The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Tying Up Loose Ends

Episode Date: January 14, 2025

We want to kick off another Greg Cote Tuesday, but first, Greg has to tie up some loose ends. There was a NFL Playoff game last night as the Los Angeles Rams beat the Minnesota Vikings, but it's more important that we find out what Greg's loose ends actually are and determine the difference between a loose end and any other menial task. Then, would Greg be okay with his wife cheating on him once if she properly wrapped every gift with wrapping paper instead of using a gift bag? Plus, William Shakespeare makes his second appearance on the show in as many days, Greg's book deal and horse syndicate, Billy's helium dilemma, and the difference between a guy vs. THE guy. Also, Chris Cote has the most original Sam Darnold take you'll hear in sports media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Greg, don't move. Don't move, Greg. Don't move. Stop. Freeze. What happened is, okay, and you have to be gentle with Greg Cody on Greg Cody Tuesdays. We were clearly all ready and prepared to start because live is dangerous and we were ready to jostle Greg Cody awake, but he was doing something

He was he was busy doing prep. Yeah. Well, I want to know what he was doing. Hold on Greg I asked you not to move freeze Greg I Asked you not to move because His son is barking in his ear. Dad, headphones! But his dad can't hear him because he's not wearing headphones. And so the show starts.

Greg's cans aren't on. His old-timey cans aren't on. Ah, the cans. But Greg is looking. He stops doing what he's doing. And he's looking straight into the microphone, ready to go, except the microphone's not there, it's off to the side. And what's gonna happen is we're gonna start the show and then he's gonna paw at it.

And the show's gonna start with him not prepared to start. And that's not the way I'd prefer my Tuesdays to start with an old friend who says he loves me doing an old timey radio show on Tuesdays so that he may age with grace late in his career. One of the few in the media who gets to do so. We run them out with pitchforks at this age. Yes, we do.

Can I move now? Yes, put the microphone near your face, please. I tried to do that before and you said, I told you, you screamed at me. I told you not to move. He wanted you to do it five minutes ago. All right. Thank you, thank you, Stigatz.

Thank you for living and loving support of me there because yes, that's all. He's not wrong. He did it, just not at the time when we start what we do. Okay, a couple of things. First of all. A couple of things. In my head, I was 10 seconds late putting on my headphones Christopher was barking at me

Yeah, the problem was he was literally barking like a dog So I had no idea what he was trying to convey the second thing is the show is Sabotaging me at every turn and let me give you the latest example Sometimes we start at Let me give you the latest example. Sometimes we start at 8.59. Sometimes we start at 8.57. In this case, I'm looking up, I'm glancing up, it's 8.57.

I think I got another couple of minutes, so I'm doing show prep. I'm diligently doing show prep. What show prep? Tell me what this, what did you write? Tell me what the show prep was. Can I look at your computer? No, it's private.

Well, if you look, hold on, hold on. Is it on your computer right now? No, it's written longhand. When I tried to start the show, you were busy typing something. If I had to bet, Chris, if we could bet, if DraftKings could get us to do a live show that would take bet, am I finding him uploading to figure out what his numbers are on his podcast or some form of narcissism where he's just checking in on how successful

am I on this Tuesday, Griff? Let me see what everyone tunes into here by the thousands because I'm charming Greg Cody. Come listen to me on YouTube where I won't allow my son to further his career with the Levitard show because he's too busy serving my needs at the end of his career. He can do it all. He can do both. I've trained him. I've brought him up right.

He's multi-talented. He's not spread too thin. He's looking for more and more and he can do it. But I'm tying up loose ends. Okay, that's what I do. It's so annoying when he says that. Anytime I want to go to lunch with him, it's like, are you ready to go? Let's leave in 15. I gotta tie up a few loose ends. What are you

doing around the house? I am with Greg. He's dotting the eyes. He's crossing the T's. Yeah. I've got loose ends out the ass. I mean, because I have so many balls in there. And at this stage of your life, you gotta tie them all up. You do, you do. There's always something, Greg. Something always comes up. I'm telling you what, I got a million people

I'm trying to keep happy. Even though I don't have a staff, I'm beholden to many. You should get an assistant. I need an assistant. You do. Can we pay for one? I tell my wife that all the time. We all do.

Hoping that she will volunteer for the task. And she does to a certain degree. She has a job. She does. Yeah, she sort of does. She's a high powered attorney. I know, but she's a partner in running a firm. I know, but she could do a little more.

She dwarfs your salary by billions. She could do a little more. But like her son, how about she multitask? Exactly. Right. Thank you. This is the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining with the Dining We could do a little more around the house. But like her son, how about she multitask? Exactly. Right.

Thank you. This is the Don LeBattor Show with the Stoogats Podcast. I don't know the phrase you just said, but Greg Cotey Tuesday just got off to a triumphant start during the Shadow Show because and this was mortifying to watch and listen to you said some form of keeping balls in the air and the phrase you used before that was what do you remember loose loose what I have loose ends out the ass. Yep. And, you know, tying up loose ends. There's a lot of them, and I'm a very organized man, okay?

That's why I could never be on a TV show like Chopped, because I don't like juggling things, and you know, I couldn't be making three foods at once. You're the slowest cooker ever. You're a great cook, but you take forever. I'm systematic. Well, he's not a great cook, because he's won a single cook-off here at Metal Larks. So he has the reputation of a great cook, but when it's been tested on our show, he's

lost every time. Well, you know. He's lost every time. A couple of those results are in a little bit of a dispute. You voted for Roy's turkey over there. It was a great turkey. Yeah, it was a great turkey. When it comes to the cook-offs here, the fixing's in, you know what I mean?

Yeah, it could be. I didn't say it, but Billy makes a valid point. Do it in Greg's kitchen. How about that? Yeah, there you go. I'm in a foreign studio here. I'm working with, you know... The turkey cook-off was ridiculous. Roy is in a palatial suite here at the Elstor. I'm in a parking garage, cooking a propane, lighting a propane tank as cars are whizzing past me

in concrete, and I'm in a corner. It was an unfair situation. But I'd never bring that up. When I text you, I'll be there in 10 minutes, we're going to lunch, and you say, I gotta tie up some loose ends. What the bleep are you doing? Okay, chances are I'm on my computer on this very computer. I still call it a laptop I don't know what it calls itself And I'm probably doing Harold work. I'm trying to do this

I got I got what were you doing before the show you were checking your you were checking your downloads, right? Well downloads and YouTube views as well. Greg, show prep. I mean, come on. No, I was doing show prep. I was preparing something to say in case something on the list came up. You know, I'm a professional man. Why don't you say what you prepared?

Go ahead. This is your time. No, because then it would betray a punch line I potentially would use later. Doing comedy. Wait, hold on a second. so you have one set up, how do we set up the punchline? I love this, yes, I love it. We'll see what comes up.

You're just waiting for the right time. Let's get to it. It's something on the list. Right. Okay. Wait a minute. That kind of thing. And you know it.

And you do know it. Thank you. The gag, yeah. Billy gets me, he really does. And you know it. You know what, I do know that actually. Thank you that actually you know what you think you've been fooling us all these years You think that I don't know that Billy gets you. I know Billy gets you to my eternal disgust every Tuesday It's the best joke we have of any kind

And you know it why don't you try getting him Dan? It's not that hard. Seriously. You know me. Yeah. Accept him. Really? Mmhmm. Adjust to me. Tie up your loose ends. Ooh. That's what I'm saying. Yep.

We all have them. We don't admit we have them. That's true. Everybody wants to, everybody leads such an organized life. Everybody's afraid to admit they got loose ends. Right. Everybody's got loose ends. Right.

Everybody wants to act like their ends are all tied. Not Greg. No. Why do you think they're so scared to admit it? I mean, the loose ends. Because people want to be seen as perfectionists. I mean, if Christopher calls me up for lunch and I got five, six loose ends to tie up,

I'm gonna tell him. I would argue tight ends don't have loose ends. He's asking what does that mean though? Do we want to to go look there's stuff in sports to talk about okay? There's a playoff game. I I woke up in the middle of night with great remorse because yesterday I identified the Vikings as one of the great teams and all season I'm saying they're fraud All season I've been saying it's gonna end just Darnold It'll end it you will not convince me that it will not end, like, we will not be, we will not get into an offseason where everyone's like, pay Darnold because amazing, amazing Darnold, he's won the Super Bowl, that's not what we were going to do.

But I legitimately want to know what, like Chris does, what are these loose ends we're talking about? Like, what do you have to do? Do you have to sort some paper clips? Like, what do you have to, what are the things Greg Cote has to do before leaving the house because and the reason i was mortified before the show was greg cody is very comfortable telling his wife to do more just yesterday on our show both this giant toddler and his both of the sun said mom needs to do some better job with the rapids all you have to show

because she hasn't done a good enough job with the lawyering partnership stuff I get back and raising bags. Yeah, and it's cheating Look this woman is a Titan of South Florida industry and then she does the thing of we're not throwing away any of these bags So it's open the bags fold them up neatly and then hand them back to my mom I know I don't want to waste paper, but it just becomes like that's what she's focused on on Christmas morning Where are the bags? I need them back. So next Christmas you get the same bag? Yes, they're recycled bags. You're getting a gift in a used bag.

You know, Gary the Bag Rosenfeld doesn't even need them. He's rolling over. He's rolling over in his bed. Greg, which cheating would be more offensive from your wife, infidelity or the bags in terms of rapping? Right. Right, she'll cheat on you once but never use a gift bag again.

Oh wow. Or she'll never cheat on you. Would you allow infidelity? Fidelity gift bags. Yeah. Come on. That's a surprisingly difficult question. She cheats on you once and every gift is perfectly wrapped.

Yeah, I do love a perfectly wrapped gift. Come on. Oh my God. Do not disgrace this union. Half of the joy of opening a gift is unwrapping it. No, no, they've been married. She's a child. Just a dalliance once in a while, who knows.

Yeah, who cares. Here's the other problem with a gift bag. It's always got the little bloom of tissue paper. Oh, enough, right? Yeah. Come on. They act like I can't see in that bag because of that little piece of tissue paper. Oh, enough, right? Come on. They act like I can't see in that bag because of that little piece of tissue paper. Ridiculous.

I see that it's a pair of shoes, okay? Right. You're not fooling anybody. Yeah, that's right. I looked up the origin, Dan, to get ahead of this on loose ends, because I knew that you might want it. Dates back to Shakespeare. Ah, again?

Lucy and the. Ah, Willie. Yeah, again with the Shakespeare. Not a glory. Will ye, nill ye. Yeah. Yeah. Again with the shakira will ye Millie. Yeah. Wow. Nobody talks Shakespeare like this podcast. We're bringing it back. Yeah. How do you keep up with those kids? Tick tock's going down. How do you keep up with them? I know what we'll do. We got Cody and Stu gots. Let's ride into the sky.

We were talking before the show. What's coming after tick-tock we got to get ahead of the next big Fancy app that everyone's gonna be on huh you got any ideas. What are your daughters on Stu gots? So they moved on from tick-tock. Yeah, they're on tick-tock and Instagram always not for long not for long sad day Is it I think so yes Does tick-tock do for you that like... It gets me. TikTok gets me. Okay, Lucy was mentioning the other day that during the pandemic on TikTok she learned how to do her makeup and her hair and all this

stuff. If I Google how do I make up my own face, there's a thousand videos that come up. So how is that different than TikTok? If you're not connected to any of these things, so what I assume is that a whole generation that has gotten addicted to the devices in ways that we can't quantify how unhealthy the addiction is, TikTok does it better and more attuned to your manipulating your particular brain so you will get lost in a world where you're more and more addicted to the sugary TikTok.

I thought that was the connection point. I'm terrified of that kind of stuff because I know I have an addictive personality and so it's the same reason I haven't tried cocaine. I'm like, oh look, something's got everybody by the nose. In the AI age, and now we're running it out out of our country because we're like, oh look something's got everybody by the nose in the AI age like and now we're running it out out of our country Because we're like that gives China too much power over our young people. Hmm. You haven't tried cocaine, huh? I'm too scared to oh same. I don't believe that at all

He's just tying up loose and we do we do the oral history of the second half the most honestly? What do you mean by that? Loose ends, I want to know what Greg Cody means by that. And I ask the audience, because Stu Gotts, we had such a fun basketball game last night. It is rare with as much attention span as we're giving the games for Cade Cunningham to have a second half that would announce himself at Madison Square Garden on,

oh, you know when New York matters and when you break New York's heart? You've arrived, kid. The Detroit Pistons are like, no, we're better than you all thought we were and the reason is our all-star. He crushes you in the second half. Foul trouble in the first half.

And then he buries Kat and Brunson when cat and Brunson are putting up numbers they're playing great yeah but the Knicks are playing great but I don't want to do that I want to know what the loose ends are I do sure everybody has them for me for me your loose ends are you go in your office and like re reload your email and just see if there are any new ones all right loose ends tied. Look, my horse syndicate is asking me yesterday telling me that my deadline is up.

Do I wanna reinvest in Comley? I gotta deal with that. That's a loose end. That's a loose end. Yes, yep. That's a loose end. No, that seems bigger than a loose end. That's bigger than a loose end.

That's business. That's business, exactly. That's just a to-do list. But that's not a loose end, that's a thing to do. do listen he could put it under whatever umbrella. He wants to put it under he puts that under the loose end Loose ends are two and three minute things Loose ends are not business syndicate deals. No, but that's me answering an email saying yes I definitely want to re-up with calmly right, you know and then quick easy Yeah, yeah, and you know, I have I have an offer to write another book

It's a loose end something I want to deal with right now a book offer I don't want to say yes his loose end that's not a loose end It's up to Greg send is like I got to finish putting away the dishes before I go with that's another That takes forever. That's another- That's a Lucend. Oh no, that takes forever. That's another thing I do that your mother never does is empty the dishwasher. You guys are playing with fire.

You guys are playing with fire. Why? Because Greg Cody thinks that he exists to live as a toddler all of his remaining days and his wife, a partner and a firm, dwarfs him in every successful measure but because he's big-time sports columnist with some local fame, Greg Cody can't do anything else well other than fry a turkey on his driveway in

bare feet. One sad cone. In Greg's defense, how many book offers does Erlene have? That's a very good question. That's an excellent question. I'm just asking. I'm not taking any shots here. How many horses does she own? Yeah. Thank you.

How many presents has she wrapped? Right. How many podcasts does she host? There's a lot of things I do that she doesn't. Let's be honest. But loose ends can be major. They don't have to be minutia. And so when I say I got to tie up a couple of loose ends just trust that I mean it

That's just right. There's a difference between a loose end and just something to do I have to get back to this company on the book deal that they're offering is not a loose end Here but it just like if you said to me what's the opposite of a loose end I would have said a book deal no but me negotiating a contract for a new book is not a loose end a loose end is me answering an email that says that sounds like an interesting idea let me get back to you okay that's a loose end you'll take the can down the road yes exactly I'm a can kicker. That's negotiating. Come on. Can kicker. Come on. I love kicking a can too. I'm with you.

You got special. Yeah. Yeah. You all right? Okay. I'm still getting over this thing. It's kicking my ass. Six years.

No, no, no. Come on. I mean, he's not wrong. Because of my pre-existing condition, when I have a cold or something, it hits me harder. You might want to tie up that Lucent. They don't let him, they keep nagging him. That's bigger than a Lucent. I have not, we are belching out a lot of content, okay?

I have not laughed harder at anything we've made in any corner of the company this week than sniffing around the Greg Cote YouTube channel and just seeing Chris Cote being able to predict that his father was about to start coughing based on the number of laughs his father had previously wheezed on his father finding himself entertaining.

The executive producing genius of getting in a tight window and hitting his dad with, here comes a cough, and getting out as soon as his father went careening from the screen with coughs in an office from the 1980s, while insisting his son do better and his wife pack better bags because god damn it, he's got a successful podcast and he's gonna cough and wheeze his way to every last profit in it. He'll get to those book deals as loose ends. He'll get to that horse syndicate as loose ends. He already said yes. Yeah, I mean I'm in. And he will tell you he does not come from privilege

because he is on his driveway with toes he can't take care of, frying a turkey. That's correct. Telling his wife to get back in there and do better bagging the gifts during the holidays. I mean, it's not a lot to ask. I mean, she can't cheat on him once, I mean. Yeah, that's a sore subject.

It's not a lot to ask to wrap a gift. I'm gonna ask my mom this, what she would choose in this dilemma that we've created. It's actually a very compelling either or. What? Yeah, no it is. For you. How?

How? You would allow? How do you disrespect this union this way? How do you do this? It's not disrespecting a union. It's having faith and trust in my wife. I'm very secure in my marriage. I don't necessarily believe in open marriage, but it's not something that I condemn.

And I believe that much in a wrapped gift. A perfectly wrapped gift. A perfectly wrapped gift. Here's another thing. Nobody uses bows anymore in ribbons. When you wrap a gift, take the extra effort to put a bow on it. And be careful where you place the bow. The bow doesn't need to be right in the center of the rectangle or the square.

I prefer a bow on a far corner. Do you really? Not smack in the middle? No, I prefer a far corner bow Do you really? Yeah. Not smack in the middle, huh? No, I prefer a far corner bow. Not the near corner. No. Reach for it. In FCB.

Right. Exactly. Greg, how do you feel about like handmade bow, over here. How do you feel about handmade bows versus like the pre-made bows that have a little sticker on it that they just push? Yeah. I, you know, I don't mind the pre-made bow,

because I've tried to make my own bows out of ribbon. Not that easy. Yeah. Not that easy. It's an art. Yeah, it is an art, but I also like ribbon. I like ribbon. Where you tie, you go one way and then the other way,

and then you tie it. I like the thicker ribbon, not the, I loathe the really thin ribbon. Like balloon ribbon. Very tricky. The width of a pencil, yeah. We want to eliminate that ribbon altogether. It's for birthday, it's not for Christmas or Hanukkah.

That's for sure. Yeah, that's for sure. Greg, this is somewhat related to gift wrapping and the party situation. I don't know if you've seen this, Party City is going out of business. They're closing them everywhere. I have a concern. I don't know where I'm gonna get

my helium moving forward. Yeah, that was my helium spot. You know, you go, you take the balloons there, they fill them up, now I don't know where to go. Yeah, I couldn't begin to, you know, the helium depot, I guess is the place I'd send you to. But there's a party city near me, and there's a big sign on their window.

I think it said 99% off. I don't believe that. Are you telling me I can get a $30 statue for $29.70? I mean, for 30 cents? No, that's not happening. Well, they're going out of business, though. I know. Yeah, they are. So maybe you can. Taking them a long time to go out of business. I Well, they're going out of business, though. I know. Yeah, they are.

So maybe you can. Taking them a long time to go out of business. I know, they're doing the Elton John thing. It's like the longest farewell tour I've ever heard. Billy, I think Target is your answer, no? I've never seen helium in Target once. Publix used to be Publix. Dollar stores have helium,

but I don't know the process of, can I bring in contraband balloons into a helium place for them to fill them for me? Because I bought a helium tank, I thought I was gonna save a lot of money with a helium tank for one of my daughter's birthdays. Crap helium, so bad. Really?

Helium doesn't last. A day balloons were on the floor. Wow. Yeah, bad. I got bad dealer, bad batch of helium it seems. You know what you could do? You could flip gravity and instead of using helium, just hang your balloons from the ceiling. That's not a bad idea.

I like that, Greg. It's a great idea. That's another loose end I just invented. That's something that you have to think about it. Who needs helium? I don't think I have this wrong though, I really don't. Do I have it wrong that loose ends, if someone tells you they'll be there in 15 minutes,

I've gotta tie up some loose ends, you're legitimately thinking needs to take the trash out. Or the dog out before I go. Needs to do something that, when I say loose end, am I not almost instantaneously telling you that's something that takes fewer than five minutes. It's never a decision, I need to make a decision on a contract offer.

It's not, it is a detail you have to handle that's not abstract about, I need to make a life choice about where my future goes. That's not, a book deal is not a loose end. Yeah, a book deal is a tight end. Well, you don't know, like you don't know what part of the book deal he's talking about.

Like, I mean, you never wrote a book, so what do you know? With team Valor, it could be as simple as just putting in his credit card. He's already made the decision. He's just letting him know I'm giving him the credit card. I didn't see that one coming. I got to be honest. He surprised me with that one. Yeah, that was a cleaver.

I usually see where his cleavers are coming from. I was looking the other way, enjoying ourselves, and he got me. He's right, I don't know what I'm talking about here. Much like yesterday, I legitimately did not know what I was talking about. Chris, I'm telling you, this woke me up last night in my sleep. It was a funny thing to have wake me up.

The Pistons? The Vikings. Oh. Oh, God. Huh. So, I thought to myself that yesterday on the show when we were talking, I'm like, there are five teams that we know. I'm saying there are six teams we know are good.

I initially started five or six. I think I said five, six, and then I settled on six. And now I was trapped. I was stuck up in the air because I've been calling the Vikings a fraud all season long. I've told you, this is how it ends with Sam Darnold, the way it ended against the Lions, the wheels come off. Those are, I mean, Hawkinson, Sturgats, Jefferson,

you're talking about skill position players that are best, when Nailer's your third receiver and you've got Jones in the backfield, if you're not making those skill guys work, you're the skill guy problem, right? And that's what it keeps coming down to when we do some of these measurements on things. Like, oh, with the right coach and the right skill guys, if that's as strong as any in the league, if they stay healthy, we can scheme our way, scheme our way to hiding Sam Darnold right up until we run into the coach who had

Sam Darnold. Right up until the coach who couldn't make anything of Sam Darnold when he was choosing between who do I want my next quarterback to be? Do I want to Baker Mayfield? Do I want to look at like Goff? Everyone runs through here, I'm the quarterback whisperer. Sam Darnold becomes a thing that was going to be paid a lot of money, right? Stugats couldn't make it work with the Jets.

We don't know how to measure quarterbacks. And yet my shitty analysis all season, lazy as hell, lazy as hell, is like, nope, Sam Darnold won't win. You know why? Because he's Sam Darnold. Yeah. Look at you now. Not lazy.

You were right. No, no. But then yesterday, yesterday, he made them a good team. He said, and we made him a good team and I in the air constructed the argument Well, they're 14 and three they must be no, I knew they weren't But I didn't stick to my guns, right? For starters Sam Darnold, I think he got confused there. He was a 49er never a Ram. So McVay never had Sam Darnold, uh, I mean I did confuse there Shanahan and McVeigh,

the people who make quarterbacks. Right, right, right. Well, Shanahan's scared of good quarterbacks. He doesn't like expectations, that guy. He sends them away. But what happened is the Lions and Aaron Glenn really figured out how to attack this Vikings offense, and McVeigh said, I told my staff, do the same exact thing.

Like, they have Aaron Glenn to thank for this, because what he did last week against Sam Darnold, blitzing, putting a lot of pressure on him, making him uncomfortable, Sam Darnold was great all year except for the last two games and probably cost himself, I don't know, $100 million? Oh my gosh. I know.

Yeah, nobody wants him now, I guarantee you, because he's Sam Darnold again. Right. He was pretending to be somebody who was better than Sam Darnold. Now he is reverted to the mean because he's Sam Darnold again. He was pretending to be somebody who was better than Sam Darnold. Now, he is reverted to the mean. He's Sam Darnold again. Can we talk about what the losses are, though?

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This is the done libertar show with the Stu guards. If we take away the money that he cost himself, I could make the arguments Sam Darnold helped himself last night. You don't want this big contract, these big expectations next year. Now he can go back to having Sam Darnold expectations. Maybe you go as a backup, you're the savior if someone gets hurt. I'm telling you, Sam Darnold getting like a Tua contract, nobody wants that.

Even Sam Darnold is like, I am not that good. Okay, I know I'm a little, I got plenty of money. Okay, I'm not saying, he cost himself money last night, but stress, he helped his life last night with Stress wise going forward really? It's a good take. That's the only place we're going to hear.

You will not hear that anywhere else. Sam Darnold is relieved that they lost. Dan always says keep expectations low. You know what Sam Darnold did the last two games? He brought expectations back down. Oh yeah, you're Sam Darnold. You're not a savior because if he played well the last two games he's going to get a big deal this off season. So we get it on purpose

Yeah, I'm telling you fiscally he wants that emotionally he wants no part of that right now valid. It's a great take That's your own man. Nobody's coming after that take You know, you know what is, what is, what is wonderful. What is wonderful about what just happened there because yes, everyone stand back and salute off of that game last night. Everyone's eating at this trough. Everyone, everyone is looking what's the space I can occupy that no one can occupy. Everyone's going to have the take that I just did. I, Sam Darnold, was Sam Darnold. Chris has said something that is almost purposely

outrageous and outlandish and also true. True, because everyone wants the $50 million contract, and yes, but then what are they paying for? Oh, the expectations, no, get those off of me. So this is the anti-Matt Flynn? Well, Chris is the anti-athlete mentality of, please give me all the money, don't make me do any of the work, I just want the money.

And Sam Darnold now, no expectations can go back to being Sam Darnold. What we all thought Sam Darnold was instead of what Sam Darnold dreamed he could be. Chase Daniel. That's, I mean, that's, what a life that guy had. Sam Darnold had 35 touchdowns at 12 interceptions. Someone's gonna sign that guy to a big deal, right?

Right, but now he'll get like, you know, 17, 18 million a year instead of 50. Right. Now you make plenty of money, Right. And you lose the stress. Or he gets to be the highest paid backup quarterback in the league, which is the best thing you could be.

If the Dolphins. Maybe Miami. If the Dolphins get Sam Darnold, that's good. But you guys have him settling for a backup role. Just saying. Might not get over in the starter role. Where do you think he is now after these last role just saying I'm not getting over the starter Where do you think he is now after these last two games? I think there's I don't think it's gonna be the Vikings because they have a rookie quarterback at JJ McCarthy But I do think there's a team who needs a quarterback. I'm gonna sign sand Arnold. I'm pretty big deal. No, you're a jet

Yeah, maybe it might be the Jets. It could be he's definitely not waking up happy today, though Well, I'm just saying the stress really just saying the stress of the big deal. The stress of the big deal. Going as being the savior. Sam Darnold, you're not that guy. You're not that guy and I think he knows it. Whoa, I don't know what that means. A whole lot of people are saying not that guy to others,

not that guy. Cam Newton says Jason Whitlock's not that guy. Jason Whitlock hits him over the head with a Bible. You got eight kids by three women. Like that's what we're doing. Those are the games we're playing. Those are the loose ends in the politics fight. How'd the Bible come into this?

Yeah, politics. It's where Whitlock hides. Oh, we were talking about Sam Darnold. That's what they told Gino. Gino, you're not that guy. And Gino proved they told Gino, Gino you're not that guy. And Gino proved them wrong. The answer is. Yeah, but he's a fragile that guy.

He's a slightly better guy than the one they had. Is he that guy? He's just a guy. He's a fragile that guy. Baker Mayfield, still a fragile that guy. No, no, no. You expect Baker to become Baker. Come on, come on, come on.

Baker's more of that guy than Gino Smith is. No, come on. That's true, I agree with that. Come on, come on. Baker is closer of that guy than Gino's been this. That's true, I agree with that. Come on, come on. Baker is closer to being a great quarterback than Gino. Kirk Cousins, no longer that guy. I love that. But close.

Close to that guy, but not that guy. Wait a minute. There's two different things here. Kirk Cousins went from being that guy, that guy, that guy four times. He's not that guy. He's not that guy. He may have been that guy for a small period,

he's back to being a guy. Wait a minute. Jared Goff was not that guy, He's not that guy. He's back. He may have been that guy for a small period He's back to being a guy. Wait a minute. What do you Jared Goff was not that guy now? He's that guy Okay, I need some help. Oh Jared Goff was a guy now. He's that guy There's only like five or six that guys, you know, yeah, that's in the NFL. I'd say there's like eight or ten There's not eight to ten. There's a big three All of these. He's not that guy. I think Kyler Murray's that guy. No, he's not that guy. For that team, he's a guy. No, he's not.

For the Cardinals? A guy? He's a marginal that guy. He's a guy at the moment, right? Yeah, he's a little ugly. I mean, that guy means that you're taking your team and lifting them to a place that they wouldn't be otherwise. I think Kyler Murray, you find some other starters

around the league, maybe he's just one of those guys. Jaden Daniels, that guy. That guy. That guy. Wait a minute, that's the easiest. guys. Jaden Daniels, that guy. That guy. That guy. Wait a minute, that's the easiest. Hold on a second. That guy. Okay, wait a minute.

Not that guy. Not that guy. Great call Greg, not that guy. Koenigse might be that guy, even with the first round loss in Baker Mayfield. He also might not be. Bryce Young is that guy. Yeah, well he can.

Whoa. Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on, hold on. What are we doing? You mother ruining the game. We could have played that guy for months and you ruined it by throwing the bright stuff. When you throw that touchdown, you don't even see them catch the touchdown. You're that guy. Sometimes that guy becomes a guy. Last year, CJ Stroud, guy this year guy wait a minute might be

that guy right might not wait a minute when he feels like playing yeah wait a minute hmm you're telling everybody that CJ Stroud is just a guy, which means you're also then gonna make Justin Herbert just a guy, correct? He might not even be a guy. Yeah, that one, yeah. That one we don't know. That's the highest, the most, wait a minute.

I believe that what you have done, you tell me if there's a better one than this. I believe that you have just brought a guy to the limits of where a guy can exist to insult C.J. Stroud. I believe you're not taking into account how hard that position is to play and how hard it's been to play as him this season with pressure up the middle. For you to hit him from over here with a guy, give me a better quarterback that you insult more than C.J. Stroud by just calling him a guy, give me a better quarterback that you insult more than CJ Stroud

by just calling him a guy. Justin Herbert, Jordan Love, guys. Love's a good one. Very good. Jordan Lake. Last year, Jordan Lake was that guy, and now he's just a guy. He's that guy during Toyotathon,

and he's a guy otherwise. Some guys turn into a guy. Nothing wrong with being a guy. Yeah, yeah, mm-hmm Not everybody can be that guy like Caleb Williams might still be that guy right right now just a guy. Yeah, right exactly Yes, there's time hmm is Matthew Stafford that guy. Yes. I think he is I think the Rams are going to the Super Bowl. It's been that guy even before last night Yeah, Matt Stafford is that guy? Yeah, is he just Matthew? No, he used to be Matt. Didn't he he grew up? Yeah. Yeah, Matt's we're both

I think he's the rare both. He was Maddie back in grade school. Mm-hmm There's a gladiator in the room Roy we'll wait for you that's fine. I I'm a little bit confused I really want to dissect was by the guy thing? No, no, I wanted to stay there, but Roy has decided that whatever his today miseries are need to interrupt what we're doing here with six minutes left in a live segment so that he can tell us all about how miserable he is. We'll get to that in a second.

No, we will get to it now. I had my car broken into, which is why I'm late today. That's why he's dressed like a gladiator. Sorry, Roy. My chariot was broken into. I thought they saw the way you were dressed. Yeah. What about twice?

Sorry, Roy. Yeah. So yeah, that's been my morning, and of course this is my respite. I'm feeling actually pretty good that I'm actually wearing something because I'm not thinking about my chariot being broken into today.

Your chariot? Oh, chariot. How about that? Well, but you understand my confusion though, right? Like, I'm sitting here doing a show and for the first time in months, the entire room has seized on something. A guy, the guy.

And what comes into my room? A sad gladiator, that guy. Sadiator, yep. A sad gladiator comes in and I could see, like I could see there were a few minutes left in the segment, I'm like, this is curious. Roy has never done this before. Do you know how good Roy is at not getting in the way of anything that we're doing around

here he has been doing that well for 20 years for him to come into a room so deeply moping that that that he would interrupt was I was watching the ball bounce around the room in a way that was delighting me but the chariot yeah but he comes in dressed as a gladiator but he's also downtrodden like he should be yeah No because of how? Violating how invasive it is to have your things just stolen is that a loose end taken that is bigger than a loose end Oh, that's a game for all his contract offer, but not Having to deal with an insurance company

So not a loose end Gaping it never ends. Yeah, right. It's a big thing to do. It's not a loose end. I didn't call it a loose end Greg would never it's a gaping end, uh-huh I Well, I would think that the gladiators were, I think Roy probably has encapsulated the attitude of most gladiators. I don't think gladiators were particularly gleeful. No, no, most gladiators used to go in the battle

hoping to not die. Yeah, you had to go out and do some killing. I think that's hard work. You never see a guy smiling while jousting on a horse. Only the psychos, you know? Well, their faces are generally covered. The domers of the world. They could be smiling.

That's true, they are covered. Fighting a tiger or something something like the Michael Jordan of jousters probably smiled a little bit Maybe smirked because he knows he's got you right. Would you rather fight a bull or a tiger with a sword? Let me get to that for a second But before I do that put it on the pole, please at Levitard show Have you ever seen a guy smiling while jousting on a horse? Because he's right, terror can look like a smile, but while jousting, I would imagine someone

would not likely to be feeling glee. But let's answer Billy's question, since he's an asshole. What? What's your question about bulls, or would I rather a tiger fight a tiger or a bull with a sword? Yeah, we were talking about gladiators. And I think about bulls or would I rather a tiger fight a tiger or a bull with a sword? Yeah, we were talking about gladiators. And I think about bullfighters,

kind of the modern day gladiators. Gladiators would fight tigers sometimes. So if you had to choose, I'd go with a bull. I feel like a tiger's more mobile. Yeah, a tiger can leap. Yeah, that's true. Get claws. I went to the zoo and they said,

I don't know if I believe this to be true, we can ask Ron if the zookeeper was lying to us, they said that sometimes when you don't see the tigers, they're hanging out in the trees, that they just climb up in the trees for shade and I don't believe that to be true. I believe that they just have them hidden away at that moment and they tell us,

oh no, they're in the trees. There's no way they're in the trees, the tigers. Maybe if I have a sword, I do wanna go against the jumper. You know, you catch the tiger on a big jump. That's what I'm saying. I'd rather have a sword against the tiger. I'd do like kind of like the giraffe thing. Yeah.

Ah, ah. Hmm. Okay, we'll ask Ron McGill later, but I don't wanna get too far away from the idea that Roy has been, you're coming in with a man who feels like he is wearing something invasive, something that it's not, no one goes to bed at night, expecting in the morning, with a man who feels like he is wearing something invasive.

No one goes to bed at night expecting in the morning that someone's going to violate their personal space and they will be, and I don't know what they took. Luckily, I don't carry any valuables in the car. I don't think they took anything from a needs car because the needs car was also broken in too. So, yeah. I filed a police report and everything, so that's all done.

But yeah, that's not a good feeling. Not a good feeling at all. Can I ask their tactic? Was it like through the window? Did they? No, they opened the door. Oh, it's just. Well, did you lock it or?

No. That's not victim blame. Oh, Roy, sorry, man. No. Yeah, forgot to? Yeah, forgot to. This is awkward. Might wanna lie on that insurance report and say that you locked well now

You set it on there. Don't say that I think you should go break your own window Roy and just say they broke your window I mean the cops filled out the repeat the police report already So that's where they undertake did you tell him something and then maybe a slip of a 20? No. No, I don't have it I don't carry cash. Well, don't say that. That's good. Anyone out there wanting to hold up Roy. Don't do that Yeah, you won't get cash. I'm still slipping. That's good. Anyone out there wanting to hold up Roy, don't do that. Yeah, you won't get anything. No cash. Loose ends.

Brock Purdy, a guy. Oh yeah. For sure. Just a guy. Trying to be that guy. Drake May. Coming up short. Wow.

Might be the guy. Still a guy though, still a guy. Mike graduates a guy, maybe. He's gonna be the fall guy when variable doesn't work out. We all know that, right? He's out of there in three years, then variable in five. Yep.

Mark it. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Unless he's good. You have to lock your doors. From fireside conversations to football Sundays, winter means more moments with the coolest people in your life. Make these moments even better with Miller Lite. I know I do. The grape tasting light beer

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