The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: The Basement in Building Three (feat. Dianna Russini)

Episode Date: November 4, 2025

"I don't think I missed Dan today." Dianna Russini is here on her busiest day of the year with the NFL Trade Deadline incoming, and instead of being stressed out, she's in a great place because of Amin's attempt at humanization. Also, dispute getting kicked out of his spot for his Top 5, Tony leads the show to a Jacoby Brissett despite. (Note: Dan, if you're reading this description, "dispute" and "despite" are used correctly here. Just trust me. Context is important.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Levitard podcast. I'm sorry. I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries that if they're just just there. That hasn't happened to you guys? I've done it. And now, here's the marching man to nowhere, fat face

and the habitual liar. This episode of the Dan Labit's Art show is presented by Draft Kings. Traff Kings, the crown is yours. Jump the gun a little bit there. I didn't jump anything, man. He was like, pro. He was excited. That was all done. Did it right on point. Well, the mic didn't pick up that this part.

Pretty sure it did. It just got the episode of... It's like a buzzer beater where you're looking at the replay and you're seeing if the ball is still on the fingertip. Check the tape, you'll be wrong. A little premature. A little fall start. I'm sure you would be the one to know, Greg. You know, I'm a radio professional.

Not that this is radio, but you get my... It's close enough. We're going to welcome in Diana Rusini from The Athletic. She joins us for her weekly hit. Now, Diana, usually you come on, you give us lots of great knowledge, and then Tony does his top five later on in the show, and he claims that you've stolen all of his material. And so today we're going to do something a little different.

Okay. We're going to let Tony do his top five first, but Tony right now is going to deliver it live on location from outside the America Business Forum. That's where President Trump is going to be here tomorrow. That's why there was all the traffic that made Greg late, uncommonly late today. So Tony, you're out there right now. The crowd still haven't started arriving, but, you know, it's happening. You ready to give our top five?

Yeah, I mean, I'm ready. There's a couple people camped out right now here in the parking lot waiting for, from saying i need credentials to be here i'm out i'm outside of the crusades i'm like i'm good i got a pack it up and go i like i i'm not good here not at all not at all okay seems like there's okay seems like credentials are needed for this spot outside on a public street i'm not i know where you are you're across the street i'm across the street tell them yeah it doesn't matter you got to leave now mention my name okay all right wow Zaslow?

No, no, that's not my name. Okay. It's not my name. Okay. All right, guys. All right. All right. Go to Diana.

Okay. I guess Diana's going to have to do hers first then. Wow. Yeah. That was great. Shocking. Shocking. So Diana, he doesn't have the clock that you had.

You were in the lobby of a hotel yelling, had your volume on high. Nobody told you anything. Tony can't even ask you. Just kept working, moving. No, and I was doing my thing. He needs some type of credential there. Usually you just point to your face. You go, this is the credential.

right that's what you're supposed to do that's a famous story in sports that that's what the big dogs do they just this is it this gets me the access uh not for me but i'm i feel bad for him i've been there a million times where you're just trying to do your job tony's just trying to give us the news uh but i'm gonna come save them so this actually worked out good yeah awesome so we're here in miami obviously the big story this week was the firing of chris greer the trading of dylan phillips uh what can you tell us as far as the not necessarily the timing of the firing, but the fact that it wasn't a clean sweep

with him and Mike McDaniel. First of all, this is the first time I've ever done a show without Dan. Really? Wow. Congratulations. The vibes are very different guys. You know what? You guys know this? Diana Rusini's first day at ESPN. Me and her met in the basement of Building Zero? Was it? Or building? He's like Building 3. And you were like,

Run. There shouldn't be Building Zero. Right? Like, what are we doing with that? So me and Diana go way back. That's why the vibe is different. Hold on. I'm writing down that piece of trivia. Thank you for sharing. Way,

way, you were great. You're so nervous. You're nervous your first year at ESPN. Forget your first day. Dude, it was your first day. You were nervous. I was, I've been there. So they had me doing these, like, digital shows,

which at the time was considered, like, the lowest level of, of, like, appearances. And they had hired me for Sports Center. And I was just, like, waiting for, like, the call up. So they put me in, like, the basement. like literally the basement and I'd be like what am I doing down here and and you would be so nice and be like the guest after you would do the big shows yeah to just sit with me and I didn't know what I was doing and you would just like power through and you essentially were hosting and doing the analysis for me because I couldn't handle it so thank you for doing two jobs at

once um I somehow made it upstairs though eventually my my your talent got you upstairs you're awesome also Mike Mike's like it's just long day. What are we doing? You know what we're doing? We're humanizing. These are people. These are human beings. She's an NFL insider and right now NFL insiders are the most popular people on the planet. I'm not sure if you've seen your timeline, but the discourse is crazy and people are supporting Diana's line of work. Diana, what do you make of this? It's been a week worth of dialogue here. Pablo actually did make some sense in the clip that I saw about journalism and my main takeaway is, yeah, why are we just so accustomed to every source being anonymous?

We know where this is coming from. This seems like a ridiculous practice. So where are you on the current discourse? Okay. First. That's a deadline question? For those that we're listening and heard the Miami question, I can sum it quickly, right? So Chris Greer gets fired.

There is belief that the head coach is still the right guy. They really believe that he has not lost the locker room. I know last time we talked about this and Greg was asking me for specific examples on why I thought the team was giving up on him and I didn't have any good ones. And I wound up making some call. I was actually really glad he pinned me down on it because I made some calls after the show. And even I wrote about it in my column that week that the players were still bought in. And he hasn't. And they still think he's the right guy.

So look, it's got to come down to Stephen Ross making this decision. But this isn't one of these situations where I have a date circled on my calendar. Like, oh, if he doesn't win this many games, he's getting fired. They're trying to get him through the season. And I think when the new GM comes in, then they'll have heavier discussions. But so far, I'm not super concerned about Mike. So I don't know how you feel about that. But that's the intel I have for now.

As for the narratives, the conversations, these very strong opinions from hot takers and analysts and consumers of news, I feel like there's two camps right now. There's people that just want the information and they don't care if I say, per my mailman or per my dog, right? They don't care. I have really good friends of mine that I respect who like the fake accounts too. They're like, whatever, if they know something and they have a scoop because the, you know, the guy at the deli told them, great. They just want the information. And then there's another camp of they don't really care about the information as much as who's giving it to the reporters. That seems to be the hang up.

And I think agents are the most hated people in our space because they're trying to control, obviously, the money and the perception of their clients and they use us. But most of us don't just rely on agents. The transaction game is vapor, right? Like you guys know that. It's so stupid. Like Woj gave me this advice years ago. He's like, do not waste your time on that. And it's true. And by the way, he was the king of it, right? He was like Mr. Transaction. But he was sharing that as a, hey, I learned that once you're all in on the transaction game, you kind of can't get out. I think it's good to do transactions because it shows the audience and the fans that you know people and you can get the scoop. But I think the better kind of journalism, and obviously

Pablo is a wonderful example of that right now. And really the stuff that we do with the athletic, not to be all promo of my own company, where we dig a little and we take a little bit more time and we're not as pressed to get it out in that exact moment. Most of the time, what I'm tweeting that stuff about transactions, things, and trades, it's my own little psychotic competitiveness. Like, no one at the athletics like, go beat Adam or you're fired. They don't care at all. They're like, tell us why.

Explain the pull back the curtain a bit. So from the luxury of that, that's a wonderful place. It's why I love working where I do. But at the same time, there is a rat race to this. People love the info. It's awesome to win. So I think the original question was, Mike, do we have to keep saying per source when it's so obvious who we're talking to, right? I think until people are comfortable just admitting that they talk to us because that's the problem.

Like I was at a game on Sunday. I was at the giant San Francisco 49ers game. The people I talk to the most from both those teams won't even wave to me. Like they don't even want to look my way Because they're so paranoid To be seen as the one that talked to me So that's why I always laugh Like if you see me talking to somebody

They definitely don't text me Like they don't talk to me They don't give me any scoop Like it's almost like you're better off being around me Because then then you know It's a way of protecting yourself Diana how active are the dolphins still today After the Jalen Phillips?

Active active they're taking calls They're obviously not buyers but teams around the league have an understanding that they're willing to listen on a lot of players, almost every player. I don't think they're going to make all these deals, but I think the tone there has changed over the last few days or so where more teams are calling them knowing, okay, maybe it's a different business venture now that Chris Greer is no longer there. Diana, Washington is dealing with injuries. Jane Daniels has hurt again. Do you think we're going to see a fire sale from the commanders?

I don't. I think they're going to definitely sell. I don't think they're selling at a cheap price to just move on to next season. No, you know, they were looking for a pass rusher of the last few weeks. They're not giving up on this season, but it's been a weird one, right? like they're that team that that we're going little black cloud right between them and the san Francisco 49ers it just feel like they can't they can't catch a break especially you know in terms of the injury situations there they've got these older players obviously you know we discussed

dan quinn and his decision to keep jaden in the game um yeah they're they're just for a team that was so electric last year and um i think had a lot of potential to be good things are just not swinging their way but but i don't i don't think this is an organization that's like let's just sell it all off. I think right now they're trying to keep this thing intact. Another team that seems to be falling apart of the Cincinnati Bengals, me and Zaz had a lot of fun yesterday, listening to Jemar Chase.

Offense and defense are going to fight. Yeah, like they hate each other. They hate each other. They're openly war of words in the media against each other. There's no way that this whole thing stays together, right? In Cincinnati? And that's to me, like forget reporting and press conference. conferences, when it's individual players essentially taking passive aggressive and sometimes just

aggressive shots at each other, that's the worst of the worst, right? Because that just tells you the culture. And that means from the top down, it's not good. And they know it. I talk to people in Cincinnati. Like, the players know. Like, it's, it's, it's, things are, it's been a hard year for them. And obviously, Joe Burrow is the center of all of this. And he kind of, um, represented the hope of oh if we could just get through if we could just get through and joe will get back um you know and timelines with with injuries as you guys know it's so hard to predict like great awesome in most cases coming off a turf toe injury you're excuse me surgery you're back in this many weeks but look at brock purdy he didn't even have surgery he's got the turf toe he was expected to be back

like four weeks ago he's still not playing right so like you you just never know so i i i i I never liked this theory that, oh, let's just get through these games. Then Joe can save the day because it was never, that wasn't a permanent, that wasn't a fact. So I think for now, Cincinnati is listening. They're taking calls. Trey Hendrickson's the biggest name right now in terms of teams calling, trying to get, you know, gauge this scenario. As of yesterday, they were still looking for a first round pick in exchange for him. But I can tell you, other teams that I've been talking to this morning, and even later yesterday afternoon, they think they're going to lower their price.

They think they're going to drop that on Trey. We'll see if they do it. You know, this is other teams predicting what the Bengals would do. This isn't the Bengals telling me this. So we'll see if they change their price for Trey and move on from him. It would make sense for them to do it. Quick time out here. Talk to you about the official ticketing partner of the Dan Levitard show.

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Fox 1 We Live for Live for live streaming now Don Levitard Are you on the fan right now? Did Mike Greenberg call you yet? Are you ever going to go back to ESPN? People think it's so weird

You're a writer now All those years on TV All those years and now you're right? Who reads that? Stugats Why did you take a job at the Atlantic? Mom, I work at the Athletic What?

You're on YouTube? This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats. Diane, I got one more on the Dolphins and Mike McDaniel. The fact that it appears that Mike McDaniel could be the coach still next season for the Dolphins. Is it possible that Stephen Ross believes that too is the problem? Oh, yeah. I think that's very fair.

I think that's going to be, without a doubt, the story of the offseason of what will they do with to it is this the right marriage right is he the right quarterback for for for mike mcdaniel if this is the direction they want to go in right like what i want to know was what happened right like two it got paid which he deserved it um and something something changed and i i what happened and i think that's going to be stuff we'll be digging on over the next few weeks i'll tell you exactly you what happened. What? Ace Hardware

13 times 3 equals Panini Sandwich. Hello. Oh, sorry CTE kicked in again. It's the fun CTE

though. It's the fun kind. What are we seeing today, Diana? It's deadline day. Yeah, let's get down. Occasionally, over the last couple of years,

we've seen some wild ones. Which contenders are going to make moves? Is there a surprise name out there that might get moved? No, it's not as sexy as I wanted it to be.

I thought it had a shot like two weeks ago. I thought maybe there'd be a big name player, you know, if, I don't know, if A.J. Brown maybe kept tweeting. Who knows? You know, like I was thinking maybe there would be an opportunity, but Philly has shut that down despite teams calling. So that story's over. You know, and other than that, I mean,

pass rusher is the position that a lot of teams are looking into. There was a time where I thought maybe Minnesota would make a move at quarterback, depending on how J.J. McCarthy played. Obviously, he played very well. So that's off the table. They're sticking with him and sticking with who they've got there. But I had this conversation with a general manager a couple days ago. The needs are there on every team. Every general manager is swimming in the waters today and they're casting their pole in the water and try to catch something. But if there's no fish that are worth it, you just don't do it. And I'll tell you, there's a lot of executives who are afraid to make moves. They are. They're afraid to look bad. They're

afraid to lose the trade. The best ones that I, that I've been around over the years, they don't care. They don't care about the report card. They're just trying to make their team better. And the teams that are already very aware of what they are, right, teams that we assume are going to be making the playoffs and by math, by those calculations are pretty almost guaranteed at this point, it's close to it. You know, they're trying to get better in any area. There's no like specific team, excuse me, specific position. Just like, if there's a good player, that we can find. We're going to go get them. I just don't think there's anyone. Max Crosby's not available. Miles Garrett's not available. The ones that you want to see get moved,

that would be Blockbuster, just aren't there. So we've got a few hours left. You never know, right? I feel like I always put that out there because God knows with the luck of this show while I'm on it, you know. What would be the trade that I would just quit? Like, I probably would never come back on. Like, what could happen right now that would make you go, oh, man, she just look bad there. Mahomes. Mahomes, wow. Mahomes get moved for Tua.

Semi realistic. There you go. And then Tua. What to where? To Cleveland? No, Mahomes for Tua and then Tua blowing up with the chiefs. And then running the table. That you should quit after that.

If that happened, I would quit. I would be like, never mind. If it was during the show, too. Oh, my God. How great would that be? No, it happens. In fact, I thought about it last night. I'm like, I think I'm going to text Dan.

and cancel and push it to Wednesday because something always happens when I'm focused on this show and and see as my phone rings. Don't worry. It was in any one. Well, there could be the opportunity for something crazy happening because the Cowboys lost late last night and Jerry Jones said at the beginning of the season he wouldn't put it past himself to actually use what he received in the Micah Parsons trade to go out and acquire somebody else. So if there is a team to go out and do something desperate at the deadline, Dallas's season's teetering on the edge.

Do you see them doing something drastic? No, I don't. I don't. And, you know, they made that move this morning. It's funny. You look at the Cowboys defense and they're like, oh, you know, let's do this. Let's trade with a team whose defense is worse than ours. This doesn't make any sense to me.

But what Jerry said to my face, he wasn't going past rush. Like, on the record. And I know. Like, take it for what it is. In that case, right in stone. Yeah, it doesn't mean anything. It's not like other people when you get them on the record. You know, it's just like he could change his mind today.

So, look, I don't know a name right now that they're targeting, that they've been calling. I know the Jets have been receiving a bunch of phone calls for some of their players on defense. Quinn and Williams is a name. I've been hearing a lot over the last few hours as someone, a bunch of teams are targeting. Jeffrey Simmons is a guy that teams want. Titans aren't moving him. So again, I think Jerry would like to make a, I can sense he wants to do something, but Michael Parsons isn't available.

Diana, two-part follow-up on the Dolphins again. Champ Kelly's interim GM, fairly inexperienced at the job. Any chance he can work his way into that job, or are they definitely going to replace him? And number two, how does the two a conundrum, play out. Is there a trade market for him? Aren't they stuck with him next year based on the guaranteed money? How does that play out? Yeah, from what I understand, Champ is there right now to keep this ship riding and to keep them afloat. He obviously has experience doing it before. He's been in interim. But as I'm sure you guys have seen reported, you know, Stephen Ross has a heavy hand

in this and he's part of all the conversations that are being had. Not that he wasn't, before, by the way. Like, you know, he's always, he's one of those owners that likes to know what's going on. But, but I definitely think it's more of a, he needs to approve all of these trades from talking to some teams that have talked to Miami over the last few days of like, there's a little bit more of a process there than what it was before. So I do think they're going to go try to find a general manager. You look, you never know. Maybe Champ does some great work over the next few weeks, but I don't think they're in a position right now where they think anyone internally, by the way, this goes back to the head coaching situation. There was a time where,

you know, when things were really bad for the Dolphins and I was having a conversation with someone there and they were like, well, who's going to be the interim here? Like everyone wants us to fire people, but it's not like you've got these great coaches all over the place. It's not easy to find to just fill in that gap. So, To get to the Tua part of this, Greg, this is going to be what the new regime is going to have to discuss and figure out what they want, right? And look, I think there's people in that building that have already made up their mind about them, which I think there's some people there that still believe in them. And I think there's some people there that would be fine with moving on from Tua if there's a market for them, if it's available. And if there is a team that would trade for Tua, every time I've done these kind of stories where, you know, it's midfall and then you think,

this guy stinks no one's going to want them well it changes a lot uh in the off season when you've got these teams desperate for a quarterback and and two it doesn't seem so bad um so we'll see how this plays out plays out in in the off season but that is for sure outside what the futures of this head coach and you know what the general manager will be the the two a question is is holding them back for sure she's a senior NFL insider at the athletic and the host of the scoop city podcast new episodes drop every Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, wherever you get podcasts. Diana, thank you for joining us. Thank you.

And thank you for being so nice to me on my first day. And I got to say, I don't think I'm going to stand today. Humanizing. That's what we do here. Don Lebertard. To us, residents. Oh, wow. That's pretty good.

It's in there. Better. I think I haven't been practicing? Stugats. Oh, oh. I didn't realize we had a substitute complicated legacy. Brought you by headquarters Toyota. 441 Powerline Road

Second out of nine This is the Dan Levitar show With the Stugats All right We go straight from Diana Out to Tony on location Different location To give us his top five

Tony's top five Tony where are you joining us from They made you move I mean I am probably the closest Yeah I'm closest part that we could be here to the Kasea Center where we do not need a credential, which is literally in the corner of the office.

Mike. But seeing the Kasea Center over my left shoulder. You're, you're, I, this is, what the hell, man? What are you laughing at? He's literally standing right there, right outside that door.

No, no, he's not. He's not that close. That's not true. That is not true. I can tell that window anywhere. Can you read me, can you read the number one? Dispute continuously playing terrible football

That says dispute not despite Despite Despite continuously playing terrible football The Jags are 5 and 3 somehow True or not true I can't get over the spelling Yeah it's auto correct That was whatever

Tony I was at that stadium this weekend Where the Jaguars play Everbanks stadium place a dump Oh hard Yeah it's bad but But make sure that you connect with my people when you're in my turf, by the way. Jacksonville's my city. You got to check in.

904 stand up. Duval County stand up. Yeah, you got to check in with my people. Let me tell the people that this. Make it sure you know that player. This top five is presented by Smyranoff, the official vodka sponsor of the National Football League. Smyranoff, please drink responsibly.

The Smyranoff Company, New York, New York, vodka 40% alcohol by volume. All right, Tony. That was just a little taste of the OLA. Okay. Yeah, that was just a little taste of the OLA. Here's the rest. So I got three O'O-LIs after that,

and then I'll have to be. my top five. Okay. So we'll get one, two, three, oh, lies quick. Here you go. Say what you want about the Bengals defense. They're always in exciting games. I know Zaz wanted to pit the offense against the defense yesterday with Chase Brown's comments. I didn't want to. I'm just speaking a truth. That's all. Okay, that might be your truth, not my truth. My truth is the Bengals are always in exciting games. Thank you to the defense. We should be saying thank you to the Bengals defense, not chastising them. Jonathan Zaslow. I can hardly see the Cassidy. Nobody's having that take. Yes, you can. I can.

there over his left shoulder road sign it's right there yeah we see the port of Miami signs okay all right whatever go on no one oh a lot number three no one has more ugly wins than the Denver Broncos yeah sure I don't think that can be disputed no or despite it or despite it he said Next to a lot. Guys, guys, I'm rattled. My bad. All right, stop me if you've heard this one before.

Bills beat the Chiefs in the regular season. Who cares? Biggest, who cares of all time? Who can? He beat the Chiefs in the regular season. Yeah, sure, good game. It's always a good game. They always win by seven.

They win by three. Okay, great. Then they get beat in the playoffs. It's the same thing. Yeah, bills are five in one against Mahomes in the regular season with Alan. They're winless in the playoffs. Tony's rattled like. Mike Ryan after a sky call.

Money on the bills. Everybody who bet money on the bills. Yeah, exactly. Thank you, Jim. All right. Number five. Number five, the Packers are on fraud watch. Keep an eye on the Packers are on Fraud Watch.

You lose to Carolina. Yeah. At home, right? Even though Carolina's sneaky five and four. Sneaky decent? Three and one since Dan said their season was over. Or the Carolina Panthers were real? No, they're not for real, but they're dead, as Dan said after they won.

They've gone three and one since, like Jeremy said. Look at the picture on the screen right now. This is a throw that Jordan Love had to nobody? Yeah. To somebody? To somebody in the opposite jersey. With the game on the line, Packers, Jordan Love thrown an absolute prayer, a goose up. Yeah, they're on fraud watch for me.

When does Toyotathon start, though? because that's when we know Jordan Love really gets things going on. It has? No, it starts. I think it starts late October into December. I'll check those dates, but if that's the case, they're screwed. Next. Yeah.

Number four. Okay. Rams and the 49ers, quietly at six wins each. Nobody's talking about these teams. But quietly, Rams and 49ers, both. Rams and 49ers quietly at six wins. Rams might be the best team in the league. I'm not going quietly, though.

I feel like every week you talk about McCorkel doing something. Oh my God, he's got him going. Stafford, quiet MVP. I know. Conversation? I'm telling you. Thank you, Greg. He walked in the bar and guess what he ordered?

Bottle service. Oh, yeah. That means he's in it. Huge news, Tony. Yes, sir. Got a couple bottles of smear enough. Huge news for the Packers. Toyotan starts mid-November

Oh wow Mid-November I thought it was mid-October Okay good to hear Number three OLA, top TV Tony stop five number three Weird how the Cardinals Look so much better

And more competent With Jacoby Brissette It's weird Isn't it? I tell you that Kyla Murray sucked like five weeks ago And now just the fruit are bearing The fruit are bearing everywhere

It's abundance of Jacobi Brissette Even though he won their first game since their, like, five-game skid, the point being, they look better, they look more competent. Fruit or bearing? Everywhere. Everywhere. Dispute Jacoby Brissette's incredible performance on Monday night. They do have a franchise quarterback there that hasn't done anything to really lose the job.

Do you have eyes? Do you have eyes? He hasn't been good in like a couple of seasons, if you want me to be real honest with you. What more did Jacoby Preset have to do? He's done to so many places now. It's like, is he ever going to break out of that backup kind of brick glass? This might be the final spot. I mean, your hometown team, your hometown team, the Arizona Cardinals, right in Phoenix, right, the big toaster, okay?

This might be the stop where Jonathan Gannon says, you know what? I kind of like the way that the offense moves with Jacoby Reset better than it does with Kyler Murray. Who does Kyler Murray make better? Is it Marvin Harrison Jr.? No. Is it Tray McBride? No. Like Michael Wilson?

Does he make Michael Wilson better? The second Y receiver? Sure, okay, great. Kyler Murray doesn't make anybody better. Jacoby Brissette comes in. Trey McBride looks like an all-world tight end. Marvin Harrison Jr. finally starts getting things going to.

McBride, yes, McBride was made better by-Garmer. Guys, guys, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Mike. Don't do that to yourself. It was one of the more productive tight ends. Don't do it to yourself, Mike. He's just getting into the end zone. No, Tony's right. Mike, you know you guys?

McBride's always been great. The splits are terrible, Mike. Terrible. on your ass, Mike. I didn't want to do that, man. Terrible. Mike, I like you, Mike. I'll find those.

He just doesn't get into the end zone, Kyle, but he's one of the best titans in the league with Kyler. You know, this is Tony's top five. I don't want to hear from you, Mike. Thank you, Mike. Thank you, Mike. All right. Number two, uh-oh,

Calabasa, Calabasa for our favorite Cinderella QB. Put him up on the screen. Danny Dimes, a terrible, terrible game against the Steelers. Calabasa, Calabasa for my, for my GreenGo family members over there in the, uh, in the studio means pumpkin pumpkin

and the saying in Spanish is Calabasa Calabasa, all the world for la Casa which means pumpkin pumpkin, everybody home right? And that's obviously a play on Cinderella where the pumpkin to the carriage turned into a pumpkin. So we're looking at pumpkin time right now instead of Apple Time pumpkin time

for Danny Dynes. You know the Kardashians live in Calabaza, Calabaza, California. They too. Good for you. But the thing is, I didn't mean that for you though. You're honorary Cuban. course. You've been in the Kendall Flannies.

You know what's up? Oh, my God. Take me back. Oh, one more time, man. You've been to the Kendall Flannies. I need like a zip line from the top of the Elster straight to Kendall. Just all the way down there. Land at the Flanagan.

It's like, where is the Mee? Oh, there he is. Flying down the Dolphin Expressway. All right, number one, Mike McDonald, coach of the year. saying it here in week 9 Coach of the Year Mike McDonald Shout out to him

Yamo be there Yeah Coach of the year Okay Shout out to the Seahawks Playing a really good ball Mike McDonald Coach of the year

That's Tony's top five gentlemen Yeah It's presented by Smirnoff Shout out to Smirnoff For Tony I have the splits So under Jacoby Brissette, Trey McBride stats. We lost them.

He's not going to be here for an average of just about seven catches per game for 64 yards and almost one touchdown per game. And who is that with? That's Jacobi Brissette. Under Kyler Murray, the average is about five catches per game for 52 yards and 0.1 touchdowns per game. Yeah, it's a touchdown. So it's about a 15 yard difference, a couple more catches. And obviously, like, the touchdown rates are way higher. That's a lot.

That's a lot. I mean, it's. You did it to yourself. My two catches of games. Based off those stats, you guys oversold. You did. You're talking about a three-game sample, which I could be reset. He's not good. My five games. How many games with Tyler Murray? The touchdowns will come down. If the argument is that Kyla Murray does not just, Trey McBride wastes away with Kyla Murray, it's not true. Wildly overstated. How about Kyler Murray right now, today, within the next couple of hours, the Washington commanders trade for him.

Wow. I like that. I don't know why they would do it. I like this game. Hop on a bird, go to Spain. We're playing the Dolphins, Kyle. They built the offense for Jaden Daniels. You can run around, right? It's better than Marcus Marriota, and then maybe they got a shot in that division. Long flight, you know what you do?

You learn the playbook. No, Call of Duty, baby. What are you talking about? Tyler Murray, what are we doing? Did we look up the splits or no? Yeah, it's two more catches per game, about 15 more yards per game, and the touchdown rate is... Plus all across the board.

Every single thing. With five games. with Brissette. Okay. Tony, you know what they're doing? What? They're doing it to themselves. I'm so trying to tell.

They continue to do. 39 games of Calgary. Despite being warned. He was a five. How many touchdowns? How many touchdowns? Yeah, but my argument was it's just a touchdown. But then why isn't Kyler Murray looking for his best weapon in the red zone in the red zone?

Why is that not happening? Why did he have a touchdown last year of a fumble recovery before he caught in a offense of. Especially, especially in that stadium where they have a big sign that says red zone. Kyler Murray has like one two touchdown game. The numbers like fly up. He's not good, guys. There's a reason why he's not going to play.

But you overstated the splits. You know what? I'm bored. Okay, so let's talk about AI. Let's talk about AI because I downloaded SORA and it sucks. What is that? Sora is the people who make Chad GPT made this app where you can create AI videos. You scan your face, you say some phrases, and now you can make AI videos of yourself.

You can make AI videos of anything, really. And so I would. was messing around with it, and I said something along the lines of, hey, man on the street interviewing three Miami Heat fans, ask them, what do you want the heat to do? They all yell out, get Jha. And then I said, the interviewer follows up with why do you think they should get Jha. And one fan says, because this is Miami and we get Stars, baby. The second fan says because he's got the hottest shoe in the game. And the third fan says, because you can always use more shooters.

Pretty simple, right? This dumb-ass app could never get that to happen. I kept getting, like, the interviewer would then answer his own question. I got a guy who had glasses appear midway through his answer. I'm talking about just,

he's talking to you and all of it. I like it. I've got one where the interview is asking the question and the third fan is mouthing the question as the guy is saying it. I like it's so goofy. I'm like, this is never going to replace anything of notes.

Well, it sounds like it was so bad that it was good, though. I mean, I did laugh. Yeah. I did laugh. I also had one where I sit in court side and I threw up on Media Row. And you threw up? Yeah, I made it. Like Tracy Morgan?

Yeah, yeah, like that. But on Media Row, right? So everyone's laptops are there or whatever. You puked on people's computers? In this AI video, yes. Was it realistic vomit? The vomit was realistic. The depiction of me was not.

They had me like 225 pounds. Yeah, I could show. I'm not going to, we're not going to do this on air. I'm not going to give them, I'm not going to give them that kind of. I want to see a mean puking on Media Row. I don't know. It's a good one. I know, I'll show you in the break.

I don't want to disrupt the flow. But like, I just, I just kept thinking about all the people are like, they're going to replace actors and stuff. I'm like, they're never going to be able to replace human acting with AI. Sora is good if you give it the grace that it deserves for a very low kind of phi app. Is it called Sora? I don't know. Why is anything called anything? Why is Apple called Apple?

Why are you called Zaslo? Why are you called Zaslo? Seriously. That's your name, right? Why is it called a microphone? Yeah. Really, that's what we're doing? That kind of thing.

What do you not get? It's been a weird show Zaz. I don't know what I'll tell you. So the point. You are doing it to yourself again, you are doing gymnastics that these two behind me are trying to get the splits. You know what's called? I test. No, no, do the last six games?

No, Jeremy, put in this season, minus the last two games. It's just like, it's close. This season, the stats are. better in every single category for Tray McBride with Jacoby Percette. But in five games, it's 29 catches with Kyler, 34 with Jacoby Percette. It's 275 yards of Kyler. It is 320 yards with Perced. Better. And the really big one is one touchdown in five games with Kyla, four touchdowns in five games with Jacoby percent. Better. It's better in every category. I will say the difference of five catches is not gigantic, but it is a catch game. Let's quit trying to make

Jacoby Brissette better than Kyle Murray. Thank you. It is a better. true. Jacoby besets a career backup. He was bad with the Dolphins. He had him down here. He was our backup and he stunk. I'm bored. You were just interested for a second. We had you. The interesting part is that right now

they just won at Dallas and you know, they're not maximizing. Now, they lost a game that didn't have much to do with Kyler. That had to do with DeMarcato's drop and the insane play that Tennessee made. But, you know, they're at a, it appears to be a crossroads with Kyla Murray, where they have to decide. And truthfully, like Jacoby Brissette, historically has been a solid enough quarterback

that everyone's like, this is a prime backup. If he's ever given the opportunity to be QB1 again, I know he briefly had one in Cleveland, but if he's able to take that from a young quarterback and you fully endorse him, it would be interesting to see where they go. Ju-Ju, put it on the poll, who's better, Jacoby Preset, or Kyler Murray? Objection, you're only leading the witness. Just a question. Just a question.

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