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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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There we go. That one happens. You finish your one month cleanse. What happens the next day?
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I'm a big fan of Mike Vrabel. I'm not ready to compare him to Vince Lombardi quite yet, but I think Mike Vrabel is a phenomenal head coach. I do. One, I think he's about as close as you're going to get in football to Parcells and Belichick with that type of attitude. I think he's actually got a little more
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parcels on him in a lot of ways where he can be like snarky and like charming to the media at the same time a little bit that way he's very hands-on with his coaching and what he does on the football field during practice he's a really good motivator He's cutting edge with things he does like training in the off season. And yeah, I mean, look at what there was there in Tennessee. I mean, he, he.
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Went as a number one seed in the AFC playoffs with a team that set the record for the most injuries in a season. and had to sign all these people. They went to the AFC championship game with Ryan Tannehill, who couldn't play, right? Remember, now everybody told me he couldn't play until they saw him playing, and then they went, oh, he can play.
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But we don't want to give Mike Vrabel the credit for bringing him along a little bit. So, yeah, I'm a big fan of Vrabel. I think he is the best candidate out there, no doubt for me.
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No, he's not Vince Lombardi. He's not Bill Belichick. Not exactly.
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I got the whole family. Yep. Whole family got a, like a three 30 flight today. Pumped about it. I mean, I, I really am. I got the, uh, the kids are excited. My wife was like kind of poo pooing it there for a little bit, giving me this whole spiel. Like you're the only one that wants to go. Why are we going to this? And my kids like walked in the room in the middle of that.
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And they were like, no, no, we want to go. My son was like, Oh, I'm a pumped. And my daughter was like, yeah, I'm excited, mom. I don't know what you're talking about. So, you know, she finally came to her senses because, I mean, if she said it again last night, I was going to go, stay the hell home. We got plenty of other people that want to come to the game.
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Maybe we need to. If she pulls that bullshit today, she's staying home. We got plenty of other people that want to come to the game.
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You can sleep outside on the floor where a dog's on the mat outside the door. That sounds good.
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What is the deal here? I guess she feels guilted into it now, but yeah, now. I don't even know. I don't know why she's going now, but we got her going, you know, like she was like giving me this whole spiel. Like when they won, you just said, let's make the, like, I want to go, let's go. Like, and she's a loud mouth, North Jersey woman who never like doesn't share her opinion.
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And I was like, why didn't you tell me when I said that, that you really don't want to go like, just tell me that. Why are you telling me two nights before we're going that you don't want to do this? So we'll see. Yesterday, she said, sorry. My kids, I think, in a lot of ways, were a little bit like, wow, hey, hey, dad, this is a quote from my son. Hey, dad, we're your buddies.
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We'll have fun without her. Don't worry. And I think my daughter wants me to bring her boyfriend. And I think my son likes that, too. So they're willing to ditch mom and leave her at home. Yeah. Ditch mom for the boyfriend, of course.
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They're probably close to my age, honestly.
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He's talking to Mikey A. I'm talking about yours, Billy. What is it? I'm talking about Billy's hat.
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Like, Oh, that's an M. Okay. All right. So it's a Marlins. All right, cool.
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You're kind of a whore, it sounds like. You just do anything for merchandise or anything that you can get. If the price is right, yeah.
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He didn't sleep with me just to go to the game. I mean, geez, it just tells you how easy he is. That's what I'm saying.
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Right. Is it not kind of funny how quickly it like turned in three weeks? Like literally like, oh, they're the most overrated overhyped team ever to literally like, I want to be like SpongeBob 14, 14 days later, they're the best team we've ever seen. I don't know if anybody can beat them. I mean, they're dangerous. They're talented as hell. I know that.
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They're the most talented team in college football. But not by so much that they can just, like, waltz through this game against Texas. RD is real. I think RD will pose problems for them. And...
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their defense is very good but they play a style and then i think that it'll fit us being able to throw the football down the field they're pretty aggressive they'll play man-to-man on the outside they'll do stuff like that and if we have you know number seven bond totally healthy You better be careful about playing us totally man-to-man like that.
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We got guys in a system and a quarterback that certainly can make some big plays down the field. So, yeah, of course I give ourselves a chance to win this game.
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I think, yes. I think he's one of the few that could probably make that crossover. One, I mean, he's a quarterback guy. He's an offensive guy. He's had a little history in the NFL. Of course, he worked for Nick Saban, which is as close as you're going to get in the college football level to NFL game planning and detail and preparation.
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I look at it and go, he's always got a few little new wrinkles and game plan ideas, so I do think he has that capability, yes.
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I mean, it's not easy, as you know, but yeah, offensive game plan designer who's creative and knows how to kind of coexist and bring a quarterback along, I think that's always going to be fancied in the NFL, and yeah, I think he is on a short list of guys that could actually get that done.
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what do you make of these reports that quinn ewers might stay in college for a fifth year not at texas somewhere else it's somewhere in the neighborhood of six to ten million dollars as opposed to going to the nfl yeah it's crazy uh i i would actually i would do that if i was him right i i had this conversation a little bit with i think dan patrick about two weeks ago and that that's what i expected they're going to arch manning next year that is not that is not an option
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They are super excited about what Arch Manning could be. And they're giving you the signals that they think they can be way greater than they are even now with Arch Manning at quarterback if he gets time to play and gets the reps and all that. Ewers, right, I think if he was like, oh, wait, the NFL views me as a fringe first rounder or maybe a second rounder, I'd go, go, see you later.
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But the NFL doesn't view him like that. He's got to make a few more people believers. Just like you said, again, like you saw in the Arizona State game. There's just a few throws and a few plays every game where you just go, wait, you're too good to miss that throw or lob the ball up to let somebody knock it down.
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I think he needs to go one more year and kind of work on some things to improve himself, which will then improve his stock in the NFL eyes or the people that are important in the NFL eyes.
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I think so. I would expect that. But I would still be, if I'm like, you know, the dean at North Carolina or whatever, I'd be a little worried right now. I would be. You know, I think Bill Belichick first off was, uh, I think he panicked. That would be the first thing. I think he wanted to know or have a deal kind of in place, right? Like wink, wink. We're going to hire you.
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We're going to go through the interview process and do all the things that we need to do. But when it's all said and done, we'll be wink, wink back to you. And we're going to hire Bill Belichick. He never got that. So I think because of that, he panicked a little bit and went to college football.
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But within that, anybody that knows him or has ever been around him, we all question whether he fits college football, right? For a lot of reasons. I know you and I, we've all discussed this a little bit, but the recruiting, dealing with Jimmy and Johnny's mom, dealing with the fact that he's going to have to game plan way more simple than he ever has in his life.
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Is he going to be mentally intrigued by that? Is that going to keep him going when he has to play like, oh, I got to play cover four for nine out of the 10 next snaps here because I got young kids who didn't get enough reps and I can't even do some of the crazy awesome stuff that I can really do.
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So there's that aspect and all of that, and let alone relating to young kids and a kid that's different than back in the old days when he grew up or anything like that. You hear Brady and Gronk, none of them thought he would do this or be able to coexist in a college environment. So that would scare me. And yeah, if you made me bet, I would say it's one and done.
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And then he hands it over to Steven Belichick to become the head coach. And then he tries to find a spot. But I still would be scared right now because $10 million is chump change to any owner who wants to buy him out. $10 million is chump change to Bill Belichick. I mean, Bill Belichick is swimming in it. He's got more money than he knows what to do with. So that means nothing.
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I think in the long run, other than that, his reputation will take a big hit if he leaves right now.
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I mean, I think that would be his spot for sure. But I don't know if the Giants would be the place I'd want to go to right now if I'm Bill Belichick, just because the Giants, I think, is a project, right? And we know they're keeping their coach and their GM anyways.
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But, like, if you heard anything Mike Lombardi, who's close to Belichick, say, right, the jobs this year are not viewed as that great, right? Usually when you have seven or eight job openings, there's one or two that you look at and go – That team's pretty damn good. The coach was just horrible there and was messing it up. I'd like to take over that team.
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I think Chicago was that team in this hiring cycle. I think Bill was trying to get to Chicago because of that. Chicago's really ready. You just need another offensive lineman or two, maybe one more defensive playmaker, and you go... okay, we're pretty good. And now let's just bring this rookie quarterback along.
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I also think that's why Tampa was on his radar in a big way because there was Todd holes, maybe retires and gets out. And he's looking at Tampa going, they got a lot of stuff that works down there. Everything else is a little bit of a project or unknown. But to your point, though, if all was equal, yeah, I still think the Giants are a very special place to him and in his heart.
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I know. I know you're right. That's a tough thing to do. It's like, you know, I was kind of saying those same things with like Sean Payton and Jim Harbaugh. Like, wait, are you sure you want to go to the AFC West and deal with Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes? Right. But sometimes you just got to take the best situation available and go, OK, this this allows me to be my best.
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And now let's see if I can compete and beat the best at my best. And, you know, that's sometimes all it all it boils down to.
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Yes, agreed. I mean, Houston, if they're not in the NFC, AFC South, are they even in the playoffs? I mean, I don't know. They haven't played like a playoff football team the last 10 or 11 weeks. I mean, got off to a heart's hot start. And what are they over the last 11 games? I might be off by or so like they're five and six, right? Something like that.
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It's nothing special. We've got offensive concerns, right? Everybody wants to blame C.J. Stroud, which is stupid. When I watch C.J. Stroud, he still hits every open throw. He still plays at a high level. There just ain't much there for him to do. They can't protect. They have long developing pass plays down the field, and that doesn't make sense when you can't protect, right?
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I mean, that makes no sense. Their running game is iffy. It's average at best. The defense has got some talent. It does, but you worry about it where, okay, they don't do a ton on defense. Two of their greatest assets are their pass rushers, and I think that gets wiped out a little bit in this game because Rashawn Slater and Joe Walsh are damn good tackles.
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So they're not going to be like, oh, we got to help with a tight end or a back in these situations. They're going to feel good about those matchups. And because they're a little predictable on defense Houston, yeah, I think Jim Harbaugh and Greg Roman will have some plays that'll screw them for, you know, lack of a better way to say it. I took the Chargers to win 24 to 17.
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I don't have faith in Houston. Yeah, they've been going the wrong way for a long time here.
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Oh, I think it's... The Packers-Eagles game has, I think, the biggest potential to be special. Just because I think the Packers are one of the few teams in football that will never be physically outclassed by a team like the Eagles, the Lions, the Chiefs, the Ravens. They can hang right in there with them, right?
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The big question is Jordan Love, his health, the fact that he hasn't played that well.
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the fact that they're going into the playoffs after losing to chicago and they were trying to win that game last week and the eagles are going to be a fresh football team you know other than jalen hurts like he hasn't played and he's just about to get out of concussion protocol that's your only concern there but that game has a chance i'm taking the eagles
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But I still think there's a lot of heavy hitters on the field. Bothers me in Green Bay, they have no Christian Watson. Romeo Dobbs has been going through some stuff. Jordan Love, of course, not at his best. That worries me a little bit as far as Green Bay is concerned.
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I think that... it could be a real possibility. Like my, my workmate, Mike Florio, who you just talked about in PFT, I think he, he, he thinks there's a chance, right? A team that talented, if they go out one and done, right. There could be trouble. He also thinks there's a chance of Baltimore Ravens. Like if they go one and done with this team, car ball could be in trouble.
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If it looks bad against, and let's say vice versa, the Baltimore dominates Pittsburgh, he has a thought, and usually Mike, when he has a thought, he's getting inklings from somewhere that he thinks that Tomlin could be in trouble too. So, you know, we got some playoff teams here certainly that could have some drama if things don't go the right way this weekend.
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That's what I think where it might come to a head if they disappoint here, right? I don't expect them to. I'm taking them to beat the Steelers. I think the Steelers are going like this and the Ravens are going like this right now. I expect them to control the game. I picked Ravens 35-20. So if it goes as expected, he'll be okay.
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But, yeah, I think that what you're saying, the Ravens fans know that, and that's why, you know, every few years you kind of hear like a rumbling of, I don't know, is John Harbaugh still going to be the head coach of the Ravens? And I think it's kind of the things you're alluding to that, you know, rub some people the wrong way in that fan base.
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Yeah, I think that People figured out how Russell Wilson led Pittsburgh Steelers want to play football a little bit. The one thing you see with Russell Wilson and watching back even the Ravens game, the last one they played, which was 34-17 Ravens, and it was closer than that. That was a misleading score. But, you know, Wilson's made some mistakes lately.
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Wilson's definitely turned down some completions. Middle of the field is still an issue with Russell Wilson. It's an issue. And if there's an advantage to have in this matchup, Fryer moved down the middle against Roquan Smith. There was people open down the middle in the last matchup against the Ravens. He's reluctant to throw the ball into those windows.
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I don't know if it's because he's shorter and he can't see or if he's just very protective of the ball, but he's going to have to be a little more aggressive in this one. I think, too, the other thing you start to realize is that when they don't have George Pickens and he's not – focused and he or he's dropping the ball or talking too much, you can see that they're just not the same offense.
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There's nobody that scares you. So I think it's a little bit of all of that. And then the defense is good, but it's not great. I think that's probably the big thing I look there. I'm expecting Baltimore to kind of control this game, Mikey, a like jump off to a big lead and then kind of take the foot off the gas pedal. And, you know, Pittsburgh kind of comes back to make it look respectable.
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but I don't think they're in the same class as the Baltimore Ravens right now.
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Yeah, I, I, I get you there right now where I, where I think I'll fight back on you a little bit is the word dominate, right? Because the score looks dominant. I understand that it does, but let's not forget. I missed a lot of throws. A lot of throws, a lot of reads, right? You might've saw some of them on social media. Right. There was guys where you go, he's the first read.
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He's wide open, but he's already like, he was jittery and he was already moving to somebody else. And it's like, wait, wait, the second guy's not even where he needs to be yet. Cause you got off the first guy who's wide open for a touchdown. Just throw it. So yeah, he didn't play good, but Kevin O'Connell will be able to say it that way.
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Now, you know, they had four consecutive drives where three of them, they were like inside the five yard line. And one of them, they were at the eight yard line and they got two field goals out of those four drives. That was it. That was it. The other two drives inside the five and came away with zero points. He's going to be able to sell to his team.
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Look, if Sam makes this thrower, Hey, we've seen Sam make this read. If we play them again, this game ain't 31 to nine. Their defense played well for the better part of the football game. So like O'Connell said this on Monday, he said, we can't forget that we won nine in a row and we were really good. We didn't play our best last night and we messed up.
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And that's what he's going to have to kind of sell and beat into the brain of his football team. 31-9 was misleading. I think that game was closer than that. And they certainly blew some opportunities to put some pressure on Detroit early in the football game and make it be a little bit of a different football game in general.
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So do I. I think they're kind of in the same boat when I look at it that way. Right? Like... Lamar Jackson is, for as great as he is, what is it so far? Is it two playoff wins? Are we at two? Yeah, I think so.
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So, I mean, that's kind of remarkable for a guy that's the two-time league MVP, maybe about to be the third one, like Mikey A was just talking about, or you were talking about with the hardball stuff, and we've only won two games. So there's a lot of pressure on him.
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But Josh Allen has the same amount of pressure, and it might not just be about winning the big – it might not be winning playoff games, but it's like can you get to the championship? Can you get to the Super Bowl? Can you get there that way? But I think those two are the two that are under the most pressure. They're so talented. They're as talented as we've ever seen in football.
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They're all-time greats. They're just missing this part of – You know, their resume to say pie off big wins and all that type of stuff. And that's why there's a lot of pressure on him.
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that's right and that's what well and that's what Josh Allen's saying he's going I just gotta beat Sean Payton this week and then if I beat Lamar Jackson and then I go on the road and we beat Kansas City damn all the demons will be off my back so it's like it's funny they're in the same boat right it really is it's crazy that way and yeah then to go to the Super Bowl like you said and then have to deal with you know who knows what team the Lions the Eagles and go over
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well they're pretty good we got to beat them does that count does this one count i don't know what's going to happen right but uh these these are these are the things that we know greatness in the nfl pantheon the hall of famers all that they're judged on these moments and it's unfortunate that three greats like this are all on the same side of the bracket and got to deal with each other but that's just the way it is and that's what's going to make this playoffs awesome
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Well, Brady will know the right coaches, right? I know you guys released some shit on social media about me and all the damn Brady stuff last week. That was Billy. I'm a believer in Brady. I am, as far as a football mind. I like Tom Brady a lot. In fact, it hurts me that that goes out on social media just because I like him, but I still stand by what I said, but either way.
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I don't like you, so shut that up.
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I think you hit the teams and the points there, Billy. I think you're right in what you're saying. I mean, I know you don't like Trevor Lawrence, and there might be other people in football that feel the same way. I get that, but it's still not a bad one to have.
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And the Jaguars, a little bit like you said with the Bears, wait, we've got receivers, we've got a running back, we've got two of them actually, we've got some pass rushers, we've got some guys in the secondary. We just need to kind of improve the O-line a little bit and get maybe a better defensive tackle in there. So they're not far off. The Bears, I already explained that, right? Not far off.
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And you got the quarterback there. And the Patriots, you know, they're a little more work than the Jaguars and the Bears as far as the full team. But you do have Drake May, certainly, right? But, you know, there's a lot more to do there. And that's where, you know, I feel bad for Gerard Mayo is that, like – They finished exactly where I think everybody thought they would finish.
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Like, nobody looked at the Patriots and went, oh, they're an under-the-radar sleeping giant this year. Watch out for them. I mean, there's not a lot of bright spots on their football team. They got a few good secondary players, right? They got Drake May. They got Ramondre Stevenson. After that, everybody's going to be looked and evaluated to see whether they should be the guys going forward.
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So, you know, there's a little more work there in New England than those other two.
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I think I would be right now. I would. All right. Pain in the ass. Certainly. Right. I'm going to pick, I'm picking Minnesota to win that game this weekend, but only by a field goal. But I, yeah, I worry about what I've seen from the Rams offense. And even though the Rams defense has been better as of late, I don't know if it's good enough
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to hold down the fort if the offense can't be explosive and put up some points. So I look at them to be a team that could maybe, you know, they can win this weekend, maybe could upset one of the teams in the next round. I certainly don't think that's crazy, but I would think it kind of ends there right around that story. That's about it.
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I would say the kind of the same type of stuff more though. I really worry about the Tampa Bay past defense. I, their offense is capable of going to the super bowl. They can do it all. It's the defensive side and the past defense, especially, I know I've made fun of them a little bit here on the show before, but I mean,
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Todd Bowles, the Bucks, they play defense every week like they're playing the 92 Cowboys. And I want to go, why? I mean, there was plays last week while I'm watching the game in the viewing room here at NBC, and I'm going, Alvin Kamara's not playing, and the Saints can't run the ball, and there's six guys at the line of scrimmage. Look at this. And I'm literally calling out.
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I guarantee they throw it over the middle where nobody is. I guarantee they do this. It's just way too aggressive in the run defense. Way too aggressive. Let alone they have injuries all over their secondary. It makes no sense. So that's why I don't have faith in that. They're just a little too much of a roller coaster team right now.
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I would say that's fair. I would have like maybe about four or three weeks ago, I would have put Green Bay in that conversation, but they've lost me. I don't trust the offense right now and Jordan Love and all that's gone down there. Christian Watson hurt now. So, yeah, I feel like if it's not Lions or Philadelphia, I'm going to be jaw dropped like, holy shit, I can't believe it.
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Yes, I would. The same thing. I mean, like, jaw on the ground. Like, what the? No way, right? Yeah, I think it's the three heavy hitters. I'll be shocked. I will be absolutely shocked if it's not one of those three teams. 100% Stugatz.
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Probably not. No, less than the other ones. Less than the other ones. I know. I know. That's what's crazy, and that's what stinks. And that's what stinks about when a team that's good blows games early in the year or loses games they're not supposed to lose. Then we get cheated out of the best possible –
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playoff scenarios so yeah they're not in it but Denver's not a bad consolation Denver with Sean Payton and Bo Nix and they've already won the year they're playing with house money they'll be dangerous this weekend I think that'll be a fun game kind of one where it's a shootout and the bills pull away late that's kind of what I'm expecting
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Definitely. I mean, that's why what they've done this year is remarkable. That's why Andy Reid should be more in the coach of the year candidate conversation. I don't get that. I don't get it. I mean, it's just, oh, hey, here's another challenge. They can't do that. Oh, they do it easily. Oh, okay.
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Oh, and so they can't be, you know, a top team in the AFC for a third year in a row and make a Super Bowl. Oh, they're the best record in football. Oh, okay. And they can do it. I mean, they just, they don't.
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they've slayed so many dragons at this point though stu gotts they don't look at anything as pressure they look at it all as like yeah bring it on bring it on we're going to show you how great we are that i've been around them enough to know and seen them at practice and playoff games and all that they don't back down from anything right just like the patriots they were the same way except the chiefs are a little bit more of like yeah
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We want it. Bring it. Taylor Swift haters, come on. Bring it all. We love it all, right? That's where I don't think they feel the pressure. They, like, are instead of feeling the pressure, it's just a we're striving to be the greatest thing ever, and we're going to just pedal to the metal and not even think twice about it and go for it.
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That's what's cool about the Chiefs, and that's where they've handled so many pressure moments that I don't even know if they feel pressure anymore, Stu Gatz.
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He knows all the things you said. He knows exactly. To me, what you said is one of the big reasons they have stayed the course and done what they've done this year because they got a guy in Mahomes who then has a backup man in Kelsey who they could go, hey – They can every day. And Chris Jones is the same way on the defensive side. We've got something special we can do this year.
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Nobody can do this. Nobody's done this. Those great Cowboy teams, the great Steeler teams, the 49ers, Tom Brady and the Patriots, we can set aside. I might not be able to get to seven, but I can maybe get five or six and go, eh, but you never won three in a row, Tom, right? All of that.
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And I think that's why they're a motivated team because their motivators are motivated by what you're talking about.
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OK, I mean, but no, no. What's what's even worse is my wife just texted me and said they've canceled our flight. So I'm like, oh, my God, because Dallas is having this weather issue. Right. And I went to school at Texas. And if they get flurries, the state shuts down. They don't know how to handle cold or ice or snow, and we're having issues. So I'm already concerned about my ability to get there.
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Who do you think I am that I have a private plane or can fly private?
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Yeah, I wish. But, you know, Big S*** played in the 80s. He ain't that rich, all right? Let me just tell you, okay? He'd be killing it today though, man. No, I mean, he, I, for the first time ever in the last year was the first time I ever heard my dad hit the point of his life where he was jealous of the new contracts. Right. It was the first time ever. My dad's always been like, Hey, I'm happy.
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The players are awesome. And then one day he was like, I can't believe this fucking money some of these guys are getting. Holy shit. Can you believe blah, blah, blah is about to get $40 million or whatever? You know, it's just crazy. It really is.
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No, it wasn't Danny Dimes. You believe in Danny Dimes and the Sims household, so it wouldn't be him. Oh, my God.
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All right, I know. I'll see you guys. See you.
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You'll get there. It's Wild Card Weekend. They canceled the Super filing.
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I'm going to call it Super Wild Card Weekend. I'm going to call it Super Wild Card. I like it.