Transcript of Hour 2: Would You Wather? (feat. Amin Elhassan & Teck From Real World: Hawaii)

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Empirically, this is the most improbable Super Bowl matchup there has ever been, correct? There have never been two teams at worse than 60 to one odds to start a season playing in a Super Bowl. The Pats were 80 to one before the season started. Seattle was 60 to one before the season started. I still don't trust the Patriots. Their schedule, getting to play the Dolphins, the Jets, and the Minor League division of Carolina and Tampa Bay and the Saints. That is a rare path to the Super Bowl where you're in the Super Bowl and you haven't played anybody, or you've played teams that you were lucky to play against because you're going to Denver and you're playing a quarterback who does what Stidham did on that play.

There's a chance that they go to the Super Bowl and then Sam Darnal turns into a pumpkin again, and they go throughout the Super Bowl playing nobody.

But we should have known that the Seahawks were to make it because this is the third straight time that when a new Pope was elected, the Seahawks went to the Super Bowl as a number one seed.

The first Super Bowl that the Patriots won, Patriots-Rams, was crazy unlikely as well.

It was crazy unlikely, but that was the greatest show on turf. Once we saw that season play out, we didn't question Kurt Warner the entirety of the season the way we've been questioning Sam Darnold. I don't think we can say that Sam Darnold is going to turn into a pumpkin again. I don't think that that's a reasonable expectation. He just beat the only team he actually throws the interceptions against over the last two years.

And he was what? The number three overall pick in the draft? Like, literally, this is what he's supposed to be, right?

Right. It just took him a decade to do it.

And five teams. Amin Al-Hassan is there, and he is ready to get to his weekend observations. I also want to talk to him about an assortment of things going on in basketball because the Yana stuff is really interesting. I just don't understand how the Bucks are that bad with Giannis on their team. It doesn't make any sense to me.

The team around them sucks.

Yeah, but still, if you have Giannis throughout the course of history, if you have that player, you're not seven games under Five hundred.

You see where their coaches?

Okay, we'll get to him in a second. Got you there. Yeah, he did get me. He cornered me on that. Is Doc there? Is it too early on the West Coast for Doc to be there? Is that too much of a test? What do you say, Doc Rivers, to what it is that Zazlo is saying where he got me because the Bucs have a bad coach.

Well, first of all, glad to be on the show. Last I checked, I'm on the top 15 coaches of all time list, and Zaz is nowhere near the top 1,500 of radio hosts. And he doesn't even rank as far as movie experts or lovers of football either. So I don't know what this guy is talking about.

Does Doc Rivers have any additions to our greatest football movies list?

As a matter of fact, he does. First of all, how can we not name the Replacements? Gene Hackman as the old coach, Shane Falco came back.

Doc's got a point.

Put it on the poll at Levitard show. Is the Replacements one of the top five football movies of all time? Are you in agreement with me that there have not been five great football movies made throughout the history of cinema?

Oh, no, I disagree wholeheartedly. First of all, the slander by any given Sunday. Wolf. What are you guys talking about? That's one of the great movies. Also, Two Americas. None of you guys got the LL Cool Jay, J. B. Fox fight, right?

What do you mean?

I'm saying what? It wasn't J. B. 'S fault. It wasn't.

Well, wait a minute. Jeremy was just reading- I read quotes word for word. He was just reading straight from the internet. What do you mean he didn't get it right? What did he get wrong?

Oh, reading straight from the internet. When did that ever let anyone astray?

Read articles, not the AI.

Christie Noem has read some things on the internet, too.

What did he get wrong? That's fine. You accused him of getting things wrong. What did he get wrong?

Can I do this in my regular voice?

Yeah, I've been waiting for that since the first question.

You guys kept asking Doc Rivers' questions. I'm like, All right, I guess I got to answer Doc Rivers.

Zast did ask Doc questions.

It is. It is. Weirdly, he asked Doc a football movie question. I don't know why he did that.

Well, he's not coaching. He's probably home watching movies instead of practicing. What do you expect?

He is coaching.

He's playing golf. Jamie and LL Cool J are doing the scene, and LL Cool J is unnecessarily intense, and Jamie doesn't know what's happening. He's like, He's a really good actor. I think he wants to kick my ass. That's how it started. Jamie didn't punch him first.

That's exactly what I said.

No, that's not what you said. You said Jamie punched him.

No, I said LL Cool J, back to back scenes, was being overly aggressive. So Jamie Fox ends up punching him, and LL Cool J takes his helmet, punches underneath, knocks him out. I said all of that word for word.

First of all, you said that Jamie was aggressive. Maybe you misread it or misspoken moment, but you said Jamie was being aggressive. Second of all, you said that Jamie punched first.

I think we should get bogged down in it.

Yeah, I think some more. That'd be good.

Well, you guys asked.

Yeah, well, you brought it up first, and then it beg the follow-up question because you said somebody got something wrong, and now here we are. Time now for Amin's Weekend Observations. Do them all as Rivers' punishment.

Absolutely not.

It is time for him to share his game notes. No one in the media will tell you what happened better than my voice. I mean.

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Big shot.

Big man on campus. North Carolina? Luke May? That was the guy. Greg May? His little brother. Who's laughing now? Jared Stittam. Not to be confused with Jason Statham, as Dan did last week. Turned back into a pumpkin at around 6: 00 PM Eastern, the Lord's Time zone. I love people complaining about the snow impacting the game as though it favored one side over the other. They both played in the snow. Also, I wore a jacket yesterday. It was 68 degrees. Chilly. You guys getting that cold front down there?

We're going to get a little cold front on the weekend. It's going to be 50.

Nice. Hey, can we talk about how the Rams lost to a team that had Bart from how high as their quarterback? This is the part where the picture comes up.

Did you give them a picture to put up or are you just expressing?

No, I guessed that they would read my mind, Dan, and know that, oh, he's probably going to mention Bart from How High. There it is. Oh, hey, good. Is that not?

Yeah, it looks pretty good. The plume of hair in the front is something they both do well. How high is the movie?

The jaw. The jaw also. Pukha and JSN. A battle for the ages. Pukha and J-S-N. Two names that make white liberals uncomfortable for very different reasons.

Is the nickname J-S-N because people are afraid of saying his last name? One thousand.

He's got a long name.

Aaron Andrews' postgame yesterday called him Jackson SN.

I didn't see that for real. It's so strange to be scared. I've never seen last name in this world. But to be scared of the Smith is also something that's interesting.

Think about it this way. Have you ever heard anyone say JSS for Juju Smith-Schuster? No, it's a long name. We said it.

Yeah, point.

Dominic Cromart, Rodgers Cromartee, we said that whole last name.

No, we used to say DRC.

Yeah, but JSS is actually a cool nickname. Jsn is just you're cheating and you're scared.

Do you remember when everyone was touching over... What's touching? Do you remember when everyone was gushing over Tony Romo? Pepperidge Farm remembers. Oh, you guys couldn't get enough Tony Romo. Oh, he's so small. Oh, how did he know what play was... Tony Romo's the best. Oh, where have you been all my life, Tony? Now? Everyone's like, Oh, Tony Romo sucks. Tom braided, he's awesome. Give it a couple of years.

Russell Media 13, Mike.

You'll hate him, too. Is Fernando Mendoza's brother any good? I'm asking. I need to know. He runs. Nobody knows.

He runs. I mean, he entered the portal after his brother did something that can't be eclipsed. I have no idea if he wants to get out of his brother's shadow or he's no good. I do know that there are thousands of people in the portal who will never play again.

Where it is, he's going to Georgia Tech, so that's why I'm more than that.

It's a good spot for him.

Cinephalm episode 297. National Lampoon's Van Wilder, starring Ryan Reynolds, Tara Reid, Cal Penn, Aaron Paul, Bud from The Cosby Show, and Tech from Real World, Hawaii. That movie was based off the real-life exploits of comedian Bert Kreisher. Yeah, from Real World, Hawaii. You guys remember? Tag money.

Of course.

Ruthie was my favorite on Real World, Hawaii.

Ruthie was Tupac. Do you remember those rumors? The Internet. Special. She was.

Since its inception. All she needed was just a little vendem. There was a whole thing. Cal Penn took the role of a stereotypical Indian because he learned, if he didn't, the role was going to go to a white actor in brown face. Fun fact, Dan. They hired him a dialect coach to perfect the Indian accent. The dialect coach was a white woman. Cal Penn speaks Gujarat. She does not. Imagine that. Cinepho, wherever you get podcasts. You guys remember when everyone was gushing over the Oklahoma City Thunder? Oh, my God. It's the greatest team ever. They're better than the Warriors were. That 173 games. Pepperidge Farm remembers.

They lost to Toronto last night. Zaz said they were going to win 80.

Yeah. Yeah.

You guys see that when Lou Dore tried to block Sandro Mamu Kheilashvili, and he landed on him? It was nuts. It was nuts. That was nuts.

Got it. Yeah, got that.

Tried to flex, by the way, on Mamo's full name. I didn't like that.

No. When I said Mamu, I was worried that Dan was going to say, Man, who's playing basketball again? And like, no. Oh, Manu from what are you highlighting? Whatever. No, not that one. I said full name. Audience. I'm trying to do it for the audience. Can we talk about how the Rams lost to a team that had Johnny Worthington III from Monsters University as their quarterback?

There it is. Video. There it is.

Tell me that jaw isn't his.

It's the tuft of hair. Again, you're doing it with the tuft of hair instead of the jaw.

It's the jaw. Zaz thinks Mike McDonald has a little D. When asked about it, McDonald Scott has said, What a fool What a fool believes. What a fool believes.

I think Mike McDonald is right here. I think I haven't heard Mike's Mike McDonald in a long time.

I've been workshopping.

Be ready next week. Oh, really? Perhaps a new bit, or I'll keep forgetting. This is very exciting. The idea that we're going to break out Mike McDonald again because Seattle is- To be on a cool Troopers.

Ice Storm causes game postponement. Ah, shit. I misread that. My bad. I should say, Ice Storm Troopers causes game postponement. Let it sit. Can we talk about how the Rams lost to a team that had a human Lego as their quarterback? Tell me that's not him.

It is him.

He needs a ginger hair, though.

We need to change the hair. Can we color the hair? Does the telestrator have colors on it? No, the telestrator- Do what now?

Askej and James.

Let me see if I can find that.

Do what now? I hereby nominate Dan as NFL Commissioner. We'll fix a sport with two words, Dan. Game seven. Oh, my God. Can you a game seven in the Super Bowl? Oh, my God. The ratings would be like eight billion. How many people are on Earth? That's how many people we watch a game seven.

A Super Bowl lasting for two months?

Yes. Who would object?

You know what? You got me. Everyone will be injured. By the end of it. Yeah.

I mean, we just saw a conference championship game where Jared Stitt threw the ball backwards. That got the Patriots in the Super Bowl because an incompetent quarterback is starting his fifth game ever, threw the ball backward.

Dan thinks the Rams are the When Mike McDonald heard that, he shook his head in disappointment and said, I keep forgetting we're not in love anymore. I can't do the voice.

No, you cannot.

I can't do that. I keep I feel good. Do we need any more proof that Zaz is neither a football guy nor a movie guy? He's smerching any given Sunday. You got to be ashamed of yourself.

He off base.

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Don Lebatard. Chris Cody does an impression. Just be careful.

Dangerous game. This is a dangerous game.

I don't want to play this game.

He was saying, Man, I could do such a great Kendra Perkin.

No, I don't want to play this game.

He's like, Man, I can talk to you.

I just like him. This is who we're going to trust with this.

Let's let Amine do it, I think.

I think you could do it, Chris, because you did a great Charles Barkley. You're one for one there.

Did no one just hear the segment we just did with Amine? We cannot be He's judgment is not the best. Council from the local drunk on whether or not you should do the impersonation of a black man stumbling over his words. You don't see the bad judgment in that?

There was.

Moody Moody? Moody Moody?

It sounds worse.

Be careful, man.

We cannot do this. It's too close to the line. This is where the line is. Something legitimately funny can't be funny because we're scared our ginger is going to do something racist by accident.

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Dan, the line is where we feel alive, though.

This is the Dan Levatard show with the Stukats.

I watched the Mel Brooks documentary of my dad yesterday.

Judd Afitale makes good documentaries. I assume that that's excellent.

It's excellent because Mel Brooks has an uncommon amount of archival footage throughout history, going back to him working with Sid Caesar. It reminded me a lot for different reasons, but in that way, of the Motown documentary. I don't know if you ever saw that one, Hitzvill. It's It's incredible. It's on Paramount Plus, I think. But what made it so great was they had archival footage of everything, including the Jackson 5 audition. They had that in the Hitzvill documentary. But the Mel Brooks one was incredible. They talk a lot about him walking the line in terms of comedy, in terms of being subversive, particularly with Blazing Saddles. They asked whether it could be made today. I was like, I I didn't think it could be made back then. It's just because Mel Brooks was a genius, and Mel Brooks had a writer's room that had obviously Richard Pryer in there. Richard Pryer was the one that was pushing for some of the language because he said, Mel, people don't know, and you You have the opportunity to let mainstream America know, Hey, yeah. People are saying the N-word left and right. These racist things that are being said in the movie for fun and for last are also a reflection of what society is.

Dan, I think you'd really enjoy it. It's an incredible two-part documentary, and I had a lot of fun. And my dad was a huge Mel Brooks fan.

I love the book. The book is exhaustive. It's a thick book, but he tells the story, among others, of watching Sid Caesar on the original television. Mel Brooks is so old that he was there for the advent of the first television.

Sid Caesar told them, I got I got you a job. We're working on this thing called television. He literally had to introduce the concept of TV to him in order to tell him, Hey, come work with me. Also, did not know this, Mel Brooks, World War II veteran. When he does Springtime for Hitler and the producers, when he does all these jokes about Nazis or whatever, there was, at the time, people were very outraged to say, even though Mel Brooks is very outspoken and proud of his Jewish heritage, it's a bad look to be making these jokes. The dude was literally going through minefields to make sure that these German minds weren't just going off and killing Allied soldiers. I think once you've hit that level of, I'm about this life, you can joke about whatever you want.

We'll get to basketball stuff with Amin in a second. But Zazel, what did I see you so excitedly sending to the video department here a second ago while Amin was doing his weekend observation?

Well, I think Greg Cody is going to be studio tomorrow, right? He's here on Tuesdays. Yeah. Okay. Well, it sounds like he's going to have something to say to you, all right? Because on the latest episode of the Greg Cody Show featuring Greg Cody, they put out a quick teaser on Twitter. Give this to listen.

I know Leventard very well.

I know when he's serious-We're having two conversations. And when he's not.

I know when he's serious and when he's not. He was serious.

Well, you. What's that about? I don't know. Dan? I don't have Any idea what he's upset about? Can anyone give me any context for that? Could be anything. It really could be. Could it? The LSU picture. It could be anything. Mike Ryan has seen how unreasonably mad Greg Cody gets about some things. We cannot predict when and why he gets mad about things. I legitimately have no idea what that's about. I was headed Saturday to the library to go and see what he and Ron McGill were doing, and then I got sick and couldn't get over there to support. Maybe that's what it's about.

But I don't have- The Library of the Bar or the Library of the Library?

No, he was doing something with Ron McGill for their new book as he continues to grift off of Ron McGill.

At the Library of the Bar or at the Library of the Library?

I actually saw a picture of this. I took the Metro Reel today, and there's a picture in the elevator of the poster. There was one that I thought I saw devil horns on somebody drew on Greg Cody. I have to go double check in one of the elevators.

Does no one know what he's mad at me about? Can someone ask his son? Does anyone know the whereabouts of his son? Can someone give me some information? Because no one's told me anything. I guess we'll find out together tomorrow when he gets here.

There's some good teases, though, that he put out, apparently, for this new episode of The Greg Cody Show featuring Greg Cody. He took a horse racing quiz with Clark Spencer. All right, there's that. He also auditioned for Mike Biamonte's job as new PA of the Miami Heat. Obviously, he had words for you. He just played it right there. And apparently, Greg was asked if his opinion of me He has evolved after working with me now. Very interesting.

Okay. Not surprised that Zazla would find himself interesting. Can you please tell us what you make of the Yannis situation in Milwaukee? And do you believe that Doc Rivers is among the... Not do you believe, do you agree? Because I know you don't agree. Can you believe that Doc Rivers is among the top 15 coaches of all time in anybody's list of the top anybody's list of the top 15 coaches, including Docs.

Look, the Yana stuff is incredible because he's been giving these quotes all season long, just left and right. And me and George Sedano, years ago, came up with this line describing LeBron. He said, LeBron doesn't leave breadcrumbs. He leaves whole loaves of bread, in a sense, because he's passive-aggressive but not good. He's just so obvious and blunt with it. Yannis is leaving bakeries behind. He had a game where he said his teammates were selfish and said, In the past, I've had teammates who understood the gravity that I bring to the game, but apparently, that's not the case anymore. He had the quote about how his agent is his own man. I'm not responsible for anything. He says he's the only man, but he works for me. I was like, What does that mean? Then the latest one, which is he gets hurt. He pulls that calf, which has been bothering him. After the game, I talked to Jim Morzowski of the Milwaukee Journal, Central. He said, This guy never talks, never talks about injuries. He comes out to the game, he says, Yeah, I pulled my calf. We're going to do an MRI. When we do the MRI, they're going to show that my Solonius or whatever has been pulled, and it's going to take about 4-6 weeks of recovery.

But during that time, if the team could stay within striking, he's like, Giving us a whole prognosis. I'm like, What are you doing, buddy? I think this is Yannis' coy way of saying, Hey, This isn't my fault, everything that's happening. But he still doesn't want to do the thing, which I think all of us think you just come out and do it and say, Hey, man, thanks for the memories. I want to get traded.

I mean, does the injury now, 4-6 weeks, calf injury, we know that that's the bugaboo term now in the NBA is a calf injury. Does this affect his potential trade market in February?

Not one bit. Anyone who's in the market for Yana Yannis and N'Nuncunpo is in the market for Giannis Anuncumpo. They don't care about him missing the next 4-6 weeks. They are there for it. Whether that's the Miami Heat, the New York Knicks, the Toronto Raptors, or another one that's been listed, they're ready to go. What's holding it all up is Milwaukee, apparently, is still saying, We don't know, or, Well, let's see if we can make a deal here around the periphery. Maybe we could turn Kyle Kuzmen into something. They're still playing this game of chicken where they're like, We don't want to trade him. Yana is like, I don't to ask to get traded. So we're just going to pretend that this thing is going to work somehow.

I have not looked recently. They were 18 and 25, and then they lost against Denver at home. It doesn't even have Yokeish. They're truly terrible. I know that Kyle Kuzmen, Miles Turner is not good roster construction. But if I told you before the season, if I put Giannis on any team in the sport, am I going to have more than 18 victories at this point in the season? Wouldn't you have said yes?

Yeah. If you said that 18 victories, the first thing I'd ask is, Is Yannis healthy? And he hasn't been healthy. He has missed games. I think he's only played 30 games this year. Then many of those games have occurred with a minutes restriction. Those two things do inform a little better why the record is as bad as it is, but it's still worse than what we would believe, even under those circumstances. But then I remember, do you remember Charles Barkley in Philadelphia? How could he be that great and that team be that bad? Man, it's a team sport. It doesn't matter how good a player is. At the end of the day, you have to have competent infrastructure, and that includes teammates, and that includes coaching, and that includes everything.

I mean, teams like Miami are going to just put all their chips to center the table and say, Here, take whatever you want in order to acquire Giannis. But he's going to be 32 this year. He's dealing with a calf injury now. He's been injury riddled. Should any teams be worried about that?

Yeah, he has a history of being durable. He's going through some stuff right now. It happens. Nobody's perfect. I mean, Jokić has been a durable guy, and now he's been out for a considerable amount of time with an injury. I don't put him in the same class as when we were talking a couple of weeks ago about Ja and Anthony Davis and those guys. Those guys have reached a point where it's like, you think twice. With Yannis, you take that risk because, again, he has been durable, and when he's played, he's been just as stellar as he's always been.

I Wayne, good seeing you. Thank you for making the time. Thank you for pulling out the Doc Rivers earlier than ever. It's very hard. You almost killed him dead. Yeah, it's very hard to get out of bed and do the Doc Rivers. Thank you, sir.

Get out of bed? I have to take my kids to school. I've been out of bed for three hours now.

Okay. I just thought maybe perhaps I would give you some credit for the fact that you did something tough. Never mind. I take it back. See you later.

Well, he did do this, though.

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Not because he was tired. He was ready to go. He took his kids to school. Been awake for hours. Yeah, been awake for hours. Totally rip-roaring. Thank you, Amin. Good talking to you.

That's not fatigue. I'm not going to believe it on fatigue. I just misspoke. It happens.

What's your excuse, Levatard? I'm speaking 4 hours a day, not 15 minutes. See you later.

I speak 4 hours a day, too. You didn't hear how many podcasts I plugged in that day?

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I want to address Tony and all men who would wear that shirt in public.

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I mentioned that the Patriots were 80 to 1 odds before the season started, and then they lost to the Raiders at home. I think they were pointing out during the game yesterday, they were saying, Do you realize that this game is in Denver because was the Patriots lost to the Raiders at home? Tony has been wondering if the Patriots are going to be the first team to win the Super Bowl without beating anybody. Without beating anybody.

I'm telling you, if we look at Sam Darnold, and I don't think it's going to happen, but there's an outside chance. What if Sam Darnold just completely implodes under the lights, and then all of a sudden, the Patriots go from a dumpster fire team? I saw this stat, by the way, on Twitter. I don't remember who it was, but I want to give them credit, but I can't. Since December 21st, the Patriots have won more games than the Tennessee Titans have since they fired Mike Varej. That's off rip. I don't remember who it was. Thank you for that stat. But the Patriots might just go the entire season with beating up on every and anybody and then do it in the Super Bowl.

Why don't you just take credit for that stat? Who cares?

Because I'm not that guy. I'm not a sucker like you.

It was Jamie Eisner.

Who cares? Thank you, Jamie Eisner.

We should give credit. Thank you, Tony, for trying.

The credit was, I read it basically perfectly after seeing it for one No, he did.

It's pretty perfect.

Thank you for trying the least possible amount to credit someone which is more than Zazlo gave. Would you rather...

You're just going to leave.

Okay. That's the beat right there. Wait a minute. He's just... It's tough. He's self-reporting. Okay, very good. So he's just... That's right.

Waltz your ass on over there.

Minor penalty, two minutes for leaking confidence.

Head on over to that sucker room.

Boy, Zazlo taunting you for misspeaking when Zazlo's had the last 10 days. What an embarrassment. The last 10 days that he has had. Roy, get for me, please, the assortment of library sound that we have of Zazlo just screwing things up over the last 10 days. That's right.

This guy's calling you a sucker, Tony.

Get a load of this. I don't think it is fair to think after that particular game, being less than 24 hours removed from that particular game, to say that Sam Darnold is again going to turn into a pumpkin. At this point, correct, you can't question that Sam Darnold is not afraid of big moments when the only team that intercepts him and causes him problems. Chris Shula is the defensive coordinator that has given Sam Darnold the most problems. To see Sam Darnold outplay Matthew Stafford when Matthew Stafford has an all-time game and Matthew Stafford has a game that a quarterback never has and loses, I don't think it's fair anymore after that game. Never mind 24 hours. I don't think it's fair anymore to question whether Sam Darnold can play in big games.

Unless he totally throws up all over himself in the Super Bowl.

I mean, but then how would you explain what just happened?

No, but if he goes from playing well, playing really, really well, which is what he just did, to throwing up all over himself in the Super Bowl, that has to be considered a choke then.

What do you think makes Jets fans angrier, the Patriots in the Super Bowl or Sam Darnold in the Super Bowl, when he was their top five pick? He was the starting point on a traveling path through four other teams, and the Jets thought they had a quarterback. They had hope when Sam Darnold came in and looked apart. And it speaks to what Mike Ryan is saying about losing organizations are going to take everyone one down with them.

I think the Jets fan is more mad at the Patriots being in the Super Bowl because I feel like the Jet fan is self-aware, actually. It's self-aware enough to know we're the shittiest organization, so of course, we couldn't make it work with this really good quarterback. I think they're more angry that the Patriots are back.

Well, especially because I think there were people that thought the Jets would be better than the Patriots this year. People were looking at that Patriots roster and saying, Oh, they're not going to be very good. Who are their receivers? Yeah, sure. They brought in Diggs, but what are you going to do? The Jets being as abysmal as they are still, as a Dolphins fan, watching the Patriots continue to do what they do is more frustrating. And if Arnold had left the Jets and immediately gone to the Super Bowl with the next team, maybe we're having a different conversation. But with so many stops in between, you could be a Panthers fan, you could be a Niners fan, you could be a Vikings fan. You're also frustrated by Arnold.

Yeah. Jets, I think, are off the hook because of all the teams that you mentioned there. If anything, you turn your attention to Minnesota and being like, That's probably not the greatest goal.

What about Carolina?

But the thing is, Minnesota is the only franchise that had Sam Darnold consistently be good for them. They saw it play out. They were 14 and 3. They were really good last season, and they made the decision to go with the rookie. And of all the franchises that Sam Darnold has left in his wake, Minnesota is really the only one that said, Yeah, we saw this guy deliver.

100%, because then you look at what they have in JJ McCarthy, and it's It was like, Who would you rather have? Who would you rather have?

Who would you rather have?

Who would you rather have?

I did that on purpose.

You did?

No, you did it on purpose. It's okay. You didn't.

That's the joke. I got to explain the charade.

Now you're going to kick me out for explaining the show.

You're going to kick me out then?

Hey, I'm not going to take you out.

Sometimes you can say that, ball went off me, coach.

No, it was the part of the joke because I said, Wather the first time like an absolute idiot.

All right, so how do you feel about being criticized for your speech by this guy.

Or you should know that guy's a fool.

That's not even one of the ones that we had from the library last week.

How do you feel about being criticized for your speech by this guy?

I'll get out to it. Who didn't see that coming?

I mean, that's fine. Let's play on. That's Zaz being Zaz. That's him starting to cook.

Roy, how have you not found the three from last week that we have been playing as we've been filibustering for a good three minutes trying to allow you to find these three sounds from last week?

Well, there's no photo for these things. They're not labeled, and I'm just creating an excuse.

So you don't have it? You still don't have it? You're still looking for it. You still can't find it.

They were never saved in the J.

Search bear lose.

Bear lose. Yes, okay.

Search weapons. There's a litany of them that Zazlo can just-Maybe search-cannot speak.

I just put the word Zazlo in there. You would think that would be it.

Oh, boy. This is bad.

You want a pen right there?

Top to bottom. Yeah, I'm going to... Don't worry. I already got your note. Me? I self-reported.

You told me that if I self-reported, I was okay.

You got to know. The packer's winner, the bear's lose.

There you go.

There it is.

Was saved.

That guy thinks you speak like a sucker. The packer's winner, the bear's lose.

Who are you a fool in front of there?

Diana Messini. The packers winner, the bears lose.

Put it on the poll, please, @LevitargeShow. Who would you rather be, Tony or Zaz?

The packers winner, the bears lose.

How about a 38-year-old coach, Mike McDonald, who is backpedaling the entire game with Matthew Stafford? I'm going to say it again. He had, at one point, 13 completions for 265 yards. That's the number one defense. Sounds like a big D to me. How do you feel about Mike McDonald? I think I should capitalize the D and make it even larger than you normally capitalize. Double size. I think today, I think based on what I'm I'm about to say, Mike McDonald's name in graphics, Forevermore, should have the D seven times as large as all the other letters in his name because he's sitting there with Stafford, fourth and goal, and he says, You know what? I'm going to throw at this guy who's played 17 years in the league and can't be fooled by anything. I'm going to have seven D linemen on the line, and then I'm only going to rush two of them, and I'm going to drop everyone into coverage. You know what he's going to do? He's going to stand there and he's going to his foot and he's going to be like, I'm going to throw a Ferguson for the first time in the game, even though he's totally covered.

He's in the middle of the field. There's no one in the middle of the field. It's just an amoeba defense. Why do the defensive linemen have their back to me? They're all running and scattering.

Every receiver's double-covered, and he's like, Oh.

It was like walking into a dark kitchen at night that's filled with cockroaches, and you turn on the light, and then just everyone scatters in every direction. And Stafford's I got Pukah over here. I've got Devante Adams over here. I've got an assortment of tight ends not named Ferguson that I could throw to. Let me throw to a guy who's just totally covered in the middle of the end zone. No pass interference. I can't believe that that's the defense that he went with in that situation. I can't believe that the Rams lost that game when they were driving that way at the end.

Again, great situationally. On top of that, Matthew Stafford, 0 for 7 on third or fourth down. That's playing great situation of football as a defense.

0 for 7 while Darnold was doing what he was doing on not just third and fourth down, but third and long. That's the thing that Seattle kept doing to the Rams defense, and I don't think it's being talked about enough, just the calamitous decline of the Rams defense over the second half of the season. I've been surprised that you guys don't have more of a reaction to over the last nine games, the Rams allowed scoring on 40% of the plays. That's dreadful. It's why they were five and three down the stretch and why the Seahawks were eight and oh down the stretch. Do you give the Patriots any credit for being nine and oh in road games this season? Unbeaten. They lost to the Raiders at home to open the season. They lost 20 to 10 and then won all of their road games.

So I've thrown out a few things on the show today. I wonder if this has ever happened. I wonder if this ever happened. Has Has a team ever won the Super Bowl in a season where they lost to the team with the number one overall pick?

Did you just surprise yourself with that while you were pointing around the-I'm certain. I'm certain. It's probably happened. You're throwing out. You're basically just saying, Google this for me. You haven't been the same since you threatened Baroubi.

I have a certain glow to me, right? I mean, this is someone who's very confident.

Yeah, that was a good moment for you. I know, right?

On today's show. I'm projecting a lot of confidence here. You've had a good show.

Craig Baroubi. I'm not sure he meant to do that Elmer Fudd thing. I did.

I absolutely did. That was the point. It's okay if you didn't. But no, I know. But I did. That was the whole point because I said, Wather, like an idiot. And then I was like, You know what? It'll be funny again if I say it again.

No one believes you. Just one example. The Green Bay Packers that won the Super Bowl lost to the Carolina Panthers that year who ultimately drafted Kim Newton.

You pointed with such conviction as if you were making a good point and then redundantly pointed. Put it on the poll. Would you Wather be considered unfunny or a liar?