The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Zip-Lining in Connecticut

Episode Date: November 27, 2023

Dan, Stu, and the Shipping Container are pumped up for their first day on MAX! The crew discusses if GoFundMe is the modernized version of begging, feeling bad for Mac Jones, truly terrible NFL offenses, and the Oregon Ducks mascot's lack of fear. Then, it's time to discuss how the current NFL standings make absolutely zero sense. Plus, Jake Tapper is here to welcome us to MAX and discuss his Philadelphia Eagles, Jalen Hurts, talking smack to Wolf Blitzer, and what an eagle can do to a buffalo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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how would you start your shows, Stugatts? Because right now, we are on Max for the first time. We, uh, what are you looking at, Billy? I'd ask everyone for a dollar. Yep. If five, if 10% of them, I'd have what, 10 million dollars. Mm-hmm. So the moment that you got a big platform, you'd start begging. Not begging, I'd just say,

go fund me, maybe you guys, you know, got a dollar. You want to send me that? That'd be cool. My Venmo is, I wouldn't do that. Okay. If you want to find me to send me a dollar, I'm here to take it. Tony, go fund me is outsourced begging, is it not?

It is, but it's more relatable to people be like, oh, go fund me, it's not like, hey, can I have a buck? I don't think I would not define go fund me as begging. I would say that it's a nice place to set up a place for charitable causes for someone who may be down on their luck Who may have had some unfortunate house fire? It's medical bills whatever and it's not even you asking It's usually like your friends or family would ever set something up for you because it's like hey, you know what?

This person got a splinter in their hand and they don't have health insurance and it costs $250,000 to remove a splinter at hospital so can you help this person out? It feels a little like internet panhandling. A little bit. No, that's what it is and Ron McGill says that the eagle is a buzzer with a good PR agent. This is begging with a good PR agent. Go fund me, it gives off.

Speaking of that, I wanted to start with mascots and we'll get to that in a second But the most shocking thing from the football weekend to me and there was some good stuff The most shocking thing is that Chris Cody came in here today and in the AFC East where this entire Centuary he has been he and his family have been taking Drubbings at the hands of the Patriots. Yeah, when Chris Cody goes, He felt that way yesterday for Mac Jones. It was kind of like a go-fun me I instantly felt bad and I thought about it. I was like, wait, why am I feeling bad right now? Good You have no reason to feel bad. I mean when he threw that tear

No, I know he had a couple of nicks, but that was one. It was just the worst Do you think there was a single Patriot fan during that Brady run that sat there and said Hey, I feel bad for the people down in Miami. Nobody I'm back. Okay. I have a couple of good stats for you here So that's which one is more stunning when you mention the Patriots, okay? the you have the The saints now with Derek Carr the way that they're playing, they have two games where they have no touchdowns, two games under Derek Carr this year. With Drew Breeze, they had two of those in 15 years. But that's not even the worst stat in that realm. Because

the what the what is happening, the Patriots, they've now become the first team ever and back to back weeks to hold their opponents to 10 points or fewer and lose both games. Or the first time in 30 years, I forgive me, it's not ever, but the past this year have been held seven points or fewer four times in the entire Brady era. It happened five times.

What? I feel like we're doing this every week now with the Patriots. There's something they're doing every week that Brady did. They deserve it. We got it. Ben Vollen had the tweet and we won't put it up here now, but Ben Vollen, okay, we will put it up here now.

He has the tweet of what Mac Jones is quarterback rating would have been if he had just spiked the ball at every time in the game before getting benched and what his quarterback rating was in the actual game and it was lower in the game still gots because he threw that interception was a terrible interception that ended his career with the Patriots and there's any knew it that's why it was sad the camera see it in his face they benched him immediately the camera went straight to him immediately, but if he had spiked the ball every single play, you would have had a better quarterback rating than

the one that he had before he got benched. What is Bill Bellachek doing with Mac Jones and Bailey Zappi? Because like, if you believe what you saw in the post game press conference, he was saying the plan was for both of them to play. So like, you're going into it knowing at some point, I'm going to bail on Mac Jones and go to Bailey's Appi And he told Mac Jones that both players are gonna play and he told Bailey's Appi that both players are gonna play So at you're going into it saying hey, you're gonna start But we know you're gonna mess this up and we're gonna pull you at some point

So at that point, why are you even bothering with him? I feel like they're tanking for Caleb Williams and all the noise around Bella chick getting fired is just to like distract us from that. That he's gonna stay? They're, he's staying. They're sucking for Caleb Williams. Right. But they don't, they're the Patriot way, culture. They're like, the heat of, like for football.

They like, they could never tank. So they're gonna act like, oh, he might get fired. He might not make it back from London. They're tanking for Caleb. But do you have honestly a serious question? Do you have any faith in Bill Bullychef's drafting abilities? Like, do you think that he's going to fix it if he gets Caleb Williams? Because like, it's come out. I would help. Yeah, but you see what they've done in the draft and none of the players really amount to any.

Right, but Billy of Caleb Williams is great. Then yeah, that solves that. Like, even Bellicek can get that right if he's picking, you know, number one, number two, number three. But outside of Brady, Bellicek hasn't gotten free agents right. He hasn't gotten drafting right. The only thing he's gotten right is defensively getting good players. All he got right is that's putting Brady in. That's it. That's what he got right. All he got right was blood so getting hurt. Well, that was a thing. Even putting Brady in was really a choice that was made. It was kind of forced on him. If he finishes top, well, bottom three in that draft, it's going to be really hard

to screw up Caleb, Maserati, Marvel, or Drake, Matt. Correct. Yes. You are doing Maserati, Marvel, after love, Maserati, after Gus Johnson has gotten crushed right and left for calling him left and right. No, no, no. It's actually a genius move because then you don't have to remind yourself of who his dad is. Oh, I see what you're saying. Yeah. They don't say the name. They'll never have to say his name. If you say he should be, he should be applauded for Masarati Mar.

Gus Johnson was criticized a great deal again and again for never speaking the name. Harvin Marison because he was afraid to speak it and calling him Masarati. Marve the entire time. We'll get to Ohio, State and Michigan in a second. It's a shame that both of them couldn't lose. My solace is that one of them had two. The game. Yes.

And Auburn, Alabama, was also the game totally ridiculous football game that ended in the most- That's not the game. That's the iron bowl. That's a fine, too. No, I'm going to call it the game from this weekend. Okay. I'm going to call that the game from this weekend. All right. It really was the game. That's the iron bowl. That's a fine too. No, I'm going to call it the game from this weekend. Okay. I'm going to call that the game from this weekend because of how it really was the play. Fine system is broken. Are you talking, are you talking bills Eagles? Nope. I'm talking about what Stugots likes to call the iron bowl that I'm going to call the

game because of how it, because of how it ended. But before we get to all of the football stuff from the weekend, I did wanna start with mascots. Have any of you ever ziplined? Have you ever done ziplining? And Maui have done ziplining, awesome. Maui's ziplining feels safer than some of the Ecuadorian and Costa Rican ziplining that I've done that doesn't seem like they've got proper licensing

and I'm just headed over a forest. And I'm like, this does not seem safe. That I don't believe that they have regular checkups on these wires I'm part of the fun though. It's not zipline if you're not fearing your death. You have to feel your death. Yeah, right, right Tony You could have just said yes, right? Then have to be Maui. But I've ziplined the Maui has a blinded Connecticut before like Well, why didn't you say? Why do the whole why? Because Maui, because Mau, because it was more dangerous.

Dan's been to Maui. He knows what the deal is over there. There was a lot of wind gusts that day. So we actually couldn't do like zipline 10 because they said if you come into a certain angle and the wind's pushing, you're like 70 miles an hour straight into the trees. Like we're going to skip this one.

The Oregon duck decided as did Luder Chris, by the way at a Falcons game. Lutac to that in a second. But look at the Oregon Duck here. This risk does not seem worth the reward. That's what I'm saying. This is just, I hate all of this. It gives me anxiety. I don't get anxiety about a lot of things.

When I see Lutacris wrapping coming down and this guy, it's just like, what's the best case scenario? the best case scenario? This, this is what we're looking at. This is the best. But the scenario, it's hard for mascots to stand out. It's hard for your neighborhood mascot to be someone who does the thing that goes viral and you have to go further and further toward the edges. How many people every year die from stupid Instagram accidents, trying to do some sort of ridiculousness

where they just want to get a video that a lot of people want? 832. Give me a dancing mascot any day of the week over this. Like who's at the Kansas State guy? He dances with the cheerleader. Give me that over this. No, but this is not the video. These are not the videos that go viral.

Now he appears stuck there. He is stuck, you know, he is very high up off the ground where the press box is. And now he is being dropped down slowly by the belly. That's the big payoff here. Not much of a payoff, you're right. It's very slow because I'm assuming they had to go safety first. And so this isn't happening as fast as it should,

and he should be repelling, all of this should happen quicker. For people just listening, we're watching a duck get lowered to the field very slowly. Very slowly, so for the butt. He should be repelling. Yes, I mean, it should be faster than this. It should be a full like a quick fall than he stops at the end.

I'm right before the field. Whoa! Hey duck, are you doing it dangerous or you're not? should be faster than this. Like a quick fall and then he stops at the end. I made it before the field. Whoa. Hey, duck, are you doing it dangerous or you're not? Are you giving us the illusion of dangerous? Are you just, you're faking it? Or are you really doing something dangerous? Because the speed with which he's going down makes it feel like there was some sort of malfunction.

It's longer than Monix's career. Yeah, this is like zip lining and Connecticut. And he's on the field. It took a long time to go from the press box to the field. It's like a really slow elevator. Like, that's all the elevators you don't trust. It's how long that it took. Is ludicrous is any better here at the Falcons game

yesterday's to got. So let's check this out here. We allowed to play the music. Falcons in first place it's a nice and I they're all sorts of weird things in the sport that's the weirdest I mean is it Desmond Ritter? Is it the weirdest because I got a few for you

yeah we're not allowed to license some music on this one but Ludacris is doing this a lot quicker than the Oregon duck and a lot more energetic but his looks more flimsy I'm like his I'm more worried about lot quicker than the Oregon duck and a lot more energetic. But his looks more flimsy. I'm like, his I'm more worried about it falling than the duck. Oh, I'm with you, Chris. It looks like hang gliding. Yeah. It does feel flimsy, it doesn't,

but is it because just we're closer? Maybe. Yeah. A fisheye lens makes everything cooler too. Yeah. He's not nervous though. He must have done this a few times in dress rehearsal.

I still feel like I'd be scared at that height. And if you're ludicrous, you have to watch someone do that, right? I have to go out to midfield I've done this a few times and dress rehearsal. I still feel like I'd be scared at that height. And if you're ludicrous, you have to watch someone do that, right? I have to go out to midfield and watch someone heavier than me. Do the exact thing that before I just get on that, I need to watch the walkthrough. What's your strategy on that? Someone heavier than you that you feel safe

or someone's heavier than you and you're like, oh, did they weaken it? Now they're loosening, yeah. Maybe, all right, you billies right. The exact same weight as me. The exact dimensions is what I would need. Ha, ha, ha. Craving a delicious and comforting holiday meal,

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Don Lebertard It's not even though what this list is. He was ahead of Tom Brady, who also won a playoff game. A couple, yeah. That was literally the most confusing list we've ever done. But he's got a better shot of coming back. Give him a chance. He's got a better leader. I'm mad.

I'm angry. I would have leaned. Still gots. This would have been your day. This should be, you should own the sports media landscape. I am. I am top seven guys. I would not want the chance. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, our show with this two gods.

Stugots when you say strange things in the sport. Yeah. How about the chargers having the same record as the giant? It's crazy. It's crazy. I mean football is so funny man, it really is. The cults are in the playoffs. I mean, how about thets having the same record as the Bill?

Bill's are not in the playoffs. They've got a 15% chance of making the playoffs now. The Bill's have a 15% chance of making the playoffs. Excuse me. The Colts don't have the same record. They have the same number of wins. They have one fewer loss. The Colts are six and five. The Bill's are six and six. They have one fewer loss. The goals are six and five. The bills are six and six. They have one fewer loss than the bill. Right. Also, the Broncos have as many wins as the bill. Congrats, dolphins.

You now have a victory over a winning team. Not just a victory, my friend. You put 70 on them. 70. If you want maximum max Broncos coverage, I suggest you go to God Bless Football today where Billy and Stugots are obsessed with the Broncos. What the bills are doing?

Listen to what I'm gonna tell you Stugots because mathematically this is a puzzle. This is a riddle. The bills have a better point differential than every team in the sport except for Dallas, San Francisco, and Philadelphia. The bills are six and six. And Baltimore. And Baltimore excuse me.

Wait a minute, I think it's better than Philadelphia. Forgive me, I think Baltimore's the team in there, and Philadelphia is not the team in there. I think I got it wrong. Baltimore is plus 137. Philadelphia is plus 64. Yeah, plus 64. The Cowboys are plus one eighty two the bills

This is so hard to do it is so hard to be six and six and have that point differential I'm not a big point differential guy, but it is Incredibly impressive to be six and six with a point differential of over a hundred Yeah, yeah, and the dolphins have a good point of rental, but they blew out the Broncos that one game Yeah, the the bills I would have to say if we're just doing we watch football, let's look at their schedule, they're not going to make the playoffs. They have a buy week and then they're at arrowhead. Then they have to play the, the cowboys who haven't beaten a good team, but look at the bills record. They're not really a good team at this

point. Then on the road to the chargers, who knows who their head coach is going to be, they have to go four and one, right? Yeah, but the bill's going to be any more often. I mean, if Mike, if yesterday proved anything, it's the bills could beat anyone. They went to Philadelphia. Also, they should have won that game. I mean, I mean, they lost yesterday. I know, but that's a good loss.

They've lost six. They can beat anyone except the six times that they've lost. I'm just saying we're doing the schedule thing and I'm not going to be surprised at the bill's beat Kansas City. Are you guys again 15% chance to make the playoffs based on what their schedule is and what they've done so far. They have put themselves in an unbelievable hole. Stugots that Philadelphia game. You're correct. The bills outplayed them in almost every discernible way. But the Eagles won the game. Jason Kelsey told Peter King after the game, I don't understand how we're the team with only one loss.

I've never seen such parity at the top end of the league. None of us would be surprised if Dallas beat Philadelphia. That one loss is the Zach Wilson. That's right. Football. Jason Kelsey skating yesterday. Oh, man.

That guy tried to blow the game for them. You know what? I was gonna say, if we're gonna cover Jason Kelsey, you know, the good things he does, we should cover the bad things he does. He tried to blow the game for them. You know what? I was gonna say if we're gonna cover Jason Kelsey, you know, the good things he does, we should cover the bad things he does. He tried to give that game away, but an interesting point was brought up to me during God Bless football.

He had the poop. And when you have the poop, you're a bit twitchy, especially when you have to get in that position every 15 seconds or so. We sure wasn't pee. I don't know. That has been covered already on God Bless Football. If you want your poop coverage of Jason Kelsey speaking of P. No, we've got your P coverage right here. Let's get that Tomahawk video for the people because Andrew Hawkins will tell you that these players go in their pants

regularly and we will get to that sound in a second, but that game, Philadelphia, I wanna ask you a couple of things about that game because them tying the game after Jason Kelsey got two penalties, Stu Gottz, to make the field goal in the reign of 59 yard field goal. Crazy. Philadelphia ties the game, but what I wanted to ask you, and I wanna talk some broadcasters over the show today because there were some stuff I wanted to observe without Michaels and Jim Nance that I thought was going

to come. I think he's pleased. No, not their contract. Thank you, Billy. I appreciate you being a governor for the audience on that one. Cover Grant. You want to explain to me though what Tony Romo, who is in a little bit of trouble at least according to the reports because he's coverage has been a little lazy reportedly

that the executives believe it cbs that his golf game is very important to him and he didn't take last season as seriously as he could didn't take last season as seriously as he could it's four than seventeen is a broadcaster it's four than seventeen they're going he's a broadcaster. It's four than 17. They're going out there for a 59-yard field goal. And Tony Rommo is out here saying to Jim Nant, how about a fake field goal on four than 17? And don't give it to Jayler, it hurts in that offense.

Let's have the holder roll out and see what we can do four than 17. See if you can get us 18. See, like, what is he talking about? What is he talking about? But if it would have happened, they wouldn't have expected it. It would have been so amazing. This is what Nance got lucky on Thanksgiving Day on Doron Blan because he started the call.

Here comes history, but then he needed the weaving return because he got his audio levels way up. But he got lucky everyone saluting Jim Nance for getting the call exactly right but you have to in the event that he doesn't get tackled 30 yards out when he starts weaving through the defense. The punters the holder that's who they wanted who Ramo wanted rolling out there. What is Tony Ramo talking about? They went from calling all the plays and being an amazing announcer to just eat your wacky toddler watching the game

One of the he's playing mad and why don't we fake a field goal here on 4th and 17 like what they're not rushing you it's in the rain and it's 60 yards like what do you think they're gonna Let you go ahead and kick the stupid field goal gladly They're gonna let you go and kick the stupid field goal. Gladly. They're going. We're not going to get Jake Elliott, huh? Oh, man. In that weather.

Chicken little amazing. Yeah. What a kick. That entire game happening in that weather. I mean, all the passing from Alan Ann Hertz, that was insane. It seemed like it was 70 and sunny out there, the way that game was played. Let's go to Andrew Hawkins here saying, basically, this is from last week. So he's not saying that Jason Kelsey

should have pooped himself yesterday, but he's saying a lot of football players are running around with pants filled with feces and pee. But let me tell you some of the disgusting things that happened in a game that just seemed normal to us. Guys just peeing themselves. But in the NFL, guys, when you have to pee, it's not like, hey, coach, I'd like to take a party break.

It's dirt. No, guys literally just pee on themselves during the course of a game and continue to play. How often does that really happen? Every game, probably of the, we'll call it 70 players that play in that game, at least 25, pee on themselves, going to course. Yeah, there's no way. Bax.

Joe, it's got to be the same 25 then, Hawk. I feel like you're either a pee on yourself guy or you're not. I am not a pee on myself guy. I am a, give me a borrow, put the towels up around me so that fans can't see my junk. Let me do my business on the sideline. I'm not going to pee on myself. I'm too disgusted. Galk is taking Juuge's advice right now and he's not outing himself when really what he's trying

to say as I was the guy that's the guy that's out in every game. That seems high. 25 of 70 guys. Come on. The time to do it is like during a fumble on the ground, you jump on the fumble and be like, I'm ping! And who's gonna jump on you?

That's hard to pee in the middle of like an action like that where you're trying to fight for the bonkers. Just say you're peeing, for a people way. need to focus and Billy. What are you making faces? I just weird expert to you Is it not true like when you're active and you're doing stuff. It's hard to pee you have to like sit down Fought nuts it down, but you have to focus on what you're doing on your zen. It's tough Kitchie the outside out there in all the place I'm just laughing at you're sitting down I'm just laughing at you're sitting down You just heard the internet crawling up to you right there saying oh you're peace sitting down in a piece of vulnerability

Sometimes that piece sitting down at night At night every time you're out here you think you're gonna risk it and peel over the floor. I have to clean it up There's a fun game to play listen to the sound of the water not a fun game to play my wife hates that game But I I I lost yeah, but, I, I, I lost. Yeah, but I also feel like you're not the, oh, I gotta clean this up now. You're just like, yeah. The worst is the panic of it's, you don't hear water.

It's like, which direction do I need to turn? Is this, are we right or left here? I'm enjoying that your eyes are still closed as you deliver this. It's trying to show back to me. No, you're getting, you're getting deep into character of how you do it in the dark. You don't want to open your eyes.

You don't want to wake up too much. I tend to aim right So if I've come if I don't hear water I go a little left that's usually Wait, how many seconds have to go by before you get nervous? What do you mean by multiple? Quickly here whether it's a second does off a piece quiet too, you know what I mean? Right if you hit that the perfect space you don't want to hit the side of the toilet Like the side of the toilet, like the side wall is the money spot.

I'm so confused. So you're peeing in the dark but you're also closing your eyes to add to the difficult point. Well no, I'm closing my eyes here because it's light in here, like in my bathroom. To get in the dark room. Oh, you're recreating, he's a method actor.

You're recreating it in your head. What it looks like. Maybe my eyes are, do we know if our eyes are open in a dark room? Huh. What? Put it on the pole, please. They get up to you. Do you know if your eyes are open in a dark room at Levitage Show?

I thought you were keeping your eyes closed because you simply didn't want to wake up too much. They say stay out of blue screens. Don't get too many lights on your face so that you can go back to sleep. I thought that was a strategy of yours. You kept your eyes closed. Still sleeping. That's right. You kept your eyes closed. Still sleeping, like straight walk with your eyes closed. Or keep them, that's like the corner of your bed. You didn't want to wake up too much is what I thought.

So, God, I've got a lot on broadcasters, but I have now sided with Tony. Tony is calling Jason Garrett, the most electric man on television. Really? And I am with him based on, this is an old video, but we've seen, he is great at only one thing. And on television, he's a mannequin, he's a cardboard cut out, he is plastic, he is

all teeth and suit, and then this. He finds the camera wherever it is, whenever the camera's on, and he knows. That's his head turn. No, it's the whole thing. He has got this down. wherever it is whenever the camera's on and he knows. Not just his head turn. It's the whole thing. It's hand, he has got this down. It's hands in pocket. It is great to be a former Dallas coach.

I can get any job I want. They've given this to Dave Campo if I didn't smile quite like this. In this thing we're showing, someone had to say to him, hey, be creepy and look at the camera. It's not creepy. It's great television. It's awesome. It is great. It is great. It is great. My five year old. He's a pro. I mean, no, it's making love to the camera. It is the look of a man who doesn't know he doesn't ever say anything interesting. He doesn't know it. I think he does know. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, he does not know it. I think he does know it. No, it makes up for him. No, no, he does not know it.

That smile is too authentic. It is not plastic. It is pleased with yourself. He thinks he's Brad Pitt. He doesn't think he's a 500 career record. He doesn't think that he's bad at this. He thinks I look good. And America wants to watch me say nothing interesting.

And we do. Collins worth had to be enjoying that like seeing the reaction doing like oh you miss me huh after after getting ripped off at the fish market oh I mean that's a whole nother thing let me see Jason Garrett again show it to me again just so people can see oh my, it's amazing. These side marios all you can eat is all you can munch a soup, salad, and garlic home. Oh my god, I'm going to move on up in. Don Lebertard. Now they're gonna see a different Jimmy. Now he's just just playing.

Nickelback in the locker room and... Stugats. They'll play D and show threes as they chase the nets for the sixth seed. These five words in his head. It's me, my way winning games yet. This is the Dunlebatar Show with the Stugats. Because we are debuting today on Max, we are now debuting a new segment where newsmen gather and talk about their football teams.

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Look at him. Look how effervescent he is. Yeah. Nothing makes him happier. They had no business winning that football game. None should have lost that football game. That's what they do. I mean, they trail by double digits. They come back every single time. Yeah. That's what they do. They kick 59 yard field goals that are bullshit in the range. Jake

Tapper with us. Thank you for being with us. Take us next to you next to you when you're watching that game. How mad are you at Jason Kelsey or Yellen Adam about his podcast as he keeps making the field goal later in a longer in regulation. Okay. First of all, that second call was bullshit. He did not flinch. The second call, like, okay, if you want to give, first of all, I think the whole flinch

call is bullshit to begin with, right? Because if you can't deal with a flinch, I mean, whatever, but that's because I call it on you. What do you mean? What are, what are you talking about? You can't make it. No, it's bullshit. What's bullshit is that they didn't call a horse collar one and it was an obvious horse collar. That's what's bullshit.

Okay. If you, those are the rules, I get it. I understand those are the rules. But I mean, the first one, the first one was, but the second one was not a flinch. The second one was not a flinch. It was a flinch. What are you talking about? It was not a flinch. The second one was not a flinch. It was a flinch. What are you talking about? It was not a flinch. Spin. You got the call. You got the call anyway. Right. And Jake Elliott still in the pouring rain delivered a 59 yard field goal. Unbelievable. Unbelievable to tie the game. It goes to overtime.

I mean, these boys, they are the real deal. You can say whatever you want, who should have won the game, should have, should have won the game. Yeah. Every time, every time, they win the game. Except for when they're playing, I'm sorry about the angelic lights that are filling my study because the gods are with me and the Eagles. Pros, pro. I mean this guy. Yeah, I'm sorry. Every time you win except that one time

against Zach Wilson that you lost, uh, or to the chiefs in the Super Bowl. I believe you keep a humble. It's fine. It keeps us humble. I don't mind a loss to the jets. When you were on with us last time, did you say that Jalen hurts was now the most popular athlete in the history of philadelphia what would did your top five have jalen hurts at the top it it had a m in the five it had him in the five it did yes well i i thought that there was some current that was a current eagle not at number one do i have this wrong because i don't think i listed them in any new mar order. I just included Jalen Hertz in my five.

I mean, he may have been the last one I listed because I love him. It is so much. Is there anyone that is, by the way, the Jalen Hertz hoodie that I thought I lost and I found it this morning just so I could wear it with you beautiful people. That's a little bit better. Thank you for eliminating some of that angelic light.

How unreasonable are you when they're losing? How bad are you when you're watching yesterday and they're getting trampled a little bit early? I'm not bad. I'm sitting there with my son who is even more of an Eagle fan and I and we're sitting there and we are, he's great. He's learned even though he lives in Washington, DC, he has the exact

Eagle spirit. He's yelling at the at the refs for their bullshit calls, like that second flinch call. He is agreeing when they make the right call. He is trying to figure out who Zikias is as is the entire rest of Philadelphia. That was unbelievable, that tech. How is that possible? They've got so many guys to throw at, and that's the guy on third and 15. They're hitting the back of the end zone.

The touchdown that sent seven million Philadelphia's to Google, unbelievable, unbelievable. Who is this man? Beautiful. And it turns out he went to high he went to high school with Swift. Beautiful. I mean, unbelievable. I didn't realize you were learning who he was at the same time.

I was. Everyone was. He was on the Falcons until April. I mean, I'd never even heard of him. But wow, amazing. So good. I was surprised that the ball didn't get jostled at all as he fell out of bounds. That the ball was like, please,led at all as he, uh, as he fell out of bounds that the ball is.

I mean, all of us were like, please, please let that be a touchdown. Please let, no, let's have the replay. Let's have. Yes. It was a touchdown. Yes, it was. Now Wolf blitzer is also a bills fan. I'm told to him.

I'm wondering any, any back and forth yesterday, I talked to a, not, not yesterday. Normally, normally I would be a huge smack talker, but I have reverence and respect for wolf. So I do not. Okay. Like, for example, my daughter, my daughter is a jock. So my daughter has, and she committed early to Michigan for a rowing. She's a junior in high school.

She committed early to Michigan for rowing. So all of a sudden, our family just two weeks ago became Michigan fans. That just, it just like happened like that. We are now Michigan fans because of her. And so Phil Manningley, who's a morning anchor, the scene in this morning anchor, he's a Ohio State guy. So Saturday, I was just texting him the meanest, most horrible texts in the world. Because he was on vacation, so I couldn't do it on Twitter or X because he wasn't responding. And then Phil showed up on Sunday saying that his happiness about my daughter's accomplishment has now been tempered by the realization that

I have now become a Michigan superfan, which is going to ruin his life for the next whatever for the future, which is the correct response, because I will now be awful to him as an Ohio state fan. But I can't do that to Wolf because he's such a, he's, he's an icon. He's, you know, I just, I can't. Well, where's your line on this though for respect uh John Berman is a Patriots fan we like oh I mean I mean I'm a hot I'm hot when we when we beat um the Patriots in 18 I called into the morning show and berated him uh when he was he was the morning show anchor at that time yet no i'm horrible i'm a philadelphia fan i'm horrible

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha but i won't do it to wolf because i have reverence in respect you mentioned that the only other other others though who have a who rise to that level of respect is he the only one in this tier he is the only one i mean he's he's a god tier newsman. He somehow made us all accustomed to how ridiculous his name is. And we just don't think twice. Wolf Blitzer is this is that's not his real man.

He was interesting. Doesn't like sports at all. So like that's a whole he just does like he doesn't care. Like I could make I mean, it doesn't matter. Like he does. There's no team that he roots for. So it doesn't matter. I'm just trying to think I mean, I really like air.

I really like all of them. I mean,. I really like Aaron Bernat went to Williams. I don't even know if they have any teams for anything. So I mean like whatever. I don't even know. But like, no, I'm relentless. And by the way, they give it back to me. I mean, Berman is really mean about when the Eagles lose anything. However, Philadelphia loses anything, which we do quite often. Maybe you remember last season for every sport there was. But yeah, no, I'm not going to give it to Wolf. One of my close friends is from Buffalo from Lockport and I was sending him some very mean messages and images. AI is great for this sort of thing. The images you can create with what an eagle can do to a Buffalo. That's what you were doing. I need not go into it.

I need not go into it. Better left unstated. We will get to some of the news items. But yesterday, during the Red Zone broadcast, a fire alarm went off on Scott Hansen. He was supposed to leave the studio. Have you ever had that happen to you during a broadcast if you ever had something happen during a broadcast where you thought you were gonna have to leave air no but i have seen it happen uh... on cnn in new york one time uh...

uh... jim chuteau and i forget exactly what it was but there was some sort of uh... thing that happened i think it was uh... but i don't i don't exactly remember what it was but there was some time that they had to evacuate the building that is never happened that has never happened to me uh... thankfully i'm sure i mean it does happen no uh... but no it has not i should tell the people that he anchors the lead with jake tapper and state of

the union he's the chief washington correspondent for c CNN and he's got a new novel out. All the demons are here. Can I ask you a question? Can I ask you a question? I'm sorry to turn the tables. First of all, congratulations and welcome to Max. By the way, I do want to say that as somebody who's been on Max for a little bit. The lead is on Max and it's so exciting to have you on Max. Let me just ask you a question. Why is Jalen Hertz not mentioned more in the top quarterbacks? Because it just does seem to me that he is incredible. And he should be mentioned at least top two or three quarterbacks. And I don't understand why he's not on the left. The same reason Brock Pertie isn't because the assumption is that he's being aided so much

by the people around him that he's not as individually great by himself. Also the touch push, but listen, Jake is right, Dan, because we have to come to the realization that Jalen Hertz with 29 touchdowns, what did the Super Bowl last year? He just might be the best quarterback in the NFL. And no one ever discusses him as the best quarterback in the NFL. Press got to have a better season. Like, I get that he has wide receivers that are amazing. I get that and that's totally fair, but he, I mean, he really is one of the top two

quarterbacks in the league. But it's the same thing for two, right? Like if I ask you, who do you want, Jalen Hertz or Patrick Mahomes, you're saying Patrick Mahomes. Like, are you not? What? What? I mean, I don't think so. I mean, I get that you, I mean, look, I understand it. And we saw that in the game against the chiefs where because our wide receivers are so much better, it looks easier for, it looks easier for Hertz than it does for Mahomes. And when Mahomes misses, it looks like it's my homes fault and not the wide receivers

faults. I get it. I don't know. I just, I just think, I understand what you're saying. I'm not going to argue with somebody who knows more about football than I do, but I'm just saying, I think Hertz, but I'm not that person. Jalen Hertz was the best player, even though Kansas City won. Jalen Hertz was the best player on the field last year

in the Super Bowl. I said this on God Bless Football. You can check it out on Max. Oh, you can't check it out. Oh, we're not there. Oh God bless football's not on Max. You still have a beef with a sod and the Super Bowl. That turf that had you guys slipping all over the place.

Is there a CNN investigation on the sod and the Super Bowl? No, but I was happy to be rid of our defensive coordinator. And I know I hope the Cardinals are enjoying him. I never got to any of the serious stuff with him. Uh, thank you for being on with us, Jake. We will check on the serious stuff down the road. Yeah. We have a tough, our schedule's tough the next three games, but, um,

wins lots. I don't know if you saw. I don't want to jinx it. But at the beginning of the season, I had a very bold prediction about how our record was going to go. I said it was going to be 15 and one. I did this with our friend Rich Eisen. So far, we're 10 and one. So I mean, but there are 17 games.

Well, then maybe I said 16 and one. So I apologize. But in any case, it's a fine. I'm, I'm not off. So you're trending. Well, you're just saying I'm, as of now, I don't want to jinx anything. Anything could happen. We could end up 10 and six, 10 and seven, but I'm just saying right now, it doesn't look

horrible. This is why everyone hates the media. You're clearly biased and I told you so is what it is your end of every by a hundred percent very biased jalen hurts his best quarterback all right i think that we all agree that we all agree enjoy the ai of eagles doing bad uh... things to buffle up bad things to Buffalo.