. He's changes all that overnight. Is it crazy to wonder if he never actually tore his Achilles? Not at all.

No, like what if he just because is a doctor going to come out and say he's a liar? I mean, there is benefit on a war on medicine There's benefit here and saying you know what that is a great theory. We need to know we saw it's No, you wear a prosthetic thing I'm not even saying I believe I'm just... I'm ready to make. It's a fair question.

I wish I was wearing some sort of costume. I'd be willing to seriously put out the conspiracy theory. Mankind's available if you wanted. Better than the theory that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey is a propaganda concoction by the NFL to drive rating, to throw out the conspiracy theory that Aaron Rogers, since he went into the darkness retreat, all he found in the darkness

is I must come back hell bent on beating science. Well, hold on a second, man. And so what? He goes deeper than that. It goes deeper than that. So he was away, he was on the wellness retreat, right? Darkness? Darkness retreat.

He starts concocting things, scheming, if you will, I wouldn't, but if you will, scheming. And he says, you know what? I need someone, someone with some integrity, someone with some huff to get behind this with me. Let me reach out to Adam Shafter. And then I will tell him what's going on. And then I will publicly have a falling out with him in which I tell him to lose my number. And then we love one happens and we're wearing the prosthetic or whatever it may be on the leg. Someone does the thing that makes the action that you can see in slow-mo. Then you go to, you know, whoever, Dr. McGillicuddy or whatever. I don't know what he was up to that day.

And then you say what, Jeffty? Now's the time. or whatever, I don't know what he was up to that day. And then you say what, Jeff D. Now's the time. Code green. And then he goes and he puts out the tweet, confirmed, torn Achilles, it's out there. And then he goes on vacation to Germany, or wherever it is that he had that thing done to his leg.

And then he talks about the dolphins, which he just spent the time. Because that was also in the darkness retreat. He said, what's the most ridiculous thing that I can say that people will believe because they think that I'm crazy. Man's an evil genius. And then he says, I could just say that dolphins

having sex will fix my Achilles. And then I'll take off some time. I'm not gonna risk actual injury while I'm there playing for the jets, the AFC East, because I had some time to think, maybe not as tough as everyone's predicting. It's gonna be, I could see the dolphins gonna be a mini-inch.

It'll be like, it'll be like like it'll feel like a mini hold out against uh... they're not allowing my request of i wanted partial ownership correct in the team when i came over there and so i'm just going to protest by taking their money sitting out and i disagree with mike i don't think he has to perform he just has to perform better than zack wilson well that's not all right now that he made me a better option. And if he performs better than Zach Wilson, he's heroic for getting out there and giving them hope and trying and beating medicine. All he's got to do is more than six points a game. You, you made me evolve my take on this, both both you and Tony, you're right

because paint manning won a second Super Bowl, not good and it's a huge part of his legacy and you'll always be Reflected on kindly by Broncos fan. So yeah, you're right and that's not a high bar that he needs a And he has lowered expectations to the lowest place that they possibly could have been After he started because the season looked like it was ruined as soon as he faked out of kill he's injured Yeah, I let you know right It's a choice of words. Yeah. I think I'm going to surprise you. Give him my recent takes on Aaron Rodgers after talking to Sammy. It is. After talking this out with you, I'm rooting for him to do it. I'm rooting because it would be it'd be pretty rad. It'd be.

Say it today. Yeah. He somehow went come back. Player of the year and the previous dude died. Like the previous favorite. He died on the year and the previous dude died. Like the previous favorite, died on the field and came back. And I think you'd still have to give come back player of the year to Aaron Rogers. Stu got, do you know what from yesterday I'm going to call you out on? Do you have any idea?

Cause you came in here battered. The traveling is hurting you more at this age. I'm guessing Chris Cody felt some of this. She ate a lot of bratwursts, you're fly 10 hours, you sit in the plane and you come back and your hips are broken, you're not as young as you used to be. My back hurts. So you come in here on Monday and I would say

that you're somewhere between discombobulated and disoriented. Yeah, you land. Sounds about right. You land, you don't know, totally where you land. You land. You don't know. You don't know totally where you are. You do God bless football and then 90 minutes in, you're exhausted because of your weekend. But he turns to me yesterday. This is a real thing that happened where I just recapped for him some of the things that he missed all week and doing other things that weren't paying attention to sports because he's got the priority of being a champion with his daughter and being a father.

And so what he says to me after I recap four or five stories from the weekend that he had missed is he says we should do that all the time. Oh yeah, it was great, great segment weekly feature. And my response is should we? Should, should, so the show I do for everybody I should do for just you the show that we do together Just a segment. I should say just a second. You wanted to do it all show you wanted Mondays to be I Do a little show for you called the heirs me doing stugatsu's work for him on paying attention to anything so he can do his job Correctly on Monday. What's wrong with that. I mean, we're teammates.

You should help each other out. It should be like a little reader's digest version of the entire show in synopsis form. Yes. Easily digestible. It should be a daily food. Well, let me very helpful. Let me give you some stuff from last night that you may have missed from the Miami Heat game last night in mascot news because this is always what you need whenever it is that you have mascots in play, Tony for some reason, Mike Wilbmann, our anti mascot, it makes me respect them

both less than I would otherwise. And Bernie, the heat's mascot, is one of the finest mascots. He stays out of trouble. He doesn't make a lot of mistakes, but last night he was on Stilts and look at what happened. All right, we're walking on Stilts right now, and we ate it. Oh, yeah. I love that.

Stilts, one person gets up to help him. Stilts are harder than you think they are. Correct, still to say. I think I have a proper amount of respect for Stilts and how hard they are. Oh, he got up, he's all right. Oh, wow. I think stilts are probably hard. Put it on the pole, please, Judeo.

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From last night, I will say another thing that becomes very difficult to got to. The sports trough where everybody's given their opinions. More opinions than there's ever been. I want you all to be thinking about the different opinion that you're allowed to give off of last night's game beyond this one. Holy shit, Lebron, you're still doing it like that. I want Anthony Davis to still get you heard. But I want the take after that when you're watching Lebron, old is player in the league

and still totally unstoppable and still efficient, although less efficient from three and still someone you fear. The end of that game was terrible. The heat have a terrible stretch coming up. 17 road games out of 19. And they're not, they don't look good. And last night, the last five minutes of games this season has been a problem, where they're coughing up these leads at home against teams that aren't particularly good.

But what is the take on the brunt that you're allowed to have today beyond? Like, holy shit, how is this possible? And also he's two and seven in Miami since he left. Every time he comes down here, he loses. And this time he was nostalgic talking about what a great organization it is. Come on, he's just trying to secure a vote for Vegas. It's better for the LeBron brand

that Anthony Davis is as injured as often as he is. If Anthony Davis was who we all thought he was and had taken over this team and Lebron was a clear number two, I feel like we'd all be not, like the, I think Anthony Davis is being always injured, just builds up this narrative even more for Lebron. Makes him look even better than, as great as he is at 39,

Anthony Davis not being able to play, just makes it even better. I just can't have someone as just a window dressing on a statement talking about a basketball player is saying, even though he's 39, like it's that oldest player in the league doesn't compute. It doesn't make any sense. You're saying you're saying death sentence for Aaron Rogers off of a Achilles. That's what that supposed to be.

That quarterback, that age cannot come back and be successful after that injury. 39. LeBron is still kind of LeBron. Like, I can't even say LeBron's the second best player on his team. I want to, but he's not. He's the best player on his team. When you watch him go up for these massive, powerful dunks, you could see maybe some, some athleticism diminish in terms of like his explosion off the ground, but he had enough despair clearly. He had three blocks. Yeah, that image with him, he went from Durant, it was pretty wild.

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last night trying to get lines for it to make it funnier and I was just like I don't know if this one works. You're not really bringing anything to the conversation. It's just classic Greg Cody. Still got actually Christopher and I never had that conversation because I did reach out to him and got zero response. That's not true. That's like I can show you my text right now. I was the fan of it. All right, show me that text.

There are the codis tag team in the show to kill it. The codis as the crazy tag team duo, the show killers. This is the Don Limita show with a stugat. I want to get to Chris Cody's trip to Germany, whatever it is he remembers of it. Was he on the ground? I don't like this way, this is being painted. I've been out with all of you.

Yeah, everyone would be, it may be outside of Billy, everyone would have been having a cocktail. I've never been drunk at work. What was I drunk? That's not true. Oh, no, that's not true. And we all remember dunk laboratory. Yeah, correct. And what was I drunk?

At the dolphins game as a fan? Yeah. That was not drunk. I don't make phone calls without remembering them. Look at these phone calls. That was at 1 a.m. and that was a personal phone call. That was at the game. Look at the picture that's up here that's at the game.

You're clearly disoriented. Okay. Your eyes are closed from the edible. The milligram count is clearly irrelovable in that. I really, I thought that was that macapé. Shocking. I was just like, I just, I think I just look this way.

Yes, I had some beers. That's like five beers over four hours. You're right, I. This is such a ridiculous thing you guys are trying to do with it. That's like five beers over four hours. Your right eye. This is such a ridiculous thing you guys are trying to do with it. How big were the beers? It's only five more. Beer seed. Over four hours.

Over four hours though, Billy. He has no perspective. You guys are, they're the giants of the lot. You guys are lame. You guys sound lame right now. You're a Chris, you want to drink at the beer? Look at your eyes. I was just drinking at the beer. You have a drink at the work this morning. Okay. This is not what

I'm going to do with you as a 54 year old man. I'm not going to try and either beer shane you. I'm not 54. Yeah. I'm not going to try to be the guy who says you had too many beers or too few or says you were lame. He should be the guy. Well, well, that's a different story. He's claiming he didn't do this at work. I do believe part of the Chris experience, if we're going to be free, is to send him out into the wild and see him drink.

What are they? Caravs? I like game. I got drunk for sure. I'm not saying I'm not drunk. It's not like I'm, this is the hot up on the mess. This is the part though. I got drunk for sure right there. I'm not saying I'm not drunk It's not like I'm this is the top up on this is the part though I don't believe that you have an accurate Depiction of what is a normal amount of beer drinking because you grew up next to a man who every night in the garage

Was drinking a dozen beers so I know you don't know that you would there watching him crank I do know that because of how often I was there okay that marveling at your bladder marveling at your stamina those were the old days marveling at how it is that you could do that and remain some semblance of fit right that was in the rat era. Yeah. When I was so distraught by having rats and my garage that I did for a brief period of time over and down. Understandable, yeah. Chris, what I am saying though,

the place that I'm with Billy on this is, not only are you saying casually, huh, I just had five beers. What you're not saying is the size of those beers in that country. Yeah, I'm not sure. I mean, you want me to play it up here? I wasn't doing boots.

It was, they were just normal cups. Who telling you? I wasn't that drunk here. I'm having fun. I'm trying to play it up for the camera. I'm, they're doing 58 sing-alongs at this stadium. So, I mean, I got to not get to sing along. That screenshot, I think, was on sweet Caroline

that I took. Good, great song. I mean, it's like, you guys send me there, go do be Chris, and then I'm Chris, and you guys are like, can you believe Chris, you got a beer at the game? What a lunatic. So Greg, you weren't depressed because you had rats,

so you just drink every night instead of addressing the rats? Well, no, I addressed the rats, but what are you gonna do? I'm not gonna strangle it with my, I once saw a rat scurry right across the top of my garage door open. It was frightening to see. And there were big Norwegian roof rats.

I mean, they were just awful to look at. Thank God we're past that. We got an unnamed exterminator coming to come and really take care of it for us. And it was the entry point into the roof, uh, into the garage that was the problem. And even now, you know, whenever I go up in my attic, I bang on the door to make sure that if there are rats, they scurry and they're not waiting to, to fall on me. So, uh, so we're good.

Yeah, we're good. And now, you know, a 12th beer has never seen my lips, uh, on any given day. I'll tell you that. You ever miss them? The rats? Yeah, I mean, because, you know, while the beers. A bit of a beer. A bit of a beer, yes.

No, I don't miss a ride. A bit of a pass, but company nonetheless. I would not wish a rat problem on anybody. I mean, they're filthy, they're terrible. Misunderstood. Are they? I think. Okay, you're the one person on Earth

who's like a positive PR guy for the rat. Put it on the pole, please, Jude. You at Levitard show is the rat misunderstood. Chris Cody, how did you feel about your dolphin experience? You came in here today trying to make the argument that the chargers are now a winning team, even though they're not a winning team. They're not a losing team. They're not a losing team. They're not a losing team. They're not a winning team. They're not losing team.

You came in here to try and argue with the country that the dolphins have indeed now beaten a good team because of what the chargers did last night against the jets. Can I ask you a question, Dan, as one of the few sane people here, which is like crazy. I feel like I was in crazy town this morning when everybody in the room was arguing that if the chargers get over 500, the stat of the dolphins haven't beat a team with a winning record no longer exists because they beat the chargers. I feel like we're getting

bogged down on the records here. I think the narrative is more stable. The narrative though is bigger than the stats. The narrative is the dolphins can't beat good teams. Is the narrative. And I think the chargers, if they win the rest of the, the argument makes you, if the chargers win out the rest of the season, that will be a win against a good team. But you don't, you don't revisit it and say that they've won against a team with a winning record.

They, they record, you don't go back and retroactively say you're getting bogged down in the records. No, but Chris is right. Is this a good team? Yes, you do that. I don't know yet. You do that at the end of the regular season. When you look back headed into the playoffs, what good teams have they beaten if the charges are indeed over 500, then they beat the good team.

I mean, does it count if it was the first game of the season? If I may, does it count? If I just may because this is one of... It's literally how records work. It's one of the dumber things I have seen conversational I will say to the audience something that seems obvious, which is beating good teams on the road in the NFL. These difficult, they've played three of them.

And it's Kansas City and it's Philadelphia. And it's Buffalo. Those are those are those. I didn't have to go to Arrowhead. They won the one against the charges. They don't get credit for that because it was week one and because the charge until last night. It's Los Angeles.

It was mostly Dolphin fans there anyways. The chargers are four and four. They're good enough to make it to the Super Bowl day. They are. The chargers. Yes. There are a lot of them. There are a lot of good teams in the AFC right now.

The chargers look like. I mean, there are a lot of good teams in the AFC right now. The chargers look like they're not one of them compared to the other seven teams in the AFC that have good records. But the thing that I find funniest about this and also most interesting is this is the first generation of dolphin fans who grew up on what that heat shit was from LeBron and fight the country on stuff and so You finally got a football team that matters enough for the country to doubt it and you want to fight with everybody? Dominique Dominique just called them a pretender on get up Where we are the supporter of the dolphin

I love that. Oh, that's what this is we lost Dominique He's doing a thing Order of the dolphins. I love that. I love that. Oh, that's what this is. We lost Dominique. Three, nine. Who? He's doing a thing. He's doing a thing. It's, I, I, they have beaten the, I said yesterday, Baltimore lost to the cult. The dolphins have beaten the six teams they were supposed to beat and lost the three teams that you understand how those losses

happen. The Eagles lost to the jets. So you're penalizing them for being six and oh against the teams that were on the schedule. The teams that they had to play and a lot of people are doing that and are going to continue to do that with the dolphins because the three times that they have played good defenses on the road, the offense has actually been stymied. And if you can stymie the dolphin offense, then they are pretenders. Like, if that, if that's something that's gonna keep happening,

then they are frauds. But I would not do that based on what it is that I've seen. They were no less good at offense than Kansas City. Was that game was decided by a lateral? That could have gone the other way for the dolphins and I wouldn't doubt the chiefs either. Yeah, but it didn't go the other way. And I know three games is a small sample, but they've played three games against teams that consider themselves to be super bowl contenders, Buffalo, Philly and KC. They're their own three. No, I do not include the chargers.

I include three teams that they've played good. They beat the Lions and the Steelers last year who finished with winning records. Yeah. So why is any of this relevant? They've beat a winning team since 2020. Apparently. Look, Mike McDaniel himself said this. If you want if you want the narrative to change, change the narrative. The way you change it is to be a good team. You're not allowed to call yourself a very good team, quote unquote, unless you beat a very good team. That's axiomatic. That's accurate throughout the NFL. You call yourself a very good team, quote unquote, unless you beat a very good team. That's axiomatic. That's accurate throughout the NFL.

You're not a very good team if you don't beat a very good team. They can be very good. Their offense can be excellent. They're gonna be 11 and three or something. Favour to be a level of so we do. Favour to be 11 and three without having beaten a good team. Correct. We never thought we'd do so little factoring of the schedule.

The Bengal schedule is about to get so hard. They may be indeed what they've been over the last month. They seem to be. They seem to be. But their schedule is rough. It's a slalom course. The dolphin schedule. Dolphin schedule is easy.

The chief schedule is difficult. I would feel better saying today that the dolphins would be the number one seed in the AFC than the chief just based on the schedule. Seriously, like the schedule is so easy for the dolphins coming up. Yeah, the number four right now. And don't forget Jacksonville, which is pretty good. Yeah, Baltimore might be the best team in the conference right now. But yeah, Miami, they're still a super bowl contender. Don't get me wrong. Did you have a homerism seizure? Did you have a, did it get shaky? Did your homerism get shaky this weekend? No, I,

I do see you have pivoted. You've pivoted to having beaten a good team. That's what I wrote in my column. I'm just saying, though, you have been the guy, but that's a fact. Here's the thing. This is why I love the NFL is because every game is so important, every game has the power to change the narrative and how you're looking at this season. If they go to Germany and they beat the reigning champion chiefs, then everything changes. Then nobody's talking about how they lost those two other games.

Everybody's talking about, all right, they just beat a really good team, which makes them a really good team. What was the best thing you did in that game? Like defense, like the offense, let's forget special teams. Offense defense for both teams. What was the best unit on Sunday in that game? You could argue that the two defense is the best. You could argue the dolphins. I think that the dolphins defense is getting.

Well, a chief defense, I think. Can I just make the argument on behalf of how bad this analysis is when we change the stories from game to game. They had the terrible snap on 4th and 10. But if for some reason I had made that a Tyree killed completion and then McDaniel goes for two and they win. Two big hits. Yep, well they're not any better though is what I'm saying.

They're not actually any better because they made two plays at the end of that game and you're like, oh, now I think they can beat good teams because they made two plays at the end of that game and you're like, oh now I think they can beat good teams because they made one play on fourth and 10 Okay deal with reality that's the reality that we deal within the NFL every week But I say where you lose no, but your analysis it doesn't need to be just that it can be something beyond you Either just win or lose it can be it's It's allowed to be. Right. It is. The team's not, you can't make the argument that they be any better actually if they've made one play at the end of that game and then gone for that.

That's axiomatic.