The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: Sports on the West Coast

Episode Date: October 18, 2023

The Los Angeles and Miami crew's reunite to cap off today's show. Dan is startled by how much more enjoyable it is to watch sports on the West Coast, and the crew examines how the ghost of Phillip Rivers haunts Justin Herbert and the Chargers. Dan also loses it over Stugotz's Zach Wilson-Aaron Rodgers take. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You have the latest phone now take advantage of a great price on a 5G subscription phone plan It's the perfect deal for anyone who could use some savings right now Subscribe today at public mobile dot CA different is calling We're gonna welcome Miami back in here because I wanted to simply point out to them to make them feel a little bit bad about their football viewing experience. I don't think that they know necessarily what I'm about to tell them, which is that football is so much better when you're watching it on the West Coast. Oh, yes, yes, it is unbelievable to have your evenings to yourself and not feel like

total sloth because the football is starting at 10 a.m. I had happened to me something. I've been telling you that over the last couple of weeks, I have simply forgotten about the London game. This time I missed it entirely by the time I paid attention to football, Baltimore, Tanna Hill had already thrown for his 77 yards in the game, and I had no reason to pay any attention to it. It is an entirely different experience to what happened.

Mike, you being bothered by the plant there. He's a real plants, and I think I just poked my eye and it scratched my cornea. Am I wrong about this though? I mean like the viewing experience on Sundays is so much better here to be able to watch football at a time that starts early in the morning. Dan, it's not Sundays. It sports, all the sports, the late NBA game done by 10 o'clock.

I get to sleep at a reasonable time. I wake up tomorrow. I do whatever I want. Like you said on Sundays, you could actually have a Sunday evening suarez somewhere. If you want to after all the football is done, this concept that all the sports media is located on the East Coast and people have to stay up until one in the morning and then write their gamers and stuff and that doesn't get done until 2 a.m. And then tomorrow morning, you got to do a morning show. It's ridiculous.

Everything should be on the West Coast, everything. This is why you guys were being unnecessarily mean to Lucy yesterday, because she left. She's been living, you made her move to Miami out of this blessed West Coast time zone. Then she's been living in Miami and the East Coast. She's used to getting up early for shows here.

She had to leave, go back to the West Coast for the Colorado game. She's on a time difference. None of us stayed awake to watch the end of the Colorado's Stanford game in the eastern time zone. I went to bed at 10 o'clock. I was snug as a bug in a rug by the end of the first quarter. I watched every second. I watched the replay last the morning after. And guess what? I don't remember any of that shit because I was fast asleep so I don't think anyone who went to bed and had a nice little night sleep should be mean to Lucy I saw every single one of the 300 yards Travis hunters are and why didn't you make content out of it Mike oh where are you where are you to help me to pay well 299 for less than a couple

coffee that a boy Michael Ryan Ruiz super Super Follow. Fast asleep's an interesting freeze. It is. That's it. That's all you have. Snug as a bug in a rug is also pretty useless. And it's just rhyming for no reason. But Jessica, you are the one who complains the most about late games.

You'd prefer the schedule we're living on out here because you wouldn't miss much because of how late things end on the East Coast and how early they end out here. I have been arguing for decades as long as I've been alive that the games just start too late. Please stop starting prime time games at 815 830 9 o'clock on the Eastern time zone. Nobody wants that. People on the West Coast, they say that they love their games

being early. I think they're okay. If we move it up like an hour and a half, that's all I'm saying. Dan, I agree with what you're saying. And I've said this for a while, the West Coast is a better viewing experience. You get your games at 10, you get your, you said it first, you get your games at one,

you get your Sunday night game. It's at 430 in the afternoon, but here's the thing. I need Hawaii to be on it midnight. I cannot bet the game unless it's on it midnight on Saturday night. I can't do it. Therefore, I stay in the East Coast.

That's it. If we shift all the other sports time, it's fine. But, right. Hawaii will rainbow warriors need to stay on for the midnight chase. Speaking of Hawaii, have you ever watched sports in Hawaii? I have. Oh my god.

You know what? I take it back. We're doing it wrong on the West Coast. Hawaii is where it's at because it's like, you're done by like four in the afternoon or something. But what I don't like is that Hawaii's on at like four in the afternoon. Again, we need that at midnight. Mike Ryan went to the Monday night football game between the chargers and Dallas and had

the same experience I'm talking about where he gets his evening back after leaving the stadium. Yeah, a few nights ago, like, it's in Inglewood traffic is bad notoriously in Los Angeles. You have to walk basically two miles away from the stadium to track down a new burn. It was this whole ordeal, and I'm like, already dreading. I got to wake up so early to make this call time. I'm so tired from leaving this game. By the time I got back to my hotel, it was 9.50 at night. I'm having a full night's rest. I woke up to cartoon bird singing. It was incredible.

It's so different than the East Coast. If you want to watch a prime time game on the East Coast, you know that you're not going to be right for a full week. How is it possible? Chris Cody, I want to bring you in on this time zone. All right. You have said before that you find the Chargers to be as frustrating as any team in the sport. How is it possible that Herbert has inherited from Philip Rivers? I'm always going to be down late and I'm not going to do anything when I'm down late. How has this moved from San Diego to Los Angeles with the chargers and now all of a sudden

we are talking about, Tuwa is at the helm of the most explosive offense in the history of the sport through six games and everyone's looking at Herbert and laughing because he can't win close games and the chargers who could be five and one are two and three and they're gonna get their coachfire because at the end of games they can't come back. Earlier this week we ended by the way, the two Herbert debate, that thing is over. Forever.

That day. It's Brandon Staley's fault. Have you seen him? Him with a beard, the gray beard, we have a shot that we can show the video audience here. Him at his introductory press conference and him on Monday night with that gray beard, the sport is killing him. It's killing him. He's gonna, look at this guy. I mean, it's just terrible. Well, they don't have it ready right now, but you can imagine what it is. I like that deal. Look at how delighted Billy is. Billy is so...

So loves Chaos, man. He loves Chaos, but he also loves when people are rare to fail in the executive producer position. Look at this. This is what it's three years ago. Does he look... actually looks good there. What am I talking about? Okay, well, looks fantastic. It looks like Ben Affleck's going to do a Dunkin' Donuts run.

That's what Brandon Staley looks like now. I just love the idea that Dan has Philip Rivers like a force ghost watching over Brent Justin Herbert, right? Let's say like, yes, yes, my son. The force is strong with you. I can't believe that the chargers aren't better. There can't be a more frustrating and confusing team in the league because I feel like I think I've got this right. They can beat anyone in the sport and they can lose to anyone in the sport. More so, I know there were a lot of weird

results last week and I know that everyone had trouble scoring a ridiculous number of teams scored under 21 points last week. And but there can't be a more exasperating team in that league in the chargers staleys a bad coach the inconsistencies we i think we all trust the quarterback i think we know that the keen and alan is a finished product they have this great past rush of bosa and and mac

and yet every week were confused about who they are it's the coach it's always been the coach is He's not a good coach. Do we trust the quarterback? I trust Herbert. I trust Herbert. I mean, I feel like he's lying to live in off of some some credit that he earned a long time ago. He's backsliding. Under Kellermore, there's no doubt the offense isn't what it once was. They have had injuries. And I think that's that's fair to note. And also I do kind of agree that you can call

the race now with a little bit more data, but one concussion from Tuah and the discussion is back on. We know what's going on here. And we all enjoy this because this right now feels like the longest sustained run of fitness and health from Tuah. So it's really funny how quickly people forget that that's still a very large question mark. Leave it to Mike, bring a wet blanket, just throw it all over the Miami. Well, but when he says how quickly people forget, it is funny in that sport because of where the stakes are with everything. The sheer amount of credit or blame we give to the quarterback

when they win or lose. I am two days removed from Stugots making the argument, which sent me home reeling on Monday. Sorry. That Zach Wilson should play even if Aaron Rogers is helping. Yeah. When the playoff start, when Zach Wilson was incompetent two weeks ago, and the reason they're winning is not him. It's simply that they haven't lost recently because of him, but two weeks is enough for Stugots to go from not wanting to have anything to do with that team to saying I'm not sure I want Aaron Rogers back just because winning cures all and you give all of the credit to the quarterback when they win.

I stood strong, Dan. I stood strong. You're wrong. I told you, okay? I told you the only people who can't root for the Jets, Mikey A, okay? Mike Greenberg, my wife, Joe Lamef and somebody else, I forget you the only people who can't root for the jets Mikey a okay Mike Greenberg my wife Joe Lamef and Somebody else I forget who it is. I mean those are the only they can't root for the jets. I stood by Zach Wilson when no one else did Chris Sims is the other one. I stood by Zach Wilson when no one else did and if he gets me to the playoffs

I want to ride the guy that got me there. That's it and you bring Aaron in fourth quarter emergency That's it. So is Damien Woody off the hook now. Yeah, Woody. That's the fifth name. me there. That's it. And you bring Aaron in for quarter emergency. That's it. So is Damien Woody off the hook now? Yeah. Woody, that's the fifth name. Thank you, I mean, I appreciate it. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Don't go.

Ah, that's what you were trying to get in. That is right. You tried to get in with three times. I was just going to say that I really supported it's doing this argument, but then he supported himself. Charlotte, how was this plant better during this segment than you were with that cliche right there? That is not right, I mean.

Charlotte, I think you would better than the plant. I do. Thank you, Stu. The plant made some jokes. You guys couldn't hear, because the plant doesn't have a mic. Is there a penalty box that can build for us out here? Can they? No, Charlotte, sit out!

What? Charlotte, come back! She can't run.