The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The Best Celebrations In Sports (feat. The Dirty Demon & Tony Calatayud)
15 Sep 2025
Chapter 1: What are the best celebrations in sports?
Welcome to the Big Sui, presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Lebitard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging.
I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys?
I've done it. And now, here's the marching man to nowhere, fat face, and the habitual liar. This episode of the Dan Levitard Show is presented by DraftKings.
Chapter 2: How does Zaslow uncover a Greg Cote secret?
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Zaslow, as we've established, is a judge. He is a journalist. He is, what else? You're a lawyer. I'm a race war expert. You're a race war expert. There's a fifth thing in there that you are. Time zone? I don't remember.
Yeah, czar of time zones.
But during the break, he was doing some reporting. And I'm sorry to do this to you, Greg. It may feel like a betrayal. But Zaslow has some breaking news for the audience and for us, because I don't think we knew this until Zaslow reported it.
Dan, good journalism is never a betrayal. It's always in search of the truth, okay? So no reason to apologize, and that includes to Greg. Greg fired the special teams coach a few minutes ago. Now, I did a little bit of digging here, and I would like you to confirm, Greg Cody, is it possible
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Chapter 3: What is the controversy around the Tush Push play?
That there is a bias in your mind, in your heart, that the reason that you fired the special teams coach, we all thought it was because, you know, you were showing some gumption, all right? Somebody's got to pay. Is it possible that this was in response? Well, about seven minutes left in the game yesterday, the Dolphins took the lead, 27-23 on a punt return. Seven minutes, not a lot of time.
Dolphins just took the lead. Is it possible? that you had just about shaped your column for the game. And then the kick was returned for a touchdown by the Patriots, and you had to scrap with less than half the fourth quarter remaining. After 50 years of writing for an afternoon game with bad deadlines. You had to then scrap your current column because of a special teams gaffe. True or false?
Closer to true than false. When you're right, I admit it. It was a massive inconvenience to me in the press box when all of a sudden a lead becomes a deficit because of a special teams boner.
It was a one o'clock game boner.
Yeah, I know.
That's a one o'clock game. What kind of deadline is that?
I got a 4.30 deadline.
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Chapter 4: How does Trevor Lawrence's performance impact the Jaguars?
I've got additional reporting to be done here. Greg Cody, tired of getting texts when down 12-0 about, uh-oh, Homer, had written the column that was going to be joyously, I'm right, everyone overreacted. That's the column that had to be scrapped.
Okay, I always root for my pick. I picked the Dolphins to win that game. And they should have. They were favored. They should have won.
But you picked the column. That was the better column. The other column, the column you scrapped was the column you wanted to write.
I don't think there was a better column. I think if they had won that game dramatically in their home opener, it would have been fun to write. But if they lose and all of a sudden there's calamity and there's planes flying overhead, that's pretty tasty as well. But you are willing to confirm that you fired the special teams coach because he inconvenienced you.
Yeah, I thought we already agreed on that.
That's good. It's good to have that. A lot of things to talk about from yesterday. What are the games we've eliminated that we're not talking about? We're not talking about the Browns and Ravens game. Nothing to see here. Cardinals-Panthers is gone. You guys said nothing on Cardinals-Panthers, but that would have been a pretty stunning comeback if Carolina pulled it off.
But it wasn't, so we're not talking about it.
Okay, correct.
Are we talking Rams-Titans?
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of Burrow's injury for the Bengals?
He hasn't been in the league that long. He hasn't. He has not been in the league that long.
Speed was never really his thing. Not his game.
No, but I'm talking about the lumbering. I'm not even talking about the speed.
A weird thing to say on a 45-yard run.
Correct.
Understood. Where he catches the corner.
Understood.
Like he went off tackle on this one, pal.
Yep. I'm well aware of the observation I'm making and how ridiculous it sounds. And also that sport makes it so that those guys have about five years of that kind of life in their body. You're already seeing it with Mahomes. How silly do those throws look now when he's rolling to his right and trying to flip it and they don't have the timing right and he throws it at somebody's feet?
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Chapter 6: How does the Eagles' strategy differ from other teams?
It's not just the Chiefs falling to 0-2. It's not just the season they had last year where they won all the one-score games and now they've lost the one-score games. It's that also...
When they're hurt and Patrick Mahomes needs help, Taylor Swift's fiance last week injured one of their deep threats running a route, and this week at the goal line where they got the defending champs where they want them at the goal line, the Mahomes-Kelsey timing, which is like,
it's the sweetest thing except maybe st brown and goff like it's the sweetest thing in the sport in terms of two players who have a timing that has been for five years made him the greatest statistical tight end we've ever seen at the goal line their timing is off he throws it too early or or the route's not right it hits kelsey in the arm late and then the eagles pick it off run the other way and take the whole game if it hits your hands you
catch the ball.
Timing's not off. Travis Kelsey's messing up there. It's not Patrick Mahomes' timing. That play by the Chiefs tackle to chase that guy down might have been the most impressive thing I saw yesterday.
You know what's funny about you saying that? I'm going to go ahead and say neighbors was that for me. Like in terms of the two catches when he's double teamed and you got Diggs punching, like he's cleanly punching at the ball. The strength of these human beings in their hands.
I want something to be noticed here from yesterday that I find legitimately breathtaking every time I see it because of how fast everyone is and the field isn't big enough for all those human beings, which is why so many things have to be done by inches. The number of receivers who are 40 yards down the field catching a ball with one arm against their helmet or shoulder pad.
They hit the ground and the ball doesn't move. Doesn't move. When I'm sitting there looking at it, I'm like, that's 40 yards from the quarterback.
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Chapter 7: What are the best celebrations in recent NFL history?
How does that ball in that space not move when it's in the crook of your elbow or they've got just one hand on it? It must have happened like six times yesterday. And also what happened? These guys are getting a lot better at punching the football. The immortal Mark Andrews yesterday had one punched out of his hands because of how good these guys. Diggs had neighbors. He had him.
Diggs is punching at the football in neighbors' hands, but his hands are too strong. The ball doesn't move in his hands.
I could see them changing that rule at some point because, I mean, like, you're literally just allowed to punch a player. Yeah, they should change that. Hopefully.
you hit the ball but if you miss the ball it's still okay then to punch a player isn't that how josh allen got his nose broken like isn't that how it happened they're gonna change that rule they should they've gotten really good at that peanut tillman thing where they they just punch the football so chris you're not wrong when you say an offensive lineman chasing down a db
when he doesn't have the angle, was super impressive. But, I mean, this Tesla uh-uh guy in Detroit has made two of the greatest catches I've seen in the first two weeks of the season, and he's not one of the best receivers in the league yet. But he's made two catches, and I'm like, oh, my God. There was no space for him to make either of those catches. The news from yesterday, though. Burrow?
Chiefs 0-2 and Kelsey being at the center of the loss. Taylor Swift was never shown on the television, right? This team, Mahomes has never lost three straight. That's where we are right now. And on offense, they're constipated. He made one deep throw, he missed another deep throw. And they needed a bailout yesterday against the champions. The Eagles, how about this stat?
The Eagles, four times, have passed for under 100 yards. They're 4-0. Under 100 yards passing.
The Eagles have taken the entire offensive league and they're like, nope, we're just gonna do this one and a half yards at a time with Saquon Barkley, and we're just going to ground you to dust, punching you in the face, and they've eliminated the gulf that the Chiefs had between the rest of the league and them with a kind of football that's barbaric, it's primitive.
Jalen Hurts does not care whether or not he gets any stats or not. How do you go on the road and beat the Chiefs and become 4-0 in games where you have fewer than 100 passing yards in the modern age?
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Chapter 8: What led to the discussion about Ken Rosenthal's sideline incident?
You had under 100 yards. We won the bleeping game.
Kurtz is like, we won the bleeping game. Relax about 100 yards.
You didn't even have 100 yards. Oh, but it is so frustrating if you're the Chiefs. I mean, it was Chris Jones and Tyreek Hill saying, we're going to win seven or eight of these. And now it's just these giant guys saying, we're going to push you back at the end of the game. Just two yards at a time. What are you going to do?
Chris Jones is going to be jumping over the top, trying to paw at this dumb play. This incredibly dumb play that has short-circuited all of the offense in the league.
I do think... People should look at it, though. It's one thing that it's unstoppable. It's another thing that it's unstoppable and they're getting unfair advantages. If they're lining up over the football, if they're starting early, those go against the rules of the game. So they got to call that.
Let's just be clear on one thing here, though. Going against the rules of the game for just a second. OK, because this is the this this play is stupid. Because whenever the rules of the game are Brock Osweiler is the offensive guy throwing four yards at a time, you know what happens? They change the rules of the game when it's not entertaining.
This is shitty to watch these guys eat up clock when you've got 10 minutes of action in a game running a yard at a time. It's so shitty. It's not for the customer.
It's already an iconic play. And I'd like to see someone stop it before we put it to bed. But if they're not stopping it because they're cheating on it and starting early...
Not entertaining on top of that.
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