The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: Josh Allen's Pistachio Farm

Episode Date: September 13, 2024

Is it even possible to be safe playing football? Is Tua's body potentially just not built to play this sport long term? There are more angles for Dan, Stu, and the Shipping Container to discuss regarding Tua Tagovailoa. Then, the Bills are more dominant over the last several seasons than we realized, Al Michaels hates dynamic kickoffs, and Chris Cote is furious about Josh Allen's pistachio farm. Plus, Ken Jennings and a serial killer, a UCF-Antonio Brown story Mike Ryan wants to discuss that Jeremy doesn't, Nick Saban's lobbying, and Stugotz's Top 13 QBs the Dolphins should call. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Jersey City, New Jersey. Please drink responsibly. Welcome to the Big Sui. Presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan LeBattard 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. I don't believe that we can, all of us, everybody talking about this today, doctors, organization, fans,

I don't believe that anyone can do anything other than talk in circles because you can't love Tua and love football at the same time and try to construct the argument that anything he does going forward playing football is safe. Chris can't discuss how safe he wants to keep him and then allow him to keep playing football. The oxymoron of everything happening in football including all the rule changes, the dynamic kickoffs, everything meant to make it safer is you can make it safer there is no way to make a violent thing safe and so we will talk about this and

talk about this and there will be no way to have it be anything other than talking in circles because the conflict of interests make it so that nothing we're discussing here, nothing, can come up with a conclusive, decisive thing that keeps anyone safe when what we're talking about is a player whose safety we're worrying about in a way we've never worried about a player's safety before playing this sport. There are guys, and I want to be careful of how this sounds because it's not a knock on them. There are just guys that find out through their occupation they are not built for it. At that position Robert Griffin III is a

name that comes to mind. That your frame, your ability to get rocked on hits, that the sport is telling you you are just not built for this. It happens in professional wrestling. It happens in professional wrestling, it happens with knees in other sports, and I think Tua may be approaching that class of this game. As much as you love it, your body is just telling you, you are not built for it. Do you guys, though, realize that in what we're talking

about, we are existing inside of a bubble, an economic bubble, a fandom bubble, where we are an echo chamber, anyone listening to this must care about sports or football in some way. And it must seem like an asinine conversation to anyone who doesn't care about football. Like a truly asinine conversation that we're even wrestling with the idea that this person should continue to do this. That anyone who doesn't care about football would look at all of this and simply say, it's not worth it. People with financial struggles, they would say it is not worth it to do that thing and risk what he's risking. Not just to all of you. I mean, on a weekly basis.

Yeah, but- It's a dangerous game, I mean. I understand what Dan's saying, but it's not the show that we do, it's not the world that we live in. Like we're all in this industry and the people are listening to us because they love sports

or love people talking about sports. I just think there's a really sad situation. It's, if you wanna take the head trauma out of it, we were talking back here, love people talking about sports. I just think there's a really sad situation. If you want to take the head trauma out of it, we were talking back here, Brandon Roy is a name that comes to mind that no matter how bad this guy wants it, no matter how bad he wants to come back, his body is just not built for the day-to-day grind of the sport because of what can happen to it. And I think two is in that class now. Yeah, I think it was just, it was really hard to watch and it only happened, what, like 12 hours ago.

So I think we'll have to just see what they say and see how he hopefully recovers from it and then sort of make our judgments from there. So it's kind of hard to have these like snap reactions from something, but given like the history and how much of this we've seen from this player, like it, I understand like the history and how much of this we've seen from this player like it I understand like the very emotional and justifiably so responses from fans that are like this sucks Valerie hates my Sundays just generally not like Abby hates to gots is Sunday At the end of it he comes around Feeling sensual Valerie hates my Sundays because they're slothy, they take me away from life,

and she's always walking past the television seeing something on the goal line and being like, oh my God, why do any of those people do any of that? Ed Oliver seems like a giant, physically hard to block human being. That if he hits you, it seems like it would be deeply unpleasant.

Let me tell you something about being married. Like, yeah, you can make it bigger than what it is, but she's resenting you because you just want to vege out in front of the TV. My wife has the same resentment for me because this guy's just useless. He's on 25 milligrams melting into his couch, watching NASCAR.

What has become of you? Help me with our daughter. Huh, just 25. That's why my boyfriend hates me every day. I don't move. I get home from work and I don't move. One of the reasons, Stugats, that I believe that the Bills are one of the four best teams in football

the last five years. The best teams in football are Kansas City, Baltimore, San Francisco, and Buffalo. I think everybody else over the last five years is a distant second from what excellence looks like in that sport, and it's not actually the winning that makes me think that, it's the stat I'm about to give you. It's been 43 games since the Bills lost

by more than six points. They're always in every game because of how good their quarterback is. It's really surprising, especially since like, they seem like, not a great deal worse, but they seem worse than they were when they were like, right there with the Chiefs and just ran out of time in a playoff game.

They seem worse. I can't believe that they're still hanging around these games. They're in every game, just not the Super Bowl, the biggest of games. Make it there. That's right. And they were 13 seconds away from being

able to eliminate Kansas City in Kansas City during a playoff game. But I do think that that's a crazy stat that I just gave you in that sport. That they never, they're in every game. At the end of every game, the Bills have a chance to win. For now, what are we looking at? More than three seasons, they're never getting beaten by anybody they're playing by more than a score.

That's a sign of a real good team. That means you have good line play, your lines hold up, you won't get blown out in games. That's a real good sign. It's also a sign you have a great quarterback. You have one of those guys. He's just not as good as the other guy. You've got three seasons plus now where the Bills never play the game the Dolphins just played last night. We're sitting here trying to talk ourselves into how it is that the Dolphins are right there with the Bills because for the division last year, they could have avoided the Bills entirely by simply beating Tennessee. And yet that game that just happened to the Dolphins last night never happens to the Bills,

even though, and this part's also interesting to me, in those 42 games, you'll find games in there where they lose the turnover battle in a way that the Dolphins lost the turnover battle last night and yet still they're in the game In fact one of the reasons that I would argue on behalf of the Dolphins offense being able to keep them in most games is because when I'm watching last night and Two has got the first two turnovers, I'm still looking at a game that if you stop them on third and fourth down, is 13-7 at the half,

and they're within a score because they've done other things well enough to stay in that game. I still expected, I was betting in game for the Dolphins to erase that lead, because I'm still expecting their offense to be able to look like it's a great offense even though as Mike said first two games of the season with all their motion and everything else it doesn't look the same and I don't know what to do with Tyreek Hill being ineffective.

I don't know what it is to watch that game yesterday and not have to worry that Tyreek Hill if I'm the Bills is going to do anything during that game because and not have to worry that Tyree Kill, if I'm the Bills, is going to do anything during that game because he's never had 100 yards against the Bills when he's playing for the Dolphins. Yeah, outside of one snap. He's been largely shut down this season. And you think back to that video where he said he had surgery on his knee, but it turns out he had a treatment, some injections in his knee.

You wonder if he's a different player and you certainly wonder if you're going to have different production with someone different on your center. I wanna credit you guys because you waited way longer to talk about where you go from here. You're still focusing on that. Like it took seven seconds for Tom Brady's name to be mentioned in my group chats last night. But I have some ideas, Mike, 13 to be exact.

All right, we'll get to that in a second. Greg Cody also badly wants to get in here. I did think it was interesting during halftime yesterday, during the Amazon Prime halftime. They were talking about if the Dolphins don't fix this in the second half, the season's going to be ruined and the narrative is going to continue. And I'm like, that's absurd. And then to it gets heard. And it's not absurd at all. When you're hiring for your small business, you want to find quality professionals that are right for the role. That's why you have to check out LinkedIn Jobs. LinkedIn Jobs has the tools to help find the right professionals for your team, faster

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All right, we got to go back out there. That was big. Wake him up. Uh oh. He doesn't want, he doesn't want to be bothered anymore. Now it's getting tense because he didn't need that as a result. He needs something that happens. You can see that mother effing.

Can we bother, are we bothering you right now? Turn on your microphone, great. My microphone's on. Stugatz. Paint the scene. The paint the scene is I gotta go to work. Good night. This is the Don LeBattar Show with the Stugatz.

On the train headed to work today, I ran into a guy named Keeter. He was very kind and he said, Hey, are you Mike Ryan from the Battle Court Cyclones? I said, yes, absolutely, that is my team. It's like, what's going on this season? I'm like, we're 1-0, we got a game tonight, come out Magic City Casino, seven o'clock,

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game time I download the Game Time app. What time is it, Peter? Game time, woo! I wish, Dugats, that a losing NFL locker room would have both the humor and the political astuteness so that Dolphins being interviewed after the game last night would have taken the Trump approach after the debate and just a bunch of people had been saying, well actually we won 87 to three. We don't listen to what the facts are or what everyone else thinks or what may have appeared like we lost.

But we won. But we won and then just make up some numbers that you won by and just change them. I hope that we get to the day that football can take itself so not seriously that somebody does that in a losing locker room. There are two things we didn't talk about yet

if we're staying on the topic of Dolphins Bills. The first thing is the Dolphins just like not trying to score a touchdown before halftime. The second thing, the pistachio farm. I have never been more irate watching a broadcast. The fourth quarter, your little filler when we're down 21. I don't give a shit about Josh Allen's pistachio farm. Look at this thing, it's endless.

I thought that that was fascinating. I had never given pistachio farms any thought before then and thought it was an interesting fact that I did not know. Who needs a pistachio farm. I Don't know what he has in terms of investments. I don't know why his interests would run toward pistachio farms I did not actually know before watching that that pistachios were farmed even though it was an obvious thing I was it's not something I hadn't given it any thought I no thought

This is him just trolling other people in his division I was it's not something I hadn't given it any thought I no thought This is him just trolling other people in his division I want a pistachio farm so that when I'm up by 20 in the fourth quarter I can have this little nugget get out there just to stick the knife in a little more in the Jets and the Dolphins I want a pistachio farm. Oh, so this is just jealous I just hated all of it, just ridiculous. Get that thing out of my face. That's for like a Sunday pregame show on ESPN. That is not for fourth quarter when you're up 21 points.

I'm reading a story here. He's doing it for a second income stream. Oh, please. Yeah, I mean. Obnoxious, that's the most obnoxious story I've ever heard about a player in the game. No, that's really impressive. He has a pistachio. If you look game. He has a pistachio.

If you look now, he has a pistachio farm. His family business is farming. Out of here. Is that all Michael's? Put that thing up again. You can't see to the end of this thing. It goes on forever. How big is this pistachio farm?

How are you angrier about this than what football did to Tua last night? It's such a strange show. How much water are they wasting at that farm? Wasting? He's making delicious pistachios. There's no way he can water every pistachio there. I love pistachios.

There's way too many pistachios. Jessica, I'm not happy with the amount of judgment you just rained down on me for not knowing anything about farming. So you look at it. How did you think they would? What a cute answer. I'd never given it thought.

Classic Miami guy doesn't know shit about farms. I actually thought that perhaps pistachios were raked out of trees. I had no idea. I had no idea how it is that pistachios were farmed. That can't be all his farm. That has to be like maybe he gets an acre of that. And he shares it with the family.

It's a family farm. They're farmers. I told you they grow cotton there. They do a little hut there. So annoying. You mentioned Al Michaels and not trying to score at the end of the half, and they were really critical of the Dolphins' time management,

and perhaps I shouldn't do this, but I just kind of trust that the Dolphins are managing time correctly. I believe that they know more about offense and how to use their timeouts than I do. There are gonna be times that they're wrong and I'm wrong about trusting them that way. But one of the things Al Michaels said, he's in his 80s now right and he's gotten more criticism the last couple of years than he's ever gotten, Al Michaels was pretty disgusted with the dynamic

kickoffs always ending up in just kicks through the end zone. And when one of them didn't, he used the phrase that an 80 year old might, stop the presses. And I just don't think we're stopping presses for anything anymore. But we stopped them permanently. Yeah, we did already stop all presses. Dan, I almost texted you about that.

Al Michaels saying stop the presses is like the exact demo of guy who says stop the presses. We're not stopping presses anymore, correct? We don't have any presses. I'm bought by private equity. It's very vogue to complain about the dynamic kickoffs. We had a pretty big return last week, DJ Dallas housewarming. It had been a while, like, oh, it goes in for a touchback. Are you noticing this now?

It happened all of last season. We debated yesterday, and Al Michaels answered it late in the game. He said it was a statement game for the Bills last night. I mean, we told you, we tried to tell you, Dan. I don't believe that game twos throughout the history of all game twos, I don't believe any of them have ever been any kind of statement that anyone remembers

but Mike Ryan just came in here and said, that is the worst anyone's ever felt after a dolphin game. And so if that's the feeling left by the Bills, I have to put down my sword and concede, well some sort of statement was made if Jeremy doesn't want to ever play football again. And Mike is saying that's the worst the Dolphins have ever felt after a football game.

That's a statement. Part of your framing for the fake pregame show was like, you have this team now, the boogeyman inside your division. It's your time to tell them that it's not their time anymore. Well, we learned the answer to that. It's certainly still their time inside the division

as it pertains directly to the Miami Dolphins and now they are in much worse shape than they were entering that game. The other statement that the Bills made is, look at what we did to your best guy with a guy who last year for us was actually dead on the field two years ago. Yeah, he was just not playing for them last season.

That was a little funny, right? Odd correction. It was just like an odd experience. It does flash over your mind, you're worried about Tua, and then you're like, that's Tamara Hamlin, that's odd. That's kind of one player on that team that makes this extra interesting. It's also, allegedly, where it is the Bills are weaker

this year because he's starting, it's because their secondary isn't supposed to be as good as it was last year. Their defensive line is overwhelming. The Dolphins still have an offensive line problem, and Stugats, not a coincidence that all of that stuff overwhelming the Dolphins still have an offensive line problem and Stu got Not a coincidence that all of that stuff was happening to and around to a The moment the left side of his offensive line went to the sidelines and the bills started ravaging like cannibals

Because all of a sudden you can't get rid of the ball with anyone open in two or three seconds Where is Greg Cody? Your father has wanted to get in here. He is eager from the fringes to get in on the show. Where is your father? We're actually struggling with Zoom today, so we're gonna old school it. I just texted Louis, my dad's number.

We're gonna call him old school. Louis, just tell me when we got him. And my dad, he texted me too. He wants in on this this morning. So are we waiting? I'll let you know when we got him. But yeah, we're gonna call him. What kind of feedback are we getting on today's show? I'm like, are we doing a good job? Are we voicing all the concerns?

Is anyone like our dolphin fans mad at us? I heard from Ray Rado He says you're nailing it Dan. Want me to like go read some YouTube comments Mike. Will that help? Yeah, I think it would I would like to know like this is all new right well unfortunately with two it's not that new but we received a lot of feedback on the last time we had Kristen Winsky on and I wonder if like we're doing better or if the rest of the audience is kind of caught up with where you were. I would just like to know how this is going over because we are talking about a guy that just received a huge contract a guy that had an entire healthy season, that you convince yourself this is the answer,

and now you seem more unsure of that than maybe at any point in his career. I just don't know how sincere any of the grave concern is for Dolphins fans beyond how their feel-good and their season is affected by this. I don't think you're giving fans enough credit for caring about this particular quarterback and thinking to themselves,

I had a friend last night text me who's been a season ticket holder for 20 years. And he said, I never want to see two will play quarterback again. Jeremy has season tickets. Now he said that before the injury and then he said it more definitively after the injury. He did.

He didn't say that to me. I don't think, maybe i've got this wrong maybe my lifetime around fans and what they actually care about i find fans to be pretty selfish i don't find that very often they actually care about the human being playing the games more than they care about themselves which is what you're saying right now you're saying that there are a lot of dolphin fans out there uh... caring more about to a than they care about their Sundays, their team, their identity, their allegiances.

My experience with fans generally doesn't go that way. I'm not saying all, I'm saying there are probably more than ever that could sympathize with what's going on with Tua because they've seen it. They've seen, Dan, the fans have seen what we've seen. They have seen things they've never seen from a player on an NFL football field and it's jarring and yes, I'd like to give the fan base the benefit benefit of the doubt not all

of them some of them that they would not they'd be okay with to a tie. I think of you as a fan. Yes, first and foremost and if Aaron Rodgers right now had to leave for some reason, I don't believe that you would choose Aaron Rodgers right now had to leave for some reason I don't believe that you would choose Aaron Rodgers as well being over your well-being Yeah, but am I arm with seeing out of Aaron Rodgers what we've seen out of to over the last three years I'm not that's the big difference in this particular situation

And why I think fans are sympathetic towards to I've never seen you care about anyone more than you care about yourself fair towards to I've never seen you care about anyone more than you care about yourself fair the YouTube commenters are saying they're saying positive things Dan I think it's been great thoughtful and helpful discussions I think you're hitting complex issues with a lot of analysis while keeping the fun of your show glad you guys are here on a Friday for once that wasn't that wasn't necessary I don't want compliments read the mean ones. Well that was kind of mean to everybody else that's here on Friday. Mm-hmm Jess is the worst okay I'm being told you're better now. We have my dad here, so

Dad Greg oh, yeah suggest we don't have them. Dad? Greg? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Dad? And you know it. Dad? Baby!

Greg? Baaaaaay? Dad? Do it. Yeah, do it. Doin' it. Dad. Who needs me? Yeah, who needs me? Dad! Who needs me? What is happening right now? Who needs me?

That kind of thing. That kind of thing. That kind of thing. Alright, we're going to cancel that. Was that a spanking I heard? Was that, were there two spanking sounds in there that I heard? I don't like any of that. It's called fapping.

Jessica, did I see on what it is that you were doing last night during the televising of Trey Wingo's extravaganza that there was an enye over the en in your last name like Laraniaga? Dan I'm glad you noticed that yes Trey Wingo gave me a little flourish on my last name last night when he intro'd me Let's go back down to Miami now and talk about another dream Hey y'all it's Mike and as you know it is football season. The all consuming football season. You live it, you breathe it, and you want to watch it as much as possible. Both on your TV but also, sometimes you want to be a part of that atmosphere. But guess what?

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slash FT Ball. NFL Plus Premium offer available only to new and former NFL Plus subscribers. Additional NFL Plus premium terms at nfl.com slash terms. Don LeBattard. I don't think I ever got that many roses in my whole life. Stugats. Certainly not from your lovely grandfather, God and man, so rest in peace. This is the Don LeBattard Show with the Stugats. I don't know if any of you appreciate the awkwardness that we have found in Ken Jennings hosting Jeopardy!, but I believe that we miss Trebek in a number of different ways, but one of the ways that you end up missing broadcasters,

Stugatz, is when others do it less well, and then you see, oh, Tom Brady, that doesn't sound right to me. There are things missing here. You sort of take for granted the way things are broadcast well, and Trebek did it so well, better than everybody, that moments like this rarely happened on

Jeopardy this is how people interact on television if they don't actually care about what each other are saying How do we get to say this often enough on this stage. You have a serial killer story, is that right? My middle school homeowner was always a little bit odd, very friendly, but weird. Turns out he was home on during the day and doing something very different at night. He was caught with seven bodies buried under his hugs. Wow, interesting.

Welcome to the show, Amanda. Keep it moving. What? Interesting. Welcome to the show, Amanda. Keep it moving. What? Interesting. Welcome to the show. Wow, interesting, I say reading from a card, not listening at all to the facts that were in the pre-production meeting

about seven bodies found. Seven bodies, you say. Interesting. You mentioned that Josh Allen was doing this for secondary income. Hold on, Mike. Oh, enough with the farms. Mike, we let's just play this back again for Jessica and everybody so we can appreciate the dark humor awkwardness in Ken Jennings being bad at this

I don't get to say this often enough on this stage Amanda you have a serial killer story is that right? My middle school hall monitor was always a little bit odd, very friendly, but weird. Turns out he was hall monitoring during the day and doing something very different at night. He was caught with seven bodies buried under his hugs. Wow, interesting.

Welcome to the show, Amanda. What? Wait, he was a hall monitor? Wait, you want follow-ups from Jennings? What do you want there? I want something. Trebek would have roasted her. Maybe just say, Whoa, that's crazy.

Or something. Something, right. Something that was not reading, wow, interesting from a card, an index card, and then saying, welcome to the show. Although maybe it was like, it was so, you know, it was funny because it was that way. Like Trebek would have said something very dry

and then would have been like, welcome to the show. But I don't know, I mean, to each his own. Either way. Do it. What the f***? Do it. Pro football was Josh Allen's side hustle. He received a ton of acclaim for his work in the agricultural field in high school. He was a ton of acclaim for his work

in the agricultural field in high school. He was a higher ranked farmer than he was a football player coming out of high school. He had a national rank in the top four in the nation in diversified crop production in cantaloupe, cotton, and wheat in 2014. Wow, one of the all time greats. Put it on Sunday NFL Countdown. I don't want it when I'm down 21 in the fourth quarter.

Dan, I know you were looking for more fan reaction. Our social media team put out the bite of me saying as a Dolphins fan, I don't wanna see Tua on the football field ever again, which was very kind of them. Looking through the replies, the first response was, God, I hate Jeremy. Yeah, I think that you're going out to the extremes

on where it is dolphin fandom exists. I think most people are closer to Chris, which is just stay in the middle while secretly being scared of saying, yeah, two needs to get back out there and save our season. That's not how I feel. I'm in the middle guy. That guy's silver there. Right. Jeremy's that way. The guy saying he needs to get back is over there. Let's middle guy right here. Let's be clear, if the doctors clear him, that's what Chris is saying. Multiple doctors. Multiple doctors. Correct.

And Tua and his family decide that this is something they would still like to do. Put all the responsibility on others. Put all the responsibility. Oh, so Jeremy should decide? You know what? I like that idea better. Jeremy, tell me who should play this weekend. No. I mean, not this weekend.

Tua definitely should not play football this weekend. I don't think the UCF Center should play this weekend? No. I mean, not this weekend. Two definitely should not play football this weekend. I don't think the UCF Center should play this weekend. Well, I mean, that's just ridiculous. I do not often see, and I don't know how many other examples you guys have of Dez Bryant and Shannon Sharp and Damian Woody and Lewis Riddick, people who know football,

know the risks of football, know the pain and the violence involved with football. I don't have a lot of other examples of those people giving voice to, that person shouldn't play anymore. Now that you mentioned UCF, there is a UCF story I would like to talk about.

Jeremy, are you familiar with the Antonio Brown UCF connection? No comment. So, through some internet sleuthing, look it's long been maintained and known that Antonio Brown does not run his controversial Twitter account. I think a big piece of evidence is its ability to string out complete coherent sentences sometimes. But he's gone on the pivot and said that he doesn't run it or anything like that, but

the internet deduced who was. And according to some sleuthing, it is a video coordinator on the UCF basketball coaching staff, who is a white guy. Now, if you are familiar with how problematic the account often is and the words that it uses, this is highly problematic amongst other things that a college basketball video coordinator who is white

is running this account. Now Antonio Brown has since denied the claims going against his own word and saying, no, no, no, no, I run that account. However, in trying to take some of the blame off of this alleged person that's been running his account, he actually further incriminated them by confirming that this person is tied to his enterprise by just being there as a management type.

So we have Antonio Brown saying what he says now, held up with the common knowledge that he doesn't actually run his account, and now we have a name that is a white name that is attached to this account that has been using the N-word, has been highly misogynistic, that has said horrible things about Caitlin Clark amongst others, and the fact that this dude is a staffer on a college basketball program inside the Big 12. I appreciate Mike a number of different things that you're doing with your college sports coverage and one of them that you're doing is you're going after Nick Saban in a way

I haven't seen a whole lot of other people going after Nick Saban as Nick Saban tries to protect the power and the money staying somewhat the same in college sports and denying kids their proper value. I don't see a lot of people calling Nick Saban out the way that you've been doing it. I'm genuinely, is Nick Saban just a lobbyist now? I'm not saying that with sarcasm.

I wanna know because it seems as though he is certainly lobbying on behalf of the NCAA's best interests according to them. And what they are seeking is safe harbor status. And what we can't allow is safe harbor status. And in all his speaking engagements, he says, quote, NIL is too difficult to police. So what he wants to do is eliminate a free market.

Keep in mind, Nick Saban is a head coach who had a contract clause that specifically stated, if someone gets more money than me, I automatically get more money than them. I am the top of my sport and I deserve to be paid as such. He is often on ESPN often on a flat commercials I'm pretty sure when these opportunities present themselves to Nick Saban. He isn't just saying, you know Whatever you bureaucrats decide to give me. I'll just go ahead and take it. I'm sure there's a negotiation going there

So for Nick Saban to come out and say no free market for players for the Labors that he built his name on, but that doesn't apply to anybody else, I think it should be met with more scrutiny. I really should. You make millions. You are the absolute legend of this era of the game and you're just pulling the ladder up behind you. It is absurd that he gets to take this position to represent the NCAA in this fashion and is not once challenged on it during his many media appearances. That's fine that he can have that opinion. I'm also of the opinion that something needs to be done but dude you are pretty well protected and it comes off as if like

the good old boy network protects its own because when mark emmert was here i had a clean program and then he retires and i shortly retired thereafter and you see ted cruise showing up talking to texas a&m why are these programs giving this specific plan buy-in, it makes you wonder all sorts of things, but I would say Nick Saban is certainly entitled to his opinions. He should be challenged on his hypocrisies because he certainly hasn't carried his career both during his coaching days and now in media as if he's fine not having fair market value.

He should be challenged on this and he hasn't been. I always assume that his perspective is going to do something that maintains control of something closer to the status quo because as you've heard me say before all across America, generally speaking people don't give away their power. It has to be taken from them. He's been in power for a very long time and the power was taken from him in He's been in power for a very long time. And the power was taken from him in a way that made him very tired, saw everyone else catch up,

and then all of the rules changed in a way that seemed ungovernable to him. And so what he wants, what he longs for, is the day that feels more like the day when he ruled the Earth. When it was more ungovernable. I'm sorry, did we think that players weren't getting paid before NIL? If anything we have more transparency now to this, to what we have always known, and it's also dispersed the talent pool more evenly.

There are about five teams right now that you can see have a legitimate shot at winning a national title. There aren't these mega teams where it's just like it's Alabama and everybody else this year and maybe someone can catch them. Even Georgia isn't as good as it was in terms of NFL talent as it had been previously. The sport has changed. He doesn't like that it's changed. And the fair market, that only applies to the people in power apparently, according to Nick Saban. Stugat has in front of him something that he wanted to do

to lead off the show, but alarms- We have to turn the page, Dano. Alarms have been going off in my head though that we have now gone enough sufficient time showing proper concern and respect for humanity. And now Stugatz is allowed to give you his list of the people who should be considered for quarterback for the Dolphins next weekend.

Yes, yes. How many are on that list? I have 13. All right, so you've got, and again, But I can shorten it to five. Well, Jessica's head is in her hands because she doesn't think the proper amount of concern has been shown for humanity Huh, I just think 13 is way too many. Oh really you got to narrow it down I mean I can go five if you want. Oh, oh, I let's go bang through. Oh, I quickly taste some hill

Let's find out if this guy can play quarterback, that's a lot of money that you'd have to give up. Go ahead, keep going. Josh McCown. What? He should be there. I mean- He's 40, isn't he? He's always there.

Yeah, someone's always calling him late in the season. All right, go ahead. Kirk Cousins or Michael Penick. All right, a lot of money. Yeah, well, not for Penick's. Josh McCown is 45. Andy Dalton. Wow. Red Rifle. Andy Dalton. Wow.

Red Rifle. Reliable. Keep going. Bryce Young. What? Why? You can get Bryce Young. He was the number one pick in the draft. You can get him for cheap right now. You get him off Carolina's hands. Mike McDaniel probably thinks he can make something of Bryce Young. Keep going. Trey Lance. Five interceptions. Why not? Alright. I love that logic. You really should just put why not on the back of the uniform. Go ahead. Keep going. Philip Rivers. Dare the Dolphins to say

no. Go ahead. Keep going. Number five. Joe Flacco. Number four, Russell Wilson. Russ. Last couple I'm listening. Number three, Jimmy Garoppolo. You got my attention. He's got a PED suspension right now. How many more games? I'm not exactly sure,

but I found out he was a Ram the other day. Get out of here. Yeah, he's a Ram. I think it's a four game suspension. There's two more to go. You know how I found out? My wife was watching the Niners. She's just like, hey, where's the cute guy?

Put it on the poll. Did you know Garoppolo was a Ram? Number two, Ryan Tannehill. And number one, of course, goes without saying, I'm certain a call has been made already. Thomas Brady. When you're hiring for your small business, you want to find quality professionals that are right for the role. That's why you have to check out LinkedIn jobs.

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