Local Hour: Dan Doesn't Know Ball (feat. Amin Elhassan?)

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Local Hour: Dan Doesn't Know Ball

Date: December 2, 2025
Location: Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami
Featured Guests: Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, Mike Ryan, Greg Cody, Roy, Jonathan Zaslo, Eddie, assorted show regulars

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Overview

The "Local Hour" barrels through Miami Hurricanes football playoff drama, in-fighting about who “knows ball,” and a classic blend of competitive sports debate mixed with personal chaos. Mike Ryan leads the charge as the passionate Miami booster, challenges fly about loyalty and expertise, and the group spirals into the absurd—ranging from college football playoff selection to heated fantasy league controversies and Miami Heat NBA takes.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. College Football Playoff Debate: Miami’s Case

• (02:28, 12:17, 26:00, 27:57)
  • Mike Ryan & Greg Cody argue over the University of Miami's claim to a College Football Playoff berth—Greg, ever the loyal alum, doubts their chances, while Mike nearly explodes with conviction that Miami deserves to be in.
  • Debate over playoff selection criteria: Mike highlights the CFP’s official tiebreakers—strength of schedule, head-to-head, common opponents—asserting Miami checks every box over rivals like Notre Dame and Texas Tech.
  • Greg insists Texas Tech is the only team that could possibly blow out Miami, but isn’t convinced they'd actually do it.
  • The group lampoons the committee for inconsistency: the "criteria changes every week, changes team to team" (26:52, Mike Ryan).

Notable Quote

"Miami shouldn't be debated as a playoff team. It's a matter of fact. This is a playoff team and it might just be the best team in the nation."
—Mike Ryan (12:45)

Notable Exchange

Greg Cody: “You think I misrepresented your attitude when you were talking to Greg earlier before?”
Mike Ryan: “If that is not your stance this week, then you're not with me, you're against.” (12:53)

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2. Who Knows Ball? – Allegiances and Accusations

• (10:58, 13:02, 24:23, 31:03, 36:17)
  • Mike accuses Dan and Greg of not being “ball knowers,” a running theme punctuating the episode.
  • Show insiders and university voices question Dan's and Greg's credibility on football, with suggestions Mario Cristobal avoids the show because it's “full of non ball-knowers.”
  • Greg counters: “I'm the alumni. I'm an alumni hater.” (10:04)
  • Mike's “Department of War” persona emerges, painting himself as Miami’s ride-or-die booster.

Notable Quote

“How dare you look me in the face and say I am not a ball knower.”
—Greg Cody (13:02)

“I am a proud Miami Hurricane booster. I love this program pretty much more than anything that isn't a human being on this planet. And I will die for this program if I have to."
—Mike Ryan (36:25)

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3. Governors Stealing Takes: The CFP Criteria "War"

• (20:05, 20:57, 22:00, 23:06)
  • Mike describes Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Texas Governor Greg Abbott plagiarizing his playoff tweets, using identical criteria graphics and talking points in support of their state’s teams.
  • Mike jokingly apologizes after referring to Abbott, who is in a wheelchair, as "Wheels," issuing a tongue-in-cheek statement on fake Miami “Department of War” letterhead. The group debates whether the apology or the initial nickname is more offensive.
  • The panel lampoons the spectacle of politicians wading into sports fandom and using internet memes as official communication.

Notable Quotes

“Ron DeSantis is stealing Mike shit. And I'm convinced that everything Mario Cristobal does is with Mike Ryan's hand up his back."
—Greg Cody (09:05)

“I call them wheels, which you already know because Dan totally undercut it. Greg Abbott famously in a wheelchair.”
—Mike Ryan (22:36)

"In the heat of spirited sports debate, I referred to Greg Abbott as Wheels in a miscalculated attempt at jocular banter... I should have simply called him a... This was my initial instinct. For this lapse... I offer my sincere apology."
—Greg Cody, reading Mike Ryan's statement (23:43)

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4. Miami Heat and NBA Lottery Anxiety

• (44:42)
  • Quick pivot to the NBA: Greg Cody flags OKC Thunder’s historic dominance and the specter of a great team also having top draft picks from struggling teams like the Clippers and 76ers, raising competitive balance fears.

Notable Quote

"OKC is in a position where they might have through 20 games the best team anyone's ever seen."
—Greg Cody (45:34)

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5. Personal Chaos: Lunch, Texts, and Fantasy Drama

• (38:00, 40:41)
  • Greg gets lost on the way to lunch; Dan reveals their texts to gentle ribbing.
  • The fantasy football league descends into drama over missed picks on a Black Friday game—Chris accuses Greg (the “commissioner”) of poor oversight, Greg and Eddie volley blame back and forth, Mike pipes in about loyalty and responsibility.
  • The “Ways” navigation app gets scapegoated for Greg’s navigation woes, which only adds to the fun.

Notable Quote

"How do you get lost on the way to the office? I'll say it again, like you've been coming here for now a couple of years."
—Greg Cody (40:08)

"What do I have to wipe the ass of my teams?"
—Eddie (41:52)

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6. Meta Moments & Classic Banter

• (24:23, 36:09)
  • Mike repeatedly leans into his “Department of War” Miami fanatic persona, lamenting that he’s “been on the front lines for four weeks,” and he’s “that guy in the war movie in the tower that’s a little cuckoo.”
  • Recurring jokes around staged confrontations, endless digressions, Greg being called “pal” when Mike’s heated, and Roy appearing inexplicably dressed as John Tesh.

Notable Exchange

Mike Ryan: "You want to call it ridiculous? This is how I live, all right? This has me devastated. This has me... you have to pick me up off the floor with a spatula when we lose to FIU." (36:52)

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Memorable Quotes & Segments (by Timestamp)

• 12:45 — "Miami shouldn't be debated as a playoff team..." (Mike Ryan)
• 13:02 — "How dare you look me in the face and say I am not a ball knower." (Greg Cody)
• 20:57 — "The committee will select the teams using a process that distinguishes among otherwise comparable teams by considering strength of schedule..." (Mike, laying out CFP criteria)
• 22:36 — "I call them wheels... Greg Abbott famously in a wheelchair." (Mike Ryan)
• 23:43 — "I offer my sincere apology. The Miami Department of War remains committed..." (Greg Cody, reading Mike's 'apology')
• 36:25 — "I love this program pretty much more than anything that isn't a human being on this planet. And I will die for this program if I have to." (Mike Ryan)
• 40:08 — "How do you get lost on the way to the office?" (Greg Cody about Greg Cody)
• 45:34 — "OKC is in a position where they might have through 20 games the best team anyone's ever seen." (Greg Cody)

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Highlights (Timestamps)

• 02:28–15:32: Miami Hurricanes playoff debate: criteria, bias, and Texas Tech “threat.”
• 20:00–24:50: Governors copying Mike’s CFP tweets; “Wheels” gaffe and fake apology.
• 38:00–43:43: Greg Cody's navigation ordeal, text message roast, fantasy picks crisis.

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Overall Tone & Vibe

Classic “Local Hour” controlled chaos—combative, hilarious, deeply personal, and always veering off in unexpected directions. The “war” for respect and the Canes' playoff spot is deadly serious for the crew (especially Mike), but always delivered with wink and warmth.

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For New Listeners

You’ll leave this episode with a true sense of how South Florida sports passion blends with show-insider mayhem: expect less clean analytics, more “who knows ball,” and plenty of wild digressions about navigation apps and NBA drafts. Mike Ryan's Miami fanaticism shines, Greg Cody plays lovable foil, and even politicians can't escape their sports-take swirl.

Transcript

[Dan LeBatard]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Dan LeBatard]

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[Greg Cody]

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[Dan LeBatard]

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[Mike Ryan]

Smirnoff.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's your favorite game day drink. What's your favorite game day food?

[Greg Cody]

Smirnoff.

[Dan LeBatard]

All right, here's the deal. Game day is everything. The noise, the rituals, the passion, the dip, the wings, the dip again.

[Greg Cody]

Smirnoff.

[Dan LeBatard]

Smirnoff belongs in that mix. Because if you're tailgating or hosting or just sitting there checking your fantasy lineup every 30 seconds, you need Smirnoff. 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 Greg 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, too. Why, Chris?

[Greg Cody]

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[Dan LeBatard]

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[Greg Cody]

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[Dan LeBatard]

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[Greg Cody]

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[Greg Cody]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Greg Cody]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Greg Cody]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Greg Cody]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Greg Cody]

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[Greg Cody]

Chris, have you ever, in the history of this show, walked in and seen anyone trying to fight your debt? Because I walked in today and the argument that Mike and Greg Cody were having seemed like both of them were unhinged. I just caught pieces of it. I know what it was about because I heard a few of the stray words and I heard Cristobal reference. But what were you arguing? And I know which side Mike's on. So where were you? What. What did you do to make Mike want to fight an old man?

[Eddie]

I don't know. Because we're on the same side here. We both feel strongly that the University of Miami deserves to be in the College Football Playoff. The disagreement, I think, is that he still thinks they're going to make it. And I don't. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think they're going to make it. I think that's our only disagreement.

[Greg Cody]

Well, it seemed like you were disagreeing vociferously, and I don't know how you do it.

[Mike Ryan]

How long have you known this guy, Greg? How long have you known this guy? A while. You have electively decided that this guy is someone you want to have in your life?

[Eddie]

I have.

[Mike Ryan]

He's been in my life for 20 years. And I'm at my wit's end with this, like, out the gates. Lying, Fake newsing. Lying or fake news shit stirring. We were talking.

[Greg Cody]

I was talking to Chris. I was talking to Chris and this happens all the time when we have university.

[Mike Ryan]

And I was speaking and you interrupted me.

[Greg Cody]

I was talking.

[Ad Announcer 1]

What side is he on? What side is he on?

[Mike Ryan]

Roy, turn his mic off. Turn it off. Turn it off.

[Roy]

It's off.

[Mike Ryan]

I was talking to Chris while I was talking to Greg. Shut your mouth. It's back on.

[Greg Cody]

Do you know Chris?

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

Can I speak?

[Greg Cody]

What happens to everything around here if I shut my mouth?

[Roy]

This is the Dan Levator show with the Stugats podcast.

[Weekend Observations Host]

Weekend Observations is presented by Miller Lite. That's right. If you're looking around, you say, this doesn't look like a means on the show. I'm not. Guess what? Dropping out of Georgia Tech turned out to be a mistake. Should have been an engineer. My Internet would be better. I could fix it, get on the roof, plug in some things, dial in Tap into the satellites. I don't know what the. Whatever. All right, here we go. Damn. Georgia Tech had the dream season, led by a Heisman worthy quarterback with hopes of a college football playoff berth on the horizon. But with back to back losses, including one where I lost a bet to El Duncan. Just like that. Make no mistake. I mean, not giving a single flying fasha about college football is back. L Duncan making a bet to potentially wear Georgia tech gear on SportsCenter then leaving ESPN the next day. Heady play. The Colts, losers of three of their last four, still have the Seahawks, the Niners and the Jags twice left on their schedule. You hear that sound, Dano? That's the sound of a clock striking midnight pumpkin time. The Fins keep hope alive yet again. Told you, Greg Cody. Stay strong. Diamond hands for about a half of football. I thought the Raiders were actually going to beat the Chargers. Progress. Look what they did to my boy Gino. These are so much better when I'm interacting with a human being. Don't look now, but here come the Orlando Magic. It's like they exclusively play better when they're missing one of their best players for about a. For about a half of football. I thought the Browns were actually going to beat the Niners. Improvement. Shelby Harris.

[Greg Cody]

Five minutes left in this. I'm not doing this for five more minutes. What do you mean five minutes left in this?

[Dan LeBatard]

I thought he was doing great.

[Greg Cody]

He is lonely. He's defeated.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

It's like a bad stand up bit.

[Greg Cody]

He tried so hard at the beginning and now he. He can't do anything right. And he did this on the Internet yesterday because his Internet didn't work here. So he did it on our social media platforms and it sounded really lonely. It was the most depressing weekend observations I've heard. He was looking around the room as if he were suspicious. He didn't have a hostage video. He didn't.

[Eddie]

He didn't look sad.

[Greg Cody]

He didn't have any help.

[Weekend Observations Host]

Half a football.

[Eddie]

It looks like he's laying down on a wooden floor.

[Weekend Observations Host]

They suck situations to keep an eye on. Since losing Trey Young in late October, The Hawks are 115 and have the 10th best defense in the league. Against Tyler Shuck.

[Greg Cody]

All right, turn that down again. I. You can tell you six.

[Mike Ryan]

Tyler Show.

[Greg Cody]

How is there more time left than there was before when you told me there were five minutes left. It's getting longer. Roy, what are you dressed as?

[Roy]

John Tesh.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

Striking resemblance.

[Roy]

Really look just like him. You know, a couple of things are off about, you know, the resemblance oh.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

No, no, no, no.

[Roy]

What are they?

[Mike Ryan]

He doesn't call it. The collar's different. You gotta call it.

[Roy]

Yeah. Cufflinks.

[Dan LeBatard]

I don't see collar.

[Eddie]

That toupee looks great.

[Mike Ryan]

Thanks, Greg.

[Eddie]

It really does take that home.

[Weekend Observations Host]

Number one name in football. I'm still not sure I have a handle on.

[Eddie]

Bring that thing to Barry Sanders.

[Greg Cody]

Get it.

[Weekend Observations Host]

Because he's. Because he's hard to tax.

[Greg Cody]

Seven minutes left.

[Mike Ryan]

Would have known about the beeps. Man.

[Greg Cody]

How are there seven?

[Mike Ryan]

The beats lift that whole thing up.

[Weekend Observations Host]

Minutes restriction. Knock knock. Needed someone else interact. Here, let me try. Let me try to do it. Knock, knock. Who's there? The Carolina Panthers, whom you declare to be dead. Your precious Rams, whom you laud prays for at every step. I'm not very good at knock knock jokes. Yeah, that would have been better.

[Greg Cody]

Turn it off. Enough. Enough of this. I got enough of this two weeks ago. I got enough of it yesterday. I've had enough of it today. I am not Ripp. Misrepresenting the conversation that Mike and Greg Cody have. Mike has declared himself a minister of war. He is. I hate the term war around football and sports and Mike is warring right now.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

Sometimes it's appropriate.

[Greg Cody]

He's warring right now with Texas Governor Ron DeSantis is stealing his shit. Ron DeSantis is stealing Mike shit. And I'm convinced that everything Mario Cristobal does is with Mike Ryan's hand up his back because I'm. I'm getting some.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

Quite the visual.

[Greg Cody]

I'm getting some complaints around here. Chris Cody is telling me, hey, crystal ball is going to come on and I'm sure he's going to be doing like stand up at a local car wash trying to.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

Mike.

[Greg Cody]

He's going to be spend the next.

[Mike Ryan]

I want to be so sure.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

It's a reason why he may not.

[Greg Cody]

Okay, well what's the reason he may not be on?

[Mike Ryan]

It's you.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

You fool.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

That's true.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, yeah.

[Eddie]

You're seen as anti.

[Greg Cody]

Um.

[Roy]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

People know your whole deal. Anytime this program faces adversity, you try to work in a Billy Gill or Jeremy Tache. That's your deal to speak for an audience when you're the Miami guy. You actually went to the school. You've been on the opposite side of the line, my friend. You are the enemy. You're not an ally.

[Eddie]

Alumni hater.

[Greg Cody]

I hate myself.

[Eddie]

Yeah, you hate your.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

The fact that you self loathing alumni.

[Greg Cody]

I'm the alumni. I'm an alumni hater.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, you haven't been an Ally, it's true.

[Greg Cody]

Where are you getting that from? You think the audience would answer that way? You think the audience.

[Mike Ryan]

Where am I getting that? General? I know where you my five star general. Four stars.

[Greg Cody]

Four stars. Hey, four stars.

[Mike Ryan]

Five, five.

[Ad Announcer 1]

How do you know?

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

Not helping, Dan.

[Mike Ryan]

Five. Five.

[Eddie]

Then.

[Greg Cody]

Then what is Saban.

[Mike Ryan]

He's also five. You can't go higher than five.

[Eddie]

Right.

[Greg Cody]

That's why he's a four star. He's a four star.

[Mike Ryan]

Okay, then give Saban six. Saban says that we're the most dangerous team in the nation. So I'll give him a six star.

[Greg Cody]

I'd say Texas Tech is that. Texas Tech is the only team. I believe. I believe.

[Mike Ryan]

Why do they think I'm an enemy?

[Dan LeBatard]

I love David.

[Mike Ryan]

Why do they think I'm an enemy?

[Greg Cody]

I believe that Texas Tech is the only team in the country, the only one that could have Miami not play a close game, that it's a possible outcome if they were to play Texas Tech.

[Mike Ryan]

I mean, you don't know ball. He doesn't know ball. And this is what I keep hearing from Coral Gables.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

Yep, same.

[Mike Ryan]

Not a ball knower.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

They're not saying specific names, but they're just like, if we're going to do this, we can't have any non ball knowers around Texas Tech.

[Mike Ryan]

Texas Tech. Who lost to Sam Levitt on one foot. Texas.

[Greg Cody]

No, but they were playing with their backup quarterback. Go ahead and let Miami play with their backup quarterback.

[Mike Ryan]

Malachi Tony. You're welcome. The most dangerous weapon in the nation.

[Dan LeBatard]

You got it.

[Greg Cody]

I'd like to see that. Actually, I'd let them in the playoffs. If they told me right now that Malachi Tony, sight unseen, was going to be the quarterback, I'd let them into the playoffs just based on that alone.

[Mike Ryan]

Never mind that Carson Beck is like top 10 in passing rating and he's like the second best quarterback that we've had here in 25 years.

[Greg Cody]

I want to hear more, Chris, about your negotiations. I believe Mario Cristobal will be the in everywhere the next couple of days.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

Trying to request him.

[Greg Cody]

I mean, he's going to be everywhere. He did his first interview with Mike Ryan on Cain's insight.

[Mike Ryan]

No, with the money. I was in the shadows.

[Greg Cody]

With his hand. With your hand up his back.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, no.

[Roy]

But it was the second time you.

[Ad Announcer 1]

Said that, by the way. Stop saying that.

[Mike Ryan]

It was interesting to be like, hey, Kentucky took Texas to OT. They just lost 410 while you were out there on the field dominating. You should work that in.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm really Glad we've called out all of the horrible bias that exists in the media because we're the, you know, straight edge, truthful media over here.

[Mike Ryan]

Shut up, asshole. Like you're the most biased guy jack shit over here. Spewing like, I rewatched your clips. I'm now dumber for it. But every single one of your clips can be undone by something Miami has done on the field. You want to talk about metrics? You want to talk about transit property? You want to talk about common opponents? Miami's got all the boxes. Check, pal. Including the ones and the criteria outlined by the CFP themselves. Miami shouldn't be debated as a playoff team. It's a matter of fact. This is a playoff team and it might just be the best team in the nation.

[Greg Cody]

You think I misrepresented your attitude when you were talking to Greg earlier before?

[Mike Ryan]

If that is not your stance this week, then you're not with me. You're against.

[Greg Cody]

How dare you look me in the face and say I am not a ball.

[Mike Ryan]

No, you don't know ball. You don't know ball. You're Texas Tech. Texas Tech, Ohio State. I can understand Texas Tech spot the ball in Lubbock. I triple dog dare you.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

I will say I thought they meant Jeremy.

[Greg Cody]

Texas Tech lost a game this season with their backup quarterback.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, they better win this weekend because we need that BYU loss.

[Greg Cody]

They will win this weekend because they're a good deal better than I'm already.

[Ad Announcer 1]

All right?

[Eddie]

Yep, that's damn right.

[Dan LeBatard]

BYU deserves it anyway. I mean, let's be real. Dan's argument yesterday for Miami was like, oh, they're going to have four losses in two years. How dare they be excluded? That's the exact same thing for byu, except they'll have two top five laws.

[Mike Ryan]

Yes, again, super easy to undercut your argument. BYU lost their one game by more combined points and Miami's lost.

[Greg Cody]

Who'd they lose to?

[Mike Ryan]

Texas Tech.

[Greg Cody]

That's right.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. Texas Tech a great team. No, Texas Tech is a good team.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

They're.

[Mike Ryan]

They're. They're a good team.

[Roy]

Meh.

[Mike Ryan]

They're not better than us. True or false. Miami's playing better football right now than when they were the number two team.

[Eddie]

Yes, correct.

[Mike Ryan]

When we were ranked number two.

[Dan LeBatard]

But we're not biased.

[Mike Ryan]

We were not playing this well. That's not biased, pal. Those are facts. Those are better than if you're not watching the game. Here's what I know about you. You're not watching.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

No, they're playing.

[Mike Ryan]

You're not watching. I mean, who's byu?

[Dan LeBatard]

They're playing better than they were when.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

They lost the SMU beat. Who's BYU beat?

[Greg Cody]

Who's Ohio State beat?

[Jonathan Zaslo]

Okay.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

They should be out. I'm with Dan. They should be out.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

Like, it's. It's fine. Ohio State being there. You could see they're awesome.

[Mike Ryan]

I think they have like one of the longest streaks by winning by 15 points or more. They're the national champs.

[Roy]

Are good.

[Greg Cody]

They're really agree.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

So we all approve of Ohio State.

[Roy]

Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

I can't believe you don't all agree on Texas Tech. I can't believe that.

[Mike Ryan]

It's fine. But they wouldn't be Miami. Dude. Like, this is what this is.

[Roy]

Not easily.

[Greg Cody]

Look, no, I'm not saying they would beat them easily.

[Mike Ryan]

You said that they would beat them by more than one score.

[Greg Cody]

Listen, what I said was Texas Tech is the only team in the country that I have seen that Miami might have a situation in which they would get blown out. There is no other team in the country.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

There a might in there.

[Greg Cody]

I don't think that there is another team in the country that I would say that about, including Ohio State. They're going to play close games. Miami is not going to get blown out by anybody. The possibility I do believe exists with Texas Tech to get blown out. It doesn't mean that I actually think Texas Tech is better than them. I just think that in a game where two teams are even, Miami can also blow them out. But Texas Tech is the 1 team in the country I've seen where I'm like, oh, they can run up a score on people.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

See, Dan brings up a really interesting point there because there was a lot of mites that he threw in there between what might happen if Miami and Texas Tech play. We happen to know what did happen when Miami played Notre Dame.

[Eddie]

Hello.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

There's a lot of mites there. Might do this, might do that. Miami, Notre Dame. We know exactly what happens.

[Dan LeBatard]

What happens when they play SMU in Louisville as well.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

But they're not in the discussion.

[Greg Cody]

California for a reason.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

They're bad.

[Dan LeBatard]

Cal beat both of those teams.

[Mike Ryan]

Louisville's undefeated when they're healthy.

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, my God.

[Mike Ryan]

And SMU doesn't lose conference games at home. And if you watch that game, which you didn't, they got screwed by the refs. They got totally on that game. Got totally undone by one of the worst officiating games that you will ever see in your entire life. But Miami learned from that. Miami put themselves in that position by playing a tight game. And since then they have totally revolutionized the way that they play their game. Players have totally come online. Pringle is a revelation. Pringle is an absolute weapon. We have unlocked Malachi Tony and it is a factual statement. Miami is playing much better right now than when they were the number two team in the nation. That is a fact.

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Dan LeBatard]

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[Jonathan Zaslo]

Yeah, very good.

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[Mike Ryan]

Stugats.

[Eddie]

I'm a grown ass man who's not filthy rich. I can't afford a Lamborghini. Well, I probably can, but that's.

[Mike Ryan]

Hey, This is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats.

[Greg Cody]

Let me put up on the screen some of the interactions that Mike Ryan is having as he.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

Mike had a wild day.

[Greg Cody]

Oh, he gets carried away and he's gone after Texas's governor called him wheels.

[Mike Ryan]

Wait, wait, wait. Let's not do it. Let's. Let's not take the air out of this. All right, here we go. This is where it starts.

[Greg Cody]

Take the air out of this.

[Mike Ryan]

One of your moves again.

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What side are you on?

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. All right, so. So this is where it starts. And our great Governor Ron DeSantis saw this tweet that I put out there. Yeah, great governor. Tremendous governor Ron DeSantis.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

So I had that first dealing with the important issues.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. So I found the principles, the outline criteria on the CFP website. And it says for those listening on audio, the committee will select the teams using a process that distinguishes among otherwise comparable teams by considering strength of schedule. Number one, head to head competition. By the way, if you're looking at strength of schedule, Miami is right there neck and neck with Notre Dame. All right, so we're not talking about a wide golf here. They're separated by one. Head to head competition is number two, seemingly overlooked so far by the committee, even though it's written in their criteria. Comparative outcome.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

Does this matter? Like the order that they put it in?

[Mike Ryan]

I don't know.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

Of importance.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't know. But third on the bullet points. Third on the list is comparative outcomes among common opponents. Well, guess what? Miami had several common opponents with Notre Dame, four of them, including each other. Where Miami won four of them. Miami outscored all but one by more points than Notre Dame. So if you wanted to say common opponents, Miami dominated that conversation as well. So I put out this criteria. If the CFP actually has the principles they outlined in their criteria, then Miami is in. If one hour later, our great Governor Ron DeSantis kind of uses the template and goes with the same exact.

[Greg Cody]

Not kind of uses the template. Does use the exact same. He stole it from you. Rip off stole it from you.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

Well, he did not have this. He did not have this in his phone.

[Mike Ryan]

No. Will the CFP committee follow or ignore its own stated selection criteria? Great point by our tremendous governor Ron DeSanto.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

How about that?

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[Eddie]

Ron deplagiarizer.

[Greg Cody]

And so then Mike goes after Greg Abbott, who does the same thing in Texas.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. Greg Abbott then realizes. Oh, governors are doing this. Let me take the original Mike Ryan screen cap and let me. That Texas ridiculous three loss ass. You went to overtime with Kentucky. These are CFP principals and Mississippi State. Sneaky, decent Texas is at the top of these criteria more than any team on the bubble. And then I had a response to that where I kind of also added one of the principles which was merely beat the Florida Gators. I took the same exact tile and I put a bullet point. We can throw that up there. Because there was one regrettable thing that I did with my tweet. My response to Greg Abbott. Well, I've been. I call them wheels, which you already know because Dan totally undercut it. Greg Abbott famously in a. In a. In a wheelchair.

[Greg Cody]

He already knows it because you had hell of a day yesterday. This was all something that was.

[Mike Ryan]

You see here how I.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

Why is that an insult? He's in a wheelchair.

[Mike Ryan]

You see how I added that back?

[Greg Cody]

Why is that an insult?

[Mike Ryan]

I did a little cheeky thing. I did a little cheeky thing here where in the principals. I added in bold, must beat the Florida Gators because we have a common opponent with Florida too. I don't know what the.

[Eddie]

Oh, yeah, look.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

You added that.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

Look at that.

[Mike Ryan]

I mean, I'm three and oh, in my last three games against the vaunted sec. So I don't know what the big talk is. I think the ACC's harder.

[Greg Cody]

You apologized for.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, I had to put. Yeah, because I mean, people were a little upset. I mean, he's in a Wheelchair. You can't be calling him Wheels. And I understand that that is my bad attributed to the fog of war. So I put out a written apology.

[Eddie]

You should at least have capitalized the word wheels if you were making that a nickname for him.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

War could be stressful.

[Mike Ryan]

War is hell, Zaz.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

That's what I heard.

[Mike Ryan]

And I put out this statement that is there for your perusal if, Dan, you'd like to read it for me.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

That's official Miami letterhead.

[Greg Cody]

Well, Miami Department of War is the letterhead. I don't believe that's official Miami letterhead. It is, although it says of public communications, and it reads official statement early.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

This is from the school.

[Eddie]

It's from a golden cane.

[Greg Cody]

This is not from the school. This is from Mike Ryan. It's the official statement. Earlier today, in the heat of spirited sports debate, I referred to Greg Abbott as Wheels in a miscalculated attempt at jocular banter. Upon reflection, this phrasing did not accurately convey my intended sentiment. I should have simply called him a. This was my initial instinct. For this lapse, in precision and precision and clarity, I offer my sincere apology. The Miami Department of War remains committed to direct effect and unmistakable communication in all matters of conflict, athletic or otherwise. And I look up and I see Roy dressed as John Tesh, as all of this is inappropriate.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

This is quite the statement because Mike doesn't like that word.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't. If you know anything about me, your war. Well, the B word. We love the W word. Yeah, I was built for this. I've been on the front lines for four weeks. You ever see any of those war movies where they find the isolated guy in a tower that's been there for a month and he's gone a little cuckoo? That's what I've been while you guys. Johnny come lately. But I'm so happy you guys found your balls. Now that we're 10 and 2, it's great to have you here on the front lines.

[Greg Cody]

You signed this? Respectfully. Respectfully.

[Mike Ryan]

I mean, you have to.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

How is Wheels more offensive than.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't like to use that word. I don't even like to hear it out loud, so can you not?

[Greg Cody]

Well, it's in the official statement from the Department of War, though, on the school letterhead. It said. Well, it's not school letterhead.

[Eddie]

Yeah, it's an official statement of war letterhead.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

The mdow.

[Eddie]

It's not looks and os.

[Greg Cody]

Just because you say something's official on the letter. Put it on the poll at Lebatar show Is something officially official if it reads official on the letterhead? Because I believe you all question is that you are all saying that this is official, but I just see Department of War, which I don't think the University of Miami has one of those.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

Well, neither does America, the mdao.

[Greg Cody]

I don't believe any of that was respectful. I believe that I have an accurate appraisal of how I walked in here this morning, which is Mike Ryan screaming at Greg Cody and doing what? What are you saying? No, he was screaming.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

What are they consistently saying?

[Greg Cody]

That is what. That is what he was. Thank you. That is what. That is what the argument was. You said. You said something has been consistently said. And what I walked in on was Mike Ryan screaming. What have they been consistent about?

[Eddie]

Well, the chairman of the CFP selection.

[Mike Ryan]

Committee who has not himself been consistent because it was a different dude the first week that we did this, he's.

[Eddie]

Been consistent in both directions, though, I'll give him that.

[Greg Cody]

What?

[Eddie]

Yes. The chairman of the committee at first was saying the eye test goes to Notre Dame. They've been better lately, blah, blah, blah. And lately he's been saying Miami is looking like the team we saw when they were five. And oh, so he's acknowledging that the Canes have turned it on right when they should late in the season. So he's been inconsistent, but he's been consistent in both directions, I'll give him that.

[Roy]

Didn't Pat Riley tell Danny Ainge on official Miami Heat letterhead to shut the up and manage his own team?

[Greg Cody]

That is not correct. He sent out a team spokesman, the head of media relations, in order to do that. I don't think they put out a printed statement that also said, but Tesh's.

[Eddie]

Point as well, that's what Roy looks like.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, we'll look that up. I thought that they did too, Roy, but yeah, my beef there. And I wasn't yelling at Greg, I was genuinely curious. What have they been consistent on? Because the criteria changes week to week. It changes team to team when they tout the virtues of Notre Dame. It's all about quality losses. And you only have to skip down one spot to hear them talk about quality wins. Now so did we. It's not about quality losses because Bama doesn't have a big time quality loss when they went to Florida State. That's a really bad loss. But that doesn't help our argument. We'd like to move the goal post around here. There isn't a consistent criteria. All I know is what's on their website and it says it values head to head. Now you look at all the measurements. They have the same exact record. They have a bevy of common opponents. Miami is better than Notre Dame or right there with Notre Dame in pretty much every single analytics advanced measurement you want to use, including the traditional old win and loss. So did we. So when you look at the tiebreaker criteria, near the top is head to head. This one's easy, folks. Should be. Well, it's cut and dried.

[Greg Cody]

Well, the reason that I think it's easy is different than the empirical ones that you're citing. I simply believe that. I ask anybody who's been watching college football on Saturdays this year, do you think Miami is one of the 12 best teams in the country? Everyone is saying yes. Who's not biased by whatever their allegiance is?

[Jonathan Zaslo]

There's only one person who's not.

[Mike Ryan]

There's a lot of bias. So if you look at the AP like there was a guy that covers the AAC and he has North Texas at 11 and Miami at 20. There's. Even though North Texas got beat up, they have the best quarterback. Well, they got beat up by usf, who Miami beat who also USF beat Florida in the swamp. Something that Texas couldn't. Texas is a clown show. They have a talented roster that they wasted because their head coach sucks. And for him to go out there and invoke. Miami was thrown into the end zone at the end of the game after Norduzzi called a timeout, got one more loss. And everybody else, you weren't ever dominant. Your big wins, you're barely getting it over the line. You're a joke of a team. There are real teams talking here. See yourself out. And for you to take a shot at Mario Crisabal. Do you know what you have? What the hell you have brought? Do you know? Do you know what you've done? Because Mario Cristobal is now going to join everybody head to head. And he's going head to head with you.

[Greg Cody]

Head to head.

[Mike Ryan]

We actually have a resume. You got three losses and a loss to a common opponent that we have dragged. You want to tell me about how hard it is to go into the swamp? Mario Cristobal has a very recent data point on that, too.

[Greg Cody]

Head to head. So Sarkeesian did point out what some people have been pointing out, which is at the end of the Virginia Tech game and Pittsburgh game, Miami was throwing into the end zone with decided games.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

Who cares?

[Eddie]

They should.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

Those minutes don't count.

[Mike Ryan]

They told us that it counts. You have to do that they told us that all this stuff counts.

[Greg Cody]

Yes.

[Eddie]

It's called style points.

[Greg Cody]

I understand ruining the game. I understand why he was doing it. He still had his starters in at the end of the pit game.

[Eddie]

Damn right he did. He's trying to win a national championship.

[Mike Ryan]

They're trying to tell us what the criteria is. It's not our fault that they change it week to week. But one of the things that we've heard is we have to be more impressive especially against common opponents. So we've done that.

[Greg Cody]

Consistent both ways. As Greg Cody likes to say, that they've been consistent in opposite directions.

[Eddie]

They have.

[Greg Cody]

And you give them credit for that.

[Eddie]

No, I don't. I fault them for that.

[Greg Cody]

No, you. You said before you gave them. You said you had to at least give them credit for that.

[Roy]

That they were.

[Eddie]

But look, the dichotomy is ridiculous. They're not consistent. They should be behind Miami. And by the way, Notre dame just scored 70 points on somebody. It's not Syracuse.

[Greg Cody]

Syracuse.

[Mike Ryan]

It's a one common opponent in which they outscored Miami.

[Eddie]

So it's not like Notre Dame's not running up the score.

[Mike Ryan]

Notre Dame. I believe Notre Dame to be a playoff game.

[Greg Cody]

Please stop summoning that Syracuse game. They're on their third string quarterback. They lost at home to North Carolina. They lost at home by 30 to Boston College. Please stop talking about Syracuse as if that 70 to 7 means.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

I feel like a good way to gauge where we are with this. Last week I believe Mike was ripping like local AP voters for voting Notre Dame over Miami. Like I believe we named Jordan McPherson. Have we flipped him at least?

[Mike Ryan]

I told you.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

Did he?

[Mike Ryan]

That wasn't going to be a thing the following week. Didn't I tell you who accused.

[Greg Cody]

Did we flip him a non ball knower. I want to know is Mario Cristobal coming on this show? What are they going to like?

[Mike Ryan]

You've done a lot of what you tell me.

[Greg Cody]

Tell me what? Damage? No.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

Silence. Silence speaks volumes.

[Mike Ryan]

It's not silence. It's not silence. It's. Anytime this team runs up to any adversity you try to bring Jeremy or Billy Gilbert to the. To the proceedings and speak for an audience that you think loves to drink my tears, which is fine. And that's a trade that you're making. You're more loyal to the. To the audience than the University of Miami. I will give you that. I am not. My loyalties are laid out there.

[Eddie]

Damn right.

[Mike Ryan]

It's the.

[Dan LeBatard]

You.

[Mike Ryan]

What are you doing?

[Roy]

And then God.

[Eddie]

Not a Loyalist. Not a loyalist.

[Greg Cody]

Lebatard, I'm surrounded by homers and I want to know who's making the accusation.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

That like I said, names were not.

[Greg Cody]

Named John ball knower.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

It was just Lepato. Note to if he joins, let's keep the non ball knowers.

[Mike Ryan]

So Dan, Eddie's corporal Dan's the problem. I had a back and forth being like, don't worry, come on the show. Look, this is important. I know we don't like Dan. I don't like Dan. All right, but you gotta come on our platform. We need you on our platform. You need to use this and get your messaging out there. I'll be there.

[Greg Cody]

Don't worry.

[Mike Ryan]

Jonathan Zaslo will be there. You'll be surrounded by pony.

[Eddie]

He likes my Mario likes.

[Mike Ryan]

He loves you.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

I used you as a pitch.

[Mike Ryan]

You're helpful. Jeremy can't be in here.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

Oh, yeah, he's out.

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[Eddie]

To do this with us?

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[Roy]

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[Mike Ryan]

Don LeBatard, you are a fool.

[Eddie]

You're nobody.

[Mike Ryan]

You are an infant.

[Eddie]

You have nobody.

[Mike Ryan]

I literally put together Mike Ryan getting staged for your toenail. I am your career right now, pal. Look at me.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

No.

[Mike Ryan]

I am your career.

[Greg Cody]

No.

[Mike Ryan]

St. You have messed with McDavid, and now you're messing with me, and I'm more dangerous, pal. This is the D Levatar show with the ST Gods.

[Eddie]

I don't know if I like to be referred to as helpful, but your point is?

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

You were just, like, bragging about I'm here.

[Mike Ryan]

Yep.

[Dan LeBatard]

You're the unbiased.

[Eddie]

I mean, I'm pro. You have they. They are absolutely one of the 12 best teams.

[Greg Cody]

You are a Homer. A helpful Homer.

[Mike Ryan]

Look, you guys keep throwing these words out like Homer and bias, thinking that it affects me and.

[Eddie]

And war.

[Mike Ryan]

Everyone knows what I am. I wear it on my sleeve. I am a proud Miami Hurricane booster. I love this program pretty much more than anything that isn't a human being on this planet. And I will die for this program if I have to. And I have shown you by sticking my neck out on the. On the. I would die.

[Greg Cody]

That's a. I would die. You shouldn't do that.

[Mike Ryan]

I would die. That's war.

[Greg Cody]

It's an honor.

[Mike Ryan]

Are you willing to die for your.

[Greg Cody]

For some of you.

[Mike Ryan]

Are you willing to die for a call?

[Greg Cody]

No, man.

[Mike Ryan]

Look, you want to call it ridiculous? This is how I live, all right? This has me devastated. This has me. You have to pick me up off the floor with a spatula when we lose to fiu. And when we win number six, I will be elated because it'll be the greatest moment of my life. That's who I am, pal. I live life to the fullest. Emotions on my sleeve. You know exactly where I am. How can you accuse me of bias and homerism when I tell you straight to your face who I am?

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

The volleyball team made the tournament.

[Eddie]

Hell, yeah.

[Roy]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

Tom Brady was at the game the other day.

[Greg Cody]

I can accuse you of homerism and bias when you tell me straight to my face that you're a biased homer. That's how I can do it.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm an ally.

[Greg Cody]

And you've used pal now three times this segment.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, that's how you know I'm mad.

[Greg Cody]

Well, I knew you were mad when.

[Mike Ryan]

I walked in here escalating things. Don't make me say a word that I don't like to say.

[Greg Cody]

When I walked in here, I knew you were mad because you were threatening to fight an old man.

[Eddie]

I'm an ally.

[Mike Ryan]

I know I've been a lot. And we've probably lost national audience here. This is my life. I care deeply about it. I stuck my neck out for weeks ago when none of you people thought we'd go 10 and 2. It's very easy to find your voice.

[Greg Cody]

Now, hold on a second. Just let me slow you down for a second and make everyone understand who it is you're fighting. When I come in here and you've practically got Greg Cody by the lapels. I want to. I want you to see what a text exchange I had with Greg Cody this weekend where I'm just simply trying to get him to lunch. Lunch with a friend of ours. Okay. And I've told him to meet us right here at the studio so I can make it all easy for him.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

A week?

[Greg Cody]

Yes. So go ahead and put the text up there that I have where I'm like, you can park in front of the office. And Greg asks me, what office? Okay, so that's where we start.

[Eddie]

Who refers to the studio as an office? Am I wrong?

[Roy]

As an office, I think in the.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

Context of what you were doing. It was.

[Greg Cody]

Where else? If you were meeting me at the. If I. We already agreed that we were meeting at the lser. And I tell you it's at the office. At the elser. Where else would it be other than the studio?

[Eddie]

Well, how about use the word studio?

[Greg Cody]

Okay, so I did that.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

Like, you're just being a jerk, though.

[Mike Ryan]

With what office?

[Greg Cody]

All right. No, but then the next step on this, I say, the studio. And then he says, I thought I was supposed to just valet park and you're picking me up. And I tell him, don't text and drive because he's already lost. And I can tell that he's having trouble just because he's an old man. And so he tells me that. Look at the last text there. He got lost on the way to the office.

[Eddie]

It's supposed to be a private text exchange, by the way, Betrayer over here.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

A couple wrong turns.

[Eddie]

Where's my privacy? Every week I followed ways.

[Mike Ryan]

That's messed up. Whoever leaked those private texts that you might. Look, you can't be doing that.

[Eddie]

It's ridiculous. Where's my privacy?

[Jonathan Zaslo]

Some nerve, man.

[Greg Cody]

How do you get lost on the.

[Eddie]

Way to suing somebody?

[Greg Cody]

How do you get lost on the way to the office?

[Eddie]

The studio? I didn't get lost. Ways misdirected me. You know, I'm trying to. That's the problem with ways. In order to save, because Waze thinks you're going to save nine seconds, it reroutes you. So if you trust it, you trust it no more. Do I trust it?

[Jonathan Zaslo]

No. But it asks you, do you want an updated route? You have to click yes.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

No way this was Waze's fault.

[Greg Cody]

Well, how do you get lost on the way to the office? I'll say it again, like you've been coming here for now a couple of years.

[Eddie]

Start referring to it as a studio. I'll address you.

[Greg Cody]

He's called me pal a couple of times and told me to shut my mouth. We're not even an hour yet into the show.

[Mike Ryan]

CFP rankings day. I'm on edge.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

I think my dad's deflecting because that lunch that he went with you on Friday caused major controversy in the pfpi. There were just picks not made because there was a Friday. You said yesterday you forgot about the Friday game. So did the commissioner. So we had multiple teams not made.

[Eddie]

My picks.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

Multiple teams not turn in picks. Usually every week he's on top of, hey, these people don't have their picks in yet. And this Week, no text. The game goes by. We get a text of, oh, a couple people didn't make their picks. No accountability from the league. Yes, it is the responsibility of the teams to get their picks in, but every other week you are on top of it and you weren't this week. You clearly just forgot about the game. No accountability. Imagine if, like they just forgot to play the game. Roger Goodell would come out and say, hey, the team should have showed up, but this is on me. I'm the face.

[Eddie]

Oh, really?

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

I'm the commissioner.

[Eddie]

So. So if New England and the Giants last night just forgot to play the game, you don't. That's on commission.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

You don't think Roger Goodell speaks today. If they just forgot to play the game of saying this will never happen again in my league.

[Mike Ryan]

This is crazy.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

He's about to blame.

[Ad Announcer 1]

No, Greg.

[Mike Ryan]

Greg doesn't need to.

[Greg Cody]

He's gonna blame ways again.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

He was mad at me. He was mad at me for not telling the other team. So now he's blaming other teams in the league.

[Eddie]

Did you make your pick?

[Roy]

Yes.

[Eddie]

Okay. Two of the three teams that did not make their pick were the Giraffes and the Ferraris who live under your roof. Did you ever think, why are you.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

Like, it's not my responsibility. You always tell us not to talk to each other about our pick picks.

[Eddie]

Okay, you're, you're just take a little accountability.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

It was a bad look for the P.F.B.I.

[Eddie]

Look, I don't, I, I, I. What do I have to wipe the ass of my teams?

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

Just say, hey, bad look for the league. This is my league. I'm the face.

[Eddie]

No, no.

[Mike Ryan]

See, look at this.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

No accountability.

[Mike Ryan]

I would wipe the ass of my team any day. Twice on Saturday.

[Greg Cody]

I say your hand was up his back.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

No accountability from the.

[Ad Announcer 1]

I don't like that from you, though. Anybody else can say you.

[Roy]

I don't.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

No accountability.

[Eddie]

I forfeited a win for the three Malcontact Sense. The three Nells who refused to make the Friday pick.

[Mike Ryan]

Just take a little accountability in Greg's defense.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

Literally out to lunch.

[Mike Ryan]

That Black Friday game.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

You went out to lunch.

[Eddie]

It does sneak up on you, but it's also not the NFL's first Black Friday day. Yeah, I believe it's the third. Right.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

So maybe you should have been on that.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm sorry. This is a new tradition for me. Literally more than three years.

[Greg Cody]

I got surprised by it.

[Ad Announcer 1]

Literally 3pm too.

[Mike Ryan]

It's a weird Black Friday is a college football day.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

Out to lunch.

[Mike Ryan]

Colorado Versus Nebraska.

[Greg Cody]

It's an egg bowl day. It's been an egg bowl day for a long time.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

Take a little accountability.

[Eddie]

How about you run for commission? You run.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

If I was commissioner, I would have been like, hey, bad look for the league. This won't happen again.

[Eddie]

It's a bad look for the three people who missed the pick. Look at this. He's not a bad.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

Take any responsibility.

[Eddie]

It's not a bad look for the league. It's, it's the, it's the team members responsibility to make their own picks on time. And you know it got you.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

But every other week you're on top of it.

[Ad Announcer 1]

No, he got your ass, Chris.

[Greg Cody]

It's over.

[Mike Ryan]

It's over.

[Greg Cody]

The fight's over. And you know, and you're, you're finished.

[Mike Ryan]

And we put it on the pole. Is it Black Friday without Colorado?

[Greg Cody]

Nebraska also put it on the poll and you know it. Yes or no? He got lost on the way to.

[Eddie]

The office, the studio and I did not get lost. I was derailed five minutes.

[Greg Cody]

How can you say you were not lost? You took a couple of wrong turns.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

Not even one. You took a couple.

[Eddie]

You took a couple.

[Greg Cody]

That's lost.

[Eddie]

What do you mean? Nobody had known. If you hadn't betrayed my privacy by exposing the people who were erstwhile private space.

[Greg Cody]

The people who were waiting for you knew it because you were late. You were, you were late by 30 minutes because you got laws.

[Eddie]

We were fashionably late.

[Dan LeBatard]

Like that.

[Ad Announcer 1]

Miami time, we call it, Greg. We call it Miami time. Plus down here in downtown, it's a lot of one way streets. You think you're going to be able to go one way? You can't. You got to go up two streets and make a right to then make a left.

[Eddie]

Yes, exactly.

[Ad Announcer 1]

All of a sudden there's a fire truck.

[Mike Ryan]

You're like, where the hell this can come from?

[Eddie]

And then the ways lady is telling me to take a U turn.

[Hampton Farms Announcer]

It's a lady, huh?

[Eddie]

And I don't want to take a U turn. So I am, I am, am purposely rejecting her advice. And I continue to go for four or five miles until she continues to say the U turn. So finally I relent.

[Greg Cody]

It's not Waze's fault. If she's telling you what to do and you're not doing.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

Now it makes sense.

[Roy]

No.

[Mike Ryan]

Says don't do that.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

Don't do what?

[Mike Ryan]

Come on, stop. We know what you're doing.

[Ad Announcer 1]

Come on.

[Roy]

Come on.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

Greg's the one who put it out there. I'm just backing him Up.

[Ad Announcer 1]

Okay.

[Mike Ryan]

Thank you, Cook Daddy.

[Eddie]

I appreciate that. Thank you, Zan. Always on my side.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't think you're following that one.

[Greg Cody]

That's not true at all. I have failed to get to the Miami Heat today. Who had six blocks.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

What a nice first quarter.

[Greg Cody]

The Clippers look so old. They're playing so slow in the half court.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

Good thing they have their pick.

[Greg Cody]

Kawhi hadn't played in 10 games and then was on a minutes restriction. Not just that pick. You've got the very. Listen to what's going to happen in this league because it's about to get ruined if Oklahoma City stays healthy.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

It's worse than when the warriors had their injury.

[Greg Cody]

They've lost one game and their point differential through 20. They're winning by an average of 15 points without playing their starters. And they might get the number one pick. And they've got Phillies pick too. They might get.

[Ad Announcer 1]

They're three picks in the lottery.

[Greg Cody]

They might have two picks. Wait a minute. Three? I only had. I thought they might have two picks in the top five.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

If Philadelphia is bad enough, it's Philadelphia protected top three. I think maybe I.

[Greg Cody]

They. The OKC is in a position where they might have through 20 games the best team anyone's ever seen.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

At 20 and 1.

[Greg Cody]

The defending champions have the best team anyone's ever seen statistically. Through 20 games, they're winning by an average. Go look at the point differentials in the east and look at what OKC's point differential is. Because they're at 15 points a game, they're winning while not playing their fourth quarter start. And they might have the first pick and the fifth pick because the Clippers are so dreadful. Look how happy.

[Roy]

Zach.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

It's just funny.

[Roy]

It's.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

It's just a funny thing. They're 20 and one. They might also have the number one overall pick.

[Greg Cody]

Not funny.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

The one thing they don't have though is Davion Mitchell.

[Greg Cody]

What? Davion Mitchell. I mean, he's making threes and he doesn't turn the ball overnight. It's pretty impressive.

[Jonathan Zaslo]

You know about that off night.

[Greg Cody]

The. The.

[Eddie]

I got 30 more points from Norman Powell.

[Ad Announcer 1]

The L's at the end. I don't know if those are.

[Eddie]

No. 30 more from Norman Powell. It's like a superhero. He's not Norman Powell. He's Norman Powell.

[Mike Ryan]

Powell. Now's a good time to remember where Tequila's story truly began. In 1795, Cuervo invented tequila. Cuervo. What are you doing here?

[Greg Cody]

Cuervo. Anytime someone says Cuervo, I show up.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, I do know that to be true. But even during ad reads like Cuervo, I think he could lay out especially for one of our great partners.

[Greg Cody]

Sweet, delicious Cuervo.

[Mike Ryan]

Since then, Cuervo has stayed true to its roots. The same family, the same land, the same passion.

[Greg Cody]

Cuervo.

[Mike Ryan]

So enjoy the tequila that started it all. Cuervo. Cuervo, the tequila that invented tequila. Roximo. Cuervo.

[Roy]

Com.

[Mike Ryan]

Please drink responsibly.

[Greg Cody]

Cuervo.