The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: Listen Here, Iowa

Episode Date: February 4, 2025

Lucy zooms into the show to FINALLY pay off her punishment from the Venmo #LucyChallenge, but Greg and Dan are both disoriented. Is Lucy going to the Super Bowl? Did she get an expensive Iguanadon costume? Why is David Samson on her side? Then, remember when Wayne Newton almost fell at our Super Bowl event last year? Plus, the Shipping Container wants to send Gabe to Radio Row, Jessica's 80-year-old grandmother found the show on her YouTube algorithm, and David shares his thoughts on the Myles Garrett trade request. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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. Lucy Rodin is smirking, I'm gonna say mischievously and that smirk generally creates fear in me but also wonder because she is a content creator extraordinaire and now she has to do some sort of challenge in order to see if she's part of our late rush army that we're throwing at the Super Bowl. We will get to her in just a second to find out whether she gets to... I don't know if

she's ever been to New Orleans, I don't know if she's been... I don't know if she has been to Radio Row and seen the Stugats experience, but Lucy reporting on Stugats would be fun content, just following them around in the wild. Yes, Lucy? Dan, you were with me last year at Radio Row. We were there together. Okay, I don't remember.

I don't remember anything that happened last year. Our entire show, right? All of us together, we sang songs. Yeah, I don't remember on Radio Row. I remember there, I remember that. We carpooled. Downtown, yes, I don't remember. Radio Row. I remember there, I remember that. We carpooled. Downtown, yes, I don't remember. Forgive me, I forgot that I went and talked to the Gullicks on Radio Row one day.

I was there for 15 minutes, yes. We carpooled and on the car ride over, you talked to me about had I been to Radio Row before. Lucy seems like a great carpool buddy. Like if I was ever carpooling somewhere, I'd be like, Lucy, you're with me. Oh, thank you. Okay, put it on the poll.

Does Lucy seem like a great carpool buddy? Let's go back into the other room though real quick because I wanna see what's happening with David Samson trying to motivate Greg Cody to do better show. Samson, what do you have? I really have a problem right now, Dan, because I can't get Greg going. He told me just now that the whole break threw him off,

that he's very concerned about his outfit, that he thought he was wearing a blazer, and what I've said to him very clearly is we've never needed him more than we do now as witnessed by the length of all of the break and all of the people not here. So Greg, one more time for you, can you please get yourself together?

Okay, well you did it very poorly if the object was to hit him in the face It's funnier if it makes a sound than if you just drop the microphone All right I want to review the last 30 seconds to one minute of this show because Dan Levitart the man Constantly calling me Disoriented just betrayed himself as not remembering that he was on sad sad radio row Slightly less than one year ago. That's the man calling me disoriented I'm like I said before I'm perfectly oriented I've got nothing

going on but love and and best wishes for everybody if I'm given a chance to speak into a mic for five minutes in a row without being interrupted and and admonished. But you have a button-down shirt on. It's a beautiful button-down shirt that my wife bought me. I've taken to wearing shirts over t-shirts lately. I don't know whether that's a thing. I don't know whether that's proper, whether people do that. What are you hiding?

I'm not hiding anything. Sores. The veins on his feet? No, I don't have open sores anywhere on my body, by the way. Okay, we'll come back to you in a moment. Thank you, that's $5. And if I did, they're not sores,

they're jumping Charlie cuts. All right right five dollars please for coughing into the microphone it does his Venmo fine bucket account work because all of this is in play the Venmo fine bucket which is now going to be more vigorously enforced because of Lucy because of Lucy and because of her refusal to pay a fine for killing somebody on the show and disrespecting the rules. Does Greg now have the Venmo account on his phone because he swore to us that his wife was, that Erlene was gonna do that for him? Yes, he's got it set up.

I made payments for him. We're still working on him doing it without anyone helping him, but it's on his phone and the payments have been made. I will just say that some of this behavior around the fine bucket is self-destructive. Jessica, you were making, I'm gonna say, hundreds of dollars there for a while when you had the contents of the fine bucket is self-destructive. Jessica, you were making, I'm gonna say, hundreds of dollars there for a while

when you had the contents of the fine bucket, no? Not quite, it was more like 80 something, but it was still nice, I'm not complaining about it. But I'm saying, you got paid for the better part of two years every time you were getting fines all the time. Are you not counting those? It was just a total of $80? It was not a lot of money, which leads me to believe

maybe someone again pilfered from the fine buck yeah we've got some problems but now venmo is now securing the entirety of the thing venmo sponsors our bucket and they also sponsor the lucy super bowl challenge presented by venmo so we got to figure out here what is going to happen all right so we've been teasing this here for weeks lucy where are you on whether you're going to the super bowl or not you have to fulfill this challenge if you do not fulfill the challenge great you remember what the challenge was i do it was uh... it was lucy dressing up as a dinosaur

and walking through a mall but what kind of dinosaur i can recall offhand it was your dinosaur you know i don't even hear that day and i remember what you brought it up out of nowhere with the whole funny reason for the and i'll get an operator source no of course i i know what it was it was a in a guanassaur he was one of the on the water dot on the ground on the water dot you

understand the whole thing was born of that word being funny and coming out of nowhere the but how do you want to know so the challenge punch the challenge, have you done this Lucy? Are you going to do it? The challenge is you're going to dress as an iguanodon and walk through a mall? Yes, so here's the thing. Here's the situation. I have had a great time on off-roading, potentially too great of a time.

So I am not, I'm not permitted to make company purchases. So I was told that I would be getting an Iguanodon thing in the mail and I did and I went online and I looked and it was $900 for a costume and I thought hmm even that's a little a little intense. So this is what showed up is this really janky Iguanodon t-shirt that I definitely didn't make myself. I would have never done that. I would have done a much better job. So that's how I did it.

Lucy, I wanna thank you because that's a very soft applause. I'd like to make it much stronger. Thank you. Thank you. This is not a penalty to walk through a mall with a shirt that says Iguanodon. Lame.

Dan, Dan, I walked to get coffee this morning. Everyone was like, is that a band? What is on her shirt? Why is it not level? And why are the letters spaced out? How embarrassing, Lucy. It was incredibly embarrassing. No, I'm thankful to you, Lucy, because you did it right.

When you see that 900, you cannot proceed. You cannot spend that kind of money on some ridiculous venture by Cody. You get the shirt for $9.99 and you get yourself to the Super Bowl as yester. Samson, I got McAfee giving away $100,000 for field goal kicks. I got Jay Williams going into his own pocket going $100,000 for half court shots. We can't afford $900 on a costume? If I thought that the juice was worth the squeeze

and that $900 would actually generate any sort of attention, then I would think about it. On Radio Row or in a mall where she's a content creator, she's an influencer. We are being sponsored and paid for Lucy to do a challenge that is just as good in the t-shirt as it is in the $999 costume. That's ridiculous. No way.

Her in an Iguanodon costume haunting said said Radio Row would be Super Bowl gold. You know forget them all. The Radio Row thing other podcasts would be interviewing her she would be a sensation. I want Lucy on Radio Row this seems easy enough to fulfill this is not the way to fulfill it. Cheap before going to the Super Bowl is not the way to do it. Do you remember last year's show? There was music, Wu-Tang Clan was there.

We're going from that to we can't afford a $900 costume? I do remember last year's show. And I remember the fact that I'm still, exactly, I'm dealing still with the budget reality of last year's show. Yeah, that was expensive. It was a nightmare. So you can forgive me trying to save the 900 bucks,

which I'm trying to spread to the talent. Lucy. Dan, I feel like you don't remember last year's show because five minutes ago you asked me if I had been to the Super Bowl before. Listen here, Iowa. It's all I remember from last year is that Wu-Tang Clan mistake. I remember when Wayne year is that and that Wu Tang Clan mistake.

I remember when Wayne Newton almost fell and Tony saved him. Oh my God. We were like, we had these like high top, like the bar stool type chairs. So he kind of had to like get up on it and the chair started going and Wayne was going. We were, we almost had a Wayne Newton falling

on our stage, breaking a hip probably. And Tony stepped in in caught the man with his right arm. Yes that is all correct we were so close you understand on the floor near the pool of fragments and pieces and rubble of Wayne Newton just being on the floor a Las Vegas icon we could have killed him. It would have gone viral. It would have been death. It would have been better for the show. No, really, I mean, Wayne Newton falling off a high chair. You can't do that. No, it would have been better. You can't do that.

It would have been the same. Greg, stop, please. You can't do that. I don't mean him injuring himself. You mean death. I just mean him taking a pratfall. Oh, okay, so not actually killing him in pieces. Of course not.

I love Wayne Newton. Donka Shane. Are you kidding me? Oh man? Don't take pratfalls. Well, I I take a prep You're getting to the age where we know can't be falling. No, I fall Greg You what do you mean? You take a pratfall the last time you took a pratfall We monetize it for profit your son didn't sell enough t-shirts and he produced a video of you falling in the bushes after Drinking too many beers. No, I've taken a pratfall since then. You have? Yeah, just a few months ago.

Remember the face thing? My whole face was bruised. He doesn't remember that either. The guy calling me disoriented doesn't remember me having a bruised face and wearing half a mask covering half my face just several months ago. But Wayne Newton pratfalling miami were or or regular whatever it's called as is becoming a healthy obsession the last ten plus years and how is this still come on a billy come on this is

he got sick there he had to have gotten sick in cartersville uh... i don't know what to do about a ruling here because we're too late in the game and we're understaffed like Like Lucy's gonna get to go whether she commits to the challenge or not. Like we botched this, we have not gotten the penalty that we need to get here. But we've included her going and it's sponsored and the t-shirt is just fine.

So I'd like you to move past it. The problem is you're stuck on this as though we don't know that you're showing the Billy thing on a loop. Don't treat us like fools, let Lucy go and it's gonna be fine. Thank you Venmo. Don't say bits on air David. We just went over this.

Hold on a second. Oh jeez I hit the wrong button. Yeah you have to, Samson, you have to get out of here. Okay? Like just... We've got a penalty, five minutes. Major Asshole. We've got a penalty five minutes major asshole That was a joke we were gonna be doing for three hours just shit on you just shit on that joke We were gonna do it for three straight hours where that comes in and you're like, hey, it's a loop everybody

I'm the ruin or fun Get out of here. See you later. You're disoriented today. You're hitting the wrong button God celebrates 20 years of content this year. It's still going. It's on a loop. Yeah, it's on a loop. Asshole. We all need to take a deep breath. Everybody. Don't make me find the entire company. You see, you see. Did anyone pay though?

Yes, a lot. Three people paid. You find the entire company $5. I diligently went in there and paid the five dollars Who's keeping track who who's keeping who's keeping track of the Venmo fine bucket? Because it should by now if everyone in the company has to pay five dollars. That's hundreds of dollars. We have a lot of employees Including Gabe Boy, just met. Your math is not great. Gabe should pay double.

Should we ask him what he thinks about the fine system? Are you more aware of how many people we're paying than I am? Yes. Okay, because I don't think you are. And if I say $5 to everyone in the company and we're paying 100 people, that's $500. If Chris is fining everybody in the company, that's a significant amount people. That's $500. Like if Chris is finding everybody in the company That's a significant amount of money. There's like four people out there Dan. This is not the company I guess gave yes, there is nobody out there. The company all went to the Super Bowl

So Lucy's gonna have to go but we botched this. So what are you looking forward to doing there? Tell yes Congratulations, I guess this is not work so hard this is so rewarding this is not this is not the way to do this Chris are you upset that you're not going to the Super Bowl because like we all did go last year now because Samson has to reign in the budget we can't all go I got a little FOMO but my liver is happy I don't need I don't need New Orleans in my life then the Super Bowl my experience is like I like the I like everything I got to work but then I like to have fun so it's you end up. The Super Bowl, my experience is, I like everything, I gotta work, but then I like to have fun,

so you end up by the end of it, my voice is gone. I know, it's just, to answer your question, I'm good not going. I had FOMO at the beginning of the week, but now I'm just like, I'm tired, I'm good. This sounds like cope. Yeah, FOMO. No, I'm good.

Have you ever read FOMO, Dad? I don't know what that stands for. Fear of missing. Oh, okay, Dad? I don't know what that stands for. Fear of missing. Oh, okay. No, I didn't know it. I didn't know the acronym. I mean, everything has a, does everything have to have an acronym?

Can you just say four words in a row without coining a phrase for it? Come on. Exactly. Just say what the fuck and don't worry about what the acronym says. Who was talking to you? Who are you saying exactly to?

I'm looking at Chris, Jessica, and Jeremy. Somebody said WTF. And you rolled with it. Greg. Where? I'm rolling like a big wheel. Was it Gabe? Greg.

What? This is what just happened. Don't use the word disoriented because I'll bring up all the things you've done wrong. Okay, okay. That you just great point it agreed agreed agreed, but it's not because I'm distracted at all STF STF you Dan How's that got your ass? Stands for something. I don't know what it stands for. What do you imagine it stands for? I know what it stands for don't make me say it. I'm not gonna take a quiz or you know No, I know what it stands for? I know what it stands for. Don't make me say it. I'm not going to take a quiz or you know it? No, I know what it stands for. I know

modern acronyms. FOMO is a modern acronym. I know, but I'm a Guinnet. You know, I don't, I'm just say what you're going to say and don't make a phrase out of it or an acronym. Lucy, what are you looking forward to at this Super Bowl? Are you going to learn from the master Stugats who i already see is getting into position i have a camera here he is in position in your headed out to meet him now what are you looking forward to i've never been to new orleans so i'm actually really just excited to go i'd like to have a vignette maybe i'll get a beverage or two and make it appropriate since then no it's any and by the way quick shout out to them out there my

favorite social media app. That's where you learn all the good stuff that's happening. Okay, so Stugatz, we're looking forward to what Stugatz is gonna bring us soon. Do we know? Have you gotten any reports? You're just learning, I guess you've got to go now, but you're just learning now that Billy has been knocked into a gutter, right? That part of our Super Bowl coverage has been derailed. Are you to be on god bless football uh... maybe i don't know i will say get well soon however

really good news rose doesn't have to do as much work now we get hang out okay that's not good news i need people working so okay well are us hanging out is work now it's okay uh... thank you for all your efforts. Thank you for saving the company money. Billy Gill is getting our coverage off to a rip-roaring start. We are sending reinforcements. Did other people here have FOMO? Anyone else here have FOMO about the Super Bowl? Jessica, did you want to get back to the Super Bowl? Yeah, I think we all would have liked to go.

But it was just in New Orleans like four weeks ago, so. I would like to have gone for the first time. Yeah, you weren't invited to that one. Nope. Yeah, you get your feelings hurt when you're not invited to things around here. I just think you did it purposefully and I thought that it was silly.

You had everybody go. It was the biggest budget item of the year in the company. Everybody was there. What do you mean last year? Yeah, come on. Name one person in front of a microphone who makes his living with metal art in front of a microphone.

Pablo, Pablo didn't go. Pablo doesn't think of himself that way. He wouldn't lower himself to be a part of that. Wow. Wait a minute, what? And you would? One hundred. Well, so you guys noticed when these podcasts, these stupid podcast awards came out that we were celebrating over zealously,

you guys did notice that Pablo very much did say in a category that I don't understand, sports documentaries by podcast form, that he was the very fine French restaurant upscale and that David Sampson and God bless football are hot dog water. That comparatively, that what they make compared to what he makes, you're telling me he was- He didn't say the water. Yeah, to be fair.

It would have been worse. He just said a hot dog stand. No, but it was the inference. Look, I went straight to the water. Like he went straight to the hot dog stand. Yeah, hot dogs are also delicious and can be award winning, but it's not fine dining and we all know it.

And Pablo is lording over Hee Haw 3. Like he's saying that what he does is more important than the artistic crafting that was Hee Haw 3 being a breakout band in Vegas. Can I just jump in real fast? I'm sorry, I'm looking at our Radio Row feat and it is just Radio Row in a nutshell. We're supposed to have Diana and Stu Gotz right now from radio row and they are both behind the set

Just chumming it up. Yes, just talking to people cup bits saying they're supposed to be on air right now with us And they're just both shaking hands This is what Billy does and he's out like Billy Wrangles Billy spent look at get our talent flint is Gabe has passed you in the company. Send Gabe to New Orleans. I want Gabe in New Orleans tomorrow because Gabe would not stand for this. Fuentes.

No room in the budget. Fuentes, we need Diana Rusini. They are hobnobbers, the two of them. She's got a lot in common with Stugatz. She does. Oh my God, she is, she, her and Stugatz are something close to kinship, soulmates, and we will not find them because if there's a Golic around,

we've lost Rusini and Stugatz for a while. Any kind of Golic, a Golic of any kind. But Stugatz is trying to get something from them. Diana just genuinely likes people, but also wants information, so she too wants to get something. Do we have a time zone issue? Is there a chance that Stugatz thought that it was 10 o'clock central? No, no, no, Samson this is the experience. Please put it in picture-in-picture. We will have a live cam and that will take the

consequences of however Stugatz behaves. When I heard in my ear one of the reasons I was distracted during the first hours because I just heard a stray, hey Stugatz went for his morning breakfast of two heaters in a bottle of water like an and so i'm just hearing a stray from radio rose they started as they get us uplink i've got people there and this is to got his life for four days nobody knows where he goes at night

he gets into some crevices but during the day he is for twelve hours nonstop, maximum hobnobbing at the top of the industry. Classic, as you're saying it, Stu Gotz has now made his way out of our shot. Just, I don't know where he went. This is not work to him.

You guys gotta understand, we are paying everybody to be Lucy in some form. Stu Gotz is also there to just enjoy himself and belch out content, while just getting a hero's welcome because our podcast is popular. in some form. Stugatz is also there to just enjoy himself and belch out content while just being getting a hero's welcome because our podcast is popular. Because everyone loves them there, right? You have to understand what Radio Row is. It's a cacophony of the same noise making predictions about the same game. So whoever there is in that place that

is a little bit rebellious, a little bit rebellious about the nonsense that we do, they think Lucy and Stugats are hobnobbing heroes. Stugats will be slapped on the back by everyone who works there, except maybe Mad Dog, who lords over him. I think Stugats is, maybe Jim Rome too. Jim Rome goes with bodyguards. Oh God, are you kidding?

Are you sure? I'm positive, yes. Like, what do you mean? Like bodyguard, bodyguard. Who's sole job, not producer bodyguard, it's just bodyguard bodyguards? Bodyguards, plural, bodyguards, plural. Jim Rome has been dominating radio row for a long time.

They bring him all the important guests and those guests who are celebrities because everything there is a piranha feeding frenzy. If Snoop Dogg is coming through that person needs Security to bring him to where Jim Rome is and Jim Rome himself Uses that security to get around the building because if he has to go to the bathroom Seven people will grab him trying to get him to do something. Are they armed? I think so Yes, if I may change the subject quickly

I found out recently that my grandma has a YouTube addiction and she can't I found out recently that my grandma has a YouTube addiction and she can't actually stop watching YouTube videos and she's gotten fed a lot of our videos in the algorithm. And she just texted me and said, is he really making fun of that older gentleman? Which I believe refers to you making fun of Greg. So I think my grandma would like an apology on Greg's behalf.

She could mean either one of us. I mean, Dan's nose spring chicken, you know? It's true. I thought she meant me and it was a family thing with you and me. What do you mean? GTFO. She could be referring to either one of us. Yeah.

Either, because you've also, you have locked horns with me today. You are done with being called disoriented. You don't like... Right. I can sense sometimes with you as my lifelong friend when it is that i'm landing on the wrong side of you and that's happened that's happened you're on a loose ship here

you're letting road in get away without you know go to go to new orleans despite uh... you know uh... ruining the bet with the Iguanodon. Now you're cow-towing to Sampson on financial matters. I mean, it's a loose shift. It's delegated. It's stuff, it's giving. Cow-towing?

The longest two sentences I've ever heard in my life. Cow-towing with a K. Not enough people know that word. Does it have a hyphen? Does it it have a hyphen does it not have a hyphen there's some dispute there on countering Jessica holy shit grandma getting caught in the algorithm is a lot of fun I also enjoy the idea because I've told you guys the stories about my 80 year old grandfather where I asked him one time to answer a cell phone and I come into the other room and

he was answering the television remote control. He was trying, he didn't know the difference between the two things. A cell phone was something that was foreign to him. I've also told you the stories of like showing my grandfather ESPN classic, you know, the Jim Layritz home run, like walking by the television, he thinks it's a live game because he doesn't have any perspective and understands why his son is an expert

or grandson is an expert, because I say it looks like Woller's is going to throw a pitch here that Layritz is going to turn on and hit over the left field fence. That's what happens. My grandfather's amazed coming from Cuba, doesn't speak English.

He's like, wow, my grandson, he knows so much about sports. The idea that we have an 80 year old issue around here where people are, what are you smiling about, Samson? What are you laughing about? Because I love the idea of her grandmother getting stuck in a YouTube algorithm where she thinks Jessica is the biggest broadcast star

in the world because all she's getting is videos from this show. And television just becomes her daughter, because I don't know at what point 80-year-olds don't quite understand what the technology is doing to them. She's not senile. She's very with it, Dan. She just watches a lot of YouTube videos.

This is going very wrong, Dan. This is a great example of your elder abuse tendencies. Ageism. I don't think, look you guys are doing Pat Riley is too old to do that job at 78. Oh I'm not. We love Pat Riley. But wait a minute we just got done with a bunch, look tell me where the line is here because we've done it to two of America's leaders here. We've been making fun of a delirium that can happen at this age between 78 and 80 years old.

I don't know, yes there are very, I don't, my fault for assuming that your of a delirium that can happen at this age between 78 and 80 years old. I don't know, yes, there are very, I don't, my fault for assuming that your grandma is lapsed into some form of senility. And that being said, I don't think she should run the heat either. But that's not because of her age. It's just, I don't think she'd be very good at it.

Just like maybe Pera Harley's not very good at it right now. I might be wrong that I can assume that most 80-year-olds aren't dealing with YouTube. No? Her grandmother does not think she's a star, not a star because of YouTube and seeing her on YouTube. She believes her granddaughter's a star because all grandparents think their grandchildren are stars.

Not really, in my family. You gotta earn your stardom. I think my grandma can appropriately assess my level of success because she is Nazi Nile and she understands I'm on a big show. I'm not the title of the show, but I do very well for myself. Can I close a loop from the first hour?

My mom's name is Mary Elizabeth. That's your grandmother, Chris. That's not a loop from the first hour? My mom's name is Mary Elizabeth. That's your grandmother, Chris. That's not a loop closure. Did Greg get it wrong? My bad, I asked my mom, I said, what's your mom's mom's name? My bad, I misspoke again. My mom's grandma's name is Mary Elizabeth.

Chris, Chris. Mom's mom, like David's getting caught in the weeds here. They're both Mary's. Mom's mom. Okay, they're both Mary's though. Chris, Chris, you interrupted everything we were doing with an important mom alert that you then just delivered in a way that confused everybody I'm confused But it was his mom's mom's mom just

Honor penalty two minutes delay a show Under penalty, two minutes, delay a show. Out of here, Chris. Just get out of here. I don't know what you were doing there. Still wrong, Chris. I don't know why you were doing it. You can yell at everybody. You can take it up with everybody.

Get out now, please. Thank you. I think he was right. Okay, you can leave with him then. Both of you can get out of here. I'm gonna call my dad. Under penalty, two minutes delay a show. The thing that I wanted to ask Greg Cody and David Sampson in the business of

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Don LeBattard. Quiet man. Yes. You know, I'm a married man. I don't cheat on my wife despite that gratuitous line Stugots I wish you were here my wife. I really miss her No, I don't that's the thing about being married. You know you're not allowed to say I don't miss my wife I've been gone two days. I haven't been gone long enough to miss my wife. I'm sorry I call her 30 seconds you know what am I? Alright, alright. We'll see ya alright, and then you know I'm gonna see I call her. I'm on the phone with her for 30 seconds. You know, what am I? Hello. All right. All right. We'll see you. All right. And then, you know, I'm going to see her in two days. I was jumping. Charlie. Good. This is the Don LeBathardt Show with the Stugarts.

The news that I saw yesterday in football that results in one, The news that I saw yesterday in football that results in one, Miles Garrett requesting a trade which is not a normal football thing. This I know it happened some but usually in football a player doesn't quite have the power to do that publicly and garner support the way Miles Garrett just did which is like okay can that power come to football now but then also coldly I saw and this the business of this kind of was like man really Cooper cop wants to keep playing for the Rams the Rams announced yesterday yeah we're trading him and Cooper Cup doesn't rip the organization but just says I'm

highly motivated to get the next money on that contract and as I'm watching that happen i'm like okay so cooper cop basically won the super bowl for that team uh... if you can have an allegiance to a region he made matthew stafford this because in the super bowl when they were down on the game winning drive nobody uh... in the stadium uh... didn't understand the ball was going to cooper cop and stafford is throwing the ball to him with no look passes for that person and that memory to be so disposable at the end that Cooper Cup is now like, hey, see you later, sorry if that hurts, but we've got Puka now and we can't have two of you because we

understand the finances of the league. It makes me long in some ways for the 1972 Steelers that were able to stay together and not have any sort of free agency because those teams could stay together for a while then build something that i would remember for a long time without having the ending uh... be contaminated like this when that should be a beautiful thing with him in that relationship with the city like they did a beautiful really hard thing together and did it on a body that has taken all of the abuse because those receivers play so physically that you're basically churning them through a wood chipper

like pukas body is going to age really fast because of how physically those receivers play and pukas job now replaces Cooper takes his money like and so at the end what am I supposed to do with all of that when something is that cold of a business transaction in the age of the transaction? You're supposed to not keep using a typewriter when there's a computer available. It is true that people long for the day

of when a player would be on a team for an entire career, but those days have been gone for 40 years. I mean, the Robin Younts of the world are the exception, not the rule. And so stars change teams. What shocks me about this is the position the GM took. Andrew Berry, who said, hey, give me two number ones. I'm still not trading them.

I will not trade this guy. That's more GM malpractice. You've got to trade somebody if there's an overpay. And it seems like someone would overpay for Miles Garrett. It's not only what is happening in the NFL and the NBA and everywhere else. When Miles Garrett sees what LeBron James was able to do and sort of revolution of players under contract being able to steer their way out. And now you have pro players seeing the transfer portal in college where college players,

you know, all of a sudden Carson Beck is with the Miami Hurricanes. And if you're Marlins Garrett, you're trying to get out of that hell hole, which is Cleveland, why not leverage whatever you have? And despite what the general manager is saying, how can you keep him if he's blatantly unhappy not being there?

I don't wanna be forced to trade a player because they say they're unhappy. The Marlins did it with Derek Jeter when Yellage said he was unhappy and they made a terrible trade. You cannot let players dictate whether you move them and taking an ad out in a paper and putting it in bold font

and saying I want to win a Super Bowl. It's not Cleveland to Canton. Give me a break. David, yours is a bygone time though. You're using old executive privilege there. The players have more power than that. Now, Miles Garrett can exert something over Cleveland. Like you can say all you want,

organization has to ignore that he's unhappy. Not once he goes public with it. That's not the world we live in anymore. The only power they have is what we give them. That's the fact. You can't, it's like saying, it's like blaming a player for signing a big contract. The owners decide to agree to the contract. David, does it change in a capped sport versus a non-capped sport though? Cause like if you're the Marlins, you can, or any other team in Major League

Baseball, you can have money wasting away on your bench, but just spend more money to make up for that. In a capped sport like in the NFL or the NBA, that's not the case. So when someone's taking up so much of your cap, are you not behoove to move them more than maybe in Major League Baseball? Because they're unhappy? If they're not going to play for you, if they're going to hold out, if they're not going to give you their max effort, we've seen literal examples of this over the last month in the NBA. Literal examples of players who stop playing because they want to be moved.

They stop playing well. Are we saying that Luka was feigning injury or that Joel LeBage? I'm saying Jimmy Butler. Jimmy Butler has chosen not to play in order to get Pat Riley to trade him? Is that the position? Yes, yes.

That's the position that he took. The metrics were obviously supported that he wasn't trying very hard. By taking fewer shots? Just all of it. Just all of it. Running slower. It was obvious. It could be obvious to even the human eye.

But what are you saying? If that power is not an irrelevant one, the ability to just quit on your team. I think most of sports would say that basically if you don't want to be here, we don't want you here. The way that those locker rooms unite around whatever it is that they're doing, he'd have turned on Jimmy Butler. Those are real friendships that have been fractured by what's happened over the last three weeks.

Those were real, hey, we shared those memories just a couple of years ago. Oh, you're going to throw those away? Those relationships are legitimately hurt. They don't want him around Do you think it's a coincidence that all the guaranteed portion of Miles Garrett's extension and 20 are finished and now he's into the unguaranteed part Do you think there's any part of this where he's trying to get guaranteed money? Yes, of course So what then what are you talking about? this is all just posturing by Miles Garrett that he's hiding under the I wanna win a Super Bowl. And you're gonna guarantee that you're gonna win

a Super Bowl because you're traded. I was thinking about this on nothing personal. What's the list for Andrew Berry? I'll take from you guys. What's the list of where he should be traded? Chiefs? I don't know which teams have the cap space for it, but it might not be a guarantee that wherever he is traded

wins a Super Bowl, but it is a guarantee if he stays in Cleveland, he will not. That's how bad the situation is there. There's a lot of bad, I happen to totally agree that the Cleveland Browns with Haslam and Watson are finished. Although Watson, I think is likely finished, but you can't Sean Carlos Stanton did this to us. He said, I want to win a world series. I want, I won't go to the Cardinals. I won't go to the Cardinals. I won't go to the Giants. I want to go to the Dodgers or Yankees. Went to the Yankees a long time ago.

No ring yet. It's a lot harder than you think. So we don't allow a player to just say, I want to win. No, but look, I don't know what will happen here. I don't know what the Cleveland Brown statements will be about what they do. I do assume that once this salvo has been fired he doesn't want is guaranteed money in cleveland he wants is guaranteed money

and he'll get it because he's at maximum leverage he's the most fearsome thing that there is and he's done the impossible he has made greg cody rise from the old days and write the old newspaper column in the miami herald dolphins should get miles garrick newspaper column in the Miami Herald, Dolphins should get Miles Garrett. It's a column Zaslow's been making fun of Greg Cody for 25 years. Greg Cody was called by Taylor and told that that was a good column. It had slipped his attention.

I had a feeling that was coming. I did not write the column because Taylor told me to I was writing something else when Christopher called me and says hey Taylor Says this and this and this I had not heard the Miles Garrett news yet Okay, when I was done what what the other thing I was doing and I found out that Miles Garrett was saying hey trade me I absolutely would have written that column without a prod from anybody else Wow because the money that no credit for Taylor and I No in this case No When when somebody like Miles Garrett says they want to be traded and I think there's a plausibility

That the Dolphins could be in the market that I'm gonna write that you're saying you didn't know we want it to be traded I know or did you not know I didn't at the time that he told me because I was writing something else I was concentrating on you D toward based on Chris and Taylor and will give them no credit for giving you the column that made you not write the previous column this is exhausting no I wrote the previous column. This is exhausting. No, I wrote the previous column, and then I went to Miles Garrett. The Gill family are proud owners of two dogs, Izzy and Dopey. Friends, it's JerBear, and you know that I'm obviously a bit of the romantic type, and Valentine's Day is coming up.

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