The Big Suey: The Great Soup Cook-Off of 2025

Summary

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Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: The Big Suey: The Great Soup Cook-Off of 2025
Date: September 10, 2025

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Episode Overview

Live from the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami, Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, and the full crew dive into a uniquely chaotic episode centered around the inaugural “Great Soup Cook-Off of 2025.” With their trademark irreverence, the team mixes live kitchen antics with heated sports takes, pop-culture banter, and the familiar blend of friendly feuds and running gags. Between multi-room soup sabotage and impassioned football debates, this episode epitomizes their blend of South Florida flavor and unfiltered commentary.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Great Soup Cook-Off Chaos

• Competition Format Fiasco

  • Mike Ryan and Greg Cody compete head-to-head in a soup-making contest, sparking accusations of unfairness as Mike starts cooking before Greg.
  • Billy raises questions about the integrity of the format:

    "One competitor may have an advantage... One person seems to be cooking while the other one seems to be here, which would appear to the untrained eye as a disadvantage." (03:11 – Billy)

  • Arguments ensue over kitchen access, with concerns about only one kitchen being available.
  • Both competitors resort to heckling:

    Greg: "My confidence is supreme. Like Diana Ross, my confidence is supreme. So I'm not worried about it." (04:48)

• Live Play-by-Play & Antics

  • Jeremy Tache provides field reporting from the kitchen, noting Mike’s growing “palate” frustration and technical struggles with a microwave and coconut milk.
  • Mike insists his process is to “challenge the palate, make you think differently about soup, and also get the hell out of my—get out of the way.” (07:23)
  • Tensions escalate as Greg watches, unable to cook, while Mike panics over “heat” and messed-up peppers.
  • Billy and Dan riff on cooking show clichés and two-day-old soup:

    Dan: “Just talk normal. Yeah. Taste. Called taste. I let my soup sit for two days. Yo, two-day-old food is gross…Get that food in 30 minutes. I have to wait two days. It’s insane.” (09:25)

• Competitive Trash Talk

  • Allegations of using pre-made soup and shortcuts with canned ingredients and microwave use fly back and forth.
  • Greg and Mike heckle each other about coconut milk, curdling, and kitchen dominance:

    Dan: “Curdled coconut milk. He’s using the micro[microwave]. Is this your first time using coconut milk? It’s always curdled.” (24:00)

2. Football and Head Injury Discourse

• Dolphins & Tua's Longevity

  • Stugotz introduces a somber note on Tua Tagovailoa’s career, the impact of repeated head injuries, and the public’s role in medical speculation.
  • The crew discusses how public and journalist perspectives on concussions have evolved, referencing Troy Aikman and ESPN’s conflict-of-interest in concussion coverage.
  • Notable quote:

    Stugotz: “We enjoy it more. And nobody wants to talk about concussions…In fact, I’ve told you this story…John Skipper realized he was the conflict of interest between journalism and business…And America has chosen business.” (16:53)

• Medical Ethics and Armchair Diagnoses

  • Dan and Stugotz critique “diagnosing” athletes from afar without seeing their charts, pointing out the limits of both medical and fan expertise.

    Dan: “It’s also irresponsible of a doctor to be diagnosing someone that they haven’t seen…Just saying. I think this is what’s happening with no…like viewing of their charts or actually seeing a person.” (19:02)

  • The running joke about consulting wrestler-turned-concussion expert Chris Nowinski returns—“He’s hoping for concussion, watches sports, hoping for head injuries” (06:07).

3. The Dolphins’ Coaching & Future

• Franchise Reckoning
  • The panel debates the trajectory of the Dolphins, considering Tua’s potential decline and the possibility of moving on from both coach and quarterback.
  • Dan offers a tongue-in-cheek solution:

    Dan: “I think the Dolphins should probably hire Brian…Floyd Flores as their next head coach. He seems like the perfect fit.” (21:42)

  • Discussion of how rapid coaching and QB changes after just one bad game would become an unprecedented NFL move.

4. The Ravens’ Repeated Heartbreaks

• Choking or Fluke?
  • Extended segment on the Baltimore Ravens’ uncanny tendency to blow games in which they have a 90%+ win probability.
  • Stugotz frames the dilemma:

    “If it’s happening…these games are so important…So when I tell you one team has this thing, does the audience believe that’s a flaw that is simply structural to Baltimore…At the end of games, at the end of a playoff game…they now know what’s going to happen to them…” (32:38)

  • The crew weighs in on how much of this trend is attributable to fluke, psychology, or quarterback/coach performance, especially in contrast to teams like the Chiefs and the Bills.
  • Dan notes the “Peyton Manning effect”—everyone can be doubted “until he finally does [win].”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the Soup Cook-Off Format:

  • Dan: “Have you ever watched a cooking show, a baking show? Do they say, ‘you know what, Contestant number two, you go sit over here in the corner for a second while we give someone else a head start’?…How are you alive?” (03:33)
  • Greg Cody: “Billy ain’t wrong. Mike has an appreciable head start here. But you know what? My confidence is supreme. Like Diana Ross…” (04:51)
  • Mike Ryan (channeling Chef): “In my process is to challenge the palate, make you think differently about soup…” (07:23)

• On Concussions and Media Coverage

  • Stugotz: “Nobody wants to talk about concussions…John Skipper realized he was the conflict of interest between journalism and business…And America has chosen business.” (16:53)
  • Dan: "It’s also irresponsible of a doctor to be diagnosing someone that they haven’t seen. Just saying…” (19:02)

• On the Ravens’ Identity Crisis

  • Stugotz: “This thing that plagues the Ravens is not something that I’ve seen a great team ever get…You’d say they’re mentally frail at the end of the games because there’s nothing to be learned from. This has happened to them nine times now.” (29:41)
  • Dan: “Lamar Jackson’s awesome…the team is obviously really talented…But when Lamar doesn’t make big plays at the end of games or if there’s questionable play call…that could wind up costing you the game.” (31:52)

• Classic In-Show Riffing

  • Dan (mocking cooking language): "Such douchey lingo... It’s the worst. Like, I don’t. How do we break him of the habit of being sideline broadcaster guy who uses 70 words where he could use seven?" (09:11)
  • Stugotz: “We have to break him of these habits. He gets into broadcaster man guy and just forgets that Billy’s doing FIU games.” (12:48)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [03:11] – First accusations of unfair soup competition
• [04:48] – Greg Cody’s supreme Diana Ross-style confidence
• [07:23] – Mike Ryan’s “challenge the palate” chef persona and kitchen chaos
• [09:25] – Dan and Billy roast cooking show tropes and two-day-old soup
• [16:53] – Stugotz on the Dolphins, Tua, and America choosing business over health
• [21:42] – Dan’s Brian Flores punchline proposal for Dolphins’ future
• [29:41] – Ravens hardship deep dive and fan psychology
• [31:52] – Analysis of Ravens’ late-game woes
• [36:48] – Greg Cody finally gets access to the kitchen, anticipating the soup payoff

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Tone & Energy

The episode is peak Le Batard Show—fast-paced, irreverent, self-referential, and rich with both spontaneous humor and legitimate sports analysis. Scenes easily shift from a live, near-chaotic cooking contest to philosophical musings on sports legacies, injury ethics, and media responsibility. The show’s voices maintain their distinct personalities: Dan, as the incredulous ringmaster; Stugotz, as the confidently contrarian fun-instigator; and the crew, as a chorus of wisecracks, grievances, and genuinely insightful banter.

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Final Impression:
This episode encapsulates the Dan Le Batard Show at its chaotic best—part sporting event, part social experiment, spiked with real debates and plenty of meta-commentary. Whether you’re in it for kitchen hijinks, sports hot takes, or just the riotous Miami energy, the Great Soup Cook-Off of 2025 is a can’t-miss example of the show’s signature style.

Transcript

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Stugotz]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Stugotz]

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[Dan Le Batard]

The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan LeBatard podcast. I'm sorry. I'm not going to apologize for that.

[Stugotz]

In fact, the the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys.

[Dan Le Batard]

I've done it. And now here's the Marching man to.

[Stugotz]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Stugotz]

Mike Ryan is in position. Greg Cody is indignant that he's never won one of these. Greg Cody is also very confident about being able to beat Mike Ryan in the soup off Mike Ryan. And I should say this more often than I do, the Ulster has been a really spectacular sponsor and partner on everything we do here. And Mike Ryan is presently in one of their rooms which has a kitchen. This place is always sold out with people coming from all over the world because they want to live, see the views off the bay. And right now, Jeremy Tache is in the kitchen with Mike. But, Billy, why are you making faces?

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, I mean, we're having a competition, and it seems as though one competitor may have an advantage, at least in terms of time, because I see the other competitors still sitting here. So I don't know if this the fix is in or what's going on here, but one person seems to be cooking while the other one seems to be here, which would appear to the untrained eye as a disadvantage to one.

[Stugotz]

Well, Billy indignant on behalf of Greg Cody.

[Dan Le Batard]

How is it a disadvantage for Greg? I mean, have you. Have you ever watched a cooking show, a baking show? Do they say, you know what, Contestant number two, you go sit over here in the corner for a second while we give someone else a head start. Have you watched a race? Have you heard of the Olympics? You know what? Someone got a head start in the Olympics. No, I've never watched cooking shows. I don't care about cooking shows. Do you eat? How do you tell you? Sustenance? Ever heard of it? Common sense would tell me that Greg is sitting here and he gets to watch what Mike is doing or not doing, and that's an advantage for Greg. Let me ask you, like, you like hockey when the Panthers are good, right? Does that have to do with cooking? I'm just. You have a simple mind. So I'm trying to explain in terms you understand, you like hockey when the Panthers are good. Have you ever seen a hockey game where the Panthers are still on the bench and they give the puck to the other team and they say, you go and you play around with it a little bit first. Okay. You know, and then you say, you know what? This is actually a great advantage for the Panthers because they get to see what the Devils are doing. You know, hockey has a clock, right? Yeah. So does cook. In the soup competition, we're doing you cook, it has a stove, has a clock. You put something in, say 400 degrees, 25 minutes. How are you alive? Let me know where the clock is. Billy ain't wrong. Thank you, Greg. Billy ain't wrong. Mike. Mike has an appreciable head start here. But you know what? My confidence is supreme. Like Diana Ross, my confidence is supreme. So I'm not worried about it. But Billy ain't wrong.

[Stugotz]

Okay? But what Billy has done here is now, as if I don't haven't lost enough manpower, he sent you out of the room when I still have to do. As Zazzle pointed out to all involved, hey, this is live. We do the. Not a whole lot of people do this kind of stuff or try this stuff live.

[Dan Le Batard]

Right?

[Stugotz]

Because there are dangers in doing it live. But go ahead, Greg. I don't need you anymore. I did want to have a Dolphin discussion with you that I think is the last remaining one that is interesting that takes this all one notch further.

[Dan Le Batard]

Go ahead.

[Stugotz]

Well, Billy has been making fun of me, okay, Because. And he's been making fun of me for now years about this because the two. A thing with the head stuff is so unprecedented. Troy Aikman just did the documentary here where he says he doesn't remember playing in the NFC championship game because we were so primitive at one time that he had four concussions in 14 months and he just doesn't even remember playing in the game. The thing that this game has that none of the other games have on top of laughing stock. And you thought the Patriots look back. Yeah, they did. But the Dolphins are the one that everyone's laughing at. This is what is being said. I became a doctor on television. Like I'm interviewing. The thing that Billy's been making fun of me about is that we immediately got out of bed in the middle of the night and I'm locked live interviewing the.

[Dan Le Batard]

The doctor, some wrestler. That's what you were talking. Chris Nowinski. Yeah. Oh, my God. This guy sits around, waits to pounce on head injuries. Honestly hoping for head injuries. So someone go talk to him. That's what it seems, if we're honest. He's hoping for concussion, watches sports, hoping for head injuries. Exactly right. He does. As soon as someone goes down, he goes. And he starts that thing with the little fingers that he goes like this. Zaz is right. He doesn't this thing. Or he does the thing with his pinkies, like doing this like Gargamel. Another one for me.

[Stugotz]

Okay. Totally unfair to him. I like him. But Billy's been Making fun of me.

[Dan Le Batard]

You would.

[Stugotz]

Well, I got to talk to him now and bring him on, so why.

[Dan Le Batard]

Do you have to.

[Stugotz]

Because I pro. I was supposed to make. It's a long story. I owe him one.

[Dan Le Batard]

Because.

[Stugotz]

Because.

[Dan Le Batard]

Because I. Wrestlemania tickets or something.

[Stugotz]

Look, the head injury stuff.

[Dan Le Batard]

Can Mike not open a microwave?

[Stugotz]

The head injury stuff.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, he's setting a timer. What's that? A clock in a kitchen?

[Stugotz]

Is that cheating with a microwave?

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, my God. He's taking a shortcut. Go to Jeremy here, using a microwave. Oh, my God, look at that. I see. I see a Campbell's can right there. This isn't even something he made.

[Stugotz]

Get caught up. Go ahead. Go in the other room and get caught up. So it's not fair. Yes. Go, Go do the soup thing.

[Dan Le Batard]

Jeremy, talk to us. What's going on here with Mike in this microwave? We are on site at the Great Soup cook off of 2025. Mike Ryan here getting everything situated. Mike Ryan, can you walk us a little bit through your process here? In my process is to challenge the palate, make you think differently about soup, and also get the hell out of my. Get out of the way. Get out. So there's a little bit of frustration by the man here. He's looking to be the superstar in the way as well. This is not. Yes, Chef.

[Stugotz]

Yes, sir. Too many cooks in the kitchen. The camera angles are. Jeremy. Yeah. Like everyone, You're. You're surrounded by people who are having trouble getting the right camera angles. All right, he's at work.

[Dan Le Batard]

I have no control over the camera angles. Jeremy, I just heard Mike say, I think Greg was right about the peppers, so maybe there's something going on there.

[Stugotz]

Jeremy, go ahead and just give me whatever update I need on. He's doing this live now. When is this all going to be ready? When. How soon can we go to people tasting soup? Are we going to be able to do that soon?

[Dan Le Batard]

I would assume we'll be able to get to it soon, but I'll ask Mike Ryan here. Mike, I don't want to be too many cooks in the kitchen here, but I will ask you about what time are we going to be able to taste here during this cook off? Typically, I like to have my soup settle for about two days. That's what. That's why, like, I get so many compliments on it, because the flavors blend together.

[Stugotz]

So I'm guessing sometime by Friday.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right. On Friday, during the local hour, we will be able to taste Mike Ryan's soup. Greg Cody, I imagine, as he heads up Here won't have as much attention to detail, but I know that he will be competing with a fierce effort. We have the challenger. We have the initial competitor. This is the great soup. Cook off. All right, we can fade him down. Stop talking palette.

[Stugotz]

I just. You can't give him a microphone.

[Dan Le Batard]

Such douchey lingo.

[Stugotz]

It's the worst. Like, I don't. How do we break him of the habit of being sideline broadcaster guy who uses 70 words where he could use seven? Like, how do we do it? How do we do it? Help me do it.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't think we can. I think me and Zaz are more complaining about just cooking lingo in general. It's just. It's so much. I got. I like the flavor on the palate, the top of my tongue. Just talk normal. Yeah. Taste. Called taste. I let my soup sit for two days. Yo, two day old food is gross cooking. Let me taste. Exactly right. Uber Eats. Ever heard of it? Get that food in 30 minutes. I have to wait two days. It's insane.

[Stugotz]

Chris, is your dad going to lose a fourth one of these on his birthday? Like, we might have to rig this thing because the coconut milk is. Is more delicious than anything, and that's like, cheating. There's no way your dad's soup is going to be good as coconut milk soup.

[Dan Le Batard]

We should discuss how we're going to, like, judge this. Now, obviously, you'll have a vote. Dan, Zaz, you'll have a vote. Judge. That goes now. The shipping container as a whole could have the third vote. Or we could break it down. Billy, me, and Jeremy, and that's five of us. So do you guys think it should be five people voting or the shipping container is one and then you guys. So it's best at three. How do you think we should do this? The problem is, is we know whose soup is what because they told us what they were cooking. So we know we already have prejudice. As would say, kind of new with the popcorn and the turkey. Like, we've kind of always known all this. No turkey was blind. We just knew they're both cooking turkey. This one, one of them is doing something with coconut. We did it blind.

[Stugotz]

Regardless, you guys can argue about this.

[Dan Le Batard]

Sense that you didn't know whose was what.

[Stugotz]

Understood. But again, we're down some manpower because you did this, Billy, you sent.

[Dan Le Batard]

I didn't say let's cook today. You think I was in the, you know, on a digital whatever, computer making that soup. You're talking about unfair advantages. And now all of a sudden there's two of us in here, and there should have been three. That's how you take a little ownership. Do I do the scheduling around these parts? I'm just saying. How about you take a little ownership? Okay, fine. It's my fault that I think that we should follow the rules and people should saying things and you don't care about the repercussions. Here we are. How so? How so? I just explained how so? How so? There were three of us here. Now there's two of us. Did I say, Greg, go cook today? No. You started complaining about. About a competition clock. I'm a man of. I don't know if you've ever heard of this word integrity. And when you have a competition, people should have a level footing, okay? So take responsibility. How about you make the rules when your name's on the show and it's not on the show yet? Okay, bud?

[Stugotz]

Jeremy's yelling. Look. Who's Jeremy mad at, Chris? Why? Why am I looking at a preview in which Jeremy that's as pissed as I've ever seen him? What's great happen?

[Dan Le Batard]

We've got an unbelievable energy in here. We've got a ridiculous energy. Mike is yelling.

[Stugotz]

Oh, God.

[Dan Le Batard]

He's frustrated. He doesn't have the type of heat he's looking for. Greg, Cody, what are your thoughts on the panic that you're seeing from the other man in the kitchen? I mean, he's not disguising it. Does he have to be here? He is panicked. He says the heat's not out enough. He's gonna burn her on high. But he's panicking, man. Well, he's certainly feeling the heat up here. Dan. Mike, Ryan, what do you say to the accusations that you have an unfair advantage from beginning? It's either super hot or super cold. I don't understand what's going on with this st. Super hot soup. Er. Cold. Dan, back to you.

[Stugotz]

For the love of God, does Mike.

[Dan Le Batard]

Have a pack of cigs rolled up on his sleeve?

[Stugotz]

He cannot help. He cannot help throw it back to me in a pukey broadcaster joke way. Like what, guys, how do we break him of Billy?

[Dan Le Batard]

He needs to do, like, morning tv. Honestly, Like, Jeremy would be like, good as, like a morning gma, not even news. Cause I think he'd cry because his news would be too sad for him to report. Like, he needs to do, like, the local, like Miami, whatever would be.

[Stugotz]

We have to break him of these habits. He gets into broadcaster man guy and just forgets that Billy's doing FIU games.

[Dan Le Batard]

Paws up, oh, big week. Shula bowl week. Dan, we can get to that later. I want to get Pitbull was tweeting about it. I mean when people's tweeting about it, you know, there's a shift in energy. That 35 nothing. The loss reinvigorated this fan base. I'll tell you what. God square 34 nothing.

[Stugotz]

We will go back to the elser kitchen in a second. But the point that I was trying.

[Dan Le Batard]

Why is Greg in the same kitchen as Mike? That does not seem like the way cooking competitions go. Because there's only one stove in there like he should get to. I was trying to argue on his behalf and get him some more time. He should get to cooking. He seems to be wasting time. Imagine that. It's like almost like we planned it out where Mike would go first, then we would send my dad up there and then the bowl soups would be ready and then we would try and then guess what happened. Guess why? What happened? What happened? He's right behind you. Billy happened. Guess how competitions work. They cook at the same time. One goes to one kitchen, the other goes to another kitchen. I don't understand. You guys don't understand cooking competitions. I really don't understand the confusion.

[Stugotz]

This is the part. Billy's right about this, but he could have helped in the production to make Mike less panicked in this situation and help our time be better than it was.

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Stugotz]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Stugotz]

That's obvious.

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Stugotz]

No, I am your career. No stugats.

[Dan Le Batard]

You have messed with McDavid and now you're messing with me.

[Stugotz]

And I'm more dangerous, pal.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugach.

[Stugotz]

Can I just get back to real quick? Quick, because I'm going to end up owing Chris Nowitzki an apology again. Because I will tell you why. Because the things that he's howling on, head injuries that are super primitive. And we've been primitive about covering, and now the sport is bigger than it's ever been. We enjoy it more. And nobody wants to talk about concussions. Of course nobody wants to talk about concussions. In fact, I've told you this story before, and I'm not going to moralize about this too much, but the conflict of interest between John Skipper, the top of espn, concussion reporting, npr, at the very end of what was happening there at the beginning of us learning about concussions, John Skipper realized he was the conflict of interest between journalism and business. And he's like, yep, ESPN will no longer be doing the concussion reporting stuff that we're doing. I've got to back out of this. I'm the conflict and I've got to choose business. And America has chosen business. Everywhere America has chosen business. However, I'm not going to Simply forget that. Two times now we've watched two in a game and wondered if he should stop playing. And so the conversation I wanted to have with you guys. Not the best time during a cook off though, when Dolphins podcaster here locally Chris Hoffman said, quote, to had the worst gain I've seen him have in quite a while. And it makes me wonder if the accumulation of injuries and concussions have sped him toward decline. We've generally feared it would be sudden. One more bad hit and it's over. But it could also be more gradual than that. Everything that's happening with the Dolphins, no other team in the sport where everyone gets concussions has that as the centerpiece. And what's fair and what's not fair when we're all doctors and I'm in the middle of the night calling the wrestler because I don't understand what I'm covering and he knows more about head injuries than I do.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yep. Totally not fair. And with zero medical evidence from my vantage point, that right there is exactly what I think is going on with tua. Again, no empirical data from me sitting on my couch. All right, but that right there.

[Stugotz]

But are we all doctors now?

[Dan Le Batard]

Like, it's also irresponsible of a doctor to be diagnosing someone that they haven't seen. Just saying. I think this is what's happening with no, like viewing of their charts or actually seeing a person.

[Stugotz]

Jeremy, do you have any thoughts here? I feel like you've been properly chastened.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, break me of the broadcaster habits. Break you the habit of bringing up concussions once a week? I mean, Jesus, why are you sad? Why am I sad? Yeah. I thought you did great. Thank you.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, it's. He. I don't think he likes when I critique his broadcast during. When he goes into my job.

[Dan Le Batard]

Isn't that why you sent me up there?

[Stugotz]

Yeah, yeah. Yes.

[Dan Le Batard]

Do it more efficiently. Yes, it's a good pun. We have four hours of show. Yeah. We gotta fill.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, but we'll do it. It's fine.

[Dan Le Batard]

So you call, you call this Chris guy, like at night, just. You guys just talk about middle of the night. In the middle of the night. You remember you wrestling was Harvard Chris or Chris Harvard? Yeah. He was like a douchey character. Yeah. Who knew?

[Stugotz]

It's kind of perfect to be our concussion expert. Right. And. And I, and I need. We're going to need to call him here at some point, have a conversation with him that, that will. That can be more fun than the ones we've been having where I Ruined the fun cushions. Fun cushions. Yes, fun cushions. But you guys are in agreement, right, when I say there haven't been this. Not in this town, this set of chemicals around something where you're like, my God, the whole thing's going to. They can go up in flames on. On Sunday if. If Somehow they're down 17 to 3 in the first. In the first half.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think you're one sets last year where he was fired at 06 and there was that first game where he switched at halftime. I forget if it was feely to feel or feel. I think it was feeler to feel.

[Stugotz]

He switched, but everyone saw it and.

[Dan Le Batard]

I didn't as right. I think that's a great example. All right. But the difference between that one and this one is not only we firing the coach, we're also getting rid of the quarterback. Like the quarterback, by the way, who signed for whatever it was $180 million. We've never done that combination before after one game. I mean. And by the way, a win this week against the Patriots doesn't solve any of those problems either. That's why I don't think that, like, the loss is what's going to be, oh, my God, they need to blow up everything. Beating the Patriots doesn't make the team any better than they were after week one, regardless, because you know what happens? What are we talking? Five days later, they're in Buffalo. Yeah, exactly. We all know how that's going to go. I have a way to potentially solve all of this for the future of the Dolphins if you guys would like. But look, you need a coach that has stronger leadership skills. You need a coach that's a little more hard nosed, maybe defensive oriented because obviously the offensive thing isn't working. Wants to move on from to maybe a guy who actually has coaching experience before could use a second opportunity. I think the Dolphins should probably hire Brian. Floyd Flores is their next head coach. He seems like the perfect fit.

[Stugotz]

Am I wrong? No, just the joke would have been funnier as just they should hire Brian Flores next as opposed to all the preamble.

[Dan Le Batard]

He painted it though, so you weren't sure who. Who it could be because you're like, oh, man, that does sound like a great qualification who exists out there? And boom, he nailed the dismount with Brian Flores. You know, the thing about McDaniel that I think is like, interesting or telling or whatever is that at the beginning everyone was like, in love with Brian or with. With Mike McDaniel, whereas, like, he's different. Oh, look at this kooky guy. Wow, he's so Zane. Look at his shoes with tags on them. And he dresses different, and he's so fun, and the players must love to play for him. And then last year is when his schemes kind of were getting exposed. Where I was like, oh, people have figured out what he's doing, and there hasn't been any evolution. And then this off season is really when you started hearing from a lot of the former players, where the former players were all kind of speaking out against him.

[Stugotz]

Billy, I'm sorry. Mike's yelling at Greg. I'm sorry to interrupt you. It's just they're yelling at each other. Greg. Mike, what happened? Mike, tell me what happened. Why are you yelling at Greg? Unplugged the feed.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't know. He said you even cook. I don't have a burner. He's dominating the stove. How's it kitchen? He's using coconut milk by the look of it. Looks a little bit curdled. I'm just saying colonel you. Maybe it's not colonel you. Jeremy could have helped in that situation. There seemed to be some confusion up there. I don't think they can hear what we're saying, so they don't know that we're going to them. I think Greg could, which was the problem. Ah, yeah. Well, yeah.

[Stugotz]

All right, let me try that again, and I'll go straight to Greg. Yes, it seems like you would want Mike to produce this segment. Not Greg, but good judgment on his birthday. Let's give him all the gifts. Greg, Cody, give us a report, please, on what's happening right now. How soon will he be done? How soon will you start?

[Dan Le Batard]

I hope he's done soon, because right now I'm just watching him. I'm not able to cook. Would you stop talking? Mike is. Micah's in mid panic. He's still getting over miscutting the red bell pepper. Now he's confronted.

[Stugotz]

No one likes strips, Greg.

[Dan Le Batard]

No one likes strips. Curdled coconut milk. He's using the micro microwave. Is that. Is this your first time using coconut milk? It's always curdled. Is this your first time? Is it your first time? It's your first time. I hope I get the stove soon. Right now my worthy adversary is dominating you. Pre made your soup. You're not an artist. You're not an artist. Some work and I can't do it.

[Stugotz]

No, he pre made his soup.

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Stugotz]

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[Stugotz]

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[Stugotz]

I want to ask you guys about a different thing before we go back up there because give me a second on this. I want to get your actual football thoughts on this. Okay? The Baltimore Ravens, we have some difficulty, right, in our analysis of who's good. Why are they good? The whole thing around two is basically we need to know who's responsible for his good. It's a weird thing we do. He's only polarizing because of that, because I'm not sure if he's a system quarterback or what he is. The Baltimore Ravens over the last 25 years have been one of the best organizations in all of sports. If not for the Patriots, the Baltimore Ravens would have one of the real epic stories in that sport right now because it's a very well run franchise from back when Ozzie Newsom was picking players for them. Well, 25 years is a crazy run. When you look at what the Dolphins have done comparatively over the last 25 years. And everyone listening to this would say with certainty, good football team for five years, I know that's a good football team. And then they have this affliction, more than any team in the sport, when They've got a 90% win probability at the end of the games, they blow. Some games you don't see any good teams blow or bad teams blow. They've blown them more than anyone else. I don't think that that's something that they are. But I'd have a hard time making an argument against it because it's happened nine times to them and it's not happened six times to anyone else. Now it's happened nine times to them because they're good enough to get that far ahead in some of these games. But the next step I want to take with you guys on what the Ravens are, we all know that's a championship. Good team. Right. And the only thing people question are some mental frailty about Lamar Jackson that I don't think is fair, but he is a lesser performer in the playoffs. And this thing that has to eat up anyone named Harbaugh, that this team can't be trusted at the end of games and the thing I wanted to talk to you guys about, because I'm assuming now that we all know that this is a thing about them, you don't think Derrick Henry's weak, right? Like you saw at the end of that game what happened, where on 4th and 2, Josh Allen is just running toward a sideline and it bounces here, there, and it's in the end zone. Then Derek Henry fumbles. That never happens. What's that? None of you listening to this think that Derrick Henry is a choker who's weak at the end of games. Right?

[Dan Le Batard]

Right.

[Stugotz]

So this thing that plagues the Ravens is not something that I've seen a great team ever get. Like, the Bills might lose games and be a laughingstock because they get blown out in the biggest games. But none of you listening to this think that the Ravens are actually weak. You're not allowed to think that, but they've got an affliction here that whether it's real or part of defining them or not, is something unlike anyone else in the sport. And you'd be calling any other team that wasn't this good a choker. You'd say they're mentally frail at the end of the games because there's nothing to be learned from. This has happened to them nine times now. And do you know how these guys hurt their bodies all week when not just. They collided all day? They care about this thing deeply. And at the end, they knew they were better and they farted it away. Like the way that week feels. There's nothing to be learned here. This team knows what that feels like. It's all weak. It's terrible. Nothing to be learned from. We let up on the gas.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, nothing to be learned from. Derrick Henry fumbled when. He never fumbles. And if he doesn't do that, which is a very fluky play, they're going to win that game. It's like if anyone wanted to have Baltimore number one in their power ranking still after that game, ahead of Buffalo, Like, I'm like, all right, yeah, I don't really have a big problem with that. Like, Buffalo won because of a fluke. That doesn't mean that Buffalo is better than Baltimore. So if you want. No, but it's.

[Stugotz]

No, but it's happened nine times now, though, where.

[Dan Le Batard]

Right, right, Right where it's happened.

[Stugotz]

Where it's. Two are doing it one of the times in the fourth quarter to start some of this stuff. This team has a thing. Okay, we analyze the holy hell out of this sport. Okay. We really do. And the margins are Ridiculous. It's a, it's a foot here is was that guy's El and it's just nonsense. Okay. This team though is good. It's good the way the Eagles are good and you all know it's good. There's no question about is it good. The only two flaws you can find are do I want to question the quarterback at playoff time? Because that's what I like to do. And what we now have, which is a sample size that's asinine. Zaz, give me all the great teams you've known throughout the history of the sport that get up to these giant leads and then have nine times a 90% win probability and the stain of no. And that team also blows games at the end in a way that's super weird and doubles up how it happens to even, even the bad teams in the league.

[Dan Le Batard]

Lamar Jackson's awesome. The team is obviously really talented. I think over the course of a 60 minute game when you have that combination of a great quarterback and a really talented team, you're going to win a lot of games. When the game is tight and you're also playing another good team and you get to late in the game, I think that's when like the little things get a little bit exacerbated. Like those little things being there's no room, there's no margin for error the way that there is margin fare over the course of a 60 minute game. And so when Lamar doesn't make big plays at the end of games or if there's questionable play, call them as far as running the clock when it comes to hardball. That stuff that we're not noticing throughout the course of a game because you have the better team. Normally if we're late in the game, it is exacerbated and it could wind up costing you the game.

[Stugotz]

Does anyone listening to this believe that the Ravens are mentally frail at the end of games? Like what? What's the accusation you'd make to a team that this keeps happening to if you think it's a part of their DNA? Like it's happened enough that I'm ass that most of the people listening to this say this is a problem about the Ravens that they have uniquely that is structural correct. Like if it's happening. These games are so important, Zaz. Every last one of them. The difference between home field advantage and no home field advantage is found in a couple of these games that the Ravens have lost. So when they go to Buffalo, Mark Andrews can't catch the ball on the goal Line in the cold in Buffalo because they had to be on the road. Like. Like the margins are asinine. So when I tell you one team has this thing, does the audience believe that that's a flaw that is simply structural to Baltimore, that not that that fluke is going to happen to them? And at the end of games, at the end of a playoff game, road or home, they now know what's going to happen to them because it happens to them more than it happens to anybody.

[Dan Le Batard]

Right? And the thing that's happening to them at the end of these games, look, it happens all the time in the middle of the game, but it doesn't have the consequence that it does at the end of the game when then the clock runs out and you're trailing. But for whatever reason, Lamar Jackson. And again, I lump Harbaugh in that category too, because we're talking about play calling and clock management there as well, which was not good at the end of the game on Sunday nights. I think that then we notice it a whole lot more because then the clock runs out and they've lost. But this, I mean, it's the same thing with the Bills, right? The Bills, you just always expected to happen with the Chiefs and you expect, oh, well, something's going to happen at the end. They're going to get close and then there's going to be, you know, an interception or there's going to be a pass that hits a receiver's hand. Like both teams have that until they don't have it happen one time and then they don't have it anymore. That was Peyton Manning, right? That was Manning's whole career. He can't win until he finally does. But the difference that I find with the way Buffalo loses these playoff games and the way Baltimore loses these playoff games, Buffalo's not losing these playoff games. And then we look at Josh Allen are like, wow, he wasn't any good. Buffalo also, like, you think they don't have enough and Josh Allen's lifting all of those. Josh Allen is great. Lamar does that too. In his defense sense, though he has Derek Henry now. Yeah, but Josh Allen is great in these games. But, okay, the other quarterback, he outplayed him. They made the plays again. When Lamar Jackson and the Ravens lose in the playoffs, more often than not, we're looking at Lamar Jackson like, wow, he wasn't very good. The thing with Lamar, too, is Lamar has it happen in the regular season to dumb teams sometimes, too, where it's not like, oh, it's just that he can't get over the Chiefs, it's like, oh, well, that happened against like the raiders in week 13 or whatever. So it just. Both teams can solve this problem very easily by just having it not happen in the playoffs. Just one time. Yeah, yeah, just one time.

[Stugotz]

You guys say that though. And I just spent 17 games watching the Chiefs win one score game after one score game and be like, well, that's an ability they have. Right. If they're doing it 17 straight.

[Dan Le Batard]

I mean, but it wasn't because, like some of them involves field goals going off the, you know, crossbar. But also in the, in these close one score games that you're talking about here, you have to play mistake free and they have a quarterback and a coach who are apparently really good at being mistake free late in these tight games.

[Stugotz]

To me, it's, it's really interesting though. If I pulled the audience right now, if I just asked the audience of football fans, what are they saying? Like this sticks to the Ravens now?

[Dan Le Batard]

I think they think Lamar Jackson chokes. Until it doesn't though. Like, it just takes one for it to not stick.

[Stugotz]

It takes one what though?

[Dan Le Batard]

Like if overcome it one time in the playoffs.

[Stugotz]

Okay, but you got. Okay, but what about during the regular season? So you guys are doing playoffs. Okay, so, but if yesterday, like if, if the kick goes wide and the Ravens still win that game, but they choked at the, they choked it at the end. We're probably not having the conversation.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, we'd all be applauding the game the Ravens had. Yeah. And then it was. That always happens to the Bills. But there's a perfect spot. But also, you would agree that Lamar Jackson's at the place in his career now where nothing good can come of the regular season. We have to wait until the playoffs and that's when something good can happen. For Lamar Jackson. The regular season doesn't matter. Meaningless for Lamar Jackson at this point is. Nothing positive can come out of the regular season.

[Stugotz]

Oh, Greg Cody is in the kitchen now and he is finally. He is. He is slicing up with a gourmet's touch. Look at him go. Chris Cody. Can I have. I've got Chuck Todd here in the preview and I've got. This is the peril of live television and I've got Greg Cody and Mike Ryan in a kitchen somewhere with peppers. Can I go to them now? Can I go to hear that sizzling pan of cooking and get my payoff at the end of segment? Because I've got a media company and our audio works.

[Dan Le Batard]

Let's get the payoff at the start of the next segment.

[Stugotz]

Right. So I can't do it.

[Dan Le Batard]

I bet Chuck thinks I'm going to keep it.

[Stugotz]

Excellent. Excellent. So I can't do it because our audio doesn't work. Okay, good.

[Dan Le Batard]

Hey, listeners, it's Mike. Hey, Billy G. Hey. Hey, Billy, as a proud member of.

[Stugotz]

Your inner circle, remember when we were hanging out last weekend?

[Dan Le Batard]

Ugh. Yeah. Fishtail palms.

[Stugotz]

Fishtail palms.

[Dan Le Batard]

Great memories we made. Kids playing in the pool and in our hands, a nice ice cold pan of Miller Light. It was so hot out. I know, but it was so cold in my hand.

[Stugotz]

We took that first sip.

[Dan Le Batard]

It was crisp. It was refreshing. Oh, man. There is nothing like cracking open a.

[Stugotz]

Miller Light with your crew and your inner circle.

[Dan Le Batard]

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