Chapter 1: What is the significance of Smirnoff as the official vodka sponsor of the NFL?
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Chapter 2: How does Dan compare himself to Bill Belichick?
Can you guys get me Nick Turturro or the Kid Mero or somebody from New York over the course of this show so that I could just make fun of the Yankees and celebrate it all day? And... Speaking of celebrating the failures of others, can you guys please find for me credible reporting on Bill Belichick?
Because I keep seeing that he's discussed his buyout with North Carolina and that he has signaled that. he might be willing to trigger the $1 million buyout so the whole experiment won't last very long, would last the equivalent of about a month. But is that real? What's the real reporting on that that's most accurate on is Belichick trying to just get out of there?
Well, let me say that Ali Conley, despite how certain North Carolina fans may feel about him, is reputable on the Bill Belichick front. His reporting on this at the time of his signing was accurate. Ali Conley, for those that don't know, once listed the Duke as one of the greatest NFL insiders.
on the planet. Not once, twice, as Billy corrected you on. Was it just twice? I thought it was three times and each ranking was higher than the previous one. The Duke rose to fourth greatest international football insider. That's as high as it got and I thought it was going to get to number one because that progress was linear. It was straight up. It didn't bounce down.
Well, what ended up happening, to my understanding, is Ali stopped covering football, so the list stopped. So I think it's kind of like, you know, former Heisman winner, whatever. Like, you're always a Heisman winner. So, like, I will, because of the fact that there's been no updates to the list, I will always, I think, be the fourth highest, you know, whatever, football, something, that Ali did.
Now, Ali was all over this initially. The first time around. And the second time around, I have taken great joy in texting friends from North Carolina saying, like, this Ollie, he's telling us what's going on here. And he's saying Bill's gone. And they hate Ollie in North Carolina.
They're like, he's so full of shit. He doesn't know what he's talking about. And I was like, that is right. He was plugged in.
Right there the first time around, I believe Ollie, which is weird because he's, to my understanding, British. And I don't know how it is that he has contacts and knows exactly what's going on in Chapel Hill.
He has tweeted, and it's credible enough that it has more than 10 million views because whether you think he's a credible insider or not, he's reporting per sources that that Bill Belichick has discussed buyout options with North Carolina's hierarchy, and he has signaled a willingness to trigger his own $1 million buyout if he can find a soft landing with another team or in the media.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of Bill Belichick's potential buyout with North Carolina?
We still do it.
I think in Latin culture, the reason I was asking Tony is because I'm assuming he's almost only exclusively running in Latin circles.
shake hands like i only shake hands with people i don't know like hey how you doing okay great i'm gonna shake your hand but like if somebody that i know if it's an extended family member even if it's somebody that haven't seen in a long time like i'll go in no but this is where i make the mistake though i will by way of greeting simply because i'm latin and got grandfathered in people i'm meeting for the first time i will go in for a kiss and i don't think that's acceptable anymore that's still acceptable i do the same thing i'm with billy on this what's the new reporting that you have for us so i want to
I want to add to Ali Conley's reports because most people just read that first tweet of his, but there's a lot of detail here, and it tracks with how these things go, folks. He goes on to add, "...members of Belichick's coaching staff have already spoken to other schools." That's a pretty big one, and I'll explain why later and add that to another tweet that he has.
The Rats are, quote, leaving the ship. Some staffers believe a change will come within two weeks. Reports of serious recruiting violations remain under investigation at UNC. Recruiting and practice violations have already been proven by the school, according to multiple sources. Using recruiting violations to knock down a coach's buyout has become standard practice. Once again, totally accurate.
Just learning from history from Ali. Belichick's communication with his staff over the past two weeks has been described as weird and distant by multiple members of UNC's coaching staff. Multiple coaches were unable to get a hold of him during UNC's bye week. This is where I have something to add because I have spoken directly to people that were in. Happen to know?
Yes, I happen to know that I've spoken to people that were around that program when Bill Belichick was both flirting with UNC and then assembling his staff over there. There was a moment in time when Bill Belichick was already on UNC with a Dallas Cowboys job, went open, and Bill Belichick wanted that job. And this echoes exactly how he treated the rest of his staff at that time. He was weird.
He was distant because he was actively going for that job. This has happened a couple of times where everyone knows he wants to get back to the NFL. I hear that and it tracks with what I heard from before. And the coach himself, who has been photographed in Nantucket with Jordan, on a bi-week, strange time to take a vacation when you're underwater with your program.
He came out with a statement saying he was fully committed to the program, the program backed him up there. You see something like that and you know, you know there's something to the rumors right now. This is not going well for Bill Belichick and yesterday I turned to my left and I said, what would we handicap Bill Belichick actually returning next season? to North Carolina.
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Chapter 4: What are the cultural differences in greetings and physical affection?
It does matter that this whole thing now follows Belichick in a way that makes it awfully noisy around Belichick, what you're inviting beyond the football. Like you have to be willing in order to make a choice like Bill Belichick to be so desperate that you think Bill Belichick can actually fix you in a couple of days or weeks. And maybe that's a desperation that's possible.
Joe Flacco is starting for the Bengals this weekend. So that kind of desperation can exist. But when you refer to these two people, Belichick and Lombardi in their 70s, trying to be ahead of everyone else. I heard Katie Nolan yesterday on her Sirius radio show screaming.
She was screaming at Mike Lombardi, who apparently, according to Katie Nolan, still uses a typewriter and is proud of still using a typewriter. Katie Nolan was screaming the phrase, bring it back. into the modern age. I've never heard Katie Nolan this angry. At Mike Lombardi for embarrassing what Belichick used to be.
Do you guys realize that in the history of sports royalty, you will have a hard time finding for me anyone who's been unmasked like this, this quickly. You're not gonna find anyone who's been unmasked like this, but this quickly? That precipitous fall, okay, there are more details on the Falcons' job.
He's coaching at LSU, though. He's still active. The Bill Belichick situation, all the cronies around him are perceived as jokes right now. But the pro game is different. That's why I think you should get out right now and just say, look, I found out that college football is just not for me. My skill set works for the pro game.
And he works over the next few months when the hiring cycle begins to try to clean up the perception around his relationship, understanding that Jordan's not going to be handling public relations when we get to the NFL. He can work on that. He needs to get out now because only more stories are going to come out. It's only going to seem more like a circus.
And it's not like he's going to add success to his name. It's not like he's going to show proof of concept.
The numbers that we're looking at so far, you realize that part of the problem here is being embedded in that program in the huddle. There's no way that he is blind to, we've lost by a combined score of 120-33. That's not going to get fixed in the next couple of months.
There's no amount of scheming that he can do when he gets into the tough part of his schedule that's going to undo with these players. The fact that he's going to get his ass kicked that way the rest of the season. And given what he comes from.
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Chapter 5: How do personal relationships affect coaching careers in sports?
And look, they also said Bad Bunny's music is bad, which I don't agree with that. Categorically false. I like Bad Bunny's music. However... A little bit of a mumbler, if we're going to be honest, sometimes. Which is like, that's a style that's fine. It's still good music. But there are some times it's a little confusing as to what.
I've seen people on TikTok who are like, I'm Puerto Rican and I don't know what he's saying. Yeah. And it's like, oh, okay. That makes sense. It's like Bjork. It's like Sigur Ró.
It's just an invented language.
Exactly right. I don't know what you're saying. It's the vibes. You don't have to worry about what he's saying. Just pick up the vibes. It's a beachy vibe. It's this vibe. It's that vibe. Let's hang out. Let's listen to Bad Bunny. It's just a good beat. We'll shake our hips. We're vibing. Remember Gangnam Style? I didn't know what the hell Psy was saying. No one did. Yeah, people were singing it.
What does Gangnam Style even mean? I don't know. People liked it. It was fun. The style of Gangnam. Have you seen him get shot out of that tube thing? Yeah, that's crazy. I love that video. What if he moves slightly to one side and he hits his shoulder on the bottom of the stage? Yeah, that'd be bad. He gets shot up like 20 feet in the air. He flew.
Just look at the recent people that have performed at halftime. I don't know what Rihanna's saying either. The large complaint from the last halftime show was, I don't know what he's saying. I can't understand. That's every Super Bowl halftime. I was singing the wrong lyrics to Phil Collins' songs for 40 friggin' years. It's part of our relationship with music.
If they would have brought Metallica or some other band that other people like, I don't know what the hell they're saying anyway. You think you can understand half of what James Hetfield is saying? You need to understand what the lyrics are? I need closed captioning to see what he's saying. Most of the songs are about shaking ass. Thank you. God bless. It's an international language, really.
Now you said it.
You're not going to tell me that I'm wrong when I say the music that doesn't have that particular problem, country music. You don't have any confusion about the lyrics in country music.
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Chapter 6: What are the current challenges facing Bill Belichick in college football?
Beads on a man's wrist at a certain age are like rings around a tree stump. Like that's how, but instead of years, it's how deep you are into your midlife crisis.
Yeah.
The thing that people enjoy in sports more than anything, though, it's one thing to be able to laugh at the arrogance of Bill Belichick, because at the very least, you know, it's earned arrogance. It's when it's the unearned arrogance of Mike Lombardi and his typewriter. That's the thing we enjoy the most.
Goodness gracious.
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