The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: Will Ye Shakespeare and Weekend Observations

Episode Date: January 13, 2025

After kicking off the hour with a new beat for Gelo feat. Lavar Ball, Stugotz calls Mike Vrabel the most overrated coach in NFL history. Then, did Williams Shakespeare invent every modern phrase? Did he invent swagger? Plus, A.J. Brown is a big reader, Greg "teaches" the crew about Mike the headless chicken, and Chris Cote did what he could to kill a cockroach this morning. Also, it's time for Stugotz's Weekend Observations including the Washington Commanders, Jordan Like, the Patrick Mahomes of Ryan Tannehills, Jim Harblah, and an affair with a pint of Baskin Robbins ice cream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This is the Dan Lebatore Show with the StuGuts Podcast. and conditions apply. You made that up and it is not a real song. Okay. Thank you, thank you. Thank you, thank you. Thank you, thank you. I'm undefeated, never lost. I know which one is your least favorite. I bet you know which one is my least favorite. Tell me which one it is. It's the middle one.

What? Yellow? Yeah. That's the middle one. Thank you,? Yeah. That's the middle one. Thank you, thank you. That is not a real song. Thank you, thank you. That is not a real song.

Thank you, thank you. That is not a real song. Thank you, thank you. That is not a real song. I saw a good stat. LaMelo Ball is taking more shots per minute than anyone in basketball since Will Chamberlain in 1965.

What? And not a single one of them is a shot that anyone's going to remember because he's doing it at the Nowhere Regional franchise ruined by Michael Jordan. He's getting his though. He is getting his. More shots per minute than anyone since Wilt Chamberlain. Billy, you never finished saying what you were supposed

to say about the listener league. You just kept talking and then didn't say what needed to be said, which is? That happens. Oh, about God Bless Football, that you can join GBAF's weekly contest at dkng.co and then didn't say what needed to be said, which is? That happens. Oh, about God Bless Football, that you can join GBF's weekly contest at dkng.co slash smirnoff,

presented by Smirnoff, the world's number one vodka. Please drink responsibly. That's about a weekly contest. You guys did the pinky promise. You kissed fingers. And now you guys are in it together. Chris Cody, you never finished telling us what the origins were of willy nilly

and how it is that that became a phrase. The term willy nilly comes from the Shakespearean expression will ye, nilly. That, there's just no way. What? I have more questions. How do you spell that? Will, Y-E, nill, Y-E.

Got it. Stugatz, you never got off when we were talking about Mike Vrabel, your hot Mike Vrabel take. Big Mike Vrabel. What has he ever done? Seriously, I wanna know the amount of coaches who have gone 13 and 21 over two seasons in the NFL, because that's how Mike Vrabel finished in Tennessee.

And he was two and three in the postseason and he's 0 and 2 in his last two postseason games. We are talking about Mike Rable like the Patriots just signed Vince Lombardi to be their head coach. What are we doing? I mean Mike Rable might be the most overrated coach in NFL history. I know he took the Titans to the playoffs. I know they went to one AFC championship game and lost that game and he's coming off, you know, he's fresh. He took a

year off and all this. Mike Vrabel is not this great coach at the Patriots and everyone else is making him out to be. He's not, Dan. He is 13 and 21 in his last two regular seasons. Didn't make the playoffs in Tennessee in a weak division. He is an overrated coach and the fact that we're treating him like Hank Stram is absurd. Then again I wonder if Patriots fans were saying the same thing about Bill Belichick who had a similar record in Cleveland before going to the Patriots. Roy is just delighted because there was a Hank Stram reference. I think it's just to say Hank Stram. I mean

Did it for me. I I do in general. I mean what we do I and well hope trafficking I would say Generally speaking very often we put too much importance in Whomever is the next leader who's going to fix everything whether he has a quarterback or not. Drake May, it's a good spot because I think most people believe that Drake May is going to grow as a quarterback. It's the perfect spot. Here are the stages of Rabel. If Drake May is not a good quarterback, Rabel didn't select him. It's not Rabel's quarterback.

So he'll get a pass for like two or three years before he starts taking some accountability for how mediocre of a coach he is. Why do you think that like he's gonna develop Drake May also? What did he do for Ryan Tannehill? The question is who are they gonna hire to be the offensive coordinator? Apparently Josh McDaniels, which, oh, oh, oh. I think that's a good take by you.

I think that's well said and I'm gonna- He was a bad head coach. Like I'm not saying he'll for sure be a bad OC with Drake May but that's an important hire. Most people feel good about their quarterback situation they have two quarterbacks I think you're right to get excited over they have a high pick that you know them they're not gonna spend on a quarterback so they can afford to move down and I do think that you're quite right in that if you look at record, his reputation kind of surpasses that. I think a lot of that is honestly the gambling aspect

in that betters really trust Mike Vrabel and believe him to be a good coach because of his record as an underdog. Keep in mind the final moment that Tom Brady had at Foxborough Stadium. It was at the hands of Mike Vrabel going into Foxborough, taking down that dynasty in the New England Patriots. So it's probably outsized his perception,

especially the way that it ended in Tennessee. I think you could see when they started stripping that roster, put Ray and Karth in charge, you knew that they were going in an opposite direction and he was wise to kind of get out of there. But I hold him in high regard just because of what he's able to do as an underdog. I would go further than that.

I would say all of us believe that his teams play tough and hard and he overachieves with teams that we didn't expect much from. And in that game that Mike is talking about, he exploited a rule while playing against Belichick that got them extra time and outsmarted a coach in a way that we're not used to seeing when it comes to uh... you know knowing how to milk a clock like smore they made a coaching move that all of us were like wow great coaching move but i think all of this stuff tends to be overstated

in how it is that someone arrives anywhere. He's done it the perfect way, Stu Gatz. He's not actually following Belichick. He's not following the guy. He's following the guy who followed the guy. What do we make of what Kraft is doing there though? Because I get why you think Mike Vrabel is a culture builder, even though I'm pretty

sure he took over a team that actually went to the playoffs the previous year. So maybe some of that's overstated, but they go from Belichick, all right, we gotta purge ourselves of the greatest coach of all time, hit restart, went, we're going for one of his players, a guy that was on his staff, okay, let's push him out after one year. Well, who are we getting?

Mike Vrabel, who cut his teeth on this staff. And so it's just a prolonging guys that are Belichick disciples. So I'm a little curious at that point. I'm not gonna lie though, a little excited about old home week. Josh McDaniels, who we got on defense? Romeo Cronel, what's happening?

Cut his teeth. Help me with that please, I don't know when. And forgive my ignorance here. I think Mike, you're right. In 2017, they lost the divisional round when Malarkey was still there. Such a great lesson. Mike Malarkey took that team lost the divisional round when malarkey was still there such a great lesson Mike Malarkey took that team to the playoffs

Mike Malarkey, I don't know you guys know what cutting I don't know what cutting your teeth means is like popping one's cherry Horse horses, I think I don't I don't know I don't know either But I think it has yes, but for the uninitiated it means, you know starting something Yeah, no, no, no, I I actually know what cutting your teeth means You know what? I mean not most people don't though I just don't know the the expression like is it a horse that cuts it I'm seeing that it's like breaking through the gums like a baby the baby's first teeth breaking through the gum Ah, there you go.

I also think the Shakespeare thing, willy-nilly being attributed to Shakespeare, not a big shock because I read, and I can't cite any other examples because all I did was read the headline, but supposedly there are 10 to 12 modern day things that are still said that go way back to Shakespeare. Dude, like every time- to Shakespeare. Only 10?

Was Billy Shakespeare just speaking gibberish? Because every time I go back and look up a phrase or a word, 40% of the time it goes back to just something William Shakespeare came up with. There you go. He just tossed things out there, and people are like, can you imagine? Why was he considered so great?

He's essentially Dr. Seuss. He's just making words up, this crazy guy. Wow. Dr. Seuss? Yeah. He's green eggs and ham? Willy nilly is Seussian, but apparently it does have old English origins too.

Are you saying William Shakespeare is overrated? I have a list of phrases here that are attributed to Shakespeare. Go ahead. My name is from Shakespeare. Wild goose chase. Break the ice. Imagine you hear wild goose chase for the first time in your life I kind of would get it like that's well said yeah in a pickle

See same like imagine being like in a pickle. What is it? Well? I guess yeah If I was in a pickle then be hard to do anything like my skin's irritated I mean he got first crack at this love that's right. Love is blind Netflix green-eyed monster Laughing stock fair play a lot That was me adding a lot he did not create a lot well he might have looked at look it up right put it on the Pole, please was Willie Shakespeare Put it on the pole, please was Willie Shakespeare

Overrated babies are so funny when they don't have teeth, right? They look so stupid I'm seeing swagger put it on the pole as well. You invented swagger Shakespeare did Shakespeare also coined the phrase that kind of thing I just like put my little finger and then they like try to bite it, but they don't have teeth and I'm like, haha You can't hurt me stupid, baby That kind of thing or the you invented swagger I try to bite it, but they don't have teeth. And I'm like, ah, you can't hurt me. Stupid baby. Oh. Well, I admit it. That kind of thing or the you invented swagger? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Another thing that I have not yet brought to completion here, AJ Brown, as I was mentioning before, was reading a book on the sidelines during the game and has posted on Twitter, because the name of the book is Inner Excellence. He is showing on Twitter that he's got a lot of passages highlighted and underlined, and he says, this game is 90% mental and 10% physical for me. I bring it to every game, this book, and I read it between each drive.

I use it to refocus and lock in despite what may transpire in the game good or bad. People tend to create controversy when they don't know the truth. I'm surprised that this was the first time we were seeing this if he's doing it all the time between drives. And it's obviously, look at me, Louie, right?

I saw someone posted a picture of one of the pages of the book and it is the opposite of Shakespeare Just like word salad about the pursuit of excellence and blah blah. I got a I can't read it. That's too boring I would read it on the show, but it's too boring. I rolled my eyes when I saw it You tired of him? No. No, I'm just making sure that we all see you reading a book there Plus we all have those tablets on the sideline Yeah, most people just are reading a book on their tablet. That's exactly what they're doing.

When Jordan Love threw an interception, he went back to read Catcher in the Rye. I wonder if there are any players listening to books on the sidelines trying to be sneaky with it. Yeah, doesn't count. You're not reading a book if you're listening. Christopher, what are you reading? I'm not used to seeing you read a book

What do you read other than menus? Wow, I did quite the digger Set yourself up Son he threw himself an alley you Son with a fat show respect. Thank you that earns a promotion of Greg Cody's podcast, the Greg Cody Show featuring Greg Cody. It's a treat. In this week's episode, stunningly enough, Greg Cody chronicles a chicken that lived for 18 months without a head.

A literal chicken with his head cut off. Shakespeare created that as well. A chicken named Mike. I made that up. It's verified. I mean, he lived 18 months, Mike did, because the jugular vein wasn't decapitated, so he was able to sustain air or something.

I don't know the details. Right. Okay, I didn't invent that. I just tell about it and we talk about it. Why don't you know the details? Yeah, you already did. If it's what's featured on your podcast. Why doesn't he know the details, right? Okay. I didn't invent that I just tell about it and we talk about it And why don't you know the deep? Yeah, you already did it. What's featured on remember the detail? Well, it's not featured It's one of my three facts Jack One of my favorite and finally as we ever did But we're on YouTube our YouTube channel and the fast channel. Yeah, and we're getting over to the fast twitch channel

We're gonna be on that before long. Would you like to live without a head for any amount of time? Put her on the pole. Would you like to live without a head for any amount of time? It's an excellent question. I'm going to say no, but I'm giving a much thought. If you're, but you couldn't. You have no head. What did old Mike in by the way? He doesn't have any details.

No, I assume he was beheaded as part of the process that ends up with the rest of us eating chicken wings. But I guess his killer didn't decapitate him quite well enough and he lived for 18 months. You're just making all that up. What I'm asking is what ultimately killed Mike if it wasn't the beheading? I mean eventually you don't have a head, what do you got to live for? Right. You know. Oh so he came in with the cars coming. Lack of water.

How did he get nutrients? You know these are details that I am unaware of. 18 months without food or water? That's a long time. And plus where did he live? Like who's keeping a headless chicken you had I'm on no We tried to get him he had died already. Yeah, that'd be a good guess. I couldn't speak even if you came on Mike the headless chicken

Coming up next on the Greg Cody show but he seems to have survived because of a blood clot surviving because most of his brain stem remained intact and it did not bleed due to a blood clot. Well said. Okay, you don't get stuff like that on many podcasts. How did he eat? We didn't get it on yours either. Well, yeah you did.

No, I went into some details. You know, blood clots get a bad rap. This blood clot saved Mike. Yeah, it did. Yeah, but it saved Mike without a head. Well but he had the rest of his body. You know, people are looking at him, nice wings, you know. I had a similar thing this morning,

I had a cockroach pop out of nowhere in my kitchen. Not similar. And I had a shoe box. Right. And my way of going after the cockroach was just, it had shoes in it so it had some heft to it. I just kinda, and I hit it, as it was scurrying away I threw the shoe box, landed right on him.

I lift the shoe block, the box up, and he's like on his back, and he's like still alive. Like the arm was like spin. Oh no. And I just left him there. Ew. You left him there. For who to pick up?

He could be like Mike is my point. That thing could still be there in my kitchen, still alive. I know what happened to Mike. What? I have here how Mike passed away. Okay. In March 1947 at a motel in Phoenix, Arizona on a stopover while traveling back from tour,

Mike started choking on his mucus in the middle of the night. The Olsons had inadvertently left their feeding and cleaning syringes at the sideshow the day before, and so were unable to save Mike. So he was, they turned him into a circus animal. They were feeding him with like, syringes to keep him alive. Seems like they turned him into a zombie.

I'm sure if we got to speak to Mike, he'd say someone please end this for me. Oh wow. My life is filled with a great deal of torment. That's what I'm saying. One of the Olsons claimed that he sold the bird off, resulting in stories of Mike still touring the country as late as 1949.

Wow, the Olsen twins. That's way too recent. Mary Kate or Ashley? Yeah, how about that? Put it on the poll please, Juju. Is Mike a strange name for a chicken? Those are probably Michael. Those cockroaches are tough SOBs, aren't they?

I mean. Oh God, they're the worst. They're the worst, they don't die. We hate them. Yeah. What's worse, the giant fat ones are like the little pervasive evil That was this one little one little those thing because those ones get everywhere not good. Yeah, those are the Germans the little ones Yeah, apparently there. I thought they were Russian. No the German cockroach. He's right. We hate the big ones

I don't like the big ones the flying ones. Yeah, the worst ones Yes, of course the flying ones are the worst. I'm less afraid like the big ones. The flying ones are the worst ones. Those are the worst ones. Yes, of course, the flying ones are the worst ones. I'm less afraid of the flying ones. What? Really? I'm with you. I'm like, it's a bird, I don't know. I wanna kill it, but.

You're less afraid of the flying ones? I'm telling you, once you've had an infestation of the little skinny ones, your life's changed. Chris, so you left this cockroach on your floor? I did. I was running late, not gonna lie, running late this morning.

You couldn't be bothered for two more seconds to just properly kill it? You leave it for your wife? Little surprise for her. Hey honey, I texted her. Hey, little surprise for you in the kitchen. For the kid. That's our anniversary tomorrow, so.

Literally divorced. I would leave Lehman if he did that to me. You leave the dead one to send a message to the other one. Yes, I was gonna say, I've done that before where I've taken a cockroach out from inside my house and left it on the doorstep so that they know if they come into this house, what's awaiting them. It's a message.

Mm-hmm. But this one was alive, Chris is saying. Maybe. It was on its back though, so it wasn't going anywhere. It was just doing its thing. They can flip over. That's cruel. Yeah, they can.

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Stugats. Shred'em! This is the Don Lebatard Show with the Stugats. Shred'em! This is the Don LeVatar Show with the Stugats. Does everyone listening to this, because forgive me, I don't know what's regional here, what's national and what's international. Am I surprising anyone in our audience with the idea that there is a flying cockroach? Or is that something that is global? Does everyone listening to this know that there's such a thing as the cockroach that flies? I don't know the answer to my own question. Perhaps we can look it up. We can answer it at the end of this segment when Stu Gotts is done with his

weekend observations. It is time for Stu Gotts to share his game notes. No one in the media will tell you what happened better than my boys, Stu. Weekend observations are brought to you by Miller Lite. Dan, there was a time when they were the toast of the NFL. Their offensive line was nicknamed the Hogs. Their receivers were nicknamed the Smurfs.

And their kicker won an MVP. But their last playoff win was in 2006. Since then, Tom Brady won three Super Bowls and the iPhone was invented. But last night, everything, and I mean everything changed. Because they found their quarterback, and that quarterback is poised. And man, is he good. And Dan, just like that, make no mistake about it. From the nation's capital,

the Washington commanders are back. Would you sign Jaden Daniels right now? Would you try to give him giant money even though the game in football lately has been- You have him on the rookie contract. Have value at quarterback. Yes, but I'm curious there whether they offer it and whether he would take it. Why would you do it now?

Just because you know you've got a great quarterback and you would be able to have him at value for a while if you did it now, whereas two or three years from now it might be more complicated to have him at value. They wouldn't offer it, but I do believe he would take it because you have no idea what's going to happen to yourself in four years. He could get hurt. Right? I don't think you can resign him this quickly, like rules wise.

I'll look into it. Jordan Love has been downgraded to Jordan like. That's not fair. They had so many people hurt. Like it best. Jordan Light. Dallas Goddard. Stiff arm. My God. Dan. The G in Goddard. Stands for grown ass man. I mean Jesus Christ. God. He's good. He's just another. When he takes his helmet off he's just one of these people, another one of these Frankensteins, where you're like, what is anyone supposed to do

with that running across the middle? Justin Herbert is the Patrick Mahomes of Ryan Tannehills. You can't spell I-N-T without the I-N-T in Justin. This just in, the H in Herbert stands for horrible. See what I did there? This is just in. Yeah, yeah, that's just in. A couple of writers there, yeah.

I'm taking the T from Herbert and moving it behind the N in Justin and making it silent. So now his first name is spelled J-U-S-T-I-N-T. And if someone asks whose fault it was that the Chargers got bounced out in the first round of the playoffs, the likely response would be, oh, it was Justin's. Now spelled J-U-S-T-I-N-T apostrophe S.

Justin Herber, the fourth. After the third year is when you can negotiate rookie deals. He left in 2014, yet every time I turn on a Marquette basketball game, I'm surprised the person not roaming the sidelines is Buzz Williams. I Don't know if I said that correctly or not. I was so proud of my Justin jokes Hey, Greg McElroy Was saying that right then no McElroy yes

That guy such a strange dyslexic. It's just it's. It's just, it's just, it's just there. Where's the second try? Do me a favor. Stop talking about NFL accuracy. When you don't know a single thing about NFL accuracy. Oh man. I'm sorry, he doesn't. Come on.

College accuracy, maybe. Maybe, but not NFL. Dan, he's not qualified. It'd be like Tebow doing it. But Tebow was better. I want a playoff game. Rockets. Remember that?

I do remember that, yeah. Spags. I care about you. Don't do it. Don't do what? Jets coach. You skipped that one. Even though I have to be honest,

it would be great, if we're gonna be bad, I might as well be friends with a coach He's my friend But because he's my friend I care about in poorly between you and Adam Gase We haven't spoken in a while like golf and Had a heater But then you ripped them

I have to heater but Didn't you stop talking because of how honest you were on the air? He stopped talking because he couldn't get anything out of him. Right. The succubus has moved on. He's no longer the coach. What is he going to get him? Maybe you stopped talking because of all the asks that you made. Perhaps.

I mean he works for Omaha. He works for the mannings now. The manning cast Yeah, you you could be someone who can still get stuff from him. Oh guys case Case doesn't want to give anything on Round the golf a heater The best recruiter Miami has is Hannah Cavender The you is Beck. Going eight and four has

never been so expensive. Jim Harbaugh. Blah, blah, blah. Jim Harbaugh. More like Jim Harbaugh. Jim Horblah. Why is Matt LeFur's seat never hot? LeFur. LeFle. Sorry, I said it wrong. But why is that seat never hot? Explain it to me. It's like Todd Bowles' seat.

Everybody was hurt. I want to hear about hurt. Excuse us, please. Everyone's hurt this time of year, Dan. Anyway, Joe Mixon, the rare running back who started his career as elusive and ended his career as a punisher. It's crazy. Joe Mixon's good. I mean, Joe Mixon's been good.

Yeah, I thought of another annoying golf thing over the weekend in Practicing your putting indoors going to play golf the next day getting to the first green and realizing The putter is still inside your house What did you do Use the hybrid What so I had you on a one some you didn't have any ones you could borrow. No, That's all I had. You want to one some? You didn't have any ones you could borrow? No, I'm a lefty.

Oh. You're a flat stick, Dan. You couldn't go back home? No. Obviously not, Dan. Obviously Dan doesn't play golf. That's a six minute golf cart ride. It's four. Is it a six minute golf cart ride. It's four. Is it the Jets golf cart?

Is your trick out your Jets golf cart or is it a different golf cart? No, it's still the Jets ones. It's getting old. I'm thinking about the Bills. Yeah, Bills golf cart. I really am. When Josh Allen gets to a third down, he has you right where he wants you. Mike Vrabel back in New England,

Vrabes, that's all I got. That seemed not worth writing. That seems like an observation not worth making. Vrabes, I mean. To the pint of Baskin Robbins Pralines and Cream I purchased at Publix on Friday night. If I'm being honest, and I never am, I knew it was going to be a one night affair.

This second I laid eyes on you. You ate the whole thing in a night? Oh, Pralines was great. They're good, I love Pralines. Oh, Pralines and Cream is my favorite. Underrated treat, Pralines was great. Oh. They're good. I love. Oh, Pralines and Cream is my favorite. Underrated treat, Pralines. Oh, so good. You were great, by the way.

Just me? Or does DeAngelo Russell just keep getting traded back and forth from Los Angeles to Brooklyn? And it's the only two teams he played for. I know he played for the Timberwolves. People are going to correct me, but it's Brooklyn to LA. LA back to Brooklyn, Brooklyn to LA, LA to Brooklyn. They're the only two teams who want him. He's a trade chip.

He's not even a basketball player. Swaggy P says he's a traiter. Swaggy P told him, get the hell out of town because of all of their past together. When did taking your dog everywhere become a thing? Your dog doesn't need to go to the grocery store. Here, here. It's enough. Leave it at home. Here come the red wings.

How about that Bruins Panthers game the other night? Wild. That's crazy. It was a one o'clock Bruins. One o'clock. And they springboard into the playoffs. SMU women's basketball was up 49 to 18 at halftime against Pitt and lost 72 to 59. You know what that is, right Dan? I don't know. It's a tale of two halves. Okay, thank you, I'm sorry. I should have known what that was.

Conference is legit. They went on like a 28 to zero run. That's crazy. Georgia Tech Notre Dame this week inside the ACC. Oh nice. Kyle McCord was born to be an NFL backup quarterback that you could talk yourself into winning a late season spot

start. The K and Kyle stands for clipboard. Jake Elliott playing with fire. And that's all I have. Taylor. Lamar Jackson versus Josh Allen next week. Winner should be hoisting the Lombardi Trophy. Except this winner goes to Kansas City against the guy who was hoisted the last two Lombardi trophies. This is not fair. It isn't. It really isn't. They are playing the game of the season. Lamar versus Josh.

It should be for everything. And it's not. It's just the right to go to Kansas City and lose. Hasn't it been this way like every year in recent years with the Bengals, Bills, and Chiefs? If Ohio State beats Notre Dame, Michigan is my national champion in my personal record book. Really? Stugotsbook.com. If Notre Dame beats Ohio State, Northern Illinois is my national champion in my personal record book. Stugoutsbook.com.

I would give Thomas Hammock a ring. I'd give him seven rings. Did any pull aside Marcus Freeman afterwards and say, this is how we beat you? And he just gave him all his intel? He claimed, yeah, he claimed that he told him like on the phone, like, this is how we won.. And he just gave him all his intel. He claimed, yeah, he claimed that he told him like on the phone, like, this is how we won. And Marcus Freeman was like, yes, we know.

He cheated. He's cheating. It's a really, really bad game from our whole offense. Imagine telling a Michigan fan before the season, you would beat Ohio State and Alabama this season and not make it to the playoff. Notre Dame versus Penn State, the rare game that started as a clunker

that turned into a classic. That game was awful for three quarters. Just awful. And then it became a classic. Jessica and Mike wouldn't let me have that last week. I didn't say it was awful. I didn't say it was awful. I didn't go awful, but I'm like,

I don't confuse great games with great endings. I just feel like you guys do a lot of the points equal good, no points equal bad thing, in your analysis of good versus bad game. We need to start a new character for Dan, the Game Police. Because every time we come in here, every week, this game was good, this game not good enough, this game was good for five minutes,

and then not good, then good again. But all the games he says are good, it's like, okay, someone scored more than 30 points. Yesterday's games were not good. The last one was good. The weekend's football games were not good football games. Agreed. I would have bet Alabama

against either Notre Dame or Penn State. Should be Ohio State. Taylor. Would you take Alabama against Notre Dame? No. Notre Dame beat Georgia last week. I don't want to hear about it. I mean, I asked you, I should want to hear about it.

I don't want to hear about it. I don't know why I asked you. It's unfair of me to ask you. I'm sorry. I asked you. Take back the question. It's unfair of me to ask you. I'm sorry. I asked you. I take back the question. It's not a serious take. What do you mean it is? I would take Alabama. No one should take your advice then.

When your parents name you Jack Sawyer, you know what you were born to do? Play linebacker at The Ohio State University. Or paint a fence. Or paint a fence. You agree, right, Dan? I do. Ryan Dakin, scoot. Ohio State University. Or paint a fence. Or paint a fence. You agree, right, Dan? I do. Ryan Day can scoot. You see him running down the sidelines?

He's a good coach. He's gonna get fired. He is gonna get fired, you're saying? I mean, if he doesn't win this one. Again, since December 21st, he's beaten two of the top three SEC teams and the number one team in the country lost the Michigan Yeah, what's he done lately? Houston Texans getting hot at the right time got to be honest. I like their chances against the Texans

You're gonna keep making that joke you're gonna keep calling the Kansas City Chiefs the former Dallas Texans you're gonna keep making that joke? You're gonna keep calling the Kansas City Chiefs the former Dallas Texans? You're gonna keep doing that? Can't say Chiefs, I gotta say Texans. I love screaming fake at my TV on a fake punz. Put it on the poll please, that Levitard show. Do you love screaming fake at your TV at a fake punz?

Boy, Sean Payton was feeling good about himself on that one, huh? Sean Payton, they had that queued up on television Let's go right back to halftime after after the Super Bowl halftime and let's show Sean Payton's onside kick It was also a ro mo being like I said he was gonna do that. I said in the meetings He was gonna do something crazy. You know, what's funny about that? How about Tom Brady yesterday trying to pull his best ro mo? God, he stinks Brady's terrible But he's like this is for sure gonna be a pass here.

Nope, as they ran the ball. Are you guys all doing what I'm doing where you're just like, stop talking. The next play is going. It's week 20 at this point. How does he not know this? Yesterday he was like, I don't like when quarterbacks run the ball

and I almost passed out. I was like, what? He's terrible. He's terrible. He's terrible. It's not even that he's mediocre. He's bad at it. Steve Sarkeesian is going to be haunted by that second down loss play from the one yard line

for the remainder of his life. Sarc. I like Sarc, man. I want to see Texas win that thing, but that's what you get for not starting a manning. When you have a manning when you have a manning You start a manning. You have to I mean Did he get concuss in that game? I'm pretty sure he got hit pretty hard

You were just busy Sorry I asked you a question about the game Taylor I'm not gonna play any of that. I'm a woozy man. I'm familiar with your work. I'm sorry, I asked you a question about the game, Taylor. Two Midwest teams playing for a national championship. This is the SEC's version of hell. Speaking of hell, Arp Riles.

Dan, those are the weekend observations. I am curious. I know that many of you are fed up with how much I talk about the violence in football. I saw yesterday, there were a couple. I heard. Baccelli's gonna call soon, you know that, right? Every time you do this, Baccelli gets mad at you.

Yeah, but the reason I wanna bring it up, okay, is just because, not just because of the amazing sort of word salad that I got yesterday, which is Demar Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest and needed CPR, third and eight from the bills, 44 yard line. The same thing happened with Al Michaels. Al Michaels was talking about the fires,

and then he's like, he says, brutal, awful, loss of humanity and homes, third and four, from the Baltimore 34. But when we're talking about the national championship game and the season of Jessica's life that can be made even more amazing if they pull an upset as what I believe will be a double-digit underdog by the time the game is played. It just seems wrong for Notre Dame to

have to play 15 games and because they played 15 games they've got nine or ten guys who are out with season-ending injuries and the point spread in this game wouldn't be that if they weren't playing so many games. I'm watching Green Bay against Philadelphia. Philadelphia didn't play particularly well but Green Bay is so hurt at the end of the season that it's like they got a guy on fourth and short or whatever Heath catching the ball and he can't catch it in bounds because he's not because they've got so many receivers out like he's throwing Jordan Love is throwing a normal fourth and two out

He was Jordan like I mean Dan I hear you but like that's the sport like it everyone's hurt at this time of year I think some teams obviously have worse injury luck than others Notre Dame, especially like this season there They lost their left tackle on Thursday night they lost their best player of the season in week five. There is tons of attrition, and that's why having depth on these, that's why if you build a team just using the portal, and then all your starters get hurt, you're not probably gonna make a deep postseason run.

And so Notre Dame hasn't done that, and that's why they've been able to win in the postseason, because they've had a lot of players that aren't starters step in and make huge plays. Obviously, that can only take you so far, so maybe this Ohio State game would be a lot closer if both teams played three months ago with full strength. I don't know, I can't tell you that.

But yeah, like that's part of the sport is that it's brutal and people get hurt all the time. Jess, I was amazed to hear that Marcus Freeman and Notre Dame only have four transfers from the portal. Like four, one of them obviously the quarterback, but four. What you mean on this year's team Yes, that's not true. No from this class from last year's class for that's not a lot. Is it? Well, I don't get what you mean. They don't have they're not reliant to your point

They're not as reliant on transfers and the transfer portal as most teams have become reliant on that thing But I would also say that like they're starting quarterback as a portal player. There's wide receiver They're like yeah, they're starting like you know names use the portal less than a lot of teams, but they've used it very wisely I would say their kicker is a portal player The guy that made the big play in the Georgia game RJ open was a portal player like that They just impressive because Marcus Freeman who is now flirting with the NFL. He shown an ability to develop players. They're flirting with him I don't know if he's flirting back yet. I'll keep you posted if I hear that he is flirting back

They would be so lucky. Yeah, no takes to the table player development is like a huge part of the part of the like modern College football, you know like you can't win a game with just patching or a Championship when you have to play four postseason games sometimes five postseason you just patching up a championship when you have to play four postseason games, sometimes five postseason games to win, just patching up like holes. Like you have to have underclassmen that are able to start and be ready to play if their numbers called.

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