This postgame episode of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz runs through a loose, joking mix of football and hockey talk. The hosts count down a top-five list of the most deflating penalty calls in NFL games, including the ineligible receiver downfield rule, and argue over whether that rule should be relaxed.
They then turn to the NHL, where the Devils are resting goalie Connor Hellebuyck, and debate whether this is load management. The show closes with listener poll results and shout-outs.
Listeners get a lighthearted look at sports banter, though most of the claims made are casual opinions rather than established facts.
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That's right. So the points, rebounds, and assist leader for tonight, you may want to call him, I mean, the king of the court. I'm the king here. All right. You may want to call the point, rebound, and assist leader tonight the king of the court. So you know what we're going to do tonight?
What we're going to do.
We're going with my boy who has been slandered by Doc Rivers. We're going to go with Giannis Antetokounmpo.
Yeah.
To have a huge night, the final night of what could be a, you know, for all the talk around the Miami Heat, what could be a winning Western Conference road trip if they win tonight.
It's a tournament.
So you know what? We're going to go with Giannis Antetokounmpo to be tonight's points, rebound, and assist leader. How you load that?
Hear here, king. I love that. What's happening? What? The seating arrangement. What happened here?
What do you mean what happened?
Where'd I sit?
I'll tell you what happened. We making history in the shipping container. Never in the history of the shipping container has it been four brothers and four brothers only holding down the ship.
All right.
Yeah, we overcame. We have overcame.
Wow. How about that?
Dan leaves and we segregate the show.
All right.
I don't know why we're in the the A studio. I don't know why you put all the black people in a shipping container.
Oh, look at that, Chris.
Very problematic, this company.
I don't know what you're trying to do, man.
I don't know what you're blaming here, Zaz.
Yeah.
So, Juju, you have top five for today, which I think comes off of the, you know, terrible call by the officials on Saturday night. The Kane's games really got screwed. You have a top five for us?
Yes, sir, man. Top five most deflating calls in an NFL game.
Yep.
I'm talking about your team is rolling, just made a big play, and here come the referee punk ass. Number five, prior to the pass, holding on number two after you just shut them down for the whole series.
You know, Juju, there's one that I'm just hoping to hear. I'm so excited for this list.
Number four, guess what? You had a big fourth down stand.
Uh-huh.
Incomplete pass. But wait, there's a flag in the backfield. Roughing the passer.
Oh, brutal.
That was sexy.
Hate him.
Number three, guess what? Josh Allen made a long touchdown pass, a 120-yard touchdown pass.
That's crazy. CFL. CFL. CFL.
You feel me? Here come the referee punk ass. Ineligible man downfield.
That was it.
Zayard penalty.
My ass.
They should be able to.
Can we start here? Lyman should be able to go out for passes. Cover him.
No.
Why?
That's a terrible idea.
Terrible. Absolutely bad.
That's horrible. I mean, there would be so much congestion.
It'd be chaos.
It'd be ridiculous. It'd look like recess.
All these rushers just blindly rushing. What if he had to worry about, "Oh, is he going out?"
Right.
It's called tight ends.
Another one. Big fourth down stop for your defense. We stopped them. We stuffed them. They didn't get it. But guess what? Defender lined up in the neutral zone. Five yards this way.
That's sexy.
Hawk, there must have been a point where when football was first created, when American football was first created, where the linemen are going out for passes and they were catching passes and somebody just stepped up one. They're like, "This shit's crazy."
Yeah.
You're not allowed to do this anymore, right?
Nobody is having fun watching this. I think it was like 1910. They were like, "All right, we got to change it."
You are.
This is never going to break.
Ineligible.
And the number one most aggravating play call, penalty call in the world, your team just scored the winning touchdown with zero seconds left on the clock. But guess what? There's laundry in the backfield holding your man's 10-yard penalty replay, fourth down.
Sexy. 10-second runoff.
10-second. Oh, my damn.
So deflating. So deflating.
There's a lot of drama tonight, actually. You know, if you're looking for stuff to watch this evening, it's Tuesday night, you know? Between you got the NBA I'm not even talking about from a local perspective, Greg, because you got the NBA where I think the casual fan is going to tune into the potential drama in Philadelphia with Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. And the casual hockey fan, you're going to take a look at what's going on in Winnipeg tonight with the Devils and the Jets and Connor Hellebuyck, who apparently is not playing. This is a good drama sports night. You know what I'm saying?
Is that normal or has he been out? Like, what's happening? Why?
No, he's played every game since he's been trained there. I think they're undefeated with him in that.
They're spotted off.
Right before the 5-0?
So he's ducking the smoke.
No, it's and it's not even a back-to-back, all right? The Devils are sitting him because they believe that five games in nine days, I guess it is.
There's four in 12.
Okay. Yeah. Like, he needs a break.
Oh, please.
What? It's crazy.
You got to blame it on a fake injury, right? You can't just say he needs rest. You got to say he's got a mild ankle sprain.
Well, and the goalie, Hellebuyck, has been adamant that he wants to play. And the Devils are not letting him play at his old team tonight.
I was told by a certain someone who's not here with us today that load management doesn't happen in hockey because they're warriors and they go out and they earn their checks. And that's why hockey has like 10% of NBA ratings.
Well, no. You're like, goalies can't play every game.
It's the thing with goalies.
Like, you.
So they do load manage.
Goalies.
No, they don't.
No, it's not load manage. It's goalies.
Load manage.
They do need to rest.
No, no.
It's a different position.
No.
Sounds like load management.
Sounds like load management to me.
They just load manage.
Did he play all 82 games?
No, they don't.
Okay.
It's 84 now, by the way.
84.
Did they play all 84 games?
No, they goalies will not. No.
Then load managing, then.
Okay. You can call it whatever you want, but that's normal.
You call it load management.
The starters are playing two-thirds of the season.
It's.
Except for the goalie.
Thank you, Roy.
It's a good drama night.
The goalies.
That's what he's talking about.
Yes.
It's a good drama night. Like, I'm keeping it. Obviously, we got the Panthers on the main TV in the Zaz Lamanchin family room, Greg. You know this. But on the smaller TV, we'll have Sixers/Celtics, and we'll keep an eye on Jets and Devils because I think we keep our fingers crossed, right? Right, Roy? Like, you got to hope you don't want anyone getting injured. You never hope for injuries. But if somehow the goalie that the Devils put out there, maybe he, you know, gets hurt in the middle of the game and Hellebuyck has to come out in between the pipes.
I think we root for that, right, Roy?
No, that's going to be another situation, Zaz. They're going to do a tribute video for Connor Hellebuyck.
No, they're not.
That's what they usually do to be classy.
You can't do a tribute video to a guy who demands to be traded and tanks your season and never won with you.
Also, can you play a tribute video when everyone's going to be booing it?
Well, that's what the Panthers are.
That's why they're going to do it.
They're doing it like, "Oh, you're going to get booed." That's why they're going to do the video. It's just what you do in the hot shot.
Oh, this is to ensure that he hears the boo.
They're fine with the booing, but they're just like, "We have to do this video."
Because he's not playing. It's like the only way he can get booed now is if we play this video.
I like it.
Yeah, like he said, the senators just did that with Brady Kachuk.
Yeah, it was ugly. It was ugly, and it'll be ugly tonight.
Did he play in that game?
Brady?
Yeah.
Of course. Every time he touched a puck, they booed him. And he loved it.
He loved it.
Loved it because he's a villain.
And also because he doesn't load manage.
Scored the first goal in the game.
Juju, we got some polls to catch up on?
Yes, sir, man. And before I read the polls, I'd like to wish a happy birthday to one of our listeners. Happy belated birthday to Cisco Rubio. Salute, bit. I like that name.
Happy birthday.
Unleash the dragon.
To him. I don't care. Good luck.
Come on, man. First poll. With the game checkers, draw the crowd that football does if it was violent.
That's a good question.
67% of the audience says, "Yes, it would." I also like to remind the audience to go listen to the Greg Cody Podcast featuring Greg Cody.
With.
With. Thank you, Juju.
Right now.
And the Zaz Low Show 2.0, man. Come on, man. Cinephobe, wherever you get your podcasts, man. Hawk is everywhere. Just turn on your damn TV. Dan Le Batard Show, Tuesdays, 9:00 to 12:00 Eastern.
NFL Live.
You got to know, man. And my boy Chris Pitch Clock coming up next. Not this time, but coming up soon. You got to know, man. And last poll. Oh, but speaking of that, no, I got a breaking news. The Alley Oot returns this Thursday. You got to know, me and Trista Criek, and we got some co-hosts. Salute. Last poll. Whatever happened to cuffs on pants? 56% of the audience says yes.
Wow.
And those are your polls.
Bye-bye.
"Yo Zaslow, you lookin all regal."
Is there any penalty more deflating than an ineligible man downfield?
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