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Dan Le Batard
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$5 duo or $7 trio. Choose your deal. Price and participation vary. US only. No substitutions. Restrictions apply. This is the Dan Levator show with the Stugats pod. Dolphins haven't converted their last five third downs. Thirteen down goes Tongarillo up. Patrick Jones got him. The Dolphins lose. We're on the road after a Monday night. It started out, everything going right. Went down and scored three times. They turned it over twice and we were up by 17. And that's about the time we did some dolphin things. Nobody here knows how to hold a lead. Some guy named Dao ran for 200. Where the hell is Rushdie? I can't take more embarrassment. Make the season end. Make the season end.
Stugats
That is not good enough.
Dan Le Batard
And later on as our last drive stalled our center some how tackled to this whole thing is a joke. Somebody really needs to punk Chris career into the sea and Mike McDaniel two were so embarrassing. Told Steven Ross to just bring down this thing. How can I possibly watch 12 more games? @ least I still have fantasy. I can't take this embarrassment. Make the season end.
Stugats
God.
Dan Le Batard
Make the season end. It's not just the season, it's the whole thing. Right, because Waddle gets behind the secondary, ball's under thrown. You're going to save your season. Oh look, Carolina doesn't fear you at all. They're going to score too fast. They're going to leave you two minutes on the clock. They're not even going to just hold the Ball and play. No, no, let's finish them. They won't drive down the field. Let's just finish their whole season, their whole architecture, the whole thing. Even Greg Cody has abandoned them. And the Dolphins lost late to. Oh, Bryce Young calls timeouts. He doesn't have. That's the late game awareness that you want from your conquering quarterback. Two nowhere teams doomed. Both of them.
Mike Ryan
There it is.
Dan Le Batard
Doomed. No, no, I'm not. I'm not choking on the peanuts that I can't stop eating peanuts. I'm not Those Hampton Farms. The Dolphin season ended yesterday. And so too did Carolinas because I saw what Tampa did. I saw what Tampa did in Seattle. And no one's gonna win that division other than Tampa. Get out of here. Like, obviously they've won it the last four years. Carolina is not going to win it this year. Carolina, you can hit us every once in a while with. You beat Atlanta 30 to nothing at home. Whatever. The Dolphins led 17. Nothing. The Panthers are down two offensive linemen and they don't have their running back. And the Dolphins season. And the architecture ends there. Like it's all over. When Greg Cody's abandoned ship and we were all shouting at him. You're. You're a month late, Greg. The whole experiment ends. It's not. It's not just this season ends. It's. Oh, no. You went all in on McDaniel and Tyreek Hill and two end fart noise. It's all over. You're. No, it's Dan. Dan Campbell. You had him. He's running the sport now. And he's daring you to eat his kneecaps. Like he's just. He's churning his farm machines into the great beyond. We're all sad and done. Can we bury it because. Or is. Is Billy going to do schedule talk when they beat Cleveland? Because. Because Miles Garrett is tired.
Mike Ryan
It's not usually. You could maybe allege that that's bit by Billy, but there is a path here.
Dan Le Batard
Yeah.
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Stugats
And that. That looks susceptible yesterday. Yeah, they haven't.
Dan Le Batard
They haven't beaten anybody.
Stugats
Who?
Dan Le Batard
The Bills. I thought you're talking about the Dolphins also.
Mike Ryan
We thought they did week one. Boy, we really thought they did. What a win that was over Baltimore and Baltimore. Are they done? Is that the window? No, you're not. You don't think they're done?
Amin Elhassan
I don't think they're done.
Mike Ryan
1 in 4.
Amin Elhassan
I don't think they're done.
Mike Ryan
1 in 4.
Amin Elhassan
I said it last week. I think they're still going to win the division.
Mike Ryan
That is a weak division. They got. They got those games in hand, but their only game is against Cleveland. And you look back on it.
Dan Le Batard
What do you guys do though with the salary cap? Ridiculousness of the salary cap is $280 million. The Ravens have 160 million of it that can't play at the moment. So. So their defense isn't actually their defense. If I take seven guys off of their defenses, it ceases to be their defense.
Mike Ryan
I watch Tampa week in and week out with big time names out and they find a way. Yes, I hear you. That is a damning stat. They are no doubt hurt, especially when they're multiple time MVP is out. No rushes. I've seen with my own eyes. Cooper Rush beat Joe Burrows, Bengals. All right. They should not be.
Stugats
We.
Mike Ryan
I mean the Houston Texans are a blight on the NFL season. They are so hard to watch. And did you see the point total they put up? I understand the injuries. That is more than just injuries.
Amin Elhassan
I would say now you feel how The San Francisco 49ers feel every single season. Right? They have 19 guys out every single year. And what's the record of the 49ers by the way?
Mike Ryan
What are they a nine and a half point dog at Sofi Sating with a backup quarterback? No. George Kittle with no. Piers hall with no. Jennings? They are no.
Amin Elhassan
Brock Purdy.
Stugats
No Brock.
Mike Ryan
Like what? What more do you want? Good teams find a way. Ravens not a good team.
Dan Le Batard
Really. So the organization that for 25 years has been one of the standards in the sport. So stunning that a month ago we were talking about as they led in the fourth quarter at Buffalo. Oh, the Ravens are going to be the same thing they've always been. Five games later, John Harbaugh doesn't know what he's doing. The Ravens have a historically bad defense. Worse than the Dolphins. Historically bad defense. And it's because all their players are out. And at least in part because. And this part, like I don't even know why this part gets skated over as much as we obsess over the money. The Ravens only get to be that when they have huge value at quarterback because the quarterback is playing both quarterback and running back making your running back better. The running back's disposable when you have huge value. Huge value. Then Lamar Jackson as your MVP, you can win 12 games every year.
Mike Ryan
But they've been paying Lamar for a while.
Dan Le Batard
No, but. No. He just signed the extension and now, some of the players that they could fill around in the roster are not available to them. Once you get past the first layer of depth, they don't have any money to spend. Like that is part of it. They're paying their quarterback better than they ever have because they have to.
Mike Ryan
San Francisco point again. They're paying Brock Hardy now.
Dan Le Batard
Yeah. But no San Francisco point again. When they can do it with any quarterback. Baltimore can only do it with one. I don't if right now, if I told our audience, hey, what do you think Cooper Rush would look like in San Francisco? You'd be like, he'd be four and one. He'd be four and one because Brock Purdy's Mr. Irrelevant and Mac Jones is four and one. He'd be 4 and 1.
Mike Ryan
There are plenty of franchises that are plenty hurt and the Ravens aren't figuring it out and they're losing a bad team. It's like 44 to 10 to the Houston, the Ravens. That is not injury. That's not just injury.
Stugats
Look, it's not.
Mike Ryan
I just saw Kyle Shanahan roll into the the LA Rams barn.
Stugats
That's the one example of the guy.
Dan Le Batard
That can do it with any quarterback.
Amin Elhassan
Like, there's not a lot of examples.
Dan Le Batard
Outside of Kyle Shanahan of guys doing it that injured. You guys just did this with Minnes. Carson Wentz just went right down the field on the best defense in the league and Miles Garrett was the one who was gutted.
Mike Ryan
Thank you. That's an excellent point. Yeah, Carson Wentz is an excellent point. They're out RB1 and QB1 over there in Minnesota. They're finding ways to get results.
Dan Le Batard
They're good. My larger point, as we discuss the team and the dynasty that stood in the way of the Ravens being something much more special than they were the last 25 years because the Patriots were always in the way. Their quarterback is the MVP of the league and if he does not play, there's nothing else there like they, they are whenever Lamar Jackson plays outside for the last game when people thought he quit against Kansas City, a team that when Lamar Jackson plays is always competitive. It's a one score game. It's never not a one score game. Lamar Jackson keeps you in everything.
Mike Ryan
Tyler Hundley made a Pro Bowl.
Dan Le Batard
The Ravens are now dead. The Bengals are now dead.
Amin Elhassan
Tony, I don't think the Ravens are dead. I don't think the Steelers are as good as they appear to be right now. I think once Lamar gets back, he's going to write the shit they're going to win that division sucks.
Dan Le Batard
You can't score. You can't allow 37 points a game. Like they. The Ravens defense cannot stop anybody. And to Mike's point, I said the Texans. I said the miracle of the season was without penalty. The Texans on a second and 33 converted a first down in one of these games because he just threw the ball to Nico Collin. And C.J. stroud was great when he had healthy receivers and then his pressure up the middle. And now they stink at offense. They're truly terrible at offense. And they just gutted the Ravens. They could. The Texans were scoring 10 points a game. The Texans had the worst offense in the league. The Ravens are not what you remember them as. And if they are not. If they are not done, they can't allow like they got to get their players back. I don't. Do you guys know. Are you guys checking the injury risks on. On are the injury updates on whether the Ravens are going to have their defense back in two weeks? I.
Mike Ryan
You could. You could play with 10 guys and you give up 44 points to the Houston Texans. That's inconceivable.
Dan Le Batard
Can you guys tell me what is the proper amount of shame for Amari DeMarcado? Like, what is the proper amount of shame today?
Mike Ryan
Zero.
Dan Le Batard
It's a touchdown.
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Dan Le Batard
I don't know how that was ruled.
Stugats
Not a touchdown.
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Mike Ryan
It's so unfair. He got punched by Jonathan Gannon. It's so unfair. Look at it. That's a touchdown.
Amin Elhassan
I need the down the line pylon.
Mike Ryan
His foot is on the line and the ball is ahead of his foot. What are we doing?
Dan Le Batard
That's true. Mike Sport.
Mike Ryan
Yep. You can see the foot on the line. The ball is ahead of the foot.
Amin Elhassan
Zoom in on the hand, though. Let me see where the hand is.
Dan Le Batard
I think the ball's out of the hand. I think the ball is slipping out too. I think that is proof of what they called which had it high and tight.
Mike Ryan
You can't do this to this guy. He's got to run through the back of the end zone. I get you. It's. It's something every week. Gotta coach it that way. It's ridiculous, but I feel bad for the guy.
Dan Le Batard
Do you guys realize that before yesterday? And I want to ask you what you're doing with this is. The Colts appear to be a good team. The Broncos have not trailed in a fourth quarter this season. Like they just have lost two games with the field goal at the end. But they. They could be unbeaten. And they just went into Philadelphia and they ended 20 out of 21 and they ended it with Peyton down 1716 saying no, me and my quarterback go for two. We don't know. Not afraid. We have the ball on offense and that's the confidence we have in our offense. That's pretty interesting, right? I know a lot of people thought that Peyton and the Broncos would be better this year, but they could be. You tell me what to do with the following analysis. The Broncos could be unbeaten and the Eagles. Eagles could be winless.
Amin Elhassan
I'd say that's football.
Mike Ryan
Football.
Amin Elhassan
Because the Chiefs could have been 5 and 12 a couple years ago when they had 19 one score games in one season. Like that's just the NFL football.
Dan Le Batard
And so if football is that you guys are telling me DeMarcado needs to have a touchdown there. But if we're going to protect the football in such a way that Jackson dart giving it up five times is the reason Spencer Rattler wins for the first time. Had some throws in.
Mike Ryan
I knew you would. You're not.
Amin Elhassan
But he had some throws. Are you guys going to have. He didn't have any throws.
Mike Ryan
Yes, he had some.
Amin Elhassan
Thank you. That's all I'm saying.
Dan Le Batard
He's a quarterback.
Mike Ryan
They're supposed to have throws. It's the job description.
Amin Elhassan
But you know what? We don't give enough love to the quarterbacks in the bottom tier. We don't. We love to on them. We love to say oh they're so bad.
Stugats
You love all.
Mike Ryan
That's your gimmick.
Amin Elhassan
I know.
Mike Ryan
That's what you do.
Amin Elhassan
I know. But for you guys, you got to admit when Spencer Rattler had some throws.
Mike Ryan
He had some throws.
Dan Le Batard
Browning has some throws. But you can't turn the ball over three times. I agree.
Amin Elhassan
Is there a a bigger ratio for cool name not good at football than Spencer Rattler?
Mike Ryan
That's a great point.
Dan Le Batard
Like it's a good awesome. It's a good name. Like top five Jackson Dart's a good name. That's a good one. That's strong.
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Dan Le Batard
Don LeBatard all right, we gotta go back out there. That was big. Wake him up. 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 it.
Amin Elhassan
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Dan Le Batard
Can we bother?
Amin Elhassan
Are we bothering you?
Dan Le Batard
Right now. Turn on your microphone.
Mike Ryan
My microphone's on Stugats.
Stugats
Paint the scene.
Dan Le Batard
The paint the scene is. I gotta go to work. Good night. This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats. That's what I'm used to a quarterback looking like on the road when he's not quite ready. Oh, five possessions in a row. Five turnovers. Really? Okay, so we're going to be all militant about protect the football. Walk around the facility with it, hold it, don't lose it. That's the most valuable thing. And five on five straight plays. Oh, you lose to the Saints on the road, we can be done with both those seasons too. Can we be done with both of those? Yeah. Giants. Yeah.
Mike Ryan
Calvin Kamara, 500 career receptions.
Dan Le Batard
Guys, I feel like today could be an official day where we knock out like a third of the league and say we do not have to talk.
Mike Ryan
You had to take of the day. You knocked out. You ended Carolina season after a win.
Dan Le Batard
Am I wrong?
Mike Ryan
No. I think you were on the money.
Dan Le Batard
Their quarterback called timeout when he didn't have any timeouts. There should be a penalty for that given how disciplined they are.
Mike Ryan
About historic first, though. I've never like. They're feeling pretty good about this.
Dan Le Batard
Young gets. Bryce Young gets to be the winning quarterback today. Hooray. Hooray. You came back from 17. Nothing. Fart noise. You just ended the Dolphins. It doesn't actually mean anything. That is a. An immoral victory instead of a moral victory. It is an immoral victory.
Mike Ryan
Just a little confused. I'm a little confused as how we can end Carolina's season. But Baltimore season's alive after 44 to 10.
Dan Le Batard
No, you understand. Carolina won that game. But we don't have to pay attention to you anymore. You're not serious people.
Mike Ryan
But Baltimore's alive.
Dan Le Batard
Both of you teams here. You are not serious people. You cannot be treated seriously about what we're doing. What the Lions and the Eagles are doing over here.
Amin Elhassan
I think we throw the Raiders in there too. The Raiders are done.
Dan Le Batard
Gino wrote back how many of them? Wait a minute. That's right. I mean, Amin is here to bury with a tribituary or a trilogy. Excuse. Excuse. Excuse me.
Mike Ryan
Trubisky.
Dan Le Batard
What? No. Geno Smith is responsible for the single greatest thing that Amin has ever done on this show. Long list of things. But to correctly predict before a season with great accuracy. A season from Geno Smith that all of us laughed off. No one has been more right than Amin was about Geno Smith around here about Anything. Yeah.
Mike Ryan
Probably the second most impressive thing that he's done outside of getting Adam Lichtenstein to believe that he was gonna make a statue for Jimmy Butler and write an article about it. What was the name of your sculptor?
Dan Le Batard
Character?
Stugats
Not a character. Is a real person. It's Akbar.
Dan Le Batard
Not appreciated nearly enough. That could have been that. That. That could have been something magical. And it just died because we never got the character off the ground. One of our great failures around here.
Mike Ryan
He got off the ground. He got an article.
Stugats
Should have been a spin off. There should have been a whole, like the Akbar show. And all he does is just go from town to town interviewing people and trying to make sculptures for one of the most maligned athlete icons of the decade. That's what should have been the show. But, you know, Dan, I've got a.
Amin Elhassan
List here of the teams that we've kind of denounced here for the season. Jets, Browns, Dolphins, Panthers, Saints, Giants, Titans. Do we have anybody else?
Dan Le Batard
That's a good list. You. You can be done with all. Well, I think.
Amin Elhassan
Oh, Bengals, too. We're done with the Bengals.
Dan Le Batard
Bengals, too. Yes. The.
Stugats
Billy.
Dan Le Batard
Do you have any other nominees here? Because the Raiders aren't going to. They're obviously not going to do anything. That's a long streak. That is a long streak of the Raiders not mattering at football like that. When's the last time they want to playoff? When the. When's the last time they played in a playoff game?
Mike Ryan
It was the. The game against Cincinnati where there was a phantom whistle that was allowed to stand on the road. Derek Carr, Joe Burrow. That was the year that Burrow made it to the Super Bowl.
Dan Le Batard
I believe the Raiders have gone 20 years without winning a playoff game. Correct. 20 years since playing Tampa and Jon Gruden and. And the Rich Gannon teams. Has it been. Has it been 20 years since the Raiders won a playoff?
Amin Elhassan
But they won the game.
Dan Le Batard
They won the Super Bowl.
Mike Ryan
No, they made it. John Gruden knew all their plays. They're both Raiders at the high seas.
Dan Le Batard
I can understand that you thought that because Gruden won, the Raiders won. It's a reasonable mistake to make. Honestly.
Mike Ryan
Dexter Jackson, I think. Right.
Dan Le Batard
He knew all the plays. That's correct.
Amin Elhassan
You wanted to throw away the Vikings. We're not throwing away.
Mike Ryan
Throwing them away.
Dan Le Batard
I think they're more than just this, though. I think that if we. Who had. Let me think for a second, because I think we can get rid of a couple more teams that at the bottom, like the Bucks, are going to win that Division. And nothing else is going to come from that division. Right. Like, we can be done with that division. We can send that division to the rest. Like, we can just end it and give them.
Amin Elhassan
So Falcons, too.
Dan Le Batard
No.
Mike Ryan
Yeah. No other Falcons.
Dan Le Batard
They lost to Carolina by 30. These are not serious people. Their offense kind of figured it out the next game. You can't make the Falcons, the Saints and Carolina serious people. You can't do it.
Mike Ryan
Let's just wait a week before.
Dan Le Batard
No, it's four straight year. Baker's proved it already. How much more would he like. You don't have that. Nobody in the division has that.
Mike Ryan
We park our cars in the same garage there.
Dan Le Batard
Dan, he could throw four interceptions in a game, though. He could.
Mike Ryan
I keep waiting for that game at Carolina.
Stugats
Can I come back to the word true bituary? Because I feel like that one has legs, too. We could. It's not a trilogy. It's something that, like, trilogy is like. It's the positive one.
Dan Le Batard
Right? The true BITU area is like, let's hear this again. Because this needs to be something. Me butchering this true bituary needs to be something with a true bituary or a trilogy. Excuse. Excuse me.
Mike Ryan
Tribit.
Stugats
True bituaries. An awesome word, dude. We. We have to find a place for it. It doesn't have to be in the same place as trilogy. But we can't just say, oh, that was Dan misspeaking. Well, that's gone forever.
Dan Le Batard
How many tribituaries can we write today? How many of them on how many.
Stugats
How much time you got?
Dan Le Batard
Because we. Well, we didn't even get to college football. We really didn't. We did some stuff on. Um. But we. College football was great this weekend. Like that. That Kansas State, Baylor game. At that Washington. That Washington. Maryland game. Like, Maryland's good.
Amin Elhassan
They're up 20 to nothing.
Dan Le Batard
Maryland's good. Can I do that? And so, Caroline, I write their tribituary after win. I'm here to tell you Maryland. Maryland proved with that loss that they're good. I believe they're good.
Mike Ryan
I love Malik Washington. As long as he stays there, that will be relevant.
Dan Le Batard
Let's do weekend ops and let's see if Lewis has to pay off this bet some point before the end of the show here. Because Tony and the MMA hangout, they had some consequences and some stakes that are going to make Lewis look like a. Because he agreed to be. To look like one of these fighters that goes. One of these Arab fighters, no mustache.
Amin Elhassan
All beard, the Dagestani look, which is. They love the beard. They got Great beards, but they're like, you know what? No mustache. We're gonna get this.
Dan Le Batard
And you know what we're gonna do? We're gonna ruin everything in the sport by just. No one can wrestle better than us because we've lived in all these.
Amin Elhassan
Correct. Except Poatan Dano hands a stone.
Mike Ryan
Everyone's got a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
Amin Elhassan
Exactly. Right?
Dan Le Batard
That's the only way that you can beat those wrestling.
Amin Elhassan
You hit him with a cinder block over the head. Dan. That' exactly what I was playing.
Mike Ryan
It is hard to regain a championship in that sport. It doesn't happen in that weight class. I think Jon Bones Jones is the only other fighter to do what Pereira did. He. He was incredible. Some people were upset with the stoppage. I don't think so. Dude.
Amin Elhassan
He was hit. He was hitting him with 12. 6 elbows to the back of the head. His head was just bouncing off the canvas funny enough. Barreira. If you watch him towards the end of the fight when he's starting to celebrate with Glover to share before they put the belt on, he actually fixes his toe because his toe got broke.
Dan Le Batard
In the first kick of the.
Amin Elhassan
Of the match.
Dan Le Batard
Those people are crazy.
Amin Elhassan
But again, he landed a cinder block on the side of the head.
Dan Le Batard
And then that's the only way to any of the Russian wrestlers from the mountains is you must have cinder blocks in your fists and cave in their skull early so they can't get you the ground the entire fight.
Amin Elhassan
So Louis is a big fan of Alex Pereira and we set up the. The bet where me and him because Ankalaev in the last fight that they had for the title and Goliath kind of beat Alex soundly. Right. He mixed up a lot of things with on the ground, with standing up. It was like a really weird fight for Alex. He said he went in at 40% of his health. He had some injuries during camp, so he came in not ready. Ankalaev beats him for the title. So now the rematch. Alex. Alex is a guy who's a fan favorite across the sport. Lewis really likes him. So I made a bet. If. If Pereira knocks out an. Will you do the Ankalaev? Look, look. And this is how it went on. Knocks him out. You got to do the.
Mike Ryan
The full beard, you know, with no.
Stugats
Mustache and bring it up on show, though.
Dan Le Batard
So.
Stugats
Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Deal. I'll do a deal.
Dan Le Batard
It's over.
Stugats
I have to do the echo on Monday.
Dan Le Batard
What the balls, man. That's gonna suck. I'm gonna do it. How long does he have to look like that?
Amin Elhassan
It's got to look like that for the at least the next week. At least. Maybe more.
Dan Le Batard
So let's go ahead and get that set up and do Amin's weekend observations here and see if we can get the payoff of Louis looking ridiculous in the other room. Who's doing that? You're gonna shave it.
Mike Ryan
You're gonna do it.
Dan Le Batard
Lewis is gonna get shaved by Tony. All right. Aggressive.
Mike Ryan
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Dan Le Batard
Hey, Mike.
Mike Ryan
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Amin Elhassan
That's right.
Mike Ryan
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Amin Elhassan
It's been a partner of this show since I.
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Amin Elhassan
I mean, to think that people were celebrating at my bar mitzvah with Miller Lite as they were a partner of this show is pretty incredible.
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You're talking about the moments that are made better by making those times, those special times. Miller Time. Jeremy, there's nothing like cracking open Miller Lite with your crew this football season. It's especially true whether it's a touchdown you didn't see coming or just arguing about fantasy lineups you already know you're gonna lose. Miller Lite has been the taste you can depend on for 50 years. Brewed for flavor with simple ingredients, rich toffee notes that iconic golden color. And here's a kicker, Jeremy.
Stugats
What's that?
Mike Ryan
It's just 96 calories.
Amin Elhassan
I still can't believe that. We say it every week. I can't believe it.
Mike Ryan
It's just 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces. It's the original light beer since 1975 and still hitting different five decades later. Miller Lite, great taste. 96 calories. Go to millerlight.com dan to find delivery option options near you. Or you can pick up some Miller, like, pretty much anywhere they sell beer. It's Miller time. Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Co. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.
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Mike Ryan
Don LeBatard in terms of Heat fans, you're the most irrational of us right now.
Dan Le Batard
What?
Mike Ryan
What's the pivot? Rational stugats.
Dan Le Batard
If I were making a cartoon thing that was meant to symbolize irrational, that's the voice I would give higher. Premise Premise. This is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats. So let's go ahead and do the the observations please. It is time for to share his game notes. No one in the media will tell you what happened better than my boy.
Stugats
I mean, Weekend observations is presented by Miller Lite. By the way, Lewis has to grow that beard out. Like you can't just be a week or two. The beard has to start growing out of his face while the mustache is shaved. That's the look.
Dan Le Batard
Then.
Stugats
We all thought it was a cautionary tale. We all thought everyone would take heed. But just like that. Make no mistake, premature celebrations are back.
Dan Le Batard
They disagree. Billy and Chris Cody disagree with you. They're saying that should be a touchdown.
Amin Elhassan
There's a still shot.
Stugats
The ball is still in his hand.
Amin Elhassan
And he's past the goal line.
Stugats
Who was it that said you got to run through the other end of the end zone?
Dan Le Batard
That's me.
Stugats
All right, there you go. Stick to your guns, man. Don't be wishy washy. Amari Mercado prematurely celebrating the touchdown by letting go of the ball would be the main headline from Cards Titans if it weren't for the int. Fumble touchdown that ended the game. That ever happened before.
Dan Le Batard
I'm telling you, they cannot talk about the way that the Arizona Cardinals lost that game yesterday. Enough. It is an epic collapse from the history books.
Stugats
Dan you might want to put them in the tributary column.
Dan Le Batard
That's not an overreaction to say any of that. You will never see a game lost that way the rest of your life. You will play. You will play and watch football the rest of your life and never see a game lost that way again.
Stugats
Does Cam Ward get credit for the touchdown and the interception?
Dan Le Batard
Yes.
Stugats
Some might say no.
Dan Le Batard
That's not a touchdown, actually, for Cam Ward, it's just a fumble recovery. The only Tyler Lockett gets the credit.
Mike Ryan
For that capability, though. Dan. He made things happen.
Stugats
He did make things happen. Some might say Baker Mayfield has got the Goods. Dude, those goods have a name? Emeka Abuka. That guy's a baller.
Dan Le Batard
Get the gronk.
Stugats
Besides Goods, you know what Baker has? Anyone. Michael Lake.
Mike Ryan
Sorry. We're scrambling here trying to get him a.
Stugats
Okay. He's got balls doing that thing from last week, remember?
Mike Ryan
Yeah, that's my bad. That's my bad.
Stugats
During the War of 1812, the British sacked Washington, D.C. burning down the White House in the Capitol Building. After the Battle of Bladenburg, 113 years later, we got our revenge by sending them the Browns jolly well in it. Yeah.
Dan Le Batard
V.J.
Stugats
Edgecombe of the Sixers.
Dan Le Batard
That was brave about you. That was brave of you to try that accent. It was brave.
Stugats
It's mocking. I'm mocking them. I think they sound stupid in it. Yeah. Everything's a question. Yeah, it was ask you. Yeah. Yes. Yes, it is. Stop asking me. Yeah. VJ Edgecomb of the Sixers. Top five athlete names that connote sexual tension. Oli.
Dan Le Batard
Really?
Stugats
Michael penix. Oli Wang. G.G. oli. Kofi Cockburn. Oli. Howie Long. You gotta do that one like a question, like Howie Long. I don't know how. He just is Oli Dick Butkus. There we go. Number five, Johnny Dick Shot. My favorite thing about him, his nickname is Ugly. His nickname was Ugly Dickshot. Number four, VJ Edgecombe. Every part of his name is innuendo. DJ Edge, come. Number three, Rusty Coons.
Dan Le Batard
Coons.
Stugats
Oh, whoa, whoa, fellas. Oh, don't say it again. I'm looking out for you here. Don't say that word. You can't say that on tv. Number two, Chubby Cox. And the number one name that connotes sexual innuendo. The Dick Harder.
Dan Le Batard
Let's check in with Tony in the other room. As he takes off, leave him with half the mustache for a while. Don't take the whole mustache. Just like, good. Leave him looking ridiculous for a while. There.
Stugats
Look at that.
Dan Le Batard
Love the sound Of a cutter. That was a. That was a cheap list by you. I mean Clipper.
Amin Elhassan
Whatever it was, it was pretty cheap.
Dan Le Batard
You're better than all of. All of what you did there.
Stugats
Like Dick Carter, Howie Long. How long?
Mike Ryan
That's a good one. That was a good one.
Amin Elhassan
I like that one, actually.
Dan Le Batard
But you had to say you have to ask him question.
Stugats
Yes, because at first people don't get it and then like, oh, that's not good. Johnny Dick shot's a good one too. I don't know how you guys act like you guys kind of yawned at Donnie. Johnny Dick shot ugly is what his friends called it. You mentioned that Devonte Adams Taco Bell ads enough Someone named Kool Aid McKinstry to ruined by weekend.
Dan Le Batard
What do you mean ruined your weekend? He had two interceptions.
Stugats
I know. He ruined it, man. I, you know, I wanted to do this whole thing. Jackson dart wins and then I think you got a dart in your neck. I'm gonna say that every week, every time they win. And then it's so koolaid. Good job, Chris. Thank you. Michael Irvin sideline antics at the Miami games. Annoying. Oh, don't you hate when a famous alum just pops up out of nowhere? Now all of a sudden, he's become the school's biggest celebrity fan and he makes it all about himself.
Dan Le Batard
It's a great media move. It's the Dion.
Stugats
I mean, did the guy even graduate? Nafisa Collier Open letter to WNBA commissioner Kathy Engelbert Won the Internet but will it win in a collective bargaining session? Wait to see.
Dan Le Batard
Really? You're so you're doing that so Nafisa call your embarrassed her publicly. Engelberg came out and just got right on one knee and none of it means anything because that's her job. Get a better deal for us.
Stugats
Yes. The the WNBA fan base seems to not be able to like, figure out the difference between saying things that go viral and actual collective bargaining. Collective bargaining is what's going to get them the deal that they need and the protections that they need. Not making the Internet like cheer for them. But wait to see.
Dan Le Batard
As I said, no, but you didn't know your wait to see was loaded with something you're saying Nafisa call you're easily won the Internet burn got her and Engelberg came out as the power and said properly chastened. I'm terrible and none of it matters. Wait until I start negotiating with these owners to make sure you guys don't get much of anything you want want.
Stugats
Wait till the lawyers Start negotiating the lawyers. Like Kathy's not doing the negotiation. The lawyers are doing that. Over the last few years. Speaking of lawyers, the law firm of Wachtel, Lipton, Rosen Katz has investigated several NBA teams, latest of whom are the Clippers. And yet people always call them Wachtel Lipton. How do Rosen and Katz feel? I know how Underappreciated. Same note too, bros. Really?
Dan Le Batard
You feel underappreciated?
Stugats
Well, you know, sometimes I went to the doctor and guess what he told me. No, guess what he told me.
Amin Elhassan
You got a fever?
Stugats
That girl, you better try to have fun no matter what you do. I stopped seeing that doctor. Quiet lettered media day response to the Pablo Tori investigation. Man, why y' all gotta bring up old Rico Dowdle ran roughshod all over the Dolphins. If you had asked someone yesterday before the games if the Dolphins can stop the run, the answer should have been, I doubt it'll happen.
Dan Le Batard
It's from the Howie Long collection of jokes.
Stugats
Howie Long, How? I don't know. Yes, baseball. Postseason started. I'm all the way locked in. Yankees beat the Red Sox. Yeah, it's a tragedy for me to see. Your season's over and I never will forget the Sam Adams you drank. Hey, Boston F you. You guys remember Milli Vanilli? I documentary on them.
Dan Le Batard
Was it good? It was tragic, was it not?
Stugats
It was. It is tragic. But the funny thing is that because I was singing the song and my kids would say, what's that? And so I told them, there's this group called Milli Vanilli. And it was a huge scandal. They won Grammys and a huge scandal. Turns out they were lip syncing the whole time. And they were like, oh, well, what's wrong with that? I'm like, well, no, you know, you're supposed to be the one singing. And so I pulled up the video and my kids looked at me and said, said, okay, first of all, that's the lip synced voice. They couldn't sing that. And then number two, they said, dad, you couldn't tell they were lip syncing. It really was bad. I was like, it was a different time. We were much more believing.
Dan Le Batard
It is hard to believe that Milli Vanilli was a giant scandal touring the world with hit records, that they were beautiful enough to perform, but they weren't clearly an obvious singing at all. It was one of the biggest musical scandals in the history of musical scandal.
Stugats
Baseball Divisional series started. Yankees got their ass took. I'm all the way out on baseball now. Galatasaray Fans set off fireworks outside of Liverpool's hotel for the UCL match. I believe we have a video for this. This is the fans right outside. It's 2am See that, folks? That's home field advantage. Don't tell me about. Oh, we jumped through a table and poured ketchup on ourselves. Don't tell me. Oh, the sun shines on this side of the stadium, on their side of the stadium. And it's hot over there. That's not home field advantage.
Dan Le Batard
No, we lit up this guy. We lit up the sky with explosives. Explosives? Wait.
Stugats
This is not celebrating a win. This is before the game. The night before the game. Right outside their hotel.
Dan Le Batard
It's to scare the opponent. Keep him up at night, dog.
Stugats
Where are we? We. Like, I, I hate it when like, oh, this is a tough place to play. No, it's not. That's Galatasarai. They're not even a power. It's just, just, just one random European club in Turkey. Get your stuff together, America McCorkle Jones. Just Wally Pip, Brock Purdy. You guys remember Wally Pip?
Dan Le Batard
Why would they remember Wally Pip? Wally Pip was a baseball player from 1929.
Stugats
It's not about why would they remember Wally Pip. It's about what happened to Wally Pip. What happened to Wally Pip?
Dan Le Batard
Lou gehrig. Howard. Joe DiMaggio happened to Wally Piper.
Stugats
Lou Gehrig. Lou Gehrig, Right.
Mike Ryan
One of those two. I confuse them all the time.
Dan Le Batard
1929. 1959.
Stugats
But. But it's such a funny thing to have. Is your Wikipedia like. It's like Wally Pip and Mendoza. Right, The Mendoza Line. I don't want a Wikipedia page devoted to that in my name. Speaking of bad Wikipedia pages, Mark Sanchez is building a hell of a one. Like, who would have thought you could erase Butt Fumble as the biggest scandal in his career?
Mike Ryan
Out of all the times we've done back alley teams, no one ever mentioned Mark Sanchez.
Stugats
Sanchez, He's a captain now, right? You gotta be Mike Ryan. Not ready to write all Texas, Mike. They lost to Florida. I'm writing them off like a boozy brunch on my tax returns.
Mike Ryan
Legal, by the way, they're an SEC team. They'll stick around.
Stugats
From the August 27th edition of Weekend Observations, and I quote, Shador Sanders named QB3 to start the season. Let me lay out how this will all play out. The Browns will suck. Blacko will get hurt early. Dylan Gabriel get a shot too soon and suck as a result. Shedeur will take over. They'll play well enough to give the city of Cleveland hope, but not well enough to stop the Browns from sucking. Everything is going according to plan. Georgia Tech took the week off this week, so you guys got to rest easy. But it's still every single week. To hell with Georgia. Speaking of hell, Art Briles those are the weekend observations.
Dan Le Batard
If Amin derails this Miami season, my if a means Georgia Tech yellowjackets rail this season.
Mike Ryan
I mean, they could. Miami's got a loss in them, I think.
Stugats
Right here. Right here. Greensboro, you going? Mike, you gonna be there?
Mike Ryan
It's Charlotte. Hey, Jeremy, old buddy, old pal.
Stugats
Hey, Mike.
Mike Ryan
I want to talk to you about Miller Lite. You and I have bonded over these last few weeks talking about our shared love of Miller Lite.
Amin Elhassan
That's right.
Mike Ryan
A great partner of our show for practically its entire existence.
Amin Elhassan
It's been a partner of this show since I was 10 years old old.
Mike Ryan
And it's been around for 50 years. And they've been a part of our show for almost 20. We're approaching incredible partner status with Miller Lite.
Amin Elhassan
I mean, to think that people were celebrating at my bar mitzvah with Miller Lite as they were a partner of this show is pretty incredible.
Mike Ryan
You're talking about the moments that are made better by making those times, those special times. Miller Time. Jeremy, there's nothing like cracking open Miller Lite with your crew this football season. It's especially true whether it's a touchdown you didn't see coming or just arguing about fantasy lineups you already know you're gonna lose. Miller Lite has been the taste you can depend on for 50 years. Brewed for flavor with simple ingredients, rich toffee notes that iconic golden color. And here's a kicker, Jeremy.
Stugats
What's that?
Mike Ryan
It's just 96 calories.
Amin Elhassan
I still can't believe that. We say it every week. I can't believe it.
Mike Ryan
It's just 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces. It's the original light beer since 1975 and still hit and different five decades later. Miller Lite, great taste. 96 calories. Go to millerlight.com dan to find delivery opt options near you. Or you can pick up some Miller Light pretty much anywhere they sell beer. It's Miller time. Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Co. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.
Date: October 6, 2025
Location: The Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami
Main Guests: Amin Elhassan
Theme: “Trubituary” — NFL teams, coaches, and players get declared (comically) dead for the season by the crew; plus, sports meltdowns, weekend observations, and the magic of bad names.
Hour 2 of the show is a classic Dead Show: Dan, Stugotz, Amin, and the crew vent about the latest NFL heartbreaks, gleefully declare entire franchises as “dead” with obituaries (or “trubituaries”), debate the meaning of embarrassing football moments, and spiral into tangents about sexual-innuendo athlete names and sports media hijinks. Amin Elhassan takes center stage with both his Weekend Observations and playful taunting of the panel’s takes and bets.
[01:01-02:20] Miami Dolphins’ collapse after a 17-point lead, described by Dan as “the season ended yesterday, and so too did Carolina’s.”
Hopeless Dolphins Fan Routine
[05:04-07:26] Dan explains why deep injuries expose roster weaknesses when teams start paying their star quarterbacks top dollar.
Baltimore’s past resilience versus this season’s implosion, capped by:
[17:54, 18:23, 21:28]
[19:09-21:16]
[22:04-23:16]
MMA wager: Lewis loses a bet and will have to adopt the “Dagestani beard” look (full beard, no mustache) after a fight.
Sweaty, self-lacerating Dolphins shock, high-wire NFL panic, and a parade of witty punchlines—no one is safe from the Dead List. The panel’s gallows humor, sports nerdery, and inside jokes (from “Jackson Dart” to “trubituary” to Joey Dickshot) are vintage Le Batard, with Amin orchestrating the zaniness.
Dan Le Batard: “Can we be done with both those seasons too? … Guys, I feel like today could be an official day where we knock out like a third of the league.”
Billy: “Trubituary is an awesome word, dude. We have to find a place for it.”
This hour delivers the full Le Batard Show experience: venting, group therapy, invention of new sports lexicon (“Trubituary”), and rampant unseriousness about pain in sports. If you missed the episode, just know the following: the Dolphins are (comically, officially) dead, half the NFL is getting a “funeral,” and the only way forward is to laugh through the embarrassment.
End of Hour 2: The Trubituary