The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: The Jets-Patriots Preview

Episode Date: January 4, 2024

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You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. Oh, it looks so bad. That is so untrue. In all likelihood, they would have to knock them in the conference championship, right? Because Cleveland's locked into the five. Yeah. No one likes seeing their face that close up. Okay. I don't even know what I was saying.

Whose idea was it? Was it my idea? It was my idea. Yeah, it was your idea. Great producing, by the way. This is the post game show. She wanted to go viral. She asked me.

She can. I don't think that'll go viral. That wasn't even that hot. I mean, it was a pretty hot. I think the opposite of what you have them in the conference championship. If we're doing this based on form, there's several teams that you would take in the AFC over them. I them struggling against Cincinnati and that tire fire of a defense, giving Harrison

butler six field goals made me really concerned. But everybody, me not everyone is doing this to the chiefs and I understand how it happens. You're going to lose some players on offense or wide receivers aren't as good and they look like they have struggled. But we were talking about this earlier in the week. Eight straight years of winning that division when everyone in competition in that division is coming for your things and drafting to have strengths where you have weaknesses and the salary cap makes the schedule super hard. Staying eight years on top of a division is physically grueling and hard.

They're allowed to be less good. They're allowed to have a road playoff game because football's hard. Yeah, they made mistakes in terms of roster construction on the offense. You look around the league. You see some of the young wide receivers, infor agents that other teams have signed. Clearly, they chose poorly, although Rashee Rice looks pretty good. And then some of the assets that they've been able to acquire, including from the hill trade, they poured to the defense, which again, I was stressed, looks very good to me, especially when I compared them to some of the other units around the, not just the AFC, but the NFL. I mean, the offense, the problem with the offense is just last year, and I talked about this

actually on my show with Mitch Schwartz. It's not that dissimilar structurally from what it was last year. The players even are not that dissimilar. The problem is when you're that kind of offense where you're not really explosive and it's just all about ball control and efficiently moving your way up and down the field. If one little thing goes wrong, a sack, a hold, an offside, whatever, a drop obviously has been an issue, you kind of send the whole thing spiraling and that's just happened to them too many times.

I don't think there are great team by any means. My point about them or I guess my belief in them is more just reflecting the fact that I think that the AFC is pretty wide open after Baltimore. For the love of God, can we get to Jets Patriots, please? Fair enough. Fair enough. It's the dirtiest of what we have going on this weekend, correct? Well, it's interesting because it might be Bill Belichick's last game in New England,

which is why I would never pick against the Patriots in this scenario. Like if there's anyone who will pull out, I talked about Michael Raible pulling out all the stops. Belichick will do whatever it takes to win this game truly, truly, the whatever of disgusting. Dirty is the dirtiest thing against this Jets offense and I, and the defense still is like pretty good. So I do think that the Patriots will win this game. And I don't know what's going to happen with Bella check, by the way, everyone I've talked to has a different view on that. That would have been a good take. See, that would have been a good place

to for you to have a super strong opinion on Bellac will do the dirtiest things to win and then will coach the chargers or whatever it is that you'd be willing to stake your credibility on that. That's the prediction, not a... Well, but your credibility with a prediction can... I mean, look, I don't want to be teaching you this after all these years. You've had plenty of success without any of our help. But you can go viral. The, the, the show, the mean of time show with Lenny can go viral if you're looking how to find clipable viral moments that aren't just your great at football analysis. I don't think people have strong feelings about

Bellitech. Is that, and that's crazy. Again, you and I talking about this on public show, you know, we're talking about the best coach in NFL history, potentially being axed. And I have not seen anyone with like truly strong opinions about it. Oh, because Mina is dark bad. But don't you think though, Mina, because the sport can't be so cutthroat and dumb

that we think that that guy's no longer good at his job so quickly, like it's stupid. It's not far removed from what we're talking about with Adam Schaefter having to say, hey, Ciriani, safe when you're like, of course he's safe. They've been in the playoffs every year and it's hard to do that in that sport. Like, of course he's safe, but if that's where we're going to put the standard on these coaches, then of course it's going to be stupid and unreasonable. Bill Bellicek furiously refreshing Facebook to see if he's been tagged safe.

Or he calls it my face. I think Bill Bella check is still a very good football coach, but he's made two really bad decisions or a couple of, are you assuming? Not me. All right. A really, a couple of really horrible decisions. One of which is, of course, how we handled the offense in terms of handing the reins over to his buddies, basically ruining Mac Jones and setting the franchise back. That was a, it's probably as big as makes mistakes he's made as an NFL coach.

And then the roster construction, he is the jam of this team and the decisions he's made, both in the draft and a free agency when they had a lot of money have been very poor. Ideally, I think you would keep him as a coach and get him to seed roster responsibilities, but everything I've heard and just sort of the dignity of splitting the baby, I guess that way suggests to me that they won't do that. Can't you just say that? I think that was hot enough to get viral. I had a lot of cash. I know. But can't you just say he should be fired? Like why can't you get a dog here on that microphone? Why can't you just say? I just don't let okay. Why zoom in again?

Why can't? Right zoom in again. I'll do it. I'll do it. I'll do it. You want me to start in the zoom in again. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Just give us a second, but don't be distracted by it. Just don't. I'm not distracted. Okay. I'm sorry to do this to you.

No, no, I'm ready. I hear not. My name is Meena Kimes. I work for ESPN. I think that Bill Belichick, the greatest coach in the history of the NFL should be fired, even though it's really not as helpful. I get everything that's happened. It's only really if you should see roster responsibility. I deal with you, you'd be able to keep them on because he is a brilliant defensive play collar and you'd be able to fix the offense and give someone else the opportunity to fix the roster. Mike Duncan Robinson, Kyle Lowry, Nico Yovic picks for the

Braun James works on the trade machine. You're looking at my computer.