The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GREG COTE!

Episode Date: September 10, 2025

"Dinosaurs are revered, Dinosaurs are beloved." It's time to bang a gong and get it on for this special Greg Cote Tuesday as he celebrates his 71st birthday. Homer Greg has his choice of topics, so, of course, he defends the Dolphins and celebrates the career of his pal Ray Hudson. Today's cast: Dan, Greg, Zaslow, Chris, Billy, Jeremy, and Mike. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Mike Ryan has a cigarette. Will you stop, please, as? Like we're on air and everyone can hear your sniffles on my mic off. On my microphone, everyone can hear your sniffles because you're sitting here. Turn my mic down. Turn my mic down. Thank God for Zaz. Usually you make fun of me breathing too heavily.

Thank God he's sniffling. Oh, well, he's snorting. I don't want to tell the story about Freddie Gonzalez when I met him. He introduced me to the snot rocket, third base coach in Erie, Pennsylvania. He's the third base coach in their minor league system. I look at a guy on third base, and he holds his hand up to his first nostril and blows out something out his other nostril. That's what Zaz was just doing. I could hear him. That's the best. Nothing resets your system quite like a snot rocket.

Put it on the pole. Is the snot rocket the best to reset your system? But I just want to ask you, Chris Cody, the last couple of days, we've been having a lot of technical difficulties. Do you know the buttons work today? Can I start testing the buttons, please? Chalkyler! They work. Okay. That's kind of loud, though, right? standard. Dan's pressing other ones and nothing's happening, so it seems like one works. This could be Dan's headphones being too loud. No, one of them works.

Chris Whittingham is a fancy lad. All right, the buttons work. Then this one is intentional, and I want you guys to look right now with delight at the chef hat's face here in the studio. You can't see anything. No, you guys, not the audience, you guys. Happy birthday to him. I don't care. Good luck.

Thank you, Stephen A. Happy birthday to Greg Cody. He's never told us his age. He always hides his age. Which birthday is this for you? Well, I'll give you a hint. A year ago, I rented a yacht to celebrate my 70th birthday. So you need to do the math on this one.

Good clue. Yeah, thank you. Called it the retirement home yacht. Are they still happy? Remember the inside of that thing, Dan? At this age? Yeah, it was a little musty. It was weird.

It's really sad. We can talk about it now. The inside, the outside, and the deck with the music, very nice. The inside where you ate, sad. No, it was a sad yacht. It was. Sad yacht. It was.

Dad, admit it. Admit it. The inside. No, I thought it was fine. The bag was there, right? Yeah, yeah, Gary the bag. Hell yeah. He was loving it, man.

He was reveling. What's he up to today? Yeah, you guys still keep it in touch this year? Yeah, he text you this morning or what? Sought, sad yacht. No, it was a nice yacht. I'd rent it again. What am I sleeping on the video there?

going on with me. We haven't aired the video. Oh my God, you are. Sorry. No, but let's, yes, happy birthday. But you know we're on the shadow show. You know we're on right now. I think you're 71 is a year that Greg finally gets a hang of this thing. Thank you. Greg, in the preview there is the beginning of the show. When the show starts, it's you dancing. But you're distracted by you. You're distracted. Anytime you show up on the screen, you're delighted. And I have to say, honestly, it's one of the favorite things that we've done around here. This particular open, seeing Greg this happy and seeing so late in what remains his prime, the singing sports writer reinvigorated. Look, he's gotten lazy. No, back in my days. He doesn't want to work.

He's complaining about working. He sounds like my dad. Think the dolphins are good. I wrote the book on Back in My Day, literally. Yes. No more. Do you have one? I have it right here. Do you have not the book? Do you have a back in my day? No. Say it's a soup. I got about 150 of them in the book. Buy it. And The Pride of a Lion. I want it. I want you to just stare at Greg Cody's face when this open plays up because it delights me as much as it delights him. But he is so happy because the singing sports writer's back. He got tired. On ESPN radio, he was doing row, row, row your boat, like the last seven songs.

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Jack. Oh my, we've waited for so long. We're so damn excited that we put it in a song. No need no checkdowns. Give me big hits and boarder backs. Keep your fantasy team from falling off the track. Football is back, Jack. Whether on the ground or through the air, when the chips are down, and you throw a prayer When your team is primed and on the heart It's four than ten You refuse to puck When the shoulder pads and helmets crack

That's how you know that football is back, Jack Let me hear you say Football Football Football Football is back, Jack This high is wild and out of control And we're going to ride it every week

Can we reach the Super Bowl No need no checkdowns Give me big hits and quarterbacks If you say this game's the best I'll say it's a gag Football is back, Jack Football is back, Jack Football is back, Jack

Football is back, Jack. Football is back. We have got a local hour that's going to have both kinds of football in it. And Greg Cody is here. Why are you guys laughing? It's the breathing again. It's his birthday. I'm going to be nice today.

Yes, you're going to be nice. And we've got the gift, the gift of Greg Cody. We are now in our 21st year. The gift of Greg Cody on the. this show over those years should turn today into a party, and it's a party hosted by Wild Billy, because we don't want to be on the sad

yacht anymore. Chris, it can finally be said that your dad's 70th birthday, a lovely boat, a lovely gesture. A yacht. A yacht is a wonderful, wonderful thing, but the cafeteria and commissary area felt like it was a bit less luxurious than one

would imagine of whatever they paid for that. Zagak. Is you guys hoping for, like, cocaine and hookers, like at a 70th birthday party? Like, it's a boat with, yes, 70-year-olds. Thank you, Billy. Exactly. Greg Cody is a great cook. How did you feel about the food that night?

I thought it was, you know, I'm never there for the food. He's there for the booze. I thought it was good. I thought it was good. I didn't think it was, you know, five-star Michelin, but I thought it was good. I mean, I don't know anything about this. I wasn't invited. Yeah, that's true.

Yeah, I know it's true. I just said it. You just missed the list. You know, we had to cut it off somewhere. I'm the sister. I'm a sister. I did that, right? Of the one time it happens naturally.

The one time it laughs right in my face. The first time it's ever happened naturally. And Dan's like, aha! You did bring it up right in front of Zaz. Let's talk about this party Zaz wasn't invited to. Great. Honestly said earlier today, I'm so glad Zazzo is here, which I didn't think we would ever hear. Oh, wow.

I didn't know that. Yeah, he said, I love Zaz. I'm glad he was here. Yeah, well, let's not get carried away, Billy. It's when you made him a lot. mistake he was happy because he didn't make him. Oh, yeah, yeah. But regardless, he said he was happy you were here.

Yeah. Look, the tension between them is real. Greg Cody looks down on the radio journalist or the radio broadcaster, I guess. He thinks the print media is more honorable. So do I, actually. Thank you. That's how we grew up, but not anymore. It's not. Now it is an obsolete dinosaur and

all of the future medias are coming through and tearing the place apart. And Zaz is the one who's the star at ESPN, who has suites on the road who flies first class because he's arising. You know about that first class, Greg? Yeah, I've heard about that. Yeah, you were like incredibly surprised by the accoutrements of first class.

That's right. I found funny, but that's okay. Well, you know, I'm not this bougie sports writer, apparently. I don't get those perks all the time. All right. Well, I don't get the perks because I'm a sports writer. Well, and also, let's make something clear here, all right? Between the two of us, you're a print guy, I'm a radio guy.

Between the two of us, you tried to get into my business. I never tried to get into your business. Yeah, because you couldn't have. Well, we don't know that. That requires putting words in a particular order, turning them into sentences, and then paragraphs in a way that's entertaining to read. You're assuming that's why I didn't want to get in. Feel good about this, Dan?

I didn't do this. Yes, you did. You called him a dinosaur. You said this used to be prestigious and it's a dying medium, and now Zaz is a rising star. Which, by the way, I will say for the record. Go on. If you ask anyone on earth, beginning with toddlers and anyone who could start speaking, dinosaurs are revered.

Yes. Dinosaurs are beloved. Everyone likes the dinosaurs. Everybody loves dinosaurs. Kids love learning about dinosaurs. Love dinosaurs. You look around at a modern-day Komodo dragon. Oh, yeah.

Couldn't hold a candle to a dinosaur. My kid has never said, hey, can you get me a toy Komoto dragon? Never. T-Rex rules the kingdom. Bang a gong, get it on, am I right? Hell yeah. Okay. That's how Chris was made.

I got the reference. Thank you, Mike. Happy semi-first birthday, Greg. Why are you wearing a chef's house? I'm going to destroy you. No, you're not. Let's just hold down. It's good retort.

You like this fight and how you started between Mike and Greg? Dan, geez, Louise, how many people today? We are going to broadcast over the course of time. He has told us we make a lot of jokes about what we're going to, I'd like the listeners to write in what, uh, tombstone nominations for Greg Cody. I am hoping that the Greg Cody experience for the remainder of his life is broadcast by our show until the very end. Okay. And like literally? Yes. I guess. Yes. Yes. Like I would like him to do our show for the rest of time. But what I'm telling you guys now, as he becomes 71, it's only going to get worse.

from here in terms of he's going to know less about what he's doing. You guys keep expecting him to get better at this. He's not going to get better at it. He's not going to get better at the mechanics of doing this. And he is a print guy to the very end, and he will always look down on the radio guy.

That's not manufactured. I'm not making that up. Okay, first of all, when I'm on my deathbed, the Greg Cody show will get the exclusive bedside interview. Okay? And you'll be in line for that, but the Craig Cody show. We'll get it. Look, I appreciate Sniffel's career. I think that might be Zaslow's

phone. Nope. My phone's been on silent for 10 years. Oh, it's my phone. Someone did that to him because he, I was talking to him in the kitchen earlier and that thing was buzzing. Someone must must have turned that on. I bet, I'm going to check right now. Look to see the, someone find the security tape because I saw Christopher in there earlier. I suspect someone set him on. Okay, it was not Christopher. Damn. It was, it was, it was Yeti's saying great T-Rex, That's a good Reference from

1971 Damn right Get it on Yeah I would also say In Greg's defense Greg didn't become a radio guy Greg became a

podcaster long ago He has had the Greg Cody show with Greg Cody For years now If anything Anyone got to start a podcast Excuse me If anything

Zazlo was a radio guy Who crawled over to the podcast world Which was Greg's domain Long before Zaslo's domain Radio is different from podcasting. Podcast's great. I do a podcast, all right, but there is a prestige to doing radio.

Is there? It's live. Okay. It's live. Yeah. Greg, you can't tell me that you're recording your podcast sometimes, and you're like, wow, I didn't like that. That didn't sound good.

Let's do it over. Guess where there are no do-overs? Radio, that's where I honed my craft. We're literally live right now. I understand. Do you? No, I don't think he does. This is not a podcast.

I don't think he gets it. Greg's cool you. It gets put into a podcast. Yeah, but this is live. I understand. I don't think you do. This is not, this is not radio.

He's looking at you guys saying. You guys think you're doing a podcast? He's doing radio. He's been doing radio since the moment he stepped foot in here. Yeah, I'm, I've been, I'm born for life. What station are we on right now? AM, FM? This is a YouTube.

Yeah, you don't know anything. You know, Jack. Going left to right on your radio? I know lots of things. I'm not certain. Go on, Greg. I'm the shit. Anyway, I'll get to the Dolphins, and I want to get to Ray Hudson, because Greg Cody, 50 years of experience in this market, he can actually bring the proper history to what happened in soccer yesterday, where a legend stepped down.

And we talked about it for a second, but it's bigger than any of the stories we're talking about today. USF against Miami, super interesting, dolphin super interesting. There are things to talk about. but this legend in this market shouldn't as a voice who's international. It's across all the seas. This is a person in Ray Hudson who came through this market and you covered him at the very beginning of soccer in this market. You were writing the first columns about can the international sport live in Miami?

Can it live in the United States? At the very beginning of Ray Hudson's career are the seeds of South Florida getting into soccer. Yes. And back then, all you had was the Dolphins and UM football. There was no other major sport. And the Fort Lauderdale Strikers, they filled Lockhart Stadium. They filled it 20,000 fans a game.

It was really the seed from which soccer in this area grew, the seed that led to Inter Miami, generations later, signing Leo Messi. And Ray Hudson was the first star. And if I can be very personal about his impact on me, he was the first athlete who I associate with my big break in journalism. Because prior to then, I was covering high schools for like 10 years. I was in purgatory. I never thought I was going to become anything in this market. And all of a sudden they had me cover the Fort Lauderdale Strikers, which was very big at the time, selling out the stadium, as I said.

And back then, we had a budget. And so all of a sudden, a year after covering, you know, a Boyd-Anderson shamanade football game, I'm in Vancouver, covering the Fort Lauderdale strikers against the Vancouver white caps. And we had nothing in the market at the time. It's the dolphins in Miami doesn't matter. The UM baseball is trying to find footing. There's nothing in this market. It's just Don Shula. Yeah.

And so the strikers back then were big. And Ray Hudson was the most flamboyant. and charismatic of all the strikers. And I remember sitting with him at a wooden picnic table outside Lockhart Stadium during the middle of the week. And he had just come over from England. He's as white as a milk bottle and talking in that charming, thick accent of his. And our relationship grew from there. And he and I are friends to this day. And he was the first guest on my podcast, actually, five years ago. And so he's just meant an awful lot. He's on the timeline of my career, before I ever became a columnist or covered the dolphins or the hurricanes,

I had Ray Hudson and the strikers, and it just, it means a lot. You don't understand, I don't think the audience might understand, that this is the greatest sports voice to have ever come out of South Florida. We can go all nationalities, all languages. You can go fellow Ramirez. Like, there is no one in the history of sports in this market whose voice, has internationally resonated with flamboyance from player he was a coach as well didn't he do some coaching at a broadcaster but he made his mark he he was

great at all the things but the thing that he was greatest at was broadcaster because he's done this with the enthusiasm of soccer for for 50 years the Nisius underwitz like Dracula who will play the liver and it's just leaves Barcelona and acid here. The roughness disappears when the magic man gets at door, doesn't he? He's almost polite

in the way he beats his defenders again. If you showed him a Rochak blotch, he'd see goal every time, Phil. It's a phenomenal strike. Fikia is underwent jumping jack

flash quick and sharp as vinegar with his hit. He sees his teammates on either side of him, Phil, and says, I see you, lads, I don't need you. He needs help, like a shark needs a dentist. Chris, I think we need to every day until the World Cup take 30 seconds to honor Ray Hudson in this market. Did I say anything that was wrong? No, no, I don't think so. And Ray Hudson, I don't know, not all of those wonderful florid comments were spontaneous. I guarantee you he put some of them in the oven and took them out at just the right time because he told me once way back in the late 70s that if they were

up two or three nil at half time, he was already devising the colorful quote he was going to say after the game. It's so wonderful to know what your relationship is here because he learned before you did that it's all professional wrestling. And he was a salesman and a spokesman and it carried him the charisma of it and I'd like to honor him right up until the World Cup every day until the World Cup next year? Every day every single day. We stop

for 30 seconds. Like the Pledge of Allegiance at school? Yes, yes, yes. I got to say, you didn't not have this energy yesterday. Start the shadow show every day with 30 seconds of Ray Hudson. For Ray Hudson? To honor the great... No Kyle Seawks. Are you shell shocked when he kept it to a 30 second

bit? Cory Brooks. Who's on the Mount Rushmore of Voices in South Florida? Eric Reed. Eric Reed. Tommy Hutton. Corey Brooks. Zagak. Zagak is on the Mount Rushmore.

Is he or is he not? Zagak. Yeah, I think he is. A.J. Ricketts. Jeremy Tashay. That gives Jeremy Tashay the opportunity to give a stat of the day that nobody wants. I'm punishing you, Billy, with this stat of the day because he wants to talk Marlins and you just made it about the Marlins. Through 37 games to start his career.

Marlin's outfielder, Jacob Marcy, has recorded 20 extra base hits and 10 stolen bases, becoming the first Marlin to reach those numbers in the same span, and the first player in Major League Baseball to do so since Barry Bonds in Pittsburgh in 1986. He's definitely going to keep it up. I know the 7,000 fans that the game really appreciate it. God, you guys are the worst. Jeremy, well, we're not the worst. I feel bad that baseball segregated around here.

I feel bad that you never got to talk or never get to talk baseball. you're so eager to do things, you didn't even wait for the stat of day music. You gave the stat, and you didn't even wait for the music. I have another baseball stat if you'd like. We can play the music now. You're doing this in the wrong order. When this finishes, you tell us your Ray Hudson memory. Start of the day, start of the day, start of the day.

It is the start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day. It is the start of the day. I will get to the I first met Ray Hudson at WSVN when I was working as an associate producer. He came in for Sports Extra, and it was just a joy to be around him, just like a kind man who brought a really special energy to the room.

That accent was obviously infectious, and it was really special working alongside him and Steve Shapiro, Mike DiPasquale, on that sports extra. You know, working behind the scenes, it was a really good time. And I really enjoy it. Yeah, Drew Rosenhouse in there almost every Sunday. It was great.

Thank you, Ray. Thank you, Ray. Did you not see that I was trying to talk there, Jeremy? Turn this music. It's like, I like that music. Turn the music off. Thank you. Did you not hear, Jeremy, that I was trying to talk there, that I was going to make a point there.

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It's all about me. Stugats. Wee. This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats. You're wearing a chef's hat. Because... Because... You are somebody who is a very good cook.

I think that Greg Cody, why are you still here? Why are you still here? Doing my job. Making a mark? No. Stop doing your job and get the hell out. Thank you. The chef's hat that he is wearing, he is, I believe, the best cook among us.

I think Roy might have some sort of objection. I think Roy would take offense. But he's a really good cook. However, around here, he's 0 and 3 in cookoffs. He's lost all three that he's done. And now Mike, who I didn't know could cook, has challenged him today in a soup off. How are we doing this, Mike? We have a stove upstairs here at the beautiful Elser.

You look like you work at the bear. Look at him. He does. I didn't know Mike was a chef. Yes, chef. I take great pride in it. I just don't advertise it. I'm not like Greg Cody, where I make it seem like I'm greater than I am and then fall well below expectations anytime someone decides to take him to task.

Okay, Roy Bellamy deservedly beat me in the turkey off. But it sounds like everyone's beat you. Well, Lebertard beat me in popcorn, which was a disgrace. Lebertard's popcorn was so over-seasoned with tajin. Whoa, don't give it away. It was almost inedible. But it won. So how bad was yours?

Mine was good. Well, he's the boss, so. But the third event, I don't remember. Yeah, I think there might have just been two. No, the pumpkin. You lost it wasn't cooking, but you've. had three challenges and you had a car off the pumpkin that's another one jessica beat me on that and should not have excuse for everything i carved your own three i card by hand and she she had a machine

she had a machine she used a paper thing mold yes she had a mold and she had like an electronic like a knife it was a fraudulent fraudulent for hockey fans held up there and i did a i did a beautiful pumpkin that included a ghoulish face with a prop, a knife in the pumpkin head. It should have won. So O-N-3. So have you thought about what the excuse will be this time? I have no excuse because

I'm going to win. Well, what are you making? You're O-N-3. Your own-three in competition. Rob Redamore over here. But today's his birthday! Yeah, no. You stack the deck. Brindamore had a birthday. You stack the deck against me. This is certainly a road game, but I feel good. I mean, Greg, he decided to go for lentil.

now sausage and lentil with a little bit of kale i've had that it's good when he makes he's well so did people on the organ trail this is a this is a campfire soup okay all right he's here for the hearty i'm here for the party it's not as foofy what is yours called you have like names in the title of your soup that i don't recognize it's pretty complicated yeah it's uh you know it's for a refined palate we got curry we got ginger we got chicken we got farrow but all in all we're just going to go ahead and call this soup Thai food Hell yeah

Oh I love Thai soup Thai food Do you have coconut milk in there There's coconut milk in it? There's coconut milk in it? No I already have a negative critique of Mike's

Acumen in the kitchen You guys have both been divas this morning If I may say it A coconut Thai chicken soup demands that the Bell Red Pepper be cut into strips

And I saw him over there chopping into We'll fine dice the red bell. Worry about your own soup. Unheard of. Yeah? Worry about your own soup. I don't have to worry. I'll worry about mine. Okay. Go ahead. All right.

All right. You're already. It's a faux paul. Okay. Really? Yeah. We'll see. I think I'm going to dominate you in this one. Yes. In fact, I know it. I saw the color of yours. It looks like poop. Any Thai restaurant in America would laugh at a fine dice red bell pepper. What's your soup?

You got to cut it in strips. My soup is sausage and lentil with kale and other stuff. and it's superflated. Were you not listening to your father before? No, he wasn't. Okay. But it's worth repeating, quite frankly. Cales for color. Trust me, it needed it.

And by the way, a chef hat is supposed to be a souffle. It's supposed to stand up regally. And these headphones are really raining on the parade of my chef hat. But otherwise, it's amazing I was able to get a chef hat with the Greg Cody Show logo on it, which I didn't even know they made. But that's a good. podcast, that one. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know who does it. We have

Adnan Verk on the latest episode talking about his new book, and we do a Dolphins autopsy. It's a great episode. Greg doesn't know movies. You are peering. I was just hoping you guys would lay out the entire time to see how long he talked, like just bored about his own podcast.

No, I don't want to dominate. I don't want to talk too much about my podcast. It's not, you wouldn't have called what he just did there, dominating, where he petered out. Yeah, we got that and Verka, you know, that was not dominating. It was you petering out because you haven't gotten to plug your podcast in the last couple of days. Yeah, thank you for that, by the way. And I'll just tell everyone, it's 71 today, it's only going to get worse from here.

There's going to be more petering out, more distraction, more slurping on the cup, more frustrating of the sun. That's what it's going to be. You love the phrase petering out. It's one of your go-toes. I didn't accuse you of it. I'm Mr. Mike accused you of it. I know. The show loves that phrase.

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the Miami Dolphins this weekend play in a game that is only in. interesting to South Florida because they're like, does the whole thing just fall apart right here was last week real? They might get some sort of NFL illusion because, and think about what I'm about to say here, the New England Patriots, the first week of the season, deserve to also be laughed at from Ced to Signing C. But no one is doing that to the Patriots who played one of the worst football games played this weekend. The Patriots played one. Carolina played one. The Giants played one. Patriots are the only one of those to do it at home against Gino Smith and the Raiders.

The Patriots have their fan base saying, oh, no, maybe Drake May's not the answer. Oh, no, maybe Vrabel's not the answer. One week at home and you lose to the Raiders. That's balm for the Dolphins, but I'm presently talking about a game with this group of people who have covered this sport and this team all their lives. And I can't remember something that felt quite like this. this early in the season. And I'm looking at all of it after Marino retired at 627. Jimmy Johnson leaves. I'm having a hard time remembering a season feeling like this seven days in.

I think both extremes can be legitimate. I think there's no excuse for the way they played. They had an entire offseason not to come out like that. By far, the worst performance in the NFL in week one. I think this is also true. It's a gross over-exaggeration. and knee jerk to say they're done, they're done. If they beat New England, mark my words, and it's not a stretch to say it, if they beat New England and they're one and one and two looks good, all of a sudden we overreacted. A birthday gift to let you talk that long when you don't seem to know what's happening here.

Like you don't seem, you're in a burning building saying that Mike McDaniel's got a sprinkler over here that a Patriots win solves. The way they lost in game one makes it so that the noise around this stadium is going to have banners flying and people booing in the first quarter if this thing goes sideways. Right. I agree that people will boo at the first interception. Greg, what I'm telling you is a team known to be meek nationally led by a man feared to be meek nationally is heading to a buzzsaw at home if they get down to nothing. I'm surprised that you do believe that if the dolphins beat the Patriots this weekend, that all of a sudden, hey, they're one-in-one, and maybe we all overreacted. I mean, everything Dan just said about the Patriots in week number one rings true.

Sure. So you're essentially saying that if the dolphins beat at home, if the dolphins beat an equally terrible team who had a terrible performance from week number one, all of a sudden we're going to feel better about them, and maybe week one was an overreaction. I disagree. Okay. What I'm saying is the overreaction to them losing week one is, A, why a lot of people hate the media, and B, why a lot of people think that fans are idiots because of the overreaction.

It's one game. I don't care how bad they look. Greg, the overreaction, though, look. It's not one game. Greg, Greg. I thought it was one game. What he's saying is the mistrust that is here right now from the fan base toward this thing. because Zaslo's holding the popular opinion, Greg. Most of this fan base is saying, even the most hopeful, oh my God, is Tua McDaniel, is all of it over? If they lose this game, someone's not going to be here. We agree on that, right?

Tyreek Hill, McDaniel. If they lose this game at home, you would agree that someone will not be here the following week, Greg, and not a minor player. The following week? No, I don't know. Not after week, too. I think Greer? I think Owen 2, someone's paying for it.

Really? I do. I think that... I mean, like, I hope you're right, but I don't think that's true. It also depends on the game flow, right? If they show up unprepared again and the boo-birds have their voice the entire game. Who in the, like, is it Greer or Ross? Like, who has shown you they have the guts to make such a significant move?

I think it would probably be Greer because he's been here for close to a decade. And it doesn't really shake up the operation all that much as you're in season. if you let go of the GM, the fans are going to demand... You think Ross has the guts after two weeks? I mean, it's been 10 years. I'm with you. It could be Tyree Kill. Greer, to save his job, could be like, let me make another trade here with Pittsburgh.

And I do believe the Chiefs are going to go 0-2 after this week. If the Dolphids are O'N-2 and the Chiefs are O-N-2, maybe Tyree kills. But by doing that, you're telling the fan base we've given up on the season after two weeks. They're flying a banner. Yeah, but telling them the season's over two weeks in is a horrible message. You can agree with them, and no, we have to make changes. but after week two. No, no, but here, so this, this is the part that's most interesting to me about what you're saying,

because Greg, Greg's not wrong when he says in almost all the other instances, a reaction to one game in week one is an overreaction, it's a hyperventilation, it's one game. However, Greg, and this part to me is the most important part, the way they looked on Sunday that makes you fear. Oh, no, I'm watching the whole thing collapse, because they can't stop anybody. They're not going to be physical enough. They're going to ravage their coach.

And the entire NFL, Brian Flores in Minnesota, is looking down at Boy Wonder and saying, you went from Ball Boy to the top and you changed your wardrobe and your clothes, and you were offensive genius. Now what do you got in this game against the Patriots when no one trusts you? And one of them might be your wide receiver.

And your quarterback looked in the last game like he didn't trust anybody because we didn't recognize him after his first read. And former teammate said that he knew what to do to make to a panic. Greg, this thing, like I don't believe I've ever had, I don't mean to be prisoner of the moment. But I remember Jay Feidley, Jay Feidler and A.J. Feely, the first half, Dave Wonstadt ran into something like this. Dave Wonstadt, and that was at 10 and 6 every year. At 10 and 6 every year, Wonstadt walks into, I don't have a quarterback. Who's it going to be? I don't know.

And in the first half of the first game, he panics. First half of the first game. It's the only time I remember a stadium closing in carnivores. They do it at Miami, at the University of Miami, all the time. That happens all the time. It's the first time I can remember a stadium caving in because he was under the pressure. This is why the Steelers, what they do is so amazing with three coaches.

He was under the pressure of Shul and Johnson before you. You're 11 and 5 every damn season, and everyone's saying you're mediocre. and he panics in the first game because he's Dave Wonstead. And the Dolphin fan base is looking at Meek Daniel. They're looking at Meek Daniel, all the stuff that was charming, and saying, wait a minute, am I going to watch my team fall on this guy's head next Sunday? Like, that's what surrounds that stadium this week. I've never seen anything like it in this market.

I have a feeling that you're going to be the one renting the plane that carries the fire everybody banner. I'm not sure if most fans feel quite as vitriolic as you do. about fire everybody right now. Oh, Greg, you're the columnist. You're supposed to have your finger on the pulse. Okay, did you read what I wrote following that game? I spared no amount of things. You can't just say this was a terrible game,

but I have no reason. You're acting like you have no reason to believe that it will continue. I want to see more than one game of proof. They're favored against New England. They're terrible New England. They're tan the Dolbit turned home. You guys are attacking a columnist for trying to show some level of like nuance or like perspective here and you're like you should be more of a fan and

just fire everyone immediately. Billy's 100% right. Look, I've been writing and saying since last season that this is the season that tells the future of McDaniel and Greer. If they don't make the playoffs, 99% they will fire the general manager and the coach if they don't make the playoffs. And if they start off terribly worse than 0 and 1, I don't think Tyreek kill will last if they can get a buyer for them. Probably the chiefs will take them back. But where we disagree is I'm not ready to say all that after one bleeping game, no matter how badly they looked. The place where I would push back on that is do you, does Greg Coddy, do you feel any different? Did this team look any different from what they looked like the way

you felt week 18 last year compared to what you just saw in week one? Yes. They look different? They look terribly unprepared. Oh, okay, that's the whole point. So that's why it's not one week. It's a total, it's a continuation from last year. Here's the things, as.

The way you two are putting it suggests that the opener they played is on top of a terrible three and 14 season. They went eight and nine last year. I'm not forgiving eight and nine. Okay, it's a losing record. But eight and nine is credibly bad. It's not incredibly bad. But the trajectory is this. They were playoffs the first two years of January.

If I can, just for historical perspective, okay? Because I'll just keep going back to this Wonstadt season because, okay, I was saying the same things then that you were, and I was doing it with 11 and 5 in my back pocket. And everyone was yelling, no, this is the beginning of the end. How do you not see it? Look, he's using up all the Jimmy Johnson's years. And I'm like, guys, it's 11 at 5. It's hard to go 11 and 5 in that league.

And his hand in the ball off. And he's making my friend retire because they're running the ball 400 again. hundred times a game and they're punting all the time because they're playing primitive football wasting the Jimmy Johnson years and everyone's saying, Dan, how can't you see it? And I'm like 11 and 5. The Dolphins, this is not one week, Greg. Two and McDaniel are six and nine in their last 15 games when two is available. 14 interceptions and two has got eight fumbles.

We worry about his head. This is built on something that's really flimsy and everyone around it is howling. This is the beginning of the end, obviously. And the thing that doesn't feel like hyperventilation to me, and I keep coming back to it, the first game of the season looked like that. You got injuries now on the offensive line. You can't block anybody, and the Colts put up a performance we've never seen in football before. Seven straight drives can't be stopped, and the way that it looked is important.

It's not just, oh, they had an off game. It's no, they were dragged up and down the field by surgical competence of Daniel Jones. Against a team that you know is not that good. Yeah. I mean, you guys aren't saying anything, I don't know. You guys aren't saying anything. Anyone who watched that game. But Greg, it looked like that's what they are.

What I'm saying is no other team in week one, like Carolina could think they're bad giants and the Patriots, but no other team was on the field with its fans watching saying, oh my God, the way that this is going, they don't have any chance in this game. Do they have any chance in any game? Okay. If you think the dolphins are going to be the worst team in the league,

I'll bet you $100 and give you odds. It's not going to happen, okay? Kind of odds we talk about here. The dolphins are not as bad as they looked in the opener. They could not have looked worse. I agree with you. They were putrid. They were embarrassed.

They were humiliated. They deserve all of the criticism they're getting. I'm just saying it's one game, and you can't refute that. And it's not a Reese that they beat New England, and then what? Are you going to say, maybe we overreempt? Maybe. I will. If they look good on Sunday, I'll say I overreacted, as will most fans. The problem here is like the perspective of Dolphins fan, right? Like there was this expectation after that game against the Broncos that that's what the

dolphins were, that they were going to score 70 points every game. And if you look at what the Dolphins have been over the last three seasons, it was playoff appearance, playoff appearance. Last year they controlled their own destiny and they vomited on themselves and they cost themselves to playoffs, but they were there. You knew when that season ended, when as soon as they missed the playoffs, that Stephen Ross announced, you know what, Chris Greer's safe, Mike McDaniels safe, they weren't going to make any significant change. I mean, the big change that they made in the off season was,

hey, let's get Darren Waller out of retirement. He'll solve this problem. So they came into this season, and even Greg, who you guys accused of being a homer and all that, said 8 and 9 or 9 and 8. He said, like, they'll be a playoff team maybe as the last seed in the playoffs, but he's not predicting they're going to win the Super Bowl. Everyone knows this is just like a middle of the road team

that you could say the window closed, but I think now the question is more so did the window ever even really exist or did we just convince ourselves that this was like some super team that it really never was. So when they decide in the off season we're not going to make significant changes

by giving it two games and firing everyone, what are you really accomplishing? Because you know week three is probably going to be a blowout regardless of the outcome of this one against the bills on Thursday night football. So if you fire everyone week two, then you come back week three, you get embarrassed nationally while your team

is already in disarray. Like, you've punted on the season for everyone to see. Look at Zaslo, he seems defeated here. I don't suspect this will be the last time we talk about this. Mike Ryan, get out of here. Go cook your stuff. We're going to start the soup off. Yours looks like poop.

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