The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Slappin Da Bass with Jordan Schultz

Episode Date: January 15, 2025

We kick things off with a song from Jeremy breaking down THAT guy vs. A guy. Then, the Vikings radio call goes off on Sam Darnold, Vince Wilfork comments on Tom Brady's broadcasting struggles, and Dan used to get in bar fights. Plus, Jordan Shultz is here and it's our pleas to chat with him. He discusses Jerry Jones and Deion Sanders, the jerseys in his zoom background, why the Rams have been so dominant lately, Funyuns, and the record he broke for his College Basketball program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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And for more heartburn relief fun, be sure to follow Tums at Tums Official on Instagram and TikTok. This is the Don Lebatard Show with the StuGuts Podcast. You may be asking yourself, where do we get more Lebatard show, even though we get way too much Lebatard show and we can't keep up with all of the Lebatard show. Mike Ryan has lovingly been working on a project, an oral history of our show's history, very self-involved. Where can people get it?

Well, I've heard a lot of complaints is, hey, I want to listen to all the episodes because we put them on our main podcast feed available wherever it is that you get your podcasts, but sometimes some of the older episodes purge. So what we've done at lebatardaf.com is put together a playlist of the entire oral history in chronological order so you can listen back to every episode and not have to worry about scrolling down

and not seeing an older episode. Made it easy for me. Made it very easy. A playlist for Stu Gotz. Lazy. This episode of the Dan LeBattard Show with Stu Gotz is presented by Smirnoff. We do game days.

Please drink responsibly. The Smirnoff Company, New York, New York. I'm playing quarterback If I'm that guy I won't be taking sacks I'm making special throws behind my back Cause I'm that guy so I pick up your slack But what about this? If I'm just a guy, won't recognize a blitz when it's disguised I'm throwing pics when we're in overtime That's just what happens if I'm just a guy I got some questions Sam Donnell, that QB throwing it

Or Dino Smith, that QB throwing it Brock Purdy, that QB throwing it Kyle Marie, that QB throwing it Lemmeo Smith That cube be throwing it Rock Purdy That cube be throwing it Kyla Marie That cube be throwing it Lemme see what you got, Bonix That cube be throwing it Michael Panix

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Are you that guy? Better. Pretty good. As in that's better than before or needs to be better? Always needs to be better. Got it. A guy, the guy. How many A guys are there at quarterback?

Listen to the Viking frustration. This is, I'm going to set up the sounds to gots because, and I will tell you that my Vikings analysis this season has been very simplified. I heard a lot of O'Connell's the best. I heard a lot of Brian Flores proves two are wrong. are wrong, coaching, coaching, coaching, magic, magic, magic, and I just kept seeing at the center of all, no that's Sam Darnold and it's still Sam Darnold at the middle of that. And at the very end I collapsed

because they went 14-3. I'm like okay maybe it was Sam Darnold and then what happened was Sam Darnold was maximum Sam Darnold and the Minnesota announcers knew it was coming Yeah, they live a cold life in the cold physically in the cold and now they've lived long enough Oh, no, the Detroit Lions are better than us We've lived an entire generation and generation after that and generation after that. We're always better than the Lions And now we're not anymore and why is that because we have Sam Darnold correct, but at least the Bears haven't caught up Well the frustration

That is in Minnesota perhaps you can hear right in here because I mentioned Stu gots that Addison and Naylor and Jefferson and hawk Hawkinson and Hawkin Hawkinson you got it Aaron Jones and Aaron Jones like that is that is a lot of people to to give one they traded for hawkins and got him from detroit because they thought okay if nailers are third best receiver we can make any quarterback good even one that's on the scrap heap and then minnesota realizes at the same time as the rest of us all know it still sam darnall

and there receivers Oh, no, it's still Sam Darnall. And him, Aaron Jones, Addison in motion to the right, two receivers left Rams blitz. Darnall gets away from it. Steps up in the pocket. He's holding it too long. Just run. 25 yard line. He's sacked for a fifth time. The throw it man.

Oh my God. What a great goal. That's speaking for their entire fan base. It's so easy to do from up there. What a great goal. That's speaking for their entire fan base. He's holding it too long! Just run! Throw it, man! It's so easy to do from up there. He's holding it too long! Just run!

Throw it, man! Yeah, things are moving really fast down there. He's scared too. Throw it, man! He's holding it too long! Just run! Throw it, man! The just run is great.

It's so easy. Just run! They just run. He's holding it too long! Just run! Throw it, man! The just run is great. It's so easy. Just run! He's holding it too long! Just run! Throw it, man! Just run!

I didn't catch that for like the fourth time. Both of them matter of factly just, they really are surgically dissecting the Rams defense from up there. He's holding it too long! Just run! Throw it, man! Just run! Sam's defense from up there. He's holding it too long. Throw it, man. That's gotta be, I would say, top two call

of the last six months, only just behind the disaster. What a bad idea call from the Maryland USC game earlier this year. Can you just put yourself, okay, right now, when Chris Cody argues yesterday okay so that's because there's a lot of pressure on everything that we're watching in chris cody he was the only one in the world who had the cowards take of give me all of sam darnell's money but none

of the expectations that come with being an nfl quarterback and i sign up with everything he said that uh... i'd i'd i'd but i I too am a coward about this. You know why I'm a coward? Because I'm listening to that sound and when I hear that announcer just casually say, just run, as if those aren't 300 pound people chasing Sam Darnold and that his every instinct actually is to just run.

He would, he could. But the decision he makes to not run is based on knowing that it is Best if I throw because I'm not much of a runner now We do have a lot of mobile quarterbacks in the rest of the playoffs to guts and I've been watching it's it's a fascinating evolution to see in the sport Really fascinating. Oh when it all shrinks up and Justin Herbert has to throw just from the pocket even Justin Herbert's not quite mobile enough to be the Mobile thing you need because defenses are eating up just throw it man I got to get rid of it in two and three seconds

Yes, so Sam Darnold gets swallowed by some of this this is to me the greatest gift I will ask the rest of you if you think this is normal because I do not think it is and one of the reasons that I think that Aaron Rodgers was a special quarterback that necessarily wasn't winning the way that Tom Brady was seven times but would just step up calmly into the teeth of a pocket because he could feel everything that was happening around him wasn't chaos he just needed to move up two steps to see that the field could be seen clearly with his head up not worried about either running or getting crushed

joe burrow steps into the teeth of the pocket yet pocket presence with but with his with his face and his head up in a way that's uncommon for the quarterback and so he can live in a smaller pocket that doesn't require him to be mobile quarterback and so he can live in a smaller pocket that doesn't require him to be mobile quarterback and still do some of the things that Joe Burrow does. Right, all those guys are doing when they do that is buying themselves the extra second or two that they need to get rid of the football. Right, a half a second maybe.

But you're asking Sam Darnold in that spot when you say just run man, you're asking him to be Jaden Daniels. He's not Jaden Daniels. But are you guys not noticing sort of the way that the terrain gets eaten up so that very quickly all of a sudden Kirk Cousins isn't serviceable because of how much is changing you got to get the running backs disposable cheapened in value I need my quarterback to either be value or be mobile preferably both because i'm going to need somebody that turns run pass option in the tajay watt doesn't uh... tj watt doesn't matter

anymore right jayden is the guy most teams are looking for right cheap and mobile well but i mean great i but i would say baker mayfield is a level of athletic i would say that cj stroud is a level of athletic i would think that none of us would dispute that kyj strout is a level of athletic i would think that none of us would dispute that kylor murray is obviously very athletic i'm talking about the way that that sport tries to exploit winning in the margins by finding value in all the places of course if you make a quarterback was a quarterback in a running back as well you can save money at running back and they get their can

refer one year ten million dollars and boom you have a super bowl yes to report if you're josh allen you can run around like that right and then all of a sudden you could be denver just handing the ball to james cook all all game you could just be denver that way because easier because because we can't stop all of this mobility that's coming our way but when you're in minnesota this happened in two games to that's we went

from sam donald's gonna make so much this offseason to this Just run just run Isn't that America though on Sunday watching on your television? You're just like, just run, it's easy. Look, it's right there. I don't know who the just run guy is. I know the other guy's Paul Allen from KFXN in Minneapolis. Would you not agree, would all of you not agree that much of the armchair coaching that there is from all of the critics who watch football on Sunday, it's some degree of that's easy, why wouldn't you just run there?

The hardest position in the sport. Look, that's right. There's a hole right there. Look, it's right there. The hole's right there. Or like, look, he's open. Down the field, 50 yards. Get in the ball.

Pick your head up. Stop looking at the ginormous men trying to tackle you and look down field while you're about to get smushed. It's better than that though, right? Because the decision of just run also doesn't take into calculation that since he's a child, being better than all the other athletes at this sport,

Sam Darnold has never thought that the good play is to run four yards and get tackled. Like, that's not the play. I understand that that has to be taught and he has to learn that that's the good play is to run four yards and get tackled. Like, that's not the play. I understand that that has to be taught and he has to learn that that's the good play. But let me go get hit violently and I can just go over there for four yards. You also have Justin Jefferson, so that's not what you're doing generally. Not a team strength to drive down the field from Sam Darnold four yards at a time. Sam did rush it 67 times for 212 yards this season, a career high. Four yards at a time. He's gotten very good at it.

You understand though, it's not, and I'm sure Sam Darnold is very athletic compared to just people. To us. To you, to normal human being. There was some more. To the guys calling the game. But here you go though, Stu got so, but here's another thing that's harder than people think. Okay, another silly thing that's harder than people think,

because you say to the guy calling the game. Is everyone listening to this understanding what a disaster it has been to pay $375 million for Tom Brady to not be even mediocre at broadcasting the speaking of football games. It has not worked. It is likely to end after one year. You will have the fairly unprecedented distinction of having a broadcaster walk away from more than $300 million because he's not good at a job, failing one year in a way that tom brady has never failed before i hope

greg olson's agent is ready for this negotiation and listen to what tom brady's uh... former teammate vince will fork had to say in general about tom brady's broadcasting before you go what uh... what do you think of Tom Brady as a broadcaster? I don't know. Been stared at. In my life, other than my wife giving me those. I mean, you know, it's like,

I mean, he's very knowledgeable of the game, like that's that's what it is but I would rather be my quarterback than my you know on TV doing what he's doing now okay I love him for my quarterback and he may only be doing it this year he's so involved with the Raiders ownership I wouldn't be surprised I think a lot of his lot of rumblings he does the Super Bowl and he's done. Yeah, I heard this a lot going on with you know legally what he can and cannot do. Hmm I'm not sure what was more awkward his reaction to that or when Dan asked him about his marriage. You are very comfortable talking about how you met your wife, how much you love her,

how important she is to you and that's the reason that I asked the question. I've always admired that about you, that you have no problems whatsoever professing your love. Well, the thing is, I got a new wife now. Me and Bianca didn't make it. So I moved on, we moved on. It was for the better for both of us. But we are real good you know, good friends.

You know, we are parents first. Things just got a little awkward there. So let me be the first on this show to congratulate you on the new wife, Vince. Congratulations on, on, on feeling whole, feeling complete, you know? Let's talk tailgating. Yeah.

When he was so disappointed and dead. Did you see his face? He looked so pissed off. It's a good save. Thank you. I would say comedically, just rhythmically, in terms of song, you have not heard a better cadence of words chosen than I have a new wife.

Me and Bianca didn't make it. Like you would describe, you know, a plane crash. Like some, you would describe people not living. Didn't make it is. We didn't survive. The marriage didn't survive, but to say I have a new wife, you know. Me and Bianca, it's a funny name as well.

Me and Bianca didn't make it. It's such a cop out to be like, he's the greatest quarterback of all time. That wasn't the question. Right, I like him as my quarterback. Well, no shit. Also, like, if he gets to call the Super Bowl and then he's like, I'm done, calling it quits,

leaving on top, okay, well, Greg Olson comes back, he's gotta wait now like three more years to get to call a Super Bowl. That's not fair. Why have you guys frozen the way I look on the screen there? They're highlighting your face and I'm just saying, Dan's gonna think you guys are making a fat joke. Well, I look terrible there.

I look pale, the lighting's not good in the studio, I look deeply unhealthy, I do look less gray. You look good now, Dan. I think you look way better now. That's great. But why is it on the screen? Is it just to make fun of me? The face you're making when it happens. I think you look way better now. That's great. But why is it on the screen? Is it just to make fun of me?

The face you're making when it happens. Right. This is your awkwardness. It's like sheepish. The face of shame, yes. Ooh, I did that. It's like, ohp. If you said ohp, you would have said ohp.

But you don't say ohp. You just express it. I have a new wife, you know. Well, hello Dan Lepetop. Wait a minute. Why is Skipper here? No, I was- That's what I thought you were doing first. I was doing my limited fake will fork,

not my limited fake Skipper. It was terrible though. Billy on the other hand, not feeling uncomfortable in this clip. The biggest smile I've ever seen on Billy's face. Oh well this is the thing. This is why Billy is the secret ingredient that he is. Billy, look, yes, focus it.

Please focus in on Billy. You will see. No, down, go down. Go down and focus in as much as you can. Put that on the screen and try and focus just on Billy's face in the background. The reveal of this has Jessica hiding in her own hands because we can all see the delight of Billy

in the background. As soon as we focus this up, we will see that Billy Gill, agent of anarchy, is just delighted that I have fallen on my face opposite Vince Will Fork at his feet. I love love, man. I'm just glad to hear a nice love story.

Look at the difference in faces between Whittingham and Billy. Let me, yes, it's the difference between the- And Jess got sandwiched in the middle. It's the difference between the responsibilities of the chairs. Yes, that's exactly right Why do you think Billy hates sitting in that chair so much? I mean we were supposed to ask about barbecuing and tailgating not about his marriage And I think that's what that look is. Agree. Stick to the script. Agree. No one said ask about his marriage

Nobody loves love like this man Vince Wolfork. It is so perfect. Witty, jazz Billy. That encapsulates the entire show. The worst part of that for me is I was in reruns. It had worked the last time I talked to him. The marriage didn't. Don't ask him about it next time,

because we don't know what happened with the... Right, you never know. Me and Bianca didn't make it. It's somewhere between a party you couldn't get to and a boat lost at sea. Didn't make it, is it? I think it seems more extreme than just a marriage falling apart.

Does it not? Didn't make it feels like something between marriage falling apart and life ending. It's a really sad way to say it. He said that they're still friends. Yeah. I'm sure that's true. It's a call me, we didn't make it. We didn't make it seem, I'm with Dan,

it's an awkward odd way, it seems, it's a bit much. It's actually a nice way of saying it. Yeah, we're divorced now. It's like, oh, it's like, no. Terrible battle custody. She got the house. Alibody. Oh, it's like, no. Terrible battle custody. She got the house. Alibody. Oh no, I hate her.

It could have been a lot worse. Could have gotten a lot worse. She got half. He did a great job. A success. I got the rowboat, so it's fine. Yeah, you're right, you're right. I wouldn't get everything in the divorce, it's not fair.

I got the dog. Look, yeah. Billy, I aired and I've aired today, I aired before and I've aired today in not getting to the fact that you have now, you came in the other day and you simply said, big night for ghosts. Oh, it was on Monday.

Really? Yeah, wasn't it? Cause Donald was seeing ghosts. Yeah, Donald was seeing ghosts again. The flashbacks of the last time he was seeing ghosts. Just run. Everybody was talking about the ghost that he was seeing. Good night for ghosts.

It was like the whole universe made that same sort of callback at the same time. Like several group chats, just the ghost emoji. It's like the thing he's gonna be best known for now. Oh, but can we think about, honestly, can we think for a moment about the haunting and the humanity and what I'm about to say? Sam Darnold cares deeply about being a great quarterback

and for 17 weeks he had us fooled. Like he's been up and down. A Jets organization relied on him. He was great at USC. He was supposed to be a first round pick and then his career was dead. Careers aren't dead in this sport. Maybe you can be Baker Mayfield.

Maybe you can get into a contract, and then you're playing in the most important game of your life for a contract, and just last week, you went from 14 and two, you got everything conquered, to oh, we're a five seed going on the road, that's hard to win as a quarterback on the road. Daniels was the only one who did it this weekend, he's a rookie, he's got a future

that you don't have Sam Darnold right now We thought you had a future going into the offseason We thought you were going to get money and the reason that this is happening is you're in a playoff game And we all feel that this is going to happen to you And now you feel that it's going to happen to you and the pressure of it is falling on you And there's a pass rush, but you're feeling pass rush where it's not holy shit is that feeling alone when your skill guys are great and your entire futures playing out on television and everyone sees that he just sam

darnold and you're like oh my god i'm just sam darnold i'm just sam darnold i see ghosts everywhere i'm not as confident as i need to be a remind me actually told you used to get the bar fights and i i've I retired I retired a sentence from Bar fighting I retired the time that I got up the gloves or what? I appreciate that you guys are making fun of me about this. Mm-hmm, but it's a horrible self realization to have which is where you've started a fight and you Realized that the person across from you is not afraid of that fight and then

it means that you are because you've registered a thought in a moment that's supposed to be about muscle memory. Sam Darnold thinking that he's Sam Darnold in that moment when America's thinking he's Sam Darnold and the Rams think he's Sam Darnold and now his teammate Justin Jefferson thinks oh bleep I'm still with Sam Darnold. He fooled me for 16 games. I don't know, Dan, he's still going to get paid. He's not going to get paid, but he was going to get paid a couple

of weeks ago, but he had 35 touchdowns, 12 interceptions, and I look, and this is a product of the Jets just being a lousy organization. Last year, not this year, last year was his rookie year with Kyle Shanahan. He learned under that quarterback coach, that quarterback whisperer, and then came to Minnesota. And this is really his first full year as a starting quarterback. He gave you 4,300 yards, 14 wins, 35 touchdowns, 12 interceptions. I know he was lousy in the biggest game. Two biggest games. just i know he was lousy as big as gave the dot com biggest game i'm i'm talking most about

how alone it must feel yeah when we all can see your seeing danger that's not there when an announcer in the in the press box is this comfortable with his frustration of all know i had hope and my quarterback sees fear that isn't registering with me. He's holding it too long.

Just throw it, man. I mean, I hear you. I feel like Viking fans and those announcers should applaud Sam Darnold. The quarterback they drafted, the guy who was supposed to be their quarterback, JJ McCarthy, went down and in walked Sam Darnold and got them 14 wins,

got them relevant the entire year. We have the other call that I was referencing, which I contend was the best call of the season. This was the end of the first half of the Maryland USC game. Maryland's down, they're fumbling. It looks like they have no hope. They did end up winning the game by one point, but here is the call of the Maryland fumble.

They're not gonna clock it. Oh no, disaster! What a bad idea! Oh my goodness! That is shouted at the sky by someone falling to their knees. They're not gonna clock it. Oh no, disaster! What a bad idea!

Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness!

Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness! They're not going to clock it. Oh no! Disaster! What a bad idea!

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and that's the reason that I asked the question. I've always admired that about you, that you have no problems whatsoever professing your love. Well, the thing is, I got a new wife now. Me and Bianca didn't make it. So I moved on, we moved on. It was for the better for both of us. Stugots.

Things just got a little awkward there. So let me be the first on this show to congratulate you on the new wife, Vince. Congratulations on feeling whole, feeling complete. You know? Let's talk tailgating. Yeah. Don't be, don't feel awkward, buddy. You know, it's awkward. No, I don't. I mean, Dan does. It's too late for that, Vince.

I appreciate you soothing me in this regard, but I already feel terribly awkward. And then my teammate comes to my defense with not a question, but just a healthy congratulations and the further pointing out of that awkwardness because he's always good for me in those spots. I'm also thinking of divorce, Vince, after many, many years, 18 years, with a partner who does things like that to you. This is the Don LeBattar Show with the StuGuts. I actually want to ask Jordan something about what he just did there. Jordan Schultz is the Fox Sports NFL insider, co-host of Why Is Draymond Green talking

about football. There are a lot of people in the insider space, his information is very good. He had something on Jerry Jones and Deon Sanders the other day, but when you come on and you say my pledge, is it because you're such a hurry gathering information that you don't have time for the word pleasure You don't have time no actual pleasure or saying the word you got to just say my pledge No, I actually stole that It's so funny you asked that Dan, but I actually stole that term from the movie. I love you man when Paul Rudd is talking to

when Paul Rudd is talking to Jason Segel and he has all these different phrases he says that aren't really a part of his vocabulary. But because he's so awkward and so desperate to create a friendship, he keeps saying things that he doesn't really wanna say. And one of them is ma bèche. And I stole it because I thought it was so funny. So that's actually the reason.

Ah, I love that movie, Jobin. It's a great scene. Jobin! It's a great scene. Jobin! Job it was so funny. So that's actually the reason. I love that movie, Jobin. It's a great show. It's a great scene. It's so good. My favorite scene of that movie is the dog poop when he doesn't pick it up and someone says something to him and he just yells at them. He just runs at them and yells, not even anything.

He just makes a loud noise. That scene and also the fact that Jason Segel's actual day-by-day job is essentially to go to open houses and steal their food. That is correct. I also think that slapping the bass is a rare phrase that we're not making really movies that carry over for 10 years with funny things like that,

that you'll remember, but I wanna go go back and i failed early in the show i want to show this to jordan schultz because i have failed as a network to correct the generation gap we have around here when david samson and and then work start talking about movies they know more than just about anybody i'm listening to movies however they're talking about movies that are, they're talking about movies that are ancient. They are talking about Back to School, 1986. And what I want to play for Jordan Schultz,

I don't know if you're familiar, do you know what I'm talking about here? Because I want to just show you something and tell you that it's better than anything Paul Rudd has done. Are you familiar with the movie Back to School? No, but that looks great. Oh, wow.

Yes, this is Rodney Dangerfield. This is the triple Lindy right here. This is Rodney Dangerfield going from, from diving board to diving board. No one's ever done the triple Lindy before. This is an amazing dive to end this movie with you. Oh, wow, this is so good. Yes, a very not physically fit Rodney Dangerfield.

This is unreal. That's right. That's right. And there it is. Please put that picture in picture. I want that to play for the rest of the show. Jessica, do you believe that this is a movie worth watching because Rodney Dangerfield has just nailed the Triple Indy?

I mean, I've done the Triple Indy, so I'm not that impressed. Really? Look at me. That looks like the evil. No, no. That's the fine evil- evil can evil type act. Okay, yeah.

And Jessica has not done it and it doesn't deserve the look at me, Louanne. How do you know? Because I'm a woman? You've devalued it. Great question. It is because you're a woman. Women can't do that.

Only Rodney Dangerfield can. Clearly. You have to have a penis to do that. Muscle memory? Let me remind the audience that this episode of the Daniel LeBattard Show is brought to you by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours.

I didn't have a comeback, I'm sorry. Jerry Jones has spoken with Deion Sanders. Jordan, can you tell me what the news is there and how real this is, or is this just Jerry loves marketing and hey, look, I can get around the Rooney rule by doing this as well. Jerry is a master marketer, but really what it came down to, Dan,

was over the last week, when he realized that Mike McCarthy's contract was a limbo and that there was a possibility, albeit a strong one, that they weren't going to extend him, they decided, Jerry did, that it was time to try and get ahead because he was already behind. Don't forget, because he waited, he cannot interview Ben Johnson or Aaron Glenn or others this week because of the way the NFL sets up its interview policy. So as a result, he started doing his back channeling and realizing that Dion Sanders

could potentially be a fit for the to become the next head coach of Dallas and ultimately he ends up reaching out to Dion as a reporter the other night and realizes that Dion is potentially interested knowing full well that Dion over the last couple years has been very clear publicly that he does not want to coach in the NFL but when the Cowboys become an option or at least a possibility, that's a call he has to take. It's a call, frankly, that with the relationship he has with Jerry Jones,

it wasn't even necessarily an interview. They haven't even scheduled an interview, but it was, I think, the respect, the mutual respect that the two men have as as peers. And I've said this a lot over the last couple days There's not a lot of people that can match Jerry Jones in terms of charisma panache prestige let alone understand the Cache and gravitas of an organization like the Cowboys Deon Deon Sanders is one of them It just doesn't seem like it's real

Deion Sanders is one of them. It just doesn't seem like it's real. It seems like they're both profiteers and masters of getting attention. Like, how real is it? How, yeah, them talking is fine and interesting, but how is it not just cosmetic? Does anyone believe that Jerry Jones would turn over his organization to someone

like Deion Sanders, who played the way Deion Sanders does, coached the like Deion Sanders who played the way Deion Sanders does, coached the way Deion Sanders does, and would occupy a position that Jerry Jones needs to be egoless? Right and I hear what you're saying and I asked that question and one of the answers that was given to me by someone in the Dallas building was Deion has run his operation in Colorado much like an NFL program over the last couple of years. And it's a small sample size and he's still very green as a head coach. But the way he assembled the staff, the way he relates to the players, and that

was really the message that kept getting reiterated to me is that Dion is going to relate to players in a way that they have not had with all the respect to a Mike McCarthy or a Jason Garrett. And on top of that, Dion has also said, as we know, and this is a question that is very valid, Dan, what you're saying, that he would only consider the NFL if he got to coach his sons. Well, Dallas has a quarterback, his name's Dak Prescott. They just paid him a record setting deal. If Dion were to come to Dallas, make no mistake, Dak would be the quarterback. It's not going to be Shador Sanders. So there's a lot of factors here. And then there's also been the question mark of would Deion use Dallas as a leverage point, a leverage play with Colorado? I was told no, and that he has a lot of

respect and too good of a relationship with Rick George, the AD there, but there's also a big buy out. There's a lot that has to happen and it's also without question that Dallas is going to do an extensive search, but it's been made clear to me in no uncertain terms that should Dion want to pursue the job, should Dion have interest in the job, that he would be at or near the top of the list. Chris Cody, I have seen, forgive me for a second, Jordan, the good people at Quervo have arrived and we like to take care of the sponsors who take care of us and the sponsors who take care of us like to take care of us. So I would like to celebrate Jordan Schultz here with some shots of Quervo. Let's see if all of you have some nice 1130 a.m. Cuervo because we like to take care of

a very good sponsor here. Jordan, while we're doing this, can you tell me the story of the jerseys that are behind you there? Mahomes and Kelsey, aren't you supposed to be an impartial reporter that gives us the news and doesn't have fandom showing like that? And what are you doing on your phone right now? Are you breaking news right now? The phone the one on the phone can wait it's not it's not urgent it's that's like an hour or two away but the jerseys is actually a sweet story because it comes down to my daughter who's 10 and loves nothing more in the world than Taylor Swift and I told her and my son that I would get them a Travis Kelce jersey and then my son that I would get them a Travis Kelsey

jersey and then my son said why I like my home is better so I got them each of my homes in Kelsey Jersey and I've essentially put it in my office until they realize that it's their jersey and until they come in and physically remove the jerseys which my wife says they will in the next couple weeks when they really understand this is what's happening, it's still mine. A toast to front runners. We've got kids who are front runners, a toast to Jordan Schultz's front running kids.

And Cuervo. They've been with the Chiefs ever since Taylor Swift got there, to Jordan Schultz and the front running children. And Cuervo. Thank you, Cuervo. I think Chris Cody just faked a shot. Did you have the shot or did you fake a shot? Sipping tequila all day.

We have been sipping tequila. You know what? I'm slurring my words because we have been sipping tequila since they got here. Jordan, among the people in the sport, the fear of the Rams, is it throughout the league that everyone knows that the rams can beat anybody and fear their coach and their quarterback and their receivers

or uh... is that just the public getting away i get you know getting away from itself in the week uh... of wild card play where team looks good and then all of a sudden you think they can beat the team like detroit that's got a two hundred twenty two point point differential. And are the Rams, should the Rams, given what the Lions did this season, be among the big underdogs?

No, I think I would say as the Rams started to get healthy, the second half of the season, Dan, it became clear among the league circles that that was a very, very dangerous team. And that Sean McVeigh, as long as he had a healthy Cooper Cup, as long as Jared Vurks continued to cause havoc on the defensive side of the ball, killing quarterbacks, that this team had a chance to make a real run. And that nobody, not only in the NFC West, but

nobody in the NFC really wanted to play them. So the Rams are a very good football team. And as good of a year as Minnesota had with the 14 wins and the reclamation project of West Ham-Darnold, the Rams beating them the way they did in Arizona was not really a surprise because that's really who this team has been the last six weeks. Stafford's been playing at a very high level.

They're incredibly well-coached, and they're finally healthy. And they have, I don't know, one of the best four or five running backs in the league, all due respect to everyone. You know, Saquon and Derek Henry. Kyle Williams is good as anyone. He is an absolute wrecking ball. And he gives them the type of balance that they so desperately have wanted. So I'm excited about that team.

I still think Detroit is the most complete team. And I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone saved differently. And they have the best one-two coordinator punch in football with Aaron Glenn and Ben Johnson. And then Philadelphia has the best offensive and defensive line combo. The NFC is very tough.

And I could see it going a whole lot of ways, but I think top to bottom most balanced, even with all the injuries and all the IR Detroit still number one. How do you feel about Funyuns? I am a big Funyuns guy. That was my number one snack growing up until I realized it wasn't very good for you, Dan. It's not very bad for you. My mom used to tell me, Funyuns, it's it's you want to play basketball Jordan, Funyuns, it's, you want to play basketball, Jordan,

Funyuns is going to make you thirsty. You're not going to have the nutrition on the court. So I stopped eating them when I was like 12. Jordan, that's not why you didn't make the NBA, buddy. Oh, I know, I know. I'm well aware. I was never going to the NBA, but I did enjoy a fairly successful high school career

and did play four years in college, which considering my athleticism or lack thereof, is pretty good. Maybe if you didn't have the Funyuns, you would have made the NBA now. I take it back. No, I had the lowest, I don't know if I wanna say this on this program,

but I will say this. Just frenzy. This is very tough to admit on national television. I'm debating in my mind whether or not I wanna go. Oh, you're here now. I was gonna do it. Come on, come on. Because I already told you the story of the Tron. I told you the Tron story or not... Oh, you're here now. Oh, come on. Come on. Come on, Jobin. Come on. We're friends. We're friends now. You gotta do it. You gotta impress your friends. I had the lowest vertical leap in Seattle University basketball history.

That's impressive. I believe it was like 22 and a half, basically means at a shade under 6-3. I could grab the rim Maybe if I was feeling good, that's how unathletic I was. There's no shot. You could do the triple lindy No, triple lindy for me. No single lindy for me. Put it on the pole, please. Would Jordan Schultz have made the NBA if not for the Funyuns? Dan, I can't express to you how unathletic how slow I was in fact You just you just did I got the nickname the matador because my defense was literally the matador. Yes How do you feel about wearing shoes in the house I

How do you feel about wearing shoes in the house? I'm really into the, you know, like the comfortable slippers. I love those, but those shoes don't go outside. So outdoor shoes are a serious no-no inside the house, in the Schultz house. How are we about that in the shipping container? Because you asked me earlier this week, Chris, you asked me a question because I dropped a banana on the floor without the peel, and I was thinking about eating the banana after it was on the floor.

You asked me if we were a house where we wear the shoes inside, and I did wear shoes inside and didn't know any better until I got married. And then I stopped wearing shoes inside. Are you guys wearing shoes inside, or do the shoes get left outside? I really don't feel that strongly either way,

but if I walk into a friend's house and they're one of those people where it's like shoes off at the door, that's always annoying. Like I'm all for clean houses, but just like someone. Yeah, of course, I don't do that. Yeah, I don't I don't mandate that. I think that's something that's a personal decision. And I go back to a Larry David episode in Curb where everyone is supposed to take their shoes off

and Larry doesn't really want to. I feel like it's the guest decision. Is it though? Cause like, what if you assume that there are shoes off house and you just walk into the house and you take off your shoes and just make yourself comfortable uninvited? It also depends if there are socks involved. Like I don't want someone's bare little tonsies on my couch. I also don't know if I want their dirty shoes though but it just it depends what the shoes are I think. No that's a great point by Jessica the worst case scenario is the barefoot which is disgusting. That's a no-go. Roy? I keep my shoes on in my house. Put it on the poll at LeBatard Show do you wear your shoes inside the house? For, for my own house, I have a designated pair of slippers,

like hard bottom platform slippers I wear around. So I feel like I have shoes on my feet, so these don't get cold. But they never go outside, so they're clean. Man, the best part about this cold season for us down here in South Florida, Oh, I've been loving it. we get about two weeks of it, is the socks in the house during nighttime.

Because it's like 10 months out of the year, 11 months out of the year, you can't wear socks to bed in Florida, it's too hot. I love going to bed with your socks on, if your feet slip out of the covers, you're still warm. It's the best. Yeah, that's South Florida, that's the best of South Florida.

In New York today, I woke up, it was 19 degrees, so, you know, enjoy that. Look at me, Lloyd. Chris, were you trying to be cute there? I'm just saying, when my foot- A little to up, it was 19 degrees. So, you know, enjoy that. Look at me, Lloyd. Chris, were you trying to be cute there? I'm just saying, when my foot, My little toesies. Because sometimes, if I don't have socks on, and my toes slip out, I'm like, oh, get back in there.

What are you doing out here? But if I have socks on, I'm like, you can go out there for a little bit, go out, get a little fresh air. Explore. I don't know what I'm doing there, but I do believe that Jess has feetsies, but you don't have toesies, and I don't know what I'm doing there. Because I think you have thick, freckled feet. I don't know, I'm doing there, but I do believe that Jess has feetsies But you don't have toesies, and I don't know what I'm doing there because I think you have thick

No, let's not you got some hobbit feet. I just think they're thick. I think they're I think they're like canned ham Thank you, Dan No, you had that thought of me. No. I think I don't think it's thick huh. I don't think your feet are cute We're gonna get a look here. We're gonna get a reveal there it is We just did a whole thing that we don't like feet no We're talking about those are good socks. Yeah foot foot There is there Chris Cody right there. Thank you on the screen. Toast to Cuervo. Thank you, Jordan.

A toast to Cuervo. Jordan, thank you for being on with us. We appreciate the information, sir. My pleasure. Always enjoyed. Bye. The rare bye. Our pledge.

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