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Dan Le Batard 9/1/22 🔥 The Big Suey: The College Football Wild West

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Dan Le Batard 9/1/22 🔥 The Big Suey: The College Football Wild West", an episode of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz published September 1, 2022 (47 min, about 7,507 words). It mentions 7 people, works and ideas, including Dan Le Batard, Alabama, LSU, Georgia, Arkansas.

What this episode is about

The discussion focuses on the unpredictable and chaotic landscape of college football, highlighting the challenges and dynamics that have emerged in the sport. It also touches on Serena Williams' performance in her final matches, debating her ability to compete despite her age and recent struggles, comparing her to other great athletes and emphasizing her remarkable legacy in sports.

Key takeaways

  • Serena is the underdog we never expected; greatness wrapped in nostalgia and unexpected triumph.
  • In a world of sports where age is just a number, Serena proves she's still the GOAT.
  • Every match feels like a final—Serena turns the U.S. Open into an exhilarating rollercoaster.
  • Forget NFL kickoff; Serena's resurgence might just steal the sports spotlight this weekend.
  • In the narrative of sports, Serena's story is the Cinderella tale we all root for.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 5:00: DraftKings
  2. – 10:00: DraftKings, LSU
  3. – 20:00: Dan Le Batard, Arkansas, Cincinnati
  4. – 25:00: Alabama, Georgia
  5. – 30:00: Alabama, Georgia
  6. – 35:00: Alabama, Georgia

Notable quotes from "Dan Le Batard 9/1/22 🔥 The Big Suey: The College Football Wild West"

  • Welcome to the big suey presented by draftkings why are you listening to this show the podcast that seems very similar to the other dan levitar podcast i'm sorry i'm not gonna.
    about DraftKings · at
  • Just locked in a hater poorly a harley nice i have adjusted the line i've sold points and i'm taking utah at florida and lsu believe that it's a neutral site game against…
    about LSU · at
  • An appearance too this person in general spirit on the internet has made an appearance dan levitard while writing for the miami herald went on a rant about what an saban is on and on this that in response a birmingham writer said yep.
    about Dan Le Batard · at
  • Somebody that wasn't even supposed to be in play you don't get that guy alabama gets that guy i'm asking nfl gets that's fair but mike i think you're so close to it you have reasons to be excited and you care about it more than.
    about Alabama · at
  • Get in the mix now yeah i mean we've been watching the alabama show mixing with a dash of lsu and georgia or whoever or auburn i think clemson like two teams can win the…
    about Georgia · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Dan Le Batard — Person · Host / main speaker · 1 mention · first at
    He drives the conversation, frames the Serena storyline, and later steers broader commentary about college football commercialization and sports media narratives.

Companies & orgs

  • Alabama — Company · Referenced team · 7 mentions · first at
    Mentioned as a dominant force in college football.
  • LSU — Company · Referenced team · 1 mention · first at
    Discussed in the context of college football and betting.
  • Georgia — Company · Referenced team · 4 mentions · first at
    Mentioned as a dominant force in college football.
  • Arkansas — Company · Referenced team · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned in the context of college football and betting.
    To anybody and what mike had wrought and had said under his breath is i got arkansas over cincinnati he's unhinged man college football has gotten here it's arrived and i am now terrified of everything.
  • Cincinnati — Company · Referenced team · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned in the context of college football and betting.
    To anybody and what mike had wrought and had said under his breath is i got arkansas over cincinnati he's unhinged man college football has gotten here it's arrived and i am now terrified of everything.

Sponsors

  • DraftKings — Company · Sponsor · 3 mentions · first at
    Official sports betting partner of the NFL and sponsor of the podcast.

Full transcript with timestamps

welcome to the big suey presented by draftkings why are you listening to this show the podcast that seems very similar to the other dan levitar podcast i'm sorry i'm not gonna apologize for that in fact the only difference seems to be this imaging i have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries that if they're just there that hasn't happened to you guys i've done it and now here's the marching band to nowhere fat face and the habitual liar we are presented by draftking sportsbook an official sports betting partner of the nfl download the draftking sportsbook app today and use code dan for a special offer when you sign up that's code dan only at draftking sportsbook serena i was fading her i why everybody thought that she was going to lose earlier earlier this weekend i don't know if you aired it or not but earlier this week mike came in and i think we declared him the serena

williams of sitting around with your hands and your underwear criticizing great athletes because he said she's so washed and i was making fun of him because of her age because she's had a baby because she has no reasonable right to still be somebody who could beat the second ranked player in the world mike did indeed cop to being the serena williams of sitting around with his hands in his underwear criticizing great athletes yeah but prime williams i'm still very much in my prime i'm as good at 36 at doing that as i was 24.

the point i was trying to make was comparatively this is a fairly obvious one and she's washed to the standard that she set but last night was majestic a great sports moment if she completes this cinderella run my godpa what a crowning achievement already the greatest career ever what she did last night was incredibly impressive and i i don't see based on her recent performances in in in tournaments how she can actually do this it'd be it'd be the coolest sports moment for people north of 35 since tiger completed his comeback and won at the masters it is going to be a moment in time for people of a certain age does it have to be of a certain age i told you guys that i was legitimately moved during the super bowl commercial that had peyte manning and jimmy butler and the last one entering the bowling bowling alley as a reveal was a very slow walking swaggering serena williams icon style maker everything else her

story during the me too stuff like she's amazing on her own a million different ways but for her to be a powerhouse after being a mother and bring you stragatz i mean i know the us open has done this with jimmy connors and stuff but where we can all get to say goodbye together with an athlete going and summoning something in the role that she never gets to be because of her greatness which is when does greatness ever get to be that kind of an underdog right well she won't be an underdog for the remainder of the tournament she'll be favored in every match because her best is still better than the number two player in the country but it is interesting where in the world in the world excuse me but yeah i think her best is still better than anyone else's best she'll be favored in every match moving forward she will be is that correct well she was in the third set last night she was phenomenal that was vintage serena right

i bet before last night and it was she was plus 200 against the number two seed so i'm with stu gods all her opponents are gonna get by ranking easier right that's well the two seeds out now i believe the one seeds out right wouldn't she not be able to play the one seed to the final isn't that how seedings work well but the one seed got eliminated in the first round there have there have been a lot of upsets in in flashing it it's been a pretty crazy crazy tournament there was a minus 2500 favorite that that went down and honestly the storyline that i won is gambling again and gambling again there's there's still some cool story lines going i would have loved for what i want to see most um is not even serena winning i want her to get to the final and have a young american that was inspired by serena be the one to take it from her uh i think coco's probably our best shot since she's most informed

but i don't i seeing how the the tournament's breaking down i don't think we'll get that so let's just root for serena and not fade or anything what are my lessons yeah she's a minus 160 favorite in her next match right the first match she's been a favorite at the us open this year so as she moves on here and eliminates siege she's going to continue to be favored but dan i am telling you it is so fun to watch this the tension is amazing it's like watching a finals match every single night and if she makes it to the semi-finals or the finals i can't believe i'm saying this well you came in excited for a weekend tennis will trump the nfl and it's the opening weekend of the nfl because that will be the biggest story in sports no i think it will i won't i think it will serena with all due respect that's on the second tv mike sunday four o'clock it's uh it's on the second tv with all due respect

dude i'm putting cold colts texans on the first tv no it's got to be at least raiders chargers nothing does stop being stopped the nfls maybe serena she stopped an entire crowd last night she told them to shut up and they had the whole oh my god it's the u.s open it's the last 20 years have been the single greatest era of men's championship tennis we have seen so many great men's finals line up against the nfl but it wouldn't be this one but it wouldn't be this but the women's finals on saturday there you go it's a saturday no choices there you go why'd you do it

going up against the other for a couple minutes there we had a good debate going it was a great deal let me ask you a different one let me ask a different question i mean what is the worst feeling in gambling tennessee at pitt is the worst feeling in gambling the bad beat or is it fading the great sports moment where you're watching and it's like i can't even remember this because it's costing me money yeah

has been a very profitable business venture i'm going to take my winnings and see myself out but you're sitting there you're betting your money you're rooting for a certain result you're staring all of american sports is rooting for serena williams feeling like tiger woods in the stands last night and what are you doing you're not only sitting it out hey there's me mike ryan not only losing money but on the wrong side of history in every way week two 10 15 p.m d gen special number 10 baylor at number 25 byu that's a big one that is a monster dj special in provo oh yeah oh god byu's a different team in provo she has such empty analysis nah it's hard to get out of problem can i can i tell you my favorite bed of the weekend my favorite bed of the weekend i have just locked in a hater poorly a harley nice i have adjusted the line i've sold points and i'm taking utah at florida and lsu believe that

it's a neutral site game against florida state university i'm taking utah and lsu to both win by double digits really just to hate on the other teams if you go to draftkings sportsbook a 50 bet will net you over four hundred dollars on utah and lsu to beat two fledgling state of florida programs by more than nine points is this based on you checking out their recruiting and being intimately involved in the weavings of recruiting uh this offseason yeah i i do think that the uh the lsu fsu game is fascinating absolutely fascinating because of the offseason i really think that brian kelly's accent cost lsu eight points with this spread you might be right i don't understand it it's it's a three-point spread how many times have we seen miami line up in this game against an sec team i understand it's not the lsu team of old but it's still like a sound team lsu was so bad last year though it's not

even really a neutral sight game though it's in the superdome i i don't three point favorites against fsu in the superdome it's to me really puzzling to borderline fishy it was so low that it almost scared me away but i'm just gonna their lsu is just gonna make that quarterback throw i don't see how that's a game by the fourth quarter i really don't i'm setting myself up for an epic freezing cold takes but this line does not make sense to me i i'm always afraid of a line that doesn't make sense to me always afraid my godpa what are you doing scheduling utah you are paying i had no idea utah was number seven in the country pre-season i was shocked to see this old champ you don't invite kyle whittingham to your house what are you doing my uncle you're gonna pay them a half a million dollars to kick your ass i'm going to be there eating popcorn utah has been good for the last 10 years if you say so and was good last year and

mike lsu was bad last year they couldn't stop anybody at all i mean they were they they when they played a game and actually got into the 40s and 50s um they were in close games recruiting hasn't gone great for lsu not certainly not what they were doing in years past but brian kelly is a very solid head coach and this is it's really a bet against fsu what we're getting scared because they didn't cover against duquesne i don't understand what we're doing fsu was really bad last year really bad thank you for beating miami last year i really appreciate it the historical moment in hurricanes history i don't see this one at all so that's a fun little hater parlay obviously it's juice it's not likely according to the odds makers but i think utah is better than florida i think lsu is better than florida state and i don't necessarily think that's by a small margin either i think that they're a good deal better

than those teams florida's going to be tricky because that's at the swamp week one we'll see but the ticket sales have been struggling they got to give tickets away to that one our winning wednesday 102. if you bet against us you won again a phone call yeah yeah major controversy no wait a minute what do you mean we got we should have gotten one and one because yesterday we should have the parlay though okay but seattle storm plus five and a half and somehow it turned into seattle storm money line i don't know how that happened i don't know anybody haven't talked to anybody

do not do this do not do that do not defend going one and one in a parlay when you went 0-2 and we just we put it down wrong listeners people that consumed to be a social media they wouldn't own two we have to do something about this of course it's a parlay if you go one-on-one you go you lose yes you gotta win both it is a loss and it is pathetic to be out here saying we should have won half the bet which would still make it a loser but a less embarrassing loser we have to do this better what do we have to do do we have to call colin cower let me tell you something if mike norvell beats lsu in the superdome i will take out a roll of toilet paper and i will eat three plies

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hold on and maybe the greatest uh coach to never win a super bowl okay wait a minute let's just everybody let's see settle down down here this is the levator show with this two cats by the way no one's showing up to that game i think the season ticket holders will show up although i am a season ticket holder and i will not be showing up i don't think that there's going to be a buzz around bethune cookman i think mike has now arrived at a point uh where he is crazed beyond all reason we have not yet started and he didn't mutter a couple of things under his breath stu godz caught him on a couple of things during the break under his breath uh one thing that he muttered is heaven help all of you if we beat texas a m after dragging that game into deep water mud especially if they win that game 17-13 yeah and he also said and stu gods pointed this out with after after hearing this this is what stu got said

stu got said i'm not sure that mike was just talking to anybody and what mike had wrought and had said under his breath is i got arkansas over cincinnati he's unhinged man college football has gotten here it's arrived and i am now terrified of everything that's happening around me not just because of mike because this guy's made an appearance too this person in general spirit on the internet has made an appearance dan levitard while writing for the miami herald went on a rant about what an saban is on and on and on this that in response a birmingham writer said yep but he's our we'll stick with what works until it doesn't that guy is painting his face this weekend and thinking it means something when he says we'll stick with what works until it doesn't like people are trying to find the words for their enthusiasm every single college football fan in america is just looking for their that's what they want out of out of

their fandom they want the that brings them success it is a long and winding search you try your sam pittman's and your lane kiffins and you're just looking for your you are so right about this but there's another layer to it not only are you looking for your at this time of year you're looking to find coming from the mouth of someone that i'm that saban's their you're looking for both you've got to find yours you want the who says the thing about your no you want no no no you want the that gets the thing said about him by that good clarification yes you've got it you gotta get this one right it's important as we enter this college football season everyone knows the that praises my there's a big out there urban meyer i mean but what do you mean he's out there he's not he's out there you can take an i mean if everyone's looking for an did you see by the way how they hired urban meyer yeah the fox pregame show what do

you mean how they hired him well they just like put him as the fifth name in a press release and never announced that they're hiring irman trying to hide him it was just like he's just stuck in there urban meyer college football saturday big noon saturday check it out and did that work no everyone saw i was like wait a second you hired urban meyer after all of that he's their they have clay travis on their pregame oh you are in a way mike already and this lasted 10 minutes and it was unpleasant how crazed you are and i believe that you are representative of everyone who's excited after a couple of years a couple of really truly awful years truly awful years i i'm so happy for saturday to come because it's a culmination of a lot of complaints for some fans a lot of message board posts a desperate cry for someone to pay attention and that's what i'm excited about to really celebrate i think

saturday is a celebration of us finally hitting this benchmark that should have been cleared 20 years ago you yelled at me and stu gods for being out of date because you are now enmeshed in message board world where you know he reports something about art briles is kid and next thing you know mike ryan is fighting with all of baylor on this stuff uh and i wonder if mike is so close to it stragatz that when he accuses you and me of being old he's right for the most part yes but i don't know the audience if at all there has been any impact with or around the enthusiasm of the audience that the veneer of what this used to be has been stripped down so naked that i don't know if this changes the sport for anybody in any discernible way it doesn't for me i have always been somebody who enjoys that it's minor league football and furthermore i've gotten kind of pissed off that the injustices always get wrapped in the cis

boom ba of we are amateurism right i mean we're because of name image and likeness some of that is getting rectified um the reason why you laughed me out about the gaddis thing and you don't even understand like how monumental it is for a program that always went cheap on coaches to take the best coordinator available somebody that wasn't even supposed to be in play you don't get that guy alabama gets that guy i'm asking nfl gets that that's fair but mike i think you you're so close to it you have reasons to be excited and you care about it more than anyone i know i don't think everyone shares those feelings like you have to do something for it's nice they're spending money it's nice they're getting recruits it's nice they're getting big assistance but you're playing bethune cookman saturday i 100 hear you and i agree with you you'll have to do something i would argue that they've done something already which is

but apply the research instead of making it about miami i would like to more broadly ask whittingham this question because whittingham has tried to articulate the argument in the face of your fiery hot homer breath he has tried to say hey if we start doing football minor league football this way this overtly on lane kiffin saying yeah it'll be baseball now highest payroll wins gets the best players when chris whittingham says and i don't know if this is going to stick anywhere if the rabid need for i need what college football feels like what football feels like it's so large that whittingham asks the question before football season like the like the dork from the library emerging in front of the marching band and saying what's the point what's the point of what it is that you're presently doing if you're simply going to buy your way in and it's not going to be about rival rivalries it's

just made for tv regional television entertainment right it's just about like can i get a state into my tv deal like these are like on saturdays lining up or competing tv deals and it has no there's no point to like usc playing against rutgers when like what are we measuring the ability to like sneak up 600 thousand dollars to some quarterback through a car dealership like that's what we're measuring on saturdays what like why what what is the system i'm very i agree but what has the system been for the last 20 years that that better hidden no yes you're right i mean i think now you actually not i'm not going to go as far as to say there's going to be parody but i do think that more teams will be able to get in the mix now yeah i mean we've been watching the alabama show mixing with a dash of lsu and georgia or whoever or auburn i think clemson like two teams can win the championship this

year it's alabama georgia that is no different you know that is no different than what you've been watching you need a few years to play out mike is technically right like if you have a don't if you have an alum who's got a lot of money or a donor to the football program and he takes it seriously there is a chance for teams like northwestern or indiana or texas you would assume that arch manning was going to go to mississippi he went to texas why they offered more money i mean they're offering they have the pancake factory go ahead and google that and see how much their offensive linemen in texas are getting i do think that and we'll see what the uh the the expanded playoff i'm not crazy about that because the college football playoff games have not been good they haven't they've all been they've all been blowout it's gone progressively worse over time the first ever playoff was incredible but over time it just

becomes one team is overmatched by the other and if we're at four and there are teams that are overmatched alabama and georgia have just simply gotten too strong and i don't know if nil helps fix that but i do know that when you're just moving teams from their regional rivalries and just having them placed all throughout the country it's a proxy war between fox and espn there's just so many elements of this sport that are no longer about like what is that like what is the competition for but the fox and espn thing is an added dynamic to when you're worried about who's the main rivalries clemson versus alabama i'm very excited to see where the network wars go and how they cover and who has the rights of the ces college football playoff and how does that play in you're going to have biases legit biases be thrown around out there but for teams like miami expanding the playoff actually shifts

your timeline you know where this is all headed right if nil is not going to be what it is right now right now we're kind of operating oh wild one it's so great you will never see it look like this again you'll never see it look like last year you will never see it look like last year last year that was just it has gotten a little bit more buttoned up i'd actually say a lot more buttoned up than what it was last year but where this is all headed is you're gonna essentially have a union in the college football playoff which is going to run things over the ncaa we're already seeing those wheels in motion cfp is going to be the governing body and then kids will get paid through that and then nioh will be what it was always meant to be which is if you have tyler van dyke and he's a local superstar he'll pitch you on this app and that'll be that right now it's a little crazy but cfp will organize everything and

you'll have more structure and you'll rectify some of the injustices that dan has been pounding the table over for 20 years i would like for it to actually be a football structure in which it's on the basis of revenue it's all coming through the program and then they pay out a percentage of that salary and we get to see all right uh michigan this year has a 55 million dollar payroll and indiana has a 25 million payroll or whatever at the very least like baseball it starts to make some sense as this is within a competitive structure it's just now the complete wild west and i think we're going through a probably two or three year period as you're saying mike where tv deals are getting fortified where nil is going to start to make some sense and eventually these walls will crumble and college football will become our second american football league and we love that though why do you have that being lesser like

people love the enemy structure is such a good thing and i think it's not the structure that's just on on the ncaa or whatever governing body the nil people are forming structures that's where that's where these collectives come in where they want to take care of everybody because what happened last year what happened this year is not sustainable and everyone's just going to set up a new high water mark and it's going to be like the old nfl rookie wage scale where you the rule is i just out due the the previous year's number one pick are you guys answering my question on this though because scouts are you any less interested in football are there people listening to this right now who are saying of college football i'm not interested the way i used to be because of what whittingham is talking about why are we doing this it's football on saturday i'm interested it's because dan it's still

about alabama for now i'll see how it looks in five years but for now it's still about alabama georgia michigan ohio state the teams i care about the brands i care about what it looks like at five years remains to be seen i don't think anyone knows what it will look like so i can't really give you my interest level in five years but this year i'm as interested as i've ever been because it's the same as it's always been but i i just you walk into the season and like there's been so much player movement like to me if players sign three-year contracts because they were getting paid a lot of money it would at least sort of settle my brain down on what this is for me when riley leaves oklahoma and goes to usc and now he could take his quarterback like the kid could finally follow the coach correct that's why he went there in the first place correct but what i'm saying is if you then like did a trade or you know a

premier league style transfer where we know it and you sign a contract but now that players are just year to year it's rolling one year contracts for every single player in college football to me we're showing up on saturday and doing a ton of learning this first month for me is purely about learning who is where learning who players are i actually think college football announcers have a huge burden to explain who's on every team this is not a significant fall off this is why though i continue the reason i ask the question is like are you guys prepared for how transactional this is about to actually feel it's never felt as transactional as that all over the sport for the first month of the season they're going to be telling you and 12 guys went into the portal here and and and they're going to be introducing you to the teams that you haven't been following necessarily because you're not

like mike snorting college football podcasts about bethune cookman on the way in i understand why the optics have it just it's just because it's there it's hard to ignore but this is so much better than just everyone during recruiting season picking alabama this is just chaos is better i mean dude nick saban went to a microphone and openly complained about how much money other people have nick saban right he's funny he was complaining publicly that his advantage over the last 20 years has been evaporating

this season it's it's basically the same i mean there are a few changes this will take a few years yeah it's still alabama or uh ohio state and georgia right yes yes yes they've had they've had a head start on all these maybe usc yeah are you guys stepping back from all of this whether it's brady's broadcasting contract or or just everything that's happened in sports and realizing holy whether it's juan soto 440 million dollars or eight billion dollars for uh what used to be the big ten network that all of these people in the business parts of this have been stealing money by the framework in the system they've and they still are but and they still they still steal money they make like the big tens tv deal is seven seven billion dollars over eight years that's basically a billion dollars a year the players seen none of that money zero dollars there's been an entirely new economy created by car dealership

owners that pays the players now not the actual it's an amazing thing to watch the system collapse and to live in the middle of how it uh reanimates like uh you know what i don't know what me i'm thinking of that liquid guy in terminator in the 1980s but to see the whole thing to see it happen i do wonder and perhaps you don't maybe the fandom you pay you faint uh you paint your face you go to the games on saturday you tailgate you drink your beer and you don't care how you get it intravenously you know it doesn't it simply you'll entertain it you'll talk yourself into the cheerleaders and the and and but it's lifestyle it's this is what i want to do on saturdays and i don't care how commercial it is my weekends i want to escape from everything else give me these three hours on saturday i can belong to something and i simply do not care how contaminated it is i personally love that gus machado can

change the fortunes of a college football program i do i mean it's amazing you know what it's time you're right it used to be just balzan but i want machado like i don't want it i want gus machado i do want my car dealer i you know what you've convinced me i say go a step further chip kelly you're gonna need to move let's just get our biggest booster on the sideline and just stare at him see what he looks like you know what i care about on saturdays what's that chris waking up putting on college game day yep putting in a couple parlays

the clevelander hotel sits on a famous strip of land and it's a party palace there are sometimes these conventions that roll through here that are terrifying a couple weeks ago was the bitcoin people stugots they call the uh the events 70 000 tons of metal it's more than that it's a lot of metal man i mean listen to me roy i love miami that music has made me consider moving you're talking about more of like

like that this is the levator show with these two gods did you know that uh country roads is not about west virginia it's not it's about the western part of virginia it's about western virginia i mean god yet the planet in reserve is a lie over there tonight is a backyard brawl and for those that are unfamiliar with it it is a rivalry between pittsburgh and west virginia two former big east foes now in totally different conferences the acc reigning i may remind the audience that pittsburgh is the reigning acc champion what so they have won an acc before miami has west virginia is in what's left of the big 12 right now but there is an intense rivalry that is going to be played out tonight i don't know if you guys have seen what is played out on social media there was a formal pep rally for pittsburgh and the quarterback for the pit panthers just openly set into a microphone with his entire team and head coach bynum uh

norduzi was smiling as this happened he knew what was coming his way quarterback says i believe it's kevin slovis says west virginia which is you know we could say that but the quarterback's saying that that's a that's a really big deal right but they knew they wanted the smoke so that happened two days ago and what has emerged since then has been cell phone uh video off of snapchat inside the west virginia space age locker room where they have tv screens everywhere and on a constant loop is the quarterback it is

all of these players are just going to be rabid and frothing all week every every step they take it's the quarterback's voice so do you want that smoke do you want the smoke to feel like that yes that's that's fun smoke tonight is going to be fun i am telling you it's always buried that rivalry is always buried jessica's there she went in uh like a javelin she's landing neck uh neck first in the middle of that insanity i am so excited to watch this specific game because it's an intense rivalry that if you really follow college football i don't know why andrew if you really follow college football mike mike took us a compliment the other day the mike took as a great compliment the other day someone came up to me uh clearly wildly on drugs and said that they were uh friends very close friends with andrew luck and that andrew luck hates mike ryan's impersonation oh man that's an honor congratulations mike

mike was very happy you want to make an acceptance speech i'm upset that my friend kobe fleener was under the uh influence what a great surprised me with kobe fleener i don't know that you could have chosen a better anytime well the jack doyle's one note about former stanford tight ends i had to surprise you stu got i just saw on television on bart scott segment can't wait it's a great segment i mean it is it's clever can't wait to see if tom brady is okay do you think that there is some sort of issue in 11 days of tom brady being away from camp that isn't just family life is hard marital stuff is hard he had to go handle something 11 days in but clearly it's not going to be different tom brady just because he's going through whatever the turbulence is at home i think it will be the same tom brady uh that we've that we've seen that we saw last year so no i don't think there's going to be anything different he took

11 days off he's 45 he has going on i know it doesn't fall in line with what tom brady is all about what he's been about his entire career but he's going to be fine the bucks are going to be fine he's not bailing on his team he's not bailing on his coaches he wouldn't do that he took 11 days off the only reason i'm bringing it up is because we uh don't need in the media many excuses to talk about this person but i was surprised i missed it the first time it made its way through that the number of people who skipped right past him saying i'm 45 i got a lot of happening and went straight to tom brady doesn't physically look the same his face does not look the same it looks like he's gone to get work done since the last time we physically saw him and i i missed that entire conversation on the internet that wasn't about the quote it was about everyone is now his appearance everyone is now speculating

that tom brady looks mike can you explain to me explain to the audience that hasn't seen this just how different he looks than than the last press conference we saw with him as a buck his face looked completely different it did well his lips looked a little bit bigger uh the jawline a little bit more defined especially in the cheeks the hair certainly super dark and fuller um but told us that tom brady's hair is straight white yeah well you could tell from when he's done those the matches uh on tnt the golf match like the back of his head there was a lot of white hair showing so he's obviously seen a colorist that's that's okay i mean who among us right right right right but give it two weeks to settle right sunday night football against the cowboys he's gonna look fine and it's just a little swollen right now but

as part of the 11 days off guys tom brady and tom brady has had work done we i don't feel like mike's an expert on this front but i'm telling you i'm right we please okay this is america's most popular mike says so i mean it's america's most popular sport i simply want for us to be able to enjoy in the age of the internet and getting distracted by silly things the singular absurdity in a 45 year old man who has more luck taming age and time while surrounded by 300 people who 300 pound people who are breathing on him then he does when he needs the help of a surgeon because his face is aging and he does not want it to he lives he's married to a supermodel and the vanities matter to these people as a couple so again america's most popular sport he is one of the favorites to win the mvp at 45 and i never had to before cover hey you know terry bradshaw is looking to go back to back this season he's had to

work in the off season was off for 11 days because he wanted to fix his face wanted to be more handsome fuller in the lips it's not an analysis i've ever done regarding football before bradshaw would have put would just put his hand further in the dirt exactly that's what i did this off season what'd you do this is never we've never done the internet this is how they were covering tom brady did he have worked on oh my god how much work has he had done yeah i uh i understand how he's gotten to this point you can't like he's he's somehow still in the league in this age he was married is married to a supermodel he was always talked about for his good looks you got to keep the pressures i mean come on guys i mean really like who among us like well he wasn't really know he got better looking as he got older but once you get that good looking there's a standard that you have to kind of go i know i know right this happens

to a lot of it it happens we know you do we don't really see it with males but we see it with like madonna who gets often dragged to to a really hostile degree on social media for how she looks right now when you're always the person that is the ageless wonder you have an immense pressure on you to just to keep it going for as long as humanly possible and yet paul rudd just still out here doing it yeah well he's also be careful be careful i care about you i uh i owe an apology to keaton slovis i'm sorry what happened i forgot his absurd first name of keaton yeah uh he's in pitt now he's a former usc like heisman hopeful it's all these quarterbacks i do need someone to just walk me through it like woody said i need a good four-minute primer just to tell me where the quarterbacks are indiana that exciting indiana guy he's in washington right now the heisman hopeful from usc he's in pitt now by the

way pip won the acc last year just like a cliff notes to catch you up like the the beginning of uh series that's been gone for a while where they catch you up on where last season was and when they come back eight months later williams is in usc now should be like a movie on amazon or like i'm like watching a movie on amazon prime where they have on the side of the window like who's in this scene i need that on the screen all the time did you just say on the bottom of the screen the quarterback for nc state is blank can you guys just all of us together can we do how well it is working it is like the gypsies curse what's happened to tom brady here because you're an impossible symbol for forever youth and you have to keep it looking like that on the outside stu godz was actually fooled yesterday into thinking that tom brady at 45 it no longer hurts him to play football the idea that sister is having trouble making flights

that don't come with back pain five years older than tom brady and because tom brady has done such a good job pharmaceutically and cosmetically to disguise that he is kenny stabler under there he is a scarecrow and groove by flesh science in order to make he says he's white-haired totally white-haired of course the stresses of being tom brady would not allow him to naturally look impossibly like he's never felt a pressure in his life but are you saying that if he went months without getting any work done we didn't see him he's sitting in the house he would look like the snake i am saying that his skin is stretched like a tarp over a scarecrow that is withered from 20 years of pressure and trying to be impossibly and possibly young while also trying to defeat age among all the others it's just a veneer of lacquer white drops fall off it like raindrops fall off it the way they do off a waxed car

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The discussion focuses on the unpredictable and chaotic landscape of college football, highlighting the challenges and dynamics that have emerged in the sport. It also touches on Serena Williams' performance in her final matches, debating her ability to compete despite her age and recent struggles, comparing her to other great athletes and emphasizing her remarkable legacy in sports.

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