The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: The Doddering Old Man

Episode Date: November 28, 2023

There's a lot going on this morning as Greg Cote joins us for his first appearance on MAX and immediately takes the show in the one direction we don't want it to go. Then, an explosive signing for the Dolphins, fireworks in the Florida Panthers game, and the end of Frank Reich means an ungodly amount of money. Plus, Canes Football talk leads to some eye rolling from the back of the class. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. We have an overflowing cornucopia of things to talk about today. Stunningly. Stunningly off of that Monday night football game, I cannot explain to you the hundreds of things everyone here is eager to talk about, but I can't start with any of them because I have to explain to the audience on this Greg Cody Tuesday as he lubricates, which he could have done at any point before we started the show, but he decided because Greg Cody Tuesdays are unruly.

Well, he's about to talk So that's why he did it right. I know exactly So I'm gonna tell the audience what just happened and what my general Greg Cody Tuesday experience is Greg what are you laughing about is that your asman hailer? It is. Yep. Wait a make light of it. Wait a make fun of the handicapped. Mm-hmm. Put it on the pole, please, Judeoat Levitard. Show, are you making fun of the handicapped

if you're making fun of an Asman Haler? Mike said something in his ear and Greg laughed. Right. I did. To answer your question, yes. I know. I thought he was saying it aloud. Would you like to share it with us? Yeah. You were making fun of me for taking a swig of my coffee and I was doing it to lubricate my throat. You'll admit it was a

poorly timed swig of coffee. No, I don't think I think it was right. Right as he starts the show. And Mike put in my ear tuning up the band, which I thought was worth a chuckle. Right, but he wanted you to say it. I know. It would have been funny if you had said it to everybody. If you, but this, okay, so this is, sometimes you get mad at me for interrupting

and talking over you, right? If we weren't, I would never know. Restarted the show. You never know. Get it together, get it. Let me explain to the audience, you wanted, you wanted gotten together, but here Let me explain to the audience, you want it, you want it gotten together, but here's the problem I run into.

As we sit down with a thousand things to talk about, Greg Cody is in no way prepared to discuss much of anything, because Mike Ryan has to say to me, and this is not the most efficient way to do this. We're a big deal now, we're on max. Greg Cody doesn't know what that is. We'll explain it to him in a second. The Greg Cody show is on Min minimum. As we're getting ready to start, the frustration that, not just Mike Ryan, that I have is the

general inefficiency, because we've got a lot to talk about that Mike Ryan is saying to me, can you tell Greg and Lucy's laughing while he does this? Can you tell Greg to put the microphone in front of his mouth because it was not in any way prepared to start the show? But the reason I had to tell Greg is because his headsets were not on either. However, what he had conveyed, ad nauseam, for the fifth time to me, right before that, moving the microphone out of his face so that I could see his face when he said it, is, hey, Dan, I'm serious about that idea of metal-lark media, funding, and creating a Greg Cody mascot. I am. Oh, great idea.

I'm glad you're behind it because it's a brainstorm I had. I even wrote it in my iPhone notes. Nice. And I showed it to Christopher this morning. A life-size, life-like mascot of myself that would be available for all sorts of purposes. And I don't know, I haven't looked into the pricing, but I'm gonna give Metal Arc the opportunity to sponsor my mascot.

I think it's a great opportunity for Metal Arc and it's very nice to be able to involve you guys. You know what just hit me is 97 million more people across the globe have access to us. Thanks to being on max now. And they might be wondering aloud who the daughtering old man is. This is the thing. I would say that's that's Dan Lebtard of the Miami

General and part of the interruption and formerly of highly questionable. It is a good way to introduce our new audience of 97 million potential customers. Greg Cody doesn't know what it is. Was asking his son earlier when his son told him excitedly, this is your first day on Max. This is a big deal. Not everybody gets these deals where you get to take your little YouTube thing that is live and give it to somebody and then you've got something that's getting max exposure. Great, but what did Greg ask you, Chris?

Where is it? How many things are we on? A lot's happening, but because of my debut on max, that's why I'm wearing my fancy shirt. Nice. I dressed up for the occasion. Mm-hmm. You found out after you got in the car. That's true, too. You have a back in my day as well, right? Well, that wouldn't make it true, too. That would just make it true,

unlike what you said earlier. Yeah, but when he mentioned it used to be HBO Max, it put it in context for me. Oh. I'm surprised they dropped the HBO because that was quite a great. Let's just stop them right now before it gets going. Let's, let's put them down. Let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let superfluous. Do me a favor and just go sit on the therapy couch for a second as I explained to the audience

though because we don't want it now. It's not your fault, but again, you may be wondering who the daughtering old man is, who's trusting his teammate and lifelong friend. And it is Dan Leopardtard throwing the show to Greg because I believe there's content around both the mascot and his not knowing what Max is. However, there is one pothole he could step in here and he doesn't know what it is because he doesn't know what Max is. I do know. So go sit out there.

He's a man. I mean, go see that. You mentioned that. Right. Let me gather myself and take control of this show while explaining to the audience what Greg Cody Tuesdays are if you haven't been with us for 20 years man get out of here Have a good time on the couch, man One of the most successful jokes that we have around here. It's works since the start of time

Before which Greg Cody was born is he annoys me, but I find him genuinely and generally always funny. And so he has used that and parlayed that into great internet fame and his podcast, The Greg Cody Show Featured and Greg Cody is very popular. But he has played defense against this show being done well for 20 years and he makes it better by making it worse. It's with Greg Cody. The Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody is not available on Max.

It is available wherever it is you get your podcasts. Among the number of things that we have to talk about in sports today, especially local east, who gots, I now do a word association with JPP, Jason Pierre Paul. And the word association is give me that update that was done at ESPN that could give us the context on what Dan is talking about. John Sonor John Mara, who also today said he doesn't know how many fingers JPP has. That was a sports center update on the worldwide leader after JPP with firecrackers on on 4th of July had blown off some of his fingers. The dolphins have now signed JPP because they need a pass rush because Phillips is out.

Wait, that audio wasn't a bit. No, that's not a bit. That's really it. Yeah, that's a bit of it. I'll never forget it. Jeremy, I'm glad we can introduce you to this. Maybe Lucy as well. We were just doing the show. We were talking about this thing and we were asking fairly innocently, hey, are you allowed to make fun of someone losing their fingers? Because it doesn't seem like it'd be very fun and it seems like a bad thing to make fun of and then as we're discussing hey this has to be

taken seriously right we cannot joke about it and this is how we took it seriously by listening to this update. John Sonor John Mara who also today said he doesn't know how many fingers JP has. That's so good. Who also today? That's right. Well the thing's sawing a broadcaster voice really brings it home. It's perfect. Did you know he was still in the league

i did but i thought he was like the ravens or two teams ago i did not know he was on the saints practice spot hanging on yes hang on for someone to tear their Achilles the mascot is intended for the Greg Cody show podcast not the levitard show i'm trying to swing it where metal Arc pays for my mascot that's really used on my show, but what's gonna happen is, I'm gonna make the mascot available on Tuesdays when I'm in here.

So it's gonna work out for everybody, you know. Chris, what happened with the conversation with Max? Like, he has no idea where to find it, and when you explain to him HBO, that's when he understood. Yes, until I said HBO, he was like, what's Max? Where are we? Is this a stream? I was just telling him a new word.

I walked into an old-fashioned post office the other day and two of the guys there who were working there. I'm storyboarding it. It's not complete yet, but I'm thinking of making the mascot, the Greg Cody mascot available for like, you know, grand openings, you know, premieres, movie premieres, you know, any any public occasion that might be enhanced by a life-size two guys in there and they've been like lifelong my amians and they're super excited to see me, super excited to see me in an old school post office from a different time. I felt like I was in the 80s and they say, where are you now? Huge fans. I get that a lot. And I'm like, YouTube. And they're like oh yeah

I couldn't but I could have said max It was a couple of days ago. I could have said max and then they would have been like you're dead. Where is that? Just like it because we have to Possibility that this thing could really mushroom, you know, I mean if it takes off as a life-size mascot, why not miniature plush toys, you know, in my likeness, you know, just for the holidays? For, really, you sell them year round because they're not pegged to a particular holiday. That's not a bad idea, actually. We're going to reopen our merch store here shortly for the holidays. David Simpson has finally figured that part out, but we do have stuff to get to here in sports, Stugots, because that Panthers game last night was fairly amazing. It was.

They won the game, big fight as well. I'm still stuck on JPP. He made a pro bowl in 2020. What? He did. Yeah. I do wonder if he has some explosive plays left. Oh, that's sweet. That's a good one.

What do you mean no? I don't accept that. It was a funny joke. I mean, also a joke I've made a thousand times since that report. Yeah. Yeah, that part. it's the only joke you've made or you proud of that like are you are you proud when you play the laziest of your hits yes you are that was pride in that that was pride in my voice yes

all of us looked at you and you are you turned away from me and it looked like you were about to leave the room. I thought you were going to the penalty box self-punished. Panthers, senators, fireworks last night. Let's talk about it. There were fireworks last night. Did we have fireworks on our grid of... The escalating tensions.

I don't think fireworks were on there. Fireworks were not on there, but those were fireworks last night. When's the last time you heard an official referee do anything like this at the microphone? Right now we're watching the chaos that's right the last place in the in sports where this is allowed all of this is that should be at a senator's meeting uh... it's uh...

told you senator should fight yes you did mention that uh... these two teams weirdly uh... weirdly uh... these two teams weirdly uh... weirdly uh... hate each other with uh... with the the hatred uh... and the heat of a thousand sun it's it's very odd between these two teams because they had an all-out brawl last year when they met up when the senators had nothing to play for you see Matthew kitchok is already in the synbin his brother brady kitchok plays for the senators in bed

i'm really genuinely curious as to why these two teams hate each other especially considering that the brothers are pretty tight but after this uh... maylay in a lot of what the official came out and announced a ten minute major penalty for everybody on the ice i don't think i've ever seen that that's the sound that i would like to get to and we will get to it in a moment but now that great kody is back i did want to discuss the mascot with him because this Panther's game is worth talking about because they sent everyone away. It's one of the rare places where you get a situation.

Ah, fighting's allowed, it's allowed, it's allowed. Too much everybody get out of here. If this happened in any of the other sports, any of the other major sports, what we just witnessed, which happens, you know, frequently in hockey. The Dan Laptard show was to got to sponsor by BetterHelp. The holiday season can stir a wide range of emotions and the specific emotions experience came very from person to person. While many people associate the holidays with feelings of joy, warmth and togetherness, it's essential to recognize that the holiday season can also evoke various other emotions, both positive and negative. Adding something new and positive to your life can kinda act some of those feelings. Therapy can be a bright spot to mend all the stress and change, having something to look forward to to make you feel grounded and to give you the tools to manage everything going on. If you're thinking of starting therapy,

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Visit betterhelp.com. SliceDLB today to get 10% off your first month That's better help h.e.lp.com slice D.o.b Don't let me TARD I actually thought you look kind of good Stugots I think I have the beards grown out a little bit. I got a little life in my face I feel like little 10 Colorado San Francisco at great time. You get life on your face You've got death on your face. I think you time. You get life on your face. You've got death on your face.

I think you've got 40 to life on your face. Ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha. This is the Don Limita show with this two cats. What we just witnessed would be something that would carry your news for the entirety of the week. Football, baseball, basketball, any of that happened. We would have a week's worth of coverage. Think about what Dremont Green just got suspended five games for. Right.

It was running the headlock. That was it. Just one headlock. He got suspended for what the officials are doing in pulling players off of this fight. Right. The officials are doing Dremont Green stuff. And the best part, not the best part. One of the funnier parts was them cutting to grandma Kachak. Just looking mortified during this. She's had her arms folded. Like she wasn't scared. She knows when her kids, like

her grandkids do, but it was just hilarious. They kept cutting. There was grandma Kachak, grandpa Lomburg in the stands. It was just a horrific display in front of this wonderful crowd. You're saying horrific, but those grandparents, hockey grandparents, Mike Ryan, those grandparents have been watching those boys fight for 60 years. Look at the grandma. For 60 years. You can't be mortified, you can't be shocked, right? That's a grizzled hockey hockey family. She expects it.

That's what they do for the holidays. I have a theory that these two guys, like they get overly aggressive in this game because they don't want their teammates to think they're taking the game off. They don't want, they don't want, Kacchuk doesn't want Lamberg thinking, oh, I'm not playing hard against the senators.

So they go above and beyond physical just to make their teammates know, hey, I mean business, even against my brother. She actually looks like she wants to fight. So they they go above and beyond physical just to make their team let their teammates know hey I mean business even again even against my brother. She actually looks like she wants to fight Because she does because she does Geraldine Is pissed that she's not right in the middle of all of that throw at haymakers and ham Yelling suspend me that's. Put her in a uni. Two years running, this is the most penalized game of the season.

Senators, Panthers. You can throw out the records when these two get together. You really can't. Five nothing last night Panthers. That's right. But the kids do better early, huh? Yeah. When it sends pain, there's the hottest rivalry.

Did you realize if this happened in a heat mix game or no? Bleep that. Mike Ryan still hasn't forgiven Joe Kitch. Mike Ryan still hasn't forgiven it. Mike Ryan is bumping him in the back. Not for a Morris brother. For pushing a Morris brother. They're lucky that grandma Morris wasn't in the sand.

Dirty player. And then weirdest fan base in all of basketball like just use your eyes Throws his body and weight around like recklessly with intention I have for you because this isn't gotten into the news stream yet today I've got for you top five things from last night's Clippers nuggets game wow top five most you have a top five top five most shocking things I think it's the first time I've ever come in here with a top five because this game I want to break you know max is starting and I want to have things first

you should see how well our Frank right video is doing because we are first to market on Frank right we got to get good at this game of getting things out there in the news quickly as soon as they happen. That video was so great to seize on the algorithm with the exception of Sukkats not listening as it was happening. It was beautiful. It was beautiful, but maybe he'll listen to this because it involves dollars. All right. Frank Reich, double firing in 13 months, we have to have a Sukkats memorial award for guy who is the greatest of the thieves uh... thirteen months fired twice frank rick is owed by the cults

thirty six million dollars still right through twenty twenty six that's the cults paying frank rick now maybe his contract has offsetters when he goes to carolina and just over clear that thirty six million is for getting fired there, right? That is correct Frank Reich and all that happened there. He'd still be there if Andrew Luck hadn't retired. Mm-hmm And all the ring that's all that. This is this is the Andrew Luck Memorial. But Ganna would still be there if Andrew Luck never retired That's correct the stipend though, this is got it.

We have to look, Mr. Guts. I can't believe I'm saying this. When next year, the Cincinnati Reds will pay Ken Griffey Jr. $3.6 million. OK, the kid. The Ken Griffey Jr. who is 50 something years old next year, the Reds, tea will be one of the reds highest paid players at $3.6 million. But I am willing to make Frank Reich right

now. Not Bobby Bonilla. Frank Reich, the face of stealing money in sports years after you've been any good. Frank Reich not only gets that money from the Colts, but now the Carolina Panthers will pay him $25,000 a day for the next three years. Oh my God I should have been a coach. Yeah I'm gonna be bad and get fired. We've seen this in college football too this week Tom Allen got fired by Indiana Tom Allen We probably haven't heard of it. I don't know who that is. Really bad. Yeah.

The third highest biodevour, $20 million to not live in Bloomington, Indiana, and coach the Hoosers football team. As I continue to seize on the Carolina Panthers' newsbreaking algorithm, this comes courtesy of Jack Kennedy. Here's what David Tepper's time in Carolina is consistent of. He spent a third round pick on Will Greer. He signed Teddy Bridgewater for 33 million guaranteed. He cut Cam Newton.

He traded a second, fourth, and sixth for Sam Darnold. He traded Bridgewater for a sixth. Then he picked up Sam Darnold's 18.85 million dollar option. Then he signed Cam Newton. He spent a third round pick on Matt Carral. Then he traded for Baker. Then he cut Baker. Then he cut Cam again.

Then he drafted Bryce Young over CJ Stroud. And after the Matt Rule era, he hired Frank Reich, and he fired him after 11 games. David Tepper is a problem. He's the problem there. He is. Did you see who has interest in that job now, though? Greg Olson.

Yes. I love that. Just wants to cut the line. Says, I'm willing. If Tom Brady comes and takes my job for $375 million, I am willing with no credentials whatsoever other than I talk about footballs on Sunday and played it on Sundays.

No credentials. I want my Jeff Saturday deal. What do you think Brandon Staley said yesterday, when he's selling a lured on his phone, a coach fired. He had to have like, oh shit. Right, oh, right. Not before the Patriots game, please. Not before the Patriots game.

You think Tom Allen is happy? Honestly. So happy. Yes, I agree. So happy. That's crazy. What Lucy just said is crazy. $20 million for Indiana's coach to get bought out. Third highest ever. That's for Indiana football. Mike, I know we can't talk

about some of the specifics around some of this because I genuinely wonder if we're going to go and make college sports this professional, how far we are from the day when we just know what a Tyler Van Dyke is making. We just know. Publicly, we know all the numbers on all of the players, the same way that I know that Ken Griffey, Jr. gonna be making $3.6 million next year. He signed a two year deal at Oklahoma for,

you know, $25 million. Well, I don't think, you know, I think Mike will give us information not here, but around some of the business of this because Tyler Van Dyke's career, a disappointment at the end, expected nothing at the beginning. This was going to be Derek King's team. This was, he only got the start because Derek King plays a style of football that will get your hurt.

And he created a huge amount of expectations with 400 yard games right off the bat when everyone thought that the backup quarterback with situation would look like what it has this year. Where you're like. And my TVD was a third string quarterback. He only got onto the field because Jake Garcia also had an ankle injury too.

And after an initial struggle, he had a great stretch of games. It wasn't all puppy dogs and ice cream during the rent lashly era, but Tyler Van Dyke really set, I think he set a record for consecutive 500 yard games where he tied Joe Burrow. He came out of the gates firing. He was the ACC rookie of the year. The whole thing though is curious to me right now

because I don't believe that he's got a lot of value. Like I don't know, he goes into the portal and I think a lot of people have seen. Dan, he was a projected first round pick. There has to be a closure. No, he was go out there. Well, at one point, no, I was like,

at one point, a blogger put him in the first round, traffic. You don't, I mean, no, that was, that was what bloggers were saying. I'm just saying, like, we don't know the true e-values. For me, I just need one blogger to do it and a blogger did it. No, all right. He's gonna end up in the ACC at SMU. That's where Lashley is.

That's where he had success with. No, but there has to be a coach that thinks, hey, I can make that guy good. I saw enough and I can make that guy good. I think Tyler Van Dyke can really resurrect his career if he goes into an SMU type of offense, which is basically check with me. Well, line up at the line of scrimmage,

look to the sidelines, there's one read, and I'm gonna tell you exactly where to go with the ball because Tyler Van Dyke does struggle with reading defenses, and I will say that, I guess the criticism that you could hold against Miami when it comes to the development of this quarterback is, well, why didn't you build an offense to cater to him? There's a lot that goes into an offense.

They, we all agreed that Gattis had to go after one year. They brought in a different type of offense. The offense was way better year over year. You can't just worry about the quarterback, and if your quarterback can't read a defense, that's an issue. But you can still put up big numbers and you can go to a place that'll use his skills well.

I thought he represented himself well as a professional here at the University of Miami. I think this year he played through injuries. I were kind of kept quiet that limited his ability to move even though he's not the most mobile that's a good way to break a zone he definitely struggled against the zone i think both parties are going to benefit from moving on willing to bet he finishes top ten in passing arts college football next year i mean he's a veteran he's

experienced he's a perfect one season fix if you're a bad program or if you're just missing a quarterback, I can see a team signing him, but the problem is he's very sensitive to criticism. He hears every boo, and that's not particularly a good trade for a quarter. There's a mentality thing there that I don't think is, there's many guys and Mario guys, it's not,

a lot has been made of his mental makeup. I just don't know if it's a great fit. I think right now with all the portal news going on with Miami, you're seeing guys that if you're in Miami Hurricanes fan, you wish them the best. I think all parties are gonna benefit from separating Don Cheney had a good year. It's a shame that his legacy down here in Miami

is gonna be a fumble. That wasn't actually a fumble. But big programs are apparently interested in him or at least he feels that way. Miami needs to find a quarterback because they have a good offensive line and they really max what you want out of an offensive coordinator, right? This is a complaint. You did not maximize Tyler Van Dyke skill set. Well, look at that wide receiver room. Look at the top receivers in the ACC. They certainly maximize that. Look at the running back room. They maximize that. They did

look at the old line. They maximize that. that the wide receivers they got better numbers I watched uh... texas wide receivers and it's like different human beings than my amy's wide receivers it's like looking at you're talking about size differences the speeds the same on texas receivers but the size differences make the myami receivers look like the ones I used to see at fAU when Lane Kiffin's program. The one big-bodied Miami receiver, Colby Young, is not a fast player. Miami was looking up great, but Colby George had a great year. Restrepo almost got 1,000 yards. Now, there's talk about Restrepo.

He's weighing his options. The NFL is even an option for Restrepo and some of these receivers. I know there's some mystery around Rashad Smith potentially. I think all these things are eventually good. If you look at the running backs that got touches for Miami, Mark Fletcher is considered a cornerstone for this program. That needs to be the floor for Miami to get to where they need to go. So I think this is ultimately going to be pretty good.

Although there's a lot of mystery around who the quarterback of this team will be not just next year, but for the bowl game because Ducuri Brown wasn't exactly happy this season with the treatment. He wanted to get in some games. I don't know fans wanted to see him. So we'll see what happens in the bowl game. Otherwise, they might be running a wildcat. Don Lebertard and finally fruit loops are all the same flavor just different colors. I refuse to believe that. Is that right? I refuse to believe it. I mean, try the grapefruit loop and tell me that doesn't taste different than the cherry one. Because it does. I love fruit loops.

Stugats! Put it on the pole gear, mo. At Lebotar Show, did you know that all of fruit loops were the same flavor just different colors? Refuse to believe it. This is the Don Lebotar show with this two gods. Why receivers in Texas regardless of who they are, regardless if they're even good, they just look better. Same with Oklahoma State, same with Oregon,

same with Washington. They just look better. You're a bigger and better. Agreed on all counts. The uniform forms help except Washington. I think you're doing something funny there with Washington. Well, this year they look great.

Yeah, well, they're undefeated. Yeah, that's the part I think you're just respected though. I, I, I, I, at 10 point underdog, it's a organ. They beat them already. I mean, all right. What? But hold on a second though, I just need to stop everything because I wanted to get to this mascot

because I actually think it's a good idea. I'm ashamed to admit it. I think it should be Brad Williams. And I don't know the costume that we're going to put him in, but I feel like he should be the mascot on behalf of Greg Codon. Then we can only use it when he's in town. That is correct, but the thing that I wanted to stop on because I'm genuinely torn on something here. Mike Ryan is inside this program and doing a hybrid navigation of insider journalists, but his allegiances are all shown. And what-

Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Yes, you're paying to be a booster for the school. You care deeply about the program, but when Dremon Green talks about new media, he doesn't, you know, it's not just athletes coming into the space. Mike wants to do some of this stuff differently than it's been done, navigating the slalom courses

of it'll be journalism and it'll be solid information, but also I'm a fan and here's where my biases are, however, and I believe that that's got enormous value. I believe that Mike Ryan has information and covers this program better than anybody in this market, can cover this program because he's really on the inside as the whole business of it changes and he knows a lot of stuff that's fascinating. But while you're talking Mike and this is a problem and I don't know what to do about

him because I think the information is valuable. While you're talking you're doing so in a way that Jeremy is making faces as if he's eating lemons back there because he's looking at you and he's like, is he a manny guy and he's going to see a mario guy? And I can see it on Jeremy's face and it's a glee face but he's like, Mike Ryan, bleep you. Like I can see on your face you're disgusted with something that Mike Ryan was saying but I don't know exactly what it was.

I think it was, is it a mario guy or a manny guy and talking that language of my amy? And that's the one that really sent me over the edge because we've been doing that now since I think it was, is it a Mario guy or a manny guy and talking that language of my am. That's the one that really sent me over the edge because we've been doing that now since Mario showed up and I was told before this season that it was a roster full of Mario guys now and that everything would be so much better and that when they were three and oh or four and oh that you know this team was destined for such great things and Tyler Van Dyke was going to be a first round pick a couple of years ago. And the offense was going to be transformed with him at quarterback. And it's no longer guys like Malik Rosa at quarterback. And it's just, I just feel like since I was

six years old, I've been here in a lot of similar stuff for a team to finish one game better in a power five than UCF in their first year. It's a fair enough criticism and I'll just cut to it by saying, you see, if I don't think about you at all. So I don't know what exactly you're doing, but if you look at the offense, they've improved by nine points since last year. I would say that if you watch these games and I don't know if you did or not, last year's

team quit. Oh, wow. They flatly quit. This team did not. So I do think that the mentality has changed. I do tie, I do buy a lot in that intangible stuff. Unfortunately, it was only to the improvement of two wins and you look at their stats where they rank in offense.

I mean, they went from the 70s in some offensive categories to the 30s and their defense was top 10 in the nation They had top 10 offensive line. You wonder how did this team win seven games? Say the Georgia Tech came really screwed up a lot of the math because what I entered this season Thinking that this was an eight-win team. You look at what happened in Georgia Tech. It is an eight-win team We'll see what happens defensive like back to you defense. No, no, I'm not I'm not being defensive I'm being rational and like the the poison that you got

Which is some fact some just UCF shit. I don't care at all about you know I agree completely the offensive line got a lot better by getting a transfer from passive aggressive Jeremy back to Mike Mike's not being an apology for what he says homework right Cody The the I test is irrefutable the I test is irrefutable This was a much better Keynes team. They lost by one score to two top 10 teams. They're not that far, and Mario continues to do well in recruiting.

I don't think you're not looking at the buyout, just because the buyout is the rage now. Everybody's buying out contracts. They led the nation in moral victories. Does it watch this? I think Miami is kind of on track here. contract. They led the nation and moral victories. Doesn't watch this. I all in all, I think Miami is kind of on track here. And this is the, the biggest two months of Mario's tenure. I think that you can be encouraged. The offense of coordinator and O'Shaen and Dawson, there were a lot of opinions

when you isolate individual games because the quarterback looked, I live in like straight up law set game at NC state. But I think he showed you. He made a mistake with Gattis. He tried to cater the offense to the quarterback. He did all the things that you wanted. He found a good offensive coordinator in Shannon Dawson. He found a great find in Lance Gidry. I do think both coordinators are going to be back.

They're both valued. Gidry should have a new deal in front of him unless a behemoth just tried to poke around and poach him with a staff that's coming together late. I think this program is right on track and I think my expectations entering the season were eight wins and barring that weird Georgia Tech game, they're right there and we'll see where we're at year three, year three, there needs to be a huge uptick and that game against Florida to start the season is basically for Billy Napier, a loser leaves sound match. And Mario definitely needs to go in a gainsville with that dub because right now, if you look at the two coaches

entering year three, Mario is a great deal ahead of where Billy Napier is right now. That team needs to prioritize a portal because they need to win right away. Now, Mike, let me ask you for your informed opinion. Why not get a starting quarterback through the portal? Like there's guys out there. That should be their priority, though, I would think, to get a starting quarterback in the portal. They are, and it's funny how all this news breaks.

Rest assured, Tyler Van Dyke's camp is talking about their options in October. All these quarterbacks that have entered the portal have been backchanneling for months. Miami is doing their due diligence when it comes to these quarterbacks. You've heard the names, Cam Ward is a prospect that really interests me. Although everybody in the nation's gonna be in on him.

Will Howard's gonna have suitors, Riley Leonard. I don't think is a fit here for Miami. The chatter is that he's headed to Notre Dame. There's gonna be domino pieces. The one that's really interesting that if you listen to Pro Scouts, because I have friends and sources that are plugged in with Pro Scouts. I hope you're gonna say what I want you to say here. Telia Tug of ILO. That's what I want you to say. The all-time Big Ten leading pastor. Now here's the thing. If you listen to Telia's camp, now here's the thing. If you listen to Tallya's camp,

they've been exploring options. It was well reported last year that they got an offer of over a million dollars to go to an SEC school. Tallya, their camp doesn't seem to think that he's gonna go to the NFL that he's gonna say in college football. Pro scout, don't think Tallya's gonna win. He looks like a pro to me, like Marilyn Football,

he does not have a lot of help there. He had a year. No, not just this year, but last year too like he he's had a bad Open of line you like Mike Glatton. I mean, I did but he was the first round pick This is a name that naturally especially down here in this market would excite a lot of people But here's the weirdest thing about Tilly. There's all this certainty that he's coming back He's out of it. He's out of eligibility He doesn't have He doesn't have eligibility. You may say COVID year, he played in 2019. He appeared in five games.

Two of those games, he only handed the ball off. So he's gonna need a hardship waiver. And the hardship waiver is gonna be hard to get when your brother's number one making millions of dollars. And you also need assistance from Alabama. Alabama's not incentivized to help Talia. Maybe you can just, hey, you were good for us. Your family's been good to us. Moriel helped Nick Saban out with some big time recruits, but I don't really know the path

outside of a waiver. And the NCAA has actually been kind of hardasses about these waivers. Just ask UNC, like it took moving heaven and earth to get Ted's an extra year of eligibility. Darrell Jackson transferred from Miami to FSU. He didn't get a waiver. The NCAA is pretty, pretty strict when it comes to the eligibility that you have. He is, he would be a post grad and it would be guaranteed to a post grad provided that he had an extra year of eligibility. I've reached out to people that are finding out what's papered in Alabama's compliance offices because if you check Wikipedia, it says three games,

but are you peered in five in 2019? I'm laughing here. Didn't the NCAA give an eighth year of eligibility to a UM tight end? Yeah. Okay, so I think Utah's quarterback is on his 8C's. So I don't think it's out of the question that they give another year of eligibility. I would say that it's what Greg's attitude, if you listen to it, it's just like, ah,

they'll figure it out. And that's kind of been the attitude around the rumor mill surrounding Talia. Right. And I don't necessarily see the path. I want our max listeners and watchers to know that this is a segment we call over-analysing an average college football team. Back to you Dan. Oh we do so much of it. We do so much of it. For two decades. Wait till Texas A&M gets queued up. Well let's get that. Let's get that. Thank you Stu got for for nothing. Let's get that video queued up so that I

could get to it next. Or Pablo Tore, formerly of SI. Or that. To talk AI. Let's get that video cute up so that I can get to it next. Or Pablo Tore, formerly of SI. Or that to talk AI.