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It is time for Stugats to share his game notes. No one in the media will tell you what happened better.

Than my boy, Stue. We can't have observations. Clear my throat. Brought to you by Miller Light. Great taste. 96 calories available for delivery. Dan, that cleared it. He went to L. A. On a mission, and let me be the first to say, mission complete. Because Dan, after an incredible, grueling, two-week stretch covering the rams, the chargers, the Lakers, the Kings, and UCLA for Metallark Media. Make no mistake about it. You are back.

Yes, after the big Sedano sit down, we went down to- You did that, huh? Yeah, we roped him in. It's the only reason we went.

He was here this weekend, Sedano.

He was. Yeah. He was a town. He sounds so good. He sounds great. So professional on those broadcasts. He was faking it at the beginning, and now he's sparklers in the sky. He's so good at it.

He is. Practice makes perfect. Could have just waited a week, though. That's all I'm saying. But you had to cover.

The teams. I had to get it before he did the U. M. Virginia game. I had to get it exclusively first.

Speaking of back, Julio Jones.

You.

Already used that one.

I know. It's just sitting there.

He was out of the league there, and then he played for.

The Titansans. It feels like yesterday I was hiding behind a pole at the Atlantis, just spying on him playing cards.

It wasn't yesterday. Okay. It was old enough, a long enough ago for a receiver to get old.

Right. I hit something on my phone, and now I can't stop getting emails from Rocko Mediate. Roxy.

Is it Roxy? It is. Are you sure it's not Rocky?

It's.

Roxy. Are you sure? Are you sure?

Some people go Rocky, some people go Roxy, I go Roxy. But I keep getting emails from the guy. I mean, he's not going to fix my golf game enough. He thinks he can, though.

Are you guys getting a lot of political texts? I just can't get them to stop. I cannot get them.

To stop. Just a lot of spam texts, actually.

You text back stop.

I've done it many times.

Then you block the number and then it doubles.

They find another way, though.

I know. There's always a new one, like Whac-A-Mole, but it hasn't been as bad for me as the presidential election. Wow.

Nikola Jokic has a chooch, the joker.

See that pass? Such a.

Great inbound pass. Amazing. The best I've ever seen since McHale.

They're three and a half. Mike, what are you shaking your head about? It's not fair.

Everyone wants to be obsessed with the joker and Wendell and Yamam. They should not be having your support thrown behind them. They should be banned. They have plenty of advantages.

You are now lamenting the big man in the NBA. They're too big, it's unfair.

Why do they need your help? They don't need any help. Wimbunyama had a video that he put himself where he has a cell phone at eye length. I'm convinced he's not a good basketball player now. It's just so easy.

Mike might be right about him.

It's like a Fisher Price.

You might be onto something with that.

You are not a sports fan if you're throwing your support behind When but Yamah. They must.

Stop him.

Skinny legs. He must be stopped.

It's just not fair. But he's not just doing tall guy stuff, Mike. That's why he's so good.

Honestly, if you ask me, you should stick to the tall guy stuff. You want him out there, Drip.

Wow, you're talking out into the side of your mouth there.

0-6 from three, nobody else.

0-6 from three, turnovers, fouls.

How about just put two arms up, hustle back on defense?

Yeah, get in the paint.

It's a little early on. Just hustle back on the two hands up.

Just to be clear, your take on-Get on the blocks. -on Whenbanyam is basically just to run and dunk and dunk and block and dunk and block and dunk and block and dunk and block.

Stay close to the hoop.

Just know where.

Your strings are. Mike out coaching pop.

Right now. The Diamondbacks went with a classic called Fuel by Doubters, and we're keeping receipts. The old one-two punch, the D-backs. Dan, you know what the C in Clemson stands for? I do not. It stands for the CW. Next week, they should play on Comedy Central. Fueled by Doubos.

Davo said he couldn't find it. He didn't know. Thank you. Davo said he couldn't find the CW anywhere. Couldn't find it. Didn't know where to find it.

If he found it, he could have watched himself lose.

Not a supernatural fan.

Fueled by Doubos and were taking receipts is actually a good name for a country music song.

And a Schwarzenegger movie.

I didn't.

Think of that. Put 78-year-old Sylvester Salone on a movie poster and put that underneath his name.

Hey, Debo. God called. He wants his money back from the NIL deal that you made with him. If the committee leaves undefeated Air Force out of the playoffs, they should be tried for treason. Kevin Durant said the Warriors should retire his jersey someday.

No one gets tried for treason in this country.

The back of his retired jersey.

They what? They win the next presidential election?

-they should read hired gun.

Honestly, at this point, I'm just hoping Air Force can feel the team come bull season.

They're good. Because of treason. The Falcons. Top five things the Warriors should put on the back of Kevin Durant's retired jersey. O-l-i. You chose Kyrie over Curry. Number five. No one chooses the Nets. Number four. Thanks for stopping by. Number three. Sucker. Number two. If you can't beat them, join them. Thanks, Mike. Number one. Zero rings. Here comes the magic. Dusty Baker said this is not goodbye. Just see you later. Hey, Dusty. Make up your mind. Also, the Stugats is strong in you. Who does that? I do.

Okay, a moment of self-reflection. Who do you think you are?

I am. In the event you were concerned, everything is just fine in Athens. Mex, Georgia. Do it against Alabama.

Weren't you the one who was concerned? I was. A couple of weekend observations ago. But everything's fine now. Because I'm pretty much the one who… I just learned in the hallway, they just told me, Hey, Dan, the Next and Ghanu promo is going to have you saying how he had no chance.

You hold my daughters and keeping receipts.

Deion Sanders, Florida Gators, Collision Course.

Matt Rolls-Better.

Miami Hurricades. The rare win that felt like a loss. Miami, Mil Miami should have had to run gasters after that win. I looked up my doctor's new office number, and now every time I log on, there he is staring at me. Every time. He's staring at me now.

It's weird. Log on to what?

The internet.

He just logged on to the internet.

That's not a thing that people do anymore. Remember, I miss logging on. It was a dialed. I got.

To kickstart it.

What does it mean?

So old.

It just clicks so far and rapidly closed tabs.

My doctor is staring at me, though. I mean...

You don't know how to get it off of your computer.

No. No.

You got mail.

Oh, I missed that. Goodbye, Messenger.

You would log out, too.

It's how Dan and I used to communicate. That's right.

That's true. Right here in the show. We still would if they had it. We would still do it.

It's still how we.

Used to do it.

Wait.

What did you guys use to do? The day that I had to prie AOL instant messenger away from them. I'm like, Gmail has this. You can chat on Gmail.

But now we don't even communicate. The show was so much.

Better than that. Would you guys put it like an away message on breaks?

Aol Messenger ruined.

The show. Brb, bathroom. Usc, the rare 50 burger with a side of You should be ashamed of yourselves. Put this in the something to ponder file. With everything going on here and around the world, ask yourself this, should we be wasting any of the FBI's time on the Michigan football program? No need to discuss.

It now. Yes, absolutely.

It's something to ponder.

To vote more resources.

In this thing. To ponder file.

There's nothing more important.

Where's the DEA?

Dan.

You know what the C in Corey Seger stands for? I do not. It stands for Clutch. You know what the G in Aureolus Garcia stands for? Grapefruit. You know what the D in Jacob de Grombe stands for? Don't get a ring in my personal record book.

Oh, really?

Wow. You were stuck on Garcia.

What happened there? I was trying to make sure there was a G in there. I was trying to just make sure. I thought sometimes with your accounting, it can be a little off. Garcia. Yeah, no, I got it. But you asked me what was happening, and I was telling you.

What was happening. Zero points, plus 10 rebounds, plus 6 elbows, plus countless, perfectly executed screens equals Al Horford. Rangers, Diamond-Becks. The greatest game in world series history. Most of you will just have to take my word for it. I realize that's difficult. Taking my word for it. Dan, you know what the C in Connor Stallion stands for? I do not. It stands for Cheater. Connor Stallions, great quarterback name. Chicago Bulls. The earliest players only meeting in NBA history paid off.

So.

Good. After a game.

Why didn't they just do it before.

The season started? So good.

No one has thrown more meaningful first pitches in Major League Baseball history than George W. Bush, Mr. President. Scientist caught Spur.

I don't.

Know.

Why. How could we long for that time? How is that possible?

It's a dud of a first pitch this time.

It bounced in. It is not a good game. Stugart is just celebrating a time when that buffoonery let us and wasn't good enough. Mr. President. I long for it. But Stugart is still out here with Mr. President.

Scientists caught sperm defying one of the major laws of physics. Sir Isaac Newton, fraud, the Prince of physics, my ass. What goes up must come down. Are you sure? Jets with a rare road win in their home building. Dan, you know what the P. And Purdy stands for? I do not. Not proper protocol. The 49ers better be careful of Chris Nekinsky because he might charge them with the murder of.

Brock Purdy. Did you pronounce his.

Name right? I have.

No idea. Okay, that's the concussion, Doctor. Stugatza has been making fun of us for using… It was a neurologist, the former wrestler. He did want to accuse the dolphins of murder.

She's telling the liners to be careful. He's out there. Playing Utah in Salt Lake City on a Saturday night is vastly different than playing them on Saturday afternoon. One might say the difference is night and day. The Utes. Do you like that? The U in Utah stands for you aren't good enough. Duke, still a basketball school, so is Carolina. Death, taxes, and that loss by Oklahoma. Brett Venables. The Bob Stoops is strong in you. Will Levis. Whoa. Dan. You know what the W in Will Levis stands for? Whoa. Good guess, but no, it stands for wow.

You really got me off the cent there. You let me in. You baited me and you tricked me. I can't.

Believe that. There is a devil, Cometh. That has ice volcanoes and horns that was presumably shot straight from hell and is headed right for us. Anyone looking into it? Anyone else concerned?

Anybody? I believe that's Ruben Baine.

-horns? -yes, it has horns. -horns. -it's a devil, Cometh.

A devil, Cometh with horns.

Shot from hell. Speak it to hell. Harp riles. Dan, those are the weekend observations.

Don Lebertard. I mean, they used to call me Chris Karyoke.

Stugaz.

Karyoke.

That back row is bringing it today. This is the Don Lebertard.

Show with.

The.

Stugaz. I'm going.

To try Stugaz to get to some of these things because I really do want to get to a funny moment that happened with my wife this weekend. Billy is burning on the World Series, and I don't want game one to get lost because it was a lot of fun and our coverage, a lot of people, I understand this, are complaining that our coverage as a show has been nobody cares about that world series, and we inundated everyone in America with Panthers talk for many months.

At least one ratings.

Was up.

Okay, but- Well, Roy has a Panther show now, too, Dan.

That's right, man. Thank you, Billy. That's after the game with Roy, the hot new podcast sensation supported by Billy Gill. Hopefully, Billy will be appearing on it with David Dworak as well.

I'll be there. Every Panthers game I go to, I will be on.

That postgame. Because he's such a big supporter of all things Roy and of everyone here after the game with Roy, if you want to find out what is.

Happening- It's a great name.

The logo should be in Times New Roman. When is that? After the game. But I'm not going to be able to get to some of the things that I want to get to because Mike has put in front of me one of the most magical things that always tickles me. This is off of El Classico, and is El Cheating-Nengito, who is, for the uninitiated, just a quintessential Spanish language television broadcast personality who is always funny.

It's a show. It's not an individual. It's an ensemble. It's out of Spain. It airs in this country on Fox Sports de Portes. It's appointment television all the time after big games, but especially if there's in El Classica, where the two biggest teams in Spain, Real Madrid and Barcelona, clash. No matter the result, you know it's going to be overly dramatic. No one shoots a sports television show the way that El Chiringuito does. It's filmed like 1997 ECW, with the camera always zooming in, in and out, weird thunderclashes and lighting.

But you would say it is classically Spanish television. It's like from a different time.

It's a Spanish tabloid, and it's unlike anything that there is in America, and you don't have to speak the language to enjoy it. But if you're ever going to watch it, watch it after a really dramatic El Classico like this year's was. Barcelona had a 1-0 lead in their really cool Rolling Stones kits because they have a Spotify partnership. Then the Rolling Stones were in person to look miserable. As Jude Bellingham bags a brace, 20 years old Jude Bellingham might lay claim to the best English soccer player we've ever seen. At 20 years old, unafraid, coming from behind and winning this game almost singlehandedly against Barcelona, he has already become a massive superstar in his homeland. But now he has transcended and he's becoming already a Real Madrid icon at such a young age. Naturally, because his name is Jude, Hey Jude is often popularly a song around him. This happens where on Cheating Guito, they have Barca fans and Real Madrid fans, and one Real Madrid fan took an opportunity to take the opportunity.

Hey, dude. [nobody try to help me. [nobody try to help me. [nobody try to help me. [nobody try to help me. [nobody try to help me. [nobody try to help me. [nobody It's just a wonderful taunt.

In the face of a Barza jersey-wearing supporter who has to take it, El Chiringitos never disappoints.

Why is it that that is not more popular?

Well, because it's in Spanish and hard to find.

But that.

Translates- That's soccer's dad. -i really miss Grant. There are so many moments where I miss texting with Grant Wall, not to make this all super sad, but texting Grant clips of El Chiringito always brought me so much joy. This was a weekend that I really miss Grant because he would have loved not just that game, not just the talents of Jude Bellingham, but that clip.

Stugat is lashing out, Mike Ryan, because he wanted to complete his weekend observations and he had to zip through them. He feels a little confined by time constraints, and he had to zip through them. He had another page of material that on the fly, a master ad libber, he had to throw to the side. And we never got to a page of weekend observations. And Stugatz is tired of not getting to his best stuff. I was just tired. And is just generally tired because he's zipping in here on a zipline to do God-blessed football with a more tired Billy who then gets left with 15 hours of editing. But this page that was neglected, that hit the cutting room floor, do you want to try it? Do you want to….

It's not a full page. It's just a handful.

Of options. You had a bad top five in there that could have not come out.

It could have been better. Yeah, I agree with you.

Then you would have saved time and you.

Could have done this page. I could have cut it out. No, but he doesn't edit them beforehand. He edits as he's going and then turns to me and says, See what a great job I did. I left the page out, but then says I had some good shit in there. We never got to it.

I mean, when has he ever cared about the clock with it? I appreciate it, actually clock discipline, but he can't cut the top five. It's a benchmark within a benchmark now. It's a benchmark inception.

But it was a bad top five to.

Billy's point. I want to hear what you didn't say.

All right, so let's see. It doesn't need any accompaniment. It is so strong, it lives on.

Its own. Did I do Will Levis, Woe?

Yes. I did that. Woe and wow. Yes, you did.

Aaron Rogers, NFL Coach of the Year. Collision Course. From 1:00 to 4:00 PM yesterday, somehow watching the jets win finally made me realize how they lost to the Patriots.

We're off to a rough start.

Kyle, shed a hand.

I'm laughing at the next team. Definitely, bring up the music. It needs.

To be sad. Hold on.

Hold on. Okay, hold on. Okay, that was back. That's why he wanted to do that. That's the good stuff. That's the.

Good stuff. Brock, Purdy. Blah, blah, blah. Dan, you know what the B in Brock Purdy stands for? Blah, blah, blah.

You nailed it. But you didn't nail, whoa.

He just wanted.

To do the blocks. That was wow. That was it.

Oh, it's too bad we didn't get to it.

Oh, wait. Music back. They tried to write off the Andre Hopkins. He did it right back.

Oh, no. It's a good one. No, I mean, tomorrow. I can.

See on directly from him because that's a social video he shared.

Come on. Billy, what's wrong?

I feel like we didn't miss much.

No, cut out the right ones.

It was an amazing, ad-living job by you. We should have all celebrated it on the fly. We could have done it before we started. But no, it's so great that he can do it and he can cut the band stuff.

I realized why I.

Skipped over all of that. Just a master of efficiency. But in those weekend observations, Connor. Connor Stallions made an appearance, and it is a great quarterbacking name. You are not incorrect, but that is not why he's in the news.

This whole Michigan thing has been so fascinating because there's just been a slow trickle of news every single day for the last two weeks about it. And the latest is that according to the Wall Street Journal, Michigan was going to offer Harba a big extension, which now they have rescinded in wake of the scandal, or at least our tabling until there's some resolution. And also the NFL put out a report that the NFL may not be a safe harbor for Harba. Wow, that was hard to say. If he.

Wants to go.

Safe haven for Harba was the word.

You know what, though? I'm with you, though. I'm with safe harbor or safe haven. This is a tongue twister.

It was a tongue twister. If he wants to coach in the NFL, though, they might not let him do that. Well, how does that work? They claim there's precedent because of Jim Tressel being a bit disciplined when he left college because of NCAA infractions, which is very weird.

Tressel was brought on as a replay consultant by the Colton had to serve, I believe, a five-game suspension. Six games, I think.

There you go. I think it was six games. But it's so weird because there's also two investigate... Like, Stugatts referenced the FBI investigation. That's apparently not even related to sign stealing. That is because of their former co-offensive coordinator who was fired in January for computer crimes. That is what the FBI is investigating. And allegedly, that has nothing to do with the sign stealing stuff. So I don't know what... There has not been too much reporting about what that entails and what this guy was actually doing, Matt Weiss. He was apparently using his computer from Schembeckler Hall in unauthorized ways, and now that is the investigation that the FBI is looking into.

A couple of fascinating details from this story as it keeps changing. The standing offer that would have made Jim Horribaw the highest paid coach in the Big Ten has been pulled by the school. There was a detail that came out in the reporting last week that Michigan was sharing information on opposing teams to help themselves get into the college football playoff. Games that didn't actually feature Michigan in them, they were reaching out to staffs that could have assisted their cause. Also the detail that TCU was aware of the sign stealing, remember the incredible start that TCU got off in that college football playoff? They had dummy calls that apparently worked against Michigan. What I would say is it pertains to Harball in the NFL. The NFL may end up punishing Jim Harball for doing this in the NFL. Because I shared with you that detail last week that I knew someone on a Western Illinois staff that caught someone from Jack Harball's staff videoing opposing sidelines. I forgot to mention that Jim Harball was also on that Western Kentucky staff at the time. This would apparently go back aways.

Beyond that, do you not find it weird that the NFL would protect its free minor league by not offering him- That's.

The logic. That's the logic. You protect your free minor league, your feeder system by imposing rules so they don't just get to jump, because the institution will no doubt get punished, but the lead offender, wouldn't?

The idea that hardball would be a fugitive who could, to my way of thinking, Stugat, to run into the safe haven of the NFL where no morality-.

Safe harbor.

-is- Haven.

For.

Harba. Harba. Harba for Harba. Harba for Harbaugh. Haven- That.

Was the headline. It said safe harbor. I didn't make that up.

That wasn't my- No, but that's fascinating to me. The whole thing was over some tattoos, and I thought that was overstepping. This is wild. The idea that you would cost yourself this money and this opportunity because the NFL locks you out. They don't blackball coaches.

They don't do that. I mean, let's be honest. You think the NFL, they'd like to have Jim Horbau as a coach? Or you think they care? Do you think it's going to move the.

Needle for the NFL? No, getting Dua Lipa to date another tight end would do more.

It's fascinating to see them protect their minor league free labor system that is crowdfunded.

Don Levitard. Let's go Islanders. Stugats. Let's go, Islanders. This is the.

Don.

Levitard show.

With.

The Stugats.

I don't have any idea why it is that Andrew Hawkins came in here and immediately placed an NFL football at the forefront of everything that.

We're doing. It's a football Monday. What do.

You mean? Is it because to grab footballs, whatever room you're in, you're going to grab the football and you're going to put it in a.

Prominent place? Just let everybody know what time it is. I set the tone early here.

It's like you with Nachos.

It's a little unusual, but we are here. We have not talked that much football today. We haven't done it enough.

That's what Mondays are for. Yes. Just wanted to make sure you guys' minds were right.

Well, I want to talk to you about something specifically because this was funny. My wife doesn't have any interest in football. She's basically horrified whenever she walks past the television during a goal line stand. I understand that the rest of us have gotten used to it and perhaps numb to it. But what's happening out there is a little bit crazy, so much so that in the 90 seconds that she was around the television yesterday on the Red Zone channel, which is meant to keep me away from some of these things, she got the following, right? She got Scott Hanson saying, There is bad injury news out of New York. And so she walks by one time and she says, Of course, there is. Then right after that, Kenny Pickett is down and shaken up, and she just shouts from the other room, Carnage. Then she asks, how many times, 90 seconds listening, how many times are they going to mention concussions? Because they went and did it like three times in those 90 seconds. She also wanted to know why Wink Martindale was in pickle coverage. But she heard that part wrong.

That was okay. Yeah, that was different.

She wanted to know. That was the only thing that intrigued her. What's Pickle coverage? That sounds interesting.

It's a brand of Speedo.

But it is the Game Show House.

You filmed me back there. There it is.

You didn't get the Kim Nicks laugh, but you got the off microphone Chris Cody laugh. That was good. I felt it. That Jet's giant's game. Stugantz is happy today to be four and three.

I sure am.

Brian Dayball. Not since Mario Cristobal, has a coach made a decision where you're like, Oh, you just lost the game. A truly terrible game that saves the Jet's season.

I mean, in fairness, he had no idea Zach Wilson was going to do that, march down the field the way he did.

I mean, in fairness- Zach Wilson. -zach Wilson managed the clock perfectly. He did. Perfectly got it down to a second. What, Billy?

They may have gotten the rare home field clock cooking, even though they were technically on the road. The referee, the official, I've never seen it. They usually have to go grab the ball and spot it, just ran by, touched it, and kept running. Just... I didn't tell that they had time to spike it. Did you see that?

Yeah. We're taught in practice, and never leave it to the rest because it is a crapshoot of what they'll do. Some will take their time. Some will say, Hey, we know what you're trying to do. Let me give you a hand here. So you're taught in two-minute drill, receiver, catch the ball and then run as fast as you can just to hand it to the ref. They tell you actually not to set it because the ref will take it, find his spot, walk to a different place, and then you'll be at liberty of.

The referee. But this one knew what was going on. He gave it to the center, and the ref just went and touched it like freeze tagged and got out of the way. He gave them the opportunity to do what they did.

It's the one ref that wouldn't have been like...

Yet no ego was involved in this, which.

Was crazy.

No, he got to the ball, right?

That's what you want? Yeah. That's what you want from the referee. That's what you want. That's actually not affecting the game. If he did it the other way, although we see it so routinely that is affecting the outcome. -that is affecting the outcome. We want you just to get out of the way and just let.

Us play. Also, giants land him a little bit longer. They never call that just literally one second longer and they could have won that game.

Well, no, here's the other thing. Lazar would have kept running had no one tackled him. He would have kept running and then someone would have tackled him at the 10, game would have been over.

Yeah. It's crazy that I come and I set the tone by putting the NFL football up here, and I'm like, Let's talk some ball, and you guys start off with giants jets. Maybe the worst football game that I've seen. It was the game of the weekend. Yeah, it was.

Does anyone have any stats from that game? I want.

To-they were like 25 punts.

There were 15 just in the first half. They were more punts.

Than points. I saw Zach Wilson's first third down conversion. It was a run. He was like, 0 for 12 prior to that. It was a.

Terrible game. The team is combined at one point for 0 for 17, and I felt like I was in the second quarter.

It was horrible. It was rainy. It wasThe.

Giants had a 99.9 win probability with a minute 20 left.

Tell.

Me about the decision of Dayball to kick the field goal there. He had fourth and one, and he decided to kick a field goal. He could have ended the game with a one-yard run.

Yeah, he wasn't feeling good about it. I don't know. I mean, we always talk about it when the coach makes a decision. If it goes right, you're a genius. When it goes wrong, it's the dumbest thing ever.

I understand. But what about the process, though? Yeah, okay, we can criticize any result, but what about the process? I tell you as an offensive player, you're up three, you're both offensive, shit all game. You don't trust them. You can go up six in the rain, kick a field goal. A lot of things can go wrong there. Or you could get one yard against a tired Jets defense with Davito as your quarterback.

Yeah, but the Jets defense is a stout defense. What you're scared of is that they're going to flash as this defense that we know they can be on this play because they've gotten emotionally up for it. Then to your point, you're trusting Zach Wilson to go down there and score, and it's like, I understand him taking his chances there.

The New York Giants had negative nine net passing yards against the Jets, the fewest in NFL history.

Record-breaking.

It was actually the same outcome, though, right? Because if they don't get it, you get the ball in the exact same place with the same score here, you're telling them you need a touchdown to win. If you make it, which you assume you're going to make it, and you take more time off the clock. It wasn't a.

Crazy decision. You just.

Anticipate Graham Ganeau is going to make the.

Field goal. No, but here's the problem, Billy, with the call and why you should have ran the ball there. The only thing you were able to do yesterday against the Jets defense was run the ball. Like, Barkley had a good game. They had 203 yards on the ground. They needed one more yard.

Did he have a good game? He carried the ball like 40 times.

He had 128 yards.

Against that defense. And a lot of their passing yards were also essentially run plays. They were just throwing it to Barkley four yards away, really.

Airing it out there. But also in the second half, the Jets knew they weren't passing the ball. So they were expecting Barkley and Barkley still got yards.

That's not how to play football in 2023.

That's not how.

To do it. That's not how to do it. None of that is how to play football.

Come on.

Four and three. The thing that I thought was the saddest about the giants game was after Tommy DeVito went in, and I forget who the sideline reporter was for that game. She was saying that his backup is Saquan, Barkley, and the Wildcat if he gets hurt. And I was like, I already.

Knew that. That's sad.

I know the giant's fourth string is Saquan. I shouldn't know that. It shouldn't happen.

That often. Barkley averaged 3.6 yards yesterday.

Okay.

Hawke, can you explain to me, please? Is it simply that Patrick Mohomes was sick, and we don't understand how sick he must have been to play like that against a defense that gave up 70 points?

I think it's a couple of things. What the chiefs are trying to figure out is they need a legitimate player at wide receiver that Patrick Mohomes feels good about and can depend on. It hasn't shown to be the case for him. Until that happens, I think it will continue to look the way it does because you understand, okay, I'm going to take away Travis Swift. Once you take away Travis Swift out of the game, they don't have a lot of options outside of that, right? Sometimes, the receivers will flash for the chiefs, but it has not been consistent enough for Patrick Mohand to sit back there and say, Okay, if this isn't there, I'm going here.

I can't even imagine through your eyes what Tyreke Hill looks like. Through your eyes versus us.

To- Why? Because it's a different angle? What are.

You trying to say here? No, because what has happened in Kansas City and Miami-.

You're talking to the former quickest person on.

The planet. Yeah, no. I mean, Tyreekeel was my favorite white receiver. Absolutely. He's saying you can relate to him. Yeah, no, of course, absolutely. It's what, as a kid at the house, knowing that I wasn't going to get above five-eight.

I don't mean just relate, though. I mean, you must be fascinated to see a receiver take the balance of offense with him from one team to the other at that size.

I mean, I won the Super Bowl, Dan, without him.

Yeah, no, I mean, that's what I was going to get to. I don't think that it was straight up, I'm taking this offense and we're going to Miami with it. I think there's a lot of factors there. I think Patrick Mohomes is the best football player on earth. Yes, Tyree Keel is the most electric football player on earth. But Patrick Mohomes has more than enough ability to make up for what he's lost in Tyree Keel. Same player. He did it. No, you can't. But he has done it. I think the problem is the more you go, it happened with Belichick and Tom braided as well, right? You put these weapons around and then somebody shows to be really good, especially at the quarterback position. Just slowly, it's not malicious on purpose. You say, Okay, well, let's see what you can do without this, because we'll now put more resources in these places. Then the talent just dwindles and dwindles and dwindles. I'm not saying that chiefs don't have talent, but they have a mindset that everybody is expendable because we have 15.

Back there. But he was sick yesterday, correct? Nine points happens because he's sick, correct?

It was a couple of things, man. It was drops. It was fumbles. It was the fourth and two. Sky Moore gets a ball. He couldn't have went out there and handed it to him any better, and he's not making the plays and that hurts momentum. And then the defense gets involved. Nick Bolton was out. So there's so many factors to it. I can't say that I worry about it at all, literally. I know there's a lot of teams that have tough losses this year that we thought were good and that those losses shouldn't have happened. The Chiefs are the one team I never worry about because Patrick Mahomes is the best player on earth, and he can recalibrate every single time. No matter what the issue is, him and Andy Reed will figure it out, and they will still be in the Super Bowl.

Mr. Gotts, there were a couple of plays yesterday. Correct me if my eyes are lying to me on this because Addison rips that ball out of Ward's hands 60 yards down the field in that Niner's Vikings game. There were two or three times yesterday with both the wide receiver and the defensive back have the ball together at the same time. Did you see this play within Joku, where a guy intercepts the ball on an overthrow to Joku, and all he does is that guy is trying to get up, is hit the football and cause a fumble and then recover it. I didn't know what the ruling should be there. But does it seem to you that the precision of these people is such that you just can't believe that everyone's getting to the ball at the same time when these things are this precise?

It is not crazy to me that is how it works. I mean, I guess you see just in broadcast now, it's like the concussions, too, right? The hard hits. You see them more now because the angles are there and it's in HD and 4K, and they've always been there. That precision has always been like that. That's why the rules are there. If both guys are there at the same time, it goes to the offense because so often these are both incredible athletes who are playing the ball and had the same timing, may the best man win. So it's not a surprise to me, but I can see from a fan's perspective.

It just seems like it's happening... Do I have this wrong? It just seems like it's happening more to me yesterday, what I'm looking at? Because I don't expect any wide receiver in that league to be coverable, period. I don't expect anybody one-on-one to be able to cover the highest levels of that sport, where a quarterback can put it, where a wide receiver. It's why Kelsey is not stoppable.

Yeah, no, I'm not surprised by that. Dbs are the best athletes in the NFL. They just can't catch. That's the problem. If they could catch, they would be a play-wide receiver.

Why are you smiling, Mike? Why are you showing me.

A 30-second? I'm not even.

Crying right now. Wow, Dan, that's supposed to be a little behind the scenes.

It'd be just for you. Why would you call it that?

It's a big step, though.

Because there's 30 seconds.

Left, Dan, that's why.

Now.

There's 15.

Switch that up. There we go.

There you go. How much.

Did we pay.

Them for that? You guys are not pros.

Not.

Pros. Hold on. Get to five.

Hold on. It's five.

It's always been your fingers. One second.

We'll be back.