The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Jordan Schultz Shares Inside Knowledge on The Dolphins Mike McDaniel
12 Sep 2025
Chapter 1: What recent events have impacted NFL kickers?
Man, our kicker is a serial killer.
Man, place kickers got to be the funniest position in sports, right? The NFL is all about sizable men running full speed into each other on purpose. Then right at the end, a little fella runs out with a single bar face mask and mismatch sues to decide the outcome. Now, I get it. It's the QB league, but it's also football. Foot's right there in the title.
So what happens in the kicking game is not going to stay in the kicking game. And we'd be having very different conversations this week without the rangy performances of football's redheaded stepchildren.
The story right now would be Burroughs Bengals losing another week one game, so thank goodness for them, Browns kicker Andre Schmidt brownsed it up and missed an extra point and a 35-yard field goal. Aaron Rodgers was great on Sunday, but so was Justin Fields. The real difference was the Jets fumbled a kickoff and missed an extra point.
Meantime, the sky'd be falling in Pittsburgh right now if Chris Boswell hadn't made 60 and 56 yarders.
Lots of people are rightly giving Josh Allen his flowers after Sunday night, but it was Buffalo kicker Matt Prater, who looks kind of like a singer who made a country music top 40 hit in 1998 and is now making a comeback just after a show at the Best Western in West Lafayette where they paid him in beer, is the guy who really saved the night.
Whereas Ravens kicker Tyler Lute missed an extra point. How much did they lose by again? And the arrow would be pointing up for Caleb Williams and not J.J. McCarthy if the Bears kicker, Cairo Santos, hadn't shanked a 50-yarder, whereas Vikes kicker, Will Riker, drilled a 59-yarder. My point being, I know it's the QB league and all that, but all the points matter, even the extra ones.
So we can celebrate the QBs, but toast the little fellas too. At least the ones who are good! Sorry about that. Let's start the show. Yes, hi and hello, my fellow football Americans. Today's episode of Football America is presented by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours. Episode seven of Football America, getting you right for week two with Jordan Schultz and my mom.
Meantime, best number seven in NFL history, Boomer Esiason at best, the third place finisher here. This one comes down to Elway V. Roethlisberger, who you got your best survivor slash suicide pick going into week two. Ravens over the Browns laying 11 and a half is Baltimore. Game they have to have. I don't see any reason why Cleveland would be a viable upset pick there.
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Chapter 2: What insights does Jordan Schultz offer about Mike McDaniel's future?
The backup and the practice squad player will step up in place of injured starters Brock Purdy and George Kittle. The news has already lit up the Football America Slack channel with one Mike Fuentes asking, how's that 49ers Super Bowl pick looking with Mac Jones under center at Dave Damaschek?
Well, we have four months to go, Mike Fuentes. I'm not overly concerned, but you did hear what I said. I do have some. I don't know what Kyle Shanahan did, but the football gods are clearly angry at the Niners for some reason. Jordan, let me couch it this way.
I have the Jenga theory, which is that much like Jenga, if you pull out the wrong piece, every team's going to have injuries in the 21st century. But if you pull out the wrong piece, the whole thing will implode. It's too easy to say the QB, and with Brock Purdy now sitting down for the next, sounds like, couple, few weeks, and Mac Jones having to fill in.
But is George Kittle the offensive Jenga piece for the 49ers? Is there a ceiling on how far they can go without No. 85?
I would say Christian McCaffrey first, and then George Kittle. Just because we saw last year what San Francisco looked like without McCaffrey. He's so dynamic, and it's not just the running. You can throw the ball to him like he's a wide receiver, and he gets you out of so much trouble. And so we'll really see now, Dave, how good a coach offensively Kyle Shanahan is.
And I think he's one of the best. But when you don't have a George Kittle, because he's really the one B that you can't lose, and you don't have a Brock Purdy, now it becomes how good can you make Mac Jones look? What can you overcome that maybe he doesn't have that a Brock Purdy has? And if you go back four years ago, a lot of people thought maybe Mac Jones was the target, not Trey Lance.
So now that he is there... And he certainly hasn't shown the ability to be a true number one quarterback. But ultimately, when you don't have your starter, let's say Purdy misses a month, you want to go 2-2 or 1-1. If Mac Jones can keep them in that vicinity, then I think they'll be okay.
I think the NFC West is a really tough division, almost quietly, because I think the Rams are going to be terrific as long as Stafford's healthy.
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Chapter 3: How did the Dolphins perform in their recent game?
James Conner. Wow. Pretty good. Derrick Henry made the team. Derrick Henry's a starter.
Solely because everybody decided Derrick Henry was done last year, and then we were like, oh, he's not done. Yeah, Derrick Henry, RB1, James Conner, RB2.
Hey, well, I just said it. RBU is Pitt. They're at least in the conversation. 13-9, Shady McCoy did it to West Virginia. Let's hope they do it again this weekend in Morgantown. Let's now begin the aforementioned Angel and Devil.
proper here we didn't do it necessarily but we kind of sort of just did it it was a little hors d'oeuvre to get right for the game picks here ethan you take one side fuentes takes the other as i try to divine the right play here and let's stay local for you guys patriots playing the miami dolphins dolphins laying a point and a half 42 and a half is the total on this one fuentes i start with you what's your pick
I'm going to pick the Dolphins here. And my only reasoning is it can't get much worse. It can't get much worse. At least you're at home this time, which I don't think you'll be too welcomed. We actually had a talk on the Levitar show earlier this week on how many drives they get through before the booze come out. And I suspect one three and out is all that's required.
That being said, I don't think it could get much worse. But now that I said that, I'm sure Drake May will find a way to channel his inner Tom Brady and send the Dolphins home.
their first home defeat in the season and then mike mcdaniel's hot seat will be scalding oh it'll be bad if that happens ethan talk me into the patriots i have huge concerns about the dolphins as a dolphin fan i mean watching that game last week seeing what daniel jones did i think drake may is a more talented quarterback than daniel jones and i just think the vibes are so bad now you have two injuries on the offensive line to start the dolphins are gonna be down two starters this week
I just don't see them writing everything in one week. And I just kind of see it snowballing here and getting out of control a little bit. And things could be done by week five all of a sudden. So I think it could get ugly for the Dolphins. I know the Patriots struggled week one, but this is more about the Dolphins than the Patriots for me.
I hear you in big picture. I don't disagree that things are spiraling in a real bad way there. In the time being, they will stop the bleeding. 26-22, Miami's going to win that one. Next up, it's the Chargers and Raiders on Monday Night Football. A real beauty there. The Raiders laying three and a half, if you can believe it, total 46 and a half. Ethan, I'm going to start with you.
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Chapter 4: What are the latest updates on injuries affecting NFL teams?
We didn't like them in basketball.
They drink whiskey. They drink whiskey before the game and they're they're drunk. Don't say bad to them, David. No, because you tend to talk about it. What, are they going to beat up a nine-year-old boy? That would be weird stuff. So the atmosphere should be grand for that one. I hope Pitt wins that one.
What was sad, a way to start pro football, was Jalen Carter spit on not Dak Shepard, but on Dak Prescott. What were your thoughts about that? And more importantly... What do you think as the mother of a grown man who once was air spat on? Like the guy opened my door in rush hour traffic and he spit, but he didn't put like actual spit. air. I felt the air of it.
And we debated it earlier this week. Should I have gotten out of the car and taken a beating for that? Or should I have waited for the actual spit to hit my head?
No, you never get out of the car to take the beating. No, that you never in harm's way. No. You know what? I don't know what I mean. I don't know what happened. I think perhaps Zach, whatever his name is, maybe spit first or did something that made him angry. You know, I don't know. I didn't like to see it because I don't like spit.
But as you know, with some of the former girlfriends and boyfriends of you and your sisters, when I say their name, I do do.
Yeah.
their name. So I thought one to, you know, cast aspersions on somebody else. I don't think he meant for spit to come out. I think it was just like I do.
Oh, I think he meant for spit to come out. in our fantasy league are going to be in Heinz or whatever they call it. There's Akershire stadium to watch the Seahawks. So that'll be, that'll be good times before that last question is, cause I know you'll get right for the game by listening to this show, which are now appearing on and you'll hear our Seahawks Steelers pick and all of that.
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