The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: ...Going For It?

Episode Date: January 29, 2024

There's only one thing we know for certain after this weekend's slate of NFL games: America loves Field Goals. Dan, Stu, and the Shipping Container spend the Local Hour dissecting every angle of yesterday's games between the Ravens and Chiefs and the 49ers and Lions. What was it that really cost the Lions the game? Should Dan Campbell have been more of a coward? Should Bill Belichick replace Tony Romo in the booth? Does Stugotz have TWO of the worst Chiefs takes of all-time? Was Zay Flowers more important to the Chiefs than Travis Kelce? Is Brock Purdy sneaky athletic? Did Taylor Swift care about being on TV? Why didn't the Ravens run the ball? Do Bob Weir's songs ramble? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is the Don Lebator Show with the Stugatz Podcast. All right, excellent work. The 5 and 39 talk is what they just yelled in my ear. I heard it. Just talk, talk. That's your life, man. Talk. That's your life, man. Talk! The five and 39 pistons beat Oklahoma City by 16 at home yesterday.

And he given Sunday. The city of Detroit surely is thrilled today. Under any other circumstance, do gods, except what happened yesterday. I tell you, Detroit's playing in that game and they lose by three points, 34-31, and the city of Detroit is thrilled with the season that they had. Just delighted with an amazing season,

but when you gagged that game up the way they did, and you know how much I dislike that we've made sports about blaming people instead of crediting them, but in those games yesterday, the losers deserve the blame for being maximum losers. And I'm stunned that America, which is divided on everything evidently today, a historic day is in unison

on we're all profil goal. We've never loved field goals so much, Jess, are you gonna be with me? Cause I'm gonna go the other way on this. I haven't heard much of anybody do anything except crush Dan Campbell for playing the way he has all season. And according to next gen stats,

doing the things that had the best probabilities because this year's still got some plus territory yeah they went for it on fourth and three or shorter 20 of 24 times and converted 17 of the 20 they're good at that Dan Campbell wants to scare you on offense want you to be backpedaling you can't control that Reynolds is gonna suddenly drop the ball there's a time and a place Dan and you have to go by feel of the game you wants you to be backpedaling, you can't control it. Reynolds is gonna suddenly drop the ball. There's a time and a place, Dan, and you have to go by feel of the game.

You do, you just have to go, occasionally, Dan, you have to go by the feel of the game. And at 24 to 10, they've scored a touchdown, second half, you wanna give your team a three-score lead. And to not go for the field goal in that spot, to not go for the field goal later in the second half, that's a terrible job, I'm sorry, by Dan Campbell. So let me come at this another way, okay, because we can argue about this,

and I don't have a ton of conviction about what I'm saying to you, but I'm gonna set up the argument on the other side, because most people are gonna say, we'll go for it all the time. Nah, it's different going for it when you don't have behind the safeties to play with. You're close to the end zone. Fourth and three from the five-yard line, it's more difficult

because you can't get beyond the safeties. When you play reward versus risk, going forward on fourth and three, you want the option of a 60-yard touchdown because you want to be able to use the whole field. But what I would say to you about this that I think is being missed is the following a Lot of people a are presuming in these situations that the field goals are going to be made First of all at which point if it gets missed you're gonna be the first one there Campbell You played that way all season. Why you coward in that spot? Because we have the results now, but the second one I think is just as interesting because this part is something that as I'm watching

these games, I wonder why it's not taken into consideration. If Campbell kicks the field, go to tie. Under what circumstance in that second half did you have them stopping San Francisco when San Francisco wanted to score? Under any circumstances, because all San Francisco Francisco did like when we're sitting here talking about coaching decisions why isn't anyone talking about the fact that at half whatever the adjustments were Detroit couldn't score anymore and all San

Francisco did was go up and down the field the best unit I saw yesterday Stugots of any kind was the detroit lines off into line in that first half over the last four weeks and francisco is allowed five yards a carry the running backs right for weeks they allow the ball to be run what makes you think if detroit had tied the game that san francisco would have just kept scoring they were doing at the entire second half to me the worst thing that happened in that game

of any kind stew God was at the very end and we love the last up this part is super weird to me because I thought we always choose the last thing to question not the things before that everyone's talking field goals and the fact that they ran the ball on third down and then had to use one of their timeouts terrible keep all three time out that was the biggest coaching decision mistake in the entire game by Dan Campbell. I understand, but the two field goals Dan, one puts him up three scores,

he did it at the end of the first half, the other one ties the game. It ties the game. I don't think, especially if this is your take on things, you don't get the gloss over, he did it at the end of the first half. So he gave you both versions of what you're supposed to do. He did go by feel.

He was like, okay, I don't wanna run the risk of them having the ball coming out to start the second half, and us just being up 14. Let me go by feel here. So he gave you both examples that you're asking for, and he saw where that got him, and he decided for a more aggressive tack the second time. You could argue that backfired on him,

because you saw how quickly they made that 17 point lead disappear. You could almost argue he should have gone for it. You saw it paid off and it hurt them in the second half. And I understand that Wilkes made defensive adjustments, but it wasn't adjustments that turned that game around. It was luck, because three consecutive drives from the Lions, this is how it went.

Josh Reynolds drop, pass was a little behind but it hit him in the hands, Gibbs fumble, Josh Reynolds drop, Niners got lucky too. No wait, Mike, Mike, you're fucking gonna, Off the helmet catch, that one, that one, That was the game, should have been picked. That was the game, that was insane. That was an incredible play and I understand

that they picked the flag up afterwards. If IUK doesn't make that catch, maybe the flag stays down. So I understand that was a tremendous play, but I'm talking about they couldn't stop Detroit. And then they got three consecutive stops, and it wasn't because they were particularly awesome, it's because they got lucky. Let's play some sound here from Dan Campbell.

He is getting beat up and he's saying, I know this is part of the gig, it's how it works. He's crushed obviously and Chris Cody has been fairly singing all morning around here. Everybody loves the aggressive coach until he's just a little too aggressive. Let's listen to Dan Campbell. Sometimes you can only say so much, you got to live it unfortunately and you got to get Let's listen to be twice as hard to get back to this point next year than it was this year. That's the reality. And if we don't have the same hunger and the same work, which is a whole other thing, once we get the off season, then we got no shot of getting back here.

I don't care how much better we get or what we add or what we drive. It's irrelevant. It's going to be tough. Everybody in our division is going to be loaded back up and you know, you're not hiding from anybody anymore. Everybody's going to want a piece of you and which is fine, you know, which is fine. But so it's hard. You want to make the most of every opportunity and we had an opportunity and we just couldn't

close it out. It goes. It stings. It stings. That nose is red. Why? The reddest nose I've ever seen. He's kinda right too.

It's not usually, usually when someone makes their debut, it signals an error, especially if you look at the trajectory of season over season success that Dan Campbell's had there. But he's right. You look within their own division. The Packers look to be like a problem going forward. Caleb Williams is probably entering that division. Minnesota was hamstrung by a bunch of injuries this year. It's not often that you find yourself conveniently because

of the way the Cowboys lose in the first round. There were a lot of things that broke their way this year, including a big lead in that game. It's hard to get back there, and Man Campbell actually had the right perspective. There are a couple of things that I wanna get to from that game, because San Francisco beat you even though Kittle did nothing, which I'm always stunned when Kittle does nothing.

He blocked, yeah. He's like that though, he's boomer-bust stunned when Kittle does nothing. He blocked. Yeah, he's like that though He's boomer bus George Kittle like it's weird. He has really good games with then just nothing burgers The sequence that Mike is talking about there fourth down drop by Reynolds dropped interception off of a face mask I want you to understand how weird it is in one-on-one coverage to throw a football 50 yards downfield hit someone in the face mask with it and Have it pop up in a way that's catchable. It's 50 yards. It's dried. It's 50. It's 50 yards It's not it's not a normal thing for the ball to pop up that way when you've thrown it 50 yards Think about the the think about the way the ball is shaped and the way a face mask is shaped. And if I threw it 50 yards, 50 times,

do you think I'm getting that bounce to IEUQ? Again, one more time. Then you get the third down drop by Reynolds. And I don't know that anyone feels worse than that dude today. Anyone, I mean, maybe Zay Flowers. Definitely Zay Flowers. I mean. I do feel bad Definitely Zay Flowers. I mean.

I do feel bad about the fourth down discourse because a lot of it is like, don't blame Dan Campbell, blame Josh Reynolds because he dropped an easy one. And it is a team loss. I feel bad for all of them. You feel the worst for Zay Flowers today though. If you're gonna feel bad for someone out there.

Yes, worst 30 seconds a player probably could have playing that position in an AFC Championship game. Let's go through what happened there because Stugats, and I'm not someone who generally says the cliche of experience matters in those situations, but the two teams that coughed it up don't have any experience in those situations, but the two teams that coughed it up Don't have any experience in those situations and Detroit had one guy who does have experience in those situations Golf and it wasn't his fault. He can't also catch the ball

He made he made the throws that should result in the conversion the mark and catch the ball mark can catch the ball I thought that would have been an 80-yard touchdown if he had broken the ankle tackle. It was close It was almost it would have been the best play we've ever seen Well, Romo said it was anyway. It still was a great play. He needed to clarify. It was the best 13-yard play he's ever seen Yeah, yeah, can I ask you a Tony Romo question? We I did this like very briefly with two guys. I got this football that'll come out soon So this is not a retread. But I discovered something happening yesterday with Tony Romo, where essentially everyone is over Tony Romo, except Chris Cody, who tweeted out that he is

in the best broadcast team that there is everyone everywhere in the world yesterday, was pooping all over Tony Romo, saying, I cannot believe they better have an opt out with this guy. There better be an option to get out of his contract. This guy is not doing a good job. And then Chris, like 20 minutes later, is like, this is the best broadcasting I've ever heard.

I think that everybody would want this team. I'm totally with Chris. I mean, they're just so good. I think everyone is just completely wrong. Like there's no debate about it. Jim Nance is fantastic. There is debate. No, there's not.

Well, it's happening right now. No, people are wrong. Everyone's wrong. Tony Roma, who has enthusiasm, the info. I mean, Greg Olson, I'm not saying Greg Olson isn't also good, but just the height of it. It's just, it's fantastic. I missed the predictive analysis. He used to do things that kept it exciting in the bedroom. He was, remember how we all fell in love with Tony Romo? It was, here's what's going to happen. This once the last time he's done that. I'm gonna stop.

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So the winner. I mean that is the greatest conversation I've ever had with my cornerback. This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugas. Greg Olsen is the new hot young thing and Greg Olsen may have called his last game because or last game there as part of that broadcast team because that job is supposed to go to Tom Brady for $375 million guaranteed. I saw a sports media agent quoted anonymously and I don't know why we would talk to these people anonymously, but CBS did talk to a sports media agent anonymously and that agent said the following.

Every network would want Bill Belichick, he would revolutionize media with the way he prepares. Good plan. The deep out, good coaching. I wonder who the agent was. I don't know why you would quote a sports media agent anonymously. CBS Sports, shame on you. Don't do that.

Make those people talk publicly with their name on things if they're going to say things like that. That Bill Belichick is going to revolutionize media. What the bleep are you talking about? That's a sports media agent right there. But Belichick is going to be blocked by Tom Brady for the good job. For the job that he wants, Brady's going to be able to decide whether or not he wants to do it for three hundred and seventy five million dollars.

And Rich Eisen has suggested that Belichick and Saban team together on something that is the equivalent of the Manning cast, where they just break down games. You have to get them right now, because, to God, it's the game that evolves so much that Romo can no longer predict the plays, but Belichick still can. Right. Belichick can still be like, stop them.

What do you think's the most absurd offer or like email Bill Belichick's agents got in the last couple of weeks? He's gotta be getting a lot of stuff like, hey, come on, this show. You wanna be on a reality show? Hey, like I just, dude, there's got to be some weird ones out there.

I'm just like, hey, come, like I don't know, it's got to be wacky. There's got to be one email where, He's going to be on Masked Singer. Where the agent actually, He's going to revolutionize the Masked Singer. The Masked Singer, that's a perfect example of like, come on Bill, everyone thinks of you,

everyone looks at you this way. You want to change the narrative a little bit? Mike Ryan was hoping Stugatz. He came in today while you were doing God bless football and he said, do you think Stugatz will surprise us with a take today? Do you think he will stun us? So far, we're over one. You have taken exactly the tack that he thought you would take with Dan Campbell, where you say, you're the guy who lost the game, therefore you're the reason that they lost. What do you do, Stugatz, with the mathematical fact that next-gen stats say that in both

instances he chose the most probable best mathematical result to go for it in those situations and the numbers I just gave you that in plus territory They went for it this year 20 of 24 times and they made it 17 of the 20 So Dan Campbell says that as an assistant coach with New Orleans He loved how afraid other teams were when Drew Brees was going for it on fourth and short because of course because of course you would be. And in that game, Stugatz, in the first half, I would have trusted the Detroit offense to do anything they wanted. Detroit was just gutting, they were gutting San Francisco in a way that was confusing to me to see them up 24-7 and I'm thinking when he kicks the field goal in that situation I am thinking bury them go and bury them. I know you can get up by three touchdown

24-7 at half is I know but he could have been up 28-7 if he had played the way he has played all season I understand why he didn't still got I understand the inconsistency You understand what I'm saying when I when I say it when you're close to the end zone Those three yards are harder to get because you just, you can't get behind the defense. There's no threat of getting behind the defense. So I understand kicking in that spot because of how congested everything gets in that situation. But Stu Gott nationally is now responsible for what some people are calling the worst take in the history of sports takes because Patrick Mahomes has now been in four Super Bowls

in the last five years. Go ahead, Andy Reid. I dare you to go 14 and two and allow Alex Smith to leave Arrowhead Stadium to leave Kansas City. Go ahead, I dare you, because of Patrick Mahomes. Because you think you could turn Patrick Mahomes into something that Alex Smith is not. Alex Smith is a very good quarterback. The audacity. First off, to do this to Alex

Smith, who's been very good and loyal to Andy Reid and want him a lot of football games to dangle Patrick Mahomes out there because Andy Reid thinks he's some sort of quarterback whisper, which he is not, by the way, he is not because if he was Alex Smith would be better than he's been the last few years. So put a while there was I mean that's a record for country it's on Andy Reed that is a that is a world record for Stugots not paying attention to any of the things he said the sentence before I've listened to that man like probably I don't know 10 or 15 times the last like two years the end gets me every time it never never, it truly never gets old.

It's like better than any twist in any movie I've ever watched. Well, thank you. If Alex Smith had that kind of defense, I mean, would have won a few Super Bowls. I mean, how about that? Is Jessica, is that take from Stugatz? Cause we have a rival now.

We have a rival to that, the worst take on the chiefs there's ever been. I can't get anything right with this, Steve. We have a rival to that, the worst take on the Chiefs there's ever been. I can't get anything right with this, Steve. Here is the rival to that, also from the Stugatz category. Dan, this time of year, everyone talks about teams they don't want to see come play off time. I want to talk about a team that I actually want to see come play off time. I want to see the Chiefs.

I want Patrick Mahomes strolling into my stadium with Max confidence. I want Travis Kelsey. I want Taylor Swift. I want the team that lost to Jordan Love. I want the team that lost to Aiden O'Connell. I want the team that trailed 70 to nothing to Jake Browning. That is the team that I would like to face in the playoffs. That's the team indeed. I that I would like to face in the playoffs. That's the team indeed, that I would want to face in the playoffs because that team is not very good.

I have been saying for years, there was something off in Kansas City. Last year that take didn't go so well for me. They won the Super Bowl. This year it's going very, very well. They are 10 and six, they're down. The offense is not what it used to be. The defense doesn't travel well. They're good at home, they're down, the offense is not what it used to be, the defense doesn't travel well,

they're good at home, not great on the road. I want, if I'm a playoff team, I don't want Flacco, I don't want Mike Tomlin, I don't want any of those teams. The teams that I want strolling into my stadium, Kansas City Chiefs, shock it. I still think that Alex Smith one's like a slightly better, like it's a one-seater. Which he is not, by the way. I don't want flacco

I will say though. I thought like everyone Collectively decided figuratively and literally two years ago Don't bet against Patrick Mahomes like he will do something crazy He will win games. He is just that good and I've stuck to my guns I picked the chiefs to play in the Super Bowl because I have been, I'm like the Dan Campbell of picking Patrick Mahomes. I'm like, I'm going to go for it every time. And he's going to win so many times that I'll be right more than I'm wrong.

And so I feel great today because I knew all along, Stugatz. Patrick Mahomes is just inevitable. The one that hurts today for me, Dan, because I was kind of right about the offense. It's not as good as it used to be It's not as good as years past. They just went to the Super Bowl with 17 points Yeah, the defense doesn't travel is the one that's gonna haunt me I mean that goes right in the teeth of the cliche that defense does travel

Snead is overwhelming and He had that same sequence that Jessica's talking about was Zay Flowers, which goes like this. First of all, the first part of it, Zay Flowers is wide open, catches the ball. I can't imagine a whole lot of things scarier than trying to tackle that dude in the open field

and Snead did. He like tripped him and, but I thought that that was going to be a touchdown, should have been a touchdown because of how much room that he had. Snead tackles him, Snead gets taunted by him, Snead then later in that series knocks the ball out at the half-yard line and frustrates flowers so much that he cuts his hand while slamming his helmet down and is ineffective the rest of the game. You guys mentioned Patrick Mahomes inevitable and he made one throw in the second half, but they had 67 yards in the second half. They did nothing in the second half. They didn't score. They did, but they did nothing. It's not just nuts.

That passed to M.V.S. Dan to put the game. Agreed. I was like, all right, that's not just nuts. That passed to MVS Dan to put the game. Agreed. I was like, all right, that's it. I've seen enough. How great was it that that's how the Chiefs made it to this game? It was perfect. A team that has dropped more passes than everyone

that's had so many balls bounce off of receivers hands and that circus catch is what gets them to the receiver. And he gets to shush the crowd. Like that was like, all of you all season, you shut up. That was not to that crowd. That was to the whole season. We also talk about, by the way, the greatest penalty in the history of penalties

where the Reavids intentionally forced a first and 10 by giving them 15 yards from a first and five. I watched and I was like, this is genius. Why did this not happen more often? He should have just jumped without aggressively hitting him. It made no difference. No, it would have been five yards It doesn't matter though

It's the same result what you wanted was for them to lose those five yards and make it first and ten if you're gonna do it Do it because you don't want it to be a tiki-tack thing where then like we don't really need to call that one do it Yeah, I mean mom's is such a star that history will remember that being the game That's the dagger the throat a MBS, but not outgold and vindication of Deion Bush intercepting Lamar Jackson as he threw into triple coverage. That's why he chose Brad Gaia. The difference in that game was that Kansas City wanted in the first half, Stugats, and they won in the first half, at least in

part, because you can feel the differences between those two teams on third down. My homes kept converting those in the first half at least in part because you can feel the differences between those two teams on third down. Mahomes kept converting those in the first half and you didn't trust Baltimore to convert any of those. Lamar Jackson had a lot of undisciplined throws that weren't even just the interception because the only way the Ravens can lose that game is if they did it the way that they did it. Turning the ball over in the end zone, around the end zone. I mean, triple coverage when a field goal isn't bad there. Like, take the points.

You have the greatest field goal kicker of all time, like triple coverage in that spot. And I know people are isolating, likely getting pushed. That's when the ball's already in push's hands. Like, that was just a terrible decision. And he got away with others because they dropped interceptions. Lamar Jackson and Zay flowers lost that game Your your envy your two best offensive players lost that game Baltimore played its worst offensive game of the season They scored ten points and they were wildly on discipline because people will talk about flowers

But I think they will simply forget Stu gots that at the end of the first half It's 14-7 and van noy decides I'm gonna headbutt Kelsey. And it's 15 yards and now you just gave him three points. Kelsey was setting that one up all game long. He was setting it up beforehand by taking Tucker, so to tease before the game. He was trying to irritate them from the moment he came out.

He's been trying to irritate everybody since he started dating Taylor Swift. It's working. It is working. That guy wins it every single. It's working. It is working That guy wins it everything handbagger 11 catches on 11 targets against that safety in those linebackers Don lebatard. We got a free knee hard away Free me I was trying to read fast you dews on the team Luke Jackson

Bobby Jones the Matrix Sean Marion Stugats Zo Shaxe moust Parker Chris Quinn D-Wave Jason Williams the roll right I mean stacked roster this is the done levitar show with a stooge at Two guys! When Dan Campbell says how hard it is to get back there and when Jessica says that Patrick Mahomes is inevitable, playoff games obviously hard to win, road playoff games. Patrick Mahomes won one of those yesterday. The Lions haven't won one of those since 1957.

It's pretty hard to win the road playoff games. How about this stat from Danny Parkins? This one's going to hurt Jessica. The Chicago Bears have 10 playoff wins in the modern era. Mahomes has 14. Double-doink hurts them there. 10 playoff wins in the entirety of the modern era. But, Sugatz does have an opinion here, Mike.

He does have an opinion, and I think that's going to surprise you. Are you ready? He's got the top five most important players or people for the chiefs in 2023, 2024. Are you ready? I don't think he's going to surprise me. I think he is going to surprise you. He is going to surprise you. Number five.

Chris Jones. That guy is a menace. He is really good. That's correct. That is correct. Thank you. Two guys that is good analysis. Yes, he is big and strong and scary. Number four, Isaiah Pacheco. That guy is a menace, man. He runs very hard. Number three, Rishi Rice. Their season turned the second he started to be productive. They needed him and he delivered. I know we talked about the tush push as being an unstoppable play,

but I think given what Kelsey did yesterday, Cooper Cup had some of this last year, where you saw in the Super Bowl, no look passes to a guy. We knew it was going to him. They didn't have any other receivers. And still it couldn't be stopped by the Bengals. The fact that they couldn't stop Kelsey when they're good at stopping someone like Kelsey, when they have Hamilton and those linebackers covering people, tight ends can't do anything. And he still

had 11 catches on 11 targets. It's not a stoppable thing. When Hamilton hasn't surrendered a touchdown to any other tight ends this season and he was brilliant in that game, the pass especially to Kelsey for that first score was phenomenal. Knowing how good that Chief's defense is, obviously. If I told you guys before the game the Chiefs were going to score 17 you'd feel pretty confident Baltimore's winning yeah hot takes Spaggs should be talked about as one of the greatest DCs ever number two Spaggs wait a minute there's some people missing here wait a minute where you can't

wow so far this is very surprising and finally number one most important people or players for the chiefs in 2023 2024 around the chiefs a flower around the chiefs no Mahomes no Kelsey no Snead it's only 17 points that they scored and Lamar Jackson's gonna get dragged all day today, right, because your MVP has to be better than that. I tried to warn him a week ago, like last week he was the greatest quarterback, most important player in the NFL, and this week it started early this morning

with several people, not me, but several people ripping Lamar Jackson, yes. Not you though. Was there anyone else watching the game after it was 7-7 that was like, oh, it's gonna be a shootout Right my watch party said that Can you explain to me why it is that I kept hearing on the broadcast last night that that I kept hearing on the broadcast last night that Purdy's not that athletic.

I'm like, have you seen the Dolphins quarterback run in the open field? Because he dresses like Mr. Rogers. Is that what it is? Put it on the poll, please, Juju, at LeBatard show. Is Purdy seen as unathletic because he dresses like Mr. Rogers? Because he looked pretty quick,

scooting out of the pocket to me. Oh, he has not flashed that all season long. Like occasionally he'll scamper off and you'll be like, oh, that's surprising, but 50 plus rushing yards. What don't you have three fewer than Lamar did yesterday? I would have been less surprised if a UFO landed on the field.

And it wasn't just like the 50 yards, it was him escaping, breaking tackles, looking strong, even though he does not look 6-1 at all out there. The thing that was most impressive to me, Stugatz, about what Spags and the Chief's defense did is that they not only, because this is what neutralized Baltimore. Baltimore was excellent, at least in part this year,

because they could run the ball and throw it to the tight ends. If I now just make it, hey, Lamar, Zays your only option, because there were no other options. They're tight ends. The tight ends, he's been able to catch us for Beckham, but there were no other options. But Lamar Jackson, I told you this last week,

the two most efficient plays in the sport this season were Jackson to likely and Jackson to Andrews. They were non-factors yesterday, the both of them. They took the tight ends away and also Lamar Jackson, you'd take that before the game if you're Kansas City, 50-something rushing yards from Lamar Jackson? Why did Gus Edwards only carry three times? They're a great rushing team. Edwards looked good. Edwards was averaging 6.7 yards per carry. Yeah, one long wall.

The last five games that Kansas City has played, they've allowed 3.4 yards per carry. You can't run against them. Nobody can. Nobody certainly couldn't pass on them. It was a 17 to 10 final score. They were always within a spread that said we could keep running the ball here. They have one of the greatest running threats, if not the greatest at the, at the quarterback position ever. I don't understand it.

Everything about their offense was predicated on the run, doing that and then doing well. And it's setting up the pass. And they just had a really strange game plan too. But you did hear what I said though, right? They couldn't run against Kansas City. And if I told you before the game, Kansas City's game plan is make the MVP beat you.

That's not a great game plan. But the thing is they could run against them. Lamar averaged, there were three ball carriers, not counting Zay flowers in those gimmicky plays. There were three ball carriers. Two of Zay flowers in those gimmicky plays. There were three ball carriers. Two of them averaged over six yards per carry. They abandoned the run. They ceased running the ball, and it killed them.

Jessica, you said you wanted to get in here? Well, the Bills ran pretty well against the Chiefs last weekend, too. I don't know. I guess my question first, you gots, just to change the subject slightly here, when you saw Bob Weir on the sideline of the NFC Championship game, did you understand like why people freak out when they see Taylor Swift or no?

Well, I mean, I understand it, but Bob Weir is a classic old school, San Francisco 49ers fan. In fact, he ended the set in Mexico a couple of years ago with the Niners on the television. He said, we'll be back in a minute. Go Niners. And so I do understand why people freak out over Taylor Swift. I was laughing at Taylor Swift being annoyed by the TVs. You know, they kept going to her and she was annoyed by it. She was in the back of the suite. She didn't want to be seen. Give

me a break. Okay? You're Taylor Swift. You don't want to be seen. Give me a break, okay? You're Taylor Swift. You don't want to be seen. You don't want people to make a big deal about you going to these games. Don't go to the games, okay? Don't go to them. Simple.

I don't think she was doing that, but I will say as someone who, I'm not a Swiftie, but like, I like Taylor Swift. I am a deadhead. I love Bob Weir. I want both of them, like, camera feed on them the entire the entire I will watch you guys can watch Sabin and Bell check I'm watching the Bob Weir Taylor for the Super Bowl. That's all I want Bob looks good, huh? He looks great. Yes, not gonna lie He's kind of hot. Thank you. Really? Yeah, why are you taking that as a compliment on behalf of Bob?

This is looking great On behalf of Bob Weir. I don't see it. He gets criticized all the time though, he's hot. This is looking great. He looks good. Then he's a young 80. He, ah. Oh. He looks. Mustache ride.

Discombobulating. That's the asset. Mustache rides from Bob Weir. Who said that? Sorry about that. I don't know, Stu Gatz, why it is that people would be that furious that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey do seem authentically really happy. It's just it's classic, it's classic American hating. They just seem super happy together.

They're winning at everything and everyone gets mad about it. Did you see the good news? I saw a breakdown that someone did for a group of friends because Taylor has a number of shows in Japan next week and the last show I believe is on February 10th. So they were doing math to figure out is it possible for Taylor to make it back to Las Vegas in time for the Super Bowl and It turns out if the show ends around 11 or 12 the flight back

I think they said it was roughly 17 hours or so give or take a little bit and they believe the Taylor Will be able to arrive in Las Vegas Saturday night around 8 or 9 p.m. So it should be able to make it to the game on Sunday So Taylor should be able to make it there guys. Hmm video is telling me that Bob Weir looks like Heimer Dinger I don't know that character, but that that is what you said so confidently. I'm surprised you don't know it sold it well See stop talking to Dan directly, please Wait, can I ask you a question though? I do, sir, as an ambulance though.

This is like the fourth time I've asked. This guy is 76 years old, okay? 76 years old. He was part of the acid test, okay? They would sit around, take acid, they'd play music, get creative, come up with music. He has taken so many tabs of acid, so many mushrooms, so many drinks,

smoked so much pot, and at the age of 76, does he not look good after all of that? I mean, what's your excuse? He looks 106. He looks 106. His face looks a little bit crooked, his mouth looks a bit crooked, just there's a lot. He looks like a Dr. Seuss character. He does, he looks like bit crooked. Just there's a lot. It looks like a Dr. Seuss character. He does. He looks like a who.

He was on Supodity, I think, last year, the year before. When Stugots accidentally broke some news with him. Bit of a yammer. Guy could talk, man. Trying to get him on God bless this week, though. Please don't. I'm trying. Don't not.

Why? To have him on the show. What is Dan gonna ask Bob Weir? You want him on? Let's do it. After hearing him talk, I understood why their songs are 30 minutes long. His songs also Yammer. Put it on the poll, Jinger, at LeBatard show.

Do Bob Weir's songs also Yammer? Who do you guys like? Come on. You don't like Taylor Swift. You don't like Bob Weir. Get out of here. The only thing America likes today in unison is field goals. You should have kicked him, Dan Campbell.

Everybody agrees. All of a sudden, we've got a place in sports where everyone agrees. Jessica, you and me over to the side being like, why does everyone want Dan Campbell now to be cowardly? Dan, we're disappointed because we fell in love with Dan Campbell. We fell in love with this Lions team.

If the Lions can do it, any team has hope, right? They became America's team. And so I think some of the frustration that you're getting today as it relates to Dan Campbell, there are certainly arguments that, you know, Campbell, you know, we stuck to what he did to get the Lions to the NFC Championship game. But the argument you're hearing is how badly people wanted the Lions to make it to the Super Bowl. That is what's happened. Yes. And so therefore we all agree. I wanted to see the kicker more.