October 29, 2025 • 36 mins
Doug and the crew get into sports viewing in person v TV in this installment of The Midway. Doug welcomes NFL Analyst Daniel Jeremiah onto the show to talk about the Chargers, Steelers and all of the headlines around the NFL. Plus, Dan Beyer takes Doug through The Press.
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listen this hour the press and getting you ready for
Game five of the World Series this hour. But before
we get to that, let's do something we do every Wednesday.
We call it the Midway it's.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Not getting the middle with you. It's time for the midway.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
The midway. It could be a sports topic, non sports topic,
somebody to get you through the middle of the week,
the middle of the day, the middle of the show.
And without further ado, here's Jason.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Hey, Doug, I'll take it from here.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
I'll take it from here.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
Now.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
The group text went went like this. Now, what I
do appreciate this, and one of the things I appreciate
about any workplace is enthusiasm and collaboration. If you have
those two things, I think you're on the right track
for success and great. So rarely do our group texts
involve enthusiasm and collaboration. That today was kind of a
(01:44):
an iceore. So I want to I want to bring
attention to it. So I said, for the midway, we
are halfway through the NFL regular season. What's the biggest surprise?
And then I threw out a Jordan Woad management thing
about is this is this the biggest f you to
fans in sports? And then Doug said, I like in
person or TV and go through all the sports. Dan says,
(02:10):
let's wait until week nine. Now, this is where I'm
gonna stop this conversation, and I need to do a sidebar. Okay,
let's do quick math sidebar here. What's the sidebar?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Please approach Judge Stewart's desk for the sidebar, Doug.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I'm gonna pull a Doug here, and I'm going to
ask you a question. You're not anticipating. What is half
of seventeen.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Eight and a half?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
We are midway through week nine of the NFL season.
Midway through week nine is another way of saying half
of seventeen. So today is the midway point of the
NFL regular season.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Ah, that was the reason for the question midway.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
I disagree. I object, hold on, hold on, hold on,
hold on.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Hold on.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
It's an eighteen week schedule.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Oh, seventeen games, eighteen weeks.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Get so, after week nine.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
We were stained, objections, objections of stained.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Well, the listeners know what we're doing next week, so
put it on your calendar circle. Your calendar. Next week
is halfway through the NFL season, So we go with mine.
We're gonna do dougs in person or in TV. Go
through the sports. Damn.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yeah, well, let me let me just kind of go
through what I was thinking, because I didn't expound upon it.
And then you guys kind of discuss. It's like, I
do you guys know scotch Scott Shapiro, he's on a
run here. He's like Pablo Tory bringing down industry, like
historic run. That's what our boss, Scott Shapiro is on.
He goes to Vikings game in Dublin right comes, goes
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to the Vikings Charger game on Thursday night, and then
he and his son pop up at game Game three
of the World Series. Apparently they stayed all eighteen innings,
which is amazing. We could have done when do you
leave or did you leave? But instead, I like this
one of those things that like part of me is
part of me thinks that's awesome. He was there for.
(04:15):
He was there for in any conversation, one of the greats,
if not the greatest Major League Baseball World Series game
of all time. It has to be at least discussed, right, Okay,
But truth be told, if you're there, you're pot committed
and you're like, okay, first to get to a World
Series game, As Jason Stewart you pointed out, it is
hell with traffic. I guarantee Rogers Center. I know the
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Canadians do a better job with public transportation than we
can do to the ravine, but it couldn't possibly be
no traffic. And then you know you're paying an absorbent
fees and then you're there. You can't control who sits
around you. And then like, if the game's bad, he
can't really leave because he had so much invested. And
if the game's good, kids, like at some point you're like, oh,
to it, whereas if you're at home and you got
something else to do, you can just posit, come back
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to it. You can fall asleep as I did in
Game two. Hey, you don't feel as bad. And baseball,
as much as it's great to say you're there, if
you're up in the third deck or you're watching your couch,
the couch is better. So here's my question, and it's open,
and I will stop talking World so we can start
with World Series, and then we can work our way
to college football to NFL football, to NFL playoff games,
(05:24):
to NBA games, to NBA postseason games to college basketball
regular season to college basketball postseason? What's better in person
or on TV?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
So we're gonna do a topic none of us agreed on.
Is that is that what it was that is that
where we're at here.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
It's called the duck out.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Hey, Hey, but I think we want to save your
We No, we saved the NFL for next week for
next week. Yes, so but the broadcaster our go to voice,
was what Doug was saying, right, like, who's our go
two voice? That when we're and I assume that it's
there's a a connection to someone in sports, like that's
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what we're talking about, like Smoltz here for baseball?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Was that like where this where this jumping off point was?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
No, it's to me, it was more would you rather
watch on your couch rather?
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Yeah, go through. We're gonna throw all the sports and
we're gonna say would you prefer there to be on
the couch or they're in person?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Okay? Like like like Dan, when you're watching.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
I'll take home for all of them? Right, just home home, home,
home home. And I like to go to games. I do,
I do?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
But why why home for all of them?
Speaker 6 (06:39):
I just it was just you know, so you Dan,
you went to that Ohio State Oregon game on a
year's day there was a playoff game?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Right?
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (06:47):
So what made you and Bill's football?
Speaker 4 (06:51):
I wanted to see the stadium ye okay, So.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
What what made what what was the cattalyst for you
to get down.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
To the Rose Bowl. I didn't want to have fomo
of not seeing Ohio State my wife, that's the point. Yeah,
my wife didn't.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
What's the point.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
My wife didn't let me go to the Utah Ohio
State game because of COVID fears. We had our son
was young.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
At the time, she was a baby, was a baby
at the time.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Yeah, so she didn't want to make Just for people.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
To point, people are like probably listening like wait what
COVID fears, Like, no, they had a little baby at the.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Time, Like it was so I stay at home.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Yes, But the fomo is the whole thing, right, is
you're missing out on the thing, and you're missing out
on the chance to say you were there. All right,
Jay Stu, what about you games you'd rather be at
home for games you'd rather watch on TV.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
I'm I think I'm even more of a home guy
than dan Is and I The strange thing about this
this dynamic is nobody driving around listening to the show
right now live is going to turn down a chance
to go to a major sporting event game. I really don't.
I think we have a very warped view of this
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and that we have been privileged enough to get access
to great games. We've been there, done that. The first
thing that I think about, like right now, Big Mike,
were to walk into the studio and say I've got
tickets to Game five, I would first of all think
of all the obstacles and the pain in the ass
that I'm going to go through, and I would have
to spend five or six hours with thick Mike, and
(08:25):
that's not something I'm looking forward to doing. But choose
the couch every day of the week. Choose the couch.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Oh, I don't know, Okay, So Sam, you're like a
little bit of kindred spirit here college football you'd rather
be in person.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
If I get an opportunity to go to a college
football game, I'm definitely gonna go.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
You know.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
A couple of years ago I went to a USC
Colorado game as pre Dion when the first years of
Lincoln Riley, and I'd never been to the coliseum, So
that's like a bucket list thing. A couple of years
ago or last year, I had never been to Polypavili
and it got tickets for Iowa. UCLA had to go
to that. I think it's it's like growing up in
Iowa City. I could tell you it's really easy because
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at least where I lived, I lived fifteen minute walk
from the stadium. Different Obviously, if you're driving in from
Davenport or Des Moine or something, the traffic can be
a biach. But walking from your house to the stadium
is awesome, and then the tailgating is awesome. So like,
going to the game and getting out in and out
of the stadium is not that hard. But then going
to like Sofi and finding parking, finding reasonably priced parking,
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and then the whole complex is so huge, and then
finding your seats in Sofi, it's all you know. So
some might say I'd rather stay at home for that,
but listen, I went to a I went to a
Dodger playoff game a few years ago. I think it
was versus the Giants. It was like one nothing Giants.
It was very windy. We're up way up in the
in the nosebleeds, and I swear there was like peanut
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shells flying into my eyeballs like it was not I
can say happily. I'm glad I put the bucket list
item of going to a Dodger game, but I would
have watched rather have watched that game at home.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Again, I think I think baseball the sport is way
better in the playoffs, but it's better to be in
person in the regular season because it's so laid back
and you can talk and have beers and whatever. On
the other hand, like being there in person is really cool.
I think baseball it's so good on TV, so good
on TV that unless you have great seats, you're at home.
(10:25):
I college football, college basketball, I think in person.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
Yeah, because the students are there, it's more routed.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Energy to it. NBA basketball, I actually think NBA and NFL.
NBA is probably better in person. If you're in the
lower bowl, the upper bowl, your would be NFL. I
think it's such a well covered TV sport. I would
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always do that one at home.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
And the in game NFL experience, And I've been saying
this for years, so this isn't a new thing. The
in game NFL experience hasn't caught up to anything close
to the home experience, Like you sit there and you
feel those commercials like that. There's something about the NFL
game that seems to and there's a ton of downtime
(11:16):
when you're at the game that you don't even realize
when you're on the couch, Like it's to me, I,
I would much rather not go to an NFL game
than those other sports you mentioned.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
I when I've gone to Iowa games at Kinnick, there
is a lot of standing around waiting because at home
you're watching those commercials. It's commercial time out what is.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
It the red hat. Yeah, the reviews are views and
you're just like, oh, come on, and then that's a
fair one.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
You're being entertained through all that stuff when you're watching
on TV.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I I here. I have two things that I have
to make sure that I mentioned. One, I do have fomo.
I do have them. I watch and then I'm like, God,
I wish I was there, and then I'm there, I'm like,
I got of good as stay at home. So me
saying this may sound a little bit more over ambitious
than the reality, and I may side with you guys
if somebody asked me point play. So that's the first thing.
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The second thing is, for twenty better part of twenty
three years, I called games. So going to a sporting
event where I don't hear somebody talking to me in
my ear is so refreshing to me. It just is,
like I told you, guys, I went to all but
one of the Packers' home games last year, and I
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find especially said if you're getting the Lower Bowl in Lambeau,
it's like a college stadium. Everybody's just into the game,
nobody's on their phone. You're just having a great time.
But the other part to it is there's no voices
in my ears other than guys yelling go pack go,
and and can you pass me that beer? Right? That's
literally it. So I do think maybe I like in
(12:51):
stadium or in arena a little bit more in my
mind or recently than reality, because I'm so used to
having somebody talking to my ear and it's like refreshing
to just go and absorb and enjoy a supporting event.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
I think that's it too for me. You mentioned Lambo, Like,
if you told me I could see a game in Lambo,
I'm gonna go. But it's more to say that I
have been in Lambeau and the new experience at once.
I don't need to see more than one game, you know,
Dan and I just went to formally Rich Stadium and
that was a great experience and I don't need to
see another one. Sure, So yeah, there are exceptions to
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this rule.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Here, okay, and that is the midway.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
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Speaker 1 (13:45):
As it's the Gottlieb Show Fox Sports Radio. So we've
talked a lot about the Steelers in the preseason. Right
we were waiting on Aaron Rodgers to sign there and
then we thought it was kind of curious that they
did all these deals where it feels like they're pushing
their chips all in. Then they get Aaron Rodgers and
(14:05):
then sort of uneven. The defense does not look does
not look good enough to in terms of getting to
the quarterback. I think that's a massive, massive issue. Doesn't
look good getting to the quarterback. That's something that's going
to hold it back. And Aaron Rodgers looks good, but
still looks forty and they basically have one weapon as
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a pass catcher. It's a bit of a flawed team,
not a terrible team, not a great team. Here's Mike Tomlin,
their longtime head coach, analyzing their mid season.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Report, I don't think I like how we responded to
the explosion plays, phil flipping plays, drift producing conversion third
downs that happened in the third quarter. I didn't think
our offense responded very well to the none call on
the first third down of the half. And you know,
you don't always have control over what happens to your
end game. Rest assured some things is it going to happen?
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There's an ebb and flow of the course of sixty minutes.
But in that instance, as a collective, we feel like
we didn't respond any the appropriate or the desired way.
We didn't smile in the face of it. We didn't
produce the type of plays that counteract those things and
get the balance back in our favor. And so we're
certainly being critical of ourselves, and we're utilizing that as
fuel as we prepare for our next opportunity. The first
(15:23):
component of fixing it is acknowledging it. You really don't
get an opportunity to fix it until you face those
circumstances again, and so we spend some time acknowledging it.
We're going to get back to work. We certainly believe
that we work in the right spirit. We do the
right things environmentally, We're going to get back to work, man,
and wait for our opportunity to rectify it. You can
spend a lot of time talking about your ills, but
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the true fixes come in stadiums. And so that's why
sometimes I'm somewhat hesitant to respond to the how do
you fix it question? There's certainly procedurally things that you
go about doing that fixes it, but the fix happens
in stadium stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
It is just tall, all right. So he's talking about
fixing it, admitting they're not perfect. Again. I don't know
if any of this does anything for the current Steelers
other than there was a lot of words salad there
that I generally want to buy because I like Mike Tomlin.
Does that make sense, Dan, Yeah, It's like, hey, we
(16:21):
got this process of fixing it and blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah. Like I like Mike Tomlin. It
sounds cool.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Sure, Yes, I like he would give him the benefit
of the doubt.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yeah, but he really didn't say anything.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
No.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Also, like they are only seven games into their season,
which isn't even halfway through the season right.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Now, eighteen.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Oh, Dan will extract his pound of flesh whenever that's
all right to be possible.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
I completely read your text wrong. That's why I was
so caught off guard during the midway. I was like,
what are you talking about, Doug, and I just yeah,
So it was a who was all a combo?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah, I'm totally okay with it, totally okay with it.
All right, It's Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio.
Let's welcome in Daniel Jeremiah. Of course, you can hear
DJ on the Move the Sticks podcast. You can see
him on the NFL Network. You can also hear him
on our sister station, Los Angeles Score. He broadcasts as
an analysts the LA Chargers games. I do want to
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ask you about the Chargers. Dan Byer brought up a really,
really good point, and it was, you know, Justin Herbert
has been this guy who doesn't have social media out
of the spotlight. Now he starts dating a young, talented,
famous woman. And back to back nights we see HM
at the Laker game and then at the World Series game. Right,
(17:46):
is this is this? You know, a somebody telling him
he's got to be out in front of the camera
and represent all of Los Angeles. Are we pushing justin
Herbert to be somebody he's not?
Speaker 7 (17:59):
I don't, you know, I don't know what the uh well,
what the that specific situation is, but I would just
say it to me, it looks like he's just getting
kind of more comfortable. And I know usually when you
have somebody who's going out, you know during the season,
you'll have people question, oh, does this mean he's not
putting it in the time in or his focus and
blah blah. I would just say Herbert's like the smartest,
(18:22):
most like singularly focused guy. It probably, in his case,
is a good thing to just kind of, you know,
get away for a second, because he's been so obsessive.
So I just from from where I stand, I look
at that and say, Okay, somebody who's who's happy. He's
sounds like he's he's found somebody likes and he's he's
getting out a little bit and and maybe that'll, you know,
(18:43):
ease some of the the internal pressure that he puts
on himself.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Fair Enough, Doug Gottlieb show here on Fox Sports Radio.
How much of it is is quality of competition? How
much of it is the Cantcy Chiefs figured.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
It out well.
Speaker 7 (18:58):
I definitely think health is just the biggest component. You know,
they've just gotten healthier and that's you know, that's the
biggest thing. And I still don't think they're playing perfectly.
You know, they're putting up points, which is great to see,
but I still think there's another level that they can
get to. But you know, you know, we'll see. As ay.
I'm looking forward to those two showdowns with Denver and
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looking forward to that, you know, rematch with the Charges
a little bit later in the year. I think it's
the best division in football, and I think all three
of those teams it's going to be awesome matchups.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I completely agree Denver. Denver is a fascinating fast dating watch.
There's talk in Indy of extending Danny Dimes, of giving
them a new contract. Would you do that?
Speaker 7 (19:43):
I think so. I don't think that this is something
that's not repeatable, and I think it's very sustainable, and
I don't think that price is going to go down,
So I could understand that if they wanted to try
and do it now, thinking they would get a little
bit of a discount versus what it would be at
the end of the year. I saw that team in
person and studied that team, and the way he's playing
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is there's nothing really fluky about it. You know, they've
got good pieces around him. They've got a good play
caller there in Shane Steiken. But you know he's making
all the throws. He's playing with toys. He's accurate, he
can move around if you need him too. And I
don't think that offense asked him to be the star.
Jonathan Taylor is that. But I think you have to
pay a little bit more than you're paying of now
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to keep him going forward. And that price with quarterbacks
never goes down.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
No, it does not, It really doesn't. It really really
really doesn't. This is the Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox
Sports Radio. That's the voice of Daniel Jeremiah. Move the
Sticks is, in fact, is the podcast. Baltimore wins with
Snoop Huntley at quarterback. Looks like Lamar Jackson is going
to be back. They go to Miami, who the offense
(20:50):
continue to play well. Defense is not great, but big
stretch here for the Ravens, Dolphins in the road, Bye Week,
Vikings in the road, and Browns in the road. Three
games that on paper you should win, but they haven't
won games in the football field. Where are you on
the Ravens as they said at two and five, but
get the quarterback healthy.
Speaker 7 (21:08):
Yeah, I think it's it's lined up for him really well.
You know, when you look at the schedule going all
the way to the rest of the year, there's a
lot of wins on there. So I think they're getting
Lamar back at just the right time. And more so
maybe than the Ravens. I think it's the fact that
the Steelers had this thing kind of on a t
for them and they couldn't they couldn't put it away.
So yeah, I think at one in five where they
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were before last week, you're sitting here going, oh, this
is rough. But then you look at the schedule and
then you just have no confidence that Pittsburgh's gonna run
away and hide.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Yeah. Speaking of Pittsburgh, obviously we saw them against the
Green Bay Packers. Let's start with well, let's start with
the Steelers. I got to tell you the most disappointing
part is the defense. The offense is a weird mix.
Is yet no pressure at all on Jordan Love?
Speaker 7 (21:55):
Well, they can't. I mean, here's the thing. You're not
gonna get pressure when you've got guys wide open the
entire game. So I think this is a linebacker back
end issue more even than a pressure issue. You don't
have time to get home and Douglas throwing five yard
flat routes Tucker Kraft and they can't get them on
the ground and they turn into explosive plays. It's one of
the worst tackling defenses in the NFL, which is just
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not the way the Steelers have played football for the
last thirty years.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
No, not at all. Okay, let's get let's go to
the Packers. How real is that fourth quarter?
Speaker 7 (22:30):
You know, look, I think that they have everything that
they need there. It's just there's never a there's never
a straight path in these seasons. You go up, you
go down. But when you see them, when they are
in those moments and they're high, they can be the
best team in football. So I'm very bullish on them.
You know, once you look at where they're going and
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what they have, I think they have absolutely everything that
they need.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
This is the Doug Gottlieb Show. That is Daniel Jeremiah.
He's joining us now on the Doug Gotlieb show on
Fox Sports. Okay, let let let's get to the Seattle Seahawks.
They're at five and two. And again I'll lean on
by her because he's our Seahawks fan BLUs. He's working
(23:14):
on Sundays, he's watch but he's like, look, Sam Donald
still Sam Donald, right, and you and I love him,
but he still will make just a bizarre turnover every
now and again. We're just like, what are you doing?
They they come off the bye week. This week they
go to the Commanders that are all banged up, Cardinals
(23:34):
winnable game at home, to the Rams, to the Titans,
Vikings at home Falcons. I want to get to the
Falcons in a second. But how good are the Seahawks really?
Speaker 7 (23:44):
I think there's a couple holes that they have, including
one of the guard spots, which we'll see if they
do anything to address that. But I think on the whole,
I think Sam is you know, yeah, maybe a play
here or there, but on the whole, he's played really,
really well, and I feel like he does get held
to a little bit of a different standard. We don't
talk about mahomes with a couple of hiccups here or there,
you know, some dumb turnovers. I feel like that anytime
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Sam does that, there's a little bit of the there
it is, you know, a moment. But I think overwhelmingly,
for going on a year and a half now, he's
played at a very high level. I think that defensively,
their front is excellent. Just in terms of the depths.
Leonard Williams is playing awesome, Murphy's been stud d t
I would you know they could get a big time,
big time edge rusher. They don't have that, but they've
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got about four or five guys they roll through there
who are really good. And the secondary is has got
some playmakers back there. They need to get healthy. They
didn't get Witheruspoon back. But yeah, I think they're there,
might pick to win that division and I'm not going
to come off of that.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
What's happened to the Falcons? Man? Again, I understand, you know,
Kirk Cousins generally washed, right, That's that's kind of my
takeaway when I watch, But when Pennix was there, like
he didn't look great, I just I'm I think I'm
surprised how especially how they played Sunday, But what they've
kind of morphed into, are you Yeah.
Speaker 7 (25:07):
I don't know. I mean, I try and give you
a good answer on these, but this one, I don't
know what that team is like. It's a check on
high team gets shut out by the Panthers. You know,
a while back he lay and egg again. I know
it was with cousins, but lay an egg there and
then they can come out and in one week just
run the ball down your throats and you know, get
all kinds of pressure on the quarterback. And I don't know,
(25:28):
I don't know whether than to say that it's just
kind of an immature team that lacks any consistency. But
I mean they are, you know, the fourth gump in
the line, you know, the box of chocolates every week
when they come on, you have no idea what you're
gonna get.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
None, zero zilch zip nada, zero ziltch zip nada. Did
Minnesota make a mistake in their quarterback decisions?
Speaker 7 (25:54):
Well, you know, let's let's see McCarthy play, you know,
a good stretch before we can say that. But you know,
people forget last year it was Daniel Jones and Sam
Darnold in that building, you know, and you look at
all the other pieces they have with either one of
those guys playing quarterback for him right now, going through
this year, I think they'd be in a completely different place.
But I don't want to, you know, I don't. I
don't want to bury McCarthy. We haven't seen enough of
(26:16):
him yet, so let's get him back healthy and see
what he looks like. But yeah, I would think there's
a there's there's a peak curiosity to see how this
turns out because they had two really talented guys and
they're building not too long ago.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Does the comeback for the Jets change anything about how
you viewed justin fields now?
Speaker 7 (26:34):
I think he's pretty well established, you know, and you
just take it for what it is, and it's just
a hard way to consistently win football games with that
play style. So I think at the end of the day,
he's a really good backup. But you know, there's nothing
they can do to solve that problem. Now. I don't
love the owner, you know, going out and publicly saying
(26:55):
what he said. I just thought that was kind of
a little bit bush league. But you know, I get
the frustration there at that time, you haven't won a game,
but you just don't. I'm not used to seeing that
from an owner that was that was that was a
rough one.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Yeah, Bush League, No, No, it's the Jets. But Joe
Douglas can tell you like they they have corn, They
and the Browns of Cornered the market on Bush League.
That's just that's what they do. That's who they are,
all right, DJ. Last thing, how are Chargers? I mean
obviously really good on Thursday night. Get the week off,
(27:27):
to get right, get healthy. Give me the status report.
Speaker 7 (27:30):
I think Joel, you saw what difference he makes. I mean,
he unlocked a run game. He gave Herbert some time.
You look up and all of a sudden, that team
over the last years a lot of really good young players.
And you're seeing gatst in the tight ends been playing great.
You know, Videll while he's filling in as the second
(27:51):
year guys put up a couple of hundred yard games,
Trey Harris, the rookie scores. You know McConkie in year two.
You know, they've got a lot of young guys that
you think, just because of you know, how new they
are to the league, not just the Chargers, that they're
need to get better.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
You're the best, brother, Thanks so much for joining us.
Look forward to uh uh you. Obviously you enjoyed one
weekend and off. Now you get another weekend off, right,
So I mean you're just having pretty nice I mean
just living the life.
Speaker 7 (28:20):
Of my Laddie Jersey, you know, just just enjoying life.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Wow, you are a you are a hater. I was
just you know, I should have looked you up. I
was in del Mar for a couple of nights this weekend.
So nice. Oh it does not, it does not. Uh,
you're the best brother. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 7 (28:38):
Anybody.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
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I'm right down the street of his house. But here's
the brilliance to DJ. Is he when he's NFL Network
only before he got the Chargers job, he never moved.
He's like, look, I like san Diego. I'm living in
San Diego. I'm not moving. And you know what, if
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Speaker 4 (29:27):
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you got up?
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Interesting day, to say the least. In the great State
of Louisiana. Louisiana LSU is looking for a new head
football coach, and Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry spoke about the
topic today.
Speaker 8 (30:47):
We are not going down a failed path. And I
wanted to tell you something. This is a pattern. The
guy that's here now at road that contract cost Texas
A and M seventy something million dollars. Right now we
got a fifty three million dollar liability. We are not
doing that again.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Okay, So, just if you weren't clear, Governor Jeff Landry
of Louisiana went on to say this about who's going
to hire the next head coach at LSU, I.
Speaker 8 (31:13):
Can tell you right now is not selected the next coach. Hell,
I'll let Donald Trump select it before I'll let him
do it. I don't know, but the Border super ows
is going to come up with a committee, and they're
gonna go find us a coach.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
There it is Doug. The AD will not be hiring
the next head coach at LSU.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
What's funny about that is the AD really doesn't usually
hire the coaches. Now it's the donors. They're just saying
the quiet power out loud. The point that they're that
he was making is uh the athletic director at LSU
was formerly at Texas A and M. Both those contracts
were bought out jimbo Fisher and UH Brian Kelly to
(31:51):
the tune of like one hundred and twenty something million dollars.
That was his logic behind not wanting to allow him
to pick the next head coach.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Donald Trump is apparently uh narrowed his list down of
candidates for the for the l s U job.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Doug show, Hey, oh.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
That's one, all right, to uh tag oh Volley.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
Okay, there's a couple of the only one of those
makes sense as a baseball guy. I don't know what
President's thinking there. Maybe he could be a triple threat.
He hits, he pitches, he coaches.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
That would be.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Show.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
Hey o Tani again to uh Tag oh Volley.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
You know I think that uh we're two days away
from Halloween, and just remind me a lot of vampires, and.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Hey, I just want to hear Jeff Landry talk some more.
I mean, geez, he's magnificent.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Family family not anymore, not Miamily.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
Not anymore. All right, the lines of defensive end. Eight
Hutchins in a great on a four year extension worth
one hundred and eighty million dollars, gets one hundred and
forty one million dollars guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
So I guess he's back and healthy. Yes, you don't
give him that kind of money unless he's And it's
one of those things where we're we're trained, and rightfully
so to what it's like Cam Scataboos in Scatabo's Injury
right where you watch and you're like, oh god, but
so many guys. I mean, Alex Smith even came back
and he had like seventeen surgeries. Granted his leg looks
(33:40):
mangled like it was it was stucked into one of
those pencil sharpeners. Right. The point is that as gruesome
is some of this injurty, how amazing is medical science
had eight Hutcheson is back to a place where he's
so good They're gonna give him a gigantic contract. It's
pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
It should also be noted that Cam Scataboo is looking
at a six month recovery. According to the NFL Network,
They said that he had surgery to repair the dislocated ankle.
He also fractured his fibula and ruptured a ligament on
the play and Sunday's loss to the job.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
That thing. It broke the skin too, That's that's that's
the bad part. Yeah, yes, and yes, I would have Yes,
I would have seen. I would have watched if I could,
if I could have seen it up close.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Not good at all. Here's a quick rundowt on the
quarterbacking news in the NFL. Joe Flacco fifty to fifty
for the Bengals, Michael Pennix likely on the right track
to face the Patriots, but Falcons head coach Rahee Morris
just said that he feels good about Penicks playing considered
day to day with the bone bruise and his knee.
Bryce Young on the practice field today looks like he
could return his Andy Dalton as practice for Carolina. They've
(34:42):
got the Packers coming up on Sunday and JJ McCarthy
expected to practice fully this week and starts Sunday against Detroit.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Ooh. They will need him to play well because Detroit
seems to have for the most part, found there, found
their rhythm.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
And we've got we've got some changes. Doug to the
Dodgers lineup in advance of tonight's five. Mookie that's dropping
in the batting order. He drops the third, so Will
Smith will bat second tonight for.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
LA can't jiggy with it.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Key k Hernandez will continue to beat eighth, but he'll
play center field. Alex call Now bat's ninth and place
left field for the Dodgers as Andy Pohees is out
of the lineup.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
All right, Jay ste what you think Bob Andy Poz
has been dog crap, so we needed to get him
out of the lineup. I don't know if calls a
great upgrade, but we'll see.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
We shall see.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
Pitching matchup, Trey Ya Savage goes up against Blake Snell
cover John Fox seven o'clock Eastern time, and finally Doug
mentioned the LSU story. The twenty twenty nine College Football
Playoff Title Game will be held in Tampa, Florida. Yes,
Tampa getting the College football National Championship Game in twenty
(35:56):
twenty nine. This year it's in South Florida, next year
in Vegas, the year after that in New Orleans. Tampa
is next in line after the Big Easy.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Personally a huge fan of Tampa, like kind of feels
like it's an underrated city. But why we have a
great stadium in Vegas, unbelievable in La. Okay, got I
don't understand. We don't need to go to Atlanta. It's
like Miami, New Orleans, LA. If you want to work
in Dallas as well. I just I don't get Tampa
(36:28):
being included there.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
Yeah, I don't either. It's regional, yes, And that's the
press that get out there in press.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
That was the press.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
The quick prediction Dodgers win. I don't know how. I
don't know how many innings or what the run is.
I just I feel like that's the story and that
this one's going seventh. That's just the gut feel that
I have. Enjoy the game back tomorrow. Doug Gottlieb Show,
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is this hour Mike Tomlin talks You're gonna want to
listen this hour the press and getting you ready for
Game five of the World Series this hour. But before
we get to that, let's do something we do every Wednesday.
We call it the Midway it's.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Not getting the middle with you. It's time for the midway.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
The midway. It could be a sports topic, non sports topic,
somebody to get you through the middle of the week,
the middle of the day, the middle of the show.
And without further ado, here's Jason.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Hey, Doug, I'll take it from here.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
I'll take it from here.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
Now.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
The group text went went like this. Now, what I
do appreciate this, and one of the things I appreciate
about any workplace is enthusiasm and collaboration. If you have
those two things, I think you're on the right track
for success and great. So rarely do our group texts
involve enthusiasm and collaboration. That today was kind of a
(01:44):
an iceore. So I want to I want to bring
attention to it. So I said, for the midway, we
are halfway through the NFL regular season. What's the biggest surprise?
And then I threw out a Jordan Woad management thing
about is this is this the biggest f you to
fans in sports? And then Doug said, I like in
person or TV and go through all the sports. Dan says,
(02:10):
let's wait until week nine. Now, this is where I'm
gonna stop this conversation, and I need to do a sidebar. Okay,
let's do quick math sidebar here. What's the sidebar?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Please approach Judge Stewart's desk for the sidebar, Doug.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I'm gonna pull a Doug here, and I'm going to
ask you a question. You're not anticipating. What is half
of seventeen.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Eight and a half?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
We are midway through week nine of the NFL season.
Midway through week nine is another way of saying half
of seventeen. So today is the midway point of the
NFL regular season.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Ah, that was the reason for the question midway.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
I disagree. I object, hold on, hold on, hold on,
hold on.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Hold on.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
It's an eighteen week schedule.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Oh, seventeen games, eighteen weeks.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Get so, after week nine.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
We were stained, objections, objections of stained.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Well, the listeners know what we're doing next week, so
put it on your calendar circle. Your calendar. Next week
is halfway through the NFL season, So we go with mine.
We're gonna do dougs in person or in TV. Go
through the sports. Damn.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yeah, well, let me let me just kind of go
through what I was thinking, because I didn't expound upon it.
And then you guys kind of discuss. It's like, I
do you guys know scotch Scott Shapiro, he's on a
run here. He's like Pablo Tory bringing down industry, like
historic run. That's what our boss, Scott Shapiro is on.
He goes to Vikings game in Dublin right comes, goes
(03:52):
to the Vikings Charger game on Thursday night, and then
he and his son pop up at game Game three
of the World Series. Apparently they stayed all eighteen innings,
which is amazing. We could have done when do you
leave or did you leave? But instead, I like this
one of those things that like part of me is
part of me thinks that's awesome. He was there for.
(04:15):
He was there for in any conversation, one of the greats,
if not the greatest Major League Baseball World Series game
of all time. It has to be at least discussed, right, Okay,
But truth be told, if you're there, you're pot committed
and you're like, okay, first to get to a World
Series game, As Jason Stewart you pointed out, it is
hell with traffic. I guarantee Rogers Center. I know the
(04:39):
Canadians do a better job with public transportation than we
can do to the ravine, but it couldn't possibly be
no traffic. And then you know you're paying an absorbent
fees and then you're there. You can't control who sits
around you. And then like, if the game's bad, he
can't really leave because he had so much invested. And
if the game's good, kids, like at some point you're like, oh,
to it, whereas if you're at home and you got
something else to do, you can just posit, come back
(05:00):
to it. You can fall asleep as I did in
Game two. Hey, you don't feel as bad. And baseball,
as much as it's great to say you're there, if
you're up in the third deck or you're watching your couch,
the couch is better. So here's my question, and it's open,
and I will stop talking World so we can start
with World Series, and then we can work our way
to college football to NFL football, to NFL playoff games,
(05:24):
to NBA games, to NBA postseason games to college basketball
regular season to college basketball postseason? What's better in person
or on TV?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
So we're gonna do a topic none of us agreed on.
Is that is that what it was that is that
where we're at here.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
It's called the duck out.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Hey, Hey, but I think we want to save your
We No, we saved the NFL for next week for
next week. Yes, so but the broadcaster our go to voice,
was what Doug was saying, right, like, who's our go
two voice? That when we're and I assume that it's
there's a a connection to someone in sports, like that's
(06:08):
what we're talking about, like Smoltz here for baseball?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Was that like where this where this jumping off point was?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
No, it's to me, it was more would you rather
watch on your couch rather?
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Yeah, go through. We're gonna throw all the sports and
we're gonna say would you prefer there to be on
the couch or they're in person?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Okay? Like like like Dan, when you're watching.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
I'll take home for all of them? Right, just home home, home,
home home. And I like to go to games. I do,
I do?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
But why why home for all of them?
Speaker 6 (06:39):
I just it was just you know, so you Dan,
you went to that Ohio State Oregon game on a
year's day there was a playoff game?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Right?
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (06:47):
So what made you and Bill's football?
Speaker 4 (06:51):
I wanted to see the stadium ye okay, So.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
What what made what what was the cattalyst for you
to get down.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
To the Rose Bowl. I didn't want to have fomo
of not seeing Ohio State my wife, that's the point. Yeah,
my wife didn't.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
What's the point.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
My wife didn't let me go to the Utah Ohio
State game because of COVID fears. We had our son
was young.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
At the time, she was a baby, was a baby
at the time.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Yeah, so she didn't want to make Just for people.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
To point, people are like probably listening like wait what
COVID fears, Like, no, they had a little baby at the.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Time, Like it was so I stay at home.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Yes, But the fomo is the whole thing, right, is
you're missing out on the thing, and you're missing out
on the chance to say you were there. All right,
Jay Stu, what about you games you'd rather be at
home for games you'd rather watch on TV.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
I'm I think I'm even more of a home guy
than dan Is and I The strange thing about this
this dynamic is nobody driving around listening to the show
right now live is going to turn down a chance
to go to a major sporting event game. I really don't.
I think we have a very warped view of this
(08:04):
and that we have been privileged enough to get access
to great games. We've been there, done that. The first
thing that I think about, like right now, Big Mike,
were to walk into the studio and say I've got
tickets to Game five, I would first of all think
of all the obstacles and the pain in the ass
that I'm going to go through, and I would have
to spend five or six hours with thick Mike, and
(08:25):
that's not something I'm looking forward to doing. But choose
the couch every day of the week. Choose the couch.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Oh, I don't know, Okay, So Sam, you're like a
little bit of kindred spirit here college football you'd rather
be in person.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
If I get an opportunity to go to a college
football game, I'm definitely gonna go.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
You know.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
A couple of years ago I went to a USC
Colorado game as pre Dion when the first years of
Lincoln Riley, and I'd never been to the coliseum, So
that's like a bucket list thing. A couple of years
ago or last year, I had never been to Polypavili
and it got tickets for Iowa. UCLA had to go
to that. I think it's it's like growing up in
Iowa City. I could tell you it's really easy because
(09:08):
at least where I lived, I lived fifteen minute walk
from the stadium. Different Obviously, if you're driving in from
Davenport or Des Moine or something, the traffic can be
a biach. But walking from your house to the stadium
is awesome, and then the tailgating is awesome. So like,
going to the game and getting out in and out
of the stadium is not that hard. But then going
to like Sofi and finding parking, finding reasonably priced parking,
(09:30):
and then the whole complex is so huge, and then
finding your seats in Sofi, it's all you know. So
some might say I'd rather stay at home for that,
but listen, I went to a I went to a
Dodger playoff game a few years ago. I think it
was versus the Giants. It was like one nothing Giants.
It was very windy. We're up way up in the
in the nosebleeds, and I swear there was like peanut
(09:51):
shells flying into my eyeballs like it was not I
can say happily. I'm glad I put the bucket list
item of going to a Dodger game, but I would
have watched rather have watched that game at home.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Again, I think I think baseball the sport is way
better in the playoffs, but it's better to be in
person in the regular season because it's so laid back
and you can talk and have beers and whatever. On
the other hand, like being there in person is really cool.
I think baseball it's so good on TV, so good
on TV that unless you have great seats, you're at home.
(10:25):
I college football, college basketball, I think in person.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
Yeah, because the students are there, it's more routed.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Energy to it. NBA basketball, I actually think NBA and NFL.
NBA is probably better in person. If you're in the
lower bowl, the upper bowl, your would be NFL. I
think it's such a well covered TV sport. I would
(10:53):
always do that one at home.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
And the in game NFL experience, And I've been saying
this for years, so this isn't a new thing. The
in game NFL experience hasn't caught up to anything close
to the home experience, Like you sit there and you
feel those commercials like that. There's something about the NFL
game that seems to and there's a ton of downtime
(11:16):
when you're at the game that you don't even realize
when you're on the couch, Like it's to me, I,
I would much rather not go to an NFL game
than those other sports you mentioned.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
I when I've gone to Iowa games at Kinnick, there
is a lot of standing around waiting because at home
you're watching those commercials. It's commercial time out what is.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
It the red hat. Yeah, the reviews are views and
you're just like, oh, come on, and then that's a
fair one.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
You're being entertained through all that stuff when you're watching
on TV.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I I here. I have two things that I have
to make sure that I mentioned. One, I do have fomo.
I do have them. I watch and then I'm like, God,
I wish I was there, and then I'm there, I'm like,
I got of good as stay at home. So me
saying this may sound a little bit more over ambitious
than the reality, and I may side with you guys
if somebody asked me point play. So that's the first thing.
(12:08):
The second thing is, for twenty better part of twenty
three years, I called games. So going to a sporting
event where I don't hear somebody talking to me in
my ear is so refreshing to me. It just is,
like I told you, guys, I went to all but
one of the Packers' home games last year, and I
(12:31):
find especially said if you're getting the Lower Bowl in Lambeau,
it's like a college stadium. Everybody's just into the game,
nobody's on their phone. You're just having a great time.
But the other part to it is there's no voices
in my ears other than guys yelling go pack go,
and and can you pass me that beer? Right? That's
literally it. So I do think maybe I like in
(12:51):
stadium or in arena a little bit more in my
mind or recently than reality, because I'm so used to
having somebody talking to my ear and it's like refreshing
to just go and absorb and enjoy a supporting event.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
I think that's it too for me. You mentioned Lambo, Like,
if you told me I could see a game in Lambo,
I'm gonna go. But it's more to say that I
have been in Lambeau and the new experience at once.
I don't need to see more than one game, you know,
Dan and I just went to formally Rich Stadium and
that was a great experience and I don't need to
see another one. Sure, So yeah, there are exceptions to
(13:28):
this rule.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Here, okay, and that is the midway.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
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Speaker 1 (13:45):
As it's the Gottlieb Show Fox Sports Radio. So we've
talked a lot about the Steelers in the preseason. Right
we were waiting on Aaron Rodgers to sign there and
then we thought it was kind of curious that they
did all these deals where it feels like they're pushing
their chips all in. Then they get Aaron Rodgers and
(14:05):
then sort of uneven. The defense does not look does
not look good enough to in terms of getting to
the quarterback. I think that's a massive, massive issue. Doesn't
look good getting to the quarterback. That's something that's going
to hold it back. And Aaron Rodgers looks good, but
still looks forty and they basically have one weapon as
(14:28):
a pass catcher. It's a bit of a flawed team,
not a terrible team, not a great team. Here's Mike Tomlin,
their longtime head coach, analyzing their mid season.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Report, I don't think I like how we responded to
the explosion plays, phil flipping plays, drift producing conversion third
downs that happened in the third quarter. I didn't think
our offense responded very well to the none call on
the first third down of the half. And you know,
you don't always have control over what happens to your
end game. Rest assured some things is it going to happen?
(15:00):
There's an ebb and flow of the course of sixty minutes.
But in that instance, as a collective, we feel like
we didn't respond any the appropriate or the desired way.
We didn't smile in the face of it. We didn't
produce the type of plays that counteract those things and
get the balance back in our favor. And so we're
certainly being critical of ourselves, and we're utilizing that as
fuel as we prepare for our next opportunity. The first
(15:23):
component of fixing it is acknowledging it. You really don't
get an opportunity to fix it until you face those
circumstances again, and so we spend some time acknowledging it.
We're going to get back to work. We certainly believe
that we work in the right spirit. We do the
right things environmentally, We're going to get back to work, man,
and wait for our opportunity to rectify it. You can
spend a lot of time talking about your ills, but
(15:45):
the true fixes come in stadiums. And so that's why
sometimes I'm somewhat hesitant to respond to the how do
you fix it question? There's certainly procedurally things that you
go about doing that fixes it, but the fix happens
in stadium stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
It is just tall, all right. So he's talking about
fixing it, admitting they're not perfect. Again. I don't know
if any of this does anything for the current Steelers
other than there was a lot of words salad there
that I generally want to buy because I like Mike Tomlin.
Does that make sense, Dan, Yeah, It's like, hey, we
(16:21):
got this process of fixing it and blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah. Like I like Mike Tomlin. It
sounds cool.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Sure, Yes, I like he would give him the benefit
of the doubt.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yeah, but he really didn't say anything.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
No.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Also, like they are only seven games into their season,
which isn't even halfway through the season right.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Now, eighteen.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Oh, Dan will extract his pound of flesh whenever that's
all right to be possible.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
I completely read your text wrong. That's why I was
so caught off guard during the midway. I was like,
what are you talking about, Doug, and I just yeah,
So it was a who was all a combo?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah, I'm totally okay with it, totally okay with it.
All right, It's Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio.
Let's welcome in Daniel Jeremiah. Of course, you can hear
DJ on the Move the Sticks podcast. You can see
him on the NFL Network. You can also hear him
on our sister station, Los Angeles Score. He broadcasts as
an analysts the LA Chargers games. I do want to
(17:22):
ask you about the Chargers. Dan Byer brought up a really,
really good point, and it was, you know, Justin Herbert
has been this guy who doesn't have social media out
of the spotlight. Now he starts dating a young, talented,
famous woman. And back to back nights we see HM
at the Laker game and then at the World Series game. Right,
(17:46):
is this is this? You know, a somebody telling him
he's got to be out in front of the camera
and represent all of Los Angeles. Are we pushing justin
Herbert to be somebody he's not?
Speaker 7 (17:59):
I don't, you know, I don't know what the uh well,
what the that specific situation is, but I would just
say it to me, it looks like he's just getting
kind of more comfortable. And I know usually when you
have somebody who's going out, you know during the season,
you'll have people question, oh, does this mean he's not
putting it in the time in or his focus and
blah blah. I would just say Herbert's like the smartest,
(18:22):
most like singularly focused guy. It probably, in his case,
is a good thing to just kind of, you know,
get away for a second, because he's been so obsessive.
So I just from from where I stand, I look
at that and say, Okay, somebody who's who's happy. He's
sounds like he's he's found somebody likes and he's he's
getting out a little bit and and maybe that'll, you know,
(18:43):
ease some of the the internal pressure that he puts
on himself.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Fair Enough, Doug Gottlieb show here on Fox Sports Radio.
How much of it is is quality of competition? How
much of it is the Cantcy Chiefs figured.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
It out well.
Speaker 7 (18:58):
I definitely think health is just the biggest component. You know,
they've just gotten healthier and that's you know, that's the
biggest thing. And I still don't think they're playing perfectly.
You know, they're putting up points, which is great to see,
but I still think there's another level that they can
get to. But you know, you know, we'll see. As ay.
I'm looking forward to those two showdowns with Denver and
(19:19):
looking forward to that, you know, rematch with the Charges
a little bit later in the year. I think it's
the best division in football, and I think all three
of those teams it's going to be awesome matchups.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I completely agree Denver. Denver is a fascinating fast dating watch.
There's talk in Indy of extending Danny Dimes, of giving
them a new contract. Would you do that?
Speaker 7 (19:43):
I think so. I don't think that this is something
that's not repeatable, and I think it's very sustainable, and
I don't think that price is going to go down,
So I could understand that if they wanted to try
and do it now, thinking they would get a little
bit of a discount versus what it would be at
the end of the year. I saw that team in
person and studied that team, and the way he's playing
(20:04):
is there's nothing really fluky about it. You know, they've
got good pieces around him. They've got a good play
caller there in Shane Steiken. But you know he's making
all the throws. He's playing with toys. He's accurate, he
can move around if you need him too. And I
don't think that offense asked him to be the star.
Jonathan Taylor is that. But I think you have to
pay a little bit more than you're paying of now
(20:24):
to keep him going forward. And that price with quarterbacks
never goes down.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
No, it does not, It really doesn't. It really really
really doesn't. This is the Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox
Sports Radio. That's the voice of Daniel Jeremiah. Move the
Sticks is, in fact, is the podcast. Baltimore wins with
Snoop Huntley at quarterback. Looks like Lamar Jackson is going
to be back. They go to Miami, who the offense
(20:50):
continue to play well. Defense is not great, but big
stretch here for the Ravens, Dolphins in the road, Bye Week,
Vikings in the road, and Browns in the road. Three
games that on paper you should win, but they haven't
won games in the football field. Where are you on
the Ravens as they said at two and five, but
get the quarterback healthy.
Speaker 7 (21:08):
Yeah, I think it's it's lined up for him really well.
You know, when you look at the schedule going all
the way to the rest of the year, there's a
lot of wins on there. So I think they're getting
Lamar back at just the right time. And more so
maybe than the Ravens. I think it's the fact that
the Steelers had this thing kind of on a t
for them and they couldn't they couldn't put it away.
So yeah, I think at one in five where they
(21:30):
were before last week, you're sitting here going, oh, this
is rough. But then you look at the schedule and
then you just have no confidence that Pittsburgh's gonna run
away and hide.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Yeah. Speaking of Pittsburgh, obviously we saw them against the
Green Bay Packers. Let's start with well, let's start with
the Steelers. I got to tell you the most disappointing
part is the defense. The offense is a weird mix.
Is yet no pressure at all on Jordan Love?
Speaker 7 (21:55):
Well, they can't. I mean, here's the thing. You're not
gonna get pressure when you've got guys wide open the
entire game. So I think this is a linebacker back
end issue more even than a pressure issue. You don't
have time to get home and Douglas throwing five yard
flat routes Tucker Kraft and they can't get them on
the ground and they turn into explosive plays. It's one of
the worst tackling defenses in the NFL, which is just
(22:19):
not the way the Steelers have played football for the
last thirty years.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
No, not at all. Okay, let's get let's go to
the Packers. How real is that fourth quarter?
Speaker 7 (22:30):
You know, look, I think that they have everything that
they need there. It's just there's never a there's never
a straight path in these seasons. You go up, you
go down. But when you see them, when they are
in those moments and they're high, they can be the
best team in football. So I'm very bullish on them.
You know, once you look at where they're going and
(22:50):
what they have, I think they have absolutely everything that
they need.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
This is the Doug Gottlieb Show. That is Daniel Jeremiah.
He's joining us now on the Doug Gotlieb show on
Fox Sports. Okay, let let let's get to the Seattle Seahawks.
They're at five and two. And again I'll lean on
by her because he's our Seahawks fan BLUs. He's working
(23:14):
on Sundays, he's watch but he's like, look, Sam Donald
still Sam Donald, right, and you and I love him,
but he still will make just a bizarre turnover every
now and again. We're just like, what are you doing?
They they come off the bye week. This week they
go to the Commanders that are all banged up, Cardinals
(23:34):
winnable game at home, to the Rams, to the Titans,
Vikings at home Falcons. I want to get to the
Falcons in a second. But how good are the Seahawks really?
Speaker 7 (23:44):
I think there's a couple holes that they have, including
one of the guard spots, which we'll see if they
do anything to address that. But I think on the whole,
I think Sam is you know, yeah, maybe a play
here or there, but on the whole, he's played really,
really well, and I feel like he does get held
to a little bit of a different standard. We don't
talk about mahomes with a couple of hiccups here or there,
you know, some dumb turnovers. I feel like that anytime
(24:07):
Sam does that, there's a little bit of the there
it is, you know, a moment. But I think overwhelmingly,
for going on a year and a half now, he's
played at a very high level. I think that defensively,
their front is excellent. Just in terms of the depths.
Leonard Williams is playing awesome, Murphy's been stud d t
I would you know they could get a big time,
big time edge rusher. They don't have that, but they've
(24:28):
got about four or five guys they roll through there
who are really good. And the secondary is has got
some playmakers back there. They need to get healthy. They
didn't get Witheruspoon back. But yeah, I think they're there,
might pick to win that division and I'm not going
to come off of that.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
What's happened to the Falcons? Man? Again, I understand, you know,
Kirk Cousins generally washed, right, That's that's kind of my
takeaway when I watch, But when Pennix was there, like
he didn't look great, I just I'm I think I'm
surprised how especially how they played Sunday, But what they've
kind of morphed into, are you Yeah.
Speaker 7 (25:07):
I don't know. I mean, I try and give you
a good answer on these, but this one, I don't
know what that team is like. It's a check on
high team gets shut out by the Panthers. You know,
a while back he lay and egg again. I know
it was with cousins, but lay an egg there and
then they can come out and in one week just
run the ball down your throats and you know, get
all kinds of pressure on the quarterback. And I don't know,
(25:28):
I don't know whether than to say that it's just
kind of an immature team that lacks any consistency. But
I mean they are, you know, the fourth gump in
the line, you know, the box of chocolates every week
when they come on, you have no idea what you're
gonna get.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
None, zero zilch zip nada, zero ziltch zip nada. Did
Minnesota make a mistake in their quarterback decisions?
Speaker 7 (25:54):
Well, you know, let's let's see McCarthy play, you know,
a good stretch before we can say that. But you know,
people forget last year it was Daniel Jones and Sam
Darnold in that building, you know, and you look at
all the other pieces they have with either one of
those guys playing quarterback for him right now, going through
this year, I think they'd be in a completely different place.
But I don't want to, you know, I don't. I
don't want to bury McCarthy. We haven't seen enough of
(26:16):
him yet, so let's get him back healthy and see
what he looks like. But yeah, I would think there's
a there's there's a peak curiosity to see how this
turns out because they had two really talented guys and
they're building not too long ago.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Does the comeback for the Jets change anything about how
you viewed justin fields now?
Speaker 7 (26:34):
I think he's pretty well established, you know, and you
just take it for what it is, and it's just
a hard way to consistently win football games with that
play style. So I think at the end of the day,
he's a really good backup. But you know, there's nothing
they can do to solve that problem. Now. I don't
love the owner, you know, going out and publicly saying
(26:55):
what he said. I just thought that was kind of
a little bit bush league. But you know, I get
the frustration there at that time, you haven't won a game,
but you just don't. I'm not used to seeing that
from an owner that was that was that was a
rough one.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Yeah, Bush League, No, No, it's the Jets. But Joe
Douglas can tell you like they they have corn, They
and the Browns of Cornered the market on Bush League.
That's just that's what they do. That's who they are,
all right, DJ. Last thing, how are Chargers? I mean
obviously really good on Thursday night. Get the week off,
(27:27):
to get right, get healthy. Give me the status report.
Speaker 7 (27:30):
I think Joel, you saw what difference he makes. I mean,
he unlocked a run game. He gave Herbert some time.
You look up and all of a sudden, that team
over the last years a lot of really good young players.
And you're seeing gatst in the tight ends been playing great.
You know, Videll while he's filling in as the second
(27:51):
year guys put up a couple of hundred yard games,
Trey Harris, the rookie scores. You know McConkie in year two.
You know, they've got a lot of young guys that
you think, just because of you know, how new they
are to the league, not just the Chargers, that they're
need to get better.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
You're the best, brother, Thanks so much for joining us.
Look forward to uh uh you. Obviously you enjoyed one
weekend and off. Now you get another weekend off, right,
So I mean you're just having pretty nice I mean
just living the life.
Speaker 7 (28:20):
Of my Laddie Jersey, you know, just just enjoying life.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Wow, you are a you are a hater. I was
just you know, I should have looked you up. I
was in del Mar for a couple of nights this weekend.
So nice. Oh it does not, it does not. Uh,
you're the best brother. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 7 (28:38):
Anybody.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
It's Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. I
think what I love about Dana Jeremiah and this is funny.
Is I did? I spent like two days in Diego
over the weekend Dan, and I felt guilty about It's like, look,
I needed a couple of days season starting. Had dinner
with my brother and a couple, you know, a couple others,
(29:03):
and we I sit down at sushi on Sunday night
and one of the channels has his dad preaching and
I'm like, oh, shoot, I didn't look up DJ and
I'm right down the street of his house. But here's
the brilliance to DJ. Is he when he's NFL Network
only before he got the Chargers job, he never moved.
He's like, look, I like san Diego. I'm living in
San Diego. I'm not moving. And you know what, if
(29:23):
you've been to San Diego and you're set there, I
don't blame you.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
I don't blame it's a nice spot.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Oh, it doesn't suck. It doesn't suck at all. Opposite
whatever suck is, it's the opposite of that. That's probably
the best way toward it. This is the Doug Gottlieb Show.
You heard the voice of Dan Byer. You'll hear more
from him up coming here on the show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
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Speaker 1 (29:57):
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(30:18):
see me and Dan and Jason and Sam. Whenever you
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just go to at Doug Gottlieb Show on YouTube. Let's
get to the press, the press. Hey, Dan, what do
you got up?
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Interesting day, to say the least. In the great State
of Louisiana. Louisiana LSU is looking for a new head
football coach, and Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry spoke about the
topic today.
Speaker 8 (30:47):
We are not going down a failed path. And I
wanted to tell you something. This is a pattern. The
guy that's here now at road that contract cost Texas
A and M seventy something million dollars. Right now we
got a fifty three million dollar liability. We are not
doing that again.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Okay, So, just if you weren't clear, Governor Jeff Landry
of Louisiana went on to say this about who's going
to hire the next head coach at LSU, I.
Speaker 8 (31:13):
Can tell you right now is not selected the next coach. Hell,
I'll let Donald Trump select it before I'll let him
do it. I don't know, but the Border super ows
is going to come up with a committee, and they're
gonna go find us a coach.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
There it is Doug. The AD will not be hiring
the next head coach at LSU.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
What's funny about that is the AD really doesn't usually
hire the coaches. Now it's the donors. They're just saying
the quiet power out loud. The point that they're that
he was making is uh the athletic director at LSU
was formerly at Texas A and M. Both those contracts
were bought out jimbo Fisher and UH Brian Kelly to
(31:51):
the tune of like one hundred and twenty something million dollars.
That was his logic behind not wanting to allow him
to pick the next head coach.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Donald Trump is apparently uh narrowed his list down of
candidates for the for the l s U job.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Doug show, Hey, oh.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
That's one, all right, to uh tag oh Volley.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
Okay, there's a couple of the only one of those
makes sense as a baseball guy. I don't know what
President's thinking there. Maybe he could be a triple threat.
He hits, he pitches, he coaches.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
That would be.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Show.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
Hey o Tani again to uh Tag oh Volley.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
You know I think that uh we're two days away
from Halloween, and just remind me a lot of vampires, and.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Hey, I just want to hear Jeff Landry talk some more.
I mean, geez, he's magnificent.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Family family not anymore, not Miamily.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
Not anymore. All right, the lines of defensive end. Eight
Hutchins in a great on a four year extension worth
one hundred and eighty million dollars, gets one hundred and
forty one million dollars guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
So I guess he's back and healthy. Yes, you don't
give him that kind of money unless he's And it's
one of those things where we're we're trained, and rightfully
so to what it's like Cam Scataboos in Scatabo's Injury
right where you watch and you're like, oh god, but
so many guys. I mean, Alex Smith even came back
and he had like seventeen surgeries. Granted his leg looks
(33:40):
mangled like it was it was stucked into one of
those pencil sharpeners. Right. The point is that as gruesome
is some of this injurty, how amazing is medical science
had eight Hutcheson is back to a place where he's
so good They're gonna give him a gigantic contract. It's
pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
It should also be noted that Cam Scataboo is looking
at a six month recovery. According to the NFL Network,
They said that he had surgery to repair the dislocated ankle.
He also fractured his fibula and ruptured a ligament on
the play and Sunday's loss to the job.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
That thing. It broke the skin too, That's that's that's
the bad part. Yeah, yes, and yes, I would have Yes,
I would have seen. I would have watched if I could,
if I could have seen it up close.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Not good at all. Here's a quick rundowt on the
quarterbacking news in the NFL. Joe Flacco fifty to fifty
for the Bengals, Michael Pennix likely on the right track
to face the Patriots, but Falcons head coach Rahee Morris
just said that he feels good about Penicks playing considered
day to day with the bone bruise and his knee.
Bryce Young on the practice field today looks like he
could return his Andy Dalton as practice for Carolina. They've
(34:42):
got the Packers coming up on Sunday and JJ McCarthy
expected to practice fully this week and starts Sunday against Detroit.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Ooh. They will need him to play well because Detroit
seems to have for the most part, found there, found
their rhythm.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
And we've got we've got some changes. Doug to the
Dodgers lineup in advance of tonight's five. Mookie that's dropping
in the batting order. He drops the third, so Will
Smith will bat second tonight for.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
LA can't jiggy with it.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Key k Hernandez will continue to beat eighth, but he'll
play center field. Alex call Now bat's ninth and place
left field for the Dodgers as Andy Pohees is out
of the lineup.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
All right, Jay ste what you think Bob Andy Poz
has been dog crap, so we needed to get him
out of the lineup. I don't know if calls a
great upgrade, but we'll see.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
We shall see.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
Pitching matchup, Trey Ya Savage goes up against Blake Snell
cover John Fox seven o'clock Eastern time, and finally Doug
mentioned the LSU story. The twenty twenty nine College Football
Playoff Title Game will be held in Tampa, Florida. Yes,
Tampa getting the College football National Championship Game in twenty
(35:56):
twenty nine. This year it's in South Florida, next year
in Vegas, the year after that in New Orleans. Tampa
is next in line after the Big Easy.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Personally a huge fan of Tampa, like kind of feels
like it's an underrated city. But why we have a
great stadium in Vegas, unbelievable in La. Okay, got I
don't understand. We don't need to go to Atlanta. It's
like Miami, New Orleans, LA. If you want to work
in Dallas as well. I just I don't get Tampa
(36:28):
being included there.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
Yeah, I don't either. It's regional, yes, And that's the
press that get out there in press.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
That was the press.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
The quick prediction Dodgers win. I don't know how. I
don't know how many innings or what the run is.
I just I feel like that's the story and that
this one's going seventh. That's just the gut feel that
I have. Enjoy the game back tomorrow. Doug Gottlieb Show,
Fox Sports Radio
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