Fuentes
Appearances
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
No. There were like three defenders.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
Do you think that there's one person taking these phone calls that will be like, I remember you. I remember you. You're not getting out of this. This is definitely automated. No.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
You work in the media. They don't want you.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
God bless football, Fuentes.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
You were a little worried about Spags there for a minute, weren't you?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
We wouldn't be able to stop it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
Okay. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Oh, man. They thought they got their offensive coordinator back, and then he snuck off and then met with his side chick again and ended up signing with Jacksonville Jaguars. They were like, oh, no, he's back, and we're going to give him this big contract. He's like, no, they got rid of the guy I don't like. I'm just going to go there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
I have a winner question. Next time the Chiefs call the Bills, they should just say no.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
And if you're the Chiefs, you call every year. Oh, you got to call every year. Just to get in their head.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
Watch them wonder who it is.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
Is Stephon Diggs calling the Chiefs?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
Hold up. I can see Diggs calling the Chiefs, them going to the Super Bowl, and him saying, see, I was the missing piece the whole time.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
I thought they had agreed to a buyout at the end of this.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
Now Daniel Jones is making that. He should hold out. Hold out?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
Is Zach Ertz the one that sent you jury duty notice? Because you're a big man at Zach Ertz. You really are.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
Thank you. Get the ball to Terry.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
Thank you. I need a 12 yards for the parlay. Thanks. What are we doing here? All I hear is you saying Jaden Daniels is overrated.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
But he's got to put on some weight.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
That wasn't a stat. I have a different one.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
Golic makes more than that about diabetes.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
We've got a wedding to plan.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
You're right. I'd be very upset if you did.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
A hundred k. How much would you do it for, Stu? Two dollars, all fair.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
Get it done in the regular season, Mahomes. Stop winning in the playoffs. Show you can do it when it doesn't count.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
But it's starting to get stopped now. Like, teams are stopping. The... They stopped it when Josh Allen tried to run it. Like, maybe we don't need to ban it because maybe it's not as good anymore. No, they got Josh Allen twice. They did. Josh Allen is not Jalen Hurts.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
No, Josh Allen is supposed to be better than Jalen Hurts at it because he's so much bigger.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
They're going to cut to him and have that big Chiefs coat on.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
That's not a terrible idea, especially in fantasy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
No, I'd already lost the parlay by then because Gainwell was out.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
I feel like such a genius putting it together, and then I just feel so bad once the first leg is completely gone.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
K-Punk's never lost a bet that he sent us.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
He just screenshotted it and sent it. That's possible. It is such a K-Funk thing to do.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
That's how it works. This is Michael Jordan with the Bulls and the Knicks can't win the championship. Is it because Patrick Ewing wasn't great? No, it was because Michael Jordan was there. You got to beat Mahomes. You can't do it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
Opossums. I think we ate there in Arizona.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
Did they have this planned all the way back then?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
Do we know if it's plugged into anything? Oh, you think he brought his own from home? Just walking around with a headset. I do. I do kind of like that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
It's the same thing like when my kids were toddlers, I'd give them a remote with no batteries, and they'd think they were doing everything. Yeah, look, you changed the channel. Same thing with Big Dom. Here's his headset. Don't worry, we'll talk to you when we need you.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Billy O'Possum's
I have never seen a play like that where it was a trick play, but everything was based on the fact that the defense had to be tricked or it was like, oh, we give up. And the Eagles were absolutely not fooled by that play at all. But I've never seen a play without another option. That was it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Season Hangover
Speaking of graphics, people hated the score bug. Hated the score bug. I liked it. I really liked it. I hated it. I liked it. I liked it how simple it was and you could see through it. Yeah. But such a downgrade from other score bugs they've had.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Season Hangover
At this point, the store comes to him. Well, the store comes to the house and he picks the one he wants.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Season Hangover
They only ran the ball seven times, I think, the Chiefs in total.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Season Hangover
Don't count the Patrick Mahomes scrambling for his life.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Season Hangover
Oh, you got it? Yeah, 110 yards. I should have known better.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Season Hangover
Had my girl in it. Who's your girl? Becky G. Becky G. She's in the commercial for like a quarter of a second on the boat there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Season Hangover
I'm with Mikey because she has enough money that she can buy the best sweet and the best everything and she'll be there. There's no way Eugene Levy is buying Little Caesars pizza.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Season Hangover
Washed, some people are saying. Some people asked that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Season Hangover
I did think about Rose for a second, and then I quickly forgot about her.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Season Hangover
Might be hitting the road a little bit. Maybe going to Tennessee, Nashville situation.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Season Hangover
It's about projector screens. I don't get why people are obsessed with projector screens. The max quality you get is like 720. It's not a good viewing experience. And then there was like
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Season Hangover
at my uncle's house there was wi-fi issues and then like i kept stopping and then the tv outside the projector is like a full minute behind the inside like behind the inside yeah so i'm like yo i love you i'm going inside i'm not doing this outside thing anymore like i don't know what you're trying to do here i know it's nice outside we're trying to watch a game not doing this were there a lot of people outside with you
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Season Hangover
like all the old men were out there yeah like half the people didn't care about the game yeah the other half wanted to see Kendrick Lamar didn't care about the game so it was like me and like some of the kids inside like the teenagers and then the guys that were watching for gambling
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Season Hangover
but it's not any good. I can watch games in stunning 4K HD, the best possible viewing experience, then I gotta go outside to watch this hopefully 1080p on a projection that's probably diagonal because they don't know how to prop it up. The sound is absolute ass because the speaker built in is crap. It's just not a great viewing experience. Oh my God, we're outside of Florida, who cares?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Monday Hangover: Season Hangover
So now I'm out in the nice weather getting eaten alive by mosquitoes watching this game.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
I'm itching to pick an upset. Yeah, but Aiden O'Connell, I'm not doing that. All right. But that's not it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
That's the problem. I don't even know who you said. I think it was the Bengals. I'll take the Bengals because I don't trust Trevor Lawrence.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
I was going to say give me the Horsies. They're both Horsies. Give me the Broncos. I like Bo Nix.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
Wow. Can we take a second to... If Aaron Rodgers goes to the Steelers, the combination of George Pickens, DK Metcalf, Aaron Rodgers, and then Mike Tomlin trying to wrestle it all together, that's going to be amazing. I really hope it happens, but since it has not happened yet, I will stick with Mikey.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
Mikey, we've agreed on everything so far, right? Pretty much. I'll take the Steelers, just so Billy has to throw in his hat on this. You know what?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
Yeah, Brock Purdy, Brandon Ayuk. Oh, George Kittle's still there, too. No, I guess it's not that bad.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
I had said you're Bryce Young I had said you're Bryce Young I said I liked I say it is yeah give me the Panthers but hold on Fuentes as we all know is also an LA guy yeah I had said I know big LA guy I had said before this Billy Billy put me in a corner I knew it's gonna happen because I know he did it so good he did it so good I like the Panthers I know I like Bryce Young I feel like they're rising they can make a deep run but then I'm a Rams guy and I think
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
Give me the Cardinals. Really? Yeah, give me the Cardinals. Lost Ben Johnson. They lost all the coaches. All the swag is gone. The kneecap stuff's over. Kyler Murray rising. Let's go.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
Oh, wow. I like this one more than I thought I would.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
Yeah. It'd be funny if I gave the Dolphins an edge because Tua was next to Baker, but then I don't give Baker the same edge. Yeah, it's like, give me the Bucs.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
I will also go with the Bears because of the offensive line additions. And Ben Johnson is now the quarterback, the head coach there. I was already a believer in Caleb Williams. And I do like the Vikings. I love Justin Jefferson. But just the J.J. McCarthy question mark is too big right now.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
when they were out in the first round. It's a big choice from the committee. I know.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
Yeah, that happened sometimes too. But you know what it is? In these one-off scenarios, you never know. You just never know.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
Cowboys twice, huh? All right. Yeah, Cowboys twice, too.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
Whoever it is, I take the Commanders. The Commanders, yeah, it's the Commanders.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
Ah, the Commanders. Russell Wilson. Russell Wilson's not enough to get over the Commanders. Yeah, it's the Giants.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
Unless Jameis is playing, then you never know. It's a small committee.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
This is the game where you have the Baker swag. Tua Baker. You want to go with the offense? Give me the Bills.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
I think that it's really great that they kept the offense together for Joe, but who's going to – They didn't get any better.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
Exactly. Yikes. All right. I like the Bengals. I like Joe Burrow. He just has to outscore everybody, and I don't know if he can always do that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
You're a big Bo guy. I am, but I'm going to go with the Ravens. All right. Marjax is too good.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
Eagles. Eagles. Wow. Yeah. Unless Michael Penix takes a jump.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
It was a close one, but they survived. Survived in advance.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
Give me the Bucs. Yeah, give me the Bucs. Give me the Bucs. I actually like that they kept Chris Godwin.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
I think it's big for Baker, too. You've got to keep him with guys that he knows and can move the ball. They're going to have a better running game this year, correct?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
matchup of the weekend a matchup of one and two pick from 2024 the number first first two picks yep yeah number two pick wins it yeah oh you think so give me the commanders with the debo samuel commanders uh i'm gonna say the bears uh yeah i mean i really believe in ben johnson i believe in ben johnson i believe in the offensive line let's do it
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
You were also a Cardinals guy. Yeah, I was part of the Bird Gang, as we all know.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
Josh Allen can't find anybody, and he can't do it all by himself. Eventually, the Chargers win it. John Harbaugh. Is it John or Jim there?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
Jim Harbaugh. He finds a way to power his guys through the Chargers defense. Stop Josh Allen.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
That hurt. I'm sorry, Baker. I keep thinking about Jaden Daniels in the playoffs and how good he was. Just give me Jaden Daniels.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
Chiefs kingdom. The AFC dominance continues. Unbelievable.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
Commanders. Yeah, Commanders. Oh, okay. Oh, wow. They got seasoned over the year, and they're over there. A little seasoning, and boom, there you go.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
TV production stuff. You need to not worry so much about that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
Yeah, yeah. Give it to the people. They want it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
I also think it's new time for a new champion. And after last season's disappointment, The Kansas City Chiefs raised from the fire like a phoenix. Chiefs kingdom rises. They said, we didn't get the three-peat, but we're back. And we're getting our third title in four years. Patrick Mahomes, once again, reigns supreme. Wow.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
I get what you're saying about that, but actually it makes more sense now that I think about it because they do draft whoever at three if they're able to get one of the top two guys because I'm not, are we sure like the Titans might take a quarterback and then the Browns will take a quarterback right to the top two picks?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
Yeah, so if Cam Ward and Shador Sanders are both gone, then the next guy is Jackson Dart. So you might – maybe they do trade back because now, like you said, the emphasis is not really there to draft a quarterback. And I feel like any quarterback taking the top five, top ten, they have to play right away. That's like how most NFL people feel about it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
So I think it might just be more of an insurance policy. So I'm kind of with you there, Mike, because like you said, if Russell Wilson and Jameis never see in the field, they don't really cost you much, especially for a quarterback. $14 million for two quarterbacks, drop in the bucket, the way that quarterbacks get paid these days. Drop in the bucket.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
Well, Mike McDaniel, if Tua gets hurt again, Mike McDaniel's like, oh, well, I'm doing what I can. He wasn't there when they drafted Tua. So he has that excuse. Shane Steichen, though, he chose Anthony Richardson. He decided we're going to sign Daniel Jones. So he had to have great signing, by the way.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
I let you get away with one. Shane Steichen.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
I mean, he's only 23 years old, so he has at least like seven years left. I mean, he's not like going to walk out tomorrow. I think it's just more of like a football thing where we saw him at Radio Row. He looked like a guy who was going to fix your computer. He might just feel like, yeah, he just doesn't – not that he doesn't love football, but he might have other things he wants to do.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
Yeah. He might settle into like a series of one years, you know, like 12 every year until he's like, okay, now I feel bad, you know?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
Do you think that like Dable and Joe Shane is the other guy, right? Like I understand Joe Shane inherited Daniel Jones. I guess Dable did too. But then like Joe Shane gave Daniel Jones the extension, didn't he? Well, yes, but that's kind of like the quarterback he was in on then because he felt like, oh, this guy's enough. So I'm in on this guy. So maybe Dayball has that leash.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
We need to lock up our guy because I got to go back and see what's available then because because I got to lock up your guy. But you're also like Daniel Jones had his best year before he won the playoff game and he duped them into giving them more money.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
Yeah, and that is true. But I think some of it's kind of like fan service we have to look like. Because Jameis Winston is not a name you're going to take seriously as a starting quarterback. I want him on the Steelers.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
Jameis Winston was Mike's target. I love Jameis. I'm with you. I like him more than I like Russell.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
We keep saying that, that it's been a long time since he's been a proven number one. He had the four years in Buffalo. He had 127 receptions, 103, 108, 107 receptions. four consecutive thousand yard seasons. Like he was really good still at the Bills. He's just 31 years old coming off.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
No. You mean number one receiver for Allen? Yeah. No. On a team.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
Which is why he ended up one on a team. Like his worst years were actually in Minnesota. He took off, which of course is the Josh Allen effect. Right. But I mean, he still caught the ball over a thousand yards. You can't see receiver for more than a hundred receptions.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
He's a proven commodity. By the way, that's why they got Amari Cooper, honestly. It's just because he was a name. It's like, well, nobody likes just having Shakir, right? So is Amari Cooper available? We can get him for cheap. He doesn't want to be in Cleveland anymore. Get him over here.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
Yes, but mainly because I forgot Will Lefson's in the NFL until right now when you mentioned him. Okay. So I was already thinking Cam Ward was the quarterback of the thing.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- So Many Upsets
I like that take. I like that take. It was going to be a push. I feel like CJ Stroud's on the decline. That's right. Tua's getting the killer instinct from Baker.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Grades
Yeah, but if you're already... Reassign him is fine. But if you're already calling me Fuentes, that means you're already the Mike on God Bless Football.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Grades
$50 million. Money and a shot. Yeah, $50 million. Money and a shot is what he's looking for.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Grades
I'm going to say the Rams just because I don't know, like, what is their plan after Matt Stafford? Like, are they going to go after Sam Darnold? Like, who's their guy?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Grades
That's what I'm saying. Like, Jimmy Garoppolo. Like, what's your deal? I just don't know who it is. Unknown. So I'm going to have to go Rams.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Grades
Yeah, 49ers because the division's just too stacked for the Bears.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Hall of Hypotheticals
I mean, Taylor is the steak and Stu gots is the sizzle. I got you.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Hall of Hypotheticals
This is where the Jets win. This is the only time the Jets win.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Hall of Hypotheticals
Very close to Sue Gatz is where I stand. You guys. You guys are the worst. What do you mean we're the worst? They're the worst. Don't blame us. He was so bad this year that the Jets, despite him starting every game, won five games. And you know what? He's still their best option for next year. So he's absolutely right. You need to go away. We hate you. But stay.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Hall of Hypotheticals
Six quarterbacks were taken in the top 12 picks last year. That's the thing. The Jets had the 10th pick. They would have wound up with one of those six quarterbacks. And honestly, all six of them look pretty good right now. Let's see something.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Hall of Hypotheticals
We would have had our choice of Bo Nix or J.J. McCarthy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Hall of Hypotheticals
It's not sexy. Right pick. But anyway, I want Hall of Hypotheticals. Was it really the right pick?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Hall of Hypotheticals
Listen, left tackle is not a position you want to need.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Hall of Hypotheticals
Yes, they would have taken J.J., I bet.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Hall of Hypotheticals
Sure. He would have been Aaron Rodgers 2.0. It would have been, we got the guy for the future. He got hurt before, you know, right as the season started. Now we have all the, yay, now we have him for real this time.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Hall of Hypotheticals
Of course they don't. But I'm not giving them the seventh overall pick.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Hall of Hypotheticals
How about a pick swap? Actually, move from, what, 26, 28, whatever the Vikings are, to seven.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Hall of Hypotheticals
Yeah, probably. I hope not. Really? I hope. Why get rid of Aaron Rodgers to bring in lesser Aaron Rodgers? I would just stick with Tyron. Give me Tyron for a year.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Hall of Hypotheticals
wouldn't hate green bay same seems like if if you're gonna go to green bay seems like this is the time of the year to do it right mikey why are you objecting to green bay it's the nfl draft at lambo field like how could it get better than that if we're gonna be in green bay i'm all for it if we're gonna be in milwaukee an hour and a half down the road just put me in nashville green bay ish
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Hall of Hypotheticals
And we end up with Jackson Dart. After 14 years of no playoffs, I'll take the Saturday game against the Texans every year for a while.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Hall of Hypotheticals
Absolutely. Absolutely. Not even a question. I agree. And Cleveland. Yes.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Hall of Hypotheticals
And the fact that they called him Robert Goon, it makes him sound so official. Like he's not the guy that we know. He's Bobby Goons. He's not Robert Goon.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Hall of Hypotheticals
We went to the wrong house looking for the P&G house to interview a bunch of people, and it... How do I... Okay, there were people living in it, but they did not pay for it, and there were
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Hall of Hypotheticals
This poor guy thinks he's getting Robert Goon and he's getting Bobby Goons. Oh, 100%.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Hall of Hypotheticals
boarded up windows and yeah it was a um a house for the homeless it was a squatter's house right it was a squatter's house all right uh danny b was parking in front of it going i'm pretty sure this is the address i go i don't care if this is the address this is not where we're going right yeah yeah uh did you think the guys the people that were squatting were draft prospects no they were not all right
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Hall of Hypotheticals
Well, on that downer. Exactly. Don't sound so excited.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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All right, more Mike Lee to pick first in the NFL draft. The Titans or the field?
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Why do you think it's on here? Why do you think this question is on here?
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You could also trade a few down and get Abdul Carter.
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One guy had hops. Okay. I saw him leap over the fence.
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All right. More Mike Lee to be a starting quarterback next season. Jameis Winston or Daniel Jones?
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Okay, they're the starter opening week, whether you want to call it based on injury or not, but it's not like a one-week fill-in in week nine because of a hamstring.
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Can I step in real quick and marry these two worlds real quick? Please do. Can we get Vasselli to interview on the show? Wow. Can we have Vasselli do the interview? I want to hear the questions he asks, and I want to hear how you answer them.
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I'm going to do the same thing for that seasonal dining room attendant thing, by the way. That sounded good. I'll hire you, okay? Yeah.
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First time. Get the whole crew in. Yeah, wow.
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Now he's going to tell us, oh, there's only 30 seconds left. You're really stressing me out today. I'm not cutting it off. Got to stay on time.
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Guys, 30 seconds. Oh, hurry up. There it is. Five minute warning. Better be quick, Mikey.
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So I don't know what I'm supposed to do with this 20-year-old book that is featuring defensive strategy schemes of Jerry Sandusky.
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The wrong time for wide receivers to demand a trade, considering how saturated the market is with wide receivers, this free agency. I mean, Chris Godwin, Devontae Adams, Keenan Allen, Amari Cooper, Stephon Diggs, Hollywood Brown, DeAndre Hopkins, Brandon Cooks, not to mention Cooper Cup is available for trade. It's Debo Samuel's already been traded. Probably not the best time to be like, pay me.
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Yeah, see, that's not it. I mean, that's a mocking version. But that's not...
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Quick question. Why? Why did the Eagles do that? You just signed him to a big deal. Dude. Why? I don't get it.
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Howie Roseman drunk on the parade float. I'm going to give you more money. You're just the best. I'm going to give you some more money.
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What does he have to be next year to be worth that?
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Sure. Hopefully Fuentes will join us on this one. I got one good one. We'll leave it there. More Mike Lee. to be an NFL bust, Abdul Carter or Travis Hunter?
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So if we're doing notes here, which it looks like we are, it sounds to me like you shouldn't do it the way Stu does it, but you should do it differently than the way you are doing it.
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I would say Abdul Carter, you can line him up and say go get the quarterback. Travis Hunter, I think a lot of it's going to depend on the coaching staff and how they want to use him. So I agree with you guys because I think Travis Hunter could be a bust. Not his fault, though. I think he could be misused.
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No one used the word terrible but you, but okay.
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Being a GM is all about making very hard decisions. And when they don't work out, it makes you look so bad. And Joe Shane couldn't have made worse decisions last offseason, at least by the optics of it. And... Why would anyone sign up for that? Why would anyone be like, hey, why don't you film me when I take the most beloved guy on our team and tell him he's not worth the money?
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It was easily Saquon, because they didn't have a chance to draft Jaden. They wanted to, they called, they tried to, but it made it sound like they didn't try very hard. And his whole thing, we're going to rely on Daniel Jones, it's going to be Daniel Jones' year, only to... Just like midseason trade cut him. They didn't even trade him. They cut him like everything.
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Every decision you made looked terrible. And we all got to see you make those decisions.
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I couldn't disagree with you more. Really? Now, I agree with you on in-season hard knocks. In-season hard knocks is the one that's got to go. That's the one that does absolutely nothing for me. I already know how this whole thing plays out. There's no immediacy to it. Whereas during training camp, you know,
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They play during the week, and then the following Tuesday, you get to see leading up to that week. So it's like, okay, I'm in. And the off-season one, because of how bad it went for the Giants, is like must-watch to me. To see how Joe Shane convinced himself to get rid of Saquon, only to then watch Saquon sign with Philly... That that's poetry. That's that's what I want to watch.
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Yeah. Hard knocks kicks the crap out of new regular hard.
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Yeah, but see, that's the problem. Old hard knocks. I mean, the name of the show was hard knocks because it was guys going to training camp, trying to fight for a roster spot. Then they, at some point around the Jets and Dolphins season, They started transitioning from those fringe guys to the stars. And you know what? Training camp ain't that hard for the stars.
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They got – it's not – I mean, listen, I'm sure it's still a grind, and I certainly couldn't do it. But it's not like trying to make the team. And I feel like lately, hard knocks by lately, I mean the last few years – has taken to the last two weeks, let's go focus on one or two of these fringe guys and that'll be it.
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But you used to follow him from get up for his first day at training camp until he gets cut or makes the team. Now it's like, ah, here's two episodes of fringe guys.
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Well, Nicole Hardman was the guy who did it for the Jets, and he was traded to the Chiefs, and they beat the 49ers. So it kind of happened. Just wasn't the Jets.
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experiment next year and I'm going to nominate Fuentes to do it. Watch none of the NFL games. Only watch Hard Knocks.
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In season Hard Knocks you're talking about? Yeah.
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You pick a random week. You pick a random week. You watch none of the NFL games. You don't catch the scores. You don't check your DraftKings account. And then you just watch hard knocks.
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We don't need to make that. I just said I'm very much looking forward to see where Matt Collins ends up next year.
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By the way, back to the hard knocks thing for a second, the Bill Belichick deciding not to do hard knocks, which I don't think you actually ever got to. That's the headline, that he's actually not doing it. Was this kind of Bill thinking that he was going to do a big F you to the NFL because they wanted him to do hard knocks for years and he refused to do it?
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And then he leaves the NFL and in his first college years, like, yeah, sure, I'll do it. And then maybe he was like, cooler heads, cooler heads for value. Like, you know what? No, I really don't want to do it. But it was funny to watch the NFL panic when I was going to do it.
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I'm going to zig. I'm going to zig. Okay. We'll be back.
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The name I came up with will fit both categories.
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So when we were discussing this, it was brought to my attention. What you should do is you just pick the big guys because you don't want to sit next to the big guy because then he's in your space and all that. But listen, I am a big guy. I'm going to be in your space. You're going to be in mine. We're just going to have a nonverbal contract. When you sit down on the plane, this is what's happening.
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So I'm going a different route. Nick Sirianni. Because I have a feeling that Nick Sirianni is the guy that's going to complain to the stewardess about everything. The guy that's going to lean his seat all the way back when you're not supposed to. The guy when they say turn off your phones is going to be like, why do I have to turn off my phone?
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You think my phone is going to interfere with the plane? He's just going to be a jerk. So I'm going to go Nick Sirianni.
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He doesn't even hit the button. He just goes, hey, hey, another one here. Okay.
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Yeah, Mike McDaniel, sure. He looks like, you know, he's an interesting guy. We could have, we can have a little taxiing conversation. Oh, you headed home? Oh, you're, oh, you're headed. Okay. And you can have that conversation. And then I feel like Mike McDaniel will put on his headphones and we won't talk the rest of the flight. And I'm okay with that.
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To finish it in the break, what we said was top five coaches that would love Entourage.
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And my throw in there was Pete Carroll. Pete Carroll loves Entourage. It's like the thing he does that – I think he was on Entourage.
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Pete Carroll got the contract from the Raiders and yelled victory like Johnny Drama.
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Yeah. If he heard me and you having a conversation across the aisle and one of us was left, he'd be like, no, I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to take this over. I'm going to come over the top and I'm going to be the funny guy. He's not this guy.
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Headlines. Who brings us Headlines? Does somebody bring us Headlines?
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Well, it's a ridiculous contract extension. He got three years, $106.5 million. Highest paid non-quarterback in the NFL, at least for the week. Free agency starts next week, and then we'll see. I mean, he is their entire defense, and he's kind of their identity, but does it really matter if you're not going to fix the Aiden O'Connell problem? I mean...
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What is having Max Crosby do for you if you can't do anything offensively?
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I hate to point out the obvious here, but when we talk about an established veteran who's available, who are we talking about?
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Are we talking about... okay, Kirk Cousins, who was so awful last year that he got benched for Michael Penix. How about Sam Darnold? Is that the established veteran we're talking about? Or are we going to do the obvious thing and connect the dots and bring Russell Wilson back to Pete Carroll and join them up in Vegas?
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And then you go, was Russell Wilson good or was like the Steelers defense and Mike Tomlin finding a way to win ugly games the reason that they were good?
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Let me ask you a question. Are the Raiders... Are we spoiled with the way the quarterbacks have moved the last few years that the Raiders think it's going to happen again, only this year it's not? Like in the past few years, we saw Aaron Rodgers move teams. We saw Tom Brady move teams. We saw Matt Stafford move teams. We saw Russell Wilson move teams twice.
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We've seen all these guys that you're like, oh man, if we had that guy, we'd be good. And then... I think it just kind of stopped this year. I don't think there's anybody coming this year that would make you go, all right, now we're over the hump.
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What's the pitch there? You don't have to move? You don't have to hire a moving company?
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Devontae Adams was fantastic for the Jets. They were terrible. He had some games.
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I don't think he really cares. New regime, though. It's new regime. It's new everything.
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Does Tom Brady bring in Tom Brady?
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Does DK Metcalf move the needle? I mean, did he move the needle in Seattle? It's essentially the same team. It's essentially the same thing.
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Can you have that energy? Can Billy Gill have that type of energy? Because I just don't see it.
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And Jamar Chase wants a new contract, and he deserves to be probably the highest paid, if not top two wide receiver in football. And now you're just going to go ahead and pay his number two, $26.5 million. Yeah. You're just – like, what are you doing? You just lost Sam Hubbard, who retired unexpectedly out of nowhere. So your defense, which was –
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the worst in the league, or at least up there last year, now just lost its lone piece that was worth a damn.
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Everybody in the AL Central is 2-4. That's crazy.
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I'm wondering how many players' skill set would transfer well to flag football.
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Because a lot of people – please, go ahead.
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I asked the question to get that response.
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I asked the question to get exactly what I got. It worked.
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Yeah. But see Josh Allen to me, like that's one of the guys where it's like, you can't really run somebody over.
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That's why give me, I mean, Kyler Murray, Kyler Murray, Kyler Murray, Lamar Jackson, Joe Milton. Give me those guys. Yeah.
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You know what else I'm looking forward to? The, huh, I didn't know he was from there when I'm watching flag football. When all of a sudden you see some guy and you're like, huh, I didn't know he was German.
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You're going to want to listen to this one, yeah.
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I have no problem. I think that's a fantastic idea. Name's got to go.
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Yeah. I disagree because I think offensive linemen are some of the funnier guys on teams. And I think you could be missing a hell of a speech, uh, Uh, offensive linemen are kind of like lefty relievers. They're all a little bit off. You kind of have to be to do the work that they do.
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Now there's, there's obviously some boring ones, but I think if you've got an offensive lineman in front of a microphone for a few minutes, you'll get a, you'll get a few good chuckles.
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I'm going to expand it, okay? All awards. You know what you should be having? Tryouts for your speech, whether you make the broadcast or not. Oh, this person wants to win best actor, but his speech is terrible? No, get that off. Give me the guy that's going to entertain me for a few minutes. I don't care who wins. I want a good speech. So if the MVP is boring, I don't want to see that speech.
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Just tell me who won. That's all I care about. But if you're telling me the offensive lineman who won the Shield Award is going to be entertaining, let that guy go.
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I was all for the former. And then what you said makes me think I kind of want to see the latter. I mean, the former was like, because if you did the work, you should get the award. I just don't need to see your speech. Yeah, that's all I'm saying. Okay. So if you're if you if you won the best, whatever, you should get the award.
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But now I kind of want to see a beauty pageant type thing at some of these things.
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swimsuit cop i can't you see it like you know uh give me an offensive lineman and you go your quarterback was just pushed down by a defensive lineman after the play how would you resolve the situation and give him a microphone and he's got to yeah talk about you know brotherhood like that stuff okay yeah i kind of want to see that
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I'll go ahead and spoil it for you. You're not. But yeah, it's my favorite time of year too. Anonymous sources, rule changes. I kind of love this quote, to be honest.
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Spoiler, neither one is going to make the Jets look good.
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I it's hard to beat but I can beat it. Okay. This week, Woody Johnson said, Oh, I think Justin Fields is going to be a total winner for us. He's going to be the starter as you found out. I've been impressed with him since his college days. It was him or Trevor Lawrence. They selected Zach Wilson. They had the second pick. They didn't take him.
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They took Zach Wilson, but he's saying now it was him or Justin Fields. I don't know how it got Zach Wilson.
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Yeah, Joe Milton was kind of one of the hot names. Everybody was trying to sort of bring him in to be their backup in hopes that some of the magic they saw, whether it be in preseason or when he was in college, they could tap that potential and sort of bring him along as a starting quarterback. And, you know, in Dallas, you're going to get work as the backup quarterback.
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That's just how they're built. And you have C.D. Lamb, why not?
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They signed okay players to good-sized deals, and I do not believe in free agency like that. If you're going to do that, go the Chargers route. Sit and wait and go for one-year contracts.
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Guys, neither of you. Give me another guess. Give me another guess.
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That was his guess. No, neither of you got it right.
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It was such a good game until now. I now win anonymous sources. Who was it?
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The answer was the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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The NFL makes so much money that they're not even laying off irrelevant workers anymore. You guys go ahead and do it as a backup.
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Yeah, then Russell Wilson took his job. Yeah, they signed him and drafted Russell Wilson in the fifth round, and Russell Wilson beat him out.
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Here we are. All right, Mike, you have a headline for us? Well, here's a headline. Speaking of splashing names, Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam has admitted That maybe, just maybe, they made a little bit of a mistake in signing, trading for and signing Deshaun Watson. Quote, we took a big swing and a miss with Deshaun. We thought we had a quarterback. We didn't.
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And we gave up a lot of draft picks to get him. So we've got to dig ourselves out of that hole. That hole is a, it's a chasm. It's a canyon. Right now, if they were to cut Deshaun Watson, it would be a $167 million dead cap hit. And it doesn't get much better next year. If they cut him next year, it's $131 million in dead cap.
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They went all in on a player, and it was the exact wrong player to do so. If you remember, even when the Texans were going to trade him, he was like, no, Cleveland's out. And then Cleveland's like, well, what if we gave you this? He's like, you're... You're going to give me all, okay, I'm in. I'll do that.
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I don't know how the Browns recover within the next two, three years from this Deshaun Watson ordeal, but it's funny to hear him say that they had a swing and a miss on a quarterback who's still on the team. I mean, he's hurt and he's probably not going to play this year, but he's still there.
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The crazy part about it is they did all this after that stuff came out. They knew what they were getting into. Yeah. When they traded for him, they were like, yeah, we know all about that. And they even sort of built things into his contract to be like, no, you're going to get past this. The year that he got suspended, his salary was $1 million.
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So that when he lost that year of salary, he lost $1 million. Whereas the rest of it is all guaranteed. Yeah.
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I got to tell you, though, it's nice to hear an owner take some ownership of some of his mistakes. We'll get into that in a little bit.
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Deshaun Watson's playing contract runs through the 2026 season, but they're going to be paying him for at least three more years after that with void years.
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I'm pretty sure that was a comment straight out of the what not to say about a player you're negotiating with. Yeah. That was like the absolute worst thing you could say. Like he should just be happy with what he's got. Be happy with the rate you got, basically, is what you're saying. The rate, like it's an interest rate.
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Why are bad teams always so bad? I mean, we're going to do the Jets thing in a little bit. That's going to be hysterical. We just talked about the Cleveland Browns and the Cincinnati Bengals. Why are these teams always so bad? Why can't they learn from some of their mistakes? But a little unfair to put the Bengals. I'm not talking about Joe Burrow. I'm not talking about Jamar.
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They're very talented, but the organizations themselves are – are dumpster fires most of the time.
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The only difference between the Jets, Browns, and Bengals is the Bengals hit on Joe Burrow. That is the only difference.
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It's flabbergasting to me how some organizations can run so... Yes, good word. By the way, in case you couldn't tell, I'm feeling a little sick today. I'm a little under the weather, so this is going to be my Jordan flu game. Yeah, this is... It's absolutely mind-boggling to me how some teams can run so smooth and efficiently.
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And whether or not they have the talent and they win every year is not the case, but... Bad teams are just going to be bad.