Billy, Mikey A and Fuentes discuss the NFLPA report cards that came out this week and why they make Billy want to strive for the Dolphins to be worse. How do some teams rate so bad in certain categories. Billy and Mikey have conversation about names and how we wind up stuck with the ones are given. Billy has major FOMO because of one story in the football world. Plus, a quick edition of More Mikely. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: Who are the hosts and what is the podcast about?
God bless football, Mikey, eh? God bless football, Fuentes.
God bless football, Billy Goh.
Hey, thank you. By the way, today's episode of God Bless Football is presented by DraftKings. DraftKings.com The crown is yours. So Stugatz is not here. He is traveling. He has some much-deserved time off for all the hard work he does during the season, going to visit his family abroad and internationally and all that stuff.
And it couldn't have come at a better time because the Combine is going on as we speak. And so far, at the time of recording, the biggest story is Abdul Carter may be injured, but... Doesn't need surgery, so maybe not that injured anymore.
It's one of those injuries, though, that's like, that's not something that's just going to go away real quick. It's like a stress fracture in his foot, and that's the kind of thing where you're like, Listen, I'm not saying he's not going to go top five. I'm hoping he doesn't. I'm hoping he goes top seven. Wink, wink.
But it's the kind of thing that make you think just a little bit more about taking him.
yeah um i gotta be honest with you i want things to be as dumbed down as possible to me when we're reporting injury like a stress fracture i'm not a doctor didn't go to medical school is the foot broken is it gonna break soon what's going on there just give it to me in as simple terms as possible not hey he's okay for now but maybe this is going to be a thing down the road like
Is he going to be the number one pick? Is he going to be a top five pick? Is he not? Just simple stupid for me.
He's going to be. It's a stress fracture. I don't know what that is, really. I'm not a doctor either. But I had one in my back, and it's not something that feels good.
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Chapter 2: Why do NFLPA report cards matter?
I want to address something now that Stugatz is out with you and with Mike Fuentes. I, in my professional universe, have an uncommon number of people around me with the name Michael. And that was something that happened at ESPN as well. Fuentes' name is Michael, but he goes by Fuentes. You go by Mike EA because the time when Stugatz was doing Weekend Observations, Up in Bristol.
Well, he was in Bristol. You know what I mean? At ESPN, there was you, Mikey A. There was Mikey C., who we miss dearly. So he made you Mikey A. because of Mikey C. Now, Mikey C. goes by Mikey C. and had gone by Mikey C. before, I believe. You were never Mikey A. You're Michael.
or mike no i'm mike nobody ever called me mikey and i think it was stew gots his way because i was in bristol and he was in miami obviously yeah i think it was his way to be endearing without having to actually get to know somebody like i'm not gonna call you michael i'm not gonna call you mike to me You're Mikey.
Yeah. Now, added to the complication was Mike Golick Jr., who became Gojo, Mike Golick Sr., who was Mike. And then down here, we also have a Mike Ryan. So there's a thousand Mikes in this universe. And and now that Stugatz is in here, do you want to be you want to go by Mike this episode or are you just married to Mikey? Like, what do we do here? How do we give you your identity back, I guess?
You know what? Let's do it. Call me Mike for this episode. Let's throw people off.
Okay, I'll call you Mike. Now, I will say that I'm probably going to slip up a handful of times. Yes, a bunch. But... I will do my best to call you Mike for this episode.
Do you want to play our new game? Real quick, should I just elbow my way in on Golik the next time we have him on, and every time Stu says Mike and asks a question, just go over the top and answer it? Like, sorry, I'm the new Mike now, Golik.
By the way... You're Mikey G. Ooh, Mikey G would be great. I think he would like that, too. He seems like someone that likes shenanigans. Yeah, yeah. By the way, well wishes to Michael. I believe he had shoulder reconstruction yesterday. Shoulder replacement. Oh, my God. What I would do to replace some of my joints. You have no idea.
I don't need it, but preemptive replacements on my shoulders, knees, hips. I'd do it. Could you imagine just having titanium joints? It seems like it'd be awesome.
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Chapter 3: What are the Miami Dolphins' strengths and weaknesses according to NFLPA grades?
that the Dolphins need to make the playoffs. Now, if they make the playoffs, making the playoffs is the first step. But once we get to the playoffs, I want the accommodations for travel to be so bad that they're motivated to not have to travel. I think the Bills are doing a great job. An F minus on the grade book, an A plus in terms of strategy, if you ask me.
I don't disagree with you at all. It's hysterical to me that the Dolphins are the only team that don't have anything lower than an A. They're the only team that doesn't even have a B plus on the thing. And then you look at some of these others and you just go like the Saints have a D minus or something in food. If you say New Orleans, the first thing you think of is food.
How does New Orleans have a D- in food? Some of these grades are absolutely bananas to me.
I think that the Saints maybe, because we were in New Orleans a couple weeks ago. I think that if you think New Orleans and you think food, you go to the Saints, you're like, you know what? This is going to be an incredible experience. I'm going to go in. I'm going to play for the Saints. It's going to be beignets every day. This is going to be awesome. We'll have a king cake, whatever.
And then you go in and it's like gluten free, whatever. And you're like, OK, this food sucks. So I can kind of see how you get a D minus if you go to the Saints and you think, OK, this is going to be great food, great eating, maybe some jambalaya. And then it's all like healthy options for everything, you know?
Yeah, I just I mean, some of these grades, you look at them and you're like, how how are you a professional franchise with an F as a weight room? Where else are you putting money in your facilities if not the weight room? By the way, that's the New England Patriots have an F for weight room.
that seems like probably the one that you want to rank the highest in, uh, your jets ranked 29th out of 32 teams. Overall, the low light is the F not an F minus, but an F, which I don't understand because they finished dead last in terms of ownership, but it's just an F, not an F minus. I don't exactly understand, uh, how you get the F, not the F minus. Also, your locker room was a D plus.
Is it really?
Yeah, like within the last decade.
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Chapter 4: How does team travel affect NFL performance?
Because there's no one that's clocking in. They go and they scan in with their key card and it's like, take your child to work day. I got to take you to daycare first. Hey, coach, sorry. Little Jimmy was crying a little bit when I tried to sit him down in his chair at daycare today at the facility.
Yeah, so apparently all 32 teams, either 31 of 32, offer either daycare during games or a family room. And the Bengals are the only organization to offer neither. And they also said the family meeting area for post-game parties and, you know, after the game, all the families meet is like a 4 out of 10. Nice. It was ranked.
The Jacksonville Jaguars also have an F in terms of treatment of family. They're 31st out of 32, so I suppose they're just ahead of the Bengals. We talked a lot of Jaguars last week because friend of the show, but really friend of Stugatz, Tony Buscelli is now running the show over there, and they had an opening for a general manager. And we came up last week with the idea of let's get Stugatz
to apply for the job of general manager. And no more than 24 hours after we came up with this plan, the Jaguars announced that they had a general manager. Unfortunately, Stugatz never even had a shot of applying, which I think is not a good sign in terms of where his relationship with Tony Buscelli stands. Because if your friend is making the call, you can't even get a pity interview.
I don't know how strong that friendship is, and I'm willing to, and I don't know if you're feeling the same way as I am, Mikey A. I'm willing to go out on a limb, and I can't outright ban Tony Buscelli from being on the show, but I kind of maybe want to put him on suspension for a little bit just because of the fact that he wouldn't interview Stugatz.
Now, it could be a convenient suspension because I don't know that Tony Buscelli will ever come on the show again. even though he keeps telling Stugatz or Stugatz keeps telling us that he keeps telling Stugatz that he's going to come on the show next week, next week, next week, which is weird because last week we were told next week, which is this week.
And Stugatz is in Australia and best to my knowledge, those trips don't, you know, materialize within 24 hours. So I think maybe, maybe they knew that this week wasn't going to happen and it was just kind of going to be up to us to figure out what to do with this situation. Yeah.
I feel like basically they heard Stugatz wanted to interview and they knew that if he did, he'd get the job. So they quickly made the decision to save themselves from themselves. And Tony Buscelli not being on the show anymore, I mean, there's a big difference between...
Morning drive host and former player and VP of football personnel or whatever it is that his new title is coming on a coming on a show like this. So I get it.
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Chapter 5: Why are team facilities important in the NFL?
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It's a, it is what it is at this point. I appreciate you trying. It's more than Stu gots ever did. Yeah, I am. As far as this audience is concerned, I am Mikey. I accept my fate.
I'm sorry. Well, if we drop the a, is that better?
Yeah, well, until Mikey C. finally shows up here.
He's never going to show up, is what I've learned. No, he's never going to show up. He's never going to show up. That's never good. Can I tell you something? I don't mean to betray him, but also I don't care. Sure. So we did a watch-along for...
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Chapter 6: What is the significance of team ownership and coaching grades?
Yeah.
And and nope. He's no Nicholas.
He's not full. Is he a Nicky to anyone or no?
No, not yet. OK. You think he's going to grow into Nicky?
uh i i i feel like i got to imagine a certain point yeah i got to imagine though that there's always those friends that yeah nicky boy you know like i could see it i could see it happening so i have a cousin who uh we oh his name's matthew and we always called him matthew growing up always always always matthew matthew matthew matthew always matthew
And then I don't know if it was like his friends or like himself that created a rebrand where he's Matt. And he is like Matt, like starting in like high school. And they'd be like, Matt. And I'm like, no, Matthew. Like, who's this Matt that you speak of? And then I think that he calls himself Matt. And then in my head, I'm like. Did you name yourself Matt? Did they name you Matt?
Also, like, am I supposed to call you Matt now? Because, like, we've never done this before. And, like, we're, like, 10, 15 years into him being a Matt now. And I'm still not used to, like, the Matt his wife calls him Matt. And I'm like, I don't know who this Matt is. You're Matthew.
And the weird thing is, is that's coming from someone who tells other people to call him Billy when his name is Guillermo. So I have no leg to stand on on this situation.
I feel like there's some awkward moment in all of our lives when like it's some fourth grade teacher on the first day that goes, you know, Guillermo, would you prefer Guillermo? And all of a sudden you're on the spot. You have to make the decision because what you say right then is going to be your name going forward.
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Chapter 7: How does naming impact personal and professional identity?
We have a new edition of More Mikely coming up, which is also presented by Smirnoff. We do game days. Please drink responsibly. The Smirnoff Company, New York, New York. This is me tossing it to you. Now you take it away. Oh, this is you tossing it to me. That was a horrible toss. I apologize. That's okay.
That's okay. All right. I got one good more Mike Lee here. Okay. More Mike Lee to go first to worse. The Lions or the Rams?
Wow. Okay. Now, here's the interesting thing about the Rams, and we haven't discussed it yet, is the Matthew Stafford of the situation, which I'm wondering if you, as a Jets fan, sees that. Yes. Yes. Okay. I don't even finish that situation.
Yes. That Stafford to the Jets, it'll be everything Aaron Rodgers was supposed to be.
Dude, if you guys end up with Matthew Stafford, that is an incredible situation for you based on what we thought the situation was going to be two weeks ago for the Jets.
It's just not going to happen.
Really? Why is that?
Because the Jets have an F in ownership, as we learned in grades earlier in the show.
Yeah, so you think that that's going to be the deciding factor? What is he looking for? What's his problem, basically, Matthew Stafford?
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