The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: Left Field Le Batard (feat. Edgerrin James & Billy Corben)

Episode Date: January 13, 2026

"You just gotta make the proper adjustments." The hour kicks off with a brouhaha between Mike Ryan and Billy Corben, with a couple of jabs from Greg Cote. Then Edgerrin James joins us after finishing up his domino game with Domino, Papi, and Jeremy to discuss the U's return to prominence, the best UM athletes, and Dan's general awkwardness. You won't even believe how bad Dan's idea is during this interview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stucats podcast. I haven't felt physically, energetically, what I'm feeling right now in the room with me since Nick Wright and Pablo Torre were in a room together because I've got Billy Corby and Greg Cody here. They are rivals historically, but also Mike Ryan is a lot angrier at Billy than Greg Cote's ever been. So the history, Greg, what is the history between you and Billy Corbyn before we ratchet up this tension? here because Mike is hostile. To begin this particular week with Billy Corbyn to

start there aggressively when you are the historian, above all historians about UM football, you have made the most beautiful things on behalf of Miami that are complicated. Rock on tour, your business is one of the few Miami businesses that makes excellent things. We were talking about this yesterday. It's like

it's Burger King, it's Bacardi, it's rock on tour. And Mike Ryan doesn't want you to make a U part three for Metal Arc Media because he thinks you're a Juan come lately when it comes to being a fan of this football team. I was just happy that they spelled my name right in the Billy Corbin episode. But listen, the difference between Mike and I is that I'm a fan and he's a fan. I think that I, first of all, I was born a fan. My grandfather graduated the University of Miami

Law School 75 years ago. I was born a season ticket holder. But I still can see the forest for the trees and I think I still have the perspective of a journalist where I have a little bit of objectivity and I can I could call balls and strikes to mix sports metaphors whereas Mike is I mean Carson Beck could shoot somebody in Fifth Avenue and Mike would still make excuses for him he's a he's a fanatic and and I appreciate it I respect everything he's done back for the program syndrome back derangement syndrome I I respect everything he's done for the school and for the program. And I, it disappoints me. Mike Ryan has been,

Mike Ryan has been working for four years to try to get to Miami, Miami here, and you've been making John Ruiz jokes for four years. Listen, I'm sorry about his uncle. And I, I, I, well, actually, I'm not sorry. Sorry, I'm not sorry about his uncle John. That sounded so insincere. Like that, I'm sorry about his uncle. I cold, what I'm seeing is I called it like I saw it. That's all. And I don't think I was that far off about it either. And then you were totally off base. The money was legit.

You can make fun of him being delisted. John Ruiz won, all right? He's still helping. He gave Miami a leg up. And while you were laughing along the way, he actually put in place a template that allowed for Miami to get here four years later. I know what you think of the man. Glossed over delisted.

He glossed right over that, by the way. You keep saying it's delisted as if, like, that's a big fat L for him. A guy made his money. You know, he made his money, and the money was legit. And let me tell you something. He put those kids to work, all right? Those kids were doing ads. Those contracts were fully executed.

You thought it was a joke. You thought he was a joke. Four years later, Miami is here. All right? Well, you were doing your whole sarcastic. The U.S. back, baby. The U.S. back. You did that this season, too.

You did it after the S&U lost. I know exactly who you are. In your bona fides, as you were somehow born a season ticket holder, you didn't add charlatan because that is what you are. a charlatan. Oh, how so? Jezabel. I've never heard you speechless.

No, I'm curious how I'm a charlatan. You weren't with us when shit was rough. You were laughing at us. You were putting the boots to us. Everybody was having their turn, and you were teeing off just like the rest of them, and you were one of us. There still was never, never for all these years a, I think, a recruiting tool or a bigger, a, a way to support this team than those documentaries. I think that, and like I said, I appreciate what you've done for the program.

Thank you. And it disappoints me that you don't see that what we contributed. The crew on the first U documentary had to combine 45 years at the University of Miami. No, it was good. And it was a labor of love. It was a long time ago. And I agree. It was a long time ago that this team won anything before this season.

Yeah, you made sure to remind everybody at every. return. So I don't think that I reminded anybody of that. I think that the documentaries did. You know, you're doing the thing. And Dan did this too where I feel like I can be a journalist and look at this objectively. No one wants that from you guys. I'm not asking for it from you. Like, you think there's a big market for, hey, Billy Corbyn calls it like he sees them when it comes to his football team. No one cares. There is no market particularly in this town for telling the truth. That is an absolute, absolute fact. In Miami, we do not have reality. We have realty. and that's the way that and I get that.

Spare me the T-shirts. And I get that. Sonny plays for shady people. Billy, you went to one of the old hits and we've heard those too young. I don't care about it. I appreciate you being appreciated for what I have done. But here's what I would like to hear, Billy Corbyn. Here's what I would like to hear from you.

An apology. An apology for laughing at your own brothers and sisters that rep the green and orange. We turn to you as a guy that made the greatest piece of all. Art in arguably sports collegiate history. For sure. Art. Yes, it was high art. It was a recruiting tool.

It's all the things that you said. It's also a very long time ago. And you've had a heel turn since, said, Pat. You don't think it's art? You don't think that you made, you made a love letter to the University of Miami. I was teasing. I like the, I'm partial to the U part too. But it was art.

He's asking for an apology from you, though. Absolutely not. You were the man when it came to the U. You were looked up to. And then something happened. Maybe it was Jaron Williams? I don't know. But you turned your back on us somewhere along the way.

As a fan, you can appreciate the team and the good things, and you can also appreciate and call out when shit isn't going right. And I want to go and watch a game and enjoy it and go home. I don't want to move in and hang out in the locker room like you do with a bunch of naked men. That's not my thing. I thought you were an ally number one of those are all coded for me. No, what you're describing. player hating from the sideline.

That is what you're describing. You were player hating from the sideline. You just wanted to make fun of them, and you had an opportunity to help the program once again. Once again, you could help out the program. And look, N.I. Never hated the player. An ability to get in the game yourself and actually turn this around. And now the whole

thing's turned around, and you've had nothing to do with it, and you're trying to come around here and clout chase and be a glory hunter? How dare you, Billy Corby? How dare you? That part not... not fair. I invited him here. He's a shitter. You said Joey you were doing. You said that you say I'm a shister. You said Joey Galloway was a shitter. And you said worse than that about Joey Galloway today. What's the matter with you? He doesn't want to

smoke. Joey Galloway gaslights. Like do we want to pay attention to Joey Galloway? Real quick. Joey Galloway for weeks on end said Miami did not deserve to be in over Notre Dame. That Notre Dame was a lot better than Miami. And now when the smoke has reached Joey Galloway, He's like, I was just talking about process. I never said anything about the year. He owes us a race. He says he could still run fast. He promised us he could.

We tried to set it up at ESPN. What do these people hate me? The only thing he did fast was run scared from his promises. Look, I would also be confused as to why Miami people hate you if that were the actual case and you were only talking about the process. You were saying Miami wasn't good enough, all right? That's why Miami. Pony, Galloway.

And I already explained why Miami people hate you. All right. So, Corbyn, this is not the only problem that you have in the room. Cody, what is the history of your beef with Billy Corby? I don't think it's quite as vital as this beef. This is wonderful. This is a great, genuine, ongoing current beef. No, Billy, you know, he's a little bit of a self-appointed policeman of morality.

He wants to set the template for how everybody else should think. And back in the day, I supported the Miami Marlins getting a new stadium with public funding. And it was a great deal for the Marlins, the way it turned out, through no fault of my own. You conspired with Samson to outrage Billy Corbyn because journalism was in bed with, I want a good team. I don't care what it costs. Please bilk Miami in order to do it. I don't support local politicians, and I don't support team owners. I do support fans and the audience and people who read me and listen to me.

and I want Major League Baseball to succeed in this town. And the only way it was going to do that was with a new stadium. You were right. This beef is more boring. I would agree. He's a sports welfare queen. I'm a one-issue voter. Sturing shit goes wrong. He's a sports welfare queen. That's all.

The job is up to local politicians to make sure they don't get screwed by the local team. I also don't much care about morality or how people think. I can only express my thoughts and my opinions on it. I don't think also that being a sports columnist is actually journalism. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, Jesus Christ. Particularly.

Greg, you heard that? Particularly. At least you're not being an asshole about it. Particularly when you write the same column. Oh, my God. Identical column 10 years apart. Hey. Making the same argument about the Marlese Stadium as you did about the Marlins Stadium.

As you did about the Marlin Stadium when you already have the information. on the, we already learned. We've already touched the stove and we've already been burned. We're the only ones that can make fun of him of repurposing columns, not you. Yeah. Okay. Also, by the way, I'm working on my fifth cocaine Cowboys documentary. So I'm,

that we're interested in. Everything else. No, we don't like anything else. We like the Coke stuff. What I'm saying is guilt, all of us kind of repeat the shit that we do well the first time. But Greg, you just admitted that you didn't do it well the first time. You didn't call it right the first time because it turned out to be a good deal for the

Marlins and not for the tax base. No, no, I never admitted that I didn't call it right the first time. What I said was the responsibility. Anybody else have a problem with Billy Corbyn? The responsibility is on local politicians not to get screwed by the local team. The part that I'm offended by and

all of you let slide. All of you let slide. I've invited Billy Corbyn here because he makes the best things and I want to see the U part three. I want us to debut that together. You make the best things. Did you watch Domino? And I want our audience to support the things that Billy is

and Rock and Tour is just One of them. Hard pass. Up there with Bacardi and Burger King. That was wild. Yeah. Very firm pass for me. I'm a no. I'll RSVP though so you can take catalog of it. What do you think of the best businesses in the history of Miami are?

It's slim pickings. Like, Miami doesn't do business very well. So in terms of presenting us to the world. You won't find a single soul that says raconteur. Have you heard of Leon Medical Centers, Dan? That's right. I know this guy has Bright line. I understand that no one would say Rockintour, but in terms of...

Have you heard of Pinecrest Bakery, Dan? Okay. I would argue, I don't think it's unreasonable to say. Presenting Miami to the world, very few people have ever done that better than Billy Corbyn. That's not, you're not allowed. And Mike Ryan. You're not allowed to dispute that. Presenting Miami to the world?

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Is Pitbull more Miami than Billy Corbyn? That's fair. Yes. Yes. He's Mr. 386. He's Mr. 305. Dolly.

Thank you, Chris. You're off base here, Dan. The game show is delightful. Why are you keeping up for this guy? He sucks. I can tell you live on a beach. You're not a Miami guy. You're not a Miami guy.

You're a beach guy. Are you a south of fifth? I want the U part three to air on Monday on our YouTube channel before the national championship game. How would that happen? That's a big game for you. It's a big game for you. Speaking to the mic.

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Visit medcan.com slash moments to get started. Don Lebertard. Mike Ryan's in there, and he's the one with a baby. he's the one who's got to like worry about what the future is and Mike Ryan bet on draft kings because Mike Ryan bet on us this is the bet you're afraid of doubling down on putting up a billboard in Edmonton Stugats I care more about Matthew Kachuk than I do my daughter

This is the Dan Levitar show with a Stugats You want the University of Miami to win correct or? Oh are you kidding? I mean this is it's like dueling fairy tales I mean it's one of the greatest narratives I think in the history of college sports is the Miami. I mean, the Mario Cristobal of it all, the breaking of the Fiesta Bowl curse, the coming home for a national championship.

And of course, when I say dueling fairy tales, there's the Mendoza of it all as well. I mean, I don't know that there's any better story. Certainly, and the fact that the Miami hurricanes have had a rise, a rise, and a rise have had three rises since the Miami Dolphins have done a damn thing. shows that there's only one football team in South Florida

and it's always been the case I mean I just think it's I don't know I just think as a storyteller and as a Miamian and as a fan I don't think there's been I don't I can't think of a more extraordinary story than this and you're sorry

and the U is back baby the U is back baby I don't hate the U is back Minor penalty two minutes Peste tremendous Go sit in the penalty box, Corbyn. Beete tremendous, come mea. Get out of here.

We'll replace you with someone more Miami than you. Eddry, James. You suck, Billy. Yeah, let's see here. From the back. Yes. Now, Mike, Mike. Again?

Mike, again, again from the back. I mean, in my defense, I hate him. Oh. And so does Cody. I just dislike him vehemently. I wouldn't say it quite goes to hatred. What are the stages of this? Hate is strong.

What are the stages of this? It's just north of hatred. Tell him to suck it from the back, Greg. No, Mike, please stop it. Please stop it. No, I bet it would. No, I bet it would. Greg.

That's double entendre. A little rusty trombone. So Edger and James is out there with Sedano and Domino and it's Tuesday. Apparently, Jeremy won the first game apparently. I did. It was awesome. All right. Can we welcome it in here?

I'd like to talk to him. I mean, he was out there representing Miami, walked onto the field with Ray Lewis. He takes a unique pot. Excuse me. See, I told you this was happened to me during the holidays. I'm short-circuiting. He takes a unique pride in representing Miami

when he doesn't take pride in representing many things. He doesn't lend his name to that many things. You know that royalty is walking in here when Hall of Fame or Edger and James, who introduced a new time of Miami's back with what he did against UCLA, beat number one UCLA. in the Orange Bowl with how many yards?

Do you remember off the top of your head? Of course he does. In a single game? 299. He didn't expect to remember. I don't know. I mean, he seemed to come by it pretty easily the entirety of his career in a way that was a little breathtaking.

I remember that he used to, after leading the league in rushing, he would just play basketball games on Sundays after the football games he had already played in because physically an unusual beast. So welcome, sir. You know, I've respected you for a long time. Thank you for making the trek in. You took a flight in for us. Man, I appreciate it, man. And I've watched this thing grow, man. It's awesome. This thing is big time. As are you, sir, what kind of pride are you feeling these days in your school and what other things in life over the course of the history of being Edgian James give you the kind of pride that you have in this particular school? Oh, man, it's great, man. You watched everything develop.

You know, for years we always say, man, if we can just keep South Florida talent here. And Mario understood the assignment. Mario keep the South Florida talent here and everything else will take care of itself. And you look at these guys right now. They're playing South Florida ball. And that's what Miami Hurricanes was always about.

You know, you're keeping Florida talent here and everybody going playing with a chip on their shoulder. And now these boys, they've taken that history and not just ride the wave that create their own legacy. Have you had a historical comp for Malachi Tony? In the history of the program, right? The University of Miami guys argue about

who were the best four guys in their history and you've got an argument to be in that fight and Malachi Tony is unlike any player I've seen in the uniform. Like I know Kevin Williams, I know Santana Moss, I know Devin Hester, but what this is I haven't seen at 18 years old, 17 years old with braces. That's special. That's a special kid.

He's coming in, very humble. He's special. He's doing what he's supposed to do. Now, just finish it and enjoy it. You've got to make sure that you enjoy the whole moment. There's one thing to get out there. A lot of times we make the comparison. We like to say, okay, he reminds you a lot of Santana,

but he can throw that ball. He can throw the ball. So he brings another element to every other person we try to compare him to. But he's doing something special. And the good thing is, man, he stayed home. Mike was saying that he would be fine with Malachi Tony, their quarterback next year. He wasn't even joking. No, if Miami whiffs in the portal, like, I'm good with what we have in the roster and

line in Malley under center. I mean, this is a really cool story. And Edge probably knows. He was nicknamed Baby Jesus and it was given years ago. Like, this is a prophecy fulfilled. And this is people's eyes not lying to them because I know he was only a three star, but if you watched out Florida football, high school football, you know the legend of Baby Jesus and you know that this guy was a gamer. And to see him do it right away, it's not surprising anybody that watched him in high school. Yeah, I wouldn't want him at quarterback, but he can play. You know, that's one element that we have that I don't think anybody else in college football

has that he can actually play quarter. He actually throw it. You know, a lot of times you see another position, get at the quarterback position in the backfield. You can think automatic run or handoff. With him, all everything is on the table. I think he went 15 to 15 in a state championship game. Yeah, and that, but I still want to see. ball in his hands.

Yeah. Yeah. I want to, I want to, we need to get a quarterback that can put the ball in his hands because that's going to be working. That's going to be so much. It's going to help us so much more. Yeah.

The block got hot around Washington. On to the next. I want to sort of, and you've always been good at this. I want to pin you down, though, on the idea of best ever at the school. Because we always do these comparisons and you don't really like to do them, right? Because it puts you in a position where you'd have to say you're the best running back when you're proud of all the running backs that came after you. and you don't do very much of that verbally.

So when I ask you historical comp for that player, I don't think there is one. Like, I don't think the school has had any number of playmakers, but not this one this way, doing it at this age, where you think he could do it for three years. You were similar? Yeah, I came in at 17, but I didn't have another year of college, of high school either.

But no, this kid doing something that's unheard of, but, man, we'll take it. You know, I'm glad he's on our side of the ball. I would say to you, I don't know if you would remember any of this, but when we talk about how rare it is for the Cubans to be at the top of this game, my friends who were good at Pace High School, which isn't quite Columbus High School, remember thinking they were pretty good at football

and then going to play Pahoki, Belgrade, Amokale, and Edron James was the running back in the backfield. Do you remember, but do you remember? So do you remember what you did to Pace? Because my friends who were much like Tony were getting run over by Eddron. and James and they were scared that because there was a grown there was a grown man in the back field and Pace was still high school kids Dan the funny thing is I told Mike so Edge is the first time to see you in person and I look over to Mike and I'm like damn

edge is big dude like for a running back your size your height is you Frank is not that big Willis is not that big like you're a big guy bro willis wellis pretty big no but size wise you're taller than Willis's I don't know probably right probably around the same I don't I don't know, but, you know, usually when I come across people, you know, they always look like because the running backs are usually like 5, 9, 510. Like, for me, I could have played lineback or a safety or a running back. But it worked out in the running back position, though. It seems to have.

It would have been okay. You don't do much in the way of emotional when I've talked to you over the years. Do you get emotional doing that with Ray Lewis in front of, like, summoning Miami Pride going out there for your school because your school matters more than it has? as in 20 years? No, everybody do it their own way. You know, me,

Dre, we're kind of more chill and Ray and then Mike, of course. You know, everybody has their way of doing things. But it all comes together. All right, let's take, can we examine, can we give, can we give Edge the Telestrator to examine just Mike's way of doing it?

Because this is not how Edge does it here. This is how Mike does it. And so this is the mascot from Miami. This is Michael Irving. Yes, this is Michael Irving. and this is what he said. This is just eight seconds. This is eight seconds of him yelling and screaming.

But we have hours and spools of hours of Michael Irvin being the best mascot the University of Miami has ever had. Mike's great, man. Mike's great. It's fun on the sideline. You know, on the sideline, if you can take part of those conversations, it'll probably be better than what y'all probably think. Is he actually talking to anybody? He's just making noises and people are like picking up on what he's saying. but he's often like talking to nobody.

Do what now? No, they're giving you the tellestrator now. Appropriate response. Thank you. They shouldn't have listened to me. It's okay. Dan, you threw that in there. This is the first time we were doing.

We're in too deep down. We'll cover this in the meeting. Don't listen to Dan. Yeah. This is my fault, Eddron. They shouldn't have listened to me on that one. He hit us with a Greg Cody. Do what now?

That is a great response from Edgson. He's writing that down really quick. I had an idea from Dan, but it all depends. Let's play the result. Yeah, I don't have. confidence anymore. I don't have any more confidence in the result. What I wanted visually is

to play for Edron James a longer video of Michael Irvin on the sidelines. And to see if I could get any telestrated content from Edron James where he... We're all a little confused is why you think this is going to go well. X's an O's on Mike's a thing like...

I agreed that it's a bad decision. It's my fault, but... Oh, there he is. He's taking his belt off. Oh my. Join the stadium! Oh, my. My great is this. Oh, my.

So, simulating child abuse, spanking the bum of a child. Where does this rank Edron James with great college football traditions? Oh, man, it's new. It's new. It is. So top five? So we started. I think he raised the bar.

He did. You know, Dan, for a long time. Does he always make it this weird and awkward? Dan comes, he comes left field. for time, you know, so you just got to made the proper adjustment. Big left field guy. He's a huge left field guy. He loves it.

A little too much. Don Lebatard. Did someone say conservative entity? Whoa! No! Oh, see, this is why... Stugats. Hers is better than mine.

The fifth Seagaki. How is the fifth Seagaki better than the third and the fourth Seagaki already? This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats. Mike, You are excited to be in the presence of Edger and James because you know you're in the presence of royalty. You don't want to talk about the past, though. You want to talk about now. You don't want to talk about the history of the program.

Well, I'm curious. Edge's thoughts on that because Dan does this thing where he can't help but talk about the past when we're dealing with the present. Look, it's great that you guys are hanging around the sidelines. I'm sure you do it. You do some mentoring and that's awesome. But I feel like these kids deserve their own shine too because you guys had a memory of the standard. guys growing up in high school, it was all fairy tales and stories from the past. They haven't actually seen it. They had to buy into a vision from Mario Cristobal that he was selling that

they didn't have proof of concept. You guys, you rebuilt the program from like the SI article and all that, but you had, you grew up and you watched those guys. I think these kids deserve so much credit. No, we give them a lot of here. That's why we're there. And then for us, I don't think a lot of people really get a chance to understand that we get a chance to be a fan. You know, all your life, you play ball and everybody's coming here. Now you get a lot. You get a chance. You get a chance to, chance to go and cheer for the other guy. You get cheer for the guy. And then, especially a guy that you watch grow up from youth football to high school and now they're playing for your team. Like, we really love the University of Miami. It's like, it's not something where we, hey, we want to get out

and it's about us. No, it's about them, but it gives us a chance to be a fan. Like, we really get the chip, like we really sit over there and celebrate those kids. And we talk about how great those kids are and those plays. We all, it brings back, it brings back, it brings, it brings, back memories and everything. Well, I've been hanging around a lot of the former players. I know you guys take the charter flights out there. It's cool to see the brotherhood. But one thing that really sticks out is how much you guys are actually enjoying this.

It's like a little bit like pinch me. Like I can't believe. Like we get to enjoy this as adults. Like it's our team. Like all the guys in the league have been laughing at us. We've been down bad for about 15, 20 years. And to be here, you guys have a smile on your face the entire time because you're thrilled for these kids.

But you're also like, man, can you, like, we've been taking so many L's All our colleagues have been making fun of us and we're finally back to where we belong. Yeah, they're looking at us like a Cowboys fan or something. Back on the past, we're talking about like the 90s or whatever. Like now we get a chance to say, okay, look, this is what we're talking about right here.

This is the universe of mind. This is the you that we know. Because over the years, I know we tried to get behind the program, but deep down inside, you knew it wasn't Miami football players. You knew it wasn't Miami football, really. But you try to support it, but now you can really feel it. because you have one of us at the helm. And we know Mario, Mario, 1998, he's right there with us.

You know, he played ball there, so you can really feel it. And it's bringing that whole Miami thing back. So this time it's real. Well, Edgerton, I was going to ask you to elaborate on that because I think it's changed with Mario, right? Like, has it always been as welcoming for the former stars than it is now? Because it just seems like you guys are out in force now, not because you're front runners, but because you're more welcome than maybe you're,

you have been under other head coaches here? Well, I think it's selective. You know, now it's more a collaboration of everybody coming, but before it was your relationship with whoever's in front and, you know, it was picking and choosing. Now it's kind of laid out to where it's like, hey, this university of Miami, this is what makes us stick. And that's one thing that I always have to compliment Mario on.

He may make it a point that he want the guys here. He want the guys involved. because it was a point where the guys didn't feel like they were welcome. And it kind of affects the program in a way that people don't really see when these guys are mentoring these guys and helping these guys in youth ball, but they have a decision to make. You're not pushing them to the University of Miami, you know, because it's not welcoming.

That's why I hear a lot of the guys we're talking about in the past. But now it's like, hey, we need to get him here. And everybody's on board trying to do whatever it take to get any kid that we wanted our school. that's a Miami hurricane because it's welcome. It's making everybody feel like, hey, this is home. I didn't just go to the school number outsider. You felt that? You felt not welcome in the past?

I said selective. Like, I've always been taking good care of, so I can't say from my personal experience, but I interact with everybody. You know, I interact with all the guys, and that was the feedback. Because the school never, not one time where it wasn't a situation, that's why I said selective

because there was certain people or certain situations and certain relationships, but now I feel everybody feel included. Well, the thing that I think that you understand about what was built here is somebody who comes from a region of the country in South Florida that very often is neglected, that you still care about. Like, you actually understand what Mario Cristobal was trying to block when he was trying to block Cortez Kennedy and Jimmy Jones and Russell Maryland, and how insane that human being has to be.

For him to have like, can you explain to me how that person undersized, survived, fighting people who were much better than him physically? Well, it starts with a mentality. You know, everybody's upbringing

kind of shapes them. And you can tell Mario, his upbringing, shaped them. You get around the guys, the guys give you confidence to actually be bigger than what you are. And that's one thing about Miami Hurricanes.

We go out there, we're going to have so much confidence. I don't care. Deep down the side, we can think that We can know that the team may be better, but you'll never know it because our confidence is sky high. And that's what you see when you see like Mario going against those guys because everybody lift each other up. Like in the practice field, we're going to do one thing.

But when it comes to game day, we're all together. How do you lift up somebody's confidence? So Zazlo's been broken. You've been killing at Zazel for the last hour. I appreciate that you've stayed in the game, given it everything you've got, not talking, but acting the hell out of your last hour. He has not been the same. He's a professional broadcaster. He's very good.

this is how he described the end of the Packers' Bears game. The Bears famously won it. The Packers famously choked it away. He hadn't spoken for 12 minutes. Here's how he described the game in a question. The Packers winner, the Bears lose. And he's been lacking confidence since then. Look at him.

Oh, he chose the Packers. Man, now Edge thinks I'm a sucker. You are a sucker. Edge, do you think that this is his normal dress? Like, you think he wears this every day kind of thing? How do you think of this is a look? He's going for Cuban teal and barbecue doesn't speak for 12 hours. How do you feel as a Miami and in somebody who, does he look, does he look Cuban to you?

Not the Cuban as I've been around. Talk to him. Talk to him. First time he's ever worn that hat in his life or no? It's the chess hair. That's the tell. Right now he's got, you're in no, chess hair on that. Zaz, are you in Q right now to try to get tickets? So of that, Mike.

Zaz is trying to buy tickets right now. He's literally trying to buy tickets right now. right now. It's Tuesday. Oh, we have a watch-along. Does the gold chain be any smaller? That hasn't stopped them from asking me. Actually, that chain... The entire casted audio...

The entire cast of the watch-along has hit me up on the side, hey. Trying to get tickets. So, Edron, I've never seen this before. Like, legitimately, what's happening with my phone and what's happening with former players... He must be getting it, too. Who can't get tickets. Luther Campbell has already said, don't ask me for tickets. Stop.

Yeah, so do that. Like, stop. don't have any tickets. Miami's a big event town. I've never had this happening with my phone. Can you get as many tickets as you want? Or how does that work? No, tickets are limited.

They're not. They made it real clear. They made it clear that you're not going to be able to get tickets. And I really don't understand that it, you know, it's kind of puts us in the bind. But at the same time, like, we're not going to let that become a distraction because we still got to go out and play the game.

And one thing about, you know, down in South Floyd, we know how to adjust to pretty much anything. So I'm quite sure the date, the game. game watch party, the day parties, those things right, they're going to be popping also. So we're going to make it, we're not going to let that become an issue because we got one more game to win. Jess Green. Like the players know who to reach out to. It's not a Miami home game.

So if any players are confused, Jess Green. Can I get her email? And you put Jess is going to be bad at us. Oh, that's a hard job. That's a hard job. You know, like just her phone's blowing up. I'm not going to call it a day up, but I'm going to call it tomorrow. Well, how does this work, though?

You can be on the sidelines if you wish to be and you will be, right? Yeah, I think it continues from... They have to limit it, though. It's limited, probably. It's probably limited. But, you know, as long as they got it, just take it, I'm good, man. And I'm quite sure they got the right, they got the right amount to make our presence felt so we can keep this thing going.

We don't need nothing going against what we've been doing the past couple of weeks. I'm going to be on the sideline. Dressed just like this. I dare you. We're orange. Do you have, you know the business of sports, you have sort of learned how hard some of this stuff can be physically. Do you have a sports allegiance?

I guess your kids playing, I mean, your kids playing at Louisville, I guess, would, when you... Cincinnati. Can we teach you, Minnesota? I'm University. I'm University of Miami, and then it goes to the kids that I know. I'm always pulling for the kids that you watch or your mentor. So you always want to see them do well.

Okay. So your chief allegiance is Miami still after all? It's more than Colts, more than everything? Like I don't. Whereas they're all one and the same, you know, because they're all at different points in your life where University of Miami is where you come in as a boy and you leave out as a man. So those days and those memories, they're always going to be there.

And then, you know, I always knew I would be coming right back to Miami to live, so this makes it easy. Edge, good seeing you. Look at Roy. Look at the smile on Roy. You're just, you're beaming. I don't understand. You're just, you're staring at Edron James uncomfortably, I would say. I don't, just, just out of admiration.

Don't project your awkwardness on Roy. Roy's doing just fine. How are we doing on that Telestrator? A bad idea by me. I have those occasionally. What did you want him to do? What did you want him? What I wanted? I just signed it. I just figured, I just draw a class. Oh, a signed Telestrator.

You can draw a little clown nose on Dan. That'll work. What I wanted. What a funny hat on Dan right now, with you? What I wanted, we have not used the Telestrator successfully yet. Zaz used it poorly. Greg Cody used it poorly. Greg Cody used it poorly.

It's too much. We don't need it. We're a show. Why? You just asked me what I was trying to do. I'm going, now that we're here, I'm going to explain to you, it was a terrible idea. But this was the idea, okay? Greg Cody has used the tellestrator poorly.

I put arrows through heads. That was my special. That's what you do. Steve Martin also. Right. Amina al-Hasson. Literally. Amina al-Hasson used the telestrator poorly.

Zaz used the telestrator poorly. And I'm going to admit now, this is bad judgment by me, bad leadership. What I thought is let's have Edron James rescue this by using the Telestrator of doing Michael Irvin on the sidelines as a mascot for the team. team being just Michael Irvin. How do you tell us straight, though? What do you tell us to write the word mascot? We have a hundred.

Give me a hundred. We have a hundred. He wants it. Go ahead. Hey, let's bring it, Dan. You proved that. Go ahead.

Bring that Michael Irvin clip. Yeah. Let's see what Dan would have. It just picked up the blitz right there. Go ahead, Dan. He's sweating. He's sweating.

All right, Dan. Draw a picture of a man taking a belt off. Yeah. No. And let's do it with the intro of simulating child abuse because that's fun. People want to hear that. Yeah, let's do that. I have dropped, I have dropped whatever the tool is.

Is that the pin? You got a flubble? It's terrible what happens to somebody. What are you doing fubble? Dan is nervous. What we explained to our players is when they got the ball. They got the program in their hand. You got the program.

Bap, Bop, Bap, Butterfinger Bap. Picking up your mess, Dan. Hedge, picking up your mess. Butterfinger. Oh, he got it. It was right next to you, Dan. On the pin. All right, Dan, take it away.

Hit the video. Wait. I mean, wait. I mean, it's not, this isn't the video that I want. Go, it's playing. Go, go, go, go, go, go. Go, go for it. Write chalbuck use on the top.

Tell us straight. Yeah. Are you just going to sign it, too? Are you just going to sign it? There's room in the corner. I need the password. You need the password. You're a mess.

He owns the company. He doesn't even have a mess. 1-1-1-1. Okay, so now I've got it. Hold on a second. So thank you for this. This is not the video I wanted. Edron.

I appreciate all your help here. Join us. Well, that's good. Okay, keep going. I want a video. Just draw a dick, dude. Just draw a dick and be done with him. And the balls.

Don't forget about the balls. Oh, yeah. Hey, that's too much. That's crazy. What are you doing? You lost your mind. P? Are you peeing on a legend?

No, pee? These are bad optics. You're ready in Pee now? You see that? Unbelievable. Pee Pee. Super now. Left field lebitard.

Oh, God.