The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: Bo Plane-ini

Episode Date: September 21, 2023

Chris Cote missed a chance to go to the Inter Miami game last night, but he had a great excuse. Dan has two big topics to get to and wants Charlotte to decide which to discuss...and that leads us to cargo planes. Then, Dan gets to Ryan Cortes' "Good NFL Shit" and there's a lot going on for Justin Fields. Plus, Charlotte shows off her football helmet bonafides. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. Welcome to the big suite! Presented by Giraffe King. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Levitard 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 that 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, that face and the habitual liar. Couple of things basketball related that I wanted to talk about locally. The University of Miami is capitalizing on the success that it has had. I don't know Jolil Bithaya, a five-star recruit that they have landed, but it's the greatest

recruit I'm reading that it's the greatest prospect that they've ever had. More than Darius Rice, more than any of these prospects that they have had in their history, that this is the greatest prospect that they've had. And both Mike and I were talking to some people around the program where WUGA has made a leap where they already have a player who was scared as a freshman to shoot three pointers, but has now made a, he made an amazing leap. I was asking Larinaga last year, have you seen a leap like this from one year to the next and now people are saying that he's gotten even better than he was?

This was a person who was afraid to shoot. They lost against Kansas because in the second half, he played for four minutes and at the top of the key, they were daring him to shoot and he did not want to shoot evidently. He must have learned something from the pain of that because the way they're talking about this kid at the program is something that I have not heard. My bold prediction for this season is that baby food and Nigel Pack aren't going to be recognized as the best player. Come season's end. Woga Poplar is going to be a lottery pick. He made a tremendous jump from year to year last year And it's a testament to Coach L's coach and development. But he made a similar leap this off season.

I was in Europe as the men's basketball team was over in Europe and people were raving about how he was playing. This is a 3-in-D guy that is going to have a future in the league. And Coach L outside of the Adidas scandal and injury, because remember, we did have a back court once of Bruce Brown and Lonnie Walker that could never stay healthy and they ended up losing to Loyola on a buzzer beater and Loyola took Miami spot in that final for that year. There's a team that's gone lead eight, final four, showing year after year improvement and now in the NIL age, this market has already shown with the Cavendor twins what it can do

to one's brand. And Coachella's shown what he can do at George Mason and here without an Adidas scandal, what he can do. And we'll go poplar, it's with development. And just as a general program builder and the NIL has stepped up to the plate. I can't tell you all the people that thought the bottom was going to fall out when John Ruiz got into his trouble the first time around. And now what?

Top 10 recruiting class in football. Now the best recruit ever in basketball. No one has anything to say. Barry Jackson's not putting up BS tweets that are uneducated about the NIL system here. Keen's connection has done a great job. Whoa, why'd you cite Swat Barry Jack as he was uninformed when he did that?

I reached out to Barry personally and explain to him how wrong he was because that's the kind of man I am but you just took him out here on I think well the proof is in the pudding Dan They just got a five-star recruit. I mean sound in the alarms and saying oh my Amy is in trouble now without John Ruiz Same thing that they were in the belt did it's just it's uneducated Mike going back to wugga really quick He's the same thing that they were in the belt, did. It's just, it's uneducated. Mike, going back to Woga really quick. You're saying he was an excellent athlete, excellent defender. And all of a sudden, now he's got a shot that's better

to put him into that lottery pick section. Yes, he's going to be a lottery pick. He's going to be a lottery pick. Take it to the bank. We're all doing this? No, we weren't. I really wish we could stop doing that. No, I stopped. It's every team could stop doing that. No, I stopped.

Is every team in this market good? You just got me thinking, you and football, you and basketball, the inner, I mean, inner Miami is probably the crappiest team right now. And we have Messi. What? You have Bobby Paulsac somewhere playing for a cup. I was thinking. When you guys were having that conversation about the Marlins not drawing, and I know this

is going to give David Samson a victory, so I don't want to do that. But is the other teams being good hurting the Marlins? Like, I'm going to the Dolphins game on Sunday. I'm like, I gotta go to see, I wanna go to this home opener. Didn't even think, oh, I should maybe go to the Marlins game this weekend. I don't know, I'm just saying.

baseball season anymore. They're inconveniencing everybody with this run. Is that not also just being a broward guy getting down to Miami? Like, the fact that we were talking about earlier in the local hour like it's just difficult for you to get there the same way that inner Miami fans in Miami you're struggling to get up to the only I'm going on Friday the only way the marlins are going to get talked about is if they make the

playoffs if they make the playoffs because at any moment at any moment the Miami heat my trade for Damien Lillard and there goes any of the minimal coverage. We are going to talk about that for a second, but Chris Cody is indeed, you have a correctly identified this, Jeremy. He is a Broward guy who descends from a long lineage of Broward guys.

I also drive down here every day, so it's like, take good time, baby. Did you go to the Inner Miami match last night? I couldn't, because I had bowling. How long? I sold my ticket. That's a very Broward guy. So it's like, to take a timeline, baby. Did you go to the Inner Miami match last night? I couldn't, because I had bowling. How long? I sold my ticket. That's a very prouder guy.

I think that he's like, yeah, yeah, absolutely. That extent. I mentioned earlier before he got here that it took me 110 minutes to drive up to the game. And I'm very envious of you. But I really wish that someone was also at this game because things like a public announce address people that they don't matter to anyone that doesn't go to the game.

Inter Miami, the PA announcer mentioned that he's no longer doing games. And he was fine. Was that a mutual? I don't know, but the replacement, it felt like they just had a contest inside the office and he wants to call this, dude was shook. And they definitely put an emphasis on being by lingual because there's more of that with this guy. He sounded like a kid who was nervous.

And at times, he wouldn't even say players' names when they subbed in. He would just say the numbers. He mispronounced people's names. And you see all across the stadium, they've really fixed things up. There's so much pyro. The food has been elevated because messy came here

and their supposed to be a standard. And it seems as though all the budget came out of the PA system Jude, please put this on the pole is it a truly pathetic sentence to say I Couldn't see messy Because I had bowling. Well, I mean I got easy tickets baby. I sold those bad boys. I Don't get so defensive. I'm just asking the audience whether they believe it to be a pathetic sentence because you have to understand the way I'm experiencing this. Every time I see you, I see your father, I see you as a child, I see you going to rent dirty bowling shoes from the 1980s that haven't been at a bowling alley that is nearby because

you're a broward guy. There's only one bowling alley in Miami, by the way. There's nine in Broward, there's only one in Miami. That's not true. That was not true. That's what a bowling guy is. There's only one traditional bowling alley in Miami. Bird bowl, there's a bird bowl.

Maybe another bowling alley. That's the best one. There's the one here on the beach, Dan, right? Was there one on the beach? I'm telling you, there's a lot of yard house. There was one where that only exists for Nevin Shapiro to give an oversized check to Donutia later. It's just verbal.

RIP dog carders. Yeah. Man, you really missed Bobby Ballsack back in a brace. You would have loved it. Chrisville was there too, now it's gone and so it's a play. I couldn't be happy to be there last night. My team is in fourth place at a 32. We are crushing it right now.

Right. More coverage of Chris Cody's bowling team. Coming up next. Don Lebatard. And finally, abstaining from food for 16 to 18 hours a day could be key to treating a variety of health conditions like stabilizing blood sugar levels and increasing resistance to stress.

Stugots. Michael, you doing something like this right now? I lost a lot of weight doing intermittent fasting and low carb, so now I'm getting back to it. But how much in that six to eight hour window, how much can you eat unlimited? I could just eat unlimited, I'd do that. That'd be fun.

For six to eight hours. You can't eat unlimited. Try me. No, no, I mean. I mean. VCs, they done libata Show with a Stugat! Earlier today, Charlotte Wilder of Oddball, you could catch it every day except Monday, Oddly. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, she walked into the room, swaggered into the room,

and she was accompanied by Mike Ryan playing what she didn't know was her theme music, tone-loax wild thing. Charlotte, by way of introduction, I am handing over to you. You have to choose wisely here. The ability to choose what we talk about next. And your two topics, you only have two to choose from, are the following. One is things in society that millennials are eradicating because they don't use them anymore

and because young people make everything popular, they are making sure that things that I might have grown up with are not things that endure in the future. What made me think of this actually was bowling alleys and bird bowl because I don't think bowling alleys are gonna exist much as a piece of the entire title of the topic. It's just things that millennials are gonna put with bowling alleys and all that pre-election. No, it's just that. It's just that or and this is something that Ryan Cortez, our researcher, has sent me. He just titled it, and the reason I did that long, he would have let me do the setup the

way that I would do the show, is good NFL shit. Good NFL, good NFL shit. He sent me an assortment of good NFL facts that he believes our audience would enjoy hearing. So your choices are things that millennials are going to make either endangered or extinct or good NFL shit. All right, Dan. First of all, thank you so much for giving me two choices. When you said, I could choose what we talk about. I was seized with paralysis and terrified that I would have to come up with something just on the spot. Secondly, I think Gen Z is now eradicating things,

but if it were millennials, I would be the wrong person to ask, because I think I'm actually a 65-year-old dad in terms of how I live my life. I don't know much, but weird stuff about World War II. I would like to talk about good NFL shit. Okay, would you like to talk about World War II? No, I had that phase recently. Oh, Pearl Harbor.

I've been googling, I mean, like, I don't know, I get really into transportation. That's why I was thrown to this immersive old. Been googling a lot of, like, cargo planes. Like what's the biggest plane that's ever flown? And it's this Russian plane called the Andropov something and like they can carry so much stuff because they're a large cargo plane. Yeah, you would assume that if you ever seen one take off, have you ever seen a video of one of those things take off? I would assume that it's like me trying to paracet.

Yeah, okay. I would like to YouTube this. What is the name of the cargo plane? Hold on, I gotta do it. Be careful. This is early on-sever Republican. Russian. No, big is playing in the world. Oh no, no, oh, whoa, what? The straddle lunch? Okay, no, Dan, I want to talk about it.

Good idea. No, what's that here? I did this to my member when I just said I didn't want to have to think of something off the top of my head. Yeah. Here we are. So, oh, here, the 10 biggest planes in the world from BBC Science Focus, so you know it's true. I'm going to agree to the cookies. The straddle launch is a wingspan of 117 meters and is the biggest plane ever flown.

Oh, here, this is helpful to put that into some kind of context The average soccer field is about 105 meters in length. Wow. The wingspan is bigger than the average soccer field. Thank God They put that in sports terms. I wasn't going to be able to understand it video team Because Charlotte has gone off the board Can you please find me video of one of these planes taking off so that we have the video accompaniment that that that Charlotte is amazed by? Yes. Also, the plane that I was thinking of Dan is the Antonov A N 124, which was a Soviet plane. I think they only made one.

That Antonov plane looks just like Bo Polini. Jack Antonov? Yeah. The Jack Antonov plane plays a lot of things. They made one because what? It was too heavy to be efficient at flying. It's currently the heaviest cargo plane in operation, Dan. It's been delivering cargo around the world for 40 years. I just pulled up a photo of Bo Polini.

Tell me that plane doesn't look just like Bo Polini. Oh my God. Wow. Bo Polini has planned right next to one another. Just to be clear though, when I asked you which two topics you wanted, you went World War II and furthermore, the big takeaway was, Dan, are you aware that the largest cargo plane

that's ever been built carried a lot of cargo? That's... Well, you know, I just wanted to be sure. What if you didn't know that? It would be such a bummer if Dan didn't know. I'm so glad that Charlotte picked the topic. Yeah. Can we talk about the NFL? Nope. I'm going to the other topic. Okay. Well, I can't after that after what she just did I have to I have to take away the power from her because

I'd given it to her. She had not earned it. And then the way that she used it was incorrect. Okay, then Dan, can we talk about stuff that millennials have killed? No, I'm gonna do, wait. I have a- Wow! See what I tried to do, dude? See what I tried to do?

Wait a minute. Alright, so here's some good NFL shit. According to Ryan Cortez, this is from Shield Capady of the Ringer. These are all facts you guys choose which one you like best Which is the best of these facts so far this season? I am a quarterback to a tongue of Iloa is getting rid of the ball on average in 2.35 seconds It's the shortest time to throw in the league yet his average throw is traveling 10.4 yards down field Which is tied for highest among starting quarterback.

That's basically how you want to play. Don't turn the ball over. Get rid of it quickly, throw it deep down field. Since 2000, only the Patriots have had a greater scoring margin than the 2023 Cowboys, plus 60, through the first two weeks of the season. Speaking of the Patriots, by the way, I did want to point out just a couple of things one. They're two and seven in their last nine games They have two plays this season of over 20 yards on offense Two plays this season and now you know why Tony Maserati I'm sorry. Is it Maserati or Maser? Whatever Boston radio guy says, Bill Belichek should be fired. Okay, all right,

Charlotte from Southy here. I wanna say, first of all, what is going on in Foxboro? This is unacceptable. I agree, Bill, now I'm from New York. I just wanna say, it was so fun to be a Patriot Stan. Wait a minute, wait a minute. I was trying to do a callback.

Okay, I understand, but the most confident, free place that anyone on this show has, short of singing on air is doing an impersonation. You got into the impersonation, I wanted it, and then you started immediately leaking confidence. Okay. Well, that's because I immediately started turning into George Costanza. Do you wanna try again? Do you want to do Charlotte

from Southy? Whatever your analysis is of the Patriots of the point you wanted to make? Uh, yet the risk of offending everyone who's ever had a Boston accent sure. Um, yeah, please do that. Charlotte from Southy here, uh, I just, Bella check, look, it was Brady all along and we all knew that. You go down to Gillette, I have my started jacket on I just, Belichick, look, it was Brady all along. And we all knew that. You go down to Gillette, I have my side of jacket on, and we'd say this is Brady, you know,

Brady Belichick greatest doin' of all type. What has Belichick done since Brady left? What has Brady done? Oh, one another, Super Bowl? Okay. I think he's pretty clear what's going on, you Dan. It is pretty clear. It's wicked bad.

It is bad. The Steelers have now gone 37 straight games under offensive coordinator Matt Canada without gaining at least 400 yards. The league's other 31 teams during that span have done that 277 times. In seven regular season starts with Brock Purdy going back to last year, the 49ers have scored

30 or more six times. The Bears are 0 and 2 and have been outscored by 28 total points in those losses. That can lead us to a Justin Fields conversation because two games in. He's already stepped in it. And the bucks are two and oh, Baker Mayfield is completing 69.1% of his passes and has been sacked only once, only one time. It is a different game you get to play

when people do not hit you. But when you phrase it like that, oh clearly the difference is Baker Mayfield's behind a good offensive line. Keep in mind this was a bad offensive line last year that dealt with a lot of injuries. But if you watch Tampa this year and you watch Bakers specifically,

he is moving the pocket so much, which is where he had his most success in Cleveland. Get him to roll out and now that he doesn't have the shoulder injury or the chest injury or all the other injuries that followed that, he's able to put something behind these throws. But a lot of that isn't the protection. A lot of that's Baker Mayfield's very underrated escape ability.

God, I am so happy he's good again. Two more quarterback stats for you. From the start of the 2022 season through week two of 2023, 34 quarterbacks have had at least 250 dropbacks. Among that sample, the worst in expected points added per pass play, EPA, the worst, the Sean Watson. The Sean Watson ranks 34th in everyone taking snaps since 2022, the way they do the metrics on, are you playing well? One more quarterback stat. He does look like,

the plane does look like Pallini. It looks like a cartoon Pallini. If we put hair on that plane. That's like, you know in cars, like how they, that's the planes version of College football. That face, but you would agree Mike that what I see in the front of that plane is the cartoon animation of Bo Polini if he had a giant face and we're smiling as a cartoon.

The eyes are the windows and the shadow below it is the mouth. It's excellent. They both have the same smirk. I'll put that back up for a second. Are both Polini's eyes on a different plane, speaking of planes, because both of his eyes don't seem to be the same place. Yeah, he's got the Ryan Gosling, two different sides of the face. Ryan Gosling is handsome on each side of his face, but they're two completely different people.

I'd say as a whole, he's pretty good looking. Yeah, I mean, if you want a nitpick. Of the 630 qualifying quarterback performances since the start of the 2022 season, Jalen Hertz is showing last week against the right Vikings ranked 614th in success rate. It was the worst start of Hertz's career by that metric, which is the best of the good shit stuff that Ryan Cortez sent me. Well, anytime I hear Matt Canada, it's like shouldn't he be,

what should Matt Canada be? It's like he's not a coordinator. He's like a card shark in Vegas or something. Americans are so bad with their sports chance. If you go to Europe and you got a player named Timo Verner, they'll just sing it to the tune of just can't get enough by the Pesh mode. But here we've got defense, let's go blank or fire Canada, everything has to have that cadence.

It's so boring. Can we get better chance? Yeah. I want to find out what Matt Canada does for a living. Reff you suck. Reff you suck. It's just so boring. It's just so boring. to find out what Matt Canada does for a living. Refuse, suck, refuse, suck. It's just so boring.

It's just so boring. That name. Do something to West End girls. Matt Canada, you think a card shark of some sort? Yeah, or maybe like a car mechanic. Charlotte, what happened to you? State Farm helps you score an affordable price when you button the Home and Auto Insurance

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I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that, I'm sorry, I'm not gonna apologize for that. I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that. It's one of the most amazing sentences you've ever uttered. Still gots from the maker of trust me, don't trust me. Ha ha ha ha. Comes, I'm sorry, but I'm not going to apologize. Ha ha ha ha.

You are amazing. Thank you. I know. You are a. Thank you. I know. You are a flabbergastine delight. You happen upon genius comedy by accident. That's my gift. This is the Don Lebertar Show with this two gods.

Yes, video team, behind me on the giant screen, I would like the cargo plane that charlotte reference before to have oh wow that's glorious man hopefully needs hair it has hair yeah so thank you for doing that keep that back there throughout the entirety of this segment we will get to thursday thunder in a second there is some stuff with the chicaco quarterbacking situation that I want to get to because the stats are alarming through two games

but every Sunday I'm watching on athleticism in football that to me is breathtaking I'm sure many of you have seen by now like I don't know if it's a drone shot or a camera from above I don't even know how they got B. John Robinson of the Falcons. Who's an amazing running back? He runs like a cartoon character. Did it at Texas? Him, it's a work of art to see him juking Packer's defenders in the secondary.

And it went viral yesterday because it's beautiful to watch that kind of athleticism. When you see people you know are athletes being out-athleted by someone who's just incredibly athletic. Am I gonna sound like an asshole here, Dan, don't answer that place? Yes. But I actually had the reaction that you had watching in slow motion.

I had that in real time. I didn't need to see it from above to know how special that runner is. In Texas too, at Texas too, and hopefully he can stay healthy because that position is devalued. And that as an art seems to be gone. I mean, I'm not watching a whole lot of running backs that I used to watch in the 70s, 80s, 90s,

in the open field juking people in a way that made it obvious that they were more athletic than the people trying to tackle. The injury to Nick Chubb will greatly reduce my enjoyment at a football season this year. Because I'm not a brownsman anymore, I just love watching the power and speed, the combination and the elusiveness of that singular guy. Honestly, not enough has been made out of what a dirty hit that was from Minkofits Patrick ruining my football experience. He went very low on the knees, and it, you know, it is to me pretty staggering.

I don't know if the audience experiences this, but to see someone who had the body of Ezekiel Elliott in college get so ravaged by running that way, it seems obvious, but to age in a way that the athleticism gets gone because of how it feels to have that many giant strong people attack the football that way and reduce the position to rubble economically because people cannot survive being hit that way for a sustained period. And look where Nick Chubb got injured where he got hit on. If there is one man that

has spent his entire offseason preparing for that hit, it'd be Nick Chubb from on the video set we've seen. One of the things that I was talking about with Katie and Pablo on Pablo Torry finds out last week is I just I really don't believe that the grand majority of people watching sports or even covering sports understand the amount of lifetime science nutrition training medicine expertise that goes into that wide receiver getting one step on that route on that defensive back who's been training the same way with the same things to make sure that he doesn't get that one yard.

The science of all of that because these are all military schools, for millionaires, and what's happening out there is more discipline than your workplace listening to this. Like you may think athletes are idiots, but their workplace is more disciplined than yours. It demands more from them. And the competitive nature of, I'm gonna fight you for dollars for my family, elevates everything to just an insane place.

So that every Sunday, what I'm watching in athleticism, I'm odd by Chris Cody, do you remember on Sunday anything from football? Because it happens to me every Sunday where flowers is making a move and I'm like, how did he do that? Or the receivers are doing something. I'm like, how is that possible? These people are so athletic.

I had my friends talking to me about this. I think it was the first series. This meek of Mike apart in sack where he kind of went around and he goes up the middle, and the sack was impressive in itself, but the most impressive part about it was this crawl that he did after. He crawled what looked like 15 feet with just his arms dragging his legs.

It was the most impressive thing I saw all Sunday. Chris, I think about this all the time. I think like if I had to run even one route, I would be gassed. Also, they do this with helmets on. Like, I don't think people think that have you ever tried to run with a helmet on your head? I have.

It's I can't. But the thing that the thing that amazes me the most is when they'll be this insane play where you're just like, oh my god, that person bent space in time. And then they'll run like another 50 yards in celebration. Do a back flip. Yeah, or flip on their back and then flip up that cool way. I'm like, how are, oh my God. Do we have the video capability and a helmet

to make Charlotte run outside with helmet? Oh my God. Do we have the ability to see what that might be? Did I ever tell you Dan that if I ever write a memoir, the title will be, I did this to myself. Yeah. I don't want to say. We have an astronaut helmet.

We have an astronaut helmet. Is that okay? Would you be willing? I'd like to get video footage, Charlotte, of you trying to run preferably with a football helmet, but if it has to be an astronaut's helmet, we'll do that too. Yeah, yeah, I'll do that.

I think a football helmet would be, oh good, thank God we have one. Oh, yeah, I'll do that. I think a football helmet would be oh good. Thank God. We have one god An army navy helmet. Okay excellent. Thank you for your service Charlotte. Yeah, for sure. Do I have to do it right now? It will soon if you don't mind. All right, get the payoff Okay, great Maybe during Thursday thunder maybe maybe get you out there and we'll surround you We'll put some flares and pyrotechnics on Thursday, Thunder, so it also has, we don't have the rights.

NFL video is very expensive, so maybe you can recreate some things with a helmet and that will be our video footage. But what you mentioned, Chris Cody, on Micah Parsons. The crawling. The crawling. I don't know if you heard when he was asked about, hey, what do you prefer here, turf grass his response was I'll play on concrete And I believed him because of things like that. I will not play on concrete

Mike Parsons is terrifying and and people like him and Miles Garrett have gotten into an athletic space where they can confidently fool around and yeah, I don't have to do three points, stands, four points, stands. I'll just roam out here and be more athletic than you and you're the center and even though you think you're good at blocking, there's space here and I'm not blockable. We need to put TJ Watt in that athletic class. I don't know why he's not, because his brother was, but what TJ Watt does for a defender is similar to what Michael Parsons has been doing

because you could argue, even though they've had complete performances and Pittsburgh has decidedly not. TJ Watt is single-handedly winning games. As he did last year, and when he went out, they lost the games. I cannot believe that TJ Watt

is the best watt in the family. That's stunning. What did you say? You go outside right now. Look, I can't even do a show with the helmet on. Let alone run. I don't know. Pretty good.

You're comedic timing is great with the helmet on. You see the game well. Maybe this is my powers. Maybe if I take it off, I won't be funny anymore. Well, if you're the greatest quarterback ever, because of your vision, I have a tight spiral, my won't be funny anymore. Well, if you're the greatest quarterback ever, because of your vision, I have, I have a tight spiral, mate. Before we get to Thursday Thunder,

let's go through some of this controversy in Chicago because the stats are pretty damning. And you want at that position, because the position is changing. You have guys who are athletic, Justin Fields, the lower, his lower body is remarkably strong. He is a running back in a quarterbacks body and runs in a way that's super unusual,

runs away from secondary. Oh, studio team somehow put up a better comparison side by side with Bo Polini and this cargo plane from Russia, which ironically, I think it's supporting Ukraine. We put Bo Polini's hat on, now we have a side view. I'm telling you, this plane is Bo, Bo, Bo plain-ealy, is what they've done bit. VIA Ben Solak of the Ringer on Justin Fields.

37% of his pass attempts are at or behind the line of scrimmage, that leads the league, 50% of his pass attempts are at or behind the line of scrimmage. That leads the league. 50% of fields is pass attempts that are behind the line of scrimmage are completed. That's the worst in the league. It's also a very frustrating brand of football to watch if the comp is what two is doing. Get it out in two and a half seconds, throw a 10 yards down field. It is when you have a bad offense, a constipated offense, a quarterback

who's not quite ready, who doesn't have confidence. What happens? Check down, check down, bubble screen, an offensive coordinator that doesn't have confidence in the quarterback or the offensive line. That's what all that looks like. And when it looks like that, you start 0 and 2 and you get into the verbal controversy

that happens around microphones. What do you say thinking less? What do you think was causing you to think so much? Maybe, thank you much. Um, you know, it could be, uh, you know, coaching, I think, but, um, you have to end of the day. It makes it, you know, uh, they're doing their job when they're giving me, you know, what to look at, stuff like that, but at the end of the day, I, you know, can't be thinking about that when the game comes. I prepare myself throughout be thinking about that when the game comes out. Prepare myself throughout the week and then when the game comes, it's, you know, it's time to play free at that point.

So, you know, just thinking less and playing more. And Justin, you know, we've heard this before from other athletes. There's just too many, like, coaching voices in your head at this point that you're trying to process so much as that kind of is a part of what you're saying? Um, I don't think it's too many coaching voices, but I just think when you know you're fed a lot of information um at a point in time and trying to think about that info like when you're playing it's like it doesn't let you play like yourself you're trying to you know process so much information to where it's like, it doesn't let you play like yourself. We're trying to, you know, process so much information to where it's like, you know, if I just simplified my mind, I would have did this, like, I saw a few plays on Sunday

to where I was playing like my own stuff. Like, we would have had a positive play. Like, there would have been, you know, a few more third-down conversions. So, I think that's the biggest thing for me is just, you know, playing the game, how, you know, I know how to play it, how I've been playing in my whole life. So, that's what I got to get back to going. That was a part of a pretty insightful post game presser from Justin Fields. And it is frustrating. The last one he'll do, by the way, that's insightful.

Yeah, well, we'll get to that in a second. But watching Justin Fields has been especially frustrating because it's off to a similar start as last year was. And they re- we thought we figured it out with Justin Fields. Have him run a lot. And we thought we figured it out with Justin Fields. Have him run a lot. And we understand that there's a risk when it comes to his help. Have him throw deep. And everything's been underneath

by the metrics that you just brought up. It's been a frustrating experience to watch. I'm so he gave this insightful answer. And as you mentioned, it'll probably be the last time because that stuff gets aggregated, headlines are headlines and you can tell by this reaction that he had towards media that it became a locker room issue for Justin Fields. I'm not blaming anything on the coaches. I'm never gonna blame anything on the coaches. Never gonna blame anything on my teammates. I will take whatever happens in the game.

I will take all the blame all care to drop pass. This should have been a pass. Put it on me. But never leave here anything come out of my mouth to where I will blame it on somebody else. In this organization, my teammates never will hear that. So I just want to clear that up and just know that like, I need to play better.

That's it. Point blank. If y'all, that's what I should have said in the first place. But I was trying to give you out more details, because I appreciate y'all for doing what y'all do. And I tried to give y'all the information y'all want before you guys drop. So I'm going to do that.

And in the future, like, but I actually guys just to put the whole quote I don't cut it up into words and pieces too many seem like I'm saying something that I'm not so I'm again appreciate you guys that you do and What was taken out of context like if anything? I think we can criticize the the media did pounce on oh he just said a thing Let's follow up and get him to dig himself a deeper hole. That was the part that made me feel uncomfortable. But the quote is the quote.

I don't see what was taken out of context. I did. I feel like I saw a bunch of headlines that were like Justin Field says he's overcoach. Justin Field blames coaching. Justin Field says, wait till you see what he does on his own. Like I saw a bunch of weird stuff where I was like, what was this press? And then I watched it and I was like, I don't know that that's what he's saying,

but before I saw that I was like, man, why would you even say that? Just go out there and play. Like don't set yourself up for that. And then you watch it. It's like, he literally said, no, I don't think it's too many coaches. Why would you be honest young man?

Just because all he's saying, think about what's happening back there. Just the pressure of what we're talking about. You've already heard it's gotten a brand in stale. Young man has had success all of his life. And now on the other side of the ball, is someone who looks and behaves like Michael Parsons. And he's getting there very fast.

People like him are all over the field. And also it's the hardest position in sports. And also your coaches are giving you a lot of information and you're saying, I need to play free. I need to not be thinking. This all has to be second nature to me. I just have to be better than the guy who's opposite me without thinking. It has to be muscle memory. That's where real confidence is. And yet he's honest that way. He tells us. Takes us inside the helmet for a second. And we are piranha. What he's really saying there? It's really simple.

What he's saying is, guys, this is a lot. Yeah, this is not easy. That's correct. And that is what he's saying. But then the headline would be, quarter backing too much for Fields. I do have some bad news for him though about when he was like, can you guys just please take everything?

I'm like, that's so sweet and sad and depressing. Like, oh, poor guy. Please be. I have some news for you. But he does need to get out of the pocket. Okay, he's sitting there for six seconds. Just, you gotta have a clock in your head. Please be gentle with me media is not a request

that is going to be adhered to. It is sweet though, you're right. Charlotte, that is the right reaction. You're surrounded by a scrum of piranha and you're right uh... charlotte that is the right reaction your your surrounded by a scrum of piranha and you're saying be gentle with those teeth i know i'm like uh... and he isn't that he's like it i i i'll ask you to use it can you just please not take stuff out of context i'm like i have some bad news for you

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