Postgame Show: 11 Bananas

Summary

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Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: Postgame Show: 11 Bananas

Date: October 6, 2025
Location: Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami
Hosts: Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, and the shipping container

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Episode Overview

This lively Postgame Show episode sees Dan, Stugotz, and the crew riffing on the absurdity and challenges of modern sports, zooming in on NFL quarterback sagas, the quirks of coaching “genius”, and the endlessly chaotic landscape of college football. The “11 Bananas” theme becomes a running joke, highlighting the lines between performance, superstition, and the downright bizarre.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Mac Jones: 11 Bananas and a Dead Body

• The story gets off to a wild start as the crew discusses Mac Jones’s eventful game day:
  • Discovered a dead body (00:37)
  • Ate 11 bananas during the game—“That seems like too much potassium.” (00:49, Speaker C)
  • This anecdote launches the group into fits of disbelief over what professional athletes put their bodies through.

Notable Quote:

“He saw a dead body and alerted the cops. ... Which is the second strangest thing that happened to him that day because he ate 11 bananas during the game.” — [00:37, Speaker C]

2. Coaching Tiers: What Makes an ‘Elite’ NFL Coach?

• Debate over which coaches actually elevate quarterbacks:
  • Kyle Shanahan gets praised as a coach who “turns water into wine” with random QBs (01:11, Speaker C).
  • Dan notes, “It’s irrefutable that he is just a tier above... what he can do with injured teams, what he can do with cast-off quarterbacks.” (01:35, Speaker C)
  • The group builds a list of elite coaches: Shanahan, McVay, O’Connell, Vrabel, Andy Reid, with some debate around Sean Payton and Liam Coen.
  • Andy Reid’s magic with backup and journeyman QBs is recounted, dropping names like Alex Smith, Donovan McNabb, Michael Vick, and even Kevin Kolb (02:59, Speaker C).

Notable Quotes:

“I mean, it’s hard for us to know what good coaching is. ... But to be able to win a game with Mac Jones as quarterback when everyone in the league wrote him off — those guys are just a notch above.” — [01:57, Speaker C]
“Andy Reid has always been that guy. Just so happens to have to go now. But he did with Alex Smith, Donovan McNabb, Kai Detmer, Coy Detmer, giving Michael Vick like that.” — [02:59, Speaker C]

3. College Football: The Realities of Parity and Perception

• The segment shifts toward the weekend’s college football, lampooning SEC hype and the shifting landscape with NIL and playoff expansion:
  • Dan jokes, “They’re the ACC with a better publicist and bigger NIL budgets.” (04:01, Speaker C)
  • They poke fun at how context gets ignored in media (“...ESPN won’t allow for us to apply context to what’s going on.” — 04:17, Speaker C).
  • A favorite quote from a local radio broadcast: “What a juke by Gunner. There are some Kentucky underwear at the eight yard line.” (03:11, Speaker D) — a moment that has the room in stitches.

Notable Quote:

“They’re the ACC with a better publicist and bigger NIL budgets, but every week you can expect now that parody is there and certain programs aren’t given carte blanche to cheat. Yeah, I said it.” — [04:01, Speaker C]

4. James Franklin, Penn State, and the Media Cycle

• The rise-and-fall narrative faces Penn State and coach James Franklin.
• High preseason expectations quickly disappear with early losses:
  • “Season of grand expectations, the grandest of James Franklin’s life, gets swept right out to sea. Four games in, five games in.” — [05:00, Speaker D]

5. Miami Hype: Resentment and Rivalries

• They touch on how a successful Miami season instantly breeds national resentment.
  • “Miami’s going to end up being really obnoxious to people. The Michael Irvin stuff, like the good.” — [05:22, Speaker D]
  • The hosts joke that the rules are always changed or the narrative spun when Miami gets good, referencing NIL and taxes (05:27)
  • A running gag about making up “trubituary” and “trilogy excuses” if Miami loses (05:39–05:44)

Notable Quotes:

“That’s how you know we’re back. ... When they try to change the rules on us, when they blame NIL, when they do what they do with the Florida Panthers, which is blame state tax.” — [05:27, Speaker C]

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Memorable Moments & Quotes

• Banana count madness:

  “11, 11 bananas. That seems like too much potassium.” — [00:49, Speaker C]

• SEC/ACC comparison:

  “They’re the ACC with a better publicist and bigger NIL budgets.” — [04:01, Speaker C]

• Quirky radio call:

  “What a juke by Gunner. There are some Kentucky underwear at the eight yard line.” — [03:11, Speaker D]

• Media narrative cycle:

  “A real college football giant never loses to the 0 and 4 team... That’s something that never happens in the sport.” — [04:44, Speaker D]

• Miami rebirth:

  “That’s how you know we’re back.” — [05:27, Speaker C]

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Important Timestamps

• 00:31–01:11: Mac Jones’s wild day: dead body and 11 bananas
• 01:11–02:59: Debate over the best NFL coaches at elevating QBs
• 03:11–04:01: College football’s quirks and a hilarious local radio call
• 04:01–04:24: SEC as “ACC with a better publicist”; media narratives
• 04:24–05:08: James Franklin/Penn State's collapse
• 05:10–05:44: Miami’s football hype and national resentment

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Summary

This episode is classic Postgame Show: irreverent, winding, heavy on both sports insight and running jokes. The hosts jump from odd NFL tales and “coaching alchemy” to the inconsistencies of college football, all in a tone that’s skeptical, quick-witted, and endlessly self-referential. The episode is a must-listen for fans wanting to see the lines between sports, media, and absurdity blur—fittingly, a show that makes eating 11 bananas and discussing college playoff politics part of the same football Sunday conversation.

Transcript

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[B]

Is this Mac Jones Diana thing working post game?

[C]

That's crazy. Yeah.

[B]

I don't even know what it is, what you guys are talking about there.

[C]

He saw a dead body. Yeah, he saw a dead body and alerted the cops. Yeah. Let me get the. Which is the second strangest thing that happened to him that day because he ate 11 bananas during the game. Yeah, 11, 11 bananas. That seems like too much potassium.

[D]

Do you guys think when you watch Mac Jones play in that game and see specifically the way the 49ers are all hurt and George Kittle and their wide receivers play styles that hurt the body. Mack Jones was ravaged physically in the last game and still overcame it. It was impressive to watch. He was hit pretty hard and he.

[C]

Was hurting this game and he's still feeling it. Every time I see him in that uniform, I think back to Shanahan wanted him over Trey Lance and then got talked into Trey Lance. Like he, he, he always liked Mack Jones and I mean, Kyle Shanahan. I know he's got to do it. He, he's had leads in Super Bowls. I, I, he as an offensive coordinator and as a head coach. I know he's got to win the big one for some people, but it's irrefutable that he is just like a tier above what he can do with injured teams, what he can do with cast off quarterbacks. It's unbelievable.

[B]

You don't put O' Connell and McVay. I feel like it's those three. Those are the three, the results.

[C]

I mean, it's hard for us to know what good coaching is. Vrabel's also like a hell of an underdog. I'm so happy to have that back in my life. But to be able to win a game with Mac Jones as quarterback when everyone in the league wrote him off course. And Wentz, same deal. BAKER Mayfield when McVay did it before, like those guys are just a notch above. It seems like there's like three or four guys in the NFL that can really, truly put any QB in.

[B]

Who's the fourth? Because I said three. Who else are we putting in there? I thought McDaniel was like pacing towards there, but not anymore.

[C]

Andy Reid. I'd probably throw Andy Reid in there. He did it with Alex Smith.

[B]

I'll allow it.

[C]

Thank you.

[D]

You guys have that as a skill, which would be a pretty great skill for any coach to have. It would be more valuable than all the other skills. Can you turn Sean Payton?

[C]

Yeah, he's good too. Pain. So it's five.

[B]

Five. But that's it. No one else is getting in.

[C]

I kind of like Liam Cohen if he can turn around with Trevor Lawrence. Kind of like it.

[D]

This is our analysis of these things in this sport. There's a coach who could come over here and just make quarterbacks magical.

[C]

But Andy Reid has always been that guy. Just so happens to have to go now. But he did with Alex Smith, Don McNabb, Kai Detmer, Coy Detmer. Giving Michael Vick like that. Incredible. Kevin Cobb. Jeff Garcia.

[D]

Kevin Cobb. I enjoyed again for the third straight Saturday driving around and listening to college football local broadcasts during the. During the afternoon and today's or Saturday's was this. These two sentences put together. You'll recognize the game, I assume from what it is that he described. The announcer yelled, what a juke by Gunner. There are some Kentucky underwear at the eight yard line. So the visual magic of radio made it so that what I conjured in Athens was, you know, just some Kentucky underwear at the eight yard line. But I believe he was taking some creative liberties there. The sec we can. We've seen enough to know that that's not special anymore.

[C]

They're the ACC with a better publicist and bigger nil budgets. But every week you can expect now that parody is there and certain programs aren't given carte blanche to cheat. Yeah, I said it. You're going to see a lot more of this. But the narrative is going to remain the same. You're going to have three lost teams still making the playoff because ESPN won't allow for us to apply context to what's going on.

[D]

Oh, but the.

[C]

The.

[D]

The Flames have climbed high enough on James Franklin in Penn State that these two last. These last two are crushers because he's supposed to have a talented team this year. This is supposed to be the team that was the most talented of them. And we go from or and over time and there's a lot of parody to this league to. Oh no. A real college football giant never loses to the 0 and 4 team. Whether they fired their coach, whether it's UCLA or not. That's something that never happens. In the sport. And so now Penn State gets just immediately swept out to sea. Season of grand expectations, the grandest of of James Franklin's life gets swept right out to sea. Four games in, five games in.

[C]

But they'll be back in the top 10 if they beat Ohio State.

[B]

That's true.

[C]

I'm not wrong. That's how this goes. If Miami loses though, they can't come back from 23.

[D]

Miami's going to end up being really obnoxious to people. The Michael Irvin stuff, like the good.

[C]

That's how you know we're back. Yeah. Although when they try to change the rules on us, when they blame nil, when they do what they do with the Florida Panthers, which is blame state tax, that's, that's how you know if.

[B]

Miami loses one game, they're gonna.

[D]

With a trubituary or a trilogy. Excuse. Excuse me.

[C]

Trubisky.