The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: The Celebrity Couple Everyone's Talking About (feat. Dianna Russini)

Episode Date: August 12, 2025

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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 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. This episode is presented by Draft Kings. Draft Kings, the crown is yours. Stugats, we're bringing out the big guns today. Yep. We know the big story in the sports world is Taylor Swift

is going to be on with her boyfriend. Yeah. And her boyfriend-in-law? Is that what we do? A brother? Like, how does that Future brother-in-law? I don't know. Yeah, like how does that go? Boyfriend's brother?

I mean. So we had to bring out the big guns. We started out the show today. We broke Stugats out of the box. Yeah. And we are also bringing on Diana Rusini. Senior NFL insider for the athletic. Hosts of Scoop City podcast, Diana,

how excited are you for Taylor Swift's appearance on the New Heights podcast? Is this taking over all of your times? It's consuming your thoughts today. I'm very excited to see them together. and to dissect every single word and piece of body language to try to figure out whether or not they're going to get engaged today tomorrow next week. However, I love Taylor Swift. I love Travis Kelsey. I'm not obsessed with their relationship, though. Like, I don't, I'm not, there are other celebrity couples. I feel like I stalk a little bit more. There's, they just seem great and happy,

and they're not very dramatic. So I think it's going to be great, though. I want to see how Jason talks to her like what what's their relationship like because Travis is one thing but to me I feel like Jason's just like this Philly guy now with the family looking at his brother like is this real life you know is this real right so that's that's what I'm looking for but that this is congrats to them this is this is going to be the most listen to watch podcast uh after this one today who are we stalking by the way celebrity couples yeah like who are you stalking yeah that's a good So I like to see what's going on with Justin Bieber and his wife a lot because they're always fighting, but then they write these, then he writes like love songs for her and then she's making all this money. Like, um, I like couples like J. F.K. Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, remember this is really dating me. I remember as a kid loving watching them, seeing the videos of them like fighting in the park. Um, apparently I'm not for love. I prefer couples.

trying to kill each other because that's what I relate to. Like, we fight a lot in this house. So I think those are the type of couples I gravitate towards. The lovey-dovey ones aren't really my style. Dana, how do you think things have changed in Justin and Haley's relationship? Because that power dynamic now seems like it's different than it was before, right? Because he was the star. She was just Stephen Baldwin's son or daughter for a little bit.

But he was like the big catch. And then she has like her cosmetic line or whatever. And then that sells for like a billion dollars. So now she's the breadwinner, and he's kind of falling off a little bit. He had to sell his catalog. So he made a ton of money, but still seems like she's the one that's kind of like in the power in the relationship now. Do you think that's impacted them? Yeah, that's good.

I'm 42 with two kids with a great job. Why do I know so much about this? The question for the team here should be, can you guys break down the Bengals defense the way that was just laid out in terms of the relationship between Justin and Haley, because, I mean, you didn't even take a beat. You had no notes. You know what I like about their relationship? It's very cat and mouse. Like, usually after you get married, the jig is up.

It's like, I've seen it all. We've done it all. I like you sometimes. I hate you most of the time. There's no chase. They seem like they're still chasing one another, which is probably what makes it work. But I don't think the money, like I get what you're saying about the power

dynamic because she's a billionaire now. because she sold that skincare makeup line. I don't think he cares about the money. I think she plays it right. I don't think she's one of these wives. I see this in football. So we can actually connect this. I think there's something to the hard to get relationships

when your partner is the center of attention at all times. Like they need something to keep their interest. And if you're just like another fan to them, I think that's when you get walked all over. So, you know, my husband, husband does it to me. He's so mean to me on purpose because he's like, oh, you know, a couple guys think you're cute. I don't think you're that cute. You know, he always keeps me in check that way. It works now. Yeah, you need it, right? Oh, me? It's funny. The first, my husband's met a lot of people in football. And, you know, if we have lunch or dinner with a coach or something, I always get the same thing afterwards, which is like your husband's great, which he is. He's a really kind person. But my God, you married an ass. And it's perfect for you. Like he, he knows how to just be mean to me to control it. And it drives me nuts. But, but obviously it's the medicine that, that I take. Diana, let's see if you can find

a football angle to this one. You mentioned having two kids. I want to paint a scenario for you because our host today, Jonathan Zaslow, has a 16-year-old who last night decided they had us fight with his parents. Oh, if this is how you're going to be, get out of here. And what the 16-year-old do, he got out of here. And he left and he got in his car. Zaslo's car. He probably went to Taco Bell. And then he didn't come back until three in the morning, Diana. That shows

1 a.m. I'm sorry, 1 a.m. 1 a.m. Which is still, what, 4 hours away? And Zaslo, neither Zaslo or his wife, White Tamara, were sitting on the couch waiting for his son when they got home. They were just in bed and just checked the Life 360 when they got up. So I'm just

curious how you would have played that scenario if one of your children just decide an up and go and take your car they they do do that they're four and two um they walk out the front door right to my right here all the time to tell me that they're leaving and i'm not kidding mike my old my four-year-old will walk to the end of the little path and go oh my god there's a ghost and run and run back in they're so they're like scared of shadows um you sure it's not a real ghost though because kids can see things i know that i mean but they talk a bit those boys talk a big game about wanting to leave here,

the same two boys who literally need me to wipe them. So they're not built to live out in the wild, and I don't think his 16-year-old is either, and I think that's the reality. I think we all, I was like, weren't you guys like that?

I always wanted to run away from my parents. But then when I realized I had no money or food or phone, I was like, okay, I'll stay. I didn't know how to cook. Where am I going to go? Well, hold on a second. Dina, your phone has beeped a few times. I heard four. What's the news?

What's the news? Sorry, I didn't turn that off. No, no, no, it's okay. Do you guys remember the Sala thing last year? Oh, yeah, do we? Yes. That was awful. Right.

What happened here? Anything? Break it right here. Let us know. No, these are just group chats of people. Pick up cauliflower for dinner. You got to style like those group chats. What's your favorite group chat these days?

What's the group chat conversation? Like, what's your favorite chat that you have these days? I would say the Scoop City group chat is pretty good because it's sometimes I wish I could take the Scoop City podcast group chat and put that on the show because everyone is just exactly who they are talking about football. Like those are the realest opinions and thoughts and ideas. I'd say my other most, my most popular one, the one that goes off the most is between Mike Silver, Jeff Darlington, and I.

That one's hot. We like to do this thing. Jeff Darlington, the golf and tennis guy? Dude, right? Who is he now? He went from like Mr. football to now if there's anything big at the highest level with the richest people, Jeff's on my screen.

Yeah, he got whiter. He is the whitest person I know, which is why he fits so perfectly in those environments and he's so good at them. And he loves it. I text them constantly while he's at these events like, gosh, I am so bored watching you right now. How are you doing this? And he's like, oh, my gosh, I met this while I'm doing this.

But yeah, we do this thing over our group chat where we like to play PR people, meaning whatever situation is going on in football, sports, world life, Hollywood celebrities of, okay, they made this mistake. How would you react to it? And we do it constantly of, you know, let's try to think of something right now. What's out there right now that's getting a lot of attention that you're like, Jadour Sanders after the game confronting Tony Grosy. Legendary Tony Grosy.

Good. Good. Okay. So usually the way it would go is someone would send the clip and be like, okay, you're doing what next if you're Tony? You're doing what next if you're Cleveland? I actually think Tony did a good job, right? Tony just came. I think he talked about it, right?

Where he just was like, hey, I went up to him and we talked it out. And those situations are so weird when you have conflict with the player and people can see it because they don't really understand what's going on. And I think Tony tried to paint a picture of it. I was just glad that happened because the only thing that was cool, or at least that I thought was cool in Cleveland up to up into this point was Mary Kay Cabot at that speech at the Hall of Fame with her absolute zinger to Bill Belichick. Do you guys hear that? Yeah. I didn't know Mary had that in her. Like that was really, didn't you think that was well, Stu, did you hear it? I did not hear it, no.

Okay, so Mary Kekab is like the veteran beat reporter of the Cleveland Browns, right? So she's very good, very good. She's all Cleveland all the time. So she's accepting her Hall of Fame award at the Hall of Fame in Canton as I think she was like sports writer, you know, whatever you get inducted, something I obviously have, will never have because I don't even know what it's called. So she was up there just talking about how when she was a young reporter, you know, Bill would call her, Belichick. and, you know, kind of cuss her out and get, go, you know, basically just, he was really hard on her. And her response, so it was like, you know, I sure hope you talk to the men like this, you know. So she said, fast forward a few years later, she, you know, she's a 28-year-old reporter covering the Browns,

and she realized that the problem with her and Bill Belichick had nothing to do with the fact that she was a woman. It had to do with the fact that he couldn't connect to her because she was 28. She was too old. that's very good by the way it's the bill none award is what you were looking for thanks is that i know i should know that as a journalist that works at the athletic which is owned by the new york times you should know diana stew looked that up all by himself i did nobody fed him that i had no idea uh i figured he would know so thank you for googling that for me diana what what's the last time you know like tony grosey there what's the last time you've been

confront. I mean, obviously, you know, everyone remembers the Aaron Rogers thing, but Aaron Rodgers didn't actually confront you face to face. Like, when's the last, unless I don't know about it. I tried to talk to Aaron at Jets. I asked for some time with him, actually. And he had no interest. He walked away for me. Mm-hmm. That happened a lot. Like, when's the last time I had a conflict with the player and, like, we had to talk about it? Yeah. Debo Samuel, who was amazing afterwards. I, that might be the scariest name to do a face-to-face with Debo. Diana, Debo wants to talk.

I'm not afraid of confrontation, which I think you guys know that about me. So I'm okay having those. I've had more with coaches, right? Because most of them are paranoid and annoyed, if anything gets out. You guys remember, I think it was two years ago or a year ago,

I was at the, I think I talked about it on the show, where I was at the senior bowl and at the time, Mike Vribal had he didn't have a job. He had gotten fired from the Titans. And I talked to a few people around the league general managers who were making decisions for head coaches about the hiring process, what people look for.

And I had a few people say that, like, Mike can be very intimidating in these meetings, and he's big. Like, he's a huge human being. And he's intimidating. Everything about him is intimidating. And so I think the headline the next day, I got aggregated, you know, how much we love that, that I called him fat or that I said Mike Vrable was too big to get a job.

It was like, I think the New York Post ran with it. It was terrible. And so he called me. And that was not great. That was a hard one because I didn't, it wasn't my fault, right? But I had to say sorry, even though it was like a head coach doesn't want to hear that you were aggregated, right? They're just like, figure it out.

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Daddy says you're doing a live show on the draft. Is it Channel 7? Stugats. Those girls on eyewitness news? They look good. They're mothers. They look good, though. This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats.

Diana, most interesting thing in preseason week number one was what? How different the league feels about Shador Sanders' performance compared to the rest of us. Funny. Chase, my colleague, on Skisker. Cube City, quarterback 14 years, studies film like a lunatic. He's like a Norlofski. Loves it. Like, just consumes this stuff. And he was on the show with us in today's episode talking about it. And he just really liked the things that he was doing. Yet when I talk to people around the league, I don't get as much enthusiasm about what they saw from Shador

playing the actual position, just things that he still has to get better at, which is fine for a fifth round pick, a rookie quarterback. But I think it may have been heightened a bit just because I think there's a really big group of people that like Chodor, they want to see him show the world that he deserves to be the starting quarterback in Cleveland, deserves to beat out Joe Flacco. But a lot of people shared with me just, you know, he has a good arm, he's got great poise, good plays with his legs, but just, you know, poor ball security in the pocket. Just a couple of those things.

So I want to see if this ever levels out. That's what I want to see on Saturday when they play the Eagles. The Browns are playing at the link at one to just see if Shador takes this next step or if everyone sees the way I think people that are studying this stuff see it. How much of that reaction from people around the league is the same guys who passed on them through four rounds? Which was everyone. Right. Just digging in on their initial opinion.

No, no. including the browns by the way it's funny when i was calling around i kept that in mind um of course i checked it when people that i knew were or in on chador will call it in meaning they needed a quarterback but um i kept it pretty broad i and i asked a lot of people on purpose because i wasn't sure from watching myself i based on social media and the nike at i'm like i guess it was great And then, you know, I think there's, I think they have a really interesting situation there in Cleveland. I don't think it's going to be easy waters to navigate because there's going to be this pressure to put him out there because he's electric, because he's got this energy about him, he's got this following. But I don't necessarily believe that always means that that's the best choice.

So I think unless he, if he takes some big step here coming up in this game, then I could see them maybe considering it. But for right now, from what I understand and from talking to enough people around the league, I think Shador Sanders stays, you know, on the depth chart in the spot he's in right now. I don't foresee him moving up anywhere. Why do you hate J.J. McCarthy? Oh, my gosh. You hate J.J. McCarthy?

What's your problem with J.J.? So I'm going to Minnesota tonight. I can't wait. I feel like I'm going to land at the airport and people are going to throw eggs in my face. By the way, leave it to me to fight with the nicest fan base in America. Like, of course.

Yes. Is that a known thing that Viking fans are the nicest fan base? I didn't know that. Oh, my God. They're like the people from Minnesota. Very nice. Unbelievable.

Like, even the staff in, like, you talk about fighting, it's impossible to fight with people with the coaching staff and with the PR people there. it's like a Minnesota nice thing. Obviously, East Coast people were a little bit more direct. We'll scream in your face.

We'll love you and hug you later. But we share how we feel. Minnesota just does, I don't, I think they feel the same rage we feel, but they just don't say it. But it's part of the reason why I love going to Minnesota is because I'm like, wow. So this is a world where people are kind. So, yeah, in the off season, there was, I think I got on their bad. because there was a time where Minnesota was having conversations about bringing Aaron Rogers. And I made the mistake of doing Dan Patrick's show.

That wasn't the mistake. I love Dan. It was Dan set me up on purpose and said, all right, take a guess right now. If you had to guess, Aaron Rogers will play where? This is just a guess. And as a reporter, when you guess, people think that's you saying that's what's going to happen. And I, like, took a beat and I said, Dan, I think that Aaron Rogers will somehow wind up in Minnesota. That's a report. Hater.

Why do you hate Judge McArthur? Hellline. Rossini says, Rogers. That's a bad job by Dan Patrick, by the way. Oh, I texted his people. I was like, never again. No more guessing questions. No, and I do really enjoy that show.

And he asks questions like you do, Stu, just things that are hard and I'm never going to come out on top. But I enjoy the challenge because even this show, I will get aggregated from this afterwards, right? It'll be like, Rossini hates Minnesota. She thinks Shador Sanders should be cut. Like, whatever. It'll happen. Send them to me afterwards. Can't wait.

Love my job. So I think what happened, I think Minnesota Viking fans took that as me going, the Vikings are out on JJ. Whereas I was trying to say, look, this team is built to win a Super Bowl. This is a young quarterback coming off a significant injury who's essentially in his rookie season now. Why not take a shot at Aaron Rogers? Sounds like you hate him. Yeah. I can't wait to see him because, you know, he sees it.

Like, what am I going to say? Like, hi. I have nothing to apologize for. You were doing your job. That's it. Diana, it seems as though... What if he yelled? What if he just comes out to me?

What if this is the conflict? Like, he's just... I don't know what a man would do to a female. Like, I don't think he's going to, like, swing at me, but what would be funny? It's unlikely he'll swing at him. It'd be a story if he did. Yeah.

It would be. What would be funny? If he, like, started dancing, like a dance routine, I'm just trying to find something funny that he could do. Something just, like, bizarre. Diana, it would seem as, So the NFL media is more locked into Shador than the number one pick. Usually the number one pick making his debut at that position, gets the NFL network treatment.

It's kind of quiet around Cameron Ward. And I know- You're calling it Cameron? You're in on Cameron? Well, one of my theories there is that there was already a cam that played quarterback relatively recently. And he's not at the point in his career where he can just go cam and everybody knows what you're talking about. So for now he's Cameron? He's got to earn being the universal cam.

That's a long way to go for Cameron Ward. And he very clearly wants to be called Cameron. So I'm going to try my best to adhere to it. Made some nice throws. I know from being down here knowing how he can change a program and the type of leader that he is. And I'm wondering if there's any chatter around Titans camp that they may have gotten a really, really good one. Maybe a rat battle. You're so right.

He owns the title of least talked about quarterback, but that doesn't mean he's not doing great things. I can tell you Tennessee is really happy with where he's at in terms of his development and this transition period where, you know, this is so important for these quarterbacks to get adjusted to the NFL. I was in Denver two weeks ago with Bo Nix and we were talking about how different it is in year two. And it's just so funny, you know, it's just like anything. When you look, think about when we all got our jobs where we're at now, that first year you thought you knew what you're doing but you had no idea like when you look back after the second year um so i think there's a lot of just learning absorbing and absorbing large amounts

um i do think they have a great head coach for that anytime i've asked players about what his coaching style is i always hear teacher with callahan like he's really good with with quarterback specifically um so i think he's in good hands from that perspective you know i just don't I don't know how the rest of this roster is going to look and shake out. But in terms of his development, I've heard nothing but great things. It's just we're not talking about him enough because there's just, there's nothing. There's no drama. This is how we started this conversation.

Like the most interesting relationships, the most interested things are the ones that have the drama. And there's just, there's no drama in Tennessee, which is, I can tell you, they love it this way. I think there's so much attention around Chador Sanders, Mike, that there's none being given to Cameron Ward. And I think that kind of helps them out. The metrics bear out. Let's play the game that I play with Silver and Darlington. How would you help the situation in Tennessee so we start paying attention to camp? Oh, I think his play will make people pay attention.

No one's going to give them a snowball chance in hell week one. Well, and because Shadur is not going to start week one. They brought in Flacco. It's a pretty common knowledge of Flacco is going to start. Do you think Shador will start this year? I think at some point, yeah, because they're going to be bad and people are going to be clamoring for it. And at that point, you need to see what the kids got. But I don't know if he plays before Dylan Gabriel, but I think he plays.

Historically, we've all seen the jerseys. Chances are all four of them are getting in at one point. Kenny Pickett that's going to get a run too. But I think Cameron Ward's play is going to dictate the narrative. And I think it sets up nicely. People are underestimating them. They play in a division that if they make slight augmentations and improvements, they can make a run inside of that division.

Listen to you. If he has a good performance week one against, we all acknowledge, Denver's a loaded team this year. has a good defense. If he looks the part, then people are going to talk about him. It's a weird place that no one's talking about a Heisman Trophy finalist that was a number one overall draft pick. But I'm sure he's actually reveling in that.

I still think Tennessee has been ignored because they've lacked identity over the last few years, right? At one point, they were these tough, relentless, smart players. Derek Henry was the star. Obviously, they were in the AOC championship game when Ryan Tannahill was there. but that feels like a decade ago it wasn't it was what five six years ago now um but i think this is an opportunity for tennessee to get back on the map because there's a reason we're not paying attention because we're not really sure what they are we're and i think that that to me has to be

the biggest um priority for that team is who are the Tennessee Titans of 2025 and and it's got to be more than just the fact that we've got the number one overall pick it's it's just got to be better than that. Essentially, the youth and Texans are going to be good this year. They're going to be very good. Like, C.J. Stroud is not going to look the way he did last year, not from what I'm hearing. I've heard he's had a great camp.

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Are you ever going to go back to ESPN? People think it's so weird you're a writer now. All those years on TV? All those years. And now you're right? Who reads that? Stugats. Why did you take a job at the Atlantic?

Mom, I work at the athletic. What? You're on YouTube? This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats. Diana, I saw something on the TV screens here that was kind of jarring. It was Jeff Saturday saying, quote, I love what the Jets are doing. And so question number one here, as we look at the tighten up guy with the flag trying to get that thing right. Just couldn't figure out this flag.

You tried it four different ways. Still, now it's backwards, dude. It's just like, you got this man. There we go. You guys take commercials? No. No, we just have picture and picture. We're very ADD around here.

Can't really focus. So A, Diana, what are the Jets doing? Because I only know about the Detroit Lions. And secondly, should Stugats be excited? No. Because Jeff Saturday said this. I think this is camp and everyone's excited because there's been a change there. And I can tell you that's, that is true, right?

This is different than the Sala years. Just from an accountability standpoint, that's what, Aaron Glenn, you know, we just talked about the Titans about what they are. Aaron Glenn is not struggling in the space of what the heck the Jets are going to be. They know what that is already. They've set that standard, which I think is a good start for them. This is going to be Justin Fields, though. It's going to come down to that.

And it's been up and down. It's from what I'm hearing, it's, you know, a couple good days and then just not great at all. And, you know, look, I don't think this is going to be some tremendous year for New York Jets, no way. But I do love the fact that this feels like this could be a good building block towards something in the future. You know, they have players. Like, it's not that they lack talent.

You said love. So did Jeff Saturday. So apparently people love the Jets this year. No, but the problem is every three years, the Jets hire a new head coach and they're headed in the right direction. Every three years, the Jets, no one has been headed in the right direction more so over NFL history than New York Jets. Why? Because those are the things you say when you get a new head coach who gave up 45 points as a coordinator for the Lions. Well, the only thing I don't

love about how Aaron Glenn is doing things is whenever I've covered Detroit, you know, it's always he's such a good hands-on coach. He knows the defense so well. His ability to coach is his strength, right? And I'm not looking past that. I'm highlighting it. But he's not going to be doing that as the head coach from what I understand. Yes, he's the head coach, but that special sauce that he has, I don't know if he's going to be able to continue doing that the way we saw him do it in Detroit and what's made him so good. Now, in the same regard, I have heard optimistic things coming out of Florin Park already,

but I don't know, still I'm with you. It's so hard this time of year to really figure out. Justin Fields is their quarterback. How do they plan on using Justin Fields? You know, it's so funny, Stu, I'm so glad you said that because I am a sucker for that, too. Sometimes I forget what the reality is, right? Because I get excited about pieces or things I'm hearing or a couple good plays I'll watch. And then it's like, wait, wait, wait, what are we talking about here?

Like, Joe Flacco's the starting quarterback in Cleveland and we think they're going to be good. You know, like, once you stop for a second and take a breath and go, okay, what is the realistic situation? But Diana, they brought in Justin Fields because he's reputed to be one of those guys that, for whatever reason, because of the sobs that he's been at before, I assume, and the situation that he was in with Russell Wilson in the same quarterback room is this guy didn't get a real extended shot at the position. But I'm curious as to how they're going to use him, because oftentimes when guys that are that mobile, and he is a special kind of athlete, I think he had the second greatest rushing yard total ever at the position. Sometimes they try to prove to the doubters that they can be passers. Justin Fields is at the point in his career where he's got to lean into his elite skill set, and that's being a runner. Now that's a dangerous position for a quarterback.

You take a pounding. But is he of the mindset that he's going to do what helps his team win? Right now we have very little evidence that's with his arm. We have a lot of evidence that the best shot that they have is with his feet. Yep. And it just made me think because you're talking about that whenever you talk about a guy that's going to run a lot, you immediately think, are who's going to be, who's the backup? Right.

Because, you know, we'll run it's Tyrae Taylor, right? Who can do a good job running the offense. And I feel like he's been around for 900 years. But, yeah, of course they're going to tap into that. I'm curious to see what this coaching staff is going to do with him. You know, let's go back to Pittsburgh. There was a very strong vibe that Justin was the better quarterback over Russell Wilson in camp. I remember being in Pittsburgh and I felt something weird going on there,

where it felt like half the team wanted Justin, the other half wanted Russ. Obviously, Mike Tomlin went with what he wanted, which was Russell. But there were things that he was doing that Justin was doing well. And not to get too introspective on it, but I wonder how much of that experience

has affected him now being the starter because I know that that was hard for him. When he did the work, he was playing very well in Pittsburgh. And his journey's been hard. It hasn't exactly been. been blockbuster as we know. So I'm hoping to see just like a tough guy that wants to prove to the world that Chicago should have never gave up on him. That like that's what I want to see.

I'm hoping to see Tyrod Taylor. If we're saying Tyrod Taylor. What do you mean? We have a chance. Okay. What if? All right, let's just say it's October. Right. First week of October. Yeah. And it's obvious the quarterback's situation is not good. How would you feel about Kirk Cousins coming to New York? What's my record? Well, if the quarterback situation is not good, you have a shit record. Well, that's not always the case. Remember that time when a quarterback situation was bad and we were a good team? It's not always the case.

It's not always the case. Mike Tomlin makes it to the playoffs in that situation. Right. Yes. Mason Rudolph. I mean, what's the matter with you? Say sorry. What if Derek Carr comes out of retirement? Would you take that?

Is that a thing? No. Okay. That's not a thing. I mean, maybe. But I have heard Kirk Cousins. recently, people are looking at Matthew Safford's health. This is a big contract.

How difficult is that going to be to move? Because Kirk Cousins is always the first guy that people go to as if someone needs a quarterback and you just did it, Kirk Cousins is going to be the one that's available. He's the most, we'll call it available because we know he doesn't want to be there. Right, but it's a huge contract. How does it get moved? What does it look like? It's the New York Jets willing to take on that salary that Arthur Bloss.

in Atlanta does not want to pay. And usually when these trades happen, there's usually some type of an agreement. I'll take on 70% of it and, you know, you take 30 and whatever the math is. From what I understand that the teams that have called just to poke around, the Falcons are like, come up big and we'll talk. But until a team does that and desperate teams tend to do that. So it would come down to how desperate the Jets would be and what they'd be willing to spend and if they even have the ability to do it in order to make.

make a move like that. But let's say you do do that and you make all that happen. I mean, do you feel good that Kirk Cousins at this point in his life could give the Jets a chance? I would feel good about it. I would think the only, the reason I asked the record is the Jets would only do that if they felt like they had a chance to make it to the playoffs, right? Otherwise, why would you do that? There'd be no reason. But if we were flirting with a playoff spot and we got Kirk Cousins halfway through the season, yeah, I'd feel pretty good about my And that's also a situation if you're flirting with a playoff spot, that means your quarterback position has been performing pretty well.

I mean, it stands to reason, unless you're Mike Tomlin. I think you guys are forgetting Trent Dilfer, Brad Johnson. There have been the bad quarterbacks who have made it to a Super Bowl and bad quarterbacks who have won a Super Bowl. Onloaded teams, though. A team, has it ever happened for a team that people pick to finish bottom of the division? Stu, it's, it's unbelievable. You really can't get, you can't get a win here with this team.

And I know how excited you were when Aaron joined. Like, I remember being on the show two years ago. Yeah. You weren't grainy. All right. Let's not get crazy. I was pretty excited. I was.

I mean. So was I. Yes. Because the idea that was perfect. And I thought they did the right thing. I still say they did the right thing back. I mean, obviously they did not based on what we saw. But we did not know he was going to get hurt.

Right. The injury just. no they did the right thing i mean we're playing the result and i love to do that but they did the right thing at the time aaron rogers was available and he wanted to be a new york jet like yeah my foot has fallen asleep three times during this interview i don't know what that means but it's a second it's a second very clear message that she doesn't want to be here for the whole segment just shake it out never been asked for a commercial break before you guys think commercials i just forgot i forgot i'm not wearing dress pants so sorry i'm wearing just like gym shorts

have you noticed there's like a trend right now it could have been worse it could have been worse of the outro um there's like a trend right now with with men on tv where like i see dan and adam like it's like cool to just go on tv like that like why like i i come on the show a lot i try i always have lipstick on or i brush my hair because i don't know i i'm at work but i feel like the cool thing now is to like be sloppy is that the cool thing i've been doing it for decades i feel like i'm going to start doing the show like this yeah just like that once a week like let's talk ball boys what do we got i like it diana are we diana are we watching the end of matthew stafford's career right now yeah yes because of his age i don't think it's because the injury is going to be the i mean look he's been dealing with back it's sorry it's very hard to be sloppy someone just got a They get in the pins and needles now. Where are we on the foot sleep phase?

You gave the foot away for free. Somebody just screen grabbed. I hope you know. Is that an age? Like, where did this? Like, why am I, why my leg? Is this bad circulation? I mean, it depends on how you sit.

But yes, it's just largely bad circulation. Eventually, you got to get some blood flow into the puppies. I used to get this when I was pregnant. Oh, God. Whoa. Wow. Revelation? Revelation, mark it down.

Wow. Possible? Do we need to take a test? Do we need a commercial break? Deep in thought. Deep in thought. Huh? No.

Okay. No? Maybe? You sure? Maybe. Possibly. If you have to think that hard. I like the feeling when something falls asleep.

She might be pregnant, Chris. That's what we're doing right now. Are you? Hmm. She hasn't felt this since she was pregnant and she's feeling it again. One last football question before you go. She's doing that. If there is reason for doubt in Detroit, it's because I'm

Detroit, it's because they lost their two coordinators to be head coaches elsewhere. It's been theorized that Dan Campbell is exactly where he wants because he likes being underestimated and he's a lot smarter when it comes to these things than people give them credit for. What are you doing? You know I'm the Detroit Lions expert in all of sports.

Why are we even asking Diana this question? Hold on. We have imaging. I was thinking the same thing. Hold on. We have imaging. That's it. That's a line. Thank you, Diana. Although I was kind of bummed out, like Honolulu Blue is not something I have full,

like the closet full of. But I wore this one today, and I get into the office, and Billy over there wears a better shade of blue. He's got the UCLA blue over there, and I'm just like, come on, man, know what we're doing here. All right, so real quick with our Detroit Lions Minute,

to answer your question there, Mike, yes, the coordinator thing is a problem. This week against the dolphins actually might be interested because they're testing their tough. against the Dolphins. So they're trying to figure out if their issues in camp are real or fake

and they're trying to test it against the dolphins. Pretty sure they're going to be fake. Also, did you know that Jared Goff compared Aidan Hutchinson to Aaron Donald? Oh! I'm madden if you get a full year of Aaron Donald. And, Diana, my question to you is, I already subscribe to the Detroit Free Press.

I did not subscribe yet to the Detroit News. Their stories seem pretty similar. Do you subscribe to every freaking news? How do you do this? So I work for a newspaper? It's the New York Times. So I love reading our people. We have the best reporter.

So, Dan, you subscribe to the athletic, right? Yeah, sure. Duh. Especially now after the Pablo announcement. Guys, you better. Everyone here. As a company, we do. We do.

Of your subscription. And if you don't, I'll give you a secret password that you can use. So, yeah, no, it's so funny to say that. I'm sure you guys have those things on your phone where you can see like all the times your thing get your credit card charges. And I have a million different newspapers. Like there has to be a better way to do this because I'm the same way you are. I love to consume as much as I can. So I'm probably spending thousands of dollars a month on just reading every newspaper. Yeah, that's not worth it. You can go ahead and cancel your two

Detroit newspaper subscriptions because I got that whole beat covered for the entire country. All right? Why don't we do this? Why don't you and I just store a text exchange and just give me everything I need to know. So just save me some time. Plus, I'm busy. So I don't, I really don't have all. Good. Honolulu Blue Chat. Starting.

Let's do it. I'm in. Great job, Diana. Scoop City podcast. Thanks for hanging out with us. I will see you guys at the start of the season. I'll look forward to it. Good luck with the pregnancy test.

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