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This is the Dan Levator.

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Show with the Stoo Gats Podcast.

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It is time.

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For Stoo Gats to.

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Share his game notes.

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No one.

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In the.

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Media.

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Will tell you what happened.

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Better than my boy, Stoo. We can observations brought to you by Miller Light. Great taste. 96 calories available for delivery. Dan, their own fans question them and their star player saying he was too distracted dating a global pop icon. They wondered if maybe their window had closed after going down on the road 14 to nothing to Aden O'Connor. But Dan, after closing the game on a dominant 31 to three run. Make no mistake about it, Travis, Kelsey, and the Kansas City Chiefs are back. They're back.

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They didn't really.

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Go anywhere. Well, they did for me. Ryan Day can't win the big one. You know what the D in Ryan Day stands for, Dan? I do not. Do it against Michigan. The game will never be the game again. It's over. Hey, the game. It was nice knowing you. I'm sad about the game. I enjoyed the game. I enjoyed the weekend. Twelve team playoff ruins everything.

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I don't know. They can match up as the 11 and 12 team in future incarnations of the game, and it will be just as important.

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No, it won't.

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It's a shot at the playoffs on the line, and I still think Ohio State has a shot at the playoffs.

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No, they don't.

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Yeah, they do. There's a whole chaos theory. They're not getting in.

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There's a chaos theory. Mike, how do.

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They get in? I mean, they're one loss. They have the best loss out of the one losses. That's how we do this. Who has.

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The best loss? But they lost to Michigan.

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Yeah, who I think we all have talked as advancing. They barely lost.

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I know they barely lost, but Michigan is in. They're going to beat Iowa, so they're in, right? Alabama, Georgia is getting in. One of those two teams is going to get in, maybe both if Alabama wins a close game. Then you got Washington and Oregon, you.

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Still got Texas. I mean, it's weekend observations. We don't need to turn it into a CFP to beat. You're going.

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To put Alabama with two.

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Losses in the game. Well, Alabama has.

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One loss. No, they'd have two losses if.

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They lost- No, but let's say Alabama beats Georgia in the SEC title game, and Texas wins the Big 12 game, then you have a real mess on your hands because you can't put Alabama in over Texas if their one loss comes to one loss Texas. Best loss is Ohio State.

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Now, F. S. U. Has ruined it for everybody because they had a gutsy win on the road. Yeah.

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Get the ball to Marvin Harrison Jr, and you know what it'll do? The rest. Masarati-marv. Too bad Masarati-Marv's quarterback is Honda McCord.

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He had Moxie.

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He played well. He played hurt. That's the best game I've seen Ohio State play this year. It was a loss, but it's the best.

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Game I've seen them play. It's the second game you've seen them play this year because you've only watched Alabama maybe seven times over the last.

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20-year run. You came in here today bragging about watching.

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Three full-Football games. A full game. It's a week of lights.

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I mean. Week 11, week 12.

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Dan Campbell's fake punk call was atrocious. Do me a favor. You're Dan Campbell. If you're going to go for it, shove it down someone's throat. Thanks. You agree. That's right. Thank you.

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Are you just saying you don't ever watch Thursday or Monday games? Because there's no other games on those days.

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What do you mean?

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You're bragging about yesterday watching.

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Just one game. No, the one at Fox Slate was so bad. I'm normally on the Red Zone or the but the.

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Jets didn't play. You do it every Thursday and Monday is our point.

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Well, I do it with every jet game is what I do. But yesterday it was nice just to sit back and watch Texas and Jaguars, the entire game, not worrying about what was going on in Patriots, giants. You don't get that panic? Because nothing was.

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Going on. When you lose like Daydream, maybe you get lost on your phone for a minute and you come back and there's a commercial on and you're like, What am I doing? I like punch myself. I'm like, You stupid. There's football on right now and you're just sitting here watching a commercial.

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So, guys, you missed Bailey's Abbey, averaging 1.4 air yards per attempt.

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I don't care. I was watching C. J. Stroud.

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Bill Belichick would have preferred to be watching C. J. Stroud.

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Terese Halberton, 12:2 assist to turnover ratio. Dan, the T. And Terese stands for taking care of the rock. Congratulations to Jordan Love for saving his job. If you squint, you could see something is there with Sam Howell. Dan, you know what the S in Sam Howell stands for? -squint. -squint. You could see something there.

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All squint team.

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How about that?

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Wait a minute. Who else is on that team? Will Leavis. If you squint, you can see Dan Marino.

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Is there a quarterback Tony hasn't.

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Loved at some point? No, it's crazy. He thinks everybody is Minjou. He's come.

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Around on Davito.

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The.

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Pass-and-pies-zan-o. No one loves the 20-25 ranking spot of.

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Quarterback more than Tony. But he bailed.

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On the Jaguars.

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Did not bail on the Jaguars.

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You bailed.

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Did not bail.

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From.

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The beginning, the.

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Dj Strauss was an electric quarterback. I had that one first.

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When did Buzz Williams leave Marquette? When did.

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That happen? How many teams ago was that? How many years ago was that?

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When you think you've killed Alabama, think again. Fourth in '21. Fourth in '31, excuse me. Jaylen Millrow, ice in his veins. Many people are saying this is the best coaching job of nick Sabin's career. You agree?

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I can be talked into that, too. Thank you. It's not a great team. The overpowering talent advantage that Clemson and Alabama had entering the NIL era has dissipated quickly. That is one of the worst Alabama teams, and there's no disrespect to the Alabama team, which is a very good team, one-last-team. But when you compare them to the old-time teams that they've had, this is probably among the worst that he's had outside of year one.

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Dan, you know what the oops and Mark Stoop stands for? Oops. Oops, we didn't mean to hire him at Texas A&M. The Aggys.

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Not sexy enough for the Aggy supporters, so they get Mike Elko.

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Mike Elko. Congrats on the $40 million buyout three years from now. Texas. Message sent. Arch Manning can spin it. Did you see him?

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Texas's receivers are so physically big.

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They're good. In 12 quarters against Penn State, Michigan, and Ohio State. Michigan State scored three points. If the commanders didn't fire Jack Del Rio, I still wouldn't know they hired Jack Del Rio. They also lost the best looking man in the room. Jack Del Rio was a commander?

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You must have missed that whole controversy.

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How did you miss that.

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Whole controversy? I don't know. Life's moving fast.

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It allowed me to point out that Jack Del Rio was once on a picket line, and he fought a guy he thought was a scab. It was a Hall of Fame Chief's receiver who was now in their scouting department. He fought him on the picket line. He was just trying to get into the stadium to go to work.

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Dan, you know what the D in Dolphins and the D in Dallas stands for?

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I do not.

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They stand for do it against a good team. Also, a couple of Ds cutting it up.

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I thought Denver is now a good team.

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I thought the-The time the Dolphins beat them and dropped 70 on them, they weren't.

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You wrote that before Denver 1?

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I.

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Did. Noche Buena can't come quick enough for these teams. They're so excited to actually beat a good team. Miami versus Dallas, Noche Buena.

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If you want complete coverage of how the Broncos are now a good team, I suggest God-blessed football today.

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Yeah, Billy's on them.

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Available, Max. It is not.

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It's weird. The Chris Paul Scott Foster rivalry deserves a documentary. It's us.

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The Habistro stats on that were crazy. Chris Paul is always favored in games, and he's three and 17 in Foster Games and loses by an average of 11 points.

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This Ranger team can skate.

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I mean, all the teams in hockey can.

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No, not like this Ranger team. This Ranger team can skate. They're fast.

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It's like in golf when they say he's a good ball striker. Whenever they say that about a hockey team, It's a good skating team. It's like, I'd hope so. It's your job.

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They're professional hockey players. I want.

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To know the bat. Who's the worst skating team in the league? They're just like falling all over each other. It's a.

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Great question. I don't have an.

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Answer for you. They look like Oklahoma coming out of the tunnel.

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I feel like all pro golfers are good ball strikers, but they say some are better than others.

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The jets are starting to make my blood boil. Timmy Boyle sounds like he should be an what just happened there? An Irish mob boss. I'll tell you what happened. Thanksgiving happened. Monday happened. God-blessed football happened. Check it out on Max.

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How did you spell Boyle and the jets are starting to make.

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Your blood? B-o-i-l.

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Oh, come on.

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It's not on Max. It's not on Max. It's on DraftKings Network. Did you see you have a lower third graphic now for God-blessed football. Really? Yeah. Your face, Billy's face.

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That's awesome. Dan, you know what the B in Timmy Boyle stands for? I do not. Really? Stands for bad quarterback. All of a sudden, Zach Wilson doesn't sound so bad. Dan. You don't just scroll to Madison Square Garden and beat the Knicks come in-season tournament time. The Mecca. It's a bad loss for the eat. Kirk Herb Street needs to slow down. Worried about him. Herbie. He's everywhere, Mike.

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He's everywhere.

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He's still damn good. I don't care about his dog either. It's a great-looking dog. I don't need to see it. I don't need to see him buckling it into a private jet seat. I don't need to see it. Enough with the dog.

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The video-.

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And get some rest.

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-of Fowler and Herb Street watching on a monitor the end of Auburn, Alabama, and behaving like 10-year-old brothers would behave just with their enthusiasm.

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Was pretty cool. The jets defense is their offense, and their offense is their defense. I hate them. Mark Sanchez adding Tim Boyle to his holiday gift list. Collision course. Sanchez. Tom braided complaining about the rules in today's NFL after a rule was created to specifically protect him. Tom, the Stugats, is strong in you. Zion, starting to put it all together. Jake, Elliot. Clutch. Georgia. Do it against Alabama. Death. Taxes. At Christophe, Vingus being reevaluated in a week. The Stealers did what the Stealers did. We've always heard that guy. Atlanta Falcons, five and six, first place at Squarely in the mix. I love it. Cj Strowd, holy shit. Dan. You know what the F in Frank Reich stands for? Flames under his seat.

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This was written before. I know, I.

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Didn't change it. You could have pivoted there.

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Fired was right there. It's not exactly thinking quick on your feet.

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How is my F better than yours?

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He said fired. You could have been, Yep.

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I like flames. I wrote it. I wanted to say it.

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Put it on the pole, JuJu. Can you be on the hot seat after you've been fired?

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He'll get rehired and be on the hot seat again. I've robbed you. He's done. Frank's done. I know.

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That's the second shortest tenure in the history of NFL coaching.

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If the season ended today, the Falcons and Colts would be in the and the Bills and Bengals would not... The hell is going on? The Bills? I don't know what's happening to me. Dan, those are the weekend observations.

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Did you forget your Art Bryles joke?

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I said, Speaking of hell, Art Bryles. Dan, those are the weekend observations. I said it. You missed it.

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I didn't hear it. Dan Lebertard.. Hold on. Hold on. Let's get.

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To the top, everyone.

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Let's get to the top.

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My wife.

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Pays more than you do.

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Stugats. I always like leaving the hand on the chicken. I hate the chicken. Because he's so vulnerable, I just unfairly fade down the chicken to just leave him by himself.

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This is.

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The Dan Levitar Show with.

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The Stugats. Want to.

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Hang out with us? We have a free, open to the public, all ages event going down at Dolphins Mall at the Miller Lights stage, Vivo Miami. It's all happening December 11th. Please, your God, do not flex titans, dolphins out of Monday Night Football. There's a chance that happens. But either way, we're going to be there drinking Miller Light. Yeah, we have a weird conflict. A little double header that day. Yeah, it seems as though the Cessna cyclones are potentially headed to the semifinal of the battlecourt playoffs. Nice. I had been campaigning all year because it looked like we were going to be either in the two or three seat about opening that semifinal up to the public because those Monday, Tuesday games are closed to the public. The commissioner granted us permission to pack the house for a semifinal to potentially go move on and win our second Battle Corps Championship. However, it's the same day as our Miller Light event.

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At 5:00 PM, luckily.

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But what Chris and I have decided is we're going to caravan it. We're going to go from here to the Battle Corps Fronton and then to Dolphins Mall, Vivo Miami, the Miller Lights Age, to potentially watch a Flex Monday night game. Hopefully not. But the Titans and Dolphins are scheduled to do battle on that day and we will be there. Usually, you have to pay for tickets to see us around December, but this one is free and it's all brought to you by Miller, Light and Dollars, Shave Club. December 11th, we will.

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See you there. Join us at the front on before. Let's pack that house and then let's all head over to the watch party.

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If one game gets flexed, it'll probably be Packers.

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Giants, right? We had Joe Buck on last week and he said there's just... He doesn't see any flexes being used, even though they have that toy afforded to them this year. Because the case to flex out Miami, Tennessee, is Tennessee is not good. But Miami is such a great story. You can't flex out that offense, and you're never going to flex out Packers at giants because of the market.

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Speaking of Joe Bucks, Stugats is angling. He is trying from every angle to get Joe Bucks to mention him specifically on tonight's broadcast. He wants himself mentioned as the national protector of other centers who don't get talked about as much as Jason, Kelsey got talked about. And he has been texting Joe Buck non-stop, trying to manipulate him into mentioning Stugart on the broadcast today. What is the latest in these negotiations?

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Well, what I really want him to do is mention Garrett Bradbury.

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That's not.

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True at all. He's the Viking center. And if you're going to highlight Jason, Kelsey, then highlight Garrett Bradbury in every other center.

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What you want is for him to mention you. Well, I do, yes. For him to make you the center of attention as the worldwide advocate on behalf of centers who are unfairly in the shadow of Jason Kelsie because his brother is dating a pop star.

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Right. I reminded Joe this morning that the Viking Center's name is Garrett Bradbury, and I want to hear something about him tonight. He responded, What number is he?

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All right, so.

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He's- We're getting.

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There, Dan. -he's got time. He's got time. You're negotiating with him, and you're trying to get mentioned tonight on the broadcast.

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Because there's no way he can mention Garrett Bradbury without mentioning me in this show. There's no way he could do it. It's impossible. Be weird if he did that.

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I mean, he could.

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Do it. Well, yeah, but he.

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Wouldn't do that. But he could, and he probably will. I don't think he's likely… I'll put it on the pole, JuJu, at Lebitar show. Willed Joe Buck referenced Stugatz during tonight's game.

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Stugatz is not doing this for himself, though. This is.

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For centers. It's for Garrett. Yeah.

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For centers in general?

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Yeah. Why on earth would he mention you?

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Well, because you have to tell the backstory. He's never mentioned the center before.

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Last week- My good friend, Stugats, pointed out that we had not covered all.

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centers the same way. I was on with Dan and Stue last week, and they were criticizing me for only covering Jason, Kelsey. That's what I'm doing for. Check them out now on Max.

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But when have you ever heard Joe Bucksay? Like, Hey, I was talking to my neighbor, Phil, and he thought that we should talk about X, Y, Z. Why would he ever do that?

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Because he has to tell the backstory. Otherwise, it's weird to cover.

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Garrett Bradbury. He's covering a.

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Football game.

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He's talking about the players.

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You just say Garrett Bradbury, and you don't reference that I was on his show, and they criticized me for never mentioning another center other than Jason, Kelsey? Correct. You have to tell backstory. The guy paints pictures with words, man. That's what he does. You got to tell the story. That's what I would do.

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Did I miss hear you? When he said, Billy doesn't get it? Did you mutter? Neither does Dan. Did I hear that come out of the side of your mouth? Perhaps. By the way, if you did play it back, Stugart's did not mention Art Briles in his own signature move at the end of weekend observation. Trip to fan man. I'm tired, Dan. Monday, Thanksgiving weekend. We've been working for 90 minutes so far this week. After four days off, I'm tired. I can't handle it.

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That's the reason. Some of us 90 minutes, others two hours, two and a half hours. God bless football. Check it out on Max.

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It's not on Max. Let's play this sound, can we? Because the Alabama-Auburn game, I really thought, you have to understand, at this point, I just watched Alabama games for no other reason than to check in to see if they're losing. There's no other reason that I want to watch anything associated with Alabama. I've had my fill over the last 10-15 years.

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Do they have to be losing late? Like if they're losing in the first half?

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All of a sudden, what was happening is I was in a dark parking lot outside of a dog park, finding on satellite radio, the Alabama-Averon game, and I'm not even watching. They just keep going backwards, backwards. It's fourth and goal at the 31. Surely they're not going to win another game like they did with two million years ago on fourth and a million yards, and then it's corner of the end zone. Millrow, this is him after the game, understandably excited. Listen to what he says. You usually don't get it this way. Get behind me. Get behind me. Get back from.

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Thegive me.

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The Heisman. Give me that M. E. F. R. Is what he's yelling coming off of the field.

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It was a Heisman moment, was it not?

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It was. It was a great moment to have that Iron Bull conclude regular season of the SEC on CBS. They'll still have the title game. But there was actually a moment I'm embarrassed to reveal this. I got misty watching a commercial for Home Depot because they wrapped in a sponsor to all these great moments for the SEC on CBS.

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That moment built by the Home Depot.

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Say what you want about the SCC, overrated, properly rated, underrated, what have you. It has been the Marquee Conference over the last 20 years of college football. Beyond that, CBS's coverage of the conference extends beyond that, too. But there have been so many great, memorable college football moments. The SEC 3-30 game is always going to be a fixture on the college football calendar. Espm paid millions upon millions for it. But it's of a time, and that time is ended. I got emotional watching that game.

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During the Home Depot commercial.

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During the Home Depot, because they showed all these great- What part of the commercial? -all these the kick six miracle. Oh, wow. All the great SCC moments, I think they should have leaned into a little bit more of Johnny Football's upset at Tuscaloosa because, I mean, Sugars does it. It's not a bit because he's a Northeast center that barely pays attention to college football. The bar is do it against Bamma. I think they have earned that.

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Well.

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People have done it against Bamma only a handful of times, and usually it's that 3:30 window on CBS. I got a little misty hearing them say goodbye, knowing that it's going to change.

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They'll just on a different channel now, though.

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College football is all changing with these mega conferences, and I know it's going to be on a different channel, but it's also like it was just weird, saluting Mizzou and Texas, A. N. M. Like they had to. I mean, they're late to this party.

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You got emotional.

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It means Spurrier.

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It should be on CBS, though, I feel like always. It should be on with Burn. Burn.

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Yes. Now, instead of 433.

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It's 403. But it's a perfect send-off to that whole coverage, the Iron Bowl, and feeling like and having an all-time ending to a series that... It only seems like the Crazy Games are at Auburn, too. That's a great equalizer between the two teams. The crazy shit only happens when it's at Auburn.

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Put it on the poll, please, Jude. Are we still making, Verne. Jaylen is not even the best quarterbacking Jaylen in the conference, correct?

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Because Jayden- Jayden Daniel. No, I would say he is because Jayden is the other person's name.

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Yes, he's fine, too.

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That's starts with Jay maybe.

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Did you guys see what the stat was on Daniel's? What he's doing per snap? Per snap?

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No.

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It's more than 10 yards per snap.

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Wow. Yeah, he's great. I mean, he's going to win the Heisman. If they were undefeated, it'd.

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Be a sling. He's not going to win the Heisman. You don't think he will? No, I think that there's a Heisman elimination game going down on Friday between Pennex and Bo Nicks. Although Pennex tried to inconspicuously leave that game, but he left in a cloak. He seemed hurt. He seemed injured. It was very odd. But Bo Nicks is the odds on.

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Favorite to win. Mike Jaden Daniels is having a historical season. Lucy sitting here telling me and Billy every week, he's the best player in the country. Shouldn't that player win the award.

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Despite the record? Tim Tebo did win a Heisman trophy with Florida with being the similar offensive output in that he was their entire offense, and they didn't have a good year that year that he won that. I would say that Masarati Marv is probably the best player in the nation, but he's not going to be in a conference championship game. He's not going to get that spotlight. A spotlight that Jaden Daniels also will not get. That's why I think Friday, Oregon versus Washington, it comes down to Bow, Nicks, and Pennex.

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Have you heard of a stat like that in your life? Every snap the guy is taking is a first down? He is averaging every time he takes a snap, producing more than 10 yards of play. That is not something that I've seen.

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How are they nine and three?

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I mean, it's all bad defense, isn't it?

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There's only so many first downs you can get.

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That is you would think that is a bit of a riddle there. It doesn't sound like they're getting stopped very often. It does sound like if you're averaging 10 yards a snap, you should basically be scoring every time, I feel like. What am I missing? Other than the guy's first name correctly said.

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Don Libertard. David Samson, weirdo. Because he was not the fun substitute teacher who'd wheel out a TV and play a VHS tape or Armageddon and science class. He was the.

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Weird one who.

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Would eat an egg salad sandwich while flipping his toenails into the trash can and rambling about Ronald Reagan.

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Stugats.

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The guy kept talking about how his ass was smooth.

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Smoother than a newborn's cheek. He wouldn't stop bragging about his bare.

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Buttocks to me.

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This.

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Is the.

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Dan Levator Show with.

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The Stugats. I put a.

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Little quit on Tyrese Haliburt and to win MVP.

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Really?

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I mean, he's a huge underdog in it, but I still think that he's been really good. I read something where his coach said he might be the best player in the NBA. I was like, Bullshit. Then I watched him and he took a leap. I was trying to see if I can bet on him to be most improved player, and you can't do that because he's always been good. I think he was an All-Star last year. He was great last year. But I don't think they do that enough where they take players that were very clearly good and they took a gigantic superstar step, and that's what.

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Haliburton's done. His shot is so awkward, though, that it makes you feel like, Oh, he's not that good. Then you see he just never misses and you're like, Oh, I guess the.

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Awkward shot works. You can't win an MVP, though, on that team unless you're Russell Westbrook averaging a triple-double all season, correct? Because I do think a lot of people listening to this are not watching Pacers basketball, and they're not watching the range that that human being has.

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I just had to look them up.

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I mean, if you look at the Eastern Conference and have just been like, I don't care about the in-season tournament. There's nothing that they can do in this sport to make me pay attention while football season is going on. I'll come around in the spring. Well, if you look at the standings right now, you'll be mighty confused as to how the Orlando Magic are second in the conference and how the Pacers are the five-seed right now. Everybody in the Eastern Conference right now is within four and a half games of one another, from top seed to play it. It's crazy in the East. I guess Halliburton's path is take advantage of a really tight conference and somehow finish atop it, which isn't outside the realm of possibility.

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But Dan is right. A guy on that team never wins the MVP. It's like what we were saying last segment with Jaden Daniels. He's not going to win the Heisman because of the team he's on. Although you did have Andre Dawson win it at the MVP in baseball on the last-place Cubs team.

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It did happen. But they're not a bad team. They have a winning record. They're just a couple of games away from being the top seed. I think it's going to be hard to catch boss in this year. But Halber, I'm making the argument for my future tickets, so don't nuke it.

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I love how you have them a few games away from being a top seed, and they're right above the heat. You were heckling Jeremy before the show about the heat or just as a.

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Playing team. Locked in. Playing team. I mean, look.

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They're right next to each other and you're like, Pacers looking good. Heat playing.

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There's something to be said for beating teams that are worse than you on paper. The Miami Heat did that. They did that for about a month, and they were feeling pretty cocky. Well, their schedule is going to get mighty tough here. The second it starts getting hard, they start dropping games.

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The answer to your question on the Orlando Magic, they, like Minnesota are playing number one, defensive efficiency type of basketball. It's very hard to score against them. But I don't believe a lot of people are watching or caring about what is largely regional basketball in Orlando and Indiana. Here are.

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Four of the top teams, according to record, the four top teams. Two top teams in the west, two top teams in the east. Two top teams in the east, Boston, we all figured they'd be there. Number two, Orlando, as we mentioned. Number one and two in the west, Minnesota and Oklahoma City.

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Oklahoma City is fun. So is Minnesota, actually.

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So.

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The Magic.

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Oklahoma City has got some problems.

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The Magic can't be fun. I can't believe it. I haven't watched the second one play.

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It can't be fun. They got a star player, Bonchero, I think his name is. They got a couple of Bognars cutting it up. They got Sugs. They got Cole Anthony. They're a good deep team of the hell. Gambling again. Yeah, fantasy, too.

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And also he's got Google open.

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Speaking of gambling, the total number in the Iowa game this weekend was 25 points. It finished 13 to 10 with two blocked.

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Field goals. It was.

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Pacing again, though. It was. In the first half, it was 10-7. And you're like, Clearly, they'll go over 25. No? No. How is that possible that the number keeps getting lower? I've never seen a numbers ever as low as 25. I'm assuming it's weather. No, it's just Iowa.

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I didn't realize the game started so early, so I missed it. I bet all of them all year I missed this one. I was feeling good about missing it at 17 points, and then.

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It hit. I've done this a couple of times watching Iowa this where I'm watching them play and I'm like, It must be sub-zero temperatures over there because of just how they look and move. I mean, their quarterback looks like he's wearing seven layers.

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They look like they need WD-40 as an offense.

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They only have tight ends.

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I mean, well, there is tight end you.

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It's.

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True. Well, they got a punner. The Lord knows I.

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Got a punner. Oh, yes, they do. The over-under for the Big Ten Championship game right now is 35 and a half. Michigan is going to score that on.

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Their own, right? They showed a graphic during the game, which locally was kicked to My33 because they had to make room for the Dolphins game. I'm like, This is a perfect game for My 33. They showed the 10 lowest totals in college football history. They're all Iowa in 2023, and the ones that aren't just feature military academies. They are in the service academy genre of scoring output. Well said.

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Billy, you were physically yawning as Mike talked. A giant-.

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What are you talking? I mean, it was talking Iowa.

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It wasn't him.

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It was Iowa. I can't make it a thing.

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I believe that I will football talk, I will football watching them, I will football being in your neighborhood will create Narcolepsy.

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Tony just said he's never seen a second of I have football. Why would I.

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Waste a second.

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Of my life? Dude, if you have the under, it's magical. It's great. If you're like, It's magical. You always have the ball in the middle of the field. It's always third and eight, and then they punch. I'm telling you, if the under, it's great. You want third down? No, I'm saying it's third and eight.

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And then they don't get it. I wouldn't put it.

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Past them though. You say they didn't get it.

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That's the thing. I would not put it past them.

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I'm low key obsessed with Iowa football and just bringing Lucy onto our staff has made that even more of a thing. But I read it, which is a largely terrible place, but they discovered that Lucy is on the tax layer Gator Bowl website if you go there. And I asked Lucy about it. She confirmed that it's her and that she's been up there for seven years, that they just haven't updated this photo of her in the stands for the tax layer bowl.

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The Pittsburgh Stealers play offense somewhat like this, Stugat, and the reason I say this isn't the best time to say it, because yesterday they did have a 400-yard game where they outpaced the other team's offense for the first time this season.

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They still scored 16 points. That's correct.

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They had more than 400 yards for the first time in 58 games.

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I saw that stat. They were also 34, 23, and 1 in those 50 games.

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It's the offensive age of football. 58 games in several seasons.

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It keeps winning, though.

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There's some Rothless burger in there, I think. That seems impossible. That's several seasons of we can't put up a 400-yard game. Again, they did it yesterday and didn't score any point. But Browning has that borough vibe.

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You squint.

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Do you have an All-squint team?

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Of course, I do. Oh, my God. This is so exciting.

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All right. What are we calling this?

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The James Winston Memorial, Lasix Memorial All-squint team.

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Yeah, and how are the Steeler seven and four?

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Let's play the video here before we get to the All-Squint team. I love this video. Let's play the video of James Winston being maximum, James Winston on the sidelines as Derrick Carr. Again, no touchdowns for Derrick Carr. That's happened twice this season. There was a stat line earlier this season for Camara that was 13 catches, 33 yards.

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I wish I knew at what point in the game this is. Is this after an interception?

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No, I know exactly what it is. Ludacris is coming down from the ceiling at the start of the clip. Oh, it's a pre-game. While Ludacris is coming down, James said, You know what? Not enough things are going on.

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Oh, yeah, you can see Ludacris is on.

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The back. Ludacris is dangling while this is going on.

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He's trying to fire up.

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Deric Korn. This makes it less funny for me because if it was after an interception, because you see his head dips, he has this thing of like, James, please, not now, but it's pre-game, so it makes sense pre-game. I wish it was after an interception.

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There's Ludacris definitely in the background. Yeah, Deric Coyne looks like he doesn't want.

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To hear any of this. How tired are you?

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Looks up at him and then his.

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Head drops. He can wear you out, man. It's because his head goes...

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But you know that's every day, right? That's every day that's going on. It could be about really anything.

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It looks like Taffer from Bar Rescue, the way that he's moving around the plant to talk to him.

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You could be talking about the season finale of Lokey right now. You could be.

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Talking about anything. Derek's trying to give him the energy, nodding, just like, Yeah, man, I appreciate this. But it's like, Dude, please.

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Tony, how many people are on your James, Winston, Lasix Memorial, All-Squint team?

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Six. We've got no ally to it. Can I see.

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This one more time?

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It's the best, right?

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He just has something about him that makes everybody smile at this point.

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It's incredible. Except Derek Carr.

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-except for Derek Carr? -dieter, oh, I would hate to be around this. Then they showed the credits, but then Cult a personality hit and Cient Punk came out.

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I said, You can't do it.

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So Complex Sports tweeted this video out with a caption that I don't think is true, but I don't know where they are saying that James Winston is rapping to Ludacris as this is going on. No way. Which I.

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Think-it makes.

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Sense, honestly. -that Deric Karr may want even less. No.

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It also makes me want to know what song. -wasn't he doing Move? -well, it's a song when he was-Yeah, it's Move.

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Move. Get out the way. That's not what's happening. That is what Ludacris came down to. That can't be true.

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Billy-i don't know.

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What's your fantasy?

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Billy, are you-Complex is saying this. I don't know. I was going to joke. Maybe he's singing this song, but Conplex beat me to it. I don't know if that's true or not.

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It'd be more explainable if it were.

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Move from the bed, down to the floor.

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But you really think that Derrick Car is your audience? Like of anyone on that team. You think Derrick Car is the one that wants to hear it, James?

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Where are you, Tony, on O-L-I? Let's start. This is, can you.

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Give us- Yes, the list, I'll explain it for you. If you squint, you can see something in this quarterback. It's a list of all quarterbacks, James Winston, All Memorial Squint team. We'll start off in the O-L-I.

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The Chocolate Chocolate, make him melt.

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We'll start off in the O-L-I where a guy that if you squint looks like Joe Borough, Jake Browning.

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If.

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You squint, the vibes are there.

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They're both white. If you squint.

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They're there. I mean, this what? It's not true.

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You got to squint. That's what the broadcaster says.

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He did say he had a... They spent a lot of time on whether or not he had a vibe like Joe Borough. Then the advertiser walked it back. He's like, I'm not comparing him to Joe Burrow, but the vibe-is there. -the vibe is similar.

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If you squint, you see a little Joe Borough on him. Number five, the passing Paisano, Tommy DeVito.

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Should it be Paisano or Paison? -that depends. -put it on the poll at Levitar Show, Paisano.

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Or Paison. Paisano or Paison. You got to just throw one of these out there.

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This list is crappy quarterbacks.

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It's not.

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Crappy.

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Quarterbacks. You have to squint.

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It's quarterbacks. If you squint, you can see something. Tommy DeVito, you can see something.

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You can really squint, though.

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Number four.

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Aiden O'Connor.

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Where's the fanfare? The list falls apart.

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With I'm sorry I was just looking at what's your fantasy lyrics.

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Number.

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Three. Still feels like the list I said.

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Tyson Bagen. If you squint, there's something there in.

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Tyson Bagen. There is.

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There's something there.

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I thought it was Bagen. I'm not the person. Special Bagen. It is. As many as many. -it is. Special Bajit.

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It doesn't matter. You just go like this.

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No, that's for Tommy DeVito, passing Paison or Pisono, it depends.

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Bajit could squint, too.

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Good player. If you squint, there's.

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Something there. If you squint, yeah. None of these are good players.

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If you squint, though, that's the thing, Dan. You keep forgetting. Yeah, they're not good. When your eyes are open, they may not be that good. But when you squint, you're like, Huh, all of a sudden, wait a second, man. Tommy DeVito, seven touchdowns, three interceptions this year.

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Number two. Champagne with my campaign. Let me do my damn thing. What's my name? What's my name?

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That's my.

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Type of person. That's my type of person. Number two is Will Levis, obviously. He squint and looks like Dan Marino.

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He does.

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Number one, the commander squinted real hard and saw, You know what? We've got a.

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Franchise quarter-react right here with Sam Howe.