The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: The Elblow Room

Episode Date: January 8, 2024

Bills fans took over the Elbo Room in Fort Lauderdale, a place that convinced Stugotz to move to South Florida, and he shares some stories from back in the day. Also, can Jerry Jones ever NOT be Jerry Jones? Then, we listen to Stugotz sharing football takes while getting mashed by Genesis last night. How's your uncle? Plus, Jameis Winston is one of the great physical comedians of our time, the Saints run it up, the Dolphins got the Josh Allen game they wanted, and Taylor gives us an update on the Roy Williams story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. Welcome to the big suite presented by Giraffe King. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Levitard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries, that if they're just there, that hasn't happened to you guys.

I've done it. And now, here's the marching man to nowhere, that face, and the habitual liar. Presented by DraftKings' Fantasy Sports, check out what DraftKings has to offer this season with Code Dan, because life's more fun when you're in on the action. DraftKings, the crown is yours. Gambling problem, call 100 Gambling, Agent, eligibility, restrictions, apply for your prohobudancy, DraftKings.com for details. We've lost Chris Cody who has gone into the bathroom to sob because the Codies are trying

to hide. How much of a Homer family they are. His mother, Greg Cody's wife wife has been trying to warn them all season that it's Sam old dolphins. Sam old dolphins. One of the things that happened in town this week's together. I said, I don't know what the game last night. I could not tell because the sound was not up in here. I could not tell if the reports were true from before the game that the bills would have as many fans there as the dolphins would. But they came down here and they wrecked Fort Lauderdale.

They were ready to stay an extra week in the event that the bills lost and they had to play again. I think they wanted to. I mean, it would have been a nice week of fun. Back to back home field advantages. And it would have been great fun at the elbow room. Can you explain to Jessica, because I don't know how much Fort Lauderdale

Jessica has done? Can you explain to Jessica your thoughts about the elbow room? Ah, the elbow room. So the elbow room, and when I was, you know, a bit younger, we used to call it the elbow room, but it's at the elbowbow of a bunch of bars. A strip of bars.

It could be either one in the bathroom. It could be either one. Whichever way you want to go with that. But it is at the corner of the Elbow, a strip of bars on Fort Lauderdale Beach. And I am telling you, when I came down here, the first time I came down to visit my roommate from college, that is what sold me on wanting to move to South Florida,

the scene at the Elbow Room, okay? And then all the bars down that strip of beach. It was so fun, so fantastic, but now Buffalo was taken it over. I had no idea the Elbow Room was still doing it. Did you? I had no idea. Yeah, it's dirty.

At Buffalo, you can have it. I mean, it's dirty. The elbow room is a one the walls are sticky. Wonderful. Yes. Yeah, but that's part of its charm. I mean, at least it was back then. Put it on the pole at Levitade show is part of the charm of anything establishment that the walls are sticky. Mike, you've been on that deck, right? Overlooking the beach. It's fantastic. What was your nickname? It's yellow blowroom. The spot is exceptional. It's right off the beach. It's extraordinary real estate. It's been there since like Frankie Avalon was spring breaking down here. It's been there forever. I don't know. How about how about the moon there? I can't still be there. That can, how would it come? No, it was called Beach Place, right?

And they had howled the moon and all these other places. I love it. I'm doing piano. Oh, how are doing piano? How are doing piano is doing now as a business? It can be doable. The piano bar cannot be done. I'm in a big year, I'm telling you.

Yeah, I mean, I mean, as fun as hearing piano man being played seven times a night as. I think I've told the story before of the elbow room. I will tell it again here involving a wild day of drinking with a variety of Miami dolphins. Larry Izzo and Zach Thomas decide after a whole lot of drinking to run from the elbow room, they say they've got a bet, a competition. Who can get out swimming to that buoy faster? That buoy wade a classic elbow room game. Way out there. Who can get out there faster? And Larry Azor jumps in and quits and Zach Thomas is way too willful,

so, but he's pretty exhausted by the time he gets to the buoy. And he has not accounted for the fact because he was going to rest on the buoy that when you get to the buoy, and he has not accounted for the fact, because he was gonna rest on the buoy, that when you get to the buoy, it's super slippery, because it's covered in all sorts of crud from the sea. And now he's drowning. You laugh, but now he's drowning. Now he's exhausted and drowning.

I'm also laughing. Am I reading this correctly? The elbow room opened in 1939? Yes. And hasn't been cleaned since. That's why the walls are sticky. We're going to celebrate. We should do a live remote.

Oh, we should. We should come out of retirement to do a live remote, 2039. We did do a watch party there once. The 100-year anniversary. Yes, the 100-year anniversary. We did a watch party there for week one of the NFL season and Tom Brady had like seven touchdown passes. You have me alive at 16 years.

Well, I have us working and coming out of retirement to do one last show at the Elba Room. I might skip that. I doubt they serve anything gluten free there. Coke is gluten free. You won't be hungry. I will tell you by the way that either a Navy, a Navy seal or a lifeguard,

it immediately jumped into the water and rescued Zach Thomas. That is how he didn't drown out there. But a lot of bad decisions in general have been made at the Elbow Room. Those are the only kinds of decisions. You know what, you're absolutely right. Are there any other kind is the right question to ask there? I still got- I'm on a thread where someone is genuinely asking is cocaine

gluten free? I'm glad that they're watching out for their own health. Like, is there gluten in this cocaine? Out of curiosity, what does it say? Put it on the poll at Levittar Show. Does cocaine have gluten. Jeremy texted me and said the elbow room is the scariest place for a lot of Dale. And that includes I-95. Depends on what it's cut with. Oh really? There's like King Arthur's flower in there.

Stugat's mentioned what Jerry Jones said and I want to get the quote exact because you don't see this very often publicly when you have power dynamics. Owners, most sports owners who aren't Jerry Jones, are vastly less public and vastly more careful with their commentary. Jerry Jones, I think, has to be considered the most vocal and available owner in sports, correct? Yes. It's got to be the most vocal and accessible.

It does a weekly show on local radio still. It's him, Mark Cuban. And when he was asked about the future of McCarthy, this is the direct quote. We will see how each game goes in the playoffs, which is an announcement that Mike McCarthy, this week, you're coaching for your job. Yeah.

That's not the most common of things, but it does allow us to play the carousel music. It's, you would agree that it's not the most common of things. For the owner of a team, that's a to see, that just won the NFC East. No, that's not the most common of things. For the owner of a team, that's a 2C that just won the NFC East. No, that's not common. But it's Mike McCarthy, and it's Jerry Jones. And Jerry's impatient.

And Jerry wants to win a Super Bowl without Jimmy Johnson before he passes away. And so he'll do whatever he has to do, Dan. The other thing is, there are two coaches lurking just out there. Bella check. Jim Harbaugh. I check, Jim Harbaugh. Jim Harbaugh's last act as college coach

may be to win the national championship and then flee the sport after telling everybody that his solution to college football is take everyone who's making a lot of money off of college football now and Cut their salaries including himself by five or 10 percent You can't do this without grabbing onto the microphones to got your abs don't work. Well, there's a poll, you know Steered of the mind Billy's is still broken it's damn thing Billy's is still broken. It's a damn thing.

That's awesome. You guys have a lot of examples of owners or just people in power doing this, this aggressively to their coach because I would say that even as an NFL coach who understands that his weekly pressures are obvious to everybody and that he's judge game by game and a lot of things go into those games and he's judged by the results of those games. It feels like that's unnecessary from Jerry Jones to do. It seems like that can be so without Jerry Jones having to remind everybody, I'm in power, I'm watching and if this man doesn't succeed in the next game, I will have my fall guy even though I'm the power, I'm watching, and if this man doesn't succeed in the next game,

I will have my fall guy, even though I'm the one who constructed everything. I feel like Steinbranger did a bit of that when he on the Yankees, right? They did a lot of that. Yeah, it was really important. But he was all, how would you like to work for that? I guess what I'm asking you, how would you, it seems like this, this, this is why Jerry and Jimmy had the problems that they did. Like Jerry wanted to be this and Jimmy wasn't going to be amasculated like this all the time.

And I don't know that Belicec can work for this person. Well, I don't think Belicec would take the job if Jerry's going to act like this. But what do you mean if Jerry's going to act like this. But when you mean if Jerry's gonna act like this, he would say Jerry, if you're gonna do any of this stuff, he can't insure himself of that, but he has to tell Jerry on the front end, I'm not coming here if you're gonna be like this. If you're gonna be Jerry, yes.

Like let me be Bill, you hired me to be Bill Balochack. But you understand what I'm saying there, though, right? You're understanding that you're saying that if Balochack calls Jerry Jones, Jerry Jones would want to make that change especially after If they lose in the next game. On Belichick's terms and Belichick would have the leverage and because if he's coming off a playoff loss again with Mike McCarthy Then Belichick has to say hey, I'm the guy that can win you the Super Bowl I've won six of them, but you need to shut up if you want me to come there

You think that's a possible thing if Jerry's desperate enough to win a Super Bowl, does anyone listening to the sound of my voice think it's a possible thing to tell Jerry Jones to not be Jerry Jones? They hire Parcell, didn't they? That seems like a bad idea. Seasons greetings everybody. It is Mike Ryan here to talk to you about Miller Lite, but also here to talk to you about this festive season and how Miller time can make holiday time even better. I love this winter weather. It's great excuse to go outside and toast some wonderful memories with some friends. Why don't you do that with an ice cold Miller Lite in your hand and in some parts of the country. You don't need a coosy.

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Don Lebert Hard. Oh, I think Larry Fitzgerald's on the green right there. Stulgats. That's Alfonso Rivera. Oh, no! How do you think that Larry Fitzgerald has touched the sun? The sun! The sun! Oh, to be fair. To be fair.

All right, what a man. Alfonso Rivera has a great ass. This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats. Stugats, will you please go outside and get with Genesis so that we can get your many top five lists. Genesis has to go home. It's late. Me too.

It's been tiring for her. She works on a lot of bodies around here and we will get... Stugots has a number of top five lists that he is ready to get to. This is going to hurt him, by the way. He doesn't get to and this is going to hurt him by the way he doesn't know how much this is going to hurt because Stugots has not been taking care of himself anyway in any way what should we order what can we tell Genesis to like really let her know the Hamies the Hamies are an absolute brutality the Hamies yeah give him the good stuff

give him the good stuff no no the good stuff okay there she grabs her ankle and then like kind of spins it around with her foot inside of like the deepest part of your hamstring, how do people survive that? The calves, the calves are pretty tough too when she goes digging through the calves. But Stu Gotts is putting his headsets on and he's going to give us a bunch of top five lists. And we're getting all the good stuff that we usually go to God Bless Football. God Bless Football is a monster. Billion's Stuurgots are going to be right back here in the

morning, breaking down football at an absurd hour. He's going to give us the good stuff right now though. He's got the top five coaches with the most pressure on him in the playoff. He can hear him breathing. So I think he's Mike's eye. Yeah. Oh my God. All right, Sturgots. Oh, there's a double. I mean, use your hands. The double hammy. Oh, but Barrios didn't get there. Will they go for it?

Will they go for it? Fourth and short is on 23. Just hold on, Stegots. We'll get back to you. Hold on. Hold on, Stegots. We're going to get right back to you. We will, in fact, just leave your microphone on, but we will get back to you. He won't go for it on his own 23.

Willie? I predict a punt. Billy, what does Barry us have now? Has he gotten over 13 and a half yards? He's at nine right now. Yeah. Almost got that. That's how you got to extend.

Oh, they are. Wow, they're putting a little fake, little fake speed. No, he just go for it. If they were going to go for it, I run some sort of funky play. I wonder what the new analytics say. The new analytics couldn't say that you go for that from your own 23, right?

Right. It's less than a yard, great less than a yard. I think it is. Not when you're going for the tie. Let me check the punt or go Twitter. All right, here's this, a good camera angle on Stugots and Stugots is ready to go. Stugots, where would you like to start?

The coaches would be most of of our pressure on them. Did you guys turn on a different mic? All right, hold on a second. We got a different mic. It was working before Chris. We will go back. Tell me when you switch. You got me.

There we go. All right, excellent work as always. Jesus by everyone involved. You would think some of this stuff would be easier. Where are we stugots with your top five list? Genesis is as foot as in my ass right now. It's killing me, damn. Deeper. Yes, deeper. Genesis, but she's just getting it's doing with your hands.

She's just starting. She's just. Thank God he's right there. Thank God he's wearing underwear. I'm not joking. Stop it. Uh, there's hot five coaches with the most amount of pressure on them headed into the postseason. I just had chicken wings. I mean, number five or do we have oval eyes? Nope. Just five, Dan. Oh,

number number five. Kyle Shanahan. One seed in the NFC has a by-week if not now, when for Kyle Shanahan. Jesus, the certs. Number four. Nick Sireani. So what's healthy is starting to turn on Sireani Dan. I have a question for you. What if Bella check calls the Eagles tomorrow morning? What do you do? Number three. number three is Mike McDaniel Lot of pressure Dan now gonna win a playoff game be one of the best teams to the league the entire year You have to faa you have to finish it off with at least one playoff win If not Danny might be in the hot seat and what if Bellaciac calls even Ross in the morning number two

Number two. Number two, Mike McCarthy. Damn. That didn't want to play off game where he's fired. Bella check will take that job in a heartbeat. We can see you underwear now. Yeah, let me pull my pants up. Jesus, Genesis. And God for Boxers.

Yeah. Okay, start again. Number. Where was I? Hold on. Hold on. It's like, where did I leave off? Mike McCarthy? No, yeah. Number one. Number one on hold on a second. Where did I leave off Mike McCarthy? No, yeah number one number one is Mike Tomland Mixed the playoffs every year winning season. How about you win more than one Super Bowl? How about that try that out?

That's shocking. Yeah, that's a shocking a truly a try list All right, so it's this top five coaches with the with the least pressure This is the top five coaches with the least amount of pressure headed into the In my office. I would think the Tomlin. I would be Tom. It makes no sense How is Tom Genesis number one on that list? Genesis is number five. No Now we're showing you All right, I got it, Dan. I'm ready.

Number five. Shaw McVeigh. No pressure. Ernie said he's coming back. Oh! Stop! Number, just lighter! Number four.

Oh, that's so good right there. Right there. Perfect. That looks to the top talking like this. That is so good. That is the good stuff, bro. The angle is insane right now. Right there Angle is insane right now I don't even know number four is Kevin Stofansky

Genesis I swear to you I'm not going to tip you. There's a good spot. Genesis. There's a good spot. There's a good spot. There you never tip you. Well, Dan's not going to tip you. You've never tipped her.

You're right. Is that a f- The last time Genesis worked on me, which is why, and I'm not saying Genesis did this by no means. But then that's the time I had thousands of dollars in my pocket and I lost them. Remember? At a good gambling weekend.

And I'm not saying Genesis. No, she actually helped me look for it. So who took it, Drew Drew? No, no, I did not. I did not say that. Let's stop it there. I did not say that. Anyway, Kevin Stofansky.

Number three. Mike Tomlin. I don't understand how he can be on both of these lists Doesn't make any sense Number two did you forget that you put Mike Tomlin on both list number two? I did not I'm trying to think who number two is I can't really read my own handwriting Genesis Oh Oh

Oh, I can't remember number two. It says Ryan here, but I'm not sure there is no Ryan. Who is this person? Oh, Demiko Ryan. No pressure. Rookie quarterback made it to the playoffs. And if the season stops this weekend, it's been a great season for them. No pressure on the Mico Ryan Number one top goal No one cares about the box. No one cares about Todd bulls. He's just happy to be there. It's true It's everything he just said is true. I get I get this centaur running down the field What happened? I mean he just a Josh Josh out his heart, he started to tackle. I'm not feeling good about him getting sacked today. Getting sacked again, right?

They got him once. Yeah, they got him once over. Was it Wilkins? No, it was Baker. Ah. Wow. Ooh, that feels good. Right, right there.

Little less pressure. Number five, we're doing top five quarterbacks now with the most pressure on them. Yes, these are the top five quarterbacks, Dan, with the most pressure headed into the postseason. You know why, Mr. Gots, I think I'm doing this wrong. I think we should probably go least pressure first. Okay.

We should go least pressure first. So let's go with number five, least pressure, quarterback. Go ahead. Number five, the least amount of pressure headed into the postseason for quarterbacks, number five, at least pressure, quarterback, go ahead. Number five, the least amount of pressure headed into the postseason for quarterbacks. Number five, Jared Goff. And the Lions just, I mean, they're so miserable for so long then, and he's just happy to be there.

They're happy to be there. Ow! Number four, CJ Straub. No pressure whatsoever. None, a rookie quarterback then. They're just happy to be there. No one's getting fired. No one from that team is getting fired.

This season was not supposed to happen. It happened for the Texans. Genesis you better lighten up. That's a big first down right there. We're playing for the tie though. We're playing for the tie. No, we're not all of us. A bill's touchdown here.

It's good. Yeah. Number where are we? Number three, Stu guys. Joe Flacco. That's great. No pressure. And even if there was, he wouldn't feel it. I mean, haha.

Oh, that's so good. Oh, all right. These noises are getting odd. Oh, Dallas can kid. Number. Number. Number two. Baker may feel Again, no one cares about the box. No one cares about balls No, what things they should be the postseason and here they are

Take it on the Eagles and Jalen hurts zero pressure It's for God's this is the best Tampa Bay bucks analysis that they're having nationally like no one cares It doesn't matter no one care. Yeah It's such a rare thing to say about a playoff team. I suppose we could say it about the Steelers too But we wouldn't dare correct because they've got Tom Lennon and I wouldn't dare say anything bad about my top Are you kidding me? I mean then you do want a buck's brown Super Bowl though, right? I mean imagine that's oh I don't say is that our friend that's the move Dan that's the move

Dallas again out and Where are you number two number one Dan number one least amount of pressure Mason Rudolph And no pressure on that guy whatsoever. He's there third string quarterback and no one thought Mason root off whenever playing Get out! We might never root off Miles Garrett situation. Wow, there are so many great matchups potentially in the postseason here Anyway, you remember that whole deal with root off and Miles Garrett right in. I didn't want to talk about it then I don't want to talk about it now Whatever happened to that I don't want to talk about it now. What ever happened to that?

I don't know. Cannonball! Ow! Ow! Ow! You know that's a spot, right? You know that, right? That's why you keep going to it.

Is that why you keep going to a Genesis? Okay, I love you by the way. Big tip. Number five, cornerbacks with the most pressure on him. Number five. The most pressure on him. Number five. One that the most pressure. Sorry, my bad. Okay.

Top five quarterbacks with the most amount of pressure. You just said that. Dan Steve Martin. Number five, Patrick Mahomes. Dude, I do it on the road. I mean, first do it at home and then go on the road and win a couple. How about that? Really?

Yeah. Number three. Dan listen, sometimes teams go in Brady. He's done it Rogers. He's done it Rogers He's done it. You know Rogers went in as a wild card nine and seven three row games went to Super Bowl Sometime if you're one of the all-time great. You want to be considered the all-time great You'll take a team that's a little bit off not as good as it used to be and you'll put them on your back And you'll go win a couple of row games make it to a Super Bowl. How about that? Number four to Sean Watson

Really? get to a super ball about that number four to Sean Watson really the pressure he is so rooting against Joe Flacco and Baker may feel the pressure is enormous on the Sean Watson who will not play a snap. He's right. He's so right. If Joe Flacco can do it and he hasn't done it in a year and a half pressure. Thank you, Tony. Number three Brock Birdie, blah, blah, blah. I bet. Do it in the post season. Seriously, I'm tired of him. Ow.

Ow, that's. That's the spot. Yes. That's it, right there. Yes. So close to being the other spot. Yes, it's number, that went home. Oh, whoa.

His breathing, yeah, his breathing is, um, very close. Yeah, central and disturbed. Oh, whoa. His breathing, yeah, his breathing is very close. Yeah, central and disturbingly central. Sorry for that. This is like, this is, this is, what are you doing? That was your happy spot right there. It's not happy. There's nothing happy about it. It's unhappy.

Anyway, number two, yeah, Dak Prescott. The The Got to win, Dan. He's got to win. He does. I mean, listen, Dak Prescott, if he does not win a game here, I'm not certain he'll be the cowboys. Quarterback next year. In fact, that's BS because he will because they paid him 277 million dollars or whatever the hell they paid a button. Mike McCarthy will be out and the Bill Balecheck calls number one Lamar Jackson really He has the most divine of pressure of any quarterback in the NFL head into the Boseys and buy four. If you want to be considered a lead and trust me I'm saying this because I like Lamar. Lamar I want it when we discuss the lead quarterbacks on this show. I want to discuss you. I want you to be in that conversation

But I'll tell you what no one is in the conversation that doesn't have a ring. And that includes you. One seed, buy week, two home games, get to a Super Bowl. Show me that you're elite. The play that was just that just that just happened. Thank you to God's big third and long right here. All right. This is a big third. Thank you. Genesis, you could stop now. You need to touch down. We do need to touch down for the tie And this is this is a Josh Allen game He's having one of guys Josh Allen game. We just hit was that wait was that was a Guys, Josh Allen game. We just hit. Was that, wait, was that, it was, it was,

it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, that's over the quarter sack that he needs for the game. That's gonna be a big price. He got four quarters on that sack. Don Lebatard. Let's go to a 80. Boom. He was bow.

Wow. I think Billy typed an eight instead of a eight. Five is a clearest day of my $2. Stugats. Number eight instead of a eight. Five is a clear as day by Chewdallan. Stugats. Number eight. He got three. It's Chris Cooner on the line. He's seeing.

This is the Don Limita last night with the watch party. We are on fumes here. Many of us, many of the people in the support staff were coming out of a segment to got celebrating you getting mashed. Jessica, today, man. Jessica, unfortunately, has missed the last few times that Genesis has been around. I think Genesis is Jessica's favorite part about South Florida. One of the most redeeming things she has found here. And you've missed like her last five or six times here. It's ridiculous. I'm sorry. What happened to your hamstrings, those two guys? Like what soar today? Everything. I mean, my back, my hamstrings, upper thigh. I'm trying to work it out, Mike,

it will work itself out rough night less. Working out the flamin' your throat? Yes, I think I read it. It's just sucker right in there, huh? It's just a digger. You know, here's the thing, I needed it, I wanted it, and now I'm sore. And my upper thigh, she found a place,

right below my buttocks, okay? Upper thigh area, right near the uncle. She found a place that is so like a pressure point and she kept digging her toes in, digging her toes in, digging her toes in. She should use her hands. That's my only criticism of Genesis. Too much power with the toes.

Too much power with the V. Yeah, well I'm hurting today. I'm supposed to be a better the next day and I feel, I just feel sore. That's all. Her hand asking you how your uncle is? It's a fair point. It's a fair point.

But I'm hurting today, Dan. It's a fine point. Can you get for me, please, the sound of James Winston explaining, if you did not see the end of this game, it's the magical stuff of Arthur Smith is running off the field he knows his careers over with the Atlanta Falcons and he knows he has a ridiculous mustache and he is furious as he leaves the field because they are losing to the saints by what I think was forty eight seventeen is how they lost it. I feel like his job was safe it was forty one seventeen. Clearly he did too. And he is mad because the Saints evidently overruled

their coach, their coach asked for victory formation. Well, James did. They got an interception all the way down to the one yard line. They could have just kneeled it out. Jamal Williams who hasn't had a touch led the league in touchdowns last year hasn't had won all season. So James wanted to get a TD for his guy. And this is him in the locker room after the game before having a respect off with a reporter. Here's just James explaining after the game. Yeah, we just wanted to do whatever we wanted to do. The play was victory, but also explaining to DA. It was a team decision.

And I think when you have a team around, and I asked the guys, I said, guys, what do you want to do? We know how much you're all me, it's just teaming. And I understood from you have a team around, and I ask the guys, I say, guys, what do you want to do? We know how much Jamal means to this team, and I understood from D.A.'s perspective. So I give him that. But D.A. didn't condone that at all. You know, he didn't. However, we decided as a team to do it, and we got an interception to the one-yard line. You know, like, so if we were scored, would it still would have been disrespect? I think it should be forgotten, especially when the score is already 4-1-17.

I don't know how much worse it can get, but I got a ton of respect for Arthur Smith and the coach that he is. I think they do some incredible things. I didn't mean to disrespect. That was not my intention. My intention was to lead the team that I've been with the entire year. And we made a collective decision that we wanted to give one of our guys who they fight with bluswending tears every game in the end zone.

And I'm going to feel good about that. What a teammate and what a smile. Chris Cody says that that is his favorite quote in all of sports. Not just that. It's just something about him, man. Yeah. Well, he is cartoonishly exaggerated with his eyes and his face. And when he said,

when he agrees with something he's saying and smiles at you and nods, it's just, he's right up there with Jim Carrey's greatest physical comedians I've ever seen. Put it on the pole, please, at Labatou Show. Is James Winston right up there with Jim Carrey is one of the greatest physical comedians you've ever seen. Let's watch him and hear him have a respect off with a reporter who's asking him to

got because he makes a good point when he says, yeah, we were insubordinate with our coach totally insubordinate. He wasn't with it. But would it have been disrespectful if we had just scored on the interception because we could have done that. We're great. That. What you do have to play these guys twice a year, that's all I'm saying. We already played them twice.

I know. When I was talking about somebody, it's got to play these guys twice a year. That's all. How do you feel about it? Tell me how you feel about it. Why don't you feel good about it? Because you got to play these guys twice a year. But what about it makes you not feel good about it. Tell me how you feel about it. Why don't you feel good about it? Because you've got to play these guys twice a year. But what about it makes you not feel good about it? The echo tells you to kneel it up. Gras get my hand in. Yes. I think you should have

kneeled it up. Okay. Well I'm just telling you is respectfully as I can. You answer my question. This respectfully is your food and I'm telling you as respectfully as I get it that I respectfully disagree That's you to disagree with me old and tired team Okay, so you disagree with the entire team, so thank you That's what I'm attempting to do to and that's what I am doing I think that these guys should do this more often as a move. Just put the reporter on the spot and turn it around with, well, what do you think? Tell me respectfully, tell me all of your thoughts on this. We are going to see so many reporters fall apart

in the face of that pressure. You disagree with me or the entire team? Answering the same question they're asking. That's correct. Well, let's see. What is your answer to that? Before I answer that, why don't you tell me how you think I should answer that if you were me?

Because the team, I told you guys this story about Edger and James. There was a victory formation called by I believe the coach was Jim Morah senior, I believe that was his coach, and he was supposed to just take a handoff and go down I guess, or paintmaning was in on it because he knows Eddron James, but they were, it was not supposed to be Eddron James runs as hard as he can for a touchdown in a situation where, if he had fumbled, it would have caused them a problem. And Eddron James's response was, if you don't want me to score touchdowns, do not put incentive clauses in my contract that have

me scoring touchdowns. Do not, do not tell me what, but these, these players are grown men. They can do much of what they want in a situation like that where their coach doesn't have any control over what it is that happens after he's requested the play. Dennis Allen apologized right after the game saying that's not me. That's not us. And I to the Falcons and Arthur Smith, but James covered all his bases. Like he did a good thing by a teammate, Jamal Williams, and he covered his coach by saying, hey, it was us, not him. That's a great job, I'm James Winston. He's a great teammate. He is. But do you have to respect Arthur Smith's final moments? You play him twice a year, Dan. As not Arthur Smith anymore, you don't. Yeah, that's true.

But Jasmine Ritter will forget. I mean, Desmond Ritter and Heinecke might not forget. And Kyle Pitts might have a revenge game of three catches for 19 yards to show you about his fury. But what difference does it end up making in the long haul? None. It's just Arthur Smith's end of his career is as embarrassing as you can get where your final act as a coach is to yell at the other coach for scoring too many points against you.

I could be wrong, but does that touch down? You even feel that good? That's a good point. When you've gone from 17 to one, and it's a pity one at the end. It is a pity one. It's a total pity one, but you had 17 last year. You were a special player last year. Well, let's when we talk about some of the things in this sport, let's let's examine something else for a second when we're talking about the difference between a yard, not not about respect, but the way that we've used

some of these people. I have a whole bunch of people who are writing in saying that my analysis of Josh Allen's game is off because I mentioned that he made the kind of decisions you need to beat Josh Allen. And many people are pointing out correctly that he was otherwise great. He was otherwise great. Other than the three turnovers, he had 67 rushing yards. So he was their best running back. And that's a huge value, Stugatts. He and Lamar Jackson are a huge value because they eliminate your need for running games. But they can make some even more disposable.

It's what Chris wishes to look at. But if I'd said to you before the game, here's what I'm gonna give you dolphins from Josh Allen. I'm gonna guarantee it before the game. I'm gonna give you two interceptions. I'm gonna give you a fumble. And I'm gonna give you a disaster at the end of the first half. And I'm gonna give you a total of 14 points

from your quarterback in your offense. You take it. I mean, you think you win the game? The dolphins with a limited injured defense did the same strategy of we will let you get the 300 yards. We will wait for you to make the mistakes. And he made the mistakes. Do you know what we'd be talking about today?

If they'd lost that game, and it had been all the same stuff, three turnovers and that end of the first half that's now forgotten. Belly checked to the bills. The end of the first half is now forgotten. Yesterday could have been a disaster for the bills that ended that way. If the other games before them hadn't gone that way, and then they lose with three turnovers from their quarterback and go into the off scene when we know they're one of the best teams. We know they're one of the teams that nobody wants to face. We know they're one of the teams that can absolutely win the Super Bowl. They're good enough to beat anybody they're playing. Now they're the two seed. I mean. We'd probably be predicting them to beat the chiefs. We'd feel better about them than we do about the dolphin going there.

100% yeah. Like I get what you're saying, it's reckless. Like I don't know, but I still think we'd feel pretty good about them going into Kansas City. I want to apologize here. I've been apologizing a lot lately to a lot of people. I called this weekend the concussion doctor that we called at midnight to talk about Tudor, Tudor.

Jesus. About murder charges to apologize the trial going and I want to apologize Did you apologize to Steven I smith? Do I know? I'm going to apologize here to Taylor for betraying him by telling a story I did not know that he wanted told but now that we're here Taylor can you tell more completely what happened with you and Roy Williams? Yep, and to tie up a loose end, Arthur Smith, Tariel. But I'm texting a friend about candidates that I want for

Roy Williams as his replacement. He got this man so strong. You know, he's getting up there and age, the team was, I can't be forget that there was an asset at the end, but then you quickly remember. They fell out of the tournament losing in the first round. So I'm coming up with this list. I text my friend, don't hear anything back after an hour, which was kind of weird, because we were going back and forth. I can hear your fear for it. And then I check the messages and I just see Roy Williams' name in the top of the text

and my heart sank. Does he have his reed receipts on? What's your friend's name, Ray? No, I just... Roy William. No, completely. Name's not even close. I just...

Kyle, I just went to the search, like typed in my messages. I typed in Roy because I was thinking I had Roy Williams on my brain. That's a dumb move. And yeah, I've seen him since and he never brought it up, but it was hurt. Why does he sound so scared? I am.