December 17, 2025 • 37 mins
On this installment of The Midway, Doug and the crew hand out gifts to sports figures. Doug welcomes NFL Analyst Daniel Jeremiah onto the show to talk about Tua Tagovailoa, the Chiefs and all of the other major headlines around the NFL. Plus, Isaac Lowenkron takes Doug through "The Press".
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Big day for you boy? Today I got my Wisconsin
driver's license. Yep, and equally big day. Equally big day.
Walked outside this morning it was thirty four degrees and
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I literally said, huh, it's really nice today. Now keep
in mind that T minus I don't know. You go
if you subtract seventy two hours. Seventy two hours ago,
it was like minus twenty eight windshield, So that's a
feeling change of like sixty degrees.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Everything is relative, Doug.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
It totally is okay. But if you walked outside tomorrow morning, Sam.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Yeah, Isaac at thirty four degrees here and it was.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Thirty four degrees, You're like, what what.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Depends on whether it's cloudy and or windy?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Though now we do. If it's thirty four degrees In
southern California, people be losing their mind.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
The city would show two degrees.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Everybody picks up there, puts their the women put on
their puffer coats on and their ug boots.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
And I'd be paralyzed.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
So like my parents grew up in upstate New York,
I've spent Syracuse winters. I know that cold and stuff.
But when things get cold out here and when and
when weather starts to happen, people are like, I can't
do anything. I can't work till that's that's the difference.
Like people in Green Bay right now are definitely out
and about because I have to make a living. But
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pewn in California take weather as an excuse to take
the day off.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I can't know. They're literally like running outside of my
building with their shirt off, thriving the.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Spring, thirty four degrees in thriving thirty four.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I think it's actually thirty eight. Now it's thirty four
this morning, and weather on the ones here in the
thirty eight and thriving thirty eight and thriving thirty eight
and thriving. Why they're on the ones. It's the dug
Outley Show. Hey we got I thought Jalen Hurts did
a great job of pointing out something called a trigger
word in interviewing a trigger word. We'll play the sound
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for you. We'll kind of teach you about it. That
upcoming in I don't know fifty minutes plus Daniel Jeremiah
Joints just we'll find out if he thinks to A
is a starter anywhere. Next year, we have several of
these quarterbacks which are going to be looking for new homes.
Get to all that. But it is a Wednesday, which
is the middle of the week. This is the middle
of the day relatively, and it's the middle of the show.
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Remember we got an hour podcast which drops as soon
as this show is over. Just type in Doug Gottlie
where you get podcasts. You can download it. Before we
get to that, we get to the Midway. Hes not getting.
Speaker 7 (03:28):
It's time for the.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Midway, Jason Stewart, The Midway is all.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
I'll take it from here. I'll take it for It's
the holiday season. I hope everyone's aware of this. If
you haven't bought presents for anybody, then you're selfish. But
I do want to give out. I want to give
out presents. I want to figuratively give out presence today.
Each of you need to have a sports figure in mind.
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It doesn't matter anyone involved in sports. Could even be
a celebrity not involved in sports, but I just want
to give them a gift. And just to kind of
set the tone of this gift giving session on the
Midway today, eight days before Christmas, I want to give
prophylactics to Stefan Diggs.
Speaker 8 (04:21):
Ah.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Now you're probably saying, you're probably asking, why would you
spare Tyreek Hill? Say good?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Can people call him rubbers anymore?
Speaker 6 (04:30):
I don't think you say rubbers on the air. I
don't think you could say condoms on the air. So
I'm going to say profilactics just to be safe and
then clean it up and edit. Stefan Diggs is going
to be the father four times this year. This year,
most namely Cardi b is going to be one of
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his baby mamas. So I just assumed he just doesn't
have profilactics and I want to send him with a note.
It'd be like, hey, I figured you could use these.
In fact, last week, Philip Rivers was in the news
and among all the dad jokes was this very underrated joke.
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As soon as the news came out that Philip Rivers
was officially signed by the Colts, I said Stefan Diggs
quote tweeted that news and said why would you have
all those babies with just one woman? And the response
from the public was just like it was on the
air right there. It's a complete silence. You just want
to go back to your old dad jokes. I got it,
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simple humor, got it.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
All right, Stefan Diggs. Prophylactics, got it, Sam.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
I have a gift here for w NBA superstar Kaitlyn Clark.
It is a GNC store sized jug of multi vitamins.
Multi vitamins from GNC and some tiger bombs so she
stays good and healthy, not in pain. Needs to play
the full season, needs to continue to lead this surge
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of WNBA popularity, and you need to be out on
the court to do that. So a lot of multi
items and some tiger bombs. She's feeling good and playing
the full season and getting to the playoffs.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
I miss her. This industry missed her. She was great
content and great content. We totally ignored the sport yep
which it deserves to be ignored. But I miss get
her back on the court, please funny.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Because I also have it. I also I also have
a a present for the WNBA. It is from my
own Marty, Oklahoma State, but more importantly the Spears School
of Business, and it is an intro to business and
economics book. It's a very easy reading. It's a one
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hundred class and there's also a case study on the
NHL and what happened to the NHL in the nineties
when it expanded because Wayne Gretzky came to the States
and several franchises folded or had to move back to Canada.
They had a lockout, they had to change their salary structure.
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They're now back fully healthy. But again there's a big
case study in the Spears School of business. It's it's
a one hundred level class on intro to business and economics.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Now you got to be a little bit more specific,
because are you going to pay for that course for
everybody involved?
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Sounds y?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I just read the book. It's a book. It's nineteen
ninety bo. Yeah, you gotta go with You don't even
have to go to the bookstore anymore. You get books
on tape. The book on tape is.
Speaker 8 (07:39):
Like biesst just good, get back to play basketball, welcome
to buck back with but on that's actually chapter one.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Didn't we see yesterday Isaac that the FISA Collier came
out the president of the union or something and said
that talks are going well. I think the FSA call
your nasty needs to not say a word. She completely
torpedoed the commissioner and she gave away her cards as
there's they're not going to deal in good faith here.
This is a joke. This is an absolute joke. They're
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negotiating for funds that don't exist, for future funds that
don't exist. It's it's gonna be incredible, Ilo.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
I think.
Speaker 9 (08:25):
This is admittedly not objective, it's it's not journalistic. It's
more on the fan side. But I'll get some support
here from Jason.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
I know what's in the box.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
I'm gonna it's a gift, like what's in the box?
Speaker 9 (08:43):
Couple of directions I could go there, all right, Uh,
I am going to get lost what's in the box.
If you get some armpit, make some armpit noises, get
it all out of your system. I'm going to get
Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert the gift of blocking.
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Here's a guy who has long since lost his top
two tackles with season ending injuries. Officially, he has had
sixteen different offensive line combinations this year. It's actually probably
a lot more than that. Two games ago against the Eagles,
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Kat's playing with a broken left hand and he got
sacked a career high seven times. If he can just
consistently be protected consistently.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
By maybe we get him Stefan Digg's prophyletics.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Boom. Well that's with.
Speaker 9 (09:43):
One stone now now not to give more oxygen to Jason.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
He needs, is right? Remember that istone commercial Damn Marino.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Okay, I thought you were going to talk about another endorser.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
People don't think about Damn and they think.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Of I mean Dan Marino also right, do you guys
remember how it ended for him on TV?
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Why did you refresher memories?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
He had a kid with a makeup chick that nobody
knew about.
Speaker 9 (10:15):
Oh oh, I'm all up to speed now, okay boy,
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Well, if we were too uh, if we were to materialize.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I was working at CBS at the time. It is
and when you want when you walked in and it
wasn't the makeup woman, it was very very nice, Hello Mindy,
happy hanaka to you, Mendola. Anyway, it was a previous
makeup woman, but it was you want to talk about
weird like.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Weird.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (10:48):
I had one occasion to be made up by a
professional makeup artist and they looked at me and they said,
they sighed and they said, I don't have the strength.
It was a real uh confidence booster there.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I'm retiring today.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
I think what Dan Marino is to Isatna's. I want
to say that any given famous Italian actor is to
Bruno Moley shoes.
Speaker 9 (11:14):
Well, no, that's another one that uh yes, that suffered
from branding, just like I would think hurts rental cars.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Or when I run through an airport, you remind me
of I can't say that.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
I need I need to give one more gift out.
I want to give Tony Romo for U for the holidays.
I want to give him a pink slip. He doesn't
deserve to the money he makes.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Actually kind of. I actually thought he's pretty good last weekend.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
Here's the tricky part about Romo. He has what Brady lacks,
Like he has insight. He does. He'll say some things.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
That you're like, oh, I didn't think of the personality.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
It's just his voice first of all, like presentation wise,
his voice, he doesn't have a voice, Jim. Secondly, there
we go. Yeah, he gets so caught up in all
these little childish things, Jim, here we go. It's been reported,
and I know it's because CBS executives are giving background
to these reporters. It's been reported that he and Nance
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are like on the outs, they're acting like it on
the air. So yeah, Tony Romo, I want Charles Davis
in there. I love Charles Davis. You feel good, He's great.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Not gonna happen. I mean, I love Charles Davis too.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
What does Tony Romo have that Charles Davis doesn't He.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Was starting quarterback in the Dallas That's it. That's really
there there, it is right, It doesn't help, it's everything.
And and look when he came in, he was a
breath of fresh air. Uh that air is now sort
of like your fourth grade teacher, missus Hemkerkim, Do you
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just live on cigarettes and coffee? Is that it?
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Like Edna krabopfel rush.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Oh God, your breath, I can I can still smell
it now. And this is, you know, thirty eight years.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Later, she needs some Zelman's Minty min minty bad breath advertisement.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Miss had terrible breath. Could you see I I I
need there's there's we gotta figure out a gift. Can
we get together? Okay? I feel like this is the
mound hold On. This is the mound gathering at bull
Durham hold On where they're trying to decide what to
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get for the wedding and candlesticks, candles, right, what do
we get? Ryan Clark, He's he's the worst of them.
But there's a group of them that are these race
baders who who have decided that two thousand and twenty
and twenty twenty one, where there was all of these
racial issues in America and protests and whatever, plus we
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had COVID and all those other things. They've decided that
that is the reason that every decision is made in
sports circles. Back to race, Yes, what do we get it?
What do we get it?
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Well, I mean, what's the reason anyone does anything? Because
they can't? So I think you just need to get
him a manager producer that tells him that his content
is not good when he does that stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I don't think what about a what about it? This
is this is an extreme step? What about a shot calling?
You ever had? You know, a shot calling? You know,
like animal doesn't do it? You know, it's like anytime
you go to race. And again, there are things that
race is a part of. I'm not diminishing it that
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it's completely eliminated, but it's it's literally the first thing
that he comes to that he falls back on. So
is there a way in which like there's a little
buzzer where it's like he's like, well maybe it's because
it's no, that's not it right, where he just gets
I don't know, Well.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Yeah, we used to have these collars for our dogs.
When they bark, it would release like a citronella spray
in their face.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
So peanut butter, you guys ever do the peanut butter
with dogs? Or I've seen Tabasco sauce put Tabasco sauce
on their tongues. It's a good way to teach him
that car.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Well, if the if the electrified collar doesn't go over, well,
how about just another brooch pin for him and he'd
really appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Yeah, it'd be big. What do we get from Cam Newton? Right?
He doesn't want to be viewed as a clown?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Another hat?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Another hat? Do we get him a hat for his bat?
That's for the bats. I was just thinking of all
the different things.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Box for his hat so he could fill it and
we could throw it in the garbage.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
What's in the box, It's just a hat.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
I have one more quick one.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
This was meat. Uh, this was this is me giving
my present to someone.
Speaker 7 (15:53):
Merry Christmas, filthy animal and a happy New Year.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
All right.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
I just wanted to play that real quick. This is
for coach Kirk Farrens of the Iowhawk. Guys, he's gonna
open up the box, the wrap box, and it's going
to be the Reliah Quest Bowl Championship Trophy. Because that
will mean that he will have defeated Vanderbilt Vanderbilt Diego Pavia,
and he will have snapped a losing streak to AP
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ranked teams that goes back I think to twenty twenty one,
and it's like at thirteen games now.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
So that would be a nice way to end the
year if they could win the Really, I.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Don't think Diego Pavia can win that game because the
winner goes to Disney World in Orlando and gets to
ride all the rides in Diego.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Oh jeez dot dot dot old blooded.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I mean, watch him.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Run for two hundred and fifty yards on Iowa.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
He's like two and a half inanges, smaller than me.
So one of my one am I pause? What am
I saying? And that is the Midway?
Speaker 7 (16:52):
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Speaker 2 (17:06):
Doug Gotlief Show Fox Sports Radio. If if you're listening
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Falise Navidad, which is Jose Feliciano. I was a part
of Miss Goddebt's third grade class at Jordan Elementary Chase
stew in Orange, California. It was the first It was
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like a trial balloon. It was a bilingual classroom. Half
the class was taught in English, half the class was
taught in Spanish. And for our Christmas show we sang
Fealis Navidad because it's happen English and half in Spanish.
And my first crush was Miss Goddebt. I don't know
what Miss Godebt's doing now.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Didn't have the smoker and coffee breath.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
No, no, that was fourth grade. Ye, third grade, Miss Goddebt,
and I had Misscodebt was my also my kindergarten teacher,
and then she became a third great teachers. She's third grade.
It was like I thought, I was like meant to
be a boy? Can dream? Boy? Can dream? Let's let
me play for you somethings. Jaleen hurts it. Now, there's
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something we've talked about interviewing people. And John Slawatsky used
to be a full time consultant at the ESPN. When
I first got started in the business, I thought he
was brilliant. And if you do like the way that
I interview people a little bit of the way that
Dan Patrick interviews people. We've taken a good portion of
what he teaches and use it in practice. And so
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the basics of it are no doubleheaders, meaning not two
questions at once. You don't you have to ask a question.
You can't make a statement and then stop again. I
understand sometimes I can even be guilty of that. Just
who what went my how right? And then a big
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one is avoid trigger words. What's the trigger? Take a
listen to Jalen Hurts and Q and A with local reporters.
Speaker 7 (19:04):
You say perceived pressure. What does that mean?
Speaker 10 (19:08):
Perceived pressures? Perceived pressure?
Speaker 7 (19:10):
Yeah, does that mean that that you feel it?
Speaker 11 (19:12):
Or does that mean that.
Speaker 10 (19:13):
It's sex car I mean it's perceived.
Speaker 11 (19:17):
From you guys haven't seen the Commanders.
Speaker 10 (19:22):
Isn't that like a like the root word for perception
in some regard perception by those who are watching, I'm
not watching, I'm living now.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
The brilliance of Jalen Hurts is he throughout the word perceived.
They then asked them about the word perceived, and it
became a discussion about the root and about the word perceived,
perception and perceived and all those things, nothing to do
with football, nothing to do with what he meant, and
that's why you don't use the trigger word. It's bringing
Daniel Jeremiah. Of course, you can find out Move the Sticks,
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which is a great podcast, see him in the NFL Network,
or you can hear him when he calls our largers
games on our sister station in Los Angeles. Tua was
benched today. Right decision, wrong decision.
Speaker 11 (20:10):
Well, I think it's probably the right decision. I mean,
I I think there's a way that Tua can be successful,
and he has been successful at times, but it requires
a lot of different pieces being around him, and it
just they don't have those, and I think it's going
to be hard to build that perfect setup for him
that he needs in terms of having a fully you know,
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loaded track team with a you know, very cutting edge,
state of the art offense and an offensive line they
can get the run game going, you know, which they've
been able to do a little bit of that lately,
but all those things have to be in place for
him to have success, and they don't have that right now,
and there's no signs of it getting better. And it
gives you a chance to get a free look at
what the future could look like. So you know, to me,
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it's more about the debate of who they went to,
you know, whether they should have given Zach Wilson a
crack at it or whether they should have gone straight
to quinn Ewers. I think that's probably more of the
interesting conversation.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
It is an interesting conversation, but it's also like it's
it's ninety million dollars in dead cap money next year.
Speaker 11 (21:10):
Yeah, they split it up over to so they'll they'll
do the post June one thing. I think it gives
them what it's you know, like a sixty and a
thirty type situation where they're going to have to wear it.
But I think what Denver did you know with Russell
Wilson is in Bolden? Some teams to say, you can
figure this thing out, you know, if you have the
right head coach and if you hit on a quarterback
in the draft, you can overcome it. But it's going
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to be it's like pulling an inside straight here.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Man. It's it's a it's a it's a tough one.
It's a tough one. What do you make of Joe
Burrow saying he's just not having any fun?
Speaker 11 (21:46):
Well, I think it. It probably didn't even need to
be said. I would think that that shouldn't be breaking
news or shocking, Like there's nothing about what they're doing
on a team that they're on right now, the record
they have that looks like it would be any amount
of fun. So I just think it was unusual that
you hear a quarterback actually say it. But I've been
around some some really talented quarterbacks at times that you know,
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the team wasn't having a great year and they weren't
very happy, and nor was it pretty much anybody else
in the building. So I think it was more of
a story just because he said it, not because it's true.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
You saw the Steelers up close and personal. Wasn't a
terribly competitive game against the Chargers. Now they're eight and six,
kind of in pole position to win the division? Like,
how does he keep doing this? I look, I get
the divisions that very good, brown stink Bengals are all
banged up, whatever, but how are they doing this?
Speaker 11 (22:40):
Well? I think you answered your question. I mean, I
think the division is not great and Baltimore's taking a
big step back. Lamar hasn't played as well and it
has been injured, So you can't put all those factors together.
And they felt to me, you know, seeing them up
close and personal, that this was kind of a five
hundred team. And I mean they're just a little bit
better than a five hundred team. I think that's more
the result of what the division is than where they
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are necessarily. But it's still it's Pittsburgh. It's going to
be you know, butt cold the and they get to
host a playoff game. It's you know, I wouldn't put
it past them to, you know, to be able to
maybe win a game in the playoffs, but they're not.
I mean, I don't see them making any type of
a deep run.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Stug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. That's the
voice of Daniel Jeremiah DJ Kansaity Chiefs rebuild or reload,
and let me let me give you how I would
characterize a rebuild versus reload. Okay, A reload is, hey,
let's go out and get some free agents, Let's get
some ready to play guys, and let's try and win
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next year. A rebuild is, you know, Patto probably back
early in the year, maybe for the whole seaton, maybe
for the whole season. Let's load up in the draft.
Load up in the draft. Let's get younger, Let's get
some bigger wide receivers, Let's continue to rebuild that offensive line.
Let's probably move on from Chris Jones, get some draft
picks there, and maybe next year is a gap year
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to get him back to where they are rebuild a reload.
Speaker 11 (24:08):
To me, it's it's the latter you know that what
you just went over, that that to me feels like
it's move on from some of these veterans, Chris Jones.
You know what can you get there? Trent McDuffie's do
for a big deal. He's going to get a huge
amount of money. That would be a really, really valuable chip.
I would be trying to collect a ton of draft
picks and know that Patrick's good enough that might be
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able to you might be able to still win next
year with him, you know, if he comes back healthy
with all these young guys. But there's a chance that
this could be kind of just a little mini step
back here. You take that those players, you get some picks.
It could just be a one year where you take
your time with Mahomes. If he's not ready at the
start of the season, you don't rush him. And now
you've got a chance to stack two draft classes with
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a lot of picks. And this is a you know,
situation where in twenty seven you could be right back
into the super Bowl if you hit on those draft picks.
So that would be the way that I would think
about going. And that team needs to get younger, they
need to get more dynamic and athletic on both sides.
And you know, that would be the path I would
go on instead of trying to hold on to what's
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there right now because that's not good enough.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
How viable are the Packers in the playoffs with all
the injuries they sustained.
Speaker 11 (25:18):
I do think the defense is really good, you know,
it's just it's the NFC, I think is more of
a gauntlet than the AFC is right now. So and they,
you know, it's a huge game with Chicago. They lose
this game, and now you're looking at, you know, a
team that's going to be on the road against some
really good competition in the NFC minus some key pieces,
including them, you know, your most dominant defensive player. That's tough.
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So I think that two things are true or they
are still a really good football team. But man, It's
such a tough loss in in a in you know,
really a loaded field here in the NFC that's going
to be challenging.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
It is going to be challenging Tomorrow night. Rams, Seahawks.
You and I are some of the only remaining stockholders.
Cal Hurd says he still holds some stock in Sam
Darnold ink right at home against the Rams, but a
team that he has traditionally struggled against. What are your
thoughts on these Seahawks and their quarterback hanging in tomort night.
Speaker 11 (26:17):
You need to protect the football. You know, they moved
it well the first time against the Rams and they
played in Los Angeles. I thought they you know, they
were more they were more dominant team in that game.
They just they can't turn the ball over. So if
he can protect the football, I think Raheet Shaheed, who
they've added in there, has made a big difference for
some speed. That's even helped JSN even more. And you
(26:40):
know the running game hasn't been great, but I think
they do have some weapons. And if you look at
the Lions, I know they lost to the Rams last week,
but you know JSN, I could I could say he's
very similar to Amaras Saint Brown. You got Jamison Williams. Oh,
that's Shaheed. Like they've got a lot of the pieces
that put up a good number on the Rams last week.
I think they've They're going to be able to score.
And I think their defense is a more well rounded
(27:03):
defense than the Rams. The Rams is front is awesome,
but the Seahawks have more depth up front. I think
they have a better you know, second and third level.
So I've been saying they've been my pick to win
this division. Uh, they be my picking that ball game.
But man, it's gonna be a great game. I hate
that it's not a short week. I wish we had
a full week to get ready for that one.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
I've been a defender of Jalen Hurts because they want
a Super Bowl. They've been to another one, uh, and
he's been He's just been solid. And I know they
just beat the Raiders. But where do you think the
Eagles stand on him?
Speaker 11 (27:37):
Well, I think it's TBD. You know, the uh, the
situation with them with Lane Johnson, without Lane Johnson is
so drastic that you know, let's let's see they get
everybody back healthy and if if they can kind of
refine it a little bit, but it wasn't good when
I saw it in person. It's hard for me to
shake that with how bad it was against the Chargers,
and it was awful. So uh, I'm still a little
(27:59):
bit scared. That'sicle. This thing's all going to come back
and work out. But I do think they need to
get all their pieces healthy. I think the schedule lines
up for them that they're going to be fine. They're
going to be in a good position going into the tournament.
They just need to make sure that everybody's healthy and
they can, you know, be more of a run team,
an effective run team, and let him be more of
a compliment. I think with him as the main actor
right now, I wouldn't feel quite as confident there.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Daniel Jeremiah is our guest on the Doug Gottlieb Show.
I mentioned this. I understand the Chiefs lost my homes.
I understand they're all banged up and they're not very good.
But for people who haven't followed the Chargers, they just
the Charges have been the butt of so many jokes
for charging. How big was that win Sunday?
Speaker 11 (28:40):
That was huge? I mean to be able to sweep
Kansas City, to keep your hopes in the division alive,
you know, all but punch or ticket here. I think
they're you know, they've got to really think it's high
nineties in terms of the probability of being a playoff
team now. But just you know, back to back weeks.
We talked about it a few weeks back. This this
was a gauntlet stretch, this five game stretch to finish
it up, and people saying, Okay, well here comes the collapse.
(29:02):
Well they beat the Eagles, turn around and beat the Chiefs.
It's a pretty good start to this closing swing here
as they as they head to Dallas, and then they've
got Houston and Denver. So he's still three tough ballgames.
But I think they've figured out a formula with this
team without these tackles, which is run the football, you know,
play great defense, you kind of shorten the game a
little bit, you muddy the game up. It kind of
(29:23):
feels like an old school, hardbass Stanford type type team
right now.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Schador. Where are you on Shador with the Browns long term?
Speaker 11 (29:33):
Well, you know, I think he's going to have to
really play well for them to be completely out of
the quarterback market in this in this upcoming draft. You know,
as that was, I'm not going to read too much
into the last couple of weeks. On one side, you
get a terrible opponent, and then the next week you
come back and you're playing in some brutal conditions. So
(29:54):
I'm going to reserve a little bit of judgment there.
But I think it's it's like you say, you got
to knock it out, like you gotta knock the out,
like he's got to knock this out, like it can't
be close. I agree both, yeah, because you've got to
clearly be the guy for that for that to happen you.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
And I completely agree. DJ, thanks for joining us. Have
a great call this weekend. Merry Christmas. We'll talk to
you soon.
Speaker 11 (30:14):
Thanks do too much.
Speaker 7 (30:16):
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Speaker 6 (30:25):
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(31:17):
Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas. Let's get to the press with
Isaac dongkrunk.
Speaker 7 (31:26):
The press.
Speaker 9 (31:29):
All right, Doug, The Los Angeles Rams have a ginormous
game coming up on Thursday night football against the Seattle
Seahawks and their brilliant receiver Pokah Nikua. For reasons passing understanding,
yesterday participated in a live stream with Aiden Ross and Neon. Neon,
(31:53):
by the way, ironically spelled N the number three and
then the letters O N. But anyway, During said live stream,
Nikua had some strong remarks about officiating.
Speaker 10 (32:08):
There's just some of the rules aren't then, like these
guys want to be These guys are lawyers and like
real they want to be on TV.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Too, brother, Like the game, you don't think he's he's
texting his friends in.
Speaker 10 (32:18):
The group chat, like yo, you guys just sawny Sunday.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Night football like that that wasn't p I like, but
I called it was seriously, did you do that?
Speaker 7 (32:26):
I mean, these guys are noble human beings.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Too, No way, seriously, they do that.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
And some of these guys get death threats if they
have a blown call. You really think they just want
to get on TV.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
No, No, I don't believe that for a second.
Speaker 9 (32:45):
I actually react in a different way. Poka Nikua obviously
one of the top young one of the top receivers
in the game period. I just it seemed uncharacteristic that
he would make a really inflamma tory statement like that,
especially to the likes of those noted hard hitting sports
(33:06):
journalists Aiden Ross and Neon with a three instead of
an E?
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Oh man, I think.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
I mean, it was really interesting that his mom came
up with that right after delivering him.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
Let's do Neon with a three instead of an E.
Speaker 9 (33:24):
Yeah, never heard of them.
Speaker 6 (33:28):
I think there's a just in general to anybody officials. Yes,
because the complaint is that the game today is over officiated.
This is what I think. The game has become more slappy.
There's wes practice. The game isn't as entertaining to watch,
it's more slappy. A result of that is that you're
(33:49):
doing more things wrong because you haven't been practicing enough
and you see all the flags. So I'll meet you
halfway on this.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
I will do. And I also the idea that they
want to be on TV, like, that's silly. It is.
The other thing is it's only maybe over officiated and sloppy.
It's also really well covered. And life doesn't work in
slow motion. Life doesn't have instant replay where you get
to go back and fix things, and so bad calls
(34:18):
have happened for years now when guys miss things, it's
just more obvious.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
I think the only ref or ump that ever wanted
to be be on TV and get some recognition was.
Speaker 6 (34:28):
This guy sixty nine offense who's giving.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Them the business. I mean that was you know, extra
he added on there.
Speaker 9 (34:38):
So actually that wasn't even the first guy to say
given in the business. I think it was Jim Tunny
back in the day. Look at you story, end of
the game, Jim Tunneypool Jim Tunny. All right, So next
item here, it's kind of an impromptu contest between the
gang here. So I just discovered this really cool follow
(34:58):
on social media. His name is David Kavuci, and his
deal is he puts in freedom of the information requests
to all the athletic departments across the country, because you know,
they're public institutions, so they are subject to Freedom of
Information Act requests. So he did one of these, and
(35:21):
he found out what all these athletic departments spent over
the course of a year on balloons.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
So here we go.
Speaker 9 (35:28):
I want you to guess the amount that the University
of Texas spelled spent during the fiscal year twenty twenty
four across its athletic department on balloons.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Go.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
What are your guesses, guys.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
I'll say eight hundred and fifty one dollars.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
All right, Sam wait annual expense report for balloons war.
Speaker 9 (35:48):
Balloons at the University of Texas in twenty twenty four
across the whole athletic department.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Five four and twenty three dollars DOUG.
Speaker 12 (35:57):
Ten thousand dollars actual retail pride one hundred and seventy thousand,
four hundred and eighty nine dollars worth of balloons by
the Texas Athletic Department in the fiscal year twenty twenty four.
Speaker 6 (36:12):
This sounds like some kind of government corruption thing like eight.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
Thousand dollers for a toilet seat.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
Yeah, Well, here's the thing, Okay, I don't think it's
the belowst Bridgeton nowhere. It's the helium that is actually
expensive because it's becoming harder and harder to like find helium.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
What do you mean heliums?
Speaker 3 (36:27):
So you need you can't.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Have those balloons just be sitting on the ground, you know,
languishing down there. They gotta have be floating with helium.
So they say, maybe the helium is what the costs
one hundred K.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
And that is the press they get out there and press.
Speaker 7 (36:42):
That was the press.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
It'll wavening here in Northeast Wisconsin as the sun is settings.
Doug Gotlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio Iowa, Sam Jay
Stu islib Isaac Loewencron wishing you as the merriest of
Merry Christmases. Off tomorrow. We'll have a big announcement and
on Friday for everybody who's following the show as well.
(37:05):
Game tonight against you see Santa Barbara the Gauchos. Last year,
you guys came up there right and we were up
I think eight at a half. Had a bad injury.
That was the beginning of the really really tough times
in the season. We'll see how much we've improved. I'm encouraged,
Like you see, Santa Barbara's really really good, but we
got him in our place, and we'll see. Because as
(37:27):
much as thirty eight and sunny is balmy and gorgeous
this time of year, it's not exactly isla vista, is it. No,
it is not Enjoy the Night, Root for the Phoenix,
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Big day for you boy? Today I got my Wisconsin
driver's license. Yep, and equally big day. Equally big day.
Walked outside this morning it was thirty four degrees and
(01:04):
I literally said, huh, it's really nice today. Now keep
in mind that T minus I don't know. You go
if you subtract seventy two hours. Seventy two hours ago,
it was like minus twenty eight windshield, So that's a
feeling change of like sixty degrees.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Everything is relative, Doug.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
It totally is okay. But if you walked outside tomorrow morning, Sam.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Yeah, Isaac at thirty four degrees here and it was.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Thirty four degrees, You're like, what what.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Depends on whether it's cloudy and or windy?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Though now we do. If it's thirty four degrees In
southern California, people be losing their mind.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
The city would show two degrees.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Everybody picks up there, puts their the women put on
their puffer coats on and their ug boots.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
And I'd be paralyzed.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
So like my parents grew up in upstate New York,
I've spent Syracuse winters. I know that cold and stuff.
But when things get cold out here and when and
when weather starts to happen, people are like, I can't
do anything. I can't work till that's that's the difference.
Like people in Green Bay right now are definitely out
and about because I have to make a living. But
(02:19):
pewn in California take weather as an excuse to take
the day off.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I can't know. They're literally like running outside of my
building with their shirt off, thriving the.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Spring, thirty four degrees in thriving thirty four.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I think it's actually thirty eight. Now it's thirty four
this morning, and weather on the ones here in the
thirty eight and thriving thirty eight and thriving thirty eight
and thriving. Why they're on the ones. It's the dug
Outley Show. Hey we got I thought Jalen Hurts did
a great job of pointing out something called a trigger
word in interviewing a trigger word. We'll play the sound
(02:55):
for you. We'll kind of teach you about it. That
upcoming in I don't know fifty minutes plus Daniel Jeremiah
Joints just we'll find out if he thinks to A
is a starter anywhere. Next year, we have several of
these quarterbacks which are going to be looking for new homes.
Get to all that. But it is a Wednesday, which
is the middle of the week. This is the middle
of the day relatively, and it's the middle of the show.
(03:16):
Remember we got an hour podcast which drops as soon
as this show is over. Just type in Doug Gottlie
where you get podcasts. You can download it. Before we
get to that, we get to the Midway. Hes not getting.
Speaker 7 (03:28):
It's time for the.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Midway, Jason Stewart, The Midway is all.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
I'll take it from here. I'll take it for It's
the holiday season. I hope everyone's aware of this. If
you haven't bought presents for anybody, then you're selfish. But
I do want to give out. I want to give
out presents. I want to figuratively give out presence today.
Each of you need to have a sports figure in mind.
(04:00):
It doesn't matter anyone involved in sports. Could even be
a celebrity not involved in sports, but I just want
to give them a gift. And just to kind of
set the tone of this gift giving session on the
Midway today, eight days before Christmas, I want to give
prophylactics to Stefan Diggs.
Speaker 8 (04:21):
Ah.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Now you're probably saying, you're probably asking, why would you
spare Tyreek Hill? Say good?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Can people call him rubbers anymore?
Speaker 6 (04:30):
I don't think you say rubbers on the air. I
don't think you could say condoms on the air. So
I'm going to say profilactics just to be safe and
then clean it up and edit. Stefan Diggs is going
to be the father four times this year. This year,
most namely Cardi b is going to be one of
(04:51):
his baby mamas. So I just assumed he just doesn't
have profilactics and I want to send him with a note.
It'd be like, hey, I figured you could use these.
In fact, last week, Philip Rivers was in the news
and among all the dad jokes was this very underrated joke.
(05:13):
As soon as the news came out that Philip Rivers
was officially signed by the Colts, I said Stefan Diggs
quote tweeted that news and said why would you have
all those babies with just one woman? And the response
from the public was just like it was on the
air right there. It's a complete silence. You just want
to go back to your old dad jokes. I got it,
(05:34):
simple humor, got it.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
All right, Stefan Diggs. Prophylactics, got it, Sam.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
I have a gift here for w NBA superstar Kaitlyn Clark.
It is a GNC store sized jug of multi vitamins.
Multi vitamins from GNC and some tiger bombs so she
stays good and healthy, not in pain. Needs to play
the full season, needs to continue to lead this surge
(06:03):
of WNBA popularity, and you need to be out on
the court to do that. So a lot of multi
items and some tiger bombs. She's feeling good and playing
the full season and getting to the playoffs.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
I miss her. This industry missed her. She was great
content and great content. We totally ignored the sport yep
which it deserves to be ignored. But I miss get
her back on the court, please funny.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Because I also have it. I also I also have
a a present for the WNBA. It is from my
own Marty, Oklahoma State, but more importantly the Spears School
of Business, and it is an intro to business and
economics book. It's a very easy reading. It's a one
(06:48):
hundred class and there's also a case study on the
NHL and what happened to the NHL in the nineties
when it expanded because Wayne Gretzky came to the States
and several franchises folded or had to move back to Canada.
They had a lockout, they had to change their salary structure.
(07:11):
They're now back fully healthy. But again there's a big
case study in the Spears School of business. It's it's
a one hundred level class on intro to business and economics.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Now you got to be a little bit more specific,
because are you going to pay for that course for
everybody involved?
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Sounds y?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I just read the book. It's a book. It's nineteen
ninety bo. Yeah, you gotta go with You don't even
have to go to the bookstore anymore. You get books
on tape. The book on tape is.
Speaker 8 (07:39):
Like biesst just good, get back to play basketball, welcome
to buck back with but on that's actually chapter one.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Didn't we see yesterday Isaac that the FISA Collier came
out the president of the union or something and said
that talks are going well. I think the FSA call
your nasty needs to not say a word. She completely
torpedoed the commissioner and she gave away her cards as
there's they're not going to deal in good faith here.
This is a joke. This is an absolute joke. They're
(08:11):
negotiating for funds that don't exist, for future funds that
don't exist. It's it's gonna be incredible, Ilo.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
I think.
Speaker 9 (08:25):
This is admittedly not objective, it's it's not journalistic. It's
more on the fan side. But I'll get some support
here from Jason.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
I know what's in the box.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
I'm gonna it's a gift, like what's in the box?
Speaker 9 (08:43):
Couple of directions I could go there, all right, Uh,
I am going to get lost what's in the box.
If you get some armpit, make some armpit noises, get
it all out of your system. I'm going to get
Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert the gift of blocking.
(09:03):
Here's a guy who has long since lost his top
two tackles with season ending injuries. Officially, he has had
sixteen different offensive line combinations this year. It's actually probably
a lot more than that. Two games ago against the Eagles,
(09:24):
Kat's playing with a broken left hand and he got
sacked a career high seven times. If he can just
consistently be protected consistently.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
By maybe we get him Stefan Digg's prophyletics.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Boom. Well that's with.
Speaker 9 (09:43):
One stone now now not to give more oxygen to Jason.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
He needs, is right? Remember that istone commercial Damn Marino.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Okay, I thought you were going to talk about another endorser.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
People don't think about Damn and they think.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Of I mean Dan Marino also right, do you guys
remember how it ended for him on TV?
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Why did you refresher memories?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
He had a kid with a makeup chick that nobody
knew about.
Speaker 9 (10:15):
Oh oh, I'm all up to speed now, okay boy,
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Well, if we were too uh, if we were to materialize.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I was working at CBS at the time. It is
and when you want when you walked in and it
wasn't the makeup woman, it was very very nice, Hello Mindy,
happy hanaka to you, Mendola. Anyway, it was a previous
makeup woman, but it was you want to talk about
weird like.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Weird.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (10:48):
I had one occasion to be made up by a
professional makeup artist and they looked at me and they said,
they sighed and they said, I don't have the strength.
It was a real uh confidence booster there.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I'm retiring today.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
I think what Dan Marino is to Isatna's. I want
to say that any given famous Italian actor is to
Bruno Moley shoes.
Speaker 9 (11:14):
Well, no, that's another one that uh yes, that suffered
from branding, just like I would think hurts rental cars.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Or when I run through an airport, you remind me
of I can't say that.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
I need I need to give one more gift out.
I want to give Tony Romo for U for the holidays.
I want to give him a pink slip. He doesn't
deserve to the money he makes.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Actually kind of. I actually thought he's pretty good last weekend.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
Here's the tricky part about Romo. He has what Brady lacks,
Like he has insight. He does. He'll say some things.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
That you're like, oh, I didn't think of the personality.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
It's just his voice first of all, like presentation wise,
his voice, he doesn't have a voice, Jim. Secondly, there
we go. Yeah, he gets so caught up in all
these little childish things, Jim, here we go. It's been reported,
and I know it's because CBS executives are giving background
to these reporters. It's been reported that he and Nance
(12:20):
are like on the outs, they're acting like it on
the air. So yeah, Tony Romo, I want Charles Davis
in there. I love Charles Davis. You feel good, He's great.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Not gonna happen. I mean, I love Charles Davis too.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
What does Tony Romo have that Charles Davis doesn't He.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Was starting quarterback in the Dallas That's it. That's really
there there, it is right, It doesn't help, it's everything.
And and look when he came in, he was a
breath of fresh air. Uh that air is now sort
of like your fourth grade teacher, missus Hemkerkim, Do you
(12:56):
just live on cigarettes and coffee? Is that it?
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Like Edna krabopfel rush.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Oh God, your breath, I can I can still smell
it now. And this is, you know, thirty eight years.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Later, she needs some Zelman's Minty min minty bad breath advertisement.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Miss had terrible breath. Could you see I I I
need there's there's we gotta figure out a gift. Can
we get together? Okay? I feel like this is the
mound hold On. This is the mound gathering at bull
Durham hold On where they're trying to decide what to
(13:36):
get for the wedding and candlesticks, candles, right, what do
we get? Ryan Clark, He's he's the worst of them.
But there's a group of them that are these race
baders who who have decided that two thousand and twenty
and twenty twenty one, where there was all of these
racial issues in America and protests and whatever, plus we
(13:59):
had COVID and all those other things. They've decided that
that is the reason that every decision is made in
sports circles. Back to race, Yes, what do we get it?
What do we get it?
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Well, I mean, what's the reason anyone does anything? Because
they can't? So I think you just need to get
him a manager producer that tells him that his content
is not good when he does that stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I don't think what about a what about it? This
is this is an extreme step? What about a shot calling?
You ever had? You know, a shot calling? You know,
like animal doesn't do it? You know, it's like anytime
you go to race. And again, there are things that
race is a part of. I'm not diminishing it that
(14:45):
it's completely eliminated, but it's it's literally the first thing
that he comes to that he falls back on. So
is there a way in which like there's a little
buzzer where it's like he's like, well maybe it's because
it's no, that's not it right, where he just gets
I don't know, Well.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Yeah, we used to have these collars for our dogs.
When they bark, it would release like a citronella spray
in their face.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
So peanut butter, you guys ever do the peanut butter
with dogs? Or I've seen Tabasco sauce put Tabasco sauce
on their tongues. It's a good way to teach him
that car.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Well, if the if the electrified collar doesn't go over, well,
how about just another brooch pin for him and he'd
really appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Yeah, it'd be big. What do we get from Cam Newton? Right?
He doesn't want to be viewed as a clown?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Another hat?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Another hat? Do we get him a hat for his bat?
That's for the bats. I was just thinking of all
the different things.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Box for his hat so he could fill it and
we could throw it in the garbage.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
What's in the box, It's just a hat.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
I have one more quick one.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
This was meat. Uh, this was this is me giving
my present to someone.
Speaker 7 (15:53):
Merry Christmas, filthy animal and a happy New Year.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
All right.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
I just wanted to play that real quick. This is
for coach Kirk Farrens of the Iowhawk. Guys, he's gonna
open up the box, the wrap box, and it's going
to be the Reliah Quest Bowl Championship Trophy. Because that
will mean that he will have defeated Vanderbilt Vanderbilt Diego Pavia,
and he will have snapped a losing streak to AP
(16:19):
ranked teams that goes back I think to twenty twenty one,
and it's like at thirteen games now.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
So that would be a nice way to end the
year if they could win the Really, I.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Don't think Diego Pavia can win that game because the
winner goes to Disney World in Orlando and gets to
ride all the rides in Diego.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Oh jeez dot dot dot old blooded.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I mean, watch him.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Run for two hundred and fifty yards on Iowa.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
He's like two and a half inanges, smaller than me.
So one of my one am I pause? What am
I saying? And that is the Midway?
Speaker 7 (16:52):
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Speaker 2 (17:06):
Doug Gotlief Show Fox Sports Radio. If if you're listening
on radiof you listen on podcast, sorry you can't hear
Falise Navidad, which is Jose Feliciano. I was a part
of Miss Goddebt's third grade class at Jordan Elementary Chase
stew in Orange, California. It was the first It was
(17:30):
like a trial balloon. It was a bilingual classroom. Half
the class was taught in English, half the class was
taught in Spanish. And for our Christmas show we sang
Fealis Navidad because it's happen English and half in Spanish.
And my first crush was Miss Goddebt. I don't know
what Miss Godebt's doing now.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Didn't have the smoker and coffee breath.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
No, no, that was fourth grade. Ye, third grade, Miss Goddebt,
and I had Misscodebt was my also my kindergarten teacher,
and then she became a third great teachers. She's third grade.
It was like I thought, I was like meant to
be a boy? Can dream? Boy? Can dream? Let's let
me play for you somethings. Jaleen hurts it. Now, there's
(18:13):
something we've talked about interviewing people. And John Slawatsky used
to be a full time consultant at the ESPN. When
I first got started in the business, I thought he
was brilliant. And if you do like the way that
I interview people a little bit of the way that
Dan Patrick interviews people. We've taken a good portion of
what he teaches and use it in practice. And so
(18:36):
the basics of it are no doubleheaders, meaning not two
questions at once. You don't you have to ask a question.
You can't make a statement and then stop again. I
understand sometimes I can even be guilty of that. Just
who what went my how right? And then a big
(18:57):
one is avoid trigger words. What's the trigger? Take a
listen to Jalen Hurts and Q and A with local reporters.
Speaker 7 (19:04):
You say perceived pressure. What does that mean?
Speaker 10 (19:08):
Perceived pressures? Perceived pressure?
Speaker 7 (19:10):
Yeah, does that mean that that you feel it?
Speaker 11 (19:12):
Or does that mean that.
Speaker 10 (19:13):
It's sex car I mean it's perceived.
Speaker 11 (19:17):
From you guys haven't seen the Commanders.
Speaker 10 (19:22):
Isn't that like a like the root word for perception
in some regard perception by those who are watching, I'm
not watching, I'm living now.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
The brilliance of Jalen Hurts is he throughout the word perceived.
They then asked them about the word perceived, and it
became a discussion about the root and about the word perceived,
perception and perceived and all those things, nothing to do
with football, nothing to do with what he meant, and
that's why you don't use the trigger word. It's bringing
Daniel Jeremiah. Of course, you can find out Move the Sticks,
(19:54):
which is a great podcast, see him in the NFL Network,
or you can hear him when he calls our largers
games on our sister station in Los Angeles. Tua was
benched today. Right decision, wrong decision.
Speaker 11 (20:10):
Well, I think it's probably the right decision. I mean,
I I think there's a way that Tua can be successful,
and he has been successful at times, but it requires
a lot of different pieces being around him, and it
just they don't have those, and I think it's going
to be hard to build that perfect setup for him
that he needs in terms of having a fully you know,
(20:32):
loaded track team with a you know, very cutting edge,
state of the art offense and an offensive line they
can get the run game going, you know, which they've
been able to do a little bit of that lately,
but all those things have to be in place for
him to have success, and they don't have that right now,
and there's no signs of it getting better. And it
gives you a chance to get a free look at
what the future could look like. So you know, to me,
(20:53):
it's more about the debate of who they went to,
you know, whether they should have given Zach Wilson a
crack at it or whether they should have gone straight
to quinn Ewers. I think that's probably more of the
interesting conversation.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
It is an interesting conversation, but it's also like it's
it's ninety million dollars in dead cap money next year.
Speaker 11 (21:10):
Yeah, they split it up over to so they'll they'll
do the post June one thing. I think it gives
them what it's you know, like a sixty and a
thirty type situation where they're going to have to wear it.
But I think what Denver did you know with Russell
Wilson is in Bolden? Some teams to say, you can
figure this thing out, you know, if you have the
right head coach and if you hit on a quarterback
in the draft, you can overcome it. But it's going
(21:32):
to be it's like pulling an inside straight here.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Man. It's it's a it's a it's a tough one.
It's a tough one. What do you make of Joe
Burrow saying he's just not having any fun?
Speaker 11 (21:46):
Well, I think it. It probably didn't even need to
be said. I would think that that shouldn't be breaking
news or shocking, Like there's nothing about what they're doing
on a team that they're on right now, the record
they have that looks like it would be any amount
of fun. So I just think it was unusual that
you hear a quarterback actually say it. But I've been
around some some really talented quarterbacks at times that you know,
(22:09):
the team wasn't having a great year and they weren't
very happy, and nor was it pretty much anybody else
in the building. So I think it was more of
a story just because he said it, not because it's true.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
You saw the Steelers up close and personal. Wasn't a
terribly competitive game against the Chargers. Now they're eight and six,
kind of in pole position to win the division? Like,
how does he keep doing this? I look, I get
the divisions that very good, brown stink Bengals are all
banged up, whatever, but how are they doing this?
Speaker 11 (22:40):
Well? I think you answered your question. I mean, I
think the division is not great and Baltimore's taking a
big step back. Lamar hasn't played as well and it
has been injured, So you can't put all those factors together.
And they felt to me, you know, seeing them up
close and personal, that this was kind of a five
hundred team. And I mean they're just a little bit
better than a five hundred team. I think that's more
the result of what the division is than where they
(23:02):
are necessarily. But it's still it's Pittsburgh. It's going to
be you know, butt cold the and they get to
host a playoff game. It's you know, I wouldn't put
it past them to, you know, to be able to
maybe win a game in the playoffs, but they're not.
I mean, I don't see them making any type of
a deep run.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Stug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. That's the
voice of Daniel Jeremiah DJ Kansaity Chiefs rebuild or reload,
and let me let me give you how I would
characterize a rebuild versus reload. Okay, A reload is, hey,
let's go out and get some free agents, Let's get
some ready to play guys, and let's try and win
(23:39):
next year. A rebuild is, you know, Patto probably back
early in the year, maybe for the whole seaton, maybe
for the whole season. Let's load up in the draft.
Load up in the draft. Let's get younger, Let's get
some bigger wide receivers, Let's continue to rebuild that offensive line.
Let's probably move on from Chris Jones, get some draft
picks there, and maybe next year is a gap year
(24:04):
to get him back to where they are rebuild a reload.
Speaker 11 (24:08):
To me, it's it's the latter you know that what
you just went over, that that to me feels like
it's move on from some of these veterans, Chris Jones.
You know what can you get there? Trent McDuffie's do
for a big deal. He's going to get a huge
amount of money. That would be a really, really valuable chip.
I would be trying to collect a ton of draft
picks and know that Patrick's good enough that might be
(24:28):
able to you might be able to still win next
year with him, you know, if he comes back healthy
with all these young guys. But there's a chance that
this could be kind of just a little mini step
back here. You take that those players, you get some picks.
It could just be a one year where you take
your time with Mahomes. If he's not ready at the
start of the season, you don't rush him. And now
you've got a chance to stack two draft classes with
(24:51):
a lot of picks. And this is a you know,
situation where in twenty seven you could be right back
into the super Bowl if you hit on those draft picks.
So that would be the way that I would think
about going. And that team needs to get younger, they
need to get more dynamic and athletic on both sides.
And you know, that would be the path I would
go on instead of trying to hold on to what's
(25:11):
there right now because that's not good enough.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
How viable are the Packers in the playoffs with all
the injuries they sustained.
Speaker 11 (25:18):
I do think the defense is really good, you know,
it's just it's the NFC, I think is more of
a gauntlet than the AFC is right now. So and they,
you know, it's a huge game with Chicago. They lose
this game, and now you're looking at, you know, a
team that's going to be on the road against some
really good competition in the NFC minus some key pieces,
including them, you know, your most dominant defensive player. That's tough.
(25:42):
So I think that two things are true or they
are still a really good football team. But man, It's
such a tough loss in in a in you know,
really a loaded field here in the NFC that's going
to be challenging.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
It is going to be challenging Tomorrow night. Rams, Seahawks.
You and I are some of the only remaining stockholders.
Cal Hurd says he still holds some stock in Sam
Darnold ink right at home against the Rams, but a
team that he has traditionally struggled against. What are your
thoughts on these Seahawks and their quarterback hanging in tomort night.
Speaker 11 (26:17):
You need to protect the football. You know, they moved
it well the first time against the Rams and they
played in Los Angeles. I thought they you know, they
were more they were more dominant team in that game.
They just they can't turn the ball over. So if
he can protect the football, I think Raheet Shaheed, who
they've added in there, has made a big difference for
some speed. That's even helped JSN even more. And you
(26:40):
know the running game hasn't been great, but I think
they do have some weapons. And if you look at
the Lions, I know they lost to the Rams last week,
but you know JSN, I could I could say he's
very similar to Amaras Saint Brown. You got Jamison Williams. Oh,
that's Shaheed. Like they've got a lot of the pieces
that put up a good number on the Rams last week.
I think they've They're going to be able to score.
And I think their defense is a more well rounded
(27:03):
defense than the Rams. The Rams is front is awesome,
but the Seahawks have more depth up front. I think
they have a better you know, second and third level.
So I've been saying they've been my pick to win
this division. Uh, they be my picking that ball game.
But man, it's gonna be a great game. I hate
that it's not a short week. I wish we had
a full week to get ready for that one.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
I've been a defender of Jalen Hurts because they want
a Super Bowl. They've been to another one, uh, and
he's been He's just been solid. And I know they
just beat the Raiders. But where do you think the
Eagles stand on him?
Speaker 11 (27:37):
Well, I think it's TBD. You know, the uh, the
situation with them with Lane Johnson, without Lane Johnson is
so drastic that you know, let's let's see they get
everybody back healthy and if if they can kind of
refine it a little bit, but it wasn't good when
I saw it in person. It's hard for me to
shake that with how bad it was against the Chargers,
and it was awful. So uh, I'm still a little
(27:59):
bit scared. That'sicle. This thing's all going to come back
and work out. But I do think they need to
get all their pieces healthy. I think the schedule lines
up for them that they're going to be fine. They're
going to be in a good position going into the tournament.
They just need to make sure that everybody's healthy and
they can, you know, be more of a run team,
an effective run team, and let him be more of
a compliment. I think with him as the main actor
right now, I wouldn't feel quite as confident there.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Daniel Jeremiah is our guest on the Doug Gottlieb Show.
I mentioned this. I understand the Chiefs lost my homes.
I understand they're all banged up and they're not very good.
But for people who haven't followed the Chargers, they just
the Charges have been the butt of so many jokes
for charging. How big was that win Sunday?
Speaker 11 (28:40):
That was huge? I mean to be able to sweep
Kansas City, to keep your hopes in the division alive,
you know, all but punch or ticket here. I think
they're you know, they've got to really think it's high
nineties in terms of the probability of being a playoff
team now. But just you know, back to back weeks.
We talked about it a few weeks back. This this
was a gauntlet stretch, this five game stretch to finish
it up, and people saying, Okay, well here comes the collapse.
(29:02):
Well they beat the Eagles, turn around and beat the Chiefs.
It's a pretty good start to this closing swing here
as they as they head to Dallas, and then they've
got Houston and Denver. So he's still three tough ballgames.
But I think they've figured out a formula with this
team without these tackles, which is run the football, you know,
play great defense, you kind of shorten the game a
little bit, you muddy the game up. It kind of
(29:23):
feels like an old school, hardbass Stanford type type team
right now.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Schador. Where are you on Shador with the Browns long term?
Speaker 11 (29:33):
Well, you know, I think he's going to have to
really play well for them to be completely out of
the quarterback market in this in this upcoming draft. You know,
as that was, I'm not going to read too much
into the last couple of weeks. On one side, you
get a terrible opponent, and then the next week you
come back and you're playing in some brutal conditions. So
(29:54):
I'm going to reserve a little bit of judgment there.
But I think it's it's like you say, you got
to knock it out, like you gotta knock the out,
like he's got to knock this out, like it can't
be close. I agree both, yeah, because you've got to
clearly be the guy for that for that to happen you.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
And I completely agree. DJ, thanks for joining us. Have
a great call this weekend. Merry Christmas. We'll talk to
you soon.
Speaker 11 (30:14):
Thanks do too much.
Speaker 7 (30:16):
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Stug Ott leave show, Fox Sports Radio. Merry Christmas to you,
(31:17):
Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas. Let's get to the press with
Isaac dongkrunk.
Speaker 7 (31:26):
The press.
Speaker 9 (31:29):
All right, Doug, The Los Angeles Rams have a ginormous
game coming up on Thursday night football against the Seattle
Seahawks and their brilliant receiver Pokah Nikua. For reasons passing understanding,
yesterday participated in a live stream with Aiden Ross and Neon. Neon,
(31:53):
by the way, ironically spelled N the number three and
then the letters O N. But anyway, During said live stream,
Nikua had some strong remarks about officiating.
Speaker 10 (32:08):
There's just some of the rules aren't then, like these
guys want to be These guys are lawyers and like
real they want to be on TV.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Too, brother, Like the game, you don't think he's he's
texting his friends in.
Speaker 10 (32:18):
The group chat, like yo, you guys just sawny Sunday.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Night football like that that wasn't p I like, but
I called it was seriously, did you do that?
Speaker 7 (32:26):
I mean, these guys are noble human beings.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Too, No way, seriously, they do that.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
And some of these guys get death threats if they
have a blown call. You really think they just want
to get on TV.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
No, No, I don't believe that for a second.
Speaker 9 (32:45):
I actually react in a different way. Poka Nikua obviously
one of the top young one of the top receivers
in the game period. I just it seemed uncharacteristic that
he would make a really inflamma tory statement like that,
especially to the likes of those noted hard hitting sports
(33:06):
journalists Aiden Ross and Neon with a three instead of
an E?
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Oh man, I think.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
I mean, it was really interesting that his mom came
up with that right after delivering him.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
Let's do Neon with a three instead of an E.
Speaker 9 (33:24):
Yeah, never heard of them.
Speaker 6 (33:28):
I think there's a just in general to anybody officials. Yes,
because the complaint is that the game today is over officiated.
This is what I think. The game has become more slappy.
There's wes practice. The game isn't as entertaining to watch,
it's more slappy. A result of that is that you're
(33:49):
doing more things wrong because you haven't been practicing enough
and you see all the flags. So I'll meet you
halfway on this.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
I will do. And I also the idea that they
want to be on TV, like, that's silly. It is.
The other thing is it's only maybe over officiated and sloppy.
It's also really well covered. And life doesn't work in
slow motion. Life doesn't have instant replay where you get
to go back and fix things, and so bad calls
(34:18):
have happened for years now when guys miss things, it's
just more obvious.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
I think the only ref or ump that ever wanted
to be be on TV and get some recognition was.
Speaker 6 (34:28):
This guy sixty nine offense who's giving.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Them the business. I mean that was you know, extra
he added on there.
Speaker 9 (34:38):
So actually that wasn't even the first guy to say
given in the business. I think it was Jim Tunny
back in the day. Look at you story, end of
the game, Jim Tunneypool Jim Tunny. All right, So next
item here, it's kind of an impromptu contest between the
gang here. So I just discovered this really cool follow
(34:58):
on social media. His name is David Kavuci, and his
deal is he puts in freedom of the information requests
to all the athletic departments across the country, because you know,
they're public institutions, so they are subject to Freedom of
Information Act requests. So he did one of these, and
(35:21):
he found out what all these athletic departments spent over
the course of a year on balloons.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
So here we go.
Speaker 9 (35:28):
I want you to guess the amount that the University
of Texas spelled spent during the fiscal year twenty twenty
four across its athletic department on balloons.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Go.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
What are your guesses, guys.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
I'll say eight hundred and fifty one dollars.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
All right, Sam wait annual expense report for balloons war.
Speaker 9 (35:48):
Balloons at the University of Texas in twenty twenty four
across the whole athletic department.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Five four and twenty three dollars DOUG.
Speaker 12 (35:57):
Ten thousand dollars actual retail pride one hundred and seventy thousand,
four hundred and eighty nine dollars worth of balloons by
the Texas Athletic Department in the fiscal year twenty twenty four.
Speaker 6 (36:12):
This sounds like some kind of government corruption thing like eight.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
Thousand dollers for a toilet seat.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
Yeah, Well, here's the thing, Okay, I don't think it's
the belowst Bridgeton nowhere. It's the helium that is actually
expensive because it's becoming harder and harder to like find helium.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
What do you mean heliums?
Speaker 3 (36:27):
So you need you can't.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Have those balloons just be sitting on the ground, you know,
languishing down there. They gotta have be floating with helium.
So they say, maybe the helium is what the costs
one hundred K.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
And that is the press they get out there and press.
Speaker 7 (36:42):
That was the press.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
It'll wavening here in Northeast Wisconsin as the sun is settings.
Doug Gotlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio Iowa, Sam Jay
Stu islib Isaac Loewencron wishing you as the merriest of
Merry Christmases. Off tomorrow. We'll have a big announcement and
on Friday for everybody who's following the show as well.
(37:05):
Game tonight against you see Santa Barbara the Gauchos. Last year,
you guys came up there right and we were up
I think eight at a half. Had a bad injury.
That was the beginning of the really really tough times
in the season. We'll see how much we've improved. I'm encouraged,
Like you see, Santa Barbara's really really good, but we
got him in our place, and we'll see. Because as
(37:27):
much as thirty eight and sunny is balmy and gorgeous
this time of year, it's not exactly isla vista, is it. No,
it is not Enjoy the Night, Root for the Phoenix,
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