Hour 1: The Broken Braces (feat. Matthew Berry)

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Speaker 8 This is the Dan Labatar Show with the Stu Gats Podcast.

Speaker 6 Oh, wow.

Speaker 9 What an NFL weekend. Huge games everywhere.

Speaker 7 Four big ones?

Speaker 6 Four huge ones?

Speaker 5 four huge ones. Every game is big, but there's four bigger ones.

Speaker 9 I love a big game. Locked into Chargers Jags.

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Speaker 5 implications.

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Speaker 10 Don't sleep on small games, though, because a lot of room there.

Speaker 1 Not as many people. Concessions stand.
Lines are smaller.

Speaker 10 Don't sleep on the little games.

Speaker 11 The little games are literally when I do sleep.

Speaker 6 Four o'clock window?

Speaker 13 It's just this week this week.

Speaker 11 When there are some three four o'clock games and Arizona's involved and I'm not terribly interested, that is a good sleeping place.

Speaker 11 There are some decent napping windows on the NFL. Tony is never napping on the weekends.
He's perpetually hustling. He's got two things going on this weekend because he is an unrelenting hustler.

Speaker 11 It's not just what we were telling you about on Sunday where he is, I believe the verb he used was spearheading our coverage of the big

Speaker 11 Chiefs Broncos game, but it's also what you're doing

Speaker 11 Saturday at Dead Flamingo, right?

Speaker 14 Saturday night, Dano, probably the biggest UFC card of the entire year. UFC loves to do this.
It loves to back end the year, close it out with a bang at MSG.

Speaker 5 Bookend, I think you man.

Speaker 9 Dano.

Speaker 14 No, they close it out with a bang. It's not a bookend thing.
It's a close it out with a bang thing. The back end is fine.
Back end is fine because the problem is they don't really bookend.

Speaker 14 Bookend means it's good in the beginning.

Speaker 5 But But I'm good at hand.

Speaker 4 The way you put your hands up, you meant bookend.

Speaker 6 No, but I just part.

Speaker 5 Why is everybody an asshole today?

Speaker 6 Yeah, thank you. Today?

Speaker 5 Do we have another Jack shit here?

Speaker 12 Damn.

Speaker 6 All right. Come on.

Speaker 14 Dano, UFC 322. We caught Islam Makashev moving up a weight division to fight Jack Della Madalena.
A massive super fight between the two.

Speaker 6 Then,

Speaker 14 in the co-main event, another massive super fight between Valentina Shevchenko and Zhang Wei Li. Okay, she's moving up a division to go fight.

Speaker 5 Is she the one that lifted Shaq?

Speaker 16 She lifted Shaq and Francis Nganu basically over her shoulder.

Speaker 14 She's like five foot two.

Speaker 4 We're gonna pull that up.

Speaker 14 She's very strong. So these two super fights are happening, plus a ton of other great fights.

Speaker 5 Oh, here we go.

Speaker 14 Zhang Wei Li with Shaq. As you can see, she's like literally five foot three.

Speaker 12 Cool haircut.

Speaker 6 On Shaq? Now let's judge here.

Speaker 1 I saw this before. Let's judge if this is a real lift.

Speaker 5 She's also wearing big shoes.

Speaker 1 She gets some help here.

Speaker 1 I'm saying she gets some help here.

Speaker 12 She's lifting Shaq off the ground.

Speaker 10 And now it's Francis and Ghano. Francis went as easy.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I mean, he just, yeah, that's like.

Speaker 14 But that's a guy that weighs like 275 pounds of pure muscle.

Speaker 11 Shaq is pushing 360.

Speaker 5 Shaq gave a little.

Speaker 14 Okay, could you do what she did to Shaq?

Speaker 11 Shaq, I don't believe that classifies as her lifting up Shaq.

Speaker 5 I believe that's

Speaker 6 kind of like holding the toe. Shaq the copy.
Everybody is a little bit.

Speaker 1 If Shaq got in the air, at least give her something.

Speaker 6 She's small. He's a good one.
Come on.

Speaker 14 Thank you. So, UFC 322 at the garden.
We'll be live at Dead Flamingo. Party starts at 10 o'clock.
Great fights on the prelims. Great fights on the main card.
We've got a bunch of stuff happening.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 14 We'll be bookending the Dead Flamingo night with opening up. And then also.

Speaker 6 Good job.

Speaker 9 Good job. Thank you.

Speaker 5 You didn't say cock.

Speaker 6 You came close.

Speaker 6 There was a lot of that was said.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I was like, oh, here it comes.

Speaker 9 He's going to say cock, but he didn't.

Speaker 14 And then on Sunday, spearheading the cheap seats. We've got Kansas City, Denver.
Probably the biggest matchup of the year.

Speaker 1 Definitely in the four o'clock window for the shipping container.

Speaker 11 Jeremy, I believe that Dominique Foxworth was correct when he said that that outfit does indeed require a chain. There's a lot of neck there.
There's a bit of chest.

Speaker 11 There are some promises being made by the top part of that shirt.

Speaker 11 But I also believe if you were wearing a chain, that we might make more fun of you if you were wearing a chain that's too thick. So I guess, yeah, maybe a maybe does kind kind of help.

Speaker 10 Mike just put one on him.

Speaker 11 Well, it's just, it's a lot of neck.

Speaker 11 That shirt has a lot of neck in it. There's no disputing that.

Speaker 6 But the chain looks good, too. The chain is an accent that helps, yeah.
You're welcome.

Speaker 11 It's a really good look.

Speaker 14 I look great. I've got a guy for Jeremy, by the way.
I know he wants to use that $1,000 to roll it over and get a chain. I got a guy.
I got that one on

Speaker 6 Cuban Link. Jonah Hill told me.

Speaker 6 If you want to go, I got a guy.

Speaker 4 White gold. I need white gold.
You need white gold?

Speaker 14 Oh, true. Touche.

Speaker 11 My bad. Main has some breaking information here that he was very eager to share with everyone because he believes that we do not know something about Babe Ruth that he knows.

Speaker 11 He was, I guess, thinking about Babe Ruth because Shohei Otani is, again, one MVP. He is the modern-day Babe Ruth.
He's somebody who has only existed one other time in the history of baseball.

Speaker 16 You know he's Dominican, right?

Speaker 11 Yeah, I did know that. That one.

Speaker 11 Dan, you know he's Dominican. Well, I thought he was black.
I thought Babe Ruth was

Speaker 6 a Dominican.

Speaker 11 What information do you have on Babe Ruth? That see, Mike Ryan was passing around at dinner last night, new information that he had not heard, and he was assuming that no one else had heard it.

Speaker 11 You don't have necessarily breaking news on Babe Ruth. It's not breaking news, but it's just like I found.

Speaker 11 Look, I was reading up on Shohei winning MVP. It's his fourth and fifth years.
He's a unanimous winner. He's the only multiple-time unanimous winner of MVP in any major sports history.

Speaker 11 And I was like, huh. That's odd.
And then I looked up, and then it's, you know, Aaron Judge wins AL MVP, third time in four years, making him the winningest MVP in Yankees history.

Speaker 6 And I was like, huh.

Speaker 11 And so I'm like, guys, do you mean to tell me Babe Ruth was a unanimous MVP like 700 times in a row? And I looked it up. And Babe Ruth only has one MVP.

Speaker 9 Wow, that's fascinating.

Speaker 11 Do you guys know why he has one MVP?

Speaker 12 Carl Malone had a great season.

Speaker 9 Yeah, it does.

Speaker 6 Babe Ruth fatigue.

Speaker 11 No, they actually had a rule that back in the day, lifetime, you could win MVP once. You win it once, you're off the ballot forever.

Speaker 11 So the year he hit 60 home runs and was crazy, whatever, he wasn't even on the ballot. That's good information.
Put it on the poll. Did you know that Babe Ruth won only one MVP?

Speaker 9 I have a tidbit for you. Okay, when I say Hitler, what do you think?

Speaker 9 micro penis yep that's right yeah micro penis he had a micro penis that's yeah that came out yesterday yeah yeah now so like dan was like i knew i knew something about his testicle but i was like yeah no he had one nut no apparently he didn't have one nut no he had two but the other one didn't descend

Speaker 11 okay that means you go hold on so it's inside him yeah

Speaker 6 Wow, doesn't that mean you're not? That's ever happened?

Speaker 9 You've never gotten up from the couch and been like, whoa, no.

Speaker 6 It happens somewhere. Mine hang low, man.

Speaker 4 Long ball.

Speaker 11 You said it came out yesterday. I don't believe that the news came out yesterday.

Speaker 6 Oh, Jeremy knows about it. I feel like I've heard that before about that Hitler's micropenis.

Speaker 1 Yeah, dude, this is a great day for me.

Speaker 4 First, I'm this hot.

Speaker 1 Second, I find out Hitler has a micropenis. I mean, what a day for the lucky Jay.

Speaker 11 Can I say, does that shock you?

Speaker 6 No, no, it tricks.

Speaker 11 It's a par for the course, man. Like, this is exactly the behavior of someone who's mad at the world because his dick is too small.
That's right. I don't think that news broke yesterday.

Speaker 11 I believe that you discovered it yesterday, and you're so narcissistic that you believe that if you discover something, it's breaking news. That's not how breaking news works.

Speaker 9 Well, I mean, there is a truth to re-aggregation, like that NPR spoken word tiny desk thing is going re-viral when I thought we did this two years ago. But

Speaker 9 you felt pretty strongly that you knew that he had a micropenis, but then when pressed on it, you're like, okay, maybe I knew about the testicle thing. But even that was a wrong thing.

Speaker 6 I thought he had two nuts.

Speaker 5 One was inside.

Speaker 6 One was inside of him. One was inside.

Speaker 1 Per CBS News yesterday. Adolf Hitler most likely suffered from a rare genetic condition called Kalman syndrome.
Researchers and documentary makers.

Speaker 6 There's reasonable doubt there, Michael. Your honor, reasonable doubt.

Speaker 12 M-A-N-N.

Speaker 1 Researchers and documentary makers said Thursday following DNA testing of the Nazi dictator's blood.

Speaker 5 Wait, we still have his blood?

Speaker 6 The taste of whiteness.

Speaker 11 Also, Kalman.

Speaker 11 You know, it's bad enough to have a micropenis. It's even worse when they name it after you.

Speaker 9 Well, it's just a German doctor diagnosing himself.

Speaker 6 Like, oh, come on.

Speaker 11 You got to be kidding me. Can you guys get the video, please, here, of this? I can't call this a streaker, right? Like,

Speaker 11 what is the proper name for somebody now who's running on a court or on a field, but isn't necessarily taking off their clothes? In order to be a streaker, you have to take off your clothes, right?

Speaker 11 It can't just be you're running on the court.

Speaker 11 Where's this basketball court?

Speaker 11 This is Clipper's Nuggets the other day. We actually had the video yesterday to roll, but it was the broadcast.
We couldn't show it because we get dinged. So we finally got the native angle.

Speaker 11 This is someone with a cell phone recording it. And this is a kid.
He runs across the court in the middle of Nuggets Clippers. Jokic is on the floor, like important players on the floor.

Speaker 11 And then he jukes the shit out of one of these security guards, which I can't get enough of. Watching this old man try to get him, and then

Speaker 11 he gives him the slip. I said, that guy's going to be in the trading room right next to Bradley Beal after the game.
Too soon. So this is court side, and this is during play.

Speaker 11 They're bringing the ball up, and he's just on the court, and he's showed his buddy.

Speaker 11 He had very good seats, and he's juking security as they took a long time to get out there.

Speaker 11 And so, what is your point that he's near Jokic and that it's during play and that it's just the illusion of security? It's not really security.

Speaker 11 It's a really weird thing. Like, obviously, it's funny, and then you realize he's like promoting some meme coin, and now you're an asshole, looking for attention, whatever.

Speaker 11 But there's a part of me that's like, wow, this whole thing works under like this implicit code that nobody actually crazy is going to show up, right?

Speaker 11 Nobody actually crazy is going to have enough money to sit courtside because...

Speaker 11 Without that, you know, when I always think about this sort of implicit social code, Dan, when I'm driving, I'd be on the freeway and going like 70 miles an hour. Everyone's going 70.

Speaker 11 And I'm like, wow, this whole thing is like kind of relying that I'm not just going to go crazy and say, you know what, right turn in the middle of traffic and just take out as many people as I want.

Speaker 11 It's so crazy that we, a lot of this stuff is just, we just trust that human beings are not going to just lose their shit at the wrong time.

Speaker 11 And so something like this, that dude could have ran up to any one of those people and got done God knows what, right? Yeah, I get it. They're metal detectors.
Guess what?

Speaker 11 Now they make like box cutters that are made out of plastic.

Speaker 11 But it's not a societal code. It's consequences.
It's that

Speaker 11 what that person did for their little,

Speaker 11 you know, because his friends immediately started taping him because it's just something he was going to do to put on Instagram. The consequences are that he's going to feel it.

Speaker 11 It's not going to be worth it in any way.

Speaker 11 The amount of time he's going to have to spend in jail, the amount of time he's going to, the amount of money he's going to have to spend because of what kind of crime that is.

Speaker 11 It's not social construct. It's not the person driving on the highway isn't just going to turn right at 70 miles an hour.

Speaker 11 It's the person's not willing to suffer the consequences of dying if they turn right at 70 miles an hour. But that's my point, Dan, is it's still kind of just assuming.

Speaker 6 Let's just assume everyone is normal.

Speaker 11 Remember Monica Shellis? You guys remember this?

Speaker 6 Monica Shellis tennis player.

Speaker 11 Uh-huh. Shellis.
It's not Sellis.

Speaker 6 Well, you know.

Speaker 5 Which one of you two is in the tennis chat?

Speaker 6 Exactly.

Speaker 11 So, so she was

Speaker 11 one of the best, like either one or two tennis players in the world. Her big opponent, you know, rival was Steffi Groff.

Speaker 11 And there was a guy who was a big Steffi Groff fan, and he got upset, and he's like,

Speaker 11 So he literally jumps out in the middle of a match and he stabs her in the middle of a match. I think that Monica Sellis's career was never the same after that, correct? Like,

Speaker 11 she was stabbed by somebody who was just a crazy fan. And it wasn't.

Speaker 12 It was a Shellis, by the way, Dan. Way to hold your ground.

Speaker 9 I'm proud of you.

Speaker 11 It's Monica Sellis. She was a great tennis player.
I've never heard anybody but you pronounce it. Because it's Shellis.
Yes, man, because you don't know about the Balkans.

Speaker 6 Are you xenophobic?

Speaker 11 I believe you guys are.

Speaker 9 I mean, when you Google it, it's Sellus.

Speaker 4 I've always heard Sellas.

Speaker 11 Regardless, I don't believe her career was ever the same after that, emotionally, not physically, right? I say stabbing, you might think it's physically.

Speaker 6 Anytime someone gets up in the grand sands, you're

Speaker 11 remember that moment.

Speaker 11 So after she got stabbed, she lost in the excuse me, she won the australian open and lost i believe in the u.s open finals twice so she i mean her career is still obviously very good but clearly what kind of trust issues does that create for an athlete for anyone actually for that matter but the point is if that guy was a rational sane human being who was just a fan of steffi graf You could argue, yeah, I'd love to get the competition out the way, but man,

Speaker 11 the repercussions,

Speaker 11 the consequences, I can't do that. But he wasn't.
He was just batshit crazy. And so he did it and didn't care about the consequences.

Speaker 11 And so when you think about people at an NBA game, particularly courtside people, they're rich. Man, you don't know.

Speaker 11 You just don't know how far insanity goes that a guy could be like, I'm going to liquidate my life savings and I'm going to buy tickets and then I'm going to go stab Nikola Jokic because I think Luka Doncic is the best player in the world.

Speaker 6 Guys, everybody's wrong.

Speaker 9 It's sellish.

Speaker 11 Selish, my fault. I knew there was a shape.
So you corrected me, but you put the sh in the wrong place.

Speaker 11 You know what? Sorry, I'm dyslexic, okay? Boom, it's out in the open. I was trying to hide it.
I worked my entire career keeping it a secret, but Dan Lebetard pressured me to reveal my disability.

Speaker 11 And you know what? I stand strong for everyone who suffers from dyslexia. You're brave.
Yes, thank you.

Speaker 9 No, thank you.

Speaker 11 I'm merely a vessel.

Speaker 9 Vessel.

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Speaker 11 Segwaying awkwardly to Lane Kiffin shitposting his way back into the game at the top of the NFL head coaching chain.

Speaker 11 We were talking earlier this week about what an unusual ascent, not linear, it has been for Lane Kiffin to develop the confidence of personality to be unrelentingly himself as a rehab project.

Speaker 11 One of the first to come through Nick Sabin's rehab center in Alabama, where he goes and grabs the tarnished professional coach who's an offensive mind.

Speaker 11 Lane Kiffin is now in play for just about any job he wants.

Speaker 11 And it's not just the unusual path, path, as Mike mentioned, Tennessee burning mattresses, tarmac firing at USC, Raiders firing that was very public and messy and was the last time the Raiders were any kind of relevant.

Speaker 11 Lame Kiffen is actually shitposting his way to the top of I'm going to be a different kind of coach. That's something you can get away with when there are no expectations in Mississippi.

Speaker 11 It's something you get away with less if you're going to be the Giants coach, for example.

Speaker 9 Well, yeah, I mean, you mentioned shit posting. He just retweeted that DJ Lagway got benched when he is the betting favorite to be the next Florida Gators head coach.
They have the Gators this week.

Speaker 9 By the way, if you monitor Gators' message boards, they feel like this Lane Kiffen thing is done. But Lane Kiffen would be wise to sit and wait.

Speaker 9 There's a pretty decent NFL job that just opened up with his college quarterback there. And I happen to know that the NFL

Speaker 6 does. He happens to know.

Speaker 11 Come, everyone.

Speaker 1 Come and listen.

Speaker 11 He happens to know.

Speaker 19 Well informed.

Speaker 9 I happen to know that the NFL does have some teams in it that would be interested in speaking with Lane Kiffen. One has already reached out.
It's the one that has his college quarterback.

Speaker 9 Other teams are kind of in flux, trying to figure out what they're going to do, and they would be interested in Lane Kiffin if that head coaching coaching vacancy did open up.

Speaker 6 But Ling Kiffen right now is a world by the balls.

Speaker 9 The Florida job would probably be the one that he takes if he leaves Ole Miss because LSU is a freaking mess right now.

Speaker 9 You don't sue your coach to avoid paying him the entirety of the contract when you're trying to be the biggest job available.

Speaker 11 Let me ask you guys something here because I had for a long time when it came to the Bobby Bowdens of the world, I was making the argument for a really long time that if I had a job like that, I would just keep that job and not be tempted by the pros.

Speaker 11 I would not be Urban Meyer. I would not be Jimmy Johnson.
I would like the security. This is a lifetime ago because I wouldn't want that job now with the way that NIL is.

Speaker 11 This is the security that you could have at Mississippi if you wanted it, and you're Lane Kiffman, could be a forever security where you just say to Mississippi, give me the longest contract you've got.

Speaker 11 I don't want to do any of those other things. I'll just stay here and have very few expectations ever.

Speaker 11 The moment he lands in New York, game one, the expectations change for everything Lane Kiffin has been.

Speaker 11 He's in a perfect spot where he could beat Oklahoma and he could beat Texas and he can beat Florida from a program that no one is expecting anything from if not for Lane Kiffin.

Speaker 11 So I ask you, do competitive people think the way that I'm thinking? Where it's like, give me a cushy spot where I can just shit post. I can talk my shit about everybody.

Speaker 11 And if I'm the sixth ranked team in the country, everyone in my fan base is going to be thrilled about the job I've done. There aren't any actual expectations here.

Speaker 11 So I think there's two things at play. Number one is just the general ego of like, I feel like I'm just as good as these people that you think are the best at the job.
I want the ability.

Speaker 11 I want the opportunity to prove that I can do it. Especially if you're Lane Kiffin, you flamed out the last time you had a pro job.
It's like, no, I gotta show these people.

Speaker 11 I wasn't a bum or whatever. But then the other part of it, Dan, this is a little different.
College coaches, I know this is true in basketball and I know it's true in football.

Speaker 11 I don't know if it's the case in baseball or any other sport. But college coaches, even before the NIL stuff,

Speaker 11 they hate a lot of this.

Speaker 11 They dream of it. They're like, what? I don't have to worry about grades or was he late to study hall? I can just coach football and nothing else.

Speaker 11 They dream about that. And so they pine to be in the pros, not just to say, hey, we're one of the best, but also to not have to put up with a lot of begging a 17-year-old to come to the business.

Speaker 11 That part of the job is not something that I would like very much if I was in charge of a college football program.

Speaker 11 But you guys will allow that if Lane Kiffin were the Giants coach, the shit posting would stop, right? Because there is no NFL coach who is shit posting.

Speaker 9 I don't know about that.

Speaker 6 No, but I know about that.

Speaker 11 Give me the NFL coach who's doing that.

Speaker 9 Give you the college coach that's doing what Lane is doing. No one is Lane Kiffen there.
Now,

Speaker 9 the NFL does have an opinion about Lane Kiffen. That stuff doesn't fly for most teams.
And believe it or not, his offense is under scrutiny in the NFL.

Speaker 9 They think that he kind of runs a Mickey Mouse offense that wouldn't translate to the NFL. My rebuttal to that is like, doesn't he just run that offense because it's proven to work in college?

Speaker 9 Don't you think his mind

Speaker 9 is smart enough to devise an offense that would work for the pros but there are questions there lane also if he goes to the nfl and flames out he can go right back to the top of the line uh when it comes to head coaching candidates but if he fails but if he fails at florida people are going to be having these concerns he failed at usc he failed at florida he's not going to be the top guy anymore so so first of all mike makes an excellent point is is there are other questions he's kind of unique in and of himself in college but then the reason why I wouldn't fly in the NFL beyond just their stodgy

Speaker 11 is because that shit only flies when you're good. I keep saying this about Joe Mazzulla.
We say about Mike McDaniel, all that quirky shit. I'm different.
Look at me. I shit post.

Speaker 11 You can do that when you're busting ass. When you're 500, when you're three and seven, can you imagine Dayball trying to do some shit like that?

Speaker 6 They would have to say that.

Speaker 11 I can't imagine an NFL coach of any kind behaving that way.

Speaker 6 You got to win.

Speaker 11 No, I can.

Speaker 11 I can imagine him doing it if he were wildly successful but the success is what buys you the right and the latitude to do that sort of stuff in the same way that phil jackson can burn incense in a locker room and give guys books like you think that shit flies if we're a 42-win team and for a 40-win team hell no get the hell out of my face but when you're successful They give you all the affordability of those accolades to let you do whatever the hell you want.

Speaker 11 There are plenty of successful successful NFL coaches. There are none who have ever behaved that way.

Speaker 11 There are exactly zero who have used social media the way that Lane Kiffin is using it in college, regardless. They'll do.

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Speaker 4 Stugats. We're going to get that off the wall.

Speaker 9 World RAR 3, Colin. Our group chat has a pretty good feeling about this one.

Speaker 8 This is the Don Lebatar show with the Stugats.

Speaker 11 We've kept Matthew Berry waiting, and we shouldn't keep Matthew Berry waiting because he did it again last winter. You need to stop what you're doing and write down.

Speaker 6 Matthew Berry!

Speaker 11 Write down what he's telling you because

Speaker 11 Chris Olave is making a catch one-handed to make Matthew Berry's, all Matthew Berry's numbers come true.

Speaker 11 Let's go, Matthew Berry. Let's get to it.
Let's get these people some money. Give me some money.

Speaker 19 Thank you, Dan. Since week five, no team has allowed more fantasy points to opposing quarterbacks than the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Speaker 19 In fact, four of the five, past five quarterbacks to face the Jags have scored at least 24 fantasy points. That's the list that includes Geno Smith and Davis Mills.

Speaker 19 Dude, Justin Herbert is going to go off this weekend. In three of the last four starts, in three of the four starts he's made this season, Marcus Mariota has had at least 16 fantasy points.

Speaker 19 That includes two top 12 finishes. This week he faces the Dolphins.
For the season, only one team in the NFL has allowed more rushing touchdowns to opposing quarterbacks than the Miami Dolphins.

Speaker 19 Since week four, Aston Genty averaging 19 touches a game. Why am I mentioning 19? Because running backs have seen him at least 15 touches against Dallas, averaging 130 yards from scrimmage.

Speaker 19 130 yards from scrimmage. They're averaging that.
Since Joe Flack, who became the starter, Chase Brown is the 11th best running back in fantasy football.

Speaker 19 He's had three straight games to at least 100 yards from scrimmage. Played 95% of the snaps and 100% of the RB touches last week.
Samaji P. Ryan dealing with that ankle.

Speaker 19 Over the past two games, Amari DiMikardo, you heard me, Amari DiMikardo of the Cardinals has 182 yards from scrimmage on just 22 touches. He's averaging nine yards per touch on the season.

Speaker 19 And in fact, 23% of his runs this year have gained at least 10 yards. Since week six, the 49ers are allowing the eighth most fantasy points per game to opposing running backs.

Speaker 19 I'm just saying you could do worse as a flex. Since week five, there's only been one game this year where Jalen Waddell didn't get at least 80 yards.
We talked about him last week as well.

Speaker 19 He's averaging 18 fantasy points per game during that stretch. My beloved commanders have given at least 20 fantasy points to an opposing wide receiver in four straight games.
Four.

Speaker 19 So you're telling me a wide receiver gets at least 25 fantasy points against the commanders this week? It's going to be Jalen Waddell. He's going to go off.

Speaker 19 Since week seven, Javante Smith has at least a 40% target share.

Speaker 5 Are you giving yourself a

Speaker 19 receiving 25%?

Speaker 6 I'm sorry.

Speaker 11 Are you giving yourself around the horn points?

Speaker 11 We're hearing something that. Yeah, something is getting points there.
Are you giving yourself points? I've given him points.

Speaker 19 No, I'll tell you what it I'll tell you exactly what's happened, Dan. I'm embarrassed about this, but my phone is blowing up.
It's my phone. Those are all from my phone.

Speaker 19 My daughter's braces, a wire on it broke.

Speaker 19 And so I was late getting here to the studio. And so I basically barely rushed in and made it.
And

Speaker 19 so that's my daughter blowing up my phone right now. And I don't understand why my wife is not handling this.
So

Speaker 6 to be perfectly honest. Anyway, that's okay.

Speaker 11 We like it.

Speaker 19 Because I'm like, I have Dan's show.

Speaker 6 I have to do the dance show, honey. Can you, can you deal with our

Speaker 6 daughter and her placement? Because

Speaker 19 I dropped her off in the dentist.

Speaker 6 I did my part.

Speaker 6 Matthew Berry.

Speaker 11 Matthew Berry, Kevante Smith is where we interrupted you.

Speaker 19 Yes, it's all good.

Speaker 19 But

Speaker 19 yes, Devontae Smith, 41% target share, Dan. And wide receivers that have seen at least a 25% target share versus the Lions this year, averaging over 20 fantasy points per game.

Speaker 19 Speaking of target share, this season, when Khalil Shakur gets at least a 20% target share, he averages over 14 fantasy points per game. Dalton Kincaid, likely out this weekend for the Bucs.

Speaker 19 Middle of the field is going to be all Shakur. Worth noting that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers allow the seventh most yards after the catch per reception.

Speaker 19 Get this, since week seven, the sixth best tight end fantasy is Dalton Schultz. He's at least 13 fantasy points in three of the past four games.
Davis Mills gets another start for the Texans.

Speaker 19 He tends to look for Schultz quite a bit. There you go.

Speaker 9 Matthew, congratulations on the NBCSN news.

Speaker 19 Beginning next week. Thank you very much.

Speaker 19 We're excited. We're excited.

Speaker 6 Hey. You know, we'll see you there.

Speaker 9 We'll see you there because our show is also going to be on MBCSN when it debuts on YouTube TV next week.

Speaker 6 Per the press release. Yeah.

Speaker 11 So congratulate Matthew on the specifics, though. Tell the people the specifics of what it is that's happening with Matthew.

Speaker 9 Steve Martin also, his show is going to be on YouTube TV's new MBCSN linear channel. And per the press release, a Dan Lebetard show with Stu Gots will also be there.

Speaker 4 I'm bringing this sweater.

Speaker 11 That is not a smile that any of of us enjoyed seeing from you. Matthew, take care of your priorities, your life, your daughter, the braces.

Speaker 11 We appreciate the money, but take care of your family, please.

Speaker 19 Yeah, no, I will. I will, Dan.
Thanks for this. Excited to be on NBC, another NBC platform with you guys.

Speaker 19 But what's great is that as soon as you guys interrupted me immediately, then of course you stopped blowing up my phone.

Speaker 6 So

Speaker 6 shout out to Daniel. There you go.

Speaker 19 Exactly. Around the horn.
Good luck to everyone,

Speaker 19 you guys, this weekend. We'll talk to you next week.

Speaker 11 If you're following what he's doing, it's pretty consistently six of the nine, or seven of the nine, or eight of the nine things that he's recommending end up happening.

Speaker 11 It's been happening four weeks now.

Speaker 11 I mean, one final bow at the end of the week here on all of the Dallas and Nico and Luca conversation that has dominated sports because it really is unlike most things you see when you've got a contaminated fan base and you've got Jason Kidd at the bottom of the rubble sort of telling fans, hey, you're making matters worse.

Speaker 11 And fans are lashing out with, we don't care that we're making matters

Speaker 11 worse. We will be heard.
Like it feels to me like Glenn Close and Fatal Attraction, I will not be ignored. We're not going to be ignored about what this betrayal is.

Speaker 11 You will not make us feel this worthless.

Speaker 11 Were you quoting, what's that,

Speaker 11 Fatal Attraction? I will not be ignored, Michael.

Speaker 6 That is correct. Oh, wow.
Good.

Speaker 9 Steve Martins, you just said that. That's what I said.

Speaker 6 That's how I referenced it. That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 11 Were you referencing? Yes, I said Glenn Close on Fatal Attraction.

Speaker 6 He literally said that.

Speaker 6 Okay.

Speaker 11 All right. You guys say, oh, I mean, always fights, you never agree.
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 6 My bad.

Speaker 9 Hey, man, big on you to admit when you got.

Speaker 6 That's the ball.

Speaker 11 It went off me, Coates.

Speaker 9 And it's Glenn Cloch.

Speaker 11 Do you have any new information for us here? Because you've been following this closely. You've been seeing how people are reacting to this.
And

Speaker 11 it's a calamity that you don't get to see very often well i do have new information because on basketball illuminati this week we had jason gallagher on jason gallagher the executive producer of mind the game he's the guy that uh was the executive producer of jeddick's podcast before jeddick went to go coach old man of the three old man of the three there you go and Jason Gallagher was once upon a time a Dallas massive super fan of the Mavericks right but the trading of Luca was the thing that broke the camel's back.

Speaker 11 And he, like Mike Ryan quitting the Browns, he quit his Mavs fandom. He lives in Oklahoma City, so he decided to adopt the Thunder as his team, which is pretty convenient in 2025.
But

Speaker 11 he still has a lot of contacts and connections in Dallas.

Speaker 11 And what he told us on Basketball Illuminati, among other things, was that a certain familiar someone has started to re-enter the picture in Dallas.

Speaker 11 Makes a lot of sense. If you're Patrick Dumont, what do you have? You have a fractured fan base, they're angry, so you want what? You want to bring people back in.

Speaker 11 So the Mavericks have done a lot of these things of nostalgia. They put the big M with the cowboy hat back on the middle of the floor to get the fans back.
But like, no, I need real nostalgia.

Speaker 11 I want something or someone to make people feel real warm and fuzzy.

Speaker 9 Sharks?

Speaker 11 Sharks.

Speaker 1 What are you proposing?

Speaker 11 Exactly. Mark Cuban has re-emerged as perhaps going to be back in an official capacity beyond, oh, I just own part of the team, Master Show.
27% owner is an official capacity. No, more than that.

Speaker 11 I'm talking about the room where the decisions are made.

Speaker 6 The shadowy hand? The room where it happens?

Speaker 11 It ain't no shadowy hand no more. Wasn't he supposed to be there anyway? He was, and then he got pushed out, and he's like, you know what?

Speaker 11 And then they didn't talk to him at all on the Luca thing at all. And then this last weekend, before Nico got let go,

Speaker 11 my man picked up the phone.

Speaker 6 Patrick Dumont and said, Mark, can I talk to you about something? And then boom, boom, boom, here we are.

Speaker 11 Nico's out. And the next step here is perhaps Mark Cuban back in the seat.
All right, let me present to you guys the thing that I was presenting earlier this week and just put it more plainly to you.

Speaker 11 Because I know

Speaker 11 Because you guys have made fun of me.

Speaker 11 I remember where I was when the Clippers made the trade and the moves for Kawhi and Paul George because it felt like the next cheapest version of LeBron's decision.

Speaker 11 That however it is that you had been affected by the transaction in sports when Kawhi and Paul George held up free agency, it was the sequel to all the stuff that had happened with LeBron.

Speaker 11 And now in retrospect, as we continue to talk about a Luka trade that craters the the Dallas franchise, I think we're running the potential of the next five years of this Clippers trade becoming worse and worse and worse.

Speaker 11 And I ask you when I put them both in front of you, because people did not object to the Clippers trying to stop being a laughingstock by mortgaging all of their future for the win now of James Harden, Kawhi Leonard, Paul George, and all that.

Speaker 11 But because OKC has so many picks, and because OKC has rigged the system to take away the sport from the Celtics who had rigged the system offensively, we're going to take 53s a game and we're just going to be Derek White and Tatum and Brown are all going to take threes and take threes.

Speaker 11 They wrestle the sport away from them with younger players with more depth and with more draft picks. When it's done,

Speaker 11 What's that Clippers trade going to be? A Clippers trade that many people listening to this like are, of course, you got to get the superstar.

Speaker 11 If you're the the Clippers, trade whatever you can to get the superstars. How bad a trade is this going to end up being?

Speaker 11 Are we just at the beginning parts of this becoming an epically historically bad trade? So, first and foremost, I wouldn't say the Celtics ever had a stranglehold on the sport.

Speaker 11 They played a style that was a gamble. And that gamble failed massively last year in the playoffs prior.
to Jason Tam going off to injury, right?

Speaker 11 They were going to lose that series anyway because they were dogmatic and would not adjust to the realities.

Speaker 11 I don't think they ever had a stranglehold on the sport, and certainly not to the level of... Well, they won a championship.
They won a championship, but okay.

Speaker 14 But that was a hurt Dallas Mavericks team on top of that.

Speaker 11 Even if they were healthy.

Speaker 11 The Mavericks weren't good enough to beat the Celtics. The Celtics were going to win that championship.
Now, would they have won it?

Speaker 6 If they played against Denver? No.

Speaker 6 No.

Speaker 11 No, my friend. But that doesn't matter.
We don't deal in hypotheticals. We deal in reality.

Speaker 11 What makes OKC's deal,

Speaker 11 this is the part, right? That they're all under contract for the most part. They're all of a certain age, so it's not like someone's getting older.
They're right entering their prime.

Speaker 11 So they have an opportunity right here in this window to be dominant in the way that you're describing.

Speaker 11 But what makes the deal especially bad, because think about this is what they got in that deal, Oklahoma City, for Paul George.

Speaker 11 They got Shea Gilles Alexander, who became the MVP of the league and the finals MVP. They got a first-round pick that turned into Trey Mann that got traded.
So, okay.

Speaker 11 They got a first-round pick that turned into Jalen Williams, another all-star. You're like, okay.
They got a first-round pick that was protected. They turned into Hockheads that got traded to Miami.

Speaker 11 They have Dylan Jones, who's a first-round pick. It's like, okay, decent player.
They had a first-round pick in Nick Clifford, who's okay. But this is the one.

Speaker 11 This is the last year of obligation, folks, 2026. And there's a chance that this could be the most valuable piece, even more valuable than Shagu J.
Alexander. You know why?

Speaker 11 Because this pick, unprotected, goes to Oklahoma City, and the Clippers are having an awful season.

Speaker 11 So if the Clippers, Dan, end up with a top four pick, I won't even limit it to one because one isn't really consensus right now.

Speaker 11 And you say, I'm the best team in the league. I'm the champion.
I have a window.

Speaker 11 And you're going to give me one of these great names, whether it's Darren Peterson from Kansas or Cam Boozer from Duke or AJ DeVansa from BYU.

Speaker 14 The kid from Baylor 2 is tough.

Speaker 11 He's good. Caleb Wilson from North Carolina.
Like, there's a lot of names. It's like, you don't need to give me one.
If you give me top four, I'm walking away with perhaps another generational talent.

Speaker 11 Dan, it's like when the Lakers got James Worthy. It's like they're already great.
But I guess the question that I'm asking you, we've spent a lot of time talking about Luca and Nico.

Speaker 11 Is that trade going to end up being worse?

Speaker 11 I think, obviously, I think

Speaker 11 we can say they're getting more. They got an all-star, an MVP, and perhaps the number one overall player.

Speaker 5 But that's hindsight, though.

Speaker 5 We're redoing the history.

Speaker 14 We're revisionist history on that because nobody's going to be able to do that.

Speaker 11 But

Speaker 11 I'm asking you to take the result and use the result.

Speaker 11 It's a worse deal because of the volume of greatness you got versus the Lakers got one great player in their deal.

Speaker 11 But the difference is, as Tony said, this one's a hindsight deal, whereas the Luca deal, on the day it happened, we all were asking Shams, did you get hacked?

Speaker 11 I know, but I do find it funny that in one instance, you've got Nico the expert and all of us disagree with it.

Speaker 11 In the other instance, there are plenty of people that agree with the Clippers making the move, but the result is the team you made the move with is the youngest, deepest team.

Speaker 11 They've got the championship. They might repeat.
They've lost one time this year and they're going to get better.

Speaker 11 Like they're going, all of their players are going to get better and they're going to get better from future draft picks that they have.

Speaker 11 I think the big thing is that they were bad when they did that deal, whereas the Lakers, like they already were a good team, and you gave them Luca. Come on, man.

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