Local Hour: The Weak One Of Week 1

Summary

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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Local Hour: The Weak One Of Week 1

Date: September 8, 2025
Hosts: Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, Billy Gill, Greg Cody, Chris Cody, Mike Ryan, Zaslow
Location: Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami

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Episode Overview

This “Local Hour” episode opens the NFL season with the Le Batard crew coming together—live and lively from Miami—to vent, debate, and spiral after one of the most miserable Week 1 performances the Miami Dolphins have delivered in decades. The fate of coach Mike McDaniel and quarterback Tua Tagovailoa are debated with the surly zeal only Miami sports can inspire. A healthy side of Dolphins despair is seasoned by mockery, overreactions, running jokes, and a little Andrew Luck magic. The show blends incisive football analysis, South Florida sports angst, and the show’s trademark comedy as the cast processes what feels like an “apocalypse” for Dolphins fans.

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Key Discussion Points

1. Greg Cody’s Billboard Snub and Early Show Drama (02:09–04:07)

• Greg is upset that none of his painstakingly prepared topics made the show's "billboard" (the rundown).
  • Greg Cody: “I do spend 15 or 20 minutes the very, very early morning before coming in here to write out my topics and I send them... But they need to be distributed and represented accordingly.” [02:31]
• Chris Cody openly takes accountability for the snub.
  • Chris Cody: “I'm not going to let Dan do this today... I love you so much. I love working with you.” [03:07]
• Billy Gill jokes that the richness of the NFL’s opening weekend means no extra topics are needed.

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2. Dolphins’ Week 1 Debacle & Extreme Fan Reactions (04:24–22:27)

• The Dolphins' blowout loss (30-8 vs. Colts) becomes the main event.
  • Billy and Zaslow argue the loss is historically bad, “like nothing we've ever seen.” [15:25]
• Zaslow calls for Coach Mike McDaniel to be fired and pronounces “it’s over for Tua.”
  • Zaslow: “I'm firing Mike McDaniel... there is no way that anyone can look at Mike McDaniel and say, that is a coach who could take you to a Super Bowl.” [16:04]
  • Zaslow: “It is over for Tua... we're all going to remember we were all on the same page after that Colts game.” [16:59]
• Billy: “That Dolphin game felt like all the games when two was out and they have to go to the backup quarterback and you know they're not going to get any offense.” [17:34]
• Statistical context—Dolphins had only 43 first-half yards (worst since 1991); Colts had three 15-play drives; Miami was the only team blown out on Week 1.
• Greg Cody (the veteran): “It was inexcusable. It was sub putrid. Every worst fear of a Dolphin fan was not only came true, but was magnified. I'm not going to equivocate how awful the Dolphins played.” [19:42]
• Overreactions fly: Zaslow, Billy, and even Chris declare the season “over.”
  • Dan Le Batard: “This season's over. Zaz is, I'm telling you right now. Season's over.” [21:27]
• Greg tries to talk down the panic: “Comical excess, comical overreaction... Even bad teams tend to bounce back, particularly in a home opener.” [21:43]

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3. Around the NFL: Ravens, Henry, and Mahomes (05:04–15:25)

• Recap of the wild finishes and shocking results from across the league:
  • The Jets-Steelers unexpected shootout, the Ravens historic collapse (up 15 in the fourth), and Derrick Henry's unprecedented longevity as a running back.
  • Zaslow: “Derrick Henry might be the best running back ever. And I don't know that that's a crazy thing to say.” [12:43]
  • Mike Ryan: “Josh Allen, who might be the second greatest quarterback of all time. Just unlucky enough to be playing in the same generation as Patrick Mahomes.” [14:16]
  • Analysis that since Tyreek Hill left for Miami, Mahomes’ downfield production (statistically) has dropped dramatically. [14:16]

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4. College Football & Miami Scene—FIU’s Noble Defeat, Andrew Luck’s “Magical” Life (26:09–32:13)

• Moment of levity in a dark Dolphins day: The show delights in an ESPN feature on Andrew Luck, with repeated playings of the cheery clip:
  • Andrew Luck (clip): “This place, it’s magical. What a great life I have. I get to ride my bike to work every day.” [26:37, and replayed throughout]
  • Greg Cody: “Nerd. Nerd.” [26:42]
  • Billy Gill: “Andrew Luck did not wear a helmet that thick when he was playing football.” [28:36]
• FIU loses 34-0 to Penn State, but the crew tries to spin it as a moral victory because the game was close deep into the second half.
  • Dan Le Batard: “FIU played closer to Penn State than the Dolphins did to the Colts.” [32:13]
  • Greg Cody (on FAU’s win): “Owls on the prowl.” [39:08]
• Debate over Miami college football teams devolves into local rivalry jokes and friendly jabs.

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5. Deeper Dolphins Meltdown Analysis & Blame Game (40:57–48:45)

• Discussion returns to who’s chiefly responsible in Miami: Mike McDaniel, Tua, GM Chris Grier, or organizational rot?
  • Billy Gill: “There is no team in professional football that had a more apocalyptic beginning than the Miami Dolphins yesterday. They looked like a minor league team.” [47:12]
  • Greg Cody: “11 of the 15 games were one scored decisions. The Dolphins unequivocally played the worst of any team on opening day.” [48:21]
• Chris Cody offers a tongue-in-cheek “Top 5 Quarterbacks I’d Rather Have Than Tua,” including Arch Manning and Joe Flacco. [48:45–50:18]
  • “Number one, Arch Manning. I'll roll the dice. I don't give a—I'm done with Tua.” [50:18]
  • Billy Gill: “Oh, I’m telling you.” [50:17]

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• Greg Cody (on the “week one of week one”): “Every worst fear of a Dolphin fan was not only came true, but was magnified.” [19:42]
• Zaslow: “I'm firing Mike McDaniel... there is no way that anyone can look at Mike McDaniel and say, that is a coach who could take you to a Super Bowl.” [16:04]
• Billy Gill: “That Dolphin game has never been played. It's not something any of us have ever seen.” [17:34]
• Dan Le Batard (on Andrew Luck): “Stanford seems lovely. Like, he seems happy. We're laughing at this man's happiness.” [28:46]
• Chris Cody (Top 5 QBs over Tua): “Number one, Arch Manning. I'll roll the dice. I don't give a—I'm done with Tua.” [50:18]
• Billy Gill (on FIU’s loss): “Billy, I'm sorry. They urinated on your joy.” [34:44]
• Greg Cody (self-referencing his Miami Herald column, often hilariously quoting himself): “When I quote myself, you know, I like the line...” [20:26]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Greg Cody’s Billboard Snub: [02:09–04:07]
• Extreme Dolphins Despair & Overreaction: [04:24–22:27]
• NFL Weekend Recap (Notable Games & Stats): [05:04–15:25]
• Derrick Henry & Mahomes Analysis: [12:29–15:25]
• Andrew Luck’s Magical Bike Ride: [26:09–29:13] & recurred [39:40; 40:47]
• College Football/Rivalry Banter: [29:21–32:13; 38:16–39:24]
• Dolphins Meltdown Debate—Who’s to Blame?: [40:57–48:45]
• Chris Cody’s “Top 5 QBs Over Tua”: [49:09–50:18]

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Tone & Style Notes

The episode perfectly encapsulates the “local hour” at its finest—equal parts sports group therapy, overcaffeinated overreaction, and comedic Miami chaos. The tone is boisterous, irreverent, and delightfully self-aware, with hosts poking fun at themselves and each other. Regular doses of football insight sit alongside signature running jokes and Miami-centric banter.

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Summary Takeaways

• The Dolphins’ Week 1 loss is described as historically horrific, with some of the most extreme fan/alumni overreactions yet.
• Serious debates rage about the fate of head coach Mike McDaniel and Tua, while Greg Cody tries (and mostly fails) to keep the panic in check.
• The NFL’s opening weekend is recapped as wildly unpredictable, with the Ravens, Derrick Henry, Josh Allen, and Mahomes major talking points.
• Andrew Luck’s happy retirement is lovingly mocked and envied—multiple playbacks of his “magical” line provide much-needed levity.
• Miami college football gets its share of the spotlight, leading to another round of rivalry giggles and mockery.
• The episode’s close is a cathartic Dolphins vent, capped by Chris Cody’s comedic replacement QBs and a pledge to “purge” the Dolphins talk—at least for ten minutes.

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Transcript

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[Billy Gill]

I'm worried, Zaslo and Cody, that we've got too many people here today and too much show. And we've already started with Sparks because. Zazlo, could you tell what Greg was mad about, why he stormed from the room?

[Zaslow]

It's fairly obvious he's upset that and I'm not trying to talk as if you're not in front of me. All right. But Greg was clearly upset that his topics were on the billboard for the show. There's a lot to get to today. Greg specifically is upset that none of his topics are on the billboard.

[Greg Cody]

Well, I'm not throwing anybody under the bus, but I do spend 15 or 20 minutes the morning, the very, very early morning before coming in here to write out my topics and I send them. Now, in fairness, I didn't know Roy was going to be in that seat. I did not send them to Roy. So part of that is on me. But they need to be distributed and represented accordingly.

[Billy Gill]

I saw his rage that he wasn't properly represented in the meeting when with a sports weekend like that you don't need anyone to come in with any topics. It's fine. We can talk about anything that happened this weekend. That's true for four straight hours.

[Chris Cody]

I'm not going to let Dan do this today. This is a big Monday. Dad, I'm sorry. I did not put your topics on. That is 1,000% on me. You work very hard on those topics.

[Greg Cody]

Wow.

[Chris Cody]

And I should have had them up there as soon as you were in here.

[Greg Cody]

Wow.

[Chris Cody]

Who are you on? Me. And we're going to have a great show today. I love you so much. I love working with you, love spending time with you. You're a great person.

[Greg Cody]

Wow. Who is that person?

[Billy Gill]

That's an accountable Chris Cody rising up the executive ranks at Metalark by taking accountability for places where he has been a bad leader or a bad organizer.

[Mike Ryan]

Dan, he said that so you can move the show along and get to football, not so you can stay there so you can get to the football.

[Billy Gill]

The show hasn't started yet.

[Mike Ryan]

The shit stirring as the heat got.

[Chris Cody]

Zero votes to make the point. God, I'm just this over this guy's topics.

[Greg Cody]

Wait a minute. You were just nice to me.

[Chris Cody]

It just can't with you.

[Zaslow]

It's a lot of good topics on the board though. Greg, you would admit, right?

[Billy Gill]

Greg, you could, you would admit that. Look, I'm. I've never seen that Dolphins game before that. That in my lifetime. I've been watching this team for 50 years. I've never experienced that game. I've seen him lose 62 to 7. That's. But what happened yesterday puts the Dolphins like so, so far behind the best things happening in that sport that I could do four hours on the Dolphins or I could ignore them all show.

[Zaslow]

Today if you did a 1 through 32 listed. Dolphins are 32.

[Billy Gill]

Right. I mean everybody played close games yesterday except the Giants, the, the Jags. That game, all the, all the games were close.

[Dan Le Batard]

They're only a game back in the AFC East.

[Billy Gill]

They're two point favorites. They're favorites this weekend.

[Dan Le Batard]

I mean if it wasn't for a miraculous comeback, they would have been first in the FCS this morning. So you know, things are looking up.

[Billy Gill]

They, they are, they are two point, they are two point favorites against the Patriots this weekend.

[Greg Cody]

And what does that tell you? That's worth exploring.

[Chris Cody]

The whole league. Does that tell you the whole league.

[Billy Gill]

The whole league is the greatest thing we've ever seen. Because I certainly went into that final game last night saying, okay, well clear the story tomorrow is going to be the four time mvp, Jets, Steelers. The lowest total in the sport goes way over, is the highest scoring game because holy shit, wait a minute. Do the jets and Steelers have offense? Because we know they both have defense. So that was pretty good offense happening to pretty good defenses. Oh no, that's not the biggest story. The biggest story is going to happen is the punctuation to the evening when the Ravens, the most flawed, great team I've ever seen. That happens to them more often than it happens to anybody.

[Zaslow]

I love when that happens.

[Billy Gill]

You have to love it. It happened to them three times. More like no other team in the sport has had it happen even three times as much as it's happened to Harbaugh. Eight times a 15 point lead in the fourth quarter.

[Zaslow]

I love watching them lose like that.

[Greg Cody]

And talk about two great offenses overcoming two pretty solid defenses. That's another example of that. Even more so for me than Pittsburgh.

[Billy Gill]

All right, we're going to, we're going to have to start with the Dolphins, though. Go ahead, start the show.

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Billy Gill]

Football. Football.

[Greg Cody]

Is backtracked. Oh, my. We've waited for so long we're so damn excited that we put it in a song no need, no check downs give me big hits and quarterbacks keep your fantasy team from falling off the track Football is backjacked Whether on the ground or through the air when the chips are down and you throw a.

[Dan Le Batard]

Prayer.

[Greg Cody]

When your team is priming on the hunt it's four contenders the shoulder pads and helmets crack that's how you know that football is backjack Let me hear you say football is backjack this high is wild and out of control and we're going to ride it every week till we reach the Super Bowl. No need, no check downs give me big hits and quarterbacks if you say this game's the best. I'll say the gag. Football is back, Jack. Football is back, Jack. Football is back. Football is bad, Jack.

[Billy Gill]

I really, I really did think that I was gonna start the show today with Jet Steelers four time MVP Aaron Rodgers. What was that sound? What happened?

[Chris Cody]

It's the Dolphins. They do it to me. Sorry, that was me.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

No, there was a. Yeah, there. Is that the end of the song? Is there like.

[Chris Cody]

I don't know what that was. I was trying to just cover it up.

[Billy Gill]

I thought there was a child somewhere in the studio.

[Mike Ryan]

Sounded like Rose.

[Billy Gill]

Okay, well, Depeche Mode.

[Mike Ryan]

Enjoy the silence. Fake out.

[Billy Gill]

I thought I was gonna start the show today. Four time MVP Aaron Rodgers. 60 yard field goal. Jalen Ramsey. At the end of that game, I didn't think anyone would feel worse today than Garrett Wilson. I thought that's the person in the sport who was going to feel the worst. Oh my God, I dropped the ball. I don't know how the kicker from the Browns spells his name. How do we spell that last name for the Browns kicker?

[Mike Ryan]

Missed it.

[Billy Gill]

I think that guy was going to feel really bad today. And then Jalen Ramsey does that to Garrett Wilson. And I thought that was the best game of the day. And then the night game happens and what happens in the night game? And I gave the stat poorly before. So this has happened to the Ravens. They have lost eight times since 2021. When in the game, at the end of the game, they've got a win probability of over 90% like they do last night in the fourth quarter where they're up 15. And Derrick Henry doesn't fumble like that. Derrick Henry is averaging 10 yards of carry. There's no way the Ravens can lose that game. They kick the Bill's ass up and down the field.

[Zaslow]

When he fumbled there, I lit. The first thought that came to my M.O. was I don't think I've ever seen Derrick Henry fumble.

[Billy Gill]

It happens very infrequently. It happened once last year and it. And I reacted as if Chewbacca had run across the field like, you know, a space alien had appeared. Because Derrick Henry doesn't fumble. He was averaging 10 yards of carry in that game. 10 yards of carry. Everybody knows he's going to get the. How is that person still doing that?

[Zaslow]

How good?

[Billy Gill]

How is he still? He ran through the SEC like that and I'm like, well, that's going to carve up his body. How is that person still Earl Campbell and Ricky Williams and faster than everyone else at a size that's not normal. How is that body not breaking down?

[Zaslow]

I did a lot of thinking to myself last night during that game, you'll notice. And I also thought Derrick Henry might be the best running back ever. And I don't know that that's a crazy thing to say because when is he actually going to slow down? Because if he keeps doing this for.

[Billy Gill]

Years and years, like it's just, it's just lunacy, okay? At that sport, disposable position, even he got. The Ravens got him cheap because it's a disposable position. Marian Barber, if you run like that, your career will be over in three years. If you are Sean Alexander and you run like that, you can't keep running like that. You cannot keep being more physical than all the young people in that sport.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, at that size too, it's carrying your own weight. Like Merion Barber was a very violent runner, but carrying your own weight, falling down when you're that big at that position, that also takes a toll. He's just unprecedented in that way. I understand why you want to talk about Derrick Henry, but from that it was pretty obvious to the eye how overwhelming Baltimore has that offense. They are so talented. You just have DeAndre Hopkins as a, as a ball winning role player on that team and you just look at Buffalo and you're like, there is quite a gulf in offensive talent between these teams, but they have that quarterback and he was unbelievable. And really where the game might have been won, I know there's a 15 point comeback that everybody wants to talk about their execution at the end of the first half. When you look at that game in totality, those are just incredible winning plays by Josh Allen, who might be the second greatest quarterback of all time. Just unlucky enough to be playing in the same generation as Patrick Mahomes.

[Billy Gill]

All right, I'm going to slow everything down here because when you say unlucky enough to play same generation of Patrick Mahomes, Patrick Mahomes empirically yards per attempt since he lost Tyree Kill, only Daniel Jones throws the ball less downfield than Patrick Mahomes every time he drops back. So whatever you're remembering about what Patrick Mahomes was with Tyree Kill since then, he does not throw the ball down the field. And you've seen what's happened to the Chiefs since then. Everyone's caught up to them. Like they're not going to win all those one score games anymore because they can't get the ball downfield. But in the breaking up of the Chiefs, when Tyree Kill was Saying we can win seven, eight championships, him going deep all the time. And then he comes to Miami, and Miami takes the two years that are left of his prime run through his body. And now what I saw yesterday was. And I'm. I'm not being prisoner of the moment with this, even as Zaz says, Derrick Hendrick, best running back ever. And Mike's here, Josh Allen, best quarterback ever. I'm saying, that Dolphin game. I've been watching Dolphin football for 50 years.

[Zaslow]

It's a horror movie.

[Billy Gill]

I've never seen that game before where it's not your dad complaining. They can't stop anybody.

[Zaslow]

No snuff film.

[Billy Gill]

They could not stop Daniel Jones and the Colts empirically, as the Colts looked like the best offensive football team there's ever been statistically, that touches the ball seven times, scores seven times, because the Dolphins can't stop anybody. And then two is terrible as well. And Zaslo comes in here today, comes in here today, guys on fire, and wants to blow the whole thing up.

[Zaslow]

That's right.

[Chris Cody]

I'm glad to.

[Zaslow]

Yeah, I'm glad you said that. We're starting the show today with truth bombs. That's a good place to start on a Monday.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah.

[Zaslow]

I'm firing Mike McDaniel. And I'm not someone who fires the coach. I'm not someone who takes a lazy approach and blames the coach. Oh, this happens on the coach. No, no, I've seen enough. At this point. When you. When you look at the Dolphins, is there any part of you? And we can take all of us here and now. We had eight months, eight months to wait and look forward to yesterday. And all of the talk, all the conversation around Mike McDaniel, all the criticism, all the noise, all the culture talk, and that's the very first game that right there. There is no way that anyone can look at Mike McDaniel and say, that is a coach who could take you to a Super Bowl. You cannot make that case. And if that's the case, what are we waiting for? I get rid of them today. You can't have all off season, and that's what you put out there. I get rid of them today.

[Billy Gill]

Zaslow also says it's over for tua.

[Zaslow]

It is over for two. And the reason that I say that is because I think that we're going to look back and we're all going to remember that game yesterday. As we can now, like, to a super polarizing. I've been in on tua. You're either in, you're out. Like Very polarizing. I think we're all going to look back one day and we're all going to remember we were all on the same page after that Colts game. When it comes to Tua, there's. There was something wrong with him yesterday. I don't know if it's because of the injuries that he's had in the past or whatever it is, but that was a really bad quarterback.

[Billy Gill]

That's, that's. So that's the worst game I've seen him play. And it's not only the worst game I've seen him play, there are some others. That Dolphin game felt like all the games when two was out and they have to go to the backup quarterback and you know they're not going to get any offense. Let's examine this for a second because I'm not being prisoner of the moment when I say that Dolphin game has never been played. It's not something any of us have ever seen. Greg Cody's been covering the team forever. You've never seen that game. Let me give you some of the stats, okay? Because they were the only team beaten like that yesterday, the only one in the entire sport. And it was Daniel Jones, unstoppable. Daniel Jones, you can tell me all you want about he's going to be improved in that offense and everything else. There was no pass rush, there was no coverage. They could not stop a team that was unstoppable for seven drives.

[Dan Le Batard]

We also are not mentioning and haven't taken into account that they were playing for Jim Mercy.

[Mike Ryan]

That's true.

[Dan Le Batard]

So there was a lot of emotions running high yesterday as well, Dan.

[Billy Gill]

So some stats for you. Thank you, Billy. The Colts were winless in their last 11 home openers. The 43 yards the Dolphins had in the first half is the fewest since 1991. Okay? These, the Colts hadn't scored okay on the possessions that way. Going down, the 15 play drives, they had three 15 play drives. They had five. All of last year. All of last year the Colts had five. You tell me if you guys have ever seen that Dolphin game ever played before where you can simply not stop someone and you know you've got no chance of coming back. You're down 30, nothing. No. Every. Every game in that sport is close and you. And you're down 30 to nothing and no chance of coming back.

[Zaslow]

And it's a team that, like I know Greg was saying in the week leading up to yesterday, how, you know, Dolphins, you look at the schedule, that's a game you gotta win. Okay? The Colts. I'm not gonna say the Colts are bad. Colts were an average team last year, and you have to take that into account where they lost that way to an average team last year who by all accounts was being quarterbacked by a bad quarterback. That's why I think we've never seen what we saw yesterday.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah. I was in Jacksonville when they lost 62. 7 in Dan Marino's last game. So I'm not going to call it the worst Dolphins performance ever. I am going to say, and I wrote in my column, I was as vicious as I can possibly be about that performance. It was inexcusable. It was sub putrid. Every worst fear of a Dolphin fan was not only came true, but was magnified. I'm not going to equivocate how awful the Dolphins played. As I wrote, they were the week one. On week one. But I'm also. That's good.

[Billy Gill]

That's a writer.

[Dan Le Batard]

I like that.

[Mike Ryan]

You're a writer.

[Billy Gill]

He liked it so much that he waited for it to land and then stumbled over his next words because he's like. Yeah, I said it right.

[Greg Cody]

When I quote myself, you know, I like the line, but I'm also not going to over. See, I knew we were going to get this today. Okay. I knew what I.

[Zaslow]

What tipped you off?

[Greg Cody]

I knew what I was walking into. The fact that. Fire. Everybody, fire. Tua. Trade this guy McDaniels out. He's. I was actually making fun of that in the column about how this is. This stink is so colossal.

[Dan Le Batard]

Zach Wilson.

[Greg Cody]

It's going to be major. Over. Yeah. Zach Wilson went in garbage time. Which describes the Dolphins entirely.

[Chris Cody]

I think we should add a seventh offensive specialist.

[Dan Le Batard]

Huh?

[Chris Cody]

Bobby Slowik. Not enough. We brought in so many coaches. The same. Like.

[Greg Cody]

Like, they.

[Chris Cody]

They got you figured out. Mike McDaniel.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah.

[Chris Cody]

They got you figured out with this offense. Show me something.

[Billy Gill]

Okay, so this is the figure out. It's been crazy. The way we. The way we analyze this sport is crazy. Hey, when Tyree's faster than everyone else, the Dolphins have great offense. And. And when he's not. Oh. Oh. They're fragile. But you guys are. You guys are funny in that. Billy and Greg said, must win week one.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, it was. I'm sticking to that. This season's over. I. I'm not. Zaz is. I'm telling you right now. Season's over.

[Zaslow]

It's over.

[Greg Cody]

No, it is obviously not.

[Zaslow]

You said it was a must win. Yeah, and they lost my 25.

[Greg Cody]

Allow me to explain.

[Chris Cody]

Do it into the mic.

[Greg Cody]

Maybe I said it was a must win from the standpoint of energizing a blase fan base, which they failed miserably to do. But when I say this, when you all say the season's over, comical excess, comical overreaction, it does not surprise me in the least. In fact, I would have predicted that Miami would be a slight favorite at home against New England next week. Team Even bad teams tend to bounce back, particularly in a home opener. Dolphins have won several home openers in a row. The idea that the Dolphins are going to be one and one a week from now is not the least bit improbable. And I think we just have to not fire everybody and not do anything so drastic after even the worst performance.

[Billy Gill]

But. But for you to go from must win Greg and me to be me to be here saying worse, it's not the worst thing I've ever seen. It's just I've never seen that. It's they lost 62 to 7 and I think they were up early in that game like I think did they score first? Like it wasn't. It wasn't what that was right like it and I understand that the that the Jags offense but we're talking week one on must win Brunell was so good after after that game and it's as it's so calamitous that anyone who watched it can tell you for that day oh that's the worst team in the league. The Dolphins are the worst team in the league. And I watched the Saints. I watched the Saints yesterday.

[Mike Ryan]

Carolina was pretty bad. Yeah the the fan base is really upset. Dan Norley tweets Offense clicking defense clicking dead owner so jealous of the col. What's up listeners?

[Billy Gill]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Billy Gill]

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[Billy Gill]

Don Levitard.

[Chris Cody]

All right, we gotta go back out there. That was big. Wake him up.

[Billy Gill]

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.

[Chris Cody]

You can see Mother effing.

[Billy Gill]

Can we bother?

[Chris Cody]

Are we bothering you right now?

[Billy Gill]

Turn on your microphone.

[Greg Cody]

My microphone's on stugats.

[Chris Cody]

Paint the scene.

[Greg Cody]

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

[Dan Le Batard]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugach.

[Billy Gill]

Andrew Luck made a comeback yesterday.

[Chris Cody]

Thank you for bringing this up, Dan.

[Dan Le Batard]

We have video.

[Chris Cody]

ESPN did like these original. I don't even know what this is. Some sort of documentary where they're just like a day in the life of Andrew Luck. And it just. It. You know what made me smile on a dark day with the Dolphins? It was that I know we have. We're gonna get this video ready. But this is just Andrew Luck. If we were doing a parody of what Andrew Life's Lux life is like now, this is what it would be.

[Dan Le Batard]

Hit it, guys.

[Billy Gill]

This place, it's magical.

[Greg Cody]

Nerd. Nerd.

[Mike Ryan]

What a great life I have. I get to ride my bike to work every day.

[Billy Gill]

That is like a spoof. That is. They're messing with us. If you told me that that was Mike Ryan who was doing that, that he was in costume and that that is perfect as spoof. That bicycle, that helmet are ridiculous. Do you do electric bike, by the way?

[Chris Cody]

Cheating a little bit.

[Billy Gill]

The Colts haven't looked as good as they looked yesterday since that guy.

[Mike Ryan]

It's magical.

[Dan Le Batard]

Why was Greg screaming nerd at him?

[Greg Cody]

I mean, come on.

[Chris Cody]

He's not wrong. Let's play the full thing again. I need this again.

[Billy Gill]

I mean, it's really good. The helmet is what you'd imagine it would be. The music isn't even something that we created. It's just the soundtrack in his head.

[Mike Ryan]

This place, it's magical. What a great life I have. I get to ride my bike to work every day.

[Chris Cody]

Of course, Andrew Luck, when he makes a left turn on his bike, he does the hand signal, of course, of like making the left here.

[Mike Ryan]

On your left.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, on your left.

[Zaslow]

That's not Saturday live, right?

[Billy Gill]

Mike Ryan, are you jealous of the way that he says magical when talking about Stanford and goes and gets it from the Fleming part of his joy.

[Greg Cody]

Go.

[Mike Ryan]

It's magical. I'm jealous. I didn't think of this.

[Chris Cody]

I get to ride my bike tour.

[Billy Gill]

But that bike, if you had thought of it, tell me what you would have put on that bike. Maybe like one of the little bells, like, what would you have put on that bike?

[Mike Ryan]

That's all it's missing.

[Billy Gill]

But that bike is the safest bike that's ever been ridden.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, the front looks like it's for a child to be sitting. And he has children.

[Billy Gill]

Give it to me again. Give it to me again. That helmet place.

[Mike Ryan]

It'S magical. What a great life I have. I get to ride my bike to work every day.

[Billy Gill]

And Andrew Luck did not wear a helmet that thick when he was playing football.

[Greg Cody]

I think that video should have ended with two Hell's Angels running him off the road.

[Mike Ryan]

It's magical.

[Billy Gill]

Why?

[Dan Le Batard]

Stanford seems lovely. Like, he seems happy. We're laughing at this man's happiness.

[Billy Gill]

No, I. I love him. No, Jealous of his happiness. See, he is. Look, he's got it figured out on his very safe bicycle. No one is going to do to him. What could have happened to Pennix at the goal line if Penix weren't an extraterrestrial. There was so Much from yesterday's football to talk about, but I'm magical.

[Dan Le Batard]

They're 0 and 2 by the way. Stanford, like, it's magical now, but buddy, start being a little stressed out here.

[Billy Gill]

Billy's team. Look, I don't know. Billy got a lot of texts this weekend. We're not going to do a lot of college football today. Although I suspect we'll make fun of the Gators. But Billy, I imagine you got a lot of texts when your team. The FIU. Golden Panthers.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, like the Cardinal.

[Billy Gill]

The FIU are down 10, nothing at number two, Penn State. Deep into the third quarter, chance to.

[Dan Le Batard]

Take a lead, three nothing. At the beginning of that game, Willie went for it. A fourth down within field goal range, Willie went for it. Which by the way, I co signed on that because I was texting along. They didn't. They didn't get it. But I was texting along. I said, you know what? You're not going to beat Penn State. Playing scared. Got to go for it there. Now granted, when you end up losing, you know, 35 to nothing, garbage time, points, but whatever. When you end up losing 35, nothing. Three would have looked nice in the score.

[Billy Gill]

That was a good showing by fi.

[Chris Cody]

Hell yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

Was you kidding me? That was awesome.

[Mike Ryan]

They got some push early on.

[Dan Le Batard]

I was getting texts from people I haven't heard from in some time saying, you know, if fiu, they cover the spread, they should cancel. They should cancel school on Monday. School money.

[Zaslow]

Am I the only one?

[Dan Le Batard]

Everyone was watching that game. For some reason, I didn't understand it. So many people were texting me about fiu. Penn State. Yes.

[Zaslow]

S. Am I the only one who knows that they didn't score?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

Ant it is a little odd, the game. Everyone just remembers that it was tightly contested for about two and a half.

[Dan Le Batard]

Quarters, but not two and a half. They were down 20 nothing with like five minutes left in the fourth. It's a close game.

[Chris Cody]

Did they lose their vote?

[Mike Ryan]

Everyone's like super jacked. Oh, I got zero points. Anytime that you can score zero points at State College, you gotta be fired up.

[Zaslow]

Has anyone ever been pleased with their performance when scoring zero points?

[Greg Cody]

It's sad. It is. And nothing personal, Billy, but when you.

[Dan Le Batard]

Guys are all miserable for me, it's very personal.

[Greg Cody]

When you're excited. When you're excited about losing 35 to nothing, that's a bad sign. That's a B. You don't think Penn State led up a little bit? They could have won 50 to nothing if they wanted to. Come on.

[Mike Ryan]

I Mean, they were pouring it on at the end. They were going for style points because.

[Dan Le Batard]

They couldn't get them. At the beginning of the game.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, they were. They were trying to score touchdowns with a minute left. It was James Franklin doing his absolute best. James Franklin.

[Billy Gill]

I don't want to bury Billy for being excited about his team that scored zero points.

[Dan Le Batard]

People that don't want to be happy here. Greg.

[Billy Gill]

Greg. It was 35, nothing. But in the third quarter, it. Look, everyone was asking, Billy, is your defense good? That's the number two team in the country. It was squeezed over Arch Manning in front of the right behind the defending champions. We're all assuming that's a good football team, okay? And FIU goes on the road and it's. And they're down 10, nothing. And in the game, in the third. In the third quarter, this is.

[Greg Cody]

This is the one. A great example of the one reason why I prefer the NFL over college football. In that game, there was zero chance FIU was going to win that game.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, FIU played closer to Penn State than the Dolphins did to the Colts.

[Greg Cody]

It was like Bethune Cookman against Miami Hurricanes. It's just a matter of how badly are they going to lose.

[Billy Gill]

Did you hear what Billy said?

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, I did.

[Billy Gill]

Because you're in here defending the Dolphins.

[Greg Cody]

I am not defending the Dolphins.

[Dan Le Batard]

Today you said that Mike Daniel should get promoted.

[Billy Gill]

Greg, this is where the Flames are on this. Pete Prisco, CBS quote. The problem is Mike McDaniel. I think his seat just got really, really hot. And all the reallys are capitalized. Like both of them are capitalized. All the letters.

[Greg Cody]

No duh. Pete Prisco, no duh. I wrote that in my column. By the way, I have a column on the game that you might want to read in the Miami Herald, because I said exactly that. I said, Everybody knows Mike McDaniel came into this season coaching for his job, but nobody expected the Heat to be turned up this high after one effing game. I wrote all that. I am not apologizing for the Dolphins in any way. What I'm doing is getting over the overreaction that, hey, because they lost this game the way they did, McDaniels has no future with this team. Two is done.

[Zaslow]

They've gotten progressively worse with Mike McDaniel. From year one to right now. They've gotten progressively worse.

[Greg Cody]

They were pretty good in year two.

[Zaslow]

I know, I understand. But from 1, 2, 3, 4 now, they've gotten progressively worse.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, right. If you want to judge this season by one of 17 games you're welcome.

[Billy Gill]

Greg.

[Dan Le Batard]

Greg. That's all we have.

[Billy Gill]

I do think it's fair to say. With eight months of. Of prep and with you saying. And Billy saying it was a must win game, even though I laughed at you guys about it, was the absurdity of that to have the game played that way again. Everyone's watching. That's the worst team in the league. They cannot stop the Colts. It's empirical and it hasn't been seen in the league in a long time. Like that team had Peyton Manning. It's been like a decade since they had that kind of drive efficiency. They don't. No team in the sport scores all seven times it touches the football. Like that's not a thing.

[Greg Cody]

I couldn't agree more. And I want to quote myself again, because you guys are saying things that I wrote as if I don't believe in all that. I'm quoting myself. I mean, seriously, Miami had an entire off season, a whole training camp, and then a full prison to come out like this.

[Billy Gill]

What was that?

[Greg Cody]

Is the this capitalized this is in itels? I love itals. Oh, yeah, I love itels because I picture the reader obeying the itel and going like this.

[Billy Gill]

Put it on the poll, please. Juju our italics the Lord's font.

[Dan Le Batard]

Just a quick correction. If I only lost 34. Nothing. Not 35. Nothing.

[Billy Gill]

Billy, I'm sorry. Billy, I'm sorry. They urinated on your joy. That.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's fine. Shul Bull is this weekend joy. Craig's. Greg's worried because he knows what's coming for FAU this week. The shulable fiu. Fau. And I'm on the call, so I'm gonna be talking a lot of to.

[Greg Cody]

You, Greg Cody, the prestigious Shoela bowl urinated.

[Dan Le Batard]

What gets you happy at this advanced stage in your life?

[Greg Cody]

Everything gets me happy. I got a big grin on my face.

[Mike Ryan]

Urinated. I mean, we only. There was. There was a lot of pro FIU spin on that. And I think we just helpfully pointed out zero points.

[Zaslow]

Zero points.

[Dan Le Batard]

I gotta be honest with you. The fact that you guys are this worried about FIU's successes or failures is more telling on you than it is on me. What are you guys afraid of, dad?

[Chris Cody]

Can you believe me?

[Dan Le Batard]

Why are you afraid to schedule fiu.

[Chris Cody]

Billy, being a homer since you lost that fight?

[Dan Le Batard]

If I remember correctly.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, that's what's happening.

[Dan Le Batard]

If I remember correctly, I also would say FIU and um have one common opponent this season. Bethune Cookman. FIU won that game 42:9. And I believe you guys won what, 45 to 3? Not that different those two teams, I would say.

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[Zaslow]

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[Dan Le Batard]

Don LeBatard Football.

[Billy Gill]

Football, football, football, football. St. This is the Dan Levatar show with the St. I don't know how, how good or bad obviously FIU is at offense.

[Dan Le Batard]

They have a guy named Chainsaw. What are you talking about?

[Billy Gill]

This is a Billy Gill specialty. This is his beat and so he can tell you how good they are.

[Zaslow]

Blades.

[Billy Gill]

But I assume that they had zero points in that game in the third quarter because.

[Dan Le Batard]

Because they were going for it because Willie said, you know what? Foot on the gas. We're not gonna let up. We're not kicking field goals.

[Greg Cody]

No.

[Dan Le Batard]

And you know they didn't. They didn't score the touchdown. But they also didn't settle for field goal.

[Mike Ryan]

That's right. They said we're not kicking field goals because we're not scoring any points.

[Greg Cody]

Yep. We don't want to score.

[Billy Gill]

I. I assume.

[Dan Le Batard]

I feel for all of you, honestly. You guys are sad, pathetic people.

[Zaslow]

Your team scored zero.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah. How'd you have to.

[Zaslow]

Yo. I don't know why we're not talking about uf, all right? We're talking about FIU right now.

[Billy Gill]

Okay, hold on, everybody.

[Greg Cody]

My L's won.

[Dan Le Batard]

Sorry. You went to Santa Fe saying yo.

[Greg Cody]

Fau. Big win yesterday. Who. Or Saturday, whenever the hell it was.

[Dan Le Batard]

Who they play?

[Greg Cody]

I can't remember. Some bad team. Famu, I think. A and M, the Tough Rattlers. But FAU with a big.

[Dan Le Batard]

Why are you disparaging fau?

[Greg Cody]

Foul isle on the prowl. I'm not. The Owls one big. They're either two and oh. Or one and one. I gotta. I gotta look that up.

[Billy Gill]

I'm sorry I brought this descent of football.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't think you are. I think you're happy. Everyone's fighting with each other. I don't know what it is. We play Andrew Luck. He's so happy and everyone's laughing at him. Then we start taking shots at each other's successes or non failures.

[Billy Gill]

You're coming at me right now.

[Chris Cody]

Can we hear it again?

[Billy Gill]

No. Yeah. Which one? Andrew Luck. Let's. Yeah, go ahead. Play it again. This place.

[Mike Ryan]

It'S magical.

[Greg Cody]

Is it?

[Mike Ryan]

What a great life I have. I get to ride my bike to work every day.

[Dan Le Batard]

My Lord.

[Billy Gill]

It's honestly how I imagined his life was. All of it. I imagine that that's what he was doing in retirement. An old school educ. Driving, you know, riding his bike to campus to live the rest of his life without concussions.

[Mike Ryan]

It's magical.

[Billy Gill]

I'm just.

[Zaslow]

I'm just gonna say. I'm just gonna say it out loud. Riding your bike to work isn't even close to as good as driving your car.

[Dan Le Batard]

Especially in a suit.

[Billy Gill]

Car is so much better than a bike.

[Zaslow]

Nobody has a choice. Do you want a bike or do you want a car? They say, you know what? I'd rather have a bike.

[Billy Gill]

You really got that off your chest there. The game for the Miami Dolphins. And I will get off this subject, okay? I will get this sent off of me in 10 minutes and we will talk about the rest of the insanity that was yesterday and the weekend. But you guys see that Orioles game? It's a good Orioles game. There was so Much in the weekend it was. They were won out from being no hit and then they scored four runs.

[Greg Cody]

It's football. Dodgers, Orioles. You know what?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, you can cuss what's happening right now.

[Greg Cody]

Ridiculous.

[Billy Gill]

We will, we will put the Dolphins, if not the season, this game, in the garbage bin within the next 10 minutes. But these are some extreme opinions here that Billy and Zads are having after week one. And I believe they speak for the fan base your son is in. I see him nodding vigorously on this season is over. This team is done. There's no reason to put any hope in this particular basket. And also injuries yesterday along the offensive line and at corner the two positions. Like they couldn't stop anything with those guys on the field. So like a real apocalypse yesterday could not have gone worse.

[Chris Cody]

Their only NFL corner gets hurt. Their new offensive lineman gets hurt. Waddle turns into a piece of glass again. Every time he gets tackled, he's hurt. It's ridiculous.

[Billy Gill]

And. And John New Smith, the ball's bouncing off him. And the Steelers are winning the way they do. And. And Jalen Ramsey at the end of that game finishes the Jets.

[Zaslow]

And who forced the fumble on Tua? Xavier and Howard? Like everything went wrong for them yesterday.

[Dan Le Batard]

Steelers are done, by the way.

[Billy Gill]

What?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, Steelers are done.

[Zaslow]

Who had a better weekend, FIU or Steelers?

[Billy Gill]

Hold on a minute. Let's put a bookmark in that one. Billy, I want to get all the Dolphin stuff out of here. I want no more nothing but Dolphins. Get purge yourselves. I want to be done with this. I do not want to talk about this team all season like that was an apocalypse. It's the worst thing that can happen. Zaslo's here and he says two is done, McDaniel's done. And you can argue if you want, but it's like the game yesterday does not provide any kind of rebuttal to what it is that says is saying, hey, Coach, this thing unrebutable, this thing, this thing collapsed on McDaniel yesterday. Their two point favorite next weekend against the Patriots. Right?

[Greg Cody]

Welcome to the NFL. You look like shit. One week, you win the next week and all your fans are going all right. Okay, yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

Then you got Bills.

[Greg Cody]

We had a bad first game, now we're back. Okay, calm down. You know, I'm just saying. I'm predicting that's what's going to happen.

[Billy Gill]

But Greg, that's the reaction if they lose 26, 24. Not like that.

[Zaslow]

None of the fans are going to have that reaction. You just portrayed if they win next week against the weekend.

[Greg Cody]

None of them. Okay, Greg. I disagree.

[Billy Gill]

Greg. There's no dispute on what I'm saying. Like you can say one game at a time. You can say the NFL is unpredictable to week to week. If. If what we're looking for is what will the Dolphins look like next week? What they just looked like. Like is as bad as it could have looked like. There's nothing. I don't know how you have it being worse. The first half is something that hasn't happened to them offensively in 30 years.

[Greg Cody]

And when you say I don't know how you. How you have it worse. I don't have it worse. Quit trying to say that. I'm apologizing for that performance. It was so putrid that the 30 to 8 score flattered the Dolphins.

[Chris Cody]

There's nothing that could have happened yesterday.

[Greg Cody]

Performance was worse than that score.

[Chris Cody]

Nothing could have happened yesterday to push you to.

[Billy Gill]

It gets injured to also gets injured.

[Greg Cody]

What? I'm not optimistic about the Dolphins.

[Chris Cody]

You just said they're going to win on Sunday and everything's going to be fine.

[Greg Cody]

I said I'm not the least bit surprised that they're a two point favorite because that's the way the NFL.

[Billy Gill]

The line went down since I said it. One and a half.

[Greg Cody]

Okay, there you go. And New England might be favored by.

[Zaslow]

Next Sunday on the Patriots.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, but that one and a half you told us last week really means that the Patriots are one and a half point favorite because you get three points when you're at home. So the Patriots are technically favored.

[Greg Cody]

Well, we'll see at kickoff.

[Chris Cody]

Maybe the Colts are just the new Chiefs.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's possible.

[Chris Cody]

Have we thought about that time?

[Billy Gill]

No.

[Greg Cody]

Daniel Jones. The new Mahomes.

[Dan Le Batard]

Daniel Mahomes.

[Chris Cody]

That would make me feel better. If they turn out to be like a 15 and 2 team, I'd be.

[Billy Gill]

Like, okay, no, no. There's no. There's no. There's no feel better on. They have the ball seven times. They score seven times. And Peyton Manning didn't do that in that uniform there. I don't know. We knew defense was going to be a problem. And then you're saying to yourself before the game if we want to do analysis, hey there, front 7M. Cover up the corners. They don't have. They've got the worst corners in the league. Oh my God. There's no pressure. Oh my God. Oh, Daniel Jones is just going to do whatever he wants all game and it's. And they're not going to be able to stop them in any way in A way that has not been seen in dolphin football in my lifetime. Covering them. And statistically, when you go through the numbers, there haven't been a lot of football games where any offense has ever looked as good as Daniel Jones's did yesterday because. Not because Daniel Jones is so good in his first game with the Colts because the Dolphins look looked that bad. It could not have been worse. I'm telling you, unless TUA had had gotten a concussion.

[Zaslow]

I just don't know how you come back from Greg. One of the biggest problems with the team last year was it felt like the rest of the league had kind of caught up to McDaniel and the offense and we liked through the hall. He's not making adjustments.

[Billy Gill]

This.

[Zaslow]

That all right. Week to week basis, I guess. But at least this here before this season, you have an entire off season to. To do something different.

[Greg Cody]

Okay, so I wrote and.

[Zaslow]

And it felt like it felt the same as last year where the offense is totally inept again. And that wasn't. Now look, maybe Cold Stevens will be good this year. They were terrible last year.

[Greg Cody]

Well, so wait a minute. Timeout. They were 8 and 9 last year. That's not, that's not terrible.

[Zaslow]

But the defense was terrible.

[Greg Cody]

Don't talk like they were 3 and 14. They were 8 and 9. They missed the playoffs by one game.

[Zaslow]

I think their defense is ranked 29th last year though.

[Billy Gill]

Again.

[Zaslow]

Maybe their defense will be good this year. That was a terrible defense last year.

[Greg Cody]

Okay, it was. It was very bad defense last year.

[Zaslow]

And, and that's. That's why I'm totally out on Mike McDaniel at this point. You can't have the off season with all the chatter and then this is what we get right out the gate. Like I don't have any faith. I don't have any faith in him being able to solve the problem.

[Chris Cody]

Let's bring in another specialist.

[Greg Cody]

I think the blame starts with Chris Greer, who. Who knew four months ago that he had an awful cornerback situation and didn't do anything to fix it other than signing the ghost of Rasool Douglas just before opening day. That's a big problem. The offensive line has been a problem for years. Everybody knows Tyreek Hill is getting slower and probably will be traded by mid season. There were problems that they failed to address that don't come right to Mike McDaniel's lap.

[Billy Gill]

What do you do with all of this, Tua? Finish with a QBR of 2.7 out of 100. Okay. McDaniel entered the season as the betting favorite. To be the first coach fired. And now that rises. We're in agreement on that. Yes. And right before the game, Tim Reynolds, four minutes before kickoff, my official Dolphins prediction, 11 and six wild card. Admittedly, I'm not the brightest dude sometimes, but I think they're better than most people expect at this point. Okay. And I watched the Saints play yesterday. At this point, there is no team in football. I watched the Carolina Panthers play yesterday. I saw the New York Giants. There is no. I saw the Titans of Cam Ward play yesterday. There is no team in professional football that had a more apocalyptic beginning than the Miami Dolphins yesterday.

[Greg Cody]

Correct.

[Billy Gill]

They looked like a minor league team trying to play professional football. When you paired it against what was happening in the rest of the league. All of the close games everywhere, everyone, everyone is a bounce away. Except in this one place where you're just seeing every single time it's Colts marching down the field and Dolphins being more and than they've been since. Since 1991.

[Greg Cody]

11 of the 15 games were one scored decisions. The Dolphins unequivocally played the worst of any team on opening day.

[Dan Le Batard]

They didn't lose a preseason game.

[Greg Cody]

Right. And the perfect season. Dolphins had a losing record.

[Dan Le Batard]

Exactly. So.

[Greg Cody]

But the question going forward is, are we burying the entire season based on a terrible.

[Billy Gill]

You said it was a must win, so what has to happen?

[Greg Cody]

I said it was a must win. Not for the season. For the confidence and faith of the fans. It was a. It was a faith quaking performance. If you're a Dolphin fan right now, you guys are the majority in saying trade him, fire him. You guys are the majority.

[Dan Le Batard]

Did you see the rumors of who's going to replace McDaniel?

[Greg Cody]

I'm trying to be the VOR here, Gruden. Oh, God.

[Billy Gill]

Let's do a top five quarterbacks that Chris Cody, your son is ready to replace Tua with right now. If he could get the option of replacement placing him right now.

[Chris Cody]

First I got Oli. These are ones are that I feel like are obvious.

[Zaslow]

Like are these guys who are like available.

[Chris Cody]

No, I mean these are just quarterbacks in the league that I just right now give them to me over to these first ones. Oli are obvious. Like I don't think I'll have any push back here. Drake May, Michael Penck Jr. Cam Ward and Bon.

[Billy Gill]

Hold on, hold on.

[Chris Cody]

Drake May, Michael Penck Jr. Cam Ward and Bonix. Those are Oli. Like those are just easy. I would do that right now.

[Dan Le Batard]

Ammo is getting hit Yesterday, man.

[Chris Cody]

Number five, J.J. mcCarthy. Haven't seen him yet? I'll roll the dice.

[Zaslow]

He's literally never played a game.

[Chris Cody]

Number four, Aaron Rodgers. I'll take one year with Aaron Rodgers and then I'll take Nussmeier next year.

[Billy Gill]

I don't give a.

[Chris Cody]

Number three, Justin Fields. I said he should have been the.

[Billy Gill]

Backup a year ago.

[Chris Cody]

He looks better than Tua did. Number two, Joe Flacco. Same thing as Aaron Rodgers. I'll take one year with Joe Flaccid. Flacco. Give me Nussmeier. Like, let's.

[Greg Cody]

I'm done with it.

[Billy Gill]

Oh, no.

[Chris Cody]

Joe Flacco is better out of the pocket than two is.

[Billy Gill]

Oh, I'm telling you.

[Chris Cody]

And number one, Arch Manning. I'll roll the dice. I don't give a. I'm done with two.

[Dan Le Batard]

I can't play quarterback right now.

[Chris Cody]

He will next year.

[Dan Le Batard]

What about Tannehill? You didn't mention him. He's out there.

[Chris Cody]

I would sign up for Arch Manning right now, ahead of time.

[Mike Ryan]

Bull take out of you.

[Zaslow]

Did you know Tannehill was a wide receiver in college?

[Billy Gill]

Tannehill. Tannehill's out available.

[Chris Cody]

He has toes for them.

[Mike Ryan]

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[Dan Le Batard]

Hey.

[Mike Ryan]

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[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, yeah. Fishtail palms.

[Mike Ryan]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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

[Mike Ryan]

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[Dan Le Batard]

Hell, yeah, we fist bumped.

[Mike Ryan]

Whether it's we. We actually really did. Whether it's that touchdown didn't make a.

[Dan Le Batard]

Sound, but I just thought, bam.

[Billy Gill]

Boom.

[Mike Ryan]

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[Greg Cody]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Zaslow]

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