The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: The Haunting Marino Chant

Episode Date: November 17, 2025

"LET'S GOOOOOOO, DOL-PHIIIINS" Greg Cote knows logic, and he knows it was asinine for the Dolphins to go for it on fourth and a long two. Also, Dan Marino's chant at the Dolphins game, and Mike Ryan's ever-reasonable commentary on the University of Miami's standing in the college football landscape. Today's cast: Dan, Zaslow, Greg Cote, Chris, Jeremy, Mike, and Tony. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

All right, Smyrnoff, official vodka of the NFL, world's number one vodka. Chris Cody, you're with me here. Smeanor! Wow, you're on the money with Smearnoff. Spirnoff. I'm going to ask you, Chris, what's your favorite game day food? Smearnoff. That's your favorite game day drink.

What's your favorite game day food? Smearnoff. All right, here's the deal. Game day is everything. The noise, the rituals, the passion, the dip, the wings, the dip again. Smearnoff. Smeernav. belongs in that mix because if you're tailgating or hosting or just sitting there checking

your fantasy lineup every 30 seconds you need fair enough otherwise it's not a real game day they've been doing it since 1864 which is i don't even want to do the math it's a long time it's like when great cody was born they're award winning they make cocktails super easy and they're all about bringing fans together so yeah we do game days that's their thing and if you're over 21 you should do why chris Grab a bottle of At your local retailer And head to

Smirnoff.com to find recipes of delicious cocktails Perfect for Game Day Smirnoff! Please drink responsibly Smare it off Number 21 vodka distilled from grain 40% alcohol by volume the Smarenaoff company. New York, New York, please do not share

with anyone under legal drinking age. MNoff With MX Platinum, you have access to over 1,400 airport lounges worldwide. So your experience before takeoff is a taste of what's to come. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Conditions apply. Is it the matcha, or am I this energized from scoring three Sephora holiday gift sets?

Definitely the sets. Full size and minis bundled together, what a steal. And that packaging, so cute, it practically wraps itself. And I know I should be giving them away, but I'm keeping the summer Fridays and rare beauty by Selena Gomez. I don't blame you. The best holiday beauty sets are only at Sephora. from Summer Fridays, Rare Beauty, Way, and more are going fast. Get full-sized favorites and must-have minis bundled for more value.

Shop before they're gone, in-store online at Sephora.ca. We appear to have on a fired-up Monday genuine sports disagreement between Zaslow and Greg Cody. The Dolphins won. Their coach went for it on fourth and short, fourth and goal, very short, tie game, two minutes left in the game, went for a touchdown and failed to get the touchdown. Greg Cody, your thoughts? It was a lame-brain decision by him. We can look back on it now and retrofit it and say,

he had faith in his team. They won anyway. They won. They got lucky in overtime. They won because Jack Jones had a pick on the only terrible past Marriota through all day. In that situation, you go for the win. It's late in regulation. The other team has no timeouts left.

You go for the 16-13 win in regulation. And that was a long fourth and two. That was not fourth and inches. Oh, a long two. That was a fourth and two, legit. And then the play they call is their backup running back, plowing right into the middle of the line and being tackled by a 5,000-pound defensive tackle.

What if it was a normal two yards? It was a long two yards. It was a long two yards. That matters. There's a such thing as a long two, by the way. Because when you look at the field, sometimes they put that ball a little bit closer to the three-yard line than the two-yard. That sounds like if it's close to the three, you round up and say it's three, don't you? It's not a long two anymore.

No, it's a long two. No, I think it's a long two if it's right in the middle. I think if it's close to two and a half is when it's a long two. I think if it's over two and a half, you say it's three. Do you not? Technically, though, it's two because they always go in. Sazlo, what are your thoughts here? I think that two and three years ago,

if Mike McDaniel is doing that we are all like yes he's different super aggressive team he's an offensive guy of course he's gonna go for it a long two years ago or a short three

that's where I thought he was going when he started two or three a long two years ago it feels like that yes we'd have been okay with that but now and look I've done this as well where it's it's the thing to do is to be super critical of everything

Mike McDaniel does because the way he looks and the way he sounds the way he talks and now it's not so fun that he goes to that play. I think we'd have looked at it totally different along two years ago. No, I mean, in that situation, I don't care what the analytics say, I don't care what the percentages say. Why don't you care what the analytics say and what the percentages say? Because they say you're wrong. I know logic. What decade are you talking? You're talking about in the 90s, your take would smack. The game's not the same. A long two decades ago.

Okay. They have a chance to take the lead late in regulation. They blow it. They get lucky in overtime. If they had lost that game in overtime, all of us, including that guy, would be vilifying. But the record show is pointing at me. McDaniel right now. Vilifying McDaniel. He did point at him with a vigorous fat sausage finger. It's been noted. The record notes. It wasn't even a point. It was like, ah, emphasis. Look, the Dolphins saved McDaniel from embarrassment. They saved him from himself. He made a bad decision that backfired and then got immensely lucky for it. If Dan Campbell does it, you're like, yep, good call.

No, I don't. I go, why didn't you kick the field goal, decap eater? The lions last night went for it like 14 times, like fourth and six. Like, they don't give a shit. How'd that work out for him? I think I got robbed. That's another story. I mean, are you trying to win or you're trying to be ballsy?

Mike McDaniel wants to show he's got balls in the size of grapefruit. No, he's trying to win the game. On fourth and a long two. It's ridiculous. He was trying to win the game. All right, we'll continue this in a second. Settle down. This is the Dan Levatore show with the Stucats podcast.

We will get to the microscopic dissection of the end of regulation in Spain. A truly dreadful beginning to my Sunday. Just horrific football being played by both of those teams. As Zaslow and Cody genuinely disagree about what Mike McDaniel did. Obviously too bad football. teams, how do I know? Because on fourth and short, one gets a delay of game and has to kick a field goal. And on fourth and short, another one when it's going for, it gets a false start. And I'm like, get out of here. Send it to Spain and stay there. Just don't come back. Don't take

the flight back. The best play of that game was Marietta avoiding a safety. That's the best play. That was the best play in that football game. But because we love to dissect what the coaches do, I want to examine Zaslow and Greg Cody's disagreement here because what Mike McDaniel did in a tie game at the end of regulation, going for it fourth and goal instead of kicking the field goal, which is basically what every coach would have done that we've ever watched would have kicked the field goal. Only two since 2000 have ever done what McDaniel did. McDaniel was the second. So in 25 years, McDaniel is the first to go for it in that situation. Cody says, I don't care what the analytics say. The analytics say you get a 3.5 better percentage.

chance to win the game by going for the touchdown there. Because even if you fail, you're leaving them at the one-yard line with no timeouts. It's going to be very difficult for them to get out of that situation. But the mathematics say that. The thing that I wanted to ask you guys, though, about it, because I thought the announcers were really bad at the end of that game. Really bad. First of all, they didn't talk about A. Chan going out of bounds at the six-yard line, which he should not have done. Like, A. Chan has to stay in bounds there. Has to.

That was what was going to cost them the game. No, but it just, he has to know the game. situation there. The announcers don't even mention it. He gets the first down, the announcers don't even mention it. But the announcers also have to know in the modern age, that's a good assignment to get the Madrid game. A lot of money being spent to send everybody to Madrid. Those people need to know that the percentage of chance going for it is better at 3.5%. They need to tell the audience to make everyone back off. It can't just be any more some offensive linemen in the booth saying, I think I'd show guts here and go for it. Give me

what the math is. Well, and also give me what the trend is, which is that he's only the second guy in 25 years to take that risk, that unnecessary risk. You need the researchers to give you that information. It's why they're there. It's why they're flown to Madrid. Well, I don't know if you could have gotten that stat right there in that spot. That is just the second time in 25 years. But certainly the former, the percentages going forward kicking that they probably should have had.

McDaniel knows what the percentages are. He's playing the percentages. He is a math guy. He is absolutely doing there what is. is the correct play. But it's also, it's not just the percentages there. It's, all right, and this is why I believe McDaniel made the right move, where the game is different than what it was 10 years ago.

Hell, I've been talking about this recently here where the kickers are so good these days that it's taking a lot of the excitement out of the game where team gets a ball a minute to go. Can they drive and get to field goal rage? Well, yeah, they can. Because these guys are kicking 60-yard field goals, and it takes away a lot of the excitement. two plays and he's in field goal range. That's essentially what Mike McDaniel was considering yesterday.

If he kicks the field goal there, and it was just under two minutes left, which is an eternity now in today's NFL, and the dolphins go up three, kick off, you get the ball at the 30. You're 30 yards away. You're 30 yards away from time. Let me ask you this question, Greg, because I really do like, okay, the advancements in football that make these coaches less coward, more math. I like what it is when I'm on offense, almost absolutely, with very few exceptions. If I'm on offense on fourth and two, I almost always want to go for that.

And if I'm the defense, I almost always want the kicker on the field in that situation. If I'm a fan of the defensive team and the other team has the ball on fourth and one or fourth and two, I always want them to send the, if I'm on defense, I always want them to send the kicker. out on the field because one and two yards, they're so precise now that they just take a tight end and they do a little play action and they just throw one of these rollout passes with such accuracy. I know a couple of fourth and shorts got stopped yesterday. I know the lions were terrible on fourth and short. That's the best defensive game I've seen the Eagles play during the championship run. That's the worst Lions offensive game I've seen throughout their season being good.

So I know when the team fails on fourth and short, it always brings this criticism. But Would you agree with me that if you're a fan of the defensive team, you always want to see the kicker run out onto the field on fourth and one and fourth and two? What I agree with is that fourth and two means go for it most of the time, situationally, most of the time. If my own team, it's the middle of the second quarter, my team is fourth and two from its own 42, I'm like, yeah, go for it. In this case, you take the three-point lead, and here's why.

I don't know if you guys have noticed, Miami's defense. has been pretty good the last three or four games, pretty damn good, as it was in Madrid. If you're Mike McDaniel, you give your team a 16-13 lead, less than two minutes left, other team has no timeouts, and you trust your defense to not let them drive 70, 60 yards for a tying field goal. I trust my defense. It's not 60 yards. No, but it would have been 30 yards.

Why would you trust that defense? Dolphins' defense has been pretty good at the last few games. No, but your argument there trust them to. not allow 60 or 70 yards is literally what Mike McDaniel did by saying if we don't get a touchdown here I trust my defense not to give up 60

yards and a potential game time kick. Now the irony is that is exactly what happened. They ended up missing the kick. But like your argument there is literally what Mike McDaniel was banking on. You would agree that the dolphins got lucky with that pick in on the first play. I mean it's a play. They made a play. They made

a play. Okay. Marriotta had had a good game. He made his only bad play of the game to begin overtime. That's luck that bailed out Mike McDaniel. Or he was due. I mean like by that logic? Would you also agree that if the Dolphins end up losing that game in OT, Mike McDaniel is being vilified this morning nationwide? That I'd agree with, but fans are noisy and they are. I'm not talking about fans. I'm talking about everybody. They're math averse. Greg, the thing is every interception, every fumble, every turnover is luck, right? Just depending on if the ball's bobbled up this way, if you cut off the pass that way,

If you get a hand on the football, like, turnovers are lucky in just the general sense. Yeah, but this is a dolphin defense that has had like three interceptions all season. I mean, you don't expect that, especially at a Jack Jones who would not be a starting cornerback on any team in the league. Well, that's another thing. There are so many players on that field because all of these teams are broken. There are so many players on that field at this point in the season that are just practice squad elevations that happen to be wearing professional uniforms. Yeah, it's not a real player. I mean, if you don't mind, I'd like to move away from the might.

micro-analization of commanders, dolphins, and talk about, like, more interesting stuff, which is like Stephen Ross talking about, well, the reports are Stephen Ross, is looking for reasons to bring back to a, and Mike McDaniel. And you have a team that's fighting for a head coach. We thought this team was done and dust it, and yet you still don't want this quarterback speaking in front of a microphone. That stuff. Why?

Does he say weird things? He says weird things. All right, let's play the sound of him saying that, good Lord, Jesus, he wants to play. That's the joke I was making. He wants to play in Jerusalem. It's not just that. It's a weird thing to say. He was asked about international series, and he's like, yeah, let's go to Hawaii.

He was asked, where else should the league take games? Well, I think he said, where else in Europe, right? Watch. Well, he's just asked in general. It's like a blanket statement, but then he specifies because he says something. Like, let's listen. Hawaii. So the United States again, but let's go play in Hawaii.

I think that'd be pretty cool. But in Europe, shoot, it'd be pretty cool to go play in Jerusalem. Not in Europe. I don't know. That'd be sick. Anyway, the dolphins have the following situation. I actually understand, I don't know how you guys feel about this, but when you talk about what they're doing for next season,

given the contract situation of their quarterback and given that this draft doesn't have a surefire quarterback that you want to lose for, I understand putting a bandage on it for a year and saying McDaniel, too, let's see if Tyreek Hill can get some value back and just putting a bandage on it for a year because you don't actually want the leadership void of, let's blow the entire thing up and start over from ground zero. That was a good answer, though. I mean, wasn't it all worried about his brain whatsoever hearing him speak like that and smile like that. His teeth do look great. Zazlo is done with the unwatchability of Tua. Dan, he's unwatchable.

The number of screen passes, the number of throw the ball backwards. It sounds like you guys watched. I didn't because it was Commander's Dolphins. And I've seen this dolphin team the entire time. I just kind of want to move this thing along here. I'm a little annoyed that they won because now you're like, oh, should we or shouldn't we? Some people, Stephen Ross being one of them.

Just, come on, let's get this thing over. He got chased down by like a third. 350-pound line. When he was all by himself, just throw the ball away. Here's the thing with Tua. I've never seen a more immobile quarterback, and my entire childhood was Dan Marino. Like, Marino, he'll step up into the pocket.

He avoids the sack. I mean, Marino was a statue there. Marino is more mobile than Tua was. And with Tua now... Marino, after the Achilles tear, you have Marino being more mobile than Tijuana. In the big boot? Oh, the Nike Town booth.

Where in the entire leg brace, you know, look like a robot. Marino was more mobile than Tua is. Tua now, if there's any kind of pressure coming on a play, if Tua does not find a receiver on his very first and immediate read, the play is completely screwed. He has no awareness in the pocket. He has zero ability to escape anyone, and he has zero improvisational skills.

He is brutal. The fact that if a quarterback does not hit their very first option on a play, and that's what you're, meaning that the play screwed if he does him, and that's what you're relying on to win you games, it's impossible. That was the issue with the Mike McDaniel offense, right? It was like, oh, this offense is amazing. They're scoring all these points. Everything is so fast.

But they're like, oh, what if we just take away the first read? And then they just develop, oh, wait a second, Tua can't scan the field. He's too worried about getting hit. He's too worried about a money pocket. Well, wait a minute, wait a minute. Okay, I will say that when they were at their healthiest and speediest, he was going one, two, three through the reeds. What's happening now with Waddle as the only option, okay?

An assortment of tight ends you've never heard of and don't want on the field. With Waddle as the only option, what it is, is Waddle's my first read. I don't want to go to Washington, any Washington. I'm going check down. I'm going immediately checked down. I'm going to the bubble screen. Real quick. want to talk to you about how game time is the official ticketing partner of the dan lebitard

show grateful that game time has been on with us as long as they have because i use this product all the time i travel for football if i'm in a new city i like to see what concerts are in town one of the very first things i check is my favorite app for the secondary ticket market the game time app why because it gives me zone deals favorites panoramic seat views most importantly the lowest price guarantee because if game time does not have the lowest price for you game time will credit you 110% of the difference i've lived it folks i've been at a place where i saw cheaper tickets they credited me it's legit game time ticket coverage means your purchase is covered with the most flexible customer service policy in the ticketing industry take the guesswork out of buying

nfl tickets with game time download the game time map create an account and use code dan for $20 off, your first purchase, terms apply. Again, create an account and redeem code D-A-N for $20 off. Swipe, tap, ticket, go. Download the game time app today. Folks, the leaves are turning. The weather's getting a little chillier. That means a football games are more important.

That means football time. Should be Miller time. Game day hits different with a Miller light in your hand. From jaw-dropping touchdowns to fantasy heartbreaks, My fantasy season's over already, but you know what makes that better? Miller Time! It's the beer that's been there for every moment. 50 years of great taste, simple ingredients, and then iconic golden color you can spot from across the room.

And here's the kicker. It's just 96 calories. 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces. The original light beer since 1975 and still hitting different five decades later. So whatever your game day looks like, remember Miller Time is always a good time. Miller Light, great taste, 96 calories. go to millerlight.com slash Dan to find delivery options near you. Or you can pick up Miller Lite pretty much anywhere they sell beer.

It's Miller time. Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces. On Fox 1, you can stream your favorite live sports, so you're there for the biggest moments as they happen. For me, I cannot deal with spoilers, so I need to see it live, especially on college football Saturdays and NFL Sundays.

With Fox 1, you get it all. NASCAR, the MLB postseason, edge of your seat plays, jaw-dropping moments, and that rush like you're right there in the action. Sports are meant to be watched live, and you can do that with Fox 1. Fox 1, we live for live, streaming now.

Don Lebertard. All right, we got to go back out there. That was big. Wake him up. Uh-oh. He doesn't want to be bothered anymore. Now it's getting tense because he didn't need that as a result.

He needs something that happens. You can see it, mother effing on it. Can we bother? Are we bothering you right now? Turn on your microphone, Greg. My microphone's on. Stugats. Paint the scene.

The paint the scene is I've got to go to work. Good night. This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats. But since you mentioned Dan Marino, and I can't believe that Zaz is saying the two is less mobile than Dan Marino. I can't believe I'm right. I can't believe that you're saying. saying he's less mobile than Bernie Kozar. Bernie Kozhar now.

I can't believe that you're saying that Tua is lacking that kind of mobility. I think it's an exaggeration. But when you talk about Dan Marino, they brought him out in Madrid. Oh, did they? He has some trouble with the chant. Chris Cody is alleging that Dan Marino has never done or heard a simple, let's go dolphins. Good on the crowd with him.

Good on the crowd. They stayed with them, but it's just so awkward. The ones who weren't booing. Kind of like when he did the drum at the panther. He's just odd. Well, he's bad in public. Yeah, he does not leave the league in public appearance. There was a shot of him next to Zach Thomas doing the whole ceremonial coin flip thing.

He looked like he wanted to be anywhere on the face of the earth besides where he was. You guys are saying the crowd was good. That's a crowd that doesn't speak English. And that's just the fans that travel. Maybe he figures the Let's Go Dolphin chant. It's kind of outdated. He's trying to switch it up a little bit. That's triggering.

It feels a bit death medley. Like haunting. It is. In my dreams, I'm like, I'm like, where is he? Where's Dan Marino? I smell him, though. It does give me a little bit of anxiety hearing him do that because that's not the way that it's supposed to go. And it reminded me of another South Florida legend trying to do a chant that left me feeling some type of way.

Bobby. Bobby. That is Barcoff trying to. who celebrate Bobrowski. All right, pair them together. Let's see who's worse. What's wrong with people, Dan? Haunting is a good...

Dan, think about this for a second. Okay, you're at the Pirates of the Caribbean. It's dark. All of a sudden, all of a sudden, this echoes from the pirate ship. That's going to be pillages. The fogg rolls, and you're like, where am I? That's a great astute observation. That is absolutely in Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.

behind the ship when he's coming out of the sea. It's haunting. Victor. Bobby. Victor. Bobby. Victor.

Bobby. See, Barcops is not haunting. Barcops makes me happy. It's playful. Bobby. It's the way that you're in a bounce house with children. You're chasing.

them around. Bobby. What's wrong with these guys, man? At least bark of, you know, it's not his first language. Bobby. I mean, if you've heard Dan Marino in front of microphones, like it wouldn't feel like his first language.

One of the great surprises of my entire lifetime is as long as Dan Marino lasted on that CBS pregame show because they hired him in the first place and he spent how many years doing that because he was always notoriously bad

talking in front of people. Hated doing it and was boring on purpose. And yet he was a great quarterback so we never criticized that where we're criticized too about everything so we criticize him for everything for mentioning Jesus, for making jokes that don't work, for not being as glib

and as eloquent as we want. No one here is criticized. No one here is criticizing him for mentioning Jesus. Where'd that come from? We were criticizing him for putting Jerusalem and putting a football game in Jerusalem and in Europe. That's what we're... Well, let me just say. Hawaii as well. I need to defend Tua here. Okay. Let go go. Feel free to do so in front of the microphone. I hate to always be the VOR. But if you're looking for reasons to criticize Tua after yesterday's game, you're looking for reasons

to criticize Tua. He's been pretty terrible this year. led the league in interceptions with 13. He had a clean game. He played an efficient game. You know what he recognized? You know what the game plan recognized? Devon Aitchan is the best player on the field, other than Jordan Brooks on defense who had 20 tackles.

Another reason why you trust your defense with a 16-13 lead late in the game. Greg, Greg, I don't trust that defense. Like, I really don't understand what you're doing with that defense. That defense has not been trustworthy. Like, you can say they've been decent the last few games, but that's not a trustworthy defense. and what Zaslo is saying late in that game. You have noticed this change, right, with the kickoffs.

If they start at their 35-yard line, they get one first down. All of a sudden, you're kicking a 57-yard field goal because every game in the sport, every game in the sport has a 57-yard field goal. I've got one of the strangest things to watch in football in terms of the evolution is the number of teams that get inside of 60 yards and then just hand the ball off up the middle because they feel good about what. where they are on the field inside of a 60-yard field goal, even if that is something in my lifetime. Anything beyond 50 yards in my lifetime outside of the last five years has been

a field goal that you don't want to be taking. Now it's a totally normal thing for kickers all over the league to be making 50-yard field goals. You know who's behind me in advocating my opinion? 99.9% of all NFL head coaches over the last quarter century. There's just no excusing. No, but the game changed over 25 years. The game is no different than it was three years ago or five years. But then don't use a 25 years as your number. It is different.

I gave the stat last week that the Bears and Giants went for it on 4th Town five times in the first half. It's totally different. All of these teams are going for it all over the place on 4th and Short. Nobody anymore doesn't go for it

on 4th and short. There's not a coach in the league that you think of as Dave Wants Stead, notoriously scared on fourth and short. I agree, but again, you have to think situationally, one of the exceptions is fourth on a long two. When you have a gimmee, you have a one-foot putt for what should be a winning field goal. You take those points in a game where points are tough to come by. By the way, when we're talking about trusting your defense in that spot,

give them a three-point lead, trust the defense at the end. They didn't get the conversion. And the defense then literally allowed 60 yards with the opportunity. to kick the game winning field goal. Like, they, they, you want them to trust the defense there, and the defense gave it up, like in a major way. Now, granted, it's benefit of hindsight, but still, like, they gave it up still. Let me throw another something at you.

How about a modern twist on a doorbell where Amazon driver gets there, walks up to your door, and you hear this. Let's go, don't know. Dun, dun, does kind of have the sing-songy. I would have a different one. I would have a different doorbell. though. Ah,

B. That one is nice. That's when they hold it a little bit longer. You know what I mean? Who is it? A quick one. B. Let's conjure other situations

where you might be scared. You've come down the stairs at midnight because you've heard a bump in the house. It is. That's all so scary in that situation. It's the Halloween version. That became decidedly less happy. of a sudden, now I've got a crazy stranger.

No, that's not the one I was looking for, though. I've come down the stairs the way Tony does when something in his garage falls off of the wall. Haunting is the exact way to describe that. Oh, gravelly. It is. It also doesn't sound at all like Dan Marino. If I didn't give you any context and said, hey, who is this? It would take you a thousand guesses before any of you said it would be.

Dan Marino. But let's switch subjects here because I, too, am tired of talking about an epically bad football game that now puts the Miami Dolphins more in the playoff hunt than they were at four and seven. Was that Ed Orsheron? It sounds like a thick man. Like, if I asked you, if I didn't tell you anything and said, describe this person visually. You're saying this person is more square than stick. Let's go dog Don Lebertard Football

Football Football Football Football Football Football Football Football

Football Football Stugats Football Football Football This is the Dan Lebatars show with us two gods. This is a headline from the athletic, and I say it only to enraved Mike Ryan.

Notre Dame closing in, Miami shutout, question mark. Yeah, this is bullshit. It's bullshit. And the charmed existence of a Notre Dame fan right now is insane to me. Okay, Miami's doing what the committee asks, be more consistent, look better on offense. For all the talk about offense, Miami's offense is a lot better than some of the teams that's around them. In fact, Miami, I think statistically right now is in line to have its second best offense over the last 20 years. Miami looked thoroughly dominant on Saturday.

You could say that's who Miami is. They had midseason hiccup. That's who Miami is. They're closing the season in style. NC State didn't cross the 50 until the fourth quarter. And they have a good offense. Yes, the ACC's leading rusher had negative two yards against Miami. And Tennessee beat Georgia Tech last week. Yes. And they beat Georgia Tech and Virginia. Yeah. North Carolina State had been the ACC killer. Yeah, they beat Georgia Tech two weeks ago. That was NC State coming off a buy. NC State's got talent on offense.

I like their quarterback. Their quarterback does have a live arm. He looked like he was floating balls because Miami's defense was playing that fast. Miami's defense is unbelievable. But I realize this is bullshit over the weekend. Why am I living and dying watching Clemson run full-back dives fumbling at the goal line twice? Not enjoying my Friday night. Well, Notre Dame just gets to beat up on Navy and pit with coaches saying,

this game doesn't matter. What are we, are we really going to entertain this? Are we really going to take this down the line? I know what you're doing. You're putting Vanderbilt there. You're putting Utah there ahead of Miami. BYU, I'm fine with for now. You're putting them there so you don't have them bunched up together,

so you don't actually have to have this conversation about a head-to-head matchup. Let's put that to the side. Well, we'll see tomorrow night the rankings come out. Everyone's talking about how Notre Dame is a bona fide playoff team. No doubt about it. No discourse about it. Miami is the exact same way. If Miami gets shut out, Notre Dame better be shut out.

Because head-to-head has to matter. Why would anybody schedule a non-conference opponent of any consequence if you're not going to get credit from when you beat that team directly? Well, but I don't blame you. Even though Navy beat my beloved South Florida Bulls, I don't blame you for being upset about part of this, but you can't wave around a victory over NC State, which has five wins, one of them over Campbell,

and then just dismissed the way Notre Dame beat Pitt because that's the scariest game left on Miami's regular season schedule is Pitt, so you can't just dismiss Pitt while praising NC State. Not dismissing it. I'm contextualizing it by saying the coach, quote, I'd be happy, I'd be glad if we lose 110 to 3. Contextualizing it. And they came out flat and they came out like,

like they didn't give a shit about that game because it doesn't actually matter when it comes to pit season. And that's the benefit of not having to play in a conference for Notre Dame. Notre Dame is a good team. I believe Notre Dame deserves to be in the college football playoff. Don't get it twisted. Notre Dame is good. Miami beat that very good team.

If Notre Dame is in the playoffs, Miami better be in the playoffs too, ahead of Notre Dame, too. This isn't, oh, just come in here. Miami should be ranked ahead of Notre Dame because, they both played. I'd be almost willing to guarantee you that if Miami wins the rest of its games, it will get into the postseason just because this college football season is so bat-shit insane where everyone is losing. And I look up at halftime on Saturday and can't believe that Texas A&M is down 30 to three at home to South Carolina. I hear you. I think that there's two weeks left in November, notoriously crazy for college football. Miami might get the

Hell, it might get the help it needs in its own conference. And that would go a long way to help in Miami's chances. What I'm saying is that concept right there is bullshit. Miami shouldn't be in the discussion right now is needing help. That should be a conversation for Notre Dame. Notre Dame should be the team that is chasing Miami. This whole charmed existence of not having to sweat over this final month of the season when you're the guys that lost here.

In a game that Miami controlled, in a game that looked a lot closer than it should have. Okay, I feel like what you're doing here is a little bit like when the NBA All-Stars are released and you're like, this guy should be an All-Star, all right? But you're not giving us who shouldn't be an All-Star, whose place he should take. So you think Notre Dame is a playoff team and you also think Miami is because you think Miami should be above them.

Okay, who that's in the picture right now should be out then. Well, the teams that are directly ahead of Miami. Because you're good with BYU, you said. I'm good with BYU. They have a tough game against Cincinnati. BYU has an opportunity to lose another game here, and then that's a different discussion. So who should Miami be ahead of then? They should be ahead of Utah and they should be ahead of Vanderbilt.

Vanderbilt somehow climbed on a by week in the AP. Okay, that's fine. So then Miami you think should be 12, which still has them out of the playoffs. Yeah, I understand within striking distance, and then you have two games to win in style and show the committee that you are indeed a playoff team. And if you're 12, then you're closer to Notre Dame, and then Notre Dame should be the one that's sweating it on the final weekend of the season. because Miami beat Notre Dame. Miami beat Notre Dame. Miami beat Notre Dame. I shouldn't be sweating

like this. I am a madman. I am not enjoying myself right now. And I should be enjoying myself because a couple of weeks ago, we beat their ass at the line of scrimmage. We dominated that game. We controlled that game and we got a victory. A victory should matter. Don't come to me and say, well, look at what Notre Dame looks like right now. If those two teams play, who would be favored? I don't know. My guess is Notre Dame. Guess it was favored the last time they played Notre Dame? What happened? Miami controlled the game. Took that ass ass. I agree that if the Dolph, if the Keynes went out and finished 10 and 2, they're going to make the CFP, I think, and should. But let's not lose. You guys sound like homers, though. I'm not the homer. Like, do you guys know the

national narrative? Do you guys know the odds? Yeah, I've heard the odds. You're talking about how we're going to be in the CFP if we went out. Right. I listen to all national podcasts were an afterthought. Alabama's in good shape. Kirk Herb Street went on television and said a three-lost Texas should be in consideration for an at-large. A three-lossed Texas that lost to Florida that we dominated. Okay, but let's not lose track of the fact that UM did this to itself.

At one point, they're 5 and 0 and number 2 in the country. They lose a game that they shouldn't have lost to Louisville, which wasn't even that close. It wasn't as close as the final score. They got spanked. I think the SMU game is worse. Like, you're always going to lose a game. You're not going to go undefeated.

Yes, I hear you. Miami's lost two games on the last play of the game. And at least SMU is a road game. We're really going to go 21 and 4 over the last two years and not have a playoff to show for it. This is insane to me. I have a way for you to enjoy yourself, though. I'm going to tickle you some. You say you're not enjoying yourself.

How about some of this? Bobby. Does help. Bobby. Does. I know what to... Bobby. Look, I...

I so am worried about Miami going 2 and O. But like, let that be the gambit. Miami has to go 2 and O here. Miami doesn't handle business in November. It's why last year they missed the college football playoff. But I listen to what the committee says. I listen to what the committee says Miami needs to do. And Miami has done that for the last two weeks.

This looks like a different Miami team. On offense, they look dynamic. They don't look predictable anymore. It's a damn shame if we look back on. this season and say the staff got in its own way because the fan base was screaming about how obvious your tendencies were and SMU won a game that they shouldn't have beat you in. Oklahoma winning this weekend really hurts. Oklahoma has a good. That really hurt. Oklahoma has a good resume. I, yeah, it sits. No, but it could have been over for them.

They would have been done and instead they're going to get in. They got so outplayed in that game. It takes a spot from the games. I can't believe Oklahoma won that game. Here's another thing that bothers me. I understand Alabama's reputation and Miami's reputation. They have a common opponent. It went totally different ways. We want to talk good losses, bad losses, quality wins. FSU got embarrassed. FSU embarrassed Alabama. Miami played FSU. That is a bottom feeder in the ACC. That for all the SEC narrative that we have there, why doesn't that stick? Alabama lost. You know, but you know Miami was the first game. You know the answer to your question, though. They're going to be six SEC teams in the tournament, no matter how bad the SEC is.

But that's bullshit. It's bullshit. They're beating each other up, and they're getting credit for depth, where Miami doesn't get credit for depth, even though the SMU team that they played has only lost one regular season conference game since joining the conference. The Louisville laws, like, these are not bad teams. Notre Dame played Louisville last year. Notre Dame was in a one-score game at home against Louisville last year. Notre Dame and several CFP teams could go to SMU and not win that game.

These are not bad losses. They're bad losses in that Miami kind of beat themselves in it, and that's really frustrating. But for all this, it's not how you start. It's how you finish talk. Well, Miami's on halfway to finishing pretty damn good because that team on Saturday looks like it definitely deserves us to be in the field. Definitely. Right.

But if they're going to finish 11 and 1 instead of 10 and 2, we're not even having this conversation. I can't reverse the loss. I can provide context and say Miami has done everything that it needs to do. Except win one additional game. It is nonsense that we have to have this conversation and I have to fight for my life and find the propaganda when Notre Dame loss to Miami. They're sitting at the same exact record and they don't have these conversations. Every talking head is like, yeah, total playoff team right there. Yeah, it's just because their two losses are to Texas A&M and Miami by four points. But that matters. But you said, their losses are to Texas A&M and Miami.

Miami played them head to head. They beat them. Yeah, but they're less worse losses, less worse. What are you talking about? They are less worse loss. How is it not a terrible loss when you're in direct comparison to another team in the CFP if you lose that team, that's a bad loss? Because losing by, Mike, there's no dispute to what I'm about to say,

which is losing to Texas A&M and Miami by four points is more impressive than losing to SMU and Louisville by more than that. Yeah, yeah, by like three more points than that. Miami's loss on the last place. Even if it were the same amount of points, it's still more impressive. Okay, but. Bobby. We're going to keep tickling you.

You're going to keep talking about how their loss to Miami looks good, and you're just totally bypassing the loss to Miami. I'm going to try and cheer you up. How about Ed Orgeron as a pirate in AI, haunting you with Dan Marino's chanting. Tell me, that works. That's pretty good right there. That works.

I see the old galleon in the back, Dano. And now, in order to cheer you up, I'm going to pull out the best card I've got. I've been working on it for an entire week. Yes, me and chat GPT. It is the Dolphins logo replaced by an old man's ass. Oh, now that's an old man's ass. That's an old man's ass. Is that Greg Cody's?

I would not have known that. My ass is better. That's a ball sack, guys. That's better not be what I look. It looks like a brain. That is a ball sack. I thought it was a brain. The Miami Dolphin should name your team the Miami ass and change their logo to an ass, not a nice ass, like an old man's ass.

I worked on that all weekend, and I appreciate that you guys. Sending it back. No one said these look like a pair of testicles. No one said you add more wrinkles. It looks like a ball sack. No one said that. I was working on it very hard all weekend. See the original.

Oh, wow. That is not what we want right there. Could have used more wrinkles. That's what mine looks like. Hey, yo. That is not what your ass. Dude, good for you. Zadzlo.

Zadzlo. I'm assuming that when you walk nude through your house, wearing sneakers or flip-flops, that that is not what you're ass. I bet it looks more like the nice one than the old one. Dan nailed it, though. That is how I walked through my house, naked, but just what my sneakers are. That's ass low. Look how pleased he is with himself.

It had to be said. It had to be said. Good one. Never heard it. Thank you. Have you been hearing that one since childhood? We've got Nick Wright up next. He's got to be hurting.

The Chiefs have a worse record. Oh, he's got to be hurting? Jeremy embarrassed us yesterday. The Chiefs have a worse record than the Carolina Panthers, whose season is over, by the way, as I've been saying all season. Bryce Young threw for 448 yards yesterday, left the field twice in a way that I thought he had career-ending injury. But twice, twice left the field, comes back out. What a group of losers they have in Atlanta, man.

They stink. It must stink to be a Falcons fan. Bryce Young twice left that football game. One of them on fourth and short, he trips taking the snap, falls down. and I thought tore his hamstring while sliding backward trying to get off the ground comes back in the game,

throws for 448 yards and if not for Jacoby Percette breaking the record for completions in a game I would have said that's the best game I've ever seen a bad quarterback playing. Folks, the leaves are turning, the weather's getting a little chillier, that means a football games are more important.

That means football time should be Miller. time. Game day hits different with a Miller light in your hand. From jaw-dropping touchdowns to fantasy heartbreaks, my fantasy season's over already, but you know what makes that better? Miller time!

It's the beer that's been there for every moment. Fifty years of great taste, simple ingredients, and then iconic golden color you can spot from across the room. And here's the kicker. It's just 96 calories. 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces. The original light beer since 1975 and still hitting different

five decades later. So whatever your game day looks like, remember Miller Time is always a good time. Miller Lite, great taste, 96 calories. Go to Miller Lite.com slash Dan to find delivery options near you. Or you can pick up Miller Light pretty much anywhere they sell beer. It's Miller Time. Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.