The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: A Game Called "What If"

Episode Date: October 1, 2024

Dianna Russini sticks around to discuss Jalen Hurts and the Eagles, Jayden Daniels' brilliance as a rookie, Tom Brady's comments on Baker, and what the Chiefs can do now that Rashee Rice is injured. Then, did the Dolphins build their entire team wrong? Plus, Billy, Dan, and Lucy have dueling Stats of the Day on the NFL, MLB, and College Football, Stephen A. Smith has found the biggest mistake ever, and Billy introduces a new game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan LeBittard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys? I've done it. And now here's the marching man to nowhere, fat face and the habitual liar.

What is going on with Sirianni and Jalen Hurts? Are they gonna work this out or? I don't know. Look, everyone up to this point knows what's been going on there in the off season. And even after last year, as they fell off that cliff, losing, losing those 10 games, um, they, they worked on that relationship in the off season. That was something that was a priority of, of, of just finding ways to connect.

They're two very different people. Um, and Kellen Moore has been, uh, from where I was told, uh, a little bit of a gift because he has a really good way of connecting with Jalen and he's in charge of this offense. But it just feels like the things that are important that a CEO should be doing, which is what Nick Sirianni is now, right? They had an option last year to move on from him. They decided, Howie Roseman decided to stick with him.

Ownership decided to stick with him in hopes that he can oversee it because he's built some good things. There are, like Nick Saran is not a bad coach. It's just right now, this team looks like they're operating the way we all did during COVID. It was like, it's almost like they're all on remote

and they're not unified. And I think that's really where you're seeing the problems. They play their butts off in New Orleans and they're not even able to use that as a way to find some momentum here and they show up against Baker Mayfield in the Bucks and they look like they had nothing as if they hadn't played. You know I had a coach the other day text me, he's like I'm going through a lot of this film this week and this looks like the preseason. September looked like preseason going through a lot of this film this week. And this looks like the preseason. September looked like preseason football for a lot of teams.

When we get away from the gloom and look at the good stuff, what's better in the league right now than Jaden Daniels' instant impact and that incredible, so far, Washington offense? This summer, Cliff Kingsbury came on Scoop City, and I asked one of those throwaway questions, and I know you guys have done them a million times, where you you ask it because you just feel like you need to ask it and I appreciated his answer. My question was, hey, you know, you're not a head coach anymore. You're a play caller now. Like, what's that like for you?'s journey here, is he can just focus on the offense. And we're seeing pretty extreme results

with a super talented quarterback that a lot of people are now coming out of the woodwork saying, oh, we had him ranked number one overall. And I know we've talked about it on the show before that I've had conversations in the off season right before the draft where I did find people that had Jaden ahead of Caleb. It doesn't mean that they're both,

that one's better than the other. Right now, one is better than the other, but I still have tons of confidence in Caleb. But in terms of Cliff, the fact that he's found the perfect match and we're seeing aspects of what he did with Kyler Murray in this offense and we're seeing them just do the simple things guys, which is give the player stuff they're good at, right?

Ooh, not that hard, but it is, because we've seen so many organizations try to force a type of offense and a structure to a player when Washington's going, okay, this guy can process information at a ridiculously high level, and he's comfortable doing this, this, and this. Let's pull it from LSU.

Let's mix it with some of the stuff Clipped can do well. And voila, look at what we have. We have the greatest story in Washington since Robert Griffin III's rookie year. Diana, the Chiefs have lost Hollywood Brown. Rashid Rice, even though there's some ambiguity surrounding the knee injury, though it looks bad.

Pacheco's out. That's a lot of explosive players that they're missing. What are their options via free agency and trade? Because I don't know too much about their cap situation. I know that they got some pretty big contracts on the books already. Yeah, so they're definitely having conversations about making some moves before the trade deadline.

We'll see if they'll actually do it. We've seen the last two years they made moves, right? We saw Kaderius Tony two years ago, last year Miracle Harmon return from the Jets back to Kansas City. So they've been, we'll call it aggressive, right? And they went to the Super Bowl both years with making those trades and giving Patrick some help.

But, you know, over the summer when Mahomes and I were just reflecting on the success they had last year, he kept pointing to the defense being the reason why they won last year. And he's obviously right. And yet here we are again, and where they're 4-0, and it's the defense. And I remember him saying pretty emphatically that they know that they can't do it again. They can't have a

three-peat just relying on the defense. The offense has to be better. It's also somebody that's the quarterback and takes pride in what they can be. So look I think they're gonna do the work. I think the names you're hearing right now are all fair. I don't know if any of them are realistic at this moment, right? So you're hearing the Brown-Domari Cupid. Who's my that name comes up for chief's talk. You whispered, you whispered spags in my ear. You're not, you're not allowed to talk. You whispered spags in my ear. You're not allowed to talk chiefs. I'm sorry, Diana. What are the continue. What are the names that you're hearing linked to Kansas City?

What are the possible solutions? I wish I said, I missed that whole thing. My computer like jumboed all the sound. So I missed whatever Stu Goss just did to distract me. So the names that are being, we'll call it chatted about at this point, right? So I mentioned Amari Cooper because Amari Cooper's name came up

during that Brandon Iute trade opportunity that the Browns were involved in with San Francisco, right? So Amari's deal, excuse me, contract also makes it really easy for him to move to Kansas City. I just don't know if Amari Cooper is a type of wide receiver right now that really that fits. I don't know if that answers anything. We're gonna hear about the Fonte Adams

all the way up to the trade down line. We just are, he can tell us a million times they're not doing it. We can hear from the building that they're not doing it. But I think it's something that we gotta keep an eye on. And then there's some out of the box type ideas that people have had of, you know, George Pickens in Pittsburgh.

He could step right in to this offense. And I'm sure Steve Spagnolo would love it. And Stu Gotts would be psyched, too. So what is it about Spags that that Stu loves so much? Just that he has his phone number. He's got well, he's got a nickname that is Spags. Yeah, Diana, I had an idea that I want to run by you that I was thinking about this weekend, and it's a result of Baker Mayfield kind of saying that he came in and that he was here to loosen things up

and that people hated how serious Tom Brady was and then Tom Brady came in and then got like very defensive on the broadcast. I want all of the quarterbacks that Tom Brady is calling their games just to take little shots at him before the game and just make like little comments to see how irritable we can get Tom Brady because like he's proven everything to everyone right it shouldn't bother him what Baker Mayfield thinks about him but for some reason it does so I kind of want to see

how far the current quarterbacks can push him with little comments. Yeah here's the thing with that any person I've spoken to over the years or covered or you know you run into at Super Bowl parties and you had that conversation of the New England way during those successful seasons. The answer Tom Brady gave is the answer you get from everyone in New England. It's like, you want to know what fun is? Disney's fun. And the thing is, I get it. Like, they're right. That is fun. Winning is fun. But I

think there's also examples of where, yeah, you may be winning, but that journey isn't a great ride either. It feels good at the end, but getting there is painful. And I think a lot of players like Baker Mayfield in their mind think that they can still accomplish this at a high level, but also make this enjoyable and not have it be so hard. But I like that Tom was willing to do that because the Brady we've seen on the broadcast

just seemed a little too buttoned up for my taste. I actually think he's gotta be really good, but I was pumped. I'm like, let's do this. Let's keep the petty going, more of it. I'm with you. I think every quarterback that we see for the next few weeks with Tom Brady,

that quarterback should start the narrative during the week and have Tom give a rebuttal. Have you done Disney with your kids yet? No, I don't wanna do it. I've heard it's horrible. It sucks. It sucks. Disney's fun, but at a young age, not the best.

Exhaust. Not the best. So I didn't know this, and my really good friend, Jeff at a young age, not the best. Yeah, exhausting. Not the best. So I didn't know this, and my really good friend, Jeff Darlington, was there last year, and I sent him this long text, because I'd seen the pictures from his wife's Instagram that they were there, and I was like, hey, I'm just having a moment right now,

just watching you with the kids. I gotta do a better job with mine. I gotta experience more stuff. They're not doing enough. He wrote back, this has been the worst week of my life. Whatever you think is fun here is horrible. Don't do Disney. Don't ever come here.

I don't care how many free passes you can get. Don't come here. So it was such a great like little lesson for me in the moment of, hey, don't just look at the pictures. But Billy, can you just help me understand what is it about Disney that people say is so hard with kids? To me, I just feel like the joy in my kid's face

would take over and I wouldn't care so much about the other stuff. What is it? Well, that's the thing, right? You're basically doing it just for the pictures that Darlington's put up, right? So that when your kids are older you can say, see we did love you, we did take you to Disney World.

But like while you're in it, ugh. If you, did you like Disney going yourself ever or no? So my parents waited until I was 11 to go. So I enjoyed it because I was a preteen. I understood, is 11 preteen? But did you ever do like drinking around the world or anything like that? Of course it is.

You ever go like with your friends? Anything before 13 is preteen. Even 12? Yeah. I just felt like that was like very much like, like trying to sound like I was advanced or something. I wasn't. It took me like 15 years to get a bra anyway.

More like 20. But yeah, so I did do, I did Epcot with ESPN at the Pro Bowl. So it was a bunch of us, all of us covering, Wendy Nicks, the whole NFL live crew. And they said, hey, you know, why don't we do beers around the world? We have an easy day tomorrow. This will be great.

And I said, yeah, obviously. So we're going to all the different countries. And after the second beer, I just start feeling off. And I'm like, ah, maybe that German beer just didn't sit well with me. And so Wendy sees me and she's like, you look green. And I'm like, really? She's like, yeah, you don't look good.

I'm like, yeah, I know. I'm hot. It wasn't hot. We had jackets on. So I'm like, really? She's like, yeah, you don't look good. I'm like, yeah, I know. I'm hot. It wasn't hot. We had jackets on. So I'm just trying to suck it up though, cause I wanna be with the team. We're doing this experience. It's fun.

I don't wanna miss it. It's Florida. So somebody has this idea of, let's take a photo. Let's take a picture, a big group picture. And you know that feeling when you know it's about to come up and you just need to get out of it. You just need to get out of the situation.

So I have my arms around, I think it was probably like Ryan Clark, I don't even know who it was. Like whoever was working that week. And I just felt it come up. So there is a photo somewhere out there on someone's phone of me hurling, vomiting during this ESPN teen picture.

On Wendy Nicks. And here's the worst part about this, and this just goes to show you, I fomo really bad. I didn't wanna go home. And I got a text from somebody in Taylor LeWan's camp at the time and was like, hey, we have a extra pass for Universal Studios. So at the Pro Bowl, the players and their like, hey, we have a, we have an extra pass for Universal Studios. So at the Pro Bowl, the players and their families,

the park shuts down for them. So they get to just go on the rides a million times without the public. So if you can get a ticket to do that, that's a once in a lifetime experience for someone like me. So I'm like, I don't care if I just throw up, I'll rebound, I'll do this. So I get there and I see Taylor and Wilcompton

and at the time they were with the Titans and I covered them all the time. So it was just like fun to be around them and their wives and they're like, do you wanna go on the Hulk with us? I was like, yeah, let's do it, I love roller coasters. I throw up 20 minutes before that. Well, what do you think happened? I went up on the Hulk as we do two loop-de-loops

One all over Wilcomson To this day like as much as I've covered them and done interviews with them and I like to think of grown since that moment I'm just the chick that puked on them Lucy Lucy looked at how disgusted Lucy's about to throw up in her own hand because of what she just felt there girls roach or uh... that roller coaster this is the idea that you think i would just a bit uh... just hang you know it is go uh... walk around with you guys that actually get up

there is something in my head that night i'd just remember thinking like i can beat this i can beat this stomach virus. I did not beat the stomach virus. Send us that photo please so that we can, wherever that photo is, if you green or you throwing up, please send it to us. I gotta tell you, it was one of the worst like 24 hours.

And I was just dating my husband at the time. And I remember calling him when I got back and I was on the bathroom floor. And I'm like, I'm not gonna make it. I, you know, meet another girl. Good luck. She's the senior NFL insider for the athletic gets so close to the games that she throws up on the players. I think that's a good slogan for scoop city. Thank you, Diana. Good seeing you.

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I'm pointing exactly to the point on the Stanley Cup where it says, you suck ass. Stugats. Right there. They engraved it. Really, they got that engraved in the chocolate? Yeah, they got it engraved right there. It says, Chris Whittingham sucks ass.

This is the Don LeBattard show with the Stugats. ["The Stugats Show Theme. Greg Cody Tuesday rolls on here and we're always very excited to have him on a Tuesday but after the Dolphins put that effort up, even though Billy is questioning the effort, and I understand man when it looks that bad against that bad of a football team, I understand. Just saying if Lombardi was on the line, you know what I mean, like that fourth quarter probably would've looked a little different. Yeah.

You disagree with that? They couldn't do anything against fourth down to Tony Pollard. Tony Pollard spent the whole game. They are a good run block team. And the idea that you guys are saying, this is quite the discovery to make. Is it not on Monday night television where you guys are coming in

and say man they look small and finesse and the announcers are saying they built this team all wrong they built it from the outside in you got a violent physical sport you got to build it from the inside out you you do understand that what we were watching last night one of the reasons the anger is elevated is because what swept over the entire dolphin fan base was all know we've built it all wrong but you understand that's what's happening right it's not just that it's all they look terrible and therefore games in it's no they built it all wrong

they need the savior to be the guy who's visiting the neurologist when you know he'd be visiting the neurologist like he's the most likely got to be visiting the neurologist and if you don't have a all my god look at what i read he looks like but it's built all wrong that i don't believe that that's an overreaction to say that uh... no team can withstand injuries like this okay but for the last two seasons their injuries have totally undone their seasons when kansas city's injuries have not undone their season kansas City's got plenty of injuries and is still 4-0. They have a different quarterback and they have spags. Two minutes. You're also not supposed to be

made looking competent by Mason Rudolph. That's correct. So sexy he looked last night. Look building from the inside out is a lot tougher when you spend what they spent on Tyree Kill and are saving enough money to lavish Tua with a huge contract. And that's why they couldn't re-sign Christian Wilkins and that's why they couldn't re-sign two offensive starting linemen. You know, that fundamentally they lost three huge pieces from their offensive and defensive lines because they couldn't afford them.

Talk me off of this, okay, because I'm the one that's always saying Stu got there's a hyperventilation and an overreaction to everything of the moment that happens in The NFL but what I'm telling you is that what I'm watching last night When you lose to that at home that way every game in that league is close And when you lose that way to a terrible team in its backup quarterback i'd come away with the seismic reaction of this is flawed like that couldn't win a playoff game when they had the window of all they've

got the quarterback cheap when they that couldn't win a playoff game and it wasn't a piece away when they had value at quarterback which is the best thing to have in the entire sport. Well it's more than just two and it's more than just Tyreek as well right. They also paid Jalen Waddle and Jalen Waddle hasn't really done much of anything this season. So it's paid Jalen Ramsey too.

It's how they spent the money that they spent. If the people that they've paid are not delivering be it because of injury or because just lack of production scheme, whatever you wanna call it, the money's wasted at this point. Four weeks of this gets everybody fired. Yeah, but they're gonna, I'm telling you right now, mark my words right now, mark your calendars, mark whatever you gotta mark.

Big bounce back this week in New England. I'm telling you, Dolphins are gonna put up like 30 points. And why would that surprise anyone? Seriously, they're playing the Patriots, like you guys are giving up on the Dolphins are gonna put up like 30 points. And why would that surprise anyone? Seriously, they're playing the Patriots, like you guys are giving up on the Dolphins. See, that's weird, they're one and three in a division where the leader is three and one, the Jets are two and two,

the Patriots are an awful football team. I'm not ready to give up on the Dolphins and Mike McDaniel yet, that's absurd. You could have said that last night about the Titans, oh and three, this is a neat, like you have your backup quarterback, but you're playing the Titans. No, everybody knew they were gonna lose that game yesterday.

The Patriots seems the same way. I don't know how you look differently as at the Patriots and the Titans. I will say again, 0-3 team with its backup quarterback beating you that way at home when you're in a desperate situation, like that's alarming. It's not just a loss. It's not just, this is the NFL. It swings from week to week. It's like, oh no, that's not it's not just a lot it's not just this is the nfl it swings

from week to week is like although that's not in any way competent that's not a competent thing that's out there because who they were playing stugatz truly terrible and it's their backup quarterback i wrote in my column if you can't beat this team under these circumstances at home, who can you beat? I mean, there is that gloom right now with the franchise. Having said that, I do think there's a gross overreaction going on. And I think the worst of that overreaction is that, oh, they're built all wrong.

Keep in mind, this is a team that was 9-3 last season. They have the most dynamic offense in the league, it seemed different. It seemed like their best team in 20 years, and then it all collapsed. That's what's debilitating, that's what's dispiriting right now, is that from that point, their last eight games, something has changed with this team. Getting pounded. I think there's plenty of reason for despair.

They haven't led. This is not a small sample. They eked out an okay half against a terrible Jacksonville Jaguars team. An 0-4 team. They haven't led all season. We're a quarter of the way into your football season and you haven't seen this often.

You've played three home games. Lead. I think there's plenty of reason for despair and I actually think you're probably being way too rational right now. I have a stat here if you guys would like it that this is like room for hope. Like you guys. Is it a stat of the day?

Possibly, yeah, sure. Yeah, we can make it a stat of the day. Start of the day, start of the day, and this is the start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day, and this is the start of the day and this is the start of the day start of the day start of the day and this is the start of the day start of the day start of the day and this is the start of the day start of the day start of the day and this is the start of the day

Today's stat of the day is brought to you by Venmo. All right, so everybody's freaking out about this situation. What's going to happen? Doom and gloom, this and that, right? The Dolphins have never lost a football game the same week that the Jets and Vikings have played each other in London not a great step I feel better I don't feel like our sponsor got its money's worth there let me see if I can do this better I'm gonna try and do this better give me the stat of the day music again I got a different set of the day you tell me whether this is any better

or not start of the day start of the day it is the start of the day start of the day music again. I got a different start of the day. You tell me whether this is any better or not. Start of the day, start of the day, and this is the start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day, and this is the start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day, and this is the start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day, it is the start of the day. This stat of the day is brought to you by Venmo. Stugatz just said as I was setting it up, I like Billy's better. And I'm like, I haven't even gotten to mine yet, which I assume you will like better just because it embarrasses me.

I would assume that this stat of the day is something that you will prefer over Billy's stinky stat of the day. Okay, we'll see. Lucy, did you see, did you feel like the segment that we did yesterday with the old-timey Mets players from the 1962 Mets, did you feel like the segment that we did yesterday with the old timey Mets players from the 1962 Mets, did you feel like that was cute? I wasn't here for that.

So I don't really feel any particular way, but if you won, I can say it was cute. No, that's okay. It was so cute. It was so cute. It was fun. You were late yesterday. Very mindful, very demure.

No, so anyway, I was so intent on that stat, on doing that bit for a month. We had, Greg, we had the- I loved it, it was so cute. 1962 Mets, couple of the surviving members. We had them come on to toast, it was not Ed Cranepool, no. We had them on to toast the fact that they were no longer the worst team in baseball history.

That the White Sox were now the worst team in baseball history. Unfortunately, because I didn't pay attention to sports at all over the weekend, and I had this bit lined up for a month, I didn't realize that the White Sox had ended up winning five of their last six games. And the stat was incorrect. That the Mets aren't actually off the hook here. The White Sox lost more games this season, 121, but they also won more games this season, which gives them a better winning percentage

than the 1962 Mets. They got hot at the right time. Yes, I can't believe we got that wrong, and no one fact-checked me and we're sitting here Champagne toasting with old meds when we just got the stat wrong. They didn't that's correct We just talked to a couple of old guys who were still the biggest losers in the history of the sport I I have some unfortunate news for you Greg. We we lost at Crane Pool September 8th of this year. Oh, man I'm sorry. It's a big find.

It just happened. Just happened, yeah. Had we gotten to the segment sooner, maybe we could have talked to Ed Crane Pool. I apologize to Ed's family, seriously. Here is another addendum though to why it is that what we did yesterday was that with the Mets was all wrong.

Technically, the Mets were never the worst team in the history of Major League Baseball to begin with because the 1916 Philadelphia Athletics lost 117 times in 153 tries. That's a 23.5 winning percentage. That's worse than the Mets. And then 1899 Cleveland Spiders still officially hold the Major League record for both losses

and winning percentage with a record of 20 and 134, including a 27 game losing streak. I have a segment if you guys would like to try it if you wanna get back to Dolphins. If not, we don't have to do it. Well, Lutzi wanted to say something about the stat of the day. I have a stat, can I do a stat of the day?

Wow, a third stat of the day. Can I do one? Wow, amazing. Start of the day, start of the day, it is the start of the day. I like fillies. Start of the day, start of the day, it is the start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day, it is the start of the day. This stat of the day is brought to you by Venmo.

So there's this graphics going around on Twitter of the most obscure team that every college football team has played in their school's history. And in 1992, not 1892, in 1992, UCF played an exhibition game against Russia. Western Kentucky also played Russia that year. Damn it, she wins. Wow, the Hilltoppers.

I heard the Western Kentucky Russia played Russia that year. Damn it, she wins. Wow, the Hilltoppers. I heard the Western Kentucky-Russia one went well because they just had the Russian, like the Moscow football team, stay with the Western Kentucky players. So they all just hung out, had a good time, and that they didn't speak the same language, except they spoke the same language of football. How about that?

I feel that 1992 to Lucy is like 1899 to the rest of us. That she's thinking about some time, like how did they play Russia? And I'm still at the rat at the University of Miami in college while this is happening. The rat. But like the other ones are like in 1903, Iowa State played the Omaha Light Guards.

1992 feels really recently to just randomly play an exhibition against Russia. Who's Miami's oddest opponent? Miami's oddest one was Havana University, I believe. Fun. Really? I got a scouting report on the Russian football team. I heard they were especially good at rushing. Is that true?

I dig it. I dig it. Hey, where's Jeremy? He disappeared. Really? He disappeared as soon as UCF lost by a million points to Deion Sanders. Put these on the poll please at LeBotard Show. If it happened

in 1899, did it actually happen? And do you remember a college football game within the last 30 years played against Russia? Because I don't have any recollection of that and it's when I was paying attention to football and college football in college.

Do you think the two poor Mets that we had on yesterday are confused? Like, should we check in with them? Yeah, I mean, we celebrated something. We should not have celebrated. We drank champagne with them. They have to be confused. They were confused as to why they were on.

I mean, they were confused by Zoom. I know. I thought about that, too. Why didn't they correct you? I know. You know, anyway, one more note about that Russian football team. When they're forced to punt the ball, they refer to it as Putin the ball. That's good, I like that too. Football season is here and there's absolutely nothing better than game day. But it can be

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is actually. It's a Tuesday. Stu G, guys, it's a Tuesday. Stugats! Here's your guy, Greg Cody, with Back in My Day. Okay, here it is. Adultery! Yeah! We are back! We're waiting for this one! This is the Don LeVatar Show, with the Stugats! We are back. We are back. We are back. We are back. We are back.

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We are back. We are back. We are back. We are back. We are back. We are back. We are back. That's serious. That's better than the ACC at this point. Mike Ryan, I could not tell when you were whispering there whether you were doing it in my ear or on air when you said that Stephen A has found something. I was trying to alert you and just you, your eyes, to first take right now that Stephen A has found his angle coming off of last night's Monday Night Football game. Stephen A Smith says Tyreek Hill leaving Patrick Mahomes could go down as the biggest mistake ever.

Oh wow, not in sports, just ever? Ever, ever. That covers a lot of ground. I would venture to say maybe artificial intelligence, who knows? Time will tell. Time will tell on that one. How about the mistake we made yesterday with the Mets? That's up there.

So just to be clear, Tyreke Hill left Patrick Mahomes and Kansas City did go on to win back-to-back Super Bowls, no doubt, but Tyreek Hill left, got paid more money by leaving, and also was named the best player in the NFL by his peers. Right, after almost catching an historic 2,000 yards worth of passes just last year. That leads us right up to the game that I said I wanted to play with you guys if you wanna play it.

It's a little game we like to call What If. Oh yes. Well, tell me which game you like better. I suspect it'll be Billy's, Stu Gotts. You tell me. It's Billy's. I also have a stat of the day if you want. In 1904, the Banana Split was invented.

I'll hear you out in your game, now go ahead. I just would like to explore with the group some nominations for what is the biggest mistake ever like if we were to take if we were to take but we'll play we'll play what if instead if you guys want to play what if but if he's saying it's the biggest mistake ever I do think we can have some fun wondering about what would you nominate as a first ballot Hall of Famer consensus people would agree yep that was the biggest mistake ever. Fully guaranteed contract for Deshaun Watson. Wow. That's a good one. Well if you want to do sports and not sports I think that game could even be more fun if it's biggest ever in sports. What's more important than sports?

I mean trading Babe Ruth is viewed as something that is among both. Miguel Cabrera. It can now be Otani, letting Otani go in free agency. But Billy, let's play What If if you want to play What If. All right, so here's how What If works. ["What If?" by The Beatles plays.] Chernobyl was bad. We mentioned earlier that maybe the Dolphins could be in a position to make some trades here.

And Tyreek Hill's name came up. Right back to Kansas City. Now! One time, hold on. Now! Look around the league. What could be a potential fit? What's that?

Oh! Kansas City just had an injury to one of its most important, nay, most important, wide receiver, Rashe Rice. I wonder if that could be a fit. What if the Dolphins traded Tyree Kill right back to Kansas City? Dan? So what do we do with that? Just hypotheticals?

What if? What if? Do the Dolphins get Rashe Rice and then we get him when he comes back? Now I say what if the dolphins and then you could go in a number of directions. I'm not gonna tell you how to answer it. You can go in a number of directions.

You can talk about cap implications. Should you know those off the top of your head? Or you could talk about, well, what package would the dolphins receive to trade Tyree Kill back to Kansas City? And then there's another branch that you can go down, which is, well, hold on a second. Some people have said, and I don't know who,

I think you were credited with this. Some people have said, and I don't know who, I think you were credited with this, some people have said something that was off in Kansas City, Tyreek Hill comes back, do things look back on? The problem with this rotting tree of branches that you have is that because we don't have salary cap experts among us, if the- Don't go down that branch. Right, if the Chiefs couldn't afford Tyreek Hill before,

what makes you think they can afford him now that he's more expensive? Ah, TV contracts, yeah. Semantics, just what if. It's not semantic. No, it's semantic. And then whenever anyone asks you anything about salary cap implications that you don't understand,

just say, oh, the new TV deal. And then no one really knows what it is, and then it's like, yeah, oh, that makes sense. But what if you want the game to sound actually informed as opposed to just babbling hypotheticals on the air that you don't know anything about. I just always say, I just say money's not real. Boom.

You can't fight that. What if the entire NFL said, ha ha ha, I'm not picking up Tyreak's contract. He's 30 years old, he's stuck. What if we print more money? Wow. What if? What if? What if?

You get it. I feel like the biggest mistake ever would be a better game, but that's also got a flaw in it, in that somebody yells Chernobyl and now you can't have a lot of fun with it. It's Sam Bowie over Michael Jordan. Hmm. Yeah. I dyed my hair blonde. That was a big mistake.

Really? Did not look very good. Strong family feud for me. The Chiefs have $ million dollars in cap space and presently Tyree Kills cap hit is at 18.2 million dollars. But also, money isn't real and safety's an illusion. We've learned a lot today. And it's early, it's early in the show.

So it feels good. What if? Yes, thank you Billy, I appreciate the game. I don't think it's as good as the game that I'm playing just because the game you're playing is just sports radio since the beginning of time. It's just, hey, say things. That's right, it's true. Yeah, just saying.

But honestly, biting that apple after God told you not to. Yeah. I mean, the writing was on the wall. It was literally, you can do anything you want except the one thing. Forbidden fruit. Mm-hmm.

Garden of Eden. Dan, the problem with you is you focus on whether or not it's actually going to happen. We're just asking you what if it happened. Oh, but it does. And that's the problem. It's not our job to figure out how to make it happen. It's what if it does happen.

Yeah, it's just hypotheticals, but you're playing hypotheticals and you're doing so with no information. That's problematic. I literally told you to print more money. Yeah, thank you. It doesn't, I don't understand where the disconnect here is. Blimps filled with highly flammable gas.

If you print more money, you still have the salary cap. You can print more money. It's not, it's not a problem. It's not that the chiefs can't go to the bank and actually afford Tyreek Hill. It's against the rules. No, no, you print more money, it's not that the chiefs can't go to the bank and actually afford Tyreek Hill, it's against the rules. No, no, you print more money and then you give everybody the money and then everyone has more money to spend and then boom, you get Tyreek Hill.

Is this still What If? What if we increase the salary cap ends up being what the game is as opposed to what's the biggest mistake ever is a better game. It's a better, it gets people thinking a little bit more. Hold on, you were playing What If before and you were playing it at home. You told us you've been playing games of what if with real estate, what if the world ends, this is where we're going to leave.

So like you like What If, you just don't know you like it. I like it with information, which turns out to also not be accurate given that there are, yeah. I was thinking about that by the way to help you out on that. Denver, a mile high. Global warming, water rises. It's not going to rise a mile. Let's just say it rises six feet. You're good. What if? Leaning so heavily into the multiverse.

You mentioned Stephen A. Mike Ryan and I learned during break, and Stu Gotz and I were giggling about this. Are you guys aware that at one point, Greg Cody, in order to have more gravitas as a writer, went to the Miami Herald and asked about changing his byline to Gregory P. Cody? Like he was thinking about adding an initial to his byline. It comes with enormous expectations that day,

if you're a writer. Too heavy. Yes. It was like a yoke on my shoulder. I went back to Greg. Nobody expects much from a Greg, honestly. But tell us the story, seriously. Tell us the story about how...

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