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Dan Le Batard
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Dan Le Batard
Cuervo? Anytime someone says Cuervo, I show up.
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Dan Le Batard
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Dan Le Batard
Cuervo.
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Dan Le Batard
Cuervo.
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Tony
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Dan Le Batard
Cuervo.
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Stugats
This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats podcast.
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Dan Le Batard
I heard that Yeti, who is a fundamentally decent person, great talent, and a never ending hustler, I heard that he was furious with. With Jason Benetti, who is one of the most decent people that there have ever been. What is the nature of the feud?
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Jeremy
Well, Jason Benetti heard the Puka Polka and claimed that there were 12 key changes and was critical of the Tua lyrics. Clearly not getting the show because obviously Tua is a really important part of the Puka Nkua song that we have from before. But what he said specifically to me, and I think several others, is Jason Benetti would not know a key change if it hit him in the face.
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Billy
Yeah, he was furious. He called me. He's like, we got to get him on the Greg Cody show. I need to tell him that he wouldn't know if it hit him in the. He wouldn't know a key change if it hit him on the broadside.
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Dan Le Batard
The broadside.
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Tony
Huh? Broadside of what?
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Dan Le Batard
He just didn't want to repeat exactly what Jeremy had just said moments.
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Tony
So the quote, the quote that he.
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Greg Cody
Sent to everybody, I have the exact quote right here. Benetti would know a keychain if it bit him in the ass.
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Dan Le Batard
There are zero.
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Greg Cody
Just one chord that makes it feel like a change.
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Dan Le Batard
An indignant Yeti on behalf of his vigilant protection of no key change.
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Tony
In all fairness to Yeti. What the hell? Just does Jason Benigny know about key change?
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Dan Le Batard
That's true. I wanted to ask you guys something here before we get into the matter of the Philadelphia 76ers. And are they really going to be.
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Billy
We let that slip, Tony.
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Dan Le Batard
Yeah.
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Tony
No, no, no. I know it's a long day.
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Billy
I don't know that last night I heard that.
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Dan Le Batard
No, no, I know.
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Tony
I felt the horse's Master into me.
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Dan Le Batard
Well, you guys are all in a state of disrepair here because night. And I will say because I don't want to move away from it too quickly even though it is self involved and even though you guys are always making fun of me for the amount of time that I spend cornered at those things or you say I'm cornered even though I'm deeply appreciative of our customers because they allow us to do the things that we do. And being fiercely independent here at a time of great media turbulence, we are very well positioned as the economy is about to fall apart and the media is falling apart. We are very well positioned because we knew that those people would catch us when we left espn. We just knew it. Not a lot of people can say that. They just know it. And the reason I know it is because I see it every time we go do anything like this. I know juju sees it online and online can be a pretty toxic experience, but juju knows how these people feel about us and when they come and show us, I say to everyone and I mean it. It is the deepest of sincerities. I, I appreciate those people as much as they appreciate us because they are our business. Like they show up every time we ask them to. They show up in droves. Moved emotionally. And it makes me emotional this deep into our careers to have young people, specifically young people who have this passed down from their parents and getting the. Yeah, I was listening in the back of the car. I've been listening for 21 years to allow an old sportswriter to still reach young people. Like I can't be more grateful for it than I am. So I am genuinely moved by it. Every time we do something like this, it is wild.
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Billy
The difference in reactions you get in person and online. Like I'm always thinking when I have a nice interaction with somebody in person, I'm like, have you ever told me you hate me online?
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Juju
Right. Fun fact. And this is, this is between us. This, this guy who been coming at me online for like a year and a half now, he been sending me all kind of bad messages and stuff like that. How he hates the sound of my voice and all of that. And then last night I saw him.
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Greg Cody
Cuz I remember no way.
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Juju
The first thing he, he touched me, he was like, oh brother, you taller and bigger than I thought you was. How you doing? Can I get a picture? So salute to the fans.
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Dan Le Batard
But I remember that seems like that's the opposite of salute to the fans.
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Stugats
I remember.
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Dan Le Batard
And I'm muscular and I'M strong and.
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Juju
I'm bigger than you to keep the energy. If you gonna have the energy to call me out on names online when you see me say the same thing, well, this is.
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Dan Le Batard
This is much easier to do anonymously. Look, the Internet has created all manner of acid and poison that there' accounting for that has changed. Even the athlete says, I mean, says and Juju says, like they're different today than they were before in protection of their brown brand. Because of how it is that people can be on the Internet. There's a cruelty to it. But one of our contest winners yesterday, in a sheepish moment, came over to me and said, yeah, first time I heard him on the show, I texted in. His name should be Pablo Bore. That's okay. It's a good line, man.
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Tony
All right.
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Dan Le Batard
It's getting worse and worse. You're doing it worse and worse on purpose so I don't keep going to it. Like, I see your move, even though I can't see your face, I see what's happening there. I wanted to ask you guys before we get to the Sixers, the movement in baseball that I have seen happen since Moneyball, that is super interesting. And this was shown in film by Brad Pitt, making Philip Seymour Hoffman seem like a fool when Art Howe was winning as the manager of the A's 90 games a season. But Billy Beane saw the revolution of analytics and math. And so the Nationals have just hired Blake Butera. He is as their manager. He is 33 years old. This is after the Giants have gone into the college ranks for the first time to get a college baseball manager named Tony Vitello. And I wanted to ask you to look up for me how many players on the Nationals are older than the manager? Because this is as young as managers get. I'm assuming that there hasn't been a manager this young in more than 50 years. If there's ever been one this young, 33 years old. And it's because the reason this is happening more than any other is the front office offices have taken over to such an effect in terms of controlling the information and the power that they want someone in the dugout who is quite literally a middle manager on. You are the spot. You're not in charge. You're not the skipper of the ship. You're not. You are the guy who's managing the clubhouse for us, but you will be somebody who does the work of the front office in that clubhouse. And if a 33 year old can do it, even though the job is people management, we need somebody who's a bridge between front office information and power and those players and so you can make them younger. If those guys are going to come from data and computers and, and I know the analytics of the game, you can keep making them younger. If all you want in that clubhouse is someone who connects to players of that age and is going to be an informational bridge between the front office is in charge and you will do this the way that the front office wants it done. You can hire him at 29, 25 and you'll Sean McVeigh. Sean McVeighs. You, you will. If they're people who have grown up from a generation of it doesn't matter so much. If you want to be in charge guy, you're going to be guy who's middle manager on behalf of the front office.
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Jeremy
So you said Buteris, 33, there was only one player on the Nationals at the moment who is 33 years old. That's Josh Bell. 32 year old Jorge Alfaro is the next oldest player. Which is crazy because I feel like we all remember when he was like 24 years old with the Marlins, but this is part of. I know we all remember Juju in particular, but we. When you look at like what the Marlins did this year, right, so much of what their communication style was with their managers, that allowed a lot of those guys to overachieve with the manager and the coaching staff was that guys like Carson Vitali, their bench coach, just a young guy who knew how to properly communicate with that roster because there wasn't such a difference between who they, they were. Their catching coach, Joe Singley is 27 years old. Like that's who their catching coach was working with, the 22 and 23 year olds. So that's the type of bridge that you want to have.
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Tony
Is this only working in baseball?
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Stugats
Right.
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Tony
Because of the fact that everything is so analytical. Everything is so by the numbers you have all these people just doing all this math and then the managers, they're kind of like, all right, yeah, you, you. But it's like they're really doing it from up top. In basketball, does that work in football, does that work? Do you in college football and college hoops, like, is that something that could be replicated where the coaches can get younger because of the information that's being shared?
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Dan Le Batard
It's a job generally that requires the respect of the employees. So in baseball, for example, what has been problematic from that position in the past is players who do not like a manager who wasn't any Good as a player like that was something in the previous age that my manager better have been somebody who was good at baseball. Otherwise why is he here telling me anything about anything? But this shift has been so dramatic. Is it something that's happening in basketball? Basketball, I mean, because Eric Spoelstra was a young man. We've seen him get old. But he was, he began this job as a young man and he began this job specifically as a young man who was going to be a bridge to the front office.
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Amin
I think when you are a player or the players in the NBA there is a level of built in respect that happens when you're a former player like that you get through the door immediately, okay, I'll hear you out. But then once that initial respect is over, the thing they respect is preparation and knowledge. Right? Like it's, you are ready for every scenario. And that's the thing where the non playing coaches, they might have a higher barrier of gaining the trust. But typically the reason why they're there to begin with is because they're very prepared and they know what they're talking about. And so that's the stuff that. So what do you talk about? SPO Talk about Mike Brown, right. Like these are all guys. Brad Stevenson, obviously Brad Stevens, excuse me, when he was coaching. These are all guys that weren't players but the players really respected. Man, this guy really knows his stuff. Like when I ask him a question, he's got an answer or an idea. Now when you don't have that, when you lack that ability or if you lack an ability to be inclusive in decision making, that's when they start to turn.
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Tony
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Juju
Don LeBatard.
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Billy
All right, we got to go back out there.
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Stugats
That was big.
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Billy
Wake them up.
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Dan Le Batard
Oh, he doesn't want. He doesn't want to be bothered anymore. Now it's getting tense because he didn't need that. As a result, he needs something that happens. You can see him.
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Billy
Mother effing.
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Dan Le Batard
Can we bother?
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Billy
Are we bothering you right now?
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Dan Le Batard
Turn on your microphone, Greg. My microphone's on. Stugats.
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Billy
Paint the scene.
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Stugats
The paint the scene is.
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Dan Le Batard
I gotta go to work.
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Tony
Good night.
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Juju
This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugach.
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Dan Le Batard
It is funny though, because I do remember. I don't remember the player, but I do remember the story of Lenny Wilkins is one of the winningest coaches ever. And a player, because he was around so long and was so old, was like, oh, you played.
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Amin
Oh, yeah.
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Dan Le Batard
And it's like you didn't know that. Lenny Wilkins was great. But there's other stories, like Paul Silas, who did he stuff into a locker? One of his players, Thomas, because he just proved him that I played. Look like that's an old coach. But he just. Didn't he just physically throw him into a locker?
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Amin
Well, Coach Silas is a big man.
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Stugats
Man.
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Amin
I've told the story before. My first job in the NBA was working for the Hawks and Rick was an assistant coach. Rick Mahorn is the first NBA person I legitimately knew. He knocked over the boxes on my first day and we've been friends ever since.
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Dan Le Batard
Physically imposing?
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Amin
Absolutely. Rick Mahorn is terrifying. So we had like a meet and greet where the fans after the game could get autographs. And so Rick is. Because Rick's famous for a team that won like 20 games. We were like, oh, but that guy's a champion. So there's a long line of fans. Rick signing. And we had just played, I want to say, the Cavs. And Coach Silas has done all his postgame stuff and he comes up and he goes like this. I'm standing next to Rick. Cause crowd control, whatever. He goes like this to me.
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Jeremy
Shh.
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Amin
And then walks and slaps the ever living shit out of the back of Rick Moran's neck.
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Dan Le Batard
I mean, pow.
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Amin
And I've never seen Rick angry at me before. It was steam. And he's gonna kill me. He was gonna kill me, right? It didn't matter how many witnesses. And then he looks and he sees it was Paul Silas and he just starts laughing. And I said, oh, wait, hold on.
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Dan Le Batard
You were ready to.
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Amin
He's like, that's a bad man right there. That's Rick Mahorn telling me like, I'm not going to try.
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Dan Le Batard
Paul Silas tell people the story. Because I don't remember the details. Obviously. Paul Silas took One of his six, 11 players, Tyrus Thomas, and threw him in a locker as an old man.
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Amin
So yeah, this is when he's coaching the Bobcats. The Bobcats are terrible. Tyrus Thomas had come from Chicago. He had signed a big deal. There was an expectation that he was going to be a star. It really didn't work out that way. But allegedly. I don't know, but like they got into a shouting match and then the shouting match got physical and he hemmed them up and threw him into the locker. People think about like stuffed into the locker like high school and shit.
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Tony
Like Pablo Torre style.
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Amin
Yeah, Pablo Torres. That's how it happened. It's like he shoved them backward into his locker. And NBA lockers, if you haven't seen them, are massive.
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Dan Le Batard
You know what that is though?
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Amin
I mean, old man strength.
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Dan Le Batard
Old black man string.
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Amin
The highest quality.
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Juju
It's been an epic battle going on while y' all been talking about this seriousness. Damn. Between you and that hat, bro, if you gonna keep it on or off. He was mid sentence and took the hat off and put it back on.
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Dan Le Batard
This is part of the joy and frustration and for the audience, the fun of the absurdity of wearing what is the shittiest costume I've ever had on. I could feel this material seems like rayon. And this is coming from a man who spent $34 on a brown suit for Bad Bunny. So I know that's what, 34 bucks. I know, I know what cheap materials sound like look like. Jeremy, can you look up for me how old Paul Silas was when he did this? Because was he. He's in his late 50s when he's taking. No, when he's taking an NBA player.
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Amin
That's. He was a lot older than he was an old man. Like he was. He was an old man when he slapped the shit out of Rick Mahorn.
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Dan Le Batard
Okay, so you're saying that Paul Silas, when I said late 50s, you're going to put him in his. In his late 60s?
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Jeremy
He was 69.
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Amin
Yep.
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Jeremy
Nice.
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Dan Le Batard
So a 69 year old Paul Silas took a power forward, took a power forward who was in his prime and threw him into a locker. That is old black man strength. And that must be the highest quality of strength. Put it on the poll. Is Paul Silas 69 year old Old man, black man's strength, the highest quality of strength.
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Amin
Can I make a confession? I thought your outfit the other day was the dick in the box. I didn't know that was Bad Bunny. He looked like the dick in the box. You know the Lonely island thing. Yeah. From snl. No, he didn't look like a dick in the box.
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Dan Le Batard
He's six seven the Philadelphia 76ers. Is all of that real? They are undefeated. I saw they came back strong against the Wizards. They were down in that game and they ended up winning that game. But it's not possible, is it? But it's not possible that Daryl Morey would get celebrated for the idea of pairing Paul George with Joel Embiid. And then it's going to be Maxi and Edge. Come make them better than they were with Paul George and Joel Embiid. That's not possible, is it, Dan?
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Greg Cody
It's pretty amazing. Juju. Go ahead first.
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Juju
I got a hot take, bro. I think the Sixers should trade Joel Embiid and Paul George, right?
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Stugats
Damn.
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Juju
Now get it over with. Rip the band aid off.
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Tony
But what do you get for for Joel Embiid? 20 cents on the dollar. A quarter on the dollar for Joel Embiid. Like he's too good of a player to ship something to ship off somewhere else, right? Let's say Miami has a play for him. They buy him for 20 cents on the dollar and then somehow he gets revitalized here. And then all Sixers nation's like, wait a second. We got what format? Second round pick.
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Dan Le Batard
What are your thoughts here? I mean, on is Joel like Joel Embiid? I've heard a lot of washed finished, and I'm like, can that be? Because we've seen the evolution, we've seen the revolution. When that player first arrived in the league, my thoughts were not unlike with Victor Wembanyama. Wait a minute. That's going to be dominant for 10 years. That size is not something I'm used to. Shooting threes like he's at the very beginning of what all of that was. The Carl Anthony Towns where you're like, whoa, that's from distance. Something that's never shot like that at that size. You guys are willing to say not merely trade Joel Embiid now when his value is lower than it's been since ever, but you're also at spent that the body is spent, that he is physically washed and will not recover.
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Juju
I think it's about his preparation. I saw a story from Marcus Morris and Marquis Morris that before the 70 point game he had last year, he did not warm up at all before the game. He got there 20 minutes before the game and just played the game and. And felt like, oh man, this is too easy. And I think that has soaked into his br thinking it's easier to get by as him versus putting the hard.
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Greg Cody
Work like they did in past generations that set the stage for the game. No, the thing about Joel Embiid, Dan, is a couple things. Number one, health. Are these injuries resolved? It doesn't seem so. He's on a minutes restriction right now playing 20 minutes a game because that's the only way you can have him out there without fear of him falling apart. Number two, and this is huge. This July, ESPN published a great feature on him by Doton Akintoye. About Joel Embiid. And if you read it, you learn a lot more about him as a person and the personality things and the traumas that he's experienced which had led him to become the person he is today. And it did two things. One, it greatly humanized him in a way that even I didn't think I gave him enough credit for what he'd been through. But two, that motherfucker don't trust nobody. Nobody's leaving $20 bills on the table to see if someone would steal it. When you have a superstar who does not trust his teammates, who does not trust his coaching staff, who does not trust his front office, even if it's justified, it's very hard to build a championship contender around that.
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Tony
And that trust goes down. He doesn't even trust his own body, right? Like, that's kind of almost the biggest thing he's.
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Amin
He's.
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Tony
I was just talking to Amin about Wemby and the comparison with Joel Embiid when you were making Dan. It's like Wemby is so fleet of foot. He's so thin, he's so nimble in a way that Joel Embiid is the complete opposite, right? He's just, like, big and plotting. He's so menacing and huge. But the problem is, like, he makes one move and it's like he falls like a statue. He just doesn't have the ability or the agility to, like, make things and get out of the way when he can get hurt.
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Greg Cody
Then one of the things. An excerpt from this excellent piece I urge everyone to read. It says, those who need to reach him do so through his assistant or his wife. His replies can take months. Quote I have a reputation of being not a good texter, adding that he probably has 10,000 unread messages. You're kidding. The writer says Joelle reaches for the phone, taps the screen and leans forward to Show More than 9,500 unread texts. 875 missed calls. Some of the messages are years old. Quote I just can't do it, he says. I ask who this annoys most in his life. Quote Everybody.
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Dan Le Batard
You guys describing Joel Embiid as big and plotting. I'm like, you gotta be kidding me. Like, when that guy came. When that. When that guy came out. When that guy came out of college, I'm like, that's physically changing the sport in a way that makes me me about think about Shaq. Like, Shaq reminiscent in terms of size, but nimble as hell. Like a Holt. Like, I don't think of him as big and plotting until you remind me how often he's on the floor. And you remind me that during the playoffs, oh, he got his face totally broken, tried to play through it. He had a dunk that I thought his career ended when he landed, and he played soon thereafter, like, next game where I thought he. His career was over the moment that he landed. But I'm not ready yet for you guys to tell me the athlete has involved, has. Has evolved so much that Joel Embiid is big and plotting. Like, you cannot say that to my face and say, in the last five years, that athlete's body has deteriorated so much and the sport has changed so much that he is no longer somebody who's as athletic as just about anything I've seen in the sport.
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Tony
But Dan, he fell on the floor and somebody fell on him and he tore his meniscus. Like, that doesn't happen. Like, meniscus tears happen. When somebody rolls up on you, you bend the knee this way, you do that. Like, he has injuries where you're like, he had Bell's palsy. I know that that's a different story, but it's like, how many freak things can happen to one person?
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Dan Le Batard
Well, that's. That's stress related. And I do. I want to get to Matthew Berry because he's here to give away money, and he's done this the last couple of weeks. Like the thing that he just did in that Jets Bengals game, that was a magic trick where he's like, yeah, all the running backs are just going to be spilling money all over the field. If you want to pick it up, just. Just take the running backs for the jets. And you will be wealthy beyond your wildest dreams if you follow Matthew Berry's advice. But just getting back to the trust thing real. Before we onboard, Matthew Berry, the quotes that came from Joel Embiid after there were some leaks in the Sixers locker room that felt to me like quotes of somebody who's just looking around all the time wondering who's going to betray me next. I don't trust anybody. That seemed like a poison to me that would really hurt somebody when they were away from the facility and make them not want to come to the facility. That information leaked during a meeting, and it didn't seem like he trusted anybody in his huddle, which is ironic because.
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Juju
His nickname is the Process. And Philly always wants you to trust the Process. And I think that this stage of the process is him being out of here.
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Billy
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Dan Le Batard
Time Offer Don LeBatard well, Charlie sent.
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Tony
Charlie had this Charlie as far as I know.
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Dan Le Batard
So just Charlie's title in my how how familiar were you at the time with Chewbacca? Like how your upbringing. How how had how much Chewbacca in it?
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Juju
This is the Dan Levatar show with the stool guards.
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Dan Le Batard
Oh look. The horse wants its music. The horse wants its imaging. Matthew Barry. Matthew Barry. Matthew Barry. Matthew Berry Giving away money. I'm not kidding you. He has all of the advantages, all of the inefficiencies. Matthew Berry, what do you have for us this week? I'm writing it down because you are the only reason I'm not losing money on the weekends. I've been losing money on the weekends for several years now because I make too many bets on things that are wrong. But you have information that's better than mine. So let's hear it.
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Stugats
Happy to help out, Dan. Happy Halloween to everyone out there. Only one team in the NFL allows more fantasy points per game to opposing quarterbacks than the Pittsburgh Steelers. Five of the last six quarterbacks to face the Steelers have thrown for at least two touchdown passes. Maybe you take the over there, especially with Daniel Jones. By the way, quarterbacks who face the Steelers also average 293 passing yards. Some prop betting advice for you. There's where I like Daniel Jones this week. How about Sam Darnold? In two of the last three games, he's finished as a top 10 fantasy quarterback. He's had at least two touchdown passes in four the last six and since week two, only one team in the NFL gives up more fantasy points to opposing quarterbacks than my beloved Washington commander. Sigh. Sam Darnold of course plays that every single game this year. Every single game this year, the Cincinnati Bengals have allowed at least 87 yards from scrimmage to an opposing running back. Running backs that have seen at least 12 touches against the Bengals this year averaging over 20 fantasy points per game. DeAndre Swift, who plays the Bengals this week, has had at least 13 touches in every game this season. DeAndre Swift did not practice yesterday, so it's worth grabbing Kyle Menongay because if he if Swift is out, Monongai would be a very interesting running back to this week against Cincinnati, Tyrone Tracy has had eight career games in which he's had at least 15 touches and in those games, those eight games, he averages 15 fantasy points. By the way, the Giants six in running back target share against the 49ers who are bottom 10 and most fantasy points allowed to posing running backs. Of course no Cam Scatter boo Tyrone Tracy in for a big workload this weekend, as is Bam Knight. Bam Knight of all people. Over the last two games that he's played, Bam Knight actually has 29 touches, 29 touches, including 80% of the Cardinals goal to go rush attempts. And over the last four weeks, only one team in the NFL has given up more rushing yards to opposing running backs than the Dallas Cowboys, who Bam Night plays. I mean, let's not get crazy, it's Bam Night. But still, you could do worse and probably have. Hey, speaking of the Cowboys, in every game this year but one, the Cowboys have allowed at least 17 fantasy points to an opposing wide receiver. No team in the NFL is a lot more touchdowns on deep passes than the Dallas Cowboys. 43% of Marvin Harrison's targets this year have come on deep passes. Kind of like Marvin Harris over on the longest reception as well. Last week in his first game back, Christian Watson had a 65% route participation. His average depth of target was over 18 yards, 18.2 to be exact. And four of the last five games the Carolina Panthers have allowed at least one touchdown to a wide receiver. Final one here in his last game before his week eight. By no, he's on the injury report, so watch this. But if he plays before he went on the buy, Travis Hunter had a 30% target share, an 89% route participation. Both numbers are season high. The the Raiders allow the highest catch rate in the NFL to slot wide receivers. Travis Hunter runs 40% of his routes out of the slot. Love me some.
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Dan Le Batard
Oh, I'm sorry. I think we're going to hurt you here. I think we're going to hurt you on Travis Hunter, right?
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Tony
Matthew Berry, Jaguars wide receiver, cornerback. Travis Hunter was hurt during practice Thursday and will be put on IR at least four games, according to Liam Cohen.
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Stugats
I knew he was on the injury report. I didn't know it had come out that he was serious. Like the last I had heard. I driving in and just saw this. So that is, that is disappointing. But yeah, you know what that means. Parker Washington. Parker Washington, who's a slot wide receiver. Like, who the hell is Parker Washington? He's a slot wide receiver for the, for the Jacksonville Jaguars. And yeah, that's a, that's a tough break for, for Travis Hunter, but that's good to know. Wow, that, that must have just come.
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Tony
Out literally five minutes ago.
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Amin
Okay. Okay, good.
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Tony
Cause I was literally on your Fantasy Life app. By the way, I get my notifications.
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Stugats
For the Fantasy Life app.
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Dan Le Batard
I was sitting there staring at you in that ridiculous bow tie simulation. You had information sneak past you and I looked at your face and the despair that came across your face hurt me on your behalf. Not because you embarrassed yourself publicly, but because you'd lost the money of Travis Hunter has an advantage this weekend. I researched this so thoroughly. You do not understand how hard it is to find these golden gems in the mountain of information that there is in football every week. And yours immediately became outdated.
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Stugats
Yes, yes, maybe it will. We got Travis Hunter up there on the, on the wall. So we'll have to, we'll have to adjust that. It's. It's a bummer there. I got one more for you then, because we, we lost out on Hunter. How about this? In three of the past four weeks, Kyle Pitts. Kyle Pitts has actually finished as a top 12 tight end so far this year. The Patriots allow the fifth most fantasy points to opposing tight ends. Drake London has been a little bit banged up missed last week. I actually think Kyle Pitts is usable this week.
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Billy
Check out Matthew's fantasy football happy hour weekdays live on YouTube at noon Eastern.
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Dan Le Batard
Matthew Barry. Matthew Barry.
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Greg Cody
Matthew Barry. Matthew Barry.
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Dan Le Batard
Thank you, Matthew. Enjoy Halloween. You are making sure that our listeners are enjoying all of their Sundays because the information he is giving has. Has been parlayed into money in ways that are fairly obvious. And thank you. You will rarely get more gratitude from our listeners than when you give them money. And the information that he is providing is providing dollars. Can we bury all things dolphins here permanently? Because I don't know where you go. He just mentioned the Bengals defense and I don't know whether the Dallas defense is the worst def the league, but the Dolphin defense doesn't have very many players that anybody would want and the trading deadline is Tuesday and I don't know who is going to be moved but I cannot remember covering the team in this market of a time when a roster had so few pieces that you're going to build around for tomorrow like so few pieces that anyone else in the league would want. I'm not being prisoner of the moment when I tell you they went so all in on we're going to do this with Tyree Kill and we're going to do it right now and we are going to gamble in a way that will be all or nothing that we're presently living the nothing. Like there are just not reasons to hope. Okay, I'll build around that guy. Like even if you're excited about A Chan, do you realize how quickly they're burning through his body at a position in the league where they tell you that's disposable, we'll go get the next guy after we've burnt through this one's body.
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Billy
In terms of defensive guys that have value, I would say Chop Robinson probably has a little value and Zach Sealer. I'm just saying though, like, Chop Robinson has looked good as a young player and Zach Sealer just got paid. I think outside of that, it's bleak.
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Dan Le Batard
Jalen Phillips might also be moved and might yeah, he's not a good tackler and he's the king of almost. But Jalen Phillips might might also have some marginal value, but you're not bringing back much. So it's not like the trade deadline is going to get you excited. And when Tony's sitting here saying Kyler Murray and my ears are perking up because I'm guessing that Dolphin fans would get excited about Kyler Murray because it would at least be, well, if we can't block, it's someone who can move. It's. It's someone around. If we're going to spend 20 years of draft picks on offensive linemen without ever being able to block somebody, how about we do it differently? We'll have the guys who can't block and we'll have a quarterback who can move away from him.
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Jeremy
I mean, he'd be the most entertaining quarterback that we've had I know to put up 70 points, but that was a product of all of the entertainment pieces around him and an entertaining coaching Style like, he'd be the most exciting quarterback of my lifetime. Watching the Dolphins. And if you can get a guy like him for decent value, it'd be the first time ever that they'd be acquiring a talented quarterback for good value because they took to a high in the draft. They took Ryan Tannehill high in the draft. Both of those guys underachieving from where you got them. So Kyler Murray, who was the number one overall pick, theoretically, you'd be buying low and he could run around. That's more exciting than a guy who literally can't leave the pocket without us worrying he's going to die.
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Tony
That is true. I saw something on Twitter. I'm trying to remember exactly what it is. I'll try to pull up the. The article once I'm done. Finished talking. But there was a. There was a trade. Not rumor, but a trade, you know, thing that. My bad.
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Dan Le Batard
What Tony started that if I played it back to you, you're gonna be mortified by the way that you started. You want to start again?
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Tony
Yeah, because I'm trying to. I'm trying to do the picture thing in my mind where I'm trying to remember exactly who it was and I'm trying to go through it and stuff. So what the. What the trade, you know, thing is.
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Dan Le Batard
Tony. Tony. All right, let's regroup here. Let's regroup.
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Juju
Okay?
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Jeremy
It's gonna be an all time rejoin.
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Dan Le Batard
Let's just clean the palette. I know the Billy chair. Gotcha. And it happens sometimes. Let's go ahead and get Roy so that we give Tony some time to restart here. Let's just get some of the clips of Billy yammering so that we can just show Tony here what not to do. Because the way that he started that, when I replay that back for him, all of it, he's going to be truly mortified. And I want to cleanse his palate so he can go into the weekend feeling better about himself than he presently does. So Billy can yammer, Billy can start a point and then never get to the end of the point. And Roy, if you could just find for me a couple of the Billy Classic just to give Tony time to regroup and figure out how he wants to. How he wants to refer to trade information. Well, Charlie sent.
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Billy
Charlie had this.
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Dan Le Batard
Charlie, as far as I know. So just Charlie's title in my.
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Greg Cody
Are you gonna say anything?
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Amin
All right, Tony, how about Billy showing up to the Watch along yesterday? That was great.
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Tony
Yeah, it's fun to see him.
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Dan Le Batard
It was nice. Everybody was super moved that Billy was there and keeping the spirit alive while television adds ten pounds. That's right.
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Tony
And inches.
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Dan Le Batard
Oh, you ready to restart?
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Tony
Okay. So there was a trade article written of trades that could happen in the future getting to the deadline. Right. One of the trades being positioned was Tua to the Raiders, plus two attached second round picks for the Dolphins, sending them over to the Raiders, getting in return, like a fifth round pick. So that's where the value is as far as Tua and his contract. So when you talk about trading for Kyler Murray or trading for somebody else, that's the value for your highest paid position is two second rounders that you have to shift to a team that's terrible to get their fifth round pick back to you. How's that?
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Juju
Yeah.
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Stugats
All right. Yeah. Good job. Yeah. All right. Yeah.
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Dan Le Batard
All right. If we're going to play sounds that make people feel slightly better, let's get that Tracy Morgan video and sound so that we can have something that feels sweet here. You want to give me some context for this, Amin? I don't know the entirety of this. I just know that it's sweet.
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Amin
Yeah. This is after a Nick game and where the celebrities exit from the Garden. People tend to hang around because they know they can get autographs and pictures and whatnot. And so this young fan sees Tracy Morgan as he's getting into his car and he's like, oh, Tracy, Tracy, Tracy. That he's. The driver's actually closing the door. And Tracy stops the door from being closing. Hold on, let me talk to this kid. And this is the interaction that happens.
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Dan Le Batard
Give me something. What you doing?
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Juju
You with your pops?
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Dan Le Batard
Yeah, that's your pop. Take care of him. You only get one, you hear me?
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Greg Cody
Yeah, he love you.
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Dan Le Batard
There's no way in the world you could possibly know how much that man love you.
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Tony
You know what?
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Dan Le Batard
You gonna know when you have your own son.
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Amin
That's what you're gonna say. Now I know what my father would.
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Juju
Have did for me.
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Ad Voice
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Dan Le Batard
Everything.
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Amin
I love you.
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Dan Le Batard
Thank you, Jason. Yo, yo, what's your name? Nico. I'm Tracy. Friends? Yeah, Come check. High five, man. Listen, friends. Nico, how are you?
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Juju
Go, Nick.
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Amin
It's just an awesome. He didn't have to do any of that. He could have just took the picture with the kid and kept it moving. And he, he, he like to re. Emphasize to the kid that, yo, your dad is looking out for you here and he loves you. And you don't understand the capacity with which he loves you. It's just like that's an interaction that kid's gonna remember forever, right? And again, like, we talk about Charles a lot. Cause Charles is that kind of guy. It's like you meet Charles Barkley, you're not just gonna say, oh, I got a picture of Charles Barkley. You're gonna have a story about, oh, man. He asked me where I was from and I told him this. And he made some jokes. Like, those interactions, they mean so much on the other end. And so last night was kind of like that. You know, I had a lot of that in my mind because of that Tracy Morgan. I thought that was a very cool interaction.
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Juju
And culturally, to go with what you said earlier about black people and how they perceived. I think this is awesome. Because from that young age, he knows we're friends. I think that was the most important thing as well. That was awesome.
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Dan Le Batard
But Tracy Morgan isn't gonna holler at him later.
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Jeremy
Dan.
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Billy
That's a lesson on how to have an interaction with a fan where it's like a minute. And it's like you get it all in with these seven minute conversations. There's like a line of 50 people trying to see you, and you're talking for like eight minutes to one guy. It's like, we gotta have a time thing here.
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Amin
Just the way the mouth moves.
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Dan Le Batard
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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