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Chapter 1: What insights does Mina Kimes provide about the NFL playoffs?
This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz Podcast.
Mina Kime is going to join us here in a little bit. Mike Ryan has been doing this bit of real podcast or fake podcast. And I have seen that on Netflix, there is a new podcast with Michael Irvin and he has called it White House, which is to me a stunning name for
for his podcast given that the White House famously was a house that the champion Dallas Cowboys had where they would have parties and fairs with people who weren't their wives. They called the secret house that was conducted and run by Michael Irvin the White House. I reported that many years ago in the 23rd paragraph of a Super Bowl column.
I didn't report that the Tampa Bay Bucs also had one called the Bat Cave. I am surprised, though, that Michael Irvin, for all the names that he could have chosen for his podcast, he's chosen White House as the name for his podcast.
You know who I thought of immediately?
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Chapter 2: How do the hosts feel about the naming of Michael Irvin's podcast?
jeff perlman because netflix is just stealing his ip uh that happens a good amount to jeff perlman and sure enough i went right to his ig and there was just with no caption a screen cap of the press release uh speaking of the white house we've got the talk of masvidal and conor mcgregor fighting on the white house lawn how did you guys feel
feel about, as Panther fans, how do you guys feel about the lovable Kachuk as he makes his trip to the White House, cozying up to Trump, the orange-grifting, felonious turd? How do you feel about that? Like, as Panther fans, is it disappointing to you to see, or are you now numb to it?
I don't have a problem separating the two. To me, it was Matthew Kachuk enjoying the honor of being at the White House.
I don't know. You can do that without overpraising. Yeah, he did. You're right.
He did overpraise. Which is what I kind of told myself last year to pacify myself during that, which is like, he didn't say much. But Matty is genuinely very proud to be an American and embraces the role of USA hockey. But yeah, I'm bummed. And, you know, it's kind of funny that the story arc of stick to sports, keep politics out of sports, everything that I love. This guy's unavoidable.
I'm a Chelsea fan. He's on the stage celebrating with my team during the Club World Cup. I think whatever side of the aisle you're on, you don't want this guy showing up to your games because it makes going into the game a huge pain in the ass. I was like, in the national title game, you gotta ruin this for me too? And so yeah, I hate it. And this guy, he is very good.
at sticking himself in sporting events. He had a genius move at the Daytona 500 for his branding. That all works out. But all the sports that I like, he is always injecting himself into it. And it's funny how that doesn't matter when it's your guy injecting himself.
Myopic millionaire. I thought it was funny that the day after appearing with Trump at the White House, the Panthers lost 9-1. That was funny to you?
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of the Bills' recent press conference?
I just got a smile out of that. But I will say that I don't think most fans care. I think 55, 50, 55% of Panthers fans sort of cringed at that, and then the next day they're cheering for their team. Nobody cares.
Yeah, I think you also have to acknowledge, too, the Florida Panthers as an organization, ownership, like they're very, very, very into, I mean, they're very, I don't know, I wouldn't necessarily say pro-Trump, but this country, the United States is a very big, Right. Wasn't Vinny Viola under consideration for a cabinet position that he had to withdraw from?
I think so.
He's a West Point guy. Yeah, he's a West Point guy, and in terms of that honor, that comes from the very top, and it trickles on down to the rest of the team. I'm not kidding about the myopic millionaire thing. These are 25-year-olds who have the world by the tail. They're not engaged with deep diving in politics. They're getting something out of that. That's the end of the story.
The larger concern is that... Top five NHL forward all time. Wayne Gretzky has turned his back on his homeland to support what goes on down here in Florida. That's a much bigger deal. If you're a 25-year-old myopic millionaire, you're on the internet. You know what's happening. Like, you could see why right now going out of your way to be extra proud to be an American is a thing.
Quote, the two cups was pretty good, but that walk with you might have trumped it all. Nothing beats this. I'm so proud to be an American and so proud to be here with you. I don't know that you're right about that. Matthew Kachuk doesn't have the internet. The guy who's like floating out stuff about going to the national championship and being fun.
I think we're underestimating the way, the things that some of these guys pay attention to and the bubble that they live in. Look, I get it. But right now, it's pretty tough to avoid what's been happening over the last couple of weeks. What they're reacting to, though, is the taxes.
I mean, really, these are these are super duper rich people who are looking at their selfishly at their bottom line and not much beyond anything else. Super duper rich white people in particular.
She's an NFL analyst on ESPN, the host of the Mina Kime show featuring Lenny, which I strongly recommend to all of you. I can tell from simply the look on her face. She does not want to in on this conversation. So let's talk about the Bills press conference that just got done and the television show The Traitors. Have you guys watched The Traitors at all? Do you guys know what that show is?
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Chapter 4: How does Mina Kimes assess the San Francisco 49ers' injury issues?
Because she occasionally just gets obsessed with some reality competitions and she's obsessed with this one.
So I know her and David Dennis Jr. are all over this show. I don't know about it, but I'm interested because I know they've been talking about it.
I thought it was a show about Jimmy Butler leaving the heat last year. I guess I was wrong.
You will like this detail, Dan. So David and I do a podcast. It's a TV podcast called Viewer Discretion. Literally why I'm here is to promote my own work and to hang out with you guys. But the premise of the show, The Traitors, it's kind of like mafia, right? Where they're trying to suss out who the bad guys are, their secrets killers amongst them.
And so the cast, which is mostly comprised of a group called the Faithfuls, gets the opportunity pretty much every week to vote out someone they think is a traitor. This is not a spoiler. Enough time has passed. But if you're watching it, whatever. Dan.
Michael Rappaport was so despised by everybody on this show that they voted him out, even though nobody actually thought he was a traitor, purely because they didn't want to hang out with him anymore. They're just they burned a vote completely because he was so unlikable.
He's awful. Like Rappaport is the worst. And that is wildly unsurprising.
Mina, what was your reaction to the way he was eating with the plate in his mouth? My reaction to that, and maybe this is from being on television for too long now, is the producers must hate him as much as everybody on the show to include like 10 scenes of him eating like, I have a two-year-old who eats with more decorum than that.
The lip of the plate is in his mouth.
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Chapter 5: What is the debate surrounding QB wins in the postseason?
Dan, faithful who does too much and gets eliminated early. Lucy, absolute traitor. Yes. I'm a phenomenal liar.
Is that a good thing, being a traitor? I got to watch this show. You piqued my interest.
Well, you don't get to choose. They choose who's the traitor. Alan Cummings goes around and taps people, who, by the way, is unbelievable on this show. Probably the best hosting performance I've ever seen by anyone.
I don't really know the rules or really anything about this game, but I'm offended you don't think I'm good at it.
You're not a good liar.
We saw how Miami did earlier this week.
What did you think, Mina, of this Bills press conference where they're saying McDermott's fired because of the Denver loss? The owner is saying is ripping Keon Coleman, which I understand, but probably unnecessary. What are your thoughts?
I thought it was an absolute disaster. I did this video where I was ranking head coaching jobs before the Bills job opened, and I had Baltimore number one for obvious reasons. And people said, well, now that the Bills job's open, would you put it number one? Because Josh Allen, no, this is exhibit A. Like, you want to work for the ownership who just not just backed the bus over Sean McDermott,
Also, through one of his own players under the bus in Keon Coleman. I thought it was one of the weirdest press conferences I've ever seen, quite frankly. Like, zero reason for him to jump in there, do the thing that most owners do, and leak it to a reporter as an anonymous source. Like, that was so crazy.
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Chapter 6: How do the hosts celebrate the anniversary of High School Musical?
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Get his ass, Mina. Stoogatz.
You look like you're about to ask me to, like, check the oil on my car.
Get him.
Or, like, come over and, like, look around and point things in my house that need to be fixed.
This is the Don Levitard Show with the Stoogatz.
How quickly is Keon Coleman's agent on the phone with the team now?
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Chapter 7: What are the thoughts on the impact of soda consumption during car rides?
Nope, it's on every field. I don't know, man. I may be like... This is the revenge on the tech industry or something, karmically, which is not to say that all Niners fans are explicit there, but I just cannot understand what's going on in San Francisco. It's inexplicable.
Isn't it just football?
Football hurts. People get injured. But why does it happen to them more than anybody else? We should find the entire thread, but the argument was long-term exposure to theā The forces that emanate from a power plant do wear your body down, make you more brittle, and make you more susceptible to getting injured.
I am not a doctor, but it was interesting to see some outside-the-box thinking to explain something that has been one of the NFL's great mysteries, which is why are the Niners always having to dig themselves out of these injury holes?
The thing that I have speculated on, Mike, is that the Niners play a lot of football because they're so good every year. They're so well coached. They make these deep playoff runs. They're not the only team. It's not like they played more football than like the Kansas City Chiefs, who, by the way, had their own spate of injuries. Right.
But I do think like playing more football tends to lead to more injuries. So if I had to come up with an explanation specifically. It doesn't explain all of it because there's, like I said, there's other teams that have played a lot of football that haven't experienced the same degree of it.
But I think it's bad luck coupled with the fact that this is a team that has been in the postseason so many times.
You say that, but the Eagles are the least injured team in the sport. Well, like I was saying, there's teams that have gotten luckier. I don't know.
The Eagles offensive line got really hurt this year, and I think that was a big factor there.
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Chapter 8: What conclusions can be drawn from the discussion about conditioner as a product?
And it's based on what, given the two games this year? In the first one, Seattle has a four-turnover disadvantage. It's still kicking for the win at the end. And the last one was just a fluke that Seattle won.
Well, I don't think that's exactly true that it was a fluke. Because I just watched it yesterday to preview the game. I think that the Rams' offense is really good. And I think it's capable of high highs. But we're coming off of a bad Matthew Stafford performance. I think the pass protection is showing some issues. And I think the Seahawks' defense, the third time around, I like the idea of...
them from a scheme perspective especially again what we've seen from this some of the vulnerabilities shown by the rams offense in the last couple of rounds and then on the other side of the ball i think the the first time these teams played sam donald absolute meltdown no question about that and then he struggled for a few weeks but since then and you saw this the last time these teams played in week 16 seattle has become better and better at running the football this was a huge weakness of theirs for much of the season this is a big
skeptic piece of skepticism I had and I think you've seen that it's it has the ability to settle Darnold I think you saw that in the in the last round right Darnold barely had to do anything but he played calmly and the Seahawks were kind of like the West the NFC Texans and I think that was like a real study in contrast because both defenses were awesome but on one side the offense completely melted down on the other it was like a calm patient performance and that gave me I think a pretty higher degree of confidence going forward
Mina, is it surprising how much attention Mike McDaniel's gotten? No. Well, you mean getting the Chargers job and such?
And, I mean, he certainly has had coaching opportunities as well.
I think some of it has to do with, like, supply and demand. So right now I feel that there's a lot of really great defensive coaches. There are very few good offensive ones. This is not like last year with Ben Johnson and Liam Cohen, right? Like ā And so when looking across the league and you're like, OK, well, everybody wants a great play caller, ideally as a head coach.
It's not surprising that might be Daniel, who I think everybody agrees is still a great play caller who was hampered by the quarterback, had a lot of options. And I think like the Chargers job is a dream for him and for the Chargers. So not surprising to me. It might have been surprising in a different market, but this is one that was very defense focused.
Mina, speaking of McDaniel, the Dolphins tend to live under the radar nationally, but they've made some news turning themselves into Green Bay South. What do you think of them hiring Jeff Halfley? How's that?
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