Local Hour: Nine Olives

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Local Hour: Nine Olives

Date: October 27, 2025
Recorded live at: The Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami

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Episode Overview

This “Local Hour” delves into Miami sports culture and the latest developments around the Heat, Dolphins, and Hurricanes, while indulging in distinct Le Batard Show banter. Standout topics: the legacy of Heat PA announcer Mike Biamonte, the Miami Heat’s new offensive identity (and chaos surrounding Terry Rozier), the Dolphins’ perplexing win, and debate over the University of Miami’s camouflage football uniforms (plus, the proper etiquette for buffet olives).

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Key Discussion Points & Notable Segments

1. Mike Biamonte’s Departure as Miami Heat PA Announcer

[00:44–04:16]

• Stugotz reveals Biamonte is leaving after 35 years, sparking debate about how much he’ll be missed.
• Chris Cody initially doubts how many fans will really care:

  “I am saying I don't think Heat fans appreciate him and will miss him as much as 35 years of service warrants. I may be wrong.” (01:40, Chris Cody)

• Greg Cote and Jeremy argue Biamonte is beloved, highlighting a heartfelt crowd reaction to his announcement.
• Jeremy:

  “And the audible 'no' from the crowd was startling. I frankly was surprised and, like, so happy for him because it's what he deserves.” (02:23, Jeremy)

• Nostalgia emerges as Greg reminisces about mimicking Biamonte as a kid — “the soundtrack” of his Heat childhood.

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2. NBA Roundup & The Heat’s New Identity

[07:42–19:30]

The Heat’s Pacey Offense

• The crew marvels at Miami’s overhauled, up-tempo offense, even without Tyler Herro.
• Mike Ryan:

  “Whether it’s Jaime Jaquez doing it with the bench unit...they are pushing the ball and it’s leading to all sorts of open shots for Simone Fontecchio.” (08:50, Mike Ryan)

• Debates swirl: how sustainable is this style? Will Tyler Herro’s return complicate (or enhance) the chemistry?
• Stugotz:

  “It's inescapable how good they look without Tyler Herro offensively.” (16:26, Stugotz)

• Greg Cote and Jeremy note: Herro’s shot creation remains invaluable late in close games.
• The crew ponders the “ball stopper” issue: will Herro buy in or revert to iso-ball? Is this a Norman Powell template?

Terry Rozier Gambling Allegations and Heat Fallout

• Chris Cody outlines the damning evidence:

  “30 unders on prop bets. 30. And all 30 of them hit in a game where he was not on the injury list and then leaves with a mysterious ailment—9 minutes.” (11:14, Chris Cody)

• The show questions why teammates and the league “have to support” Rozier or stay silent.
• Discussion of the NBA’s and NCAA’s investigative limitations—how little authority these bodies have, and the complicated mix of league transparency with ongoing federal investigations.

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3. Dolphins Win & NFL Weekend Review

[23:15–33:31]

Dolphins [More Than] Survive the Falcons

• Tony & Stugotz lament the lack of NFL competitiveness but give credit:

  “...yesterday was the worst professional football day I'd ever seen...only one one-score game in it...since 1970.” (06:23, Stugotz)

• Chris Cody stands up for Miami’s defensive effort:

  “This was their answer yesterday. I thought it was a very good performance. I don’t care if it’s a backup quarterback and no Drake London.” (25:22, Chris Cody)

• Stugotz and Mike debate Tua’s “best game,” attributing it to lightning-fast throws (average 2.5 seconds) and screen-heavy play calls.

  “He threw everything within 2.5 seconds. And everything at the average air pass was 3.7 yards.” (30:33, Stugotz)

• The show's trademark sarcasm surfaces regarding NFL tanking, Dolphins fans’ eternal skepticism, and Tua’s game prep (“he woke up with a really swollen looking, definitely pink eye”—29:11, Dan Le Batard).

Play-by-Play Hilarity:

• Atlanta broadcast gets roasted for confusing play calls on a wild Tua sequence (30:03–30:25).

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4. University of Miami Hurricanes: Ugly Uniforms & Conservative Play-Calling

[35:41–46:24]

Camouflage Uniform Controversy

• The crew crushes Miami’s military tribute uniforms:

  “That's the worst thing I've ever seen Miami wear.” (37:06, Dan Le Batard)
  “I don't know how you have a University of Miami uniform with no orange in it.” (38:53, Stugotz)
  “When I see that color olive, I want to put that in a martini...not see it in my football uniforms. It's ridiculum.” (40:12, Chris Cody)

• Jeremy and Zas somewhat defend the intent, but consensus: bring back orange!

Conservatism in Playcalling

• Harsh critique for Shannon Dawson’s unwillingness to trust QB Carson Beck post-interceptions.
• Mike Ryan:

  “I think it was an overcorrection by the Miami staff. I think they took the attitude, dude, let’s just get a clean game against Sanford and get this thing back on track. But I didn’t like the approach in that first half especially.” (38:36, Mike Ryan)

• Stugotz recalls Dan Marino facing similar restrictions late in his career, highlighting Miami’s awkward tradition of dialing back QB autonomy.
• Dan:

  “My whole thing is Carson Beck should be trusted.” (43:20, Dan Le Batard)

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5. The “Nine Olives” Discussion: Buffet Etiquette

[40:31–41:34]

• A classic Le Batard tangent: Is there a “max” number of olives you can take at a buffet?

  “Roy comes back to our table with nine olives...Like, there’s no rules at a buffet.” (40:38, Mike Ryan)

• This launches a poll-worthy debate about olives, bacon, and culinary amalgams.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• Stugotz (on Heat fans not trusting their QB with audibles):
  “The last time I remember it being a conversation around here was Dan Marino being offended at the end of his career that Jimmie Johnson would not allow him to check out of run plays.” (42:01)
• Chris Cody (on the Dolphins):
  “If you’re going to rightly slam the Dolphins a week ago for 31 to 6 loss...then one week later you gotta give them credit.” (25:22)
• Dan Le Batard (on the uniforms):
  “I can't believe we wore that. It was awful.” (38:49)
• Tony & Mike Ryan’s comedic riffs on Andrew Luck’s transportation options (“horse vs. car”) and the military uniforms poll.

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Quick Timestamp Guide

• [00:44]: Biamonte’s legacy & Heat nostalgia
• [07:42]: Miami football’s slow NFL week and Heat’s offense
• [08:50]: Heat’s record breaking pace; lack of play-calling
• [10:03]: Rozier gambling scandal breakdown
• [16:26]: Herro's potential impact
• [23:15]: Dolphins–Falcons recap
• [29:11]: Tua’s “swollen eye” anecdote
• [35:41]: Hurricanes' uniform controversy
• [38:36]: Playcalling critique
• [40:31]: “Nine Olives” discussion

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Final Thoughts

Classic “Local Hour” mix: deeply local, irreverent, moving from nostalgia to quick-witted debate over sports, uniforms, judicial process, and food etiquette—never shying from calling out Miami’s own. If you want the pulse of South Florida sports or simply Le Batard’s signature chaos, this hour delivers.

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Polls to Expect:

• Should there be an olive-bacon amalgam?
• Is nine olives too many for a buffet?
• Which uniforms were worse—Miami or Pittsburgh?
• Is the Heat PA announcer irreplaceable?
• Should you always publicly support a teammate under investigation?

Memorable Moment:
“Roy comes back to our table with nine olives...there’s no rules at a buffet.” (40:38, Mike Ryan)

Signature Tone:
Playful, irreverent, and always bringing it back to Miami’s eccentric sports culture.

Transcript

[Dan LeBatard]

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[Stugotz]

Cuervo.

[Dan LeBatard]

What are you doing here?

[Stugotz]

Cuervo. Anytime someone says Cuervo, I show up.

[Dan LeBatard]

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.

[Stugotz]

Sweet, delicious Cuervo.

[Dan LeBatard]

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

[Stugotz]

Cuervo.

[Dan LeBatard]

So enjoy the tequila that started it all. Cuervo.

[Stugotz]

Cuervo.

[Dan LeBatard]

The tequila that invented tequila. Proximo. Cuervo.com Please drink responsibly.

[Stugotz]

Cuervo. Cody, you know that Zaslow is serious about wanting to replace Mike Biamante as the Heat in stadium announcer, right?

[Chris Cody]

I did not know that. Doesn't surprise me, but I didn't know that. Tell me more.

[Stugotz]

Well, did you know that Mike Biamonte is leaving after 35 years? I'd be curious. We should get him on the show and just ask him. After 35 years? Why would you stop? I thought for sure he would be doing that job for forever. And he's been very good at it. And rare is the thing. I got to think. I mean, Detroit has something that's great, but I got to think that most arenas do not have something that has lasted three and a half decades.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, no, it's. It's impressive. I think a guy in his position, the PA announcer I think gets overlooked. I don't think he's appreciated as much as. As he should be. Maybe I'm, maybe I'm wrong, but, oh.

[Greg Cote]

I think he is here everywhere. Everyone knows the whole shtick. I think he's very appreciated down here.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah. Dos Menudo. You know, I get it.

[Stugotz]

I mean, wow, that is dismissive of a legendary voice in this market you just were really indifferent about.

[Chris Cody]

I am saying I don't think Heat fans appreciate him and will miss him as much as 35 years of service warrants. I may be wrong.

[Greg Cote]

You're doing that.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay, can we put that on the poll? Dos minutos. Yeah, I get was really dismissive.

[Tony]

If I were talking to Mike Biamante.

[Stugotz]

Right now and he's like, yeah, Cody's 50 year career at the Herald words, I get it.

[Chris Cody]

No, no, you know what? If Mike Bianti were right here, Biamante, I'm sorry, unintentional faux pas there. I would say to him directly, do you think that fans fully appreciate the career you have had? Because I Just think the announcer is background noise that everyone assumes and takes for granted.

[Jeremy]

During a timeout yesterday, Mike B. Addressed the crowd after they played a tribute video to him to say, like, after this season, I will no longer be here. And the audible no from the crowd was startling. I frankly was surprised and like, so happy for him because it's what he deserves.

[Stugotz]

Miami has very few things like this. Nevermind sports, period. Mike fields some of this on the University of Miami campus. What used to be Mark Light Stadium and just Mark Light Stadium is a corner shop where the people who have been going there for 35 years have an allegiance to it. That's unusual. The Heat fan who knows and appreciates Mike Biomonte has that reaction where it's like, no, what do you mean he's leaving? I'm used to this. It will not be the same without him. Because it's a very unusual community to have in such a transient town where you have just a ton of people who just go to all of the games or go to many of the games and associate this as one of the sounds with this game that takes them through. Like having children winning championships, discovering Dwayne Wade, like, he's the soundtrack on that.

[Chris Cody]

I am glad to hear what Jeremy said and I am happy to be wrong. I'm glad he's more appreciated than I would have imagined.

[Greg Cote]

I mean, I would say he's probably a bigger soundtrack to my Miami Heat childhood than Eric Reed was. Like, I. I used to walk around my house. I used to walk around my house doing the Miami Heat starting lineup introduction. I like. I think Beamonte might have been a bigger thing for me as a kid.

[Zas]

Childhood, you're old as hell.

[Dan LeBatard]

They weren't around when you were a child.

[Chris Cody]

That's the first time Zaz has complimented me this month, the 33rd time in his career.

[Jack Harlow]

Basketball, basketball, basketball, Basketball is back. Jack. Time for our favorite winter sport. The summertime is over so let's head down to the court. Time for the tip off. Give me fast breaks on the attack Will you shoot a three or take it to the racks? Basketball is back jacked It's a dream shake down in the post.

[Chris Cody]

Or a.

[Jack Harlow]

Killer cross you love the most.

[Don LeBatard]

When.

[Jack Harlow]

The offense tries to run and gun Is it man to man or boxing.

[Mike Ryan]

One.

[Chris Cody]

It'S big plays and talking smack.

[Jack Harlow]

That'S how you know that basketball and back jack Let me hear you say basketball, basketball, basketball. Basketball is Ma Jacks 360 dunks and pick and roll and we're gonna watch it every day Till they raise the Larry. Oh, Hard piles and hook shots. A dag of three and hack a shacks. If you say this game's the best, I'll say Zagak. Basketball is backjacks. Basketball is backj. Basketball is back. Basketball is back.

[Chris Cody]

Thank you. Thank you, everyone. Thank you. It's enough. Calm down. Everybody take a seat. Thank you.

[Zas]

You stood for that, but you couldn't stand for the actual wild.

[Chris Cody]

My knee, you know, I was having a bad knee day.

[Zas]

That kind of thing.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, exactly. I had a doctor's note.

[Tony]

I don't want to be president of.

[Stugotz]

The moment, but I sort of felt.

[Tony]

Like yesterday was the worst professional football day I'd ever seen and in my entire life.

[Stugotz]

And then I saw the stat. Do you guys know when the last time was that professional football had a full slate of games and there was only one. One score game in it? Do you guys want to guess the last time that happened? It's pre salary cap, pre legislating equality. Because I wasn't prisoner of the moment. It was 1970, it was 50 bleeping.

[Tony]

Years ago that there was a weekend of professional football less competitive than that one because half the teams are broken and we're halfway through the season. And now there's Andy Dalton out there trying to make a tackle when he throws it to AJ Espinosa.

[Chris Cody]

And.

[Tony]

And there's Spencer Rattler, you know, throwing the ball. And who had the more embarrassing play? Was it AJ Was it Andy Dalton or was it Spencer Rattler where you're just throwing it to one of those power forwards that play defensive end, they're catching it and they're stiff arming you, you're missing the tackle and then they're just running into the end zone.

[Zas]

I don't know when Epanessa caught the ball. He jukes somebody out of their shoes with a 1, 2. And I think it was Andy Dalton who flew like six yards out the other way.

[Stugotz]

The.

[Tony]

The plays that, that stuck with me yesterday were in that Bengals jets game.

[Stugotz]

But I don't want to.

[Tony]

It was. It was the only good one. I want to get the funniest thing.

[Stugotz]

Of the sports weekend, and I want to get to the Hurricanes as well, but I want to start, surprisingly with the Miami Heat. Are going to be good offensively?

[Dan LeBatard]

Hell yeah.

[Chris Cody]

Norman Powell.

[Stugotz]

If they're good offensively, then I know they're going to be good because I know they're going to be good defensively. They're always good defensively.

[Greg Cote]

When do we get to sit like it's Only three games. So like how much of a sample size do we need to say, okay, the Heat are going to play fast and they're going to be able to score?

[Stugotz]

No, but obviously they're going to play fast. Like I don't know if any of that stuff works in the playoffs, but obviously they're going to be a fun team to watch. Offensively. I think we can state that after three games because they look totally different offensively. This is without Tyler Herro and they've, they've changed.

[Tony]

It's not that the ball's going in.

[Stugotz]

They'Re changing the way that they're doing.

[Tony]

Things and Norman Powell's really good.

[Greg Cote]

They don't call any plays. Did you hear that after like, I think it was after the second game where they won in Memphis and, and they said spoding Colony plays, they, they just, they just run up and down the court.

[Stugotz]

Against Orlando, they played the fastest game I've ever seen them played.

[Tony]

Then they scored a buck 40 again at Memphis.

[Mike Ryan]

They scored a buck 40 yesterday they.

[Jeremy]

Continued with that pace even with the Knicks, a really good defensive team, slowing them down. And right now they're running on average 22 on ball picks per 100 possession possessions. The all time record for the fewest in a season is 37.9. That's just showing the lack of plays right now where they are just getting the ball, pushing it up the court. Whether it's Jaime Hawkes doing it with the bench unit, whether it's Davion Mitchell in the starting unit, they are pushing the ball and it's leading to all sorts of open shots for Simone Fontechio amongst others.

[Dan LeBatard]

Who? You guys are overthinking this one, pal. Big screens. What do you think? Terry Rozier is no longer here and they're doing, oh, we got him away. The franchise has been fumigated and we're undefeated since he's gone.

[Jeremy]

The last time they beat the Knicks was when Terry Rozier had a, I believe Heat high 34 points in that game at the end of the 2024 season.

[Dan LeBatard]

Under the jail.

[Chris Cody]

Yes, let's say that. Can we? When Bam Adebayo is saying, oh, we all stand behind Terry, he's our brother, you gotta say that. I guess. But he was dead wood, dead weight on the end of the bench. They were dying to get rid of this guy. So the FBI got rid of them. Got rid of him for them.

[Greg Cote]

You know what, I'm glad you mentioned that. You're right, they have to say that. I guess like we support him, he's our brother. But here's the thing. My first thought when I heard Bam say that, and granted it doesn't appear to be that he was doing anything with rigging games was with the Heat. It appears to be something that happened with the Hornets. But do you have to support him? And the reason that I say that is because if he's rigging games, why would you support him? Like, that's. It's the worst thing you could do if you're a teammate. I so, like, that kind of bothered me when they said, and you know what? The same thing with the Blazers too, is all, we support him, we love him. Well, hold on a second. If he's rigging games for you to lose, why would you support this person?

[Stugotz]

Well, Chauncey Billups wasn't rigging games or basketball games. It's alleged that he was rigging coke.

[Greg Cote]

Well. And he was passing along information as far as who they're going to play. Not play, because they're tanking.

[Dan LeBatard]

Co conspirator number eight did.

[Tony]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

We don't know if that was Chauncey Billups, although who the hell was it if it wasn't Chauncey Billups?

[Greg Cote]

No, it was. But in Rozier's case, like, why would you support someone who is actively trying to hurt the thing that you're making a living?

[Stugotz]

Why does Cody say, you have to say that? You don't have to actually say that.

[Chris Cody]

I think it's what you say if you're a teammate whose teammate has not been found guilty yet. I mean, the evidence is incriminating. Okay. I'm not going to say Terry Rozier is guilty. Put him in jail. But the evidence is incriminating. 30 unders on prop bets. 30. And all 30 of them hit in a game where he was not on the injury list and then leaves with a mysterious ailment. 9 minutes.

[Stugotz]

Did he have, did he have sick? Was the, was the bail $6 million for Terry Rozier? That seemed impossibly high for what it is that we were talking about.

[Dan LeBatard]

Too low.

[Stugotz]

$6 million as a bail. I don't know if you can look up for me other comps on that, because when I heard that, I'm like, can that be right?

[Jeremy]

It was a $10 million bond. He had to put up his six million dollar home in Florida as a result. That, that's part of why obviously these guys are supporting him because forget the fact that it was just he's accused of one game of this. Right. So if you're the guys and you haven't been a part of that where you're accused of, of him throwing any of your games. You can look at your, you know, brother who you've played with.

[Greg Cote]

Right. That's why I said granted, it doesn't seem to be what the heat.

[Jeremy]

Right. And then on top of that, you're looking at a guy who was brought in in shackles and taken from the, the flight. It's a really different experience than someone who was that.

[Greg Cote]

How was he taking off the plane?

[Chris Cody]

I.

[Jeremy]

Not off the plane. I don't believe.

[Stugotz]

No, it was in, it was in Orlando. But they. Look, there are some politics involved here. Congress summoning Adam Silver over this. There are politics involved in what it is that's happening. Adam Silver now has to go and explain some things to, to Congress and there are some optics involved. There's next to nothing. I will say this again. Once you're weaponizing federal institutions for political gain, as is happening all over the place now, and you can get some black millionaires in shackles, you're going to do that. But one of the things that is interesting to me here, we glanced over this last week, how little power the NBA investigators actually have. Did you guys see this Eastern Michigan story? And I don't expect you to have seen it. And it's a little difficult for me to read my notes with these bad bunny glasses.

[Greg Cote]

So, Greg, you up on Eastern Michigan.

[Stugotz]

You'Ll forgive me for a second as I find this story because I know.

[Dan LeBatard]

One player on the roster.

[Stugotz]

There was something funny in the Eastern Michigan stories in that there are some accusations because this is easier to do in college, and it's really dangerous in college because obviously in college you can have players who need money. Terry Rozier ostensibly wouldn't need money when he's got a 25, $26 million contract. So if you're going to buy a player for things of these purposes and have him risk the $26 million federal jail time and everything else, it's harder to pro players. But the NCAA went and tried to interview the Eastern Michigan players and people near them, and they were all like, yeah, not, not going to talk to you. Don't need to talk to you. You don't have any real power. We're going to threaten you by taking away your eligibility. Well, they don't have any eligibility left. So there's literally nothing the NCAA can do. It's just interesting to see that there's also nothing the NBA can do because if you're going around Terry Rozier's Family and friends. They're not going to talk to you. They've got to.

[Tony]

They've got to talk to the FBI. They might not talk to the FBI either.

[Stugotz]

But when. When federal power is being the thing that you're hit over the head with or just NBA Investigator X, the. The NBA investigation is going to be incomplete because that. Nobody needs to cooperate with that.

[Greg Cote]

Yeah, but I'm the thing that I'm bad about. I think Heat fans are as well. How could the NBA not disclose any of this to the other team? Specifically a team that then trades for this player and gives up a first round pick?

[Chris Cody]

Like.

[Greg Cote]

Like I don't even. Do the Hornets have a responsibility to have told the Heat? I don't know. I can go either way on that one. But the NBA. The NBA doesn't let another team know that we're investigating. We. We hit a roadblock, you know, so it's kind of open. We can't do anything about it. But this player may be investigated by the FBI. And the Heat winds up having to give up a first round pick. Now, granted, he gave up Kyle Lowry. I mean, that's a good day no matter what. But they still gave up a first round pick.

[Zas]

But Zaz, here's the thing. So the NBA is going to tell the Heat. Hey, by the way, there's a little bit of an issue. We had a red flag come up with one of the gambling partners that says the Terrier Azir may have been allegedly fixing this game. That's right. And that. So you're going to just uncover an entire massive investigation to the Heat, to another team. When you have it siloed with Hornets new. I know, but you have it siloed there. And now all of a sudden you're going to let another team know and then that team's going to tell another team and then.

[Greg Cote]

But they didn't actually clear this player. Like. Like there's an open ascent.

[Dan LeBatard]

They took him out of the season.

[Zas]

He was done with a fake injury.

[Greg Cote]

That's debatable.

[Stugotz]

That's what Windhorse says that this. The information on this is somewhat cloudy because Shams reported the NBA cleared him and the NBA had not cleared him. And so there are some things here that are still a little bit murky, but can we talk about the product on the court for a second?

[Greg Cote]

Oh, it's good product.

[Stugotz]

Is Tyler Herro going to foul this up? Because you're doing the Terry Rozier thing. Is Tyler Herro going to make this better? It's going to be something worth Watching because it's inescapable how good they look without Tyler Herro offensively. And he is going to, he is going to come back and, and there's been some questions for the entire time that he's been here about how good he can be, how good he can be at the end of games. He can get his own shot at the end of games. I still think the Heat are going to have trouble at the end of close games playing this way.

[Greg Cote]

That's what it is though. Like that, that right there is where Tyler Herro is going to help. We saw it at the end of the game in Orlando where they really couldn't score the last few minutes and we saw it for a small stretch last night as well. So having an extra guy who could create and make junk shots when the defense tighten up, that, that's where he's going to help.

[Chris Cody]

What a wonderful problem for the best coach in the NBA to have is to integrate his all star player into what's already good.

[Stugotz]

But he's, he's ball dominant and they need Davion Mitchell's defense in the starting lineup.

[Zas]

The other thing too is this offense has worked because there's been no ball stopper right in, in years past. You had Jimmy, who's a ball stopper. You have different players who Tyler Hero, also Jimmy and Tyler trying to share one ball and you're looking at saying, all right, can Tyler Hero come in and actually buy into what the offense is that they want to run or is he going to be like, nope, I'm back as my all star self, give me the ball, I'm going to shoot 20 well.

[Jeremy]

But that's why he can contribute because offensively like when they were playing with Pace last year at the very beginning of the season, he was a huge contributor to that. It was only when Jimmy started taking the ball and dominating it the way that he did and they needed to build the offense around that. Jaime Hawkins Jr. Another perfect example.

[Greg Cote]

Everybody, he's my dog.

[Jeremy]

Well, everybody looked at him as like another version of Jimmy Butler that was going to operate from the high post and was going to just use different post moves. No, he's better in this free flowing offense. Tyler Herro will be the same way. But they had to build an offense around Jimmy Butler before. Tyler seems like someone who if willing to just be a piece of it and get his the way Norman Powell has, he'll be a greater piece of this offense.

[Jack Harlow]

Stop being a homer Bo.

[Stugotz]

Jaime Haquez had some trouble last year, faded over the stretch kind of vanished. Didn't do much in the way of improving. I still have, unfortunately, the text string that Jeremy started with an assortment of people that is that says Jaime Haquez is the next Jimmy Butler.

[Jeremy]

That was the name of the group chat until I changed it to Khalil. Where is the next Victor Wembanyama?

[Stugotz]

Yeah. Wow. But Jaime Hawkes has been very good. This, this is an interesting question for later. It's not the question for now. Three games in, but once Tyler Herro is in the Harlow songs, Jack Harlow songs. And he is the All Star, can he even go back to being sixth man guy? Can he even go back to being the role that he was so good at when. When he was good enough to be 6 Man of the Year? Is that something? Once you've been an All Star, do you come back, you missed three games.

[Tony]

And you're like, you guys miss me? And they're like, no, not so much.

[Stugotz]

I'm the man, right?

[Dan LeBatard]

And they're like, his time is coming. It's a grim reaper meme. We left the Terry Rozier door behind us. Tyler's next.

[Zas]

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[Don LeBatard]

Don LeBatard all these high paid analysts, I don't want to mention names. Tnt, espn, you know. Oh yeah, they are dead. They cannot. They're not going to make it. You know, even if they win in, if they lose in Miami, I need.

[Tony]

To calm you down.

[Don LeBatard]

That's right. If they lose in Miami, they don't get a chance in Boston or they are going to have their ass. You know what? In Boston you stugats. They were wrong. They were. Are they going to lose their job? No. Are they going to get a cutting page? No. What are they going to do?

[Greg Cote]

Keep predicting.

[Don LeBatard]

What is the obvious. They are going to say, oh, the Nuggets are going to win. Oh, Denver, the altitude and you know what? The Heat are going to win at all. This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats.

[Stugotz]

Moving on to the University of Miami and what it is and we'll get to the Dolphins in a second because Tyreek Hill is lecturing us, sermonizing and taking a victory lap on Twitter saying where's everybody now that they.

[Tony]

Beat Kirk Cousins without Drake?

[Dan LeBatard]

London Let me say something really quick.

[Zas]

Let me say something Quick. I'm sorry about my Kirk Cousins takes. He's dead. It's over.

[Stugotz]

Oh, my God.

[Greg Cote]

Lost all trade value.

[Zas]

No, no, no. Trey, forget trade value. Forget trade value. I'm off the. I'm off the plane. I'm off the ship. I'm off the train. I'm off. Everything on Kirk Cousins.

[Dan LeBatard]

Dan, I'm sorry to report.

[Zas]

I'm sorry to report.

[Dan LeBatard]

Finally capitulated on the car back.

[Zas]

Yes, I'm sorry to report Kirk Cousins dead to me.

[Stugotz]

Okay, a couple of things there. I guess we're not going to start on the University of Miami since Kirk Cousins is now dead to Tony. Kirk Cousins is making $45 million a year. That is the kind of money that you give Micah Parsons. That's the kind of money you give T.J. watt, that quarterback making $45 million a year. And once you take away Drake London and have him only throwing to a tight end. Oh, look, Bijan Robinson is having the.

[Tony]

Fourth worst game of his career, and all of a sudden a terrible run defense can stop the run because they're not afraid of at all of $45 million. Kirk cousin throwing. Throwing it to Kyle Pitts.

[Mike Ryan]

What is this league?

[Dan LeBatard]

I mean, when you miss your. Your wide receiver one in your QB one, you're. The deck is stacked.

[Stugotz]

That's a good point because Harlan yelled on the waddle.

[Tony]

Touchdown. He yelled, wow, what is going on?

[Dan LeBatard]

I love that call.

[Tony]

And what is going on is exactly that is QB1 and wide receiver one are out. And all of a sudden, Bijan Robinson is not one of the top three running backs in the league. He can't get anything going because the Dolphins can suddenly stop the run when every back in the league and every backup running back in the league has gone for 100 yards against them. But Bijan Robinson, who's every bit as good as Jonathan Taylor and Saquon Barkley, can't get anything going in that game because it's Kirk Cousins to Kyle Pitts.

[Dan LeBatard]

Congrats, Miami Dolphins fans. You, you. You support a team that the opposing team looks at like, ah, let's hold them out this week.

[Stugotz]

Cody, what were your thoughts on that Dolphin game?

[Chris Cody]

I mean, I give the Dolphins a little bit more credit than, than you guys are doing. They. They stopped Bijan Robinson. You know, they, they tried to establish the run. Their offensive line was the same. He was getting the ball and they stopped him. And that's why they started throwing as much as they could. Plus, they were way behind. I give the Dolphins credit. Look, if you're Going to rightly slam the Dolphins a week ago for 31 to 6 loss in Cleveland and say they quit, where was the effort? Okay. If you're going to do that and you think that's legit, then one week later you got to give them credit to me and you know, call me a homer. I don't care. I've heard it before and I've heard worse. To me, this was an example of the Dolphins being embarrassed nationally, being mocked nationally and locally called quitters. This was their answer yesterday. I thought it was a very good performance. I don't care if it's a backup quarterback and no Drake London. And nobody hurts for Drake London missing that game more than me because he's one of the top players on Gregg's Lobo.

[Greg Cote]

I was going to ask you about that if you're upset about that.

[Chris Cody]

That was tough, man. Between six teams being on buys and, and having a couple of injuries like that, and that's a last minute injury. I had to scramble home for lunch and from lunch and make my lineup change just before the deadline. But having said that, I thought the Dolphins played very well. I would like to see them get a modicum of credit for yesterday.

[Greg Cote]

What you serve, Would you, would you serve up for lunch?

[Chris Cody]

We went out to lunch at an unnamed burger joint near us.

[Greg Cote]

Okay.

[Mike Ryan]

Ah, the journey to 7 and 10 begins. The journey to the 12th pick begins.

[Greg Cote]

I mean. Okay, so you're getting carried away.

[Mike Ryan]

I mean, I'm just saying 7 and.

[Greg Cote]

10, that would mean you think they're going to win 6 of their final.

[Mike Ryan]

I hope they don't look.

[Chris Cody]

They did. They're not time. They were 2 and 6.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm just saying this is the Dolphins dolphining. I don't believe they're any kind of good. I think they're what they were a couple of weeks ago. But they're going to do this. They're going to annoy us, win a few games and they're going to get the 12th pick.

[Chris Cody]

Okay? The thing that, that attitude doesn't take into mind is that teams don't tank, okay? Players are not built that way. NFL players are not wired that way. That's why you saw the defensive effort you saw yesterday. That's why you saw the TUA you saw yesterday who had a terrific game. Because you get mocked and people kick you, you want to get back up. Jordan Brooks, who leads the NFL in tackles, said that after the game, you know, when we're down that far, you know, we stand up, we're proud athletes.

[Stugotz]

Can I Can I just stop you for a second? Because you're right. Much of what you're saying is correct. However, the two things that are variables here that are unusual. One, I don't often hear Kevin Harlan scream.

[Tony]

Wow, what is going on?

[Dan LeBatard]

That's a good Harlan accent.

[Stugotz]

And Falcons fans were booing in the third quarter like, because they knew what was being lost to. Like. It's not just that the Falcons were frustrated because they were bad. They were losing to a 1 in 6 team. Can you guys tell me what happened in the first quarter? Tua did throw a couple of interceptible balls, right? Because in the first quarter I was driving around. I was listening actually to the Atlanta broadcast and the Atlanta.

[Greg Cote]

Whoa, whoa what?

[Tony]

He's got some thoughts on that. I saw them. I saw them on Twitter. But the Atlanta broadcast described on. On the opening touchdown drive that the Dolphins had.

[Stugotz]

I don't know what happened, but the.

[Tony]

Announcer was yelling, they put a paycheck on your stool every Thursday to catch that. Like, because somebody dropped a very easy interception. And I didn't see the first half of the first quarter.

[Greg Cote]

I like the idea of just the paycheck sitting on everyone's stool. No direct deposit when they come into the locker room. Anyone see my paycheck?

[Chris Cody]

Old timey paycheck.

[Dan LeBatard]

Can we talk about how the day started for Dolphin fans, which was a report that two has got a swollen eye now.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

Out of nowhere he woke up with a really swollen looking, definitely pink eye.

[Mike Ryan]

I was like, come on, the Internet is trolling me now.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's just like you read that and you're like, wow, they're going to get blown out. This. This somehow is more of a circus. A swollen eye out of nowhere. And then he has his best game of the season.

[Chris Cody]

By the way, that would be interception was a pass that was batted at the line, flipping up in the air and the defensive player should have had it.

[Greg Cote]

That was the call that I heard on the radio on my way home from the airport.

[Zas]

Tough one for.

[Jeremy]

For that.

[Dan LeBatard]

For that team to call.

[Greg Cote]

That's a tough one for that play by play, man to call do. He did exactly how you'd expect.

[Stugotz]

All right.

[Greg Cote]

It's like we're being told the game with his eyes closed. I mean, at one point it was two. I swear to you on that play. Can you do the replay?

[Zas]

Can you reenact it right now?

[Greg Cote]

Well, no, because I wouldn't be able to be that terrible at it. But it's. Tua was sacked, then the pass was in what was intercepted and then the pass was incomplete. All three of those things happened on that play. Tua. I'm driving to my car, I'm being told Tua was sacked. Then I'm being told it's an interception. And then I was told it was incomplete.

[Stugotz]

It's not fair to put Jimmy Ceflo in a radio booth that far away from the action and expect he's gotta be using binoculars.

[Zas]

Right?

[Stugotz]

I picture it just like it's not, it's not a fair thing to do. When you say to a had his best game, the reason he had his best game is because he threw everything within 2.5 seconds. And everything at the average air pass was 3.7 yards. I'm a little frustrated with the Dolphin offense, how often it throws to Achan, how often it throws the ball sideways. But they, they brought, they, they did.

[Tony]

The move of bringing the offensive coordinator down to the sidelines so that Tua stops thinking.

[Stugotz]

So he just stops thinking, throw everything in 2.5 seconds. And that's why he had his best game of the year.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, I agree with that. I mean, but that's a big move. That's a good move by Mike McDaniel that worked bringing Frank Smith, the OC down from his press box perch.

[Stugotz]

But why, though?

[Greg Cote]

Like, McDaniel calls the plays like, so why, why does that even matter?

[Chris Cody]

Because Frank Smith develops the strategy, the play, and to Dan's point, he's probably into his ear after every series or during a series, during a timeout, in his ear, telling him what to do and what not to do.

[Greg Cote]

You know, I. Everyone talks about how it was two point whatever seconds he was getting out as fast as he has all season and how that's a really good thing. I don't think it's a good thing. Like, if you're, if you're getting the ball out that fast, there's no, you're, you know, like, the play's not developing for a huge play.

[Dan LeBatard]

It.

[Greg Cote]

It's okay. Hopefully my first option is available and I'm going to do it immediately. It doesn't matter whatever else is happening.

[Stugotz]

But it is, it is how they had the number one offense in the league and best passing offense when they had it at 9 and 2 is because he was getting everything out faster than Tom Brady did. Like, that's. That is where they had their success. And the absence of that is where he and they have been figured out.

[Greg Cote]

And then you have these like third and 10 plays. And I know you're talking about how, you know, we're throwing it horizontally. There was this 1/3 and 10 where they throw the screen pass, you know, which resulted in no yards. And I'm just imagining like Marino must be watching and on third and 10 we're throwing the screenplots. It must just be projectile vomit. Like, like I don't understand the league when it comes to that.

[Stugotz]

There's no greater example of watching Aaron Rodgers age than seeing him on 3rd and 10. Being a quarterback who I don't trust to convert a third and 10.

[Greg Cote]

It's, it's like it's such a scared league now when it comes to offense.

[Chris Cody]

Okay, but it, but it worked yesterday. When they're, when they're throwing a screen pass to hn in space, that's what he's turning into. Like the last two touchdown passes were 43 and 20 yards long plays. Both were screen passes, both were catch and runs. It was working. And by the way, Atlanta went into that game with the number one rated past defense in the NFL in terms of fewest passing yards per game allowed. Part of that granted, you know, because teams tend not to be passing against them.

[Greg Cote]

Well, it also like, like Dolphins didn't light them up in the air. He threw for 200 yards.

[Chris Cody]

That's true.

[Greg Cote]

You know.

[Chris Cody]

No, that's fair.

[Greg Cote]

They were efficient.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah.

[Zas]

Wow.

[Tony]

What is going on?

[Stugotz]

That was when the Dolphins got to 24 points. Just. Kevin Harlan has watched a lot of football and waddle.

[Tony]

Running in the open field was something that totally baffled him.

[Dan LeBatard]

Howdy, listeners. It's Mike Ryan and Chris Cody. Hey, everyone. Hey, Chris. We love hanging out so much. You were at my birthday the other day.

[Chris Cody]

You're old.

[Dan LeBatard]

You know what I saw in your hand?

[Greg Cote]

What?

[Dan LeBatard]

A can of Miller. Whether it's a can, whether it's a bottle, a draft pour of Miller Light. Oh, the draft bore. You see that beautiful iconic color. Ah, the cold right away.

[Mike Ryan]

The ice coldness to it.

[Greg Cote]

Oh, so good.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yes, Chris, the ice coldness to it. Oh, Whether you're hanging out with me on my birthday because I'm old or you're at a game, you know that Miller Lite just makes every special time a Miller time. That's how you make the special times, by making a Miller time. Game day just hits different with Miller Lite in your hand hitting different. From jaw dropping touchdowns to fantasy heartbreaks. It's a beer that has been there for every moment. 50 years of great taste, simple ingredients and that iconic golden color. That coldness, Chris, that.

[Mike Ryan]

That icy coldness.

[Dan LeBatard]

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[Mike Ryan]

I see coldness.

[Don LeBatard]

Don LeBatard.

[Mike Ryan]

All right, we gotta go back out there.

[Chris Cody]

That was big. Wake him up.

[Stugotz]

Oh, he doesn't want. He doesn't want to be bothered anymore. Now it's getting tense because he didn't need that. As a result. He needs something that happens. Happen. You can see him.

[Mike Ryan]

Mother effing.

[Tony]

Can we bother?

[Mike Ryan]

Are we bothering you right now?

[Stugotz]

Turn on your microphone.

[Chris Cody]

My microphone's on St.

[Mike Ryan]

Paint the scene.

[Chris Cody]

The paint the scene is. I gotta go to work. Good night.

[Don LeBatard]

This is the D. Levatar show with the stuff.

[Stugotz]

I did want to get though to the University of Miami.

[Tony]

It seems like their uniforms is what.

[Stugotz]

Everyone is talking about. I've seen no one say anything positive about their uniforms. That first half that they played against Stanford was abysmal. Was just truly horrible.

[Dan LeBatard]

A lot of offensively.

[Stugotz]

Yes. Off. Well. Stanford's offense is terrible. Andrew Luck is on.

[Dan LeBatard]

I understand. But the defense is special.

[Stugotz]

Andrew Luck was chief cheerleader on the sidelines. They spent a lot of time on Andrew Luck during the telecast. Did you guys.

[Mike Ryan]

Magical. I couldn't hear it.

[Greg Cote]

I ride my bike to work every day.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah. So ridiculous. That bicycle video. Ah, hilarious. Staged for the camera. That guy hadn't been on a bike in 20 years.

[Stugotz]

I don't believe that. I believe that Andrew Luck more likely.

[Dan LeBatard]

To not be in a car in 20 years.

[Stugotz]

I believe that Andrew Luck.

[Tony]

In fact, if you ask me what's more likely, Andrew Luck takes a horse to the athletic department or a car. I would say a horse.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah.

[Tony]

Put it on the poll at Levittard show. Does Andrew lock. Does Andrew Luck's parking space have a car or a horse in it?

[Dan LeBatard]

Has a post at the. So you could tie up the horse on a post. Yeah.

[Tony]

Hitching post at the Stanford athletics department. Did anyone like the uniforms?

[Stugotz]

Because at the very least I thought they were terrific.

[Dan LeBatard]

Great message to send to the nation. And he's trying. Support the troops.

[Chris Cody]

Military.

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's the worst thing I've ever seen Miami wear.

[Chris Cody]

Terrible.

[Dan LeBatard]

And it was a really disappointing first half. I think one takeaway here is over the course of Shannon Dawson's time at Miami, I can Kind of tell when he doesn't trust his quarterback fully. And I don't understand why, because his quarterback is weeks removed from winning you a game on the road from fsu deciding they were going to commit to taking away the run and the play action working and the deep passes working. If you don't think Carson Beck can bounce back from a couple interceptions against Louisville, then you didn't watch Carson Beck over at Georgia because that guy would keep it moving. This is not a Tyler Van Dyke situation. And they called that first half as if they had Tyler Van Dyke under center and they had to protect this delicate little snowflake with, again, a conservative running game. It's not just the fact that you're running the ball because we saw in the second half they broke through. It's the nature of these run plays.

[Stugotz]

So stubborn. So stubborn.

[Dan LeBatard]

You know what? I really. I miscame, Warden. Not for the obvious reason. What KM Ward did last year. Every damn play is checking out of runs. He's just counting how many people are in the box and how many guys are on their line of scrimmage. And sometimes you can mitigate that. You can put a fullback back there. Miami had some big plays when they. They even the numbers up. But Carson Beck's not checking out of these runs. You're running into a stacked box hoping that you'll get a different result. Now, you wore Sanford down and you kind of did towards the tail end of the game. But I think it was an overcorrection by the Miami staff. I think they took the attitude, dude, let's just get a clean game against Sanford and get this thing back on track. But I didn't like the approach in that first half especially.

[Mike Ryan]

Is there a chance Carson Beck just couldn't see his players in the first half because of the camouflage?

[Stugotz]

And it took adjusting the camouflage.

[Mike Ryan]

I was at the game, I had trouble seeing the receivers. I was trying to look out there. I'm like, I don't know.

[Dan LeBatard]

I can't believe we wore that. It was awful.

[Chris Cody]

It was really abysmal. Just terrible.

[Stugotz]

I don't know how you have a University of Miami uniform with no orange in it. Like, all black would have been dope.

[Mike Ryan]

With, like, just the camo.

[Dan LeBatard]

But you've got.

[Stugotz]

You've got to have orange in the University of Miami's uniform.

[Greg Cote]

This was my problem with those Dolphin uniforms. Like, it's not the Dolphins. That's not the Hurricanes, right?

[Dan LeBatard]

It's over. It's behind us. Our national nightmare is now done. They will never wear Those things again.

[Chris Cody]

Oh, my God.

[Zas]

I didn't hate them. I didn't hate them. I'm just gonna put it out there. I didn't hate them. I don't think they look good on tv, but when I saw them, like, in the pictures and during the social media, I was like, you know what.

[Jeremy]

I like when they changed the color of what they looked like so that nobody would realize how dreadful they were. Because that's what happens on dreadful media.

[Zas]

With the bad Watch that. You don't support the. Those are truly dreadful camo.

[Jeremy]

I don't care. Those are bad uniforms.

[Zas]

You don't support the troops.

[Dan LeBatard]

I could I get tracking.

[Jeremy]

I don't.

[Dan LeBatard]

Do you support the troops, yes or no? He won't answer the question.

[Greg Cote]

I'm not gonna take a quiz.

[Jack Harlow]

You're, like, American.

[Chris Cody]

Thank you, Greg.

[Stugotz]

Like, finally someone said it.

[Jeremy]

Good. I'm glad we got here finally.

[Mike Ryan]

Somehow, the second I hate America somehow. Second worst uniforms of the weekend, too.

[Chris Cody]

The Steeler ones were just abysmal.

[Jeremy]

Those were bad, too.

[Chris Cody]

What's that design on the front? The stripes and the V's and. It's just horrible. But not as bad as. As the, um, uniforms.

[Mike Ryan]

I disagree.

[Chris Cody]

I love the military. Nobody loves the military more than I do, but the uniforms were terrible. When I see that color olive, I want to put that in a. In a martini. I want two olives on a spear in my martini. I don't want to see it in my football uniforms. It's ridiculum. It really is.

[Greg Cote]

It is ridiculum.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah. Thank you.

[Mike Ryan]

Speaking of olives, Roy and Mike and me were at the game, thanks to Mike. And that's how I watch football now. Zaz, those seats.

[Greg Cote]

I know. That's how I. That's. That's where I sit at the game.

[Mike Ryan]

And this buffet spread that they had, Roy comes back to our table with nine olives.

[Jeremy]

Wow.

[Mike Ryan]

What's the limit at these, like, buffet things? How many. What's the max of olives I should put on my plate?

[Greg Cote]

I think the max just makes sure you leave some for the next person.

[Mike Ryan]

I mean, it was like, he had, like, a big.

[Zas]

What's the spread looking like, Chris?

[Dan LeBatard]

Like, what's outside? What's outside?

[Mike Ryan]

There's pizzas, pastas, desserts, cookies. The other side, we got steak with the chimichurri. Then you got your regular, like, hot dogs, chicken wings, chicken tenders, just.

[Zas]

And Roy came back with 96 olives, at least nine.

[Mike Ryan]

And I may have undersold it.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, good for him.

[Mike Ryan]

So we're cool.

[Don LeBatard]

With this.

[Mike Ryan]

Like, there's no rules at a buffet.

[Chris Cody]

No, look, you can take as much as you can fit in your mouth in one time. Anybody can put nine olives in their mouth.

[Mike Ryan]

All right, go get. I need nine olives.

[Chris Cody]

It doesn't even. You don't even notice it. Like, I don't know.

[Mike Ryan]

You can't do nine olives.

[Chris Cody]

You don't know I have any olives. Notice.

[Zas]

You can't.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm gonna get you olives.

[Stugotz]

Go get nine olives and let's test his theory.

[Tony]

Let's get. Let's see if we will notice. Go get nine olives and let's see if we can notice whether.

[Stugotz]

Greg.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm not sure that's in our fridge.

[Chris Cody]

I love olives like I love bacon. There should be some sort of an amalgam there. You know, like olive bacon or something. Get on that. Culinary whizzes.

[Stugotz]

What? Okay. Put it on the poll. Should there be an amalgam of olives and bacon? Is nine olives too many olives to take from a buffet?

[Tony]

I've got a number of questions here.

[Stugotz]

Worse uniforms from this weekend? University of Miami or Pittsburgh's uniforms, and I missed a couple. But let's get back to Mike's point because this isn't something that I have heard a whole lot in, covering football in South Florida, not trusting your quarterback with audibles. The last time I remember it being a conversation around here was Dan Marino being offended at the end of his career that Jimmie Johnson would not allow him to check out of run plays. And that offense that I saw against Stanford, a really bad football team. That's a half that will get you beaten against a good football team. You'll be down and you won't be able to dig out of it because your quarterback is trying to throw his way back into the game. And all you.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's what happened against.

[Stugotz]

It's. It's not a way to play football. Not trusting.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah. Quarterback, please don't misrepresent. I don't know if they trust him or not. I just know it's not happening. And I knew it happened a ton last year where Cam Ward checked out of run plays and made Shannon Dawson look like a genius. I don't know if the directive is you can't and Cam could. And that's just it. Carson Beck's just not doing it for whatever reason. And that's why you get the repetitive run game up the A gap and, you know, with varying degrees of success. My whole thing is Carson Beck should be Trusted. This is not.

[Greg Cote]

Tyler Vanderbank should be.

[Dan LeBatard]

He should be. Look, man, do you want a drive ending because of two runs up the A gap and a tunnel screen or occasionally a deep shot arm punt? Like, I think Carson Beck has shown in his career that he can rebound from bad performances and interceptions. And I think we went into that game way too cautious.

[Greg Cote]

I mean, I think he should be trusted because if they don't trust him, they're not winning shit this year.

[Dan LeBatard]

I think they. I think they have the discussion, like, hey, if we limit turnovers, no one, like, we can hang with anybody. And. And that may be true, but I'm just saying, like, you invested in this quarterback. The quarterback's got arm talent. And again, you're two games removed from him actually doing the thing that you're scared and calling games like he's not able to do. He can go on the road. He can win you a game. He can take what the defense gives him. One bad performance against Louisville where they made astonishing interceptions. And by the way, that luck worked out a little bit because he threw an early one that should have been intercepted. I just. I just don't see it. I think it's an overcorrection. Like, you play a defense in which you're going to have more possessions at smu. Trust the quarterback. Let's move on.

[Chris Cody]

Well, they're going to need more of Beck at smu, no question. That's going to be a tougher game, I think, against Stanford, even at halftime. Seven. Seven. Stubborn Mario is not worried about that game. He knows he's going to win in the second half. Maybe not score 35 points, but it was a predictable outcome. Even at 7. 7 at the half, who was worried?

[Stugotz]

Well, but hold on a second, though.

[Greg Cote]

I was a little bit worried.

[Stugotz]

Let me just.

[Mike Ryan]

I was worried getting invited back if I went and Stanford beat him.

[Stugotz]

Let me stop you for just a second. When Mike says running the ball up the middle with varying degrees of success over the last two games, that's not been a varying degree of success. I've been surprised that they're very good running back. They've got a couple. But Fletcher specifically. And that offensive line has been stopped.

[Dan LeBatard]

Like, I had 106 yards.

[Stugotz]

Okay, but he had it in the second half.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yes. Yeah. Which is. If you're Mario. Crystal ball. You point to, like, look, it. It works. Which I'm saying, oh, like, they got a couple of big plays Now, Malachi, Tony, who is an absolute joy to watch in person, he's. He's just A brilliant athlete to watch live and in person. He, he broke three tackles on a good play that went outside. But they had two big running plays on the outside. And I'm not asking for a revamp of the identity. By the way, Alex Mirabal designs a run game. Dawson calls it, calls the plays, but they, they obviously have more a gap runs than any other team in the nation. I'm not asking all of a sudden, let's become an outside zone running team. I'm not asking for that. I'm asking for like four more looks a game, honestly. And it was great to see Jordan Lau get into the end zone. Hopefully that builds his confidence. But his skill set, he can run a gap for you and he can pull away. But get that guy in space, get that guy outside.

[Stugotz]

When Chris Cody says the way that he did, he's small. The other thing about him is he's not that fast. Like, he's fast or he's quick.

[Dan LeBatard]

He's quick in the game.

[Stugotz]

He's quick, but he can't. He was caught from behind against Louisville and like, look, he's fast, but he's not the fastest player on the field.

[Dan LeBatard]

He's not Roscoe Parish, but he. You think that because he's so fast.

[Mike Ryan]

In game, bounces off tackles.

[Dan LeBatard]

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[Stugotz]

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[Stugotz]

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[Stugotz]

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