Jemele Hill
Appearances
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
Yes. I would pay five dollars to see Donald Trump and Stephen A debate. I'm not going to lie, all right? I would. I would pay five bucks for that. I would not, I did not want, you know, if the Mike Tyson fight with Jake Paul had you had to pay for it, I mean, I already had Netflix or whatever.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
Right, right, I already paid for it. But if that were available to pay for in the traditional pay-per-view model, I would have never paid for that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
Stephen A. Smith versus Donald Trump, I would pay for that. I might even pay $10 for that. I'm not going to lie.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
$49.99 for a losing style game? I mean, for the possibility of getting rid of Donald Trump? I mean... I'd pay $50.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
Let's just have debate duel-offs all the time for the soul of humanity. Let's do this. I'm in.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
Leaving stickers on your flat brim. I'm going to say no douche. no morning routine videos on social media uh i'm gonna say douche because that's just that's just like way too attention-seeking like i don't i don't care that much about what you're doing in the morning speaking of which bathroom selfies Oh, that is... You know what?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
That's no douche because I don't consider... I think that's just kind of sad. Like, I don't think you're a jerk for doing that. I just think you probably haven't quite evolved yet. Like, those things should be out.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
I think nobody wants to see the legs sticking out of the stall.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
Nobody wants to. That's right. Yeah. You got to think of the aesthetic. OK.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
And I live in L.A. So you imagine how many that I see on a daily basis. There's also a Tesla dealership that's walking distance to me. No one's vandalized anything, by the way, in case anyone cares.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
Now I got to go and feel bad for myself the rest of the day because you guys got me to admit that I would pay Donald Trump to pay Stephen A. Smith.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
Was that funny, Roy, or was that sad? Because I found that to be sad.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
I don't know that we have to necessarily start over, but it might have to be, it will be a black people's meeting, an important one that will be called the next day, where we might have to put some things on the agenda and get it on the table.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
Well, I was more, I guess, of all the characters. Like, whenever these debates ensue, right, you have the usual cast of characters that you expect to be involved in some of these debates. RG3 was not one that I had on the bingo card. Then him just coming out of nowhere being like, oh, I long and pine for the days when all the sports talk was just about sports and never about politics.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
And it was like, what? Where did that come from? So it was more the presence and the oddity of his presence in this debate that I found to be kind of strange, if you will.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
Well, see, if that would have happened, I would have been like, okay, this tracks. This is our brand, right? But you don't expect RG3 to come out of somewhere with a,
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
what he considered to be in his mind, and maybe this is sort of the dispiriting part, is that in his mind, you could tell when he allowed, you know, when he let off his opinions, that he actually thought he was given some kind of nuanced intellectual take that was somehow missed in all these years in which we have dissected, embraced, celebrated Jackie Robinson's legacy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
Here comes RG3 with something we've never thought about before or something that is so unique to this discussion that he needed to tell the world that, no, no, Jackie Robinson wasn't in Major League Baseball. It had nothing to do with politics, nothing at all.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
It had everything to do with the fact that he was just there as just a great player, and that's it, and just completely just whitewashing the entire context of why this was so meaningful in American politics and American life, period.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
Well, yeah, I mean, and I don't mean to make it sound as if Stephen A is at home, you know, sort of figuring out what should my character say today? Like, I don't I don't want to insult him by, you know, sort of I'm just sort of politely making, you know, making fun of the whole, you know, kind of theater of it, because Stephen A does understand the performance element of television.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
And because he understands that performance element and because he does it so well in a way that is very unique to him and in a way no one else in the industry can actually do it, that it is able to evoke reaction. You know, we live in an attention economy, Dan, as you know, and he's able to create a tornado of attention with everything that he says. And for a media company,
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
Like ESPN, this is extremely valuable. It's why he got the big contract. You know, his roots are in journalism. And for a long time, he was a very good and one of the best, if not the best, NBA reporter that was out there. But I think he's tapped into something that is easily monetized. So when it's not just...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
you know, this reporter saying something as Stephen A. Smith, the weight of his name is bringing something extra to any discussion that he is in. I just find it really more fascinating, the political turn that he's making while still being at ESPN and still representing ESPN because as you know, that is not something that is naturally embraced by this company.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
And so I think seeing his turn, his dramatic turn into politics is really quite stunning given the breadth of his career.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
So that's the part that I do find to be interesting, is that he is embraced in a way in conservative circles that you don't often see by people in his position. Now, some of that is just based off some of the opinions that he shared about you know, things that he said about the Democratic Party and being very critical of them, which naturally will get you embraced by conservative circles.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
But very few people can vacillate between two wildly different networks. ESPN is not a political network at all. Fox is the most conservative network Or maybe they're not the most conservative because you do have Newsmax and you also have OWN. But, you know, they're at the top of the food chain, certainly when it comes to conservative networks.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
It's the value pinging that is very interesting to me to see him going back and forth between these two circles. And at least from, I think I read this some time ago, like he's doing some kind of live event with like Chris Cuomo and this guy. So I just wonder where all of this is going. And so it'll be fascinating to see the arc of his career.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
I think, and this is just based off things that he said publicly, I mean, I think his ultimate goal is to be the number one media mogul in all of television. And as a personality, while, you know, maintaining, obviously working on some projects that give him ownership over things, of course. But I think his goal is just kind of media world domination. So we're seeing this unfold in real time.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
And it's really quite a masterclass into how if you can drill into the performance part of this, what lay ahead for you. I mean, because the thing with me is that while certainly I'm comfortable on TV, comfortable in formats like this and virtually any format. At some point, like I can't perform like this is what you get and this is all there is.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
So I can't every day sort of create this level of enthusiasm and fight and all these other things to sort of sell the natural opinion that I have. Like, that's just not a talent that I have. And he has that talent.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
to such a incredible degree that I guess the downside of it is that I feel I worry that for younger journalists that this is becoming sort of like a Steph Curry effect in the sense that Steph Curry started, you know, shooting these logo threes and shooting these completely ridiculous and banana shots.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
And now every NBA player thinks that they can do that or young kids coming up learning how to play basketball. You know, they're firing off 60 footers thinking like this is how you play the game, not realizing that that talent is reserved to one player who can do that. And so my I guess my larger concern is that what is.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
I guess probably the most, the funniest part to me was Stephen A. Smith, who I live for when he challenges people live on national television to some kind of confrontation, be it You know, I wouldn't necessarily say a fistfight, but like when he challenged Kevin Durant, like, you don't want to make an enemy out of me. Or this time around when it came to J.D.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
And I don't mean to make it sound like it's a bad thing, like he's negatively influencing younger journalists, but I know a lot of them are watching him and thinking, I can do that very same thing. And so right now, they're drilling into persona as opposed to work. So that's sort of like the long-term 64,000-foot view that I'm a little bit more concerned about.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
It has. It's a sucker move. And wait, maybe I need to retract everything I said. This is actually my favorite story from the last couple of days. Because, okay, there's so many things with this story. Like, one, you have this producer who, as you mentioned, may or may not have been on the date.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
Like, I don't know how much people have listened to this, but if you haven't, I encourage you to listen to it. It literally sounds like that they're on a podcast. I mean, the sound quality is so crisp. I'm like, was my man wearing a lavalier? Like... Why is this sound quality so good? And the other thing, too, I mean, I agree with you, Dan, like this is this is ultimately despicable.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
Like regardless, a lot of people are caught up in what this producer said and how he characterizes Stephen A. Smith and more or less how people view him at ESPN. Like to me, that's like irrelevant. The most the relevant part of this is that you could be in a social setting and if you work at ESPN. wind up being taped and then somebody else giving that to the media.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
But it also kind of reminds me of a rule I used to have when I was dating. And, you know, a long, long time ago when I was a single woman out here in the wild of dating, I had a rule that if I was on a date with somebody or in that kind of initial interaction where it's like, okay, you know, this guy's cute, you know, there's some level of flirting that's going on.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
If they asked me about Stephen A. Smith or Skip Bayless, immediately that dude was canceled. Immediately. No, I don't want anything to do with you because there is nothing more unsexy and unflattering than when you're talking to, you know, somebody who's a potential love interest and you're like, oh yeah, you know, so what are your hobbies? What are you, you know, trying to get to know them?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
And they're like, so what's Stephen A. Smith like? I'm like, do you want to be on a date with Stephen A. Smith? Because this is doing nothing for me. Like whatever arousal point that I had in this conversation just immediately went to negative. So it kind of reminded me of that rule that I used to have When I was when I was dating, like who does that?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
Do you believe that, Dan? Like, seriously. I don't believe it. I personally don't. Like, I really do not believe that's true.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
Vance, the vice president, and Donald Trump, and all of a sudden Stephen A. Smith is like... come on my show and tell me, explain yourself. And I was like, yes, Stephen A., more debate duels. Let's go full wrestling. That was the part that I found to be highly, highly entertaining. It's like, yes, forget about how we used to have celebrity boxing.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
I do not believe this. I have to say, like, listen, I realize right now we're in, if we did a tournament of top, you know, dumbest times in America to have lived through, I truly realize we're in a time where this could be a number one seed. I get it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
But I refuse to believe that the average person out here would look at Stephen A. Smith and say, of all the candidates that are possible in the Democratic Party, that this one is the fourth most viable that they have. And I just I don't believe I know that I'm probably going to regret saying this. I don't. And this is, again, no reflection of Stephen A. Smith.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
I don't believe America's that stupid.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
You know what? That's actually to my to my single ladies out there that that might be the one, you know, because we hear all these reports that one of the reasons or you want to talk about things, whether or not you believe or don't believe. But one of the things that's messing up the dating game is that like, oh,
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
a lot of men who have expressed support for Donald Trump is turning off the ladies, okay? And so this is part of the reasons that social scientists and experts say that men are living in the loneliest time that they've ever experienced because a lot of women are choosing to stay single. One of the top reasons is our political beliefs, the differences, especially among college-educated women.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
And so maybe that is now the ultimate dating test. Would you vote for Stephen A. Smith? And whatever the answer is, ladies, you can decide if you found your man or not found your man.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
Between Stephen A. and Donald Trump? Yeah. Okay, I can believe that. I can believe that. I would believe that. I would sprinkle something on that. Would you pay for it? Would you pay five bucks for it?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill)
I am disgusted with myself in this moment.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
I don't know that we have to necessarily start over, but it might have to be, it will be a black people's meeting, an important one that will be called the next day. We might have to put some things on the agenda and get it on the table.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
Well, it struck me that so many people, especially in the media, have such unwavering confidence that this is going to work. And I'm not saying that it's without merit. I understand it from a purely football perspective. I understand this. Bill Belichick is arguably the greatest NFL coach in the modern day. And his accomplishments speak for themselves.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
But I just think that maybe I've been exposed to too many young people. And especially talking to other coaches about what it's like in today's day to deal with modern young athletes. And I just I just wonder how this is going to how this is going to turn out. Certainly a lot of athletes want to be professionals. They want to make it to the NFL.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
And I easily see many scenarios in which Bill Belichick is able to. as he was good at in the NFL, able to turn someone who maybe has some borderline potential into a real viable prospect. But at the same time, it's just such a different landscape. If coaches that are around his age are getting out and he's jumping in, that to me says a lot. And his last few years in New England weren't good.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
And so I just wonder if this is going to be a fit from a personality standpoint and just looking at how differently college athletics are compared to maybe 10 or 15 or 20 years ago, where if you had said Bill Belichick was going back to college, I would have said this is no brainer. A slam dunk. You know, he's going to win there in this climate. I'm not so sure.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
No, and I guess the only way she would have made Megyn Kelly matter is if she came out in support of Black Santas, because we know that Megyn Kelly only believes Santa Claus can be white. I mean, that's the person whose opinion is chiming in on this.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
So it's not surprising she would have a problem with Caitlyn Clark actually acknowledging the contributions, the sweat equity that Black women have put into this game. And you can tell a lot.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
Let me just big picture this real quick, though, Dan, is that as Caitlin Clark's popularity was rising and particularly after it exploded when her and Angel Reese met in that national championship game, she did the infamous Angel Reese John Cena motion. And we saw a certain section of people galvanizing around Caitlin Clark. We saw it then and it only continued to grow. And there was a
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
Nice amount of disingenuous people who were not basketball fans, certainly not women's or they were not women's basketball fans. To be clear, they were not fans of women's basketball. But Caitlin Clark became their avatar.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
She became their vessel to express a lot of the hateful and racist opinions that they had about black women, about queer women and about the WNBA overall to some degree about all women.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
so she became their sort of bat signal for that and now that we're learning more about caitlyn clark and this by the way this was not the first time she said this it may be the first time she really said it at length and because she didn't do that many one-on-ones uh this year in 2024 but she certainly have been have been she's been asked questions sort of along these same lines before and uh you know while she didn't specifically mention white privilege see she has certainly
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
always had a level of respect and reverence for the pioneers that came before i mean one of the viral moments involving caitlyn clark was when she finally met maya moore maya moore is her favorite player ever and that by the way shows the growth of the wmba you know a lot of the players that when the wmba first started they had no professional model to look at in america to say oh i grew up watching this you know professional women's player because that
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
possibility didn't exist. Caitlin Clark represents the generation that actually grew up watching the WNBA, familiarizing herself with this league, understanding the legacy and the history of this league. And all she was doing is giving a nod to that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
And she knows, like a lot of white players in the WNBA know, and they've said it, Kelsey Plum, Breanna Stewart, is that they get elevated, they get marketed, they get pushed in a way that black women in that league who have accomplished similar things do not
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
Get the same endorsement opportunities, the same marketing, the marketing riddle of the WNBA prior to this moment has been how do you market a league that is 70 percent black where a third of the players identify as queer? How do you do that? And that it has been a lot of marketing challenges. mistakes the WNBA has made in trying to sort of minimize that part of their identity.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
Or, you know, a lot of people have certainly for years speculated that they push certain players because they're trying to kind of galvanize and interest white America with players they believe that they will get behind. So this has been a long standing conversation in the WNBA. And Caitlin Clark, in her sense of leadership, I mean, she just stated the obvious.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
And now she has some very predictable people angry at her because they never were fans of hers. They just like the idea of weaponizing her success against other black women who they can't stand.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
I have a black Santa and a black Mrs. Claus in my house. I think that doesn't surprise many people.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
Jamel has black Santa.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
You have original recipe, Santa?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
You had- Well, I got spicy Santa.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
And Robert F. Kennedy, right?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
I mean, but would it have been so bad if he said, you see the money, right? I mean, would that have been?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
I think it is. But it's not a gotta blow it all up and completely restart from scratch. We're not the Cowboys for crying out loud. You know what I'm saying? But I think it does signal that for this iteration of this team, this feels like the end. They got some major decisions to make. How much to pay Brock Purdy. Can't take advantage of getting him on the cheap. Decisions to make about Deebo.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
I mean... About the defense. So I think there's going to be some serious retooling in the offseason. They can't afford to play Brock Purdy what quarterbacks are worth that have accomplished what he's accomplished.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
All of it depends on how much is Brock Purdy going to cost. That's really, truly the million-dollar question.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
Well, I think he deserves a competitive, really good quarterback salary. Does he deserve Dak Prescott money? Hell, it's questions about whether Dak Prescott deserves that kind of money.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
I will say this. If we can keep, it would be great if we could keep that price tag between, and I know this sounds ridiculous, but between 40 and 45, that'd be great if we could keep it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
I mean, it would be great if we could. I'm not saying, he's clearly better than Daniel Jones. He's better than Trevor Lawrence. I get it. But like, for the entire engine of this team to work... Once we start talking in the 50s and certainly anywhere near 60 million, okay, we in trouble. You can't pay him that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
Wow, that. Dan, I feel like I'm joining a cult right now. I have no idea what's going on.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
I thought it was a weak move. First of all, he already knew the reason that he was in that position was because of, you know, Dre Greenlaw being out. So he knew he was he was in a unique situation. So if this issue was about, you know, him, the playing time, it's like that was your reality when. You knew that was your reality from the start.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
But I think it's just, unfortunately, it's just a window into this season. You know, the 49ers have had an incredible amount of luck to go along with their skill and obviously the winning. But you got to stay healthy in this league. You got to keep drama out the locker room. And this was not the year Unfortunately for that, everybody got hurt.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
There's now, you know, even before this week, you had drama with Brandon Ayuk's contract situation, drama with Deebo Samuel last week complaining about not getting the ball enough. And unfortunately, he had the performance that he had against the Rams. So this was the season that all those things that can derail other teams came bubbling to life for them.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
But what was clear in hearing Kyle Shanahan and other players talk about it afterwards is that You know, he has lost, Campbell lost a lot of people's respect in that locker room. I mean, you have a lot of guys who have a lot of things on the line.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
And it's difficult to get these opportunities in the NFL for somebody to willingly tap out and to do that to your teammates in a nationally televised game. It's embarrassing. I'm embarrassed for him.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
Well, he did ask Black Jesus to deliver him from pick sixes. That's what I'm saying.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
Ooh, I'll kick that one. No, I'm sorry. That's not yours.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
I'm aware, but you know... Y'all will never make me hate Kirk Cousins because he went undefeated against Michigan when he played for Michigan State, my alma mater. I'm going to keep this, I believe. Come on, Falcons.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
Okay. A part of me hopes I lose because I'd love to be in costume. That'd be pretty hilarious. I got some ideas already. All right, great. I know Kirk Cousins is going to pull it off. So thank you all. Good to see you.