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

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

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🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Can Patrick Mahomes fix the Chiefs in time to tame the Lions? Can Baltimore right the ship without Lamar? Can you really pick the Browns to win a game post London? Ben Axelrod joins the show to ponder these Week 6 questions. Plus, an in-depth interview with Steve Smith Sr. on his Hall of Fame snub, Bounty Gate, and his current life in media. Dave Dameshek and the gang have your weekend plans on lock for Football America! Host: Dave Dameshek Guests: Ben Axelrod, Steve Smith Sr. Team: Gino Fuentes, Mike Fuentes, Bradley Campbell Director: Danny Benitez Senior Producers: Gino Fuentes, Mike Fuentes Executive Producer: Bradley Campbell (Photo by Mike Carlson/Getty Images) Timestamps: (00:00:00-00:02:11) Monologue - The Life of Flacco (00:02:11-00:07:13) Listener Feedback and Pick Six Picks (00:07:13-00:34:06) Steve Smith Sr. on Bounty Gate (00:34:06-00:49:29) Top Five Week 6 Games with Ben Axelrod Follow us: Dave Dameshek: https://x.com/dameshek Ben Axelrod: https://x.com/BenAxelrod Steve Smith Sr: https://x.com/stevesmithsr89 Arizona Cardinals, Atlanta Falcons, Baltimore Ravens, Buffalo Bills, Carolina Panthers, Chicago Bears, Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, Dallas Cowboys, Denver Broncos, Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, Houston Texans, Indianapolis Colts, Jacksonville Jaguars, Kansas City Chiefs, Las Vegas Raiders, Los Angeles Chargers, Los Angeles Rams, Miami Dolphins, Minnesota Vikings, New England Patriots, New Orleans Saints, New York Giants, New York Jets, Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers, San Francisco 49ers, Seattle Seahawks, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tennessee Titans, Washington Commanders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So a Raven, a Brown and a Bengal walk into a stadium. Lambow Field this Sunday, to be exact,
0:06.0	and according to his latest head coach, Joe Flacco is even going to start against the Packers.
0:10.0	Makes sense in the AFC North, aka the most incestuous division in our league,
0:15.0	and I'm not just talking about the old QB who's now gotten himself inside three quarters of the North.
0:20.0	Quick bit of history if he had just
0:21.2	started watching football somewhere between, say, five minutes and 30 years ago. Long before the
0:26.2	Browns made us all laugh by trading for Deshaun Watson on purpose. Many moons before the current
0:31.5	Bengals. Plum forgot to get an offensive line or a defense. There was a guy named Paul Brown. If that
0:36.7	name rings a bell, it's because
0:38.2	the whole Cleveland Brown's team is named after him. He was the founder and head coach, a legend,
0:43.6	revolutionized the whole sport. And believe it or not, the Browns used to be good. Then in 1961,
0:50.0	guy named Art Modell buys the team, and in 63, fires Paul Brown.
0:54.6	Brown's like, you can't fire me, the team's named after me.
0:57.8	Modell's like, well, I just did.
1:00.2	So Brown heads to Sincy and starts up the Bengals and the AFL,
1:03.6	made their get-ups look as much like the Browns as possible.
1:06.8	Why? Because he's petty, and I respect that.
1:10.4	Jump to the end of the decade, longtime Cleveland Brown and son of Ohio, Chuck Knoll,
1:14.9	gets hired as the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Spoiler alert, it worked out. It worked
1:20.7	out real, real nice, yinns. Ditto 35 years later when another son of Ohio, Ben Rothesberger
1:25.7	moved across those same state lines. Of course, the Browns could have taken Rathusberger, but they went with Kellynne-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 Alleghenia and Anagahela 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 Rothesberger, we can call it a wash. By the by, when Flacco heads to Pittsburgh next week to play fellow old man Rogers,
2:04.8	it'll be a homecoming.
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