Matthew Berry
Appearances
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
My favorite Chesney song? Yes. No, just your favorite song in general. My favorite song in general is Son of a Son of a Sailor by Jimmy Buffett. Really?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
I am like you with the dead. That's why I started there, Billy. I'm a Jimmy Buffett. A parrot head? Yes, I'm a parrot head. Are you really? I went to 46 shows before he died.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
It's an unbelievable experience.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
I've been told that it's – I've never been to a dead show, but I have been told that it's basically – it's like a dead show where it's tequila instead of pot, basically. Yeah. But other than that, it's, you know, very same vibe of very welcoming, like,
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
people of all ages and like you're just there and it's it's all about the tailgating as well and yes what's your your go-to outfit because there there are some wild outfits when you go there you're not a cheeseburger no no no i'm a i'm usually like just a hawaiian shirt or a previous jimmy buffett concert shirt very you know in in spirit but not you know yeah not you know coconut bra yeah i would like to see you in the coconut bra you can't have people taking pictures of you dressed that way exactly
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
Exactly.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
Yes, multiple times. Multiple times.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
I have a great, and we can do it on the air if you want. We're on the air. Oh, we really are? Yes. That's awesome. That's amazing. It's hilarious. I didn't even know we started. I love that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
I just start sometimes. We're talking music.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
I'll give you a great Jimmy Buffett story. So I've met him a couple of different times. The first time I met him, so when Jimmy was alive, he used to do a show for SiriusXM called The Bing and Bong Show. He has Margarita Radio, which is still on SiriusXM. And so The Bing and Bong Show was him and his musical director, Michael Utley.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
And like, I don't know, 10 minutes before the show, they would either answer viewer questions or they would interview somebody or somebody would interview them. They played these characters, Bing and Bong. Right. And so, um, their tour manager of 25 years, guy named Hakey Larson, his production manager, dear friend of mine.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
And so, um, Hakey, I was going to a show and he, Hakey texts me and he goes, do you want to be on the Bing and Bong show? Jimmy would love, you know, he knows you're a big fan. I'm like, Oh my God. Yeah. So I'm thinking I get to meet, I'll do it because I get to meet Jimmy. Of course. Okay, fine. So I do the Bing and Bong show. Um, and that's like in, in the summer in Mansfield, Massachusetts.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
Okay. Uh,
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
maybe uh maybe eight months later he plays a new year's eve show uh at the barclay center in brooklyn new york and i i somehow managed to get front row tickets oh wow and i am it's new year's eve and it's my wife and i and another couple that we're friends with and we the tickets were a surprise we get there we're like front row center i am you know i'm i'm hammered and i'm just you know i'm going crazy and i'm like you know i'm i'm i'm i'm
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
fins up you know i'm doing the whole thing i'm you know i'm bowing to him i'm like all in like i'm you know i'm knocking inflatable balls onto the stage he never once recognizes me or acknowledges me which is fine all right totally it's totally fine like he's playing 20,000 people right but never once does he just you know kind of give me like a little look or what everything like that and i'm like making a big i'm like whatever who cares i like had a great trying to get noticed right i'm trying to get noticed i was just so into it right so i don't i don't
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
Again, I've already met him, but whatever. My point is that he never does. He never acknowledges me. He never looks my way at all. It's fine. Everyone's going crazy. He's playing to 20,000 people. Okay. A year after that, my wife and I and my kids go to the Margaritaville Resort in Florida on vacation. There's one in Hollywood, Florida, which is basically Fort Lauderdale. It's beautiful.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
It's a great resort.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
The Flowriders are awesome. It's Margaritaville. It's Margaritaville.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
I do. Wow. There's a lot you don't know about that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
Bite the onion. The Flowrider was great. I literally looked into, like, how much would it cost to get one in my backyard, and then it's like, it's crazy expensive.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
Like, it's like, you know, it's well over seven figures. Over?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
Yes, yes, yes.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
They told me it was like it's one five to two. And I'm like, really?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
Yeah.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
No, no, come on. No, but I thought, like, you know, could it cost maybe a little bit more than a pool? You know what I mean? Like, you know, kind of thing. And, like, I don't know.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
You can kind of explain that away. Yeah, yeah. Over a million dollars. I mean, I have five kids. You know what I mean? You're always looking for, you know, at the time. Anyway, whatever.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
Just send them out there. Right. But the point is, anyway, so randomly, Jimmy Buffett is at this resort. Right. At the same time I am. Wow. And so he was doing some photo shoot, and they were shooting him at the Margarita Resort. And so I see him. And so I just walk up to him, and I'm like, hey, Jimmy, hey, Matthew Berry from ESPN. I'm Heike's friend.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
And without missing a beat, he shakes my hand and goes, Matthew, so great to see you again. Last time I think we saw you was front row at Barclays on New Year's Eve. Oh, my God. He noticed. And I'm just like... He met me once for five minutes a year and a half previously. And then, again, without missing a beat.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
And later I'm talking to Hakey, and I'm like, dude, did you tell Jimmy I was going to be here? And he goes, no, I haven't talked to Jimmy probably in a week or so. But he goes, I will tell you, that story doesn't surprise me because he has a mind like a steel trap. He remembers everything, and when he's on stage, he doesn't miss a beat. Like, he just sees everything.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
I've heard stories like that before. Wow. Anyway, just, you know, kind of crazy. So anyway, I'm a massive, I'm a crazy Buffett fan. You're really a kid at heart. You are, Matt, right? I mean... Dude, I mean, listen, I'm on TV wearing makeup talking about fake football for a living. I mean, you know, like my job is. What a gig. Right. Exactly. It's ridiculous.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
They pay me, Stu Gatz, to talk about fake football. Right. And, you know, and betting on sports.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
And I mean, right. All of us. I mean, we have stupid jobs. So if you can't be a kid in a candy store and like. Right. Again, and I'm so lucky, like, that experience that I just told you about, the ability to meet Jimmy, the ability to, you know, get good tickets, the ability to, like, afford good tickets, all comes from this dumb place of a job that, like, shouldn't even exist, and it does.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
And it doesn't feel like work, right? Right, exactly. It's incredibly lucky, and I'm truly blessed, and, like, You know, so I cannot be happy. I want you to get a Flowrider.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
I mean, believe me, because, like, we spent, me and all my kids, like, we were on that every single day.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
They're not easy at all. But, like, we actually took – there's somebody there that's a Flowrider instructor. Yeah. Like, we took private lessons after the – Like the park, I mean, whatever. After it closes, like you can, you know, get a, and so like we, like the first night, the first day we all tried it, we all loved it. We all fell on our ass in the water.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
And then they're like, oh, well, if you want to get a lesson. So like me and all five kids and my wife, like we, you know, we got an instructor for an hour. And like we just practiced, just the five of us, you know. And then we were, you know, competent. And, like, literally every day for the rest of the week we were there or whatever. We loved it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
You need to wear the right bathing suit.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
Did you give me the rope? Like, when I started, they give you the rope. Yeah, you start, like, on your knees, too.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
It's great. We had so much. Anyway, I looked into it, and then I was like, all right, we're out.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
No, stop it. So I have five kids, and my sons are now grown adults. They're 26, 24, 20, and then I have the twin daughters that are 13. So wide range. But at this point now, it's like the 26-year-old has a serious girlfriend. The 24-year-old. So it's like when we go on vacation, it's like 12 people. So at this point, I wouldn't even notice you guys are there. You might as well come along.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
Because when we go, it's like it's a whole, it's a traveling circus. You notice when you start paying for it. Yeah. Well, maybe you wouldn't. Honestly, like, you know, my wife handles all the bills. I just, you know.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
Yeah.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
Clearly Billy hasn't read the book. He published the book. I published the book. Fair enough. Well done. Exactly. You put your name on a book that somebody else wrote. Fair enough. Yeah, I would. So his take is that Brian Billick is the greatest coach of all time, that Andy Reid and Bill Belichick shouldn't even be in this conversation, but that Brian Billick is the greatest coach of all time.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
His argument is, and let me tell you what my take on your take is, and then you correct me if I've gotten your take. I only said he was a better.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
Yeah, that was his basic take, was that anyone can win a Super Bowl with Tom Brady or Patrick Mahomes. Do it with Trent Dilfer, the way Brian Billick did. Or in Joe Gibbs' case, do it with three separate quarterbacks, none of them in the Hall of Fame. How about that? Right. So that was his argument, was that why is Andy Reid being talked about as potentially the greatest coach of all time?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
Bill Belichick is a mediocre coach without Tom Brady. Brian Billick.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
Yeah.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
More impressive is, I don't know, because Gronk and Kelsey have been so clutch in such big moments. Kittle's awesome. I love Kittle. He's great. He's unbelievable. And I will say that it's not really a fair comparison because Kittle, like Gronk, are also excellent run blockers.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
Unbelievable. Like, I don't think people appreciate how good a blocker Gronk was. Yes. And I don't think people understand how important Kittle is to the 49ers run game. Kelsey's not a blocker.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
Kelsey's a, you know, he's a big wide receiver. Kittle's numbers are bad because of the fact that he blocks so much.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
Right. Kittle's numbers.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
Yeah, exactly. But he's been so clutch for so long. Just in, you know, in the biggest moments and just so good at just sort of finding spaces. And, you know, a lot of it we could spend hours and hours talking about. Like, it's so much about, you know, showing up on it. Who are your teammates?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
You see? Well, prior to this year, this was my argument on Terry McLaurin. I'm like, Terry McLaurin's one of the best wide receivers in the NFL. People are like, eh. And I'm like, look who's throwing him the ball. Oh, yes. And then he finally gets a quarterback this year. Yes. And he finally gets a quarterback this year. Right.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
It was great. It was found money. Everyone's so upset. And I'm like, what's that? What do you got?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
I thought he was alone, but apparently he's not. No, no. He suffered for so long. I know. And this year was amazing. People were upset about the championship game. And I said, look, we won four games last year. Our preseason win total, this is the Commanders, was six and a half. If you told me – and we had been in the quarterback desert for years and years and years and years.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
And I said, if you told me before the year, hey, you guys are going to win 14 games. You're going to win two road playoff games. You're going to discover that you have a franchise –
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
caliber quarterback a superstar quarterback for the next 15 years and the only downside is you get your ass kicked in the nfc championship where do i sign sign me up where do i sign right now i mean like i think it was peter schrager that put this uh tweet out i apologize if it wasn't but you know about in terms of rookie quarterbacks in the championship game and the defenses they had right right you know flacco uh roethlisberger sean king with tampa bay uh brock purdy they all had top three defenses right jane daniel said
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
Defense number 18. Wow. Yeah. And, you know, I mean, like, he just, you know, I mean, my argument is that Jaden Daniels, what's so impressive, there's so many things impressive about Daniels' year this year, but one of them is that he actually played with worse talent around him this year than he did his final year in college.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
That's crazy. He had Malik Nabors and Brian Thomas his senior year in college. Yes. This year he had Olamide Zaccheaus and Diami Brown. He would have killed that team last year. Noah Brown, right. He had Terry McLaurin and, I mean, Zacherts had an amazing year. Zacherts was out of football last year.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
You know, so it's just like that he was able to do that. And credit to Cliff Kingsbury, credit to Dan Quinn, credit to the entire organization. But, like, faith in five, man. That kid is special.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
I don't. I mean, even me, I'm as homer as they come.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
It is, but I'm a QB3. I have Allen and Jackson over him.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
And I think he will go in the top five of fantasy drafts next year. I could see people putting Burrow ahead of him. I could see people drafting Jalen Hurts ahead of him. But for me, Jane Daniels is three. And I think the hype on him is going to be so real, especially because I think the commanders, obviously, they're going to fix the offensive line.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
They'll add another receiving weapon, whether it's T. Higgins, whether it's, you know, I've heard, you know, Godwin. Maybe they'll be in on Cup. Who knows? But, like, they'll add to that receiving core. You know, it's not just going to be Terry McLaurin next year.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
That's where you have to go variance.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
If you were doing a game for this one, you're like, oh, hey, Juju Smith-Schuster. Do we think he pops off? Matt Collins was my guy all season.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
He finally had a game. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Matt Collins is great. So it's in the margins, huh? Yeah. He'll be semi-popular, but I think Dallas Goddard has a big game on Super Bowl Sunday.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
What if Mahomes goes down? That's a little bit crazy. You're not going to win anyway. Do you take Jake Elliott? Does it turn into a field goal battle? And Jake Elliott, who struggled throughout the playoffs and this year, does he suddenly come up clutch and kick five field goals? Who knows? I want Billy's take, though, on your Billick take, your Belichick overrated take.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
I was going to tell you two, but I think one actually you guys had on your show. The first one is, I remember I was talking to Teddy Bruschi at ESPN. And I'm like, hey, Belichick. How brilliant is Belichick? He told me a story. He says, my second week of my rookie year, we're on the road somewhere. And I go to the practice field and I'm looking around and I'm like, hey, where's the play clock?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
Where's the play clock? And he's like, my position coach goes, oh, it's up there in the corner. He's like, why'd they move it? He goes, well, the stadium we're playing at this weekend, that's where the play clock is. They have it all the way up in the corner. So you want to practice knowing where the play clock is. Attention to detail.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
And Teddy just said, throughout my career, there were plays that I missed. There were plays that I didn't take the right angle or that I didn't do well. But there was never a play I wasn't prepared for. There was never something that an offense did that I hadn't seen on film or been talked to before that week. He's like, I mean, like, who thinks of that?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
Like, oh, we should practice where the play clock is. And so that's – and I was just like, oh, damn. And Deb McCourty said the same thing, and I know he said it on some show, and it might have been this one, I forget, but Deb McCourty told me the same thing, that, like, their first game at MetLife when he was playing the Jets, he's just like, oh, the wind carries the ball.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
He goes, if you get a – if you're on a go route, whatever, just play back a little bit because the ball's going to get caught up in there. Mm-hmm. And that's exactly what happened. He ended up getting an interception, I think, on Sanchez. So just, I don't know. You love the attention to detail, just speaking to what a great coach he is. Yeah, you know. I'm not even a Patriots guy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
I'm a Commanders fan. But, I mean, you know, respect. Somehow I have made you defend Bill Bowman. I know, but respect. Give the man respect. But when Teddy told me that story, which is such a small little story, but I just thought that was like, who would think of that?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
Always.
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GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
And you have a great family.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
Somebody go get me a Flo Rida sponsorship.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Cam Jordan, Matthew Berry, Will Shields, NY Jets, Warrick Dunn
All right, brother. There it is.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
You know what? It's been a weird year, Dan. It's been an unbelievably weird year, top to bottom. So just add this one to the list for sure.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
I just think, you know what, I mean, listen, at the end of the day, we're talking about a sport that is played with a leather ball in a oblong shape.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
Weird stuff is going to happen, and you've got 22 men trying to fight over that ball in some way, shame, form, or fashion, and it's a game that's not officiated consistently, and so something that's legal in one game isn't legal in the next, and it's all over the place, and so I think just all those things combined, plus the schedule is weird, right? You've got
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
Friday games and Monday games and Thursday games and Saturday day games. And it's all over the place. But it's fun. It's why we love the sport. It's why we follow it. And it keeps you entertained.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
I mean, I will tell you, I have had in my in my career and I know you guys have sources as well. I have I have literally had coaches that are that are sources for mine that will text me and saying, this guy is going to have a huge game.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
This guy is we have found something in the defense and we think this guy is somebody that we're going to we're going to really target and he's going to have a great game. And I don't want to give up my source. So I go on TV and I'm like, you got to start this guy. This guy's going to have a huge game, blah, blah, blah, for whatever stats that I have.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
But I know secretly the coaches told me, oh, yeah, we're targeting this guy. And then, you know, first play, he drops one next time, you know, and then he he'd have some dumb penalty. And next thing you look up at the end of the game, he's two for 16 on three targets. I just I like I've had NFL coaches tell me, like, we planned on this. This is what we practiced all week.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
And then it doesn't go anywhere near what they expect.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
They are. They are not. I mean, it depends on, you know, I mean, I have sources all over. Right. And so listen, I'm not claiming that I'm like a Mike Florio or a chef or anyone like this where I have the kind of sources that they do. But I have I have enough. And I don't ask a specific fantasy question.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
I ask a football question, but they know who I am and they know what I do and they understand why I'm asking. And so, you know, I might say something like, you know, pick a player. You guys are in Miami. I might say something like, again, I'm not claiming I have dolphin sources, but just like I might say something, hey, love what you guys are doing with A-Chan.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
Do you think he continues to get the majority of the workload or are you going to see some Mostert and Jalen Wright mixed in? You know what I mean? Like I'll ask it. I'll ask sort of a football question that I will then interpret for fantasy. That kind of stuff. It's a leading question. It is.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
I'll tell you a story. I remember when I first got to ESPN, I joined this league that was what's called the famed War Room League, which is all the NFL experts and reporters and insiders and everything like that. I remember one time and Trent Dilfer, this is when Trent was at the at the team and at ESPN and Trent was in the league.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
And I remember texting Trent and I were trying to do a running back for wide receiver trade. And I was trying to get a running back for him for a wide receiver. And he's like, yeah, that sounds good. That sounds fair. Let's let's let's finalize it this afternoon. I'm like, OK, got it. And so that afternoon I texted and said, hey, Trent, are we good for this trade? I'll send it through.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
And he goes, no, no, deal's off. And I go, why is the deal off? And he goes, well, I talked to his quarterback. He hates him. You know, he hates the wide receiver. And so I'm just like, oh, great. There you go. And it just sort of let me know that I was kind of in a different world there as well. And I'll tell you guys off air who the quarterback and wide receiver were.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
But, yeah, and that wide receiver didn't last on that team very long. So it is, you know, things like that happen.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
But this is what I'm trying to tell you, Dan, is that you'd think it would be illegal and that I have the answers to the test, but it doesn't often happen. It doesn't always happen that way. It sometimes goes awry. I'll quickly tell you my favorite fantasy football story of all time. I've told this before.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
I've written about it, and it's not even my story, but this will go to exactly what we're talking about. So my friend Matt Hasselbeck, who I worked with for many years at ESPN as well, Matt played fantasy when he was with the Seattle Seahawks. And in 2009... Hang on, though. This is worth it for the story. All right, look.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
And so Hasselbeck in 2009 drafts himself and his former Green Bay Packer teammate Brett Favre as his quarterbacks that year. That was the first year Favre was in Minnesota. If you remember, Favre was awesome his first year in Minnesota, NFL and fantasy-wise. Week five of that 2009 season, Hasselbeck has a decision.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
Favre is playing the Rams, who are one of the worst teams in the NFL that year, and he's playing the Jaguars. Hasselbeck's playing the Jaguars, who have won two straight. Hasselbeck has missed the previous two games with a back injury, and so he decides to bench himself in fantasy and start Brett Favre. In that season, that particular game, Favre throws just one touchdown pass against the Vikings.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
He throws an interception. Adrian Peterson has a huge game. Favre finishes the 18th best quarterback in fantasy now. Meanwhile, Matt Hasselbeck. throws four touchdown passes, like 250 yards, finishes the week as the number one quarterback in fantasy. The Seahawks waxed the Jaguars sitting on his own bench. And think about that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
When you think about that for a second, Hasselbeck had watched all the film. He knew the game plan. He was touching the ball on every offensive play. He could audible at any moment. Matt Hasselbeck had as much control over a fantasy football game as any fantasy manager in the history of the game. And still got it wrong. Matt told me that story and I said, I love that story.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
He's given me the permission to tell it. And so I've written about it. I've told that one before. But like, I mean, that's that's the ultimate story. Like, again, you think you know what's going to happen and then it just doesn't.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
I don't know that any one specific play. I mean, there's definitely been like, you know, nutty plays over the years. I don't know if there's any one specific play that I can think of that is like, you know, had to get the most points. I mean, that was sort of crazy, right, is that Josh Allen becomes, I think, like only the third player in history. Hold on a second.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
I will say, though, you mentioned that Brian Westbrook play. I wrote about this one in my book, which is there's a big league of casino owners where the buy-in, this was whatever, this is like 20 years ago, but the buy-in in that league, at least for that year, the Brian Westbrook year, was $100,000.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
uh and like whatever 12 team league and so uh a guy i met one of the guys in that league and he was telling me about that and that play if you guys remember it was in the fantasy playoffs and uh brian westbrook is is it's going against the cowboys and he's on his way down and he's got a touchdown right there and at the very last second he takes a knee to preserve the win for the eagles but doesn't score the touchdown uh and uh so i talked to him and this guy tells me he's like uh
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
what was your reaction? And he was like down five and he had Westbrook and it was his last player. So if Westbrook scores the touchdown, he wins his semifinal matchup. And he just turns to me and goes, yeah, that knee cost me $600,000. I later met Ryan Westbrook and I told him that story and he just laughed. He says, that guy should have called me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
He goes, we could have figured, if I'd known it was going to cost that much. We could have figured something out. I asked him, I said, Brian, how often does that play come up in your life? And he goes, every single day. Every single day, somebody mentions that play to me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
Dan, do I need a lawyer?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
Mike Williams. I mean, honestly, it's sort of happening at the same time. Minor penalty too, asshole. Marquez Valdez-Gantley. He's going through the same thing right now. He's actually getting less target share than Nick Westbrook-Akene, NWI. But yeah, just he's been an unbelievable run.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
Look, Tank Dell's been a bummer for me. I loved Tank Dell last year. He was one of the guys that came through for me. I liked him again this year. It hasn't worked out. He's had two games this year with 15 or more fantasy points. He's wide receiver 54 on a points-per-game basis. Single-digit fantasy points in almost 60% of his games. Like, it's just...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
For whatever reason, we thought the Texans' offense would regress. We didn't think it would regress this much. And just Tank Dell just hasn't been a thing this year the way he was last year. When the injury to Diggs happened, you thought, oh, well, maybe finally now it'll be Tank Dell time. And it just hasn't worked out that way. So we still love Tank Dell as a player.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
But fantasy-wise, it's been a massive disappointment.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
Of course. I have one last question for you, Stu Gatz, and it's really a question for Dan. I have a question for Dan. All right, he's in the penalty box. When does Dan get out of the penalty box? We bring him out of the... Yeah, we can we can get him out early because, yeah, I have I have an important question for him. All right.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
Sure, I'd be happy to. To be honest with you, I'm going to phone that one in. Yeah. Because I assume that'll be how the rest of the book is gone as well. But yeah, sure. All right. Yeah, put me down for a chapter. I'm in. All right, join the club, the phone club, and go ahead, ask your question of Dan. All right, Dan, here's my question.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
Earlier in the year, in my last appearance on the Dan Levitard show with Stu Gatz, I pitched the idea of a fantasy football league that I would play with Stu Gatz and the rest of the guys on the show. And so on air, Stu Gatz said, I love the idea, I'm in. And so Stu Gatz and I were texting back and forth, took him like a couple of days to get back to me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
And eventually he says like, I'm sorry, I'm gonna be bad at setting this up. Can I connect you with Chris Cody? And he'll set it up. And I said, you bet. So then Stu Gatz puts me on a text chain with Chris and the three of us. And I'm like, hey, Chris, let me know a good time to talk. We'll figure this out. I get blown off. Then I text again, completely ghosted.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
So I'm just curious, is it me or are Chris and Stugas just terrible on text generally?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
Yeah. So, yeah, you punted. But what's weird – He hit.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Five Good Minutes With Dan (feat. Dan Patrick and Matthew Berry)
This is mostly about embarrassing Chris and Stu Gatz, not you. I can't be embarrassed.