The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: Parsing Straws (feat. JuJu Gotti)

Episode Date: January 13, 2025

JuJu Gotti is here to let Dan know what we got right and what we got wrong from today's show as he takes us through some of our polls from the day and dishes out takes on the Steelers, Marcus Freeman's hair, his own betting advice, and the NFL Network's lineup on a Playoff weekend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Mike McCarthy has been fired, no surprises there, but now the Dallas Cowboys job is open and I'm guessing that a lot of people would want that. Look at Greg Cody, he was surprised by that. Greg Cody gave me a under his breath wow. I mean, supposedly they, instead of firing him, they just declined to renew his extension not fired. Dan. I don't know whether that's you know parsing Straws or whatever, but technically technically I guess he wasn't fired I don't wait a minute is it parsing straws is it is it splitting hairs? What did you mean? What did you mean to say there parsing hairs? Okay?

What did you mean? What did you mean to say there parsing hairs? Okay? Juju is with us now always nice to have him to break down the show usually by this hour Greg Cody is pretty tired. It's been a sprint and so it becomes parsing Hairs, I'm full of women vinegar. You are full of shit Is with us now. Thank you for being on with us. Juju, what do we have today? What do you like? What don't you like?

What is worth commenting on? I'm gonna get straight to the most interesting poll we've had in quite some time. You've dropped a banana outside of the peel on the floor. Do you eat it or do you throw it away? By the way, cats don't wear shoes also? I know I know my friend Juju. Juju is throwing this away a thousand times out of a thousand. Exactly. The fact that you would ask this question to your listeners,

Dan, is hilarious to me in itself. But 78 percent of the audience says throw it away ASAP. I wasn't really asking it to the listeners. I was asking it to the one lacking hygiene listener that happens to be sitting in the seat across from me. Because as soon as I dropped it, I thought immediately of him. I'm like, Chris would eat this.

And I'm like, I cannot eat this. But it is a clean floor. I will say that. Go ahead, Juju, what else you got? I don't think those words go together, claim them for, but not here, not there. Do you have to eat a pack of dirt before you die? Damn, this was close as heck. 51% of the audience says yes, 49% say no out of 1,022 votes thus far.

Juju, I think you pronounced it pack, and I think it's peck. I think, I think you pronounced it peck. Yes, 49% say no out of 1,022 votes thus far. Juju, I think you pronounced it pack and I think it's peck. I think, I understand why you would think it pack, but it is, the way that Nanny Doogie said it was- Nanna, not nanny. It's a fine.

A peck. That's a fine for me for the, a fine on me for the Venmo. I gotta send the Venmo over. Yes, it is a fine. I do too All right get to get on Venmo Yes, I will move away from the pose. I Revisit some of the questions from the show earlier

I think that the point of the Steelers season where it went wrong that people ain't necessarily documented As soon as these hard-knock cameras came around the season kind of went downhill As soon as these hard-knock cameras came around, the season kind of went downhill. I don't think they got a win since HBO started following them, if I'm not correct. Yeah, I think you're right about that. And it wasn't just that they were losing all the games. It's being outscored by 66 points in five games and losing four of them by more than 14 points. You can't limp into the playoffs more limpy than that.

Yeah. I mean, Russell Wilson went from, Hey, you know what? He's pretty good again to he's what we thought he was a couple of years ago. I don't think they scored more than 17 points in those four straight losses. Right. Also, um, over the weekend, my brother, Marcus Freeman, congratulations to a brother getting to the mountain top, you feel me? But at the same time, I like to throw the red challenge flag on him not using Beijing in his hair because I've seen some damning photos over the weekend.

And I know my brother Mike is an expert in this. I am just a humble servant, but I think that brother's using Beijing. Neither here nor there, because I salute my Beijing brothers and users out there, but a spade is being called a spade. You sent me that this weekend. You had proof, investigative proof.

You sent me some photographs that would suggest that there's a little bit of fraudulence going on there for a man who does not need such fraudulence. And I think that the Beijing brothers, if you use Beijing, like when I get to that point, hey, man, I might as well, don't throw me a Beijing lay or a lacquer or something, but I'm going to promote it. I'm doing it.

I'm going to be like, bro, I'm not only the owner, I'm a client, you feel me? That's the power of the energy. And so I think we need more people just to admit that you out here on the scene, you feel me? No problem with it energy. And so I think we need more people just to admit that y'all here on the scene. You feel me? Ain't no problem with it. Slip the Cooper.

The Steelers. Also. The Steelers are one in five since the in-season Hard Knocks debuted on December 3rd. Their one win is against the Browns. Holy God was the rest of their schedule tough. The last one, I mean, like we want to like throw shade at them.

They played the Eagles, the Ravens, the Chiefs, the Bengals, the last like, and then the Ravens again in the playoffs. Like, like it's hard to criticize them too much. You're right about that for sure. Also over the weekend, I had one of the worst bad beats ever. It's not technically a bad beat because it has to be close to hitting our Thursday Thunder for this weekend. I think it's made a bad beat because now everyone, like I was wanting AJ Brown to get five and a half catches

and now he's known for reading a book while I was needing five catches from him. It was just so sad. So I feel like that's a bad beat. I owe the crowd and the audience something for losing again. Thursday Thunder, you guys have my heart in your hands. Crush it, thumbs up or thumbs down. Juju, you do not have to take this as hard as you do.

Yes, I do. Yes, I do. This is serious. Draft King is trusting us to give the people good picks, and I keep letting them down time after time. Well, no, wait. Two out of three. Two out of three, if they bet them individually, people good picks. And I keep letting them down time after time. Two out of three ain't enough. Two out of three, if they bet them individually,

is good enough. Two out of three is good, but it does hurt. That's not technically a bad beat, but it does hurt that that game will be remembered as the game that AJ Brown was reading on the sidelines when you needed him. He just had one catch, right? He didn't.

One catch. Oh my goodness. Great cleats though. Great cleats. I also think Billy was right as well, early in the show where he was like, NFL network is getting away with some tricks. I was putting my parlays in, you know,

right before, I think Texans and Chargers getting ready for it, turned the TV on. I seen Steelers, Raers, and for two seconds, my heart dropped to my stomach, but I realized what was going on instantly, but I think he is right. They gotta cut that out. Y'all can't do that, man.

Dirty tricks by the NFL network. Exactly, dirty tricks, man, dirty tricks. And I think it was also just enough football from the weekend. A lot of the people from the audience said it as well. It's not that we need to overload all the time. It's just some, I had a good time watching the commercials. Like you say, you did, bro.

I'm learning about new shows. I'm using the restroom more than once every seven hours. So I think it was just the right amount of pace of football over the weekend. I feel like the schedule is just so perfect that the first 10 weeks of the season, I can't get enough red zone. But as we get into the double digits late in the season,

it's like, I'm kinda like, I remember the last week of the season, I was just kinda like, all right, I'm ready for the playoffs. This red zone, it just wasn't doing anything for me. It's like that perfect amount of time that we have where it's like, you're super excited about red zone and then by the end of the season, you're ready for a few weeks

You guys you guys think I'm in the minority in that the over Stimulation of just pounding you in the face with the witching hour Eight or nine straight games at 345 six of them are close You don't think it makes it so that we are spoiled and entitled and by the time we get to Single games being played in a window. it feels insufficient compared to the usual gorging. I can't be in the minority on that. I certainly disagree with you. I think you winnow it down. You get rid of all the lousy games between two bad opponents and the games you're left with, six games in this case,

all big. They're all large games. The stakes are there. And like late in the season, everyone's sitting people late in the year, so it's like, oh, they're not even playing anyone. I don't know. But you can't hide the bad games, you can't hide the games that aren't closed though.

And then you're stuck, like you're stuck in the third and fourth quarter with a game you know is not going anywhere and you can't, you've got nothing else. Okay, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna to be spoiled. I think as we get older, we find ourselves longing for nostalgia. And I was just nostalgic about dang, I have a game every single night until Monday until Tuesday to look forward to.

And that started last Wednesday with two fabulous NCAA games. I think, bro, this was the perfect weekend and it's gonna get smaller and smaller. So I loved it, neither here nor there. Hold on a second, Juju. Cody wants to get in here between coughs. He's stifling one, hold on a second. Something's gonna get belched out of his mouth.

I'm waiting expectantly for an important thought. In the playoffs, even the routes, even even the bad games because they're not close have their own drama to them because you know it's a little and it's an elimination game so all of a sudden oh my god justin herbert man did he choke all of a sudden mike tommy is he in trouble for the first time in his career you know if you lose in the playoffs the stakes are big enough where even that becomes a dramatic game despite it being not close. Right, and to echo that sentiment from YouTube, our YouTube audience, our ex Domo says,

the games were boring, but stakes. You feel me? And we had a couple of different opinions. Cloud feed creation said feed him football, and that's all he wants. So we got people all over the spectrum on that one. And to answer Stu Gotts question earlier about Nick Sirianni, I think that I watched the Eagles play with Eagles fans pretty frequently. And I'm here to tell you, they were firing Nick Sirianni after the win yesterday, big bro. Like there's nothing Sirianni can really do

to appease these fans because at a certain point, he start looking goofy, you know what I mean? Him and Jalen at the Super Bowl, when Jalen seemed to be the more mature of the two, and then arguing with the fans. It's been a couple of things that they think now. Yes, our team is great. But if you attach a better coach with that and not quote unquote, the goofball,

you feel me that I've heard people say these are not my words. This is just I didn't I don't know anything or didn't talk to anybody. But the people who said this, they think that someone with an improve or a bill Belichick, they will make the Eagles legendary. I mean, I don't think anyone would dispute that, right? If I gave Bill Belichick the Eagles, they wouldn't be worse. I don't think anyone is thinking they'd be any worse.

Juju, good seeing you. I thought we talked way too much football today. I thought there wasn't enough Greg Cody silliness today either, but more Greg Cody tomorrow. How about that? Yes. thought i thought uh... there wasn't enough greg cody's silliness today either uh... i i i but more greg cody tomorrow about that yes while you know still be wearing the same outfit for the fifth straight day of death excellent uh... thank you juju thank you