The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: And I Think That Would Be Fair

Episode Date: July 25, 2024

Mina shares her thoughts on the Steelers QB situation and Hard Knocks before finding out she ACCIDENTALLY did her best accent ever earlier in the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. I can't hear Greg. Is that on purpose? They sabotage me at every turn, Mina. Greg, they sabotage me too. I don't know. We should unionize again. It could have been more obvious. Punch lines to them? Greg, they sabotaged me too. I don't know, we should unionize again. Me, I feel like. It couldn't have been more obvious. Punch lines to them.

How could it have been any more obvious what I was doing to Greg Cody? I'm pointing at the clock. I'm theatrically. Let's end the show, you sabotage. Okay, I mean, how do I argue with that? Sorry for me thinking old people should be treated with a little more respect around here.

Thank you. Thank you. And Pelosi around here. Thank you Mina. Seriously it's ridiculous ageism running rampant throughout the studio ridiculous come on. You were so interested in every word that me I was jealous I'm looking at you. First of all. Let's get into it. Dolphins talk. Dolphins talk. I respect Mina's opinion on all matters NFL. She's better than anybody else in NFL analysis in my opinion. And she's talking about a subject that's very interesting to me because obviously Tua's contract mess down here is the biggest story in town. And so yeah, I was very interested in her take Mina What are you looking forward to here over the next month of?

Us now galloping toward the NFL football season like what are the what are the storylines that are most interesting to you? Other than the continued procrastination of the Dallas Cowboys when it comes to signing any of their star players Which I do find interesting. I know people get a little bit tired of Cowboys talk, but that I find inexplicable and fascinating. And yeah, that's very odd. There's a couple of legitimate quarterback competitions, notably Jess's Steelers. That's one of the- Let's talk about it. I think that has some juice.

I know Fields versus Wilson might not be the sexiest of sentences in some people's eyes, but I'm really interested in seeing what happens because you have a quarterback who, you know, is coming off of an improved performance in Denver, but I think we all agree has a lower ceiling than Fields, but a higher floor perhaps than Fields. And I'm interested in seeing how that plays out. I am too. And Mina, just to change the subject slightly, are you as surprised as me that the Giants offseason hard knocks is actually pretty good? Yes, completely.

The first few, I was like, ah. Well, first of all, hard knocks now that the teams have oversight over it, I've gotten kind of conditioned to not expecting anything particularly juicy. And the fact that so much juicy content has come out of this one. I think I've learned more about how front offices operate from this series, pardon me, of Hard Knocks than anything I've ever seen in NFL media. I find it fascinating.

Why would the Giants sign off on some of those things that make them look like that when they're negotiating with Saquon Barkley. Do you think they came across poorly? I thought they came across actually really well. I thought Saquon also said, yeah, that's pretty much how it went down, right? He came across well, too. I saw that he didn't know he was being recorded, he said somewhere, which that's a little weird. New York won one party state state though, I think. Well, he came off well. So I don't like, maybe he's upset about it.

I can see why, but he came off, I thought incredibly well. The phone call between Joe Shane and him where he says, circle back to us. So obviously not going to happen, but I thought it came across as pretty humane. I'm not sure why, what else people would have expected from that conversation. What did you see in there that you were learning?

You felt like you were learning because I, the only reason I figured that they wouldn't show any of that is just because that kind of stuff, typically, no matter how, the inner workings of business, I don't think the giants necessarily want other people to see that, that they okayed that was surprising to me. I loved all of the stuff from the interviews that they've had with players that they've shown

because I think you really get to see one, how smart these prospects are and everything that it goes into evaluating them. Because it's so hard to assess college players, quarterbacks in particular, but any of them on the mental side of things. We've seen over the years tests like the Wunderlich are devalued because they don't really they're not really predictive and so there's I think one of the biggest mysteries is how do NFL teams look at a player and say does he study can he get better can you you know see the field well how smart is he and I

think getting a little bit of a glimpse into that was fascinating. Did you also think that Sam Hartman should have gotten like a little cut from the hard knocks revenue because they used him so much just for his face? No, no. You didn't think that? No. I mean for someone that wasn't gonna be drafted by the Giants he got a lot of FaceTime. What team is he on now? Commanders. You didn't notice that? Yeah I didn't really dwell on the Sam Hartman parts of Rinox. Okay, you're making me look bad now. Yikes. Yeah, I don't know.

I'm sending this clip to our group chat with Mike Golick and he's gonna decide. Agree with you? Don't talk about the group chat, sorry. Do you know what a great pride it gives me to have Mina Kimes just confidently look everybody in the face and say, what team is he on? That's a show overtly show a lack of knowledge in a way that betrayed no lack of confidence

I love that I have gotten Much more careful about Being negative about players since the early days on this show because clips from my early appearances haunted me, notably the Josh Allen, which I have, you know, worn a hair shirt for, and I'm now like one of the preeminent ESPN Josh Allen defenders, but that's neither here nor there. I think the greatest insult probably that I can give a player at this point is what I just did right there, Dan. Jeremy is pointing out to me that Sam Hartman is the fourth string quarterback on the commander she doesn't need to know that.

Yes she does. You don't know Mina Kimes. Yes she does. She feels like she does need to know that. I also love that you just unveiled for us Mina what I believe because 2025 is going to be difficult if some things break in the next few months the way that we don't really want to around here. There's a new lane for Mina Kimes if you need to be in a little bit of disguise as a football analyst, as a Southern belle. Listen to yourself here earlier in the program. And I think that would be fair.

And I think that would be fair. You could be a pulp. Wait, that's not. I think that would be fair. That is you. You could be on pulp hunt. No, that's not. I think that would be fair. That is you. You could be on Paul Fine. No, that isn't.

You put that through some sort of gent. No. And I think that would be fair. That is not me. That is you. 100% you. It was literally you seven minutes ago. No way.

And I think that would be fair. Yes. Did you speed that up or something? No, that's just you on the Paul Fine bomb show. And I think that would be fair. That is not me. This is, you're fake newsing me. That's like an AI.

It is not AI. I don't have the confidence of staff here in order to make that as southern as it was. I did cut it down. I'll give you the more context so you can hear the full clip. And I think that would be fair, but the thing is you're not paying these quarterbacks

based on, and I think that would be fair, but the thing is you're not paying these quarterbacks based on And I think that would be fair, but the thing is Wait you have just I want to understand something here You're accusing Chris Cody of magically being able to figure out artificial intelligence When I can't get him to hit the right button at any point during the show today you Great devastation of this moment is this sort of me being Brian Kelly I Have spent Dan you know this everyone on the show knows this I have spent years trying to do accents unsuccessfully Bailing I think that would be fair and yet somehow spent years trying to do accents unsuccessfully, failing. And I think that would be fair.

And yet somehow this is my greatest accent and I just sewed, accent, pardon me, and I just sewn it completely. And I think that would be fair. That's not real. That's a woman. We all perked up back here when it happened. We were like, did anybody else hear that?

Go grab that, please. A 70 year old woman from Georgia named Darlene. And I think that would be fair. Hey it's Mike Ryan. How do you like to grill your barbecue? Tell me. I'll be quiet. I'll stand back. I'll listen for approximately two and a half seconds. Wow, a lot of great suggestions in there. Let me give you a suggestion. I need everybody in the audience to pair their barbecue with Miller Lite. I've been doing a lot of travel lately

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