The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Dan Le Batard Show Sans Dan Le Batard
Mon, 31 Mar 2025
EXPOSED: Dan Le Batard's abject racism laid bare by this week's co-hosts via 4 a.m. email brought to light demanding "Look at me, Leroy" sounder. Today's cast: Domonique "The Fossil" Foxworth, Andrew "The Hawk" Hawkins, Chris "Big Red" Cote, Roy "The Boy Toy" Bellamy, Jessica "Smetty Wap" Smetana, Charlie "The Vanilla Snack" Kravitz...and Mike. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: Who are the key hosts on today's episode?
Oh yeah, welcome to the Dan Levitard Show sans Dan Levitard. But don't worry, I got you. I'm here with my dog, Hawk, and it's not just him. We got a whole bunch of people. Give me some music, Chris. In the EP chair. Oh, this is nice. It's Chris Cody, a.k.a. Christmas Cody, a.k.a. Big Red.
Am I supposed to say anything?
Nope. Back to you. It was good. I like that. Next to him, we got Roy, the Iceman, a.k.a. the boy toy. Roy Bellamy. What's up? Love you, Roy. In the back row behind Roy, we got Jessica Smetana, a.k.a. Smetty Wap, a.k.a. Trap Queen. Smetty King. Why are you still dabbing? Smitty gang, we dab forever! Just waiting for them to put me on camera. There it is! Dab in, I see you. Let's go!
Across from them, we'll jump that. We got my guy, my security blanket, Charlie Kravitz, a.k.a. the Vanilla Snack. Hit him with a salute. What up? Curly, Justin Timberfake. Let's go! And our number one go-to guy, the quickest man in history, quite possibly the most talented dude in this building right now.
He also dressed like he cared about himself, which I appreciate, which is rare for the Levitard Show. What? It's Andrew the Hawk Hawkins.
Let's go! And Mike. I thought that was Mike's intro until you said Hawk. I'm like, man, he is quick. Quick as a whip.
The fastest man to do what?
I don't care about myself.
He's witty. Oh, man. Hey, guys. Going to have a good show today. I want to start with some football because it's me and Hawk in here.
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Chapter 2: What is the discussion about the NFL's 18-game schedule?
Let's talk ball.
Talking football. Real ball knowers in here. Hut, hut. And it's the only sport that, like, this country really cares about. All other sports are tertiary. There's one sport that's main, and that's football, and we finna get some more of it, supposedly. So, Hawk, 18 games.
I don't see a lot of supportive faces at that comment. Yeah. It was... Hold on. Smitty went right to the laptop. Roy was checking his emails. I don't feel good about it.
It's like a niche sport equinox going on recently, especially down here in South Florida.
So don't start with football? But if it was in terms of country NIL, football would take like 80% of the pot, right?
It does in actual NIL. Yeah.
Yeah, so it also contributes 100%. I guess it doesn't need an analogy.
You're right.
You want to start with some niche sports equinox? No, run the damn ball. Start with football. Run the rock. FB dive. Oh, yeah. So the 18-game thing is something we've been talking about for a while. Even back when you and I were in the league, they put it on the table in the 2011 negotiations, and we promptly slapped that shit right off the table.
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Chapter 3: How does the NFL's strategy impact players?
Do you want money or not? Yeah, we could talk about it. I think we should actually get into how the increased revenue is going to be split because it's going to go disproportionately to the stars and quarterbacks, while the people who are going to take the brunt of the wear and tear are not those guys. But I would like to also focus on how old we are because... It's a good topic. You know what?
I remember coming up and learning that at one point there was only 14 games. And I was like, man, that's crazy. And to imagine that I played in the league, the league will soon have 18 games. I would have played like you think about that. You think about the players who played in a 14 game league when we were in a 16 game league. I thought about them like they were. Like, fossilized.
I am going to be a guy very soon, when they had 18 games, and they could be like, oh, you play? They used to have 16 games? I'm like, yeah, we used to have 16 games.
When did they have 14? Because I'm not going to lie, you just dropped that bomb on me live on air. I guess I assume that at some point, yes, there were less games, but I never thought that there were, like, living people.
1978 was when they switched to 16.
So we... Yeah, this is not the smart idea to talk about how old we are to start this show.
But it does actually help out people that are feeling old in that this finally gets us to that President's Day Monday Super Bowl hangover. So most of the nation... This is how they're going to sell it.
They're going to be like, look, all the fans want Monday after the Super Bowl off, you selfish players.
Just like that, I'm in. I didn't think about that either. You guys are... You should work for the committee. Damn.
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Chapter 4: What are the financial implications of the NFL's decisions?
Yeah.
However, the final week of the season last year, there was a lot of trash on my TV screen.
I think we're to the point where we're going to need two bye weeks now.
Wow.
Oh, yeah. I like where your head's at, Roy.
The two bye weeks is not going to solve the fact that there are going to be more irrelevant games at the end of the season. And there's a possibility that we could get tired of football. Am I crazy? Am I crazy, Chris?
No, by week 17 this year, I'm like, ah, I'm good on red zone. See you next week for the playoffs.
I mean, there are going to be some seasons that we're going to ask ourselves, why did we do this? The last three weeks of the season are meaningless. But then it's going to work out with the numbers that there's going to be a crazy wild card chase. And you're still going to have that issue. But it's not like that hasn't existed.
I mean, the Jets have been playing terrible, terrible football the last month of the season that hasn't really mattered for quite some time in your playing career. Thanks. Thanks for pointing that out. I mean, you would take those trips down to Jacksonville, and you'd be like, all right, I guess we have to play. People did buy tickets.
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Chapter 5: How might Travis Hunter's career be affected by NFL policies?
Yeah, and I text Roger and was like, you know what? Let's take Christmas. Let's take Christmas. Let's take Christmas. Shut that man up. Take Christmas from him. The idea, when it first got put on the table, we slapped it off the table in large part because we wanted to make advancements in health and safety. But I think sometimes we touch on this.
From a union standpoint, we always assume that there are two parties, the union and the league, that are of equal power that can have a negotiation. But once I heard 18 games was on the table and 18 games meant more money, I knew at some point the league was going to get it done.
Because the challenging part about it, though, is when you talk about adding more money, and it's going to be a lot more money in the salary cap for everybody, which is nice, but it's all going to go to the quarterbacks and to the top-level receivers, which is, I guess, why the NBA ends up with a max salary provision to make sure that the guys who are in the league that are also going to be
in football's case, going to be taking the brunt of the injuries and hits and all that from this. We'll get some of that.
May I ask you, was there ever any conversation? Running backs often find themselves in this very frustrating position because they'll just find a new one in the draft and replace you. And the statistical output above replacement at that position, you can find a lot of value. Was there ever any talk within the Players Association to –
have salary floors for tenured players that excelled at their position? And also, what do you do with a case study like Travis Hunter, who could potentially play two positions? Because the league tries to, with the franchise tag, put you in a box.
The franchise tag is exhausting for a lot of players. It helps out some players, but for most of them it gets in the way. We have this conversation a lot about running backs because the idea of positional value when you are so good that you're the centerpiece of the offense.
I would argue that Christian McCaffrey at his peak is worth as much as any top receiver because the offense is built around him. To your point, there were a bunch of different proposals made in the union before we would take them to the league about how to protect salaries for specific groups.
A salary floor was never one that was considered because the assumption is, particularly in the running back position, is if you raise a salary floor for a player, you're just going to get them cut, especially at a position that feels like the.
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Chapter 6: What is the context of the 'Look at me, Leroy' discussion?
Hold on.
Hold on. He put some blues in it. That was country. That was a Nashville white dude, man, which is okay. I'm just saying, if you're going to go Leroy to say this is for black people, you probably got to also diversify your VOs. Get a new voiceover guy. If it was a black person saying it.
There was an executive order that said we keep the same guy.
Oh, that's crazy. See, that's the part. That's what it is.
If that was a black dude saying it, I wouldn't feel as like, I don't know about this. And it's not only that it's not a black dude. He trying to, it feel like he put some pain in his voice. One more time.
Let me, let me inspect this.
Would it be less or more racist if it was hip hop behind it? If it was like, yo, look at me, Leroy.
Would that be less? Like an 80s MC? Yeah. Okay. Maybe you're the baby mama. Look at me, Leroy.
All right. From now on, only. black guys or black girls on the show can hit Look at Me, Leroy. Dan can't use that. It's a great... We'll use the soundbite, but only Roy or guests that are black can use the Look at Me, Leroy. What if...
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