Local Hour: The Ship Be Sinkin'

Summary

Podcast Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: Local Hour: The Ship Be Sinkin'
Date: October 15, 2025

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Overview

Broadcast from the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami, this “Local Hour” zeros in on South Florida’s bustling sports scene, blending in trademark Dan Le Batard Show chaos and humor. The crew spirals through Miami Dolphins dysfunction, the return of Florida Panthers hockey, baseball’s global popularity, and various running bits - from staff “punishments” to coffee hacks to the slow death of the baseball organist. The tone is irreverent, playful, occasionally exasperated, and always rapid-fire.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Show Mayhem: Punishments and Power Dynamics

• The episode opens with chaotic energy: too many people in studio, several suffering from “ailments,” and a parade of running punishments for the crew.
• Punishments:
  • Chris Cody must act as a “frat guy,” talking in lingo and giving nicknames.
  • Roy’s “punishment” is to act as Greg Cody’s personal assistant all show, which quickly becomes the segment’s comic core.
  • Discussion over the optics and fairness of these punishments, with offers to “switch” and self-aware jokes about on-air awkwardness.

“Roy has the worst punishment I’ve heard. No, Roy chose this. He’s gotta dote on Greg Cody all show, I think.” – Dan [02:41]

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2. Zaslow Returns from Europe: Sports in a Soccer-Obsessed Land

• Zaslow returns from Paris, starved for American sports and dying to talk Dolphins and Panthers.
• He jokes about the lack of football culture in Europe and their obsession with soccer.
• Crew riffs on time zones, staying up late for U.S. sports, and the oddity of exporting NFL games to indifferent European fans.

“I’m walking the streets of Pari and you know BY that Mike McDaniel, like, oh my God, fire him.” – Zaslow [00:46]
“Why are we sending these football games over there if they don’t care?” – Billy [01:35]

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3. Panthers (NHL) Season Opener: Fandom, Rituals, and Absence

• Zaslow is hyped for the Panthers’ home opener, describing his family’s ritual of creating a “serious room” for big games.
• Billy challenges Zaslow’s fandom for missing games while in Europe, leading to playful sparring about commitment, time zones, and jet lag.
• The discussion touches on how hockey has unexpectedly “infected” the Miami sports scene, surpassing the Marlins in tradition and excitement.

“You know how I do in the playoffs. Playoffs. A serious room. First game of the season tonight. Serious room.” – Zaslow [04:48]

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4. Marlins Baseball, Organists, and the Global Game

• Mike and Dan riff on the Seattle Mariners as not just “America’s team” but “Asia’s team” because of their connections to Japan and Ichiro—juxtaposed with the Dodgers’ star power.
• Heavy banter about how Asia and America perceive MLB, and the role of Japanese stars like Ohtani.
• Billy launches into a mini-history of Marlins Park organists (Dick Jans, Tabby B), lamenting how organists are a dying breed due to recordings and cost. Segment is rich with nostalgia and inside jokes about organists’ quirks.

“This Mariners franchise is Japan’s team because of Ichiro. This is super close to Japan... This is about Asia.” – Mike [07:26] “Tabby B... a little fast on the seventh inning stretch and then other times a little slow... seemed almost like she was playing games with the audience.” – Chris [15:26]

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5. Coffee Life Hacks and Legendary Cheapness

• Greg Cody drops his controversial “life hack”: reuse K-cups for a second, weaker cup of coffee. The crew’s response is a mix of disbelief and mockery.
• Greg recounts growing up frugal: saving soap scraps, swiping hotel toiletries, and how his Depression-era father shaped his thriftiness.
• The bit becomes a pseudo-tradition (“Drink it with Cody” jingle) as the group debates where practicality ends and trashiness begins.

“The life hack is that you can use a K cup more than once... You get double the pleasure.” – Greg [10:05]
“That is new levels of cheapness.” – Tony [10:18]
“The codies are trash. Come on.” – Dan [10:53]
“Individually or would he put it together, make a super soap?” – Chris [10:59]

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6. Dolphins in Crisis: “The Ship Be Sinkin’”

• The episode’s emotional core is Dolphin despair: ownership, coaching, locker room drama, and years of hopelessness.
• They dissect the “Tua controversy” (QB Tua Tagovailoa’s leadership challenges) and contrast it with historical legends like Dan Marino. The consensus: Tua’s viewed as unproven, so leadership moves are met with skepticism.
• The perennial curse of the franchise is laid bare, with everyone predicting mass firings (“clean house”), but lamenting that bad luck and amateurism define the Dolphins.
• The phrase “The ship be sinkin’” (attributed to basketball’s Michael Ray Richardson) becomes a motif for the Dolphins’ situation.

“The ship be sinking. Guys, like, this is how it, man. They don’t want to be laughed at by everybody.” – Dan [38:08]
“When you call a players only meeting, you don’t call people 20 minutes before the meeting and say, hey, you’re going to be there, right... You assume they’re going to be there and when they don’t show up and then you blow the game... I don’t blame the honesty in that.” – Greg [37:37]
“This has been funny for 20 years now. It collapses in Miami in a way that’s louder than the Jets who don’t know how to code.” – Dan [36:03]

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7. Running Gags, Meta-Humor, and Show Structure

• Crew tasks, like Roy’s doting on Greg, are played for maximum comedy and absurdity (e.g., fetching water, ottoman requests, microphone help).
• There’s a recurring uncertainty about what to do with Jeremy, who wants to play music and talk baseball on a day he wasn’t scheduled to work.
• They poke fun at “Wild Billy Wednesday,” introduce (and mock) jingles, and briefly rate Al Pacino impressions for “suey” award consideration.

“I think, Roy, you should bring him some more cups of coffee... Cody’s doing such good work on behalf of coffee and how you should drink more of it that we should get him some more coffee.” – Dan [29:32]
“What is happening with your knee? People worry about you. You’re over 70. You missed talking dolphin football.” – Dan [29:57]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On European sports:
  “Nobody works there either. Nobody works. They’re always walking around the streets.” – Tony [01:06]
• Dolphins’ futility in perspective:
  “Rarely do you get one of these calamities, sports calamities, that everyone in the country’s looking down there saying, that might be worse than the Jets.” – Dan [35:49]
• Historic bitterness:
  “It’s a cursed franchise... even if you go 1 and 16 now, it would be... no guarantee if you don’t have good people making the picks.” – Greg [44:21]
• Self-aware chaos:
  “This is what we needed... you’re either going to be really good or really bad.” – Zaslow [42:54]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Punishments and opening chaos: 00:00–04:12
• Zaslow on European sports apathy: 00:29–01:27
• Return of Panthers hockey and fandom rituals: 04:20–05:56, 21:48–22:59
• Mariners/Dodgers as international teams: 07:12–08:41
• Marlins and the dying ballpark organist: 14:49–21:37
• Greg Cody’s coffee/K-cup hack and thriftiness: 09:14–13:23, 27:01–29:13
• Dolphins meltdown – The “ship be sinkin’” discussion: 34:30–46:19

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Conclusion

This episode blends classic Le Batard Show mayhem—absurd in-studio bits, inside jokes, and sidetracked banter—with focused, poignant discussions of South Florida’s sports pain, especially around the Miami Dolphins. It’s an episode defined by communal suffering, self-deprecating humor, and a genuine love of Miami culture, with the looming sense that nothing—sports, coffee, or daily life—will ever go quite as planned.

Transcript

[A]

Chris, there are too many people here today and too many ailments here today. We've got a limping Greg Cody who's fiddling with the microphone already.

[B]

A limp in.

[A]

A limping Greg Cody, who's. Billy. You can't applaud that.

[C]

It's a good joke.

[B]

Thank you.

[C]

Because he's limping Olympian.

[B]

Thank you, Billy. That's my man right there.

[C]

You get it? Yeah. I don't think he got that.

[B]

You don't get it. He needs an explainer.

[C]

I mean, this guy.

[A]

I want to ask why you're limping, but I got. Zaz has just bombed in from Europe because he hasn't talked sports in 10 days. He's dying to talk Panthers. He's dying to talk Dolphins. He fired Mike McDaniel three times. From where? From Europe. From which part of Europe?

[D]

I mean, I'm walking the streets of Pari and you know BY that Mike McDaniel, like, oh, my God, fire him.

[E]

Right?

[D]

Didn't get much response.

[A]

That's been your take for four days from across the seas. Gotta fire him. And look, even Tony's disgusted by how common your take.

[E]

They don't care over there.

[F]

You're wasting great takes on people that don't give a about you.

[D]

I don't understand. They only do soccer there.

[F]

Boring.

[A]

What do they do?

[D]

What? That? That's it. They just.

[F]

Nobody works there either. Nobody works. They're always walking around the streets.

[E]

Go.

[B]

Go work.

[E]

Go do something. They do hoops. What?

[D]

Yeah. Not the NBA.

[E]

They have, like, arguably the best player in the league.

[D]

I mean, they're staying up until like, 1am to watch NBA games. It was very difficult for me adjusting to the time.

[F]

You know.

[D]

You know about time zones, right, Dan? You know how that works? It was really difficult adjusting. Every game I wanted to watch starts at 1am I'm tired by the end of the day, Dan. Lots of walking.

[C]

Why are we sending these football games over there if they don't care about them?

[D]

Great question, Billy. Why are we playing our football games over there? What? I'll never know.

[A]

He's an expert now in Europe because he's been there one time. We've got Chris Cody, I don't know. Are you a caddy today? What are you.

[F]

What up, Levitz? What up now?

[C]

What is that?

[F]

I'm a frat guy. I'm giving everybody nicknames. What up, rb?

[E]

Wait, is this a punishment?

[F]

Coats. Jay Z over here.

[E]

What's good, guys? Wait, are you dressed as a punishment? I know. We're shadow show. So we're painting a picture here.

[F]

But I'm a frat boy. Everyone thinks I'm going to play golf, but I'm a frat boy.

[E]

Wait, this is a punishment?

[F]

The nicknames.

[A]

You look like. You always dress. Yeah, well, you look like you on the golf course. This is what I imagine that you look like if you're.

[F]

This is you dressed up for Doral Classic Levitz class.

[E]

So your punishment is just to, like, use frat boy lingo.

[A]

Ruiz. Ruizy.

[E]

Okay.

[D]

Sound like punishments to bother people.

[B]

I'm curious what fraternity you're in.

[F]

Gc. I haven't decided yet. Still applying.

[A]

Roy. Roy has the worst punishment I've heard.

[C]

Yes, I am doing Greg.

[E]

Watch. I'm supposed to make sure that he.

[C]

Is working at an optimal level.

[E]

As you just heard, he was coughing.

[C]

So I will be getting up and getting him water in a second.

[E]

If he's too far away from the mic, I will adjust it for him.

[C]

And this is what UD is doing.

[F]

What are these punishments?

[B]

That's a terrible. Roy saddled with.

[A]

No, Roy chose this. He's got to dote on Greg Cody all show, I think.

[E]

I don't like that.

[B]

That was like a personal assistant I've been dreaming about.

[A]

You said you wanted a staff. Now Roy's punishment is he's agreed to be your staff.

[B]

I got a one man staff.

[E]

He wanted a walking stick.

[F]

Hey, fellas.

[B]

I got one of those.

[F]

If we don't like the optics of this, me and Roy can switch.

[C]

What?

[F]

I mean, I could just tell by there's some optics there.

[D]

There.

[E]

There is. There is. It was brought up during the meeting.

[D]

What's the problem?

[C]

This is the Dan Levatar show with.

[D]

The st.

[A]

Billy, I hate to ask you this way in front of everybody, but I need your help today. There's too much going on and I cannot also have it be wild Billy Wednesday. I. Genuine help.

[C]

I'm here, man.

[A]

No. We've got Greg limping.

[C]

We've got Olympian.

[A]

We've got. We've got Roy signing up for a punishment. He should not have signed up for that now has to dot on Greg Cody. We've got Chris Cody with the easiest punishment there's been.

[C]

Dlb because he's a frack guy.

[A]

We've got Zaz in from Europe dying to talk about the Panthers. And the Panthers.

[F]

Hey, everyone.

[A]

The Panthers got me watching shorthanded goals in Philadelphia to see if they're going to go 82. And with their two guys down because hockey has infected this market. I don't like the way any of this looks. Yes. Yes, what?

[D]

Yes, Panther hockey is back. Tonight's the opener. I get to sit and watch the game tonight. I haven't seen a single game. This is the opening game of the season tonight for me.

[A]

You haven't watched in Europe. Why didn't you follow? Are you taking the regular season for granted?

[D]

I followed. Believe me, Dan, it was the first thing I did when I woke up every morning in that godforsaken country. Over there in Europe talking. What can I see over there that I can't see in Cooper City? Now, I checked my phone immediately upon waking up, but I miss the Panthers. I'm very excited to be able to sit and watch them uninterrupted. And you know what? We'll probably make the Zazzle Mansion family room tonight, Dan. A serious room. You know how I do in the playoffs. Playoffs. A serious room. First game of the season tonight. Serious room.

[C]

I don't understand the game. The first game started like a five. You could have watched that one.

[D]

Well, so it was 10pm for me.

[C]

Oh, I'm sorry. So late.

[D]

Well, yeah, I was really.

[C]

Are you a baby?

[D]

I was really tired, you know.

[C]

Are you a Panther fan or not a Panther?

[D]

Flying works. Yeah, flying works.

[C]

You were flying. You were in a plane. You were sitting. You didn't have to do anything.

[D]

And sometimes there's this thing called jet lag where then I have to wait the entire day to go to sleep. I have to fight. I have to power through that. You wouldn't know, okay? Because first you get the money, then you get the power. And that's where I am right now. I got the money, now I'm getting the power. And with the money, you travel. And that's why I was in Europe. You'll learn one day.

[C]

What do.

[D]

I don't know. I can't predict the future.

[C]

What do you do with the power?

[D]

Get the respect.

[B]

You buy it however you got to do it.

[A]

That is the order that it has.

[D]

However you got it.

[A]

That's brought to you by Scarface and Ansas, who's not even suffering a punishment. This is just his. His style now. From Europe.

[D]

Oh, yeah. I'm wearing. I'm wearing a braid from Paris.

[A]

Yeah, I'm not gonna do that.

[E]

You're wearing a beret.

[D]

A beret.

[A]

And so, Billy, I've got. Chris has the stinky punishment. Roy has an offensive punishment. Tony's got a lot of opinions on.

[C]

A lot of different things, which is our punishment.

[A]

And Jeremy badly wants to get on the show. He's not even working today. But baseball is crazy. He wants to talk baseball. And we secured or everyone secured some rights through John Tesh yesterday to music we want to have. And now we can finally have music on the program that is like, Jeremy wants to make music for our show inside of the show based on music that we have. Can you guys explain to me what he's trying to do from the other room in the bullpen? Because he's not even supposed to be working today.

[F]

I mean, he just showed up here to your point and said, baseball, music and baseball. And I said, get out. And then that's. And now he's in the other room, and I don't know what the hell he's going to.

[A]

Mike is ready to talk that the Mariners are America's team because the Dodgers are. They've got the best players from Japan and the best payroll and all the best hitters and all the best pitchers and surpr. They're built for the postseason and they're running everybody down. Mike's a Mariners fan today.

[E]

Yeah. I've been waiting for this moment all my life. Here to go up 30 in the ALCS. I mean, all the years of torment following this team. But Dan, you mentioned that the Mariners are America's team. That's a given going into a World Series, potentially against the Dodgers. America gravitates to the underdog in these situations. It's much bigger than that. Let's not be so myopic. They are Asia's team. Even though the biggest Japanese superstar in the history of the game arguably is playing for the Dodgers. The this Mariners franchise is Japan's team because of Ichiro. This is super close to Japan. Geographically speaking. This is bigger than America. This is about Asia.

[A]

It's the real World Series now, is what you're saying.

[C]

That's why they call it the World Series.

[E]

Zigg.

[C]

They're only up 20 at the moment.

[E]

But I know potentially why. Why is George Kirby's over under on strikeouts just four and a half. It was seven and a half last time.

[C]

It's always tricky.

[E]

He got like six strikeouts one time only, throwing 66 pitchers. Guys. I know an ace when I see one. Jack.

[A]

Well, when you say you know an ace when you see one, the part that the Dodgers have that's unfair is that Glasnow goes for them tonight and they've got another ace. They've got three aces. Nobody gets three number ones. They've got three number ones, maybe four, and maybe Ohtani doesn't Need to pitch Ohtani's pitching.

[E]

Game four. They announced.

[A]

I'm just saying that this team is the most overwhelming, expensive roster there's ever been. They've got all the star players and all the ways to beat you.

[E]

I heard something. I. Roy, can you help Greg? You're on Greg watch, and his computer just made a noise.

[B]

You're already failing time out.

[C]

I don't think that was Greg.

[B]

No, because I'm looking at my volume right now. It is zero.

[C]

Yep. Not Greg.

[E]

What about the.

[B]

What about the phone?

[E]

I don't know, but you're on Greg watch.

[B]

Hang on.

[F]

Gc. It was definitely your phone.

[B]

It was my phone.

[C]

Why does Greg have three cups of coffee around him? It seems like a lot.

[B]

I earned it, Billy.

[C]

All right? Got a lot of earn.

[B]

Exactly.

[C]

I was talking to Greg before the show, Dan, and he gave me a life hack that I feel like he should impart with everyone. That was a great life hack.

[B]

I. I hate to give this away for free, but I'm going to.

[F]

Okay, Save it for your podcast, gc.

[B]

You know what? I should.

[C]

No, no.

[D]

Just.

[C]

We're here.

[B]

I got a million life hacks. I'll give you one right now. Who uses a K cup here? Who makes coffee with a K cup?

[D]

This guy.

[B]

Okay, admit it.

[C]

We were talking before because I was using the Nespresso machine, putting in a pod, and Greg, I was telling him, like, you don't strike me as an espresso. Well, I'm just. Hold on a second. We're getting there. I was just saying it seems like Greg is a guy that's just like the classic drip coffee. And then he imparted some wisdom on me.

[B]

Right? I'm a man's man. Men's men drink real coffee. So the life.

[A]

I don't know what that means.

[B]

The life.

[C]

And normally wouldn't.

[B]

Nor do you want to. No, he wouldn't. That's right, Willie. No, the life hack is that you can use a K cup more than once. Okay? You don't just fill up your cup and then throw away the K cup.

[F]

I'm pretty sure they're one serving.

[D]

You definitely do.

[E]

That is historically. No, no, you guys, that is new levels of cheapness.

[D]

That's a white team move, right?

[C]

There's some barons in this room, it seems, that are wasteful with their coffee.

[B]

If you use the second and if you pour it in a glass cup. You see what I mean? Naturally, the first use of the K cup is the stronger one, but if you don't mind a Mild coffee. You get double the pleasure out of, of a, out of a K cup. It's amazing.

[D]

That's trash.

[E]

That is.

[D]

That's trash, dog.

[E]

That is bad. Everything okay at home, Greg?

[F]

You need money or.

[B]

Right now the K cup industry is a gas indicator.

[D]

Right here.

[A]

The codies are trash. Come on.

[B]

We are. My dad saved soap scraps, Wild Bill. Yeah, he did.

[C]

Individually or would he put it together, make a super soap?

[B]

Well, you can melt it and shape it, but yeah, you go into my dad's bathroom growing up and there would be like 10 or 12 little scraps, little shards of soap that had been, you know, ground down into, into pumice lava. We were a big Lava family.

[C]

Is that so?

[E]

Oh yeah, yeah.

[B]

Your hands are dirty. Like they're in mud. They're dirty. And you use Lava soap.

[E]

They always use a construction workers hands.

[B]

Yes, as well they should.

[C]

I hate that part. Greg, of the hotel industry where before you would go, you get the individual bars of soap and you get the little shampoos and conditioners and honestly you were a fool if you would leave those behind. Those are just gonna get discarded as it is. So you take those home for a rainy day and then you have the soaps. You can make the super soap out of them. Yes, no longer. Now they have fixed the soaps and the conditioner, so.

[D]

I don't like that.

[C]

As though you're in prison.

[D]

I don't like that.

[C]

Me neither.

[B]

I kind of like that.

[E]

What?

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

Oh, I never as much as I want.

[D]

No, but it's hard because they put it where I, I dispense the soap in my hand and then I gotta like, it's a maze where I gotta then move my hands around where the water's coming out, you know, plus that.

[F]

First push down, it shoots out of there.

[D]

I'm not trying to do gymnastics in the shower.

[C]

Yeah, and what if the person that had the room before me washed their butt right before they wash their hair and they have butt hand on the shampoo.

[B]

There it is. Thank you.

[C]

You never think about that, you know.

[D]

About that butt hand.

[A]

There it is.

[F]

Never thought about hand, Gilly.

[A]

Okay, there it is.

[E]

Greg, I didn't want to ask a question.

[B]

Lava the soap.

[F]

Is that like.

[E]

What did that mean? Cuz lava in Spanish is clean.

[B]

Yeah. Well that makes sense then. Lava soap had grit in it.

[A]

No, but lava's like a command. Lava is like a command in Spanish. Like, like, like lava.

[E]

I bet you they didn't even know that Cuban guy did the soap or.

[A]

No, wait, A minute. They were. They were culturally appropriating the soap. Back in the 70s, your original. Your dad's soap was lava, which is the Cuban expression for wash yourself. You're disgusting.

[E]

They had no idea. You can tell by the marketing because there's a volcano on it. But, I mean, it's genius. It should be the official soap of Cubanos everywhere.

[B]

Thank you, Hummus. That's what gives it the grit. Pumice.

[A]

Cuban soap's better soap. And we were telling America, hey, clean yourselves. Lava. Puerco. The carrado seemed.

[F]

Levitz. According to. According to Google, AI, the most popular MLB team in Asia is likely the Los Angeles Dodgers.

[E]

You can't trust AI.

[B]

No, you really can't.

[E]

Although they are allowing porn soon. Sweet, huh? Yeah. Sam Altman came out sick.

[A]

What are we doing with Jeremy? Please, Mike, I need some help because the show.

[E]

I can't answer that question.

[A]

So Jeremy's in the bullpen, and I don't know the music bit he wants to do, but he wants to pollute the show with his music. And, Tony, can someone explained to me he's not supposed to be working today?

[E]

We just had such a good night of hardball.

[B]

Dan.

[E]

Dodgers are on a roll right now.

[F]

By the way, his ass is grass.

[E]

When my Dodgers meet the Mariners in.

[F]

The World Series, I'd like to see his grass buddy.

[E]

But I think Jeremy wants to talk hardball, and I think he's.

[F]

We should, because there's been great baseball on.

[C]

I'm locked in.

[F]

As you can tell, Yamamoto, last night, he doesn't want real.

[A]

He doesn't want to do baseball, though. Yamamoto, he was. He was. He's better than Snell. First complete game in eight years. But, Billy, I don't know with what to do with Jeremy's design to play music, specifically the Monday Night Football music that Tesh gave us.

[C]

Well, okay. I think that this is. Well, that's sort of what happened. I think what's going on. I think what's going on here is Jeremy came in excited. He wasn't supposed to be here. And then the solution someone came up with was, okay, go sit in the bullpen, and when we need you, we'll call you. While we are actually trying to figure out what are we supposed to do with this man today who just wants to come in and sing songs and talk about baseball.

[F]

We're like, music.

[C]

Yeah, do that. None of us were planning for that. So we're like, yeah, just go to the bullpen, and when we need you, just be ready. We'll call you. You'll come in and we'll get you. But I don't, I don't know that there is actually a plan. I don't think you can hear us. Hopefully. I don't think there's actually a plan.

[D]

So he's just here to sing songs.

[C]

That's what he wants. And we are like, we don't know what to do with him. So just go sit in that room for a little bit and we'll get you. And you're a good boy.

[F]

I was like, jt, hit me with a seventh inning stretch remix.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

I like that it has to be on an organ, though.

[C]

Yeah, we talked about that to test yesterday. I don't know if you heard that he. I broke the news to him that organists were going away.

[F]

I don't know if that's true, though. I looked it up. The Yankees have two.

[C]

No, well, no, no, no. They have a. They have a weekend organist and a weekday one. No, no, no, no. The weekday one, I'm telling you, is a recording. Marlins got rid of their organist years ago, Tabby B. She would come on Tabby B and she would play this Take me out to the ball game. And if we're going to be honest, you know, all respect to Tabby B and her service getting choked up here, the service that she performed for the Marlins over the years. But Tabby B, a little fast on the seventh inning stretch and then other times a little slow. It was very hard to keep up with Tabby B's pace. It seemed almost like she was playing games with the audience.

[B]

Not good.

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[D]

John, can you rate my Al Pacino from that billiard scene in Carlito's way? If I do it for you? I think it's pretty good.

[F]

Yeah.

[D]

Okay.

[E]

Stugats.

[D]

You think you're big time when you're gonna die big time.

[F]

That is my infamous scale of 1 to 10.

[A]

That's a. That's a 7.6.

[F]

Solid.

[C]

Good.

[E]

That's a suey nominee right there.

[C]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats. The organists have been going away. They have to take their organs with them to the game every day, which is probably part of it, you know, Wildfire.

[F]

That can't be.

[C]

You know, Dick Jans.

[F]

Have you ever seen an organ before?

[A]

The organ needs to be.

[C]

There's no way you guys know about Dick Jans. No, Dick Jans used to be the other Marlin organist before Tabby B took over.

[D]

I know that fool.

[C]

Yeah. Crazy Fingers or whatever his name was. Dick Jans. He retired. Is that so?

[F]

BG on Tabby B's Twitter. She still has Marlins park organist.

[C]

Yeah. What? When's the last time she tweeted?

[F]

Yeah, you know what? We're gonna.

[C]

Hopefully she's still with us.

[F]

It was a long time ago.

[C]

Thoughts and prayers to the Bee family. Something happened tragically, aside from just no more organing, you know? So you do organ.

[A]

Such a shitty joke. Uncle Dick.

[B]

Uncle Dick Jansen. I need a. An ottoman.

[D]

Really?

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Sounds like you're up, Roy.

[B]

To raise money.

[A]

No, this can't be. How we do this.

[B]

Oh, no. I need an ottoman to raise money.

[A]

This can't be Roy.

[F]

What he's here for.

[D]

No, it's a problem.

[A]

It can't be. Roy jumps up every time. Wait a minute. The punishment is that Roy has to do whatever Greg says. I need an ottoman.

[F]

He just helps him.

[C]

Yeah.

[F]

Classic Bells. We can switch if you'd like.

[E]

He chose it.

[F]

He did choose this. He had dozens to choose.

[A]

But you get the frat boy and he gets this.

[F]

Chose it. We have a list of punishments, but.

[A]

Your frat boy stinks.

[F]

It's just relaxed.

[A]

Dlb.

[C]

They would. Dick Chance. If I remember correctly, I think he retired because he, like, lived in Orlando or something. Would drive down for the game and drive back. Like, I'm pretty sure he was not a local.

[A]

So let's. Let's now talk about this so that we could. Billy has secret insider information on the dying organist trade at Marlins park. As baseball is celebrated throughout the globe. And the Marlins get left out because they've got. What's the history of their organists?

[C]

They had Dick Chance. I'm trying to find him. He had a good nickname, but I don't remember what it was. He had Dick Chance, and then Tabby B was there for a little bit, but then Tabby Baby Boo is no longer there now and may or may not still be with us based on her Twitter use history. It's not that interesting.

[A]

I'll admit that the Panthers have More tradition already than then the local baseball team that has won two titles. Also two titles.

[D]

Dan, I'm so excited for tonight. I can't wait. I'm going to be on my couch at least a good 30 minutes prior to puck drop. Just getting the mind right.

[C]

You're not a fan. You haven't watched the game this season.

[D]

When there's this. When the season opener is here, you got to make sure you have your mind right. And that's why I'm going to be in the proper seat on the couch. I'm going to declare the Zaslow Mansion family room a serious room. I am. So I'll probably have a beer in hand. I am so excited for this game tonight. Panther hockey's back.

[F]

Jay Z. What's the difference between when it's a serious room and when it's a normal room?

[D]

The stakes, you know, obviously when there's a playoff game, it's always a serious room. If we're playing those pieces of garbage called the Tampa Bay Lightning, that's a serious room. Don't even get me started on the Lightning. Oh my God.

[F]

What?

[D]

That's a dirtbag franchise.

[A]

Wait a minute. Have you had these takes in Europe since that last fight of the season? When have you not had a place to give your opinions on? Wait, you were in Europe when the Panthers started the season in the preseason by getting into a huge fight.

[D]

Yeah, that game was a Saturday night and obviously like I left for Europe on the Monday, but I wasn't here. You know, it was the week.

[A]

So the start of your two time defending champions defending their title with a fight against the Lightning. Then they went three straight at home and now you come home to. I missed all this.

[E]

Yep.

[D]

Missed it. Missed. I mean I checked my phone the first thing the next morning. I was very excited. I would announce my boys while there was still been said. Panthers won last night, guys. That's how I woke him. You're tell. You wouldn't want to be woken up with your father telling you the Panthers won last night. What a gift I give.

[C]

What time was it?

[D]

Gift?

[C]

What time for me locally when they. When you woke them up and gave them the gift.

[D]

Oh, like 8:00am Maybe 7:30.

[C]

Enough. Are you kids waking up? How much time they wake up?

[D]

Well, we're on vacation.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

What are they doing drugs? Like why sleep until past 8 o'? Clock? What's wrong with you?

[D]

We did a lot of walking, you know, we did a lot of touring these days. All right, guys, this guy doesn't get it.

[E]

He's never been to Europe. He doesn't understand.

[D]

He doesn't have the power.

[C]

I've been to Europe.

[D]

He doesn't have.

[C]

Barely been to Valencia.

[B]

Barely.

[C]

Boring city, if we're gonna be honest. 10 days in Valencia. Oh, my God.

[A]

Billy hates Europe.

[C]

Falsehoods.

[D]

I mean, I'll be honest. I don't know what I saw there that I can't see in Cooper City.

[C]

That's. He's not wrong about that.

[A]

It's a soy award winner.

[C]

Old stuff here, old stuff there. No air conditioning. No one wears deodorant. Great. Wonderful cigarettes.

[D]

Why don't you clean your stuff a little bit?

[B]

You know? So, Zaz, let me ask you this. Where in Cooper City is the Arc de Triomphe located?

[D]

Okay, you're saying words that I don't understand, so I'm trying not to take it as disrespect.

[C]

Arc.

[D]

Arc. Arc de what?

[B]

Arc de Triomphe.

[D]

You know what? I think you're making that up.

[B]

If we're being honest, it's an, it's an art. We, Our boutique hotel overlooked the Arc de Triomphe. We were walking distance for the Champs de Sale. It's a beautiful.

[A]

I don't think you're pronouncing that correctly.

[B]

Whatever it is, you know I'm not French.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Although my ancestors were.

[C]

Is that so?

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. French Canadian and French French.

[A]

Isn't that where the Tour de France ends every year?

[B]

The Arc de Triumph? I believe it does.

[F]

Gc did your wife tell you how much that hotel costs? Because she famously tells you, like it costs a quarter of what it cost.

[B]

I assume that. I always jack it up. And the price too. Oh, yeah. Based on what you see, based on what she. Based on what she tells me, she always lowballs it, you know, because I know she thinks I'm cheap.

[D]

Know about those.

[B]

So if the hotel room.

[F]

She still talks to you in like 90s prices. She thinks you're cheap.

[A]

You used K cup twice.

[C]

That's because that's a scam and everybody knows it. Thank you, Greg.

[A]

I've been saying that Greg Cody is one of the cheapest people in the history of the world. Forever. Yes. His parents had no reason to save soap scraps.

[B]

Well, my dad grew up in the depression.

[C]

That's true.

[B]

Which may or may not be true. I gotta do the math on that.

[D]

I had to lie to my wife yesterday about the price of something when we were coming back from Europe. You know, like I, I, we. We were going to take the. The subway to the airport. Because it's really expensive, you know, to take the Uber. And I checked the price of the Uber, you know, and it was like 40 bucks. Like, oh, this awesome. Forget about taking the Metro. Let's just take. We could take the Uber. It's totally fine. All right. And then when the Uber was coming, I saw that it was really. A hundred and twenty dollars was three times the price. And she was like, hey, so we made a good deal. Where I'm like, yeah, yeah, we got a good deal. We got a deal. The problem was I put in the wrong airport the first time. And then when I put in the. I was too embarrassed, Dan. To tell her that I made the mistake, which has now cost us triple the amount of money. And it was too late to change that up. So, like, hey, we got the good price. Yeah, yeah, we got a good price.

[C]

We got a good price.

[E]

What do you know about Charles de Gaulle, buddy?

[D]

I mean, I know the airport's named after him, but I don't know that fool.

[B]

He's a beloved figure in France.

[D]

I mean, I don't. I don't belove him.

[B]

Former Prime Minister Big Ears. Big Ears. He had the Cody ears. De Gaulle did. Big Ears. That's the only thing I remember about him because he died when I was a kid.

[E]

I can't believe the K Cup thing, man. Honestly, that is wild.

[A]

This is a famous look. This is a famously cheap family. Greg, please tell us a story from another time about how the Cody's grew up being cheap.

[B]

Well, I don't consider myself cheap, but what Christopher said is true, that if my wife tells me the hotel room cost $400, I assume it cost $600. You know, that kind of thing. And my dad, you know, cheat.

[D]

When you say, why can't she tell you the real price? Like, you're gonna get mad.

[B]

I would be like, what. Why are we spending that much on a hotel? You know, we stayed at the. At the new Pier 66 the other week. It was. It was more expensive than the thing right up the road that. The Ritz Carlton.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

You know, so it's a. You gotta be careful when you rent a room, I tell you.

[C]

And you gotta remember, Wild Bill grew up in the Depression.

[B]

He did.

[C]

So, like, if Wild Bill heard these prices, like, that's a. That's a year. That's a mortgage for a year, right?

[B]

Back then, you. You weren't cheap if you saved soap scraps. That's what everyone did.

[F]

But the K Cup thing, The K.

[B]

Cup thing is brilliant.

[C]

Yes.

[D]

Also trashy why drinking your coffee?

[C]

Drink it with Cody.

[F]

So that's what Jeremy doing.

[B]

That's great. That's good use of his time.

[D]

Can I ask you something about the K cups? You use it for the first time. Where do you keep them until you then use it again?

[B]

I use it immediately. Like if. If once the grounds inside have become cold, they are disqualified, then you throw it out. But if you use it immediately, like I would pour. I would pour this cup right with the first use of the K cup. And then I'd get another cup and I would do the cake. Lift the handle again, lower the handle in the same K cup. You get the light on again. That asks you what button to press. You pass the large button and what happens is you get a free cup of coffee. Now, it's not quite as strong as the original, but it's perfectly drinkable. So what do you do? Put it in a little less sweetener, a little less cream. You get the hue correctly, you balance the hue and you have screwed. You know, the coffee industry.

[D]

Can I be honest with you? I think I'm gonna try this.

[B]

Who wouldn't?

[C]

Why wouldn't you? You just told to not try it.

[D]

I think I'm gonna try it.

[B]

You gotta try it.

[A]

Is it cheap? Is it efficient? Is it something that he's just making two different kinds of coffee. He's getting a two for one. It's not being cheap, it's just being smart.

[D]

I think he's. I think I'm gonna try it.

[A]

What is happening?

[B]

That's the life hack of the week.

[D]

Drinking your coffee.

[C]

Drink it with Cody.

[A]

Great jingle get. I think, Roy, you should bring him some more cups of coffee. Because I'm just saying he's only got three of them. There's. And we want. Cody's doing such good work on behalf of coffee and how you should drink more of it that we should get him some more coffee. Why do you have three cups of coffee already in front of you?

[B]

No, these are waters to soothe my throat.

[F]

And yet you still sound raspy.

[B]

Well, that's. You know, a lot of people think that's sexy.

[A]

What's happening with your knee? People worry about you. You're over 70. You missed. You missed talking dolphin football. I know Zaz wants to talk dolphin football.

[D]

What a team.

[B]

Well, I was in here two days ago, so I did talk dolphin football.

[A]

No, but the TUA thing happened after that. And golf. The team in flames. The McDaniel reacting to two. And now it's the. Now it's that dumb conversation. Now it's instead of talking about the jets, the Dolphins get an extra week of everyone's laughing at them because there's only one now that they fired Callahan where you're like, oh, they don't know what they're doing at all. Like, it's not even about losing. It's just like, oh, the Saints will win a game here and there, but that team down there in Miami is about to implode. Like their fast receivers out after two games. And then what are they going to do? Oh, they don't have enough of anything. The whole thing's going to collapse. Who's going to get fired? And quarterback saying, not me.

[F]

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[E]

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[B]

Hi, everybody.

[E]

When we hang out and we hang out often, we're friends. I consider us friends.

[C]

Yeah, me too.

[E]

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[A]

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[E]

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[C]

No, it is a horsey.

[E]

A horsey. All right, we'll stop doing that. And here's a kicker. Miller light is just 96 calories, 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces. The original light beer since 1975. That's right. And still hitting different five decades later. You're so good at this, Rose.

[C]

I know.

[E]

So whatever your game day looks like, remember, Miller Time is always a good time. Look at us. We're a great tag team. High five again. Can you do that? That beer sound. One more Time and the horse sound one more time. Regret asking you about that one, but the Miller Lite sound is good. Miller Lite great taste. 96 calories. Go to millerlight.com shan to find delivery options near you. Or you can pick up some Miller Lite pretty much anywhere they sell beer. It's Miller time. Celebrate. Responsive Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wiscon. 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounce ounces. No, it says.

[B]

Oh, says.

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[F]

Gotta go back out there. That was big.

[B]

Wake him up.

[A]

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.

[C]

You can see him.

[F]

Mother effing.

[A]

Can we bother?

[F]

Are we bothering you right now?

[A]

Turn on your microphone.

[B]

My microphone's on St.

[F]

Paint the scene.

[B]

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

[D]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the St.

[C]

Gods.

[D]

Among the most embarrassing things going on with the Dolphins now, it's not just that Tom Brady's out of the league, and now the Dolphins missed that opportunity, and the Bills are doing what the Patriots did. But on top of that, the Patriots have now actually lapped the Dolphins, where they were able to somehow rebuild and then be better than the Dolphins again.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

That to me is maybe the most embarrassing part.

[B]

Drake May has been really, really good. But if I can say one thing about the TUA controversy, which to me is. Should not be a controversy, I think I'm the only one in the media.

[A]

I don't hear anyone doing this. You are literally alone. Who else? Joe Rose isn't doing it. Everyone is bailed on this ship except for the homorific Cody, who's saying that's too trying to exhibit leadership. I've heard no one else say that.

[B]

Okay, okay. To his problem is not what he said. To his problem is the. The broad public perception that he hasn't earned the right to say it. Okay? If Dan Marino says the exact same words, everybody's going, wow, that took balls to say that. He's right. Danny's expressing leadership. He's stepping forward and saying, hey, you guys, get your act together. This bullshit is, is. Is where we shouldn't be playing this terrible.

[D]

But Marino was amazing from the get go. He earned it immediately.

[A]

Oh, but this is that Cody is making this argument from Everybody knows the ship be sinking like it's all done. Rarely do you get one of these calamities, sports calamities, that everyone in the country's looking down there saying, that might be worse than the Jets. And look, the Patriots are better and the Bills are better. We love this sport. Patriots ruled it. Are the Patriots going to rule it again? Look what's happening with the jets and the Dolphins. They fought over Fitzpatrick. Bill's tried him too. This has been funny for 20 years now. It collapses in Miami in a way that's louder than the jets who don't know how to code. Like the jets don't know how to coach. What's happening there? They are coaching calamities there. That's an amateur football team. It's not because the talent's amateur. It's like everything happening there is the most amateur thing in the league. Penalties, stupidities, and. And that's the worst team in the league by miles. Like, we've seen no greater incompetence this season than the jets passing game in the last game. Took the stink to two countries. But laughing is in Miami. Jets are done. Everyone's finished. But the laughing's in Miami because the quarterback and the coach are fighting and it's loud as hell. And there's only one columnist in America who's saying, I don't. I don't see it on national television either. No, tua's trying to lead here, but the company the region doesn't believe he's actually Marino. It believes he's a failure too. Who's going to get swallowed by the mess. So he has no backing except Cody.

[B]

Okay, let's make this clear. He is speaking as a captain of the team and as the starting quarterback.

[F]

About player only meetings. Yeah, that, that's like his. That's like the leaders of the team lead those meetings.

[A]

Right?

[D]

Who's the leader of a player only meeting if not Tua?

[C]

He is.

[D]

Right, but he's questioning the leadership.

[F]

He's like, we have people not showing up to these things. Whose responsibility is it to pressure people and make people feel like they need to show up to these things?

[B]

When you call a players only meeting, you don't call people 20 minutes before the meeting and say, hey, you're going to be there. Right. You assume they're going to be there and when they don't show up and then you, you, you blow the game in the manner that they blew it, you're frustrated enough and angry enough to say something. I don't blame the honesty in that.

[E]

I appreciate your perspective here, but what do you make of Mike McDaniel coming out and saying two I shouldn't have done it that way.

[B]

I think he, he didn't support his quarterback. I think what he said about two of the was worse than what Tua said about his unnamed teammate.

[A]

The ship be sinking. Guys like, this is how it, man. They don't want to be laughed at by everybody.

[E]

I think. Isn't Chris supposed to be the frat guy? Why are you doing that twice?

[B]

He did that sinking. Is that an apostrophe?

[A]

It's just. It's what it's famous for. I'm sorry, I wasn't.

[D]

Wasn't that in the Toronto Blue Jays clubhouse one time?

[A]

No, this is.

[E]

I mean, don't get me wrong, you sounded super duper cool when you said it.

[C]

Pop your collar next time.

[A]

I deserve that. But the story I'm remembering, and it's an ancient one, that the tabloids, when they were feeding in New York, back when the tabloids in sports meant something, okay, and basketball meant something that it doesn't even mean today. I wouldn't say with today's Knicks, okay, everybody was laughing in New York at the basketball team. And I'm forgetting the name of the player in. It's a famous quote. The ship be sinking comes from a famous New York player, Michael Ray Richardson. So forgive me forgetting the name, but the moment that he said that, he gave fodder to the media to make the city explode. And now everyone laughs at this team because in his own voice, that guy just said, we all know that it's all going down. Everyone's going to get fired. We're all going to lose our jobs. I've never seen it happen like this in Miami. Tell me when, tell me when you've seen that it's coming out to clean house. Like just get. Sweep everyone out of here. The owner's old, he's a billionaire. He's a very successful man. In every other way. This team continues to embarrass him because it's a, it's an international failure. And now everyone wants everyone out of town. It's never happened in this market before.

[E]

I feel like it's happened to the Dolphins like four times this, this century with Flores.

[D]

I'm pretty sure without any hyperbole, I say this. We are witnessing an all time worst Miami Dolphin season. Not the worst, but one of the all time worst Miami Dolphins season.

[E]

This one sticks out because this pain is so drawn out. I.

[D]

We went into the season kind of feeling like this.

[E]

You were at a tipping point already where all the other ones, like the season kind of fell apart later in the year. And then it was understood that guys would go and sometimes you had interim head coaches, just Mike McDaniels. They're just twisting in the wind. There doesn't appear to be.

[D]

Everybody knows what the end of the rainbow looks like. Or I shouldn't say.

[E]

There doesn't appear to be a path for anybody. Mike McDaniel, Greer Tua. There doesn't. So what are we doing here? Just. Just kill it.

[C]

Get a.

[E]

Get a better draft pick.

[C]

I think the funny thing about this team is that it could be like vastly different had just one or two plays gone different ways in different games, while also not being different at all. Like, had hn not stepped out of bounds in the Patriots game, they would have won the Patriots game.

[D]

This is stuff that happens to bad teams.

[C]

No, but what I'm saying is, had they won that Patriots game, that's another win instead of a loss. Had they held on and won that Panthers game and not given up a second game winning drive to Bryce Young, they would have won and not lost.

[D]

But continually doing stupid things is what bad teams do.

[C]

No, but what I'm telling you is same thing could have happened with the Chargers where they make a tackle, they win that game, and you could be looking at a team that has a winning record.

[A]

So funny.

[C]

That is not good.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And then you don't make the changes that are necessary. So while the team is what the team is, these bad mistakes could end up helping them long term because it can give them such a bad record that they ultimately do what they've needed to do, which is completely clean house. They need to get rid of Greer, they need to get rid of McDaniel. They need to likely figure out a way to move on from tua. But if they have a winning record, they're not going to do that and they're going to be stuck in the same position. And it's just, just dumb plays and mistakes that have put them in the position to finally make the decisions that they've needed to make.

[E]

You brought up interesting points, but does this team feel close to you like that?

[D]

That feels so.

[C]

You could talk yourself into it if the team's four and two, but I.

[E]

Think that's exactly what you're doing, talking yourself into it because they don't appear that close.

[F]

They have six one possession games.

[A]

Oh, Billy's right. I mean, come on. The whole league is upset.

[E]

Looks like trash. This is like from a neutral observer, that's a garbage team and always has been this season. And guys got blinded by some weird shit. Not exactly sure this has always been a bad team. Yeah, but it never made sense with his projections. Like it was a bad team is one of the jokes in the league.

[C]

But Steven Ross is, has never made the decision. Is never going to make the decision with this group of people if they continue having a winning record or being a game away from the playoffs. They're like, we'll add here, we'll add there. They didn't add anything last. I mean they added Waller, which Dan ended up being right about Waller, which is like crazy. But they wouldn't have made like large scale changes if they had a 7 and 9, whatever, 10 record.

[F]

This is what we needed is what.

[D]

You'Re either going to be really good or really bad.

[E]

They're having that conversation in Cleveland and do you think Cleveland's close to being a good team?

[A]

Which one of you was saying that Cleveland is a must win game for the Dolphins?

[B]

It is.

[C]

Yeah. They got to win that one.

[B]

I think that if they lose at Cleveland, I think McDaniel might be fired after that game.

[F]

Why wouldn't to Billy's point, why don't you just lean in at this point to McDaniel make this a bad season?

[D]

Well, no, it's not like it gets better when there's an interim coach.

[F]

Sometimes you bring in an interim coach all Of a sudden they like, you.

[B]

Know, sometimes you get a Dan Campbell.

[A]

Sometimes it's Dan Campbell.

[F]

If I'm Ross, I leave it. And I'm like, you know what?

[E]

I'm.

[F]

I'm out. I'm. I'm out on these guys.

[D]

Now. The reason you got to make the change of your Ross, you have to show the fan base I'm angry also. I'm willing to make big changes.

[C]

He did that look behind you on the sidelines. He put his hands on his head and that was like, whoa. That's a. That was a statement by Stephen Ross. That's as mad as we've seen. Seen him. Who's the Dolphins, Jeff, Saturday that they could be like, hey, you want to come in and just kind of stand on the sideline for half a season? Marino's never going to do that.

[F]

Marines, we know Marino's.

[C]

Jason Taylor's at the University of Miami. He's tied up at the.

[F]

What Zach Thomas doing?

[C]

That's a good question. Zt.

[D]

Sam Madison did some coaching.

[A]

Sam Madison, zt. That's your trick, Chris.

[F]

I just said Marine.

[A]

That was a bad one on Marino. You made him Marine, and that was.

[C]

You, which is just as long as Marino. No, we just changed the last letter.

[E]

Dan the man.

[C]

That's a good one, Roy.

[B]

It's a cursed franchise. Here's an example. When they went 1 and 15, that didn't. That was not a panacea, okay? They. They drafted Jake Long, I believe it was, instead of Matt Ryan, okay? They had a good year the next year in Sparano's first year, and then they went seven years in a row without a winning record. So even if you go 1 and 16 now, it would be. And get that top draft pick. It's no guarantee if you don't have good people making the picks. Look, everybody's going to be fired here, okay? McDaniel is going to be fired. Chris Greer is going to be fired. It's just the only thing we're arguing about is when should it be right now? Should it be at the end of the season? That's the only debate here. We all agree this has been a nightmare season and the current regime won't survive.

[F]

Greg, would you agree that McDaniel has.

[E]

Had the blueprint in place to show that this offense can score 70 points?

[A]

Can.

[F]

Can be really good. If they went out and fired Chris.

[E]

GREER Instead of McDaniel, how would that make you feel?

[B]

Well, right now the problem is defense. Even though everybody thinks Anthony Weaver is one of the best defensive coordinators in the league.

[D]

Why does anyone think that?

[C]

Because he's.

[B]

Because he's pedigreed from the Baltimore Ravens when the Ravens were really good. So you assume he knows what he's doing.

[F]

Gc, I think you're making a leap from a respected defensive coordinator to one of the best in the league. Like, I agree with you think anyone looks at him as the problem, but, like, you just made a leap to one of the best in the league.

[B]

No. In fact, one of the things in play here is that everybody would say, okay, if. If they fire McDaniel next week or the week after the. The assistant coach who's fit to take over is probably Anthony Weaver, who happens to be the leader of the worst. One of the worst defenses in the league. So how would that look? You know, what kind of an optic is that if you're Stephen Ross?

[C]

You also can't keep Mike McDaniel. Like, it can't be just get rid of Greer. No, you can't. McDaniel has lost this team. Like, he does not have the guys believing in him whatsoever. It's very obvious. And just changing Greer is not going to fix that.

[D]

Well, I know general manager is going to come in and say, yeah, Mike McDaniel, that that's my top choice to be the coach. No one's going to do that.

[B]

No. The GM will want his own head coach. Now, he may be forced to live with TUA for the next couple of seasons, but. But he absolutely would be able to bring in his own head coach.

[E]

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[B]

Hi, everybody.

[E]

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[C]

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[E]

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[A]

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[E]

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[C]

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[E]

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[B]

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[E]

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[C]

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