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[14] So, Dan, I saw the guest list today.
[15] Do you like it?
[16] I like some of it.
[17] There's one portion that I know you love.
[18] Ian O 'Connor, there is still someone out there roaming the earth trying to find the truth.
[19] How about that?
[20] Ian O 'Connor wrote a book about Aaron Rogers.
[21] I'm guessing it'll be great, right?
[22] I did 250 interviews, so I'm a assuming that it'll be somebody will give us some insight into what happened there.
[23] How about he write a book about him playing 17 games this year?
[24] I mean, I'll read it.
[25] I won't read it because all he's doing is telling me that he's playing 17 games, but I would purchase that book.
[26] I would.
[27] Just to support Ian O 'Connor.
[28] No, just to support the idea of Aaron Rogers playing 17 games.
[29] It really is all you care about.
[30] Like, we are, I feel like we are at the epicenter with you.
[31] of where desperation meets, what you'll do for quarterback play.
[32] I'll take anybody.
[33] I mean, the Jets' best quarterback ever, like if we were to do a list of the best Jets quarterbacks ever, you'd have Joe Namath, who shouldn't be in the Hall of Fame.
[34] Shouldn't be in the Hall of Fame?
[35] Shouldn't be number one on that list, but he probably is.
[36] I mean, Mark Sanchez.
[37] Think about that for a second.
[38] Sanchez.
[39] Well, I used to think that the greatest example of how hard it is to find a quarterback is that Chicago's greatest quarterback ever is Jay Cutler.
[40] But if the Jets come at you with Joe Namath, who threw a lot more interceptions than touchdowns, if the Jets come at you with Mark Sanchez, I understand why you would be this desperate for a 40 -year -old Aaron Rogers, one of the oldest players in the league, to summon something.
[41] And I think he's going to, honestly.
[42] I think he's going to...
[43] 17?
[44] I think he's going...
[45] What he's going to do is not make any mistakes for you at quarterback, and that's all your team, actually.
[46] he needs.
[47] No mistakes.
[48] He's not going to make any, he's going to make the correct decisions every time.
[49] Most of the time.
[50] Yeah.
[51] And we'll take that.
[52] Aaron Rogers with one healthy season, 17 games, probably will go down as the Jets' greatest quarterback of all time.
[53] Chris, he's not wrong.
[54] He's not wrong.
[55] He's not wrong.
[56] Like, who else are you putting in there?
[57] Like, if we had to make a top five list of greatest Jets quarterbacks ever, are we going to find a number five is like Vinnie Testa Verde sneaking in there?
[58] I mean, Chad Pennington's on the list.
[59] Ray Lucas?
[60] Oh, no, get out of here.
[61] He might be on it.
[62] Chad Pennington is definitely on it.
[63] We have the worst best quarterback in franchise history of all time, don't we?
[64] Well, it's either you or Chicago, right?
[65] Chicago has Sid Luckman.
[66] It has Jim McMahon.
[67] It has there's some guy, Jay Cuntler, some guys.
[68] Look, the list you just gave me is not a lot better than Joe name it.
[69] I put, if I put Sid Luckman next to Joe Namath, let's do that show today, shall we?
[70] Too bad Cody's not here today.
[71] Is Caleb already top five in Bears history?
[72] Yes.
[73] Put it on the poll, Ju -Juat Lebitard show.
[74] Is Caleb Williams already a top five quarterback in Bears history?
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[80] Legitimately surprised.
[81] I'm saying something I don't think I would have said a couple of weeks ago.
[82] I'm going to miss the Olympics.
[83] I'm surprised by that.
[84] It caught me off guard.
[85] I'm legitimately blinded by the gold medal that Juju is wearing.
[86] It makes me feel like I'm looking into a portal, into a heavenly future.
[87] Juju is very happy because America, we We're great at sports, and the closing ceremony was wonderful.
[88] Tom Cruise jumped off a building.
[89] That's what he does.
[90] It is what he does.
[91] Is he still flying in the Transatlantic thing, or no?
[92] I don't know how that works with taped stuff out in Los Angeles.
[93] What was taped of the red hot chili peppers or Billy Elish?
[94] When you say that's what he does jumps off buildings.
[95] Yeah.
[96] I happen to be watching the gold medal American men's game on.
[97] Saturday with my father and I'm just stupefied by Steph obviously and my father's just going oh that's what he does well yeah nobody's ever been able to do that dad well that's what he does well he's right I mean yeah yes correct he went 17 for 27 and I can make this argument right without rebuttal Steph Curry never anyone like him LeBron James never anyone like him Kevin Durant, never anyone like him.
[98] Like that's what we were watching.
[99] They just put the punctuation on all things, them fighting over who's the best for the last 10 years.
[100] And all three of them are unlike anybody we've ever seen.
[101] And that had to feel so cool for Steph because we had been marveling at LeBron, triple doubles.
[102] You're the oldest player in basketball.
[103] Like how are you still stronger than everyone else?
[104] Well, he wasn't on that play where Yavaselli dunked on him.
[105] He was taking a charge and scrub up that from your memory.
[106] He tried to slide in there.
[107] That didn't happen.
[108] Won the gold.
[109] I mean, he did win the gold, but Stugans, did you see, like, LeBron, have we ever seen LeBron postered like that?
[110] He got postered the way he postered Jason Terry.
[111] Like, whether he's trying to take a country.
[112] Two different things.
[113] Completely different.
[114] He jumped over Jason Terry.
[115] That's different.
[116] Yeah.
[117] Mike, you're shaking your head.
[118] It wasn't that bad.
[119] Come on.
[120] Guy's not seeing a colorist anymore because it actually asked.
[121] adds to his legacy if he's doing this with a gray beard.
[122] Let him live.
[123] Let him live.
[124] Put behind me, please, video.
[125] Put behind me the dunk of Yabaseli on LeBron James.
[126] Also, at some point, just roll pictures that I couldn't have imagined 15 years ago about Yokic being, you know, the best player in the world, happier than any of us have ever seen him, winning a bronze medal instead of winning the championship for the Nuggets.
[127] Yeah, that guy loves third place.
[128] I mean...
[129] That's as happy as we've ever seen Yokic, but 20 years ago, if you had told me under what circumstance, if you had shown me this picture of Yokic and said, this guy's going to be the best basketball player in the world, I'd be like, my ass, like, what are you talking?
[130] What are you talking about?
[131] And before yesterday, I don't know if he finished, but he was number one in men's Olympic basketball in points, rebounds, assists, and some other stat before yesterday's game.
[132] I don't know if somebody ended up passing him, or Saturday's game, if someone ended up passing him, but he was the best basketball player in the world when the world was playing as well.
[133] Sugatz was objecting to a tweet that, how did you feel about this, Chris?
[134] Because I imagine you would like this.
[135] That Team USA basketball went after Noah Liles because Noah Liles had had the opinion, the controversial opinion, that if you win in the NBA, you're not world champion.
[136] Yes, and then Team USA, their Twitter account, after winning the goal, they tweeted at him, are we world champions now?
[137] What are you doing?
[138] Oh, it's fantastic.
[139] What are we doing?
[140] I feel like even Noah would look at that and be like, yeah, I deserve that.
[141] No, you're on the same team or not?
[142] I mean, he made a benign comment.
[143] They don't need to dumb down.
[144] They won the gold.
[145] Benign comment.
[146] It was a benign comment.
[147] He said the winners of the NBA championship are not world champions.
[148] Why do you call them world champions?
[149] and then they win the gold as they should because that team is loaded.
[150] And that's the first thing they're thinking about on social media, going at Noah Liles, a USA teammate, by the way, going after a track star that we won't care about for another four years.
[151] We're going to go after him after we win.
[152] That's weak.
[153] Ah, that queues up the most perfect time of the year, baby.
[154] Joker of the damn day.
[155] Uh -oh.
[156] Wow.
[157] We are back, baby.
[158] We are back and we are cooking.
[159] Sorry, Mike.
[160] I don't mean to put my flag, my patriotism.
[161] It's all glory.
[162] We're good.
[163] Is this a new feature, or what are we doing here?
[164] I mean, we are celebrating life and liberty today, Stu guys.
[165] That's what we are doing.
[166] Love it.
[167] Noah Lows, you, sir, are the Joker of the Day.
[168] What?
[169] He, out of his own Twitter account and his own mouth, his COVID -written mouth, by the way, which costs his team in the full -by -four.
[170] Look, don't get me started.
[171] You're a Joker for that.
[172] Because they had to switch up the entire race, the order of the race for him, and they came up short because of him.
[173] But you are the Joker of the Day for returning Anthony Edwards' invitation to his party while saying he's not an NBA champion.
[174] He has shoes.
[175] You, sir, are a Joker of the USA.
[176] All right, U .S. Day, Joker of the U .S. Day.
[177] Jujer, I like that.
[178] I want to get you started on this because I think Noah Liles' story, I saw pictures this morning of him at the club.
[179] And so I'm like, okay, so he was healthy enough to win the 100.
[180] He didn't have COVID then.
[181] He gets a bronze and looks exhausted and he does have COVID in the 200.
[182] And I would have made an argument like, should he even be racing under those conditions?
[183] Right.
[184] You're around other world class athletes who have trained for four years to get here.
[185] And before the race, you jumping around, triple eight spitting in the air.
[186] No, brother, you need to calm down with your COVID having ass and sit over.
[187] there, sir.
[188] That seemed why he was exhausted at the end, though, if you come out into the arena and expend all of that energy when you have COVID, underestimating what that does to your lungs.
[189] He was exhausted because they lost.
[190] Well, okay, so continue with Joker of the week.
[191] You guys are of the belief.
[192] It's his Joker.
[193] You guys think that Noah Liles lost and then it became immediately about the COVID.
[194] Instantly, like Paul Pairns.
[195] To a wheelchair.
[196] Exactly.
[197] The wheelchair was a problem.
[198] him, 13 seconds ago, you was just jumping around, pumping up the crowd, using energy, might I add, that you could have used in that last Noss area of Fassian and Furious.
[199] But that I, dare I say, and then when he went down, salute to his family, his mom took to Twitter saying that it was embarrassing.
[200] They wouldn't let me out there.
[201] Ma 'am, you cannot go out there.
[202] You just sit in the seats and we got them.
[203] Joker of the Year, the whole family.
[204] Joker for the year.
[205] Whoa, that was a quick escalation.
[206] Put it on the poll.
[207] It's an election year.
[208] As well, Juju, at Lebitard show.
[209] Is COVID known to nuke the Nas button in Fast and the Furious?
[210] Because that is what happened to Noah Liles.
[211] He had nothing at the end.
[212] And that's not where we should start, though.
[213] The start today, I think, correct me if the rest of the room thinks we should be going somewhere else.
[214] But to me, I'm too late for that.
[215] I mean.
[216] No, well, what do you guys think?
[217] What do you guys think was the most important story of the weekend?
[218] See how it's not too late?
[219] See how it's not too late?
[220] You're good.
[221] Go ahead and tell me what you thought was the most important story of the weekend.
[222] United States winning the gold in basketball.
[223] I thought that was a great story.
[224] It's a slow time in sport.
[225] It has to be that or Dan, Caleb Williams.
[226] Okay, so you did men's?
[227] You're doing men's winning the gold.
[228] I'm doing men's and women's basketball, both winning the gold.
[229] Yeah, USA basketball.
[230] U .S. women's soccer.
[231] Yeah, what about them?
[232] They won the gold.
[233] Yeah, but that wasn't the biggest story of the weekend, was it?
[234] I think you can do a catch -all here and just say Team USA, and we should certainly highlight the women who won the majority of the gold medals for Team USA over the course of the Olympics.
[235] Team USA women's national team had a bunch of adversity, made a kick -ass higher, and immediate dividends with the hiring of Emma Hayes.
[236] There's a lot to talk about here.
[237] and I would say that I cannot tell you how grateful I am to the U .S. women's basketball team for slogging out a win against a French team that played exactly the style it wanted to and harassed Team USA into turnovers and missed layups.
[238] And they went, I think, did Team USA make like two threes all game?
[239] It's the only way the French could have beaten what I believe to be.
[240] the female equivalent of what the Charles Barclay Michael Jordan team was, which is this team can't be beaten, we're all paying attention.
[241] What do you mean the French are coming within one and just a Kevin Durant -type toenail from like true disaster?
[242] They helped me avert what would have been a suffering for four years of people yelling at me about Caitlin Clark not being on that team.
[243] We are so fortunate that by one, point, all of those people have to go running back the way, you know, the way that when you turn on the lights in the kitchen, cockroaches go running away.
[244] We are so lucky that we don't get four years of people yelling at us because that team couldn't bring home gold.
[245] But my God, that's the way you beat that team.
[246] Just dragged the whole thing into the mud.
[247] And I think France was 0 for 9 from 3.
[248] Like, all they need to do in the fourth quarter, all they needed to do was make a shot and they would have beaten us.
[249] Right.
[250] And there's top players.
[251] They're hoopers.
[252] Marine Johannes, repair.
[253] You feel me?
[254] They had a terrible shooting night.
[255] Ayayi had early file trouble, which got us lucky in the first half because she was knocking them down as well.
[256] But also on our side, Jackie Young couldn't hit the ocean yesterday.
[257] She was wide open layups.
[258] So we traded misses with them and luckily it worked out for us.
[259] Can you tell me whether you guys agree with the assessment that, That team is the equivalent of the Michael Jordan, Charles Barclay, 1992 original American Dream Team in the women's game because it's not just an overloaded powerhouse.
[260] It's an overloaded powerhouse that we were all awed by as soon as it was put together.
[261] I think we have to dig, maybe even not that deep, but I don't think it's the most dominant women's national team on the basketball side.
[262] because it's because of the previous teams that this golf has actually shrank.
[263] Despite the talent level, you could argue, which is maybe the argument that you're making, Dan, that in terms of talent and you'd be hard -pressed to push up against that, this is the best team.
[264] But in terms of dominance, I think you could go to previous Olympics and find more dominant.
[265] I wasn't talking.
[266] No, no, forgive me. I was not talking about the production or the results of the team.
[267] I'm talking about what they represent as an American showcase sent over there as a world powerhouse.
[268] We're bigger and badder and tougher than anybody.
[269] buddy.
[270] Yeah, Tarasi doesn't get any playing time.
[271] She just won her sixth gold medal.
[272] Also, Brady -Groner.
[273] She only got six minutes yesterday and no Jewel Lloyd.
[274] Still eaten it out.
[275] Chris Cody, you were off last week.
[276] I can see on your face that you had a lot of beer.
[277] You drank a lot of beer last week.
[278] Were you watching a lot of Olympics?
[279] Were you watching Olympics?
[280] I love the Olympics.
[281] Every second of it, honestly.
[282] I want to give a standing ovation just NBC.
[283] What a delightful experience.
[284] sitting.
[285] I mean, that's a sitting ovation.
[286] It's an audio movie.
[287] I'll stand for you.
[288] Well, it is a sitting.
[289] Put it on the poll, Juju.
[290] Can you give a standing ovation while sitting at Levitart's show?
[291] You want to give a standing ovation?
[292] We did a lot of that last week to NBC and Peacock.
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[309] Yes, exactly.
[310] P stories and Stygots at the top everyone with this story where he pays more than you do.
[311] Stugats.
[312] I always like leaving Dan on eye.
[313] Because he's so vulnerable.
[314] I just unfairly fade down the chickens.
[315] He just leave him by himself.
[316] This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats.
[317] What else did you enjoy yesterday, Stugats?
[318] The closing ceremonies, Tom Cruise, jumps from a building.
[319] That's what he does.
[320] It was pretty cool the way that they passed over.
[321] They passed everything over to Los Angeles.
[322] We didn't French it up so much with Cirque de Soleil that the Wright can get mad at some sort of religious misunderstanding during the closing ceremonies.
[323] They knocked that out.
[324] I haven't checked X this morning.
[325] They're probably mad about something.
[326] No, I think they scrubbed it.
[327] I think they, no, I think they're always mad.
[328] Wasn't there a phrase coined if you're like insulted and offended by everything?
[329] that you see.
[330] Didn't they call you something?
[331] Yeah, I know.
[332] That's what's funny to see that, yeah, and everyone else is woke while you're sniffing around the closing ceremonies to see if some Cirque the Salé person can offend some sort of religious belief you have from 2 ,000 years ago.
[333] Only if I can confuse deities and you can't call me out on it.
[334] What were the highlights of the closing ceremony for you?
[335] Because if this is a springboard, because to God's, I was taken aback by this, right?
[336] I was not expecting.
[337] In our 20 years, I don't believe we've ever covered in a limit.
[338] or been as excited about an Olympics, not even close as we were about these.
[339] I think part of it is the escape hatch of just what the last four years have been.
[340] I think part of it is the way streaming advancements have made it, so they're just injecting sports into your eyes at all hours.
[341] The time difference makes it so you wake up in the morning and you can invest from morning to evening of I can always turn my television on and just basically snort patriotism.
[342] I think for me the closing ceremonies, it was highlighted by a Parisian, band called Phoenix, which is one of my favorite bands.
[343] Great live energy.
[344] They performed for the athletes there.
[345] I think they were missing in the opening ceremonies.
[346] I know Gojira killed it there, but I thought Phoenix and Daft Punk, who for different reasons, weren't there in the opening ceremonies, and I thought that was a glaring omission, and I'm glad that they buttoned it up with Phoenix, which is one of France's great musical exports.
[347] Was anyone else underwhelmed by the Tom Cruise thing?
[348] Like, that was, we got spoiler alerts about it.
[349] We kind of knew it was coming, and it was just, he jumped.
[350] That is the build up was too much.
[351] This is the thing about this, right?
[352] He's 62 years old.
[353] This is the plague, the plague of expectations.
[354] My wife has a, Valerie's got a great governor of, she doesn't ever expect too much and sometimes expects the very worst, therefore she's never disappointed.
[355] What happens with you, Chris, is this was so publicized, Tom Cruise, that if they hadn't told you anything, if you didn't know anything and you're just watching the closing ceremonies and you're like wait a minute is that tom cruise what why is he jumping from a building you would have been amazed by it yes you would have been that's a six don't announce it that's a 62 year old man jumping from a building but it's the plague of expectations man it's just it is a horror that tom cruise can't impress you even though he gets that new fresh botac and goes to the top of a building and jumps from it that's why it's so impressive what step kerry did the other night with the most impressive shot in u .s history expectations were everywhere around those brothers and guess what he did uh when you say most impressive shot i have to ask you which one because so crazy there was one where they threw like four defenders at him uh for a brief moment i got so insanely jealous of warriors fans because i had a bar that was united for their love for the flag and Seth Curry and oddly, at least in this bar, their hatred for Jason Tatum.
[356] But like everybody felt like a Warriors fan has felt like over the last 12 years or so.
[357] That is so uncommon.
[358] We've never seen anything like that to know that just go to the guy that can just shoot a three out of his butt over the tallest individuals on the planet.
[359] It don't matter.
[360] And after he's made the three threes, now they're heat checking and they're double covering him and he's just going to do it sort of floating to his right.
[361] Because he's the greatest shooter we've ever seen, we can have an argument about second place.
[362] There will not be, I don't think, any argument ever about what we're seeing.
[363] I suppose somebody will appear, some future Trey Young or Dame Lillard will somehow, eclips this, but in my mind, I cannot imagine someone shooting better than this because I don't know anyone who's ever as a human being been able to do what it is that he does.
[364] But when you talk about the end of that basketball game and needing, needing every bit of what he was doing at the end of that basketball game, I've told you before, Stugats, that you simply can't control when you're watching something, how it is that you feel.
[365] You may think you're going to feel a certain way, and then things happen that shake how you feel.
[366] So I'm watching the game, that game, and I'm watching with my father, and I bet heavy on the USA to win.
[367] Right.
[368] And the game gets...
[369] You laid the minus 2 ,000?
[370] No, I didn't do it on the money line.
[371] I got killed in the first half because that damn Yavasabi guy.
[372] guy.
[373] I made one basket.
[374] I had minus eight and a half.
[375] And it took it from 10 to eight at the basket over Anthony Davis.
[376] So I'm rooting for the United States for all the obvious reasons and my money.
[377] And then it gets close late.
[378] And I'm like, man, it'd be interesting in France one.
[379] Because I'm not going to win my bet anymore now.
[380] But the thing that it got me that surprised me was my patriotism, which I'm like, well, the French are a huge underdog.
[381] I tend to love.
[382] those in sports.
[383] Those are some of my favorite things.
[384] The American team is kind of super loaded unfair loaded.
[385] But it's a French underdog.
[386] That's right.
[387] And then that sweeps in after it.
[388] Yeah, I don't want the French to be happy about anything.
[389] Just I, they're not.
[390] No, I think they're pretty happy today with two silvers.
[391] Like, I think they, I think they had the second best, well, literally the second best experience with basketball at the Olympics, but not just in winning both silvers.
[392] I think they all showed us something because they're like, oh, I've thought of Spain is that kind of good.
[393] I've thought of Serbia is that kind of good.
[394] I do not think of the French as being this kind of competitive.
[395] And they turned a corner, Dan, when they started, like, getting away from forcing their NBA stars into that lineup.
[396] They showed their depth, and they showed guys that aren't in the association can really ball out, too.
[397] I, at the end of that game, though, Steph swung me back with simple, pure, and unprecedented greatness.
[398] Like, whatever it is that was swirling inside of me, because I don't know if this happened to any of you.
[399] Maybe your USA allegiances are so strong that you don't say to yourself, man, the French are fighting.
[400] They kind of deserve to make this interesting at the end.
[401] I'm interested in a close game.
[402] I don't know how I'm going to feel at the end of this if the USA loses.
[403] I don't want them to lose, but I like underdogs.
[404] And that's a pretty cool story.
[405] if Wemby can take out the entire team.
[406] But it also felt like that too against the Serbian team where they were down 14, 17 points and you were coming to the grips of damn, they might lose to Yokic and a bunch of guys that are kind of like sea level NBA players or not NBA players at all.
[407] So it's almost like we had that experience prior to.
[408] So when we got to France it was like, all right, we've seen this team down double digits.
[409] Like that's kind of the worst it can be.
[410] Without a really intense qualification process like there is in the World Cup for soccer, the U .S. is always in these major tournaments because they qualify, lower -tier talents, end up qualifying because of just their sheer dominance.
[411] And they're always expected to win.
[412] You need now for these moments, like in 92, it was such a novelty.
[413] Dominance was the thing, and dominance is what you tuned in to see.
[414] Now you need moments, and we don't get that Steph moment without them being tested.
[415] We don't get those LeBron moments against Serbia without them being tested.
[416] You kind of need them to be tested for this whole thing to work and for you to have iconic moments because that image shooting over Wembenyama in an illustrious career, that might be the greatest photo he's ever taken.
[417] Hell, that might be the greatest photo ever taken in athletics.
[418] The rest of the world has caught up, which makes the Olympic Games more interesting.
[419] So Mike is right because I never cared about Team USA except for the original Dream Team, but they were expected to win and not only win, but win big.
[420] And anything short of a gold was, you know, they underperformed in terms of expectations.
[421] but because the rest of the world has caught up, because France has caught up, because Serbia is now really good, it might have the best player in the world, I found myself entering that game yesterday, not really caring, but halfway through, I'm like, wow, this is close.
[422] France is good.
[423] And Steph put on a performance for the ages, and I found myself caring about this thing more than I ever have because the rest of the world is caught up to the United States.
[424] Congratulations, U .S. Olympic basketball team.
[425] You've done nothing more impressive than make Stugats care about something in his 50s.
[426] That's something.
[427] That is unbelievable.
[428] That is a testament.
[429] If we could put that, if we could etch that on the gold medal somehow, you summoned and stirred a single ember of care from Stugats in his 50s.
[430] He doesn't care to shave.
[431] He doesn't care to clean.
[432] He doesn't care to get himself informed.
[433] But you stirred something, Steph Curry.
[434] They must have spiked the greens at your golf course.
[435] Something's going on.
[436] I'm not allowed to care about anything.
[437] We've just gotten used to you not caring about anything.
[438] And seeing Steph summoned caring from you is like seeing one of the wonders of the world.
[439] It should be an eighth wonder of the world that Steph has summoned that that kind of greatness.
[440] Look, imagine the critic all shriveled up, boiled, just looking for places to put blame, enthusiastic about, ooh, I can rip Team USA if they lose, they exist just to be a thing I can rip.
[441] and then Steph hits four shots and they needed all of them because the game was close late and everyone else got out of the way so that he could do it.
[442] That's the like to see them.
[443] All time greats getting out of the way.
[444] For all of them to know on the court what it is they were on the court with.
[445] Yes, Steph will be taking the next shot.
[446] It will not be LeBron.
[447] It was pretty good.
[448] It will not be Durant.
[449] It will not be Booker.
[450] It's going to be Steph from wherever it is.
[451] is that he is.
[452] That is it for LeBron, Stefan Durant in terms of Olympic competition, right?
[453] I think.
[454] Durant's done.
[455] Curry's done.
[456] He's going back to Lake Tahoe.
[457] LeBron still might be around.
[458] It's pretty good punctuation video.
[459] Get an assortment of pictures to roll behind me during the next segment.
[460] I think Mike is a prisoner of the moment on best photo ever taken.
[461] We've got to see if we could top it next.
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[477] Don Libotard.
[478] I actually thought you looked kind of good.
[479] Stugats.
[480] That good.
[481] I have the beards grown out a little bit.
[482] I got a little life in my face, I feel like.
[483] Little tan, Colorado, San Francisco.
[484] I had a great time.
[485] You get life on your face.
[486] You've got death on your face.
[487] I think you've got 40 to life on your face.
[488] This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats.
[489] When I think of greatest photographs ever taken, and I know we're doing some video here and some audio, I'm going to describe what I, recall as the what I just generally associate as the greatest sports photograph ever taken, which is in Miami Beach, Muhammad Ali standing over Sunny Liston after knocking him out.
[490] That is that is the instantaneous if you tell me great photographs, what are the greatest you've seen.
[491] That's the first one that comes to mind for me. For me, it's Jordan soaring through the air, dunk contest, seeing all the fans' faces in the background because they've never seen anyone jump so high.
[492] And for so long.
[493] Jordan has another one that I remember seeing as two pages in ESPN the magazine which was larger, which was magnificent because it was him making the shot over Byron Russell and the Utah crowd you could see in the Utah crowd because it was Michael Jordan shooting the basketball the horror of everybody the ball's still in the air, the horror of everybody and then there's a kid as a Bulls fan who's just got his arms up because he knows it's Michael everybody knows it's going in.
[494] Everybody knows Who's shooting that basketball, what the moment is?
[495] And it's just amazing to see the rampant fear of Utah fans and the celebration of Bulls fans before the shot has gone in.
[496] Don't forget the shocked fan after the Undertaker's streak at WrestleMania was broken by Brock Lesnar.
[497] That's a good one.
[498] D -Wade LeBron, Ali Upe, or D -Waids, kind of like soaring through the air.
[499] Love that, yeah.
[500] A woman who was accused of murder giving Joachim Noah the middle finger as he walked off the court, ejected and dejected in a heat playoff.
[501] RG3 eating the baguette from the weekend.
[502] Classic.
[503] Cresson, I think.
[504] What a great sentence.
[505] Dan yelling at security while the battery is just like waving his fingers.
[506] So get as many pictures as you can to roll behind me. That's better than Bobby Orr.
[507] Of what is viewed.
[508] Bobby Orr is a pretty good one.
[509] Bobby Orr is a great sports photograph.
[510] But give me, if you can, Stugatz, because you were talking about Caleb Williams.
[511] And football was kind of back this weekend.
[512] And the Olympics, they gave us quite the appetizer as we gals.
[513] into football because one of the benefits of the Olympics is that it's baseball, some WNBA, but there's not a lot going on right now.
[514] And so the Olympics just sort of pumping your July full of sports was something that for the people who are addicted to stimulus in our audience, the need for endless sports stimulus, it took the perfect time, perfect hours as it came and pushed us into football.
[515] But you were saying what about Caleb Williams?
[516] Because you've been talking about him since you came in today.
[517] The sniff test, Dan.
[518] I saw him in a uniform.
[519] I saw him on an NFL field playing in an NFL game.
[520] It was preseason granted.
[521] But Caleb Williams, my goodness.
[522] He looks amazing.
[523] And so did Jaded Daniels, by the way.
[524] What a weekend.
[525] Bo Nix.
[526] There was a couple QBs if you were paying attention that made you go.
[527] Do you have a top five list?
[528] And of course, preseason top five of QBs that made you go.
[529] Okay, really?
[530] So there are five of them?
[531] O -L -I's, too, Dano.
[532] Wow, wow.
[533] So there's seven QBs who made you go, hmm, this week.
[534] Exactly right.
[535] We'll start with the first O -L -I.
[536] Stetson Ben at the four.
[537] Again, you look at the box score, you look at the box score, you see the four picks.
[538] Hold on, but then you see that game -winning drive, and you're like, no, see Tony, Tony.
[539] Kids got spunk.
[540] Yeah, kids got spunk.
[541] Yeah, kids got spunk.
[542] He's right.
[543] It's not how you start, Dan, know it's how you finish.
[544] That's why he's O -L -I.
[545] Yeah.
[546] Tony, the problem that I have with you generally is that no one around here, you are my friend, okay?
[547] You're my friend from college who would always fall in love the moment he walked into the strip club.
[548] A quarterback shows you anything, anything, and you are a Taylor Heineckee fan for life.
[549] He had four picks.
[550] Stetson Bennett.
[551] Again, game -winning drive, though.
[552] Right.
[553] How you finish?
[554] I do wonder, Stugat, when we were having this conversation on Pablo Tori finds out with Mina, but because in football, to me, one of the hugely interesting things is now it's almost as important to have value as quarterback as it is to have a great quarterback.
[555] So if I can get Brock Purdy for $900 ,000 and what I can surround him with is Kittal and Iuke and Debo Saniel and McCaffrey and Trent.
[556] Williams, huh, okay, maybe Brock Purdy is the last pick in the draft can be someone great.
[557] And I don't need to get Josh Allen.
[558] I don't need to get Lamar Jackson.
[559] I can get huge value from a Taylor Heineke.
[560] Can I put Stetson Betton the fourth in my, in my backfield with Kiddle, with Iyuk, with Debo Samuel, with McCaffrey, with Trent Williams, and get someone who's serviceable?
[561] Tony's not saying you can.
[562] He's also not saying you can't.
[563] He's just saying, hmm.
[564] Let me ask you guys the group the question.
[565] Which would you rather have a good quarterback, above average quarterback, slightly above average quarterback at $900 ,000 a year, or a Josh Allen type at $50 plus million a year?
[566] I want a quarterback that makes me go, hmm.
[567] All right.
[568] What other O -LIs you got?
[569] We have the last OLAI here before we get into the top five is everybody in the Saints and Cardinals game.
[570] Oh, wow.
[571] We're talking about Jake Hainer.
[572] Talk about Spencer, Rattel keeping on on Spencer.
[573] Yeah.
[574] Clayton, Tooney.
[575] Sir.
[576] Yep.
[577] And Desmond Ritter.
[578] Who is a Cardinal now?
[579] All four guys go, hmm.
[580] Yeah.
[581] All of them?
[582] All of them?
[583] Not all of them can get, all of them.
[584] So all the quarterbacks who played this weekend, made you go.
[585] No, no. All the guys in the Saints, Cardinals games, I was keeping an eye and I was saying, huh, good throws from each one of those guys.
[586] Number five, Jaden Daniels.
[587] That low?
[588] Chris Cody's slow off a vacation.
[589] Chris Cody is on vacation.
[590] Here's why he's this low, right?
[591] Very, very small sample size, right?
[592] Two of three had a great long pass, had a nice little play action, little RPO zip that he had.
[593] Not enough of a sample size to put him further down on the list, but I like what I see and I saw something that deep ball perfectly placed between the safety and the corner.
[594] I said, hmm.
[595] Jaden Daniels, who I like to call Jalen, he had the one throw.
[596] He got into your list because of the one throw.
[597] All it takes is one throw.
[598] That's it.
[599] Number four.
[600] Number four, Bo Nix.
[601] Big game.
[602] Spunky.
[603] Yeah.
[604] Winner.
[605] Put it on the poll, Juju.
[606] Is Bo Nick Spunky?
[607] Number three.
[608] I just said he had a big game.
[609] It was a preseason game.
[610] Every game is a big game.
[611] Football is back.
[612] Number three.
[613] Joe Milton.
[614] Oh, God.
[615] Did you see him over the weekend dance?
[616] The third.
[617] The third.
[618] Yes.
[619] I mean, I'm talking about laser.
[620] Laser arm.
[621] Putting a ball in windows that they don't belong to be in.
[622] And he's there making it happen.
[623] And they're too better than this?
[624] Too better than him.
[625] Two better, yeah.
[626] Number two.
[627] Caleb Williams.
[628] Somebody's better than Caleb.
[629] Did you see Dan when he had the play action fake, rolled out to his right, faked out a D -Lyman, and then threw kind of like a sidearm pass to the boundary that was like 42 yards away on a absolute dark.
[630] insane.
[631] Someone was better than him this weekend.
[632] Somebody made me go, hmm, more than that this week.
[633] Not better, remember, not better.
[634] Mixing up the game.
[635] Things that made me go, hmm.
[636] I don't understand the difference.
[637] Number one.
[638] The number one quarterback that made me go, hmm, J .J. McCarthy.
[639] Oh, wow.
[640] I was very impressed with J .J. McCarthy.
[641] Again, they're like, oh, Sam Donald's a starter.
[642] He's going to be our starter.
[643] Okay, sure.
[644] Okay, Kevin O 'Connell's going to put his entire career in Sam Donald's head, sure, 100%.
[645] And then I saw J .J. McCarthy in the preseason game throw a couple second level throws and I was like something there.
[646] Chris Cody's been wanting to talk about J .J. McCarthy I'm going to say for six straight weeks and he hasn't had the windows in order to do anything J .J. McCarthy related.
[647] So here it is Chris Cody.
[648] The floor is yours.
[649] A lot of pressure.
[650] Just to be clear, to recap, Jim Harbaugh keeps losing to Ohio States.
[651] DuGatz wants to fire him every year.
[652] Jim Harbaugh runs away scared during the pandemic of Ohio State.
[653] Jim Harbaugh oversees widespread cheating throughout his program that makes him flee the premises and is no longer welcome back for four years for different violations than the Conner Stallion's violations.
[654] And also, furthermore, spent the whole season hiding a first round pick from us at quarterback.
[655] Just hiding J .J. McCarthy.
[656] Winning with it.
[657] Yeah, winning with it, but hiding him, trying to actively hide his quarterback in a way that stunned me when he went in the top 10 and made me think, well, it's only because what they value the most now is quarterbacks who are valuable, right?
[658] He can't be a top 10 quarterback, and you're now going to tell me he's a top 10 quarterback?
[659] J .J. McCarthy has been interesting to me since the draft.
[660] So you get these cool, I don't know if this was on hard knocks, or you get these, the coaches interviewing players.
[661] And so first I want to play a clip here of J .J. McCarthy talking to the Minnesota Vikings before they drafted them.
[662] Play that now.
[663] The whole night beforehand.
[664] I'm just thinking like, all right, I got to do something that's going to, you know, stick in their brains, something that's going to, you know, really have them walk out of that meeting and be like, he can be our guy.
[665] Okay, so you have J .J. McCarthy here before the draft thinking, what can I say to these guys that make them?
[666] So obviously, we know now he was drafted by them.
[667] So you're thinking, what did he say?
[668] He must have said something to these guys.
[669] And they left that meeting, that's our guy.
[670] So let's find out now what he said.
[671] At the end, I tell Coach O 'Connell that, you know, I'd run through a brick wall for him.
[672] And, you know, that's something that I've only said that to two coaches in my entire life, people that I have, you know, the utmost respect for and honor for.
[673] And, you know, he definitely fits that mold.
[674] And won championships with both of those guys previously, so hopefully we can have.
[675] I mean, can you believe that?
[676] He's only told two coaches that.
[677] He'd run through a brick wall for them.
[678] The only two coaches he's ever had.
[679] I just love the idea of them being, they're not sole.
[680] on him yet.
[681] And then he's like, do you guys hear what he said about the brick wall?
[682] He's only told two other coaches that.
[683] He's the league coach and his high school coach.
[684] He wouldn't do it for Harbaugh.
[685] He knew Harbaugh was cheating.
[686] He's like, no, no, brick wall, no. I'll run through some drywall.
[687] That made them say, hmm.
[688] J .J. McCarthy, you're telling me, was more impressive than Caleb Williams this weekend.
[689] Again, bigger sample size.
[690] He played more, he threw a couple touchdowns, threw a pick, but I like to see that.
[691] You know why I like to see the interception?
[692] You like to see the pick?
[693] I do.
[694] because you know why?
[695] That means you're trying to throw, you're trying to make a play.
[696] Yes.
[697] And I like that.
[698] It's the preseason.
[699] We're not going to count the picks again.
[700] Get him out of the way early, Tony.
[701] Payton Manning through 28 interceptions is first year.
[702] You know what I like to see?
[703] Going for it.
[704] Had a bigger sample size.
[705] Again, Caleb Williams only played a little bit.
[706] JJ McCarthy played more.
[707] It made me go, Tony, it's your hmm.
[708] But I would imagine expectations have a lot to do with the amount of hmm you apply because this is the number one overall pick.
[709] You expect Caleb Williams to be good.
[710] So while he makes you go, hmm, it's not an extended hmm.
[711] Well, J .J. McCarthy, you apply the context of, wait, was Michigan hiding this guy?
[712] Is he actually good?
[713] Hmm.
[714] You got to define for me, hmm, because I'm confused about what the hmm means.
[715] How many M's?
[716] Because I thought hmm means he's going to be good.
[717] No, it makes you go, hmm.
[718] It's like a delight.
[719] How many M's?
[720] Something's afoot.
[721] Yeah, like keep an eye on him.
[722] Something's a foot.
[723] In a good way.
[724] I like three M's to trail the, you know, H. That's fine.
[725] You can spell it.
[726] That's good, but I still don't know what it means, really, because something's a foot is not much.
[727] In a good way, though.
[728] Yeah, but something's a foot always has a bad connotation to it.
[729] We're here on, like, something's a foot in a good way.
[730] It means there might be something there.
[731] There also might not be something there.
[732] So that you can say about every quarterback.
[733] Which is what I do.
[734] No, I was on a boat as the game, the Broncos game was going on.
[735] Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a bow next.
[736] I went, huh.
[737] Yeah.
[738] What?
[739] Okay.
[740] Well, a hot pass for a touchdown.
[741] I was like, just the corner of his eye.
[742] The ha is different, though.
[743] No. But then I followed it up.
[744] All right, let me see what this is.
[745] Oh, hmm.
[746] Right.
[747] Okay, but I don't know what, is that the same as his?
[748] Hmm.
[749] No, his is, like, he has his own list.
[750] I'm just trying to help the audience, like, as we shape it.
[751] The huh is reserved for a guy that you probably didn't think that was going to be very good headed into the draft.
[752] He has a good opening game.
[753] You go, huh.
[754] I don't think that's who the ha is for.
[755] That's my huh.
[756] I know, but I feel like the, I feel like the ha.
[757] It can be your ha, it's fair enough.
[758] Well, it is my huh.
[759] But in this case, I'm telling you that my ha, and I believe mine to be a more mainstream ha, I think, huh, is when you discover that a quarterback is playing somewhere that you didn't know was playing there.
[760] I think that's what the ha is for, when all of a sudden a name you recognize appears on a team that you did not know he was on.
[761] Like Desmond Ritter with the Cardinals.
[762] You're like, huh, ha.
[763] Like Marcus Marietta with the commanders.
[764] Huh.
[765] Yeah.
[766] My hans were usually reserved for Nathan Peterman's guys like, huh?
[767] Okay, so yours has a question mark on it, though.
[768] Well, it's just like a lot like the hmm, you can add a different inflection and change a whole mean there.
[769] Well, I still don't know the meaning of the hmm.
[770] I really don't.
[771] I mean, we did 15 minutes on it.
[772] We didn't do 50 minutes.
[773] It just felt like 15 minutes.
[774] It felt like it, but it was not 15 minutes.
[775] I mean, if he can't keep up with the hmm.
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