Local Hour: The U Is Back (Again)

Summary

Podcast Summary: "Local Hour: The U Is Back (Again)"

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Date: September 22, 2025
Theme: An energetic and passionate breakdown of South Florida sports—especially the resurgence of the Miami Hurricanes ("The U") football program—alongside candid conversations on the NFL, the Marlins' surprising season, and pop-culture-infused hijinks.

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Main Theme / Purpose

This "Local Hour" focuses intensely on the revitalization of the Miami Hurricanes football team following a dominant win over the Florida Gators, with the hosts and guests celebrating the team’s speed, physicality, and potential for a national title run. The episode also swings through Miami Marlins baseball, spirited debates on NFL storylines, and memorable moments from the wider South Florida sports scene—all delivered in the show’s signature irreverent and hyperlocal tone.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Miami Hurricanes Comeback: “The U Is Back (Again)”

• General Assessment:
  • The hosts agree this is the most complete UM team since the early 2000s, praising their defensive dominance and newfound ability to win even when the quarterback underperforms.
  • Dan Le Batard (19:04): “The Canes team I've seen the first third of this season is the best all around UM team I've seen since the glory days, the championship era. This team will make the playoffs and with a huge chance to do major damage in them.”
• Defensive Prowess:
  • Hurricanes defense held Florida to 32 total first-half yards. Their violent, side-to-side speed was repeatedly singled out.
  • Mike Ryan (09:09): "The Miami Hurricanes defense is incredible...there isn’t a more dominant player in the country right now in terms of winning your individual assignment. Play in, play out, [Reuben Bain] deserves Heisman."
• Offensive Line and NFL Talent:
  • Multiple first-rounders are identified on both lines, with special credit given to emerging stars like Markel Bell.
  • Centers and QB Carson Beck's struggles are dissected, partially blamed on weather and some nagging injuries.
  • Chris Cody (10:37): "The Hurricanes have, I'm going to say they've got at least four first rounders that I can identify by sight."
• Game Management and Cristobal’s Coaching:
  • Praise for Mario Cristobal’s transformation of the team, particularly for fixing what was previously "the worst defense I had ever, ever seen wear Miami uniforms." (Mike Ryan, 20:08)
  • Frustration aired over conservative offensive play-calling, but overall satisfaction with the team's physical dominance and depth at running back.

2. Hurricanes Culture & Iconic Alumni

• Michael Irvin’s Fandom:
  • Lively anecdotes about Michael Irvin’s fanatical love for UM, including his tradition of calling his old dorm room just to yell motivational football platitudes.
  • Chris Cody (06:50): "Nobody loves anything the way Michael Irvin loves the university."
• “Nutty Fans” Segment:
  • Michael Irvin is nominated as Miami’s “nuttiest fan,” competing against local Panthers players and some classic (and off-color) college football signboard comedy.
  • Dan Le Batard (17:29): When a notorious sign is mentioned: “That’s the winner.”
  • Segment note: This moment highlights the celebratory, chaotic spirit the show is famous for.

3. Miami Marlins – Success, Perspective, & Schadenfreude

• Surprising Season:
  • Despite being out of wildcard contention, the Marlins’ youthful overachievement is hailed as a local sports win, and their recent “ruining” of the Texas Rangers’ season is recapped with glee.
  • Dan Le Batard (04:28): "[The Marlins] are like no other major team in this market. Winning isn't everything with them. The bar is so low...what they've done this year is a success."
• Mets Spoiler Potential:
  • The panel relishes the possibility of Miami ruining the Mets' season on the way out.

4. NFL Week Reactions

• Chiefs and Travis Kelce:
  • Discussion of Andy Reid’s sideline altercation with Travis Kelce (and its possible impact on Kelce’s relationship with Taylor Swift) becomes a launching pad for banter about sideline arguments and star privilege.
  • Dan Le Batard (35:02): “Travis Kelce’s turned into an average tight end, which is one of the many...offensive problems they have. The Chiefs have turned into the Gators of the NFL.”
  • Billy (38:59): "I think the question that we’re not asking, that we all should be asking, is how’s this going to impact the relationship between Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce?"
• Eagles Comeback Against Rams:
  • High praise for Jalen Hurts leading a comeback, and for the spectacle of the NFL's “big man touchdowns.”
  • Chris Cody (31:14): “You mentioned Jordan Davis though. That's a pretty firm £336. You would agree, right? … That had more musculature on it than I'm used to seeing on a 336 pound person.”
• Parity and Predictability:
  • General agreement that NFL results are as unpredictable as ever, with “parity all over the league” (Greg Cody, 33:28).
  • Noting the startling offensive emergence of the Colts.

5. Show Signature Banter & Local Flavor

• Running Gags:
  • "Malachi" vs "Malaki": Recurring bit about correct pronunciation becomes a lighthearted running joke, emblematic of the show's embrace of small, shared silliness.
• Sports, Pop Culture, & Family:
  • Extended riffing on heated coach-player exchanges, eventful tailgates, and family drama around missed social opportunities (Stugotz, 15:33: “It's my wife's fault. We don't have to get into that”).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Hurricanes’ Dominance:
  "I could give Florida 1,000 plays and make the football field five yards long and the Gators will not score a point in this football game..."
  — Chris Cody (08:07)

• On the Marlins’ Unlikely Local Love:
  "The quality of life is measured in...the little minutia. And so we're in our favorite local Italian restaurant the other night, and from two tables over, a guy I don't know looks at me, nodding...& says with a thumb up, nice pick on the Dolphins game."
  — Greg Cody (02:10–03:00)

• On South Florida Sports Hope:
  "This team, yes, I'm saying it has what it takes to win UM's long elusive...sixth national title. The first since 2001. Crazy that Miami can say that..."
  — Dan Le Batard reading Greg Cody (19:40)

• On Nuttiest Fan:
  "We've got Michael Irvin. There are a number of nominees locally. Chris Cody was very jealous of Mike Ryan this weekend because…Mike Ryan was tailgating with…the two time champion Panthers..."
  — Chris Cody (15:25)

• On Sideline Arguments & Star Privilege:
  "I've never seen a tight end do it is what I'm saying...the tight end never has a level of fame that he's allowed to do any of that...But generally speaking, a coach, especially a Super bowl winning coach, you're not allowed to get in those kinds of arguments with him if you're not Tom Brady." — Chris Cody (40:45)

• On the Show’s Inside Humor:
  "Let's make it a running joke. Let's say Malachi and…replay it and just make fun of that one thing. The whole show."
  — Dan Le Batard (24:55)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• UM Italian Restaurant, Small Local Joys: 02:10–03:00
• Miami Marlins’ Season Recap: 04:05–05:34
• “The U” Defensive Praise/Bain for Heisman: 09:09–10:37
• Running Backs & Offensive Line Evaluation: 11:33–12:25
• Michael Irvin’s Hurricanes Fandom: 06:50
• Nutty Fans/College Gameday Signs Segment: 14:49–17:34
• UM’s Complete Team/Title Chances: 19:40–20:56
• NFL: Chiefs’ Struggles & Kelce-Reid Drama: 35:02–36:38
• Eagles-Rams/NFL “Big Man” Moments: 31:14–32:02
• Sideline Heated Exchanges - Rules and Semantics: 36:16–38:43

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Episode Flow & Takeaway

The episode mixes deep-dive sports analysis with local color and playful, family-like banter. The panel’s enthusiasm for Miami sports is infectious, as is their willingness to needle each other over fandom, food, and trivia. Even non-South Floridian listeners can sense the pulse of the city’s sports culture and catch up on key NCAA and NFL talking points—all filtered through the show’s unique comedic lens. The core message: Miami’s back, baby…and you know it.

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Transcript

[Greg Cody]

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[Billy]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Dan LeBatard]

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[Billy]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Dan LeBatard]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Dan LeBatard]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Dan LeBatard]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Dan LeBatard]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Dan LeBatard]

In it. Shadow in it.

[Chris Cody]

I have next to me a radiant Greg Cody, still radiant from what happened to him last week in an Italian restaurant. What are you laughing about?

[Dan LeBatard]

Because I think I know what you're gonna say.

[Chris Cody]

Well, go ahead and tell the people what happened to you, why it is you're so delighted.

[Greg Cody]

I like how he thinks he knows you're gonna say, are there multiple, like, instances in Italian restaurants?

[Dan LeBatard]

You know, I may have mentioned it to him off the cuff. You know, I don't know. I don't recall that. But, you know, I live by small pleasures in life. To me, the quality of life is measured in. Not the major stuff, not the Europe vacations, but the little minutia. And so we're in our favorite local Italian restaurant the other night, and from two tables over, a guy I don't know looks at me, nodding, and I, you know, I know, I recognize. And. And he says with a thumb up, nice pick on the Dolphins game. And he was right. Okay. The Bills won 31 to 21. I predicted the Bills would win 30 to 20. I came that close to a zagacto, and that's a big deal. And I was happy. And somebo recognized it. And I was happy for that, too.

[Chris Cody]

You're still happy. You're still happy days later. A whole football weekend has happened since and you're still buoyant because Your Homer dolphins are 03 and you're still here on the dolphin wagon. You're the only one in South Florida.

[Dan LeBatard]

Still saying the bandwagon has a lot of room in it. I'm in the. I'm in the front. I'm steering the bandwagon. I'm looking in the rearview mirror. It's empty. I can swerve all over the road. Nobody's criticizing me except you. So it's good.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, I was not criticizing you, but I of of the surprises this weekend because I would say Thursday, I would say I have seen religions built around smaller miracles than the Dolphins stopping the Bills at all in that second half. But playing Marlins baseball this week of the season where they still have a chance and they just dragged the Rangers. They just ruined the Rangers season. They just went up to Texas and totally ruined the Rangers season. And the Marlins now have Billy, what is it? Is it they need to win all their games, but they're four out with six to play.

[Billy]

Let's see the official standings here. I mean, if they win all of their remaining games, they'd have a 12 game winning streak because they've won six straight, 10 out of 11. They're not eliminated yet. They're four back in the wild card, but there's one three teams, two ahead of them.

[Greg Cody]

They got to jump four teams.

[Billy]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

It won't happen.

[Billy]

It's tough. But 76 and 80 is a surprising season for them.

[Dan LeBatard]

I tell you, the Marlins are like.

[Stugats]

Tell me.

[Dan LeBatard]

The Marlins are like no other major team in this market. They're an exception to the rule. Winning isn't everything with them. The bar is so low for the Marlins. We expect terribleness every season. And so what they've done this year is a success. Okay. They're relying on young players. They're the youngest team in the league, I think. And for them to do what they've done and have a couple of legitimate long winning streaks, I think it's been a successful season and sort of a validation for the path they're Taking, which unfortunately includes not spending on payroll. But still, they're winning with youth.

[Greg Cody]

They have an opportunity to ruin the Mets season. Like they finish with the Mets next week. The Mets right now are tied for the final wild card spot. Like that. Be fun in the year. Ruin their season.

[Billy]

I mean, they have the same win percentage, basically, the Heat had last year. They were a playoff team.

[Chris Cody]

It would be fun if they ruined the Met Season. But in terms of distinctions, of things that generations of fans will remember, ruining the Rangers season will not be among them, like just randomly taking out the Texas Rangers.

[Stugats]

We're just trolling my grind here now.

[Mike Ryan]

I mean, people notice. You're talking about that Dolphin game that happened four days ago.

[Chris Cody]

No Marlins.

[Mike Ryan]

If I lose that game, we know where we're starting.

[Chris Cody]

But no, no, no.

[Mike Ryan]

That's why I have a smile on my face. I see right through you, asshole.

[Chris Cody]

We're talking about not that Dolphin game from four days ago, that Italian restaurant meal from three days ago.

[Mike Ryan]

Dick's. This is the Dan Levator show with the Stugats podcast.

[Chris Cody]

Zaslo legitimately came in here today with an observation that made me wonder, where have you been for 35 years? He comes in today and he's like, michael Irvin is crazy. Huh?

[Greg Cody]

He had his own intro Saturday night. He came out the tunnel before the smoke. He came out the tunnel with. With everyone lined up. He gets his whole intro on the jumbo trunk.

[Dan LeBatard]

He's.

[Greg Cody]

He loves hurricanes. And not just Hurricane football. Because remember, what was it, I think, when the Canes were in the NIT final, like seven, eight years ago? Nobody loves anything the way Michael Irvin loves the university.

[Chris Cody]

Well, go ahead and put in the corner of the screen the jump cut. The jump cut. Michael Irvin's just general behavior during the game because everyone should have former NFL alums that care about the school the way this guy did. I do remember when he was with the champion Dallas Cowboys, Michael Irvin would call his old dorm room number just knowing a football player would pick up and start yelling at them about how they were supposed to be playing football. He didn't even care who it is that was answering it. He just wanted to scream at them, doing push ups. Yeah, of course, he's always doing push ups. And that that game was encouraging for a number of different reasons. But chief among them, to me, it has been a really long time since I saw a University of Miami football team that could survive its quarterback having a bad football game against a good defense or a great defense that would have been done Better before the show. Thank you. That's good. That's good to put that there now though.

[Billy]

Video covering it. No one knew it was actually a good.

[Mike Ryan]

It was actually a video team.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

Head on a swivel, pal.

[Billy]

One person did a bad chair, as you pointing it out.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah.

[Chris Cody]

The Miami Hurricanes playing against the Florida Gators. I know there will be people who have their criticisms because that game shouldn't have been close. I, I really thought after the first half that you can make the observation. I could give Florida 1,000 plays and make the football field five yards long and the Gators will not score a point in this football game because it's not just that the Hurricane defense is viol. It's not even just that the Florida offense is awful, which it is. The thing that I'm seeing out of the Hurricane defense that I haven't seen in a good long time is the side to side speed that doesn't allow anybody to grab the corners on them because they have a lot of speed on the field. So you saw the way that they can lose a football game this season because Florida should not have been in any way in that football game. And I imagine, Mike, that you were shitting yourself when you're up 13, 7 and the Gators are, you know, inside the 34 yard line in the fourth quarter and mystified, I imagine, at how that game was closed.

[Mike Ryan]

Not mystified. I thought that I was out in Florida's defense entering that game. I thought it would be tight early and then Miami would pull away and that's, that's what happened. I was upset at the interception. First off, I thought Cormani McLean was excellent that game. I thought their corners were excellent on our receivers. But Cormani made a great play on that ball and really wasn't so much the interception as to where the interception was. I'm like, that's probably the first time they cross a 50. I know that they just scored, but look, that was a total supreme domination. They were over 13 on third downs. Pro football Focus said that that was the worst pass blocking performance in the history of Pro football focus by 24 points. The Miami Hurricanes defense is incredible right now. And say what you will on DJ Lagway, he does seem broken. He had five picks the previous week. All five picks that he had were entirely his fault. Four of the five, he had good protection. This is not a bad Florida Gator offensive line. In fact, if you watch the content that PFF puts out there is like, we still understand this. Florida Gators Offensive line to be good, top end in the nation type of good. That's all about Reuben Bain, that's all about Akeem Mezador. Players that were here last year but looked different. These guys have slimmed down. When Ruben Bane's case, he is healthy. He had a bit of a sophomore slump last year and this year, honestly, there isn't a more dominant player in the country right now in terms of winning your individual assignment. Play in, play out, he deserves Heisman.

[Chris Cody]

It was clear given how he played his first year and how he's playing this year that he was hurt last year because that's not. That was not a regression. That was not a sophomore slump. That was somebody who didn't have his explosiveness, did not have his strength because he was hurt. And the, the Hurricanes have, I'm going to say they've got at least four first rounders that I can identify by sight. Two of them on the offensive line, one of them not the center who had, I believe Brockenmeyer had one of the worst games I've ever seen a center have. When do you ever notice the center?

[Greg Cody]

Mike was so mad throughout the game at the center. He was so mad.

[Mike Ryan]

It's amateur. And the last two weeks, like the opponent have, have found something on tape and being able to coax Miami into these procedural pedal penalties. But I'm right there with Dan. Miami presently I think has four first rounders. Markel Bell was never really talked about. He's like if this guy meets his.

[Chris Cody]

Ceiling, he could be so strong. He's bigger than everybody.

[Mike Ryan]

He was a transfer, came over last year and this is a testament to the development. Now look, that is a body type that most offensive line coaches would dream of working with. But he was not at a big time football school. Football relatively new to the young man, 6 foot 9, put out dominant tapes. This guy put himself in top 20 draft pick consideration. You got CC Malanoa, you got Ruben Bane, of course and Carson Beck who was coming off a pretty bad game for him. He was off all night. I will say.

[Greg Cody]

How much did the rain. Wet ball.

[Mike Ryan]

You were out there.

[Chris Cody]

He hasn't played in good weather yet this season?

[Mike Ryan]

No, no, he's played in a month long monsoon.

[Greg Cody]

That was terrible.

[Mike Ryan]

But I will say like there is a narrative online that keep in mind as a young man that had elbow surgery, there was a little less zip on some of those passes. I think that you could probably blame the weather a little bit, but I'm not too worried.

[Greg Cody]

How does Michael Orbin have the energy I don't know.

[Chris Cody]

I wonder.

[Stugats]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Chris Cody]

Don LeBatard that's how it's gonna end the mailing it in the end of the retirement. Chris, go get me. This is just gonna be him coming out and hitting the one or two notes of that kind of thing. And you know it. Just giving us finger guns and leaving. Baby.

[Dan LeBatard]

You should listen to the great Cody show podcast because that's all we do for 55 minutes a week is just say catchphrases. We even make songs about them. And you know it is a song, for crying out loud. It's great. Hopefully that's a SUI nominee for best song. And you know it, baby and you.

[Mike Ryan]

Know it St and you know it.

[Dan LeBatard]

Baby and you know it and you know it, baby and you know it and you know it, baby and you know it.

[Chris Cody]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats. Let's do the Hampton Farms nuttiest fan. Because how are we going to beat this guy? We've got some nominees. We've got Michael Irvin. There are a number of nominees locally. Chris Cody was very jealous of Mike Ryan this weekend because that's an understatement. Mike Ryan was tailgating with how many of the Panthers. The two time champion Panthers, Paul Maurice is going to join us here. Champion coach at some point during the show. Mike, how many of the Panthers were you tailgating with?

[Mike Ryan]

1, 2, 3, 4, 5?

[Stugats]

More than 5?

[Dan LeBatard]

6.

[Mike Ryan]

6. 6 players. 6 players and a couple of the. The staff there. They were great.

[Stugats]

I should have been there. It's my wife's fault. We don't have to get into that.

[Chris Cody]

Let's.

[Stugats]

No, I don't want to.

[Mike Ryan]

Why bring it up? Chris did get an invite.

[Stugats]

I got an invite. I should have been there and I had planned.

[Billy]

What'd your wife do?

[Stugats]

We had plans for months with friends. It was a fun time I had, but I. I hated life. I saw pictures coming in and I hate life. And those are nutty fans. They were having fun. Every video and picture I saw made me want to be there. But let's get to more nominees. It's the nuttiest fan brought to you by Hampton Farms, the official snack nut of the tailgate. Vote for your favorite nutty fan at Lebatard show on Instagram and keep an eye out for Lucy at Arkansas if you think you're your team's nuttiest fan.

[Chris Cody]

Who are the nominees? We've got Michael Irvin. It's going to be hard to beat Michael Irvin.

[Stugats]

We got Mike and his crew partying with the Panthers. That would. I. I just have to nominate them because of how jealous I am. And then we have two signs.

[Dan LeBatard]

Game day.

[Stugats]

We have a Jonathan Zaslo special, which is Thai food.

[Greg Cody]

Look at that guy.

[Chris Cody]

Okay, so what happened there, Zazlo? You were doing part of your campus tour. Not on campus. You were doing. What are you laughing about, Cody?

[Dan LeBatard]

What's that? Somebody would hold a Thai food sign.

[Greg Cody]

Well, you know, they want to be part of the trend, the worldwide food.

[Stugats]

Now granted, that does look like one of those signs that you can like keep erasing and updating for people.

[Greg Cody]

I'll bet that was never erased though. That's permanent marker.

[Billy]

Those are the college game day signs. They hand those out. Okay, so they're sponsored by the Home Depot. Yeah, he's gonna have that for life, that guy.

[Dan LeBatard]

You got to elongate the word tie though, don't you? Has to be T h A A.

[Stugats]

I could have been written better.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. Minimal effort on actually writing the Thai food sign.

[Greg Cody]

Don't criticize that great fan that cannot.

[Chris Cody]

Win this competition just because he held up a sign.

[Mike Ryan]

Sure it can.

[Chris Cody]

Wearing.

[Billy]

It's up to the voter.

[Dan LeBatard]

None of those can win. You.

[Chris Cody]

Voter suppression. How about that one?

[Stugats]

Then we have this one. You guys are gonna have to help me out with this one.

[Chris Cody]

It says pan con pingai seka, AKA Ol pang, which means bread with dick. And we're all out of bread.

[Mike Ryan]

That's right. That's what you're getting.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's the winner.

[Mike Ryan]

Dick sandwiches.

[Stugats]

I go Michael Irvin.

[Billy]

That's a repeat from the last time game day was here, though, if we're gonna be honest.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, that's a great callback. That's nostalgic.

[Greg Cody]

That should be on repeat forever.

[Mike Ryan]

Dick with bread.

[Chris Cody]

I wanna talk though about what it is that the Hurricanes are. Because I would not object too much to anyone who said right now that they don't have a quality win. Al. I expect Notre Dame to be number one in the next rankings. They got snubbed in these, but I expect them next week to be number one when they climb to two and two. But here's Greg Cody writing in the Miami Herald. The Canes team I've seen the first third of this season is the best all around UM team I've seen since the glory days, the championship era. This team will make the playoffs and with a huge chance to do major damage in them. This team, yes, I'm saying it has what it takes to win. UM's long elusive. Is it that elusive? Long elusive. Six national title. The first since 2001. It's crazy that Miami can say that they've got five titles and a chance at a six. But this, this team does look complete. Because of what I was saying at the beginning. If you told me all coaches since Coker were playing against a great defense because that Florida defense is a championship caliber defense defense. And their quarterback had a bad game, they would not have been able to drag a team the way that they dragged Florida. Because I know that the. I know that the game felt close because it was in the fourth quarter. It was 13 to 7. There was a terrible whistle on one play. But I was legitimately confused at how that game was just 13 nothing at the half. And I was legitimately confused that it was close in the second half because I really did think that the Florida Gators would do nothing offensively all game because that first half that I saw from the Florida Gators was sheer incompetence on offense and they might be bad on offense. Mike is saying their offensive line is grading out well, but I did feel that was done to them by not just a fast defense but a violent defense like these are. These are hits being put on people that I did not see. I'm going to say there were more, more violent hits in that game. And again, when an offense is that constipated and lacking confidence, you can do it to him. But more violent hits in that game than I saw from the Hurricanes all last season when they couldn't play defense.

[Mike Ryan]

They had 32 yards of offense in that first half. I don't think they had a positive play until like their fifth play. So many three and outs over there.

[Greg Cody]

I don't think they picked up their second, third, first down until late in the third quarter.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, it was the second half for sure.

[Mike Ryan]

I think Mario Cristobal deserves a lot of credit for fixing that defense. And that was honestly last year the worst defense I had ever, ever seen wear Miami uniforms and they wasted a championship level offense in previous years. I think Miami gets away from the run game and keeps trying to make the passing game hell. Last year I think they probably get more enamored with the idea of trying to get Cam Ward a Heisman. This is a really good Miami team. I know it was tighter, but we've been on the receiving end of those. We've been up against elite Florida teams, elite FSU teams and elite Clemson team where Miami's defense puts up the effort and then the offense goes nowhere. And then by the end of the fourth quarter you're down 21 points. The spread in points was not that much different than last year's game. Dane is right when he says there was a bad whistle. The officials themselves went up to Mario Crispal explained we shouldn't have blown that play dead.

[Greg Cody]

What was their explanation? That they didn't see the ball.

[Mike Ryan]

So there's a couple of narratives online. Samson Okunlola's, who's developed quite nicely by the way, his helmet came off during that play. But he was not the ball carrier. In college football, if it has nothing to do with the play, the play can roll on the referee's Phil, Mario Cristobal. Look, we just missed that call. Marty Brown did not stop moving. And if that game is 20 to 0 and you get Florida in a predictable passing situation, that game gets really ugly.

[Chris Cody]

I was very frustrated that they were only up 13 nothing because I thought they could just keep handing the ball to Fletcher and moving the pile to make instead of. They had so many punts at the end of the first half where they, they had the ball starting at the 50 yard line and they end up going backwards.

[Mike Ryan]

That was a really quiet 116 yard game from Mark Fletcher and I think it was quiet because more than half of those yards came as part of a pile that was just moving. Physically manhandling a Power 5A Power 4 program in Florida that has good line play along the trenches. They've improved over last year, but to.

[Chris Cody]

Be fair, they had three guys out, three starters along the defensive line out.

[Mike Ryan]

Very impressed with Florida's corners. There was not a lot of separation.

[Chris Cody]

There wasn't.

[Mike Ryan]

Which is probably an argument to get Jojo Trader and Josh Moore a little bit more involved in the offense and hopefully they can rise to the occasion because Miami does need a little bit more separation there. But there were some check down options available to Carson Beck. I kind of like that he was deep shot hunting. Something happened in that USF game where he realized I like my chances downfield. There were open checkdowns and sometimes Carson just missed either low or a high or in our tight ends case, they weren't ready for the ball.

[Chris Cody]

He was bad. Carson Beck was bad.

[Dan LeBatard]

His accuracy was way off.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, I think he's afforded a bad game there. Usually if your quarterback plays like that in a game like this, that's the recipe for the team pulling off an upset. Instead we see a team kind of stay in, hang around and you saw Miami step on that throat and salt the game away. They had a huge play by Marty Brown that was, was big for Carson Beck, that one handed catch there. That's the stuff that breaks away for good championship teams. I came away very happy because that's kind of the game that I thought would happen. And Miami got tested in there and doesn't have to be victims of a rat poison for two weeks as they head into this FSU game.

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, this is the kind of game we've all seen Miami lose in the past where you, you have a lead, you seem to be in control, then all of a sudden it's 13 to 7, the lead has whittled, momentum has shifted a little bit again in the second half. There was a time when it seemed like Florida was still in the game. Instead of losing that game like they have so many times in the past, they rose up and I can say nothing bad about this team right now. They deserve to be number two in the country behind Ohio State or Penn State. Whoever you think. But I'll tell you what. Last year they had a bad pass defense. They solved it. Last year they were imbalanced because like you say, they wanted the Heisman for Cam Ward this year, not just Fletcher. Marty Brown has been great. Malachi has. Has been great. Malachi. Malachi. Sorry.

[Mike Ryan]

You mentioned the two running backs. I would argue Jordan Lyle is our best running back. He turned his ankle early against Notre Dame. We've been holding him out. He's going to have to buy he'll be ready for fsu. That those are two of Miami's best three running backs. You can make a strong argument that Jordan Lyles actually RB1.

[Dan LeBatard]

One fantastic team, you know, And. And. Okay, I'm the homer. I get it. I'm the homer. Yeah, you are. But in this case, I can't praise Miami enough. I think they're an airtight.

[Greg Cody]

Are we sure it's not Malaki?

[Dan LeBatard]

It's.

[Mike Ryan]

Malachi is a biblical name.

[Dan LeBatard]

It is Malachi.

[Chris Cody]

It should be Malaki.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah. I apologize for misspeaking.

[Chris Cody]

It's okay.

[Dan LeBatard]

No, apparently it doesn't seem.

[Billy]

Everybody's laughing, everybody's mocking.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm used to that.

[Mike Ryan]

Greg. I hope you know I was an ally. I corrected you quickly moved on to the running backs. For them to stay here is really.

[Dan LeBatard]

Disrespectful to a legend. I'm used to it.

[Billy]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

Let's make it a running joke. Let's say Malachi and. And, you know, replay it and. And just make fun of that one thing. The whole show. That would be.

[Chris Cody]

He hasn't been the same since he lost that soup competition.

[Billy]

Well, that was rigged.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yes. Thank you, Billy.

[Billy]

You're welcome.

[Mike Ryan]

He was barely coconut in it.

[Dan LeBatard]

I.

[Mike Ryan]

And it was a conscious decision. I'm going to beat this guy.

[Dan LeBatard]

No ginger. No ginger.

[Mike Ryan]

What do you mean, no ginger? There was so much ginger in that.

[Greg Cody]

Okay, I don't care what was in it. I'll taste good.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay.

[Billy]

Mike ordered it from HelloFresh. Chris told us the next day.

[Mike Ryan]

So I've seen this theory out there, and you can follow recipes, but where's the red bell peppers in that recipe? Where is the garlic? Where are the shallots? Where's the over amount of the generous serving of ginger? There was sweet coconut milk in that. I've seen these theories out there online. What I made was totally different. The Internet needs to shut.

[Chris Cody]

Shut the hell up, Don LeBatard.

[Dan LeBatard]

What do I got here? I got a Magnum condom. We won't get that out.

[Chris Cody]

That's shocking.

[Dan LeBatard]

Stugats here's a picture of Christopher when he was like 3 years old right.

[Chris Cody]

Next to the condo.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah.

[Chris Cody]

Never forget it. This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugach. I thought that the college football weekend was more fun than the pro football weekend even though the witching hour did. Yes, the witching hour did cover up some blemishes because there really were only five games worth talking about yesterday in the pros. Like go ahead and see if you can name them because it's not going to be easy for you. I thought the college football weekend was a lot of fun and I'd like to spend more time on college football than pro football today just because of how much I enjoy the college football week. And I'm sorry to all of you who had Auburn plus six and a half in that Oklahoma game and got buried by a safety at the end. I wanted to talk about a handful of things though from yesterday. What were the games worth talking about? Because the Philadelphia Rams game was interesting from a number of different perspectives. The Eagles being down 26 7. I've always thought of Jalen Hurts as a bit of a front runner on that team. Right. I don't. I see them getting ahead and then staying ahead and they've won 19 out of 20. They're deserving defending champions and beating that Rams team is an achievement when you are down 26 to 7 and they have recreated. I have to apologize. I said last week that St. Brown to Goff is the best combination in the sport that has the best timing between quarterback and receiver. I am wrong about that. It is Stafford and Nakua because at the end of that game they were doing the shit that they did with Cooper cup in the super bowl with no look passes where everyone knew the ball was going to Nakua and Stafford was still going down the field throwing it to only Nakua. Get the Nakua song here. I'd like to play some of the Nakua song. But what ends up happening at the end of that game where you have the heaviest man ever to return a blocked field goal more than 50 yards. You had jiggle running down the field on a day that had a lot of blocked kicks. I know a lot of people will look at that and say that that's what won the game. But this is what won that game. The Rams got stopped on 4th and 1 and that never happens to the Eagles like that happens to so many teams and it never happens to the Eagles because they've got that play that everyone cheat.

[Billy]

They got caught cheating again yesterday.

[Chris Cody]

Well, they should have. They should have. No, they didn't get caught. They did. They did not get caught. Cheating.

[Billy]

They caught by the masses.

[Chris Cody]

They got away with cheating because they don't get caught whenever they fall. Start on that play.

[Dan LeBatard]

His quarterback is not named tua.

[Chris Cody]

That was the game that everybody was talking about yesterday. The Cleveland packers game is a bit inexplicable. We'll have to talk about it. Although I don't want to. It was not a game worth watching. Cleveland ruins football. Like they play. Their defense is great. I'm just so tired of these half teams. The Gators, the Browns. Teams that can only do one thing and you're out there watching and of course it's going to be 13 to 10 at the end. But that was the surprise of the day. Go ahead and name all the other games though that you would want to talk about.

[Greg Cody]

Chargers and Broncos. Chargers are three and. And it's all in the division. Like that's that. I know we talk about the Colts. Colts are the best story. Chargers might be the best story right now.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah. Justin Herbert's been absolutely great.

[Greg Cody]

Good thing we took two up.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

The.

[Mike Ryan]

The Colts seem legit. That is. That is if you're a fraud.

[Greg Cody]

Daniel Jones might be legit too if.

[Mike Ryan]

You'Re a fraud team.

[Chris Cody]

You.

[Mike Ryan]

You roll in a Nissan Stadium feeling yourself and you get all of a sudden dragged into like a. A tough divisional game. Not. They were. They were just wire to wire dominant.

[Chris Cody]

The Colts I saw during the second quarter. Did you guys see this during the second quarter of yesterday's game was the first time they punted.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's all.

[Chris Cody]

All season. Like they. They had had. No team had ever done that. 19 straight drives to start a season. No punts and they. And then they put up 40 on the Titans easily.

[Mike Ryan]

I think that I'm very curious to see how Tampa Bay and Philadelphia goes because I Rams kind of built to. To beat the Eagles and they had the exact situation which you saw that game away from. And I was very surprised at the Eagles ability to come back in that game. I know exactly what they do when they have a lead. But what do they do when they're a couple scores out? They were really impressive. Jordan Davis showed exactly why he got Heisman chatter as a defensive player at Georgia. That is a big man and that was a very backbreaking return for a touchdown that ruined a big time SGP for your boy. I had Auburn and I had the Rams this past weekend.

[Greg Cody]

That's hard times, dad.

[Mike Ryan]

Hard times.

[Dan LeBatard]

I thought Philly coming Back like that was the game of the week mainly because I had picked the Eagles to win. But the game of the week is tonight. I mean Lions at Ravens is a dream. Jared Goff and Lamar Jackson combined for nine touchdown passes last week and there's going to be even as many tonight. I think it's going to be a nutty game. I don't care what the over under is. It's going to be 60 plus points tonight.

[Greg Cody]

I'm not going to mince words when I say this so I don't want anyone to be confused. Chief Stink. That team stinks.

[Dan LeBatard]

The offense certainly they constipated offense. It was. It was tough to watch. That first half was tough to watch.

[Chris Cody]

You mentioned Jordan Davis though. That's a pretty firm £336. You would agree, right? We all love seeing a big man run down the field but usually we like it to jiggle more than that. We don't like if that were running at you or towards you or even chasing you. That is a that had more musculature on it than I'm used to seeing on a 336 pound person. He wasn't like that. Seemed relatively fit as 336 pounds can be. And I would say that that's about as good a feeling as you can have in that sport. Both blocking the kick and then returning it 50 yards in your home stadium with the ball when you're never supposed to have the ball at that side.

[Stugats]

I'm picturing the coaches being like get down, get down.

[Chris Cody]

Yes. But the reason I will not say that that was the best feeling you can have is because Isaiah Rogers exists on the Minnesota Vikings. And so he has an 80 yard inter return. He has a 69 yard touchdown fumble caused and he recovered it and he ran the 69 yards with it and he caused another fumble in that game. And I told you that even though the Bengals were two and oh that their season is over. And I also told you Greg, that you got inflated on the Atlanta Falcons just because they won at Minnesota when Minnesota had a quarterback who doesn't know how to play football yet in the pros and they replaced him with Carson Win Wentz and then all of a sudden they put up 40 points because Isaiah Rogers exists.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah. And now Wentz has the start until otherwise notified. You're right. I mean I inflated Atlanta based on that one result. And in the NFL it's easy to do that because you know Carolina looked like bleep and then they win 30 to nothing. I mean it's very difficult this league. There's parity all over the league. You know, the worst team in the league can play. The best team.

[Stugats]

The Browns won.

[Dan LeBatard]

The Browns, right. I mean, it's, it's very difficult. There's five. What are they now? Three and oh teams. Five or six. There's a lot of three and oh teams. Some of them are going to end up nine and eight. I mean, you know, things happen in this league.

[Greg Cody]

Six of them.

[Dan LeBatard]

Six. Yeah. That's a lot.

[Chris Cody]

Let me give you these Daniel Jones Colts stats. They've now scored 103 points in their first three games. No Colts team has ever done that. None of the Peyton Manning teams did. The 2025 Col 2007 Patriots. Is that the undefeated Patriots of Randy Moss? The 2007 Patriots are the only teams in the super bowl era to start 30 while punting fewer than five times. And now the Colts have scored on 77% of their possessions, the most of any team after three games in 45 years. To your Patrick Mahomes Chiefs point, during one era here, the era that we remember of the Chiefs, they were scoring on between like 35 and 37% of their possessions. It's now 4%. It's 4%. You don't even want to watch the Chiefs. And last night Andy Reid's had enough of the Kelsey stuff. He gave him a shoulder like that. That was the rare incident where the coach goes looking for the physical contact and the tight end didn't, didn't want any of it. Like I saw the headlines that said Kelsey involved in another kerfuffle and I'm like, man, Kelsey didn't want any parts of Andy Reid. Andy Reid went looking for the physical contact.

[Stugats]

They have done that a bunch.

[Mike Ryan]

They've gone at each other. It's like the at least third time I've seen them go at each other on the sideline like that. This is the first time I've seen Andy Reid initiate physical contact.

[Greg Cody]

Well, yeah, because Travis Kelce is a non factor now. Like Travis Kelce can't fight back when you, when you don't do anything every single game. Andy Reid, he's, he's tired of him. You suck now do something.

[Dan LeBatard]

Travis Kelce's turned into an average tight end, which is one of the many, not even average, one of the many offensive problems they have that the Chiefs have turned into the Gators of the NFL. And, and the thing that I loved about the Travis Kelce Reid thing is that, man, we love the heated exchange on the Sideline. As soon as that happened and you see it on tv, I'm like, okay, we're going to be talking about that tomorrow. That's in all the headlines. We're going to make a big deal out of this because we do that.

[Stugats]

Kind of like when you get mad around here. We love it.

[Dan LeBatard]

Look, it's a violent game. There's a dozen heated exchanges on a sideline every game that. That aren't televised, that we don't see. It's a violent game. Things happen, but we love the heated.

[Chris Cody]

It's rare, though, that the coach goes looking for the contact. And if Kelsey had done that to Reid, it would have been a bigger deal.

[Billy]

I want to ask, honestly, inappropriate. A person in a position of power going and causing physical altercations with his subservience is something that the league should look into.

[Chris Cody]

Well, they should take it up with HR for sure. Chiefs should take it to human resources. When does that. When does though, a argument rise to the level officially of heated? When. What needs to happen for it to be an exchange that is heated?

[Greg Cody]

Like the minimum.

[Chris Cody]

The minimum.

[Stugats]

What is one bump? Any bump is heated.

[Dan LeBatard]

I think the heated exchange needs to result in something happening on the field. In other words, if Tyree kill and Mike McDaniel are going at it and then later in that game, Tyree Kill refuses to reenter the game even though he's not heard, then I think that exchange that may have led to that is newsworthy.

[Greg Cody]

When the finger makes an appearance. When there's a point.

[Chris Cody]

This is the way you play the game, Greg. I don't know what you're doing.

[Stugats]

Semantics of heated.

[Chris Cody]

I don't know what you just did there. That he was. He was looking for the minimum bar for entry on heated and you gave us Tyree Kill not coming into a game.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, because that after a heated exchange, that's when it becomes newsworthy.

[Mike Ryan]

If you're sitting and then you're forced to stand up and offer you. That's when.

[Stugats]

I don't think my dad knows how we're playing this game.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah. Greg, do you understand? It's.

[Billy]

They're playing fantasy land. You're giving real life examples that are helpful.

[Dan LeBatard]

I answered it the way I answered it.

[Billy]

Yeah.

[Chris Cody]

Yes, you did, Greg. That's not.

[Greg Cody]

You said what you said.

[Chris Cody]

Yes, it's true. You did answer it the way that. You can't argue with that. There's no arguing with it.

[Dan LeBatard]

Thank you.

[Chris Cody]

Can we argue with the way that your father pronounces Malachi?

[Dan LeBatard]

Here we go. Here we Go, Mala. Here we go, Malachi. Okay, that's two. I'm gonna keep track. Give me that pen. I'm gonna keep track of how many times during the show that that airs. Okay. Three so far. Okay. To be fair, you'll run to a 7 1/2 on DraftKings.

[Billy]

It would be best to use tallies. I think, for this one, Greg, you're gonna have to keep scratching out the numbers.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, you're right. I'm like a prisoner. I'm writing off the days. Here we go.

[Chris Cody]

So minimum barrier for entry on how an exchange.

[Stugats]

Let's try it again.

[Chris Cody]

To heated. Roy offered a good example. If someone goes from sitting up, we're coming dangerously close to heated. Zaslo is right when he's saying if there's a finger being wagged or pointed.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay, those are the obvious answers. You want an obvious answer?

[Greg Cody]

Are you going off the board?

[Dan LeBatard]

You want an obvious answer for me, when it comes to a shove, okay, there's physical.

[Stugats]

I said that already.

[Dan LeBatard]

Somebody shoved somebody. Those are all obvious answers. Mine is extrapolation. Okay. I'm saying what really matters is if that physical exchange, that heated exchange, shows an effect in the game. That's all that matters. Otherwise, it's one of a million heated exchanges. Everybody the next day, predictably, is going to say, oh, it's no big deal. I'm downplaying that. No big deal. Which is exactly what Reid did.

[Mike Ryan]

But contact goes beyond heated, don't you think, maybe.

[Dan LeBatard]

No, not in the football context. Hell no.

[Chris Cody]

You don't think. Well, we've gone. When there's contact, you've gone from heated to assault. You're in the region of assault. Like we were looking for. Just heated. Just something that's getting hot.

[Billy]

Well, Andy took it to assault, not Greg. Like Andy's the one that made contact.

[Chris Cody]

Agreed.

[Billy]

And by the way, I think the question that we're not asking, that we all should be asking, is how's this going to impact the relationship between Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce? Because if we remember correctly, Taylor Swift's family has known Andy Reid for some time, much longer than she has known Travis Kelce. Her father used to know Andy Reid. So now we have a situation where family friends are beefing with fiances. And I don't know whose side you take in this and where the family is going to stand in this situation. And if this is something that the relationship can even survive.

[Dan LeBatard]

I agree with that. And. And did Andy Reid just lose his invitation to the wedding?

[Billy]

I think if there is still one If.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, that's fair. Yeah, it's a big controversy. Nobody's talking about.

[Chris Cody]

Off the top of your head, can you guys recall just thinking out loud here because it's not something I've given any thought to. Can you guys recall confrontations between a coach and a non quarterback quarterback that are always happening because Kelsey's level of stardom absolutely has something to do with this.

[Billy]

Usually every coach in Antonio Brown, usually.

[Chris Cody]

The non quarterbacks on the sidelines do not get into it repeatedly with the coach. They're not allowed to get into it with the head coach. And you saw what happened to Antonio Brown when he was doing it. He got. They got rid of him like they. You can't keep, you cannot keep having those with the coach, but you certainly can't keep having those with the coach. If you're a non corporate quarterback and you're not producing because Kelsey Kelsey's old now. There are a lot of miles on that body. It didn't even make sense that Kelsey was putting up the numbers that he was the last couple of years with the amount of mileage on that body. But generally speaking, a coach, especially a Super bowl winning coach, you're not allowed to get in those kinds of arguments with him if you're not Tom Brady.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah. You have to be a player of stature. There's no question about that. You're never going to see the second team guard.

[Chris Cody]

Well, I've never seen a tight end do it is what I'm saying. I'm saying the tight end never has a level of fame that he's allowed to do any of that. That any of that can go to his head where he's always arguing with his head coach in public.

[Greg Cody]

I feel like it happened with Keyshawn and then Gruden threw him off the team.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, wide receivers, it does happen. DeAndre Hopkins, Bill O' Brien had one. I think Richard Sherman had one before. I remember old NFL films footage of this happening to Parcells a couple of times. It didn't happen once with LT Kevin Green got into a fight with his linebacker coach.

[Chris Cody]

You guys think that Dan Quinn should have gone into the concussion protocol. He had a bloody nose. He was knocked down by Marcus Mariota. Marcus Mariota hit him on the sideline and this. Are you guys always surprised the way that normal sized human beings go flying when they're hit by players on the sideline? Normal sized human beings go and they skid across the floor like it's a John Wick movie. Like they're being pulled by a rope when they get hit by these guys. And that's Mariota. That's, that's not, you know, it's not Jordan Davis.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't understand how someone can watch Jordan Davis do what he did and think that this game should be legal. That person has an unfair physical advantage. It's like watching Markel Bell at six foot nine moving a pile. It's just like I wanted to ask.

[Chris Cody]

You about since we were talking about Bell. He's bigger than Bryant McKinney, correct. He looks bigger than everybody who's on the field with him.

[Mike Ryan]

So I haven't seen them stand next to one another, but there's a. McKinney is one of the biggest human beings that ever. You worked with Bryant McKinney, right? It tried. It's not just a height thing. It is a shoulder thing with Brian McKinney. He walks near you, the sun goes away. Markel Bell doesn't exactly quite have that. He's very tall. He's first guy off the bus energy for sure. But Brian McKinney, just like a filled out human being is bigger.

[Greg Cody]

I had McKinney on my show this weekend. It was like looking in a mirror.

[Chris Cody]

He has a soda drinker's body in retirement. I remember when Dwight Freeney came to the RM Orange Bowl. I'm pretty sure Bryant McKinney never allowed a sack at the University of Miami, not even in practice. I'm pretty sure that that stat is correct. That there was.

[Billy]

That's how you play.

[Chris Cody]

But Dwight Freeney came into town as a first round pick from Syracuse and it was amazing seeing the size difference between them. And Freeney was trying to use his speed and kept getting stuck in McKinney's navel like just. McKinney just kept putting his arms around like out to the. Out to here without holding him. And McKinney would just, would just engulf Dwight fr.

[Mike Ryan]

But now we have another one of those. We have two of those attack all now two first rounders. Man, I had Saturday pretty close to being. If that Marty Brown touchdown holds up, that's probably the greatest day of my life.

[Dan LeBatard]

Then tailgate.