The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: The Most Michigan Man To Ever Live

Episode Date: August 5, 2024

Could Jim Harbaugh face penalties at the NFL level for his infractions at the college level? Also, how did he luck into Justin Herbert? Plus, Skip Bayless says goodbye. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Smirnoff, number 21 vodka, distilled from grain, 40% alcohol volume. The Smirnoff Company, New York, New York. Please do not share with anyone under legal drinking age. I enjoyed this tweet through God's over the weekend from someone named Morgan Hughes, who said of Jim Harbaugh, and I know this is going to be a fun season for the Chargers and I am truly awed by the dismount of Jim Harbaugh at Michigan better than anything Simone Miles Simone Biles has ever done because Morgan Hughes says this accurately Harbaugh 0 and 5 versus Ohio State too

cowardly to play the game in 2020, oversees program-wide cheating for three years, quits when NCAA finds out most Michigan man to ever live. The Harbaugh reputation is pristine. Now they made him 0-1-5 against Ohio State because he couldn't be coaching last year because of the aforementioned program-wide cheating But the man jumping from a burning building as an undefeated champion As soon as he gets caught and landing in the pros with Justin Herbert as his quarterback. Holy shit. What an escape hatch

As Stu gots was crushing hardball for eight straight years about nothing or I guess it would be five straight years or six straight years about doing nothing, accomplishing nothing at Michigan. It is going to be interesting because they've lost all their wide receivers. Horvaz, you know, one of those quarterback whisperers. He has the quarterback. The quarterback's injured right now. We'll see if he's back in time to start the regular season. That is going to be one of the fun, entertaining stories to cover throughout the NFL this year. I'm looking forward to see how that plays out because I don't think the Chargers are going to be very good.

Well, if Herbert's healthy, which he's not right now. He's injured and he has to wear a walking boot. Supposedly we'll be ready for the start of the season, but we'll see what happens. It's a plantarphasia injury to Justin Herbert. Jim Harbaugh reportedly facing a level one infraction. Now the the NCAA ironically was an Ohio State head coach Jim Tressel. He faced discipline at the next level in the NFL because of infractions that he committed on the NCAA level. So we'll see if... Tony doesn't remember that. Tony, was it six games that Tressel that Trestle got four games six games yeah he and a sweater vest were up in the booth

a little bit as an advisor for the Indianapolis Colts now this is a far more serious job that Jim Hornball has but he does have very recent experience watching someone else coaches team but how does that work with NCAA giving in fractions at the NFL's like oh yeah we're gonna make sure that this happens it's actually the right move for we keep mentioning that the NFL has a free minor league system to be this safe harbor where you can commit all the infractions that you want with impunity, essentially, because there's always going to be a job waiting for you in the NFL. They're actually taking care of their partners there and saying that there is actually a punitive measure here

for the coaches who have historically been above the law. The Ohio State players were suspended five games, so Tressel said he also wanted to be suspended five games because he's Jim Tressel. Well not wanted to be, it was against his will. He was suspended in the NFL and I believe that was at least the first mainstream example of someone being punished in the NFL for something that they did in the NCAA in terms of infractions going. So Jim Harbaugh, who's now being paid to coach Chargers games, it's possible that he could suffer some sort of discipline.

I am very eager as someone who has been eye testing Herbert since the beginning to disentangle him from Kenan Allen and Mike Williams and see what that looks like. Because Mike Williams was hurt a lot, but when I saw the Chargers receivers, it felt to me every bit as good and dominant capable as the Dolphin receivers, as the Bengals receivers, wherever it is that you find two guys. Now Mike Williams didn't end up being that as a possession guy. He wasn't, he would get you often two or three catches a game, but those two human beings you throw to them you were throwing to basketball players. You were throwing to people who couldn't be guarded by people as small as as cornerbacks. Pretty tough guys that would tough it out over injuries too. I think you could look at what's happened to the Chargers recently and said if you have

your questions about Herbert his weapons weren't out there consistently or when they were out there they were pretty banged up we'll see if Keenan Allen at this age in his career can help out Caleb Williams but Dan is right about Mike Williams it's just funny like he's never had a game where he had seven catches for 56 yards it's either three catches for 120 yards and two touchdowns or no catches there's no in between it's sometimes it's either three catches for 120 yards and two touchdowns or no catches. There's no in between for Mike Williams. It's sometimes seven catches for a buck 80 too, but there aren't a lot of two for 10

yards on there. But Harbaugh, even though he does have this reputation of being a quarterback whisperer and he has plenty of NFL experience, I mean, he went to a Super Bowl against his brother with Colin Kaepernick as his quarterback. He has a lot of experience in the NFL and doing right by quarterbacks and getting the most out of them. But his days in Michigan towards the end, and I know J.J. McCarthy went high,

so about the running game, it was about controlling the ball. Is he going to try to do that? They have accumulated quite a bit of running back talent there. Austin Eckler is no longer there. Is he going to try to do that? They have accumulated quite a bit of running back talent there. Austin Eckler is no longer there. Is he going to try to control the NFL game with one of these premier quarterbacks that everyone would love to watch let it fly? Is he going to try to do this with a running game? Dan, I know you put a lot of weight in this, so I hate to be the bearer of bad news. Justin

Herbert dropped 43 spots in this year's NFL top 100. He's down to 75 now Wow Mike Williams had a game of two catches 10 yards Last season he had a game of one catch 15 yards might have gotten hurt in those two catches 17 yards one catch 15 yards Four catches 32 yards. So a bit of a feast or famine kind of guy So he did five times last season put up one of those turd games but then he has like a 10 for 134 7 for 120 8 for 113 and a tutty hard in the game log to find out if he left midway through the second quarter yeah they don't have that asterisk the other stories to gods that I wanted to ask you about because it happened really quietly last week, more

quietly than I would have liked if I were in his position. After eight years at Fox trying to compete in the debate wars, Skip Bayless left and I was legitimately stunned that there was no goodbye of any sort between him and an audience of eight years that he just tweeted something, they mentioned nothing about it on the show. You know where my relationship was with ESPN at the end of my relationship with ESPN. They let me have a farewell show.

They let me say goodbye to an audience that had been watching for a while. Skip that to every member of his audience individually. It's messed up, man. What happened there? Respectfully. Respectfully, yeah respectfully Howdy folks we're in August now

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