The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Top Five NFL Games to Watch in Week 6, Why the Jaguars will Fall to Earth with Ben Axelrod, And Steve Smith Sr. on his Hall of Fame Snub
10 Oct 2025
Chapter 1: What are the latest updates on Joe Flacco's career?
So a Raven, a Brown, and a Bengal walk into a stadium.
Chapter 2: What listener feedback influenced the hosts' picks?
Lambeau Field this Sunday, to be exact. And according to his latest head coach, Joe Flacco is even going to start against the Packers. Makes sense in the AFC North, a.k.a. the most incestuous division in our league. And I'm not just talking about the old QB who's now gotten himself inside three quarters of the North.
Quick bit of history if you just started watching football somewhere between, say, five minutes and 30 years ago.
Chapter 3: What insights does Steve Smith Sr. share about Bounty Gate?
Long before the Browns made us all laugh by trading for Deshaun Watson on purpose, many moons before the current Bengals, Plum forgot to get an offensive line or a defense, there was a guy named Paul Brown. If that name rings a bell, it's because the whole Cleveland Browns team is named after him.
He was the founder and head coach, a legend, revolutionized the whole sport, and believe it or not, the Browns used to be good. Then in 1961, guy named Art Modell buys the team, and in 63, fires Paul Brown. Brown's like, you can't fire me. The team's named after me. Modell's like, well, I just did.
So Brown heads to Cincy and starts up the Bengals in the AFL, made their get-ups look as much like the Browns as possible. Why? Because he's petty, and I respect that. Jump to the end of the decade, longtime Cleveland Brown and son of Ohio Chuck Knoll gets hired as the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Spoiler alert, it worked out. It worked out real, real nice, yens.
Ditto 35 years later when another son of Ohio, Ben Roethlisberger, moved across those same state lines. Of course, the Browns could have taken Roethlisberger, but they went with Kellen Winslow Jr. instead. In the interim, the Browns moved to Baltimore and rebranded themselves. But deep down, they and Cleveland and all the rest of us know those are the Browns just wearing purple.
I don't know what exactly that makes the team in the orange helmets we still call the Browns, but I do know the Ohio River is formed by the intersection of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers in Pittsburgh. As in Pennsylvania, not Ohio. I don't know why they got to name it, but I guess since Pittsburgh got Nolan Roethlisberger, we can call it a wash.
By the by, when Flacco heads to Pittsburgh next week to play fellow old man Rogers, it'll be a homecoming. Because you know where he played his freshman year of college? Pitt. Let's start the show.
yes hi and hello my fellow football americans welcome to nfl week six welcome to episode number 15 welcome to football america presented by draft kings draft kings the crown is yours we've got steve smith senior and awful announcings ben axelrod coming up how are you fellas let's start it off like we always do who's the greatest number 15 in nfl history gino and mike
This seems like an obvious one to me.
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Chapter 4: What are the top five NFL games to watch in Week 6?
I'm going to go Pat Mahomes. Maybe I'm a prisoner of my own time here.
You're not a prisoner of your own time. He's really good. He has three Super Bowls. He's 30 years old. So, yeah, probably Patrick Mahomes.
I do have to throw out Bart Starr, of course. He won the first two Super Bowls. Noteworthy stuff. And if there had been Super Bowls throughout his career, I wonder how many Super Bowls the Packers and Bart Starr would have won. But you're right. I don't need to belabor it. Patrick Mahomes. Also, shout out Steve Van Buren. Brandon Marshall.
Miami Dolphins legend. Yeah, Brandon Marshall.
Okay, before we get to Steve Smith and Ben Axelrod, Gino and Mike Fuentes, let's put our heads together. Pick six presented by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours. The million dollars should be mine by now. It's not. Quite frankly, I blame Mike Fuentes, but let's not live life in the rearview mirror. I'm going to give you my picks here, and Gino and Mike are going to help me out here.
Let's press on. Like I said last week, I'm a simple-minded man, and I think it's nice and clean to do touchdown scores as opposed to yards and otherwise as we cobble together our half-dozen names here. I'm going Josh Jacobs for a touchdown against the Bengals. George Pickens now the main man until C.D. Lamb is back. with Dak getting a touchdown against Carolina.
Javante Williams gets a touchdown against the Panthers. J.K. Dobbins gets a touchdown against the Jets. Bo Nix is going to throw a couple of touchdowns against the Jets. And Zach Charbonnet is going to get into the end zone against the Jags. How say you, Gino Fuentes?
All right, the only one I see here that I could possibly be not in agreement with is Charbonnet because those could easily go to Ken Walker. So I would inject a little over here on the passing yards for Bryce Young against Dallas. Dallas defense is horrible against the pass.
You have no idea what the number is.
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