Local Hour: The Best Game Of The Weekend

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Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Local Hour: The Best Game Of The Weekend

Date: September 15, 2025
Location: Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami
Hosts: Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, Mike Ryan, Chris Cote, Greg Cody, Billy Gil, Zaslow

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Overview

This episode of the Local Hour dives deep into South Florida’s sports scene, with the crew’s classic blend of humor and passionate debate. The central throughline: What was truly the “best game of the weekend”? This launches into a wider discussion of the Miami Dolphins’ spiral, Tua Tagovailoa’s future, coaching staff woes, and the spiraling fan angst gripping the city after a disastrous 0-2 start. Also touched upon: how this era of Dolphins football induces existential dread, expectations versus reality for the franchise, and who—if anyone—deserves to pay the price for the team’s struggles.

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Key Discussion Points

1. What Was the Best Game of the Weekend? (05:55 – 04:04)

• Panelists each cheerlead the games they attended, humorously asserting those were the best by default.
  • Chris Cote: Dolphins vs. Patriots
  • Greg Cody: High school game (Cyclones vs. Warriors)
  • Billy Gil: Texas A&M vs. Notre Dame
  • Jeremy: Marlins vs. Tigers
  • Mike Ryan tries to redirect to Cowboys vs. Giants as the “real” best game ([03:23]).
• The banter reflects the show’s local-first, personal-experience flavor.

Memorable moment:

"How the hell can you guys not have Cowboys Giants on your list?" – Mike Ryan ([02:51])

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2. The Dolphins’ Catastrophe: Defensive Meltdowns and Tua’s Shortcomings (08:41 – 47:51)

NFL Recap and Dolphins’ Collapse

• Mike Ryan exclaims the 1 o’clock NFL window was “crack cocaine,” pointing to the chaos and surprises ([08:41]).
• Discussion on the Dolphins’ 0-2 start becomes the episode’s emotional engine.

Joe Burrow’s Injury & Big Stories

“I don’t know where to begin today... Joe Burrow’s injury. It might be the Chiefs starting 0-2...” – Mike Ryan ([08:41])

What’s Wrong With The Dolphins?

• The group lays into the Dolphins’ loss to the Patriots:
  • Tua’s game management and mistakes under scrutiny
  • The defense described as ‘historically bad,’ with stats highlighting only 2 stops in 15 series ([22:31])
  • Special teams blamed for inexcusable kick return TDs

Quote:

“The defense is terrible. They’ve had 15 opposing series this year and allowed 13 scores. The defense is awful. The cornerbacks are awful. The offensive line was awful before it became injury prone. Those are the Achilles’ heels of this team…” – Chris Cote ([22:31])

Fan Meltdowns and Twitter Discourse

• Zaslow admits to “melting down” on Twitter over Dolphins' missteps.

“It’s two weeks in a row now I’m melting down on Twitter with this stupid team that I know is terrible. Why am I doing it?” – Zaslow ([12:02])

• Zaslow and others pinpoint a lack of hope, and that Tua isn’t inspiring late-game confidence.

Tua: Encouragement or the Core Problem?

• Divergence: Greg Cody argues Tua’s performance wasn’t the main issue and that he’s still a quarterback you “can win with,” but others are less certain, noting “something seems off.”

“We’re picking a weird time to get on Tua after he had an appreciably better game than he did in the opener... If that’s the Tua with a couple touchdowns and one interception, you can win some games.” – Chris Cote ([44:54])

Defensive Catastrophe and Lack of Faith

• The group repeatedly points out how Dolphins’ defensive flaws are so severe that even average offenses (Patriots, Giants) are carving them up.
• Billy Gil: “If you say Tua and the offense were to blame yesterday, you didn’t see the game I saw.” ([22:31])

Coaching, Accountability, and Who Pays the Price?

• Billy Gil asks bluntly if someone should be fired ([23:24])
• Greg Cody calls for the special teams coach’s job, half-seriously, recognizing pressure for a scapegoat as anger boils over ([41:27]).

“I would fire the special teams coach.” – Greg Cody ([41:41])

Franchise Direction and Long-Term Crisis

• Discussion on GM Chris Greer and Head Coach Mike McDaniel’s security:
  • Consensus: If things don’t change, both will be fired, if not midseason, at the end ([27:24], [47:51]).
  • Mike Ryan: “When you say they have an Achilles heel everywhere you look, that’s not accurate. They have a quarterback you can win with... But flaws all over the place, flaws we can all know and a historically bad defense.” ([25:44])
  • Dan Le Batard: “Everyone saw this coming headed into the offseason…this shouldn’t be a surprise.” ([46:53])

Existential Dread and the Soul of the Fan

• Mike Ryan and others describe the psychic toll of each Dolphins’ loss, with little hope things right themselves.

“It’s the most catastrophic ways to lose. We haven’t even gotten to the part where Tua misses four games because something is, like… we haven’t even gotten to the part where the skill guys get hurt… that the season is over after two games.” – Mike Ryan ([46:06])

• Dan and Billy try to pull Greg Cody into emotional alignment with the fan base, highlighting frustration and the city’s search for a scapegoat.

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3. The Tua Tagovailoa Debate: Is He Still the Guy? (Throughout, esp. 28:14–45:10)

• Tua’s regression: Is it the concussions? The offensive line? Simply being “cooked”?

“The reason this guy looks worse is because his brain is scrambled… you don’t process as quickly after however many concussions.” – Greg Cody ([36:56])

• Mike Ryan admits “we’re all doctors now” in diagnosing Tua, but also sees diminished accuracy and processing ([37:44]).
• Differing standards: Is Tua’s current performance good enough for an NFL starter, or is the bar higher because of the team’s investment?

“If you’re a quarterback in your sixth year and you are the number five overall pick, the expectation needs to be a little bit higher than things are going to go well only if the surrounding circumstances are perfect.” – Zaslow ([39:23])

• Lack of clutch moments: Panelists challenge each other to remember drives where Tua delivered late, expressing little faith moving forward ([29:13], [44:52]).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “I just fired my special teams coach… we probably win that game if we don’t give up a 90-yard kick return touchdown.” – Chris Cote ([41:06])
• “They are simply an Achilles heel. What isn’t an Achilles heel for this team? Go ahead. I’m waiting.” – Mike Ryan ([24:42])
• “You need your 250 million dollar quarterback to once give you a game winning drive where you trust him.” – Mike Ryan ([29:13])
• “The thing that is concerning… they haven’t played the stars of the league yet. Jonathan Taylor—that’s the best they’ve played against.” – Mike Ryan ([42:44])
• “After the Bills… if they come out of these first five games 0–5 or even 1–4, I think there could be a firing…and in-season firing, which is uncharacteristic.” – Chris Cote ([27:24])
• “Brian Flores looks right… He believed Ryan Fitzpatrick gave them a better chance to win. Chris Greer made him play Tua… they were a worse team with Tua on the field.” – Greg Cody ([36:51])

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Topic/Segment | Time | |---------------------------------------------|--------------| | Best game of the weekend, panel banter | 05:55–04:04 | | NFL 1pm window, Cowboys-Giants, Burrow talk | 08:41–09:27 | | Eliminating games, Josh Allen, Bills' edge | 10:05–11:51 | | Dolphins fan meltdown (Zaslow on Twitter) | 11:51–12:52 | | Dolphins breakdown (defense, Tua, meltdown) | 13:40–47:51 | | Tua debate, coaching accountability | 28:14–45:10 | | GM/Coach firing scenarios | 27:24–28:14; 47:20–47:51 | | Mike McDaniel postgame accountability audio | 31:06–32:23 | | Existential crisis for the franchise | 46:05–47:20 |

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Final Takeaways

• The Dolphins are “historically flawed,” with a defense so porous that any competence on offense is rendered moot.
• Tua’s future is at the center of all fan (and media) anxieties — no fewer than three segments spiral into attempts to diagnose what’s wrong.
• Fans and media alike are ready for accountability, but no consensus on who to axe — head coach, GM, special teams coach or Tua himself.
• The show ends as it began: with banter, exasperation, and a recognition that being a Miami sports fan is an emotional rollercoaster. The panel is split between hope, doom, and wry resignation.

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Transcript

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Chris Cote]

The game that I was at, coincidentally. Dolphins. Patriots.

[Mike Ryan]

Chris, what was the best game of the weekend?

[Greg Cody]

The game I was at Cyclones. Warriors Friday night.

[Mike Ryan]

Really?

[Chris Cote]

Yeah. It's hard to disagree with that.

[Mike Ryan]

Mike Ryan.

[Greg Cody]

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[Mike Ryan]

Mike Ryan. You're not going to say you're surely you're not going to say the same thing and surely you're not going to say the University of Miami game.

[Billy Gil]

Well, since that's off the board, it wasn't a game that I went to, but I was locked in on all like 80 plus points of Texas A and M Notre Dame.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, that was pretty good. Jeremy, what was the best game of the weekend?

[Greg Cody]

The game that I was at Marlins Tigers Game 2, 11 innings, Troy Johnston walk off his second homer of the game. You kidding me?

[Mike Ryan]

Billy, what was the best game of the weekend?

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, Dan, it's been since 2016 with the Don Shula trophies back at FIU.

[Mike Ryan]

The Shula hole. Congratulations.

[Greg Cody]

I can explain my game for you.

[Mike Ryan]

How the hell can you. You guys not have Cowboys Giants on your list.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, you didn't go to the Shula Bowl.

[Mike Ryan]

Cowboys, Giants. Russell Wilson just had a career game.

[Greg Cody]

Let me tell you about my game though. It's Lebitard show versus Ray Lewis.

[Billy Gil]

Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

Wow.

[Greg Cody]

You put the kids to bed.

[Dan Le Batard]

Did you get in his face?

[Greg Cody]

Well, you don't even bring the kids. Because I'm drinking the whole time.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, it was a draw, wasn't it?

[Greg Cody]

Best draw in highlight history.

[Billy Gil]

But it was a comeback.

[Chris Cote]

Was Ray there's.

[Greg Cody]

Well, it was.

[Billy Gil]

I mean there's just shadow show. We'll devote 15 minutes to it later in the show. Right.

[Mike Ryan]

The best game of the weekend was Cowboys and Giants.

[Chris Cote]

Lightning up their ass. 21 points in the third quarter.

[Mike Ryan]

Fourth quarter, the out of it.

[Chris Cote]

Because that's what you do with the.

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You rip off the helmet, of course. And you destroy the opposing team's helmet. You rip it off the trophy and that thing's not going anything anywhere for a year.

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[Chris Cote]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Chris Cote]

It'S 4th and 10 you refuse to punch when the shoulder pads and helmets crack that's how you know that football is back. Let me hear you say football is back, Jack. This high is wild and out of control and we're gonna ride it every week till reach the Super Bowl. No need, no check downs give me big hits and quarterbacks. If you say this game's the best, I'll say the gag. Football is back, Jack. Football is back, Jack. Football is bad. Football is back, Jack.

[Mike Ryan]

Who forgot to turn on the narcissist cam so that you could see how delighted Greg Cody was watching himself lip sync poorly.

[Chris Cote]

Yep, really bad.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't know where to begin today on what was the most important thing from yesterday. I think it's going to be Joe Burrow's injury. It might be the chief starting 02. I'm going to get some nominees from you guys in a second, but first, can we just eliminate the games I don't have to talk about from yesterday to make this a little bit easier because that one o' clock window was crack cocaine. Did you guys Notice in the 1 o' clock window any of you notice this? I throughout it was watching and I was like, what's weird about this Other than the nine, nine games? There's something weird about this and I couldn't figure out what it was. I just sort of felt it. And then they gave the stat on television. The Giants and Cowboys haven't played at one o' clock in 20 years.

[Zaslow]

Really?

[Mike Ryan]

They've never been. Yeah, I couldn't figure out what like I'm like, this is nine games. This is nine games. And that part's confusing to have this much going on. But also I couldn't figure out what looked wrong and it's that the Giants and Cowboys are too big as markets and important to ever demote like that and I thought they played the best game. Although I'm tempted to say Jacksonville, Cincinnati because that is as inexplicable a loss I've ever seen from a team that was better throughout the game, that did just the assortment of things that the Jags always do to lose games. But what games can I eliminate?

[Billy Gil]

Cardinals? Panthers? Get out of here.

[Chris Cote]

Yep.

[Dan Le Batard]

Sunday Night Football sucks.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah.

[Zaslow]

Bad game.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah.

[Billy Gil]

Out of here.

[Chris Cote]

Atlanta. Pretty good though. Atlanta Fountain.

[Mike Ryan]

I disagree.

[Chris Cote]

Pretty good.

[Mike Ryan]

I disagree. I say Minnesota's got a quarterback problem, but we'll figure that out as we go. You guys.

[Zaslow]

Steelers wasn't very good.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, that that one's got some interesting stuff though. And I eliminate Ravens Browns before I eliminated before I eliminated that. I'm tempted to eliminate Bill's jets, but I can't for a couple of reasons. Just, just a couple. One and I know you guys have seen this before, but it bears repeating because it's a little bit crazy that Josh Allen is this as a human being. Sauce Gardner had him lined up unblocked from the blind side. Josh Allen knows he's so big that he just spun out of it. And Sauce Gardiner looked like a toddler trying to tackle the upper body of Josh Allen. To see a quarterback spin away from a blindside unblocked corner who's got him squared up and hits him in the back of the shoulders and to see the size of that roll out just in that game. Explain to me again why the Bills are going to own that division because none of the teams in there compared to the Bills and the Dolphins are about to start. Oh and three. But also in that game. A worthy stat of the day if we were doing that today. The Bills have now won the turnover battle with Josh Allen, who was super reckless at the beginning of his career, 24 straight times. It hasn't happened since 1966. Like, they're the best team ever with Josh Allen at quarterback for the most consecutive times. Almost a couple of seasons of they always win the turnover battle and it's just not something I could have seen coming three years ago.

[Billy Gil]

Look, I don't have skin in this local market game when it comes to pro football, but we fire on a coach or what during this show.

[Mike Ryan]

Thank you for that because Zaslo on Twitter was going crazy yesterday.

[Zaslow]

Why do I even do that? Like why I Really? I don't lose sleep in the Dolphins. I don't like that. That emotional part of my fandom with the Dolphins does not exist anymore. I lost that a while ago. This team beat it out of me. All right, but it's two weeks in a row now that, like, I'm melting down on Twitter with this stupid team that I know is terrible. Why am I doing well?

[Mike Ryan]

Hold on. Because Greg Cody has a different opinion.

[Zaslow]

There's so stupid.

[Mike Ryan]

But you, you are tweeting nonstop during the performance. Pathetic performance from tua. Same story. Nice stats throughout the game. And then with the game on the line, he was horrendous. There it is. Under one point drives until the booze come down. Cashes in. TUA is terrible. Completely cooked. Horrific team. Says Zaslow.

[Zaslow]

All facts, by the way. I mean, like, I'm melting down, but it's all facts.

[Dan Le Batard]

How about a chance stay in bounds? I mean, TUA let him perfectly to a game scoring drive. And hn no spatial awareness. Runs out of bounds cost the team the game.

[Mike Ryan]

That was crazy.

[Dan Le Batard]

You have to be wondering where his safety is on this rock.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, because I'm sure they would have stopped them when they got the ball back. That would have happened.

[Mike Ryan]

So hold on, Greg. I know you have a different perspective on this. H.N. isan has been great the first two weeks of the season. A chan has been great at the goal line the first two weeks of the season, but that was rather inexplicable. Those touchdowns are hard to come by. Except in the Pittsburgh game where a Pittsburgh kickoff returner decides that he forgets the rules and should have been fired on the spot. The touchdowns are hard to come by. And a chance stepping out of bounds there is as clumsy as an athletic person.

[Zaslow]

He had so much room.

[Mike Ryan]

Didn't Antonio Brown have this happen to him one time? In 100 yard kickoff return where he stepped. He would have won the game in the snow. But he stepped out of bounds at like the eight yard line. And you're like, that's just clumsy. There was no one who was going to do anything to him.

[Zaslow]

Brandon Marshall did it one time with the dolphins, like 10 years ago. Inexplicably. Just kind of stepped out of bounds. It was no one there.

[Chris Cote]

It happens. It's not like he did it on purpose, but I'm glad to see that Lebatard was able to rent that plane. What did it cost you? Like just under 2000, I heard. Right. Like 1900 banners.

[Mike Ryan]

The first, first home game of the season. Patriots go right down the field and score that defense. That defense is going to be historically bad. That is not a good Patriots offense. That's a bad Patriots offense. I know that 14 to nothing touchdown or I'm sorry, 12 nothing because Borgales was trying to help the the University of Miami and the city of Miami to make it 12 nothing that second touchdown.

[Zaslow]

Oh, you think there was some shadiness going on there?

[Mike Ryan]

I'm. Well, hold on a second. Time to throw away the journalistic credibility and get reckless.

[Chris Cote]

Here is something we like to call reckless speculation.

[Zaslow]

Yeah, you're good.

[Chris Cote]

You're good.

[Mike Ryan]

Borgallis, outside of Carlos Huerta, was the best University of Miami kicker I trust. To see him miss two extra points that close was super confusing to me. But the touchdown that made it 12 nothing was a thing of beauty. Drake May lobbing a little parabola over there on third and long to make the catch the the Patriots. I was watching, when I'm watching this game, I'm thinking to myself, my God, everything that's happening in this game is exactly the things that happen to a coach who's under it and going to get fired because at the end of the game they're just a little less disciplined. Bulls team, they do the stupid things of the false start, the delay of game. You put it in second and 20, you can move. And here's the thing about this. This, this one is the one that really hurts, okay? I know that all everyone is focusing today on the lack of discipline on the last drive, the greatest advantage that Miami's supposed to have, the weight. The only way they beat Josh Allen is to exhaust him in the heat at the end of that game when they're tired is when they're discipline supposed to go when they're tired. It's not supposed to happen to you when you're training all off season in this heat. The advantage is that this season is over. Greg. Oh, and they're not going to rebound from 03.

[Zaslow]

I dare you to counter it. Greg. Greg.

[Mike Ryan]

They're not, they're not going to be the team that rebounds from 03 to make the playoffs.

[Zaslow]

And by the way, it's going to be an oh and three that they lose by 50 and three.

[Dan Le Batard]

Hold on a second. That game hasn't been played yet. We don't know what's going to happen Thursday.

[Chris Cote]

Well, Buffalo's won 1315 of the last 17 meetings, so I don't like their chances on a short week. But not to play the voice of reason here, but somebody has to, okay? At 02, I don't write them off yet at 03. I don't write them off yet. Although realistically, if I'm a betting man, of course I'm betting against them making the playoffs at 03. They obviously played better yesterday than in the opener. It's a low bar. They couldn't do any worse than they did at Indy. But I think Tua to Tyrique looked more like 2023 than they have the past season.

[Mike Ryan]

Plus, except on the one bad throw that Tua made that he needed to make. He only had five incompletions, but two of the passes were back breakers correct. Tyree Kill is wide open. Took himself out of the game on an important drive. He was so frustrated because Tua missed him when he was wide open.

[Dan Le Batard]

That long completion, he horribly.

[Zaslow]

It was a terrible, like the 47 yard completion was actually a terrible threat.

[Greg Cody]

And he had an interception in the first quarter called back because of a penalty that had nothing to do with the interception.

[Chris Cote]

Right. But the interception didn't come.

[Greg Cody]

But it was an awful throw to start the game.

[Chris Cote]

Tua didn't have a. A great game. He had a much better game than in the opener. I thought Tua's performance was. Was encouraging. Oh, the problem is the defense is so.

[Greg Cody]

How can you do that, Dad? I don't want to do this and just jump down your throat, but like, like he looks so rattled in the pocket. Even on the plays that go well, he just is like, I don't know if it's all the concussions he's had, but he just like he's frantic in the pocket.

[Billy Gil]

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[Dan Le Batard]

Hey.

[Billy Gil]

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[Chris Cote]

Oh yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Billy Gil]

Fishtail Palms. The great memories we made kids playing in the pool and in our hands, a nice ice cold pan of Miller Light. It was so hot out.

[Dan Le Batard]

I know, but it was so cold in my hand.

[Billy Gil]

We took that first sip. It was crisp. It was refreshing. Oh man, there is nothing like cracking open a Miller Light with your crew and your inner circle bones.

[Dan Le Batard]

Hell yeah, we fist bumped.

[Billy Gil]

Whether it's we, we actually really did. Whether it's that touchdown make a sound.

[Dan Le Batard]

But it just bam boom.

[Billy Gil]

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[Chris Cote]

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[Billy Gil]

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[Zaslow]

What?

[Billy Gil]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Billy Gil]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Greg Cody]

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[Greg Cody]

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[Mike Ryan]

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.

[Greg Cody]

Mother, can we bother. Are we bothering you right now?

[Mike Ryan]

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[Chris Cote]

My microphone's on st.

[Greg Cody]

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[Chris Cote]

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

[Zaslow]

This is the D Levitar show with the stuff.

[Mike Ryan]

Hold on, guys. Because five incompletions, 300 yards and he could have won the game at the end.

[Zaslow]

And I understand green pass.

[Dan Le Batard]

Man, he has never looked this bad.

[Mike Ryan]

I. I am not disagreeing.

[Dan Le Batard]

I love tua, but he has never like this.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm not.

[Billy Gil]

He's cooked.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm not disagreeing. But if you guys are making this about Tua, give them that point total all season and watch them lose all the games because the defense cannot stop anybody. Like, the Patriots are really bad offense. Daniel Jones now has two games, two Colts games and two Colts games with no turnovers and no punts. Twice as many of those in his Colts career as Peyton Manning. As Peyton Manning, Daniel Jones did this to the Dolphins right down the field with an offense that appears to be good. The Patriots just did it to the Dolphins with an offense that is empirically bad, one of the worst in the league.

[Zaslow]

Here's the thing, though, and I got some of this on Twitter from Dolphin fans yesterday where I'm angry with two and I've been a TUA guy. I'm angry with Tua because I know what I see. And this is a quarterback who is not any good anymore. So I'm angry about that. But here's the thing, and I feel like you just alluded to it as well. The TUA thing is so much. Yes, there are several reasons why this team is terrible right now, but the only one that really matters is Tua. Because the defense can be terrible. Guess what? They could fix that in the next year. The coach can be terrible. Guess what? They could fix that next year by firing him. If Tua's terrible, there's no fixing it. Like, it's a major, major issue. So when I talk about two being bad, yeah, there's a lot of other things that are really bad with this team right now, but long term, we can fix those things. If Tua's terrible, there's no fix.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah, Tua was not terrible yesterday. He was actually pretty good. The defense lost that game and special teams lost that game. If you think Tua and the offense were to blame yesterday, you didn't see the game. I saw. The defense is terrible. They've had 15 series opposing series this year and allowed 13 scores. In 15 series, they had two stops. Hallelujah. The defense is awful. The cornerbacks are awful. The offensive line was awful before it became injury prone. Those are the Achilles heels of this team, the pass defense led by bad cornerbacks and the offensive line that can't have a running game. Achan can't run the ball yet. He's done very well coming out of the backfield catching screen passes, so that pads his stats. But they're an egregiously flawed team. But yesterday, Tua and that offense were not the problem. They outgained the Patriots.

[Billy Gil]

All right. I appreciate Greg's perspective here because it's certainly more interesting than all of us being like, this team's garbage. Fire everybody. But we can see that you're a little bit more bullish on their chances. And the season's not over, but that was still a really bad loss to a team that no one. I mean, maybe some people have pegged the Patriots as a sleeper team, but the Dolphins entered this season with the hope and expectation that they would be better than Mike Vrabel's first year in New England.

[Chris Cote]

Yes.

[Billy Gil]

Okay. You had banners flying over the stadium. We set the scene up perfectly. This was as toxic as it's been around the fan base in quite some time. They have that performance. They lose the home opener. Should something be done about this team either front office, head coach, roster move. Does someone. Does someone pay the price because the fan base has found this cert unacceptable?

[Chris Cote]

Yeah. There's no doubt that they expect it to be 20 right now. And they were favored to win yesterday, albeit by a point and a half or two. There's no question that it's been a major crash, a dumpster fire of a start. Somebody will be fired if it continues. And I think mid season, it's possible.

[Mike Ryan]

Answer his question.

[Billy Gil]

You're not there yet.

[Mike Ryan]

Answer his question.

[Billy Gil]

No one pays for what's happened.

[Chris Cote]

No. After two games. No, I'm not there yet.

[Mike Ryan]

The reason that I'm stopping you is because of a couple of things. One, you say that's their Achilles heel. They are simply an Achilles heel. What isn't an Achilles heel for this team? Go ahead. I'm waiting.

[Chris Cote]

They have above average receiver room. Two is coming off a good game. No matter what you say. A 317 yard game, you cannot say.

[Mike Ryan]

But you can't say. The two is one of the strengths right now. The whole team. I.

[Greg Cody]

Did you say great accuracy?

[Chris Cote]

Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

He missed like four passes. Like the deep one, the one over Tyreek's head in the middle of the field when he's wide open.

[Chris Cote]

He missed a total of five passes.

[Mike Ryan]

No, no. He had five incompletions. And. And they're protecting him even more than they've had to protect him. It's not a good thing when against that team at home. Okay. You have no margin for error against the Patriots. No margin for error. You have to do everything perfectly. Part of the problem with the architecture of this team is that it has to do everything perfectly. Everything. Everything has to come out quickly. Everything has to Protect tua.

[Chris Cote]

Right?

[Mike Ryan]

When you say they're Achilles heel, they are an Achilles heel. When I compare that to the University of Miami game, I am not prisoner of the moment when I say that is the most balanced football team I have seen at the University of Miami in a long time. The Dolphins are the opposite of that. Flaws all over the place, flaws we can all know and a historically bad defense. Okay. Daniel Jones has started his career with no. No punts in a game and no turnovers in the first two games. That is historically the front good.

[Chris Cote]

The defensive front seven is passably okay. Chubb has two sacks in two games. Let's fine tune it. It's the cornerback play that is a killer. It's the offensive line that is a killer. When you say they have an Achilles heel everywhere you look, that's not accurate. They have a quarterback you can win with. They have a better than average receiver room even though they botched their tight end situation.

[Mike Ryan]

And Derek, Greg, you think something about the quarterback that is less certain than just about anybody right now.

[Billy Gil]

Okay. But they're headed into this game against the Buffalo Bills, which Dan already highlighted. They look like an absolute wagon. We, we said this was basically a Waterloo game for all the powerful players in this franchise. They are not favored to win this game against Buffalo. Do you look around and say, this is the right group of men either in leadership positions or on the field to be like, yeah, okay, we can save our season here against the Buffalo Bills because if they didn't win that game against New England with the way that the tide was rising around them, how do you think they can figure.

[Zaslow]

It out for Buffalo?

[Mike Ryan]

Zaz speaks for the fan base.

[Chris Cote]

I know he does. And I speak for myself and what I think is that. And I've said and written this forever, so this is not new from me. If the Dolphins don't make the playoffs, they have massive changes. Greer gets fired, McDaniel gets fired. That's a 99% certainty. The only question is when. After the Bills, which everyone expects them to lose, they have a home game against the jets and then they play at the Panthers. If they come out of these first five games.05 or even 1 and 4, I think there could be a firing and in season firing, which is uncharacteristic. It hasn't happened in years. I don't think it's what Ross wants to do, but I think by five games in, the toxic surrounding this team will be too much to bear.

[Zaslow]

I want to go back to TUA for a moment here and Something that you said because obviously Tua was a lot better yesterday than he was in week number one. But you know, you mentioned how Tua's performance yesterday was encouraging. We're not in year number two with Tua, right. This is year six.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah, he made the Pro bowl two years ago, I'd remind you.

[Dan Le Batard]

But he also looked a lot better two years ago than he does now, which is the concern. Like he does not look like he used to two or three, three years ago. And I think that's why people are saying he doesn't look good because he doesn't look up to the standard that we have set for him or that he set for himself.

[Greg Cody]

That's the, that's the part, dad, that's frustrating for me is it seems like you're just like I made this prediction. So no matter what I see on the field, I'm just going to say it technically not done yet. It's, it's what I'm seeing because I'm with you. They could have won yesterday's game. They could be one and one right now. I don't think anyone's really arguing like yes, this team could be a 7 19. But like what I'm seeing from Tua that it doesn't look like it used to. Something seems off with.

[Mike Ryan]

You don't see that Greg is reasonable and he is applying the perspective you can almost all around the league for somebody like the Chiefs today if you want to, you can talk yourself into something. The thing about the Dolphins that makes it hard is after week one nationally, everyone in the country was saying that's the worst performance that there was week one. It's the way that they are losing the way if you're a coach in trouble, those two games are the disaster. And what do you need at the end to be 1 and 1? You need your 250 million dollar quarterback to once give you a game winning drive where you trust him either. Because I don't have a lot of those, Greg. I don't have a lot of at the end of the game when everything's not perfect, hey, Tua, do it in two minutes now do it quickly. Everyone knows what you got to do. Do it. Give me all the ones you've got of Tua leading marches down the field. I got the Ravens game where they scored the six touchdowns. That's a comeback that I remember. But give me all the ones you got that make you at the end of that game yesterday do something different than what I was doing. I'm like that game's lost. I don't believe Tua will go down the field. I believe this team will do something to short circuit. And then they did all the things to short circuit.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, they did the drive and then they didn't do the drive because he was out of bounds. Like we saw it happen. And then they're like, you know what? Forget what you just saw because he was six inches out of bound.

[Mike Ryan]

So yes, they get the 60 yard play, the fluky play from a chan, which is about the only thing they can do. Dump it off and see if a Chan can do something in the open field. And he's been really good as a receiver. And Billy's not wrong. This might be an entirely different conversation if a chance stays in bounds. But he didn't. And when he didn't, you saw a false start, delay of game, second and 20, and you're like, they're going backwards. They're going to try and get 20 yards now, 6 yards at a time. That's how they're going to get the second and 20. They're not going to go down the field. It's going to be 6 and 7 yards and they're going to put me in a situation where I'm watching 2 on 4th and 7 and I'm like, like they're going to do something wrong here. And then they do.

[Greg Cody]

I want to play this sound of McDaniel after the game because he tries to take responsibility while blaming other people. And it's just. This is a minute here of him trying to be the head coach and taking responsibility, but not ultimately. I look at absolutely everything falling on me. So I don't see, you know, that's the responsibility of a head coach that you go into knowing that. That being said, I'm very frustrated with, you know, collective, you know, there's some basically coaches and players that did not execute communication in a very dire period of the game. With the game on the line. Our communication and our substitution was not up to par. And ultimately that, that is my, you know, I hold all responsibility for all things. Specifically the penultimate fourth down.

[Mike Ryan]

Was there a delay in deciding to go for getting the play call?

[Chris Cote]

Brigand.

[Greg Cody]

That's kind of where the frustration lies for me. It wasn't deciding that cost us or a late play call, which that happens at times. But this was not one of those times. Not a deciding problem. He's basically just like, just so you know, this wasn't a decision thing. The decision was made and it wasn't.

[Zaslow]

Executed properly also so that everyone understands I'm ultimately responsible for everything. But I'm also going to give you a list of all the things that everyone else did wrong. But you can come back to me because I'm the head coach, okay? So ultimately it falls on me. But everyone else. Not a good job.

[Greg Cody]

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[Zaslow]

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[Greg Cody]

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[Billy Gil]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Billy Gil]

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[Dan Le Batard]

Don LeBatard, I may take it one step further.

[Mike Ryan]

Wait a minute, wait a minute.

[Greg Cody]

You're getting sexier by the moment.

[Mike Ryan]

Slow down. We haven't even gotten stugats.

[Dan Le Batard]

Jason Sanders, you're unnoticed.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh my God.

[Zaslow]

What?

[Chris Cote]

In spite of him. Oh, wow.

[Billy Gil]

I love you, Duke.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugach. So we were. You were saying how you're just throw it to HN and hopefully he makes something happen, right? Which is basically what was going on in the game yesterday. Like every positive play was HN kind of making Things just happen. So I decided to look up HN. He had 92 receiving yards on eight receptions. Do you want to guess how many yards after contact he had?

[Zaslow]

Oh, okay, hold it. So how many yards total?

[Dan Le Batard]

92 total yards.

[Zaslow]

I like this game.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is gonna. This is. After this, we're gonna have a fun little experiment.

[Zaslow]

Okay? I'm gonna go 84.

[Dan Le Batard]

84 yards after contact of his 92. Do you. Do you want to guess, Craig, how many yards after contact?

[Chris Cote]

Let's say 58.

[Dan Le Batard]

58 of his 92 yards after contact.

[Mike Ryan]

Dan, I wasn't listening to you because I was asking Chris to cut sound. And you knew I was doing that. You saw me doing that.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, Mike McDaniel, let's.

[Mike Ryan]

Let's play this.

[Dan Le Batard]

He had 92 yards receiving. How many yards after contact? I'll just tell you. 102 yards after contact.

[Billy Gil]

Yeah.

[Zaslow]

What?

[Dan Le Batard]

Had more yards after contact than he had total yards receiving?

[Zaslow]

Well, let's give two up the credit for all those yards.

[Mike Ryan]

I was telling Chris Cody to play this sound because as this banner flies over the stadium and you lose that way, this is how Mike McDaniel sleeps at night.

[Greg Cody]

Absolutely everything falling on me.

[Mike Ryan]

He's just, like, looking at one. At the ceiling with one eye open.

[Greg Cody]

Absolutely everything falling on me.

[Billy Gil]

All right, I got to take. Someone needs to pay. I'm not buying this. Look, you probably can't.

[Greg Cody]

Absolutely everything falling on me.

[Billy Gil]

You can't fire the head coach. Short week actually helps him here, despite we know that they're all going to lose that game.

[Zaslow]

No, the move to fire the coach is Friday when they lose 40 to nothing.

[Billy Gil]

Okay, you fire the GM. Here's why. Every time I look up. Every time I look up and check out the Pittsburgh Steelers, I see Jalen Ramsey making an impactful deep boy type play. And I hear you guys talking about how bad the Dolphins defense is, and I look up every time in black and gold, and I see that guy making a play. Also, Miami Dolphins tight end room. Two catches, 20 yards this season. It kind of seems like Janu Smith and Jalen Ramsey would help. And that was a very bad trade very early on by the gm.

[Mike Ryan]

You mentioned. You mentioned. Yeah, Zaslo's in on fire, everybody. Yes. And. And Jeremy's whispering to me that this is going to be the second coach that TUA gets fired, because, as we mentioned, it's been six years.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

I mean, look, ultimately, like, Brian Flores looks, right?

[Dan Le Batard]

Like, he.

[Greg Cody]

He didn't want to go to tua. He believed that Ryan Fitzpatrick gave them A better chance to win. Chris Greer basically made him play Tua and ultimately, given the offense where it was at, they were a worse team when Tua was on the field. Then Mike McDaniel hitches his wagon to I'm going to make two a better. Now, ultimately, like the real elephant in the room is the reason this guy looks worse is because his brain is scrambled. Like you don't process as quickly after however many concussions.

[Zaslow]

But.

[Greg Cody]

But at the same time, Dan's about to hit you with stop talking.

[Mike Ryan]

No, actually I'm trying to hit reckless speculation, but it's not working.

[Chris Cote]

No, Dr. Tasha made a good point.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, he just said his brain is scrambled and I guess we can assume that he doesn't look the same, but also his offensive line stinks. And, and look, you're making a bunch.

[Greg Cody]

Of bad decisions, right? Like, isn't that processing?

[Mike Ryan]

I. Look, I've made a lot of bad decisions in terms of how I've done the analysis of his entire career. Because brain scrambling as an ingredient is not something we've had to do before very much in quarterback measurements. But yes, we're all doctors now. And when he misses Tyreek Hill and he was Drew Brees percentage wise last season, he's the most accurate quarterback McDaniel's ever seen, the most accurate quarterback many of us have ever seen. And now there's more inaccuracy. Now we're all doctors and it's not his arm, it's his brain. And I don't know, because it could be his offensive line, it could be that he and Tyreek are not the same as they were. If it wasn't but 18 months ago that that throw to Tyreek in a training camp was proof that Tua can't throw the deep ball. That was 18 months ago.

[Greg Cody]

Even if ultimately, to put the brain stuff aside, right? Like, you make the comparison to Drew Brees. You make the comparison to Drew Brees. The reason Drew Brees was this elite all time quarterback is he was reaching those completion percentages in an era where no one else was. Now you have these dynamic quarterbacks like Lamar Jackson, like Josh Allen, like Jalen Hurts, who ultimately are reaching the same completion percentages but doing all of these other things that Tua physically cannot do. And that's the disparity. He could statistically continue to be this guy who only throws however many incompletions, but if all he can do is dink and dunk around the field, you're not going to be successful.

[Zaslow]

It's not the same Offense as it was a few years ago. I understand. Like the offensive line is not very good right now, but man, they were picking up third and 10 like it's nothing. And now it's all dinking and dunking and look, I get it. The offensive line stinks. But if you're a quarterback in your sixth year and you are the number five overall pick, the expectation needs to be a little bit higher than things are going to go well. Only if the surrounding circumstances are perfect.

[Mike Ryan]

But Jazz, it's worse than that. Because when Chris is saying they can't fix it, they can. They might have the number one pick and they can fix it with the number one pick, but they've tied up so much money in this that they no longer have the greatest advantage that they had in the to a window, which is they had value at quarterback cheap. Now it's not that anymore. Now it's expensive and you don't trust it and you don't trust it at the end of games. And I will remind you that point total is sufficient to win an NFL game. That defense is historically bad. They haven't gotten to the tough offenses yet. Like the Colts look improved. I'd like to see a pass rush against the Colts. I'd like to see Daniel Jones bothered a bit because I haven't seen a whole lot of that. That he looks a lot different than he did with the Giants. Obviously their skill guys are better, but I haven't seen him bothered a whole much a whole bunch. And I haven't seen the Dolphins defense bother anybody. They're not to have two stops to going back to last season. Going back to the end of last season was like 15 consecutive drives where they were allowing points. It's. It's historically bad, Greg. And not the tough offenses yet.

[Chris Cote]

Right. So. So I am sort of wondering why we continue to blame TUA for this loss. Because as you say, it falls on the defense and special teams. I would have loved it if Mike McDaniel in his post game talk had said, hey, by the way, I just fired my special teams coach because guess what? We probably win that game if we don't give up a 90 yard kickoff return touchdown.

[Greg Cody]

Also got a punt return touchdown.

[Chris Cote]

Like what do you. Yeah, right before that.

[Zaslow]

Right.

[Chris Cote]

But it's. And then they have the momentum and the stadium is going crazy for the first time all day and they give up that kick return touchdown. Inexcusable. I would fire the special teams coach.

[Zaslow]

I think also a place where someone like me comes after TUA in that Spot is. We know what they're paying him. He's established in this league for long enough. It is a fair expectation, Greg, correct me if I'm wrong, it is a fair expectation for that quarterback who this team is invested in to have two, not even one, two opportunities with just a couple minutes left.

[Mike Ryan]

It took 40 minutes and two weeks of badgering, but we've gotten Greg Cody to fire someone. He came home after a bad day at work. He kicked the pet dog. But yes. He fired a special jumping Charlie. He fired a special teams coach.

[Chris Cote]

If I kick my dog, he'll kick back. Trust me.

[Billy Gil]

That's who everybody's flying banners for right now. You have just appeased the fan base.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't know. You guys wrote off this game as though they've already lost the Bills. You know, we saw yesterday for the first time. I don't know if you guys caught this. Josh Allen is human and he bleeds human blood.

[Mike Ryan]

He.

[Dan Le Batard]

He dinged his head. He had to leave for a couple plays.

[Mike Ryan]

Did he break his nose? Did he break.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't know. He's back like a play later. The guy's not a human.

[Mike Ryan]

Looked like he broke his nose.

[Billy Gil]

Yeah, he had gauze in his left nostril.

[Mike Ryan]

The.

[Chris Cote]

The.

[Greg Cody]

The thing just said he was human.

[Mike Ryan]

The thing that I am concerned about. I know. I don't know what the. What the point spread is going to be in that. A million dolphins, 12 and a half. It's gonna keep. It's gonna. Halftime going up.

[Chris Cote]

I like Miami with the points.

[Mike Ryan]

Of course. Your homer Cody. The thing that's troublesome about the first two games and what I keep saying is a historically bad defense. They haven't played the stars of the league yet. Jonathan Taylor, like, they haven't had to. They haven't had to stop somebody who's actually impossible to stop. That. That's a defense. That's a sieve. Even though the great players on offense, the best that they've played so far is. It's Jonathan Taylor that's the best that they played against so far.

[Chris Cote]

Well, he's pretty good, but I'm not.

[Mike Ryan]

No, I'm just. I'm saying that when the. When those corners have to start covering receivers.

[Zaslow]

Gotcha.

[Mike Ryan]

That are impossible to cover.

[Chris Cote]

Right.

[Mike Ryan]

That and tight ends that are impossible to cover. You guys said. You guys just said the Dolphins miss John who Smith. Yes, they do. And I also saw a different Miami team. The college one doesn't seem to need a tight end at all. They're not doing anything with a Tight end. But they've improved all those receivers. It's not just Restrepo running around out there anymore.

[Billy Gil]

I think CARSON Beck targeted 15 different receivers. And the message boards are like we.

[Zaslow]

Forgot about the tight ends.

[Billy Gil]

Pretty good last year.

[Greg Cody]

And then you see what Cam Ward does it see that's. It's not about the numbers. I don't care how many points they put up. It's seeing guys around the league doing.

[Zaslow]

Things they tell you don't throw across your body. Cam Moore. It's like I want.

[Greg Cody]

I want one of those. I want a Cam award.

[Chris Cote]

Sure. You want everybody except. Except Tua.

[Greg Cody]

Tua is out of the pocket a couple times today and it's. I'm doing the opposite. I'm like, oh no. Like it's.

[Zaslow]

I hate this Greg. He's awful with the game on the line. Tua, he's awful. And like if we were to go back and look at the stats, what he is late in these close games, I'm sure they're going to tell us he's awful.

[Mike Ryan]

That part is empirical. That's not. It's not. You go ahead and even as Homer Coney name all the game winning drives of tua. You remember.

[Chris Cote]

I don't catalog those. Those kind of minutia.

[Greg Cody]

Got to take a quiz.

[Chris Cote]

No, no. But. But I will say this. We're picking a weird time to get on TUA after he had an appreciably better game than he did in the opener. If, if, if that's the TUA with a couple of touchdowns and one interception. And that Greg, you need your two.

[Mike Ryan]

Craig, you need your $250 million quarterback to win you some games.

[Zaslow]

It's literally his job. Even in games that the defense is terrible. It's literally to his job when you're paid like that. I'm sorry.

[Chris Cote]

Back off.

[Zaslow]

I've told you I'm mad. He fired Twitter. He fired the Special, not Maddo.

[Billy Gil]

He gave you something.

[Chris Cote]

There's going to be a scapegoat before they. Before they fire Greer and McDaniel in season. There will be a scapegoat.

[Greg Cody]

Slow out of here.

[Chris Cote]

Of the order of the special teams coach.

[Billy Gil]

You broke him down. You've been attacking the man for 25 minutes.

[Zaslow]

I'm not mad.

[Greg Cody]

Years. 25 years.

[Billy Gil]

I made him the projection of the establishment Miami Dolphins. I got to relax. He fired somebody.

[Mike Ryan]

The only reason that I'm doing this so that you know I've always tried. You guys know this about me. I'm not the person who hyperventilates two weeks into a season. Yeah, you are, but what not usually.

[Chris Cote]

But now you are.

[Mike Ryan]

But because Greg, it's not that watching the games, it's not that they lost. It's not. It's the most catastrophic ways to lose. We haven't even gotten to the part where Tua misses four games because something is like. We haven't even gotten to the part where the skill guys get hurt. Like. Like that the season is over after two games. And I don't think I've ever said that in my dolphin. In covering the dolphins in years that.

[Zaslow]

You thought they were going to be like.

[Mike Ryan]

Not even the one. Not even the one in 15 season. I don't think I've ever said at 02 oh no, this is so calamitous. They've got so many problems of the kind that you can't get over, including if you don't trust your quarterback and don't trust him late. I'd put it low on the list. They can't stop anybody.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think the most inexcusable part about all of this though is everyone saw this coming headed into the off season and that's why everyone was like you need to replace Greer. And then as soon as the season ended like the next day Steven Ross came out and said you know what, everyone's safe. Everyone's coming back next year. And then the entire offseason went by with no adjustments seemingly except downgrading by trading away players. So this shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that this is how this is going.

[Zaslow]

I mean Greer, look we know it's no playoff wins his entire actually existence with the organization, not just as general manager. It's going to be another head coach that he hired, another one that he hired fired and he gave the quarterback $200 million and it has proved to be dead wrong. How do you and the rebuild is in year seven now. How do you survive all of this, Greg?

[Chris Cote]

You don't. The both of them are going to be fired if this continues. I'm just not ready to fire everybody after two games. I think that's the fundamental difference here. I don't disagree that that it's a dumpster fire right now and that they look really, really bad in in two key areas, cornerback and offensive line. The only difference is I don't want to fire people right now. And I was half kidding about the special teams coach that would have been.

[Zaslow]

So this is a new and unimproved.

[Mike Ryan]

Dan Levatar show with the Stugarts gamble.

[Billy Gil]

On by draftkings.

[Chris Cote]

Nothing good will ever just predict 00:17 get on the record with that.

[Mike Ryan]

Christ Almighty, do you know you were.

[Billy Gil]

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