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It's one of my favorite times.

There's that point in every summer where I start convincing myself, I'm going to be normal

about football this year.

Not as emotional.

Not lose myself completely in it.

And then the game start.

The sprinklers.

The smell of grass.

The roar of the crowd.

The toasting of Miller Light.

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That's a 3 3169 is the zip code and we're gonna be checking in with our Olympic participants

in a moment.

I saw Zaz over there.

I was also given information via video that I had not seen before that really stun me.

This is an exceptional dancer and I just simply would not have guessed that Zaz was an

exceptional dancer.

If you guys thought around here from our group of known associates who's the best dancer

I would not have guessed Zaz who would you guys have guessed like somebody who would really

slice up a wedding floor from everyone we have around here.

I would say me.

I would concur.

Yep.

I throw it down.

I do the Michael Jackson dance everyone.

I saw the Daytona video and Mike dropped just a little bit.

He said, oh, I'm getting some of that Miami flavor.

That was so weird.

I mean, I knew how to do that move.

I'm not even in charge when they play Celia.

All right.

Let's just show the YouTube audience real quick before we go out to the draft Kings sports

gas station.

This video on Earth of Zaz Danza.

Oh, wow.

He is pumped for draft Kings game day.

My apologies to the audio audience.

I suggest you check out YouTube talking about the audience is being delighted right now.

Hold down.

Apparently this type of dancing is called clogging.

Thank you, Chris.

Very informative.

It's also what's happening in testinally because you ate what you were calling Chichot

Roan before the show today.

Yeah, I took a big bite of a juicy Chichot on and I got oil all in the inside of my

eye.

So I'm playing hurt.

Have you enjoyed the Chichot on?

Are you familiar with the.

Oh, Dan, I'm wild for Chichot on.

Did you have some of your disgusting clam pizza when you got here?

I flew in.

It, you know what?

It put a nice exclamation point on an otherwise dreadful journey over here.

Thank you for asking, Dan.

On the flight, first of all, it started out well enough because I had the whole road

of myself and literally half the flight.

And by myself in the lap of luxury because no one's in my lap.

You put your feet up and do the thing.

I didn't do that.

That feels obnoxious, but either way, about halfway through the flight, a guy, probably

65, 70 year old fella, comes over and sits in the aisle seat.

This is my row.

He didn't ask.

He didn't ask.

Can I sit here?

Didn't make eye contact with me like, oh, looks like you got some extra room here.

I'm going to drive that just sat down in there like it was his business to do so.

Dan, was it irrational of me to be a little bit offended that he claimed put his, his

tuchus in my row?

Did you muffle your objection?

Or did you tell him get out of here?

I didn't say anything because I did the quick math like, oh, yeah, you have no claim to

any of these seats.

So it's not your business to be sits there.

Nevertheless, I was offended.

We will get to that as a conversation point in a moment and we'll get to the gas station

in a second as well.

Then the pilot came on the, go ahead.

Do your thing.

Do your thing.

Thank you.

I appreciate it.

We have some, I guess, news in that the Titans, a team that should be very happy that

anyone wanders out there to talk about it, cover it, or write about it in any way.

The Titans have banned the reporter that had this particular exchange here with Cam Ward,

which seemed pretty benign, but let's play the sound real quick again for the audience

of Cam Ward going back and forth with a reporter who has now been banned by the Titans.

How would Cam Ward assess the way Cam Ward has played so far this precieve?

How would you assess it?

Not what?

You don't think so?

I don't think so.

I don't think so.

That's good.

Cam, this is good.

How would you assess it?

How assess it as, you know, when the game or the loser game, how assess it is what I can

get better at.

I don't assess it as someone who can get up there and operate when everything is on.

It's a different process level.

It's more of slowing down the game to everybody.

I believe we made a huge jump for Week 1 and Week 2 because we're getting more condensed

in the playbook.

We're not really opening everything up.

We're going to be going.

I think it will be a different story.

Can you guys please get the guest bookers on getting me that reporter and seeing if we

can talk to that reporter and can you give me some information on that reporter?

I don't know anything about who's asking the question there, but when I say banned,

he's had his press credential revoked, correct?

Correct.

Because I don't think he's a reporter and we probably shouldn't call him that.

Now he might be doing some reporting from Cam, but it seems as though he's a YouTuber

and is occasionally featured on Sirius XM.

He's not with a publication.

He is not your conventional press questioner at these availabilities and he opined a little

bit.

You don't hear skip bailess types at these press availabilities.

What I would gather is the Titans were like, well, that wasn't the greatest look and this

guy gave his opinion.

What's this guy's deal?

Someone was like, well, he's not with anybody.

I think that's what got him revoked.

He's got a YouTube channel.

His quote was, I'm not a daily beat rider.

I'm not on local radio anymore.

So that was their position and they are right about that.

So what is the distinction you guys are making on reporter that I'm not sure the audience

would make on reporter there because there are a couple of interesting things happening

there.

And again, we will get to this gas station in just a second.

The address is 15290 Northwest 7th Avenue 33169 free gas from 10 to 2 courtesy of our

partners at Draft Kings as they make it a Draft King sports gas station.

But I don't know.

And also if you're watching us in Atlanta Dallas Detroit LA, you're going to have the same

opportunity.

This is a big time activation that's going on in this country from Draft King sports.

They're given away a lot of gas.

But when I ask about the distinction on reporter, this is the reason I'm asking that question.

Okay.

I don't know if you guys have been following some of these things.

I've got a friend who's a retired sports writer in Los Angeles who is now just in retirement

walking dogs.

And he saw an ad the other day where USA Today was looking for a beat writer for the NFL

and that job paid less than he makes as a dog walker to cover the NFL.

The LA Times, a once great sports section, is just going to go on the road now with the

Dodgers and the Lakers and some with USC and nobody else because the sports section is

dead.

And I wonder how much of our future has these teams saying about these reporters, well,

why do we need any of these people out here anymore given the way that we're doing things?

Press box columnists used to get the best seats in the house.

There's obviously no reason for that.

Wouldn't we head toward a day where whether it's a YouTuber or a newspaper guy or a radio

guy or anybody else if the teams offended by it, if the networks and the streamers are

no longer interested in journalism because ESPN is an interested anymore in journalism

and they lead the way on the standard, then why wouldn't teams do something like this

more often?

Like, why wouldn't they just start banning people whose behavior is just objectionable

to them?

It has always been.

And in fact, we've talked to Pablo about this in the last few months as well is it's

the leverage that these teams have as we go further into this direction, which is do

it the way we want to and whether or not this guy is he Nashville based at least, I'm

assuming it does send a pretty powerful message and you do see that in the Oval Office as

well these days.

Ask questions that we like or else you're going to get smacked down.

I do feel for him a little bit in that he has a fairly benign question, Cam turned

it on him and then he opined in a way that you're not accustomed hearing a conventional

reporter respond because he's a take artist, he does a show, he's not, you know, he's

not a traditional newsman.

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We'll throw to my boy, Jeremy Tashay, who's sideline right now.

Tash money!

What's it got for me?

Jeremy Tachay!

Thanks, Jacks!

This is the DLB Tashay.

Alright, we will try and get him.

See if the guest bookers can find him so that I can talk to him and ask him some questions

about what happened here.

So let's go out to this Draft King Sports Gas Station now.

Again, I'm going to keep giving you the address because I'm assuming that most of you would

like free gas.

So, 1-5-290 Northwest 7th Avenue, it's 3-3-169.

We're going to have a bit of an Olympics out there between Tony and Zaz and Matthew

Koka from Nothing Personal.

Let's check in here with Jeremy, who's still, for some reason, wearing that stupid cowboy

hat.

But Jeremy, what can you tell us from out there at the Draft King Sports Gas Station?

Hey, all well.

I did want to tell you that Draft King Sports is live in all 50 states and partnership

with Draft King's, the Crown is yours.

And Dan, I know we just got to the clogging and we got to the dog walking.

I'm glad we got the really heavy stuff out of the way first.

But I want to tell you, Draft King Sports is giving away free gas.

You mentioned it.

Atlanta, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles and right here in Miami.

It's between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. local time.

So wherever you are, it's your 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. like us right here in the Lord's

time zone.

Exact gas station locations have been revealed on the Draft King Sports Instagram.

That's Draft King's underscore sports.

Those are revealed at 9 a.m. local time for each person.

So on top of the free gas, Dan, Draft King Sports is dropping brand new game day deals

throughout the day on the Draft King Sports App.

So what you're going to want to do, of course, is go download the Draft King Sports

App, use the promo code Dan and you can participate in our free to play game for the show

Olympics.

Dan, you mentioned it.

We've got competitions going on and there's a free to play game on the Draft King Sports

App.

That's located in the pools section of the app.

So just search show Olympics and you'll be able to find it.

But Dan, I want to tell you all the details here, right?

We're going to be out here all day long.

We'll be with you at the top of every hour and.

Zaz will be representing the Dan Levitard show.

Tony will be representing Mystery, Crate and of course, Matthew Coco will be representing

nothing personal with David Samson.

We have got three games to play.

We will have the tire toss, the windshield wash relay and up first, Dan, you got the perfect

pump.

Do you want to play?

Do you want to see it?

Do you want to see this competition?

How does it work?

Tell us about how it works before we do it.

Yes, let's do this.

Let's do this right now.

And we're going to do it every hour.

We're going to have some sort of contest.

You look like somebody who's paid poorly as doing some work on a safari.

I am.

You're doing cleaning stuff up in a safari area.

You look like an unhoused ghost.

That's right.

I felt like Steve Irwin, but I appreciate that you guys have said unhoused ghost buster.

We've got all of our folks right here.

You look like Steve Irwin after.

And this is whoof.

I don't even know what to do with that.

I guess Dan's devil raise or the winner here.

So I was on the background.

You've got Tony is going to be up first in the perfect pump challenge.

The way this is going to work is we are going to see amongst our three competitors here,

which gets the closest to pumping exactly one gallon of gasoline.

The closest ultimately wins.

Again, you can play on the Draft King sports app.

We have a free to play competition here where you can decide who you think the winner will

be and even guess how close they will be to exactly one gallon.

So it's Tony smoking cigarette near those gas pumps.

What is he having?

What is he having his mouth?

What is he doing?

It's on lit.

It's on lit.

Okay.

On the black and mild down.

Yeah, it's on lit.

I'm going to go around here.

Let's play.

So ready?

Yeah, I've got a question though.

I do have a question for you, Jeremy.

Please just real quick.

The pump of the he's got to just stop right.

He's not allowed to like click it slowly toward a gallon.

He's just got to stop or he gets one chance at it.

Yes, you get one chance.

You pull.

You get as close as you can to a gallon and that's where you allowed to go over.

Are you allowed to go over?

No, no.

Okay.

And that.

And that.

So disqualified if you go over.

So if the first two people go over, Koke could just put in one penny and he wins.

It's like price is right.

It's just the closest to it.

I would tell him the strategy.

It's just the closest to it.

They just said you can't go over.

Go ahead.

Let's go, Tony.

I really think it's a bad look to have a cigarette hanging.

It's not great.

We know it's not great.

Is he going for Cuban mechanic?

Is that what he's going for?

Like he's going with the whole sleeveless undershirt.

Is that what he's going for?

How do we do here?

Wow.

Tony went 1.001 gallons.

So, it's the closest obviously thus far.

No, but you said we're not going to call him a loser.

All right.

We're not going to call him a loser.

We're going to see how this goes before we call him a loser.

We got a free to play.

You stop asking questions.

We're going to see how this goes.

Stop asking questions, Dan.

There are too many questions.

Matthew Coco, you are up next.

He's the closest right now.

If you're playing the game right now.

He's the closest.

He's the closest.

How do I know what I'm supposed to do now?

Where's the closest you guys close to do, Jessica?

You're supposed to get as close as you can.

You're supposed to get as close as you can.

Dan, why are you two in everything?

You were supposed to get as close as you can to 1 gallon.

Get as close as you can.

You're going to get closer.

Yes.

Close to the two gallons.

Yes.

To the two gallons.

So now I'm going under a gallon.

You're going to be under point, 0-1.

Yes.

You're going to get as close as you can to 1-2.

You want to be at, and we don't pump our own gas.

Where'd he go, Dan?

I asked you what the rules to the game were,

because I've got audio audience that can't watch on video

and on video, we can't see the numbers on the pump.

I don't think the audio audience can play 1.9.

About your rules.

Oh, Matthew Coco goes 1.005.

So Tony is the closest at the moment, 1.001.

We are now sitting at 2.006.

We want to talk about this as low approach from his Cuck chair.

Zazlow?

He's just been watching everybody pump.

He looks so good.

No, it's not a Cuck chair.

I'm just relaxing.

All right, Zaz, your mission here is to get to exactly 3.006

from where we stand right now.

Zaz worked up a little bit of a ladder there,

sitting in this chair.

Didn't you hear that?

Backslaps.

Are you ready?

Never already.

Go for it.

We're just going to learn from Jeremy whether he won or not,

because Jeremy knows the rules.

No one else dies.

2.9.

Annie's way over.

3.07.

0.

So Tony, he's the winner.

1, 2, 3.0.

0.

One of that is all right.

All right.

What is in room for error here?

Congratulations, Tony.

Tony is first.

Go for it.

2nd.

Zaz is last place.

Although he does look cool.

I'll give him that.

All right, go ahead.

You're going to interview.

You're going to do the sideline report with the victor

who started by breaking the rules and immediately losing

and was called the loser.

Go ahead.

Tony, how's it feel to win the first competition?

Like normal.

I mean, to be honest, I know I'm going to probably go

3 for 3 in this competition.

So I'm not really worried.

This is just a prime getting ready for what's to come.

And what type of advantage does it give you

to get out ahead?

1-0.

I mean, we knew this was going to happen, right?

Like we're just on to the next one.

Whatever the next one is, we're going to win.

So I'm not really worried about advantages or other advantages.

It's a black and mild.

It's a performance.

Tony, go ahead and get your laughter on.

Folks, before we head out of here,

I want you to know that if you are going to come by one

of these gas stations, whether you're in Atlanta, Dallas,

Detroit, Los Angeles, or right here in Miami,

the way that you participate is you arrive at your participating

game day fuel location during the promotional period

of 10 AM to 2 PM local time with an eligible passenger vehicle.

Wait in line if applicable.

And on a first come, first serve basis.

Follow all instructions from Draft King's event staff,

gas station personnel, traffic control personnel,

and law enforcement officers.

Just listen to everybody that's here, OK?

They're going to help you out.

They've been here for a very long time, verify your age,

and an eligibility with Draft King's event staff,

and then remain in your vehicle at all times.

This is the most important thing

while you're in the fueling queue.

And during fueling, you will remain in your car.

We got folks to take care of you.

Dan, we'll check in with you with the rest of our show Olympics.

I believe next we're going to have the tire toss.

So be sure to head to our free-to-play game

to see who you think's going to win.

All right, thank you, Jeremy.

I will say that the best thing about that outside

of our partners giving away free gas all over America

and in Miami.

I'll give you the address again, 15290,

northwest 7th Avenue until 2 p.m. today, 3369 is the zip code.

The best part about that is between the three of them.

I could not tell who looked more like they would work

at a Miami gas station.

The three of them, it's Coca, because he's a little too clean.

His outfit is a little too crisp, but Zaz and Tony, actually,

Coca looks like he works at a full service station

at a place that's been caring about how your gas is pumped

for 70 years, still doing it full service style.

Like still cares about a presentation.

Yeah, like he looks exceptional.

And Tony's going to come back with the air filter

that you just chain saying you need to change it.

Tony is in high a league.

That's right.

And he's looking to rip you off.

And more gas station people in Miami looked like Tony.

Sigeret included.

Tony, you know that moment at a party or at a tailgate,

where everything just sort of clicks.

I know it well.

It's usually when I show up.

Everybody goes crazy.

Yeah, you usually take all the credit for it,

but it's because Tony usually walks in with Quarevo.

I'm blocking my piss.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Quarevo is a thing that turns hanging out into,

this is the night.

It has that effect on people.

It does.

You usually take the credit for it, but again,

it's the Quarevo effect.

It's like that moment in a big game

where everyone in the crowd just starts standing up,

hooting and hollering.

Keep it quarevo.

Keep it quarevo, baby.

Down lebatar.

I'll go with this one.

They've been a chick.

It has come time now.

It's recently done.

Lebatar show.

Oh my God, look, the guest bookers seem to have gotten already

our band and scandalized.

I called him a reporter, but evidently,

Mike Ryan and Chris Cody are saying the reporter designation

is not applicable here according to the Titans,

because they might not have done this if...

He's a pundit.

I'd call him.

Okay, but if he were a newspaper reporter,

a more traditional reporter instead of a modern reporter,

perhaps he does not get banned for this.

Let's ask him.

Okay, I will.

I'll get there.

Thank you.

I appreciate all you guys' help in trying to help me do the show

and play games where I don't know the rules

and the audience doesn't know the rules.

You, during that game.

No, no, the rules were pretty clear.

Who's closest to a gallon?

And then Dan's like, what if we made the surprises right?

This is right.

This is right, rules.

I have.

I have.

And then, Dan Masek, was that an illegitimate question

to ask?

Are you out to go over?

It was a wrench.

I'm three feet away from you, Dan.

You're right.

Thank you.

So Jared Stillman, you can hear Jared on his daily podcast,

Stillman and Company on YouTube live weekdays,

three Eastern on serious XM, Mad Dog Sports Radio.

That's Mad Dog Sports Radio.

That's a mainstream media outlet.

So I don't know what you guys are doing with this,

but Jared, thank you for joining us.

Can you tell us, first of all,

how you got the information that you had been banned?

Yeah, yesterday.

So I was doing Mad Dog Sports Radio in the morning.

I do weekends on Mad Dog Radio.

And then I'll fill in, you know, whenever during the week,

I had gotten done with my shift.

I walked upstairs in the PR director of the Titans

that texted me and said, hey, can you give me a call

when you got a couple minutes?

I said, sure.

Now, I figured this was going to be one of those

uncomfortable talks.

You know, Dan, you've done that forever

where the team's unhappy with the coverage.

And they stayed their case and you stayed your case.

And it's a way to say that you agree to disagree,

but it's kind of like working the refs.

I've probably had in my career,

and I've been doing this for 14 years,

probably 20 or 30 calls like that over the years

with all the different teams of somebody's unhappy

with the coverage.

Well, okay, let's talk about it.

And so when I picked up the phone,

the PR director for the Titans was like,

I really hate to do this,

but, you know, I didn't think from this point forward,

we've decided that you no longer qualify as media,

as a YouTuber and as a live streamer.

You no longer qualify as credentialed media

for practices and press conferences.

Again, I hate to do this,

but that's just the decision that we've made.

And I was like, okay, and I said,

you do know that I just did three hours

of serious XM radio, right?

And they said, yeah, but you don't need access

and are building to do three hours of serious XM radio

or to do whatever series XM shows you got.

I said, okay, and I let them say their piece

and there is kind of a moving goalpost,

depending on which argument they want to take,

whether it was, this wasn't about one incident,

but it's about the totality of the coverage,

then they're telling other people that,

well, we wanted to kind of prune down the amount of out,

non-traditional media that we invite in.

And so there's a bunch of different reasons

in the reality, Dan, you think you've done this long enough

to know they didn't like the coverage

and they found a loophole so they decided to exercise it.

How long is the band for?

Oh, I think this is in perpetuity.

See, what's funny is that,

I did local radio in Nashville for 10 years

and then took my show, kind of like you did,

took my show independently, digitally,

onto YouTube and everywhere else.

And I don't feel like I'm any more or less critical

of the football team than I was when I was on the radio

for those 10 years.

The difference is that they have stunk

the last two years,

winning three games each of the last two seasons.

I'm not a believer in the quarterback,

they drafted number one overall

and sold us on as the next Patrick Mahomes

and unretired Warren Moons, Jersey four.

I'm not a believer and I've hammered that away.

So I think this is in perpetuity,

but I like to go to OTA practices and training can't practice

is more than I like to go to individual press conferences

or because that I can see,

I can't see any practice during the season

and I can watch the games on TV.

But as of right now, I think this is in perpetuity.

And you can't go to the games either, right?

You used to go to the games, correct?

No, I never covered the, I never covered the,

I mean, I did occasionally, but no.

I was more of a practice press conference.

If I felt like I had criticized somebody,

I would go to the press conference

just to give them an opportunity

so that nobody would ever say,

well, you won't come and face the noise.

So I felt like I always did that to be around enough.

I would consider it more of like a columnist appearance

than it would be say like a daily beat guy,

which I never claimed to be and never wanted to be.

Do you consider yourself a reporter?

No, I have broken some stories.

I do, you know, pedal it, you know, hear things

behind the scenes and then try to get it confirmed

and then talk, you know, but no,

I would not consider myself a beat reporter.

I would not consider myself a,

I would not consider myself a journalist

in the sense of what journalism used to be,

but where journalism is heading

through that mix of punditry and analysis

and talk show, host and that's what I would consider myself.

Is the assumption then?

Have you talked to your peers in Nashville

and are they ultimately gonna be chilled by this?

Are you the sacrificial lamb for all Titans media then?

Well, I'm just gonna read to you

with the headline in the newspaper,

the columnist wrote yesterday

because I think the headline probably tells you

how the local media feels.

Gentry Estes at the Tennessee Enroute,

rejoice Titans fans, your team has found the problem.

It's Jared Stillman.

I think that this is,

and I don't know if the Titans really get talked

about a lot around the country,

but when they do, it's probably in a more mocking fashion.

I think for the local media that covers the team,

this is a sign of, okay, they found a reason

to ban this guy who is consistently negative

or who constantly questions

of what we're saying is the truth

because on several occasions,

the Titans have been caught lying.

And so is this guy,

they found a loophole to get him,

are they gonna come after us?

I think it's probably a sentiment that the media shares.

Is there gonna be any sort of movement behind you on this

because usually these things can get reversed

if there's enough of a clamor around it?

Do you feel like anyone is activating

the local journalists on your behalf?

I think there is a little bit of talk about that,

but I'm gonna be honest with you.

I'm not sure I necessarily care that much.

I mean, the biggest reason that I would go

to the press conference is because everybody would say to me,

you know, this is where I get too caught up

into what they say on social media,

but people would say,

God, would you say that to their face?

And it's like, yes, yes.

I mean, I used to get into it with Vrable,

when Mike Vrable, when he was the coach,

all the time.

And I like Vrable.

I don't think Vrable likes me, but I like Vrable.

And if I think that you're trying to push some bull crap

like I'm gonna call it out or, you know, again,

there's no way to know unless you hook somebody up

to a polygraph whether or not they're telling the truth,

but I am, you know, I can be very cynical.

And so this has been how I've kind of always been,

but now I don't have to worry about that.

You wouldn't say that to their face

because I'm not allowed to go.

So I'm not, I can do this job,

the punditry job without showing up there every day.

So now this is something that I just have decided.

If they wanna be that way, they can be that way.

And I'm just gonna continue to have the same opinions

that I've had and I'm gonna call it how I see it.

Dan, I liken myself to an umpire in the opinion space.

I just call balls and strikes.

And I know I'm gonna hear it from the dugout.

And so I know, hey, this guy, and sometimes he might have

to get run and there might be some confrontations,

but the next day when first pitches thrown,

it's back to balls and strikes.

Dan, I was gonna say we should clamor for this guy,

but he said he doesn't give a shit.

Yeah, Dan, this reporter has been wronged, reporter.

I'm not a reporter and I don't give a fuck.

Put her on the pole, please, at Lebitard show,

is being banned from titan stuff,

a punishment of any kind at Lebitard.

At Lebitard punches, but on a punishment or reward.

You don't feel like you did anything wrong there, right?

Zazzle was on yesterday and he was saying,

I thought correctly that usually in that setting,

the reporter doesn't give his opinion.

The reporter would say back to Cam some version

of no one's interested in my opinion on this Cam.

I'm asking you because I want to know your opinion

on how you think you have played.

That's obviously not how you handled that.

Nope, see, I think Cam sucks and I have said

that I think Cam sucks.

I think Cam is going to be a bust.

I think Cam had talent, but they've already ruined them

and then what they're trying to do now

is gonna keep ruining them.

So I think Cam stinks, Cam stunk in the preseason

and Cam, for the most part, stunk last year.

And I've said that and I am unapologetic in my belief

that Cam Ward should not have been the first overall pick

in the draft.

And so if I go to that press conference

and I ask Cam, how would you assess how you played?

And Cam says, how would you assess it?

And I say, well, I'm not here for my opinion.

I'm asking you, then everybody would have said,

oh, so you get on there and you talk all that shit.

And now when you're here, you won't push back

and you won't.

So when he asked me, how would you assess it?

Not well, because it wasn't good.

Pro football focus at that point in time.

I don't know what it is now, but at that point in time,

Cam Ward was the 100 and second ranked passer

out of 104 quarterbacks who played in the preseason.

That's bad.

And so I don't feel the need to apologize.

I'm asking you a question, anticipating that you'll answer it.

You can answer it however you want.

So then when he turns and asks me a question, I answered it.

Best guess here, you were banned because of what happened here

or it was the last drop in a bucket.

You were banned because this is the last thing that happened

with you.

You've been giving objectionable opinions for a long time

and they just took this as the opportunity to be done with you.

Oh, man, I've pissed the Titans off so many times

over the last decade.

I mean, I've had so many phone calls.

It's gotten to the point now where on almost a yearly basis,

I would have a conversation where the Titans would tell me,

no, no, no, no, you don't understand, Jared.

This next guy, he is going to lead us to the Promised Land

and then they would fire him.

And then the next year, I'd have the same conversation

about the next guy that they would pick.

So yeah, I think it was, you know, when they say it was the totality

of my coverage, I think it is that I have been, you know,

they've been awful for five years, awful.

And I feel like because I've said it,

because I didn't just embrace the quarterback,

they drafted number one overall,

because I put pressure on them to be accountable.

And I put pressure on them to win at the rate

that they always promised that they're going to,

that they finally had just had enough.

And just said, okay, well, we can use this YouTube loophole

to get this guy out of here.

So let's just get him out of here.

Last question, true or false,

you're happy that your band and are getting this publicity,

because now you don't have to go and cover this shit anymore.

Well, I'm not happy about it.

I do like attention,

but I don't like when the attention is about me and controversial.

So I like hosting a show where people are like,

did you see what Jared said or, you know,

Jared had this really strong take and, you know, this was or,

you know, like when I get something right, I like that.

What I don't like is I don't like,

I like going into controversy.

I don't like being the controversy.

So I mean, yeah, am I getting attention from it?

Sure.

But am I happy about that?

It makes me a little uncomfortable.

And it makes me uncomfortable that if this team starts off poorly,

which I think they might, that this will then come back on cam,

that this will look like cam got the guy banned,

because he couldn't handle a tough question that went viral.

Now they're o into cam, can't handle the pressure.

And I don't think that that narrative,

if it happens, would be fair.

You can hear Jared on his daily podcast,

stillman and company on YouTube, also serious XM,

Mad Dog Sports Radio.

Jared, I appreciate you making yourself available.

Thank you, sir.

All right, take it in.

Do you think, Dan, that it's out of bounds

to do what he did in that setting?

I'm not sure how I would have handled all of that,

because he makes some good points.

But I am not exactly confrontational,

and I'm not interested in embarrassing athletes.

So saying that someone sucks is not something

you've heard a lot from me in 20 plus years doing this

of any kind.

These are professional athletes.

They're the top of the food chain.

And they are very good at what they do

and what they do is very hard.

And so I've thought about how I would handle that situation

if it got turned back on me, because I wouldn't have handled it

the way that I wouldn't have thought quickly enough

to handle it the way that Zaz said he would have handled it,

which is to say, no one's here for my opinion on this.

I'm asking you, but I am interested in the line

between reporter and opinion giver,

between mainstream media and YouTuber,

and how all of this is going to change in the future.

And I believe that within 10 years,

this is going to be more and more common,

where if media people don't like how you're covering their team,

they're not going to keep giving you free access to their team.

He didn't shy away from being a provocateur, right?

And that's what his aim is.

He accomplished that.

And I do kind of, I'm down with him saying,

like, my audience will hold me accountable.

If he turns it right on me,

given all the shit that I've talked about, Cam Ward,

I got a, I have a responsibility to the audience

and the reputation that I've built for myself,

even though it put them in a really tough spot.

I do kind of with that.

I understand that as an explanation,

but I believe that that is kind of a turn

where it is that sports radio,

you know, the sports radioification of journalism

makes commentators be harsher to the athletes

in a way that's changed all of the ways

that television and newspapers cover the athletes.

Because if the search for clicks is what you have to do,

the only way to do it is to be an agitator

and is someone, and to be someone

who brings this kind of attention on yourself.

It is a different day and age.

And the Titans are in that spot

where they have to balance conventional media

with provocateurs online that kind of have a semi-regular cadence,

but you don't really know where they're coming from.

Like, imagine asking Edwin Pope after one year

on a terrible team with a coaching staff and flux,

hey, what do you think of Cam Ward?

And Edwin Pope turns you and says, he sucks.

It's not something that you hear.

I just don't get to be the one

and we don't get to be the ones who decide on this.

The power gets to decide over time.

Well, except at the big winner in this episode,

Jared Stilman.