The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: Agree to Agree

Episode Date: August 15, 2024

It's a loaded Hour 2 on the show today that kicks off with Dan apologizing to Jacksonville and then insulting its smell. We continue the discussion about Colin Kaepernick being offered a job by Jim Harbaugh with the Chargers. It leads into a discussion of Royce White's comments on Steve Bannon's show while campaigning for Congress in Minnesota. Juju shares his Thursday Thunder, then Jess and Tony get into the hacking scandal that has allegedly impacted 2.9 billion and why Tony just doesn't care at this point. Greg Cote wins the Gasbag of the Week for his prediction that the Dolphins would win the Super Bowl and we examine whether they have missed their window now that Tua is expensive. Jess closes the loop after US Soccer hired Mauricio Pochettino to be the men's team's next manager, Hard Knocks disappointed Amin and Amin shares his experience having to do karaoke of Sammy Davis Jr. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I was saying that nationally no one cares about the Jacksonville Jags, and now the Florida Times Union says, I've woken a sleeping cat. Oh. You see what he's doing now? You're doubling down too. That's not what you did. Of course it's done not on my watch.

People of Jacksonville, Duval County, my people, okay? Samboseli's still at my house waiting to be burned. If I had known that this conversation happened today or yesterday, I would have started burning it yesterday for all of your sins, Dan. Juju, careful with the lighter. The fire alarms are very sensitive around here they are constantly going out then i tried to save you

you did i tried to save you and i appreciate the writer of that story uh... acknowledging that i tried to save you all of the actual fans they're not gonna they're not gonna take that lightly uh... but i'm not wrong that jacksonville fans do care deeply and no one outside of jacksonville cares deeply about the Jacksonville Jacks I mean they have sort of become the de facto team of like Clemson fans Which is becoming a more and more powerful fan base as well

So I I do have to disagree with okay. Well there okay, so now they're Trevor Lawrence fans as well All right, I'll give you Jacksonville and Clemson I'll give you those two regions or where where people would care deeply if Jacksonville made the Super Bowl But that's it. That's all I'm giving you Duval That's all I'm giving you Florida Times Union and don't threaten me again with you woke up a sleeping cat Levitard in your region that smells different than other regions in the United States. It does Jacksonville still smells bad I've been there recently everywhere Does it Jackson put her on the pole at Levitard show does Jacksonville still smells bad. I've been there recently. We smell that poo everywhere. What are y'all doing? It does.

Put it on the poll at LeBattard Show. Does Jacksonville smell bad? Honestly, I've driven through Jacksonville several times in the last three years. It's one of the places you got to drive through to get from Miami to New York. Never noticed a smell, but I will be rolling down my windows next time.

Well, wait a minute. That's the reason you didn't notice the smell. No, I will keep those up. It's not strong enough Everywhere I've never noticed it have you been outside in Jacksonville with your windows open We normally stop in st. Augustine or Amelia Island gotta get a little coast trip. I wasn't gonna say poop I didn't know what the smell was I was gonna go closer to paper mills But I don't know what paper mills smell like and I do know what poop smells like and it's closer to poop than It is to paper mills. I Say poop who said poop?

Juju said poop. It doesn't matter who said what Just get it on and and anyway anyway anyway, I'm sorry Jackson. That doesn't sound like an apology at all Getting back to what we were talking about because because I was surprised by your guys' reaction to the Kaepernick News, where you were like, oh, well it's something, and my reaction was, hey, you ruined his career. Well, he didn't ruin his career, Harbaugh did? No, the NFL.

Oh yeah, the NFL did. The NFL ruined his career, and now you can get back in coaching, but we took your athletic prime at the greatest and most valuable position. I wasn't celebrating that. I was disappointed that it wasn't a backup job somewhere and that it was merely a coaching position. The idea that that would create an enthusiasm suggests to me a lowered bar on where it is that

we should expect people to be treated fairly. No, but Dan, like the damage has been done, as you said, his athletic prime is over and so This while it feels like a small gesture It is still way more than any other NFL franchise is even intimate even whiffed about for him And obviously hardball and him have a relationship going back to their 49ers days But still like yeah, that's not the only dude Like he had to wait for hardbaugh to come back from college in order for someone to pick up the phone.

That's kind of crazy. I get what you're saying. It can never make up for what happened to him. But like, man, let's be honest and let's be real. Like it's miles better than anything, any other gesture anyone has done. I'm not saying, if this sounded like i was in any way critical of hardball here

i want that corrected yes hardball is extending to collin capper neck something that no one else is extended as recently as i don't know i'm gonna say a year and a half ago i was at the ravens are going to try and do a tryout and all of it was too hot for even just a tryout was something that was too hot for everybody involved and so they didn't end up doing it or the nfl tried to do like a group workout and then capper nick didn't agree to certain specifications in the whole thing

got new the idea that everything around this person who didn't have any sort of problems before this would be so flammable That not only the prime of his career would be wrecked But we'd sort of shrug at the idea well Jim Harbaugh is certainly brave doing something No one else has done just suggest to me that we've moved all of the lines on where fairness is Has he said that he wants to coach? Right like he they off from the job, but like has he been trying to get a coach? He's been saying he's still training to play that he's been he says he's been getting ready for the league for the last six years

This has been super weird in a number of different ways. He was so scarred By everything that happened there that the way he decided to finally address it publicly think about if you've seen this a lot cuz where have you seen kappernick interviewed since all of this happened now we decided to do it with artistically with a netflix explanation that starred nick offerman as his father he decided to do it instead of going into the way anyone else would have done this what is rehabbing your image that didn't actually need rehabbing where does it start an interview you sit down and you give your side we've still not heard from capper nick

but we have not had him sit down and say any of what he thinks about anything it's just reported here in reported there and it's been so long that his athletic prime is now gone and we're in a place where we're applauding the reduced standard after racism is ended in the end zone where they do their stenciling and after the absurd day where Patrick Mahomes finally says what happened to him was wrong and then Goodell says hey sorry sorry about all of that it still takes years after that to get to uh... how about a coach an assistant coaching job star quarterback

let's look at all the stuff other star quarterbacks were as good as he is that have to accept an assistant coaching job that's offered to them by a friend and and by the way then the other thing that i found kind of suspicious is they offered him the job according to Jim Harbaugh and Colin is traveling but he's gonna consider it. Why would Jim Harbaugh feel the need to let us know all that? Wouldn't they just go through the process and at the end of it say hey you know Alfred and Colin he didn't want to do it or hey you know

guess what guys I got you Colin Kaepernick back like why would you say hey guys guess who I'm talking to he's out of the country now but he hasn't given us an answer yet. Yeah there's a lot going on guys, guess who I'm talking to? He's out of the country now, but he hasn't given us an answer yet. Yeah, there's a lot going on with this. I'm trying to jog my own memory of some of it. It looks like Kaepernick did that GMA interview two years ago where he was saying that he still wanted to be back in the NFL and was still training for it. But I was going back to 2016,

because I don't remember Jim Harbaugh always being very supportive of him. And I remember he made some comments initially in 2016 that were like, I disagree with what he's doing and no one really had Colin Kaepernick's back, especially at the head coaching level at that time. But I do think he then kind of went and watched some of that back a few years later.

So this is all, again, I'm trying to remember, but this is super Complicated goes back like eight years now to what happened when and I'm figuring it out again No, that's his athletic prime and it ended up getting chewed up by that and that gma interview was a part of the promotion for What it is that he was doing for Netflix. You got to do one of those It wasn't a long-form interview where we get deep access to his thoughts. He's still kind of gun-shy. He's got to say the right things before they'll let him back into the league in any form. They're going to expect from him some sort of public contrition for something that he wasn't wrong about, like expressing his free rights to protest and he got banned from the league he

got blacklisted and they ended his career i'm i'm surprised that all of you like i'm not forgiving on this one coaching job like no that's that's not quite enough that's not that's that one was that's not reparations at this stage though at this day that i agree with i i i i'm with you 100% But at this stage, they don't have a time machine at this stage What could they offer them that would that would that would make it up? There's nothing they could offer they could make it up much like there while you can offer reparations to black people in this country for

centuries of violence institutionalized violence it's never gonna make up for it. It's like a, it's a consolation, it's a start, but it's never gonna make up for slavery. You say what could they do? I think since they, like you said, why broadcast and why publicize the fact

that you offered a man a job? So if you into that kind of gimmick, well bring him in for a quarterback session or competition for the summertime if you're just concerned with the gimmick of looking like you're into that kind of gimmick, well bring him in for a quarterback session or competition for the summertime if you're just concerned with the gimmick of looking like you're helping him. When you say, I mean, at this stage, what can you do?

The answer is outside of putting him in a uniform and allowing him to play the position, what you've done is simply unforgivable. Doesn't matter whether your commissioner apologizes for it. Doesn't matter if you give him a coaching job. You ended the prime of this man's career at the most valuable position. It can't be forgiven unless he's allowed a chance back

to get at that position. It's, there's just, there are no moves that are gonna impress me here that aren't gonna feel like PR. If they brought him in, let's say for camp, he's 36, he's gonna be 37 in November. If they brought him in and he got beat out by someone else, which is conceivable, he's been out the game for seven years. No, at this point he can't. But that's my point. It can't be expected. No, what they've done is it's not correctable.

Exactly, that's my point. But it's my point too. No, okay, so we agree. Whose point is it? We did it. Take my hat. Agree to disagree? We don't, agree to agree.

Agree to agree. Agree to agree. I'm still doing my research back here on what, who said what, when. You understand what I'm saying, Dan? If we both agree that it's not correctable, then there literally isn't anything that we can ever be positive about.

There is almost- Other than a time machine. There's nothing that I can think of other than inventing a time machine that the NFL could possibly do so that in my mind I can forget and forgive what they've already done to him. If the NFL did have a time machine and went back,

do you think they would have done this all differently? Yeah, they wouldn't have ended segregation, they would have killed him. You know, I. No, too less. I don't think. Good job, Amin. I don't think that they,

if presented with the same circumstances, I don't think that they would know how to handle it any better because their instinct is to punish it and they'd punish it then and they're just better about hiding that they'd punish it now. They haven't actually changed. They apologized without actually making some of the changes that you would have to make so that if that happened this season if cj shrouded melt and and by the way if you want to criticize what kaper nick was at the time go look at some of the

things that he did running and moving and you would have said that uh... that was uh... in a playoff game unprecedented what he did to beat erin rogers in green bay uh... if that happened again today it would play out the same way again today because Jerry Jones isn't actually going to change how he thinks about things and Jerry Jones is the most powerful owner in the league surrounded by a whole lot of other owners in the league who are very good at how they protect that power.

Dan, Larry David once said the central theme, the central really pillar of who we are at Seinfeld was the characters at the end of the episode cannot have learned anything or become better from their experience. Like they can do all these things, and usually sitcoms like, well, I never really thought about it like that, and then we have a nice ending.

Larry said, we can't do that. The end of the episode, they need to be the same awful people they were at the beginning, right? Having learned nothing and grown absolutely zero as human beings. That's the NFL. Like, there is no learning.

There is no progress. There is just, hey, what prints money? All right, keep the money printing and everything else be damned. I would say that there generally is learning if you're really and authentically sorry But they're not really in a bad the NFL. Sorry, that's what I'm saying The NFL doesn't they don't they they learn how to make more money. That's about it But over their decision made them more money

Their league is stronger than it's ever been Goodell is making more money than he's ever made those owners are making more money than they ever made. So in order, I get in trouble at home with Valerie if my apologies aren't because I'm really sorry. Of course! Like you've gotta really be sorry. It can't be you're sorry and then explain why you're not actually wrong about stuff. Like you can't say, hey, I'm sorry Jacksonville,

I'm sorry you smell like shit that that kind of apology exactly That's not the way to apologize. I have learned since then how to apologize Jacksonville. You smell close to shit. I'm sorry Wait a minute no no no because these apologies are based on you being married now You apologize as a married man just to get off the argument. We're trying to move away from this right now. What? That's a great point. He's right.

That's what the NFL did. The old ball and chain. That's what the NFL did. I did not say that. I have my wife. Ball and chain, I didn't say that. My wife. Oh, my wife.

I'll just do whatever she says so I can sleep in the bed tonight. Exactly. That nag. And then I watch some. Wait, sorry, wrong voice. I always sleep in the bed no matter what. Exactly, Roy, you're agreeing with misogynist Bane?

Well, up until the whole nag comment she sent, between that. But that's, in essence, what the NFL did. It's like, what can I do to make you shut up? I'm sorry. Which, by the way, a settlement isn't exactly I'm sorry. It's just, here, take this money, shut up. That, like, here, go shopping. That the way a settlement isn't exactly I'm sorry. It's just here take this money. Shut up that Like here go shopping. That's what a settlement is

Wait, can you give me the massage? Go shopping Doosie of a show today Very Royce white of you Wow, let's talk about that Shall we? Yes, we shall. We shall. Royce White, for those of you who do not know,

is somebody who is an exceptional basketball player at Iowa State. He was at Iowa State. He was an exceptional basketball player. And one of the reasons that he's probably not in the NBA is because he was just generally problematic. He would not want to travel. He cited mental health stuff a lot,

a lot sooner than most people cited mental health stuff. And now he has said, among other things, as a politician who is gathering strength, and I don't know where he is in politics, but he did win his district or whatever, he now says that women are too mouthy. This is what he said yesterday. By the way, that's like every comment under our Instagram

when they post a video of me, so his message may really resonate. Apparently he won his primary in Minnesota. He's running for GOP Senate seat. Yes, okay, so this is someone with zero experience in politics whatsoever. He's running against the, well he's won the Republican primary and he's gonna be running against the incumbent Amy Klobuchar. But to clean up some of the

things that you said, because then I don't know if you know this, Royce White was literally my last act working for the Phoenix Suns in terms of scouting, not only basketball, but also the intel, the background, and everything. When all of Iowa State's staff was telling our front office, he's great, he doesn't have any problems, I was the one who was like, that's not what I'm hearing. And so he was the forerunner for all the mental health conversation we've had in sports. He does have an anxiety problem.

It did cause him great levels of anxiety to fly. At the time, the research I did showed that he got on most trips. A couple of them where the anxiety went too high, but he would take something, he would get on the trip, and that wasn't a problem. The biggest issue was, yes, he does have anxiety issues and other mental health issues, but he was what we like to call a guy who was smart enough to know when I can use that as an excuse to either A, do something I didn't want to do, or B, basically flip the power dynamic in any situation.

And so a lot of kind of difficulties as far as someone being coachable, and at the end of the day, like my assessment was, he's a good player, but given all of these difficulties. Not worth it. Not worth it. All things being equal, I'm not gonna do all of this for my ninth guy.

And that was, I thought, a very kind of basic assessment. Over the years, he flamed out very quickly from the NBA, because that stuff doesn't fly when you're not good enough And over the years he's become more and more radicalized, especially post COVID right really crazy kind of right-wing a lot of stuff that's kind of Offensive he was on he was on Steve Bannon's show. So no that let's we're leading up to this, right? I'm just saying this is a process. So we get to now, he's decided to enter politics, right?

Run as a Republican, wins the primary as a Republican candidate for this Senate seat. And then he goes on Steve Bannon's show. Do we have the sound or should I read the quote? No, the sound's not any good. They talked over each other a bunch. But I mean, I gave you, there's not a lot more than women are too mouthy I

don't know then you got it you got building up to this he says quote well look let's just be frank women have become too mouthy that's the black man in the room I'll say that what that is a direct. So it is staggering on so many levels that A, that could be what he perceives to be a party line, right? That's him kind of thinking, hey, I'm speaking to my base. He's on Steve Bannon's show. He's clearly not talking to us. He's talking to his base. And the idea that the Republican base is, these women, little lippy haven't they become?

Right? That they become basically Adam McKay's character that we pranked Greg Cody with a couple of years ago. That's staggering. And to me, I really wonder, this is the part where I feel like it's missing in most of the discourse, right, when it comes to politics. I really don't care who you vote for, like you vote Republican, you vote Democrat. But what I crave in American politics right now is that when someone says something like

this, you could be like, I'm a registered Republican registered Republican I vote Republican that guy's a dumbass you don't say that that's that doesn't represent who I am but everyone seems to be so lockstep or whatever someone's on my team said it then I guess we got a ride out what the f**k does that have to do with him being black great that's a black man in the room I'll say it I will I will tell you guys that whether it's Kaepernick or Royce White, you do see clearly, I hope that you see clearly, whether it's immigrants or others or transgender issues

or just about anywhere where these divisions are making an appearance. In this case, Royce White as a man does not want women to have the equality of being as mouthy as he's always been and continues to be. This always ends up in the same place where it's some kind of other that's not in power asking for equality and then being told no by

The gender in this case that has more of the power. It's the answers always know Kaepernick what you just don't want to be treated Brutally by police. No, sorry We're gonna end six years of your career here in your prime women You want to speak freely and have the power that men do? No, we're not gonna allow it. Get back in the kitchen. You're not allowed abortions and rights to your own body.

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I am getting sick and tired of being sick and tired. And as I say, send me your screenshots of your bet fell and I got you. But this week we are going straight to the top baby. The W is back and so are we. You got to dig it. So first leg, I'm going with my dog, big Natasha Clow. 11.5 points tonight, I'm going over dawg. She going against the Chicago Sky Angel Reese and Kennedy Carter. They bring the best out of the other guards. So I'm going with her tonight over 11 point Feesies. He has been very strong in winning more than he loses, but we keep putting him in three-team parlay's, three-leg parlay's. the one that lost last time is Noah Liles and the qualifier against a Japanese guy in a faux hawk like what are we doing exactly like

what's like how does that happen in retrospect Juju you wish you had that one back don't you I do brother oh my god I was trying to defend this brother early in the week oh don't get me started he is the joker of the year still. But the second leg of the Thursday Thunder, Big Mama Steph tonight, Stephanie Dawson, 1.5 three pointers. I think she's going over tonight. She's going against the Minnesota Lynx, the Fisa Collier and the crew. I think the Lynx might get the better of them tonight, but Big Mama Steph gonna make it rain yet again. Again, I will tell you that Juju puts great care into these.

It's not like all those other farted out against the spreads. Yesterday, we gave you the Giants over the Braves. The Braves won 13 to 12, 13 to 2. 13 to 2, we got it totally wrong. 13 to 12 would have been fine. That would have been a good game. Just a bit outside. And for the last leg, I'm going to New York.

Excuse me, Stu York. They got the LA Sparks coming in town tonight. And my little sister, Rekia Jackson, been watching the Olympics. She been dribbling in the ball between her legs, watching the Olympics, watching them get go. She like, okay, I can't wait for them to get back because we got Stewie and Sab on our schedule tonight so I think she gonna take advantage of that spotlight in NYC

tonight daddy and I'm going over 11.5 points from Rekia Jackson put your hoods up ladies and gentlemen all right all WNBA bets you guys seem around juju to be a Little bit scared. I've noticed that Tony and Jessica have been in their phones a lot and they've been Like worried about stuff all day today. I mean Dan we are dealing with the fallout of a hacking scandal right now I don't know if you saw this report from the LA Times, but 2.9 billion full name date of birth address social security number etc etc etc hacked Allegedly by hackers somewhere on the dark web that includes people from the US Canada in the UK

I believe they got social security 2.9 billion doesn't even make sense like that does that amount of people doesn't even make sense How do you have 2.9 billion social security? Numbers being being lifted also some over dead also at this point. What do you want me to do? What do you want me to do Dan? They got my social security We live through a pandemic through 9-eleven through war monkeypox through monkeypox through economic downturns, through recessions, through depressions, all these different things. What do you want me to do? They took my shit, okay?

All right, okay? What do you want me to do now? Tony, I think I have a solution. This is actually the best thing that could've happened. You know why? Because there are so many other better targets than us now. Like it used to be like, damn, they got my stuff and then they're gonna use my credit or whatever.

There are so many more people with better credit than me. There's so many more people with way more money than me. Go, like, there's so many people who have drawn the ire of population way worse than I have. Go get those guys, hackers. You think Bezos' SSN is out there somewhere? There's no way. Absolutely! He got everybody!

He doesn't even have one. He, well. Look, Dan, Dan's trying to find Brad Pitt's social security number over there. Brad Pitt? I will tell you that as we talk about this, I don't know, you know, we have seen that Bezos has feasted on our need for convenience. And I will tell you that if you have your identity stolen, I think you underestimate what an enormous Inconvenience that is to try and get it back if you tell me someone if hackers have my social security number

I can't do anything. I'm helpless and you might you're right Philosophically to say well, I can't I can't be spending all my time fearing what I can't control What the hell am I gonna do? But I would be scared that someone that with nefarious intent had all of my information. One of my like most boomer qualities is when people, especially companies ask for my social security number to sign up for like internet service or something, like I will not give it to them

because why do you need that? I don't understand, like it's not a form of ID, but all of these brands, all these companies just want all of your personal data now. And they're the ones, like Ticketmaster, they're the ones that are getting hacked and then it's getting leaked to the dark web constantly. And so whenever anyone asks for my social,

I'm like, let me give you a call. Which, I mean, it makes me sound anxious, but what are we doing? Very boomer. But also if somebody's gonna buy a house under my name, good. I can't buy a house here anyway. So maybe they can buy a house for me, then I can just sue them or like take it over there and be like, all right, I got a house in Manhattan, Kansas, baby. Airbnb, me and you 50-50 split. I'll look the other way. I don't care. I'll look the other way. We can split the profit. Just tell me who you are. We can make happen. This is one of the places where it is one of the many

where it is that I get left behind. I don't know where I was when information became the currency that was as valuable and as sought after and coveted as any other, because when you get all the control and all the money and all the information, Tony, we're all going to feel like peasants who are helpless under Google's thumb and Apple's thumb.

Because I don't know if you guys have read at all about artificial intelligence. There are certainly enough things out there to read about that will make you scared. But the way that all of these giant outfits get artificial intelligence is by having to read about that will make you scared. But the way that all of these giant outfits get artificial intelligent is by having a whole bunch of slave-like workers inputting, human beings inputting

all of that information so that eventually all of us will become slaves to the information age bosses that have all the money, all the power, and all of our information. To bring us back to reality for a second, what you can do, Tony, you can do a credit freeze. So if someone tries to open up your credit card account with your name,

you'll get notified. I got credit karma. I'll see if they, hey, they opened up a Snoopy Bank account. Okay, whatever. I'll do it. Disney account or whatever they do. Yeah. You, I mean. Make a Circuit City credit card with my name on it

Okay, ask Mike about the time someone stole his identity. No, no, no, I filed tax I know people that is a terrible thing I know a couple people that it's happened to and you have to go through Huge lengths just to get back exactly what you were like to begin at zero. It's awful. It's terrible But also what do you want me to do? This is a great platform for you know what joe biden's got however many months left in term run on the platform well till january january so oh yeah six i was at the beach this weekend might be seven it's five it's math we're

really good at it september i wish i could Let's not do this again. I wish I could talk about it. You know the national championship games on inauguration day? What the hell? I thought that was crazy too. The football season's so long, it starts next weekend, and it goes until inauguration day. So we have a new president.

That's crazy. When is the inauguration? January 20th, or January 21st this year? 21st, 20th? Why are both of those so late? Well, because of the new 12 team playoff. So the season is, there's an extra week down. That's why I said that it's so late.

I'll kick it back a little bit. I'll ask the question. I know I said that it's always been like the third Monday of January or something like that. I don't know, I don't remember anything. All right. I told you, my long-term memory, it's shot. All right, Bad Day Jessica is gonna have to

Leave the premises here for sorry for being the only one in this segment who knew anything We've got a major penalty five minutes derailing I have best just I have been asking I have been asking for a while here for somebody to get me the gas bag of the week. They generally fail and so I'm going to have to do it myself now. Give me the gas bag of the week intro please. Gas bag of the week. Now, unfortunately, this is dated and I came across it because I got a TikTok that made me legitimately laugh as a snapshot of what our show is. The Gas Bag of the Week is Chris Cody's father, Greg Cody.

And I want you guys to listen to this because it came across my screen and it was just so perfectly show in so many ways, loudly wrong, that it made me feel like this is what we should be aspiring to on Gas Bag of the Week. This is Greg Cody, okay, talking about the Dolphins before last season and just completely certain that the Dolphins were going to win the Super Bowl. I mean I could I could talk for the whole show about why they're a better team and why they're better than Buffalo.

A couple of reasons are, two is going to stay healthy all year, he's going to play all 17 games. He's not going to miss a single game. Vic Fangio is the god, the lowercase G there, no offense to anybody, he's the god of defensive coordinators and they're ready to do it, man. Mike McDaniel digging in to his second season he's familiar now he's more comfortable yeah there there there man they're ready they're ready Dolphins haven't been to a Super Bowl in almost 40 years since Dan Marino's 1984

and they're ready they're gonna do it this is you know it and you know it by the way good I have to say that because what I'm saying you said it what I'm saying is more than just my opinion you can can etch it in stone, bring it to a tablet, put it on your back like you're Moses, walk into a bank and deposit that tablet. Because I'm talking the truth here. I'm spitting it. Damn right. This coffee is going to be flying.

And you know it. And you know it. And you know it. That's crazy. They didn't win a playoff game. and you know it. That's crazy. They didn't win a playoff game. He still thinks and feels and acts as if he got it right. Best offense in the league, I mean, he's close.

No, that's not close. Not winning a playoff game is not etched in stone, deposited at the bank. I would like to see your father try to go to the bank and deposit a tablet. I feel like he comes from a time when that's how money was deposited. Like the Flintstones.

Juju went and I thought for a second, like you have the tablet ready? Then I realized, no, it's just that column that Greg wrote years and years ago. Trade Merino column. Yes, the unthinkable, a Merino trade. He still defends that. That is excellent work by Greg Cody, digging in on something and being that wrong

and doesn't feel like he's wrong somehow. How is that possible? Do you realize what a magic trick McDaniel pulled off in making the offense so much fun that people feel like they won the Super Bowl even though they didn't win a playoff game? Last year did, I mean, it's as good as I felt as a Dolphins fan, and we didn't win a playoff game. Last year did, I mean it's as good as I felt as a Dolphins fan, and we didn't win a playoff game.

It's crazy. But like, let's be honest, I always get into this with NBA fans, like when you root for a bad team, like I'm sorry, you don't get to be like, we didn't win it. Like, you had a good year, Houston last year in the NBA. You should be ecstatic as a Rockets fan.

You had a great year for your Standards for where you've been the last few years and so for the Dolphins if you're Dolphins fans Absolutely, you should be happy about last season you for the first time ever in a long time You feel like you got your quarterback you have the best if not the best wide receiver in the game pretty much, right? He's right It wasn't he voted player in the game The best player in the game by the players? And you got a coach that everyone's like, yeah, he's pretty smart.

Why y'all mad? Because they didn't win a playoff game? Well, no, it's not just that, though. I would say to you that part of the issue with all of this, which is super interesting to me, if you're gonna keep focusing and obsessing on money and the salary cap,, that was their best window. They had Tua cheaper than Mahomes.

Now Mahomes makes less than Tua and you still gotta go through those guys. You've had Mahomes' receiver the last two years and you can't get through those guys and now they're also built in a way that they have more value at quarterback than you do. You had the quarterback value advantage. you don't have that anymore either like that

then and still that team that you're trying to go through so i understand that you're hopeful but dad that was your best shot i gotta be honest if you're in the a f c right now it's like being in the east in the nineties like your hope is that maybe malls withires or sprays an ankle or something. But if he's healthy, I don't care how much what your salary cap situation is. Is that your McConaughey again?

All right, all right, all right. That's been the AFC for the last 20 years. I hope this is the season Tom Brady sprains his knee or something. And then it happened and the Steelers won the Super Bowl that year. Yeah, it can happen, but the probabilities are that that was their best shot the best window is when you've got the quarterback at value I hope our video and technical equipment work well enough so that we can bring you that to an interview at some point during his career

I want to close the loop on something with a mean that we talked about last Friday. It was not raygun We talked about it on Friday the day before at the US women's national team gold medal game against Brazil in which they won 1-0. But while we were talking about this we brought up that the US men's national team was in the process of potentially making a hire for their new manager and there are reports out today that they are going to hire Mauricio Pochettino. Pochettino, Pochettino. Pochettino, thank you.

Is that the person that Mike Ryan said was a quote, career loser on Friday's show? Absolutely the dude that Mike Ryan called a career loser. Which again, I would point to US men's national team soccer in the same way I point to the Dolphins. Who the hell are you to all of a sudden have like, oh, he's a career loser. Like you should be happy to have that career loser.

That is a massive step up of what you've had for the last however umpteen years here. And so, hey man, baby steps. Guess what? Newsflash, where's my camera? That's not working. You're not gonna win the World Cup anyway, USA. There's nothing that can happen in the next two years. There's not a. You're not gonna win the World Cup anyway USA. There's nothing

that can happen in the next two years. There's not a single manager in the world you could hire that can get you to a World Cup final, let alone win the whole thing. So how about you just embrace the journey, embrace the process. Let Maurizio Poggiattino come in here, sprinkle his little European magic, and maybe, just maybe you guys can be competitive and not be out here embarrassing yourselves like you always do. Expectations are a hell of a thing

because going into the Olympics, I thought if the US women's soccer team wins one knockout stage game, like I'll be happy. Like that's quite a turnaround for them. Like that good for them. And then they go on to go in the gold medal match with their former Chelsea manager as their new manager.

And they win and I'm like, well, of course we won. We're the greatest team ever. And meanwhile, like two weeks prior, I was like, I hope we win all our group stage games. It's just a, it's a funny place to be for both of these teams, like the different sides of the coin, the men's team has such different expectations on them. So when they hire their former Chelsea manager

to be their new manager, it's like, like you said, win a knockout stage game in a World Cup and you're gonna be the hero forever. Yeah, just make it out of the group stage. Also, to your point about expectations, well, Nick Saban agrees with you because that's the number one thing that's destroying young quarterbacks in the NFL credit makes a

bit expectations in the first episode did you watch the second episode it was so boring just i know it was so incredibly boring i felt ashamed that this episode had the hard knocks brand on it they should call it soft knocks, or medium-sized knocks. No knocks, knockless. I did like, okay, so we mentioned it, I think yesterday, but hard knocks was late to upload on Max, which was, I think on press,

I don't know if it's ever happened. We can relate to that. But it did, I don't think we've ever missed a Max delivery window, but we should ask. Max always gets our stuff on time. We should ask Taylor, I don't think we've ever missed a Max delivery window, but we should ask. Max always gets our stuff on time, whether it's today or today. We should ask Taylor, I don't know if that's true. Power is a different story, but keep going, Jess.

I don't know what I was saying, yep. That's what happens sometimes when you interrupt it. Yep, I'm familiar with how that happens. I watched the first half of the episode yesterday as I was getting ready, and it just, it didn't capture my attention the same way the first episode did with the whole storyline of Jonathan Owens going to France

to see Simone Biles and Cole Benedict, the Canadian guy, having the bald eagle speedo on, singing in front of everyone. And then at the end he gets hurt. Oh my God, the storylines. But yeah, episode two. So I'll tell you the highlights of episode two. Jonathan Owens comes back. they actually paid for footage of Simone

Biles and I was like what that's cost you eight billion dollars I would rather you send the cameraman with Jonathan Owens just had it trained on him reacting in the crowd that would be more meaningful to the story and a lot more cost-efficient the other thing was the the wide receiver rookie whose name escapes me, Roma Dunze. Roma Dunze. Worst song ever. He sang Kiss Kiss.

Oh, I thought it was. Yeah, he sang Kiss Kiss. With T-Pain and Chris Brown, which by the way, I watched the video of T-Pain explaining that the original lyrics were a lot raunchier, more risque, and Chris Brown's manager was like, you're going to ruin his image and his brand. And so that's why they changed it to Kiss Kiss. What was it before? It's like something about like thick thighs and big. Oh, okay.

Yeah, like it was like, I was like, oh wow, that would have been a bigger hit than what it was. What would be your rookie karaoke song if you were an NFL player? Like I'm Amin Elhassan, my signing bonus is like $2 million. Jessica, as luck would have it, I actually had to sing a song at training camp when I was a rookie,

even though I had been there for a year, but they told me, your rookie status does not expire until the first regular season game of the new season. So they made me sing, and because one of the coaches, shout out to my guy Phil Weber, decided that I look like Sammy Davis Jr. They made me sing and because one of the coaches, shout out to my guy Phil Weber,

decided that I looked like Sammy Davis Jr. They made me sing the, I know. It was, well, you know, Phil wasn't known for his great lookalikes, okay? They made me sing The Candyman by Sammy Davis Jr. Shabang-bang. Tommy Davis annoyed me. They thought you looked like Sammy Davis Jr.?

Not they, it was Phil Weber and Alvin Gentry. And I think Alvin didn't believe it, he just went along with the joke, because it was funny. And did you do it well? I had to sing in front of a restaurant full of people who were not with us. Alright, well let me hear his McConaughey

so people can hear just how bad, I mean, can be when trying to impersonate people. Oh, ah, oh, ha, ha, ha. So his McConaughey is not any good. I did hear a little Sammy Davis Jr. in there though. Oh, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Let's see if we can get that song for Amin now and see if he can summon the Candy Man

and Sammy Davis Jr. Because that is a fairly easy impersonation to do as far as impersonations go. I'm not saying, I'm not saying impersonations are easy in general. I'm just saying Sammy, like Christopher Walken, Sammy is easier than most. Please tell me you sang it like Tommy Davidson. Well, here's the problem, Roy. At that point, I had never heard the song.

Oh. So I was like, I don't know the song, so I'm not singing it. And you know what these assholes did? Someone came out like, we got the lyrics printed out. I'm like, I don't know the song so I'm not singing it and you know what these assholes did Someone came out like we got the lyrics printed out like come on I think I think you need to at this point do a little candyman as Sammy Davis jr. Do you not? Can I hear a little okay? Okay, okay, I let me try. Sounds like Cody. Kill the music.

Kill the music. All right, here we go. Who can take the sunrise? Sprinkle it with dew. Cover it with chocolate and a miracle or zoo. The Candyman, oh the Candyman can. Candyman. How did it go over?

How did it go over at camp? They booed and laughed and threw things. Oh man, they sent Sam and Sim sound. I'm trying to remember who, Orlando Tucker was a rookie, and I can't remember what he had to sing. And DJ Strawberry, Dallas Strawberry's son was another rookie. He had to sing something too. Wait, can we go back like two minutes so I can just say, the Rat Pack.

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