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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Yo, yo. Yo, yo, mofos. What's up? What's up? You know, just another day, another hard-earned dollar. What's going on with you guys? Ha, ha, ha.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Just another hard-earned dollar. That's right. All right, good. Billy's back in normal gear. Yep, I like that. That's better. You look better like that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Well, one, the people who fill in are here in person. So are you going to fly up? Absolutely.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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All right. Well, we'll note that. Or the peacock, someone. Also, it happened like very last second, right?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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It was one of those things where there was some sort of family emergency and Ahmed Farid couldn't pull it off, right? So I joke with him and I've had some jokes.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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So then he couldn't do it Wednesday, too, because it kind of spilled over. So my last two, I haven't done with him. You know, and I know he's okay. He's got something he's dealing with, but I've been making fun of him.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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You know, he drinks energy drinks, so I always jump on him for that. Like, oh, nothing like some good old poison in a bottle. Hold on a second. Now you're trying to make us feel bad about the fact that you didn't invite us.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Yeah, I mean, man up. Drink your poison like it's meant to be. Alcohol, okay? Okay, that's how it's supposed to be. All right. Not like, you know, sour patch infused energy heart attack drink. Yeah, that to me is like, ugh. You drink energy drinks, you guys? You do that? No, no. All right. Yeah. You don't need energy drink. I know.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Your baseball question. Just don't. I don't want to hear it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Of course you got my endorsement. Let's go. I mean, it is a damn good football cast and football podcast. And we get a lot of good info even when I'm not here. And then, you know, when I am here, I push us over the top to greatness, the award winnings type of stuff. So I see what you do, Billy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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That's right. Yeah. F*** them. They've never invited me on their podcast. F*** them. Let's go. God bless football. Hell yeah. Why haven't they invited you? It's terrible. That's a good question. I don't know why. It's terrible. They don't invite me to a lot of things. All right. So I'm like the outcast of the family. I don't know where I stand there exactly. All right.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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You want baseball or Texas first? Which one? Go. Well, they're both depressing.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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It adds a little extra. It does. I'd actually rather go to the Mets than the Dodgers. I'll just say that. I would. It just hurts more as the Yankee part. Man, we had something special. Aaron Judge and... And Soto's handshake is as cool as it gets, and the back-to-back bombers, and that's just what we're supposed to be, the New York Yankees. So that's where it hurts.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I actually don't really care that he went to the Mets. The Mets will find a way to f*** this whole thing up. I can promise you that in a lifetime of watching it, other than like two years in the history of their existence. So that's where I'd be more scared if they went to the Dodgers, because the Dodgers, I'd be like, oh, no. But damn, I mean... It does. It's a new era, man.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I mean, the New York Yankees, it's the attendance record every year. Got our own channel. And now we don't even have enough money to compete with some of the teams in the NFL and MLB. Like that to me is the biggest shock of all. Does the Steinbrenners need to sell the damn thing and we need to get some hedge funders in there?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I want... And we don't have enough money when teams like the Dodgers and the Mets can just outbid us every year. Yeah. Baseball set up for monopoly capitalism. You were the Yankees. We got more than you deal with it. All right. That's the way I like my baseball and I'm not getting it right now. I'm just, I'm with you Sims.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Going to the World Series, that's... You went to the NLCS.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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We go to the World Series every other year for a century straight. We're not worried about going. We win. That's what we want to do.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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you don't like the current structure of baseball dsm the yankees thrived i know i know that's why i don't like it i don't like that we're not king of that structure still i like my football equal right but i want my baseball unequal i want the yankees to be the king of the world that all the time said i'm disappointed with that that is so good all right so uh put us in the living room drinky drinky smoky smoky as texas was losing to georgia
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I had my mom and dad were over, right? I was actually decorating the Christmas tree that night while I was on. When we went in 6-3 at halftime, right, after basically just totally dominating the first half and only being up 6-3, I was like, oh. We should be up by two touchdowns, three touchdowns. I can't believe this. So that was a hurt. That hurt.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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But then when Georgia went down and scored, right, the first drive of the third quarter to take the lead, it's just the worst year for this to happen because I work with Maria Taylor, who went to Georgia. She hosts the college football show I'm on. She hosts Football Night in America. She also is maybe my biggest adversary in talking shit, if you can believe that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Nobody can talk with me except for Maria Taylor. So I have to deal with her. And I'm telling you, like, she's as good as it gets. Any locker room I've ever been in and anything. So they score. My family's there. And as soon as they cross the goal line, I go, oh, I go, Maria is going to FaceTime me. And I mean, before I can say FaceTime, it's. And she's on the phone and harassing me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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So of all years of all teams, Georgia, Maria Taylor, she's killing me. And then, you know, she may be put on Georgia gear all Sunday and wear that around the facility. It's just embarrassing. It really is. I hope we get another shot. National championship game.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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We're going to go. National championship. And I told Maria, if we're both in it, because we thought about Boeing to both matchups. If we go, she's way richer than I am. I said, you buy the private plane and we'll go to the game and enjoy it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Our path is the best that it can get. It can't get any better, right? I mean, we're better than Clemson. We're better than Arizona State. All you can ask for is, hey, you're going to have a chance to be in the Final Four and you get this chance to show yourself and prove yourself. And I still think we're one of the best teams in college football, if not the best.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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We're definitely one of the two or three best. Now we get to decide it on the field.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Yeah. I mean, you know, I said all the same things that... You heard Brady and Gronkowski and Edelman say on the pregame of Fox last week. Like, what? Bill Belichick with a bunch of kids talking to parents? Johnny's dad called. He's not getting enough playoff playing time. Like, what? Bill Belichick?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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He couldn't even talk to Tom Brady after he won seven Super Bowls when he was like, hey, I think we should throw them more. Throw them more. F*** you, Tom. Get out of the building. Like, what? Like, that's the way I am. I'm shocked. I'm beyond shocked.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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But at the same time, and this is where I guess I'm not a little shocked, I'm not like totally shocked that teams in the NFL didn't want him, right? And that's what you were getting a sense of. I think there was some forwarding and some talking with Tampa Bay. I think Jacksonville was in the conversation a little bit, but I think obviously they decided they did not want to go that route.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I don't think there was much of a calling for him, his age, right? How much longer he's going to coach. How much is he going to ask to control an organization?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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All of those, I think, were detractors for hiring Bill Belichick, let alone, this is something that I tell everybody, and I don't know if everybody knows this, is just that how much the New England coaches, Belichick, and the staff behind him are disliked by the majority of the NFL.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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You know, that's where his like, you know, New England and their chest out and we're the Patriots and we win Super Bowls and do all that. It's rubbed a lot of the league the wrong way. You know, I definitely have friends that are like, oh, Belichick, oh, those people there, blah, blah, blah, right? It's all, oh, they invented football.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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They're probably going to tell us how to, you know, throw the football now. They invented it. It's all that kind of stuff. And a little bit is just because of the way it was run up there in New England. It was very tight-lipped. Coaches weren't allowed to talk to other coaches in the pregame and everything there. And the kind of guys he hired are not necessarily all social guys either way.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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But I think, you know, you burn as many bridges as he did throughout the NFL with the way he treated people for so long. I think he had a lot of people that were like, I would do anything not to have Bill Belichick in my building. And I think you saw all that kind of come to a pinnacle here. Interesting.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I think I'm more surprised that he took this job, right? I knew the NFL wasn't interested in Bill, but I guess I still thought there might be one team that would go, let's do it, right? That makes sense, whatever, blah, blah, blah. And I thought maybe Tampa would be that team with Jason Light being there who also worked in New England at one point.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And there was some tangible things I heard behind the scenes to think that there was some talk there. But Todd Bowles comes out. I mean, he says he's not retiring. Do that. Things obviously change on that front. But, yeah, I'm I think all in all surprised with the college thing. Again, here's my thing. The recruiting. Right. Talking. Having to be personable to kids and family. Right.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I think he's like, is he going to recruit? Again, he better recruit. You better not wait on other people. This is the NIL era, right? And you're North Carolina. You're a basketball school. So you can't just go, oh, I hope Mike Lombardi and other people in my staff will recruit. No.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Johnny, who's thinking about Ohio State, LSU, and North Carolina, at some point, he's going to want to talk to Bill Belichick and hear about it and hear him because he's going to go, wait, wait. Ohio State's offering me $3 million. The stadium's way cooler. It's a football school. I'm going to win the national championship. All that, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, I know Bill Belichick.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I heard of him when I was growing up, but what? Like what? So he's going to have to do that stuff, let alone the coaching hours, Stugatz. The brilliance of Belichick is his ability to grind film and come up with these creative game plans. In college football, he's going to have to be elementary for his standards.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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He won't even get to show you his great wisdom because he's not going to have enough time to implement this with some of these kids on the college level.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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You're safe. You're safe. Shula's safe. Shula can rest easy, who is also one that doesn't sound like he's the biggest fan of Bill Belichick.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Christmas All Year
most efficient yeah i'm not gonna say it's the best i feel like you know those early first year and a half with mike mcdaniel were pretty damn special and and the fact of the big plays the way they were executing the offense and all of that now not all that falls on two of course because people have caught up to the offense and all that and you know what we've said the last few weeks i think they've changed their philosophy a little bit into hey he's our franchise we're
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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We're paying them and we'll add more plays where we get the ball out of our hands quicker. They're a pain in the ass the way they play that way, right? A ball control pass offense, they can chew clock up. If you play zone, they will absolutely pick you apart. There's no doubt about that. And of course, then if you start to play man-to-man because you're worried about that,
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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They can still find ways to beat you down the field and find creative ways to get Tyreek and Waddle on the run. So it's damn good. That's for sure. The Dolphins are, you know, it's unfortunate he got hurt because you're a playoff caliber football team that's fighting for their life now just because of that situation.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I know you're going to say Bill's Lions, but Eagle Steelers is also pretty big. That's all I'm saying.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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He's like, was that a question? Like Josh Allen is one of the greatest we've ever seen. Right. I mean, he's one of the greatest. Josh Allen is a first ballot Hall of Famer for for my money. I know he needs the hardware to go along with that. But Josh Allen's one of the best quarterbacks I've ever seen in my life. He's John Elway 30 years later.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And unfortunately, so far, the start of his career is the John Elway story where they just can't win the big game. And it's not because of John Elway. It's because of the rest of the team. And like so many times, John Elway went to the Super Bowl and lost it. Oh, John Elway can't win the Super Bowl.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And then the point was, it was like nobody could have brought those teams to the Super Bowl other than John Elway. That was it. That's where sometimes people drop the ball in the big picture of what's going on there. Allen's crazy, is insane. I wish we got that game too. The flexing stuff, Billy, has become very complicated. I don't really understand all of it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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They can protect certain games, CBS and Fox. So I don't know. I'm not complaining. Ours is pretty damn good. I'll take it. But yeah, that Bill's Lions game, I think it'll be a lot like you saw the Bills and the Rams last week. It's going to be a high-scoring game. I picked it to be 41-38, I believe. Neither one of these defenses will be able to stop the other.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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The Bills' defense is not good, and they're definitely not good when McDermott gets put in the bind of you have to stop an equally good run game and pass game. See, he can come up with game plans to stop like, oh, if the team is like, let's say Miami, they're really good at throwing the football. I know they're creative running the football, but it's not like they maul you, right?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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They're not going to maul you. They do it with creativity. So he can hedge on, okay, yeah, they might get a few good runs or blah, blah, blah, but we're going to play to stop the pass because we don't feel like they're just going to blow us off the ball game and the run game, right? The Rams can do that. The Lions can do that and the Bills can't play man to man.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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So when teams start to run the ball, they try to play man to man and everybody runs by them. So they're in a tough bind. They're going to give up a lot of points this weekend. But with the injuries on the Lions and their defense and no big pass rushers on the edge, This is the kind of games Josh Allen can take over. So I expect this one to be awesome, Billy, to your point.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I think it's going to be a lot of fun. I'm most excited about that game this weekend, too. I second what you're saying.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Or if you're going to run it, just don't call the timeout. I'm with you. I know what you're saying. Get the f*** up off of the quarterback sneak and call another play. The timeout was more valuable than anything, right? That's your point, and that's where they messed it up. But yeah, I'm with you.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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There's two or three times every year where McDermott kind of has some questionable end-of-the-game decisions. But Billy, I'm a fan of him and his coaching and what he does. I'm more not a fan of the personnel they've had. That would be my biggest issue. Again, on the defense, who is there to write home about?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Tell me the defensive lineman that's going to ever make a play or the team has to worry about game planning for, right? Who is it? Right? Secondary. Can you name a guy in their secondary if I really sit here and talk to you about it? I mean, again, yeah, go ahead, Billy. Look it up as you're sitting there. That's what you're doing right now. Yeah, 100%. That's what I mean.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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They got Matt Milano, a linebacker, but that's my point, and he's not a himself yet. There's not enough dudes there. And that, therefore, goes into Josh Allen. We've got to outscore against the best teams.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Now, the difference is this year is he's got enough weapons and an offensive line around him to where I do think in these games where we go, oh, Josh Allen's got to be superstar and take it over, he can overcome it because there's enough help around him, at least on the offensive side of the ball. I don't think he'll be able to do it this week.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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He'll keep it close, but I think the Lions will win the game.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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They got some issues. They definitely do. It's crazy. Unseating the Eagles of last year, I think. Well, this is all... What's really coming to light is stuff that really people like myself and a lot of people have known for a while. That there's issues in that locker room. And a lot of them stem around Jalen Hurts. And I know that from too many people and credible positions.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And I even said on Florio's show the other day, you know, again, he's flown home with the owner on the private plane while the rest of the team goes home on the team plane. There's just been too many things like that. He tells them how to run the offense and the offense he wants to run. I mean, he made a quote yesterday that the offense will look how Jalen Hurts wants it to look.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I mean, if that doesn't say it all, I don't know what does. So, yeah, their offense is elementary. You've heard me. I've been saying that. Then where they get frustrated is when you look at who they've played over the last eight to nine games, they've played like the worst defenses in football. If you can pick the worst defenses in football, that's who they've played.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Browns, Giants, Bengals, Jaguars. Cowboys, Ravens, Panthers. Okay, the Commanders are respectable. The Rams are like the 20th something ranked defense in football. So my point is they know how super talented they are, right? When you're on a team like that, the guys know. And as you've heard me say, it's no doubt the best O-line in football. It's those two receivers.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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It's up there with Waddle and Tyreek for the two best tandem in football, right? It's the best running back. It's the best defense in football. So it's boiling over because they're going, what? Carolina? Well, we should be steamrolling them. And I showed that on my podcast yesterday. There's people open. The ball's not being thrown. The reads are not being made appropriately.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Now, the good thing is he's not turning the ball over, and if he doesn't do that, they're so good, they're still hard to beat with all the problems I'm talking about. But they've got to fix some things on offense. Again, we're holding them to the standard of they've got to try to beat the Lions, the Ravens.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Those teams in the Super Bowl, I know they're going to beat Carolina and some of these other teams when they play B- football. It's not about that. It's the bigger conversation of winning the Super Bowl that is concerning, I think, with the Eagles altogether.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I'm going to take the Eagles. I am. Here's my big thing, especially if Pickens doesn't play. I just think it's going to be hard for Pittsburgh to move the ball. If Pickens doesn't play, I'm going to go, good luck moving the ball. Because Philly can do everything. Philly can play. They're one of the best zone teams in football. They're also one of the best man teams in football.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And if George Pickens is not there, they're going to go, we're playing man. We don't think any of you guys can run away from us. Jalen Carter, in my opinion, is a sneaky defensive MVP, NFL Defensive Player of the Year award. He f***s the play up about as much as anybody in football. I don't think they're going to be able to run the ball.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Now, we talked about the concerns with the Eagles offense, and they're not complicated and all that. and the Steelers' defense is good, and that's going to be the big thing. Can the Steelers' defense stop that run without having to go all in to stop the run, right? Can they find ways to stop the run and then help Joey Porter one-on-one against A.J. Brown outside and some of that?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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That's going to be the real magic of the football game with that, and I don't think so. I think the Eagles are another class up from the Steelers talent-wise, and I had them winning 27-13, Stu Gatz.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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We care. I mean, it's the, it's the most disrespected 11 and two team I can, you know, ever remember. I'm with you there. I know what you're saying. Yeah. It's insane. And no one takes them seriously. And I don't know why. No, I, I, I get it. You know, I, I think it's, um,
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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They haven't had as many dominant wins as the Eagles and the Lions and the Ravens and some of the teams that are at the top of football. I think that's part of it. Yeah, they don't have the shiny, sexy, what everybody deems to be the franchise quarterback. I think there was a question marks about Sam Darnold. Listen, the guy I do pro football talk with, Mike Florio, he's a Vikings fan.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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He spent five weeks saying in the middle of the year going, I think they should trade for Matthew Stafford and put Sam Darnold on the bench. So it's all that stuff that just leads to not everybody giving them the love they deserve. And their defense is good, but no marquee star on that side of the ball that I think people can latch on to and talk to. Damn good football team.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I expect them to win the wildcard round, wherever that may end up being. But after that, yeah, then you get into the final four in the NFC. Okay, yeah, they can go toe-to-toe, but I'm certainly, I still don't think I'm going to put them as far as I think there is a good team as the Eagles, the Lions. And I think the Packers are more talented too. Not by a lot, but I think they are.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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But yeah, we certainly let them fly under the radar a little too much, I think, to your point, Stu Gatz.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Okay, I'll call Billy. All right, good luck with the voting. Kick the shit out of that Sims podcast. All right, guys?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Vote on God bless football. Okay. Peace out, guys. See you. You're never getting invited to your family show. Trying to get him disinvited from Christmas now. That's what I'm trying to do.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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There you guys do that. Stugatzbook.com. Check that one out here. Thank you. Look at you promoting books for me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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There we go. That one happens. You finish your one month cleanse. What happens the next day?