The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: The QB Group Chat

Episode Date: September 3, 2024

Chris likes to imagine there is a QB group chat in the NFL. Which QBs are in which group chats? Who are the active members of each chat? Where does Gardner Minshew fall into line? Have you heard what Michigan's QB's last name is? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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brings the new people in, gets rid of the people that aren't starting anymore, and that throughout the year they just have a group chat where They just you know show each other fun memes Talk shit to like who who's the guy that gets like? really just like made fun of a lot who's the starting quarterback that just hates the group chat because he Always gets made fun of gotta be Kirk cousins. No yeah Kirk seems like a guy that doesn't even like participate He's kind of what do you call him like in the group chat when people aren't like saying anything floaters Gotta be Kirk Cousins, no? Yeah. Kirk seems like a guy that doesn't even participate. He's kind of like, what do you call him like

in the group chat when people aren't saying anything? Floaters? No, there's some folks. That's how they refer to them. Lurkers? Yeah. So like sightseers or something. Tourists?

Tourists or something. People that are just visiting but they don't actually contribute to the group chat. Does everyone get then a notification that says Ryan Tannehill has been removed from the chat? What happens? I think it's kind of just like, Mahomes being like, no hard feelings, and then you see Tannehill has been removed.

So it's like the last thing Tannehill sees is no hard feelings, and then all of a sudden he's out of there, and he's just like, but you kind of get it if you're Tannehill. You're like, this is the starting quarterback group chat. So what happens in Pittsburgh? Before they named the starting quarterback, were they both in, or were we waiting? What happened there? I think they named the starting quarterback, were they both in,

or were we waiting, what happened there? I think they were both kind of in. We all knew Russell Wilson was gonna start week one. Well were they in limbo, Chris, in this situation? It's a little tricky, because Justin Fields was in the starting quarterback chat the previous year, and then he gets to Pittsburgh, and the group chat certainly doesn't wanna make the call

on who they feel is a starter, but now someone kicks him out? I think that he was kicked out when they Chicago traded him. That's when he got kicked out of the group chat. But he was still battling for it. And then Caleb Williams was added that night when he was drafted. I like to think that Kaepernick is still in this group chat

because everyone kind of sees, well, I'm not going to be the person that does this. The NFL did plenty. What if you get a spot start? Do you get added for the week? That's C. Yeah, I don't know. them. I had that added to this. What if you get a spot start? Do you get added for the week? See, yeah, I don't know. I don't know the answer to your question.

Like Drake May, what's he doing? Jacoby Berset, there's a lot of interesting ones. The answer can be whatever you want, Chris. This is your start. I know, I love that. I would rather be in the backup quarterback chat because I think that that one's a lot more freewheeling. The backup, that's where all the shit talking goes down. Yeah, that's where, you know, you have holdovers,

like try and kick Charlie Whiter's out of this, I dare you. Guys, a mensch. That's how I was kind of thinking, like, Russell Wilson seems like an eager person, and that would be a good group chat person, so I'm thinking he might just be in it still, and was never removed when he got, because he's such a, he brings value to the group chat,

so they were like, man, even though he got traded, he might not be the starter. Daily affirmations get annoying. In the backup group chat, when someone gets promoted to QB1, they get taken out of it, like the little toys in Toy Story, getting clawed out of the machine. Declan!

Goodbye, I'm starting. So is every backup in the backup group chat or there's like a QB2 one and a QB3 one and then like a practice squad one? I think we're just talking QB2s here. Really? There would never be a QB3 chat. I mean, that's just absurd.

Sorry, I just put all the backups in like one, you Really? There would never be a QB3 chat. I mean, that's just absurd. I just put all the backups in like one, you know? Right, to me they can all be. Even the practice squatters. Right. It's like Mike White is fine, he's still in the chat. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is fun though.

I just like it, I just like the idea of Good game. Mahomes being the leader of it, and it's just like every year I gotta go through, who are the starters, gotta remove this guy, Aiden O'Connell, you're fine, gonna leave you in here one more year, but you're probably out of here Well, no, he's not no he's not though min shu. What would you try this min shu? Min shu is the starter?

Oh, I thought it was a no Connell. Sorry. You're out of here already draft your fantasy team I did I actually drafted last night my last I have way too many fantasy team So the last one I was like I've done this way too much. I'm over this. How do I make this fun? I drafted what I'm calling the all ghost team. It's like all guys that are past their prime. I have DeAndre Hopkins, I have Zeke Elliott, I have- Are you trying to lose? No, I'm telling you I'm gonna make the playoffs.

I'm telling you this is a fighting team. This team's got some fight in it. I'm in a college football fantasy team this year and I just drafted all players on teams that I don't like because then if they have really, really good games like I'm like Oh emotional hedge my team name is the sixth sense and I actually screwed up an autopick the first pick So I have Jamar chase and after that everyone is really old. I have Devin Singletary Oh, you gotta trade him. I have Mike Evans Travis Kelsey Stefan Diggs Aaron Rodgers

Ezekiel at Keenan Allen Brandon Cookss, DeAndre Hopkins, and Adam Thielen. Trade Chase. Just like trade him for someone really old? Yeah, you have to. I know, it does feel dishonest what I'm doing because I have an all-old team with Jamar Chase. Speaking of QB2s, didn't talk about once today how Michigan's QB's last name is Orgy.