The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz XX
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[13] This is the Dan Levatore show with the Stugats podcast.
[14] Is today Thursday?
[15] Because I think I misread this calendar.
[16] That's what I'm talking about.
[17] I think.
[18] I thought today was Thursday.
[19] I wish today was Thursday.
[20] The 400 -meter final hurdles for women is Thursday at 15 -25.
[21] Well, hold on.
[22] 1525.
[23] Is it 1525?
[24] 1525.
[25] But 1525, they're 1525 or our 1525?
[26] Right.
[27] I think it's all 1525.
[28] It's our 1525.
[29] See, but that's a thing.
[30] Is it all the same 1525?
[31] That's why we do it because it's 24 hours?
[32] I remember, you know, hold on a second.
[33] Wait, you don't know what you think called time zones.
[34] You clearly don't know how it.
[35] Tony's going to explain to us military time here.
[36] You clearly don't know how it works.
[37] So everyone is on the same time in the 24 hours?
[38] Yeah, everybody.
[39] on the same time.
[40] It's just obviously the time zones differ, but is it there 1525 or is it 1525 or is it both 1525s?
[41] I don't know.
[42] When it's 1525 here, is it 1225 in LA?
[43] Wait, Stugat and Tony, what time do you guys think 1525 is right here?
[44] If I tell you here, it's 1525.
[45] It's what the hurdles are.
[46] What time?
[47] Tomorrow, though.
[48] It's hurdle time.
[49] Okay, very good.
[50] I know what time it is, Dan.
[51] You know what time it is?
[52] I do.
[53] It's time for against the spread.
[54] Against the spread!
[55] Well done, man. I wanted to beat him to the punch there.
[56] Damn.
[57] But of course, he doesn't have the computer working.
[58] Dan, as you mentioned, it's time for against the spread.
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[63] What do you guys got?
[64] Who is betting what on against the spread?
[65] Are you guys ready for against the spread?
[66] We have a couple games today.
[67] I have a game.
[68] Tony has a game.
[69] I believe Jess has a game.
[70] And I think Roy may have a game.
[71] You have a game?
[72] You have a game.
[73] Oh, okay.
[74] All right.
[75] We'll start off with Tony.
[76] Guys in men's hoops here at the Olympics, host country, France.
[77] Got the little twin towers working with Wembe and with Rudy Gaubert.
[78] They are plus five.
[79] against the German national team.
[80] I like the home dog here.
[81] I mean, everybody's in France.
[82] I don't know what they say, but go France.
[83] Money line, you like them.
[84] I'm taking plus five against the spread.
[85] I'm taking France plus five, home cooking.
[86] Hopefully they can get the refs a little greased.
[87] What?
[88] Who said that?
[89] France plus five against the spread.
[90] The white socks are hot.
[91] They play the A's today.
[92] They've won one straight.
[93] one of their last 24.
[94] I am going to ride this team.
[95] No!
[96] I think it's one of their last 22.
[97] Whatever.
[98] They had a 21 game losing streak and then they won one.
[99] So 22 of 23, they lost 22 straight, but you know what happens?
[100] They never as a team lost 22 straight come out of that losing streak and then not one more than two or three games straight ever.
[101] In the history of baseball, it's never happened before.
[102] A team that has a 22 game losing streak, whenever that happens.
[103] It's a 21 game.
[104] lose him street.
[105] Whenever that happens, 20, 21, 22, it doesn't matter.
[106] What they do is they win the next two.
[107] And so this is the second one.
[108] The White Sox plus 64 at roughly 1525 today.
[109] The White Sox plus 164 against the spread.
[110] What time is that?
[111] Accuracy still matters.
[112] 1525 -ish.
[113] Roy?
[114] Olympic women's basketball.
[115] The United States of America is playing Nigeria.
[116] And the spread right now is The United States, our favorite to win, by 28 and a half points.
[117] Wow.
[118] Yeah, that's a lot of points.
[119] So that's why I got to go with Nigeria.
[120] It's just too big.
[121] Just too big.
[122] What happened the other day in the United States men against Puerto Rico?
[123] Puerto Rico was a 33 -point dog.
[124] Who ended up covering that?
[125] Juju was advising that we bet Puerto Rico in that spot, and I don't know how that game finished up or what.
[126] It was a pretty big blowout, if I recall.
[127] But I don't remember the number.
[128] You don't remember whether it was 33 or not?
[129] Billy, do you have one?
[130] here?
[131] I do, Dan, double -headed today in New York, the Yankees and the Angels.
[132] In the first game, we have D. Daniel versus Luis Heel, Davis Daniel, that is.
[133] Now, he had a nice performances last time out, a bit of a rough patch before that.
[134] Two bad games, he gave up seven earned runs and four earned runs.
[135] Now, Luis Heel, as you know, hot start to this season.
[136] He had a little bit of a rough patch in June and the beginning of July, but he's back on track.
[137] And you know what they say?
[138] If someone with your dad's name is pitching against the Angels, you always take them.
[139] So that's what I'm doing.
[140] I'm going to take him minus one and a half over the Angels today against the Spray.
[141] The United States beat Puerto Rico, 104 to 83.
[142] All right, so Juju got that one right.
[143] I would suggest on Juju's Thursday Thunders just betting them individually because he goes two of three.
[144] Well, I'm just saying.
[145] You can do it that way.
[146] You're allowed.
[147] Does anyone else have any betting advice?
[148] I had one, but Roy took it.
[149] I was going to take Nigeria to cover.
[150] Oh, I'm sorry.
[151] The Spray.
[152] I'm glad we organized it.
[153] I'm glad I'm glad we planned it.
[154] I'm glad that we're in a contract here, and that is what we're giving you as gambling information.
[155] 28 points is too many.
[156] When someone with your dad's name is pitching, you always bet them against the angel.
[157] You did give them that.
[158] Against the spread.
[159] Thank you.
[160] I appreciate all your work.
[161] Can we play, please, the aforementioned audio of Mad Dog Russo, learning that Billy Bean, a Major League Baseball player who played for six different teams and this was a gut punch yesterday.
[162] I'm not kidding you, Stugats.
[163] And this has been happening so much lately.
[164] But I knew Billy Bean and oddly, because I was with my wife when this happened and she saw me like physically, visibly disoriented by it because Billy Bean, it's not just that I knew him, Stugats, it's that my entire life, think about the mortality of this one.
[165] My entire life that I've known Billy Bean, and I've known him, I'm going to say, a quarter of a century, I have thought of him as a young person that he always seems young because he's a peer of mine.
[166] He just died at 60 after a fight with leukemia.
[167] But any time I've ever seen him, I'm like, that dude looks so young because he kept, he took such good care of himself.
[168] And so to hear that yesterday was just brutal.
[169] Rob Manfred had some nice quotes about Billy Bean where he said, everyone liked him.
[170] Everyone respected him.
[171] But Chris Mandog Rousseau thought the more famous Billy Bean, the one who was the groundbreaking moneyball general manager of the Oakland A's was the one who had died.
[172] So Chris Mandog Rousseau gave the eulogy for the wrong Billy Bean.
[173] The word that we're getting right now is that the general manager of the A's, Billy Bean, may have passed away.
[174] Wow.
[175] Was he ill?
[176] wasn't aware of this.
[177] I mean, he's not that old.
[178] Geez, was it sudden?
[179] Let's see if we can get some information.
[180] Wow, that is a terrible story.
[181] With Billy Bean of the A's, I don't know anything about it.
[182] This is the first I've heard.
[183] You know, he's an historic general manager.
[184] Billy fought an heroic year -long battle with acute leukemia.
[185] That's the role.
[186] wrong, that's the wrong Billy Bean.
[187] That's not the Billy Bean from the A's.
[188] Last 10 years, Billy worked passionately and tirelessly with MOB in all 30 clubs, focusing on player education.
[189] He played 10, he played 10 year playing career with six teams.
[190] That's the different Billy Bean.
[191] Still a terrible story, but that's not the Billy Bean.
[192] That's not the Bean of the A's.
[193] that's the Billy Bean who worked for Major League Baseball.
[194] So it's a different Billy Bean.
[195] So we apologize if we got that screwed up.
[196] This is a different Billy Bean.
[197] This is not the Billy Bean of the A's.
[198] This is the Billy Bean who works in Major League Baseball.
[199] So an important, I'm not trying to make light of it, but it's a different one.
[200] So there you have it.
[201] Okay.
[202] Well, I apologize for screwing that up.
[203] Too soon, obviously, to laugh at that, but I can't help but laugh at that because Billy is enjoying the anarchy of that.
[204] Of course, it's sad.
[205] I'm also just wondering or hoping that the first 15 seconds of that, that someone who cares about Oakland A's Billy Bean doesn't happen to also listen to Mad Dog Radio because that's a horrific 15 seconds.
[206] Not that it's good for anybody who loves A, Billy Bean of any kind.
[207] Right, doesn't matter.
[208] But those 15 seconds, if you're happening to get that news from Mad Dog Rousseau?
[209] What if Billy was getting that news from Mad Dog Rousseau?
[210] I can tell you it was worse than that when it happened because those 15 seconds we clean that up a bit lasted about 90 seconds where he was just kind of talking in circles waiting to get more information on Oakland A's Billy Bean passing away who did not pass away.
[211] At the beginning of that he said, let's see if we can get some more information.
[212] Well, he got it.
[213] He did say may have.
[214] Yeah.
[215] Right at the top.
[216] That's true.
[217] That is the great qualifier.
[218] I will say to everyone listening, though, for those of you do not know about the Billy Bean who actually passed away, that his work in the LBGTQ Plus community was groundbreaking throughout baseball, and he was just a human rights activist that did something important and pioneering because he came from a time where you had to be super hidden on that.
[219] And so the way that he advocated for others is among the many things I will remember about him but he was a and I hate that I'm using the past tense on this a vibrant vibrant important young person and so I didn't want to skip past today without talking about how that one got me it got you good huh like because I told Abby when I when I heard of the news I said wow that's that's going to hurt Dan badly because Dan respected him Dan was was friendly but but the thing the thing that's different from all the other recent deaths do gods is I really do do a word association with him with that is youth that is he looks like vibrant youth uh something happened during the break here roy came in here and i don't know if he was concerned for stugats but he he was delighted he was excited because he's like dan when i was watching the hot take uh hand the cam i noticed that stugats's thumb uh was really dirty now stugats has had yellow fingers here for a while because of the heaters better now and and and stu gotz's said to Roy, not defensively, but just in the pursuit of accuracy, that is not cigarettes, Roy, yelled him out of the room.
[220] That's Cheetos.
[221] And then he proceeded to put his thumb in his mouth.
[222] I did, yeah.
[223] I mean, the dust.
[224] Right.
[225] It tasted like cigarettes, but I mean.
[226] I saw a story yesterday that made me think of you.
[227] Charlie Hall said that there's a smoking ban at the Olympics, and she's worried that it might screw up her chances.
[228] of winning gold because smoking cigarettes helps with her ADHD, which I believe she told this when we had her on the show a few months ago.
[229] So I just...
[230] She also said she was trying to quit.
[231] That's true.
[232] She did say that too.
[233] You've been saying that one too.
[234] We all say it then.
[235] It's unusually self -destructive in 2024 to be smoking cigarettes.
[236] I did quit.
[237] I'm smoking Cheetos now.
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[251] Don Lebertard.
[252] You are very comfortable talking about how you met your wife, how much you love her, how important she is to you, and that's the reason that I asked the question.
[253] I've always admired that about you, that you have no problems whatsoever professing your love.
[254] Well, the thing is, I got a new wife now.
[255] You know, me and Bianca didn't make it.
[256] So I moved on.
[257] We moved on.
[258] It was for the better for both of us.
[259] Stugats.
[260] Things just got a little awkward there.
[261] So let me be the first on this show to congratulate you on the new wife, Vince.
[262] Congratulations on feeling whole, feeling complete, you know.
[263] Let's talk tailgating.
[264] Yeah.
[265] Don't be, don't feel awkward, buddy.
[266] I don't.
[267] I mean, it's too late for that.
[268] It's much too late for that sense.
[269] I appreciate you soothing me in this regard, but I already feel terribly awkward.
[270] And then my teammate comes to my defense with not a question.
[271] But just a health.
[272] congratulations and the further pointing out of that awkwardness because he's always good for me in those spots.
[273] I'm also thinking of divorce, Vince, after many, many years, 18 years with a partner who does things like that to you.
[274] This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats.
[275] Kaleas, can you hear us?
[276] Oh, it's so nice to hear that voice.
[277] He makes me smile.
[278] It's so nice to see that face.
[279] Look at him.
[280] He is not.
[281] now, an old wily veteran.
[282] We have known him since he was a young man, Stuttats.
[283] This is, I am a terrible talent evaluator, terrible.
[284] But I saw him play at the University of Miami.
[285] I'm like, oh, nobody's ever going to be able to block that.
[286] That's not something that can be blocked.
[287] It's too big.
[288] It's too strong and it's too fast.
[289] And Stugat's.
[290] And it's always smiling.
[291] Yes, it is pretty happy.
[292] Unless you have to try and block him and he wants your quarterback.
[293] and unless you get in his way on the way to the Hall of Fame because he's absolutely a Hall of Famer.
[294] He has been ransacking and sacking people for a really long time and it has been a sheer delight, Callais, to see you wreck everybody in that league for what seems like now a hundred years.
[295] You are, you're the sixth oldest player in the league.
[296] Can you even believe that when I say it to you?
[297] And thank you for joining us.
[298] We're happy to see that this story, I'm assuming, ends in my life.
[299] Miami, but maybe you'll play for another 40 years.
[300] You know, I think it's a whole way to be able to come back to Miami, you know, 20 years from when I first stepped on campus at the University of Miami, you know, I mean, it's crazy, you know, time flies.
[301] But I love it, you know, it doesn't really feel like work.
[302] I get to just come to work and be a big kid every day and go out here and have fun playing football.
[303] Can you tell us the story of like what it meant to you emotionally when you started seeing that you might be able, again, I don't want to end your career.
[304] before it's ending, but I just thought it was a perfect dismount for you to come home.
[305] Yeah, I feel like it was a perfect time.
[306] You know, I'm just, you know, I had other offers and, you know, other places I think were respectable teams, but, you know, the Dolphins just made a lot of sense.
[307] And, you know, definitely has just that, like, just nostalgic, you know, like just being here in the city, the amount of love I had when I was playing here in college ball and just, you know, my love for the city in the fan base here, you know, It was just, it made sense.
[308] And, you know, hopefully we make it count.
[309] You know, I think this team is special, man. We got some playmakers and the way we've been practicing, the mentality that we've had, you know, got a little chip on the shoulder, you know, which I love.
[310] I appreciate, you know, I'm hoping that I could just, you know, make this this year a real special year.
[311] Were the other offers better or how does that work when you're making the decision emotionally on where to choose?
[312] Is it just, well, this place will pay me the most?
[313] Or no, I really, I'm willing to go back.
[314] to Miami no matter what?
[315] Yeah, this is the the cheapest offer I had by a large Martian.
[316] Wow.
[317] Relatively speaking, I mean, but, you know, I definitely, you know, I always said I play this game, you know, the money didn't really matter.
[318] I played for, you know, essentially free because I loved it that much, you know.
[319] Now, you know, that's game day, you know, obviously there's other stuff.
[320] You got to, you know, it's a little different.
[321] It's a little too hard to do for free.
[322] But, you know, I mean, I turned down some real money, you know, to come here because I believe.
[323] I believe.
[324] And, you know, and Coach McDaniel, I believe in, you know, Coach Weaver.
[325] And just the talent we have on the team, you know, I just feel like this is a chance.
[326] My best shot.
[327] I won the Super Bowl and that's the ultimate goal for me. Who were the people that you called when you made the decision on Miami where you were most excited to share the news with them?
[328] Well, it took me a while to make decision.
[329] I was weighing offers for a while and kind of going back and forth.
[330] And so I definitely leaned on, you know, my support team.
[331] but once I finally made the decision and I was coming back to Miami but I come back here a lot I'm here every off season I already had a place here so it was really easy but I definitely you know my phone was blowing up you know all my Miami crew like oh man you're coming back is it real?
[332] Is this real?
[333] And I'm like yeah we'll make it happen this will be a great year you know but it has to make sense you know all that stuff is great you know but for me this is you know football football's number one always will be and I believe that this team is poised to be a force to be reckoned with and obviously the FACC is a gauntlet I mean you got so many teams that are capable winning a Super Bowl and have all the right pieces in place and they're working just hard as we're working and so we got our hands full but you know I just think we got a shot Kaleas I love you but easy to take less money after you've made $140 million right?
[334] Oh come on I just said yes he said yes thank you we're not going to sit here and act like that you know you know walk around you know only made lead minimum most of my career i got to make some real money business it's definitely business but we're 100 % right on that one when you when you got into the league if i had told you your expectations have you exceeded them because i'm not sure you had hall of fame on your dream list when you came out of college did you If I'm being honest with you, that definitely was on my list of things.
[335] Like, I've always had, you know, high expectations for myself.
[336] You know, I really, you know, I felt like ever since I was 13 and I told myself, I'm in the commitment that I wanted to be in the NFL and I was going to do everything possible to get to the NFL, you know, the Hall of Fame was on my mind, you know, and I didn't really know much about the Hall of Fame.
[337] I didn't know how I worked.
[338] I just knew that if there was a place for the best of them, I wanted to be there.
[339] And I know that, you know, I mean, you know, seeing, you know, guys go that I've played with, guys I'm friends with, you know, the last few years.
[340] And, you know, I mean, it definitely makes it a lot more surreal.
[341] Like, you know, just like, wow, these guys are really like, you know, going to the Hall of Fame, you know, it just makes me feel like I have a shot.
[342] I know, you know, for me, my mindset is like, you know, do more to try to make sure that it's undeniable, that you have a better shot.
[343] but at the beginning of my career I had goals to break the sack record too I wanted to get to 200 201 with my goal and that's not going to happen 200, 200, wait a minute I'm putting you in the Hall of Fame because you've gotten to 100 you got 105 and a half sacks for your career It's going to be a pretty big year Probably lead the league in sacks if he doesn't I think so perhaps although I'd watch what 94 and a half sacks is all that he would need to get to 200 this year but do you have a photograph or anywhere getting to a hundred is it is it commemorated anywhere oh yeah yeah the hundred the hundred sat club was like you know like that's once i got to NFL realized like how hard it was to get sacks and how hard it was to just be a great player in the sleep you know because in college you know you could just out athlete people you know I was just a better athlete and I can go out there and win without no technique no moves just pure effort and want to then I get to the NFL and it's like okay now that This is real.
[344] This is the real deal.
[345] And I realized that, okay, I might not be able to get 200.
[346] You know, maybe.
[347] We'll see.
[348] But I knew it was kind of tough.
[349] But I was like, all right, can I get to that 100?
[350] And for a while there, I didn't think I was going to get there.
[351] I was like, man, you know, I'm going to get my best shot.
[352] You know, but when I finally got to that threshold, that milestone, that, you know, that C note, man, it was a good feeling.
[353] And yes, I definitely, you know, capture that moment, you know, it made sure that that's something that's going to be, you know, in my in my house for forever you know i won't be able to you know brag on it with my little my kids or my grandkids one day if they pick up the game and just like you know i mean that's one of the one of the hardest things to do very few people have done it and uh it's something that i always wanted to do so you know getting that scene know that was huge for me who was the quarterback uh sam halts sam hal um you know and it was a two -minute situation because so many times i got close right i got 99 and i was stuck at 99 i hit the quarterback like 12 times but I could not get the sack.
[354] And I'm sitting here like, I mean, you got them wrapped up and they're throwing the ball away.
[355] I had DeShine Watson, you know, the year before.
[356] And like, he just like, I mean, he just threw the ball away to nobody.
[357] Like, it was like, like, you know, I mean, it's more beneficial for you just take the sack and didn't throw that.
[358] But, you know, Sam Hal was a two -minute situation before half.
[359] He didn't want us to get the ball back, you know, to go get more points before halftime.
[360] So he just, he just took the sack, which was a very smart, It's a much more thing to do.
[361] Kaleas, before my question, I want to commend you and Greg Olson.
[362] Out of that whole crop of newer school canes that didn't have the national title success, you guys get really involved in the program.
[363] So it's great to have you down here in Miami, get to see you at more games.
[364] But you've had this amazing career.
[365] You've played with so many great players.
[366] And I'm wondering, between Larry Fitzgerald, Lamar Jackson, who just did something physically in practice where you're like, I know I'm gifted, that dude's on another tier.
[367] I've seen some spectacular plays in practice.
[368] I mean, really, Tyra Kiel out here balling right now, you know, and it's just like, wow, you know, he's 30 years old and still rolling and catching everything.
[369] I mean, he's diving on the ground for balls.
[370] He kind of reminds me to Larry Fitzgerald days.
[371] But that 2008 year, when we went to the Super Bowl in Arizona, you know, Larry Fitzgerald had so many incredible catches in games.
[372] But in practice, it was every week he was doing something way better.
[373] You know, it was like, you think that was dope.
[374] You should see the practice Seattle on Wednesday.
[375] The Catchy on Wednesday was like, I mean, I seen him like glint on his head and flipping.
[376] Like, it's just like, you know, it's practice.
[377] I don't know if you should be going that hard.
[378] But he set a standard, you know, that, you know, that I can follow Sudan.
[379] And I think that helped me be able to have the career I've had because I've seen this, you know, superstars practice.
[380] And, you know, you realize that when guys are gifted and blessed the way, you know, some of these, you know, really good players are.
[381] And you have that work ethic, that grind.
[382] Those are the guys that become the Hall of Famers, you know.
[383] So I've been looking at this play with a few of them, but Larry Fissela definitely takes a kick on that one.
[384] I've got a ton of questions for him because I really have been an admirer for a long time.
[385] Just really the craftsmanship of what he does because it's not just all strength.
[386] You just really have to be obsessively dedicated to being great at that because it's so hard.
[387] Like it's all two and a half seconds and the balls out.
[388] It's really hard to get sacks these days.
[389] It's never been harder to excel at what he does.
[390] It's just absurd.
[391] And he's been so great at it for so long.
[392] So let me ask you, if I say one trait above all others, your speed, strength, will, what one trait is what makes you a Hall of Fame or if you can only pick one?
[393] Ooh.
[394] That's a really good question.
[395] Oh, man. I think when it comes down to it, though, you know, like, I think you have to have the mentality, you know, the mentality that, you know, I'm not going to let this guy block.
[396] I don't care, you know, how good he is, you know, the scouts say about him or the reports and the coaches talk about him.
[397] I don't care about, you know, what the scenario is.
[398] Like, I'm just not going to let this guy block me. This mentality you've got to have.
[399] And it's like when you're training in the offseason, it's a sad mentality.
[400] You know, when the game's on the line, you know, I got to be the one to show up and make the play.
[401] You know, and I can't let him about it.
[402] I work me, you know, and, you know, just when you're training, you had that mentality where it's like, you know, when I'm in these situations, I got to be ready.
[403] I got to be able to take advantage of my opportunities and then start some practice, you know, treating it like it's game day, you know, and I'm out there practice trying to bring that energy, bring that fire and make sure that I get that quality work.
[404] So when the game day comes, it's just like it's practice.
[405] And, you know, and I mean, you know, I love studying the greats and all the greats that I've studied, you know, you see common denominators.
[406] But I think the number one thing that makes it by a Hall of Famer is a mentality.
[407] You've got to have that mentality where, like, you know, when the game's on the line, I'm going to want to make the play.
[408] Dwight Freeney had that mentality and then he faced Bryant McKinney in the Orange Bowl and he got stuck in his navel again and again and again Jason Taylor had that mentality and said I couldn't do anything against Tony Bisselli I had no chance anybody you've run into where you're like I have this mentality but this isn't working today and it's not going to work this person is too good at what they do have you run into anybody like that in your career I can't recall anybody I was just like Hey, all right, this guy just got my number.
[409] I will say, though, that I hope a guy like Marsha Lynch gets into the Hall of Fame because I felt like, you know, I know when you look at all the numbers and stuff like that, you know, usually running back, say, I want to get that $12 ,000, you know, number, and he's a little short of that.
[410] But, you know, when it came to, you know, we were playing against him back in the day, like I knew every time I was getting ready to tackle him, I had to bring everything I had because he was running, you know, full speed ahead.
[411] Oh, wow.
[412] He went running back.
[413] He went running back instead of offensive linemen.
[414] I think it's because you refuse to give offensive linemen any credit.
[415] You will not allow while you're still playing any name to come out of your mouth to say that that guy was better than I am.
[416] That's the only reason you went running back there.
[417] I had a conversation with Cam Jordan a few years back, and we were talking about how, like, we don't, like, you know, there are definitely great office alignment, but, you know, when we really think of the, like, I don't respect him.
[418] Like, you know, my mind said, no office linemen should block me one -on -one.
[419] I don't care who would it.
[420] you know and so yeah they're a great office alignment and maybe when i retire i might be able to give you somebody what i feel like it's really good but right now my last said is i'm gonna kill whoever you put in front of me but not today yeah okay so how so what what percentage of time what percentage of time calais are you facing someone that you are simply saying to yourself this person is stronger than i am never he's physically stronger than i am never you know there's definitely a couple times when i'm like okay i'm going to use a little bit finesse today you know But that's rare.
[421] It really is rare.
[422] My mindset, you know, like this whole office is I was just like, let me get as strong as could be because I'm putting my hands on people.
[423] What is an example that would explain to the layman how strong you are?
[424] I'm looking at your hands.
[425] Your hands physically are absurd.
[426] Like just, I mean, yes, they're just very large.
[427] You put them on someone, yes, you're going to be throwing them around.
[428] But what is something that would explain to somebody who doesn't understand what your strength actually is, your physical strength?
[429] You know, when I think about, I guess, in, you know, layman terms, I feel like, you know, I don't know, like, I feel like, you know, I don't know.
[430] Like, being able to pick up a car, like, lift up a whole tire off the ground.
[431] I don't know if I can really do that.
[432] But in my mind, I feel like, you know, like, you know, I can pick up the car.
[433] You know, I mean, honestly, I feel like, you know, run through a door, you know, knock a door down, straight shoulder first, you know.
[434] Now, honestly, I've never done to any of these things.
[435] But you couldn't do them.
[436] You're pretty sure.
[437] You're pretty sure you're pretty sure you could to do those things.
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[456] All right, we got to go back out there.
[457] That was big.
[458] Wake him up.
[459] Uh -oh.
[460] He doesn't want, he doesn't want to be bothering anymore.
[461] Now it's getting tense because he didn't need that as a result.
[462] He needs something that happens.
[463] You can see it.
[464] Mother Effing.
[465] Can we bother?
[466] Are we bothering you right now?
[467] Turn on your microphone.
[468] My microphone's on.
[469] Stugats.
[470] Paint the scene.
[471] The paint the scene is I've got to go to work.
[472] Good night.
[473] This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats.
[474] Is there anything other than Tyreek Hill that you're talking about that you're seeing in Miami that has surprised you?
[475] I'm not talking about athletic gifts, but just already in the return to Miami joining the dolphins where some stuff you didn't expect about what you've signed up for here.
[476] You know, I will say that the effort to the ball, amongst all of us on defense has been a thing of beauty.
[477] And, like, you know, I heard all kinds of different things when I was going through my process, and I didn't really know what to expect, you know, but, you know, I almost heard things like, you know, you know, guys don't work hard, you know.
[478] I'm saying everything myself, like, I can help with that, you know, I can help bring an edge.
[479] I get here and watch practice, and I'm like, all these guys working hardest could be, you know.
[480] Javon Holland, full speed, to the ball every play.
[481] Jaylon Ramsey, full speed to the ball, every play, to see his maturity and growth, because we played together in Jacksonville, and to see him now, I mean, he gave a speech another day where it was like, oh, man, you know, that's what's up.
[482] You know, like, he's come a long way, you know, but he's just a Super Bowl champ.
[483] You know, he knows what takes to win.
[484] And I think we all kind of see this potential.
[485] And so it's like, man, let's just through everything we can to give ourselves a best shot.
[486] You know, and no guarantees, you know, that's football, but let's give yourself the best shot.
[487] Calais, put us inside your head when Tua grabs the microphone at practice and starts celebrating his contract.
[488] Like, just put us there.
[489] What were you thinking?
[490] Crazy, right?
[491] Show me the money.
[492] Crazy part about that, though, is most of the young guys on the team do not know the reference.
[493] Oh, no. Oh, you must have so much stuff like that where you realize you're the old guy in the locker.
[494] There must be stuff like that happening every day, right?
[495] Cardinals legend.
[496] Every single day is crazy.
[497] But, you know, I mean, I embrace the old guy role.
[498] It gives me like a little bit of a, like, just, I feel really good inside knowing that I can still do it.
[499] I can still hang with these young bucks.
[500] Callais, while we have you, it's an opportunity to geek out over Cain's football.
[501] I was privately saying that I think you, Frank, Jimmy, you might be the last Hurricane Hall of Fame or Pro Football Hall of Famers for a little bit.
[502] And if you were looking for an eye of like who might be next and we're getting way out of hell ahead of ourselves.
[503] but Ruben Bain has a unique pass -rushing ability.
[504] And I'm wondering if you've worked with him at all, if you've talked to him.
[505] He's a guy that can play inside.
[506] He can play outside.
[507] He plays with the power, not the size, but the power that you played your game with.
[508] I'm wondering if there's any relationship there.
[509] Yeah, you know, I got a chance to talk to him about the Legends camp, and we spent a lot of time together.
[510] And, you know, I'm just talking through his mentality, like his vision, Sway C's things.
[511] And I'm super oppressed because when I was his age, I have none of that.
[512] his get -off and like just get -off keys and the way he, you know, angles he takes and, like, what he's seeing and, like, trying to work his moves and stuff.
[513] It's like, man, they're way more skilled today than we were back, you know, 20 -some years ago.
[514] I definitely had, you know, the mentality and, you know, just the mindset to go out there and just, you know, beat the guy in front of me, like, you know, where he knows he can't block me at all, but I didn't have the skill.
[515] And so seeing him, you know, go out there and just kind of work on this craft and talk while he's seeing and stuff.
[516] And I gave him some more pointers, of course, because I've developed a lot of skill over the years now.
[517] And so, you know, but I really think that he's going to be a special player.
[518] He definitely has a chance to be, you know, obviously, you know, so much has to go right, you know, health -wise, and he has to continue getting better.
[519] And, you know, I always ask guys with that, like, you know, what's your main goal?
[520] You know, is it just to make money?
[521] Because, you know, yeah, this is a great job, and you can make a lot of money doing it.
[522] But the guys that I really respect for the ones that love the game.
[523] They love the competition.
[524] They want to just go out there and compete and, you know, and take somebody's will, you know.
[525] I mean, that's what the game is all about, you know.
[526] yeah, of course, the money on that stuff is going to come.
[527] But when you want to go out there and compete against, you know, another worthy opponent and break their will, that's what gets me excited.
[528] He's a six -time pro bowler.
[529] Can you guys look up for me if there are any 100 -sac guys who are not in the Hall of Fame?
[530] Do you know, Callais, and we'll let you go here in a second.
[531] Can you name the five guys or any of the five guys in the league who are older than you are?
[532] Oh, Aaron Rogers, that's for sure.
[533] I don't know if Dwayne Brown still a roster No, he's not on the list I have in front of me There are four other guys You're not expect One's a long snapper One is a kicker But one name I'm going to say I want to get him on the show Because I can't believe He's still in the league Mercedes Lewis Yeah like what the hell is You said you weren't going to get it anyways Like what the hell is that guy Still doing in the league Who plays 20 years in that league?
[534] Man, it's so oppressive It's so impressive You know And he's I mean You know the mentality he has, like, he's cut from different cloth.
[535] Like, he just loves this.
[536] Like, you've got to, like, it ain't, like, it's not, you get to play as long as you want, like, as long as I can.
[537] They've got to kick me at the lead because I love it so much, you know.
[538] That's just, you know, especially, like, now I got kids and stuff, so they might be able to make them retire a little earlier.
[539] But, you know, in Mercedes, that's too.
[540] But, you know, we talked to him, you know, like, I was just talking to them a few weeks back.
[541] And it's just like the love we have for the game is just unique.
[542] And I wish everybody had it like that, but you realize that most, most guys don't.
[543] But when you learn the game like we do, man, they have to kick us out the league.
[544] There are a great deal of players that aren't in the Hall of Fame that have 100 sacks.
[545] However, none of them have had 94 sacks seasons like Calleus is preparing this season for the Miami Dolphin.
[546] I'm going to say, though, because I've played more interior than I played on the edge throughout my career.
[547] And I've played both, obviously.
[548] But interior guys with over 100 sacks, it's a way smaller number.
[549] I don't think that might be won that's on the Hall of Fame.
[550] But that's a lot more.
[551] Yes, a correction that is worth making there.
[552] It'll probably go on with a class that is just like outside of the Aeron Donald.
[553] So like it'll be fresh in everybody's mind in terms of interior guys with 100 sacks.
[554] There's 44 guys who've had 100 sacks who are not in the Hall of Fame.
[555] Okay.
[556] So he's telling us that the edge rushers get it cheap sometimes, though, is what he's saying.
[557] He's saying, get it to the...
[558] I mean, Pat Swilling not being in the Hall of Fame is a joke.
[559] That guy was one of the dominant edge rushers of all time.
[560] He was.
[561] He was a great outside linebacker.
[562] Right, Galeas?
[563] Thank you.
[564] Excellent.
[565] There's a few guys that I feel like they got a good chance to get in.
[566] And it makes you realize like, you know, it's not, you know, there's no guarantees.
[567] It's tough.
[568] You know, I mean, I know my mindset is, you know, do more to make sure because I, you know, there's no guarantee I get in, you know, which is just kind of a humbling thing to think about.
[569] But something that I've always wanted and I hope I get, you know, but at the same time, like, you know, realistically, you know, I mean, it's tough.
[570] You know, I mean, you got to be the best of the best for a long time.
[571] And I felt like I've always left more heart on the field and gave everything I had.
[572] And I think if you look at just like the numbers and stuff, like, you know, I got a case.
[573] But if you look at the impact and like, you know, the way I played the game and, you know, where my team was affected by the way I played the game, I got a lot better chance.
[574] Or the voice, the voice puts him in the friendly monster Hall of Fame for all time.
[575] We will let you go on this note.
[576] Do you agree with this or disagree with this?
[577] I am saying that the kickers should, we were talking about this earlier in the week, The kickers in the NFL should not be in the Hall of Fame.
[578] They should have a guest house behind the Hall of Fame that is made adjacent by a walkway, and they can get from their Hall of Fame behind the Hall of Fame in the area behind it, but they shouldn't be in the actual Hall of Fame where the people are playing football and enduring the collision.
[579] Do you agree or disagree with that?
[580] You know, my man, Justin Tucker, who I think will be in the Hall of Fame one day, you know, I think that, you know, I got to give him some love.
[581] He can come hang with me, man. tan of cats.
[582] So they come in.
[583] We hopefully be getting there together.
[584] All right.
[585] A one -time exception that you're making for an old teammate because you love him.
[586] The rest of the kickers, though, outback.
[587] They're going to be outback.
[588] Kaleas, thank you for being on with us.
[589] We appreciate the time, sir.
[590] And it really has been a pleasure to watch you work over the last 50, well, 20, 20 years.
[591] I can't believe he's the old guy now.
[592] 20 years.
[593] It is crazy.
[594] It is crazy.
[595] That makes us the old guys, too.
[596] You realize that.
[597] He's the old guy.
[598] Then we're the old guys.
[599] We're the older guys.
[600] Thank you, sir.
[601] Yeah, I appreciate you guys having me. It's always a pleasure.
[602] How was Clyde Simmons not in the Hall of Fame?
[603] I can't believe there are 40 dudes with 100 sacks not in the Hall of Fame.
[604] The great thing is during that segment, Tony, during that interview, Tony realized it just dawned him how great Bruce Smith was.
[605] Holy shit.
[606] Yo, you need to see that video of Bruce Smith doing that interview where he falls back.
[607] Yes, in Buffalo Local Television.
[608] Just play this at the end right now.
[609] The video of Bruce Smith falling down, it hurts to play that game.
[610] Sometimes you've got to self -medicate.
[611] You go do a local interview and you just fall on the floor.
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